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Derrick Foster, Mother Clucker

Mother Clucker set to reopen Friday; bringing heat with spicy chicken perched for nationwide expansion

National expansion is on the menu for Kansas City-fried fast-casual hotspot Mother Clucker.  But the chicken with a cult following has one hurdle in front of it — getting to the other side of COVID-19, said Derrick Foster. “Right before the pandemic hit we got approved to become a national franchise,” Foster, the founder and owner,…

Evan Brown, Doodle Dood

Doodle Dood paints between lines of business and art with Iron District mural, apparel

Evan Brown refuses to draw out his accomplishments — or even the failures behind them — as he paints the career of a budding illustrator and muralist, he said. “I don’t really dwell. … That might be the reason I’ve been getting more and more projects within the past year,” said Brown, KC-based maker and…