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Ad agency Bernstein-Rein is at 4600 Madison.
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Advertising — as a profession, an industry and an office culture — is glamorous again, thanks to the critically acclaimed TV series “Mad Men,&rdquo. But how much have we really “learned” about real-life ad agency culture?
Driving east on 31st Street in midtown, you can’t help but smile. On the concrete wall of a plain, single-story building is a large and simple cartoon drawing: A child’s round face with a sideways grin, big eyes and a forehead curl, all topped by a high-arcing Afro.
Lidia Bastianich recently published her sixth cookbook, “Lidia Cooks From the Heart of Italy” (Knopf, $35). This conversation took place at Lidia’s, her restaurant in the Crossroads Arts District.
Liberty has always been charming, at least since I’ve lived there, but in the last few years it has become a little more Johnson County. Not necessarily a bad thing. It used to be that anytime I visited friends on the Kansas side, I’d come home feeling envious of their Targets and Hen Houses and Marshalls and Chick-fil-A’s. We didn’t have those near Liberty.
W ho is that guy?” 13-year-old Kathy Mahoney asked a friend, when she saw a handsome boy cruising by the city swimming pool. “Michael Lazio,” her friend said. It was the summer of 1962 in the small town of Ellsworth, Kan. Michael had been away at seminary/boarding school for a year, and Kathy did not recognize him.
Chef John C. Smith of 801 Chophouse in Kansas City suggests this hearty lasagna dish to feed family or friends.
This time of year also evokes nesting, an easy way to get warm and do something just for you. We spend a third of our lives in bed, so it’s important to have a clear idea of how you envision your rest chambers.
Where: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art For those who think you can spot a Benton at 50 yards, think again. The Nelson’s “Portrait of the Artist’s Sister (Mildred)” by Thomas Hart Benton may just calibrate your confidence.
The color purple is riding a wave of popularity, from the international fashion runways to Main Street, U.S.A. “Purple is everywhere and in varying shades,” says Sarah Merritt, manager of Francesca’s Collections on the Country Club Plaza.
