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ooking back, it took a surprising amount of convincing to get me to my first beer festival. Back in February 2008, my buddy Chris wanted me to spend the incomprehensible sum of fifty American dollars for a ticket to the Arizona Strong Beer Festival in Mesa. Fifty bucks! Do you know how much Blue Moon we could buy for that to drink while playing Wii Tennis? He eventually prevailed, and somewhere between sampling the Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA and waiting in line for a little pour of Deschutes Abyss, both whales of their day, I conceded that he was right about beer fests. Now, I’m still a big cheapskate—at the Parkville Microbrew Festival in April, I actually hung a hammock between two trees to sleep off my buzz in the afternoon sun rather than pay fifty bucks to Uber home where I’d just sleep it off on my couch—but I sure love beer festivals. It’s not just the chance to sample hundreds of wildly different beers, though there is that. (I’ve been to the Great American Beer Festival five times now—there are about 4,000 different beers being poured, and you have four precious hours to drink them.) No, I love beer festivals because of the community. It’s not just the friends you bring but the friends you make. There’s a special energy that comes from people circulating around little white tents, consuming a social lubricant that someone’s very proud of making while listening to a ska band. If you’ve never experienced this, go to the Parkville Microbrew Fest—no question, it’s one of the best days of the year in KC. Bring a hammock. That’s the spirit I brought to this month’s cover feature about the best new breweries in the KC area. I spent six weeks getting around to all the spots that have opened since our last survey of the scene, sampling the wares and talking to the people behind them. What impressed me most wasn’t just the beer, though I had some great beers from the folks listed and some who aren’t. My big takeaway was how this generation of brewers specifically wants to use beer to bring people together and build community. Nobody said it better than Nate Schotanus, who opened a little brewery called Range 23 at a horse ranch near his home in Piper, a tiny town in Wyandotte County even people there have never heard of. I’ll let him explain it on page 54. If you’re a beer person, hopefully, this list will point you to some great new spots. If you’re not, hopefully, it’s an interesting look at a handful of passionate small business people. And if you’re someone who will drink a beer but tends to prefer wine or cocktails, you need to get yourself down to our top pick, Pathlight in Shawnee, to sample some of their wild ales. These beers are made from non-commercial yeast strains and are on another echelon of complexity, offering a wide range of flavors. Here’s hoping you have Martin Cizmar EDITOR IN CHIEF the same kind of eye-opening experience I MARTIN@KANSASCITYMAG.COM did at my first fest all those blue moons ago.

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Our most talked about story from the June issue was a feature about hiking the Elk River trail, which has a reputation as the best and most rugged hiking trail in Kansas. Members of The Kansas City hiking group on Facebook weighed in on the trail, with most agreeing it was the Sunflower State’s most impressive trail and cautioning on the need for ample water and tick repellent. I hiked it alone in April going seven and a half miles in and then back for fifteen miles in a day. Nothing else close that would compare without going to Arkansas or Southeast Missouri. Beautiful and rugged hike, bring ample water and a filter if possible. —Jay Mathiesen

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My all-time favorite trail in Kansas, but the ticks are INSANE when the weather is warm! If you go now be sure to take precautions. Permethrin on clothing, packs & shoes and picaridin or deet on skin. —Renée Andriani

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I did it on an overnight backpacking trip. It was a very nice trail! Just no water when I went. But I knew it and was prepared. —Heather Jones

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We did a small bit! We only had a couple hours and my boys loved climbing all the rocks so much we didn’t make it very far, but we plan to go back! It was so fun. —Christina Joy

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It’s doable in one day if you hike quickly, but it’s more ideal to divide it up. I am local and never get tired of repeatedly hiking sections because there are so many different features. —Kristen Jackson I grew up near here and can attest to the quality of this trail! It’s usually fairly empty, as well. —Erin Ann Wesselowski I took my boys on an overnight backpacking trip down there. We had a lot of fun. Definitely more like the Ozark area. —Dustin Arnold We hiked it as part of a Boy Scout campout a few years ago. It does look more like the Ozarks than Kansas. It was a bit of a drive though. —Tony Meyers

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RIVER OF TROUBLE Drought conditions along the upper Missouri River and heavy rain along the lower part of the river make for a situation where ‘anything could happen.’ BY L I Z S C H R O E D E R

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Kansas City depends on the Missouri River for drinking water, but changing conditions upstream make it so ‘everything feels unpredictable.’

A C K I N 2 0 1 9 , the Missouri River experienced disastrous flooding. According to a report by the Nature Conservancy, Atchison and Holt counties endured over two hundred days of flooding. More than a hundred miles of road were destroyed, and more than a hundred homes were flooded there. Twenty-five million dollars were lost in agricultural revenue in Atchison County alone. Downriver, Missouri residents affected by the floods received more than $93 million for their losses, most from federal emergency funds. This summer, Kansas City could face the opposite problem. The Missouri river starts in Montana, and much of the water that flows from the upper section comes from snowfall in the high

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west. There, the winter was dry. “Less snowpack equals less melt that will ultimately make its way into the river,” says Cody Gazaway, who works for KC Water. For the last two years, drought has plagued the upper Missouri, an area including Montana, Nebraska and the Dakotas. Currently, seventy-nine percent of the entire Missouri River Basin is in drought, including areas of Missouri and Kansas. Eighteen percent is in extreme drought. Kansas City itself is classified as “abnormally dry.” “Last summer, we didn’t have a lot of rain and we relied on the flow from further north to keep our water at a good level,” says Rachel Bartels, the Missouri Confluence Waterkeeper. If we don’t have the flow coming in but are still getting rain consistently, then [the

drought] shouldn’t have too much of an impact. But there are always other issues. Boat ramps may be getting washed out in the meantime. Everything feels unpredictable. Given the changing climate, it seems like anything could happen.” Low water levels could also affect the Kansas City drinking water supply. Bartels estimates that about ninety percent of the drinking water in the KC area comes from the Missouri River. The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has also issued a report warning that certain water demands could not be met long term, especially in drought conditions. KC Water has installed auxiliary pumps, called mud puppies, in the river in the event of extremely low water levels. “Fortunately,” Gazaway says, “we have never quite reached the low level where we had to rely on them, but they have been tested and are there as a precaution.” While the water levels are lower than usual, Gazaway doesn’t see any cause for alarm, saying “we have a plan in place.” The quality of the water is another concern for Bartels, whose role as Waterkeeper is to lead a citizen organization focused on conservation and clean water. When companies have a permit to dump waste into the river, the permits require them to report how many pounds they dump but do not adjust those numbers based on flow. “If we have high flows, there’s more dilution of those chemicals,” Bartels says. “But if we have a very low water year, there’s less water flowing through, and that could potentially be a problem.” Spring is typically the wettest time of year for the Missouri River basin, but in the coming years, Missouri is expected to see even hotter, drier summers and wetter springs and winters. The combination landed the lower Missouri River, which flows through KC, number two on American Rivers’s list of America’s most endangered rivers in both 2020 and 2021 based on the river’s poor flood management and the potential impact of climate change. As far as recreation, low water levels provide a great opportunity for kayakers and paddleboarders to take to the river. “A lower water level actually means the sandbars will be out,” Bartels says. “It’s more pleasant for recreation because you have great beaches. So there is a small silver lining to lower river levels.”

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N E A R LY M AY, a deadly wave of heat and humidity struck Pakistan and India. Dozens of people died because their bodies simply could not cool themselves fast enough given the region’s high humidity. This was true even for young, healthy people who are used to high heat. “The human body has two primary mechanisms by which heat is dissipated: sweating and increased blood flow to the skin,” says Tony Wolf, a researcher at Penn State. “When we have hot temperatures combined with high humidity, these mechanisms of body temperature regulation start to break down.” This is known as the wet-bulb phenomenon, and with temperatures increasing globally, it’s becoming a threat. The human body can withstand very high temperatures, but not when high humidity prevents sweat from dissipating in the heat. “This is what is happening when you notice sweat pool-

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ing or dripping from your skin—the air is not dry enough to evaporate all of the sweat you are producing,” Wolf says. As the Earth gets warmer, there is concern that some places may become unsurvivable without help from climate control. If this sounds like a far-fetched threat when it comes to Kansas City, it might not be. Temperatures as low as eighty-six degrees Fahrenheit can be unsurvivable when paired with high humidity. Temperatures of ninety-five degrees with ninety-five percent humidity can kill. Kansas City is getting hotter and wetter. Jessica Hafner, a meteorologist who has worked for stations across Missouri and is now at KMIZ in Columbia, says that this region was more than a degree warmer than normal in May and just over an inch above average on precipitation. “The Kansas City area could increase five-and-a-half degrees by 2100 with our continued emissions, which could bring major impacts to agriculture and human behavior,” she says. Then you factor in the corn sweat—in high heat, water evaporates from soil and plants, including corn. The technical term is “evapotranspiration,” and it impacts humidity in a big way, Hafner says. Hafner’s station is doing its part by warning viewers about dangerous temperatures using a set of criteria that trigger Weather Alert Days. That then becomes the station’s main focus of news coverage. Weather teams aren’t the only folks keeping Kansas Citians safe from extreme temperatures. Jaynell Assmann, founder of Care Beyond the Boulevard, which provides health care directly to those experiencing poverty and homelessness in the Kansas City area, explains how extreme temperature affects those with unstable living conditions. “The extreme weather is very difficult for people who are experiencing homelessness, whether it’s cold, whether it’s extreme heat. But what we notice with the extreme heat is that people really are more fatigued,” Assmann says. In past summers, there have been designated cooling centers during specific times to help people experiencing extreme heat around Kansas City, ranging from YMCAs to public libraries. Assmann posits that more needs to be done. “Even though we live in the Midwest and this happens every single year, we need to start making a proactive plan,” she says. She’d like to see the city open an “extreme weather center” to provide safety during dangerous temperatures. Heat takes both a physical and mental toll on folks who cannot get a reprieve from the stifling heat and humidity, Assmann says, which leads to other social problems too. “There are a lot of short fuses, understandably, when you don’t have a place to cool off and no way to just give yourself a break from the heat,” she says. “It’s very frustrating, and the people that we take care of really struggle during these times.”

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THE BLUE PRINT Why a historically Black university started Missouri’s newest police academy BY O L I V I A AU G U S T I N E

N A C L A S S O F T W E N T Y- S I X students, Gary Hill was one of only two Black students when he attended the police academy in 1997. That’s why he founded the Lincoln University Law Enforcement Training Academy, the first of its kind at any of America’s historically Black colleges or universities. Now the chief of police at Lincoln University in Jefferson City and an alumnus of the school himself, Hill is the head instructor of the new program. After working for the Missouri Sheriff’s Training Academy for ten years, which is where Hill noticed a lack of minority presence in the police force, he came up with the idea to place a police academy on campus. “I just want to increase the minority footprint in law enforcement,” Hill says. “To be able to come back here and be their chief and then be able to start the program is like a dream come true.” In January of 2021, the police academy welcomed its first class to the six-month evening program, which ultimately produced nine graduates. With the academy taking flight shortly after the Black Lives Matter protests following the murder

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Just being able to have a space where minorities can go to the academy and see other people who look like them—I think that really, truly helps.”

of George Floyd, Hill wasn’t sure that a new police academy of this kind would be attractive to aspiring police at an HBCU. He quickly learned just how wrong he was. “Just being able to have a space where minorities can go to the academy and see other people who look like them—I think that really, truly helps,” Hill says. “I think that’s the secret sauce and has been with HBCUs for a long time.” Maxx Walker, who grew up in Platte County, was in the academy’s second graduating class. Walker says that a sense of community and a desire to help people has always come naturally to him. He just wanted to make the voices that are usually ignored heard. Last January, he started as an officer for the Missouri Capitol Police in Jeff City. “This department allows me to do the job that I want to do every day,” Walker says. “You know, it’s different experiences in other places, but I made the right choice in the department that I chose.” Hill has had many graduates, including Walker, go on to successfully start law enforcement careers. But even with a placement rate of ninety-eight percent, Hill is already working on expansion plans for the future. Currently, the night program requires thirty-two hours a week, which allows flexibility for those balancing their studies with a full-time career. While this has made it an option for people looking to make a career change to law enforcement, Hill is ambitious when it comes to the development of the academy. In addition to the current nighttime program, he says he would like to see the program add a full-time daytime option. Hill has also been in contact with Councilmember Curtis Jones of Philadelphia to discuss putting together an exploratory group as the first step toward starting similar police academies at two HBCUs in Pennsylvania. He’d like to see more academies across the country. “It’s good to see the conversations that they have with each other to try to get each other to see life through their color lenses,” Hill says. “It’s good to be able to be in that space to where they feel safe enough to be able to have those uncomfortable conversations.”

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Gardner sits on the dividing line between suburban and rural Kansas, and its annual fireworks display gives you small-town Kansas charm with a short drive. The event is on Monday, July 4, and is headlined by Niko Moon, who has written songs for Dierks Bentley and the Zac Brown Band. If you’re looking to see fireworks without having to pop lawn chairs, there are dirt roads around Celebration Park where you can pull off and watch.

Corporate Woods in Overland Park is no longer home to Sprint, but it is still home to a massive fireworks display. Live music starts at 6 pm when Jim “Mr. Stinky Feet” Cosgrove plays—you may know him as either a children’s musician or as a true-crime author of a book about a savage murder. Fireworks begin at about 9:45 pm on Monday, July 4.

RiverFest at Berkley Riverfront Park has been absorbed into the Stars and Stripes Picnic at the National WWI Museum and Memorial. You can start picnicking (a.k.a claiming a spot on the lawn) at 3 pm on Saturday, July 2. Organizers promise food trucks, vendors and live music though details were not available at press time. The event is free, and the fireworks will begin around 9:40 pm.

This event in Lone Jack features living historians representing Union army veterans as they host a reunion to dedicate a monument to their fallen comrades in 1908. In addition to guided tours of the battlefield, there will be a performance of the American Legion Brass Ensemble, patriotic speeches and songs plus an old-fashioned Tug of War match. Admission is $5 for anyone older than eight. The event is Saturday, July 2 at the Lone Jack Battlefield. KANSASCITYMAG.COM JULY 2022

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Party in the U.S.A. with DJ Pauly D July 1, 6 pm It’s certainly arguable that the Jersey Shore is America at its most American given its proximity to our nation’s birthplace and the existence of Bruce Springsteen. So kick the holiday weekend off with a DJ set by Pauly D, who is still boogie boarding the falling swell that came

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from his appearance on Jersey Shore nearly fifteen years ago. Get your GTL handled, then head down to Power & Light. Friday, July 1. 6 pm. KC Live!

Kenny Chesney July 2, 5 pm

Put on the puka shell necklace, pull the straw cowboy hat down real low, and purchase one (1) case of White Claw per person. Set up in the parking lot of Arrowhead around noon and remove clothing until you’re comfortable. They say anyone who remembers more than a flash from a Kenny Chesney concert on a summer Saturday night wasn’t really there. Saturday, July 2. 5 pm. Arrowhead Stadium.

Machine Gun Kelly July 9, 7:30 pm From his beginnings as a rapper to a stark pivot as a pop-punk emo act to his best-known current role

as Megan Fox’s cringe-worthy boyfriend, MGK is anything but boring. His surprising show will open with fellow radio hit-makers Avril Lavigne and iann dior. Friday, July 9, 7:30 pm. T-Mobile Center.

Feastival Brunch July 9, 10 am After twenty-five years of Forks & Corks, the Harvesters food bank has switched things up with this new festival format for its largest annual fundraiser. This year’s event is at Union Station and is now a two-day food and drink “pop-up” featuring a chef’s dinner, a brunch and a community volunteer event. The opening dinner is sold out, but as of press time there were still $35 tickets available for the Saturday brunch with bites, bubbly and Bloody Marys from spots including Succotash, Black Hole Bakery, Sugar Whipped Bakery and more, plus a cash bar with mimosas and Bloody Marys. Saturday, July 9. 10 am. Union Station. KCFeastival.com.

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Bright Eyes is Conor Oberst’s longest and most successful project. The Omaha singer-songwriter captured the post-9/11 zeitgeist as well as anyone before going to Cassadaga to commune with the dead, a pivot toward mysticism that became an eight-year hiatus, with Oberst turning his attention to personal matters and his many other projects. He’s since reunited with Bright Eyes to support a series of reissues and a new record, which finds Oberst as introspective and unvarnished as ever. Friday, July 1. 8 pm. Uptown Theater.

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July 15, 6 pm America’s foremost appreciator of manicured toes and Parasucos, the St. Louis rapper Nelly hits the KC Live! stage right in the middle of July, when it will be extremely hot in there. Friday, July 15. 6 pm. KC Live!

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Margaret Cho July 16-18 Margaret Cho’s recent sets have a bit about her groundbreaking mid-’90s sitcom, the first to feature an Asian American family, its ignominious end and the long wait until someone tried again. “I f***ed it up so badly that they had to wait for an entire generation of Asian Americans to be born and grow up with no memory of me whatsoever,” she jokes. Nearly thirty years later, her material plays on a lot of the same themes but feels very fresh and timely. Thursday, July 16–Saturday, July 18.Various times. The Comedy Club of Kansas City, 1130 W. 103rd St., KCMO.

