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Meet the most notorious prostitute in a neighborhood known for – and trying to get rid of – its hookers
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 10, 2009
If this were any other street corner, she might look like a lost farm girl. But this is Ninth Street and Benton, and the woman with the golden tan doesn't want directions. She...
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DISCREET CHARMS, OBSCURE DESIRES
By Brent Shepherd
Published: September 10, 2009
Surrealist Luis Bunuel seared his brand into the cinematic psyche with his 1929 short Un chien andalou, in which a woman's eyeball -- yeesh! Yeah, that one. Following that...
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Acoustica
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 10, 2009
Today is the 17th birthday of American singer-songwriter and former Broadway performer Nicholas Jerry Jonas, better known as Nick Jonas, one-third of the wildly popular boy...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: Waldo
By Annie Fischer
Published: September 10, 2009
The fifth-annual Waldo Crawldo is coming up Saturday, September 19, and if you haven't visited the nabe since the bar crawl's 2008 installment, you've got some catching up to...
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Road Ways
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 10, 2009
Traffic. It's an excuse for lateness, a source of frustration, something you gotta deal with each day. For many of us, that's already plenty to think about. For Tom Vanderbilt,...
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Street Show
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 10, 2009
With its cheap drinking holes and bohemian spirit, Westport is always peppered with artists. They might be kicking back or helping you kick back. (How many inked-up servers do...
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Text, Design, Emotion
By Chris Packham
Published: September 10, 2009
The treasures of Western civilization have typically been paintings and sculptures, objects of beauty that serve no practical purpose. Meanwhile, designers from countless...
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MARXISTS OF THE WORLD, UNITE!
By Brent Shepherd
Published: September 10, 2009
"We got guns! Dey got guns! All God's chillun got guns!" Three decades before Dr. Strangelove pitted us against the Soviets at Doomsday's doorstep, the Marx Brothers picked on...
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Behind the Red Door
By Scott Wilson
Published: September 10, 2009
Facing a rent increase in her basement studio, transplanted Syracuse, New York, artist Lacey Lewis needed to find a new place to paint. The challenge: Stay true to her adopted...
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Say It
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 10, 2009
Olé isn't a word that gets enough usage around here. It requires a certain bravado, a certain ecstatic outpouring of instantaneous revelatory cheer. Tonight, say...
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Stage Hot
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 10, 2009
The great male opera stars of the past, from Caruso to Pavarotti, have had rich, seductive voices. But their burly physiques? Definitely not so sexy. The new generation of...
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LAUGH YOURSELF STUPID
By Brent Shepherd
Published: September 10, 2009
Comedian Brian Regan isn't an idiot. He just plays one onstage. Though he's actually among the sharper wits specializing in observational comedy, Regan's hook is a trait we'll...
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Reggae Kc-style
By Nick Spacek
Published: September 10, 2009
The recent flurry of local musicians playing reggae inspired Mike Dunn and Patrick Brown this past winter. The two men decided that they would put on a Kansas City reggae...
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Local Flavor
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 10, 2009
Parkville, that pretty, fast-growing hamlet on the Missouri River, has become a serious restaurant destination only in the past few years. It boasts an excellent French...
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NEVER FORGET
By Brent Shepherd
Published: September 10, 2009
From the rubble of the World Trade Center rose Anne Nelson's play The Guys, based on her experience assisting a New York fire captain write eulogies for the men he lost when...
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Bestselling Author Thomas Frank
Published: September 10, 2009
Thomas Frank, the author of the bestseller What's the Matter with Kansas?, presents the revised paperback edition of his book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. ...
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Last Lap
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: September 10, 2009
Amateur cyclists, who labor up and down our relentlessly undulating city streets, can rest assured that even the sport's top professionals are being warned that the final stage...
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Fight Night
Published: September 10, 2009
Fight Night tells the story of con man Michael Dublin, who works the underground boxing circuit. He invents his best scam yet when he meets Katherine Parker, a female fighter...
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Green Gals
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: September 10, 2009
Now that there's so much federal cash floating around, aimed at making the United States more energy-efficient and eco-friendly, the University of Central Missouri wants to...
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Lawn Dance
By Annie Fischer
Published: September 10, 2009
As part of its yearlong 75th-anniversary celebration, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) teams up with Quixotic performance ensemble — the stunning...
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