The Plaza lights twinkled on for the 92nd time this year, marking the start of the holiday season in Kansas City. But fun in the cold season doesn’t have to end when the lights go dark on Jan. 9. Winter is a great time for exploration, both indoors and out. We’ve compiled a list of […]

Author Archives: Emily Standlee
Emily Standlee was a winter 2021 intern at The Kansas City Beacon and a Durwood Fellow in the creative writing graduate program at UMKC. She graduated from the University of Missouri with a degree in English and worked for The Missouri Review. Her work appears in several literary journals and The Pitch.