When Kansas City chocolate maker Christopher Elbow was a teenager, he didn’t care much for his mother’s insistence on detail and precision.
In a far too busy world, Mother’s Day can be a day of dilemmas: Do we go out or dine in? Is it a breakfast, brunch, afternoon or evening meal? Decisions, decisions.
Presidential campaigns are so scripted and phony, it’s no surprise that recipes attributed to John McCain’s wife on his Web site were ripped off from the Food Network.
Two buddies and I cruised downtown in the spring of 1983 with an idea. We were 18. We had new high school diplomas in our back pockets and planned to assume control of the world — starting at 14th and Baltimore.
Hollywood starlets of yesteryear have inspired a slew of glamorous retro looks. Local designer Heather Rama recently opened a new boutique, Aubergine, where she sells her vintage couture. Her spring/summer collection of dresses is created with vintage and vintage-inspired fabrics.
“You’ll find the right man when you’re not looking,” Renee Wiebe’s friends assured her.
E very time I drive past my neighbor’s house, I feel a pang of guilt. Back when the moving van pulled up, I was brimming with good intentions, eager to select just the right little gift that would tell them how happy we were to have them in the neighborhood.
