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The ballad of bar owner Dennis Hess started as a love song and ended with his suicide
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: October 22, 2009
As the owner of Denim & Diamonds, the popular country-and-western bar at 1725 Swift Avenue in North Kansas City, Dennis Hess was known for his hospitality. When he made the...
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PUBLIC ENEMY NO. 1
Published: October 22, 2009
Preceded by a screen persona ripe for parody (most famously, Billy Crystal's take on his turn as Dathan in The Ten Commandments: "Where's yer messiah nowww, Moses?"), Edward G....
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New Gay Bar
Published: October 22, 2009
Best done during daylight hours, bar hopping on Broadway between Armour Boulevard and 39th Street can be a crapshoot. But the scene is looking up. After an eight-month vacancy,...
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Camp’s Band
Published: October 22, 2009
Greg Camp's liver just "gave out on him" earlier this year, according to longtime friend and bandmate Gary Signor. "He lived the rock-and-roll lifestyle," Signor says of the...
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Biker Faces
Published: October 22, 2009
When Erika Lehrer's basement flooded last June, her husband, stationed in Iraq, couldn't help bail her out. Volunteers with the Delta Battery Armory in Independence came to her...
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Pony Tale
Published: October 22, 2009
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre just gave us director Moisés Kaufman's lavish, triumphant Into the Woods. Next month, the Rep is hatching that new musical version of A...
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Hybrid Art
Published: October 22, 2009
Mark Southerland's latest opus, Moon Bears and Sister Wives, is what happens when theater hooks up with experimental music: They figure out they're blood relatives but decide...
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KCFAA Presents Ailey II
Published: October 22, 2009
Fifteen years before his death, legendary dancer and choreographer Alvin Ailey created the Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble from the most promising scholarship students in his...
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Life Stories Wanted
Published: October 22, 2009
Contrary to its reputation, the most populous county in Kansas doesn't lack diversity. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's most recent estimate, the foreign-born population...
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Looking East : Young Artists from China
Published: October 22, 2009
The Byron C. Cohen Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of our new exhibition, Looking East : Young Artists from China Prints and Paintings. Exhibiting artists include:...
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Awkward Encounters by Ben Dory
Published: October 22, 2009
Awkward Encounters, an exhibition of works by Ben Dory opens at the Bourgeois Pig. Mon., Oct. 26, 5-7 p.m., 2009
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Peace March
Published: October 22, 2009
Ahmed El-Sharif and Sam Nachum both know the confusion and distress of a childhood interrupted by violence. During the Six Day War in 1967, both lost their homes —...
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Geek out
Published: October 22, 2009
Many people think that once they leave high school, worlds of new opportunity and acceptance will open before them. Sadly, these nerds have spent years avoiding human...
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NaNoWri-What?
Published: October 22, 2009
Sure, most would-be writers talk about writing a novel, but actually sitting down to do it seems like a daunting and potentially isolating task. But those who participate in...
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Historical Hauntings & Harvesters Food Drive
Published: October 22, 2009
For the admission price of a few cans of food, young Halloween revelers can enjoy trick-or-treating, magic tricks from The Laughing Matters comedy team, costume contests, hay...
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Kind of a Big Deal
Published: October 22, 2009
These are the facts: Tonight at 7, former three-term U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky will read at Rockhurst University as part of the Midwest Poets Series. He is the author of...
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Beagle of Valor
Published: October 22, 2009
Bill Watterson, the reclusive artist who drew the beloved newspaper strip Calvin and Hobbes, was not, according to comic-book artist Dan Clowes, "fit to hold Charles Schulz's...
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Imp Fest
Published: October 22, 2009
Eleven comedy groups from all over the Kansas City area will descend upon the Roving Imp Theater during ImpFest '09, Oct. 22-25, 115 Oak St., Bonner Springs, KS. Not only will...
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Third Thursday at the Nerman
Published: October 22, 2009
These free programs feature two artists working within the Kansas City region, with each artist giving a 20-minute presentation followed by discussion in the Hudson Auditorium....
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Kati Marton
Published: October 22, 2009
Bestselling author Kati Marton discusses her new true-life thriller Enemies of the People: My Family's Journey to America. Tue., Oct. 27, 6:30 p.m., 2009
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