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Backbeat
Arny Young
YOUNG SOUL
How Arny Young became KC’s first free jazz drummer
BY NINA CHERRY
WHEN ARNY YOUNG was in high school, he would always ask music teachers why everything needed to be over a preset form. “They’d tell me that was the only way to play sensible music,” says the drummer. Then Young discovered free jazz. In 1963, just three days after Young’s high school graduation, he moved from Paola up to KC to study jazz at the UMKC Conservatory. He quickly became friends with a bassist from New York, Richard Youngstein. That summer, Youngstein showed Young his favorite albums, which is when Young was introduced to free jazz musicians Ornette Coleman and Sun Ra. Just a year later, Young was the first drummer to play free jazz in Kansas City. On a Saturday morning in October 1964, Youngstein spontaneously showed up at Young’s apartment, woke him up and took him down to the recording studio. “Well, the other drummer they were going to use got drunk and fell down the fire escape and broke his leg,” Young says.
After recording a couple of tunes, Youngstein called out the next tune, “God’s Museum.” “I don’t know that one,” Young said, perplexed. “We’re going to make it up as we go along.”
Young pondered for just a second and then began playing along.
Now, more than fifty years later, Young remains on the scene, leading his own group, The Roughtet. The group, which features Quin Wallace on trumpet, Jacob Schwartzberg on tenor sax and John Nichols on bass, released the free jazz album Fear Is the Mind Killer earlier this year.
Despite what Young’s early teachers may have said regarding the need for form and structure, Fear Is the Mind Killer remains sensible. “It’s not all aleatoric noise,” Young jokes.
But Young plays a lot more than just free jazz, which informs his uniquely captivating and lively style. His vast influences include electronic music, R&B, funk, Afro-Cuban and Afrobeat, which are on full display in this album. His style is set further apart by the touches he learned from spending over a decade in the Bay area beginning in 1980, where he studied West African drumming at UC Berkeley.
The album features several of Young’s compositions, including “Honey I Shrunk the Monk,” which starts out fragmented yet funky, with a soulful trumpet solo from Wallace, later moving into a hard, driving swing and Young’s virtuosic solo. Shortly after the release of the album, Young came down with shingles. “I had to slow down,” he says. “I missed a lot of gigs.”
Now, he’s on the upswing and is looking forward to a summer of performing, especially with the Roughtet. “This is the best avant-garde group I’ve had here [in KC] so far,” he says.
But Young wants to do a lot more than just performing and plans to pursue his other passions: traveling, writing, painting and, most of all, teaching. “Sooner or later, I know I won’t be able to play drums anymore, and then I’ll really concentrate on writing and painting.”
“I just want to play as much as I can while I still can,” Young says.
GO: Arnold Young and The Roughtet and Dave Scott, Sunday, July 10 at 6 pm, Westport Coffeehouse Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania Ave., KCMO.
CURATING A BEAUTIFUL LIFE
MOOD-SHIFTING MURALS
When Elizabeth and Derek Hopkins moved into their home in Mission in 2018, it was mostly gray and neutral. It wasn’t until lockdown that Elizabeth decided their home needed more vibrancy. Having earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in painting, Elizabeth put her knowledge of color blocking and color theory to create large, midcentury inspired murals throughout the house. “It started as the circle on the wall, and then after that, I wanted to redo my dining room because I didn’t want it to be as boho. I wanted to move toward bright, colorful and happy,” Elizabeth says. Now, she and her mom, who is also a skilled painter, are teaming up to create eclectic, retro-inspired wall murals in the homes of their friends and family. The two hope to start a business together, and Elizabeth is currently taking inquiries through her Instagram, @bohoinkc. Elizabeth’s murals vary in cost depending on complexity and size, but her small-scale
designs start at around $200. —MARY HENN
SAY LESS
A therapeutic treatment developed for PTSD is now getting wider use.
BY LIZ SCHROEDER
NOT ALL THERAPY is talk therapy. In 1987, Francine Shapiro began developing a new therapy called EMD, or Eye Movement Desensitization, using bilateral eye stimulation to lessen the effects of negative emotions linked to distressing memories. Today, we know it as EMDR, and it’s recently gained traction among those seeking mental health treatment.
Shapiro developed the therapy for PTSD (sometimes called PTS or PTSS), but today the therapy is used more widely. “For the most part, it’s known to be a trauma approach,” says local therapist Shara McGlothan. “But it can help with any type of unsettling emotion or thought that you may have. They talk about trauma ‘little t’ and trauma ‘big T,’ but it can be really anything that’s bringing you discomfort.”
“Trauma is very subjectively defined,” therapist Melissa Joyce agrees. “When we think about what trauma really is, it’s an event that happens that overwhelms our autonomic nervous system and we don’t feel safe.”
EMDR invites patients to process information differently than more traditional talk therapies. “In typical talk therapy,” McGlothan says, “processing would mean talking about [the experience], tracking those patterns and helping the client change and manage what comes up for them. In EMDR, there’s not very much talking at all. It’s really just letting the brain go to work as we focus on the particular memory that’s happening at the time.”
“We’re just taking a train ride through the past,” Joyce says, “but we’re not going to stay.”
With EMDR exploding into the internet wellness space, both therapists advise caution. “We want society to be educated on what’s happening,” McGlothan says, “but that doesn’t eliminate the need for a therapist and to have that professional support.”
“A lot of those apps are not for the public per se,” McGlothan adds. “They’re for trained clinicians, so they’re able to do some of this through telehealth.”
One misconception the internet gets wrong about EMDR: It is definitely not hypnosis. “You’re going to be awake the whole time,” Joyce says. “You’ll be aware of what’s happening. We break it up into small sets of maybe thirty to sixty seconds depending on the individual, and then we’re coming back to the present to talk about what did that person notice, what changed?”
But mindfulness does play a small role, Joyce says. “We will prompt clients to notice what’s happening in their bodies, what they are aware of physically, emotionally, somatically. And sometimes we do grounding during the session because there can be some pretty distressing things that pop up.”
EMDR is rising in popularity, with more people looking toward result-oriented work that can be confined to a few sessions. “It’s not really typical to put a timer on it,” McGlothan cautions, “but results-wise, [EMDR] can be quicker than talk therapy.”
“This is one of the few approaches that clients can ask for by name,” McGlothan says.
Joyce loves watching the improvements her clients make through EMDR. “In my experience,” she says, “people talk about not necessarily feeling as stuck anymore. It feels like they are capable of making the right choices, of being loved and feeling safe.”
“There’s a saying from a leading trauma professional: Our issues stay in our tissues, and that is so true,” Joyce says. “Talking about it is great, but I think we need to heal from trauma more fully and to be able to grow from it and flourish. And stop feeling so stuck.”
So, does talk therapy still have a place? Both therapists agree—yes. “Other people might want to do a more in-depth personal discovery, which is where talk therapy really comes in handy,” McGlothan says. And while Joyce has a preference for EMDR, she says, “it is not for everybody, and that’s okay.”
BOPPED UP
Northland native Lexi St. John created her TikTok to keep track of fun places to take friends when they visit KC. Now she has 17,000 followers and counting.
BY MARY HENN
AFTER LOCKDOWN, when bars and restaurants around the city began to reopen, Lexi St. John wanted to get out and do things. “I wanted to find all the new places that were opening. I had friends that were moving to Kansas City, and I wanted to take them to cool new places, like pop-up bars,” she says. That desire to get back into the world and share experiences with her friends led St. John to create her TikTok page @the.bop.around.
St. John grew up in Liberty, went to school at Mizzou and is now living in Overland Park and working as a corporate event coordinator. While she’s more than familiar with the city, she also says she finds “new stuff popping up all the time—so much has changed.”
St. John’s TikTok success was pretty much instantaneous. After sharing one video of her weekend in Kansas City, she gained four thousand new followers. From there, she began creating content on the regular and has now become a local micro-influencer with seventeen thousand followers on TikTok. “For me, it’s kind of a shock,” she says. “I didn’t realize that so many people would see something that I posted. It’s weird with TikTok. I feel like the videos live forever. I have videos that I posted months ago that are still getting views and follows.”
