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A jazz pianist pleads guilty to child-porn charges – and tries to explain
By Peter Rugg
Published: July 30, 2009
It was an early spring evening when agents came to Bill Laursen's front door. His daughter had lived with him for about one year, and the two had just returned from Brookside...
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The Muses
Published: July 30, 2009
The Muses, a husband and wife duo from Colorado, will perform their own brand of Celtic music. Tanya Brody and Matthew Gurnsey play a plethora of exotic instruments ranging...
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Her Will Lives On
Published: July 30, 2009
Emily Silverman truly believed that everyone could dance. The young woman from Kansas City dreamed of opening a studio that welcomed people as graceful as herself, as well as...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: Hotel Bars
Published: July 30, 2009
When the social scene in Kansas City starts feeling a little small, there's a quick fix for finding new faces: hotel bars. Sixty minutes with a mysterious stranger who's lonely...
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All in the Family
By — Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: July 30, 2009
On the first Monday of every month, the Lawrence music collective known as Chomp Womp throws a little party for itself at the Eighth Street Taproom (801 New Hampshire,...
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Friendly Neighborhood Art
Published: July 30, 2009
Museums may seem like loners, but the institutions get by with a little help from their friends. For a July exhibition, curators at the University of Kansas' Spencer Museum of...
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Mammo Money
By — Crystal K. Wieb
Published: July 30, 2009
OK, tacking palooza onto the end of a word has been a tired tactic for years. But what the World Adult Kickball Association — the organizers of Mammopalooza — lack...
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Truman tours
Published: July 30, 2009
No, the former home of Harry S. Truman (219 North Delaware in Independence, 816-254-9929) doesn't have the historic glamour of Washington's Mount Vernon or Jefferson's...
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Snickering Sneed
Published: July 30, 2009
Admit it: You think fat kids are hilarious and farts are airborne hilarity, especially when they're pointed at Jessica Simpson and there's collateral damage. Anything for the...
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Burroughs the Artist
Published: July 30, 2009
Twelve years after William S. Burroughs' death, Lawrence remains as fascinated with its adopted Beat Generation son as when he was firing shotguns in his east Lawrence...
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Comedy on Concrete
By — Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 30, 2009
Culture in Kansas City, Kansas, tends to flourish at the street level, where community-minded artists bring their truth and beauty to the concrete. At Shakespeare in the...
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DEEP TROUBLE
Published: July 30, 2009
"I'm not at liberty to discuss the film's final budget," writes first-time screenwriter and director Scott Kessler of his locally produced debut feature, Deep River, "but I...
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So Hot
Published: July 30, 2009
Pioneering salsa label Fania Records was founded in 1964 when a Dominican bandleader and an Italian-American lawyer hooked up to mix and record the Puerto Rican and Cuban...
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Put the Fun in Funnel Cake
Published: July 30, 2009
If you've ever been to Santa-Cali-Gon Days, you have a pretty good idea what Strotherfest is all about: turkey legs, local bands, cheerleaders, snow cones, dance groups and...
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Sad Stats
Published: July 30, 2009
Read the statistics and success stories on the Web site for Sheffield Place, a long-term transitional living program for homeless mothers and their children in Kansas City....
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Leprechauns of Summer
Published: July 30, 2009
The Kansas City T-Bones baseball club celebrates St. Patrick's Day in the middle of summer. The wearing o' the green when grass turns brown is not an attempt at historical...
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Martin
Here’s why that shiny new government building doesn’t really help taxpayers
By David Martin
Published: July 30, 2009
I played Leonard Nimoy last week and went In Search Of … The object of my quest? A moving sidewalk. Its location? Underneath Pershing Road. My obstacle? Three security...
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Letters
Letters from the week
of July 30Published: July 30, 2009
Feature: "Park Players," July 23 Dog and Crony Show I applaud Nadia Pflaum for addressing public parks at a time when we are all looking at how the Kansas City Parks...
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Ask a Mexican®
Houston, we have a problemo
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: July 30, 2009
Dear Mexican: Why do Mexicans at construction sites always draw a dick and vagina on the interiors of port-a-potties? They sure are not as poetic as they are artistic. Then...
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Interview
With a growing international following, local experimenters Expo ’70, Plante and Sounding the Deep climb atop the drone throne
By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 30, 2009
If "drone show" conjures up images of Star Wars, you probably want to avoid the Riot Room Thursday night. The evening's showcase features three local acts: Expo '70, Plante...
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