Toadally Random (Visual)

 Each issue, we like to feature a handful of random things we’ve found that we like about Joplin. Sometimes it’s the quirky little things that make a community great, and here’s where we celebrate them.

ITEM 1: community art canvas, coordinated and artfully unified by Autumn and Maggie Neuenschwander.

Originally created as part of Frosted Cakerie’s “Bob Ross day,” this community art canvas was set up on an easel to be worked on by customers as they ate their happy little tree cookies. It got a lot fuller during March’s downtown third thursday event. The canvas was the brainchild of local potter and Frosted employee Autumn, who wanted to invite Joplin residents to contribute to a piece of artwork together depicting their favorite things about Joplin.

It’s all pretty sweet.

Item 2: the ongoing titles of specials by the Bruncheonette.

You out of towners may not be familiar with the bruncheonette, but let’s just say if an angel descended upon the earth and became a breakfast restaurant, that angel would be called the bruncheonette. Bigger cities can’t even top those bennies (that’s eggs Benedict for you less versed in the lingo of breakfastery) and the specials are named in a way that remind us of a certain cartoon character.

Here’s a few of our favorite specials, collected here for you to enjoy.

more? yes yes, there’s more.

We’re out of room here, but you can follow the bruncheonette on instagram or facebook for your own steady updates.