From Samoan turkey tails to Hawaiian plate lunches, a food truck brings Polynesian comfort food to Kansas City

Photography by Anna Petrow.

Independence is home to one of the Midwest’s largest Samoan populations. That’s why, off Highway 291 and 23rd Street in the Tractor Supply parking lot, you can find Cameron Maluia tossing kalua pork, pineapple sausages and turkey tails into Styrofoam to-go boxes from his food truck throughout the week. Uce Kitchen serves all kinds of… Continue reading From Samoan turkey tails to Hawaiian plate lunches, a food truck brings Polynesian comfort food to Kansas City

A new store at the Kansas City Art Institute means artwork by alumni, faculty and students can finally be yours

Photography by Jake Wickersham

When businessman Howard Vanderslice purchased a grand brick mansion on Warwick Boulevard in 1927 and gifted it to the Kansas City Art Institute, he had a vision. At a dinner the following year, he told students he hoped the art school would inspire them to give “to this city, in the forms of great marble… Continue reading A new store at the Kansas City Art Institute means artwork by alumni, faculty and students can finally be yours