It’s a wet and dreary Monday morning, and it couldn’t be cozier inside Sister Anne’s on the northern edge of Hyde Park. The barista at the coffee shop-cum-record store is spinning jazz poet Gil Scott-Heron’s “Home is Where the Hatred Is” and pulling shots of espresso as two regulars in knit beanies grab a table by the windows up front.These regulars are chefs Johnny and Helen … [Read more...] about Restaurant of the Year
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This pit is bringing KC-style barbecue to the west coast
After relocating from Kansas City to Oregon a decade ago, it took Kevin Koch years to find a barbecue joint with burnt ends and ribs like the ones he grew up eating. Now that he has his own Kansas City-style barbecue pit at a brewery in the heart of Portland, he’s learned he wasn’t alone. “I put my personal phone number on my website,” he says, “and people from other states … [Read more...] about This pit is bringing KC-style barbecue to the west coast
Plaza Lighting + 5 More Things To Do In KC This Weekend: November 26–28, 2021
2021 Plaza Lighting Ceremony | Thursday, November 25 The Country Club Plaza will celebrate its Lighting Ceremony on Thanksgiving. It has been a local tradition for almost 100 years and started with a single strand hung at the Mill Creek Building. This year, members of the Kansas City Current—KC’s professional women’s soccer team—will flip the switch at 6:52 pm. There … [Read more...] about Plaza Lighting + 5 More Things To Do In KC This Weekend: November 26–28, 2021
The Owen Case
eep in the downtown headquarters of the Kansas City Police Department, there’s a roll of microfiche that spits out a stack of copy paper a full five inches thick. The file is marked “Roland T. Owen” and dated by hand, “1-4-35.”This is the file for the unsolved murder of a man who wasn’t named Roland T. Owen. He died at the old General Hospital a day after his nude, battered … [Read more...] about The Owen Case
Photographer and ‘hype person’ Tayanna Nelson is on a quest for the city’s best steak
When Tayanna Nelson and her husband started looking for a wedding photographer, they searched high and low for an inclusive photographer. “Everywhere I turned, people in our city had a stacked portfolio, but it was full of thin, white and conventionally attractive folks,” Nelson says. The frustration from that experience inspired her to leverage her portrait photography skills … [Read more...] about Photographer and ‘hype person’ Tayanna Nelson is on a quest for the city’s best steak