KC Gallery Owner, Playboy, and Ireland
I think there’s an interesting story trying to get out in this column by Hearne Christopher Jnr. in the Kansas City Star.
Basically the artist/photographer Jodi Vander Woude who operates Photo Studio B and the B Gallery in the Crossroads with actor/photographer Darren Kennedy, used to be with Playboy’s “Girls of Ireland”:
Vander Woude crisscrossed the country scouting locations, testing and retesting playmate wannabes, stirring up controversy every inch of the way.
“It was cool because the BBC came, it was such a big deal that we were there,” she says. “And both the Catholics and the Protestants were protesting — they just weren’t happy. It was like, ‘We’ve existed all these years without Playboy and we don’t need you now.’ ”
There’s more from the time on “Girls of Ireland” from the Irish Examiner.
I wouldn’t know of course, because I was in Kansas City at the time.
See Also:
• News From An Irish Paper
• Clontarf Irish Whiskey
• Ireland Like Kansas (Kevin Myers)
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