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A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: February 21, 2008
It's a horrible time to run for the Kansas City, Missouri, School Board. Yet on a windy January evening, the Durwin Rice Gallery — a two-room storefront near 55th Street...
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Jess Walter
Published: February 21, 2008
National Book Award Finalist, author of The Zero. Helzberg Auditorium, Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, Mo. Wed., Feb. 27, 7 p.m., 2008
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CPR Courses: Heartsaver AED
Published: February 21, 2008
Heartsaver AED: You will learn techniques to save adult, infant and child victims of cardiac or respiratory arrest. This course teaches one-person cardiopulmonary...
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Surprisingly Good
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: February 21, 2008
Unlike the Jonas Brothers — the Disneyfied boy band headlining tonight at the Sprint Center — opening act Rooney actually has some cool cred. Like, did you know...
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Catwalk Fundraiser
By Chris Packham
Published: February 21, 2008
Tonight's Bourbon Street Runway Fashion Show at William Jewell College brings area designers and members of Jewell's Black Student Association together for a Hurricane Katrina...
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Adrenaline Paddling
By Chris Packham
Published: February 21, 2008
If you're getting bored with your enforced sedentary lifestyle this winter, the Kansas City Whitewater Club can help prep you for rugged outdoor adventures in the spring...
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Oscar Party
By Caleb Goellner
Published: February 21, 2008
For the 80th consecutive year, Hollywood's best and brightest assemble tonight for a chance to palm a small naked man named Oscar. To watch who wins, climb upstairs to Louise's...
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Rah, Rah
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: February 21, 2008
Typically, raffle tickets cost a buck or two and come in the form of little stubs. Tonight at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634), a necklace is a raffle ticket, and it costs...
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Bird Tales
By Lorna Perry
Published: February 21, 2008
At some point, most of us consider buying that proverbial doggie in the window. Conscientious types realize that there are plenty of adoptable animals out there, and pets are a...
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Drinking Game
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: February 21, 2008
It is hard to find an activity less healthy than sitting on a bar stool, drinking heavily in a smoke-filled environment. Today, the Ninth-Annual Miller Lite Barstool Open...
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Sanitary and Side-Splitting
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: February 21, 2008
It's not easy to hold the dual titles of comic's comic and crowd favorite simultaneously. But funnyman Brian Regan had the DIY chutzpah to do things his own clean-yet-cutting...
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Black Comedy
By Andrew Miller
Published: February 21, 2008
Black people aren't funny — that's the message the American Film Institute sent in 2000 with its "100 Laughs" list, which included only three movies with African-American...
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Touch It
By Penny LaRocque
Published: February 21, 2008
If you've ever resented the invisible line that separates viewers from the rarefied art at most galleries and museums, head over to the Kansas City Art Institute's H&R Block...
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Sometimes You Feel Like
By Richard Gintowt
Published: February 21, 2008
"You can never be lonely when you have nuts around," Elizabeth Tashjian, the "Nut Lady," told Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. But Tashjian's fleeting celebrity as the nutty...
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KC Style
By Berry Anderson
Published: February 21, 2008
Don't count us out yet. The fashion world might not revolve around Kansas City, but local designers, stylists, models and musicians are proving that this cowtown isn't so...
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Photo Genius
By Penny LaRocque
Published: February 21, 2008
New York photographer Stephen Shore's early years sound like an ambitious art student's to-do list: Discover life's passion by first grade ... check. Sell three works to the...
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Drunk on Power: The developer of downtown's entertainment district fights the neighborhoods' right to party
By David Martin
Published: February 21, 2008
Editor's note: This story was originally published on February 15. This is an updated version. The company that's developing Kansas City's new downtown entertainment district...
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Letters
Games People Play
Readers debate the merits of a governor's son's art-school project, local bands — and threeways.
Published: February 21, 2008
Burnt Ends: "The Idiot Son: A Board Game," February 7 No Fun What was made clear by your piece "The Idiot Son: A Board Game" is that you don't know John Sebelius. I was...
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Ask a Mexican®
You want to know the real source of Mexico's problems? Spain
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: February 21, 2008
Dear Mexican: Why do you suppose Mexico has such a hard time getting its act together? It has vast natural resources, good climate, natural ports, super-generous and...
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Burnt Ends
Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool"
Published: February 21, 2008
In honor of sweeps month, the Department of Burnt Ends looked into a frightening phenomenon. Cue the scary music and the ominous-sounding voice-over: Why did our local...
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