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Volume 01 / Issue 001October 5–11, 2026Worth the drive

This week in Kansas City

The things we make room for

Two of this issue’s three features turn on 1988: by their own accounts, the year KC Clay Guild began in a potter’s home and the year a cultural society acquired the old Scroggs house on Strawberry Hill, in Kansas City, Kansas. The third is Lenexa Public Market, which the city owns and runs. Then the practical part, starting with Thursday, when both free museums in this issue stay open until 9. Everything here comes from public sources, linked under each story. None of it comes from a visit.

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An AI-generated editorial still life of terracotta, olive and ivory clay vessels with a dried flower stem on a plaster ledge; an imagined studio, not the featured venue.
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The drive / People & place

Kansas City, MO · KC Clay Guild

Room to make.

By its own account, KC Clay Guild began in a potter’s home in 1988, with artists buying materials together. Its teaching artists now take clay into elementary schools.

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2 sources, linked

Also inside
7 stories in this issue

02 / Lenexa, KS · Public MarketIn Lenexa, the tables are the point.2 sources, linked03 / Kansas City, KS · Strawberry HillThe house that kept changing.1 source, linked04 / Kansas City, MOSouthbound Route 50 drops the Plaza loop.2 sources, linked

Worth the drive

Cross town for these.

Open this week, on both
sides of the state line.

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Food & drinkLenexa, KS · Public Market

In Lenexa, the tables are the point.

The City of Lenexa owns and runs its Public Market. Skip the counter debate: the best idea in the building is the communal seating between the counters.

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Homes & designKansas City, KS · Strawberry Hill

The house that kept changing.

John and Margaret Scroggs decided to build it in 1887. In 1919 it was sold to become St. John’s Orphanage. Strawberry Hill’s own history is more interesting for those turns than for the woodwork.

1 source, linkedRead the story ↗
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Arts & cultureKansas City, MO

See less of the Nelson-Atkins, on purpose.

Admission is free, though nonmembers still check in, online or at the door. Closed Tuesday and Wednesday; open until 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday.

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Arts & cultureKansas City, MO

Kemper’s Thursday runs until 9.

Free general admission and a 10 a.m.–9 p.m. Thursday; closed Monday and Tuesday. The October 8 member preview is a separate matter.

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Dated / Out & about

Out this
week.

The dated picks, Thursday to Wednesday.

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Kansas City, MO

Southbound Route 50 drops the Plaza loop.

RideKC says that from Sunday, October 4, southbound Route 50 stays on Brookside Boulevard instead of entering the Plaza Transit Center loop. Route 47 gets revised times.

The details ↗
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Between issues

Openings, closings,
changed hours.

When something changes between issues, a short dated note goes up here, with its sources.

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That’s the issue.
See you next Thursday.

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