KC Nanobrew Festival & Other Weekend Possibilities
Kansas City’s next great brewery may very well be pouring beer in Berkley Riverfront Park this Saturday. The 2016 Kansas City Nanobrew Festival is from 2 to 6 p.m. and will feature more than 200 brews from area homebrewers. The festival, now in its seventh year, is a celebration of originality in brewing — as The…
Keeping the Pressure On, His Memory Alive
Updated 1:38 p.m. July 29 The family of a man shot to death by Kansas City police three years ago has filed a wrongful death suit against the department, alleging that its policies were to blame for an incident that quickly spun out of control. The suit, filed Thursday in the U.S. District Court for…
Sympathetic Vibrations | The Politics of Campaign Music
Last week in Cleveland, Ohio, as an overhead PA system boomed Queen’s “We Are the Champions,” an awkwardly hunched silhouette of Donald Trump, draped in fog, preceded the presidential candidate’s entrance to the Republican National Convention. And almost as quickly as Trump’s own hot air had whisked away the lingering fog, Queen had denounced his…
The Weekend Starts Today
With the Republican convention just over and the Democratic gathering in full swing, you might be thinking about nothing but politics. Then again, given that we’ve still got more than three months left of this before the election, you might want to take a break from politics and enjoy some of the culture the city…
Koko Thai Introduces Tastes from Northern Thailand and Laos
Koko Thai (1513 Grand Boulevard) introduces a range of classic and regional dishes that deliver balanced flavor with representative influences from Laos and northern Thailand. Owner Steve Srivisay, a graduate of Le Cordon Bleu’s culinary arts program, explored Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam on a three-month culinary tour prior to opening the downtown eatery. “We’re a…
Take 5 For Your Health
Osawatomie State Hospital: A Leading Light For Mental Health Care Slowly Dims Editor’s note: Heartland Health Monitor partner KHI News Service conducted dozens of interviews to chart how Osawatomie State Hospital went from a respected facility to one that federal officials deemed too unsafe for Medicare patients and how the hospital could rebuild for the…
Fresh, Live Shrimp Find Unlikely Home in Oak Grove, Missouri
“Wow!” It’s a comment Mitch and Julie Schieber hear whenever somebody views their KC Shrimp facility for the first time. Inside, eight 14-foot above-ground swimming pools are filled with 80-degree saltwater and thousands of live shrimp. Snaking across the low ceiling, and into each pool, are blue plastic lines that pump air into the water…
This Guy Walks Into a Bar and Sees a String Quartet Playing
Classical Revolution KC is part of a growing trend to bring classical music out of the concert hall and back into people’s lives via serendipitous discovery. “If you just grab a random 30-year-old off the street and ask, ‘Do you go the symphony?’ they’ll say, ‘No.’ It’s just not their scene,” said Nick Bell, co-founder…
Experimental Plane Sets Off On Final Leg Of Its Round-The-World Journey
It’s the first time for a solar-powered plane to circumnavigate the globe. Now it’s en route to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates — and you can watch the journey in a live video from the cockpit.
Ferment Nation | Wine is Mystery
Like science? Like wine? Join master of wine and master sommelier Doug Frost — only one of four people in the world to hold both distinctions simultaneously — in “Ferment Nation” as he breaks down the science of fermentation, explores the culture of Midwest wine, and cuts out the pretension in this six-part series. In this episode,…
This Midwest Lab Breeds Pest-Killing Bugs
The Colorado Department of Agriculture is killing pests dead, without the aid of chemicals. Halfway down a dead-end road in the small farming town of Palisade, Colorado, is the research facility known as “The Insectary.” Scientists at the lab develop “biocontrol insects,” insects adapted to attacking bugs and plants harmful to agriculture. Colorado’s Insectary is…
1984: The Year We Unwittingly Stopped Watching Movies And Started Watching Franchises
Even if you are a serious person with adult responsibilities, you are likely aware that a new incarnation of Ghostbusters arrives in theaters this week. It stars four funny women and was co-written by a fifth, and at least some proportion of its intended audience has found these staffing decisions alarming. While I haven’t seen…
In the Crossfire
Just this week, the New York Times detailed a study finding that police are more likely to rough up blacks than whites, meaning tactics like cuffs, pepper spray, and forcing the suspect against a wall. However, it also found no racial bias in lethal force, the deadly shootings we’ve come to rally around. The graphic below doesn’t…
Common Grounds | Troost Avenue Group Contemplates Racial Issues
Reconciliation Services hosted the “Common Grounds” team this week, where the conversation included discussions about race and the violence gripping the nation. The Rev. Justin Mathews, Turbo Qualls, Tonya Adams, and Rodney Hendrix met in the internet cafe at the organization’s offices, 3101 Troost Ave. Matthews is the executive director of Reconciliation Services, and Qualls…
Commentary | What It Feels Like
I’m afraid of the fear. That’s the bottom line I have left over from the Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland, Ohio. (And, trust, I’ve got plenty to process next week about the fallout from the Democratic National Convention.) Not that my fear is new. Pretty much since the momentum that is Donald Trump…