I couldn’t resist just one last post on the Plaza Art Fair. When I was growing up there in the 1970s, Brush Creek was just a narrow ribbon of water channelized in concrete. Now it spreads from...
The first artist whose work stopped me at the Plaza Art Fair: Suzy Scarborough. I will remember Betsy Youngquist‘s art for its detailed beadwork and eerie quality. I had the idea that food...
A week ago Friday, after hauling my dad to the lawyer, where nothing much was accomplished for a couple hundred bucks an hour, and then hanging out at Dad’s apartment doing his laundry, I...
I left Kansas City the morning of November 8, driving down Antioch to Shawnee Mission Parkway, stopping briefly by the old mission buildings that used to house Shawnee Indian girls and boys (the...
Going to the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City these days makes me miss how it used to be, so I was happy to discover a new restaurant in the neighborhood. My sister and I met two of our cousins at...
In 2007, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City added the Bloch Building. Steven Holl Architects designed it to fit along the east side of the museum, preserving the north entrance...
I drove my gas-guzzling Dodge Dakota to the 350.org virtual march for climate action in Kansas City. Why? Because I must think I do enough for the environment already. It turns out there is always...
Last night my sister and father and I had dinner at Avenues Bistro at the corner of Wornall and 63rd in Brookside, which is considered a top restaurant in Kansas City. I wanted to go there and I...