TheaterUnicorn Theatre’s production and the battle over the tower of ‘Babel’ Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Theater‘night, Mother’ is a nonlinear journey through the five stages of grief Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsCome for Fox and Pearl’s airy and Instagrammable interior design, stay for its masterful meats. Or vice versa. Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsAdventures at Linh’s Vietnamese Cuisine, where the quirks are abundant and the banh mis first-rate Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkTossing axes, drinking White Claws, and snacking on menu items developed by a James Beard Award nominee—just like real lumberjacks do Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsSoirée Steak and Oyster House auditions on 18th and Vine Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterAt KC Rep, a ‘choreopoem’ explores the experiences of women of color Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkHogshead’s ode to McDonald’s iconic McRib started as a joke. Now the restaurant is selling 300 a week. Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Theater‘Do Not Work’ at Midtown’s Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, says Actors’ Equity Association Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkKrokstrom is closing, and that doesn’t reflect well on KC food culture Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterAt the Arts Asylum’s Jesus Christ Superstar, a rock star cast in need of a better soundboard Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsChecking in on Plate and Ragazza, two popular Italian restaurants recently reborn in new spaces Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterA musical about American hubris and Bush-era stupidity, now playing at the Unicorn Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterMore musicianship, more new works, more ‘in-the-roomness’: New artistic director Stuart Carden on his plans for the KC Rep Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterThe Living Room Theatre will leave the Crossroads following its upcoming tenth season. But then what? Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsIn Independence, the year-old Nigerian restaurant My Village Grill is a welcome home away from home Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterAt Spinning Tree Theatre, a show about suicide that plays like a comedy Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterAt KCAT, A Doll’s House bursts with feminist energy rare for a 140-year-old play Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkThey serve food at the midtown Home Depot now. You will want to read the menu carefully. Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsBlack Sheep + Market on West 39th Street has the makings of a neighborhood favorite Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
CultureThe 2019 KC Fringe Festival is in full swing. Here’s what we’ve seen so far. Liz Cook, Deborah Hirsch, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsIn an increasingly crowded fine-dining scene, does Farina live up to chef Michael Smith’s reputation? Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterKCAT’s Morning’s at Seven is an odd little comedy about sisters and aging Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
NewsWhat’s behind the surprising resurgence of KC’s metaphysical community? Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterBilly Elliot the Musical, at Spinning Tree Theatre, is a follow-your-heart story (with anti-Thatcherite anthems) Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsGuy Fieri’s Dive and Taco Joint has arrived, and here is our review of it Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterCapitalism, colonialism, and comedy in School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play at the KC Rep Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkCan City Barrel distinguish itself in a Crossroads runneth over with breweries? Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkIn a Northland strip-mall storefront, Queen Sweets and Bakery is serving up some seriously tasty Middle Eastern treats Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkSay ‘I might kind of like you’ this Valentine’s Day with these Kansas City spicy bois Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterEmotional Creature, at Spinning Tree Theatre, is a syrupy kind of sincere Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Swooning for Freshwater 2.0, a successful experiment in fine dining for working-class millennials Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsThe new Golden Ox has gracefully revived its predecessor’s midcentury traditions — and then some Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkParlor food hall: your guide to the Crossroads culinary playground Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Food & DrinkTribe Street Kitchen in the River Market wants to show you the world (review) Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterMetropolitan Ensemble Theatre is entering a new era—but are its leaders stuck in the past? Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterIn Sweat at the Unicorn, Rust Belt anxiety amid the 2000s collapse of American manufacturing Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
Restaurant ReviewsOn Broadway Deli, a ‘mostly Jewish deli for a mostly not-Jewish city’ Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterOn the Kansas City Actors Theatre’s troubling (and troubled) production of A Moon for the Misbegotten Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
TheaterTheater review: Daddy Long Legs, at Spinning Tree Theatre, is a polished production of an imperfect musical Liz Cook, December 16, 2020
