Sponsored content: Alex Goodpaster, MBA, will never forget the first weekend in April last year when he and his colleagues sprang into action to help small businesses stay afloat as the pandemic…
Local News
Ask a woman what she’d tell her younger self—say, at age 10 or 12—and you might hear “You’re special.” “Don’t let anyone steal your sparkle.” “Know your own worth.” “You can do…
Sparkle Plenty Every decade on her wedding anniversary, my mother gets an upgrade—to her diamond. In the early ’80s, she kicked things off with a classic, modest, half-carat solitaire engagement ring. Ten…
Sponsored content: What better way to pass the time on frigid winter days than to dream of the outdoors? Spring will be here before you know it—yes, really! And that’s why the…
Sponsored content: With more than 60 years of combined real estate ingenuity and prowess under their designer belts, Kathy Koehler and Heather Bortnick are obviously successful at buying and selling houses. But…
You know her as the sassy pastor featured in that infamous 2019 Head & Shoulders Super Bowl commercial who would jump in her bright pink mobile wedding van and marry Kansan Citians…
People
For other 5th graders at Pleasant Green Community School, off 5th Street and Washington Boulevard in Kansas City, Kansas, it was a throwaway extra-credit assignment: Write your own Greek myth. For Aaron…
Anne Scharf is still on Cloud 9 after the Chiefs second stellar season in a row. Scharf—who has worked in the NFL for the past 17 years—is the Chiefs vice president of…
Somehow, it’s fitting that in the same town Walt Disney championed the process of turning countless individual drawings into animation, another animation artist is at work. With both a B.F.A. and an…
Legendary Kansas City drag queen Melinda Ryder has been entertaining audiences for 45 years—winning pageant titles as far back as 1979. As the hostess with the mostest, Ryder has been a show…
It’s been nearly 12 years since singer-songwriter David Luther released his first self-titled EP in Nashville. The rocker—who now lives in the metro—just released his newest single Home to Kansas City earlier…
Every community has its pillars—the individuals who have been there for as long as you can remember, always helping in any way they can and with incredible stories to tell. Most of…