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The tragic story of how Kansas City leaders, blinded by the Wizards’ pro-sports glamour project, turned their backs on an idea that might actually have saved Bannister Mall
By David Martin
Published: September 17, 2009
The elevator ascends. John Sharp, a city councilman who represents south Kansas City, is changing floors at City Hall, moving from one meeting to another. Sharp and his...
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Night Lines
By Scott Wilson
Published: September 17, 2009
Some of modern poetry's freshest writers came together for the 2007 anthology The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry. Two years later, the book's contributors are still promoting...
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Ice Off
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 17, 2009
So it doesn't look like Kansas City will ever land its own pro hockey team. But for one night, we can pretend. This evening, the Sprint Center (1407 Grand) hosts an exhibition...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: Football
By Annie Fischer
Published: September 17, 2009
Monday Night Football is back, and you likely have a standing seat at your favorite sports bar. But maybe you've recently outgrown your buddies because they live with their...
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SALUTE WHEN YOU SAY THAT
By Brent Shepherd
Published: September 17, 2009
For most, the name Gary Cooper evokes Marshal Will Kane in High Noon or Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees, but the taciturn screen icon also played his share of soldiers...
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Keeping the Beat
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 17, 2009
If you're not into drumming, Wes Faulconer's shop at 8050 Wornall might have escaped your attention for the past two and a half decades. "We pretty much sell A-to-Z percussion...
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Flexing Fun
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 17, 2009
No, no, it's not Chip and Dale, Disney's cartoon chipmunks who eat nuts. It's Chippendales, the international revue in which magnificent specimens of bronzed, brawny men expose...
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A&E
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 17, 2009
With the looming lack of food and water, the danger of lightning storms, and the threat of attack by Comanche and Apache Indians, it's no wonder that a few westbound settlers...
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Time for Sondheim
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 17, 2009
After just one year into its Eric Rosen-led era, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre is spoiling us. Here we have that dark fairy-tale lark Into the Woods, perhaps Stephen...
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All in the Family
By Danny Volin
Published: September 17, 2009
As if to prove that the Kennedys aren't the only dynastic family with a recently deceased patriarch, the new exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick...
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Cyber Cliffs
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 17, 2009
Remember the Choose Your Own Adventure books? They were perfect summer reading. You could opt to attack the ninja on page 4 and skip ahead to page 155 for your blood-soaked...
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Disguise the Limit
Published: September 17, 2009
Review Studios Exhibition Space presents the solo exhibition of new work by artist Beniah Leuschke. Leuschke says in his artist statement, "I envision my work as a cluster of...
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For Your Ears Only
By Nick Spacek
Published: September 17, 2009
What started out as a small record sale to raise funds for Audio Reader has turned into this gigantic annual event that draws folks from all over. Last year, there was a line...
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Third Thursay Visiting Artist Presentations
Published: September 17, 2009
A presentation in the museum's Hudson Auditorium with special guest artists Laura DeAngelis and Matt Dehaemers. DeAngelis creates life-sized figurative ceramic sculpture...
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Minds Eye Theatre Presents Extremities by William Mastrosimone
Published: September 17, 2009
First performed off Broadway in 1982, the themes in this powerful drama resonate as loudly today as they did more than two decades ago. The story centers on Marjorie, who is...
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Baby Vroom
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 17, 2009
Maybe it's no surprise that Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider is leading a motorcycle ride to benefit babies — after all, he used to wear long hair, dresses and enough...
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Walk a Mile In Her Shoes
Published: September 17, 2009
In this event that begins at UMKC's University Playhouse, men will wear women's high heels for one mile in order to promote awareness of violence against women. Tue.,...
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Author Tracy Daugherty discusses Hiding Man
Published: September 17, 2009
Author Tracy Daugherty discusses Hiding Man, his new biography of Donald Barthelme, who came to prominence as the leader of the postmodern movement, was a fixture at The New...
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Stage Lit
By Danny Volin
Published: September 17, 2009
Being of the opinion that birthdays can never be celebrated too fully, we're pleased to see that the Coterie Theatre (2450 Grand) discovered the many quaint and curious volumes...
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Kansas City Cup Challenge and Festival
Published: September 17, 2009
This festival features the latest and greatest in bike gear, bike information, trail guides and more. Cyclocross racing will take place on Saturday, with mountain bike races...
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