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🌾 Taco Fest, Anime Festival, Dodgeball Tourny & More

🌾 Taco Fest, Anime Festival, Dodgeball Tourny & More

Busy weekend ahead!

Landon Huslig
June 27, 2025

TOGETHER WITH

Good morning, Wichita!

We did it! As of June 17th, we’re no longer in a drought!

Let's get to it!

- Landon

Your Weekend Itenerary

This weekend is crazy busy. I’ll give you a quick example of what your weekend could look like:

you get off work tonight and head to one of the College Happy Hour Hotspots for drinks and dinner
Drive up to Charles Koch Arena to watch The Bronze Bomber (former champ Deontay Wilder) and Wichita local Nico Hernandez take to the boxing ring
Or if boxing isn’t your thing, maybe you head over to Riverflix to watch Raiders of the Lost Ark
When you get up Saturday, you can head over to Anime Fest Wichita at the Hyatt starting as early as 10am
Wichita’s premier taco event, Taco Fest kicks off at 3pm at the Fountains at the WaterWalk
Once you’ve filled up on Tacos, make your way across the bridge to Equity Bank Park to watch the Average Joe’s take on the Globo Tubs in a championship Dodgeball game in the outfield at 5:30pm before watching the Wind Surge take on Springfield for Dodgeball Night

Nothing to do in Wichita, huh? HA!

Together with Meritrust Credit Union

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When we started Wichita Life, we needed a credit union.

We didn't want just any credit union though, we wanted one we could walk into and talk to a person face to face if or when we needed help.

That's why we chose Meritrust for our business account, our auto loan and even our mortgage.

With 10 branches in the Wichita area and plenty of ATMS / ITMs, we know help is close.

Plus, their app makes life easy. No more dragging kids around just to deposit a check.

Meritrust is what works for us. That's why we trust them with... pretty much everything.

LOCAL BUSINESS

Opening

Golden Chick - 1705 S Webb Rd - Now Open
Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers - 350 S Ridge Rd - Now Open
Kanai - In-Home Private Dinner - Now Booking
Wichita BBQ Store Grand Opening - 3204 N Maize Rd - Grand Opening tomorrow!
Thai Riffic - Former Food Truck only taking over 131 E Kay St in Derby (former Sharon’s Place & Peaceful Pachyderm) - Opening TBD

Ken N Barbie’z Rollin Diner

Ken N Barbie’z food truck has been around a long time and it was just destroyed in a fire. You can help support these local entrepreneurs here.

East vs West

This is a great breakdown of restaurants that decided to start west before east and how that worked out for them. Inspired by the recent opening of Raising Cane’s on the west side. If you’re getting paywalled, try this link.

Costco Hour Change

PSA for Kansas Costco shoppers, starting on Monday - “executive member” shopping will run 9-10am Monday - Friday, 9-9:30am on Saturday, and 9-10am on Sunday.

Together with The Podcast Room

Have you always wanted to start a podcast, but don’t know where to start?

Let’s stop you right there.

Call Troy at The Podcast Room and let the Trussell Media Studios team take care of you.

All you have to do is show up and chat.

CIVIL

6 Inches

Cheney Lake is just 6 inches from it’s “normal” height.

Stage 2 water restrictions will stick around for a while though.

Bleckley Street

The infamous Bleckley Street in Crown Heights floods often and it can be dangerous.

There is a $36 million, 3-year project to address this starting next week.

Fireworks

Fireworks are on sale today through July 5th - 10am to Midnight. Aerial fireworks are only allowed from July 3 - July 5 in Wichita. Some stands have aleady been open.

LOCAL

Red Panda

Rest in peace to CJ the 4 year old red panda at Sedgwick County Zoo. He died following an illness.

Dam Jam Cancelled

Dam Jam was officially cancelled for 2025.

It will be held July 17-18, 2026 at the Winfield Fairgrounds.

Wichita Shows Up

We have a busy week coming up, but I wanted to highlight something I think is pretty special. Wichita has showed UP for some of the bigger events recently:

Athletes Unlimited Softball League has ended its first season at WSU’s Wilkins stadium that nearly sold out 2/3 of their 24 games.
Somewhere Fest brought 15,000 attendees from 6 countries and 31 states. This is up from ~12,000 in 2024.
Riverfest had a total of 151,000 attendees, up from 116,600 last year.

Did you go to any of these events?

let us know what else you'd be excited to attend!

ICT EXTRA

Top clicks of the week 🖱️

Shepherd’s Way Fundraiser

Support a great cause and enter to win a 2016 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy Motorcycle!

TBT Bracket

To no one’s surprise, Charles Koch Arena will host The Basketball Tournament (TBT) this year. This is the $1 million, winner-take-all summer basketball tournament.

The bracket was just released!