Baking bread is at once invigorating and soothing. You can take out aggression on dough, hurl it at the counter from a foot high and punch it with your fists if you want. You can’t hurt it. Or you can find a gentle reverie in the dough, squeeze its cool pillowy sides with your finger and rock the heels of your hands lazily back and forth in the center. The main thing is to find a rhythm and just keep going.
Richard Buchli took off his shoes and prepared to enjoy the sock hop. He noticed a bunch of boys queued up to dance with one girl and wandered over to join the line. When it was his turn, he took the girl into his arms, and she said, “My name is Dorothy Scollick.”
Rachel Keal was pleasantly surprised when she walked into her math adviser’s office and saw Nick Kullman. It was December 2008 and Rachel, 20, and Nick, 19, had volunteered to help start a math club at the University of Missouri-Columbia. They had emailed prior to the meeting but had never met in person.
There’s much to do on the cheap in a city where living thrifty is living well.
Before Ted Lee and his brother, Matt, became the ambassadors of Southern cooking known as the Lee Bros., they were just those Yankees who moved from New York to Charleston, S.C., as children. Their status as outsiders gave them “a sense of wonder as it relates to the food of Charleston,” Ted said recently.
Welcome warm weather in trendy sandals, heels, sneakers and slip-ons in a rainbow of dazzling color combos. Even men’s shoes are going bright.
Trendy mamas aren’t going with “Grateful Dead tie-dye” this spring, said Becky Hanf of Mission Fresh Fashion. Instead they’re choosing subtle, two-tone tie-dye designs.
Here’s another entry in our elemental, alphabetical, occasional guide to Kansas City’s built environment — “L” is for Lace, Lots and Lustron.
When the Central Ice Co. first got going in the early years of the 20th century, it was one of two dozen or so ice dealers in the vicinity of downtown. The history of the company and this building, in the 2000 block of Campbell Street, intersects in ensuing years with some prominent names
