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Cougar Club: Where Grown Women Go to Dance Without Apology in Kansas City

Movement is medicine. For as long as humans have existed, people have used dance as a therapeutic, communal practice. When we are pressed by the constant demands of holidays, hard family dynamics, work, raising kids in a weird world, and the endless pursuit of the...

Moonstone on the Riverfront Is Doing What No One Else in KC Is Doing

POV: you have a beer and wings palate but married someone who knows all the new places opening in Kansas City, so you get dragged to a place described as an “upscale cosmic cocktail lounge.” You hop in an Uber expecting to eat over-thought Sysco foods plated to look...

When a Spontaneous Drive To Lawrence Turns Into Something Bigger

If you hang around here long, you’ll hear me bitch about living in Kansas City. Not because I don’t love it, I spent years 5 to 27 in the metro but until 2020 I lived in Denver and living surrounded by inescapable natural beauty has a way of changing a person. As a...

What Happens at Thundergong? Everything.

Written by Mollie Talbot for The KC Scene When I said I was going to Thundergong, I got a plethora of hilarious responses. “Thunderthong?” “Thunderdong?” “What the hell is that?” But my brother’s response won out when he said, “Sounds like American Gladiators at a gay...

Deaunte Thomas and the Power of KC Art

Written by Mollie Talbot for The KC Scene On February 1, 2024, I sent my son and husband to what should’ve been a memorable day celebrating the Chiefs’ Super Bowl victory with the rest of our city.A few hours after they left, my phone pinged and dinged with friends...

Parade of Hearts: This New KC Heart Feels Like It Forgot Where It Came From

Written by Mollie Talbot for The KC Scene Mention of the “KC heart” evokes two main images for Kansas Citians:the T-shirts made famous by Charlie Hustle since 2011, and the five-and-a-half-foot artistic statues you’ve seen countless times, in countless shades and...

Inside Crossroads Hotel: The Kansas City Gem Making National Headlines (Again)

Written by Mollie Talbot for The KC Scene This month, three Kansas City hotels were named in Condé Nast Traveler 2025 Readers’ Choice Awards for the top fifteen Midwest places to stay: The Ambassador, The Fontaine, and Crossroads Hotel. Seeing as Kyle and I...

Meet Jade Jaguar, the Bar Bringing Mexico City Energy to KC.

Written by Mollie Talbot for The KC Scene What was formerly Bar Medici at 1800 Walnut in downtown KC now sits Jade Jaguar. A Mexico City-inspired bar with bites and vibes you can’t afford to miss. While KC has plenty of pretentious cocktail spots and, adversely,...

Chappell Roan Meets the Midwest Prince: Art, Activism, and KC Pride

Written by Mollie Talbot for The KC Scene Moving back to KC from Denver in 2020, it felt like I stepped 70 years backwards. I was angry and I’ve been a chump about it. You can imagine my surprise when much of my Missouri angst was challenged while 30 feet in the air...

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