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A 120-year-old Warrensburg schoolhouse is still separate and not equal
By Scott Wilson
Published: June 4, 2009
The signs help. On the western edge of Warrensburg, Missouri, past Sunset Hill Cemetery and south of West North Street, new-looking markers point out the easy turns that lead...
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Zombie Walk
By Chris Packham
Published: June 4, 2009
The zombie trend was a durable cultural fixture during the dread and paranoia of the Bush administration. Can it survive the optimism and hope of the Obama years? Maybe we'll...
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The Slap-n-Tickle
By Chris Packham
Published: June 4, 2009
(504 East 18th Street, 816-716-5940) opens an exhibit of mysterious photographic erotica by Keren Moscovitch, an adjunct professor at New York's School of Visual Arts. "I did a...
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Women Tackling Women
By Berry Anderson
Published: June 4, 2009
Kansas City has no professional basketball or hockey team, but it does have three women's tackle-football teams. The Women's Football Alliance sponsors two of them: the KC...
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'80s Nostalgia
By Richard Gintowt
Published: June 4, 2009
At some point during the past decade, it became acceptable to like Hall & Oates for kitschy reasons. Then something worse happened: People started liking them for their songs....
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Swagger
By Berry Anderson
Published: June 4, 2009
(8431 Wornall, 816-361-4388). From 3 to 7 p.m., score $3 wells, $2.25 domestic bottles and $3.25 calls. This bar attracts a surprisingly young crowd. The Buddy Lush Phenomenon...
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The Piano Room
By Berr Anderson
Published: June 4, 2009
(8410 Wornall, 816-363-8722). From 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. at this pseudo-classy bar behind Church's Chicken, drink Skyy Grape bombs for $4 or a Nutty Elena for $3.50. The latter is...
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Flo's Polk-A-Dot Lounge
By Berry Anderson
Published: June 4, 2009
Open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 3 a.m., Flo's has $2.75 domestic bottles and $3 wells that taste great accompanying the sweet smell of barbecue coming from...
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Tiananmen Memoir
By Robert Folsom
Published: June 4, 2009
On June 4, 1989, tanks moved into Tiananmen Square to quell student protests sparked by the death of Hu Yaobang, who had supported reforms toward capitalism in the People's...
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What's It Worth?
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: June 4, 2009
Don't you even think of tossing out Great-Aunt Myrtle's 1960s brooch encrusted with fake gemstones! What may look outré to you could be worth a small fortune. Sure, it's...
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Out and Proud
By Emily Farris
Published: June 4, 2009
Bust out the rainbow suspenders and big sunglasses — it's time for the 31st-annual Kansas City Pride Festival. Named by The Advocate last year as one of the top 10...
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Badseed Market
By Chris Packham
Published: June 4, 2009
Through a long, cold winter and a cold, wet spring, we really missed the local vendors and organic eats at Badseed Market (1909 McGee, 913-522-3458). Seriously — it's,...
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Photographs by Daniel Farnum
Published: June 4, 2009
Check out the opening reception of Daniel Farnum's photography exhibit, The New Country. The photographs in this series express a modern desire to connect to a traditional...
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Hot Doggin' It
By Owen Morris
Published: June 4, 2009
What sporting event on July 4 is nearly 100 years old and draws more than a million viewers and attendees? Why, the largest eating competition in the world, of course —...
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Local Looks
By Annie Fischer
Published: June 4, 2009
The West 18th Street Fashion Show has become an early summer tradition for the Crossroads crowd in the nine years since its inception. This year's theme: "Summer in Space." As...
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Lost and Found
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 4, 2009
If you listen to This American Life, you may have heard Davy Rothbart. His contributions to the show usually spring from the found objects — letters, notes, children's...
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Westside Party
By Annie Fischer
Published: June 4, 2009
As the traditionally Hispanic Westside neighborhood in downtown KC continues to shape-shift — and change colors — the time seems particularly ripe for the...
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Dichos: Words To Live, Love And Laugh By
Published: June 4, 2009
Truck and bus drivers in many parts of Latin America take great delight in inscribing dichos, a saying, proverb, or amusing expression, on the bumpers and other surfaces of...
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Warren Solo
By Annie Fischer
Published: June 4, 2009
The work by Kansas City photographer Jaimie Warren is deliberate but not overly calculated, purposeful but not single-minded, meaningful without the long face. In other words,...
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HAIR
Published: June 4, 2009
Padgett Productions brings to the stage the tribal love-rock musical HAIR, one of the most powerful pieces of theatre, still every bit as potent as when it moved to Broadway...
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