05.27.2024

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🥂 Raise a glass, drop a deal

Cheers: We’re celebrating Drink Up Week — here’s how to join us

Cheers, Kansas City. | Photo by KCtoday

Clink, clink. We’d like to make a toast.

This summer — Monday, July 22-Friday, July 26 — we’ll be raising a glass to Drink Up Week, a celebration of entrepreneurs, mixologists, venues, and beverages across our buzzy city.

From coffee, tea, and smoothies to wine, craft beer, and specialty cocktails + mocktails — we’ll be covering it all in hopes of showcasing the City of Fountains’ vibrant drink culture.

Now, this is where you come in.

If you own a local beverage business or know someone who does, celebrate Drink Up Week with us by offering a fun drink deal or two to our readers — say 50% off margaritas, BOGO smoothies, or 20% off a beer flight (mix it up, we’re open to ideas).

Drop your deal into this form by Friday, June 28 and our City Editors will include it in an interactive map of all the deals happening during Drink Up Week. There’s no charge to submit deals.

We’ll also highlight a few of the can’t-miss drink deals here in our newsletter. Want to make sure your drink special makes it in? You can guarantee inclusion by purchasing a paid content package.

KC Coffee + Skyline KCtoday — Sweet sips with a skyline view. What’s better than that?
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Meanwhile, if you’re a reader who wants to experience KC through Drink Up Week, sip tight. Before Drink Up rolls around, we’ll be working hard to pull together a list of local drink deals and fun stories about our city’s drink scene.

We want to know — is there a local business you’d love to see participate in Drink Up Week? Forward this newsletter to them and tell them we’d love it if they joined us.

Thirsty already? Chug through our drink-related stories from Drink Up Week of years past:

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Does your business want to share a Drink Up Week deal?

Clink, clink — click, click

Events

Monday, May 27

Trees of Remembrance | Monday, May 27 | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. | National WWI Museum and Memorial, KCMO | Free | Commemorate the service and memory of a fallen soldier by adding their name to a poppy blossom.
Stained Glass Workshop | Monday, May 27-Friday, June 7 | Art Love Collective, 646 Vermont St., Lawrence, KS | $50 | Take pre-cut glass and craft it into a masterpiece.

Tuesday, May 28

The Cher Show | Tuesday, May 28-Sunday, June 2 | 8-10 p.m. | Starlight Theatre, KCMO | $12-$97 | This Tony Award-winning musical is packed with so much Cher that it takes three women to play her.

Wednesday, May 29

H.O.T. the Musical | Wednesday, May 29-Sunday, June 2 | Times vary | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main St., KCMO | Enjoy this contemporary take on the classic play, Helen of Troy. (See where the title comes from?)

Events calendar here

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News Notes

Sports

The Chiefs are perfecting their Super Bowl bodies. Phase three of offseason kicks off today with no-contact practices + running through the playbook. We bet one of those plays is named three-peat.

Development

Lenexa approved phase one for an apartment complex being built near the intersection of West 89th Street + Woodsonia Road. Reserve at Copper Creek will host 529 apartments within 15 buildings. A timeline is TBA. (Kansas City Business Journal)

Trending

See you later, alligator? A 14-inch-long alligator got loose at KCMO’s Lakeview Middle School during a petting zoo exhibit. Gab if you see the gator — call animal services at 816-683-1373. (KSHB)

Feel Good

An Independence sanitation worker witnessed Opal, an older adult, fall as she was taking out her trash. Ever since, he’s walked her down her driveway — lucky for us a security camera caught their interaction. (CBS News)

Wellness

Don’t let summer heat drain you. One scoop of Native Hydrate electrolyte drink mix = increased energy levels, improved muscle strength, and improved bladder function all season long.*

The Buy

Summer snacks. Pack the cooler with our favorite beach + pool snacks to satisfy your cravings while soaking up the sun.

The Wrap

Today’s edition by:
Charmaine

From the editor

Guess who’s back? Back again. Charmie’s back. Tell a friend.

You read that right folks. I am off of maternity leave, currently bouncing my bundle of joy, and ready to dissipate all things KC to you.

First, thanks again to all the readers who provided this new mom advice. I literally cried reading your words of wisdom — and I’m printing your emails to add them to the baby book. You also shared loads of local resources (which I’ll plop in an article soon).

Second, help me pick my upcoming stories. Vote here to let me know which story sounds the most interesting to you.

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