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Feature
Up Show-Me Creek: The Missouri 340 river race takes endurance — and a fair share of crazy
By Carolyn Szczepanski
Published: July 31, 2008
Under a nearly full moon, Scott Mansker cruised delicately along the Missouri River in his motor-powered canoe. He tailed a small group of kayakers as they paddled past...
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Hair Pieces
By Lorna Perry
Published: July 31, 2008
What preserved trinket is less creepy than a shrunken monkey's paw but still pretty ghoulish? Answer: art made out of human hair.It exists, all right. During the 18th and 19th...
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Cultivating Change
By Hannah Zimmerman
Published: July 31, 2008
The Women's Foundation of Greater Kansas City and MANA de Kansas City come together tonight for Sembrando Semillas en Kansas City, which translates: "Planting the Seeds in...
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Laugh at Canucks
By Andrew Miller
Published: July 31, 2008
Released in 1983, Strange Brew presaged Chuck Norris jokes, dumb-and-dumber buddy comedies and Air Bud-style flying dogs. The only feature film to emerge from the seminal...
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Brand New drama
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: July 31, 2008
Each year's Actors Equity Showcase offers exactly what the name implies: a chance for Kansas City's professional thespians to razzle-dazzle on an intimate stage. But this...
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Tengo Sed Cantina
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: July 31, 2008
Tengo Sed Cantina (1323 Walnut, 816-442-8124). From 9 p.m. until close, slide up and down the stripper pole and drink $4 calls and $4 bombs. They don't call it Sunday Funday...
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Rock Out
By Berry Anderson
Published: July 31, 2008
Some find simply sitting on a bar stool and having a cocktail to be a tedious affair. Fortunately for them, bar diversions are evolving. Out with the tabletop versions of Ms....
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Welcome to the Neighborhood
By McKay Stangler
Published: July 31, 2008
The highly touted revitalization of downtown Kansas City, Missouri, has brought meaningful questions about urban development to the surface of this town's conversations. To...
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Batmobilia Expofest
By Chris Packham
Published: July 31, 2008
The Comic and Toy Convention isn't so much interested in your wallet. The vendors on hand just want your love. Note: Although admission is free, love will not be an acceptable...
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Celebrate Sustainability
By Caleb Goellner
Published: July 31, 2008
In a world where ecosystems often suffer in the name of human comfort, the organizers of one Lawrence festival are working to level out the economy of living well on Earth...
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First Friday Hitlist
By Penny LaRocque
Published: July 31, 2008
• Otoshimono: Interior and Exterior, Belongings and Junk. Japanese artist Saori Kawasumi presents society's castoffs — couches, chairs, coffee tables — as...
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Cities of Glass
By Chris Packham
Published: July 31, 2008
Despite having been raised on a cattle farm in rural Kansas, artist Kale Van Leeuwen developed interests that skewed away from animal husbandry and toward painting. "I pretty...
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The Process Displayed
By Penny LaRocque
Published: July 31, 2008
Planet of the Apes did it. So did an episode of The Twilight Zone. Hell, prostitutes do it every night of the week in the shop windows of Amsterdam. Putting humans on display...
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What Parks Started
By McKay Stangler
Published: July 31, 2008
Thumbnail histories of the civil rights movement often start with the memorable stand taken by Rosa Parks, the now-celebrated civil rights pioneer and hip-hop muse who famously...
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A Slugger Returns
By David Martin
Published: July 31, 2008
Summer is the season for reruns. In the same week when Josh Wolff returned to the Kansas City Wizards after two seasons in Europe, the Kansas City T-Bones welcomed back one of...
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Kansas City Royals v. Boston
By Eric Barton
Published: July 31, 2008
Used to be that Sluggerrr had the only raging mullet in Kauffman Stadium’s home dugout. But there’s a new man in town with business in the front and party in the...
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Bulldog Restaurant and Bar
By Berry Anderson
Published: July 31, 2008
(1715 Main, 816-421-4799). Get Wednesday rolling with $2.50 wells and $1 drafts and glasses of wine from 3 to 7 p.m. Stick around past 9 p.m. for aural pleasure from DJs Keanon...
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Web Exclusive
A not-independent analyst might have skewed local media coverage of Sprint
By PETER RUGG
Published: July 31, 2008
In June, when Sprint introduced the Instinct, its rival to the iPhone, industry analyst Jeff Kagan gave the launch a good review. Quoted in a June 19 Kansas City Star story...
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Burnt Ends
Operation: Operation
Criminals with a liking for cereal and Muppets just may have inspired titles for police actions.
Published: July 31, 2008
In June, U.S. Marshals worked with state and local law enforcement agencies across the country to apprehend 19,000 fugitives. Manuel Bonilla, who was wanted in Georgia on...
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Letters
Letters From the Week of July 31
Published: July 31, 2008
Burnt Ends, "Water Hogs," July 17 Great Idea Thanks for the great story about the five enemies of the state who are depleting our water resources and threatening the...
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