First Base: Get Your Glove
Call of The Sandlot takes you back to the time when kids played until their mothers called them in for dinner. Flatland looks back into the city’s baseball history to tell you why sandlots disappeared and how Sam and Ana Beckett, a Kansas City couple, and the Kansas City Royals are looking to bring the tradition…
If These Walls Could Talk
Over the course of past month, Take Note has been listening to area youth as we explore the intersection of trauma and education. We went to Blue Valley to learn about their new mental health resources in “We Struggle, Too,” we ventured to Blue Springs where a young graduate shared his remarkable story through “In His…
City Teaming with KCP&L to Provide Free On-Street Electric Vehicle Charging Stations Downtown
Three new on-street charging stations for electric vehicles are coming online in downtown, an expansion of a program sponsored by Kansas City Power & Light. The first station is operational at the East 9 at Pickwick Plaza apartment development at 933 McGee St. and the other two in the Crossroads District at Broadway and Southwest…
Trauma-Informed Care Transforms Lee’s Summit School
Summit Ridge Academy administrators knew that old-school discipline wasn’t cutting it. Instead of suspension, many kids at the Lee’s Summit “alternative school” — which serves middle and high school students who need a different learning environment — simply needed adult support and better coping skills. Some of the students live with a parent suffering from…
Female Athletes Are Closing The Gender Gap When It Comes To Concussions
Gina “Danger” Mazany is a professional mixed martial arts athlete, and she’s helping researchers learn more about head injuries and the female brain.
Tap List | 31 Heroes & The I-70 Beeries
Torn Label Brewing Company (1708 Campbell St.) will once again release 31 Heroes Wheat IPA, a beer originally created in honor of troops that died in a military tragedy. “In August 2011, a helicopter carrying a group of military service members – many of them Navy SEALs – was downed in Afghanistan,” said Rafi Chaudry,…
Where, Exactly, is Midtown?
Ask a Kansas Citian where Midtown is, and you’ll hear a pretty wide swath of responses. Oleha Verlander, who lives in South Waldo, submitted a curiousKC question asking us to narrow it down. “Where/what exactly is considered Midtown,” she asked. So curiousKC spent an afternoon crisscrossing the city to ask others that same question. We…
Omaha Postcard
By Kevin Collison Port KC rolled out its sketchy concept for the Berkley Riverfront a few weeks ago, but if anyone wants to see a farsighted vision realized, they should drive three hours up I-29 to Omaha. First off, Kansas City and Omaha share a very similar relationship with the Missouri River. Both towns started…
Forging Their Own Path
Kenya Davis is a product of the Kansas City, Kansas, school district, as is her oldest daughter. But Davis’ enthusiasm for public schools waned when her youngest daughter, Sasha, entered Kansas City Public Schools. Sasha attended John T. Hartman Elementary for kindergarten, but Davis moved her to Troost Elementary the next year in search of…
Downtown Kansas City Traffic Snarls Ahead with Two Major Bridges Closed
By Kevin Collison While concerns over closing the Buck O’Neil Bridge has been center stage in recent months, Kansas is moving forward with a project that will shut down a second major downtown bridge for two years, the westbound Lewis & Clark Viaduct. And there’s a good chance both bridges, which carry a combined 62,000…
Heed The Call of The Sandlot
Call of The Sandlot takes you back to the time when kids played until their mothers called them in for dinner. Over four digital episodes (the first airs on Wednesday, August 2), KCPT and Flatland look back into our local baseball history to tell you why sandlots disappeared and how Sam and Ana Beckett, a…
KC Cocktail Club at Lifted Spirits & Other Weekend Possibilities
Wine and cheese, please. Discover how to pair wine and cheese with The Better Cheddar’s Wine & Cheese 101 class ($50). Wine sommelier Matthew David and Lincoln Broadbrooks lead a lesson and tasting on from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at The Better Cheddar (604 W. 48th St.). [FLEX-CONTENT] Learn to make cocktails and tour a…
Sale of The Kansas City Star Press Pavilion for Fraction of 2006 Cost Reflects Declining Newspaper Industry
By Kevin Collison When it opened in 2006, The Kansas City Star Press Pavilion was hailed as a major contribution to the revitalization of downtown and the latest technology in the newspaper industry. The striking 434,000 square-foot building clad in green glass and copper covered two city blocks, rising from four stories along 17th Street…
It’s Time to Rebrand the Block
Not to get remotely biblical, but for me, it all started with a rib bone. OK, there was more than one rib — a couple of side dishes might have been involved, too. That’s how I discovered my new favorite block near downtown Kansas City, Kansas: Fifth and Central Avenue in Wyandotte County. Before the…
KC Clergy Stood Fast With Anti-War Stance
He’s 84 now, and has been retired since 2003 from his role as pastor of a United Methodist Church in northern California, but the Rev. Phillip Lawson vividly remembers all the trouble he stirred up in Kansas City in 1970 by speaking out against the Vietnam War. He went to Hanoi and, in a radio…