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Dogs and Cats $25 Oct. 18-20 Main Shelter 4400 Raytown Road 816-513-9821
BEST INDULGENCE
For Strange Women perfume forstrangewomen.com
Jill McKeever doesn’t sell scents in a bottle. She sells memories — the smell of your dad’s workbench, your senior trip to Ireland, the air at the Oregon coast that day your husband proposed. Scents such as Decadence and Debauchery (notes of ripe blood orange and golden, wet tobacco), Violin in the Attic (think antique amber, rose and cocoa) or the top-selling Winter Kitty (aromas of vetiver, Moroccan rose and Douglas fir) aren’t something to spritz across your bod on your way out the door. They’re meant to be remembered, savored and filed away in your mind.
BEST ILLUMINATI
Jim Ligon’s Vintage Edison 816-686-3571 • edison.40nightscreative.com
Former JJ’s bartender Jim Ligon builds gorgeous lamps by shrouding bulbs in glass bottles (sometimes Shatto Milk bottles, sometimes oddly shaped whiskey bottles), then mounting them in wooden boxes, which are missing one side. The resulting lamps radiate warmth, and the slightly dim light makes any corner of your home or local bar feel like an intimate hideaway. Go to MiniBar to see Ligon’s hanging lamps, made inside vintage suitcases and bisected globes, and feel transported to another place.
BEST PLACE TO BE A KID
Brookside Toy & Science 330 West 63rd Street • 816-523-4501 brooksidetoyandscience.com
Brookside Toy & Science restores our faith in play. The shop, which has been going strong since 1964, stays away from trends and sticks with classics, quirky items, toys that emphasize creativity, and collectibles.
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Mills: Records are back in Westport. This means pogo sticks, a doll selection that includes a hedgehog family, a sock-monkey jack-in-the-box, a duct-tape jewelry-making kit and plenty of high-quality wooden toys. The fun isn’t just for kids. Buy something humorous for a friend, like a slinky dog or a hand puppet of lifelike mice.
BEST DIAPER DUDE
Justin Quick, Diaper Daisy 6114 Johnson Drive, Mission • 913-236-2528 diaperdaisy.com
Buying cloth diapers can seem unnecessarily overwhelming. Do you want prefolds, flats, contour, fitted, all-in-one, all-in-two, hybrid or pocket diapers? The daunting number of options is enough to make any parent ditch his or her good and green intentions. Talk to Diaper Daisy’s Justin Quick before you go adding heaps of nasty plastic to landfills. This dad knows the ins and outs of the cloth-diapering business and gives honest, straightforward advice that simplifies the task. Justin and his wife, Jess, opened the Mission boutique in 2012 to serve the growing natural-parenting movement. They don’t stop at diapers. You’ll find a slew of green products, including baby carriers, feeding supplies and skin-care products.
BEST NEW STORE
Mills Record Co. 314 Westport Road • 816-960-3775 millsrecordcompany.com
We initially reacted to word of a new record store in Westport the way we might on hearing about a teenage cousin’s new punk band: We applauded the effort and enthusiasm while quietly assuming it wouldn’t be long for this world. But when we stopped into Judy Mills and Chris
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