Dan Maginn is an architect with DRAW Architecture + Urban Design. He lives in Kansas City with his wife and son, in a cantankerous old terra-cotta-colored house.​

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As a reporter for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Georgina Gustin writes about food-related issues, among other topics. Her travels for "Plains Gold" took her to Kansas city, at the western edge of Missouri. She was informed there that Kansas City is often considered the country's easternmost Western city, while St. Louis is considered the westernmost Eastern city. She is not sure if this is apt. What she does know, however, is that K.C. has some dang good barbecue.

Alec Soth (rhymes with "both") is a photographer who lives in Minnesota. His images have been exhibited and published all over the world, but his favorite place to shoot is the big middle of America. So when he gets the change to go to Kansas, he goes—even in the middle of the winter ("We're Not in Kansas Anymore," May 2011). Soth prefers to drive his own minivan rather than fly: "They don't call it an Odessey for nothing," he says.

Shinola is a Detroit-based manufacturer of watches, bicycles, leather goods, and more. They started with the mission to build a modern and quintessentially American consumer products brand through the reintroduction of domestic manufacturing at a scale that can shape culture, create community, and deliver goods of the highest quality that are built to last. In addition to their shop in Detroit, their products are available at retail in New York and Kansas City.

Michael Sylvester is a writer who lives in both Los Angeles and an aisle seat, preferably in the exit row. On his pilgrimage to Dan Rockhill's Studio 804 in Lawrence, Kansas, to see its fabled prefab projects, he was feeling a bit self conscious being a Left Coast vegetarian in steak country. "In addition to their cool prefabs, there was a great vegan restaurant downtown. Who doesn't enjoy mixing good architecture with good food?" he says.

Lara is the Founder and CEO of Dwell. While building her own home Lara realized there were insufficient resources to help people learn about design and architecture. Believing exposure to progressive work would advance the profession of architecture, Lara started Dwell.

Steven Holl is an American architect, perhaps best known for the 2003 Simmons Hall at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, the 2007 Bloch Building addition to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, Missouri, and the 2009 Linked Hybrid mixed-use complex in Beijing, China. The design for the Daeyang Gallery and house won Holl the 2012 Design Review Award.

Blu Dot is a Minneapolis-based designer and maker of modern home furnishings. Founders and college friends, John Christakos and Maurice Blanks were unable to find accessible, modern furniture as they furnished their first homes and decided to found Blu Dot to meet that need. They've been designing things they love in Minneapolis every day since. www.bludot.com

JONATHON KEMNITZER Jonathon Kemnitzer, IDSA is a Co-Founder and Principal of KEM STUDIO - a Kansas City based design studio that fuses architecture + industrial design.

food52.com A few years ago, we set out to bring cooks together from all over to exchange recipes and ideas and to support each other in the kitchen. We wanted to create a buzzing place for others who do what we do all day long: talk about food! Together we create cookbooks, take on food projects, help others with our real-time food Q&A—the Food52 Hotline —and support local food producers. Since we started Food52 (we cook 52 weeks a year, get it?), millions of cooks and eaters have found their way to the site. We believe that if you want to eat better, and you want to help change our food system, you need to cook. Maybe not all the time, but some. You don't have to eat local foods every day; you don't have to shop at the farmers market every week. But it's good to try. We're not extremists in a cult of purity, slow-foodness, or locavorosity. We're realists who believe in applying the best aspects of those food movements to our everyday lives.

Niche was founded in 2003 as an unexpected accident. The founders, Jeremy Pyles and Mary Welch, were designing products for their own lives that satisfied their particular design sensibilities. After other people saw their products and expressed appreciation for their work, the duo founded Niche Modern. The company is known for its distinctive glass pendant lights and other lighting products that are comprised of expertly crafted hand-blown glass. Niche also designs other glassware and home products, including elegant vases and candle holders.

Hoke Ley is a design studio in Kansas City, Kansas offering architecture, interior design and graphic design services to residential and commercial clients. We believe that design has the power to transform lives. This is why we are passionate about creating design solutions that improve the built environment and have an enduring impact on those that interact with them. At Hoke Ley, we create beautiful spaces for individuals to enjoy, design enriching environments to enhance communities, and transform the dreams of our clients into built realities.

Mike Sinclair is an architectural and fine art photographer based in Kansas City Missouri. His photographs of architecture are frequently published in the architecture press, including Metropolis, Architectural Record, The New York Times, and Interior Design. His fine are work is part of several public collections including Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and The Midwest Photographers Project at The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago.

Davy Rothbart is the author of the national bestseller Found, and creator of the magazine of the same name. A contributor to public radio’s This American Life, he is also the author of the story collection The Lone Surfer of Montana, Kansas. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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