Archives: September 2023

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Food & Drink

KC Sipps: Chiefs watch parties, Taco Wars, and Mean Girls brunch

Your Kansas City dining guide
Sarah Sipple,

Art by Cassondra Jones Looking for delicious plans? Whether you want to impress a date, show your fam the best of KC, or just get out of the house, we’ve got you covered… all while supporting (mostly) local.  Here is your weekly roundup of the best food and drink offerings around Kansas City. Cheers! Something New Taco Naco: In honor…
Culture

Keep Them Coming: Boundaries and healing

Kristen Thomas,

Illustration by Shelby Phelps Content warning: This piece discusses sexual violence and consent violation. Let’s talk about it again… It’s Sexual Health Month, and this year’s theme is Consent. Since I recently provided a framework for navigating weed and consent in the April issue, this time I want to offer advice for navigating consent violations.  Consent, from a sex education…

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Culture

Puttery takes a swing with maximum design and miniature golf

The new mini-golf and 21+ spot is a welcome maximalist moment amid a world of beige.
Sarah Sipple,

Main floor bar at Puttery. // Photo by Sarah Sipple Opening September 14 at Country Club Plaza, Puttery offers a multi-level restaurant, bar, lounge, and mini-golf concept for ages 21 and up. This is the newest of 10 locations for the national chain, with others in Minneapolis, Miami, Dallas, and more. Interior design choices quickly set this spot apart, straying…

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Food & Drink

Drink This Now: Negroni at Hillsiders

Sarah Sipple,

Negroni at Hillsiders // Photo by Sarah Sipple Flair, clever names, kitchy glassware… I love a themed bar as much as (okay, more than) anyone, but sometimes a classic neighborhood bar hits the spot. Strip away the trendy finishes and you’re left with the studs: your drink, your company, and hopefully a comfortable spot to sit.  Hillsiders has the relaxed…

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Politics

Governor’s budget vetoes survive despite overrides in the Missouri House

The Missouri House voted to override the governor on 14 spending items but the state Senate took no action.
Rudi Keller,

House Speaker Dean Plocher, R-Des Peres, waits for the Missouri House to finish voting Wednesday on a motion during the annual veto session. // Photo by Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent) Gov. Mike Parson prevailed on all his vetoes Wednesday when the state Senate refused to consider any of the 14 budget overrides approved by the Missouri House. The House achieved two-thirds…

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Culture

Four Inane Questions with rhinestone entrepreneur Glittah Gal

Michael Mackie,

Glittah Gal. // Courtesy photo Jessica Loughran doesn’t just shine; she sparkles—both figuratively and literally. Loughran is known around these parts as the infamous and legendary Glittah Gal, a Kansas City drag queen “who has turned my hobby into a full-time job,” she tells us.  Loughran got her start working in the restaurant and retail management industries.  “But I always…

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Culture

UMKC to host All Girls Matter Empowherment Conference in October

Hayden Kalp,

Courtesy America’s Big Sisters Foundation UMKC will host America’s Big Sisters Foundation and their All Girls Matter Empowherment Conference on Saturday, Oct. 7. Founded by Dr. Tragil Wade-Johnson in 2017, America’s Big Sisters began holding the conference in Chicago with just 200 girls in attendance. The conference has since expanded into a 10-city tour that travels from coast-to-coast coaching and…

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Food & Drink

Restless Spirits Distilling Company leans on Irish heritage for Gullytown Whiskey

Joe Ellett,

Restless Spirits Distilling Company new expressions of Gullytown Whiskey. // Photo by Joe Ellett With an Irish background, Benay and Michael Shannon founded Restless Spirits Distilling Company back in 2014, aging whiskey since day one. Now, the fruits of their labor are beginning to turn over, with their earliest whiskey barrels finally flowing down the mouths of many. “Since day…

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Food & Drink

Hopscotch: City Barrel Pizza + Patio set to open in former Bier Station location

Jordan Baranowski,

Courtesy photo As our calendars turned over from 2022 to 2023, the Waldo/Brookside area lost an institution. Bier Station, the combination beer shop and taproom, filled their final pint glass and closed their doors for good. Owner John Couture saw Bier Station struggle during the pandemic, and he found his passion wandering more to the realm of local politics as…

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Culture

“GIFT of Troost” showcase highlights Black artists on the east side

Mar'Che Boggess,

Courtesy image Nonprofit thrift store Troost 39 and Kansas City G.I.F.T are teaming up to host a showcase to highlight Black artists on the east of Troost.  The GIFT. of Troost Artist Showcase is an eight-day exhibition featuring the works of aspiring artists Stan Morgan, Xavier Gayden, MariChelle Okorie, Anita Easterwood, Dawn Tree, Chrissy Curly, and Jimmy Thompson. Each featured…
News

Evergy asks Missouri regulators to let customers opt out of time-of-use pricing

The pricing plans, which place a premium on power used at times of peak demand, were met with controversy this summer.
Allison Kite,

