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Sunday, July 27th, 2008
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- Try it, you'll like it
- Friday, July 18, 2008
- When visiting the International Folk Art Museum in Santa Fe, N.M., art educator Mary Helen Stuber was amazed at the ornamental tin work children were creating in a class there. It’s a craft the people of Santa Fe developed during the mid-1800s using tin cans brought in by the military.
- Eats: Cook’s Corner Cafe
- Friday, July 18, 2008
- You’ll want to get going early and loosen your belt buckle a notch when heading over to Cook’s Corner Café in Dearborn, Mo. Although sisters Charlene Cook and Darla Dubois just opened the 120-seat former pizza shop in Nov. 2007, it gets busy soon after they open at 5:30 a.m. (7 a.m. on Sundays) and stays that way until they close at 2:30 p.m.
- Eats: JJ’s Restaurant
- Tuesday, July 15, 2008
- If you haven’t been to Plattsburg, Mo., for awhile, you’re in for a surprise. The downtown has had makeover over the past four years and now looks like an aspiring Parkville, Weston or Westport. Mayor of Plattsburg James Kennedy says one of the forces behind the change has been the owners of JJ’s Restaurant.
- Eats: Carson's Sports Grille
- Friday, July 4, 2008
- If you love watching sports, Carson’s is your kind of place. With 23 TVs, including one enormous 8-foot-by-10-foot screen on the wall, you won’t miss any action.
- Eats: Pizza Royal
- Friday, June 27, 2008
- Pizza Royal’s trademark is their thin, cracker-crust pizza with homemade sauce and lots of toppings. It’s not like anything you’ll find at the chain pizza places. Neither is the decor.
- MoJo Cafe
- Friday, June 20, 2008
- Michael Lieffring and his mother, Sue, opened MoJo Cafe about five weeks ago in downtown St. Joseph. Although the previous tenants changed so much it gave fast food a new meaning, Michael says they hope to have better luck by offering larger portions and lower prices.
- Like father, like sons
- Sunday, June 15, 2008
- They say a father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be. If that’s the case, Jay Elardo would certainly qualify. Not only does he have snapshots, but he has dozens of photos on his walls, both at home and in his office. If that’s not enough, there are hundreds of trophies, in storage and on display, to remind him of the many hours spent with his two sons over the years — and the dollars it took to make their dreams happen. “Jay saw talent in both boys and wanted them to get to do it,” says Patricia Elardo, his wife. “Whatever it took, that’s what he would do.”
- First Ward House
- Friday, June 13, 2008
- Built in 1878, the First Ward House claims to be the oldest saloon west of the Mississippi, a former brothel, and a hangout for the infamous Bonnie and Clyde. And now you can add home of Pinzino’s Smokehouse, since Chad Pinzino took over ownership a few months ago. Charlie Pinzino, of the long-standing, but now gone, Pinzino’s Meat Market in St. Joseph, is his grandfather
- Forest City Diner
- Friday, June 6, 2008
- The Forest City Diner is the epitome of the mom-and-pop restaurants that used to be scattered all over the Midwest. The young owners, Andrea and Bradley Sisk, have been running the place for only two years, but they have kept it pretty much like it has been for ages, with genuine retro chrome tables and stools, serving unpretentious Midwest comfort food.
- Out of the closet
- Friday, June 6, 2008
- In more than one way, artists were wet behind the ears at the first Art in the Park show nine years ago. The event, sponsored by the Midwest Artists Association, consisted of a handful of exhibitors showing their work out in the open with no shelter, remembers Jackson Isaacs, MWAA exhibit co-chair. And as you may have guessed, it rained.
