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Alvin York’s son and Gary Cooper’s daughter to appear at National World War I Museum

11/10/2009 08:05 AM

They lead wildly dissimilar lives, yet thanks to a movie they are inextricably linked. The daughter of actor Gary Cooper and the son of World War I hero Alvin C. York will participate in a special Veterans Day ceremony at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial.

Irving’s ‘Last Night in Twisted River’ mirrors his career

11/10/2009 02:48 PM

John Irving has always called himself an underdog, and he still talks like one — even at 67, even wildly famous as one of America’s great storytellers, even at the release of his 12th novel, certain to be a best-seller. Maybe he feels goaded. A recent review of “Last Night in Twisted River” used such words as tricked-up, gimmicky, cartoony, cheesy and preposterous — all in the first sentence.

Television honors those who serve

11/09/2009 05:57 PM

Veterans Day is Wednesday, and for the first time in years our young men and women serving in the military have the country’s full attention. Tragically, it is for the wrong reason.

DJ Kelly Urich joins 99.7 ‘Kiss FM’

11/09/2009 06:57 PM

DJ Kelly Urich joins ‘Kiss FM’ Former Mix 93.3 DJ Kelly Urich has joined hits station 99.7 “Kiss FM.” Until now Kiss FM has featured mostly syndicated content, including Ryan Seacrest from Los Angeles. Urich was on the air Monday afternoon.

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Aaron Barnhart

Television honors those who serve

Veterans Day is Wednesday, and for the first time in years our young men and women serving in the military have the country’s full attention. Tragically, it is for the wrong reason.

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Bleu Tomato: Fancy food, De Soto prices

11/08/2009 08:33 AM

When a jogger tells you the restaurant you’re looking for is “right next to the Dollar General,” it’s hard to keep your culinary hopes aloft. But Bleu Tomato turns out to be a cozy oasis of solid, value-priced food and bohemian decor in De Soto, halfway between Lawrence and Kansas City in western Johnson County.

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Review | Leonard Cohen

11/10/2009 02:47 PM

Like some upper-level graduate course, this show came with some prereqiusites: You needed to know the music of Leonard Cohen, and the more intimately the better. You also needed to appreciate his singing voice, which, these days, comes from somewhere between Barry Whites' and a lighter shade of Darth Vader's.

Holiday movie guide | Here’s something for everyone

11/05/2009 08:42 AM

For young to old, funny to serious, our holiday movie guide is stuffed with gifts for all sorts.

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Movie poll | What’s the best doomsday movie ever?

11/05/2009 05:27 PM

The end of the world arrives in “2012” and later this month in “The Road.” We want to know what movie of the past did it best? Vote here.

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Robert W. Butler

Alvin York’s son and Gary Cooper’s daughter to appear at National World War I Museum

They lead wildly dissimilar lives, yet thanks to a movie they are inextricably linked. The daughter of actor Gary Cooper and the son of World War I hero Alvin C. York will participate in a special Veterans Day ceremony at the National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial.

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Robert Trussell

Theater review: ‘H.M.S. Pinafore’

I won’t be the first theatergoer to describe Gilbert and Sullivan’s “H.M.S. Pinafore” as sheer foolishness, but it sums up the 1878 operetta rather well. Set entirely on the quarter deck of a British naval vessel that has been given the decidedly unmanly name of “Pinafore,” the story is a farcical essay on the British obsession with class distinctions.

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28-Second Film Fest finalists

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