Sheryl Crow July 21, 8 pm Missouri native Sheryl Crow returns at just the right time to ”Soak Up the Sun” in this outdoor venue. Stop by to listen to old and new favorites, only “If It Makes You Happy.” Thursday, July 21. 8 pm. Grinders.

The electro psych-pop band from Baltimore may never have lived up to the heaps of praise ladled on them when long-defunct blogs wondered aloud if they might have a career trajectory that tracked Radiohead, but their new album, February’s Time Skiffs, feels more like an intimate conversation with friends that they are inviting us to join. Thursday, July 21, 8 pm. The Truman.

Water Lantern Festival July 23, 6–10 pm If you’ve ever seen Disney’s Tangled, you’re probably enchanted by the idea of watching hundreds of floating lanterns flood the night sky and glide across the water. The Water Lantern Festival is coming to Kansas City to make this dream a reality, aiming to create a happy, hopeful, healing experience for the whole family, with food and music. After decorating your own lantern, watch it disappear against the others, carrying your story with it. Saturday, July 23. 6–10 pm. Frank A. Theis Park.

John Mulaney July 23, 8 pm

Fan-favorite comedian John Mulaney’s impressive resume includes a long stint on SNL as

Drive-By Truckers July 16, 8 pm

Known to NPR donor audiences as “the guys Jason Isbell used to play with,” this Alabama-bred Southern rock outfit has a deep catalog that draws on regional mythology and big riffs. Like everyone else, the Truckers have become more direct and nakedly political in recent times, grappling publicly with changing their very nineties (and, admittedly, sorta cringey) name while telling opponents of gun control where to stick their “Thoughts and Prayers.” Saturday, July 16. 8 pm. Knuckleheads.

a writer, his voice on Netflix’s hit adult-cartoon Big Mouth and a role on Broadway as an elderly grump alongside pal Nick Kroll in Oh, Hello on Broadway. His newest anticipated, nearly sold-out comedy tour, John Mulaney: From Scratch, will not disappoint new or longtime fans. Saturday, July 23, 8 pm. Starlight.

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Brooklyn-based King Princess returns to Kansas City again after her stint as a tour opener for pop-country superstar Kacey Musgraves last fall. King Princess is a songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist whose debut single focusing on untold queer love stories, “1950” skyrocketed her to stardom. Her debut album, Cheap Queen, is anticipated to release this year. Monday, July 25, 8 pm. Arvest Bank Theatre.

As one of the most influential bands of the seventies, Little Feat fuses rock, country and blues for a fun, nostalgic performance that is sure to please multiple generations. Wednesday, July 27, 8 pm. Uptown Theater.

The Shins July 27, 8 pm The release of their debut fulllength album, Oh, Inverted World, caused a shift in the indie genre and became an anthem for a generation after being featured heavily in cult-classic Garden State. After selling nearly a million copies, they are back to celebrate the seminal album’s twenty-first birthday. Wednesday, July 27, 8 pm. Arvest Bank Theatre.

Big Time Rush July 30, 8 pm It was shocking and exhilarating for many when the once-Nickelodeon boy band reunited. Now, Big Time Rush is making their way to Kansas City as part of their Forever Tour with special guest Spencer Sutherland. With some old classics in their back pocket and a few brand new singles, Big Time Rush is sure to stir up some nostalgia. Saturday, July 30. 8 pm. T-Mobile Center.

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PAINTING THE TOWN Kansas City muralist Vania Soto finds artistic and cultural meaning through art. BY O L I V I A AU G U S T I N E

is lined with murals. Some celebrate sports victories and iconic Kansas City symbols while others tell a deeper story. KC muralist Vania Soto has a hand in both. Soto has been a full-time artist in Kansas City for fourteen years, working in what she calls “the industry of storytelling,” and is deeply invested in sharing stories of Mexican culture on the walls of Kansas City. Soto was born in Ciudad Juárez and grew up in the small Tennessee town of Kingsport, where she started painting at age ten. By thirteen, she was selling pieces to the owner of the only Mexican restaurant in town, attempting to replace the outdated artwork on its walls with new paintings that better represented her culture. Soto is now working with Visit KCK on a project that will tell the stories of ethnic groups that settled in Kansas. Visit KCK will have an app where users can follow informational trails on these stories, and those who follow the Latino trail will receive a print of Soto’s work. For that project, Soto did much research on Mexican-American workers on the Kansas City railroads. She’s

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Chiefs Mural in front of the T-Mobile Center For this mural in the heart of the Power and Light District, Soto stayed up all night in the cold with her colleague Alexander Austin before the day of the 2020 Super Bowl Parade. “Nuestra reina, Virgen de Guadalupe” at La Posada Restaurant on Southwest Boulevard This mural paints a detailed portrait of the Virgin of Guadalupe, whose image has become a popular religious symbol in Mexico. Vanessa Guillen Mural at G&V Multiservices y Asociados Specialist Vanessa Guillen was a soldier at Fort Hood who was sexually assaulted and brutally murdered. Five families in the Kansas City area commissioned Soto to create this piece on Park Avenue in KCK as part of the movement for systematic change within the military and its handling of sexual assault and harrassment reports.

working with the University of Nebraska Omaha to pair audio stories with her paintings. It’s a continuation of the work Soto did on a mural in the West Bottoms under the I-670 bridge. That collaboration with SprayKC shows the story of the area decades ago––a rural area filled with cattle and farmland before Mexican-American workers built the railroad. “I can represent us in just some lighter sense of our community and how hard we work,” she says. “What we create is important, and not just for us, but for the collective of the United States.” Soto’s artwork is not limited to people with sight. In 2021, Soto created a tactile mural for the Kansas School for the Blind in the courtyard where preschoolers play. Many of the school’s younger students are in the process of losing their sight, which makes “The Color of Oz” one of their last visual experiences. The mural is inspired by The Wizard of Oz, with vibrant yellows, greens, blues and pinks. The characters and settings are vividly painted with sharp lines and dimensions. To make the experience interactive, artist Lydia Knopp added mosaic pieces to Soto’s painting, making it so you can “follow the yellow brick road” through touch. “It was really special,” Soto says. “I made it super bright because if it’s the last thing to be seen, I want the bright colors to be remembered.” Soto’s passion for both art and teaching comes from her upbringing. She didn’t have access to art classes aside from a watercolor class for senior citizens at the local community center. Now, Soto makes sure art is available to the kids in Kansas City by spending the last six years teaching art classes to kids at the Police Athletic League of Kansas City, Kansas. Soto has students who have gone to college and majored in art, started mural jobs of their own and are currently showing their work in different galleries. “Teaching has always been a passion of mine, to kind of share and grow little artists,” Soto says. “Not so that they can become full-time artists like me, but they can at least find an outlet for them to express themselves.”

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was in high school, he would always ask music teachers why everything needed to be over a preset form. “They’d tell me that was the only way to play sensible music,” says the drummer. Then Young discovered free jazz. In 1963, just three days after Young’s high school graduation, he moved from Paola up to KC to study jazz at the UMKC Conservatory. He quickly became friends with a bassist from New York, Richard Youngstein. That summer, Youngstein showed Young his favorite albums, which is when Young was introduced to free jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra. Just a year later, Young was the first drummer to play free jazz in Kansas City. On a Saturday morning in October 1964, Youngstein spontaneously showed up at Young’s apartment, woke him up

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and took him down to the recording studio. “Well, the other drummer they were going to use got drunk and fell down the fire escape and broke his leg,” Young says. After recording a couple of tunes, Youngstein called out the next tune, “God’s Museum.” “I don’t know that one,” Young said, perplexed. “We’re going to make it up as we go along.” Young pondered for just a second and then began playing along. Now, more than fifty years later, Young remains on the scene, leading his own group, The Roughtet. The group, which features Quin Wallace on trumpet, Jacob Schwartzberg on tenor sax and John Nichols on bass, released the free jazz album Fear Is the Mind Killer earlier this year. Despite what Young’s early teachers may have said regarding the need for form and structure, Fear Is the Mind Killer remains sensible. “It’s not all aleatoric noise,” Young jokes. But Young plays a lot more than just free jazz, which informs his uniquely captivating and lively style. His vast influences include electronic music, R&B, funk, Afro-Cuban and Afrobeat, which are on full display in this album. His style is set further apart by the touches he learned from

spending over a decade in the Bay area beginning in 1980, where he studied West African drumming at UC Berkeley. The album features several of Young’s compositions, including “Honey I Shrunk the Monk,” which starts out fragmented yet funky, with a soulful trumpet solo from Wallace, later moving into a hard, driving swing and Young’s virtuosic solo. Shortly after the release of the album, Young came down with shingles. “I had to slow down,” he says. “I missed a lot of gigs.” Now, he’s on the upswing and is looking forward to a summer of performing, especially with the Roughtet. “This is the best avant-garde group I’ve had here [in KC] so far,” he says. But Young wants to do a lot more than just performing and plans to pursue his other passions: traveling, writing, painting and, most of all, teaching. “Sooner or later, I know I won’t be able to play drums anymore, and then I’ll really concentrate on writing and painting.” “I just want to play as much as I can while I still can,” Young says. GO: Arnold Young and The Roughtet and Dave Scott, Sunday, July 10 at 6 pm, Westport Coffeehouse Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania Ave., KCMO.

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When Elizabeth and Derek Hopkins moved into their home in Mission in 2018, it was mostly gray and neutral. It wasn’t until lockdown that Elizabeth decided their home needed more vibrancy. Having earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, Elizabeth put her knowledge of color blocking and color theory to create large, midcentury inspired murals throughout the house. “It started as the circle on the wall, and then after that, I wanted to redo my dining room because I didn’t want it to be as boho. I wanted to move toward bright, colorful and happy,” Elizabeth says. Now, she and her mom, who is also a skilled painter, are teaming up to create eclectic, retro-inspired wall murals in the homes of their friends and family. The two hope to start a business together, and Elizabeth is currently taking inquiries through her Instagram, @bohoinkc. Elizabeth’s murals vary in cost depending on complexity and size, but her small-scale designs start at around $200. —MARY HENN

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SAY LESS A therapeutic treatment developed for PTSD is now getting wider use. BY L I Z S C H R O E D E R

is talk therapy. In 1987, Francine Shapiro began developing a new therapy called EMD, or Eye Movement Desensitization, using bilateral eye stimulation to lessen the effects of negative emotions linked to distressing memories. Today, we know it as EMDR, and it’s recently gained traction among those seeking mental health treatment. Shapiro developed the therapy for PTSD (sometimes called PTS or PTSS), but today the therapy is used more widely. “For the most part, it’s known to be a trauma approach,” says local therapist Shara McGlothan. “But it can help with any type of unsettling emotion or thought that you may have. They talk about trauma ‘little t’ and trauma ‘big T,’ but it can be really anything that’s bringing you discomfort.” NOT ALL THERAPY

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“Trauma is very subjectively defined,” therapist Melissa Joyce agrees. “When we think about what trauma really is, it’s an event that happens that overwhelms our autonomic nervous system and we don’t feel safe.” EMDR invites patients to process information differently than more traditional talk therapies. “In typical talk therapy,” McGlothan says, “processing would mean talking about [the experience], tracking those patterns and helping the client change and manage what comes up for them. In EMDR, there’s not very much talking at all. It’s really just letting the brain go to work as we focus on the particular memory that’s happening at the time.” “We’re just taking a train ride through the past,” Joyce says, “but we’re not going to stay.”

With EMDR exploding into the internet wellness space, both therapists advise caution. “We want society to be educated on what’s happening,” McGlothan says, “but that doesn’t eliminate the need for a therapist and to have that professional support.” “A lot of those apps are not for the public per se,” McGlothan adds. “They’re for trained clinicians, so they’re able to do some of this through telehealth.” One misconception the internet gets wrong about EMDR: It is definitely not hypnosis. “You’re going to be awake the whole time,” Joyce says. “You’ll be aware of what’s happening. We break it up into small sets of maybe thirty to sixty seconds depending on the individual, and then we’re coming back to the present to talk about what did that person notice, what changed?” But mindfulness does play a small role, Joyce says. “We will prompt clients to notice what’s happening in their bodies, what they are aware of physically, emotionally, somatically. And sometimes we do grounding during the session because there can be some pretty distressing things that pop up.” EMDR is rising in popularity, with more people looking toward result-oriented work that can be confined to a few sessions. “It’s not really typical to put a timer on it,” McGlothan cautions, “but results-wise, [EMDR] can be quicker than talk therapy.” “This is one of the few approaches that clients can ask for by name,” McGlothan says. Joyce loves watching the improvements her clients make through EMDR. “In my experience,” she says, “people talk about not necessarily feeling as stuck anymore. It feels like they are capable of making the right choices, of being loved and feeling safe.” “There’s a saying from a leading trauma professional: Our issues stay in our tissues, and that is so true,” Joyce says. “Talking about it is great, but I think we need to heal from trauma more fully and to be able to grow from it and flourish. And stop feeling so stuck.” So, does talk therapy still have a place? Both therapists agree—yes. “Other people might want to do a more in-depth personal discovery, which is where talk therapy really comes in handy,” McGlothan says. And while Joyce has a preference for EMDR, she says, “it is not for everybody, and that’s okay.”

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when bars and restaurants around the city began to reopen, Lexi St. John wanted to get out and do things. “I wanted to find all the new places that were opening. I had friends that were moving to Kansas City, and I wanted to take them to cool new places, like pop-up bars,” she says. That desire to get back into the world and share experiences with her friends led St. John to create her TikTok page @the.bop.around. St. John grew up in Liberty, went to school at Mizzou and is now living in Overland Park and working as a corporate event coordinator. While she’s more than familiar with the city, she also says she finds “new stuff popping up all the time—so much has changed.” St. John’s TikTok success was pretty much instantaneous. After sharing one video of her weekend in Kansas City, she gained four thousand new followers. From there, she began creating content on the regular and has now become a local micro-influencer with seventeen thousand followers on TikTok. “For me, it’s kind of a shock,” she says. “I didn’t realize that so many people would see something that I posted. It’s weird with TikTok. I feel like the videos live forever. I have videos that I posted months ago that are still getting views and follows.” We talked to St. John about her quick rise to influencer status, where she gets ideas for content and some of her favorite spots around the city. AFTER LOCKDOWN,

Why TikTok? What made you decide on that platform as a space to feature local places? I really like showing videos rather than pictures. I also realized quickly that I like being able to talk rather than write. With TikTok, it’s easier to show motion, too. I feel like I can do more with a video, with the visual aspect, showing the moving parts of a place and showing how packed it is, for instance. I also like the music. Adding music to something changes the whole video and can give a place the hype it deserves. Sometimes a picture just can’t do that. Where do you get ideas for content? How do you find new places? I follow so many places on social media. Weirdly enough, I find a lot on Facebook. I don’t know what it is with Facebook, but I will find random places and small events that pop up there. I also lived downtown for a little while, and I did a lot of walking around. There were so many places I’d never heard of before. Now that I have more of a

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following, people are also sending me recommendations, which helps too. My mom and her friends also like to send me places. How do you balance work life with making and editing TikToks? I do a lot of creative planning at work, too. Whenever we’re setting up client events or client dinners, I’m always searching for different places to send them that aren’t the standard or what’s expected. After work is typically when I do my editing and figure out what I’m going to post for the week. With the following, it’s become even more time consuming. Juggling it all has been a lot of work, and I have calendars for everything now. I’d love to make the transition and do this kind of stuff full time.

KC FAVO R I T E S Conductor Club KC at Union Station “I’ve really been into wineries and pop-up bars lately. I am at Conductor Club every time they have something new. I really loved their Tiki pop-up.” Happy Hour at Cafe Trio “Cafe Trio is one of my favorites, especially their patio during happy hour when the weather’s nice.” Casual Animal Brewing Co. “There are so many breweries in Kansas City, but I love Casual Animal. The space is super cool, and I always have a good time there.”

