Fast food worker Terrance Wise rallies other fast food workers during a July 29, 2013 strike action in Kansas City. This was the first event at the first strike event by fast food workers in Kansas City. Wise works two fast food jobs to support his family.

Belgian Company Duvel Moortgat Brewery recently purchased American craft beer brewer Boulevard Brewing Company in Kansas City.

Once a month at Local Pig, Alex Pope teaches a class on how to butcher a pig. Each student in the class gets the chance to make cuts on the pig and at the end of the class, everyone gets t to take home about 10 pounds of the meat they cut. Pope teaches the students in the classes, whom he says are made up of 90% men, about where each cut of meat comes from on the animal and how to properly make that cut.

The International House of Prayer (IHOP) is a growing congregation in Kansas City, MO that draws followers from all over the globe. The christian movement, which was started by Mike Bickle in 1999, has had constant prayer going on 24 hours a day 7 days a week from day one. There is also music being played by a live band 24/7, it never stops.