I love hotel bars—here are my favorites in KC

Hotel Kansas City/Photo by Michael Robinson

At a hotel bar, you can be whoever you want to be, even for just an afternoon. Wander in wearing pajama pants or a ball gown. Flirt with a stranger away at a conference. More intoxicating than the booze is your guaranteed anonymity. Today’s hotel bars have evolved beyond wood-paneled dens of red meat and… Continue reading I love hotel bars—here are my favorites in KC

This small town Kansas photography shop develops aged film formats no other processor will touch

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 photography led to the steep decline in film processing—they were working nearly ’round the clock, and one of the biggest processors in the nation. “The first year I was here,… Continue reading This small town Kansas photography shop develops aged film formats no other processor will touch