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🍃 17 things to do this weekend
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Need plans? Here are 16 things to do around KC this weekend:
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🍻 Brew at the Zoo - The 21+ evening at the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium features unlimited samples from 30+ local breweries and wineries, live music, and food trucks on Saturday night from 6:30-11pm. This year, tickets include access to GloWild: Hidden Treasure!
🐶 Pooches Pals and Pumpkins - The KC Optimist Club is hosting Pooches Pals and Pumpkins at the Alexander Majors Barn on Sunday from 11am-4pm. Expect local vendors, food trucks, costume contests for dogs and kids, a silent auction, and more!
All Weekend Long
🐼 Panda Fest - One of the country's biggest outdoor Asian food festivals lands at Legends Field with 100+ food vendors serving 200+ street foods, 40+ merchandise vendors, cultural performances, and a panda bounce house. Tickets start at $14.
🎨 Olathe Arts Festival - The 4th annual festival brings about 50 juried fine artists to Johnson County Square in downtown Olathe, plus live music, food trucks, and free kids' activities in Kidtopia. Free admission Friday (5–9pm) and Saturday (11am–7pm).
🐕 KC Renaissance Festival - It's Barktoberfest weekend in Bonner Springs! Bring your pup for corgi races, a peanut butter licking contest, and a dog costume contest, plus stein hoisting and Oktoberfest brews. The festival is also open Monday (10am–5pm).
🪐 The Planets! - The KC Symphony plays Holst's The Planets! at Helzberg Hall, from the Mars march that inspired Gladiator's score to the Symphony Chorus joining for Neptune. Fri/Sat 8pm, Sun 2pm.
🐾 KC Mega Match - Six metro shelters, including KC Pet Project, Wayside Waifs, and Great Plains SPCA, team up for the area’s largest adoption event, aiming to find homes for 700 pets. Every adoption is $25, and all pets come spayed/neutered, microchipped, and vaccinated.
Friday
🍎 Fall Farms - Kick off the weekend with Friday night fun at one of our 13 favorite fall farms throughout the metro! Just don’t wear your typical fall outfits, it’s gonna be a warm weekend.
Saturday
🍂 Waldo Fall Fest - Waldo's 34th annual neighborhood festival takes over Gregory and Wornall from 10am–5pm with food trucks, local vendors, kids' activities, and the announcement of the new honorary Waldo mayor.
🎂 Dolce Bakery's 19th Birthday - The Prairie Village bakeshop turns 19 with cake flights, its viral Birthday Cake Latte, and a first look at its new food truck (8:30–11:30am). The first 100 customers at the truck and the OP Farmers Market get free confetti cookies!
🎈 South KC Block Party - Red Bridge Shopping Center hosts a free fall celebration from 10am–3pm with a 5K and fun run, touch-a-trucks, face painting, live music, local makers from Art Garden KC, and pop-ups from Red Bridge restaurants and shops.
🎆 Prairie Village 75th Anniversary Celebration - Prairie Village caps off its 75th birthday year with a free community party at Meadowbrook Park. Food trucks and yard games start at 4:30pm, Superstar Mafia takes the stage at 5:30pm, and a drone show starts around 7:30pm.
⚽️ Sporting KC vs. Timbers - Sporting KC welcomes the Portland Timbers to Sporting Park for Latino Heritage Night presented by UMKC. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.
🌍 Wyandotte County Ethnic Festival - A celebration of the rich cultural diversity of Wyandotte County. 50+ booths, traditional dance performances, and ethnic foods from around the world at George Meyn Community Center and Wyandotte County History Museum.
Sunday
🐮 West Bottoms Block Party - The neighborhood meets at The Campground's courtyard from 3–9pm with live music, a Stockyards Brewing x West Bottoms Whiskey bottle release, and a 7pm barrel burn. Visit any participating business for a free raffle entry!
🛍️ Crossroads Flea at Mildred's - The Second Sunday market returns to 19th Street outside Mildred's from 9am–2pm with local produce, makers, vintage finds, and a bar pouring brunch cocktails.
☘️ An Evening with Celtic Thunder - The Dublin-born vocal group celebrates nearly two decades of hits at the Muriel Kauffman Theatre, from classic Irish folk songs to soaring ballads and contemporary favorites. Show starts at 7:00pm.
If you are planning on attending any of these events this weekend, reply here and let us know!
Food & Drink
Latte Life Opens October 12th in North Kansas City
Latte Life
Latte Life, a new coffee shop from local nonprofit Life Unlimited that employs adults with disabilities, opens this Monday, October 12th, in North Kansas City.
Every Cup Counts: The shop at 318 Armour Rd. will serve café drinks, non-caffeinated options, and light pastries, with beans from Provis Coffee Roasters and Northlandia Coffee Roasting Co. Provis is even sending its baristas to help with training. The cozy space has room to work solo, catch up with a friend, or hold a meeting.
Grounds for Growth: Latte Life runs on a cohort model, where four adults with disabilities train for four months as a launchpad into wider community employment. Life Unlimited has provided housing and support services for more than 50 years, with 70+ homes across 12 counties. It also runs Unlimited Thrift in Liberty.
Read more about Latte Life and its mission from The Pitch HERE.
Real Estate
House Hunch 🏠
Listing by Becca Hageman - Compass Realty Group
Can you guess the price of this Kansas City area home based on just one photo?
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This Week’s Top Stories 📲
USA Today’s 10Best wants to know where to find the best Kansas City-style BBQ in the U.S. Surely it’s in Kansas City, right?
A homeowner at 124th Terrace and Nieman Rd. in Overland Park has decorated his front yard with over 300 pumpkins. There’s even a suggestion box for future pumpkins!
Buffalo Trace on Tour is in Kansas City this weekend, but all 14 free tasting events sold out quickly. A limited number of tickets opened again yesterday. (They very well could be sold out again)
KCMO voters will decide next spring whether to fund a citywide monorail system, which could extend from KCI to the Kansas City Zoo & Aquarium. Find details in these city documents.
Dark Forest kicks off next weekend at Powell Gardens. The one-mile wooded trail transformed into an immersive nighttime world, with eerie performances from Quixotic and other spooky surprises.
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— Nick Hageman | Co-Founder @ KC Daily
