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Feature
Are You Ready for Some ... Women?
By Jen Chen
Published: May 22, 2008
At halftime, things looked grim for the Kansas City Tribe. The Tribe — the latest addition to the collective of women's football in Kansas City — traveled to Texas...
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Fat Mouth
Chef Eric Carter flees OP1906 before its Applebee’s-style makeover and heads to Blue Bird Bistro
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: May 22, 2008
Last Thursday, talented young sous chef Eric Carter left the kitchen at OP1906 Bar & Grill in the Sheraton Overland Park Hotel at the Convention Center. After nearly three...
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Film Feature
Shots in the Dark
Reflecting its moment, Cannes 2008 takes a decidedly serious tone
By J Hoberman
Published: May 22, 2008
CANNES, France—No need for dreaming here. Each Cannes Film Festival generates its own metaphors for a 10-day regimen of visions in the dark. It's impossible to forget,...
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Night & Day
Jiggle Jam
Published: May 22, 2008
A kid-friendly music fest featuring They Might Be Giants, Justin Roberts, Trout Fishing in America, Tom Chapin, John McCutcheon and favorite Kansas City performers like Funky...
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Marcie Miller Gross
Published: May 22, 2008
Utilizing recycled wool sweaters Miller Gross creates site responsive installations and sculptural objects for this exhibition. Working with an inventory of parts consisting of...
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Tony Horwitz
Published: May 22, 2008
Best-selling author Tony Horwitz discusses the travel bug and his latest adventures to unearth the neglected history of America's early European settlers, as chronicled in his...
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O
Published: May 22, 2008
A screening of the 2001 updated production of William Night Shamalyanspeare's Othello, directed by Tim Blake Nelson who will forever be remembered for his comic performances in...
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GoldenEye
Published: May 22, 2008
James Bond movie shown as part of the Library's "Of Spies and Their Toys" film series. The first, and best, of Pierce Brosnan's three outings as The Spy with the Golden Gun Who...
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Celebrity Summer Jam
Published: May 22, 2008
National Celebrities will be featured in this basketball event that will benefit the American Diabetes Assoc. and Team Excellence Sports. Participants include Alisa Reyes,...
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Saucer Probes P&L
By Berry Anderson
Published: May 22, 2008
Considering that beer constitutes 85.8% of all alcohol consumed in the United States, chances are good that the descent of the Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.) into the Power &...
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Night & Day
Hey, Guy On the Big Screen
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: May 22, 2008
With four outs to go, professional Royals superfan Tim Scott chats with a fan. Two outs to go, and Scott, one of Kansas City's best young actors, a musical theater dynamo...
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Genetic Monsters
By Peter Rugg
Published: May 22, 2008
If you're walking downtown and you happen to notice dozens of walking pituitary glands oiled up, wearing thongs and devouring all the lean meat in sight, it would be reasonable...
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’Cue With Everything
By Eric Barton
Published: May 22, 2008
The Great American Barbecue isn’t your typical cook-then-eat BBQ festival. Take today’s activities in the event’s “Town Square Area:” carnival, $5...
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News
An atheist soldier from Fort Riley says his higher-ups in Iraq didn’t like his non-Christian ways
By Peter Rugg
Published: May 22, 2008
Army Spc. Jeremy Hall did two tours in Iraq, saw his share of fire and came back in one piece. Too bad he needs a bodyguard to keep his fellow soldiers from attacking him now...
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Film Feature
A Polish auteur -- and Mike Tyson! -- stage comebacks at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival.
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: May 22, 2008
Call them the comeback kids: In its early days, the 2008 Cannes Film Festival has served as a staging ground for a number of unlikely returns, beginning with that of Polish...
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Martin
Missouri gubernatorial candidate Sarah Steelman is campaigning against the earnings tax. If only she'd sub it out for a land tax
By David Martin
Published: May 22, 2008
A plaid work shirt straddles razor wire that guards points of entry to the old Greyhound station in downtown Kansas City. The garment rests atop the security fence with what...
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Film Feature
Presenting the only Cannes awards that really matter: Ours.
By J. HOBERMAN
Published: May 22, 2008
CANNES, France—The competition for the Palme d'Or is ongoing as I write, but the story of the 61st Cannes Film Festival is Steven Soderbergh's two-part,...
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Burnt Ends
The five-oh in KCMO needs help recruiting, so maybe it's time to break out the keys to the impounds
Published: May 22, 2008
It seems like nobody wants to be a cop anymore. The Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department is struggling to get applicants these days, and those they do get don't quite have...
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Letters
Letters for the Week of May 22
Published: May 22, 2008
Feature: "We ❤ Matt," May 8 Cool Buddies I read Jen Chen's story about Matthew Pope and his classmates at Shawnee Mission East twice. Not because I missed...
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Ask a Mexican®
Take a look at Cleveland's mascot before you worry about a team named for adventurous immigrants
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: May 22, 2008
Dear Mexican: I'm a California white boy with many Mexican friends. In addition to that, I've been running a fantasy baseball league for nine years. For the first time, we...
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