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Can T. Boone Pickens really help solve America’s energy problem?
By Chris Vogel
Published: March 26, 2009
T. Boone Pickens looks tired. Standing in a packed lecture hall at Rice University in Houston, he's hawking his Pickens Plan for energy independence, saying we need to use more...
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World Wine Tasting
Published: March 26, 2009
If you attend the World Wine Tour at 801 Chop House, you have no excuse to leave sober. Some 300 wines from more than 40 winemakers will be available for tasting. Plus, you get...
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Harry's Country Club
By Lorna Perry
Published: March 26, 2009
(112 East Missouri Avenue, 816-421-3505). This honky-tonk club is a great place to jump-start the evening. The drink specials are too numerous to list, but rest assured that...
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Grand Street Café
By Lorna Perry
Published: March 26, 2009
(4740 Grand, 816-561-8000). Starting at 11 a.m., Grand Street's Saturday happy hour offers $2 draws of domestic beer, $3 well drinks, and $3 glasses of wine. Available until 3...
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The Bulldog
By Lorna Perry
Published: March 26, 2009
(1715 Main, 816-421-4799). On Saturdays, the Bulldog is the land of half-price bottles of wine from 5 to 10 p.m. And the selection isn't chintzy; options include pinot noir,...
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Precociously Prodigious
By John Kreicbergs
Published: March 26, 2009
She bills herself as a saxophonist, a singer, a songwriter, a composer and an arranger. Yes, she's 16. And, yes, she has been hailed by the likes of Wynton Marsalis, Lee...
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Psych!
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: March 26, 2009
You're gonna be on TV! Not! For comedian Dobie Maxwell, April Fools' Day came a little early this year. On March 16, two days after his 46th birthday, the funnyman from Chicago...
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Poetry Aloud
By McKay Stangler
Published: March 26, 2009
Marie Asner's poems traffic in soaring imagery and terse invocations of emotion, and she manages to make contradictions and incongruities seem commonplace — maybe even...
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Funnybook Fraternizing
By Caleb Goellner
Published: March 26, 2009
It's convention season, that special time of year when comic fans hop off their laptops for some real-life social networking. Join in the fun this weekend at Planet Comicon at...
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Packed with Alpacas
By Peter Rugg
Published: March 26, 2009
We don't believe that certain animals really exist. Ligers are one example. Alpacas are another — tiny, little llamas with stoner haircuts. The idea that hundreds of...
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LIGHTS! CAMERA! L'CHAIM!
By Brent Shepherd
Published: March 26, 2009
In The Big Lebowski, the Dude's bowling buddy, Walter Sobchak, sums up Judaism as "3,000 years of beautiful tradition, from Moses to Sandy Koufax," and in a roundabout way,...
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Famous KC
By Jen Chen
Published: March 26, 2009
Tonight, local personalities and civic leaders vie for the glory of being a dance champion at the third-annual fundraiser Kansas City Dancing With the Stars. Just like the TV...
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Tres
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: March 26, 2009
Now a Californian, poet Gloria Vando Hickok prefers returning to Kansas City when the weather is warm. But the outdoor climate won't matter when the poetry is as passionate as...
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Cool Experiment
By Richard Gintowt
Published: March 26, 2009
Paul D. Miller — aka DJ Spooky — was never much for the traditional DJ routines of spinning, remixing and party-rocking. His interests have always been more obtuse,...
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Call It, Friend-O
By Brent Shepherd
Published: March 26, 2009
Find a penny, pick it up, and all day long you'll have good luck. Find $2 million at the scene of a desert bloodbath, and you've got nothin' but trouble. For Llewelyn Moss...
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The Original Bonnie and Clyde
Published: March 26, 2009
Author Jeff Guinn gives a presentation on America's favorite crime couple -- Bonnie and Clyde. Thu., March 26, 7 p.m., 2009
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South by Northwest
By Scott Wilson
Published: March 26, 2009
Need a south-of-the-border vacation but don't have time or money to get very far? Spend a couple of hours with the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City. For its "Spring Break in...
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Psychic Sylvia Browne
Published: March 26, 2009
Did you know that psychic Sylvia Browne, frequently seen on the Montel Williams show, is actually a Kansas City native? That's right. And she's coming home to amaze us with her...
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Cool Experiment
By Richard Gintowt
Published: March 26, 2009
Paul D. Miller — aka DJ Spooky — was never much for the traditional DJ routines of spinning, remixing and party-rocking. His interests have always been more...
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New-Age Charms
By Peter Rugg
Published: March 26, 2009
You know why The Pitch hasn't been overrun by bears? Because we have a magic feather that keeps bears away. If you'd like to know where we got the idea for a magic feather,...
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