Kansas City Midweek News Link Pool

Inspired by hottie Demi and her well-rounded celeb branding, we share this educational peek at pop culture, community news and top headlines.

Fighting For Attention

UFC fighter continues campaign to face Patrick Mahomes, Chiefs in pickleball

UFC middleweight Julian Marquez made local and national headlines last week when he cut a WWE-style promo after winning his matchup against Sam Alvey by way of submission in the second round. In the post-fight conversation, the Kansas City native called out Kansas City Chiefs Patrick Mahomes, Travis Kelce and Tyreek Hill - challenging them to pickleball or badminton.


Local Masterpiece Debuts

After two and a half years of work, Rebecca Koop's mosaic mural is finished

The completed mosaic. // Photo by David Remley While many of us have purchased paint-by-numbers or adult coloring books to pass idle time, half-finished them, and then placed them in a closet to collect dust, Rebecca Koop completed a mosaic mural that covers over 460 square feet and took over five years to conceptualize, gather materials, and create.


Pricey High Art Coming Soon

The Original 'Immersive Van Gogh' Exhibition Brings Its Blockbuster Show to Kansas City

KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 14, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Lighthouse Immersive is proud to announce the Kansas City premiere of their highly sought-after art experience opening December 1, 2021. Official tickets will be available at $39.99. Sign up now to be the first to receive pre-sale ticket information.


Demi Does It All

Demi Rose flashes her posterior as she lies naked on a beauty bed

She's no stranger to showing off her killer curves on social media. And Demi Rose revealed all on Instagram on Tuesday, showcasing her peachy posterior as she stripped naked to enjoy a beauty treatment. The model, 26, left nothing to the imagination as she lay on her front on a beauty bed, captioning her raunchy snap: 'Self care'.


Speaker Shares Culture War Perspective

Nancy Pelosi describes the impact the Derek Chauvin trial has had on her, calls George Floyd's death a 'public assassination'

WASHINGTON - As she watched the Derek Chauvin murder trial, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was struck by the teenage girl who took the viral video of the Minneapolis Police officer as he knelt on George Floyd for nearly nine minutes in what Pelosi called a "public assassination."


Spinning News Stays Winning

WaPo mocked for fawning feature on Kamala Harris' crocheting: 'How's the border going?'

Vice President Kamala Harris loves to crochet, the Washington Post reported this week, in its latest glowing feature of the VP. The paper followed Harris to Fibre Space, a boutique yarn shop in Alexandria, Va. to delve into one of her favorite hobbies.


Above Board Defense

A woman who traveled to the Bahamas with Rep. Matt Gaetz in 2018 says no one was underage on the trip, according to Politico

A woman who traveled to the Bahamas with Matt Gaetz told Politico everyone was older than 18. She told Politico that among the group was a former minor at the center of a sex trafficking investigation. Politico was unable to confirm the age of the former minor at the time of the trip.


Mostly Peaceful Riots Persists

Protesters and police clash for a third night in a Minneapolis suburb as prosecutors weigh charges against officer

Hundreds of protesters gathered for a third night of protests to express anger over the police killing of a Black man in the Minneapolis suburb as prosecutors decide whether to press charges against the officer authorities say shot him.


CASHED OUT!!!

Bernie Madoff, mastermind of the nation's biggest investment fraud, dies at 82, AP reports

Infamous fraudster Bernie Madoff has died at age 82, the Associated Press reported Wednesday. Madoff masterminded the biggest investment fraud in U.S. history, a Ponzi scheme that ripped off tens of thousands of people of as much as $65 billion.


Poke & Booze Offer

Show your vaccine card, get free beer at Crane Brewing in Raytown

RAYTOWN, MO (KCTV) -- A Raytown brewery is offering free beer to anyone who shows their vaccine card this week, the business announced on Facebook. Crane Brewing Company wanted to find a way to say 'thank you' to those who have gotten vaccinated during the COVID-19 pandemic, so they're offering a free six pack of beer to anyone who shows their vaccine card at the brewery anytime between Wednesday and Sunday.


Artsy Spring Forward

Powell Gardens Launches Inaugural Spring Festival in Partnership with Nelson Atkins Museum of Art

April 12, 2021 Art and design collide as local artists reimagine works of art through whimsical floral installations across the Gardens KINGSVILLE, Missouri - Powell Gardens announces Bloom Fest: Play Outside, a new spring festival focused on art, design and plants, presented in partnership with the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.


KC Chill Cont’d

Your Storm Track 5 Daily Forecast

Cooler weather continues through the work week into the weekend for Kansas City. Our afternoon high will be near 60° under mostly sunny skies. We could see a frost advisory or freeze warning issued later today, especially for areas of northern Missouri as temperature will drop into the mid-30s overnight.

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Comments

  1. hey crane brewing - you beer taste like arm pit hairs. Your politics smell the same way. GET WOKE GO BROKE.

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  2. Getting the vax was painful enough, not sure I need further injury by drinking Crane's awful swill.

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  3. Woke is a joke.

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  4. Demi Rose has been fucked by most of the negro players in the NBA.

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  5. Get over yourselves Nancy Pelosi doesn't give a damn about George Floyd. Pelosi's father put up one of the confederate statues back east. You people are so funny you believe anything. Pelosi's are Italian mobsters and they hate black people. HA HA HA HA

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  6. Kamala Harris is a prostitute who screws married men Willie Brown The mayor of SF to climb the political ladder. She is from a family of slave owners in Jamaica you know the Browns town family. Her dad doesn't even like her. Heels up Kamala. Whores will be whorein.

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  7. Bernie Madoff: Just dead.
    Rush Limbaugh: Still dead.
    Donald Trump: Soon dead.

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  8. ^^^ that’s why they call bidumb potato head! Hahahahaha!

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  9. Nancy Pelosi calls her snatch "Pink Floyd" and likes to play with it while discussing George Floyd.

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  10. ^^^And yet she's Speaker of the House and you're bloviating from the Walmart parking lot Airstream. Weird.

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  11. POOR CHINA JOE BIDEN CAN'T GET HIS TINY PECKER OUT OF HIS DEPENDS TO GET INTO KAMALA HARRIS SOILED PANTIES !!

    SAY IT AIN'T SO CHINA JOE !!!

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  12. ^^it ain't so geezer. Do better.

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    1. Couldn't be more right. Vice President Suck-suck has already paid her dues long ago with mouth jobs to a different married man decades her senior.

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  13. Aren't we all former minors?

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  14. 3:31 Came up in politics the hard way, under Willie Brown.

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