wide variety of venues for people to enjoy. Everything from the dive bar you're probably imagining to high end wine and whiskey bars that you'll look out of place if you're not wearing a suit. A lot of these places double as nice restaurants and live music venues. Then you have your various comedy clubs, dance clubs and such.
You're not required to enjoy any of these places or think them boring, but a very large number of people rather enjoy going to them.
The biggest difference with Kansas is they have a great basketball team.