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Repeat play: How hometown merch makers are running it back after another Super Bowl win for Kansas City Taking a cue from Chiefs head coach Andy Reid, Kansas City makers pounced on a proven, championship play Sunday night — quickly launching a range of new Kingdom-inspired celebration apparel to capitalize on their hometown team’s latest…
Editor’s note: The following story was published by KCUR, Kansas City’s NPR member station, and a fellow member of the KC Media Collective. Click here to read the original story or here to sign up for KCUR’s email newsletter. When the Kansas City Chiefs won the Super Bowl last year, close to 1 million flooded the streets of downtown for…
Being recognized for his work training local artists on the intersection of art and public policy, Logan Stacer said the honor from an global-facing nonprofit highlights Kansas City’s collective effort and passion for using art as a force for positive change. Stacer, an artist, youth pastor, educator and non-profit executive with Heartland Arts KC, this…
A former Bank of America building in Johnson County has been reimagined as an 18,000-square-foot bank-themed venue with a nod to the site’s rich financial history, said Steve Beaumont. “For 50 years, this has been a financial institution on this corner,” said Beaumont, describing the in-the-works setting off 95th Street in Lenexa. “We knew we…
Crossroads collaboration brings booch on tap, kegs, mocktails to MO’s (new) biggest kombucha taproom
Brewer’s Alley in the East Crossroads is getting a new kind of taproom, Kortney Lee and Lisa Bledsoe shared. In a freshly bottled collaboration, Tea-Biotics Kombucha opened Missouri’s largest kombucha taproom Friday in the former home of Community Groceries Crossroads Market. “Beer is brewed; Kombucha is brewed, as well,” said Lee, who owns Community Groceries…