We talked to St. John about her quick rise to influencer status, where she gets ideas for content and some of her favorite spots around the city.
Why TikTok? What made you decide on that platform as a space to feature local places? I really like showing videos rather than pictures. I also realized quickly that I like being able to talk rather than write. With TikTok, it’s easier to show motion, too. I feel like I can do more with a video, with the visual aspect, showing the moving parts of a place and showing how packed it is, for instance.
I also like the music. Adding music to something changes the whole video and can give a place the hype it deserves. Sometimes a picture just can’t do that.
Where do you get ideas for content? How do you find new places? I follow so many places on social media. Weirdly enough, I find a lot on Facebook. I don’t know what it is with Facebook, but I will find random places and small events that pop up there. I also lived downtown for a little while, and I did a lot of walking around. There were so many places I’d never heard of before. Now that I have more of a following, people are also sending me recommendations, which helps too. My mom and her friends also like to send me places.
How do you balance work life with making and editing TikToks? I do a lot of creative planning at work, too. Whenever we’re setting up client events or client dinners, I’m always searching for different places to send them that aren’t the standard or what’s expected.
After work is typically when I do my editing and figure out what I’m going to post for the week. With the following, it’s become even more time consuming. Juggling it all has been a lot of work, and I have calendars for everything now. I’d love to make the transition and do this kind of stuff full time.
KC FAVORITES
Conductor Club KC at Union Station “I’ve really been into wineries and pop-up bars lately. I am at Conductor Club every time they have something new. I really loved their Tiki pop-up.”
Happy Hour at Cafe Trio “Cafe Trio is one of my favorites, especially their patio during happy hour when the weather’s nice.”
Casual Animal Brewing Co. “There are so many breweries in Kansas City, but I love Casual Animal. The space is super cool, and I always have a good time there.”
DIVING IN
A mom in Weatherby Lake quit her job in pharmaceuticals to renovate her family’s lakeside home.
BY DAWNYA BARTSCH | PHOTOGRAPHY BY CHRIS MULLINS
WHEN SHAUNA WARD AND HER HUSBAND walked into their future Weatherby Lake home, they looked past the floor-to-ceiling beige walls, past the matching oak floors and cabinets and out to a bank of windows framing the cove beyond. It was practically perfect, Shauna says, and they knew it would work for their growing family. “When we first saw our house, we both loved the views and the layout,” says Shauna, who has been the designer and project manager for her home’s complete renovation. “I saw a lot of potential, and we agreed to make some changes.” Before they purchased the home, Shauna was a full-time pharmaceutical salesperson, and although she loved decorative arts, she was not a professional designer by trade. It was her home’s renovation that brought her into the design world. The Wards purchased their home a little over three years ago, before the pandemic, while Shauna was pregnant with their son. Initially, the Wards hired a general contractor to implement their vision, but after he completely demolished the interior, he quit. “He called on a Sunday and told us he was in over his head and was walking away,” Shauna says. “At that time, the house was completely demoed, and we had to come up with a plan to get it completed ASAP. We were living with my parents with all three kids, including our baby who was three weeks old.” So Shauna threw herself into the renovation. “I did all the design and managed the project from July through November. We completed the house and moved in Thanksgiving weekend 2019,” she says. Shauna started posting about her projects on Instagram, and people started noticing her work, wanting to hire her for their own projects. Then the pandemic hit and everything changed. Shauna Ward Interiors was born. “If the pandemic never happened, I don’t know if I would have ever changed professions,” Shauna says. “It’s hard to manage three kids and take this kind of plunge.” She credits her education in journalism and marketing and her willingness to take risks for getting her business off the ground. One such risk was the decision to paint her bedroom ceiling orange. It helped her designs get noticed. The orange bedroom ceiling grabbed the attention of Kansas City Instagram influencer Breahn Vokolek (@overanalyzedthat). She hired Shauna to renovate her kitchen and posted about the project. “Things really started to take off after that,” Shauna says. From a black ceiling in the piano room to turquoise cabinets in her children’s bathroom, Shauna is continuing to take design risks.
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1 PIANO ROOM Right off the foyer is a room built as a formal dining room that Shauna is instead using to dramatically showcase a baby grand piano from her childhood.
“My parents bought it for me as a child when I was taking lessons,” she says. “No one is really playing the piano now. But it is nice to have, and sometimes when people are over, someone will play. It’s fun.”
The charcoal black ceiling and traditional black lacquered piano dramatically contrast with the room’s white walls. It sits in the middle of the room under a dripping modern gold chandelier.
The piano and a daybed from Anthropology strewn with boho pillows and a white and black macrame-looking wall hanging create a traditional yet eclectic space. 2 POWDER ROOM Nestled off to the side between the piano room and mudroom is a dramatic jewel box of a guest bathroom. Dark blue-black walls frame a wall of light gray and white tiles set in a herringbone pattern. The classic tile choice compliments the engineered marble vanity top.
And like most of the newly installed cabinetry in the Wards’ home, it’s not custom but bought prefabricated.
“I didn’t even change out the hardware,” Shauna says, adding that she has had a lot of success finding stylish, well-built cabinets at affordable price points. She often uses the installready cabinets rather than custommade, not only for her own projects but for many of her clients too.
The brass geometric pendant lighting flanking the mirror creates a low, moody glow. Shauna found the pendants from Dounia Home while scouring Instagram. The pendants hang above the campaign furniture-inspired vanity.
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MASTER BEDROOM Shauna decided to take a risk in the master bedroom and painted the ceiling a dusty orange, subtly bringing out the earth tones that are sprinkled throughout the room in various textiles.
The tall white headboard, reminiscent of an Indian carving, is the room’s centerpiece and the first thing visible through the room’s double doors. A low-hanging black basket chandelier adds to the bohemian feel.
4 MASTER BATHROOM Shauna completely transformed the master bathroom, creating basically a “bathing room” by enclosing her bathtub inside an extra-large glass shower. Marble tiles in various sizes were used to create different patterns and add subtle detail. The room is flooded with natural light from skylights.
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5 MAIN LIVING ROOM Like most of the house, the living room got a fresh coat of white paint. Shauna also redid the fireplace wall, removing the built-in oak cabinets and creating a sleek modern fireplace wall using large white marble tiles. Shauna’s use of modern furniture is softened with lots of textiles in various textures and colors.
Shauna and her husband are both fans of Freddie Mercury, so Shauna had a piece of art made to hang in their living room with the Queen frontman’s quote “All you have to do is fall in love.”
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6 KITCHEN Like much of the lake-facing rooms, the kitchen has great views of the water. Shauna used white paint, tile and countertops to keep the kitchen light and airy, despite using black cabinets for the island and a deep dusty gray-blue for the cabinets. Brass hardware and a chandelier made with quartz crystals over the dining table add a glitzy touch.
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RECREATION ROOM The childrens’ bedrooms and family room are located on the lower lake level. In the recreation room, Shauna opted for a wood-like tile that could handle muddy, wet lake feet. To enlarge the space, she took down a wall that was concealing an unfinished storage area. She finished it off and added a bar.
Built-in oak cabinets flanking the fireplace were removed, and a black modern fireplace wall with a television nook was created.
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BEFORE THERE WAS Pathlight Brewing in Shawnee, there was “Tanner’s basement” in KCK.
Pathlight opened in June 2020, just as the coronavirus lockdowns lifted, and it has emerged as one of the city’s best breweries. But as co-owner and operations manager Beth Harris tells it, brewer Tanner Vaughn had already been developing some key ingredients a decade before.
Vaughn was a Honeywell engineer for more than a decade, designing non-nuclear components of nuclear devices. In his free time, he would collect, propagate and hybridize wild yeasts, which today can be tasted in Pathlight’s peerless local wild ales. He connected with Beth and her husband David Harris through the ZZ Hops Homebrew Club, and they eventually started looking to open their own brewery in north Johnson County. As the trio hatched their plan to convert a little corner of a plaza tucked between a Walmart and Big Lots into one of the area’s most ambitious breweries, the city of Shawnee was “amazing” to work with, Harris says.
