Tag: social

Jenny Hagel Makes Good Choices

admin — Fri, 28 Feb 2025 11:00:01 +0000

Photo-Illustration: Adam Mazur

For the past few years, Jenny Hagel and her colleagues at Late Night With Seth Meyers have been “happily but also sadly” working remotely — “sadly because I miss my colleagues, and happily because now my laundry’s always done,” says Hagel.

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Why keep Betty Rae’s from the world? KC ice cream shop franchising brand across region

admin — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 17:51:42 +0000

Matt Shatto wants to “create smiles across the country” — not just in the metro. His plan: scoop a pint of franchising into the handcrafted mix for Betty Rae’s Ice Cream, a shop that developed into multiple must-visit Kansas City destinations over nearly a decade.
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Two Carnivores Walk Into a Vegan Sichuan Joint

admin — Thu, 27 Feb 2025 13:00:46 +0000
Dolly Faibyshev
Michael Musto, the legendary nightlife and gossip columnist and one of my closest pals, has several reasons for hating vegan food, or more specifically, for hating vegans. “Part of my distaste for vegan food all these years,” he says, “is that I demonize vegans as being holier-than-thou and patronizing about their choices.” I stifle an eye roll as Michael continues.
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It’s Hot. It’s Mysterious. It’s on the Upper East Side?

admin — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 12:55:00 +0000
Photo: Paolo Cruz
I suppose I should know at this point that if you want prime real estate — say, a townhouse on East 74th — you should be prepared for a bidding war. So it goes lately with Chez Fifi, a 1920 townhouse turned pocket-size French bistro on 74th and Lex. Since its opening in January, Fifi has been, by seemingly universal agreement, both unbookable and unmissable.
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Ixtapa closes JoCo favorite; owner says he won’t compromise family recipes or up prices as food, rent costs rise

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 21:43:11 +0000

Ixtapa Fine Mexican Cuisine has closed in Johnson County after five years.

Co-owner Victor Esqueda blamed rising costs — rent, ingredients and more — for the closing of the restaurant at 7305 W. 95th St. in Overland Park, near the sprawling Shamrock Trading Company campus.
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Coffee cluster percolating on one Troost block; will business support the buzz of six spaces to sip?

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:50:09 +0000

A new stretch of coffee shops in the 5500 block of Troost will test the caffeine tolerance of folks seeking a fix. Six options soon fill out the menu along this bustling corridor.

Blackhole Bakery, High Hopes Ice Cream and The Littlest Bake Shop currently offer coffee along with their core menu items.

But Blackhole is expanding with a coffee and bagel bar. Kaveh Coffee Co. is opening just to the north, and Polished Perk Coffee Co. is going in across the street. Start at Zero is expected offer coffee in its new play cafe near the southern end of the block.
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Pizza Sushi Is a TikTok Hit — Is It Any Good?

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:43:11 +0000
Illustration: Igor Bastidas
On Instagram and TikTok, anything worth eating comes with a line. Whether social-media fame is sparked by an influencer or is the result of a concerted marketing effort to engineer a food’s digital moment, timeline domination does not always correlate to actual quality.
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Why I Don’t Use the Word “Authentic” When Writing About Mexican Food

admin — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 16:02:31 +0000
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Rooftop Austin’s Bar & Grill just one step in unlocking Olathe’s ‘downtown renaissance’

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 23:33:58 +0000

A century-old building in downtown Olathe will get new life as an indoor/outdoor restaurant complex known as County Square Commons — anchored by the popular Austin’s Bar & Grill.
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Concert: Black rockstars don’t just exist — they innovated the genre; how KC artists are still (song)writing history

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:31:54 +0000

A rock concert Friday at the newly opened Zhou B Art Center in Kansas City does more than place Black artists center stage for one night, said Malek Azrael; it spotlights that Black creatives belong in every musical space.
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Blackhole Bakery plans bodega-style expansion for second location: a West Plaza ‘blank canvas’

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 21:00:02 +0000

During his five years operating on Troost, Jason Provo said real estate agents often approached him, asking, “When are you going to leave and get a big boy spot in Leawood?”

Now the owner of beloved Blackhole Bakery is planning his second location. But not in Johnson County.
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Dublin down on shenanigans: Smoke Brewing goes green with St. Patrick’s season pop-up

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 20:49:20 +0000

St. Patrick’s Day-themed Shenanigans is now open in downtown Lee’s Summit.
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The game is rigged; the goalposts move (and we still have to pretend it’s fair)

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 19:21:30 +0000

Editor’s note: The perspectives expressed in this commentary are the author’s alone. JQ Sirls is an author and illustrator, as well as co-founder and CEO of Storytailor — an AI-infused storytelling platform that turns children’s emotions and challenges into adventures filled with imagination and wonder.
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Ferdinando’s Focacceria Is Closed

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:23:20 +0000
Photo: Scott Heins
One of the few restaurants in the city serving Sicilian cuisine from the turn of last century has closed after 121 years in business in Carroll Gardens.
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Bird Flu Wiped Out His Entire Farm

admin — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 12:00:22 +0000
Photo: George Etheredge for New York Magazine
At the beginning of the year, Doug Corwin’s duck farm was thriving. By January 13, one of his barns held 12,000 two-week-old ducklings. It was cold, but they looked healthy. Another flock of 800 birds, six to seven weeks old, was doing well too. “They were absolutely beautiful,” Corwin says, sitting at his desk in Aquebogue, just east of Riverhead.
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