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DIVING IN A mom in Weatherby Lake quit her job in pharmaceuticals to renovate her family’s lakeside home. BY DAW N YA B A R T S C H | P H OTO G R A P H Y BY C H R I S M U L L I N S

HEN SHAUNA WARD AND HER HUSBAND

walked into their future Weatherby Lake home, they looked past the floor-to-ceiling beige walls, past the matching oak floors and cabinets and out to a bank of windows framing the cove beyond. It was practically perfect, Shauna says, and they knew it would work for their growing family. “When we first saw our house, we both loved the views and the layout,” says Shauna, who has been the designer and project manager for her home’s complete renovation. “I saw a lot of potential, and we agreed to make some changes.” Before they purchased the home, Shauna was a full-time pharmaceutical salesperson, and although she loved decorative arts, she was not a professional designer by trade. It was her home’s renovation that brought her into the design world. The Wards purchased their home a little over three years ago, before the pandemic, while Shauna was pregnant with their son. Initially, the Wards hired a general contractor to implement their vision, but after he completely demolished the interior, he quit. “He called on a Sunday and told us he was in over his head and was walking away,” Shauna says. “At that time, the house was completely demoed, and we had to come up with a plan to get it completed ASAP. We were living with my parents with all three kids, including our baby who was three weeks old.” So Shauna threw herself into the renovation. “I did all the design and managed the project from July through November. We completed the house and moved in Thanksgiving weekend 2019,” she says. Shauna started posting about her projects on Instagram, and people started noticing her work, wanting to hire her for their own projects. Then the pandemic hit and everything changed. Shauna Ward Interiors was born. “If the pandemic never happened, I don’t know if I would have ever changed professions,” Shauna says. “It’s hard to manage three kids and take this kind of plunge.” She credits her education in journalism and marketing and her willingness to take risks for getting her business off the ground. One such risk was the decision to paint her bedroom ceiling orange. It helped her designs get noticed. The orange bedroom ceiling grabbed the attention of Kansas City Instagram influencer Breahn Vokolek (@overanalyzedthat). She hired Shauna to renovate her kitchen and posted about the project. “Things really started to take off after that,” Shauna says. From a black ceiling in the piano room to turquoise cabinets in her children’s bathroom, Shauna is continuing to take design risks.

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1 PIANO ROOM Right off the foyer is a room built as a formal dining room that Shauna is instead using to dramatically showcase a baby grand piano from her childhood. “My parents bought it for me as a child when I was taking lessons,” she says. “No one is really playing the piano now. But it is nice to have, and sometimes when people are over, someone will play. It’s fun.” The charcoal black ceiling and traditional black lacquered piano dramatically contrast with the room’s white walls. It sits in the middle of the room under a dripping modern gold chandelier. The piano and a daybed from Anthropology strewn with boho pillows and a white and black macrame-looking wall hanging create a traditional yet eclectic space.

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2 POWDER ROOM Nestled off to the side between the piano room and mudroom is a dramatic jewel box of a guest bathroom. Dark blue-black walls frame a wall of light gray and white tiles set in a herringbone pattern. The classic tile choice compliments the engineered marble vanity top. And like most of the newly installed cabinetry in the Wards’ home, it’s not custom but bought prefabricated. “I didn’t even change out the hardware,” Shauna says, adding that she has had a lot of success finding stylish, well-built cabinets at affordable price points. She often uses the installready cabinets rather than custommade, not only for her own projects but for many of her clients too. The brass geometric pendant lighting flanking the mirror creates a low, moody glow. Shauna found the pendants from Dounia Home while scouring Instagram. The pendants hang above the campaign furniture-inspired vanity.

3 MASTER BEDROOM

Shauna decided to take a risk in the master bedroom and painted the ceiling a dusty orange, subtly bringing out the earth tones that are sprinkled throughout the room in various textiles. The tall white headboard, reminiscent of an Indian carving, is the room’s centerpiece and the first thing visible through the room’s double doors. A low-hanging black basket chandelier adds to the bohemian feel.

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completely transformed the master bathroom, creating basically a “bathing room” by enclosing her bathtub inside an extra-large glass shower. Marble tiles in various sizes were used to create different patterns and add subtle detail. The room is flooded with natural light from skylights.

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5 MAIN LIVING ROOM Like most of the house, the living room got a fresh coat of white paint. Shauna also redid the fireplace wall, removing the built-in oak cabinets and creating a sleek modern fireplace wall using large white marble tiles. Shauna’s use of modern furniture is softened with lots of textiles in various textures and colors. Shauna and her husband are both fans of Freddie Mercury, so Shauna had a piece of art made to hang in their living room with the Queen frontman’s quote “All you have to do is fall in love.”

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6 KITCHEN Like much of the lake-facing rooms, the kitchen has great views of the water. Shauna used white paint, tile and countertops to keep the kitchen light and airy, despite using black cabinets for the island and a deep dusty gray-blue for the cabinets. Brass hardware and a chandelier made with quartz crystals over the dining table add a glitzy touch.

7 RECREATION ROOM The childrens’ bedrooms and family room are located on the lower lake level. In the recreation room, Shauna opted for a wood-like tile that could handle muddy, wet lake feet. To enlarge the space, she took down a wall that was concealing an unfinished storage area. She finished it off and added a bar. Built-in oak cabinets flanking the fireplace were removed, and a black modern fireplace wall with a television nook was created.

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HOW WE MADE THIS LIST

Kansas City’s beer scene is hoppin’. Here are EIGHT great new spots.

We visited sixteen new breweries that have opened around greater Kansas City since our last survey of the scene. We paid our own way and did not ask for free beer. Advertisers were not favored. We determined the best of those breweries based on the beers we tried—usually at the bartender’s recommendation—and on the overall experience. We have a loose definition of both “new” and “brewery.”

WORDS Martin Cizmar PHOTOGRAPHY Caleb Condit and Rebecca Norden

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Pathlight

BEFORE THERE WAS Pathlight Brewing in Shawnee, there was “Tanner’s basement” in KCK. Pathlight opened in June 2020, just as the coronavirus lockdowns lifted, and it has emerged as one of the city’s best breweries. But as co-owner and operations manager Beth Harris tells it, brewer Tanner Vaughn had already been developing some key ingredients a decade before. “He cultivated his own yeast strains and microbe cultures when he was just a homebrewer, and he had his own barrel program in his basement,” Beth Harris says. “You would go down there and find a grisette on peaches just hanging out in his basement.” Vaughn was a Honeywell engineer for more than a decade, designing non-nuclear components of nuclear devices. In his free time, he would collect, propagate and hybridize wild yeasts, which today can be tasted in Pathlight’s peerless local wild ales. He connected with Beth and her husband David Harris through the ZZ Hops Homebrew Club, and they eventually started looking to open their own brewery in north Johnson County. As the trio hatched their plan to convert a little corner of a plaza tucked between a Walmart and Big Lots into one of the area’s most ambitious breweries, the city of Shawnee was “amazing” to work with, Harris says.

11200 W. 75th St., Shawnee

Pathlight’s wild ales—they use non-commercial yeast, fermenting slowly and developing strong, unique flavors—are just part of the equation, of course. When you have a large allages taproom that’s kid-friendly with a dog-friendly patio in a sleepy corner of Shawnee, you’re not just serving hardcore beer snobs. Pathlight brews a little of everything, from milk stouts to West Coast IPAs (“Clear IPAs are back,” Harris says) to an old-fashioned amber lager. All those beers are well-made, and the West Coast IPAs, especially, are crushable. You can enjoy them with a pizza delivered to the taproom from Marco’s or with snacks like dill dip or jerky made by the people behind the new Lula’s Southern Cookhouse downtown. Still, it’s the wild and sour ales that make Pathlight stand out. They’ve been a surprise not only to novice beer drinkers but also to people who are accustomed to milder and more direct kettle sours—people who have never heard of Cantillon, let alone cracked a Soleil de Minuit. They’ve proven especially popular with wine drinkers. “The fruited wild ales have a different complexity to them—a little tart but complex and wine-y,” Harris says. “That complexity is what is bringing in a different genre of people who maybe would normally say ‘I don’t like beer.’” It fits with the mission and the name of the brewery. “We wanted to light the path to a new take on craft beer,” Harris says. “There are so many places in Kansas City where you can get great beer, but we wanted to put our spin on it and show the way forward.”

Pivo Project at BKS

633 E. 63rd St., KCMO

REWERS LIKE LAGERS. This has been true for a while. A decade ago, I published a scandalous quote from a famous IPA brewer who confessed: “When me and the old boys from Deschutes get together, we get a keg of Bitburger.” At BKS Artisan Ales in Brookside, brewer-owner Brian Rooney makes the city’s best hazy IPAs—which only whets his thirst for lagers. “You can’t drink all IPA all day long,” he says. “I mean, you can try— but it doesn’t work out well.” And so Rooney and his wife and business partner Mary Rooney recently started a dedicated lager brewing operation called the Pivo Project, named after the Czech word for beer. Think of it like a record label imprint—Interscope to the BKS Universal. It could certainly be argued that a brewery making a different style but giving it a different section of the menu doesn’t make it a “new brewery,” but for Brian, it was a helpful distinction. “From a brewing standpoint, we’re switching our mindset,” he says. “When we are making a Pivo Project beer, we try to have a very intentional process around the brewing and lagering, which is very different than what we do with ales.” BKS had made a few lagers before the Pivo Project imprint, but the first under the banner was an heirloom rice lager made with Carolina Gold, which gives a little more character than the grains used in Budweiser. They make a new Pivo Project beer every two weeks and so far have produced a hoppy cold IPA (Brian prefers the term “double Pils”) and a light lager with Missouri-grown corn. Most of the beers make use of big and juicy modern hops, but all get at least a dash of more reserved and stately European noble hops. “It’s kind of like a calling card, where those beers came from,” Rooney says. “We always weave in something like Saaz or Hallertau or Saphir.” PHOTO BY CHASE CASTOR

Smokes and Suds

It’s no secret that beer and barbecue are best buds. But it’s still surprising just how entwined the two scenes have gotten since Tyler Harp started popping up at Crane Brewing in Raytown back in October 2019. “It didn’t take Einstein to predict this,” Harp says. “I saw a bunch of breweries with no food in a competition BBQ town.” Jousting Pigs started as a competition team. Co-owner John Atwell planned a standalone restaurant before ending up inside 3Halves Brewing in Liberty, before opening a second spot in the Legends. “Craft barbecue and craft beer folks are cut from the same cloth,” Atwell says. At Callsign in North KC (see right), you’ll find Wolfepack BBQ, which cooks prime Creekstone brisket and heritage-breed pork on a live-fire of oak and hickory, with no gas assist. It’s fast establishing itself as some of the best ’cue in the city. Out in Lee’s Summit, Burn Theory Fire Kitchen operates from a trailer outside Diametric Brewing Co. “It’s a vibe,” says owner-pitmaster Taylor Jones. “It’s an atmosphere, it’s an attitude, it’s a mindset. Two groups of people crafting things with their hands for you.”

3 Callsign 1340 Burlington St., North KC

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Brewing isn’t “new.” Callsign opened in North KC back in 2018, making its name with military-themed microbrews like Bomber Brown and Test Pilot Amber, which are still on tap today. But a lot has changed—including the address. The new Callsign Brewing, which opened in January, is eight times larger than the old spot. And while owner Steve Sirois, a veteran of the Air Force, used to brew most of the beer himself, he’s now hired a dedicated brewer, Corey Zschoche, who is refining old recipes while adding more contemporary beers like a churro cream ale and an orange milkshake IPA. The Callsign team calls the old location “1.0,” says Corey From, taproom manager. “The taproom we have now is the size of the entire building we were in,” From says. “Everything has gotten a lot more focused— we’ve spent a lot of time trying to make sure we’re doing everything with a high attention to detail.” While Callsign still focuses on its mission of supporting the armed forces by donating money to tiny homes for homeless veterans and raising funds to train service dogs for veterans with disabilities, the new taproom is just a different place thanks to great barbecue (see left) and a dedicated brewer. “Callsign is known for traditional ales, and we want to keep that, obviously—we want to keep that foundation,” From says. “The freedom lager is not going anywhere, ever. But then we’re trying some cool new things. We’ve got sixteen taps now. Why not?”

Transparent

14501 White Ave., Grandview

MICHELLE BROWN was very close to having a doctor in the family—instead, she has a brewer and business partner. Brown runs a cafe called The Chive inside Transparent, her son Nolan Brown’s Grandview brewery. “He was in college, pre-med, and took his MCAT,” she says. “He decided he didn’t want to go to school for eight more years. He had been homebrewing for years, and he had a degree in biology, so he was set up well for it. I always told him I support any decision so long as he’s happy and can support himself.”

Nolan, a Lee’s Summit native, wasn’t drawn to brewing just because he could avoid eight more years of education; he also liked its creative aspect. “It wasn’t an easy decision to make because I had been planning on med school since I started high school,” Nolan says. “Then I had to sit down and talk to my parents. It’s not easy when you tell your parents you don’t want to be a doctor anymore.” In the end, they worked it out, and the Browns are all in business together. Michelle’s cafe is eighty-four percent locally sourced, mostly from local farmers, she says. She makes everything from bread to ketchup in-house. Meanwhile,

Nolan’s brewery focuses on sessionable beers, mostly microbrew mainstays like French saison and brown ale, which he returned to after a decade of chasing bigger and weirder beers. It wasn’t as simple as not going to med school, of course. Nolan started his brewing career as an intern, working for free one day a week while hanging drywall to pay the bills. Then he took jobs at Schlafly in St. Louis and Oskar Blues in North Carolina to learn the industry. “It’s very much like a trade,” he says. “You can go to school for it, but that doesn’t really give you an upper hand in the industry when it comes down to the day-to-day.”

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In Defense of Hazy IPAs BY L I Z C O O K

LIVE IN a constant, low-grade fear of Beer People. I’m not talking about brewers, mind you. Brewers have always been kind to me, perhaps because they can sense my ignorance. They know that I will never try to make them taste my home brews. When I say “Beer People,” I mean the most self-serious quartile of craft beer fanatics: the gatekeepers, the language policers. The Walking Untappd. It has become clear to me recently that Beer People are over hazy IPAs. In 2020, online alcohol retailer Drizly reported a seven hundred and sixty-one percent year-over-year sales growth for hazy beers. That saturation has quickly made them the pop music of the beer world: ubiquitous, commercialized and easy to denigrate. One common complaint? That hazies aren’t subtle. I suppose this is true. But I have always had a goblin’s appreciation for an unsubtle thing done well. I like that the hazy isn’t coquettish: Its fresh hop and citrus aromas practically lunge at you from the glass. Hazies are hops in surround-sound. That doesn’t mean they’re bitter. Hazies are a softer, slinkier IPA that swap the pinecone sharpness of a West Coast IPA for bright citrus. I’ve heard some drinkers complain that they taste like orange juice—the cloudy appearance means hazies often look like orange juice, too.

To me, this is a selling point— you get a Screwdriver without extra steps. My main beef with the style is that no one can seem to agree what to call it. Some breweries label them Northeast IPAs, others New England IPAs. Many buck the regional designation entirely and call them “hazy IPAs,” “juicy IPAs,” or “unfiltered IPAs.” Are you confused yet? I am, too. To try to get a handle on all this, I grabbed a hazy beer recently with BKS Artisan Ales brewers Alex Moss and Brian Rooney. Brian owns the brewery with his wife, Mary. BKS is well known for its hazies—in 2021, their double hazy IPA Clouds won silver in the Great American Beer Festival, beating out almost two hundred other beers. Rooney estimates that about seventy-five percent of BKS’s beers could be considered hazies, from big triples to sessionable pale ales. When Rooney first started brewing hazies, he labeled them “northeast style” IPAs. But now? “We just call it hazy.” Good enough for me. Rooney and Moss have their own ideas about what’s driving the hazy-hate: poorly made versions of the style. Just about every brewery has a hazy IPA on tap now; they aren’t all going to be winners. And there are a lot of ways brewers can go wrong. Hazies use more expressive yeasts than other styles, and a bad yeast can make a beer

taste like an overripe melon. They’re also more prone to “hop creep,” an accidental secondary fermentation that creates a spike in diacetyl (the “buttered popcorn” flavor). That makes a good hazy all the more precious. At one point in our conversation, Rooney lowers his voice into a joking, bro-y register. “The statement, like, ‘When I go into a brewery, I order a lager because there’s nowhere to hide.’ The place where there’s nowhere to hide is these.” He gestures toward a glass of Metaphysical Infinity, BKS’s double dry-hopped IPA, on the table in front of him. “Most lagers, even if it’s not perfect, I can tolerate drinking them. I can drink a Busch Light. I can’t drink a Busch Light version of this.” Moss agrees: “I’m not going to the bowling alley and crushing some turbid mess.” Moss and Rooney have spent years tinkering with their hazies, paying close attention to water chemistry to make softer and more expressive presentations of each particular hop’s character. Neither of them consider hazies easy to brew. In my view, they’re worth the investment. The hazy boom might not last forever, but it’s been a great entry point into craft beer for a lot of drinkers. The risk, of course, is that this will eventually create more Beer People. But that’s a risk I’m willing to tolerate.

