There are many titles one could give Kasim Hardaway, who is one of Kansas City’s most influential online food personalities. He is a marketer, a food influencer, a recipe developer, a food writer and, most recently, a restauranteur. Above everything he manages to balance, Hardaway’s overarching role seems to be…
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COVID-19 symbol of hope has a rainbow of meanings
If you’ve been noticing lots of rainbow art on social media – or your neighbors’ porches – it’s not your imagination. In the wake of COVID-19, a movement known as the “rainbow hunt” has taken off. The movement is simple. Kids and families paint rainbow pictures to hang in the…
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How to Travel During a Pandemic
Since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis, travel has been understandably restricted. For those, like me, who have a distinctly high sense of wanderlust that has only increased during lockdown, travel is not canceled – it just looks different. For those wanting to travel during their time at home, here are…
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Review: “Unorthodox”
“God expected too much of me. Now, I need to find my own path.” Netflix recently released a four-part series based on Deborah Feldman’s debut memoir “Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots.” The series follows Esther or “Esty” Shapiro – played by Shira Haas – as she leaves…
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Celebrities take on COVID-19
It seems like COVID-19 is the only thing people can talk about these days. It’s taken over everything in our lives to the point that reading anything in the news that isn’t related to COVID-19 is strange and alien. It feels as though there’s nothing else going on in the…
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Inscape releases 2020 issue online
For many currently self-isolating at home, art has been a wonderful – and some would say necessary – comfort during the COVID-19 pandemic. As of this week, there is more local art to enjoy. Inscape, William Jewell College’s literary magazine, announced its 2020 release via Moodle April 22. The student-run…
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Six Books to Read in Quarantine
Given that this pandemic has made it so that many of us are holed up in our abodes, we seem to have an excess of time to kill. Perhaps our first instinct is to reach for our phone, but there’s only so much bandwidth to go around in a particular…
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Recipes to make using non-perishable ingredients
In this unprecedented time, your local grocery story may be looking a little sparse, and you may be finding yourself with a lot of time on your hands. While you should not be going to extreme lengths to stockpile food, the Centers for Disease Control and Protection (CDC) does suggest…
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Film Review: “The Hunt”
Before I actually begin talking about how much I enjoyed the film, I need to express my love for its tagline – “The Most Talked About Movie of the Year is One That No One’s Actually Seen.” In the spirit of humorously self-aware films like “Deadpool,” “The Hunt’s” tagline critiques…
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