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🎟️ 14 things to do this weekend
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🗼 KCTV5 Broadcast Tower to be relit in September
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Weekend Roundup 🎟️
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Happy Friday! Here are 14 things to do around Kansas City this weekend:
All Weekend Long
🎡 Parkville Days brings three days of family-friendly fun to English Landing Park. Live music, food & drink, vendors, parade, helicopter rides, and more!
🃏 Collect-A-Con, the nation’s largest trading card, anime, and pop culture convention takes over the Kansas City Convetion Center on Saturday and Sunday.
🪕 The 36th Annual Roots Festival is happening in downtown Paola on Friday and Saturday, featuring live music, games, and the East Central State Championship BBQ Cookoff.
Friday
🎶 The Goo Goo Dolls take the stage at Starlight with special guest Dashboard Confessional tonight at 7:30pm.
🏈 The Chiefs welcome the Chicago Bears to GEHA Field at Arrowhead Stadium tonight at 7:20pm for the final preseason game of 2025.
🎧 Head to the Electric Park Garden Bar at J. Rieger & Co. from 7-9pm for Hot Vinyl Nights as Manor Records sets the vibe with vintage vinyl paired with summer cocktails.
🍷 The Kansas City Zoo & Aqaurium hosts Wine Walk for Wildlife beginning at 5:30pm. Stroll the topside of the zoo while enjoying live music, food, and 40+ types of wine.
🍻 It’s Fourth Fridays in Olathe, so head to Johnson County Square from 6-9pm for live music, food trucks, local vendors, and more!
☮️ The Kauffman Center hosts the Happy Together Tour 2025 at 7:30pm, featuring live performances of chart-topping hits from the 60s & 70s.
Saturday
🎤 American singer songwriter Teddy Swims performs at Starlight at 8pm, bringing his unique blend soul, country, and pop to the stage.
🕯️ The Sanctuary at Unity Temple on the Plaza hosts Candlelight: Tribute to Beyoncé performed by String Quartet & Fountain City Quartet - Kansas City at 6:30pm
🎺 The Folly Theater hosts Spotlight: Charlie Parker featuring Lonnie McFadden in partnership with KC Jazz ALIVE at 7pm.
🚙 The Westport Wheels Car Show is happening from 11am-3pm, with cars lined up along Pennsylvania Avenue from Westport Road to 42nd Street.
Sunday
🎸 In case you can’t tell, it’s a busy weekend at Starlight. Alabama Shakes closes out a weekend of concerts with special guest Y La Bamba at 8pm.
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KCTV5 Broadcast Tower to Be Relit on September 18th
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The Kansas City skyline will soon get get a red upgrade. The KCTV5 broadcast tower will be relit on September 18th.
Light It Up: A special lighting ceremony will take place on the 18th to relight the tower with 96 new state-of-the-art LED lights in partnership with Mayor Quinton Lucas’ ‘Illuminate KC’ initiative. The tower will feature smart lighting controls, similar to other landmarks throughout downtown Kansas City like Union Station.
Red Dawn: The 1,052-foot tower was completed in 1956 at 125 E 31st St., towering over Kansas City as one of the highest broadcast towers in the country. The tower went dark in 2004 due to infrastructure and maintenance challenges, but will relight as a sign of the “city’s pride and resilience” ahead of the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
Want a closer look at the tower before it’s relit? Check out this drone footage!
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This Week’s Top Stories 📲
If there’s anything that Kansas Citians love (besides BBQ & the Chiefs), it’s finding a great new restauraunt! Here are four new restuarants you you need to try right now.
1587 Prime opened reservations this week for its grand opening on Wednesday, September 17th. Good luck finding one during the first month, they filled up fast.
U.S. News & World Report released its list of the top high schools in the state of Kansas, and the top 7 are located in the Kansas City metro.
A new four-room boutique hotel opened inside Melrose Abbey in Westport this week, and we got to take a tour.
The embattled former Westwood View school site may now feature a luxury housing development from Hunt Midwest.
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