Sweet on Sour

SUMMER BARBECUES

mean coolers full of ice and drinks—and, too often, that one picky friend who isn’t interested in anything there. For them, consider tossing in a fruited sour. Boulevard’s Smooth Collider brings together bold banana and strawberry for a smoothie ale bursting with so much pureed fruit you could have it for breakfast. Brunch continues at Strange Days Brewing, where the Maple Blueberry Smoothie delivers a warm stack of pancakes in liquid form (don’t worry—there’s a lick of sour on the finish). Beach bums will rejoice at Brew Lab’s outlandish-sounding Sunny B, a wine barrel-aged, mixedculture sour: They’ve added a tropical burst of coconut and orange to their blonde ale. More island vibes— and a boatload full of mango and guava—are packed into Casual Animal’s Gazoontight. For the farthest out sour experience, try the Rainbow Soup at Pathlight Brewing. Brewers took a “more is more” approach to this beer, combining lactose, bright hops and a lush strawberry-mango mash for a truly magical fruited sour milkshake IPA. —Natalie Torres Gallagher

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TALL TRELLIS This taproom sandwiched between two large new housing developments in western Olathe is owned by Kansas hop farmers who wanted to diversify their offerings. Tall Trellis is open with a patio framed by its namesakes, which are crawling with bines this time of year. The taproom tries to highlight beers made with the farm’s hops and intends to consistently pour a few beers brewed on-site, but those offerings were unavailable on our visit.

VINE STREET KC’s first Black-owned brewery is opening in the Jazz District very soon and already pouring beers at festivals. A few recent offerings showed why people are excited: a double dry-hopped hefe called “Wolf Tickets” and an imperial Shirley temple gose called “Church Lady.” FRICTION Shawnee is already home to our favorite new breweries (see page 48) and one of our favorite speakeasies (Drastic Measures), and now “the South Beach of Johnson County” is getting a large new brewery in the century-old former Hartman Hardware building complete with a beer hall and rooftop patio.

Range 23 13400 Donahoo Road Building B, KCK NATE SCHOTANUS didn’t necessarily want to run a brewery. But he did want to build a sense of community in Piper, a tiny town in far northwest Wyandotte County. And so he runs a brewery. “If you had asked me ten years ago if I wanted to start a brewery, I would have said no,” he says. “There are a lot of breweries out there, and they’re great. But you find these communities where there’s a brewery on every flippin’ corner and they’re doing well. We’re not reinventing the wheel here. There are other communities across the country and in

Europe that are doing little things for the people around them.” Schotanus does that at Range 23, which sits at the end of a dirt road through Due West Ranch, an eighty-acre equestrian center. Schotanus is a Johnson County native who now works as a firefighter for the Dotte, which means he has to live within its boundaries. He and his wife used to live in Merriam before picking Piper. “We had two really young kids and so the school district was very important,” he says. “There were only two places in

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Broken Hatchet 422 Main St., Belton

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Wyandotte county where I was going to live—that was either Piper or Bonner Springs.” Schotanus became interested in community-building while bartending at PJ’s Pub, once the main spot for local music in Manhattan, where he went to college. He ended up putting on a three-day sports and music festival showcasing the Little Apple’s mountain bike trails and local bands. When Schotanus moved to Piper, he started looking around for small independent bars or coffee shops. “There was none of that out here,” he says. “There’s the Legends with Nebraska Furniture Mart and Cabelas.” Schotanus had started brewing with an all-extract Mr. Beer kit and eventually progressed into more serious homebrew projects. He got to the point where he felt like he could make solid renditions of classics like blondes and porters and that those beers would be of service to the people of Piper. Most of his customers come from around the corner, which is what he wants. “When you go through things that we’ve all been through recently, if you have a sense of community and connection, it builds resiliency,” he says. “I don’t have to be more unique or better than the guy in the next town over. I just have to be here in my community and make a good product.”

of local history, it’s hard to beat the fact that the infamous Prohibitionist Carrie Nation is buried in Belton. Nation was a Kentucky native who did most of her evangelizing (read: smashing up bars with a hatchet) in Kansas. But her mother was buried in Belton, and so after succumbing to paresis, Nation was brought there for burial. Brad Steele will tell you that story and a lot more at his Belton brewery named for Nation’s weapon of choice. “I’m just a brewer trying to build a brand,” Steele says. “I want to make the community part of the brand.” And so he has. Dickie Goober, a piney and resinous double IPA, is named for a retired air force base in Grandview. Mount Pleasant, a smoother-drinking Pilsner with some age on it, is a township inside Belton. Burnt District, a peppy coffee blonde, refers to the ordered depopulation of Cass County during the Civil War, where homes were torched. Steele was a homebrewer who worked for Cerner and Sprint, then moved into two east Jackson County breweries, Apex and Windshift. He’s a northwest Missouri native who lives in Lee’s Summit with his wife, Cara Steele. In Belton, they found a city eager to have a neighborhood brewpub with solid beer, plenty of seating and an indoor cornhole board. “You’ll never see loud music and a hundred TVs in here,” he says. “It’s just a place to come hang out and enjoy some good beers. Hang out with some buds.”

River Bluff at River Market 201 Main St., Suite 101, KCMO

NOT SO LONG AGO, microbrewers often dreamed of running a small chain of brewpubs. Then came the crunch of the pandemic, where hospitality chains of all sizes struggled mightily, and even “successful” operations like Modern Times went under. These days, the era of the regional craft brewery is pretty much over—except for River Bluff. River Bluff started in St. Joseph before opening an outpost down river in March. Their location in the River Market District is massive, with room for a full-size canoe suspended from the ceiling that you might not even notice. They’ve got nine TVs, usually showing sports, and beers that pair well with their clean-drinking Citra-based IPA and throwback red ale. The beers are comfortably above average, and what the room lacks in charm, it makes up for in utility.

Truly Bubbly Get your claws on some of these locally microbrewed hard seltzers.

7 FÜNZZIES // 3HALVES BREWING CO. 110 E. Kansas St., Liberty This Liberty brewery is conjoined with Jousting Pigs BBQ and known for flagships like Desert Gold, a light wheat beer named after the old Liberty grain company. 3Halves also does small batches year round, including this imperial hard seltzer with a dangerous eight percent ABV. Fünzzies is flavored with blood orange grapefruit and has a bright golden color.

RASPBERRY ROCKET POP QUIRK // BOULEVARD BREWING 2534 Madison Ave., KCMO Boulevard’s Quirks have become a staple of Kansas City summers—they’re made with real fruit juice, are gluten-free and are available in a can nearly everywhere. But we think they’re best on tap at Boulevard. Their new Raspberry Rocket Pop is a crowd-pleaser and totally marketed toward those seeking ultimate Americana summer vibez. It’s four percent and very, very sweet, having been inspired by a rocket pop. It’s electric pink in color and best served over ice.

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The Goat 817 N.E. Rice Road, Lee’s Summit

FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, a dram of Scotch shook up Jeremy Kneeland’s world. “I didn’t realize there was ‘good’ whiskey until having a sample of a sixteen-year Lowlands Scotch that blew my mind,” says Kneeland, the owner of The Goat Brewing in Lee’s Summit. “After that, I began trying all kinds of new whiskeys and beers.” At the time, he had two young children and lived in the country, forty minutes east of Lee’s Summit. His wife bought him a homebrew kit, but with two young children, he didn’t have time to dig into a new hobby. Then, he moved into town and made friends who belonged to a homebrew club. Soon, he was in deep, reading books and magazines and listening to podcasts. Before long, he was brewing “almost weekly” and expanding his repertoire of recipes. “I sat with friends in my garage for several years talking about ‘what if’ I were to start a brewery,” Kneeland says. “Fortunately, with their help and encouragement, I was able to make it a reality.” The Goat is named for the gang run by boss Tom Pendergast back in the heyday of KC organized crime, which you’ll see reflected in beer names using mob lingo and alluding to history. The brewery signed its lease in late 2020, amid the pandemic, and opened in March 2021. “It was a little unnerving, but the timing was what it was,” he says. Meads are hot with homebrewers right now, and you’ll see Kneeland’s roots in that world reflected in a fig mead and bochet using caramelized honey. The rest of the well-rounded lineup, which is brewed in regular rotation, ranges from a German lager to a Belgian tripel and bicoastal IPAs.

BLACK RASPBERRY PERSUASIONS // SERVAES BREWING COMPANY 10921 Johnson Drive, Shawnee Servaes (pronounced service) in Shawnee doesn’t do flagships. Instead, it gets creative with innovative one-offs like its English bitter brewed with pizza crusts from Old Shawnee Pizza. But you’re here for Persuasions seltzers. This black raspberry seltzer is a pretty blush color, gluten-free and only mildly sweet.

LEMON-ALMOND NIGHTCLAW // NIGHTHAWK 1228 Baltimore Ave., KCMO The lounge in the basement of Hotel Kansas City has its own house hard seltzers made using vodka. The lemon-almond flavor comes in a mustard yellow twelve-ounce can and is an ode to the classic Italian ice. Nightclaws are airy and mega-fresh.

ZAMBEZI ZINGER // BREW LAB 7925 Marty St., Overland Park If you’re a KC native, then you know this seltzer got its name from a rollercoaster that used to be at Worlds of Fun—the one that was guaranteed to make you sick to your stomach. Fortunately, the Zambezi Zinger hard seltzer does not do that. It’s made with gluten-free corn sugar that’s fermented and clarified until clear. It’s infused with lime and carbonated, but you can jazz it up with different flavors added at the bar from cucumber to strawberry. —Mary Henn

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Premiant Pilsner by Alma Mader BY L I Z C O O K

ICK MADER NEVER wanted to be known for a single beer. When he and his wife, Tania HewettMader, opened Alma Mader in 2019, they were determined to avoid stagnation and focus on the of-the-moment beers their customers most wanted to drink. “We really started off like, ‘we don’t do flagships,’” Mader says. The popularity of Premiant, his Czech-style Pilsner, was a pleasant surprise. Customers quickly poured into the bright, airy taproom on Southwest Boulevard to order Premiant with a slow pour—a technique that gives the Pilsner a glossy white foam cap as thick as whipped cream. Premiant has more than just curb appeal. The light, crisp body and low ABV make it easy to session on a sunny afternoon without fatiguing your palate (or liver). The Pilsner has delicate lemon-blossom notes similar to a Buddha’s hand and a dry, almost spicy finish that demands another sip. It’s exactly what we want to drink right now—which is why we’ve named it our 2022 Beer of the Year. The craft beer world has always been subject to trend-cycling. Heavy pastry stouts give way to hazy hop bombs and sherbet-inspired sours. But Mader thinks a lot of craft beer drinkers have come full circle. “I do think there are a lot of people that are coming back to appreciate well-made lager,” he says. “I don’t think it’s a fad. If you look at some of the Brewer’s Association data on it, it’s not this crazy growth curve. There’s a steady increase in growth and interest.”

BEER!

Premiant is just one of many beers helping to correct a common misconception that lagers are wan or boring. The “lager” category encompasses many styles, from Baltic porters to doppelbocks to helles. And although Alma Mader tends to focus on Pilsners, there’s plenty of variety even within that sub-category. Premiant leans heavily on Saaz hops, one of four “noble” hop varieties used in traditional European brewing. But Mader also brews similar lagers with distinctive hop profiles modeled on German, Italian and New Zealand riffs on the same theme. Another common misconception? That lagers are easy to brew. Mader credits his time at Fremont Brewing in Seattle for honing his own lager-brewing skills. “It’s really hard to hide flaws in these beers,” he says. For many lagers, the flavor profiles are more subtle—if any ingredient is subpar or poorly handled, it can throw the entire beer off balance. Plus, these beers just take longer to brew. Alma Mader’s lagers take on average about six weeks to produce. Many of the brewery’s IPAs can be ready in half the time. The beers are worth waiting for. Mader tries to structure his brew schedule so that he can release a new lager at least once a month. And while Premiant may not have a permanent spot on the tap list, it’s the beer Mader returns to most. “If we were to have a flagship beer, that would definitely be it,” Mader says. He’s reluctant to give Premiant the “flagship” label for one important reason: It’s tough to keep around. The cans sell out quickly; the drafts in the taproom do, too. “I think Midwesterners appreciate good lager,” Mader says. We think so, too.

BEFORE THE CURRENT NOVELTY BEER CRAZE, when tossing doughnuts

Hott in Herre

or children’s cereal in the mash tun became widespread, there were chili beers. Beers spiked with spicy peppers have been around since at least 1990, when a guy out in Arizona started bottling his micro Mexican lager with a pickled serrano pepper floating in the bottle. Mostly, chili beers have been mocked, with a precious few, like Ballast Point’s Habanero Sculpin and

Dogfish Head’s Theobroma, earning a modicum of respect. So maybe some good has come from all those silly cupcake stouts and jelly doughnut IPAs. They have broadened the spectrum of acceptable flavors to make room for beers that bring their own spice. Chili beers got their own category at the World Beer Cup this year, and they’re popping up all over town, from a pineapple and jalapeno cider at The Goat to Li’l Lucy’s Hot Pepper Ale at Weston Brewing Company.

For my money, chili beers are some of the most complex and quaffable brews out there. When done well, they invite another sip like no other and add a little capsicum buzz on top of the booze. I drink them whenever I see them, and I was recently delighted by a raspberry chipotle ale that brought smoke, heat and sweetness together in a symphony of flavors. It was one of the very best beers I had while visiting sixteen spots for this list, and here’s hoping there are more to follow. —Martin Cizmar

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THE LIST ENDODONTICS Anthony Altomare

Leawood Commons Endodontics 11409 Ash Street, Suite A. Leawood 913-491-5552

Robert H. Altomare

Leawood Commons Endodontics 11409 Ash Street, Suite A, Leawood 913-491-5552

Christopher G. Budig

Apex Endodontics 13364 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-851-2739

Jeffrey R. Burroughs

Burroughs Endodontics 5525 West 119th Street, Suite 215, Overland Park 913-258-5696

Adam S. Colombo

Village Endodontics 7301 Mission Road, Suite 317, Prairie Village 913-236-7668

Kevin P. Cunningham

11900 West 87th Street Parkway, Suite 160, Lenexa 913-599-0888

Kenneth J. Frick

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2749

Steven P. Gish

University Park Endodontics 11201 Nall Avenue, Suite 130, Leawood 913-491-0056

James E. Moore

3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 106, Prairie Village 913-642-3636

J. Mike Randall

Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636

Brenton A. Reavley

Briarcliff Endodontics 4137 North Mulberry Drive, KCMO 816-326-8204

Alexander W. Stamos

Endodontic Care 4731 South Cochise Drive, Suite 221, Independence 816-478-8895

Daniel G. Stamos

Creekwood Endodontics 5400 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 201, KCMO 816-452-0900

Biria Dentistry 14364 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-499-1111

Chad A. Bowles

Bowles Dental Center 6811 West 121st Street, Overland Park 913-491-6663

Bernard G. Bruns

Tremont Dental 5501 Northwest 62nd Terrace, Suite 101, KCMO 816-741-6960

Ronald J. Burgmeier

13025 South Mur Len Road, Suite 250, Olathe 913-764-1169

Holli D. Careswell

Careswell & Anderson Dental 300 Southeast 2nd Street, Suite 200, Lee's Summit 816-524-6300

Ryan M. Walker

Sara H. Wilhite

GENERAL DENTISTRY Nancy L. Addy

S&G Family Dentistry 11313 Ash Street, Leawood 913-945-1612

Street, Lenexa 913-322-2222

Carlyle H. Dahlquist

1508 Northwest Mock Avenue, Suite A, Blue Springs 816-228-7176

James J. Dixson

Liberty Park Dental 1508 Northeast 96th Street, Suite A, Liberty 816-415-8080

Rachel Pitts Driscoll

Rhoades Family Dentistry 13400 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-782-8900

Erin P. Flood

7301 Mission Road, Suite 203, Prairie Village 913-362-7320

John C. Flucke

Scott B. Craven

Gilroy Dental Care 11826 West 135th Street, Overland Park 913-681-1900

Amy R. Hahn

Rhoades Family Dentistry 13400 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-782-8900

Tricia C. Halford

Hollie E. Pfeffer Flack

The Brookside Dentist 6247 Brookside Boulevard, Suite 207, KCMO 816-523-1444

Aaron M. Craig

Richard D. Crowder

Stephen Haake

Bluestem Dental 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 222, Overland Park 913-381-6644

Hanson Dentistry 3151 South State Route 291, Suite A, Independence 816-373-5606

4861 West 134th Street, Leawood 913-341-0018

11775 West 112th Street, Suite 240, Overland Park 913-469-5444

S&G Family Dentistry 11313 Ash Street, Leawood 913-945-1612

G. Brent Evers

Evers & Gardner Dental 5815 Northwest Barry Road, KCMO 816-741-2333

Lauren L. Carr

Dental Excellence 19501 East United States Highway 40, Independence 816-795-9500

Jarrett S. Grosdidier

Corinth Dental Care 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 108, Prairie Village 913-341-9600

Flucke & Associates Dentistry 209 Northwest Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit 816-209-6675

Amy Vermeer

Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636

1218 Northeast Windsor Drive, Lee's Summit 816-554-7668

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Firoozeh Biria

Crowder Family Dentistry 14922 West 87th

Mark A. Holman

Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636

I Smile 6420 Parallel Parkway, KCK 913-299-6699

David E. Stamos

4731 South Cochise Drive, Suite 221, Independence 816-478-8895

Leawood Commons Endodontics 11409 Ash Street, Suite A, Leawood 913-491-5552

Joon W. Kim

DeeAnn R. Behrens

Turner Dental Group 2933 South 47th Street, KCK 913-677-1004

Northwest Endodontics 803 North 36th Street, Suite C, Saint Joseph 816-364-4422

Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636

Tae S. Kong

Greg M. Alton

Phye Family Dentistry 401 South Clairborne Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-782-2231

James D. Gentry

Mark D. Gilroy

Eric Gottman

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 130, KCMO 816-235-2146

Robert Norman Hanson

Sarina M. Harman-Tinnel

HT Complete Family Dentistry 11644 75th Street, Suite 101, Overland Park 913-962-0036

Ross S. Headley

KCSmile 12850 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 200, Overland Park 913-491-6874

Craig W. Herre

Dental Health By Herre 11201 Nall Avenue, Suite 120, Leawood 913-491-4466

Scott B. Herre

Dental Health By Herre 11237 Nall Avenue, Suite 140, Leawood 913-912-7341

Timothy R. Herre

Dental Health By Herre 11201 Nall Avenue, Suite 120, Leawood 913-491-4466

Andrew Herwig

11900 West 87th Street

WAYS TO KEEP YOUR TEETH CLEAN BETWEEN MEALS

SNACK HEALTHILY Try to keep snacking to a minimum. If you do need a pick-me-up during the day, stick to healthy, crunchy snacks, such as broccoli, carrots, seeds, nuts or apples. Because of their abrasive texture, these foods act as a natural toothbrush and scrub your teeth as you chew.

