Subject: Mission Hills

• Pop Off

  May 28, 2008

• Pop Off

  May 28, 2008

• Daily Briefs: From now on, they'll be showing their buttcracks... in buttcrack jail.

  August 7, 2008

• Survivor's Guilt

  Channel 5 can't get enough of Survivor.

  July 20, 2000

• Letters

  July 27, 2000

• Letters

  December 21, 2000

• World Feast

  September 6, 2001

• Best Author Appearance

  October 18, 2001

• Best New Restaurant

  October 18, 2001

• Best Way to Romanticize Kansas City for Out-of-Town Guests

  October 17, 2002

• Hair Spray

  March 6, 2003

• A Jumping Frog

  May 22, 2003

• Music Critic, Part Two

  July 24, 2003

• In the Year 1982

  January 1, 2009

• Just Us Folk$

  Plenty of John McCain’s real Americans are right here in Kansas City.

  September 25, 2008

• Wrong-Way Irv

  Irvine O. Hockaday Jr. sure has a knack for watching companies lose some serious coin.

  March 6, 2008

• A Bit Prickly

  The new Cactus Grill in Prairie Village has its sharp moments.

  December 20, 2007

• Danny Cox

  Troost Avenue Blues (self-released)

  March 9, 2006

• Steal This Name

  December 29, 2005

• Well-Aged

  December 22, 2005

• Key Change

  Letters from the week of September 8, 2005

  September 8, 2005

• The Beauty of Fake

  Attention shoppers: If you have the connections, you, too, can get the goods!

  June 2, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of April 21, 2005

  April 21, 2005

• Rebel Yell

  Nelson Peery fought the democratic double standard.

  March 24, 2005

• Backwash

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  February 3, 2005

• A Walk on the Wild Side

  City Manager Wayne Cauthen to rich arts patrons: Take a hike!

  December 16, 2004

• Booster Stage

  Bistate II may help, but the performing arts center is still not a done deal.

  October 28, 2004

• Cha Cha Vivace

  The River Market's newest hot spot lives up to its name.

  June 10, 2004

• Class Reunion

  Thomas Frank tries to free the Free State's mind.

  June 10, 2004

• Egg Inflation

  Bluestem might be expensive, but hell, there's nothing wrong with a little indulgence.

  May 27, 2004

• French Dressing

  Tatsu's has remained fashionable for more than twenty ears.

  December 25, 2003

• Espresso Yourself

  Trendy people -- and Chef Michael Peterson's beautiful, small plates -- strikes poses at Segafredo Zanetti Espresso.

  November 27, 2003

• Power House

  Mark and Mary Mollentine win friends and influence people at the Governor's Meeting House.

  October 23, 2003

• You Sin, You Win

  Quit yer whining and get with Shawnee's liquor ban, sinner!

  September 18, 2003

• Perfectly Frank

  Frank Macaluso keeps his famous grandmother's legend -- and recipes -- alive at Gia's.

  August 28, 2003

• Lasso Act

  Writers say howdy at Bloomsday Books.

  July 10, 2003

• Young Blood

  Shawnee Mission East's Sam Stepp and his comrades are a new breed of anti-war protester.

  February 20, 2003

• Swingin' Set

  Quality Hill boogies like it's World War II.

  January 30, 2003

• A Shining Metropolis

  A star-studded Westport classic makes a comeback.

  January 16, 2003

• News Flash

  SlopArt goes wide.

  January 16, 2003

• A Girl's Best Friend

  Webster's Restaurant brings ladies who lunch back downtown.

  August 15, 2002

• Dog Days

  James Ellroy doesn't get sentimental about The Cold Six Thousand.

  June 6, 2002

• Race Day

  Letters from the week of June 6, 2002

  June 6, 2002

• French Kiss

  Aixois' cuisine thrills the palate as "ex-wah" trips up the tongue.

  October 11, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  week of April 13, 2000

  April 13, 2000

• Parkinson wasn't the only one who caved in to coal

  Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson wasn't alone in in his big cave-in to coal last week. After all, Kansas lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to approve the new governor's hastily announced deal with Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to build just one instead of two new coal-fired power plants in western Kansas, thus ending two years of legislative scrapping.David WysongThe Kansas House signed off on the deal 103-18; the Senate vote was 37-2.One of those two senators was Mission Hills Republican David Wy

  May 14, 2009

• Pizza Ride

  August 27, 2009

• Thomas Frank: Meat eater, proud Lancer

  Thomas Frank​Much like the role the conservative David Brooks plays at The New York Times, Thomas Frank provides Wall Street Journal readers with a liberal perspective. In his most recent column, the author of What's the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew calls Sarah Palin's new book a "prolonged, keening wail, larded with petty vindictiveness."In addition to being a populist and a gifted stylist, Frank is a proud Kansas Citian. How proud? The author's bio that accompanies his WSJ colum

  November 23, 2009