A challenge, from TEDxKC Speaker Martin Pistorius: Expand your possibility
There’s a long list of things TEDxKC speaker Martin Pistorius can’t do, speaking and walking being one of them. There’s another list, a list that rivals the first one in length. That is the list of things he can do: run a business, express himself expertly, engage and command a room like he did at…
TEDxKC audiences get Led Zep tones, with 'kid-rock' style
In April, long before young percussion rock group the Louisville Leopards traveled to Kansas City for a surprise performance at TEDxKC, Ozzy Osbourne — yes, the doom metal legend former frontman of Black Sabbath rumored to dine on bats — wrote to the group lauding them for their rendition of his “Crazy Song” and announcing…
Grandview superintendent to retire
Kansas City-area school districts have seen a ton of superintendent turnover within the past few years, and the trend continued Friday with the announcement that Grandview’s Ralph Teran will retire at the end of this school year after a decade in the job. The school board lauded Teran for helping to improve student achievement in…
Unveiling of beautification project for Prospect Corridor
For once, drawing all over a house will not only be allowed, but encouraged. Nearly 50 amateur artists have spent more than a month, working alongside professional artist mentors, to prepare murals as part of the Urban Canvas KC project. These murals, to be unveiled Saturday, are slated to adorn seven vacant properties in the Prospect Corridor, from 25th street…
An I-70 cold brew-collaboration comes today to the River Market
Kansas City and St. Louis are developing an esprit de café. Over in the River Market, Quay Coffee will bring back its I-70 toddy collaboration today. It’s a cold brew — coffee grounds that are soaked in cold water — available by the glass or in 16-ounce growlers, made with coffee beans roasted by Blueprint Coffee out…
KU Med Breaks Ground For New, $75M Training Facility
When Dr. David Zamierowski was training as a physician in the 1960s, he tried out his new skills on living patients.
Sound smart this weekend
THE REARVIEW: (Three stories to have in your wheelhouse) 3 Americans who thwarted train attack receive France’s Legion Of Honor The honors kept coming all week, and deservedly so, for those brave boys, ahem, men, on the French train. We’re so enamored that they were forgiven for wearing polo shirts to the Frenchie version of the White House;…
How opera helped a young singer from Ferguson succeed
Nine Network | PBS As the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death approached, young opera singer Melvin Bozeman reflected on his experience with the police in Ferguson and how the arts drove him to succeed. Bozeman graduated from McCluer North High School in Florissant, Missouri, this past spring. He said he has had negative experiences with…
Ballet programs look for more boys to step up to the barre
Stacy Nick | NPR A beautiful ballerina and a handsome prince are at the heart of the world’s most famous ballets. Sleeping Beauty. Swan Lake. The Nutcracker, of course. And at training grounds for future dancers, plenty of girls hope to someday wear the prima ballerina’s tutu. But it’s become a challenge to find the boys who…
All around the watch
You may have heard how the MLB banned Royals Manager Ned Yost from wearing his Apple Watch in the dugout last week. And since then, how Mike Wilson, CEO of local luxury watch company Niall, gifted a “Niall One.3” timepiece to Yost — royal blue dial, of course — before last night’s ballgame. During the late-scoring 8-6 win over the Orioles, game-watchers…
Take 5 for your Health
NURSES RALLY TO PROTEST STAFFING AND COMPENSATION AT RESEARCH MEDICAL CENTER Dozens of registered nurses and supporters marched and chanted outside of Research Medical Center in Kansas City on Thursday evening to draw attention to labor issues. The picketers, who were organized by the National Nurses United union, say the hospital is failing to comply…
Forget the robots, meat processing is still a human’s job
Slaughterhouses and meatpacking plants throughout the country employ a lot of people. About a quarter of a million workers in the U.S. stun, kill and eviscerate the animals we eat. Most of those jobs are physically demanding and require few skills. So why haven’t we started using more robots to cut up our beef? The…
My Farm Roots: Learning the ropes
Kendra Lawson doesn’t have the typical schedule of a nine–year-old. With just a week of summer left, she spent her days working with her dad and mom on the farm and preparing her pigs to show at the state fair. Here in central Missouri, the Lawson family raises cattle and pigs with a lot of…
Ask for it three-way or five-way, just don't ask for ketchup
Sometimes it is about the size of the dog. Back in March, Ronnie McGowan – a Tulsa native that has lived in the Kansas City area for the past two decades – looked around the local landscape and saw something missing from the hot dog spectrum. Kansas City had cocktail weenies and foot-long dogs, but…
Swimming Pool Parasite Sickens Three In Johnson County
A disease caused by swimming pool parasites has been diagnosed in some Johnson County, Kansas residents and led to the temporary closure of a pool in Overland Park. Cryptosporidiosus, or crypto, is spread by contact with waste, contaminated food or water,or infected people. Symptoms include diarrhea, abdominal cramps, fever, nausea, and vomiting. “At this time,…