Pathlight’s wild ales—they use non-commercial yeast, fermenting slowly and developing strong, unique flavors—are just part of the equation, of course. When you have a large allages taproom that’s kid-friendly with a dog-friendly patio in a sleepy corner of Shawnee, you’re not just serving hardcore beer snobs. Pathlight brews a little of everything, from milk stouts to West Coast IPAs (“Clear IPAs are back,” Harris says) to an old-fashioned amber lager. All those beers are well-made, and the West Coast IPAs, especially, are crushable. You can enjoy them with a pizza delivered to the taproom from Marco’s or with snacks like dill dip or jerky made by the people behind the new Lula’s Southern Cookhouse downtown.
Still, it’s the wild and sour ales that make Pathlight stand out. They’ve been a surprise not only to novice beer drinkers but also to people who are accustomed to milder and more direct kettle sours—people who have never heard of Cantillon, let alone cracked a Soleil de Minuit. They’ve proven especially popular with wine drinkers.
It fits with the mission and the name of the brewery.
11200 W. 75th St., Shawnee
Pivo Project at BKS
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633 E. 63rd St., KCMO
BREWERS LIKE LAGERS. This has been true for a while. A decade ago, I published a scandalous quote from a famous IPA brewer who confessed: “When me and the old boys from Deschutes get together, we get a keg of Bitburger.” At BKS Artisan Ales in Brookside, brewer-owner Brian Rooney makes the city’s best hazy IPAs—which only whets his thirst for lagers. “You can’t drink all IPA all day long,” he says. “I mean, you can try— but it doesn’t work out well.” And so Rooney and his wife and business partner Mary Rooney recently started a dedicated lager brewing operation called the Pivo Project, named after the Czech word for beer. Think of it like a record label imprint—Interscope to the BKS Universal. It could certainly be argued that a brewery making a different style but giving it a different section of the menu doesn’t make it a “new brewery,” but for Brian, it was a helpful distinction. “From a brewing standpoint, we’re switching our mindset,” he says. “When we are making a Pivo Project beer, we try to have a very intentional process around the brewing and lagering, which is very different than what we do with ales.” BKS had made a few lagers before the Pivo Project imprint, but the first under the banner was an heirloom rice lager made with Carolina Gold, which gives a little more character than the grains used in Budweiser. They make a new Pivo Project beer every two weeks and so far have produced a hoppy cold IPA (Brian prefers the term “double Pils”) and a light lager with Missouri-grown corn. Most of the beers make use of big and juicy modern hops, but all get at least a dash of more reserved and stately European noble hops. “It’s kind of like a calling card, where those beers came from,” Rooney says. “We always weave in something like Saaz or Hallertau or Saphir.”
Smokes and Suds
It’s no secret that beer and barbecue are best buds. But it’s still surprising just how entwined the two scenes have gotten since Tyler
Harp started popping up at Crane Brewing in
Raytown back in October 2019. “It didn’t take Einstein to predict this,” Harp says. “I saw a bunch of breweries with no food in a competition BBQ town.” Jousting Pigs started as a competition team.
Co-owner John Atwell planned a standalone restaurant before ending up inside 3Halves Brewing in Liberty, before opening a second spot in the Legends. “Craft barbecue and craft beer folks are cut from the same cloth,” Atwell says.
At Callsign in North KC (see right), you’ll find Wolfepack BBQ, which cooks prime Creekstone brisket and heritage-breed pork on a live-fire of oak and hickory, with no gas assist. It’s fast establishing itself as some of the best ’cue in the city.
Out in Lee’s Summit,
Burn Theory Fire Kitchen operates from a trailer outside Diametric Brewing Co. “It’s a vibe,” says owner-pitmaster Taylor Jones. “It’s an atmosphere, it’s an attitude, it’s a mindset. Two groups of people crafting things with their hands for you.”
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YOU COULD ARGUE that Callsign Brewing isn’t “new.” Callsign opened in North KC back in 2018, making its name with military-themed microbrews like Bomber Brown and Test Pilot Amber, which are still on tap today. But a lot has changed—including the address.
The new Callsign Brewing, which opened in January, is eight times larger than the old spot. And while owner Steve Sirois, a veteran of the Air Force, used to brew most of the beer himself, he’s now hired a dedicated brewer, Corey Zschoche, who is refining old recipes while adding more contemporary beers like a churro cream ale and an orange milkshake IPA.
The Callsign team calls the old location “1.0,” says Corey From, taproom manager.
While Callsign still focuses on its mission of supporting the armed forces by donating money to tiny homes for homeless veterans and raising funds to train service dogs for veterans with disabilities, the new taproom is just a different place thanks to great barbecue (see left) and a dedicated brewer.
Transparent
14501 White Ave., Grandview
MICHELLE BROWN was very close to having a doctor in the family—instead, she has a brewer and business partner. Brown runs a cafe called The Chive inside Transparent, her son Nolan Brown’s Grandview brewery. “He was in college, pre-med, and took his MCAT,” she says. “He decided he didn’t want to go to school for eight more years. He had been homebrewing for years, and he had a degree in biology, so he was set up well for it. I always told him I support any decision so long as he’s happy and can support himself.”
Nolan, a Lee’s Summit native, wasn’t drawn to brewing just because he could avoid eight more years of education; he also liked its creative aspect.
In the end, they worked it out, and the Browns are all in business together. Michelle’s cafe is eighty-four percent locally sourced, mostly from local farmers, she says. She makes everything from bread to ketchup in-house. Meanwhile,
MNolan’s brewery focuses on sessionable beers, mostly microbrew mainstays like French saison and brown ale, which he returned to after a decade of chasing bigger and weirder beers. It wasn’t as simple as not going to med school, of course. Nolan started his brewing career as an intern, working for free one day a week while hanging drywall to pay the bills. Then he took jobs at Schlafly in St. Louis and Oskar Blues in North Carolina to learn the industry. “It’s very much like a trade,” he says. “You can go to school for it, but that doesn’t really give you an upper hand in the industry when it comes down to the day-to-day.”
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In Defense of Hazy IPAs
BY LIZ COOK
LIVE IN a constant, low-grade fear of Beer People.
I’m not talking about brewers, mind you. Brewers have always been kind to me, perhaps because they can sense my ignorance. They know that I will never try to make them taste my home brews. When I say “Beer People,” I mean the most self-serious quartile of craft beer fanatics: the gatekeepers, the language policers. The Walking Untappd.
It has become clear to me recently that Beer People are over hazy IPAs. In 2020, online alcohol retailer Drizly reported a seven hundred and sixty-one percent year-over-year sales growth for hazy beers. That saturation has quickly made them the pop music of the beer world: ubiquitous, commercialized and easy to denigrate.
One common complaint? That hazies aren’t subtle. I suppose this is true. But I have always had a goblin’s appreciation for an unsubtle thing done well. I like that the hazy isn’t coquettish: Its fresh hop and citrus aromas practically lunge at you from the glass. Hazies are hops in surround-sound.
That doesn’t mean they’re bitter. Hazies are a softer, slinkier IPA that swap the pinecone sharpness of a West Coast IPA for bright citrus. I’ve heard some drinkers complain that they taste like orange juice—the cloudy appearance means hazies often look like orange juice, too. To me, this is a selling point— you get a Screwdriver without extra steps.
My main beef with the style is that no one can seem to agree what to call it. Some breweries label them Northeast IPAs, others New England IPAs. Many buck the regional designation entirely and call them “hazy IPAs,” “juicy IPAs,” or “unfiltered IPAs.” Are you confused yet? I am, too.
To try to get a handle on all this, I grabbed a hazy beer recently with BKS Artisan Ales brewers Alex Moss and Brian Rooney. Brian owns the brewery with his wife, Mary. BKS is well known for its hazies—in 2021, their double hazy IPA Clouds won silver in the Great American Beer Festival, beating out almost two hundred other beers. Rooney estimates that about seventy-five percent of BKS’s beers could be considered hazies, from big triples to sessionable pale ales.
When Rooney first started brewing hazies, he labeled them “northeast style” IPAs. But now? “We just call it hazy.” Good enough for me.
