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1. Feature

   A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion

   By Carolyn Szczepanski

   Published: February 21, 2008

   It's a horrible time to run for the Kansas City, Missouri, School Board. Yet on a windy January evening, the Durwin Rice Gallery — a two-room storefront near 55th Street...

2. Night & Day

   Jess Walter

   Published: February 21, 2008

   National Book Award Finalist, author of The Zero. Helzberg Auditorium, Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City, Mo. Wed., Feb. 27, 7 p.m., 2008

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   CPR Courses: Heartsaver AED

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Heartsaver AED: You will learn techniques to save adult, infant and child victims of cardiac or respiratory arrest. This course teaches one-person cardiopulmonary...

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   Surprisingly Good

   By Crystal K. Wiebe

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Unlike the Jonas Brothers — the Disneyfied boy band headlining tonight at the Sprint Center — opening act Rooney actually has some cool cred. Like, did you know...

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   Catwalk Fundraiser

   By Chris Packham

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Tonight's Bourbon Street Runway Fashion Show at William Jewell College brings area designers and members of Jewell's Black Student Association together for a Hurricane Katrina...

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   Adrenaline Paddling

   By Chris Packham

   Published: February 21, 2008

   If you're getting bored with your enforced sedentary lifestyle this winter, the Kansas City Whitewater Club can help prep you for rugged outdoor adventures in the spring...

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   Oscar Party

   By Caleb Goellner

   Published: February 21, 2008

   For the 80th consecutive year, Hollywood's best and brightest assemble tonight for a chance to palm a small naked man named Oscar. To watch who wins, climb upstairs to Louise's...

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   Rah, Rah

   By Crystal K. Wiebe

   Published: February 21, 2008

   Typically, raffle tickets cost a buck or two and come in the form of little stubs. Tonight at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634), a necklace is a raffle ticket, and it costs...

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   Bird Tales

   By Lorna Perry

   Published: February 21, 2008

   At some point, most of us consider buying that proverbial doggie in the window. Conscientious types realize that there are plenty of adoptable animals out there, and pets are a...

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    Drinking Game

    By Chris Rasmussen

    Published: February 21, 2008

    It is hard to find an activity less healthy than sitting on a bar stool, drinking heavily in a smoke-filled environment. Today, the Ninth-Annual Miller Lite Barstool Open...

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    Sanitary and Side-Splitting

    By Julie Seabaugh

    Published: February 21, 2008

    It's not easy to hold the dual titles of comic's comic and crowd favorite simultaneously. But funnyman Brian Regan had the DIY chutzpah to do things his own clean-yet-cutting...

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    Black Comedy

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Black people aren't funny — that's the message the American Film Institute sent in 2000 with its "100 Laughs" list, which included only three movies with African-American...

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    Touch It

    By Penny LaRocque

    Published: February 21, 2008

    If you've ever resented the invisible line that separates viewers from the rarefied art at most galleries and museums, head over to the Kansas City Art Institute's H&R Block...

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    Sometimes You Feel Like

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: February 21, 2008

    "You can never be lonely when you have nuts around," Elizabeth Tashjian, the "Nut Lady," told Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. But Tashjian's fleeting celebrity as the nutty...

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    KC Style

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Don't count us out yet. The fashion world might not revolve around Kansas City, but local designers, stylists, models and musicians are proving that this cowtown isn't so...

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    Photo Genius

    By Penny LaRocque

    Published: February 21, 2008

    New York photographer Stephen Shore's early years sound like an ambitious art student's to-do list: Discover life's passion by first grade ... check. Sell three works to the...

17. Martin

    Drunk on Power: The developer of downtown's entertainment district fights the neighborhoods' right to party

    By David Martin

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Editor's note: This story was originally published on February 15. This is an updated version. The company that's developing Kansas City's new downtown entertainment district...

18. Letters

    Games People Play

    Readers debate the merits of a governor's son's art-school project, local bands — and threeways.

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Burnt Ends: "The Idiot Son: A Board Game," February 7 No Fun What was made clear by your piece "The Idiot Son: A Board Game" is that you don't know John Sebelius. I was...

19. Ask a Mexican®

    You want to know the real source of Mexico's problems? Spain

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: February 21, 2008

    Dear Mexican: Why do you suppose Mexico has such a hard time getting its act together? It has vast natural resources, good climate, natural ports, super-generous and...

20. Burnt Ends

    Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool"

    Published: February 21, 2008

    In honor of sweeps month, the Department of Burnt Ends looked into a frightening phenomenon. Cue the scary music and the ominous-sounding voice-over: Why did our local...