DRINK PLENTY OF WATER Water, similar to saliva, washes away food debris and cleans between teeth. Rinsing your mouth frequently with water, especially after eating, is a simple way to defend against cavity-causing bacteria. CHEW GUM By chewing gum for five minutes, you can stimulate your natural saliva production, which washes away much of the residue and bacteria left from your meal. Saliva also promotes remineralization, which fights cavities and enamel decay.

Parkway, Suite 260, Lenexa 913-492-8884

Michael S. Hollingsworth

Hollingsworth Dental 420 South Woodbine Road, Saint Joseph 816-232-8788

Stephen J. Huber

13400 Roe Avenue, Leawood 913-543-3751

Matthew Lenz

14221 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 100, Overland Park 913-851-5900

Anthony Marengo, Jr.

Esthetic Enhancement 16103 West 135th Street, Olathe 913-829-9222

Michael D. McCunniff

Kansas City Dental Works 12705 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa 913-432-9414

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 396, KCMO 816-235-2185

Ryan W. Johnson

Eugene F. McGill

John K. Humphrey, Jr.

Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Administration Medical Center 4101 South Fourth Street, Leavenworth 913-682-2000

Luke Joliff

Leawood Dental 11551 Granada Lane, Suite 200, Leawood 913-642-3939

Alison M. Jones

4601 West 109th Street, Suite 110, Overland Park 913-491-0077

Charles R. Kimes

Overland Park Dentistry 8100 Marty Street, Suite 111, Overland Park 913-341-2380

Jennifer A. Kirwan

The Smile Centre 309 South Second Street, Leavenworth 913-651-9800

Ashley E. Knight

Pierce & Knight Family Dentistry 8615 Rosehill Road, Suite 101, Lenexa 913-251-9930

Ian J. Krusich

3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 208, Prairie Village 913-381-9880

Joel D. LeMense

Steven B. Lemieux

211 East 63rd Street, KCMO 816-333-3711

Dental Care Center 325 East 135th Street, KCMO 816-941-7788

Brian S. Sutton

4546 Main Street, KCMO 816-931-2342

J. Brad Tally

13650 Roe Avenue, Leawood 913-491-5040

Timothy T. Taylor

Jacob W. Meggison

Dental Elements 11912 West Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee 913-383-0440

Andrew S. Moore

5367 Roberts Street, Shawnee 913-422-0007

Bryant E. Phye

Phye Family Dentistry 401 South Clairborne Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-782-2231

Vanessa C. Phye

Phye Family Dentistry 401 South Clairborne Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-782-2231

Robert A. Pierce

Pierce & Knight Family Dentistry 8615 Rosehill Road, Suite 101, Lenexa 913-251-9930

Timothy N. Prawl

8012 State Line Road, Suite 100, Leawood 913-341-3415

Gregory A. Stiver

Leawood Cosmetic & Family Dentistry 4861 West 134th St, Leawood 913-685-1900

McKnight Signature Dental 3400 College Boulevard, Suite 203, Leawood 913-948-9710

John C. LaBarca

1236 West 103rd Street, KCMO 816-941-0980

Smiley Dental 13430 Briar Street, Leawood 913-402-8888

Abbie S. McKnight

6885 West 151st Street, Suite 202, Overland Park 913-897-4300

William D. Ledford

Jamie Smiley

8919 Parallel Parkway, Suite 219, KCK 913-334-1161

Krusich Dental 11111 Nall Avenue, Suite 106, Leawood 913-383-2600 Dental Excellence 19501 East United States Highway 40, I ndependence 816-795-9500

Suite 104, Overland Park 913-851-8400

Jennifer L. Pottinger

Saint Joseph Family Dental 3904 Beck Road, Suite 110, Saint Joseph 816-233-2672

Robert W. Rechtien, Jr.

Kelly K. Thomas

Ross Thompson

Olathe Pointe Dental 14979 West 119th Street, Olathe 913-780-0080

Lisa A. Thurlow

Johnson County Dental Care 7299 West 98th Terrace, Suite 150, Overland Park 913-341-7440

Jamie L. Thurman-Taylor

TLC Family Dentistry 3568 Southwest Market Street, Lee's Summit 816-537-6161

David L. Tuttle

Tuttle Family Dentistry 8631 West 150th Street, Suite 103, Overland Park 913-681-2893

Julie A. Tuttle

Tuttle Family Dentistry 8631 West 150th Street, Suite 103, Overland Park 913-681-2893

TAKE VITAMIN D People who are deficient in vitamin D are prone to gum diseases and teeth problems. Consuming foods that are rich in vitamin D, such as orange juice, eggs, salmon and tuna, can help fight disease in your mouth. EAT CRUNCHY VEGETABLES

An easy way to help scrape plaque from your teeth is by eating crunchy vegetables. Gnaw on fresh carrots, celery, cucumbers or broccoli to remove some odor-causing bacteria from your mouth. Kirk C. Collier

Katie Watson

ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY

Oral & Facial Surgery Associates 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 103, Prairie Village 913-381-5194

Michael Barber

Thomas H. Faerber

2200 West 75th Street, Suite 101, Prairie Village 913-825-2500

Stone Post Family Dental 13341 West 135th Street, Overland Park 913-766-0027

D. Douglas Watts II

Lawson S. Rener

Prairie Fields Dentistry 16072 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-871-5360

Kami L. Ross

BRUSH WITH BAKING SODA Not only does baking soda help to whiten teeth but, when used as a mouthwash, it can also reach the corners and crevices of your teeth, gums and tongue. Baking soda also discourages the formation of plaque, helping to decrease the possibility of gum disease, and it can be a great toothpaste alternative.

Suite 104, Overland Park 913-851-8400

Watts Family Dental 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 240, Overland Park 913-338-3384

Overland Park Smiles 6007 West 121st Street,

DRINK GREEN TEA Studies show that green tea may help prevent cavities by reducing the bacteria and decay-causing acid produced in your mouth. Green tea also contains fluoride, which can help ward off tooth decay. Tea also has polyphenols, micronutrients from plant-based foods, that can help you avoid gum inflammation and disease.

Stephanie M. Warden

Rechtien Dental 231 Northwest 72nd Street, Gladstone 816-436-5900 4320 Wornall Road, Suite 402, KCMO 816-561-8050

NATURAL WAYS TO KEEP YOUR TEETH CLEAN

Luke Wolniak

Dave B. Woltkamp

Overland Park Smiles 6700 West 121 Street,

Oral & Facial Surgery Associates 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 103, Prairie Village 913-381-5194

Kasey L. Call

Facial Surgery Group 4700 Belleview, Suite L-10, KCMO 816-561-1115

Joseph C. Camarata

ClearChoice, Overland Park 10777 Nall Avenue, Suite 100, Overland Park 913-871-1527

Faerber Surgical Arts 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 118, Overland Park 913-469-8895

Douglas W. Fain

Fain Oral Surgery 20168 West 153rd Street, Olathe 913-839-9709

Brett L. Ferguson

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 304, KCMO 816-235-2073

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Adam Flack

Patrick B. Moore

Flack and Stone 300 Northwest R D Mize Road, Suite 100, Blue Springs 816-229-3737

Parkville Modern Dentistry and Orthodontics 6340 North Chatham Avenue, KCMO 816-746-1171

Mark E. Flack

Gary L. Nesslein

Lee's Summit Medical Center 600 North East R D Mize Road, Blue Springs 816-229-3737

Steven D. Green

Midwest Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 11551 Granada Lane, Suite 100, Leawood 913-491-4488

Christopher J. Haggerty

Lakewood Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Specialists 3600 Northeast Ralph Powell Road, Suite D, Lee's Summit 816-554-8300

Gary W. Hansen

Northland Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 6301 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 101, Kansas City 816-452-0300

Matthew R. Hlavacek

Kansas City Surgical Arts 8080 North Flintlock Road, KCMO 816-286-4126

Michael W. Lowe

1524 Northeast 96th Street, Liberty 816-792-1022

Taylor L. Markle

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Kansas City 11005 West 60th Street, Shawnee 913-268-9500

Tyson E. Marrs

Oral & Facial Surgery Associates 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 103, Prairie Village 913-381-5194

Northland Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 6301 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 101, KCMO 816-452-0300

Brent F. Newby

KC Dental Implants & Oral Surgery 7701 West 119th Street, Overland Park 913-529-5999

Daniel C. Nielson

Great Plains Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 965 North Mur-Len Road, Olathe 913-780-3100

Richard M. Oakley

Oakley Oral Surgery 5811 Nall Avenue, Mission 913-722-3253

Brian E. Pannell

ORAL MEDICINE Jerald O. Katz

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 163, KCMO 816-235-2138

ORAL PATHOLOGY Tanya Gibson

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2131

ORTHODONTICS

Kanning Orthodontics 9101 Northeast 82nd Terrace, KCMO 816-781-8585

Braces By Billings 8600 Tom Watson Parkway, Suite 101, Parkville 816-226-4291

David P. Blackburn

Bulleigh Orthodontics 8600 West 95th Street, Overland Park 913-441-7321

Harold D. Wallin, Jr.

Heartland Dental Group 3507 South Fourth Street, Leavenworth 913-682-1000

C. Rieger Wood IV

Deer Creek Oral Surgery 12800 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 2, Overland Park 913-451-7680

Chad Bulleigh

Dustin S. Burleson

Burleson Orthodontics 4135 North Mulberry Drive, KCMO 816-384-0801

David M. Christensen

KC Braces + Kids 7111 Northwest 86th Street, KCMO 816-741-1155

John A. Dorsch

Creekwood Orthodontics 5400 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 123, KCMO 816-454-6800

David E. Dykhouse

Dykhouse Orthodontics 1300 Northwest South Outer Road, Blue Springs 816-229-0444

Jeremy R. Fry

Fry Orthodontic Specialists 11940 Quivira Road, Overland Park 913-469-9191

J. Joseph Hannah

Hannah Orthodontics 1441 East 151st Street, Olathe 913-829-2244

Richard D. Hannah

Hannah Orthodontics 1441 East 151st Street, Olathe 913-829-2244

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Jerry W. Huerter, Jr.

Branson Billings

Steven J. Prstojevich

Facial Surgery Group 4700 Belleview, Suite L-10, KCMO 816-561-1115

Kurt W. Hoffman

Hoffman Orthodontics 11213 Nall Avenue, Suite 130, Leawood 913-649-8890 Huerter Orthodontics 8919 Parallel Parkway, Suite 450, KCK 913-334-3055

Anderson Orthodontics 121 Delaware Street, Leavenworth 913-651-5040

Blackburn & Elrod Orthodontics 3131 South State Route 291, Independence 816-373-6006

John P. Tanner

Steven L. Hechler

Hechler Orthodontics 12800 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 1, Overland Park 913-469-6086

Eric Anderson

Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Kansas City 8748 West 151st Street, Overland Park 913-897-3400 Facial Spectrum 1208 Northeast Windsor Drive, Lee's Summit 816-524-4334

Paul J. Hechler

Hechler Orthodontics 12800 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 1, Overland Park 913-469-6086

Neil C. Kanning

Ed Kavanaugh

9401 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 120, KCMO 816-452-2206

Kurt E. Kavanaugh

8407 North Main Street, KCMO 816-420-8100

Michael Klein

Klein & Walker Orthodontics 975 North Mur-Len Road, Suite C, Olathe 913-829-4466

Jeffrey J. Lenius

My Kids's Dentist & Orthodontics 1703 Village West Parkway, Suite 108, KCK 913-800-8763

Bradley N. Smith

Dyer and Smith Orthodontics 11244 West 135th Street, Overland Park 913-897-6950

Jeffrey J. Thompson

Jeff Thompson Orthodontics 4851 West 134th Street, Suite A, Leawood 913-681-8300

Kelly H. Toombs

Toombs Orthodontics 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 215, Prairie Village 913-381-5292

Cameron Walker

Klein & Walker Orthodontics 975 North Mur-Len Road, Olathe 913-829-4466

Ashlee Weber

Weber Orthodontics 7577 Northwest Barry Road, Suite A, KCMO 816-746-1200

Donald B. Wilcoxon

Wilcoxon Orthodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 310, Overland Park 913-661-9901

Angela Williams

Fry Orthodontic Specialists 11940 Quivira Road, Overland Park 913-469-9191

Zachary T. Williams

Madison Dental Group 13541 Madison Avenue, KCMO 816-942-0033

PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY Kurt A. Aarons

Joe Moon

Kurt Aarons Pediatric Dentistry 4411 Belleview Avenue, KCMO 816-531-2070

Eric S. Neuer

Blue Valley Pediatric Dentistry 7560 West 160th Street, Overland Park 913-232-2708

Moon Orthodontics 14247 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-782-7223 Prairie Pointe Orthodontics 10044 Woodland Road, Lenexa 913-393-9911

Elizabeth B. Nill

Drs. Blackwell, Nill and Francois 10 Northwest Chipman Road, Lee's Summit 816-524-6525

Jay M. Oltjen

Oltjen Orthodontics 15159 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-829-8855

Clarence E. Simmons

Smile Doctors 315 Nichols Road, Suite 208, KCMO 816-753-0377

Vanessa R. Axelsen

Brenda S. Bohaty

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 393, KCMO 816-235-2036

Brent Church

LeBlanc & Associates Dentistry for Children 15151 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-764-5600

David J. Cobb

Axelsen & Cobb 975 North Mur-Len Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-829-0981

Emily C. Day

Health Partnership Clinic 407 South Clairborne Road, Suite 104, Olathe 913-648-2266

MYTHS ABOUT BRUSHING YOUR TEETH

MYTH 1: BRUSHING HARDER WILL CLEAN YOUR TEETH MORE THOROUGHLY This may be one of the most popular misconceptions when it comes to oral hygiene. Brushing your teeth harder does not mean your teeth will get cleaner. In fact, aggressive tooth brushing can actually cause serious damage to your enamel and gum line.

MYTH 3: BLEEDING GUMS ARE A SIGN OF BRUSHING TOO HARD It’s true that vigorous brushing can make gums bleed, but don’t immediately freak out if you see blood in the sink while brushing your teeth. While it’s true that healthy gums don’t bleed, blood can be a good thing.

If your gums are bleeding, it means your body is sending antibodies to help the gums deal with harmful bacteria. The best way to get rid of the bacteria causing the bleeding is to keep brushing and cleaning the spaces between your teeth and gum line. MYTH 4: I ONLY NEED A NEW TOOTHBRUSH EVERY FEW YEARS Dentists recommend replacing your toothbrush every three to four months or when the bristles start to fray. If you get sick, it’s also a good idea to replace your brush afterward. Over time, your toothbrush can build up a variety of bacteria that could make you sick. As the bristles wear out, your toothbrush may not clean plaque as well. John T. Fales, Jr.

