Recent Stories
- 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
- The Royal treatment
- 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
- Elardo family shares a passion for fast cars and fancy wheels
- 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
- Ninth annual Art in the Park to be held this weekend
- 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.
- Napoli’s Italian Restaurant
- Friday, May 16, 2008
- It’s not often you hear authentic Italian accents in northwest Missouri. But that’s what you’ll hear at Napoli’s Italian Restaurant in Maryville, Mo.
Bujar (B. J.) Rexha, a native of Venice, opened the restaurant with his cousin in early 2008 and runs it with the help of his extended family. The family has been in the restaurant business for 20 years, Rexha says. Napoli’s is one of a chain of restaurants the family owns
- Unexpected gifts
- St. Joseph Community Chorus to present concert on Mother’s Day
- Friday, May 9, 2008
- Treat mom and yourself to an “unexpected gift” Sunday evening when the St. Joseph Community Chorus presents its last concert of the season at the Missouri Western State University Fulkerson Center.
“It will be the end of a great Mother’s Day,” says SJCC artistic director, Frank Thomas.
This is the 26th season for Thomas and the 28th season for the 90-member chorus. The concert, “Unexpected Gifts — Songs from the Heart,” should have something for everyone.
- A splendid tragedy
- Kansas City Ballet to perform ‘Romeo and Juliet’
- Friday, April 25, 2008
- One of the most popular ballets in the world, “Romeo and Juliet,” will be taking the stage at the Music Hall in Kansas City this weekend and next.
The lavish production will be the finale of the Kansas City Ballet’s 50th anniversary season.
