Lawrence Public Library’s Edible Book Challenge & Other Weekend Possibilities
Think of it as a pop-up book that you can eat. The Lawrence Public Library (707 Vermont St., Lawrence, Kansas) is hosting its 2017 Edible Book Challenge from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday. The idea is to reimagine your favorite title as a dish or cake or whatever food makes sense. You have…
(Not Actually) 12 Things To Do During the Big 12 Tournament
If you are in town for the men’s Big 12 Tournament, even if you’ve only come from as far as Lawrence, Kansas, welcome. While you’re watching the games, this Official Big 12 Media Guide might come in handy. While you’re not watching the games, or should your team get unexpectedly trounced, we’ve got a few…
It Starts With You And Must Engage Others
Walking along the Jersey Creek Park Trail in northeast Kansas City, Kansas, Broderick Crawford can see the overgrown weeds, the fractured asphalt trail and broken benches. “You can’t sit on them without getting a splinter,” he points out. No one could blame him for being angry with the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Sparking Innovation Through Collaboration
What happens when you give a group of musical and visual artists free reign to collaborate and create something new and cutting edge, as well as a prestigious venue in which to perform it? That’s the question that Peter Anthony and Will Funk are asking this weekend at the premiere of their months-long labor, “Light +…
The Weekend Starts Today
March is when the madness begins. No, not just the craziness we see on the basketball court. Warmer weather and longer days bring a special sort of lunacy that we all feel. With a nod to Daylight Saving Time kicking in this weekend, let’s spring forward to our list of stuff happening around town. Sports…
Missouri Lawmakers Debate Whether Pregnancy Resource Centers Must Provide Science-Backed Information
You don’t have to drive far in Missouri to see billboards offering help to pregnant women. They’re part of the state’s Alternatives to Abortion program, which has seen a big increase in public funding in recent years. This year’s legislative debate on the program focuses on a new question: What kind of information should these…
Tap List | Snake Saturday Suds
Sipping Suds on Snake Saturday The annual Snake Saturday Parade in North Kansas City, scheduled to start at 11 am, brings up to 100,000 participants, spectators, and revelers to the city. The parade begins at 16th and Swift Street. As a reminder, the city has a zero-tolerance policy about carrying open containers of alcohol. It’s…
To Diversify The Landscape, Diversify Who Works It
Farmers in the U.S. like to point out that their products feed people all over the world. And while this is a diverse country, the people working on farms and elsewhere in agriculture often don’t reflect the nation’s demographics. Changing that is becoming a priority, in hopes new people will bring fresh ideas to meet…
Making Sense of A Tragedy
The Rev. Kelly Isola is chair of the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council. The comments below were prepared for a vigil held days after the fatal shooting in Olathe. It is with a heavy heart that I stand with you today. The council is deeply disturbed and saddened by these violent acts. We offer our…
Judge Releases Defendant in 1988 Arson Deaths of 6 KC Firefighters
Bryan Sheppard, the youngest of five people sentenced to life in prison for a 1988 explosion that killed six Kansas City firefighters, will be released, possibly in the next few days, a federal judge ruled today. Members of Sheppard’s family, who packed one side of a federal courtroom here this afternoon began sobbing as…
Waffle Iron Pop-Up & Other Weekend Possibilities
Waffling on where to go for breakfast? How about the Waffle Iron pop-up at Hammerhand Coffee (22 N. Main St., Liberty, Missouri). It’s from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. If you head over on Saturday, you can also catch the grand opening of Anna Marie’s Teas (7 W. Franklin St.). The Liberty tea shop…
Lethal Injection Drugs at Center of Death Penalty Fight
Historical accounts peg Peter Johnson as the first person executed in Missouri — hanged in 1810 for killing another man in a township southwest of St. Louis. More than two centuries later, Missouri is still meting out the death penalty. But now, the method is lethal injection, a process that is ensnaring Missouri and other…
The Science of Believing
What is the single biggest factor related to student achievement? You’ll find it buried deep in a 50-year-old document. You’ll also see it on the faces of Kansas City youth who struggle to not let their past hold them back from a more promising future. Follow Take Note: Our City. Our Schools. Our Future as together, we…
Your Purpose Must Be Clear
When a storm blew through Shawnee this summer, it left downed trees and branches in an elderly man’s yard. He had neither the financial nor the physical means to clean up. Many suburban codes don’t make exceptions when it comes to unkempt yards. But in Shawnee, the city has a backup plan thanks to a…
Behind the Bryan Sheppard Ruling: What the Release Order Says and Doesn’t Say
A federal judge’s decision last week to release a man serving a life sentence in the 1988 deaths of six Kansas City firefighters was, at least for some of the families of those men, a hurtful betrayal by the legal system. For the families of the accused, it was the final arrival of justice long…