One of our favorite indie games of 2020 has been a bit of a surprise from left field. You know how internships are a thing that everything hates? Well, what if a video game gave your the escapism of reliving the unpaid labor period of your life, wherein everyone could treat you like shit? Sounds like a bad time. What…
This is not even in the top 10,000 biggest problems anyone had during this eldritch horror of a year, but one thing that stuck out was how different it feels to watch a new movie for the first time at home versus in a theater. The emotional and intellectual reaction I had to, say, Wonder Woman 1984, was markedly different…
Courtesy Jackson County Health Department Thanks to an online portal, Jackson County residents can now claim their place in line for COVID-19 vaccinations. By clicking forward into the Jackson County Vaccine Survey Tool, you can get your foot in the door for the solution to getting the world back to normal, opening up the economy, and ending the rising death…
First big snow day. // Photo by Jim Nimmo I have a neighbor who summed up this holiday season better than anyone I know. She left her Halloween skeleton on her front porch with a Santa hat and a Christmas tree. The perfect visualization of the 2020 holiday season. It was an atypical holiday season at best and New Year’s…
Johnny Russell and his daughter before a game. // Courtesy Sporting Kansas City. What do pro athletes represent to a city and its people? Does a city, a state or even an entire region, bask in their reflected glory? Are they the physical representation of how we as a community see ourselves? Do we look in our collective mirror and…
READ provides books by BIPOC authors to Little Libraries in Lawrence // Photo courtesy of READ’s Facebook With all branches of the KC Public Library temporarily closing, locals must utilize their creativity in order to get their fill of free books in the coming weeks. For those living in Lawrence the Little Library Project, free mini-libraries scattered through the area,…
