Palace of the Apes
by Lucas Wetzel
Almost a decade after its closing, the Great Ape House at the Kansas City Zoo remains one of the city’s most fascinating and controversial structures.
The Peanut
by Brandon R. Reynolds
The Peanut is a bar on a corner, its door opening onto neither the one street nor the other. It is the little lord of the block, a true meeting place of pavement and people. Every time I walk outside to smoke, I am walking toward the crossroads, which belongs to no street, no place in the city.
Detritus
by Laura Gayle Green
cards with thanks
letters
paper clips
binder clips
half-used pencils in need of a point
The Linens
by Laura Gayle Green
The fabrics are old,
The hands of those who make the traveling quilts
Turned to dust years ago
Beautiful Bathrooms
by Jennifer Wetzel
A photographic tour of the most memorable bathrooms from Missouri to Marrakesh.