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After keeping an eye on victims of the Hyatt disaster, KC shrinks have bad news for the grief-counseling industry
By Peter Rugg
Published: November 5, 2009
Five days after the attacks on September 11, 2001, Vickie Taylor led a group of firefighters from Pennsylvania into the pile at Ground Zero. By this time, it was clear that...
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Visage Macabre
Published: November 5, 2009
VISAGE MACABRE: an aesthetically pleasing event with high standards of fashion and art. Fabulous and fresh emerging fashions are combined with dark and distorted mask...
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Mark Cowardin Art Opening
Published: November 5, 2009
From the Ground Up is a solo exhibition featuring new large-scale sculpture by Kansas-based artist Mark Cowardin. This two-month showing opens with a public reception from...
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Sound of Creativity
Published: November 5, 2009
When frog noises, a multi-perspective video about an eclipse and a famous cellist playing a 220-year-old instrument all converge in one place, the result is either a...
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Rocking Independence
By Berry Anderson
Published: November 5, 2009
Rife with corporate restaurants, highway roadhouses and mom-and-pop dive bars, Independence has few entertainment options for the young, local rock-and-roll set. Enter Damage...
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Fists Raised
Published: November 5, 2009
A 1960s revolutionary, an expert on John Brown and a University of Kansas economics professor will chew on an important political question today: Is violence more effective for...
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Fierce Movements
Published: November 5, 2009
Nothing spells ferocity like genetics. Those who agree should head to Lawrence tonight. At 7:30 p.m., the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange will use movement, video and soundscape to...
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MR. KNOW-IT-ALL
Published: November 5, 2009
Realizing that he had only scratched the surface in his 2005 book, The Areas of My Expertise — notwithstanding the most comprehensive list of hobo names ever assembled...
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Symphony Brings the Funk
Published: November 5, 2009
As the years go on and the canon of rock and roll expands, some shadows grow longer and others altogether disappear. And yet the harmonies that Art Garfunkel created as part of...
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High C’s
Published: November 5, 2009
Although the show seems very silly and light by modern standards, Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera H.M.S. Pinafore was the long-running Cats or Phantom of the Opera of its...
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First-Friday Hit list
Published: November 5, 2009
• Sixties-era Ann Arbor rock combo Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen was founded and fronted by George "Commander Cody" Frayne, whose musical talents were...
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TEAR DOWN THESE WALLS
Published: November 5, 2009
Nonviolent demonstrators — 70,000 of them — holding only candles against soldiers with machine guns and tanks? That's just crazy enough that it might work. And it...
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A WORLD ON TWO STRINGS
Published: November 5, 2009
With a résumé that includes newspapers in Philadelphia, San Jose and Oakland, journalist Steve Lopez had street cred well before Robert Downey Jr. portrayed a...
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Damn Dorothy
Published: November 5, 2009
Let's face it. In this part of the country, The Wizard of Oz is played out. Yeah, yeah, yeah — L. Frank Baum wrote a great story, and MGM filmed it beautifully. But if we...
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Indian Summer
Published: November 5, 2009
After seven years of planning and construction, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens its new American Indian galleries today. Among the 200 or so pieces that will be on...
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YOUTH MOVEMENT
Published: November 5, 2009
People older than 50 dominate the interfaith movement, but Ebrahim ("Eboo") Patel has something to say about that. A Muslim American born in India, Patel will say it this...
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Burying Bulbs
Published: November 5, 2009
Braving unseasonably chilly temperatures, an enthusiastic group of inner-city students pulled on their stocking caps, bundled up in parkas and planted more than 3,000 tulip...
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Freedom Players
Published: November 5, 2009
Some grown-up band nerds got together in 2002. They started playing their saxophones and trombones, trumpets and flutes at such events as local gay-pride parties and AIDS...
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Curious George
Published: November 5, 2009
A collection of watercolor paintings and archival images about the creators of Curious George, the iconic children's book character and their escape from France during the...
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On Memory
Published: November 5, 2009
Of all the terrible things in this world — wars and famines, droughts and ruined picnics, swine flu and swine-flu vaccinations — boring, self-involved conversation...
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