Scandinavian food coming to Broadway – not grandma’s meatballs
This building at 37th and Broadway will open in February as Krokstrom Klubb & Market.
Scandinavian food is far more than meatballs and pickled herring, but those – rebooted for modern tastes – will soon be included in a huge menu ...
Broadway Westport Council celebrates progress
The new Broadway Westport Council board of directors was elected last night at the group’s annual meeting.
It has been a momentous year for Broadway Boulevard, according to Broadway Westport Council President Kirk Isenhour. He addressed ...
MGE building project moves forward
The city council planning and zoning committee on Wednesday approved and advanced a plan that the developer said could bring 500 new residents to Midtown.
The project, which begins with renovating the MGE building at Broadway and 34th street ...
Santa Dash race in Westport this weekend
Westport’s Santa Dash, scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 5, is expected to bring around a thousand Santas in running shoes to Westport. The annual race event is a fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City.
Everyone who registers ...
Kansas City Life’s link to Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
A February 1944 newspaper clipping shows Kansas City Life Insurance Company President Walter Bixby exchanging a $6.5 million check for the manuscript of Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.
As scientists and science geeks across the world ...
World’s first overhead trolley tested on Broadway in early 1880s
John C. Henry, second from the left, is credited for testing the first electric trolley car along Broadway Boulevard in 1884. Henry is seen in this photo, published in the Kansas City Times in 1954, along with the operator of the car, Charles ...
Early planning starts for improving Broadway Bridge
Aerial view of the Missouri River including the ASB, Paseo, and Broadway bridges. Courtesy Kansas City Public Library – Missouri Valley Special Collections.
Moving people across the Missouri River is complex, and local officials are gearing ...
Do you remember the block where Walgreens and the Blarney Stone now stand on Broadway?
The east side of the 3800 block of Broadway in 1940. Today, popular local watering holes the Blarney Stone and Chez Charlie are on this block.
The east side of the 3800 block of Broadway is dominated these days by Walgreens and a couple of popular ...
Owner expands beloved “dive” bar Chez Charlie vibe to Blarney Stone
Lawrence Mauzey, owner of Chez Charlie, at the bar’s vintage jukebox.
Sponsored Post by the Uptown Arts District
Call them neighborhood bars, dive bars, whatever: two watering holes in the Uptown Arts District have served Midtown for decades ...
Federal designation allows Broadway’s CARE Clinic to expand services
Since the passage of the Affordable Care Act, the KC CARE Clinic at 3515 Broadway has been going through major changes. It even took a new name in 2013, switching from the Kansas City Free Health Clinic to reflect the fact that it now accepts ...
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