Anthony Accurso, 26, has designed a sleeker space, yet it’s clear that he’s still paying homage to his family’s roots with sepia-toned family photos on one wall and a menu still aiming to balance the whims of a hipper dining crowd while taking care of loyal regulars.
The Star’s Food Truck Friday at The Star has been postponed due to weather conditions.
Cinco de Mayo is not Mexican Independence Day. It celebrates the David-over-Goliath victory of outnumbered Mexican troops over French soldiers on May 5, 1862, in tiny Puebla, Mexico. The holiday has become a bigger deal in the United States than it is in Mexico.
DEAR ABBY: Last year, I began to lose my hearing due to a genetic disorder and now I have to wear hearing aids. I will be a freshman in high school next year. My teachers all have to wear microphones so I can hear them.
DEAR ABBY: I’m 29 and for 10 years I have been struggling with controlling parents. They have cut two of my sisters out of their lives because they live closer to their spouses’ parents.
Shirley Helzberg adds Nelson-Atkins to her long list of leadership posts, and a Kemper daughter steps into her father’s shoes at museum.
Derek Kean recalls the frustration of trying to track down a food truck while on a trip to San Francisco. That’s when Kean and his business partner, senior software developer Matt Berkland, decided they wanted to create Truckily, which they hope will become the Rolls-Royce of roaming apps.
We are adding a more personal spin to The Star’s trademark food reporting with the addition of a blog starting Wednesday. This space will be the perfect place for behind-the-scenes snippets from the farm, kitchen, garden and bar, all delivered with a bit more attitude and voice.
DEAR ABBY: My oldest son came out to me as a gay man in a private conversation. I have no problem with him being gay; however, I do have a problem with the fact that he has asked me not to tell anyone. He isn’t ready to come out to anyone else. I tried to advise him that until he is true to himself, he won’t be happy. My son says if he comes out to anyone else, it would “hurt so many people.”
James Beard award-winning chef Debbie Gold is back at the corner of 119th and Roe with another new restaurant concept — this one in Leawood. Gold was a founder of the famed 40 Sardines restaurant on the Overland before rejoining The American Restaurant in Crown Center. But she has been wooed back south, becoming the third partner in a new restaurant group called Red Door Restaurants.
Even as more than 800,000 novelty helmets are sold every year, and as crash deaths mount, regulators have never acted with urgency to crack down on the flawed headgear.
The piece by Andi LaVine Arnovitz is titled “Wearing Our Worries” or “Dress of the Jewish Mother.” The Kansas City-born artist draws appreciative laughs from her Jewish Community Center audience when she tells how women with their own fears come up to her to exclaim: “I have two or three of those in my closet!”
A debate is brewing over the site of an Obama presidential library, one that primarily pits the leafy academic setting of the University of Chicago against the hardscrabble streets of the rest of the city’s South Side.
DEAR ABBY: I am frustrated and angry over a situation that should be fun and happy. My husband, “Rick,” and I are planning a trip with our two children next month. We will visit family while we are there, but they don’t have room for us to stay in their home.
DEAR ABBY: I work in a small office with two former heavy smokers who have now transitioned to vapor/e-cigarettes. My concern is that they “smoke” their e-cigarettes in the office constantly, and I don’t know what chemicals I am now breathing secondhand.
Sheet linoleum is making a comeback as the market for all-natural products continues to grow. The return to linoleum flooring from vinyl has been a long time coming, said Wes Miller, a regional salesman for Forbo Flooring Systems, the company that makes Marmoleum, a brand of all-natural linoleum.
Starting Wednesday, authors (450-500 of them), aspiring authors, fans of authors, booksellers and bloggers will schmooze, attend workshops, snatch up freebies, collect autographs and let their hair down during the five-day convention.
God’s healing is the theme, which Paul Young says he experienced before writing a story for his children, now a New York Times best-seller.
DEAR ABBY: I am a 13-year-old girl and my parents won’t let me date. I believe I am mature for my age and won’t do anything foolish. I don’t know why my parents are being like this. Please give me some advice on how to persuade them. — Really Ready in New Hampshire
It’s time, finally, to go sale-ing. And this season starts off with the granddaddy of area garage sales — the annual Great American Spring Yard Sale at Fort Leavenworth.
