Kanssas City nonprofit United WE will celebrate 35 years of championing women leaders at a special May 6 event and Brittany Mahomes will be one of its honorees.

The organization, focused on women’s economic growth and civic leadership, will honor Mahomes with its inaugural Champion for Change Award. “She [Mahomes] is, in short, one of the most impactful women figure...

It’s a Thursday night, and seventies electro-funk is thumping through the lobby of Stray Cat Film Center in the Crossroads. The lobby of this microcinema is styled like the Forman family den, with a Pam Grier poster on the wall and a yellow and orange floral print sofa facing a const...

Growing up immersed in the arts, singer-songwriter Malek Azrael recalls being surrounded by the sounds of Aretha Franklin, Luther Vandross and singer-songwriter Monica in his childhood home. But Azrael credits his big sister, a poet, as one of his first idols (in good company with Beyoncé).

“I remember kind of reading her poetry journals—which I shouldn’t have done...

Although KC isn’t exactly known for rolling hills of vineyards, we aren’t short on wine lovers and experts. A few of them have even started their own labels and sell them throughout the metro.

Here are four labels created by local wine aficionados and connoisseurs.

Romain Monnoyeur’s Domaine Désiré Petit

Chef and France native R...

Drive far enough southeast of Kansas City and the landscape softens into rolling hills and cool lakes. It’s easy to see why pioneers stopped here in the mid-1800s, staking modest claims on what would become Lee’s Summit.

Back then, it was little more than an 11-block railroad town hugging the Missouri Pacific ...