Apartment TherapyCheck out this cool photo of (I'm guessing) the only dome home in Mission, Kansas. Apartment Therapy's Sarah Rae snapped this pic of the place (it's just off Interstate 35 and Lamar) and promises a future tour of the place. I can't wait.Update: Anonymous is right. The dome is actually a video production company called DHTV Productions. Check them out.
Photo by Sarah RaeAs part of this week's feature, "True True Blood," about real vampires in Kansas City, we asked our vamps to write their own sections expressing what it's like to be a Nosferatu while pop culture fetishizes the myth. Unfortunately, we had to cut some of their responses down for space. In the case of Lisa, the blood-drinker pictured here, we had to cut a paragraph that summed up why she drank "the red stuff," as she called it. From Lisa's e-mail:
"It's been a long time sinc
By Sarah RaeDeb HermannCouncilwoman Deb Hermann says what she's thinking. Loved this quote from Hermann in The Kansas City Star about an audit revealing the failures of Kansas City's -- but isn't doing a good job of -- encouraging minority and women owned businesses. "What we're seeing here is a real failure," said Finance Committee Chairman Deb Hermann. "There are a lot of troubling issues."Sounds like the program is less than encouraging, including the city taking its sweet time -- an average
The Power & Light District generated $2.2 million in sales taxes last year. The city was expecting $14.1 million, a figure based on a consultant's projection.Photo by Sarah RaeThe consultant, C.H. Johnson Consulting in Chicago, is the subject of this week's column. I asked Charlie Johnson, the company president, to comment about the projection, which looks pretty shaky in practice. His reply is contained in the article.Johnson also e-mailed me a recent Yael Abouhalkah column in The Kansas Ci
REVIEW BY ZACHARY TROVER
On a humid night in KC, the crowd at the Uptown seemed fine with getting close and sweating it out to get the chance to see the Riverboat Gamblers, Rancid and Rise Against.Sarah RaeTim Armstrong calls 'em out.
We arrived about halfway through the Riverboat Gamblers set and, sadly, we were kind of OK with that. While I do enjoy the band (notably the track "A Choppy, Yet Sincere Apology" which you can listen to at their MySpace, the sound was somehow off in the Uptown an