Rooney and Moss have their own ideas about what’s driving the hazy-hate: poorly made versions of the style. Just about every brewery has a hazy IPA on tap now; they aren’t all going to be winners. And there are a lot of ways brewers can go wrong. Hazies use more expressive yeasts than other styles, and a bad yeast can make a beer taste like an overripe melon. They’re also more prone to “hop creep,” an accidental secondary fermentation that creates a spike in diacetyl (the “buttered popcorn” flavor).
That makes a good hazy all the more precious. At one point in our conversation, Rooney lowers his voice into a joking, bro-y register. “The statement, like, ‘When I go into a brewery, I order a lager because there’s nowhere to hide.’ The place where there’s nowhere to hide is these.” He gestures toward a glass of Metaphysical Infinity, BKS’s double dry-hopped IPA, on the table in front of him. “Most lagers, even if it’s not perfect, I can tolerate drinking them. I can drink a Busch Light. I can’t drink a Busch Light version of this.”
Moss agrees: “I’m not going to the bowling alley and crushing some turbid mess.”
Moss and Rooney have spent years tinkering with their hazies, paying close attention to water chemistry to make softer and more expressive presentations of each particular hop’s character. Neither of them consider hazies easy to brew.
In my view, they’re worth the investment. The hazy boom might not last forever, but it’s been a great entry point into craft beer for a lot of drinkers. The risk, of course, is that this will eventually create more Beer People. But that’s a risk I’m willing to tolerate.
Sweet on Sour
SUMMER BARBECUES mean coolers full of ice and drinks—and, too often, that one picky friend who isn’t interested in anything there.
For them, consider tossing in a fruited sour.
Boulevard’s Smooth Collider brings together bold banana and strawberry for a smoothie ale bursting with so much pureed fruit you could have it for breakfast.
Brunch continues at Strange Days Brewing, where the Maple
Blueberry Smoothie delivers a warm stack of pancakes in liquid form (don’t worry—there’s a lick of sour on the finish). Beach bums will rejoice at Brew Lab’s outlandish-sounding
Sunny B, a wine barrel-aged, mixedculture sour: They’ve added a tropical burst of coconut and orange to their blonde ale.
More island vibes— and a boatload full of mango and guava—are packed into Casual
Animal’s Gazoontight.
For the farthest out sour experience, try the Rainbow Soup at
Pathlight Brewing. Brewers took a “more is more” approach to this beer, combining lactose, bright hops and a lush strawberry-mango mash for a truly magical fruited sour milkshake
IPA. —Natalie Torres Gallagher
Pouring Soon
TALL TRELLIS This taproom sandwiched between two large new housing developments in western Olathe is owned by Kansas hop farmers who wanted to diversify their offerings. Tall Trellis is open with a patio framed by its namesakes, which are crawling with bines this time of year. The taproom tries to highlight beers made with the farm’s hops and intends to consistently pour a few beers brewed on-site, but those offerings were unavailable on our visit.
VINE STREET KC’s first Black-owned brewery is opening in the Jazz District very soon and already pouring beers at festivals. A few recent offerings showed why people are excited: a double dry-hopped hefe called “Wolf Tickets” and an imperial Shirley temple gose called “Church Lady.”
FRICTION Shawnee is already home to our favorite new breweries (see page 48) and one of our favorite speakeasies (Drastic Measures), and now “the South Beach of Johnson County” is getting a large new brewery in the century-old former Hartman Hardware building complete with a beer hall and rooftop patio.
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Range 23
13400 Donahoo Road Building B, KCK
NATE SCHOTANUS didn’t necessarily want to run a brewery. But he did want to build a sense of community in Piper, a tiny town in far northwest Wyandotte County. And so he runs a brewery.
“If you had asked me ten years ago if I wanted to start a brewery, I would have said no,” he says. “There are a lot of breweries out there, and they’re great. But you find these communities where there’s a brewery on every flippin’ corner and they’re doing well. We’re not reinventing the wheel here. There are other communities across the country and in Europe that are doing little things for the people around them.”
Schotanus does that at Range 23, which sits at the end of a dirt road through Due West Ranch, an eighty-acre equestrian center.
Schotanus is a Johnson County native who now works as a firefighter for the Dotte, which means he has to live within its boundaries. He and his wife used to live in Merriam before picking Piper.
“We had two really young kids and so the school district was very important,” he says. “There were only two places in
Wyandotte county where I was going to live—that was either Piper or Bonner Springs.”
Schotanus became interested in community-building while bartending at PJ’s Pub, once the main spot for local music in Manhattan, where he went to college. He ended up putting on a three-day sports and music festival showcasing the Little Apple’s mountain bike trails and local bands.
When Schotanus moved to Piper, he started looking around for small independent bars or coffee shops. “There was none of that out here,” he says. “There’s the Legends with Nebraska Furniture Mart and Cabelas.”
Schotanus had started brewing with an all-extract Mr. Beer kit and eventually progressed into more serious homebrew projects. He got to the point where he felt like he could make solid renditions of classics like blondes and porters and that those beers would be of service to the people of Piper. Most of his customers come from around the corner, which is what he wants.
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Broken Hatchet
422 Main St., Belton
WHEN IT COMES TO WEIRD TIDBITS of local history, it’s hard to beat the fact that the infamous Prohibitionist Carrie Nation is buried in Belton. Nation was a Kentucky native who did most of her evangelizing (read: smashing up bars with a hatchet) in Kansas. But her mother was buried in Belton, and so after succumbing to paresis, Nation was brought there for burial.
Brad Steele will tell you that story and a lot more at his Belton brewery named for Nation’s weapon of choice. “I’m just a brewer trying to build a brand,” Steele says. “I want to make the community part of the brand.”
And so he has. Dickie Goober, a piney and resinous double IPA, is named for a retired air force base in Grandview. Mount Pleasant, a smoother-drinking Pilsner with some age on it, is a township inside Belton. Burnt District, a peppy coffee blonde, refers to the ordered depopulation of Cass County during the Civil War, where homes were torched.
Steele was a homebrewer who worked for Cerner and Sprint, then moved into two east Jackson County breweries, Apex and Windshift. He’s a northwest Missouri native who lives in Lee’s Summit with his wife, Cara Steele. In Belton, they found a city eager to have a neighborhood brewpub with solid beer, plenty of seating and an indoor cornhole board.
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River Bluff at River Market
201 Main St., Suite 101, KCMO
NOT SO LONG AGO, microbrewers often dreamed of running a small chain of brewpubs. Then came the crunch of the pandemic, where hospitality chains of all sizes struggled mightily, and even “successful” operations like Modern Times went under. These days, the era of the regional craft brewery is pretty much over—except for River Bluff.
River Bluff started in St. Joseph before opening an outpost down river in March. Their location in the River Market District is massive, with room for a full-size canoe suspended from the ceiling that you might not even notice. They’ve got nine TVs, usually showing sports, and beers that pair well with their clean-drinking Citra-based IPA and throwback red ale. The beers are comfortably above average, and what the room lacks in charm, it makes up for in utility.
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Truly Bubbly
Get your claws on some of these locally microbrewed hard seltzers.
FÜNZZIES // 3HALVES BREWING CO.
110 E. Kansas St., Liberty This Liberty brewery is conjoined with Jousting Pigs BBQ and known for flagships like Desert Gold, a light wheat beer named after the old Liberty grain company. 3Halves also does small batches year round, including this imperial hard seltzer with a dangerous eight percent ABV. Fünzzies is flavored with blood orange grapefruit and has a bright golden color.
RASPBERRY ROCKET POP QUIRK // BOULEVARD BREWING
2534 Madison Ave., KCMO Boulevard’s Quirks have become a staple of Kansas City summers—they’re made with real fruit juice, are gluten-free and are available in a can nearly everywhere. But we think they’re best on tap at Boulevard. Their new Raspberry Rocket Pop is a crowd-pleaser and totally marketed toward those seeking ultimate Americana summer vibez. It’s four percent and very, very sweet, having been inspired by a rocket pop. It’s electric pink in color and best served over ice.
