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With the end of Bodies Revealed, Kansas City’s troubled Union Station faces another uncertain future
By Peter Rugg
Published: August 28, 2008
It's still spring, and tickets are selling strong for the Bodies Revealed exhibit in the bowels of Union Station. On this late-April Saturday, the parents of two children...
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Dinner at the Blue Koi
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: August 28, 2008
This hip and stylish dumpling-and-noodle shop started a culinary Chinese revolution on Kansas City’s Restaurant Row by presenting unexpected dishes — Ants on a Tree...
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Dinner at Local Burger
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: August 28, 2008
Hilary Brown opened this organic fast-food shack in 2005, serving burgers made with grass-fed beef (free from hormones and pesticides), buffalo, elk or natural turkey as well...
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Goodguys 7th Midwestern Nationals
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
Remember back when pompadours were piled as high as an elephant's eye, poodle skirts were a national birthright and if you wanted a two-tone gab jacket, you just reached up and...
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Sprint Family Fun Day
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
If you thought Downtown Kansas City's Power & Light district was just for late-night douche-clubbers, mechanical bull-riding aficionados and inexperienced twenty-one-year-olds...
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One Less Car
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
Adopting its name from the smallest amount of fissile material needed to create a nuclear chain reaction, Critical Mass is a culture-jamming cycling event held in cities across...
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Friday Farmers Market at Bad Seed
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
Bad Seed, the only dedicated organic/fair trade/whole food market and gallery space in the Crossroads Art District, hosts an awesome full-scale farmers market every Friday from...
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Chippendales
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
It's rainin' men tonight at the Voodoo Lounge as the Chippendales dancers, shirtless men who nonetheless wear bow ties in order to make the best possible first impression,...
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The Pajama Game
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 28, 2008
Perhaps the lightest, friskiest and most underrated classic of the Broadway musical's golden age, Adler and Ross' workers-versus-management comedy follows labor troubles from...
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Half-Pint Science
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
The main challenge confronting the parents and teachers of freshly-minted children is filling up their empty little noggins with actual knowledge, before their skull bones knit...
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Kansas City Royals vs. Oakland
By Eric Barton
Published: August 28, 2008
Used to be that Sluggerrr had the only raging mullet in Kauffman Stadium’s home dugout. But there’s a new man in town with business in the front and party in the...
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The Messier Sky
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
In 1757, French astronomer Mssr. Charles Messier began watching for the reappearance of Halley's comet based on some calculations by another astronomer which turned out to be...
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12 Baltimore
By Berry Anderson
Published: August 28, 2008
(106 West 12th Street, 816-346-4410). Feel swanky sipping $7.50 wells, $6 import bottles and $5 domestic bottles from 3 to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, 3-6 p.m., 2008
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The Peanut
By Berry Anderson
Published: August 28, 2008
(418 West Ninth Street, 816-221-4740). From 4 to 7 p.m., get down on domestic pitchers for $6.50. For maximum enjoyment, drink with chicken wings. Tuesdays, 4-7 p.m.,...
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John's Big Deck
By Berry Anderson
Published: August 28, 2008
(928 Wyandotte, 816-474-5668). Three floors of $2.50 margaritas, $2 tequila shots and any draft for $2 all night. Tuesdays, 2008
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Open Stage Tuesdays
By Chris Packham
Published: August 28, 2008
Kids working out the kinks in their rap acts, performance poetry, scratching, dramatic monologues -- or really any other art form that can be performed on a stage in front of...
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A Day Off
By Crystal K. Wieb
Published: August 28, 2008
Today is Labor Day. Therefore, labor — especially the mental, stuck-in-the-cubicle kind — probably isn't on your agenda. Even so, you oughta roll out of bed before...
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Historically Entertaining
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: August 28, 2008
This weekend, as that muddy patch of Bonner Springs set aside for the Kansas City Renaissance Festival again leaps back through the ages to a time of jousting, breeches and...
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In Defense of Hemp
By Andrew Miller
Published: August 28, 2008
"Cannabis cannot kill you, and therefore there is no justification behind its illegality," says Jordan Baldwin, organizer of Saturday's Hemp Fest. "The cannabis-hemp plant is...
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Grease is the Word
By Caleb Goellner
Published: August 28, 2008
For most car owners, rust, dust and grease are plagues best left to mechanics. For DIY enthusiasts of old-school hot rods, those things indicate a fun challenge. Gear up for...
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