The Kansas City Star Magazine
Tolaas (here in her Berlin lab) doesn’t wear perfume or deodorant. The aroma of her own skin is the closest she has to a neutral smell, which she needs for her work.
Artist prepares to take Kansas City on a walking smell tour of itself
May 21, 11:46 AMSissel Tolaas rides shotgun in the passenger seat of a beige four-door sedan headed west on Southwest Boulevard. She rolls down the window, sticks her face out of it, and experiences the car ride — as dogs do — nose first.
Metal coat rack for indoors or out with five hooks decorated with four birds, $58 at B There Now MIKE RANSDELL/The Kansas City Star_042210
Getting Started | Settling into spring
May 22, 5:51 PMIt hasn't always felt like it but it's the season to celebrate nature. These objects all are from local boutiques.
Nelson Hopkins
Father fights to end violence in KC
May 21, 11:29 AMNelson Hopkins of Kansas City began a crusade against violent crime after his 17-year-old son and 21-year-old nephew were murdered within three weeks of each other in December.
'COWTOWN' by Charlie Podrebarac
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- 'Untitled' by Sandeep Mukherjee
- Tie-dye and ethnic prints are back
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- Cancer diagnosis brings two friends together for journey of a lifetime
- What’s inside the city tow lot? Plenty of stories
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- Nelson's Shuttlecocks at 15 years old: Many things to many people
- At House of Heavilin Beauty Colleges, students style hair and restyle their lives
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- Star photographers share their favorite published and unpublished shots
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- Check out the bathroom!
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LOVE STORY
Love takes root in the Irish woods
May 19, 5:56 PM
I an Byrne couldn’t believe his eyes. Black-haired girls were wandering through the woods near his home in County Wicklow, Ireland. Certainly not a usual sight. Ian, 15, and his friends threw pinecones at the intruders, trying to ambush them. All the girls ran off, except one.
- Getting together was a snap
- Friendship slowly grows into much more
- Couple share a life of adventure and travel
REMEMBER WHEN
Goin’ to Kansas City … to sell cattle
May 21, 11:32 AMMy dad announcing, “We’re selling cattle Thursday” is one of my fondest memories of being a kid in the 1980s. My father, David Dehn, and I would get up early on Thursday morning, run the cattle into the corral and load up the cattle trailers. Dad would always be a nervous wreck until we arrived at the Kansas City stockyards in the West Bottoms. It was about 85 miles from our farm in Clinton, Mo., so Dad would always worry about flat tires or breaking down.
LAST BITE
Flavor and versatility meet in caponata
May 13, 10:52 AM
Sandi Corder-Clootz, chef/owner of Eden Alley Café in Kansas City, recommends caponata for use “as a dip, a pasta sauce, stuffed into a wedge of brie, topping for pizza, bruschetta, grilled vegetables, or even over your favorite grilled fish.” Preheat oven to 375 degrees.
- Mushroom Soup is gourmet approach to old standby
- Smoked Salmon Salad with Arugula, P’tit Basque and Mandarin Orange
- Caprese Salad
DESIGN NOTEBOOK
There’s method to this color scheme’s madness
May 21, 12:42 PM
To some people, the thought of decorating their living room in pink and green sounds like a bad dream.
- Small changes can make big impact on a room
- Tile solves decorating puzzle
- It’s time to enjoy the great outdoors
EYE LEVEL
Grinter Place stands a monument to Wyandotte County’s frontier days
May 19, 5:54 PM
Grinter Place Where: 1420 S. 78th St., Kansas City, Kan.
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- ‘Soundsuit’ by Nick Cave
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FASHION FUSION
Get a bead on summer
May 19, 5:56 PMB eads in every size, shape and color of the rainbow were used as one of the earliest forms of currency. When Europeans ventured to Africa, they took along tons of beads and traded them with the natives for ivory, gold and other natural resources. Today, African beads add an ethnic flair to any outfit, says Jan Buerge, owner of World’s Window. Wearing them in summer with a simple sleeveless dress or blouse helps focus attention on the beads’ detail. (The Fulani tribal necklace from World’s Window has been doubled up and fastened in back with a necklace clip.)
- Tie-dye and ethnic prints are back
- Go for convincing country style
- Outfits embody the art of self-expression
ARCHITECTURE A - Z
- Architecture A-Z: D is for Davis Hall, Drummond, Dunn
- Architecture A-Z | C is for Cross, Corinthian, COTE
- Architecture A-Z: B is for Battlements, BMA and more.
- Architecture A-Z: A (revisited) is for alleys, Armour Boulevard, ASB underpass
Cancer diagnosis brings two friends together for journey of a lifetime
My first thought when I got up this morning was: I don’t know how to do this. I don’t know how to let a friend die. Just a few months ago, Lindy Elizondo and I were gazing out over the Grand Canyon. We were on the “trip of a lifetime,” a 30-day rail pass from her New York and from my Kansas City to points west.
Marjorie Bell at the New Century Adult Detention Center in Gardner
Behind bars with grandma: Making the rounds with a nurse at the Johnson County jail
Marjorie Bell knows she will not make her next patient happy.
What’s inside the city tow lot? Plenty of stories
This desolate 25-acre tract where East Front Street ends, just before you get to the river, feels like the end of the world.
