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Martin
Councilwoman Jan Marcason likes minority-hiring quizzes, so here’s one for her
By David Martin
Published: October 1, 2009
Warning, volunteers who choose to serve Kansas City, Missouri: A member of the City Council might subject you to an oral exam. A few weeks ago, Councilwoman Jan Marcason asked...
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Smoke Up
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: October 1, 2009
Anyone who is smoking age (that's 18, yo) can take a seat and puff delicious apple-mint smoke at Sinbad's Café and Hookah Lounge (3929 Broadway, 816-255-3988). The new...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: Legends
By Berry Anderson
Published: October 1, 2009
Tickets for today's Price Chopper 400 at the Kansas Speedway run $213 to $318. Though that price includes tickets for Saturday's race and the IndyCar Series and NASCAR truck...
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Who Ya Gonna Call?
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: October 1, 2009
Remember when Bill Murray's face looked less like a catcher's mitt, when Sigourney Weaver was incredibly hot and when Rick Moranis still had an acting career? Most freshmen at...
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SHE WANTS YOU TO WANT HER
By Brent Shepherd
Published: October 1, 2009
ABC once discovered a bright young comedic talent and, as was the wont of single-minded programming executives during the '90s, set out to make her a sitcom star. In the...
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It Takes Focus
By Peter Rugg
Published: October 1, 2009
We all want to be remembered in some way. Mother Teresa had the poor. Jane Goodall had chimps. Zippy the Clown had brightly colored balls. It takes a lot of commitment to go...
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Lit Loving
By Danny Volin
Published: October 1, 2009
Every few months or so, some study comes along to inform everyone that reading is dead, that no one has ever made it all the way through Great Expectations, and that society is...
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First-Friday Hit list
By Chris Packham
Published: October 1, 2009
• Travis Pratt has been exhibiting at the Late Show Gallery (1600 Cherry, 816-474-1300) for years now, specializing in paintings of surrealist architecture. His...
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Word Up
By Annie Fischer
Published: October 1, 2009
Hot on the heels of text. (or in the vacancy of), at the Greenlease Gallery, come two more shows in the same copy-based vein: WORD and Light Text, running concurrently at the...
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Prairie Fire: In The Field or In The Glass
Published: October 1, 2009
The Pearl Gallery is KU's newest student gallery, located in the Crossroads district of downtown Kansas City. The work in this exhibition will showcase work by graduate...
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Author Robert Hicks
Published: October 1, 2009
Author Robert Hicks visits the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City, Missouri, Public Library to read from and discuss his historical novel, A Separate Country. Tue.,...
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The Memoir and the Memoirist
Published: October 1, 2009
Thomas Larson, author of The Memoir and the Memoirist: Reading and Writing Personal Narrative, discusses the rise in popularity of the modern memoir and offers tips on how...
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Goldman Talk
By Annie Fischer
Published: October 1, 2009
Lester Goldman's presence at the Kansas City Art Institute was nearly constant for 40 years — he taught painting from 1966 until his death in 2005. Less constant was the...
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Trivia Raunch
By Casey Lyons
Published: October 1, 2009
"What is a bunghole?" Find out the answer to that and other filthy questions tonight at Missie B's (805 West 39th Street, 816-561-0625). At 10 p.m., the city's most famous drag...
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Cultural Education
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: October 1, 2009
Historically, U.S. government forces have made it embarrassingly easy for citizens to remain ignorant of American Indian culture. The extreme poverty and violence that tend to...
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Setting is Everything
By Danny Volin
Published: October 1, 2009
Perhaps more than any other art form, live theater relies on an audience's immersion, attention and collective experience. One Time Productions is totally aware of this, so it...
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Space Girl
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: October 1, 2009
Mae Jemison didn't need the inspiration of Star Trek's Lt. Uhura to shatter the illusion that only white men belong in space. Growing up in 1960s Chicago, Jemison gravitated to...
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Rice Checks
By Scott Wilson
Published: October 1, 2009
Critics have plenty of labels for Wolfgang Laib: shaman, ascetic, mystic. He would be the Jedi master of modern minimalist sculpture, if the Germans went in for glibness. Let's...
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Letters
Letters from the week
of October 1Published: October 1, 2009
Letters: "Comedy Is hard," September 24 Loaded Words Letter writer Chris Benedict of Blue Springs has obviously never seen Loaded Dice, the Trip Fives, Tantrum or Stitch...
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Ask a Mexican®
Why the Mexican doesn’t celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: October 1, 2009
Dear Readers: Because the Mexican's sister is getting married to a good man from Zacatecas this weekend, I must ignore my research archives to slaughter a pig and hire a banda...
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