Jake Owen will be playing at Whiskey Tango at 10 p.m. Friday in Grain Valley (Doors open at 5:30, with opening band Echo Creek starting around 7). Owen’s venture into country music has not been a casual walk in the park, but an outright sprint from 2006 to now with a record deal with RCA, a successful first release, “Startin With Me” and his second CD, “Easy Does It.” He has toured with a long list of superstars and garnered his first Grammy, Academy of Country Music and Country Music Association nominations. His current single is “Eight Second Ride.”

From socks to gun cozies, you can knit up a storm to relieve your boredom.

Kodie Burns is a senior at Grain Valley High School. He is playing the King in this fall’s production of “Cinderella.” A honor roll student at Grain Valley, this is the second theater production for Burns who was also in 2008’s “Footloose.”

Put together a fairy godmother, a stepmother, two stepsisters, a prince looking for true love and a young servant girl and what is the result – Grain Valley High School’s fall production of “Cinderella.”

The 3rd annual Downey Side Adoption Agency Art Auction and Fundraiser will be held from 6 to 9 p.m. Thursday at Studio 2131, 2131 Washington, Crossroads Art District, Kansas City.

A journey that started nearly six years ago is far from complete for the producers of the independent film "Streetballers," an urban drama exploring the lives of two junior college basketball players from diverse backgrounds and their struggles within a divided city, broken homes and the demand of collegiate-level athletics.

This week: The children's books of Eric Carle

Michelle Lea Sciortino plays Carmen Diaz in William Chrisman High School’s production of “Fame,” which opens at 7 p.m. today at the high school. Sciortino has been performing and competing on stage since a middle school student.