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Night & Day
How Do You Say It?
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: July 2, 2009
As dizzying selections of beer go, Flying Saucer Draught Emporium has the market cornered in the Power & Light District. The restaurant's beer list stretches for miles and...
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Night & Day
City of Olathe
By Berry Anderson
Published: July 2, 2009
At the Great Mall of the Great Plains (20700 West 151st Street, 913-829-6277) are Perfume Palace of Kansas, Scrappers Paradise, Lids for Less — and a huge fireworks show...
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Night & Day
TAG
By Chris Packham
Published: July 2, 2009
Prolific Kansas City artist and designer Erick Warner teams up with Travis McElhany for TAG, an exhibit of collaborative and solo paintings at the Third Eye gallery space at...
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THE BIGGEST BANG FOR NO BUCKS
By Brent Shepherd
Published: July 2, 2009
This summer more than ever, families could use a break from economic woes. So wouldn't it be great if the phrase "free family fun" meant exactly that? Enter the Pilgrim Chapel...
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Night & Day
Double Eights by Megan Bourque
Published: July 2, 2009
Kansas City artist Megan Bourque creates illustrations that are result of watching much television and reading few books. The sometimes bare and always colorless compositions...
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Night & Day
Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
By Chris Packham
Published: July 2, 2009
Dr. Sketchy's art nights, a national phenomenon that has its local base in the West Bottoms, proceed from the premise that figure drawing should be fun, as opposed to the...
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Night & Day
Soccer and patriotism
By David Martin
Published: July 2, 2009
Football and soccer each has its Glenn Warner. Football's Warner, better known as "Pop," was a successful college coach who helped popularize youth football. Soccer's Warner...
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Night & Day
Rin Tin Tin X
Published: July 2, 2009
Rin Tin Tin, "the world's most famous German Shepherd" will make a personal appearance at the Museum on Independence Day. Rin Tin Tin X, the direct descendant of the original...
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Night & Day
Dr. Steven Hawley Presents Galileo, Apollo, and Beyond
Published: July 2, 2009
Participate in the International Year of Astronomy when Dr. Steven Hawley - astronomer, astrophysicist and five-time astronaut - presents Galileo, Apollo, and Beyond. ...
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Night & Day
Johnny America #7
Published: July 2, 2009
Wonder Fair Art Gallery & the Moon Rabbit Drinking Club and Benevolence Society present a magazine release party plus exhibition of 10 illuminated assemblages by Jonathan...
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Town Without Pity
The City Council moves to keep the Kansas City Plant’s warm glow close to home
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: July 2, 2009
When the feds sell a project, by God, they really sell a project. Representatives from the National Nuclear Security Administration and the General Services Administration...
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Letters
Letters from the week
of July 2Published: July 2, 2009
Martin: "Making Her Mark," June 11 Mark One Monitor? Why is it that so-called city employees don't want to do their jobs? If Mark One Electric Company is illegally...
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Ask a Mexican®
The one who got away
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 2, 2009
Dear Mexican: Looking back recently on my distant youth in northwest Ohio, I came to the realization that the sweetest, most beautiful girl this gabacho ever went out with...
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Interview
Electro-poppers London Transit aim to sell high with their Digital Kid
By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 2, 2009
Buy low, sell high. That's the refrain sung by Kansas City's London Transit on its song "Capital." Like the stock market itself, the lyric's creation has more to do with...
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Wayward Son
The second-annual Taste of Troost festival: a KC Fourth of July street party for the ages
By Jason Harper
Published: July 2, 2009
Everyone has a Troost story. For me, it was getting put in my place by a feisty, middle-aged, black comedian at an open-mic night at G's Jamaican Cuisine a few years...
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Bonus Tracks
Beatbox: VG
Supa Bad
(DTA Productions)By Kyle Koch
Published: July 2, 2009
For many politicians, pundits and bareheaded militia members, the U.S.-Mexico border is a scary place. They fear that there is something potentially Bolshevik about the influx...
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CD Reviews
H Stewart
Letters to Kansas City
(Clinical Archives)By Nick Spacek
Published: July 2, 2009
Electronic artist H Stewart's fifth release, Letters to Kansas City, is not so much an album as a soundtrack to a journey through the city. Forgoing traditional song...
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CD Reviews
Norrit
Feel the Remix EP
(Think 2wice Records)By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 2, 2009
Those who think remixes are as compelling as originals can find proof in the pudding on Norrit's new Feel the Remix EP. The Lawrence-based DJ and producer makes over his own...
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Critic's Choice
Girl in a Coma
By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
Published: July 2, 2009
It's quite fitting that both Joan Jett and Morrissey were instantly impressed with Girl in a Coma. (The former signed them; the latter invited them to open for him.) Like those...
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Critic's Choice
No Doubt
By Robert Bishop
Published: July 2, 2009
What with Gwen Stefani still popping up everywhere, it sure doesn't seem like five years since No Doubt's last hit, a cover of Talk Talk's "It's My Life." But now the ska...
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