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Night & Day
J.Bling presents Bling City
Published: May 14, 2009
Jason Harris (also known as J.Bling), who will graduate May 16 with a B.F.A. degree in digital filmmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute presents a show that will blend...
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Night & Day
Old-School Circus
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: May 14, 2009
No, Zoppé isn't a new iced-coffee beverage at Starbucks. It's the name of an Italian family that has presented one-ring circus shows since 1842, when a French clown met...
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Night & Day
Dancers in Demand
By Annie Fischer
Published: May 14, 2009
The Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company has been making bodies and heads spin as of late. DeeAnna Hiett, one of the principals, received a 2008 Charlotte Street award;...
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Night & Day
Run, Cheetah, Run!
Published: May 14, 2009
Watch the Kansas City Zoo's cheetahs - GiGi, Claire, and Sadie - chase the lure at the end of a motorized track. It moves fast, but these girls can run 60+ mph, so it's...
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Night & Day
KC Storm
Published: May 14, 2009
Kansas City Storm Women's Football Team takes on the Minnesota Machine. Special guests include various youth swim teams from the Kansas city area. Sat., May 16, 7...
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Martin
TIF plans look good on paper because they’re not telling the whole story
By David Martin
Published: May 14, 2009
You know a shopping center is in distress when the Big Lots moves out. Big Lots is a closeout store. It left Brywood Centre last year. Hollywood Video is gone, too. But the...
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Town Without Pity
Low Rise
By Scott Wilson
Published: May 14, 2009
Who knew Kansas City, Kansas, was a Triple-A farm club for superheroes? According to the World Superhero Registry, a woman crime fighter named Nyx guards the streets of KCK....
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Studies in Crap
Back in Time
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: May 14, 2009
Title: HBO & ZZ99 Present Starlight ’84 Summer Spectacular Publisher: New West and Contemporary Productions Date: 1984 Discovered at: Waldo Antiques The cover promises:...
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Letters
Letters from the week of May 14
Published: May 14, 2009
Feature: "Eat It!" April 30 Cow Madness I am disturbed by the meat industry's justifications while it destroys our environment and causes pain and suffering to...
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Ask a Mexican®
Here’s why Mexican men are so sexy, and what not to say when you wake up wanting to … you know
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 14, 2009
Dear Mexican: My wife is from Michoacán state. We've bought a home in the small town of her birth. I love everything about the quiet little place. Even her mother is...
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Interview
Be/Non unearths a proggy, picaresque Mountain of Yeses in a valley of nos
By Richard Gintowt
Published: May 14, 2009
Brodie Rush can come off like a madman or a genius, depending on the night. He's probably a bit of both, but one thing is certain: The dude takes care of business. From...
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Wayward Son
Well-crafted Kid: The joy’s in the work for Andrew Morgan as he prepares to tour the U.K. with Carl Newman
By Jason Harper
Published: May 14, 2009
When I called Andrew Morgan one afternoon last week, he was hanging out in a studio working on logic problems — you know, those puzzles in which four friends go out to...
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Bonus Tracks
Bowties & Basslines
By Jason Harper
Published: May 14, 2009
Tails, pocket squares and patent-leather shoes are not exactly club attire — particularly when the evening's music is pulse-accelerating, brain-rewiring dubstep and drum...
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CD Reviews
Various Artists
Eccentric Soul: Smart's Palace
(The Numero Group)By Robert Folsom
Published: May 14, 2009
If there's anything for Jack White in Wichita, then it's the bargain-bin 45s of that town's 1960s and '70s soul scene. However, there's no need; Numero Group has gathered them...
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CD Reviews
The Dead Girls
Te Quiero EP
(self-released)By Richard Gintowt
Published: May 14, 2009
After recording 16 studio tracks and a bunch of acoustic-oriented home tracks, Lawrence's the Dead Girls (formerly Dead Girls Ruin Everything) decided to hold off on a...
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Critic's Choice
The BellRays
By Chris Parker
Published: May 14, 2009
Lisa Kekaula is garage punk's secret weapon. The BellRays frontwoman is what soul mama Sharon Jones would sound like macking on the New York Dolls. Kekaula has more white-hot...
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Critic's Choice
Bunnygrunt
By Annie Zaleski
Published: May 14, 2009
St. Louis music fans have the privilege of seeing Bunnygrunt (or its alter ego, a Blondie cover band called Blondiegrunt) perform on a regular basis. But the rest of the...
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Critic's Choice
Horse Feathers
By Elliott Johnston
Published: May 14, 2009
When Iron and Wine's Sam Beam abandoned the rustic, breathy minimalism of his early albums for new songs caked in head-spinning reverb, he left the door open for Horse Feathers...
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Critic's Choice
The B-52's
By Chris Packham
Published: May 14, 2009
Over the years, B-52's personnel have recorded with members of the Talking Heads, Iggy Pop and R.E.M., cementing the band's stature in a sort of pre-Internet era of pop...
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Cafe
If Lawrence, Kansas, seems an unlikely place for fabulous sushi, you haven’t found Wa
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: May 14, 2009
I've always said that the aural quality — the music and the noise level — are important components in the dining experience. God knows, I don't want to eat in a...
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