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The Ghosts of St. Elizabeth: For Kansas City's Catholic sex-abuse victims, this was a parish of pain.
By Peter Rugg
Published: October 9, 2008
The cold face of the St. Elizabeth rectory gives no indication of comfort within. Inside, its walls are painted in bright crimsons and calming blues, adorned with pictures of...
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Gettin' Jiggy With It
By Kyle Koch
Published: October 9, 2008
The Irish musical tradition made its first pitch during the Great Famine, explains Rory O'Connor, founding member of Celtic Fringe, a Kansas City nonprofit that promotes Irish...
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The Other Place
By Berry Anderson
Published: October 9, 2008
(7324 West 80th Street, 913-652-9494). This University of Iowa-loving bar has $2.50 22-ounce domestic drafts and $3.50 selections from its premium Bloody Mary bar, with 35...
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76th Street Bar and Grill
By Berry Anderson
Published: October 9, 2008
(7042 West 76th Street, 913-341-0076). This Jayhawk-friendly bar has four different kinds of Free State Brewery beer on tap for $4 a pint on Sundays. Also on special today: $5...
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Watch This
By Scott Wilson
Published: October 9, 2008
Maybe you've seen 1,000 movies. Maybe not. (You can't count all six times you've watched the last hour of Malice on TNT while waiting for your jeans to dry.) But if you want to...
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Self-Loving
By Andrew Miller
Published: October 9, 2008
The 2007 movie Lars and the Real Girl depicts the sweet sadness of an awkward guy's romance with a sex doll. Watch Out, a new film directed by Kansas-based provocateur Steve...
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Pottery Party
By S.T. Vockrodt
Published: October 9, 2008
Shotgun enthusiasts use molded pigeons for target practice as they await the day when live game goes flying by. People with bad tempers but no firearms prefer throwing vases to...
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Taste the sound of purple
By Chris Packham
Published: October 9, 2008
Synesthesia is a condition characterized by sensory overlap in which one sensory input, such as a sound, stimulates a second sensory pathway, such as color visualization. Thus,...
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Are You Ready for Some Football?
By Richard Gintowt
Published: October 9, 2008
As ESPN commercials seem to imply, Monday Night Football is the antidote for the oncoming shittiness of another vacuous week. So what if your job sucks and your printer jams?...
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Scar Model
By Richard Gintowt
Published: October 9, 2008
When 24-year-old Danielle Burgess of Lee's Summit finally met a group of young people who had also survived colon cancer, she felt like a character on the television show...
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Eco-Surrealism
By Penny LaRocque
Published: October 9, 2008
In a new show opening today at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278), a solitary character known as Everyman employs fantastic contraptions to patch holes in...
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By Sammy Loren
Published: October 9, 2008
Sweet summer flings may soon freeze, but love and dreams linger with the opening of the Kansas City Ballet's 51st fall season, today through Sunday. Showcasing three works each...
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Writer Types
By Flannery Cashill
Published: October 9, 2008
New York City is too expensive, and Paris is full of fascists — truly, the new grassroots bohemia begins in flyover country. Since 1992, the Writers Place has supported...
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Spirits and Specters
By McKay Stangler
Published: October 9, 2008
You might think, based on the words and pictures of many local media outlets, that Kansas City, Kansas, has its fair share of demons already. It is unfairly maligned as a...
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Brains, Yum!
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: October 9, 2008
In Dawn of the Dead, zombies famously took to the mall, staggering in their brainless zombie way through shops and food courts in search of fulfillment through consumption...
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Third Day & Switchfoot
Published: October 9, 2008
Influenced by the Southern rock of Lynyrd Skynyrd and other artists such as U2 and Rich Mullins, Third Day was originally formed by vocalist Mac Powell and acoustic guitarist...
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Cherryholmes
Published: October 9, 2008
American’s newest first family of bluegrass, Grammy nominated Cherryholmes sound is made up of hard-driving instrumental virtuosity and explosive vocal harmonies. The...
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Movin' Out
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: October 9, 2008
Only a truly incendiary imagination could turn a four-page puppet play into a fully choreographed multimedia performance of dance and theater. Luckily, such an explosive mind...
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Sore Losers
Rejected by voters, conservative Christians target the judiciary.
By David Martin
Published: October 9, 2008
The Christian right in Kansas resembles the Royals in the middle of summer — desperate for a win. In 2006, voters put moderates back in power on the State Board of...
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Jazzed Up
Published: October 9, 2008
In another example of the contrast between the Obama and McCain presidential campaigns — the former history-minded and well-oiled, the latter locked in combat with the...
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