TKC BREAKING AND EXCLUSIVE NEWS!!! LOCAL CRITICS QUESTION: KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES IS AN ARTIST?!?!
Kansas City Awards season continues and here's a notable prize worth considering . . .
KANSAS CITY MAYOR SLY JAMES WAS RECENTLY ANNOUNCED AS THE WINNER OF THE ARTS ADVOCATE AWARD!!!
Meanwhile, a local critic questions:
"Check out 'Sly-the-arts-advocate bs' just released today. Exactly what has he ever done to advocate the arts? Oh, I know: Tearing up Main Street for a toy trolley."
That's one way to look at it . . . Actually, I was thinking that Mayor Sly's ability to make people believe that KCMO wasn't going bankrupt was his finest masterpiece.
Here's the event scheduled for early next year . . .
ARTSKC Award
Please join ArtsKC - Regional Arts Council and the 2014 ArtsKC Awards Honorary Chair, Sharron Hunt, as we honor the following companies and individuals for their exemplary leadership in the arts:
Mayor Sly James, Arts Advocate Award
- Jay Tomlinson, Virtuoso Award
- Grant Burcham, Corporate Leader in the Arts Award
- Red Dirt LLC, Creative Industry Award
- Stinson Leonard Street LLP, ArtsKC Fund Corporate Leadership Award
- Rees Masilionis Turley Architecture, ArtsKC Fund Employee Commitment Award
- Hotel Phillips, Impact Award
- REACTOR Design Studio, Creative Workspace Award
The ArtsKC Awards Luncheon sells out every year ...
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Sly James is a B.S. artist. That's about it.
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ReplyDeleteSeems like a nice guy. Hahahahaha
ReplyDeleteFor what The Art of Bullshit?
ReplyDeleteHow much tax payer money we throwing away subsidizing the trust fund kiddies and all their pie in the sky ideas.
ReplyDeleteDonate? With cash fat corporate sponsors in a rotating ad on the side? LOL right sure we will uh huh.
ReplyDeleteThey only support the arts so the developers can decide when it's the right time to kick the artists out on the curb, and then begin the gentrification process.
ReplyDeleteMayor James is a nice guy who can say the right things behind a podium but he isn't doing much for the arts in Kansas City...Mike Burk is.
ReplyDeleteArtsKC...a bunch of bureaucrats just trying to keep their paychecks. Stretch should get the award!!
ReplyDeletesome days capitalism just makes you fucking nauseous
ReplyDeleteAnyone notice the similar looks between Mayor Sly and a Gorilla?
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely ..I always think of a long time kc resident,he passed away years ago. His name was BIG MAC. Sly looks just like him.
ReplyDeleteHe no doubt is enjoying the benefits of owning his own personal taxpayer ATM machine.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing sly is going to paint is the ass end of his Fruit of the Looms when the election results come in.
ReplyDeleteSly James has been supportive of the arts community like an obese person is a fan of everything in an all you can eat buffet. He's spending money on EVERYTHING.
ReplyDeleteWhat the people who gave him this award don't realize is that if he wasn't spending so much money on other economic development projects, there would be even MORE money for public art projects.
The best way to grow this city is through art, technology, and open, honest and fair Government, and he dabbles in the first two, but certainly not enough to be celebrated for it. However, that's just my opinion.
Congrats on your award thingy, Mayor.
Will Emily E. be creating a logo for this event?
ReplyDeleteMay I suggest "SJ" or if you prefer "JS"
Slight of hand artist.
ReplyDeleteThe local arts scene is mostly a huge popularity contest. Of course the Mayor can play.
ReplyDeleteOh he is an artist no doubt about it.
ReplyDeleteScam Artist
Yeah, Sly is an artist... a con artist.
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ReplyDeleteYes he is. He's a great artist.
ReplyDeleteHis specialty is in the Con Oeuvre.
He is a Con-Artiste!
6:16 +1, He does look like a big ape !
ReplyDeleteSeriously. Who the fuck REALLY cares about this? I cared enough about it just to ask this question.
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