“In my 40 years on earth, a cat has always hung around me like a shadow,” the late Japanese photographer Masahisa Fukase wrote, in an essay first published in 1978. That was, until he adopted a “tiny, ...

Vanessa Waters is curator of libations at Afterword Tavern & Shelves in the Crossroads Arts District. Judy Revenaugh Vanessa Waters, curator of libations at Afterword Tavern & Shelves, a combination ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afterword Tavern & Shelves — a beloved Kansas City bar that was forced to close at the beginning of the year — has found a new ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Afterword Tavern & Shelves, a beloved bookstore-bar in the Crossroads, will soon lose its home as the building's new landlords ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A staple for bar and book lovers alike, Afterword Tavern & Shelves in Kansas City’s Crossroads is closing its doors in early 2026. According to a post on Afterword’s social ...

Lewis’s opera was heavy-handed, badly crafted and unbearable. The Bozzini Quartet redeemed matters with a beautiful performance of two of Jürg Frey’s quartets The Association for the Advancement of ...

Guests sit inside Afterword on Wednesday, Dec. 3, 2025, in Kansas City. The cocktail bar and bookstore is closing at the end of January. Emily Curiel ecuriel@kcstar.com While Kansas City’s bookstore ...