Evergy asked Missouri regulators to allow customers to opt out of controversial time-of-use pricing, which places a premium on electricity used during times of high demand. // Courtesy of Evergy The largest utility in western Missouri has requested permission to allow customers to opt out of controversial time-of-use pricing plans imposed by state regulators. Evergy is expected under an order…
Politics

Medical experts question Kansas lawmaker’s anti-abortion testimony for ‘born alive’ law

Rep. Ron Bryce’s claims of infants surviving abortion attempts are ‘made up to try to scare people,’ physician says.
Katelynn Donnelly,

Rep. Ron Bryce says he doesn’t know of any cases of infants surviving abortions in Kansas. // Photo by Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector A Republican lawmaker’s misleading narratives before a Kansas House hearing this spring supported a state law prohibiting physicians from euthanizing infants who survive abortions — despite medical experts’ assertion that the scenario is a non-existent scare tactic. The…

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Food & Drink

Dish & Drink KC: Fall semester study spots at Whistle Stop Coffee & Mercantile and Novella

Lauren Textor,

Rosemary Pistachio Iced Latte and Salted Caramel Chocolate Chip Cookie at Whistle Stop Coffee & Mercantile. // Photo by Lauren Textor All aboard for the Whistle Stop Coffee Shop Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra croon the classics over the wooden booths at Whistle Stop Coffee Shop. Natural light floods in through the front windows, landing on the fresh flowers at…

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Music

Photos: Hole Fest 2023 highlights the best of Lawrence DIY

Maura Dayton,

Nästy Vömmit at Hole Fest. // Photo by Maura Dayton Hole Fest The Shire September 8-9, 2023 This past Friday and Saturday, the Lawrence DIY scene headed out to the Shire for the second annual Hole Fest, organized by the people behind the Hobbit Hole DIY venue. The lineup included 45 bands between the festival’s two nights, featuring local talent…
Movies

A Haunting in Venice continues Kenneth Branagh’s mysterious descent into lazy filmmaking

It feels like you’re a teacher watching a pupil with demonstrated potential fail a test because he assumed he didn’t have to study. He’s getting a C-, with a note to see the teacher after class.
Abby Olcese,

A Haunting in Venice. // Courtesy 20th Century Studios If there weren’t already successful examples of Agatha Christie adaptations (and movies made in the spirit of Christie), it might be tempting to give Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot movies some leeway. Murder on the Orient Express was a serviceable, atmospheric whodunit. Death on the Nile was a bloated disaster hampered further by…

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Music

Exhumed kicks off the week with a brutal Bottleneck show

Nick Spacek,

Exhumed. // photo by Nick Spacek Exhumed with Incite, Bleed the Victim, and Blood Scent The Bottleneck Monday, September 11 On Monday, an off day from the Cavalera Conspiracy tour, the Bottleneck got two of that package’s opening acts to bring area metalheads some joy after a rainy day. After opening sets from Topeka’s Bleed the Victim and Blood Scent,…

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Music

Catching Air takes a power stance at the Screenland this Saturday

Nick Spacek,

If you have even the slightest notion of what the world of competitive air guitar is like, you know who Eric “Mean” Melin is. If you don’t, then know that he’s the drummer for local acts like Ultimate Fakebook, Truck Stop Love, and the Dead Girls, and he’s the 2013 World Air Guitar champion. To continue on in his evangelic…

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Culture

Four Inane Questions with Tivoli at the Nelson’s Jerry Harrington

Michael Mackie,

Jerry Harringhton. // Photo by Dana Anderson Film buff Jerry Harrington has always been most comfortable sitting in the dark, engrossed in a movie. After graduating from film school, he took a job at the Bijou Theater in Westport, which morphed into a nearly 40-year career running Tivoli Cinemas, Kansas City’s oldest independent theaters.  After the theaters shut down in…

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Art, Culture

Woman of Audacity: Daisha Maria-Breona paints with purpose

Tyler Schneider,

Daisha Maria-Breona in her studio. // Courtesy photo Daisha Maria-Breona’s first introduction to painting came as a high school senior in 2012, but it wasn’t for another decade, following a move to Kansas City in 2020, that she began to blossom as a creative.  “It wasn’t until September of last year that I took it seriously. I’d gone through a…

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Culture

KC Cares: L.M. Alcott Art Center Foundation

Beth Lipoff,

Chris Green, executive director of Alcott Arts Center, shows the craft room where many of the art classes happen. // Photo by Beth Lipoff The arts are very much alive inside an old elementary school in Kansas City, Kansas. With visual art classes, theatrical productions, and gallery exhibitions, the L. M. Alcott Art Center Foundation is making sure everyone has…

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Culture

Honeybee Edibles’ peanut butter and jelly chocolate bars and solventless-rosin gumdrops hit the Missouri cannabis market

Joe Ellett,

Honeybee Edibles new peanut butter and jelly chocolate bar and solventless-rosin gumdrops. (Photo by Joe Ellett) A couple of weeks ago, Honeybee Edibles, a branch of Proper Cannabis based in St. Louis, announced the release of their heavily awaited gourmet edibles. Both the peanut butter and jelly filled chocolate bars and solventless-rosin gummy edibles offer consumers tasty new methods of…