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Can't get a Catholic exorcism in Kansas City? James Vivian is here to help
By Peter Rugg
Published: April 17, 2008
James Vivian puts on scrubs as if he's preparing for surgery. He wraps a silver cross on a chain around his wrist. Next to the leather recliner, he sets a plastic bucket lined...
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Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life
Published: April 17, 2008
Part of the Kansas City Public Library's Sounds of Silents film series. Third Saturday of every month, 3:30 p.m. Starts: April 19. Continues through June 21, 2008
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Beefy Pitcher
By David Martin
Published: April 17, 2008
The Kansas City Royals struggle to put runs on the scoreboard. The task gets more difficult this weekend with the arrival of the pitching-rich Cleveland Indians. The Royals are...
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If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
Published: April 17, 2008
Based on the popular book series by Laura Joffe Numeroff, this hilarious play rollicks with the mishaps and mayhem that begin when Mouse comes to visit. The well-meaning but...
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Guest Writers Workshop Series
Published: April 17, 2008
Discuss a broad spectrum of topics like travel, food, religion, the arts, fashion, politics, sports, people, sex, architecture and life-styles. Third Sunday of every...
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Unchained Restaurants
By Penny LaRocque
Published: April 17, 2008
If the idea of another predictable restaurant outing has you contemplating a long-term fast, head to Bar Natasha (1911 Main, 816-472-5300) tonight between 5 and 9 p.m. to...
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Midwestern Skin
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: April 17, 2008
Author Scott Heim may live on the East Coast now, but he's a Midwestern writer at heart. Born in 1966 in Hutchinson, Heim is a University of Kansas grad best known for his...
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You Know the Lines
By Andrew Miller
Published: April 17, 2008
Released in 1994, Pulp Fiction proved that films addressing heavy topics could still maintain an absurd comic tone. Writers Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary infused hit men,...
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420 on 4/19
By Berry Anderson
Published: April 17, 2008
Given the growing social acceptance of cannabis consumption, it's only a matter of time before pot smokers the world over ditch those paper-towel rolls stuffed with Bounce...
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Ambulatory Ecophilanthropy
By Chris Packham
Published: April 17, 2008
Left unchecked, cities tend to expand into every available undeveloped square mile, choking off native flora and fauna in favor of Citgo stations and highway interchanges...
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Relevant History
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: April 17, 2008
Please, take a second, shake off the pace of modern life and do whatever mental dustbusting you must to prep your mind for staring, for just a breath or two, into a verse of...
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Heroine on the Field
By McKay Stangler
Published: April 17, 2008
The story didn't end with Geena Davis. A League of Their Own, the 1992 film that briefly put women's professional baseball at the center of the cultural landscape, focused on...
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Eco Honesty
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: April 17, 2008
Green consumers will feel they're doing Mother Earth proud when they grab their reusable tote bags and drive their hybrid cars to Earth Day events this week. To Derrick Jensen,...
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Paris in the Springtime
By Scott Wilson
Published: April 17, 2008
Get Apriled in Paris this weekend without traveling farther than Overland Park. Johnson County Community College stamps your passport for four free French movies at the...
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Hail Mighty Thespis
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: April 17, 2008
Theater people are used to traveling long distances to practice their trade. Once a year, it's to Independence, Kansas. (Town motto: "No, the other Independence.") There, the...
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Greasers Invited
By Lorna Perry
Published: April 17, 2008
Nothing says rockabilly like coiffed hair, hep moves and cars with fins — all of which will be part of tonight's full-on Rockabilly Prom. Rock-N-Ride, a group of local...
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Oomph and Doomph
By Scott Wilson
Published: April 17, 2008
The Kansas City, Missouri, Public Library ends its Sounds of Silents series today with Louise Brooks' good-girl-gone-better-when-she's-bad classic Diary of a Lost Girl. The...
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Seasonal Warp
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: April 17, 2008
Halloween seems like a natural time to stage The Rocky Horror Show. But, really, fishnets and transsexuals from outer space are exciting any time of year. Hence, Johnson County...
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Kansas RaceFest Spring 2008
Published: April 17, 2008
Race fans will be able to view race show cars and seek autographs from drivers. Thu., April 24, 5-8 p.m., 2008
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Getting the Band Back Together
By Chris Packham
Published: April 17, 2008
"When you're in your 20s, it's your job to be an asshole," says Kids in the Hall founding member Kevin McDonald. "But when you're in your 40s, you're calmer, you maybe have...
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