Chicken and Ale: This chicken joint has crafted the perfect beer pairing

Photography by Zach Smith.

Strip’s Chicken, now with a third location open in Lenexa, claims to serve a bespoke beer deliberately crafted to be enjoyed with their “broasted” dishes. In fact, owner Todd Johnson, who opened his first Strip’s Chicken restaurant in 2016, says its 59 Diner Amber Ale is “perhaps the first beer created to pair well with… Continue reading Chicken and Ale: This chicken joint has crafted the perfect beer pairing

What happened to the nearly 30 animal sculptures that once lined The Landing’s pedestrian mall?

Photography courtesy of The State Historical Society of Missouri

Some time after a 1970 mall renovation, dozens of animal sculptures vanished. But for about a decade prior to that disappearance, the artwork turned a shopping center into a family-friendly space speckled by sculpted giraffes, kangaroos, walruses and penguins. In 1960, the J.C. Nichols Company commissioned local artist Jac T. Bowen to create something special… Continue reading What happened to the nearly 30 animal sculptures that once lined The Landing’s pedestrian mall?