Best Athlete She’s tough. She’s fierce. She’s competitive — Mizzou’s Sophie Cunningham tops the list for Best Athlete. Her attitude on the basketball court is infectious, and her talent has helped draw record crowds to see the women’s team in action. With a lengthy awards list, Cunningham is still a hometown girl at heart, and […]
Best Appetizer If you haven’t tried the Nachos Bianco at Addison’s, a heapin’ helpin’ of Italian pasta chips covered with tasty toppings and Asiago cheese sauce, you’re missing out. The plentiful portion is piled high with tomatoes, scallions, Kalamata olives, banana peppers, mozzarella cheese and your choice of chicken, black beans or chorizo sausage. This amazing […]
Crab Rangoons are not traditional Chinese food, but they are delicious. You find them in just about every Chinese restaurant in the United States, but they originally started showing up on menus in San Francisco, not China, in the 1950s. It’s not difficult to make them; if you can make a dip, you can make […]
Jon Whitaker is a certified cicerone and Beer Program Director at International Tap House in Kansas City, Mo. American craft beer has been the focus of my career for just under a decade, and I plan on keeping it that way for some time. That being said, if I get one last beer before I […]
Eating out is an integral part of our culture. In fact, it is synonymous with celebrations, long and hectic work schedules, or a quick fix when a fast-food run allows for time with family. When eating out is inevitable, knowing where to look for healthy alternatives will help you stay in the vicinity of the […]
Scott Pauley’s “detached garage” is enviable. It is more than 2,800 square feet of lodge comfort and working space, filled with all the amenities to make work, hobby and family life easier. Pauley designed the shed on a piece of yellow paper. “I knew what I wanted and what I wanted to be able to […]
Twenty seems to be Mark Brown’s lucky number: 20 years on the road touring with famous rock stars like AC/DC and Fleetwood Mac, and now 20 years of success in owning Buckingham Smokehouse Bar-B-Q in Columbia. The founding of Buckingham is an unusual story. Brown lived on the road, setting up stages and driving tour […]
What if? It’s the open-ended question everyone asks at some point while analyzing the possibilities of what could have been or what will be. While the question can be asked in a positive context, the emotions that generally accompany the query are grief, doubt and fear — grief over the loss of a loved one, […]
This summer’s hottest concert ticket isn’t actually a single ticket, but rather a series: The Missouri Symphony Orchestra’s Hot Summer Nights Music Festival. Under the direction of Maestro Kirk Trevor, the festival ambitiously presents 24 concerts in 42 days, kicking off on June 7, and running through July 14. Hot Summer Nights started in 2004, […]
