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The Municipal Correctional Institution is falling apart, but shutting it down might be destructive
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: March 5, 2009
Brenda has the weathered features of a woman who has worked Independence Avenue, selling her body for a few bucks and dulling her crack high with a bottle of alcohol. Sitting...
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Purim Time
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: March 5, 2009
Israelis are tough. They're supposed to serve in the military at age 18 — even the women. They invented the Uzi. Also? They party like rock stars. Join the Jewish...
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Blues for Blayney's
By Berry Anderson
Published: March 5, 2009
Twenty-six years ago, a young bartender named Dick Schulte took over the space known as Blayney's (415 Westport Road, 816-561-3747) and turned it into the bedrock of blues...
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Bible Talk
By Lisa Horn
Published: March 5, 2009
Beer thirty has become little bit holier on Thursday nights in Lawrence. Henry's on Eighth (11 East Eighth Street, 785-331-3511) is the bar of choice for Theology on Tap, an...
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Chick Flick
By Penny LaRocque
Published: March 5, 2009
One hundred years ago, on the heels of a 15,000-women march in New York City for shorter workdays, better pay and voting rights, the Socialist Party of America declared the...
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Pistons Popping, Ain't No Stopping
By Chris Packham
Published: March 5, 2009
In the prevailing horrible economic climate, you know which industry is doing really well? Used cars and used auto parts. New shiny cars have become luxury items for Americans...
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Catch and Cary
By Brent Shepherd
Published: March 5, 2009
Equal parts handsome leading man and gifted physical comedian, Cary Grant translated Archie Leach's talent for pratfalls into the unparalleled grace of a man who could traverse...
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Royal Chef
By Owen Morris
Published: March 5, 2009
If you are what you eat, then nobody knows the British royal family like Darren McGrady does. He prepared every meal, party and spot of tea for Princess Diana and her two sons...
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Sunday Drink Deal
By Berry Anderson
Published: March 5, 2009
(2450 Grand, 816-472-1717). Kabuki is one of the only places in town that serves Shabu Shabu, the DIY beef-tofu-veggie hot-pot dish. Try it from noon to 9 p.m. with $5.95...
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Sunday Drink Deal
By Berry Anderson
Published: March 5, 2009
(2450 Grand, 816-472-5959). Streetcar 52 moved from 4922 Main to Crown Center in 1984 and has been serving cheap food and drinks ever since. From noon to 5 p.m. today, drink...
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Sunday Drink Deal
By Berry Anderson
Published: March 5, 2009
(2450 Grand, 816-398-4825). The glass-enclosed Italian restaurant offers $3.75 mimosas and $3 bottles from 3 to 5 p.m. Sun., March 8, 3-5 p.m., 2009
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Fancy Steppin'
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: March 5, 2009
Breathe easy, Kansas City. The Ginger Musical is not some redheaded version of Hair. Instead, Christopher McGovern's promising dance musical, at the American Heartland Theatre,...
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Actually Happy Tree Friends
By Chris Packham
Published: March 5, 2009
Happy Tree Friends, sharing its title with a series of disgusting Web animations, is actually a collaborative effort among a group of Kansas City and Lawrence artists that...
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In Painters' Heads
By Chris Packham
Published: March 5, 2009
Inside the Painter's Studio, an exhibition of Joe Fig's table sculptures at the Byron C. Cohen Gallery for Contemporary Art (2020 Baltimore, 816-421-5665), opens tonight from 7...
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I Rent Myself to Dream
By Chris Packham
Published: March 5, 2009
Me Rento Para Soñar, translated as I Rent Myself to Dream, is a wide-ranging exhibit of work by Oaxacan artist Alvaro Santiago that opened last month, but a public...
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Tweaking the dream
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: March 5, 2009
Thanks to free markets and constitutional liberties, even a child born into poverty and oppression can become the next corporate billionaire — or so the mythology goes....
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Who's Lerner and Loewe?
Published: March 5, 2009
Who's Lerner and Loewe? is a musical tribute to the songwriting team responsible for the musical theater hits Brigadoon in 1947, Paint Your Wagon in 1951, My Fair Lady in 1956,...
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A Mighty wind
By Scott Wilson
Published: March 5, 2009
The Kansas City Symphony Chamber Players get their war on today. For the first of two free concerts at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial (100 West 26th...
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All Shook Up
Published: March 5, 2009
The Kansas City Kansas Community College Department of Theatre presents the critically acclaimed musical that features all Elvis Presley songs. Thu., March 5, 8 p.m.;...
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Manifold Modes
By Chris Packham
Published: March 5, 2009
Outsider art as a designation for work created by nonprofessionals sometimes comes off as derisive or elitist, but Mo Dickens uses the term with unabashed affection for the art...
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