Fire Lake Soapery owner Laura Rozell tells us how her health-care background inspired her to create natural household products.

Photography by Jeremy Theron Kirby.

After practicing physical therapy for thirty-five years, Laura Rozell decided to channel her passion for wellness in a different direction and started creating natural household products. Rozell began making nontoxic vegan products like soap, candles and bug repellent in her basement and hawking them to family, friends and farmers market shoppers. Rozell eventually outgrew her… Continue reading Fire Lake Soapery owner Laura Rozell tells us how her health-care background inspired her to create natural household products.

Phil “Sike Style” Shafer and the Buck O’Neil Bridge

Photography by Zach Bauman.

Across Kansas City, the vibrant work of Phil Shafer’s Sike Style Industries punctuates his decades-long career in public art. Whether it’s the Raised Royal mural near Boulevard Brewery or the tribute to A Tribe Called Quest on the old Josey Records, you have likely seen his work adoring downtown walls. A graduate of the Kansas… Continue reading Phil “Sike Style” Shafer and the Buck O’Neil Bridge