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Home Sweet Parking Lot When a workingman doesn’t have a home in Johnson County, a Wal-Mart parking lot is the next best thing.
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Trail Nuts Regular folks run hundreds of miles through mud and mayhem to call themselves Kansas City Trail Nerds.
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Village Voice
The Book of Sarah
Subjected to the light of day, Sarah Palin doesn't look like a maverick at all.
By Wayne Barrett
SF Weekly
Building Overtime
Exposing a construction-site scam only a San Francisco cop could love.
By Joe Eskenazi
Houston Press
Don't Nobody Cry
Ronald Taylor is one of perhaps hundreds of innocent people Harris County has put in prison.
By Randall Patterson
Westword
Open Secrets
Sloppy U.S. government paperwork is putting the lives of asylum seekers at risk.
By Lisa Rab
KC Bear Fighters
By Richard Gintowt
Published on August 07, 2008
If the Kansas City Bear Fighters ever actually stumbled across a bear, the beast would be more likely to show off its jazz hands than its teeth. The group's gleeful singing and toe-tapping melodies would tickle Tiny Tim or Tennessee Ernie Ford. The Fighters have been known to perform in Hawaiian shirts and pirate costumes, purveying a kind of speakeasy ragtime powered by tenor banjo and doghouse bass. Fans of Truckstop Honeymoon or White Ghost Shivers will eat it up, as will bears with a discerning ear for creative takes on old-timey folk music.
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