Subject: House and Home

• Learn About Herbs

  February 5, 2009

• The Haunting in Connecticut

  March 26, 2009

• Kansa City Home Show

  March 26, 2009

• Dispatches from Roach

  February 26, 2007

• Laugh Sweep

  February 26, 2009

• Wanted: Non-Thanksgiving food ideas

  By OWEN MORRIS Right now I'm writing the Pitch Forks newsletter for next week and I realize that there are absolutely no events going on that are not Thanksgiving related. I even had trouble finding enough Thanksgiving-free links for breakfast buffet this morning. I like Thanksgiving. I really do. It's a good holiday but come on -- it seems as if every news site and party-planner is acting like Thanksgiving is the end-all be-all right now. Where's the blacklash?

  November 21, 2008

• Tonight: WearHaus and Bon Bon's Thrifty Thursday

    Tonight (12/4): From 5:30 to 9:30 p.m., check out the WearHaus Holiday Shopping Party in its new location at Mint Ultra Lounge (334 E. 31st Street, 816-561-2640). WearHaus features local designers selling clothing, accessories and other cool stuff. On the list for tonight's event: Cali Roberta (panties and frilly things); Urbantique (home decor); Sara Hill Jewelry; Eighty Acre Art (home decor); SodaPop (accessories); Deborah Gipson (pottery) and more. HumaNature Salon presents a hair s

  December 4, 2008

• Best Place to Buy Hip Accessories

  October 19, 2000

• Dessert Oasis

  August 23, 2001

• Best Place to Get Herb

  October 18, 2001

• Best Community Garden

  October 18, 2001

• Eat It and Beat It

  January 23, 2003

• Best Public Service

  October 9, 2003

• Best Urban Jungle

  October 7, 2004

• Best Suburban Jungle

  October 7, 2004

• Best Gardening Expert

  October 7, 2004

• Best Free Advice

  October 7, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  June 9, 2005

• Don't just go to a dinner party. Become the life of it.

  Flickr: TojosanConversation is an under-appreciated art in a society more concerned with who can fire off a better 140 character text in Twitter (answer: Fat City can.) But Twitter won't get you far on a first date or a dinner party with strangers. What is needed in these scenarios is that fine art of jokes, anecdotes and witty facts.But where does one obtain such information? Why, from Dinner Party Downloads, a 15-minute podcast and radio show in Southern California that bills itself as "a fast

  March 25, 2009

• The Unicorn’s Clean House knows the importance of a dirty joke

  March 5, 2009

• Step Up Green

  January 29, 2009

• Cheeseburger in Paradise

  November 6, 2008

• David Howard, gardner to Prince Charles

  September 11, 2008

• "Young at Art" Cocktail Party and Silent Auction

  August 21, 2008

• Native Flora

  April 16, 2009

• The Spirit of the Wood

  May 1, 2008

• Regarding Pruners

  Here are some Mexican thoughts on the peculiar habits of Japanese gardeners.

  July 26, 2007

• Paper Tigers

  January 18, 2007

• Leaf Blowout

  September 15, 2005

• A Matter of Taste

  This year's Designer Home Showcase is just barely over the top.

  April 25, 2002

• Criminal Deals

  Get back, hockey cats.

  March 24, 2005

• Table Manners

  Post-9/11 angst is on the menu at this delicious Gatherum.

  March 17, 2005

• Serfs Up

  Meet Lord Crume in ye olde scullery.

  February 24, 2005

• Office Space Case

  When we're done with the TPS reports, we love drinkin' with cubemates.

  January 6, 2005

• Hot Décor

  Apartments don't have to be stifling.

  May 20, 2004

• Art of Insecticide

  Catherine Chalmers' American Cockroach exhibit may really bug some people out.

  September 4, 2003

• Night & Day Events

  Week of August 9, 2001

  August 9, 2001

• Campaign Furniture Reform

  Kansas City's presidential candidates plan to redecorate more than just their camper.

  February 22, 2001

• Saturday, May 6

  Papa Roachat The Bottleneck

  May 4, 2000

• Tending personal history

  March 9, 2000

• Wet dreams: Power & Light's pricey pool

  And now for some completely different Power & Light District news. Here's how much it costs for a membership at the P&L's rooftop pool, The Jones, which opens June 20. Full credit goes to KSHB Channel 41 for breaking it down: Corporate- $3000 (The membership card will have the Company name instead of a single person, making it accessible to any of the employees.)Up to 12 guests no line no cover (with cabana reservations)4 guest no line no cover (without cabana reservations)Towel service

  June 9, 2009

• How to Eat Local in KC

  June 18, 2009

• Local Growth

  June 18, 2009

• Steve Mann has hoes in different area codes

  Steve Mann I used to put smug vegetable gardeners in the same category as militant bicycle riders, self-satisfied Prius drivers and people who can afford to cover their roofs with solar panels. But when a friend invited me to hear Michael Pollan's talk at Unity Temple regarding his newest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, I was amazed at the throngs of people who showed up. People obviously want to take back control of what they're eating.The same friend who took me to hear Pollan

  June 17, 2009

• Guerrilla gardener targets KC highway

  The urban guerrilla arrives by bike, his plaid, farmer-like shirt unbuttoned and his hair matted with sweat from the near-100-degree heat. The dirt under his nails indicates that he's a gardener. But he's doesn't want to reveal too much about his efforts greening the city. He will speak only on condition of anonymity. His nom de guerre: G3. His tactic: hijacking public land for undercover food production.

  June 29, 2009

• Eat Your Lawn

  August 6, 2009

• District Restaurant Week

  August 20, 2009

• Turn on your meat light

  ​If you've been looking for a way to add pork to your bedside table, then this do-it-yourself bacon lamp could be just the ticket. Whether this falls under home improvement or not is likely in the eye of the lampholder. In the Flickr account of how to build the light, inventor Kris Kelley suggests that it might not smell like other lamps.

  November 17, 2009