Subject: Victor Hugo

• Wish Blown

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• Word Power

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• Another reason to hate Whole Foods...

  Flickr: nettsu There's a news story in today's New York Times that sounds like it was taken from the pages of Les Miserables. In the Victor Hugo novel, Jean Valjean is jailed for stealing bread to feed his starving sister and her family. Whole Foods fired an employee for misconduct when the employee, Ralph Reese, retrieved a tuna fish sandwich out of the trash. The story might not be as dramatic as Hugo's, but Reese is fighting the ruling with the same passion that Jean Valjean had for co

  March 17, 2009

• Les Miserables

  September 11, 2008

• Kansas City's legendary chicken shack lives on in a new location

  June 12, 2008

• Silent Celluloid

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• Ain't Mis-Behavin

  November 10, 2005

• Power House

  Mark and Mary Mollentine win friends and influence people at the Governor's Meeting House.

  October 23, 2003

• That was then, this is now

  The Victor Hugo Inn -- where cocktail drinkers were "Les Miserables"​I have yet to meet someone in Kansas City -- including veteran newscaster and restaurant fan Walt Bodine! -- who can remember dining at the Victor Hugo Inn, which once stood, in a long-razed stone mansion, at the northwest corner of 85th and Wornall Road. I think I know why Walt missed the restaurant: it was famous for its fried chicken. And chicken -- in any way, shape or form -- is the one di

  September 11, 2009