If you remember road trips in the family car when you were little, things have changed. Instead of playing the License Plate Game, kids’ faces are planted in electronics. While the drive…
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Opening Day Readers of this column know I just love an opening. New store, new restaurant, new museum exhibit—I’m there! But is there anything more exhilarating and classically springtime than baseball’s opening…
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He was a lifelong Californian, living the Hollywood dream, hosting do-it-yourself TV programs, when an episode of HGTV’s Yard Crashers took Matt Blashaw to Kansas City, where he met his future wife,…
The Populous principal and interior design director fell in love with Kansas City before she even moved to Lee’s Summit from the South when she was in the second grade. “My grandaddy…
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Nobody in the audience knew the cute 4th grader from Wayne Minor projects who was slaying the talent show with his moonwalk would become an internationally famous rapper and head up his…
Bold, bright, and beautiful—that’s Carrie Kiefer’s style. The artist-turned-small business owner cofounded Ampersand Design Studio with her longtime friend, Morgan Georgie, in 2010. “Our art has found its way onto wallpaper, home…
She grew up east of Troost before “east of Troost” became code for where Blacks were allowed to live in Kansas City. In her debut novel, East of Troost (She Writes Press,…