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Feature
Scenes from the health-care struggle in Jefferson City
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: June 11, 2009
The walls of the Capitol in Jefferson City are etched with lofty phrases about liberty and justice. But the quotes from long-buried visionaries aren't what make Adrain Graham...
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Critic's Choice
Ziggy Marley
By Ernest Barteldes
Published: June 11, 2009
Few people might realize this, but 40-year-old Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter Ziggy Marley is a dad to five young children, which makes his latest disc, Family Time, more...
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CD Reviews
Sometimes Three
Pardon the Invasion
(Fentik Music)By Berry Anderson
Published: June 11, 2009
There's that music that teenage girls love. It has a pleading voice and earnest lyrics. It's catchy, and its platitudes stick in naïve minds like Hubba Bubba in braces....
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Night & Day
Watchmen Watcher
By Annie Fischer
Published: June 11, 2009
Photographer Clay Enos has been shooting rock-and-roll photos for years, but the publication of his most recent work has reached a far wider audience: fans of the cult hit...
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Night & Day
MultiLingual Poetry
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 11, 2009
His name may sound Spanish, but poet Craig Santos Perez hails from the Pacific island of Guam. The poems in his new book, From Unincorporated Territories, reflect his island...
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Night & Day
Pizza with a Side of Folk
By Berry Anderson
Published: June 11, 2009
Is anything better than zuppa, insalata e vino? Enjoying them with folk music, of course! The four metro locations of Spin Neopolitan Pizza invite those with a taste for...
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Night & Day
Skate Fest
By Ben Westhoff
Published: June 11, 2009
Kansas City native and BMX freestyle pro Rick Thorne has 27 screws in his head. He also once broke his palate and his eye socket when he crashed into the corner of a loading...
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Night & Day
Crossroads Cuisine
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: June 11, 2009
If gazing at art, gawking at people and feeling in with the in crowd make up the allure of First Fridays in the Crossroads District, then the second Sunday of this month...
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Night & Day
Ph-iesta
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 11, 2009
Fiesta may imply a Mexican party, but this weekend, a totally different ethnic group has latched onto the word for its alliterative value. With Fiesta Filipina, the Filipino...
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Local History
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: June 11, 2009
The Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel, Warren R. Watkins Jr. is proud to say, is the oldest continuously operating black-owned business in Missouri. He is the third-generation...
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Night & Day
Biker Babes
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: June 11, 2009
The Hittem Hard Motorcycle Club, Kansas City's all-women riding association, puts on its fifth-annual Biker Fear Factor competition today at its clubhouse at 3040 Manchester...
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Night & Day
New-Age Folk
By Richard Gintowt
Published: June 11, 2009
On their current tour, New York's Gypsy Nomads are playing venues with such names as Witches Brew, Faerie Moon, Heart of the Dragon, Goddess Blessed, Mystickal Voyage and...
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Night & Day
Jorge Garcia Almodovar
Published: June 11, 2009
In his first solo exhibition since receiving the prestigious 2008 Charlotte Street Foundation Award, Jorge Garcia Almodovar continues to implement interactive materials into...
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Wall Street
Published: June 11, 2009
Michael Douglas may reprise his Oscar-winning role as infamous investor and corporate raider Gordon Gecko in Money Never Sleeps, due in 2011. Greed certainly makes for good...
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Night & Day
Beer Pong for Babies
Published: June 11, 2009
Beer Pong is a game in which players throw a ping-pong ball across a table to land the ball in one of six cups set up in a triangle formation. When a ball lands in a cup, the...
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Night & Day
Folding Light
Published: June 11, 2009
A collaborative multi-media video piece by Nancy Loo Bjorge, Jim Jewel and Marty Olson that includes stop-motion paper folding, LED lights, and audio. The artists encourage...
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Jog the Dog
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 11, 2009
Those with cynophobia should steer clear of the Country Club Plaza from 7 to 10:30 a.m. today — the plush shopping district will be overrun with dogs. Canine attendance...
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End of the Line
By Alan Scherstuh
Published: June 11, 2009
Tom Moriarty knows how to sell a play: "There's a drug deal gone wrong, and then it's just rock and roll from there" is how he describes Desperate Times — Desperate...
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Raging C-3PO
By Chris Packham
Published: June 11, 2009
In his science-fiction stories, elder nerdsman Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics that, without going into a lot of detail, would have seriously hindered any robot...
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Night & Day
Free Street Fest
Published: June 11, 2009
The KCK Arts Network presents the 1st Annual Downtown KCK Street Festival as part of the Second Friday Art Walk. The free event will also be the kickoff for the KCK Downtown...
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