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Dec 7, 2024 | kcur.org | Haines Eason |Hannah Bailey

This story was first published in KCUR's Adventure newsletter. You can sign up to receive stories like this in your inbox every Tuesday. Kansas City is no haven for grinches when it comes to celebrating the holidays in song. If you’re looking for something festive to do this season, we made a list of traditional noels and some rowdy, new-era merriment happening around the city. Of course, this roundup is by no means complete because there’s just so much going on in this festive town.

Nov 30, 2024 | startlandnews.com | Haines Eason

Gift cards are convenient — and the No. 1 most-requested present — Nicole Glass said, but there’s frequently just something impersonal and disconnected about them that makes many people feel bad about slipping one into a card or gift box. “It’s like, ‘I didn’t really know what you wanted. Here’s Starbucks,’” said Glass, president of Kansas City-based Gift Card Market.

Nov 14, 2024 | startlandnews.com | Haines Eason

Editor’s note: LaunchKC — a longstanding initiative from the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City and the Downtown Council — annual funds six to seven companies through its popular fall grants competition. Winning members of the 2025 LaunchKC cohort are set to be announced at a LaunchKC Liftoff event Nov. 19 at J. Rieger & Co. The celebration serves as a cornerstone event within Global Entrepreneurship Week-Kansas City. Click here to RSVP for the LaunchKC Liftoff event.

Nov 8, 2024 | startlandnews.com | Haines Eason

A line of West Bottoms-built, high-end stereo consoles capitalizes on a gold rush for vinyl nostalgia, said Paul Suquet, noting their vintage-inspired business bridges the gap between a digital era and “the beauty of analog sound.”“Music is something that connects us,” added Dan Posch, one of Suquet’s partners at Relikcs Furniture, a local maker of retrofitted, Mid Century Modern-syled sounds systems that pair record-playing and streaming capabilities in one sturdy console.

Nov 5, 2024 | startlandnews.com | Haines Eason

Confidence is already in the box for Buffalo State Pizza Co.’s owners as they look to everyday investors to help their business complete and grow into a new space near downtown Overland Park, they said. The duo — Philippe Lechevin and Steve Robson — launched a campaign this fall on the crowdfunding site Honeycomb Credit in the hopes of financing an additional $100,000 to $400,000 toward a project that would transition the hometown pizza hotspot to a 3,000-square-foot former car dealership.