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Night & Day
Actual Stars
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: June 18, 2009
It's one thing to have stars in your eyes and quite another to look up and actually watch the stars. Of course, unless one knows something about the heavens, it's hard to...
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Night & Day
Car Show
Published: June 18, 2009
Hundreds of classic cars, muscle cars, hot rods, rat rods, exotics and imports will be on display in a casual, un-judged atmosphere during the KCI Cruise Night. Bring lawn...
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Night & Day
Father's Day at Golden Ox
Published: June 18, 2009
Kansas City's historic Golden Ox Steak House Restaurant will offer its regular Sunday Buffet in a "Beefed Up" version for Father's Day. Sun., June 21, 11 a.m.-4 p.m.,...
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Calcium Deposit
By David Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
Dairy farmers Leroy and Barbara Shatto, of Osborn, Missouri, used to sell their milk to cooperatives. Tired of losing money, the Shattos took a chance and bought the equipment...
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Night & Day
Pursuit of Happyness
Published: June 18, 2009
In The Pursuit of Happyness, Will Smith plays a homeless single parent who works an unpaid internship at a top brokerage firm, hoping for a shot at a lucrative career. Based on...
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Night & Day
New Art in the Old Neighborhood
By Chris Packham
Published: June 18, 2009
The historic Northeast has its share of small, independent art galleries, most of which sit out the spectacle of Kansas City's First Fridays in favor of Third Friday openings....
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I-35 Collaboration
By Chris Packham
Published: June 18, 2009
June's First Friday was a harmonic convergence of perfect weather, art openings, street performances and alleged instances of free boxed wine that The Pitch cannot confirm or...
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Rhoades Out Of the '70s
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: June 18, 2009
Darryl Rhoades is a cool guy. You can tell by the fact that he wears his dark sunglasses onstage at comedy clubs. His long, gray ponytail is indicative of something, too...
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The Indie 600
By Brent Shepherd
Published: June 18, 2009
The Just Off Broadway Theatre (3051 Central in Penn Valley Park) is ground zero for a frenzied day of guerrilla cinema when the Independent Filmmakers Coalition of Kansas City...
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Improv Marathon
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: June 18, 2009
There's always the annual Bloomsday, last weekend's through-the-night celebration of the brick-thick and glorious puzzle Ulysses, but this year offers fans of wild, brainy,...
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Night & Day
KC Storm
Published: June 18, 2009
In the last home game of the regular season, the ladies of the KC Storm take on female football players from Des Moines. Tickets are $8. Sat., June 20, 7 p.m., 2009
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Night & Day
Dark Horse Tavern
By Berry Anderson
Published: June 18, 2009
(4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3003). Go to Westport for $2.50 Leinenkugels and games that start at 7 and 9:30 p.m. Mondays, 7 & 9:30 p.m., 2006
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Martin
Trying to save Leavenworth from Gitmo detainees, Sen. Sam Brownback lacks good intelligence
By David Martin
Published: June 18, 2009
Leavenworth used to take hard cases without flinching. A military prison opened at Fort Leavenworth in 1875. Twelve Nazi prisoners of war marched to its gallows in 1945....
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Town Without Pity
No guitar? No problem — if you have the nerve to let it rip on an air ax.
By Scott Wilson
Published: June 18, 2009
We've all done it. The Van Halen is loud, the place is all yours, and so you jam a little air. More than a little — you wail on that invisible ax, your features distorted...
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Studies in Crap
The Old Slow News Day
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: June 18, 2009
Title: Sports, classified and TV sections of the Kansas City Kansan Date: Sunday, May 7, 1967 Discovered at: Fairway estate sale Representative quotes: “Proud...
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Letters
Letters from the week
of June 18Published: June 18, 2009
Studies in Crap: "That was entertainment," May 28 Century's End — Not I really enjoyed the recent Studies in Crap article "That Was Entertainment." The final tidbit was...
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Ask a Mexican®
The quality of gabachos in Tijuana and the rules of funeral food
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: June 18, 2009
Dear Mexican: I write to you with a doubt that's similar to the one Incensed in Chicago felt a couple of weeks ago, when her friend couldn't believe that Mexicans worked in...
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Interview
The Architects prepare to work their fourth release, The Hard Way, all summer on Warped Tour
By Peter Rugg
Published: June 18, 2009
If ever an album title summed up the makers, it's the Architects' fourth record, The Hard Way. As soon as the album is released this month, the group will leave Kansas City...
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Wayward Son
Highway to Hip-Hop: Kansas City rapper James Christos and crew pack up the van and hit the road DIY-style
By Jason Harper
Published: June 18, 2009
Beef-jerky-fueled, get-in-the-van touring isn't part of the process for unsigned hip-hop acts. And that's why underground bomber James Christos is hitting the road. This...
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CD Reviews
Blue Riddim Band
Ska Inferno
(Markosa Records)By Richard Gintowt
Published: June 18, 2009
The revival of the Blue Riddim Band has been one of this year's best surprises in the Kansas City music scene. The 30-year-old reggae-ska-dub collective is hard at work cooking...
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