Fales Pediatric Dentistry 13496 South Arapaho Drive, Olathe 913-782-2207

Rebecca Ferns

LeBlanc & Associates Dentistry for Children 15151 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-764-5600

Matthew W. Hillman

Smiles Dentistry for Kids 14700 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 110, Overland Park 913-685-9990

Jill C. Jenkins

Jenkins Dentistry for Kids 6810 Silverheel Street, Shawnee 913-745-2500

Robinson T. Kiser

Little Chompers Pediatric Dentistry 2511 South Fourth Street, Leavenworth 913-250-6583

Michael A. LeBlanc

LeBlanc & Associates 8226 Mission Road, Prairie Village 913-378-9610

Claudia Z. Lopez

Louis A. Pollina

Dentistry for Children 7001 North Cherry Street, Suite 100, Gladstone 816-548-3400

Casey Rhoads

LeBlanc & Associates Dentistry for Children 15151 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-764-5600

Brandi K. Roeber

Suite 102, Overland Park 913-649-0166

D. Scott Thomas

Shoal Creek Pediatric Dentistry 9051 Northeast 81st Terrace, Suite 220, KCMO 816-781-5437

PERIODONTICS Amy L. Gillihan

Dentistry for Children 7001 North Cherry Street, Suite 100, Gladstone 816-548-3400

Gillihan Periodontics 3151 South M291 Highway, Suite B, Independence 816-373-5400

Glynn Spencer

Adam C. McClellan

Spencer & Spencer Pediatric Dentistry 301 Northeast Mulberry Street, Suite 201, Lee's Summit 816-607-6000

Periodontal Care 5000 West 95th Street, Suite 270, Prairie Village 913-341-4141

Jodie L. Spencer

McKnight & Oliver Periodontics and Implants 2200 West 75th Street, Suite A, Prairie Village 913-649-4978

Spencer & Spencer Pediatric Dentistry 301 Northeast Mulberry Street, Suite 201, Lee's Summit 816-607-6000

Kathryn N. Stanley

Pediatric Dental Specialists 11401 Nall Avenue, Leawood 913-649-5437

Stanley Pediatric Dentistry 8575 West 110th Street, Suite 310, Overland Park 913-345-0331

Kyle E. Pedersen

Jaime Stinnett

LeBlanc & Associates 8226 Mission Road, Prairie Village 913-914-9013

MYTH 5: SUGAR CAUSES CAVITIES While eating too much sugar can be bad for you, it doesn’t directly cause cavities. When sugar or carbohydrates are consumed, they interact with the bacteria within the plaque to produce acid. These acids can wear down tooth enamel, causing decay and cavities.

Drs. Parrish & Stinnett Pinnacle Pediatric Dentistry 6500 West 95th Street,

Sidney A. McKnight III

Patrick J. Morris

613 Southeast Fifth Street, Lee's Summit 816-554-2663

Catherine A. Mowry

Foundation Periodontics 8704 Bourgade Street, Suite 100, Lenexa 913-894-9962

Kevin Mowry

Foundation Periodontics 8704 Bourgade Street,

Suite 100, Lenexa 913-894-9962

Nancy L. Newhouse

Newhouse Periodontics 4731 South Cochise Drive, Suite 200, Independence 816-373-6800

N. Randolph Oliver

McKnight & Oliver Periodontics and Implants 2200 West 75th Street, Suite A, Prairie Village 913-649-4978

Seth Rush

Periodontics & Implant Dentistry 9249 Ward Parkway, KCMO 816-444-8822

Lara Tull Ryan

4601 West 109th Street, Suite 212, Overland Park 913-954-4174

Tanu Satheesh

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2075

Kelley S. Thompson

8340 Mission Road, Suite 203, Prairie Village 913-652-9844

Audra Ward

Ward Periodontics Implant Dentistry 12701 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 200, Overland Park 913-563-7400

Stanley L. Wint

10870 Benson Building 21, Suite 2100, Overland Park 913-451-6158

MYTH 2: IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT TIME OF DAY YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH It is important for everyone, no matter their age, to brush their teeth twice each day. Most everyone brushes their teeth at the beginning of the day and again at night, and there’s a reason for this. Brushing in the morning gets rid of plaque that has accumulated while sleeping. It also freshens your breath. Brushing at night removes any leftover food that is stuck in your teeth to eliminate the potential for cavities to form while you sleep. Jeremy Youngblood

Youngblood Periodontics 6301 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 102, KCMO 816-453-2323

PROSTHODONTICS Dale L. Cipra

ClearChoice Dental Implant Center 10777 Nall Avenue, Suite 100 Leawood 913-871-1527

Bruce C. Cummings

4151 North Mulberry Drive, Suite 260, KCMO 816-454-9090

Donna New Deines

UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2100

W. Stuart Dexter

Prairie Village Prosthodontics 7301 Mission Road, Suite 206, Prairie Village 913-362-8200

Brandon A. James

12541 Foster Street, Suite 330, Overland Park 913-642-0000

Brandon Sparks

KC Complete Prosthodontics 11401 Nall Avenue, Suite 102, Leawood 913-703-5599

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Edward M. Amet, D.D.S.

AMERICAN BOARD CERTIFIED PROSTHODONTIST & AMERICAN BOARD CERTIFIED IMPLANT DENTIST DR . EDWARD M. AMET, an American Board Certified Prosthodontist and

Implant Dentist, can do much to improve the appearance and natural beauty of the face. The position, shape, form, surface texture and color of the teeth, affect the look of the entire lower half of the face. The success of prosthodontic treatment for improved facial appearance is directly related to good treatment planning. The goal of modern implant dentistry is to achieve integration of dental implants and provide restorative treatment that replaces a missing tooth or teeth and lost supporting structures,

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as well as to restore proper aesthetics and function. In order to achieve this goal, it is necessary for the patient and dentist to be able to visualize the final prosthetic results prior to implant/restorative treatment. Therefore, it is essential for the dentist to have a thorough understanding of all phases of treatment in order to diagnose, create a treatment plan and restore a natural appearance. Dr. Amet provides comprehensive dental treatment, including a variety of cosmetic dental services. He founded the Reconstructive & Implant Dental Center in 1988 in Overland Park and the Reconstructive & Implant Dental Laboratory in 1994, and he has clinically practiced for 40 years and placed his first dental implant in 1974. He has extensive training and experience in both the surgical and prosthodontic phases of therapy, with skilled and talented on-site dental staff and technicians. These on-staff dental technicians with Dr. Amet make the prosthodontics personalized and cosmetic for each patient. “Our goal,” states Dr. Amet, “is to provide our patients with the finest quality of care, as comfortably and pain-free as possible.” Since the dental laboratory plays such an important role in the treatment, having an in-office laboratory with skilled technicians is critical to achieving the desired fit, aesthetics and functional results. The coordination of the artistic and cosmetic skills of the dentist and technician as a team determine the end result. Visit dr-amet.com to view a gallery of recent smile makeovers.

RECONSTRUCTIVE & IMPLANT DENTAL CENTER 10801 West 87th St., Overland Park, KS 913.534.8801 | dr-amet.com

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Amy Rhoades Hahn, D.D.S. Rachel Pitts Driscoll, D.D.S. OUR FACES ARE CHANGING. Modern man’s faces

are shrinking, and the evidence provides an explanation by simply looking at children’s faces over the course of history. We see changes in development, including collapsing faces, shrinking jaws, crowded teeth and a struggle to breathe. We began seeking answers as to why it was happening and how to remedy the issue. Historically, dentistry has been focused only on managing the fallout or end stages of this phenomenon. Individuals worldwide are suffering the ill effects of our poorly processed food-heavy diets, which can change the development of our skulls and faces and even the way we breathe. Can this problem be stopped before it causes suffering, crooked teeth, cavities, sleep and behavior issues, and a multitude of other health problems? Dentistry is on the precipice of change. Our doctors are on a mission to get to the root cause and want to prevent these problems early instead of trying to clean up the mess years later. The most current research shows an emerging truth: If you are breathing normally through your nose from birth to age seven, you probably won’t need many of our services over the course of your life. You’re not going to snore or need braces, and you’re going to get fewer cavities and grind your teeth less. If your nose works well, you’re also at a lower risk of heart attack

DID YOU KNOW? What is one thing, if left untreated by age 8, that can leave a child with a permanent 16-point reduction in IQ? Obstructive sleep apnea. Sleep apnea and snoring can be treated by guiding the still-growing jaws away from the pinched airway. Other signs of OSA: bedwetting, ADHDlike symptoms, dark circles under the eyes, elongated facial growth and open mouth. If kids are sleeping with their mouths open, that’s a huge problem, and we need to correct it as early as possible. If we wait until ages 13-14 to treat it, that’s too late for kids to reach their cognitive potential.

and stroke. We feel our true calling is to find out how to, essentially, put ourselves out of a job, which fits nicely with our multi-generational practice core value of expedited and minimalistic dentistry. Our mission is to change the way people feel about dentistry. Every day, we meet patients who are anxious or traumatized from prior dental experiences. Turning that around and sending them off with a positive dental experience is what we live for. We want to hear what values are important to you when it comes to your dental health and then create a completely customized experience for you. If you want cutting-edge dentistry and a high level of health, we can provide that. If you love the saying “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it,” that’s the kind of dentistry we’ve loved to provide to our patients over multiple generations. Dr. Amy Hahn and Dr. Rachel Driscoll have more than 30 years of combined dental experience. You can expect these two to be time-efficient and amazingly gentle. Our practice is perfect for busy families, and we understand that you don’t have time to visit multiple offices for treatment—we’re equipped to take care of your entire family’s dental needs in one place! We offer the full range of dental services, from dental implants, Invisalign, airway and facial growth guidance and everything in between.

RHOADES FAMILY DENTISTRY 13400 S. Black Bob Road, Olathe, KS 913.782.8900 | rhoadesdds.com

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Jill Jenkins, D.D.S.

THE TEAM AT JENKINS DENTISTRY for Kids

believes joy is the key to a positive dental experience. With a kid friendly environment, a passionate and highly trained team and innovative and aligned processes, they create an experience that leads to joy for both team members and patients. Jenkins Dentistry for Kids is located in Shawnee at 6810 Silverheel St. and is excited to announce the opening of a second location recently opened just east of I-435 at 8700 Bourgade Avenue in Lenexa, KS. Dr. Jenkins shares the following regarding her practice: “When we began Jenkins Dentistry for Kids almost two years ago, we intentionally began a practice focused on unique values in pediatric dental care. We believe that joy, abundance and authentic connection are the foundation for an amazing patient experience.This philosophy of care

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DID YOU KNOW? Dr. Jill Jenkins, Dr. Adela Casa, and Dr. Dharti Gandhi are board certified pediatric specialists, each with two to three additional years of post-dental school training and experience with providing care to pediatric patients. They attend continuing education courses together throughout the year to grow their knowledge base, and grow together as a team of doctors.

extends into all facets of our practice, from administrative services to dental education and treatment.” With the addition of a second location, Jenkins Dentistry for Kids will be able to expand its team of pediatric dentists and service offerings and provide more scheduling availability and options to accommodate their patients’ busy schedules. Jenkins Dentistry for Kids’ mission is to treat the entire child by establishing good oral hygiene habits and setting them up for a lifetime of healthy smiles through joyful and positive experiences. From preventative and restorative treatment to comprehensive care requiring sedation or outpatient hospital procedures, Jenkins Dentistry for Kids provides all aspects of pediatric dental care from birth through age eighteen.

JENKINS DENTISTRY FOR KIDS 6810 Silverheel Street, Shawnee, KS 8700 Bourgade Ave, Lenexa, KS 913.745.2500 | jenkinsdentistryforkids.com

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Jake Meggison, D.D.S.

IF YOU HAVE ANXIETY about going to the dentist, you’re not alone. In fact, up to eighty percent of adults in this country have some degree of dental anxiety. One local dentist is working to change that. Meet Dr. Jake Meggison, founder of Dental Elements. By continually asking, “why isn’t this easier?” he has created a comfortable and inviting experience for his patients. “We want patients to feel like they’re visiting with friends but getting a healthier smile at the same time,” says Meggison says. With a patient-first mindset, he and his team believe in investing in the future of dentistry through technology that focuses on patient comfort. Visit Dental Elements and you will experience heated massage chairs, 3D imaging, laser technology and impression-free scanning. When he realized that his patients’ comprehensive dental care could be limited by insurance coverage Meggison created a membership plan to allow patients with no dental insurance access to an affordable option. “I wanted to take away the financial barriers that normally prevent people from getting the care they need.” Out of this concern, the Dental Elements Freedom Plan was born. Since then, it has helped hundreds of patients complete

DID YOU KNOW? Dental lasers offer key benefits to patients. They’re minimally invasive, so they simplify procedures and can be less painful while improving healing times. For instance, they may eliminate the need for a drill when filling cavities, and in some cases, they eliminate the need for anesthetic. Dental lasers also improve the root canal process, making it easier and faster. Inquire about dental laser treatment because it may be an option for you.

treatment that was once financially out of the question. Meggison and the team at Dental Elements make it easy for patients to receive comprehensive care by utilizing their multiple locations, each offering different specialty procedures. Instead of sending you off to someone new, they are able to perform services like implants and endodontics in-house. Dental Elements offers four convenient locations: Shawnee, Leawood, Wellsville and Grandview. Meggison makes sure every team member shares the same core value of putting patient comfort first. If you are looking for a dental environment where comfort, technology, affordability and quality are commonplace, Dr. Jake Meggison and his team at Dental Elements would love to meet you!

DENTAL ELEMENTS Leawood: 13018 State Line Road, Leawood, KS | 913.498.8899 Shawnee: 11912 W. Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee, KS | 913.383.0440 Wellsville: 616 Main St., Wellsville, KS 66092 | 785.883.2117 Grandview: 13010 Fuller Ave., Grandview, MO 64030 | 816.966.0202 DentalElementsKC.com

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Kory Kirkegaard, D.M.D.

A VISIT TO THE DENTIST should be a calming

experience, not a stressful one. The philosophy at The Art of Dentistry is simple: Every patient deserves excellent dental care, and they deserve to be treated with honesty and compassion. “We genuinely appreciate the opportunity to serve you and promise to treat you like family,” says Dr. Kory Kirkegaard. He and his team chose the field of dentistry to improve the lives of their patients through restoring their selfconfidence, their smiles and their overall health. They utilize some incredible forms of technology such as 3D printing, 3D CT scans, intra-oral digital scanning and CEREC 1-visit crowns to give you the highest quality work in the most comfortable way. They can also improve the quality of your life with dental implants, veneers, implant-retained dentures or a full mouth rehabilitation. Among the other unique services offered by Kirkegaard’s team is their partnership with a sleep physician. You may not realize this, but there is a strong connection between a good night’s rest, oral health and

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BEST ADVICE When deciding whether or not to invest in a cosmetic dental treatment, a worthwhile exercise is to evaluate your confidence level. Have your teeth ever kept you from smiling, laughing or speaking in front of others? Do you get the feeling that people are staring at your teeth when you’re talking to them? If so, seek out a free consultation to discuss ways The Art of Dentistry can help improve your smile.

your general wellbeing. Sleep apnea can result in, among other things, severe grinding of our teeth, cardiovascular disease, stroke, heart attack, hypertension, and many other life-threatening conditions. By working hand-inhand with the physician, Kirkegaard’s team can help treat sleep apnea and even snoring. If you have tried and failed a CPAP, inquire about the creation of an oral appliance fitted specifically to you that can drastically change your (and your bed partner’s) life without all the cords! Kirkegaard spends hundreds of hours learning the most advanced techniques to provide you with the most beautiful and predictable outcomes possible. Whether it’s fixing a single tooth, shaping an entire smile or helping you get your best night’s sleep, the “Dream Team” at The Art of Dentistry will exceed your expectations. Schedule online at theartofdentistryop.com.

THE ART OF DENTISTRY 7550 W. 160th St. Overland Park, KS | 913.274.9200 theartofdentistryop.com

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Nancy Newhouse, D.D.S., M.S. RECOGNIZED AS A TOP DENTIST for the fifteenth consecutive year, Dr. Nancy Newhouse, a Diplomate of the American Board of Periodontology, continues her mission to create beautiful, healthy smiles. Her experience has made her an internationally recognized leader in periodontology and implant dentistry. Together with her team at Newhouse Periodontics, she strives to deliver the best personalized care so that her patients can look, function and feel their best. Periodontal (gum) disease is the most common chronic infection—almost half of Americans over age thirty have it! Newhouse has made “saving teeth” her life’s work. “Healthy gums are the foundation to your smile,” she says. “If the foundation isn’t healthy, it can lead to serious compromises in your smile with the potential loss of teeth, gums and bone. In addition, being periodontally healthy helps keep a person generally healthy. Gum disease has links to general health problems like heart disease, stroke, some cancers and erectile dysfunction, to name a few. Although the goal is to keep teeth, if a tooth is lost, Newhouse has the expertise to replace missing teeth with dental implants thanks to 3D imaging and many years spent honing her surgical skills. Her skillset extends to regenerating soft tissue and bone, reshaping gum tissue and treating infections around implants.

DID YOU KNOW? In 2012, Dr. Newhouse became the 99th President of the American Academy of Periodontology. At that time, she was only the fourth woman to serve in that capacity during the AAP’s nearly 100 year history.

