Tag: social

Kyp Malone Wants His Servers to Have a Good Time

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:00:49 +0000

Illustration: Adam Mazur

Before making his home in Williamsburg and later the East Village, Kyp Malone, an artist and musician best known as a guitarist and vocalist for TV on the Radio, grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh. “We mostly ate Eastern European food just because that’s what was in the markets,” he said.

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Hidden costs of grief: Chef’s murder illustrates economic toll of gun violence in KC

admin — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 02:31:45 +0000

Editor’s note: This story was originally published by The Beacon, a member of the KC Media Collective, which also includes Startland News, KCUR 89.3, American Public Square, Kansas City PBS/Flatland, and Missouri Business Alert.
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L.A.’s Maru Coffee Will Open in Williamsburg Next Week

admin — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:54:09 +0000
Photo: Maru Coffee
When any Los Angeles establishment plants its flag in New York, I let the West Coast diaspora go first so they can list all of the ways it doesn’t compare to the original.
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Hold Your Horses

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 16:30:00 +0000
Photo: Hugo Yu
On a recent Friday night, as the prime-time evening rush was starting to subside, I dined with Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz, the are-they-or-aren’t-they couple of the moment. He, Errol Flynn–ish with his new mustache, and she, doe-eyed and sylphlike, were at a table in the back. I was at a window seat up front, but why split hairs? We all wanted to be at I Cavallini.
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Prada Marfa “Opened” 20 Years Ago. It Helped Usher in a New Way to Travel.

admin — Wed, 17 Sep 2025 15:44:24 +0000
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SNAP cuts are ‘worse than they look on paper’: Food access advocates warn shelves could go bare overnight

admin — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 00:19:11 +0000

Chef Shanita McAfee-Bryant doesn’t mince words about perceptions of the hungry Kansas Citians she serves daily through her award-winning culinary social venture.

“These are the people who — if you listen to the rhetoric — are deemed ‘lazy,’” the founder of The Prospect KC’s NourishKC Community Kitchen told Startland News. “We know the narratives being painted about this community are just not true because we’re there with them every single day.”
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A Legendary Hell’s Kitchen Hellhole Is Back From the Dead

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 15:15:00 +0000
Photo: Courtesy Siberia
Once upon a time in Hell’s Kitchen there was a watering hole the size of a family mausoleum, stuffed inside the 1/9 downtown subway at 50th and Broadway. Just before the turnstiles, the space’s single beacon was a red lightbulb casting a faint glow on yesterday’s news: The bar’s windows were covered in folds of black-and-white tabloids like a permanent work under construction.
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Welker Blames Social Media For Kirk Assassination: All The Questions From Meet The Press

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 14:32:44 +0000
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Does Wine Still Matter?

admin — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 12:00:32 +0000
Photo: Charles Sykes/Bravo via Getty Images
Allow us to take a moment to pull back the curtain: Last week, our restaurant critic Matthew Schneier wrote about Saint Urban, a new place with a wine-first approach to service.
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Chef Jackie Carnesi Can’t Resist Kellogg’s Enchiladas

admin — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 10:00:07 +0000
Illustration: Margalit Cutler
When chef Jackie Carnesi was tasked with reopening the iconic Williamsburg restaurant Kellogg’s Diner, she knew it was going to be “a hell of an undertaking.” A year later, she’s still navigating the very particular and seemingly never-ending challenges of running a 24-hour diner.
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Gatekeepers hate to see them coming: Why Back2KC leaders think these outsiders could be the next best Kansas Citians

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 19:42:27 +0000

A Kansas City homecoming movement with a track record of sparking real relocations and startup investment is gearing up for its annual gathering — welcoming expatriates and newcomers alike as it seeks to deepen ties between the city and its far-flung alumni.
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A Filipino Take on Pho

admin — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 14:31:41 +0000
Photo: Courtesy Swabe Food Truck
When Mark Mendoza — who goes by Macky — was planning out the menu for Swabe, the food truck he opened in Elmhurst at the end of the summer, he knew he’d need to include the Filipino soup chao long Palawan, even though he hated it when he was 7.
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Roo-Up with pulled pork or bite into Big Salvy: Ding Dong Dogs debuts at KC Streetcar’s mouthwatering last stop

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 14:29:57 +0000

Matt McLain longed for the hot dogs he grew up eating as a young baseball fan in Chicago. His just-off-the-roller, quick-serve hot dog restaurant near UMKC and the extended KC Streetcar line squirts a dinger of nostalgia in an emerging destination known for elevated fare.

It’s an opportunity McLain relishes, the Ding Dong Dogs owner said.
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There’s a Fresh Green That’s Ready to Be Caesar’d

admin — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 11:00:50 +0000
Photo: Courtesy Twin Tails
No salad is more resilient than the Caesar, owing as much to its literal sturdiness as the flexibility that allows it to take all sorts of new forms: with kale or little gem, fortified with grilled chicken or salmon, turned into a wrap. The key tenets are creaminess, saltiness, and crunch.
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This Is the City’s Best New Restaurant for Wine

admin — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 10:55:00 +0000
Photo-Illustration: Grub Street; Photos: Matthew Schneier
If you’re interested in sending your friends’ and family’s eyes rolling back into their skulls, I recommend talking about wine. Great stuff, wine, and fascinating to the 2 percent or so of the population who enjoy digging into the minutiae of soil, sun, altitude, and the various vine-positioning systems.
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