As I interview Erin McDowell, asking about her favorite cooking tools and local grocery stores, her third cookbook, The Book on Pie, sits open in front of me. It...
As I interview Erin McDowell, asking about her favorite cooking tools and local grocery stores, her third cookbook, The Book on Pie, sits open in front of me. It...

Said to be one of the most photographed doors in Kansas City, the “Hobbit-styled” door looks as if it’s from another world. Known as the

As I interview Erin McDowell, asking about her favorite cooking tools and local grocery stores, her third cookbook, The Book on Pie, sits open in

It is often said that there is no middle ground when it comes to In-A-Tub, a fast-casual restaurant in the Northland. You either love it

Nothing to see here. That’s the goal of the medical team at the 2026 World Cup. No single emergency is too big to handle. Seamless

“Roti is for everyday eating,” says Gurdev Singh as he sits at his Northland Indian restaurant Seva, having just ordered us a dish of tikka

For years, Johnny Youssef had his eye on the 115-year-old vacant stone church before he was able to snag it. A TikTok-famous house-flipper and renovator,

(This story was originally published on January 24, 2025) Although she initially wanted to be a rapper like Missy Elliott, Kansas City’s first poet laureate,

From posters, T-shirts and street murals to sculptures, yard art and stickers to, well, a ton of cool stuff, Kansas City artists have turned the

Longtime art teacher and carpenter Jacob Matz’s sustainable furniture company Wicked Grain was born out of a school fundraiser for an art program. Students crafted

Melanie Clouser considers her eclectic 1921 Craftsman house a work in progress. “I don’t believe a home can ever get to the point of being

Here are fourteen things to do in KC this weekend, June 18—21 including JuneteenthKC Heritage Festival, FIFA World Cup: Ecuador vs. Curaçao and Heart of America Shakespeare Festival.

Operating a small business is always a cycle of hope and opportunity. With the World Cup in town, KC small businesses are getting an unprecedented
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HISTORY
We scoured the history books, took a look at the last 180 or so years of Kansas City history and cherry-picked the moments and movements that shaped the city we live in today. Some events called for instant celebration or quick action, others for somber reflection and disciplined planning, but each moment in time led us to where we find ourselves now.

There’s a line in the iconic film Selena when Edward James Olmos, who plays Selena’s father, is in the driver’s seat of the tour bus,

In 1956, Dwayne Steinle opened a small film processing facility in Parsons, a town of 10,500 west of Joplin, Missouri. At the store’s peak—before digital

Dr. Kimberly Marrow starts her morning as most people do. She wakes up, brushes her teeth, gets dressed, makes her coffee and catches up on

The gruesome torture-murder of Artemus Ogletree in a Kansas City hotel has a mythical status among true crime geeks. We obtained access to the complete