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In the raging national shit storm over contraception, one major medical story has been lost in the shuffle. KU Medical Center has had a breakthrough in its noble effort to create a male birth-control pill, which would prevent men from producing mature sperm cells. While most media outlets have trained their focus on the congressional catfight over employer-provided contraception, the always-sharp Stephen Colbert brought KU's brilliant biological alchemy to the public's attention during his "Tip of the Hat/Wag of the finger" segment Wednesday. As you can see, he's not a fan. After all, every sperm is special.
... avoids the feds together?
Kidding, of course. But I'm annually amused by the city's Community Shredding Event, which invites KCMO residents to grind up their confidential documents at the Metro North Community Recycling Center and at the Three Trails Community Recycling Center tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
All of us, united as one by the fear of identity theft.
This is brilliant. Kansas City-based AMC Theatres is banking on the fact that (1) you haven't seen all 10 Best Picture nominees for the 2011 Academy Awards or (2) you're a total movie geek who needs to see them all again in order to know which film to root for.
Lots of movie houses, banking on annual Oscar fever, are showing the nominees right now, including titles that came out earlier in the year and are now available on DVD, such as the southern Missouri-set Winter's Bone. But the AMC Best Picture Showcase is the easiest way to catch all 10, on an actual theater screen, for a not-unreasonable price.
Animals don't make love. Just ask Trent Reznor.
Nevertheless, "Love and the Animals" is the coyly named highlight of an upcoming event at the Kansas City Zoo that's all about animal sex. We all know what doggy style looks like, but what about froggy style? Elephant style?
Beyond the actual mechanics of doing the deed, how do animals manage to hook up? For that matter, how do identical-looking creatures tell one another apart once they do?
Armed with an X-rated-if-you-aren't-human slideshow, animal courtship expert Ron Magill will offer scientific answers to these and other burning questions during Kiss & Tail on February 5. The event includes heavy appetizers and a raffle but is only open to adults age 21 and over. (Explaining mammalian polyamory to the kids is your job, not the zoo's.)
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1. Don't just stand there and pontificate, take part in the art! The creativity demands interactivity during the Charlotte Street Foundation's Art Downtown happenings. Barter at the art yard sale at City Center Square, create your own holiday card at Partnership Place or make a zine at the Paragraph.
2. In honor of Jim Morrison's posthumous pardon for indecent exposure, head to the Jazzhaus in Lawrence and love madly some renditions of all those songs that the shaman of blues-rock made famous. Moonlight Drive: A Tribute to the Doors wants to be your backdoor band tonight.
Tonight: Just recall Billy Bob Thornton in a Santa suit for evidence that jolly old St. Nick might not actually be so sweet. The latest from local theater company She and Her Productions offers another take on the creepy Kris Kringle angle. The Eight: Reindeer Monologues by Jeff Goode is kinda like the Vagina Monologues meets The Accused at the North Pole. Experience the tell-all with antlers at the Crane Building, 1107 Hickory in the West Bottoms, at 8 p.m. The run concludes this weekend.
Tuesday: Leave the hoof-bearing vixens to the old, fat guy. Thighs that aren't covered in fur -- or much of anything, really, besides smooth, soft skin -- will prance around the Beaumont Club for a red hot night of burlesque and bands during the Pretty Things Peep Show, which is guaranteed to put stripes on your candy cane. Just keep your mittens to yourself.
1. It's the last first Friday of the year! That means this is your final chance to experience a First Friday art crawl in the Crossroads during 2010. The awesomeness on the agenda includes -- of course -- visual art exhibitions, such as F-- X-mas at the Keyhole Gallery. Also: Hustle over to the Fishtank Performance Studio for local actors like David Wayne Reed reading from their actual teenage diaries.
2. Want more art? Go to college! The Kansas City Art Institute holds its end-of-semester show and sale today through Sunday. You can pay for your favorite piece any time throughout the weekend, but it has to remain on display 'til the show's over.
Reading or listening to an outsider's assessment of Kansas City can be excruciating. The Show-Me State showed me lot of a hot barbecue and cool jazz!
So credit Brian Lambert, a contributor to Mpls.St.Paul Magazine, for recognizing Kansas City as something more than a plate of burnt ends and a place where Charlie Parker developed a taste for narcotics. Describing ways to spend a weekend in our "legendary cow town," Lambert provides crisp takes on the World War I Museum, the Living Room at the Pearl (2010's Best New Theater, according to us) and the Broadway Café, said to concoct "the best lattes anywhere."
Today: Get a Christmas tree that's already decorated. The 24th Annual Lawrence Festival of Trees kicks off at Liberty Hall. The show and auction includes trees and wreaths that have already been gussied up.
Tuesday: Discuss elements of style with local clothes whores during the Fashion Group International Trend Event, a networking event for fashionistas and a general de-briefing on what was hot in 2010.
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