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Home Sweet Parking Lot
When a workingman doesn’t have a home in Johnson County, a Wal-Mart parking lot is the next best thing.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: September 4, 2008
Times are tough all over. Today, several families are visiting the office of Catholic Charities at 333 East Poplar in Olathe, just across the street from Mill Creek Park, a...
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Art That Pops
By Sammy Loren
Published: September 4, 2008
Kansas autumns: cool breezes, auburn leaves and the annual migration of 25,000 Neanderthals — er, college students — into Lawrence proper. This spawns a spike in...
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Walk It Off
By Ben Paynter
Published: September 4, 2008
Boy, Kansas City sure is faaaaat. Unless, of course, KC is skinny. Because according to the past few years of Men's Fitness health studies, both seem true. Our city's composite...
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Celebrating Ink
By Penny LaRocque
Published: September 4, 2008
: See the work of local, national and international printmakers at the grand opening of Inkubator Press, Kansas City's first community fine-art print studio, at Cocoon Gallery...
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Jeremy Rockwell, Jodi Vander Woude and Darren Kennedy
By Penny LaRocque
Published: September 4, 2008
: Mixed media by Rockwell and photography by Woude and Kennedy at the grand opening of Photo Studio B and the B Gallery (2016 Main, 816-994-8995) from 5 to 10 p.m. ...
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Ringling Bros. And Barnum & Bailey Circus
By Chris Packham
Published: September 4, 2008
When the Ringling Brothers circus collided with the Barnum & Bailey circus, the result was three spectacular rings of spectacle, plus clowns. Juggling clowns, clowns in cars,...
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Dinner at Genovese
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 4, 2008
This appealing, very casual Italian restaurant is owned by Subarna Bhattachan and Alejandro Lule – proprietors of Lawrence’s popular La Parilla and Zen Zero dining...
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Asian Games: The Art of the Contest
By Chris Packham
Published: September 4, 2008
This talk by professor William Tsutsui of the University of Kansas spotlights Asian games, sports and puzzles either not known or commonly misunderstood in the West. For...
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Save Earth and Money
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 4, 2008
Feeling guilty about all the nonrenewable resources you blow through to power your house and car? Learn to build and install environmentally and fiscally friendly energy...
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Red Lens, Blue Lens
By Chris Packham
Published: September 4, 2008
The filmmakers, artists and self-described hooligans whose work comprises the multimedia, film and animation road-show Cartune Xpress roll into the Wonder Fair Art Gallery (803...
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Hispanic Pride in JoCo
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: September 4, 2008
Whether it's the abundance of retail chains or the demographic data that skew 90 percent Caucasian, Johnson County doesn't rank too high on the diversity meter. But Johnson...
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Green Screen
By Kenton Schuster
Published: September 4, 2008
Rockhurst University's Fall Film Series is going green, screening films from the beginning of the modern ecological movement. Tonight's showing at Sedgwick Hall at Rockhurst...
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Granfalloon Bar and Grill
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 4, 2008
(608 Ward Parkway, 816-753-7850). Drink $1.50 domestic drafts, $2 wells and $3 import drafts (excluding Guinness) from 4 to 7 p.m. Then argue with others about the status of...
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Happy Hour at 810 Zone
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 4, 2008
Drink $2 domestic bottles, 16-ounce domestic drafts and wells from 4 to 7 p.m. while playing Big Buck Hunter, Pop-A-Shot and Golden Tee. Mondays-Thursdays, 4-7 p.m., 2008
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Fred P. Ott's
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 4, 2008
(4770 J.C. Nichols Parkway, 816-753-2878). From 4 to 7 p.m., enjoy $2 wells, $2.25 domestic drafts, $3 imports and microbrew drafts and $3.25 appetizers. Park and enter in the...
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The Devil is in the Details
By Caleb Goellner
Published: September 4, 2008
Given their sometimes elusive natures, there's a certain mystique surrounding comic book creators. Fans assume they're all free-wheelin' beautiful people speeding their Italian...
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Brunch at You Say Tomato
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 4, 2008
Randy Parks, Mark Wingard and Michael Pouncil opened this combination coffee shop, grocery store and luncheonette in the old Weneck Brothers grocery shop at 28th Street and...
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Get Zydeco
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 4, 2008
Squeezeboxes and crawfish abound today at the Legends at Village West (Interstates 435 and 70 in Kansas City, Kansas). The outdoor Ragin' Cajun Fest rages from 11 a.m. to 9...
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City Market Melon Festival
By Chris Packham
Published: September 4, 2008
To everything there is a season, and every good dog has his day and today in the City Market, where your dog is not welcome, shoppers will be celebrating melons of all shapes...
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Nose Your Alec
By Scott Wilson
Published: September 4, 2008
Alec Guinness was still new to movie audiences when he made David Lean's unsentimental, starkly photographed version of Oliver Twist in 1948. To play pickpocket pimp Fagin, the...
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