
Xiao Faria daCunha
Writer at Freelance
Artist, writer, journalist 🎭🎨 | WNMG Detroit & Sacramento |Byline @kcur @Chicago_Reader @fromthecenter | Opinions are my own.
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1 month ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Xiao Faria daCunha
This story was first published in KCUR's Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. Great news for people who love cooking, eating, or just shopping on a weekend morning: Kansas City’s many farmers markets are reopening for the season. You probably know of the big one at City Market, which has stalls open year round.
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2 months ago |
kcur.org | Xiao Faria daCunha
This story was first published in KCUR's Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. Do you love reading by the window as a storm roars on the outside? Or sipping some tea under the sun outside of a coffee shop, losing yourself in a beautiful story or touching prose? The Kansas City region has some great independent bookstores for the bookworm who is ready for their next chapter.
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Mar 29, 2025 |
ourcommunitynow.com | Xiao Faria daCunha
This story was first published in KCUR's Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. Birds return. Plants sprout. As spring brings us refreshed beginnings, we can look forward to new perspectives and open dialogues from Kansas City’s local artists. If you are hoping to fill this season with meaningful artworks, here are six must-see exhibitions happening around town.
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Feb 15, 2025 |
missydowntime.substack.com | Xiao Faria daCunha
“It’s me! It’s Liz! It’s Sue!“ The mutated blob of flesh, wrapped in a blue sequin night-gown for the New Year’s Eve celebration, grasps onto the microphone and pleads to the crowd. A tit hangs here. A face pokes out there. It wears Lou’s beautiful photograph like as a helpless and useless disguise of its true grotesque. I sat in the dark theater with my silent anger, watching the creature extending her arms as if to hold someone, yet only to be pushed around over and over again.
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Feb 7, 2025 |
missydowntime.substack.com | Xiao Faria daCunha
Galleries and artists share a symbiotic relationship. Without artists, galleries will be out of inventory and hence, out of business. Without dedicated, forwarding, open-minded gallery spaces, artists rarely become able to breakthrough their existing circle to reach a larger audience on a more advanced scale.
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