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Feature
A Boy's Life
The Supreme Court effectively threw out the Kansas Sodomy Law, but Attorney General Phill Kline won't let Matthew Limon out of jail.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: January 22, 2004
Before Matthew Limon joined the ranks of prisoners at the Ellsworth Correctional Facility in Kansas, he probably would not have marched for gay rights. He probably never would...
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See/Be Seen
Film Scraps
Use whatever you can.
By Nadia Pflaum and Steve Walker
Published: January 8, 2004
WED 1/14 Among this year's most intoxicating film footage was the recycled material found in Andrew Jarecki's Capturing the Friedmans. What started as a movie about the world...
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State Lines
Church and Skate
Gardner flips for the number one B-boy.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 25, 2003
The doors to the gym at Gardner's Nike Intermediate School open, and 490 kids stream in, followed by their teachers. One teacher asks another what this assembly is about. The...
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Sports/Outdoors
Home Invasion
The house is a home until it's overrun by Santa.
By Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Christopher Sebela
Published: December 25, 2003
ONGOING A lot about Christmas is unintentionally frightening. If the memory of getting plopped down on a stranger's lap in a shopping mall makes you shudder, the house at 7611...
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Performance
Oy Howdy
It's the dawn of Ozarkian klezmer.
By Gina Kaufmann and Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 4, 2003
SUN 12/7 Jordan Wax is what one might call a Jewbilly. The 21-year-old musician from the Ozark borderlands -- who performs in both a Cajun band and an old-time string band --...
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See/Be Seen
This Little Piggy
An artist inks swine.
By Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Steve Walker
Published: November 27, 2003
11/28-12/27 If all you knew about Renée Laferriere was that she made the tattooed pigskin garments on display at the Byron Cohen Gallery (2020 Baltimore, 816-421-5665),...
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Feature
Spoil Spurt
It started with Boys Vs. Girls and more childish games have been marring the local graffiti scene every since.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: November 13, 2003
Among the city's legions of skateboarders, hip-hoppers, break dancers and Art Institute kids, it was an anyone-who's-anyone-will-be-there event. And the Next Space, a...
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Kid Stuff
Good Grief
Go to the library, you blockhead.
By Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: November 13, 2003
TUE 11/18 During Halloween season, we always think of Charles Schultz and his kid-cartoon masterpiece It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown. This is quite possibly the best...
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Performance
Get Up, Stand Up
Comics trade laughs for college funds.
By Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: November 13, 2003
11/13-11/15 Depending on whether you have cable or network TV and whether you're willing to watch either, you may recognize comedians Rich Vos and Dave Mordal from NBC's...
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Sports/Outdoors
Fall Harvest
Farmers markets are scarier but still open.
By Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: October 30, 2003
The City Market (Fifth Street and Walnut) will still sell fall produce when it changes over to winter hours this weekend. If you want a pumpkin, this is still the place to get...
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Night & Day
Art Scare
A couple of Nelson curators unmask our deepest fears.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: October 23, 2003
Joyce Youmans and Leesa Fanning fear nothing. They can laugh in the face of the hooded, scythe-carrying figure of Death and raise a cool eyebrow to a hissing, dripping-fanged...
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Performance
Tap on Scrap
The Lied Center gets trashed.
By Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: October 23, 2003
TUE 10/28 If the phrases artillery shell and exceptional musicians don't mesh well with your delicate sensibilities, that's just what the performers of Scrap Arts Music were...
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Sports/Outdoors
Four More Years
Women play a post-World Cup game in KC.
By Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: October 16, 2003
WED 10/22 Arrowhead Stadium will have a significantly different vibe this Wednesday. Whereas the usual action on the Chiefs' home field involves brute power and battle tactics,...
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Kid Stuff
Between the Lines
Kids become entrepreneurs -- and published authors.
By Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: October 16, 2003
ONGOING During the summer of 1999, fourteen kids from Kansas City's urban core came together and followed that age-old advice for writers: "Write what you know." The result is...
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Sports/Outdoors
On the Trail
Bikers enjoy Missouri scenery -- for a good cause.
By Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
Published: October 2, 2003
SAT 10/4 With the awesome biking trails in our region, it seems a shame not to take advantage. This weekend's AIDS Ride (an AIDS Walk spinoff) should be a worthwhile way to...
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