Whether you’re feeling a romantic night with your significant other or want to spend time with your girlfriends for #GalentinesDay, we have you covered this Valentine’s Day. Check out the best Valentine’s Day dinner spots in Kansas City. Corvino Supper Club & Tasting Room Corvino will have seating turns in the Tasting Room at… Continue reading 16 Romantic Date Spots for Valentine’s Day in Kansas City
This story begins in Chanute, Kansas. But before it ends, Kansans Martin and Osa Johnson have traveled from Borneo to Kenya to produce an epic series of documentary films. Think of the Johnsons as the original Jacques Cousteau or Steve Irwin. Starting in 1917, they were among the first to mount camera safaris. Largely avoiding… Continue reading Two pioneering documentary filmmakers came from Kansas
Kansas City Journal Ceramic pipe manufacturer turned politician Walter Dicky bought the Democratic Journal in 1921. He combined the paper with the Kansas City Post in 1922 to compete with the Kansas City Star. The Call The weekly African-American newspaper founded in 1919 by Chester A. Franklin was GOP-aligned and addressed civil rights issues in… Continue reading Eight newspapers that Kansas Citians read in the 1920s
The Kansas City Sun’s front-page headline on Saturday, June 5, 1920, was undeniable: “K.C. BASEBALL CRAZY.” “The Kansas City Monarchs, famous at once, represent us, and have already become the pride of local fans, both colored and white,” wrote Chas. A. Starks. A hundred years ago, Kansas City was home to a charter member of… Continue reading How the Kansas City Monarchs became the city’s favorite sports team in the 1920s
The twenties marked Kansas City’s emergence as a high-spirited town that flaunted temptations. Boss Tom Pendergast and his political machine worked in lockstep with the police force to allow the city to be a “wide-open town.” Prohibition officially began in 1920 and lasted until 1933, but Kansas City was largely defiant. Many legitimate breweries, wineries… Continue reading You can still get a drink at these notorious Prohibition-era Kansas City speakeasies
Just two hours due south on Route 69 sits quaint Kansas town Girard. There’s not much there these days — just a few churches, a Sonic Drive-In and a family-owned appliance store. But believe it or not, this heartland mining town with a population under three thousand was once a hotbed of American socialism and… Continue reading Small-town Kansas was once home to the nation’s most controversial publishing house
*Photography by Kathryn Elsesser To paraphrase a riff from Kansas City native son Calvin Trillin, the best winemakers in Oregon are, of course, from Kansas City. Not all of them; only the top four or five. This isn’t the first exodus of talent from Kansas and Missouri. Hundreds of thousands of people followed the Oregon… Continue reading How Kansas and Missouri secretly run the show in Oregon wine
Before the 1920s, the utilitarian dresses women wore weren’t anything special. Actually, they were quite stodgy, with no form or shape. “Nell always described them as sixty-nine cent Calico cloth sacks that you bought straight off of the rack at dry goods stores,” says Terence O’Malley, great grandnephew of Nell Donnelly who wrote books, a… Continue reading KC was once home to the country’s top fashion label
Squirrel Nut Zippers Feb. 1, 7:30 pm Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway Blvd., KCMO The Squirrel Nut Zippers have had around three dozen members since 1993, but the North Carolina band remains a champion of old-time genres from jazz to klezmer. YBN Cordae Feb. 1, 8 pm The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., Lawrence The hip-hop up-and-comer… Continue reading Best Kansas City Events this February 2020
The Get Up Kids didn’t plan for their 2004 tour with Dashboard Confessional to be their last, but that’s what happened after tensions grew between band members. Fifteen years later, the band will share a stage with their emo contemporaries once more, having reunited in fall 2008 and released two more albums, including 2019’s Problems.… Continue reading Get Up Kids singer Matt Pryor on reuniting, touring and Lawrence
