In this issue, we’re looking at some of the best food and drinks featured in our pages this year. We’re talking fat food-truck cheeseburgers, rainbow-colored vegan nachos, sugar-coated scones, crazy-good mac and cheese, quenching and flavorful beer and icy Moscow Mules that kept us cool on the hottest days of summer. Enjoy the feast — because we sure did.
Chartwell Hospitality plans to break ground in March on a $46 million hotel and garage that will occupy much of the block northeast of 16th Street and Baltimore Avenue. The 10-story building will jointly house a 104-room Residence Inn and a 153-room Courtyard Marriott.
It’s easy to get caught up in the buzz of the holiday shopping season even as the baseball industry begins dispersing Thursday from its annual Winter Meetings. That includes the Royals, of course, even with their limited payroll flexibility. They remained linked to several free agents, including infielder Omar Infante and right-handed pitcher Jason Hammel.
Soccer, volleyball and football national championships are coming to the Kansas City area from 2014-18, including the Division I men’s College Cup, soccer’s Final Four, at Sporting Park in the fall of 2015 and the Division II football championship beginning next December through 2017 at Sporting Park.
Roller Warriors Girls Flat Track Derby
Pipefitters union Local 533 Christmas Party
Ugly Sweater Run
Merriam’s Santa Arrival and Christmas Dinner
Red Stocking Breakfast
Mission’s Holiday Lights and Festive Sights
Prairie Village Tree Lighting 2013
Red X Wine Tasting
Kanye West concertgoers at the Sprint Center
Chiefs vs. Broncos tailgaters
Toys and crafts shows at KCI Expo
City Market’s Whoville Holidays
We’re fairly certain that supermodel Gisele Bundchen, wife of NFL quarterback Tom Brady, didn’t expect this kind of backlash to her Instagram photo. On Tuesday, she posted a photo of herself breastfeeding her 1-year-old daughter, Vivian, while having three people work on her hair, makeup and nails before a photo shoot.
Chiefs inside linebacker Derrick Johnson has had a knack for making impact plays early in games that have been instrumental in the Chiefs’ 9-3 record and moving to within a victory of clinching a playoff spot. That freedom must be earned, and the coaching staff believes Johnson, 31, deserves it. “He’s a great player, time tested,” Chiefs coach Andy Reid said. “I’ve been lucky enough to be around some great players, and … when you need a play, they somehow make a play. He’s done it year after year.”
Fixes to the balky website have improved the signup rate for insurance bought through the Affordable Care Act, but the numbers for October and November fall short of expectations.
Citing a potential threat to public health, the Food and Drug Administration is taking steps toward phasing out the use of some antibiotics in animals processed for meat.
The $12 million commitment is designated for neuroscience research and programs. The hospital system is recognizing the gift by renaming its Neuroscience Institute as the St. Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute.
First came Black Friday, then Cyber Monday and, earlier this week, Green Monday. These sales are sending us straight into a self-indulgent holiday. Discounts are fun, I know. But as you trim your trees and wrap your gifts, be thankful and just know that it feels good to give back, too. I mean this is the season when the giving gets easy.
Keeping the status quo at Kansas City International Airport isn’t a viable option. The mayor’s task force needs to recommend the best ways to make KCI more attractive to airlines so more flights will come in and leave this region. And voters eventually should get to say whether they like any final plan.
If the Jimmy John’s restaurant and drive-through, planned for the in the 900 block of Broadway, becomes reality — or doesn’t — life will go on. With all of downtown’s challenges, fighting a drive-through should be low on the priority list.
The questions keep nagging: What’s appeasing a middle-class itch to “give back” and what’s substantially helping? Does the broader picture even matter when the wind chill is 9 degrees?
“If Kansas City does nothing to save the Southwest Chief, high-speed rail could be developed from St. Louis to Dallas through Springfield and Tulsa, while here in Kansas City we’ve fallen asleep in our Cheerios,” writes Deborah Fischer-Stout of Overland Park, the president of Northern Flyer Alliance Inc.
As well they should, the accolades are cascading down now over the Missouri football program. But for plenty of reasons, all these good vibes require an exclamation point in the Cotton Bowl for the season to have real resonance after MU’s 59-42 loss to Auburn in the SEC championship game.
So, is Taylor Swift leggy enough, busty enough, tall enough and pretty enought to be a Victoria’s Secret underwear model? You should know by now if you caught the lingerie company’s annual fashion show Tuesday night.
Unlike the old adage about sex — when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good — a bad chili dog is just plain bad. But a good chili dog is an iconic American food that deserves a place alongside pizza, fried chicken and barbecued ribs. Such a creation is the Killer Chili Dog at Sandbar Subs in Lawrence.
