Renowned musician Taylor Swift gave fans, or “Swifties,” the inside scoop on her reinvented self with two spark-filled albums in the latter half of 2020. Swift, having created a first dance-perfect sound with her most recent folk-style albums Folklore and Evermore, wiggled her way into households with slow, mystical jams like “Willow”, “Champagne Problems” and… Continue reading This Taylor Swift-themed wedding staged by a KC event planner is everything
\Patricia Mitchell calls herself a serial entrepreneur: Her expansive portfolio of businesses includes a live theater production company, a youth activewear line, children’s books and an eyewear collection. Since Mitchell is a business owner herself, she wanted her next venture to highlight other Black business owners and entrepreneurs. So she canvassed All Black Everything, a… Continue reading Local entrepreneur launches magazine to spotlight Black business owners
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, I remember reading somewhere—maybe Foreign Affairs magazine, maybe a Dril tweet, it all blends together now—that the most likely outcome of this cataclysmic event wasn’t the emergence of new trends but the acceleration of existing ones.In the beer scene, at least, that’s exactly what happened. Canned New England-style… Continue reading Sandhills Brewing’s Junco is now among the city’s elite hazies
Tina’s inspiration for her home came from two things: rocks and horses. “I have a thing where I look for heart rocks,” she says. “This place is essentially a rock. I mean, we had to dynamite this place in, which resulted in millions of rocks. I kept finding heart rocks, and I knew it meant… Continue reading How Laura McCroskey translated a homeowner’s rustic lifestyle into modern-dappled design
Alvin Brooks has seen it all. The eighty-eight-year-old Civil Rights activist has been dedicated to the community for decades, including a decade-long stint on city council and a mayoral run in 2007. In his new autobiography, Binding Us Together, Brooks shares stories of his time as a cop in the fifties, his tenure as the… Continue reading In his new memoir, local activist Alvin Brooks reviews his decades of civil rights fights
