⛲️ The Last Weekend of Summer

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Technically, this is the final weekend of summer. (First day of fall is Tuesday, September 22nd).

🌻 14 things to do this weekend

🎼 Hans Zimmer announces show in KC

🏠 House Hunch

📲 This week’s most-clicked stories

Events

Weekend Roundup 🌻

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Here are 14 ways to enjoy the final weekend of summer:

All Weekend Long

🌟 Terra Luna at the OP Arboretum - Quixotic's immersive light, music, and performance experience returns for its final weekend at the Overland Park Arboretum, with aerial acrobatics, glowing garden trails, and surprise performers around every corner.

🎬 KC FilmFest International - The 30th annual independent film festival features shorts, documentaries, and Q&As at AMC Ward Parkway throughout the weekend.

🏕️ Camp Leavenworth - The City of Leavenworth's free annual music festival opens along the Missouri River at Leavenworth Landing Park with live music, vendors, carnival rides, kids activities, and local Leavenworth flavor.

🎡 Blue Springs Fall Festival - The fall tradition returns to downtown Blue Springs, featuring live music on multiple stages, 200+ arts and crafts vendors, carnival rides, food, and a family-friendly atmosphere.

🎨 Brush Creek Art Walk - The 15th Annual BCAW features three Quick Paint competitions (Fri-Sun) at Mill Creek Park. Guests can watch 50+ plein air artists paint under the lights along Brush Creek.

🤠 Jesse James Festival - The 55th Annual Jesse James Festival opens in Kearney, the birthplace of the outlaw himself, with a BBQ Cook-Off, rodeos, demolition derby, arts & crafts, mud volleyball, a carnival, and more.

Friday

💃🏾 New Dance Partners - The Midwest Trust Center enlisted four choreographers from across the country to create original works for four local dance companies to perform premieres at Yardley Hall.

Saturday

🌮 Kansas City Taco Festival - 30+ taco and food vendors, multiple margarita bars, lucha libre wrestling, live bands, authentic mariachi and folkloric performers, a kids piñata smashing zone, and a taco eating contest take over KC Live! in the Power & Light District.

⚽️ Sporting KC vs. Philadelphia Union - Sporting KC looks to earn back-to-back victories when they welcome the Union to Sporting Park for Kick Childhood Cancer Night. Kickoff is at 7:30pm.

🛍️ Summit Fair Fall Festival - Lee's Summit's Summit Fair is partnering with The Strawberry Swing for an outdoor fall shopping festival with local vendors, fall décor, live music, and food trucks.

Sunday

🏈 Chiefs vs. Colts - Week 2 action returns to Arrowhead, as the Chiefs welcome the Indianapolis Colts for a 7:20pm kickoff. The game will be broadcast on NBC.

🎷 Nelson-Atkins Deaf Cultural Festival - A free annual celebration of Deaf culture and identity at the Nelson-Atkins Museum — ASL performances, art, storytelling, community, and museum galleries.

🎻 KC Symphony Mobile Music Box - KC Symphony musicians bring a free outdoor chamber concert to AdventHealth Lenexa City Center at 6:30pm. Lawn chairs and blankets welcome!

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Events

Hans Zimmer Announces Stop at the T-Mobile Center Next Spring

Hans Zimmer Live

Academy Award® and GRAMMY® Award-winning composer Hans Zimmer is coming to T-Mobile Center on Thursday, March 19th, 2027.

Screen to Stage: Zimmer is behind some of the most iconic film scores ever written — The Lion King, Gladiator, Inception, Interstellar, The Dark Knight, Dune, and dozens more. The Next Level is a new production featuring Zimmer live alongside his 19-piece band, designed to bring his cinematic worlds to life through groundbreaking staging, visuals, and sound.
First Show: While local music groups have performed Zimmer’s music in Kansas City over the years, this will be the first time that Zimmer himself has performed here. Because of this, tickets are expected to go fast.

Tickets go on sale Thursday, September 25th at 10am, but you can register for a presale code 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?

HINT: 4 bed, 3 bath, 1,858 sqft

Ready to see this house for yourself? Schedule a showing with Becca Hageman with GRID at Compass Realty Group!

ICYMI

This Week’s Top Stories 📲

The City of Kansas City recently advanced plans to continue the growth of the Berkley Riverfront Area, and Mayor Q shared photos of just how far the area has come in 4 years.
The Kansas City Symphony announced its fall schedule for the Mobile Music Box, with 12 more performances scheduled through October.
Liberty’s Beacon debuts at Liberty Memorial Tower on September 25th. The Tower will transform into a canvas of light, sound, and motion, designed by three world-renowned artists.
A new boutique hotel called Aiden Kansas City Downtown is now open just down the street from the T-Mobile Center, and has deep roots with KC’s history.
An interactive fall foliage map from Explore Fall shows that fall foliage color change will begin in the KC metro the first week of October, and peak the first week of November.