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Good-bye to Pencil Factory

admin — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 14:55:00 +0000

Photo: Charlotte Klein

Yesterday was the bar’s last day. People had started lining up for any remaining merch before they’d even opened, and by 2 p.m. there was a crowd on the sidewalk. A few hours after that it’d turned into an ad hoc block party, with customers spilling into the streets, including one person in a pencil costume, and a man holding a cold beer in each hand while cradling a baby.

Late Show Writer Kate Sidley Is Afraid of Her Friend’s Coffee

admin — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 10:00:19 +0000

Illustration: Maanvi Kapur

“This is my first experience where everyone in my life knows I lost my job,” says Kate Sidley, who has been a writer on The Late Show With Stephen Colbert since its second season.

Go Eat an Ice-Cream Sandwich

admin — Thu, 24 Jul 2025 11:00:47 +0000

Photo: Hugo Yu/

Not so long ago, innovation in ice-cream sandwiching amounted to stuffing a brioche bun with some gelato.

They didn’t want to go corporate; how AI gave brothers the tools to forge their own path, together

admin — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:24:26 +0000

Tyler and Garrett Amundsen are using AI to help insurance brokers spend more time on relationships and less time on data, the duo shared.

Inspired by conversations around their family’s Kansas City dinner table, as well as the latest tech developments, the brothers launched LightDoc in early 2023 to automate and streamline repetitive tasks that don’t generate revenue and prevent brokers from being able to scale and connect with clients.

Aymann Ismail Is Nostalgic for Brazilian Burgers

admin — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:00:49 +0000

Illustration: Adam Mazur

Growing up within Jersey City’s Muslim community, Slate writer Aymann Ismail often felt that there was an “intentional veil between our world and everybody else’s.” Instead of regular Boy Scouts, his mosque offered Muslim Boy Scouts.

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Tech catches up to this ‘hot commodity’: Trially scaling to next level as an early investor forecasts unlocked opportunity

admin — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 17:58:30 +0000

Editor’s note: The following story was produced through a paid partnership with MOSourceLink, which boasts a mission to help entrepreneurs and small businesses across the state of Missouri grow and succeed by providing free, easy access to the help they need — when they need it.

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Cosmo Burger brings its mouth-watering tots, boozy milkshakes to East Crossroads’ bustling streets of eats

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 20:10:32 +0000

Bringing Cosmo Burger to the Crossroads required cousins Atit and Jugal Patel to cook their plans to perfection, serving up the brand’s first full-service brick-and-mortar location after years of trial by griddle.
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Family history, franchise model help second-chapter entrepreneur jump business obstacles

admin — Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:28:31 +0000

Throughout his career as a car salesman and mortgage broker, Brad Staples felt a calling toward entrepreneurship, he said. And when those industries ran dry, the Missouri native realized it was time to try on a familiar hat: running a family business.
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This Blue Valley teen uses AI to research cancer; Trump’s budget cuts could halt his work

admin — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 17:43:54 +0000

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.
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Catherine Lacey Rips Into Crabs With Her Bare Hands

admin — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 10:00:08 +0000
Illustration: Adam Mazur
Before moving to Mexico City this year, the author Catherine Lacey lived in New York for more than a decade — “in the East Village, Crown Heights, Dumbo, Upper West Side, Downtown Brooklyn, Fort Greene, Bed-Stuy, and Windsor Terrace, in that order more or less.” She wrote her first novel while living in a co-op bed-and-breakfast for artists in Brooklyn and since then has become known for her ambi
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Landlord’s solution to Kansas housing crisis: 3D print his own home inventory

admin — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 18:47:37 +0000

TOPEKA — Regularly confronted with a lack of supply in the housing market — and the subsequent higher prices — landlord and general capital investor Chris Stemler faced a multi-dimensional challenge.
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Where to Eat in June

admin — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Illustration: Naomi Otsu
Welcome to Grub Street’s rundown of restaurant recommendations that aims to answer the endlessly recurring question: Where should we go? These are the spots that our food team thinks everyone should visit, for any reason (a new chef, the arrival of an exciting dish, or maybe there’s an opening that’s flown too far under the radar). This month: New tacos! New momos!
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Bánh Anh Em Makes Food With Some Tooth

admin — Thu, 29 May 2025 11:00:23 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
Taste, smell, and spice tend to absorb the lion’s share of a restaurant critic’s attention, not to mention his adjectives. Texture often pulls the short straw. Non-western cuisines have been quicker to appreciate its merits — QQ, the Taiwanese-derived term for springiness and bounce, highlights exactly this — and it’s time I stood up for the chew and the chaw.
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Gold Up, Housing Down

admin — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 15:50:25 +0000

Image via Wikipedia

Japan’s Nikkei j
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