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Freed after 24 years of false imprisonment, Darryl Burton forgives you
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: September 24, 2009
A year ago, Darryl Burton walked out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center wearing state-issued gray pants and a white T-shirt. Today, on the anniversary of his release,...
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Stars on the Court
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: September 24, 2009
All-Star games resolve questions for fans of sports. Hypothetical matchups between stars of sports become real, answering who is the best of the best. That leaves room to ask...
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Ciao Bow Wow
Published: September 24, 2009
Man - and woman's - best friend will be served a special three-course meal of breadstick appetizers, pizzas and gelato made by Three Dog Bakery. People will order their food...
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Western Wyandotte Arts Festival
Published: September 24, 2009
This completely interactive festival is designed to immerse those attending in many forms of the arts including visual, musical, literary, and performing arts by engaging the...
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Celluloid Synchronized
By Chris Packham
Published: September 24, 2009
Roger Beebe, a professor of film and media studies at the University of Florida and some kind of crazy genius, mounts multi-projector screenings of his film projects. Each...
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Dangerous Damsels
Published: September 24, 2009
For one weekend only, the Lawrence Arts Center is reviving Dangerous Damsels, an original melodrama written by Ric and Jeanne Averill for the Apple Valley Farm Theatre in the...
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Musical Fiesta
By Abbie Stutzer
Published: September 24, 2009
A music-and-dance event in Johnson County that showcases sounds as diverse as Mexican folk, Led Zeppelin and Bach? Yes! Sones de México Ensemble opens the 2009-10...
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The First World War in Color
Published: September 24, 2009
The First World War in Color: International Treasures from the National World War I Museum presents newly acquired historical objects from countries around the world. Black and...
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City Market Pumpkin Patch
Published: September 24, 2009
Fresh from the farm, find fall yard decorations including pumpkins in a variety of shapes, colors and sizes, as well as gourds, mums, Indian corn, cornstalks and hay bales at...
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Jennie McNulty
Published: September 24, 2009
Comedian Jennie McNulty was named "One of the premiere female comedians in the country" by the New England Blade. Tonight, the funny gal from California performs at a...
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Avalanche
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 24, 2009
Name a critically acclaimed rock band formed in Scotland in the mid-1990s. You are totally thinking of Belle and Sebastian, you music snob. But don't forget Snow Patrol, which...
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Show Off
By Casey Lyons
Published: September 24, 2009
Show-and-tell takes me back. In fourth grade, this kid named Ryan Carroll brought in a hyper-inflated pig bladder, spray-painted gold. An odd-looking thing for sure. That was...
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(Erd)rich Words
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: September 24, 2009
Each year, Park University honors outstanding poets through its Ethnic Voices Poetry Series. The new round kicks off at 6:30 tonight, when Heid E. Erdrich reads at the Central...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: Gladstone
By Berry Anderson
Published: September 24, 2009
North of North Kansas City and south of the northern edge of Kansas City, Gladstone is one of the 2008 All-America City Award winners. This distinction was bestowed upon the...
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Go Brass Alice
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: September 24, 2009
Lewis Carroll's famous literary heroine, Alice, gets a steampunk makeover in writer-director Alex Espy's production of Alice in Wonderland, which continues at 7 and 10 p.m....
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Losin' It
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: September 24, 2009
The Unicorn Theatre (3828 Main), 36 years in, still has the air of the frisky upstart, that theater that dares to take on the new, the challenging, the political — and...
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Light the Night Walk
Published: September 24, 2009
For this 12th annual fundraising event for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, participants raise a minimum of $25 and carry illuminated balloons: red for supporters, white for...
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PEACE PROFITS
By Robert Folsom
Published: September 24, 2009
All's fair in love and war. Which is a stupid saying. But the 18th-annual UnPlaza Art Fair is making a smart difference by selling affordable art while donating to the cause of...
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Short Subjects
By Annie Fischer
Published: September 24, 2009
It may be a singularly American phenomenon, but there's no way a museum opens a photo exhibit exploring the complexity of youth and innocence without considering who's gonna...
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She Writers
By Chris Packham
Published: September 24, 2009
In journalism, when a reporter can't get an interview with a principal subject, she might do a "write around," compiling open-source information about that figure and then...
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