8The Goat
817 N.E. Rice Road, Lee’s Summit
FIFTEEN YEARS AGO, a dram of Scotch shook up Jeremy Kneeland’s world.
At the time, he had two young children and lived in the country, forty minutes east of Lee’s Summit. His wife bought him a homebrew kit, but with two young children, he didn’t have time to dig into a new hobby. Then, he moved into town and made friends who belonged to a homebrew club. Soon, he was in deep, reading books and magazines and listening to podcasts. Before long, he was brewing “almost weekly” and expanding his repertoire of recipes.
The Goat is named for the gang run by boss Tom Pendergast back in the heyday of KC organized crime, which you’ll see reflected in beer names using mob lingo and alluding to history. The brewery signed its lease in late 2020, amid the pandemic, and opened in March 2021. “It was a little unnerving, but the timing was what it was,” he says.
Meads are hot with homebrewers right now, and you’ll see Kneeland’s roots in that world reflected in a fig mead and bochet using caramelized honey. The rest of the well-rounded lineup, which is brewed in regular rotation, ranges from a German lager to a Belgian tripel and bicoastal IPAs.
BLACK RASPBERRY PERSUASIONS // SERVAES BREWING COMPANY
10921 Johnson Drive, Shawnee Servaes (pronounced service) in Shawnee doesn’t do flagships. Instead, it gets creative with innovative one-offs like its English bitter brewed with pizza crusts from Old Shawnee Pizza. But you’re here for Persuasions seltzers. This black raspberry seltzer is a pretty blush color, gluten-free and only mildly sweet.
LEMON-ALMOND NIGHTCLAW // NIGHTHAWK
1228 Baltimore Ave., KCMO The lounge in the basement of Hotel Kansas City has its own house hard seltzers made using vodka. The lemon-almond flavor comes in a mustard yellow twelve-ounce can and is an ode to the classic Italian ice. Nightclaws are airy and mega-fresh.
ZAMBEZI ZINGER // BREW LAB
7925 Marty St., Overland Park If you’re a KC native, then you know this seltzer got its name from a rollercoaster that used to be at Worlds of Fun—the one that was guaranteed to make you sick to your stomach. Fortunately, the Zambezi Zinger hard seltzer does not do that. It’s made with gluten-free corn sugar that’s fermented and clarified until clear. It’s infused with lime and carbonated, but you can jazz it up with different flavors added at the bar from cucumber to strawberry. —Mary Henn
BEER OF THE YEAR BEER OF THE YEAR Premiant Pilsner
by Alma Mader
BY LIZ COOK
NICK MADER NEVER wanted to be known for a single beer. When he and his wife, Tania HewettMader, opened Alma Mader in 2019, they were determined to avoid stagnation and focus on the of-the-moment beers their customers most wanted to drink. “We really started off like, ‘we don’t do flagships,’” Mader says. The popularity of Premiant, his Czech-style Pilsner, was a pleasant surprise. Customers quickly poured into the bright, airy taproom on Southwest Boulevard to order Premiant with a slow pour—a technique that gives the Pilsner a glossy white foam cap as thick as whipped cream. Premiant has more than just curb appeal. The light, crisp body and low ABV make it easy to session on a sunny afternoon without fatiguing your palate (or liver). The Pilsner has delicate lemon-blossom notes similar to a Buddha’s hand and a dry, almost spicy finish that demands another sip. It’s exactly what we want to drink right now—which is why we’ve named it our 2022 Beer of the Year. The craft beer world has always been subject to trend-cycling. Heavy pastry stouts give way to hazy hop bombs and sherbet-inspired sours. But Mader thinks a lot of craft beer drinkers have come full circle. “I do think there are a lot of people that are coming back to appreciate well-made lager,” he says. “I don’t think it’s a fad. If you look at some of the Brewer’s Association data on it, it’s not this crazy growth curve. There’s a steady increase in growth and interest.”
Premiant is just one of many beers helping to correct a common misconception that lagers are wan or boring. The “lager” category encompasses many styles, from Baltic porters to doppelbocks to helles. And although Alma Mader tends to focus on Pilsners, there’s plenty of variety even within that sub-category. Premiant leans heavily on Saaz hops, one of four “noble” hop varieties used in traditional European brewing. But Mader also brews similar lagers with distinctive hop profiles modeled on German, Italian and New Zealand riffs on the same theme.
Another common misconception? That lagers are easy to brew.
Mader credits his time at Fremont Brewing in Seattle for honing his own lager-brewing skills. “It’s really hard to hide flaws in these beers,” he says. For many lagers, the flavor profiles are more subtle—if any ingredient is subpar or poorly handled, it can throw the entire beer off balance. Plus, these beers just take longer to brew. Alma Mader’s lagers take on average about six weeks to produce. Many of the brewery’s IPAs can be ready in half the time.
The beers are worth waiting for. Mader tries to structure his brew schedule so that he can release a new lager at least once a month. And while Premiant may not have a permanent spot on the tap list, it’s the beer Mader returns to most. “If we were to have a flagship beer, that would definitely be it,” Mader says.
He’s reluctant to give Premiant the “flagship” label for one important reason: It’s tough to keep around. The cans sell out quickly; the drafts in the taproom do, too.
“I think Midwesterners appreciate good lager,” Mader says.
We think so, too.
Hott in Herre
BEFORE THE CURRENT NOVELTY BEER CRAZE, when tossing doughnuts or children’s cereal in the mash tun became widespread, there were chili beers. Beers spiked with spicy peppers have been around since at least 1990, when a guy out in Arizona started bottling his micro Mexican lager with a pickled serrano pepper floating in the bottle.
Mostly, chili beers have been mocked, with a precious few, like Ballast Point’s Habanero Sculpin and Dogfish Head’s Theobroma, earning a modicum of respect.
