What's going on in Kansas City

It's not easy to get seafood right, but not only does Affare get it right, they do it perfectly. Though the menu may be a bit intimidating—Affare bills itself as "Modern German," and the menu involves a bit of the mother tongue--but the attentive,...

Aloha! Let's pretend we're on Maui, and we're bringing our boards in and we're hungry. OK, not working because we're in Kansas City and we're not close to any surf, but you can head over to Longboards and indulge in their delicious, Hawaiian-inspi...

For nearly two decades, childhood friends Guy Tamburello and Paul Anselmo operated an Italian restaurant, Café Italia, on North Oak Trafficway. It wasn't a fancy trattoria but an unassuming, family-style dining room serving generous dinners of pas...

To get to the Boathouse Bar at the Kansas City Zoo, you have to walk through Botswana — past the elephants, over the river and into Africa — deep inside Swope Park. The modest bar (open on weekends from March through October) serves no tiki drinks...

There's sort of a cliché for gay bars: loud dance music, lots of primped boys and girls, maybe a drag performance here or there. The Fox does its own thing. Yeah, the Overland Park bar attracts its share of attractive clientele, but on the average...

In these anti-nudity times, every strip club fighting the good fight deserves your love. But the Shady Lady stands out, and not just for its superior dancers. The bar is fun even without the ladies. In business for more than seven decades — whethe...

For some of us, embarking on a magazine-style crafts mission to refurbish a beat-up bookshelf is a Sisyphean task. Others, driven by X-ray vision into the potential that lies dormant in a chair left curbside, are able to transform these items into...

 Sure, soccer has been "the sport of the future" for 30 years. But the World Cup proved that soccer can be an almost-major sport, at least in Kansas City, where fans earned YouTube attention for their rowdy reception of Landon Donovan's game-winni...

Friendly staff, good drinks, good prices, a little too dark, and a little too stuffy--all essential to a good dive bar. Harling’s scores a perfect ten!