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Power & Light vs. Westport
Can KC support two entertainment districts? To find out, we drink our way through them.
By Jen Chen and Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: July 24, 2008
The plan was simple: Send two correspondents out on the same night to Westport and the Power & Light District. Ever since the P&L opened this past spring, we've heard stories...
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Remixed Recyclables
By Penny LaRocque
Published: July 24, 2008
Repurposing objects to make art is hardly a new idea. Kansas City Art Institute grad Robert Rauschenberg, Joseph Cornell and Louise Nevelson (whose monolithic "End of Day:...
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Literary Nor'easter
By Chris Packham
Published: July 24, 2008
It's one thing to sit back in your Shaker chair next to the clipper-ship-decorated Rumford fireplace in your Colonial-style house and read New England author Jennifer Haigh's...
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thought for food
By Peter Rugg
Published: July 24, 2008
One of the best books of 2006 was Cormac McCarthy's The Road, a postapacolyptic trek through a barren wasteland. With the world turned to ashes, the main problem for the book's...
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Water Dragons
By S.T. Vockrodt
Published: July 24, 2008
When city planners first set about developing Brush Creek along the Country Club Plaza, they envisioned an inviting and lively strip where vendors would sell their wares and...
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Pryor Engagement
By Caleb Goellner
Published: July 24, 2008
Matt Pryor has turned out music over the years with the Get Up Kids, the New Amsterdams and the Terrible Twos. But finally, he's just Matt Pryor. Be one of the first to pick up...
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Busking for Better Days
By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 24, 2008
When Winston Apple retired after 21 years of teaching social studies, the local songwriter set his sights on something more realistic than inspiring punk teenagers: ending...
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They Throw Like Girls
By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 24, 2008
In modern baseball, pitchers are like china dolls, treated with dainty care and limited pitch counts so their precious arms don't break. One glance at the herky-jerky motion of...
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Loads of Laughs
By Julie Seabaugh
Published: July 24, 2008
Watching his various specials on HBO, Comedy Central or Showtime, one zeros in on Patrice Oneal's skyrocketing eyebrows, jutting chin and bewildered eyeballs and marvels, "Can...
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Coffee, Tea or Me?
By Lorna Perry
Published: July 24, 2008
Long before '60s-era flight attendants became icons of grace and wholesome beauty, the Harvey Girls held the nation's heart. In 1876, freight agent Fred Harvey opened a depot...
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Common Grounds Book Group
Published: July 24, 2008
The Common Grounds Book Group hosts author Thomas Fox Averill for a discussion of his novel, Secrets of the Tsil Cafe. Sat., July 26, 10:30 a.m., 2008
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the road to houlihan's
By McKay Stangler
Published: July 24, 2008
The intrinsic appeal of the Country Club Plaza has always been more than merely highbrow shopping and people watching. No, the draws for natives and visitors alike are the...
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Boys Will Be Boys
By Andrew Miller
Published: July 24, 2008
Traditionally, outdoor screenings feature kid-friendly movies, the type families can watch together on a jumbo-sized picnic blanket. Animal House, which begins at 9 tonight at...
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Sick Jokes
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: July 24, 2008
What do corn chips, George Carlin, Fred Phelps, Kirk Cameron and Vaseline have to do with one another?Ew. No, that's not it. They're all references sprinkled like confetti...
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Purty Hat Night
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: July 24, 2008
The team the Royals would like to become visits the K on Thursday. The Tampa Bay Rays are everything Royals fans have been promised but has never come to fruition: a young,...
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Open Mic with The Recipe Poetry Guild
Published: July 24, 2008
Open Mic Night hosted by The Recipe, a spoken word duo. We are shopping for seasoning and growing ingredients of talent at our events, marinating the stage for local success....
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Burnt Ends
Ever wonder what happened to that disgraced, dismissed or promoted TV type? Here’s where they are now.
Published: July 24, 2008
It's revolving-door time in the local TV news business. On July 5, veteran meteorologist Pete Grigsby gave his last weather report for KMBC Channel 9. The tanfastic, sharply...
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Letters
Letters From the Week of July 24
Published: July 24, 2008
Feature: "Children Left Behind," July 10 A Bigger Voice I am an audiologist in the Kansas City area who has just started working with children with auditory processing...
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Ask a Mexican®
The Mexican asked for your vote on corn vs. flour, and you gave him a steaming fajita plate full of them
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 24, 2008
Dear Readers: Gracias, merci, obrigado for the many submissions in my contest asking readers to argue, in 25 words, why corn tortillas are superior to flour, or vice versa....
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Interview
For the ACB’s, pop perfection is as easy as, well, 1-3-2
By Aaron Ladage
Published: July 24, 2008
"Everyone Wants To See You," by the ACBs, from The ACBs (self-released): Creating the perfect pop song is a lot harder than it looks. Take the Beatles' "Yesterday," for...
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