When I reach for a contemporary Kansas-feeling show, my mind goes first to Apple TV’s Ted Lasso. Set in London, the most Kansas part of the show is the mention of Wichita State University and their fictitious football team, which Ted (Kansas City’s own Jason Sudekis)...
Kathryn Harlan’s debut, a short story collection, captures minute fluctuations of intimacy and alienation within friendship and love. Contextualized by climate change and dominated by women, the book explores the boundaries between friendship, queer love, toxicity,...
I’ve sometimes wondered if someone would give me a book that would change my life. In “Almost Famous,” Anita Miller gives a box of records to her kid brother, and he becomes Rolling Stone’s youngest writer. Treatise on the Steppenwolf shaped...
In music, as with most art forms, location is integral to the genesis of new genres and ideas, sharing new creations and developing new artistic avenues. This is particularly true for hip-hop music. Hip-hop began on the streets of the Bronx in the early 1970s. As a...
The lyrical motto emblazoned across a stack of T-shirts on display at the front door is perfect for May’s Place. Located in the Grove neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri, the family-owned store offers secondhand clothing and accessories for women, men and children....
It was the chick sexing that did it, that brought me to tears the first time I watched Lee Isaac Chung’s latest film, Minari. At first, it is only alluded to through a simple question — How far is the hatchery from here? — but eventually it makes itself known through...