For the best care and outcomes, Newhouse believes in building a trusting relationship. By really listening to her patients, truly personalized care can be given. “It’s essential to the outcome of any treatment we propose. By fully understanding your goals, we can address your specific needs and wants to give you that great long-lasting smile and a lifetime of optimal function.” Newhouse also thinks it’s important to give back to her profession and her community. In 2012-2013, Newhouse had the honor to serve as President of the American Academy of Periodontology. At UMKC School of Dentistry, she is a long-term teacher of postdoctoral periodontal residents and currently serves as a member of the Rinehart Foundation Board of Trustees. As an Independence native, Newhouse is a proud supporter of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library & Museum, which she considers a “regional treasure.” Newhouse, the staff at Newhouse Periodontics, as well as her wonderful patients participate in annual food drives for Harvesters, donations to Salvation Army, and various other local sponsorships. Discover how Newhouse Periodontics can be your way to a beautiful, healthy smile by calling 816-373-6800 or by visiting newhouseperio.com.

NEWHOUSE PERIODONTICS 4731 S. Cochise Drive, Suite 200 Independence, MO | 816.373.6800 newhouseperio.com

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Michael LeBlanc, D.D.S. we believe that experience and dedication are the foundation for a lifetime of excellent oral health. We strive to offer the best dental care, and our passion to achieve this goal will be evident to you and your children when you walk into our office. Our Board-Certified Pediatric Dentists, Dr. Michael LeBlanc, Dr. Casey Rhoads, Dr. Rebecca Ferns, Dr. Brent Church, Dr. Kyle Pedersen, Dr. Emily Meyer, and Dr. Mary Le, welcome you and your family. Dr. Michael LeBlanc is the founder and proprietor and has been practicing at their four locations since 2005. He is passionate about providing excellent dental care and oral hygiene education, especially those with special needs and circumstances. Dr. LeBlanc is Board-Certified by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, a member of Omicron Kappa Upsilon National Dental Honor Society, and served as president of the local dental society and a former chairman of the New Dentist Committee with the American Dental Association. Dr. LeBlanc is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry, Vice President of the UMKC Dental School Alumni Association, a member of the American Dental Association, and a member of the Kansas Dental Association. He is involved throughout his community and served on the board for Camps for Kids. He also travels on DENTISTRY

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“They were amazing! My son is 6 with autism and hates having anything in his mouth. They were so patient and understanding; they endured. He was as comfortable as possible, and would stop and talk to him when they could see him getting anxious. I will be returning and recommending them. I drive 45 minutes from my house to get there, and it was completely worth it.”

dental mission trips, providing free dental treatment and oral hygiene education to children at local orphanages. At LeBlanc and Associates, it is not just about dentistry; it is about a lifelong relationship with our patients, families, and community. Our team strives for opportunities to give back, support, and serve our community. They volunteer at Team Smile, Ronald McDonald House, and school fundraisers. Pediatric dentistry focuses on the treatment of children from birth to adolescence, with concentration on growth, development, and behavioral guidance for children and special needs children. Our experienced team creates an easy and positive experience for your child and offers dental examinations, diagnostic and preventative services and restorative procedures with sedation options. Prevention and education are a primary focus in our practice. Our doctors and staff are always available to answer questions about your child’s dental needs. Our offices are open Monday-Friday with before and after school hours and on Saturday. We also offer an afterhours emergency line.

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Timothy R. Herre, D.D.S.

HERRE HOLISTIC DENTAL is a wellness-centered, thirdgeneration family dental practice that has served Kansas City since 1953. Their mission is to provide personalized dental health care services, to nurture caring relationships with patients, and to offer progressive treatment options that promote enduring health for every member of your family. As biological dentists, Drs. Tim and Craig Herre use the safest dental materials that are the most compatible with your own body and health. They also practice rejuvenation dentistry, which is a conservative dental approach to restore the entire bite and mouth, creating jaw stability and proper oral function. Instead of a one-sizefits-all approach that focuses on managing disease, their mission is to get you back to health by rejuvenating the entire system so the body can thrive. There are many treatments offered at Herre Holistic for your health journey, including TMD/TMJ treatment, tongue tie releases, orofacial myofunctional therapy, airway-focused orthodontic treatment, early orthodontic expansion for kids, holistic mercury-safe dentistry and Cerec one-visit crowns.

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Drs. Craig and Tim have decades of experience treating TMJ/jaw pain and bite issues to address how your teeth fit together. Clenching or grinding your teeth and jaw misalignment are signs you may have an airway issue. The team at Herre Holistic Dental believes that a healthy airway is the key for your body to function in an optimal way. With on-site 3D X-ray technology, they can help find the root cause issue and provide you with choices that best fit your needs. Dr. Tim Herre is the first third-generation dentist in Kansas, and he has focused on functional, airway-centered dental care for over a decade. He is passionate about helping kids grow optimally with early intervention in order to prevent long-term health issues and sees patients as young as newborns. During the past four decades, Dr. Craig Herre has given his patients a lot to smile about and provides compassionate care for his patients. Dr. Craig and Dr. Tim strive to learn and optimize their treatment in ways that surpass traditional dentistry. Herre Holistic Dental is proud to be your local dental care team.

HERRE HOLISTIC DENTAL KC 11201 Nall Ave., Suite 120 Leawood, KS | 913.491.4466 holisticdentalkc.com

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Luke Joliff, D.D.S.

DO YOU HATE GOING TO THE DENTIST?

Unfortunately you are not alone, which is why Dr. Joliff and his team at Leawood Dental are passionate about changing the attitude toward your dental experience. A graduate of UMKC School of Dentistry and the University of Kansas, Dr. Luke Joliff has spent his career striving towards creating a positive dental experience for every patient. Every visit at Leawood Dental is geared towards comfort, transparency, and alleviating any anxiety you may have. With an emphasis on cosmetics, full mouth rehabilitation and family dentistry, Joliff excels in performing a wide variety of specialty services for his patients. Leawood Dental conveniently provides dental implant placement, Invisalign, GLO Whitening, CT imaging, endodontics, digital impressions and pediatric dentistry.

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DID YOU KNOW? Dental anxiety can cause extreme discomfort, nervousness, fear and even panic at the thought of going to the dentist. Unfortunately, this fear or anxiety leads to many people neglecting their dental care. An excerpt from Google reviews states, “Leawood Dental provides the total opposite experience! They’re friendly and engaging! Thank you for a great job and experience. I’m smiling with confidence!” –Brad B.

By looking at your unique set of specific needs, the Leawood Dental team is able to restore smiles in a variety of healthy ways. “There is no ‘one size fits all’ option in dentistry. We always make a point to give the pros and cons of all available options for every cosmetic or rehabilitation case” Joliff says. When you visit Leawood Dental, expect to be treated like family. Joliff and his team will spend time getting to know you first as a person, then as a patient. All custom smile designs are geared toward treating your own personal dental health goals. If you’re avoiding your dental care because you “hate going to the dentist,” visit with Dr. Joliff and Leawood Dental so they can change your mind. Schedule your appointment online at www.leawood.dental.

LEAWOOD DENTAL Town Center Business Park | 11551 Granada Lane, Suite 200, Leawood, KS 913.642.3939 | leawood.dental

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Kelly Thomas, D.D.S. DR . KELLY THOMAS is a graduate of UMKC Dental School and has

been practicing for eighteen years. She studied extensively at Las Vegas Institute for Advanced Dental Studies to expand her fields of expertise into cosmetic and neuromuscular dentistry. Thomas has been recognized as one of the nation’s Top 40 Dentists under 40, along with being named to the Kansas City area’s Top Dentist’s list and Best Cosmetic Dentist in KC two years running. Leawood Cosmetic and Family Dentistry operates in a state-of-the-art facility, serving Leawood, Overland Park and the surrounding area. Thomas and her incredible team create relationships based on a foundation of listening to patients and then creating treatment options that are based on the best in dental technology and patient comfort. Providing a caring environment is of utmost importance to Thomas and her staff. Thomas and Dr. Daniel DuHadway are always accepting new patients.

LEAWOOD COSMETIC & FAMILY DENTISTRY 4861 W. 134th St., Leawood, KS 913.685.1900 | leawoodcosmeticdentistry.com

Andrew V. Herwig, D.D.S. AT HERWIG DDS, we believe a true smile radiates from the

inside out, which is why we are so passionate about delivering an exceptional dental experience that makes you not only look great but feel great, too! Our highly trained staff of professionals offers a full spectrum of services within the fields of preventative, restorative and cosmetic dentistry. We are a family-owned family and cosmetic dental practice proudly serving the Greater Kansas City area since 1981. We have always prided ourselves on providing first-class dental care with exceptional professionalism and are committed to helping you maintain a healthy and beautiful smile that you can be proud of. A native of Overland Park, Dr. Andrew V. Herwig earned his Doctor of Dental Surgery degree in 2015 from UMKC School of Dentistry. He customizes his dental approach based on your long-term needs. It is an approach based on trust, comfort, necessity and expertise, with the end result being your ultimate satisfaction. Herwig is a member of the Fifth District Dental Society, Kansas Dental Association and American Dental Association. With offices located in both Johnson and Miami counties, we are excited to become your local family dentist. We always welcome new patients and hope to make you a part of our dental family!

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for more than thirty years. A graduate of Rockhurst College, he received his Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and has served as a dentist for the U.S. Navy. He is a member of the American Dental Association and has received special training in restorative, implant and cosmetic dentistry. Watts and his staff believe in forming trust-based relationships with patients and their families. “From the start, it has always been our goal to become a complete dental health care resource for the surrounding areas,” Watts says. “I believe we’ve built a strong and enduring relationship with families in the community over the decades, and now with Dr. Joseph Geha joining the practice, we’re prepared to care for the next generation of Overland Park families.” Since Geha joined Watts in the practice, they’ve been able to go above and beyond to ensure the best outcome and satisfaction for each and every patient. “As we’ve gotten to know Dr. Geha,” Watts says, “we’ve come to realize how much he looks forward to serving the community he has grown to know and admire.”

Talence Kasiyamhuru, D.D.S. EVERY GOOD REL ATIONSHIP begins with a smile, and Kasiya Dental is

proud to give you the healthiest and brightest one. Dr. Talence Kasiya provides comprehensive, curative and preventive dental services across all age groups and encourages patients to keep regular dental appointments rather than waiting until dental complications arise. She earned her D.D.S. at the University of Iowa College of Dentistry, Iowa City, IA; C.L.S (Clinical Lab Scientist), I.M.M.C., Des Moines, IA; B.A. Medical Technology, Wartburg College, Waverly, IA. At Kasiya Dental, the well-being of our patients is of utmost importance. Our friendly, compassionate and well-trained team of registered dental hygienists and assistants will create a luxurious, personal and pleasant experience for you and your family. We strive to maintain long-lasting and trusting relationships with all of our patients—so much so that we would like to introduce you to our newest team member, Shasha. Shasha, a hypoallergenic goldendoodle, is a therapy dog that provides affection, comfort and support to patients of all ages. Her name means “Champion” in Kasiya’s Shona language. Our dental office has cutting-edge technology, including our new iTero Scanner, a 3D Intraoral scanning machine which enables us to provide impressionless scans for patients and eliminate the discomfort and invasiveness of an impression. This machine also takes photographs of your mouth quickly and easily, which helps us to efficiently and accurately assess and treat patients, and also allows us to show patients the simulated outcome of their Invisalign treatment. New patients, including children, are always welcome. Weekend, early morning and evening appointments are available. In-network dental insurance is accepted and we are an Invisalign provider. Like us on Facebook @KasiyaDental.

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Jeffrey R. Burroughs, D.D.S. AT BURROUGHS ENDODONTICS, their vision is to provide the

highest quality root canal treatments to the greater Kansas City area. While the thought of a root canal can be daunting, Burroughs Endodontic’s compassionate staff puts you at ease from the time you schedule your appointment until your specialized care is complete. As one of only a few board-certified endodontists in Kansas, Dr. Jeffrey Burroughs expertly combines state-of-the-art technology with a commitment to maintaining the highest standards of endodontic excellence. To provide you with the best care, Burroughs utilizes 3D imaging (cone beam computed tomography, or CBCT) and surgical microscopes to accurately diagnosis and deliver the most precise treatment. Additionally, Burroughs uses the innovative GentleWave Procedure as a minimally invasive approach to root canal treatment, infection removal and tooth preservation. Simply put, Burroughs and his staff at Burroughs Endodontics focus on providing patients with Quality Care–it’s their motto. If you’re in need of a root canal, experience the difference by scheduling a consultation with Burroughs Endodontics.

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Joel LeMense, D.D.S. has been helping patients of all ages in the Kansas City area for twentyseven years. LeMense believes in the importance of staying up to date with the many advances in dentistry, including intraoral photography, digital radiography and 3D scanning technology. He is a member of many professional organizations, including the American Dental Association, the Academy of General Dentistry, the Great Plains Study Club and others. He was awarded the prestigious Fellowship Award from the Academy of General Dentistry in 2003. Dr. LeMense takes into consideration all viable options available to patients and uses them to customize a plan that best suits the patient.

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to creating a positive dental experience for your child. Dr. Kate Stanley is a pediatric specialist, board certified by the American Academy of Pediatric Dentistry and mother of three. She is supported by an experienced team of registered dental hygienist and professional staff members who are committed to a high standard of care while providing personal attention to our patients. We believe the key to excellent dental health is starting early and therefore recommend an initial dental exam by your child’s first birthday. Dr. Stanley and her team strive to provide a caring, comfortable, and FUN environment for your child from their toddler through college years. We offer a variety of dental services for infants, children and young adults, including those who are anxious or have special needs. Nitrous oxide and sedation are available.

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GREAT IN BREAD The five best classic Italian deli sandwiches in KC BY N ATA L I E TO R R E S G A L L AG H E R P H OTO G R A P H Y BY C A L E B C O N D I T A N D R E B E C C A N O R D E N

Italian Gardens Pizzeria 901 E. 19th St., KCMO Ask for: The Richboy Price: $7, with chips

John DiCapo fondly recalls the rich boy sandwiches at LaSala’s Deli. “You ordered a whole, half or quarter loaf, and when we were kids, that was the biggest treat in our life,” he says. In 1925, DiCapo’s family opened the Italian Gardens restaurant downtown and operated it for five generations. The beloved landmark closed in 2003, just shy of its eightieth birthday, and DiCapo decided to pivot. “After being in business for forty years, I realized I’d never actually owned a pizza restaurant,” he says, and in 2021, he opened in the Crossroads. “I was just gonna sell Sicilian pizza, but people were asking about sandwiches, so I added those to the menu, too.” Of the eight sandwiches on offer at Italian Gardens Pizzeria, only one is cold: the Richboy, layered with smoked ham, Genoa salami, pepperoni and provolone cheese, plus shredded iceberg lettuce and slices of tomato and white onion. It’s finished with house-made giardiniera, plus mustard and mayo. All of this is contained by a soft Italian roll from Roma Bakery, another century-old local icon. “The roll that we use is basic, but it’s spongey,” DiCapo says. “That’s important for the Richboy because we prep a dozen of those sandwiches with just the meat and cheese, and we keep them in the cooler so that they’re cold.” d’Bronx 7070 W. 105th St., Overland Park Ask for: Napoli Italian Price: $11.25, without chips

where Kansas City’s rich Italian heritage stretches back more than a century, and you’ll find a handful of locals still wistfully recall LaSala’s Deli. LaSala’s operated from 1921 until it was sold in 2012, becoming the North End before closing permanently last year. The deli was known for its “poor boy” and “rich boy” subs, which were layered with either economical or premium cold cuts and cheese. It’s the KC rich boy I went in search of: an oval-shaped roll split down the center and stuffed with pepperoni, Genoa salami, ham, provolone, tomato, onion and Italian dressing. I plotted out every classic Italian deli I could find (eleven in all) and ordered the sub that sounded closest to the LaSala’s original. Everyone I spoke with had a different take on what made a great Italian sub, but all agreed on two points: It starts with the bread, and you can’t skimp on the ingredients. Of the eleven I tried, here are my five favorites.

