As it stands this month, 13% of Kansas residents and 12% of Missouri residents have been vaccinated.

curiousKC | Does the COVID Vaccine Cause Shingles?

Does the COVID vaccine cause shingles? The short answer, no. Learn more here.

Le Chronic Cafe Serves Aunt Kathy’s Eclairs, Comfort Food

By Kevin Collison In opening Le Chronic Cafe at the City Market, chef Bryan Merker is fulfilling a promise he made to his Aunt Kathy years ago. As a kid in Kansas City, he always enjoyed the wonderful eclairs his aunt prepared. “My aunt was an amazing baker,” Merker recalled. “She always made eclairs so…

Nick Haines

Nick’s Picks | Vaccine Expansion and NCAA Basketball

COVID vaccination expansion and the NCAA basketball tournament tops a bounty of news during the first full week of spring.

Advisory Group Endorses 12-Story Apartment Tower for River Market

By Kevin Collison A proposal to build a 12-story, 300-unit apartment tower on a parking lot immediately west of the City Market has been endorsed by a review committee reporting to Port KC. The $75 million plan submitted by Flaherty & Collins of Indianapolis was recommended over a competing proposal from RM Housing, a local…

Anaya Morrow in a scene from "Epiphany."

Art House Extra | Having an ‘Epiphany’

“Epiphany” is a day-in-the-life story about a young Black girl who makes a choice during a playground confrontation and deals with the consequences of her choice.

Rob Reiman, founder and CEO of The Giving Tree

The Giving Grove’s Little Orchards Cast Long Shadows

The Giving Grove is empowering communities in Kansas City and several other cities to plant orchards to combat food insecurity.

Museum Apartment Tower, $116M Project, Proposed for 45th and Main

By Kevin Collison Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed for the gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main, is among the development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month. The bump in applications to the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas…

A person plays mini golf on the Nelson-Atkins lawn.

Weekend Possibilities | Nelson-Atkins Art Course, Pop Ups and Bull Riding

Lingering St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are joined by a pair of pop ups, bull riding at the T-Mobile Center, March Madness watch parties and much more.

The $116.2 million Museum Tower apartment project is proposed for the site of the former Holiday Inn at 45th and Main streets.

Museum Tower, $116 Million Apartment Project, Proposed for 45th and Main

Museum Tower, a $116 million apartment project proposed as a gateway to a potential cultural district at 45th and Main streets, leads the list of development proposals filed with the city in advance of stricter tax incentive policies taking effect early next month.

The pandemic recession cost women and LGBTQ+ people more, data show. (Adobe Spark image)

Stories of Pandemic Unemployment: ‘It … Eats Away at You’

Low wages, risky jobs put LGBTQ+ People, BIPOC and women in the economic line of fire pre- and post-pandemic.

Photo illustration of Kansas Citians reflecting on the past year of life during a pandemic.

Our Pandemic Year: Kansas City Reflects on COVID-19

As we reach the one-year milestone of living in the pandemic, Kansas Citians reflect on how their lives have changed.

Katz Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission

By Kevin Collison Some design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in Midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission Tuesday. In response to feedback from neighborhood groups and preservationists, the lower levels of the six-story apartment building now will be likely…

The apartment project that will incorporate the historic Katz Drug Store at Westport Road and Main Street.

Katz Drug Store Proposal Purrs Past Plan Commission

Design tweaks to a proposed apartment development that also would restore the historic Katz Drug Store in midtown helped the project win unanimous support from the City Plan Commission.

Trey Garst works on his planter in preparation for a welder to come on March 5, 2021.

‘Steward of the Land’: Missouri Farmer Foresees Successful 2021

A Missouri farmer keeps a wary eye on the unruly Missouri River as grain prices soar and federal subsidies flow.

Crossroads Community Association Celebrates 20 Years Creating a Neighborhood

By Kevin Collison When the Crossroads Community Association began 20 years ago, its sprawling 90-block turf of old, brick commercial buildings sandwiched between downtown and Crown Center was facing an identity crisis. The area was finishing its pioneering phase that began in 1985 when artist Jim Leedy found real estate cheap enough in the deserted…