http://www.kansascity.com/221/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2013Kansas City Star Aaron Barnhart 60 Wed, 08 May 2013 23:48:05 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771893/quiz-know-your-cocktails.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771893/quiz-know-your-cocktails.html#storylink=rss Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00 CDT How much do you know about cocktails? Take the Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival quiz to learn about classic cocktails. 1377716 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771888/bitters-dinner-beckons-appetites.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771888/bitters-dinner-beckons-appetites.html#storylink=rss Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00 CDT Bitters are big these days. Dozens of new varieties have supplanted that obligatory bottle of Angostura, and bartenders are increasingly specific about which is used in what. 1377719 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771885/local-liquors-compete-for-local.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771885/local-liquors-compete-for-local.html#storylink=rss Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00 CDT Drinking local is easier than ever, thanks to explosive growth in the craft distilling industry. There are now some 350 craft spirits makers nationwide, up from just 69 a decade ago, making everything from vodka and whiskey to gin, rum, absinthe, aquavit and all manner of liqueurs. 1377723 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771870/contenders-prepare-their-cocktail.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/08/21/3771870/contenders-prepare-their-cocktail.html#storylink=rss Tue, 21 Aug 2012 13:00 CDT The Paris of the Plains bartending competition sounds new, but it's rooted in a local bartending contest that began in six years ago. Back then, co-founders Doug Frost and Ryan Maybee wanted to celebrate the growing professionalism of Kansas City's bartending community. 1377721 http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/06/4166161/jogger-found-dead.html http://www.kansascity.com/2013/04/06/4166161/jogger-found-dead.html#storylink=rss Sat, 06 Apr 2013 23:24 CDT The body of a man missing since Thursday night was found near 164th and Quivira. 1377721 http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/04/2497484/how-reality-tv-took-over-prime.html http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/04/2497484/how-reality-tv-took-over-prime.html#storylink=rss Sat, 04 Dec 2010 22:15 CST In Part One of a two-part series, The Star's Aaron Barnhart explores how such shows came to dominate TV's prime-time schedule -- and changed how we view one another. 1377721 http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/05/2499794/deadliest-warriors-stay-nimble.html http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/05/2499794/deadliest-warriors-stay-nimble.html#storylink=rss Sun, 05 Dec 2010 22:15 CST LOS ANGELES | Dave Baker reaches into an overnight envelope and pulls out a square of what looks like shoe leather. "Elk backstrap," Baker says. "It's nature's fiberglass." 1377721