So maybe some good has come from all those silly cupcake stouts and jelly doughnut IPAs. They have broadened the spectrum of acceptable flavors to make room for beers that bring their own spice. Chili beers got their own category at the World Beer Cup this year, and they’re popping up all over town, from a pineapple and jalapeno cider at The Goat to Li’l Lucy’s Hot Pepper Ale at Weston Brewing Company. For my money, chili beers are some of the most complex and quaffable brews out there. When done well, they invite another sip like no other and add a little capsicum buzz on top of the booze. I drink them whenever I see them, and I was recently delighted by a raspberry chipotle ale that brought smoke, heat and sweetness together in a symphony of flavors. It was one of the very best beers I had while visiting sixteen spots for this list, and here’s hoping there are more to follow. —Martin Cizmar
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THE LIST
ENDODONTICS
Anthony Altomare Leawood Commons Endodontics 11409 Ash Street, Suite A. Leawood 913-491-5552
Robert H. Altomare
Leawood Commons Endodontics 11409 Ash Street, Suite A, Leawood 913-491-5552
Christopher G. Budig
Apex Endodontics 13364 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-851-2739 Jeffrey R. Burroughs Burroughs Endodontics 5525 West 119th Street, Suite 215, Overland Park 913-258-5696 Adam S. Colombo Village Endodontics 7301 Mission Road, Suite 317, Prairie Village 913-236-7668
Kevin P. Cunningham
11900 West 87th Street Parkway, Suite 160, Lenexa 913-599-0888
Kenneth J. Frick
UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2749
Steven P. Gish
Leawood Commons Endodontics 11409 Ash Street, Suite A, Leawood 913-491-5552
Mark A. Holman
Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636
Joon W. Kim
Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636 Tae S. Kong University Park Endodontics 11201 Nall Avenue, Suite 130, Leawood 913-491-0056
James E. Moore
3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 106, Prairie Village 913-642-3636
J. Mike Randall
Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636
Brenton A. Reavley
Briarcliff Endodontics 4137 North Mulberry Drive, KCMO 816-326-8204
Alexander W. Stamos Endodontic Care 4731 South Cochise Drive, Suite 221, Independence 816-478-8895 Daniel G. Stamos
Creekwood Endodontics 5400 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 201, KCMO 816-452-0900
David E. Stamos
4731 South Cochise Drive, Suite 221, Independence 816-478-8895
Amy Vermeer
Cornerstone Endodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 250, Overland Park 913-498-3636 Ryan M. Walker
Northwest Endodontics 803 North 36th Street, Suite C, Saint Joseph 816-364-4422
Sara H. Wilhite
1218 Northeast Windsor Drive, Lee's Summit 816-554-7668
GENERAL DENTISTRY
Nancy L. Addy
S&G Family Dentistry 11313 Ash Street, Leawood 913-945-1612 Phye Family Dentistry 401 South Clairborne Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-782-2231
DeeAnn R. Behrens
I Smile 6420 Parallel Parkway, KCK 913-299-6699
Firoozeh Biria
Biria Dentistry 14364 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-499-1111
Chad A. Bowles
Bowles Dental Center 6811 West 121st Street, Overland Park 913-491-6663
Bernard G. Bruns
Tremont Dental 5501 Northwest 62nd Terrace, Suite 101, KCMO 816-741-6960 Ronald J. Burgmeier
13025 South Mur Len Road, Suite 250, Olathe 913-764-1169
Holli D. Careswell
Careswell & Anderson Dental 300 Southeast 2nd Street, Suite 200, Lee's Summit 816-524-6300
Lauren L. Carr
Dental Excellence 19501 East United States Highway 40, Independence 816-795-9500
Aaron M. Craig
11775 West 112th Street, Suite 240, Overland Park 913-469-5444
Scott B. Craven
Turner Dental Group 2933 South 47th Street, KCK 913-677-1004
Richard D. Crowder
Crowder Family Dentistry 14922 West 87th Carlyle H. Dahlquist
1508 Northwest Mock Avenue, Suite A, Blue Springs 816-228-7176 James J. Dixson Liberty Park Dental 1508 Northeast 96th Street, Suite A, Liberty 816-415-8080
Rachel Pitts Driscoll
Rhoades Family Dentistry 13400 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-782-8900
G. Brent Evers
Evers & Gardner Dental 5815 Northwest Barry Road, KCMO 816-741-2333
Hollie E. Pfeffer Flack
The Brookside Dentist 6247 Brookside Boulevard, Suite 207, KCMO 816-523-1444
Erin P. Flood
7301 Mission Road, Suite 203, Prairie Village 913-362-7320 John C. Flucke Flucke & Associates Dentistry 209 Northwest Blue Parkway, Lee's Summit 816-209-6675
James D. Gentry
4861 West 134th Street, Leawood 913-341-0018
Mark D. Gilroy
Gilroy Dental Care 11826 West 135th Street, Overland Park 913-681-1900
Eric Gottman
UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 130, KCMO 816-235-2146 Jarrett S. Grosdidier S&G Family Dentistry 11313 Ash Street, Leawood 913-945-1612
Stephen Haake
Bluestem Dental 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 222, Overland Park 913-381-6644 Amy R. Hahn Rhoades Family Dentistry 13400 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-782-8900 Tricia C. Halford Corinth Dental Care 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 108, Prairie Village 913-341-9600
Robert Norman Hanson
Hanson Dentistry 3151 South State Route 291, Suite A, Independence 816-373-5606
Sarina M. Harman-Tinnel
HT Complete Family Dentistry 11644 75th Street, Suite 101, Overland Park 913-962-0036
Ross S. Headley
KCSmile 12850 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 200, Overland Park 913-491-6874 Craig W. Herre
Dental Health By Herre 11201 Nall Avenue, Suite 120, Leawood 913-491-4466
Scott B. Herre
Dental Health By Herre 11237 Nall Avenue, Suite 140, Leawood 913-912-7341 Timothy R. Herre Dental Health By Herre 11201 Nall Avenue, Suite 120, Leawood 913-491-4466
Andrew Herwig
11900 West 87th Street
33 SNACK HEALTHILY Try to keep snacking to a minimum. If you do need a pick-me-up during the day, stick to healthy, crunchy snacks, WAYS TO KEEP YOUR TEETH CLEAN BETWEEN MEALS such as broccoli, carrots, seeds, nuts or apples. Because of their abrasive texture, these foods act as a natural toothbrush and scrub your teeth as you chew.
DRINK PLENTY OF WATER Water, similar to saliva, washes away food debris and cleans between teeth. Rinsing your mouth frequently with water, especially after eating, is a simple way to defend against cavity-causing bacteria.
CHEW GUM By chewing gum for five minutes, you can stimulate your natural saliva production, which washes away much of the residue and bacteria left from your meal. Saliva also promotes remineralization, which fights cavities and enamel decay.
Michael S. Hollingsworth
Hollingsworth Dental 420 South Woodbine Road, Saint Joseph 816-232-8788
Stephen J. Huber
13400 Roe Avenue, Leawood 913-543-3751 John K. Humphrey, Jr. Kansas City Dental Works 12705 West 87th Street Parkway, Lenexa 913-432-9414
Ryan W. Johnson
Dwight D. Eisenhower Veterans Administration Medical Center 4101 South Fourth Street, Leavenworth 913-682-2000
Luke Joliff
Leawood Dental 11551 Granada Lane, Suite 200, Leawood 913-642-3939
Alison M. Jones
4601 West 109th Street, Suite 110, Overland Park 913-491-0077
Charles R. Kimes
Overland Park Dentistry 8100 Marty Street, Suite 111, Overland Park 913-341-2380
Jennifer A. Kirwan
The Smile Centre 309 South Second Street, Leavenworth 913-651-9800 Ashley E. Knight Pierce & Knight Family Dentistry 8615 Rosehill Road, Suite 101, Lenexa 913-251-9930
Ian J. Krusich
Krusich Dental 11111 Nall Avenue, Suite 106, Leawood 913-383-2600 John C. LaBarca Dental Excellence 19501 East United States Highway 40, I ndependence 816-795-9500
William D. Ledford
1236 West 103rd Street, KCMO 816-941-0980
Joel D. LeMense
8012 State Line Road, Suite 100, Leawood 913-341-3415
Steven B. Lemieux
211 East 63rd Street, KCMO 816-333-3711 14221 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 100, Overland Park 913-851-5900 Anthony Marengo, Jr. Esthetic Enhancement 16103 West 135th Street, Olathe 913-829-9222
Michael D. McCunniff
UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 396, KCMO 816-235-2185
Eugene F. McGill
3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 208, Prairie Village 913-381-9880 Abbie S. McKnight McKnight Signature Dental 3400 College Boulevard, Suite 203, Leawood 913-948-9710
Jacob W. Meggison Dental Elements 11912 West Shawnee Mission Parkway, Shawnee 913-383-0440 Andrew S. Moore 5367 Roberts Street, Shawnee 913-422-0007
Bryant E. Phye
Phye Family Dentistry 401 South Clairborne Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-782-2231
Vanessa C. Phye
Phye Family Dentistry 401 South Clairborne Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-782-2231
Robert A. Pierce
Pierce & Knight Family Dentistry 8615 Rosehill Road, Suite 101, Lenexa 913-251-9930 Jennifer L. Pottinger 6885 West 151st Street, Suite 202, Overland Park 913-897-4300 Timothy N. Prawl Saint Joseph Family Dental 3904 Beck Road, Suite 110, Saint Joseph 816-233-2672
Robert W. Rechtien, Jr.
