Ingram's June 2026

BEST GOLF COURSE Designed by Tom Watson, Tom Weiskopf, and golf course architect Jay Morrish, SHADOW GLEN in Olathe earned Golf Digest ’s Best New Private Course desig nation in 1989 and has been consistently ranked the No. 1 course in the KC area by Golf Digest . The course wraps along rocky ridges and through tree-lined valleys, with stone-lined water hazards, rugged ravines, and undulating greens. HALLBROOK earns Silver , the Leawood private club consistently recognized among the metro’s finest golf facilities. LOCH LLOYD takes Bronze . BEST JAZZ OR BLUES VENUE At 1809 Grand Boulevard in the Cross roads, the GREEN LADY LOUNGE oper ates on principles that feel almost counter cultural: no cover charge, no televisions, no recorded music. What you get instead is live KC jazz seven nights a week, 365 days a year, on two stages—two Hammond organs, three Leslies, a baby grand piano, and a rotating cast of the city’s best im provisers. PHOENIX earns Silver as the city’s other essential jazz and blues anchor. BLACK DOLPHIN —Green Lady’s sister club—takes Bronze . Entertainment & Culture (continued)

BEST LOCAL ENTERTAINER CALVIN ARSENIA —KC-based harpist, vocalist, and multi-instrumentalist—earns Gold as a genuine one-of-a-kind presence in the city’s entertainment landscape. Voted KC’s Best Musician eight years in a row from 2018 through 2025 by PitchKC , Arsenia has been featured on Billboard, NPR, and GRAMMY.com, and has performed in nine countries through public and private grants. Since 2023, he has served as director of Greenwood Social Hall in the Westside neighborhood. FLASHBACK earns Silver — the high-energy KC party and cover band that brings Motown, Funk, Disco, and pop classics to corporate events, weddings, and private parties, with the Kansas City Horns section as an option. RED BEAT takes Bronze . BEST PERFORMING ARTS Opened in 1936 as part of Kansas City’s Art Deco Municipal Auditorium complex, MUSIC HALL —seating 2,363 across or chestra, loge, and balcony—has hosted touring Broadway productions, visiting symphonies, opera, and ballet for nearly 90 years. It is also home to the 1927 Robert Morton Theatre Pipe Organ. KAUFFMAN CENTER earns Silver : opened in 2011 at 16th and Broadway, its Muriel Kauffman

Theatre (1,800 seats) and Helzberg Hall (1,600 seats) are the resident homes of the Kansas City Ballet, Lyric Opera, and Sym phony. STARLIGHT takes Bronze for its irreplaceable outdoor summer-evening experience in Swope Park. BEST SPORTING EVENT TO ENTERTAIN CLIENTS The KANSAS CITY ROYALS edge—a re sult that may reflect Kauffman Stadium’s particular suitability for business enter taining, where a summer evening in the stands allows for sustained conversation in a way a November football game in full throat often does not. The KANSAS CITY CHIEFS earn Silver : back-to-back Super Bowl champions with a sustained playoff run that has made tickets a premium com modity. KC CURRENT takes Bronze — the NWSL franchise that plays in what has been reported as the first purpose-built stadium for a women’s professional soccer team in the U.S., which opened on the KC riverfront in 2024. BEST THEATER STARLIGHT earns Gold as Kansas City’s irreplaceable outdoor summer-evening venue—an approximately 8,000-seat amphitheater on 16 acres in Swope Park that opened in 1950 and has hosted touring Broadway productions and ma jor concert acts across seven decades of Kansas City summer memories. AMC earns Silver through the sheer accessi bility and consistency of its metro-wide multiplex network. SCREENLAND AR MOUR takes Bronze , the intimate North Kansas City independent cinema whose curated programming and neighborhood- bar atmosphere have made it a beloved al ternative to the mainstream multiplex. BEST WEEKEND GETAWAY LAKE OF THE OZARKS remains the dominant answer for KC professionals de compressing on a long weekend. With more than 1,150 miles of shoreline, the lake offers everything from quiet coves to the Bagnell Dam strip. Its proximity to the metro, rough ly 2½ hours south, keeps it accessible with out requiring a flight. BRANSON is back for Silver as a closer alternative with a dis tinct entertainment profile. OMAHA takes Bronze as the closest major metro with a distinct dining and arts scene—enough to justify the drive north for a weekend that feels genuinely away from Kansas City.

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