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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 03/07/2026 00:52:00

A sculptor opened a pizza joint to feed his art district - and ended up building one of Kansas City's favourite outdoor concert venues in the lot next door. Grinders, at 417 East 18th Street in the Crossroads Arts District, pairs a famously irreverent pizza-and-wings restaurant with Grinders KC Live, an open-air stage whose lawn holds around 3,000. Artist Stretch - the metal sculptor whose work marks buildings across the city - opened the restaurant in 2004 as the anchor of his block of studios...