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At the International G.I. Joe Convention, thousands of grown men play with little dolls
By Peter Rugg
Published: September 3, 2009
No one experiences this crowd like Jamie Sanders does. Across the street from the Hyatt Regency Crown Center, on a Friday morning in August, his helmet muffles nearby parents'...
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September Showings
Published: September 3, 2009
For its September exhibition, Pi Gallery is featuring New works by Kendall Kerr, Nancy Alemifar and Kyle Shepard. Convergence, new works by Kendall Kerr and Nancy Alemifar,...
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Free Symphony Concert
Published: September 3, 2009
The Kansas City Symphony returns to The Theatre in the Park at Shawnee Mission Park for the 27th consecutive year to present a free Labor Day Weekend concert. The Symphony's...
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Battle Improv
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
Like people, improv scenes are special little snowflakes. Ideas that spring from the collective mind of troupes such as Babel Fish, Tantrum, Improv-Abilities and the Trip Fives...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: Biker Bars
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 3, 2009
Leave biker stereotypes in the dust. With a focus on lower cost and better fuel efficiency, newer motorcycle models are smaller and more user-friendly than ever. Gauge your own...
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A Day Off
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 3, 2009
The U.S. Department of Labor's Web site credits hardworking New York carpenter Peter J. McGuire with founding Labor Day in 1882. He is said to have characterized his fellow...
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Burn Rubber
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 3, 2009
Spinning one's wheels isn't usually a good thing. But when smoke curls out from under them, and people are holding beers in the air and going wild while someone's car stereo is...
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Street Show
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
It's rare that a theater is as aptly named as the Fishtank, Corrie Van Ausdal's new-ish Crossroads performance studio at 1715 Wyandotte, where audiences peer from the street as...
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A Slick Ride
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 3, 2009
Celebrate KC's blue-collar roots from noon to midnight today and Sunday at the ninth-annual Kowtown Custom Greaserama. The Boulevard Drive-In (1051 Merriam Lane, 913-262-2414)...
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Art Fitness
By Danny Volin
Published: September 3, 2009
Those of you with an all-encompassing aesthetic streak, the kind that applies to both mind and body (we're looking at you, Descartes), will find yourselves right at home during...
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Go Green
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 3, 2009
At a time when everything seems more expensive, the biggest annual get-down in the metro is as cheap as it ever was. "We're really proud about the fact that the Kansas City...
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First-Friday Hit list
By Chris Packham
Published: September 3, 2009
• Juxtapoz-subscribing fans of the lowbrow art movement should be apprised that Mercy Seat Tattoo (210 East 16th Street, 816-421-4833) is one-stop First Friday shopping...
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Boy Cody
By Chris Packham
Published: September 3, 2009
Back when artist and musician Cody Critcheloe was a high-school student in Lewisport, Kentucky, he first conceived Ssion, his decade-long project combining punk music and...
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Expressions of Courage
Published: September 3, 2009
In its Lakewood Art Gallery, Truman Medical Center for the Healing Arts will host 21 pieces of the Expressions of Courage traveling art exhibit during the months of September...
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Infobahn
Published: September 3, 2009
This new series, which provides a public platform for "internet jockeying," kicks off with INFOBAHN EPISODE I: SECRET, featuring selections by Dirk Cowan, Lisa Marie Evans, Ari...
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SantCaliGon
Published: September 3, 2009
The first Santa-Cali-Gon Days Festival was held in 1940 to celebrate the unique heritage of the City of Independence as the starting point of the Santa Fe, California, and...
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A Few Good Min
By Scott Wilson
Published: September 3, 2009
Whether it's made of 50 bamboo flutes and a lone Tuvan throat singer or fashioned from finely tuned silence, the music called minimalism defies easy definition. But whatever...
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Punkustica
By Nick Spacek
Published: September 3, 2009
As a series of compilations, Punk Goes Acoustic brings to mind emo weepers. As a live benefit show, it looks to be a more raucous affair: Kick Kick, Them Damn Young Livers and...
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M & M
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 3, 2009
So how far back in the long careers of Bette Midler and Barry Manilow will performers Kristi Mitchell and Cary Mock go in the new musical revue, Celebration in Song: I Write...
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Go West
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 3, 2009
Recession be damned, the metro is somehow experiencing a renaissance of that most economically challenged of art forms: live, local, ambitious theater, much of it...
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