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In Shawnee Mission Park, Jason Miller’s hunt for attention is on
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: October 8, 2009
Jason Miller pushes aside his tie, pulls up the right side of his black shirt and, squinting at the computer screen in the basement of his Lenexa home, starts to scrawl the...
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WALDO'S NEW WELL
Published: October 8, 2009
Like a peacock feather in the hat of Waldo, The Well is a showy, fine-looking drinking venue with an upstairs deck that's lit-up nightly with tiki torches. So salute The Pitch...
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A DECADE PAST
Published: October 8, 2009
t's been 11 years since Matthew Shepard was robbed, beaten with a .357 Magnum, tied to a fence and left for dead on a cold Wyoming night. A month later, Moisés Kaufman...
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FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Published: October 8, 2009
For Kansas City-area cineastes, the ongoing partnership between UMKC's Department of Communication Studies and Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 913-383-7756) is essential to...
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TODAY IS THE DAY
Published: October 8, 2009
In theory, a lot of figurative closets will get cleared today: It's National Coming Out Day. In observance, LGBT groups across the country have planned marches and...
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ZOMBIE INVASION
Published: October 8, 2009
Especially since Zombieland came out, some of us hardly know how to get through the days till Halloween. Good thing that today holds two excuses to gussy up in the garb of a...
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BOY IN THE DARK
Published: October 8, 2009
With an emphasis on production design as much as storytelling, the films of Tim Burton are studies in chiaroscuro. Perhaps no other director in the Technicolor age has worked...
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THE OTHER OXFORD
Published: October 8, 2009
Certain ideas are stunningly perfect in their simplicity. The Oxford Project is one of these. In 1984, photographer and University of Iowa professor Peter Feldstein...
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STURGIS IN URICH
Published: October 8, 2009
The American biker rally is a unique cottage industry. In many states, relatively small motorcycle clubs have started modest weekend parties that, over the years, boomed into...
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THE DEPTH OF CLOWNS
Published: October 8, 2009
Those inventive clown wranglers at Byrd Productions Movement Theater scored one of the big hits of this year's Fringe Festival with The Miniature Housewife, a penetrating and...
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GRATEFUL LIVING
Published: October 8, 2009
Latin American Day of the Dead celebrations involve personal artistic expression. Families build altars to honor deceased friends and relatives with sugar skulls, flowers and...
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BREW-HA-HA
Published: October 8, 2009
Just a few weeks after Kansas City's big blarney bash at Crown Center, it's already time for the Weston Irish Festival. Kansas Citians have to follow the rainbow (aka...
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MODEL PLAYERS
Published: October 8, 2009
Fans of foxy soccer players, take note: Players for the Missouri Mavericks will be toe-touching down the runway tonight at Ice, the fall/winter fashion show at the Courthouse...
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STAGE LUST
Published: October 8, 2009
The rock musical has never managed to really rock, so big-money producers deserve recognition for bumping Duncan Sheik's indie-ish chamber-rock musical Spring Awakening up from...
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WALKENPORT
Published: October 8, 2009
It's a rare Wednesday night that RecordBar isn't packed when Bob Walkenhorst and Jeff Porter take the stage. The friends are two of Kansas City's longest-running performers,...
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AT THE MAXIMUM OF HIS VILLAINY
Published: October 8, 2009
The Kansas City Public Library examines the career of Edward G. Robinson in a film series called At the Maximum of His Villainy. Schedule: Woman in the Window (1944) on...
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Chambers of Poe
By Chris Packham
Published: October 8, 2009
The Chambers of Edgar Allen Poe (1100 Santa Fe Street) By contrast to the open layouts of The Beast and the Macabre Cinema, The Chambers of Edgar Allen Poe is structured around...
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LATINO KO
Published: October 8, 2009
What's simpler than two men beating the hell out of each other? Turns out, just about anything. Such are the revelations in The Regulation of Boxing: A History and Comparative...
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Fringe Shorts
Published: October 8, 2009
This fundraising event for the KC Fringe Festival will feature the work of local and national artists and will offer poetry, visual art, live music, dance performances, and...
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Studies in Crap
Aged Leathers
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 8, 2009
Title: Kansas City Town Squire Date: September 1970 Discovered: at Prairie Village estate sale The cover asks: “Volker Park … Jungle or Paradise?”...
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