Rechtien Dental 231 Northwest 72nd Street, Gladstone 816-436-5900
Lawson S. Rener
4320 Wornall Road, Suite 402, KCMO 816-561-8050
Kami L. Ross
Overland Park Smiles 6007 West 121st Street, Suite 104, Overland Park 913-851-8400 Jamie Smiley Smiley Dental 13430 Briar Street, Leawood 913-402-8888 Gregory A. Stiver
Dental Care Center 325 East 135th Street, KCMO 816-941-7788 Brian S. Sutton
4546 Main Street, KCMO 816-931-2342 J. Brad Tally
13650 Roe Avenue, Leawood 913-491-5040 Timothy T. Taylor 8919 Parallel Parkway, Suite 219, KCK 913-334-1161 Kelly K. Thomas
Leawood Cosmetic & Family Dentistry 4861 West 134th St, Leawood 913-685-1900 Ross Thompson
Olathe Pointe Dental 14979 West 119th Street, Olathe 913-780-0080 Lisa A. Thurlow
Johnson County Dental Care 7299 West 98th Terrace, Suite 150, Overland Park 913-341-7440 Jamie L. Thurman-Taylor
TLC Family Dentistry 3568 Southwest Market Street, Lee's Summit 816-537-6161 David L. Tuttle
Tuttle Family Dentistry 8631 West 150th Street, Suite 103, Overland Park 913-681-2893 Julie A. Tuttle
Tuttle Family Dentistry 8631 West 150th Street, Suite 103, Overland Park 913-681-2893 Stephanie M. Warden
2200 West 75th Street, Suite 101, Prairie Village 913-825-2500 Katie Watson
Stone Post Family Dental 13341 West 135th Street, Overland Park 913-766-0027
D. Douglas Watts II
Watts Family Dental 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 240, Overland Park 913-338-3384 Luke Wolniak
Prairie Fields Dentistry 16072 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-871-5360
Dave B. Woltkamp
Overland Park Smiles 6700 West 121 Street,
44 NATURAL WAYS TO KEEP YOUR TEETH CLEAN
DRINK GREEN TEA Studies show that green tea may help prevent cavities by reducing the bacteria and decay-causing acid produced in your mouth. Green tea also contains fluoride, which can help ward off tooth decay. Tea also has polyphenols, micronutrients from plant-based foods, that can help you avoid gum inflammation and disease. BRUSH WITH BAKING SODA Not only does baking soda help to whiten teeth but, when used as a mouthwash, it can also reach the corners and crevices of your teeth, gums and tongue. Baking soda also discourages the formation of plaque, helping to decrease the possibility of gum disease, and it can be a great toothpaste alternative. TAKE VITAMIN D People who are deficient in vitamin D are prone to gum diseases and teeth problems. Consuming foods that are rich in vitamin D, such as orange juice, eggs, salmon and tuna, can help fight disease in your mouth.
EAT CRUNCHY VEGETABLES
An easy way to help scrape plaque from your teeth is by eating crunchy vegetables. Gnaw on fresh carrots, celery, cucumbers or broccoli to remove some odor-causing bacteria from your mouth.
Suite 104, Overland Park 913-851-8400
ORAL AND MAXILLOFACIAL SURGERY
Michael Barber
Oral & Facial Surgery Associates 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 103, Prairie Village 913-381-5194
Kasey L. Call
Facial Surgery Group 4700 Belleview, Suite L-10, KCMO 816-561-1115
Joseph C. Camarata
ClearChoice, Overland Park 10777 Nall Avenue, Suite 100, Overland Park 913-871-1527 Kirk C. Collier
Oral & Facial Surgery Associates 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 103, Prairie Village 913-381-5194 Thomas H. Faerber Faerber Surgical Arts 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 118, Overland Park 913-469-8895
Douglas W. Fain
Fain Oral Surgery 20168 West 153rd Street, Olathe 913-839-9709
Brett L. Ferguson
UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 304, KCMO 816-235-2073
Adam Flack Flack and Stone 300 Northwest R D Mize Road, Suite 100, Blue Springs 816-229-3737
Mark E. Flack
Lee's Summit Medical Center 600 North East R D Mize Road, Blue Springs 816-229-3737 Steven D. Green Midwest Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 11551 Granada Lane, Suite 100, Leawood 913-491-4488
Christopher J. Haggerty
Lakewood Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery Specialists 3600 Northeast Ralph Powell Road, Suite D, Lee's Summit 816-554-8300 Gary W. Hansen
Northland Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 6301 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 101, Kansas City 816-452-0300 Matthew R. Hlavacek
Kansas City Surgical Arts 8080 North Flintlock Road, KCMO 816-286-4126 Michael W. Lowe
1524 Northeast 96th Street, Liberty 816-792-1022 Taylor L. Markle Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Kansas City 11005 West 60th Street, Shawnee 913-268-9500 Tyson E. Marrs Oral & Facial Surgery Associates 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 103, Prairie Village 913-381-5194 Parkville Modern Dentistry and Orthodontics 6340 North Chatham Avenue, KCMO 816-746-1171 Gary L. Nesslein
Northland Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 6301 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 101, KCMO 816-452-0300 Brent F. Newby
KC Dental Implants & Oral Surgery 7701 West 119th Street, Overland Park 913-529-5999 Daniel C. Nielson
Great Plains Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery 965 North Mur-Len Road, Olathe 913-780-3100 Richard M. Oakley
Oakley Oral Surgery 5811 Nall Avenue, Mission 913-722-3253 Brian E. Pannell
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates of Kansas City 8748 West 151st Street, Overland Park 913-897-3400 Steven J. Prstojevich
Facial Spectrum 1208 Northeast Windsor Drive, Lee's Summit 816-524-4334 John P. Tanner Facial Surgery Group 4700 Belleview, Suite L-10, KCMO 816-561-1115 Harold D. Wallin, Jr.
Heartland Dental Group 3507 South Fourth Street, Leavenworth 913-682-1000 C. Rieger Wood IV
Deer Creek Oral Surgery 12800 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 2, Overland Park 913-451-7680 Jerald O. Katz UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 163, KCMO 816-235-2138
ORAL PATHOLOGY
Tanya Gibson UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2131
ORTHODONTICS
Eric Anderson
Anderson Orthodontics 121 Delaware Street, Leavenworth 913-651-5040 Branson Billings
Braces By Billings 8600 Tom Watson Parkway, Suite 101, Parkville 816-226-4291
David P. Blackburn
Blackburn & Elrod Orthodontics 3131 South State Route 291, Independence 816-373-6006
Chad Bulleigh
Bulleigh Orthodontics 8600 West 95th Street, Overland Park 913-441-7321 Dustin S. Burleson
Burleson Orthodontics 4135 North Mulberry Drive, KCMO 816-384-0801
David M. Christensen
KC Braces + Kids 7111 Northwest 86th Street, KCMO 816-741-1155
John A. Dorsch
Creekwood Orthodontics 5400 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 123, KCMO 816-454-6800 David E. Dykhouse
Dykhouse Orthodontics 1300 Northwest South Outer Road, Blue Springs 816-229-0444 Jeremy R. Fry Fry Orthodontic Specialists 11940 Quivira Road, Overland Park 913-469-9191 J. Joseph Hannah Hannah Orthodontics 1441 East 151st Street, Olathe 913-829-2244
Richard D. Hannah
Hannah Orthodontics 1441 East 151st Street, Olathe 913-829-2244 Hechler Orthodontics 12800 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 1, Overland Park 913-469-6086 Steven L. Hechler
Hechler Orthodontics 12800 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 1, Overland Park 913-469-6086 Kurt W. Hoffman
Hoffman Orthodontics 11213 Nall Avenue, Suite 130, Leawood 913-649-8890
Jerry W. Huerter, Jr. Huerter Orthodontics 8919 Parallel Parkway, Suite 450, KCK 913-334-3055 Neil C. Kanning
Kanning Orthodontics 9101 Northeast 82nd Terrace, KCMO 816-781-8585 Ed Kavanaugh
9401 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 120, KCMO 816-452-2206
Kurt E. Kavanaugh
8407 North Main Street, KCMO 816-420-8100
Michael Klein
Klein & Walker Orthodontics 975 North Mur-Len Road, Suite C, Olathe 913-829-4466 Jeffrey J. Lenius My Kids's Dentist & Orthodontics 1703 Village West Parkway, Suite 108, KCK 913-800-8763 Joe Moon Moon Orthodontics 14247 Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park 913-782-7223
Eric S. Neuer
Prairie Pointe Orthodontics 10044 Woodland Road, Lenexa 913-393-9911
Elizabeth B. Nill
Drs. Blackwell, Nill and Francois 10 Northwest Chipman Road, Lee's Summit 816-524-6525 Jay M. Oltjen
Oltjen Orthodontics 15159 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-829-8855
Clarence E. Simmons
Smile Doctors 315 Nichols Road, Suite 208, KCMO 816-753-0377 Dyer and Smith Orthodontics 11244 West 135th Street, Overland Park 913-897-6950 Jeffrey J. Thompson Jeff Thompson Orthodontics 4851 West 134th Street, Suite A, Leawood 913-681-8300 Kelly H. Toombs
Toombs Orthodontics 3700 West 83rd Street, Suite 215, Prairie Village 913-381-5292 Cameron Walker
Klein & Walker Orthodontics 975 North Mur-Len Road, Olathe 913-829-4466 Ashlee Weber Weber Orthodontics 7577 Northwest Barry Road, Suite A, KCMO 816-746-1200 Donald B. Wilcoxon
Wilcoxon Orthodontics 4601 West 109th Street, Suite 310, Overland Park 913-661-9901 Angela Williams Fry Orthodontic Specialists 11940 Quivira Road, Overland Park 913-469-9191 Zachary T. Williams Madison Dental Group 13541 Madison Avenue, KCMO 816-942-0033
PEDIATRIC DENTISTRY
Kurt A. Aarons
Kurt Aarons Pediatric Dentistry 4411 Belleview Avenue, KCMO 816-531-2070 Vanessa R. Axelsen
Blue Valley Pediatric Dentistry 7560 West 160th Street, Overland Park 913-232-2708 Brenda S. Bohaty
UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, Room 393, KCMO 816-235-2036 Brent Church
LeBlanc & Associates Dentistry for Children 15151 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-764-5600 David J. Cobb
Axelsen & Cobb 975 North Mur-Len Road, Suite A, Olathe 913-829-0981
Emily C. Day
Health Partnership Clinic 407 South Clairborne Road, Suite 104, Olathe 913-648-2266
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MYTHS ABOUT BRUSHING YOUR TEETH
MYTH 1: BRUSHING HARDER WILL CLEAN YOUR
TEETH MORE THOROUGHLY This may be one of the most popular misconceptions when it comes to oral hygiene. Brushing your teeth harder does not mean your teeth will get cleaner. In fact, aggressive tooth brushing can actually cause serious damage to your enamel and gum line.
