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5 days ago | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
At the time of its 1995 dedication, the Children’s Fountain at North Oak and East 32nd Avenue, at the north end of downtown North Kansas City, was said to be the “largest fountain of its kind in America.” The fountain pumps five and a half thousand gallons of water per minute and at the time ran year-round, despite frigid winter weather.
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3 weeks ago | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
Hoping to pass a few life lessons onto her young adult daughters, best-selling author and Kansas City native Gretchen Rubin created a book of “simple truths.”Probably best known for The Happiness Project, published nearly 15 years ago, Rubin has since penned several books, but in her latest endeavor Secrets of Adulthood, she created a book of aphorisms – a large truth expressed in just a few choice words.
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1 month ago | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch |Ryan Reed |Ian Ritter |Tyler Shane
Before Prohibition, Missouiri’s winemaking industry was one of the largest in the country, producing 100,000 gallons a year. In 1873, one of the state’s wines won Best of Show at the Vienna World’s Fair. Although the state’s winemaking capabilities are much less now, its wine scene is flourishing.
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2 months ago | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
More than sixty years after it shuttered its doors, a small-town soda fountain lives on underneath the main floor of Kansas City Museum. In 1925, C.W. and Wilma R. Kirby’s drugstore in Modena, Missouri, approximately a hundred and forty miles northwest of Kansas City, was the social hub of their rural community.
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2 months ago | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
It’s that time of year again, where we ask you, our readers, to pick your favorites. From where to score the best martini to where to let Fido run free, we want to hear and learn from you. Because you are the true insider. Best of KC 2025, presented this year by GRID at Compass – Jonas Barrish, Real Estate Broker, is Kansas City magazine’s annual poll to recognize the best KC has to offer in more than 300 categories.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
Mike Meyer’s life has always been grounded in music. After school, the bus would drop Mike and his two siblings off in front of his family’s downtown Blue Springs music shop, and the Meyer clan would hang out, helping with customers and doing homework, before heading home for the evening. Mike’s parents, Ted and Betty Meyer, were both school teachers. They opened their first Meyer Music in 1966 as a way to supplement their income.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
kansascitymag.com | Ian Ritter |David Hodes |Hampton Stevens |Dawnya Bartsch
Some of the most powerful people around are those you haven’t heard much about, but they’re often the people who keep things moving and growing—and as a result, are shaping Kansas City. Here are 10 people of note who are exerting a quiet kind of power.
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
kansascitymag.com | Molly Higgins |Dawnya Bartsch
The Nelson-Atkins Museum is teaming up with KU Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center and Alzheimer’s Association Heart of America Chapter to create a free gallery tour for people who are struggling with memory loss. Aptly called Minds in Motion Tour: My Favorite Things, this event’s aim is to keep tour attendees’ minds moving right along with their bodies as they meander through the museum.
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Oct 14, 2024 | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
What is it that makes Kansas Citian Ebony Reed so poised and polished? Coming from a family of communicators, she says. The bestselling author and seasoned journalist credits a lifetime of observing her family in action and engaging with those around her for her effortless charm and unwavering confidence. “My uncle was a longtime radio host and executive for the largest urban radio chain in the U.S.,” Reed says.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
kansascitymag.com | Dawnya Bartsch
Some regulars at Independence Square’s 3 Trails Brewing Co. come in five or six times a week. They don’t get tired of its beers, or the brewing company’s new food operation. The owner of Brewer’s Kitchen & Corner in Midtown and two partners recently opened the brewing company’s new food operation called Brewer’s: Wrap House. The walk-up window offers a variety of wraps, sandwiches, Brew-Ritos and more.
