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Former KC Mayor Kay Barnes tries to sell her small-town roots in her run for Congress
By Justin Kendall
Published: June 12, 2008
A couple of Amish guys ride a horse-powered hayrack past the snow-covered town square in Stanberry, Missouri. The town of 1,243 people is 94 miles north of Kansas City, but it...
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Originality Points
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 12, 2008
Unlike other big-deal productions, The Drowsy Chaperone succeeds without cribbing from popular music (Mamma Mia!), the movies (The Lion King) or a celebrity's life story...
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Sedaris Talks (Pretty)
By Hannah Zimmerman
Published: June 12, 2008
Whether you quote David Sedaris books like they're gospel or are among those folks who can't understand why someone would title a book Me Talk Pretty One Day, now's your chance...
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Local Musical
By Richard Gintowt
Published: June 12, 2008
Rare is the modern independent filmmaker who uses 35-mm film (approximate cost: $250 for four minutes). But Lawrence filmmakers Jeremy Osbern and Chris Blunk had an uncommon...
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Stars, Sea, Style
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 12, 2008
Come showers or dry weather, the West 18th Street Fashion Show will happen at dusk on 18th Street between Baltimore and Wyandotte. And there will be synchronized swimming....
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Fast Balls
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: June 12, 2008
Overland Park normally is not associated with sporting events, save for drunken karaoke, miniature golf and bowling leagues. This changes today, when the U.S. Handball...
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Football
By Penny LaRocque
Published: June 12, 2008
Ever heard of the Lingerie Bowl? You know: pay-per-view's short-lived, controversial alternative to the Super Bowl halftime show in which teams of nearly naked models tackled...
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Futbol
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: June 12, 2008
Major League Soccer can be confusing sometimes. Until recently, both the Columbus Crew and the Kansas City Wizards — which compete in the same league and often in the...
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Tie One On Dad
By Jen Chen
Published: June 12, 2008
Dads and shopping rarely go together — unless it's at this weekend's West Bottoms Urban Bazaar. Tonight, this smorgasbord of shopping and entertainment at the Foundation...
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Work in art
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: June 12, 2008
Vicky Levy was at the front of the classroom, but she was the one who learned the most important lesson about being an artist. The lesson her students taught her: Do what you...
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Keep an Eye on Tony
By S.T. Vockrodt
Published: June 12, 2008
Television improves peoples' lives in different ways. In the case of the Tony Awards — the theater industry's equivalent of the Stanley Cup — the boob tube allows...
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Dog Runway
By Penny LaRocque
Published: June 12, 2008
Dogs and people have been hanging out together for the past 12,000 years, but the human desire to pamper the pooch is a more recent phenomenon. A couple of millennia ago,...
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Stage Smoke
By Hannah Zimmerman
Published: June 12, 2008
If all the jazz hands and overly dramatic singing in old-fashioned Broadway musicals inspire a constant urge to throw whatever is closest to you at the actor, check out Reefer...
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Lars and the Real Girl
Published: June 12, 2008
A screening and discussion of this film starring Ryan Gosling; Lars (Gosling) is a guy who thinks he's found the girl of his dreams in a life-sized love doll named Bianca he...
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Where's Tom?
By Jen Chen
Published: June 12, 2008
There's nothing like free food and beer to draw a crowd, and the geniuses behind GenKC, a new networking group for young professionals in their 20s and 30s, know how to work...
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Jacob Martin: And The Earth Was Born
Published: June 12, 2008
A graduating senior from the Fiber department at Kansas City Art Institute, Jacob Martin presents an installation of larger than life papier- mâché figures...
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Pass the Fried Bananas
By McKay Stangler
Published: June 12, 2008
When it comes to celebrations of cultural heritage, St. Patrick's Day and Cinco de Mayo have long dominated the city's appetite for culinary extravagance, shameless imbibing...
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Gunslingers
By Scott Wilson
Published: June 12, 2008
To mark the 75th anniversary of the 30-second shootout at Union Station that left five dead on June 17, 1933, the Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault's Saturday series this month...
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Take Your Dog to the Movie Night: Gone with the Wind
Published: June 12, 2008
Take your pooch to the park for an outdoor screening of Gone with the Wind, a sweeping romance about the antebellum South, a time and place as mythical as The Lord of the...
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Kill and Pray
By Andrew Miller
Published: June 12, 2008
Though it contains plenty of violent scenes, 1967's Requiescant stands out in the oft-grim spaghetti-Western genre because of its odd, Yojimbo-style sense of humor. Director...
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