MYTH 3: BLEEDING GUMS ARE A SIGN OF BRUSHING TOO HARD It’s true that vigorous brushing can make gums bleed, but don’t immediately freak out if you see blood in the sink while brushing your teeth. While it’s true that healthy gums don’t bleed, blood can be a good thing.
If your gums are bleeding, it means your body is sending antibodies to help the gums deal with harmful bacteria. The best way to get rid of the bacteria causing the bleeding is to keep brushing and cleaning the spaces between your teeth and gum line.
MYTH 4: I ONLY NEED A NEW TOOTHBRUSH
EVERY FEW YEARS Dentists recommend replacing your toothbrush every three to four months or when the bristles start to fray. If you get sick, it’s also a good idea to replace your brush afterward. Over time, your toothbrush can build up a variety of bacteria that could make you sick. As the bristles wear out, your toothbrush may not clean plaque as well.
MYTH 5: SUGAR CAUSES CAVITIES
While eating too much sugar can be bad for you, it doesn’t directly cause cavities. When sugar or carbohydrates are consumed, they interact with the bacteria within the plaque to produce acid. These acids can wear down tooth enamel, causing decay and cavities.
MYTH 2: IT DOESN’T MATTER WHAT TIME OF DAY YOU BRUSH
YOUR TEETH It is important for everyone, no matter their age, to brush their teeth twice each day. Most everyone brushes their teeth at the beginning of the day and again at night, and there’s a reason for this.
Brushing in the morning gets rid of plaque that has accumulated while sleeping. It also freshens your breath. Brushing at night removes any leftover food that is stuck in your teeth to eliminate the potential for cavities to form while you sleep.
John T. Fales, Jr. Fales Pediatric Dentistry 13496 South Arapaho Drive, Olathe 913-782-2207
Rebecca Ferns
LeBlanc & Associates Dentistry for Children 15151 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-764-5600
Matthew W. Hillman
Smiles Dentistry for Kids 14700 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 110, Overland Park 913-685-9990 Jill C. Jenkins Jenkins Dentistry for Kids 6810 Silverheel Street, Shawnee 913-745-2500
Robinson T. Kiser
Little Chompers Pediatric Dentistry 2511 South Fourth Street, Leavenworth 913-250-6583
Michael A. LeBlanc
LeBlanc & Associates 8226 Mission Road, Prairie Village 913-378-9610
Claudia Z. Lopez
Pediatric Dental Specialists 11401 Nall Avenue, Leawood 913-649-5437
Kyle E. Pedersen
LeBlanc & Associates 8226 Mission Road, Prairie Village 913-914-9013 Louis A. Pollina
Dentistry for Children 7001 North Cherry Street, Suite 100, Gladstone 816-548-3400
Casey Rhoads
LeBlanc & Associates Dentistry for Children 15151 South Black Bob Road, Olathe 913-764-5600
Brandi K. Roeber
Dentistry for Children 7001 North Cherry Street, Suite 100, Gladstone 816-548-3400
Glynn Spencer
Spencer & Spencer Pediatric Dentistry 301 Northeast Mulberry Street, Suite 201, Lee's Summit 816-607-6000 Jodie L. Spencer Spencer & Spencer Pediatric Dentistry 301 Northeast Mulberry Street, Suite 201, Lee's Summit 816-607-6000
Kathryn N. Stanley
Stanley Pediatric Dentistry 8575 West 110th Street, Suite 310, Overland Park 913-345-0331 Jaime Stinnett Drs. Parrish & Stinnett Pinnacle Pediatric Dentistry 6500 West 95th Street, Suite 102, Overland Park 913-649-0166
D. Scott Thomas
Shoal Creek Pediatric Dentistry 9051 Northeast 81st Terrace, Suite 220, KCMO 816-781-5437
PERIODONTICS
Amy L. Gillihan
Gillihan Periodontics 3151 South M291 Highway, Suite B, Independence 816-373-5400 Adam C. McClellan Periodontal Care 5000 West 95th Street, Suite 270, Prairie Village 913-341-4141
Sidney A. McKnight III McKnight & Oliver Periodontics and Implants 2200 West 75th Street, Suite A, Prairie Village 913-649-4978
Patrick J. Morris
613 Southeast Fifth Street, Lee's Summit 816-554-2663
Catherine A. Mowry
Foundation Periodontics 8704 Bourgade Street, Suite 100, Lenexa 913-894-9962
Kevin Mowry
Foundation Periodontics 8704 Bourgade Street, Suite 100, Lenexa 913-894-9962 Nancy L. Newhouse
Newhouse Periodontics 4731 South Cochise Drive, Suite 200, Independence 816-373-6800 N. Randolph Oliver McKnight & Oliver Periodontics and Implants 2200 West 75th Street, Suite A, Prairie Village 913-649-4978
Seth Rush
Periodontics & Implant Dentistry 9249 Ward Parkway, KCMO 816-444-8822 Lara Tull Ryan
4601 West 109th Street, Suite 212, Overland Park 913-954-4174 Tanu Satheesh UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2075
Kelley S. Thompson
8340 Mission Road, Suite 203, Prairie Village 913-652-9844 Audra Ward Ward Periodontics Implant Dentistry 12701 Metcalf Avenue, Suite 200, Overland Park 913-563-7400
Stanley L. Wint
10870 Benson Building 21, Suite 2100, Overland Park 913-451-6158 Jeremy Youngblood
Youngblood Periodontics 6301 North Oak Trafficway, Suite 102, KCMO 816-453-2323
PROSTHODONTICS
Dale L. Cipra
ClearChoice Dental Implant Center 10777 Nall Avenue, Suite 100 Leawood 913-871-1527
Bruce C. Cummings
4151 North Mulberry Drive, Suite 260, KCMO 816-454-9090
Donna New Deines
UMKC School of Dentistry 650 East 25th Street, KCMO 816-235-2100
W. Stuart Dexter
Prairie Village Prosthodontics 7301 Mission Road, Suite 206, Prairie Village 913-362-8200
Brandon A. James
12541 Foster Street, Suite 330, Overland Park 913-642-0000
Brandon Sparks
KC Complete Prosthodontics 11401 Nall Avenue, Suite 102, Leawood 913-703-5599
