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Recent Articles By C.J. Janovy

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    With nowhere else to turn, Funkhouser listens to a visitor's advice.
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    How I got steamed on a trip to the air-conditioned Plaza.
  • Breathe, People
    No one should have expected Funkhouser's first weeks in office to go down easy.
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    A Kansas City scientist wants to go where no scientist has gone before: the male birth-control pill.
  • WyCo's Wrath
    Brave librarians in Kansas City, Kansas, encourage a radical act.

National Features

  • Houston Press
    "It Was Like an Armageddon Movie"

    For days after Hurricane Rita, a Texas prison was hell on earth.

    By Chris Vogel
  • SF Weekly
    The Candidate

    Our columnist knows Ralph Nader's running mate all too well.

    By Matt Smith
  • Village Voice
    Project Runaway

    What becomes a gossip columnist most?

    By Michael Musto

A field of dirt and 9,000 red poppies — each flower representing a thousand dead soldiers — lies beneath the entryway to the National World War I Museum (100 West 26th Street, 816-784-1918). Inside, Europe begins to disintegrate as nations industrialize in the early 20th century. When war breaks out, it's a heartbreaking amalgamation of such old tools as horse-drawn wagons and horrific new technology like rapid-fire machine guns and chemical weapons. Everyone fought — even small children rolled gauze for bandages after school. Today, following a 10 a.m. performance by the American Legion Band, a color-guard parade and a wreath-laying ceremony, the museum opens at 11 a.m. with free admission in honor of Veterans Day. Few of us are actually participating in the current war; paying respect to this old conflict seems appropriate.
Nov. 10-11, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 2007

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