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For Don Foringer, there are three parts of a good sandwich: bread, protein and condiments. “It’s a matter of balance,” he says. “The bread-to-meat ratio is key. You want as much meat as possible, but it has to be very thinly sliced because you need some air in there, some negative space that allows you to aerate the flavor profile.” At d’Bronx, the Napoli Italian sub packs in over a third of a pound of cold cuts. The recipe is the same as it was when the first shop opened in 1990, though Foringer has made a few selective upgrades. He opted for Genoa salami

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and capicola from Citterio and a spicy pepperoni. He selected aged provolone from the BelGioioso factory in Green Bay and worked with a local bakery to develop a seeded Italian-style roll. “The bread is warmed up in the oven before we make the sandwich because we want to get that crispy crumb on the outside and keep a soft crumb inside,” Foringer says. Condiments give the Napoli Italian essential acidity and moisture. The balsamic vinaigrette is pleasantly peppery, and the lightly spiced giardiniera—marinated celery, carrots and sport peppers—lends a satisfying crunch. There are sliced tomatoes and onions, of course, plus chilled roasted red peppers and sliced green olives. Jovito’s 7408 Wornall Road, KCMO Ask for: The Vito Price: $12, with chips

Jovito’s is best known for its grinders. In KC, that’s what you call a roll stuffed with red sauce, mozzarella and meatballs—Mario Scaglia is credited with popularizing the grinder via Mario’s Deli in Westport, which operated from 1969 to 2017. The Vito sub at Jovito’s is a sleeper hit. Jake Fiorella—the grandson of Russ and Flora Fiorella of Jack Stack BBQ fame—is a partner at Jovito’s. A good deli sandwich, he says, starts with the bread. “We were deciding between a split top traditional Italian roll and a crispy seeded roll, and we felt the soft Roma roll wasn’t as hard

on the roof of the mouth,” he says. The Vito starts there, then gets just the right drizzle of Jovito’s oil-based Italian dressing, which Caron prepares herself. Five slices of shaved Black Forest ham, five slices of Genoa salami and six crescent-folded pepperonis, plus creamy provolone, finish it off. Bella Napoli 6229 Brookside Blvd., KCMO Ask for: Il Saro Price: $8, without chips

Sandwiches in Italy are simple, Jake Imperiale says, and nothing like the options on the deli board at Bella Napoli, the Brookside restaurant he opened in 2001. “In Italy, it’s a slice of prosciutto and a slice of cheese inside of bread,” he says. Bella Napoli’s Il Saro sandwich hits all the right notes: salty cured meats (imported Genoa salami, mortadella and capicola), nutty provolone, a sour kick from the giardiniera and even a sweet little whisper from a thick balsamic drizzle—more or less the recipe most delis employ for their standard sub, though the balsamic is a nice touch, and leafy greens are used instead of crunchy lettuce. And then there’s the bread from Strawberry Hill Baking Company. It’s chewy, with a dark gold exterior and a springy interior resembling a French baguette. “It has a hard crust, which was important to me,” Imperiale says. “We wanted to mimic what they do in Italy in that respect, and it all starts with the bread. From there, it’s about high-quality products, simplicity and good flavors.” The Italian Sausage Company 7315 N. Oak Trafficway, Gladstone Ask for: The Number Seven Price: Half for $11.50, without chips

In 1989, Sam Brancato and son Joe Brancato Sr. opened Brancato’s Market on Independence Avenue in Northeast Kansas City, and it was more or less a neighborhood convenience store and deli counter. The

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business closed in 2002, but Sam’s grandson Joe Brancato Jr. and Joe’s wife Michelle dreamed of building on the family legacy. They got their chance when they found a pinky-sized shop in a Northland strip mall, and in November, they opened the Italian Sausage Company. In addition to resurrecting Sam and Joe’s sausage, Joe Jr. and Michelle assembled a large menu of subs that stand apart from most Italian delis in Kansas City. The Number Three starts tame, with mortadella and mozzarella, but it ends with a homemade Calabrian chili cream and hot honey. The Brancatos love condiments and make all theirs in-house, from the chili cream to a lemon basil pesto to the garlic aioli that is happily smeared on the Number Seven—their ode to a typical Italian hoagie. “We’re a mix of old school and new school,” Michelle says. Her family moved to New Jersey from Kansas City when she was a teen, and she remained there for a decade. “There was a deli that was similar to ours on every street corner.” Michelle and Joe are all about the details. They have four different bread vendors for the menu, even sourcing an onion roll from Louisburg. For the Number Seven, they opted for Roma Bakery’s large, seeded Italian loaf. This is packed with four meats (ham, Genoa salami, capicola and pepperoni), provolone, shredded iceberg lettuce mixed with arugula, papery rings of onion, thin slices of tomato, that fragrant garlic aioli, mustard and Joe Brancato Jr.’s secret mix of oil, vinegar and fresh herbs. ALSO TRIED: Giovanni’s, Scimeca’s, Carollo’s, Johnny

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ALL HEART With Café Corazón, Miel Castagna-Herrera brings Latin coffee culture to Kansas City. BY N ATA L I E TO R R E S G A L L AG H E R

W H E N CAF É C O R A ZÓ N opened a second location in the Crossroads in February, co-owner Miel CastagnaHerrera could hardly believe she’d pulled it off. After all, the first shop almost didn’t happen. “We had a lot of trouble getting a lease,” she says. “No one would rent to us. They’d hear ‘Latin coffee shop’ and not call us back.” At last, she and partner Curtis Herrera found a space located at the corner of Westport and State Line roads and opened it in September 2019—just six months before lockdown. The pandemic changed many things, but fortunately, it didn’t curb anyone’s enthusiasm for coffee. Café Corazón, which emphasizes beans sourced from Latin America and offers traditional Argentinean yerba mate tea, has given Kansas City’s caffeine enthusiasts much to buzz about.

Café Corazón has an extensive coffee menu peppered with Latin ingredients like horchata and atole (corn). Why introduce yerba mate? To me, it was important to bring that in because my dad was Argentinean, and there was a gourd and a bombilla (straw) in my house to drink it from. It was part of our culture, and we want to teach people about it. Yerba mate is about friends: You sit in a circle, take the gourd, fill it and pass it down. Covid complicated that, and now most people get their own, but it’s a fun ritual and it’s so good for you. It’s full of antioxidants and vitamins and almost as much caffeine as coffee, and it’s an antiinflammatory. It’s a wormhole, for sure, but people love it, and soon we’ll be offering yerba mate workshops.

Your Crossroads location has a breakfast and lunch menu. What’s on it? We pull from our culture and from the Latinx experience. There are twentytwo countries in the world that speak Spanish, and there is not one way to be Latin. We don’t all share the same customs or food, so we try to draw from the ones we know the best. Curtis’ parents are Mescalero Apache from New Mexico and from Guadalajara. I was born in Taos to an immigrant father who came here from Buenos Aires. So we share an interesting mix. We have Argentinean choripán, which is chorizo and pan [bread], so we do sausage with chimichurri, garlic aioli and pickled onions. There’s local wild rice and bison, a recipe developed by a friend who works at the Kansas City Indian Center. And the smothered breakfast burrito is exactly what you’d get in Taos. We use hatch chiles, beans, corn and squash—all very New Mexican.

Latte Love “I love the way Hi Hat Coffee mixes flavors together. They have amazing lattes with almond and great flavor combinations, and I appreciate that thoughtfulness.”

Pollo or Pasta? “For dinner I love El Pollo Rey in KCK—the pollo asada is divine. But I also love Bella Napoli. I can’t help it: Argentina has Italian roots, and we like pasta.”

Modern Breakfast “Anything from Cafe Sebastienne. Chef Rick Mullins loves Latin influences and often puts these little suggestions into his food. It’s not overpoweringly one thing.”

Midnight Snack “Pan Caliente KC makes our baked goods and empanadas, and I would like nothing better than to take home a box of her empanadas and dulce de leche treats.”

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SOJU SOJOURN Nic Taylor spotlights Japanese and Korean ingredients on his latest menu at Kobi-Q Sushi. BY N ATA L I E TO R R E S G A L L AG H E R

from Nic Taylor, don’t scan for a familiar favorite. Instead, let your eyes linger on the unfamiliar ingredients, like makgeolli and Calpico—both of which you’ll find in just one drink at Kobi-Q Sushi in Westport. “I do abstract painting, and when you’re painting in an abstract style, you let the paint speak for itself and come together on its own,” Taylor says. “When I start to design a menu, I start similarly: I have a general theme, I think about what the customers need, and I let ingredients guide me.” Negroni lovers will leap at the Itameshi-ni, a balancing act of Roku Japanese gin, soju and Taylor’s own Italian amaro blend. The K-Pop Lover is as fun as it sounds: Haku (Japanese vodka made from white rice) meets Korean makgeolli, a rice-based alcohol with a wild streak of effervescence and funk. Calpico—a sweet and tangy yogurt-based drink popular in Japan—also makes an appearance alongside fresh lime juice and electric blue curaçao. “A lot of cocktail bars are very pretentious when it comes to vodka,” Taylor says. “I think vodka is actually the best ingredient to work with because it lets everything else shine.” The Kobi-Q restaurants are Taylor’s first as a consultant. For the last four years, he was the lead bartender at SoT in the Crossroads. In April, Taylor left SoT to take up residence behind the bar at Westport’s Julep, where he is refreshing the cocktail list. Taylor is leaning on soju, a clear Korean spirit distilled from rice, as the inspiration for Kobi-Q Sushi’s summer menu. He plans to stock it in several flavors— green grape, grapefruit, plum, strawberry—and offer a flight of soju spritzes. “Soju is the bestselling spirit on the planet, more so than Budweiser,” he says. “It’s not super popular here yet, but people that know about it really love it.”

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Growing Vine

This month’s feature story includes a small list of incoming breweries (Page 46) that mentions Vine Street Brewing, which is coming to the Jazz District this fall, but we caught up with co-owner Kemet Coleman to get more information on the project. Vine Street is the city’s first Black-owned brewery and was announced last year, with a projected opening date of this summer. The updated timeline is no later than October, Coleman says. During demolition, they found “some surprises” which pushed things back two to three months. And, of course, supply chain issues are hammering every project. “Let’s just say bringing back a hundred- and -fifty-year-old building from the dead is no easy task,” he says. That’s given Coleman and his partners more time to work on collaborations with breweries in the area, further honing their skills as they move into commercial brewing from the homebrew scene. So far they have worked with Boulevard, 3 Trails, Transport, Pathlight, Strange Days, Diametric and Red Crow Brewing. “On deck, we will also collaborate with City Barrel in the next couple of months, Coleman says. All of these experiences have been instrumental in us going from homebrew scale to a seven-barrel system, so we are confident it will all be worth the wait.” Coleman says the KC beer scene has “welcomed us with open arms,” which has helped his mission-driven brewery make progress even before opening. “That mission is in part to reintroduce beer to a whole new community, including individuals who don’t think they like beer, and to normalize a wide spectrum of identities on the beer scene,” he says. “Beer and great experiences go hand in hand. We’re committed to offering craft beers and experiences fermented in the spirit of jazz and hip-hop. We want everyone to have the opportunity to tap into the culture. Our location speaks to that commitment. We strive to actively participate in the revitalization of Kansas City’s most sacred soil, the historic 18th & Vine Jazz District. We want to appeal to locals and tourists who are expecting what the Jazz District is famous for and beyond.”

Two Birds

The KC area is getting two more locations of Gus’s World Famous Fried Chicken, as the Star reports that the Memphis-based chain has inked deals to expand into Lee’s Summit and Belton. The aggressively casual chicken shacks, which serve batter-fried birds on styrofoam plates with picnic sides like beans and coleslaw, have been a hit in KC, with locations in KCK and Overland Park. The Lee’s Summit location is the former Ted’s Cafe Escondido off Missouri 291. The Belton location will open in spring 2023.

‘Life’ Time

An Arkansas taco spot with a focus on charity will be coming to Overland Park sometime before this fall. For every taco (or salad, rice bowl or quesadilla) sold, Tacos 4 Life donates twenty-four cents to a nonprofit that serves hungry children around the world. The amount, just shy of a quarter, is what the company says is enough to buy a meal for a child in many parts of the world. Tacos 4 Life has locations ranging from North Carolina to Texas. The most popular and distinctive items are Korean BBQ steak, blackened Mahi-Mahi and a chicken-baconranch taco.

Hello Earl

There’s a new tenant in the former Chai Shai on Holmes in Brookside, and it could hardly be more different from the former tenant. The new Earl’s Premier is a boozy, “Maineinspired” oyster bar founded by two friends who vacation together on the East Coast. The interior has been brightened considerably and the open-seating patio beckons seafood fans on cooler days. The menu is heavily focused on shellfish, with recent appearances of Argentinean red prawns and clam dip. There’s also slow roasted pulled pork, East Coast fried oysters and slaw, all finished with a mustardy bourbonpickle juice sauce.

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THROUGH THE WIRE In Eudora, Barbwire BBQ keeps a local crowd happy with a steady stream of specials. BY M A R T I N C I Z M A R

O R A S M A L L- T O W N B A R B E C U E P I T, there are three possible paths. First, you can aim to become a destination, drawing comers from all over. Second, you can convince loyal customers to eat brisket or pulled pork on a semi-weekly basis. Or third, you can be more than a barbecue pit—you can be the local restaurant that happens to serve barbecue, along with some specials that broaden the restaurant’s appeal enough to serve the smoke-free. Out in Eudora (pop. 6,551), Barbwire BBQ has opted for door number three. Jason Musick, who runs the restaurant with his fraternal twin brother Jay, has extensive restaurant experience. He worked for J. Alexanders when he was fresh out of school at K-State and then spent a decade with the Bravo!/Brio restaurant group, living in Dallas, Houston and Memphis along the way. A job with Bread & Butter Concepts had

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him return home, and that’s when he started talking to Jay, who worked in the printing industry in Olathe, about opening their own place. “I thought, ‘I’m tired of making all this money for someone else. I want to make this money for myself,’” Jason says. “We’re making some changes in our dining room, and I don’t need to call corporate, I don’t need to go through all that BS.” Of course, there are downsides—stress and sleepless nights from owning a restaurant in a time of staffing shortages and soaring food costs, to name two. But hard work doesn’t scare the Musick twins. “We grew up in a family where we had to know how to cook,” Jason says. “That was very important to our mom and dad. You worked hard in the garden, you knew how to cook, you knew how to wash your clothes.” Barbwire started as a food trailer back in 2016. Just before Covid, they started looking for a permanent physical location. They ended up finding a fixer-upper at 601 E. 10th Street, just east of downtown Eudora. They opened in September 2020 with a menu that was heavier on traditional ’cue than the current one, which includes everything from burgers to a ham and egg croissant. “We want that slow, methodical growth,” Jason says. “We didn’t want to have a bunch of stuff and then do it badly.” You’ll also find nachos and quesadillas on the menu. “I love Mexican food,” Jason says. “It’s my favorite in the whole world. You kind of get barbecued out. You can only eat so many pulled pork sandwiches and pulled turkey sandwiches and brisket before you want something else.” On a recent visit, I asked the woman working the counter the same thing I do at every pit: “What’s your best meat?” True to form, she told me she always gets the burger—she’d gotten burned out on BBQ. Of course, if you’re driving from KC, you’ll probably want the barbecue. The ribs were flavorful and tender without being floppy while the cubed and sauced brisket was roasted and spoon tender. Whenever you visit, expect to find a unique special. “For lent, we did fried shrimp baskets and fried fish baskets, and now people ask, ‘When are you going to have the fish back?’” Jason says. “I would like to sell shrimp po’ boys all day long—the markup is much better than on ribs and brisket.”

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Kansas City Sports Commission Annual Banquet The Kansas City Sports Commission held its annual awards banquet on June 9, recognizing outstanding individuals for their commitment to and achievement in sports. This year’s banquet, sponsored by Populous, took place at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown’s Muehlebach Tower. The event culminated with interviews of the Kansas State Wildcats’ Ayoka Lee, who set an all-time NCAA record for the most points in a game, and Jayhawks’ coach Bill Self who charmed with behindthe-scenes stories from the team’s big comeback win in the national championship game.

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SURREAL ESTATE T H E S TO R I E S B E H I N D K A N S A S C I T Y ’ S M O S T E Y E - C ATC H I N G B U I L D I N G S

The old Imperial Brewery is a downtown landmark—but its days are numbered.

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LO CAL L AGE R. The vacant Imperial Brewery Co. building looming ominously over I-35, just south of downtown Kansas City, is proof. Built in 1902, at its zenith the six-story brick brewery was producing some 300,000 barrels of beer a year. The signature beers were Mayflower and Imperial Seal. It’s been vacant for the last forty years. In 1850, there were just six thousand Kansas City residents and two breweries. As the city’s population grew, so did its thirst. By 1900, Kansas City had about three hundred and fifty pubs for two hundred thousand people. Seeing an opportunity to meet the city’s demand for beer, a group of investors from

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St. Louis as well as some local saloon owners joined forces and hired German immigrant Ludwig Breitag to build a large-scale, “state-of-the-art” brewery. Originally constructed in a late-Victorian, Romanesque style, the large main building had a tall central tower with arched windows and several small auxiliary structures, such as an ice house and stable. Just a few years later, the brewery changed hands, being purchased by a new consortium called the Kansas City Brewery Company. By 1910, the facility was one of the area’s main suppliers. Prohibition devastated the local beer industry. The brewery was converted to a flour mill known as the Boulevard Mill. The mill had a successful run, finally closing its doors in 1985, says Jeremiah Dean, whose family’s real estate company bought the property in 2007 and has owned it for the past fifteen years.

“At one point, we toyed with the idea of turning it into a boutique hotel, maybe some shops,” Dean says. “There have been lots of ideas floated about the old brewery.” Dean Realty began renovating and restoring the building, stripping the plant of its former milling equipment. In 2011, the former brewhouse was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. Dean’s family business merged with another local real estate company, Copaken Brooks, where he joined as vice president. Dean says the company has been prodded by Jackson County and Kansas City officials looking to demolish the dilapidated structure and create a new development opportunity. At some point, the old building will be gone—its location, configuration and dilapidated physical state make rehabbing it financially unviable. —DAWNYA BARTSCH

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