Stages are filled with musicians, but there are also musicians who fill the music itself. This is what Tommy Detamore was like. When word of his death spread on August 6th, it was confirmed by his wife Sandra on Facebook. The country music community didn’t react with the fake sadness that often floods social media, but with something more personal. Give more details. More real. The fifth of August was the day Detamore died. He was 70 years old. The reason he died was not made public. The words that Sandra Detamore spoke were quiet and true. She said that…
Author: Sierra Foster
Sierra Foster
Born in Kansas City, Sierra Foster writes about politics and serves as Senior Editor at kbsd6.com. She was raised paying attention to this city, not just living in it. Sierra has a strong, deep connection to Kansas City, from the neighborhoods east of Troost to the discussions that take place in the city hall halls. Sierra, who is presently enrolled at the University of Kansas to pursue a degree in Political Science, applies the rigor of academic study to her journalism. She writes about politics in Missouri and Kansas as someone who genuinely cares about what happens to the people in these communities—the policies that impact them, the leaders who represent them, and the civic forces influencing their futures—rather than as an outsider watching from a distance. Her editorial coverage encompasses state-level policy, local government, and the national political currents that permeate bi-state regional life. Whether it's a city council vote or a Senate race, she has a special gift for turning complex policy language into writing that feels urgent, relatable, and worthwhile. Sierra seldom sits still off the page. She claims that playing soccer on a regular basis has sharpened her instincts for political reporting because of the sport's teamwork, strategy, and requirement to read a changing game in real time. She's probably somewhere in Kansas City with her friends when she's not writing or on the pitch, discovering new reasons to adore a city she already knows so well.
The number 1587 sounds almost poetic. It’s not a ZIP code or a year that is very important in the history of American sports. It’s just the jersey numbers of two of the most famous NFL players sewn together. Brady wears 15 and Travis Kelce wears 87. Putting them next to each other gives you the name of a steakhouse, the name of a shoe brand, and now a federal lawsuit that neither side wants to fully fight in public. At its core, the Travis Kelce Patrick Mahomes lawsuit is about a trademark. But as we’ve seen it develop over…
Most people are fired after at least a few days on the job. Roger Rogoff didn’t even have time to pick one. He got an email from the White House an hour after being sworn in as U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington telling him that President Trump had ended his appointment. No hearing. No time for transition. There was only a short message and the door shut before it opened. That moment—not remarkable in how it happened but important in what it meant—is now at the center of a federal lawsuit that isn’t just about one man’s…
Witnessing a family figure out how to live with a disease that doesn’t show itself is quietly heartbreaking. Bruce Willis, the actor who used to make action movies look tough without trying, has had frontotemporal dementia since 2023, when he was first diagnosed. But if you ask his wife Emma Heming Willis, the man she married is still there. Not the same. Changed. But there. At first, there wasn’t anything exciting. Emma talked about how Willis’ speech started to change slowly. At first, she thot it was because of the stutter he had had since he was a child. “Never…
What Mountain Dew does to start things off now is almost theatrical. This is not a quiet press release. Not a grocery store rack at the end. Instead, there was a drop in the TikTok Shop at noon, a 13-can bundle, and a clock in someone’s browser tab that showed the time. Mountain Dew Zero Sugar Baja Leo, the first-ever spicy Baja Blast flavor, will only be available thru TikTok Shop on August 12, 2026. This is how the brand is celebrating Baja Blast’s 22nd birthday. The flavor itself is a real surprise. Lime, chili, and black pepper that have…
An interesting part of Dan Caine’s life story seems almost too good to be true. It’s the kind of detail that a screenwriter would leave out because it’s too obvious. In Carlisle, Pennsylvania, Caine went to every bank in town right after college to try to get a job as a teller. He was turned down by everyone. As he walked down High Street, feeling down, he saw a sign for help at Fast Eddie’s Billiard Parlor & Saloon. He came in. They hired him right away. After that, he ran the Gingerbread Man, a bar in downtown Carlisle that…
Will Ferrell has consistently placed bets on himself. His new Netflix series, The Hawk, feels a lot like the character he plays because of this tendency, which is a combination of confidence and stubbornness. A past-his-prime golfer, Lonnie “The Hawk” Hawkins believes he is just one strong round away from being relevant. Ferrell appears to be wagering on something similar as he returns to his first comedy TV show. On July 16, 2026, all ten episodes of the series were released simultaneously in the traditional streaming format on Netflix. Ferrell, Harper Steele, and Chris Henchy collaborated on its creation, and…
Cinema grandeur and Italy have a complex relationship. For the majority of the last ten years, the nation that gave the world Fellini, Visconti, and the expansive visual language of neorealism has watched the rest of Europe covertly develop one of the most technically ambitious screening formats ever created, while making very little contribution to the infrastructure itself. Image Maximum, or IMAX for short, is more than just a larger screen. Instead of the typical five perforations per image, the full 70mm film format uses 15 to move massive frames horizontally thru a projector. Bright, dense, and nearly three-dimensional in…
Kristen Behne picked up a chicken burrito bowl at a Chipotle in Roseville, Minnesota, on June 24. From the outside, it looked like a normal lunch. After three days, she passed out, her fever rose to 102 degrees, and she was taken to the hospital with sepsis. She was let go on June 30, but she says she is still not fully better. That burrito bowl is now the subject of a federal lawsuit that wants more than $75,000 in damages. This is turning into a much more serious public health story. As of Tuesday, Behne’s case was filed in…
The origin story of Moonshot AI is truly unique. Yang Zhilin, Zhou Xinyu, and Wu Yuxin, three friends from Tsinghua University, founded the company in March 2023. Its name, which roughly translates to “Dark Side of the Moon,” was chosen to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Yang Zhilin’s favorite album. For a company that is currently creating models with 2.8 trillion parameters, that detail seems almost too human. Nevertheless, it fits in some way. Yang’s declared objective has never been very modest. His goal is to develop foundation models that can produce artificial general intelligence. His three milestones—long context windows,…