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63rd Street is ready for its close-up
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: October 15, 2009
The signposts of history hugging the margins of 63rd Street are easy to miss. The wooden marker that highlights the intersection with the dusty Santa Fe Trail juts awkwardly...
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Izabela Filipiak
Published: October 15, 2009
Izabela Filipiak is a poet, essayist, fiction writer and scholar. Born in Poland, she spent several years in the late 1980s as a political refugee in New York and took part in...
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Happy-Hour Hit list: South OP
Published: October 15, 2009
South Overland Park isn't on the other side of the world from downtown KCMO. It's only 20-some miles away. Replete with cul-de-sacs, soccer fields and high-end retail, it's a...
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Roark Rally
Published: October 15, 2009
Mike Roark was diagnosed with mantle cell non-Hodgkin's lymphoma two days after Valentine's Day this year. After tests, transfusions, a half-dozen rounds of aggressive...
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Reflecting to Live
Published: October 15, 2009
Chemotherapy forced Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg into early menopause, and surviving the cancer dictated the removal of her breasts. As the poet laureate of Kansas faced these harsh...
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Stage to Screen
Published: October 15, 2009
If you've ever experienced an Alacartoona show, you've probably thought it would make a fine film. The Kansas City musical-cabaret ensemble delights in drawing audiences back...
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What Brown Did For You
Published: October 15, 2009
One hundred fifty years ago today, firebrand guerrilla John Brown led his ill-fated raid on Harpers Ferry, in what was then Virginia. The man had stones like basketballs. But...
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Zombie Mall
Published: October 15, 2009
Director Ron Megee has his fingers on the pulse of pop culture, and he isn't feeling anything ... because the stars of his new production, Maul of the Dead, are zombies. Mitch...
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Led + Dead
Published: October 15, 2009
In many ways, Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead couldn't be further apart on the musical spectrum. But delve deeper into the roots of each legendary act, and you'll find...
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Teenspeak
Published: October 15, 2009
For all the tongues clucked and beards stroked over the Kansas City, Missouri, School District, we rarely hear from the students themselves. Luckily, there's a way to learn...
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The Heaviest Flower
Published: October 15, 2009
The Heaviest Flower is a two-person exhibition of recent photographic work by longtime friends and peers Elijah Gowin and Colby Caldwell. Tied together through their innovative...
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Missouri Wins
Published: October 15, 2009
The debate over whether it's better to live on the Missouri or the Kansas side of these cities may never be resolved. But for zoo lovers, anyway, a KCMO address is currently...
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52 Kick-up
Published: October 15, 2009
The stage, though, remains its greatest medium, and the ballet's 52nd season opener takes place tonight at 7:30 at the Lyric Theatre (1029 Central). This weekend's selections...
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Mouth-Watering
Published: October 15, 2009
The Big Easy may never again be what it once was, but that doesn't mean you can't try to re-create it in your kitchen. New Orleans chef and restaurateur John Besh visits...
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Classically Contemporary
Published: October 15, 2009
The combination of contemporary dance and classical music is unusual enough that the challenge inspired choreographer Michelle Diane Brown of Kacico Dance to set her new...
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Visual Delicacy
Published: October 15, 2009
Tonight, Kansas City artist and curator Jennifer Boe presents a solo exhibition of her embroidered works, a sly take on meat and potatoes called How to Cook a Wolf, at...
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Liv Strong
Published: October 15, 2009
In a classic Peanuts strip, Lucy Van Pelt reveals that her baseball bat is autographed not by Mickey Mantle but by Liv Ullmann. With that shout-out to the Norwegian actress and...
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The Beast
Published: October 15, 2009
The Beast (1401 West 13th Street) claims to be America's largest haunted house, boasting a huge cast, a quarter-acre, fog-shrouded werewolf forest, a recreation of the...
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Macabre Cinema
By Chris Packham
Published: October 15, 2009
The Macabre Cinema (1222 West 12th Street) adapts famously terrifying film characters and situations into one of the West Bottoms' newer Halloween attractions. Guests are...
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The Edge of Hell
Published: October 15, 2009
The Edge of Hell (1200 West 13th Street), a spooky Kansas City institution for 30 years, confronts visitors with their most primal fears. The house's disorienting interior and...
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