Vegan Ice Cream Pop-Up Offers Diverse Scoops

With a roller derby bout underway, Zoe Mays of Scream Queens vegan ice cream, a resident concession partner at the event, posed with the four special flavors she developed in partnership with the teams. The Kansas City Roller Warriors bout was at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kansas on Dec. 6, 2025. (Todd Feeback | Flatland)

After putting in a 24-hour shift at Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical Station 5, Zoe Mays chills out by dreaming up flavors for Scream Queens, the gay-owned, vegan ice cream pop-up she started about 18 months ago.  The 31-year-old firefighter paramedic lives in Kansas City’s Hyde Park neighborhood, so the drive home is the perfect time…

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Nick’s Picks | WyCo, High-Rises, Buses and More …

Christal Watson will be sworn in the evening of Dec. 15, 2025, as the new mayor of the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas. (Carlos Moreno | KCUR 89.3)

Kelce Retirement Announcement? What’s your big new distraction now that the Chiefs are out of the playoffs? It’s going to be a long winter for Chiefs fans after the team fails to make the playoffs for the first time since 2014. Now get ready for the questions: Will Travis Kelce announce his retirement this week?…

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Nick’s Picks | Gerrymandering, Brewing, Haunting and More …

Amber Arnett-Bequeaith, also known as The Queen of Haunts, poses on the steps of The Beast haunted house.

Final Redistricting Vote Missouri lawmakers are expected to sign off this week on a new congressional map that could force out Kansas City Congressman Emanuel Cleaver. The full House is expected to vote on the measure today. If approved, some dramatic changes are on the way. Downtown Kansas City, the Plaza, and Brookside would all…

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Lavender Farm Supports Organization Battling Sex Trafficking 

an older man in a cap, jeans and a plaid shirt props a basket of lavender up against a fence. on the fence, a sign reads "Lavender Hill Farm"

“Joe never gives up on a plant,” Jenny Steineger said as her husband parted a seemingly dead lavender bush to reveal new growth at its core.   An unseasonably early winter cold snap resulted in a rather puny harvest for the Steinegers at Lavender Hill Farm in Kansas City, Kansas.   “That’s farming,” she said with a…

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