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Killa City: Tracking homicides in 2009, we learned a few things about our city's psyche
By JUSTIN KENDALL
Published: December 31, 2009
If I didn't know the awful truth, I'd swear Andre D. Jones was sleeping. But I know the truth. Jones' rest is eternal. He looks peaceful lying in his casket, sharply dressed...
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Hangover Cures
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: December 31, 2009
Almost every joint in town that serves food and beverages is open on New Year’s Eve — it’s a little harder, after all the wild, liquor-fueled, night-before...
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Hangover Cures
Published: December 31, 2009
Almost every joint in town that serves food and beverages is open on New Year's Eve — it's a little harder, after all the wild, liquor-fueled, night-before hoopla, to...
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Published: December 31, 2009
In these winter months, do you find that Uno is the loneliest number? Does your lack of a Mystery Date cause your mind to Boggle? Has your lonely Life caused you nothing but...
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Keep Dreaming
Published: December 31, 2009
Christmas is over, but you know that tree isn't moving until at least Easter (at which point, you can just dangle eggs from it). Face it: Your laziness equates to a residual...
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EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND
Published: December 31, 2009
Humphrey Bogart portrayed Raymond Chandler's iconic private eye, Philip Marlowe, pretty much by just being Bogart. But who'd ever guess that the best of the other big-screen...
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Generals Admission
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: December 31, 2009
Today's bold return of the Washington Generals to the Sprint Center (1407 Grand) marks the latest matchup of the sturdy, workmanlike basketball team and its somewhat more...
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Auld Lang Sign-off
By Chris Packham
Published: December 31, 2009
The word veisalgia derives from the Norwegian word kveis, meaning "uneasiness after debauchery," and the Greek algia meaning "pain or grief." What a dumb word! We'll just...
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World Ed
Published: December 31, 2009
Many documentary filmmakers hope that their movies inspire viewers to open their pocketbooks, or even to change their lives, to further the causes framed onscreen. The same...
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EYES ON THE PRIZE
Published: December 31, 2009
Newspaper photographs can evoke reality with a bite in black and white; historic moments can be caught in living color. The Pulitzer Prize for photography traces a timeline of...
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Laughs in a bowl
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: December 31, 2009
Lately, Kansas City's teensiest theater has been its liveliest. The Fishtank — a foil-wrapped hollow at 1715 Wyandotte — has been a showplace in recent months of...
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Sophisticated Party
Published: December 31, 2009
Headbanging through the night and raising infinite cans of PBR is one way to honor the end of 2009. But there's a more sophisticated approach: sipping champagne and nibbling...
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The Life of Abraham Lincoln
Published: December 31, 2009
The exhibit invites visitor's to look beyond the myth and develop a deeper understanding of Abraham Lincoln through his own words. Among the images featured in the exhibit are...
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Ice Race
By Chris Rasmussen
Published: December 31, 2009
Spectators picture themselves as participants in spectator sports. What baseball fan doesn't recall Little League memories when watching a Royals game? What scratch golfer...
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The Mystery Train: Dressed to Kill
Published: December 31, 2009
The Mystery Train moves to Finnigan's Hall for New Year's Eve. The interactive dinner theater production of the night is Dressed to Kill. The show is set in 1931, when Nell...
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WonderEve
Published: December 31, 2009
Got a little one who really shouldn't stay up until 12 a.m.? Do the countdown at noon! Tots and their parents can do the countdown early, and make festive hats and noisemakers....
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KC's Best Damn New Years
Published: December 31, 2009
Keystone Nissan presents KC's Best Damn New Years party -- or so the promise goes. The cover charge is just $10 and includes performances by Mad Libby, Browntown and the...
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Janovy
The spirit of Killa City is no Norman Rockwell
By C.J. Janovy
Published: December 31, 2009
First, about this week's cover. Some of you know the story of Norman Rockwell's "The Kansas City Spirit." For those who don't, Kansas City Star reporter Brian Burnes recounts...
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Studies in Crap
Ms. Rockwell gets her diary back
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: December 31, 2009
For a moment, she wasn't sure. Stepping into a Johnson County Houlihan's for lunch with the Pitch writer who spent 2009 publicly invading her privacy, the woman we've come to...
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Letters
Letters from the week
of December 31Published: December 31, 2009
Editor’s note: Here at Pitch headquarters, we speak the name Marvin Goodman in a reverent hush. We've never met the Lenexa resident, but he sent us a real, stamped...
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