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Common Grounds | Brooksiders Dissect Campaign Advertisements
What happens when a regular coffee group gathers at a Brookside restaurant? Check out the latest episode of “Common Grounds” to find out. The hangout of choice for our coffee conversationalists is Bella Napoli Italian Restaurant, Deli, and Coffee Bar at 6229 Brookside Blvd. Sharon Grosshart, Fred Newman, Bob Miller, Nelson Maurice, and Jackie Allen…
Common Grounds | Elections in a 24-Hour News Cycle
This week the “Common Grounds” team heads southeast to the Cass County town of Pleasant Hill, Missouri, to sit down with four locals at the New Town Bicycle and Coffee Shop. Dwight and Anita Widaman, Dave Moore, and Bob White met in the narrow, brick building at 115 Wyoming St. in the historic downtown. The bike…
Rewriting The History Books
A chance discovery by a local historian rewrites the architectural landscape of West Plaza. There’s poetry in that.
Order Up | Cafe Europa’s Lemon Cake
We use our “Order Up” series as a way to take a layered look at food and drink all over town. This week we also used our “Order Up” series to have a lemon cake party in the newsroom. Sorry not sorry.
Five Ways You’re a Mosquito Magnet
The rain. The heat. The rain. The heat. We’re in a weather pattern that leaves Flatland confused about what to wear in the morning and certain of this: The mosquitos are in heaven. Our graphic explains why you may be a target.
Common Grounds | Discussing Life After Orlando
This week’s episode of “Common Grounds” comes to you from our down-the-street neighbor, the Good Samaritan Project, where we visited with six members of Kansas City’s LGBT community. Ash R. Allee, Gina Vidal, Greg Razer, Hugo Ximello-Salido, Matt Parker Green, and Stuart Hinds were the diverse coffee conversationalists who gathered at the project’s offices,…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Run DMCA
No one better than a music-loving lawyer to break down for us why T. Swift & Co. have been in a petition-signing frenzy of late. We look at the DMCA and why it has industry giants raising up battle flags against YouTube.
Recipe |Chicken Karahi and the Iftar Meal
Sure, we were taught you’re not supposed to talk religion or politics around the dinner table. But we sit in on a traditional Iftar meal, the meal that breaks the fast during Ramadan, for an interfaith conversation that covers all that, plus the food itself.
Common Grounds | Kansans Discuss Election and Education Crisis
Once again we’re in the community gathered around the table, and this time it’s with a cup of joe for election talk. Look for this series, ‘Common Grounds,’ as part of KCPT’s “Week in Review” and here on Fridays throughout the election season.
Commentary | Harry Potter and the Democrats
I’m a big fan of the Harry Potter series. Not the movies, the books. I miss the pomp and circumstance of lining up outside the bookstore, at midnight, with my friends, making a party of it as we waited for the next story in the ongoing saga. For some folks, it’s sports or concerts,…