Big 12

Not going to lie and say I follow many college sports events, but I keep hearing about the Big 12 Conference coming to Kansas City this week. The Women's and Men's Basketball championships start tomorrow March 10th-14th. Kansas City is expecting to have tons of visitors for the games and the Visit KC website has a wonderful site devoted to just that.

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Getting Around

WICKED!

Broadway Across America : Wicked

Ah! Yesterday was the last performance of Wicked, it had been playing at the Music Hall downtown since November 11th.

I was lucky enough to enter the Wicked Lottery, it happens 2 1/2 hours before each show. Basically, you enter in the lottery and if your name is drawn you can get really good orchestra seats for 25 dollars! My friend and I went to the 2pm showing (They only pick 10 pairs per show), we sat on the second row and I had an amazing time!!



This was my second musical in Kansas City. I highly recommend the lottery!

Here's a link to future shows.

KC's Sprint Center Ranked Among the Top Venues in the World

Yup, you read that right -- The 2-year-old Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City was recently ranked No. 14 on the list of the world's top venues. It also ranked No. 5 in the U.S. venue rankings. Check out the full article here.

Kansas City View

A panoramic view of downtown of Kansas City

I just ran across this really awesome panoramic photo of downtown Kansas City on Wikipedia. I thought it would be nice to share on here with readers not familiar with the city. It was taken just a month ago, and it looks like the person that took the photograph was on top of Liberty Memorial.

Click on the image for a high resolution view, and if you look at the very right of the photograph you can see a bit of the Hallmark HQ buildings (look for the white tent).

Directly in the center is Union Station, and if you look up from there you can sort of see the cranes that are currently building the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

The photographer that took this was facing north, I wish there was another one facing south. There's a lot more south of the memorial, I'll keep searching!

grocery store downtown

Cosentino's Market Downtown opened at 10 E. 13th St. today. I've been waiting SO long for this store to open! It's only two blocks away from my apartment and will make grocery shopping so convenient! Downtown dwellers desperately needed a grocery store to serve loft dwellers like myself and the tens of thousands of office workers always in need of another place to eat lunch, or someplace to pick up a few things after work.

I went last night and it's beautiful and real urban! It's much larger than the Brookside Cosentino's. The new store has an 83-foot salad bar, a fresh sushi bar and a gourmet cheese island.

The store will be open from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m. seven days a week. There is a three-hour parking validation upon checkout.

Artisan Chocolates

Christopher Elbow

1819 McGee Street
Kansas City, MO 64108
ph. 816-842-1300
fax 816-842-1301

Tues - Sat 10a.m. - 6p.m.

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I saw that Erin posted about Christopher Elbow in the past, but I wanted to document my experience! This weekend I discovered the most delicious (and beautiful) chocolates in Kansas City! No Lie!

Christopher Elbow has a GORGEOUS minimalistic chocolate boutique in downtown Kansas City, I was introduced to his delicious treats by a good friend of mine. I wanted to just look at the chocolates up close because they looked amazing online. I ended up buying a box of 9 and picked the flavors I wanted. So worth it!


My camera broke :C so I had to take a photo using my iSight, this pictures does not do the chocolates justice (they were like little jewels) ! The flavors I got were (from left to right) - Lavender Caramel, Dark Milk, Vanilla Bean, Banana Curry (MY FAVE!), Caramel With Fluer de Sel (Sea Salt), Passion Fruit, Spiced Apple, Fresh Lime, Jamaican Rum

Wow! I need to go back. He also sells Hot Chocolate, which I'm hoping to try soon. I found out after doing some online research on him that he has been featured on Oprah, Food & Wine, Fine Cooking, InStyle, the Food Network, and a few other!

If you click on the 'Christopher Elbow' Label below you can read Erin's great post about him as well!