Casual Animal Brewing’s expansion started when brewery owner Kyle Gray was taking out the trash two years ago. “One of the women that works behind us was out there and asked if I knew what was going on, and I said, ‘No—what’s up?’ She told me that the next-door space owners were retiring,” he says.… Continue reading Casual Animal Brewing Co.’s dashing new space is a product of the owners’ creative talents
“It goes back to the Federal Water Power Act [of 1920]—they were trying to get rivers around the country to produce hydroelectric power. So people thought, ‘OK, I can make a buck, let me see where some places to do this would be.’ In the Midwest, some engineers or somebody started looking at the Osage… Continue reading How the Bagnell Dam created the Lake of the Ozarks and reshaped southern Missouri forever
When the coronavirus pandemic hit, Kansas City-area schools scrambled to move classes online. Ultimately, every public district in the area ended up with some sort of virtual learning program, a few of which remained in place into April 2021. While the pandemic seems to have an end in sight, virtual learning does not. Many school… Continue reading Even as most students return to classes, online learning is here to stay
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, careening down the highway. He’s on one of his many surly soliloquies, this one expounding the burden of being an American citizen with a Latin heritage: “Being Mexican- American is… Continue reading How cooking my mother’s rice gave me my name back
