A Field Guide to Sneaking Your Pet Into Arrowhead
A laundry list of restrictions await every football fan wanting entry into Arrowhead, but after an image of a man cuddled with an orange cat in his stadium seat went viral earlier this week we couldn’t help but wonder what other kinds of loving pets we can get into the home of the Chiefs. [FLEX-CONTENT]
Sounding Smarter
North Korea claimed this week that it successfully exploded a hydrogen bomb, a test which came in the run-up to President Kim Jong Un’s 33rd birthday. It’s a story about nuclear weapons where the names “Fat Man” and “Little Boy” are actually referring to a head of state. Jihadi Abu Rumaysah is suspected of being the…
Chocolate Ale with Raspberry? That’s Our Jam.
Christopher Elbow sells drinking chocolate year round, but nothing quite like what the Boulevard Brewing Company is slated to release next Tuesday, January 12. Chocolate Ale with Raspberry is a new iteration of the Chocolate Ale that Boulevard and the chocolatier have produced in collaboration four of the past five years. “Raspberry and chocolate is…
Making Buddhism Matter, in KC
“Come inside.” Lama Chuck Stanford is standing just inside Kansas City’s Rime Buddhist Center on a frosty Sunday morning in late December, urging the morning’s volunteer greeter to come in from the cold. She can welcome people once they come indoors, he says. It’s what other greeters do. As visitors arrive to the entryway of the…
The Weekender
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the Weekender’s last hurrah on Thursday. Starting next week, we’ll be appearing on Wednesday afternoon — just to give you a little extra head start on making plans. You’re welcome. This weekend is all about football. The red hot Chiefs are going for their first playoff win since the Clinton administration began, and the city is…
Kansas Woman Says Health Reform Law Helped Her Launch Business
A Lawrence businesswoman has become something of a poster child for the Affordable Care Act. Meg Heriford, owner of the Ladybird Diner, didn’t seek the spotlight but has been thrust into the role by former U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. Sebelius, who also served two terms as Kansas governor, still has a…
Sympathetic Vibrations | RecordBar’s Last Song
Halfway through Making Movies’ farewell set at RecordBar on Saturday, lead singer/guitarist Enrique Chi quipped, “We’re trying to play long because we don’t want to leave this place.” Chi’s joke resonated with the sold-out crowd, and likely the larger Kansas City music community, that reluctantly bid farewell to the space that has housed an institution…
Forum Explores Conservative Route to Kansas Medicaid Expansion
Event at Johnson County Community College drew more than 300 attendees Tuesday
Going whole hog toward sustainability?
Roeslein Alternative Energy and Smithfield Foods aim to convert hog manure into a stream of clean energy.
Food-obsessed filmmaker returns to her Napoleon, Missouri origins
Kelly Cox hangs with chefs, hunters, moonshiners and other characters across the country, filming her original web series Original Fare presented by PBS Food. She’s traveled the world searching for stories that cut through the pretty packaging and buzzwords of the foodie movement to make a slice of American authenticity accessible to all. Last November Kelly returned to…
Dual Personality
As a student in the early 1970s at the Kansas City Art Institute, Jerry Eisterhold found himself pondering wine in addition to graphic design. It was a brief phase, yet one that foretold the future. “I thought it would be a cool thing to be a wine aficionado,” Eisterhold remembers. “So I went down to…
Year’s End Brings Changes for KC’s Rime Buddhist Center
As the year ends, Lama Chuck Stanford is departing his role as leader of Rime Buddhist Center, and he made his final public appearance in that role early this morning, at the Center’s annual New Year’s Eve “World Peace Meditation.” [For much more on this story, see our multimedia update] Members of the Greater Kansas City Interfaith Council, representing more…
Review Meets Preview
The Preview: We hate to humblebrag, but Flatland has had a big year. Inside the Hale Center, we burned through a lot of coffee gearing up for our October relaunch, where we showed off our new look. But Flatland is more than a pretty face. We’ve also re-tooled our digital focus, finding new ways to bring you into the…
Ranking Kansas City’s Food Scene: 2015
The burgeoning food and drink scene in Kansas City earned a lot of national press this past year. We thought we take a quick look back at some of the notable mentions for libations and gustatory delights (and, yes, there’s a mention of KC BBQ below too) in print and online publications. Folks can’t seem…
The Weekender: New Year’s Eve 2015 Edition
New Year’s Eve is a terrible, terrible holiday. Just ask Jennifer Lawrence. The star recently told British talk show host Graham Norton how much she hates the holiday. J. Law knows. New Year’s Eve, after all, celebrates nothing. Most holidays have a spiritual or historical significance. Not New Year’s. The entire holiday exists as a…