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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.
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.
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 ‘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.
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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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.
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.
For young to old, funny to serious, our holiday movie guide is stuffed with gifts for all sorts.
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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.
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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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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Addresses, Web sites and phone numbers for music venues throughout Kansas City and Lawrence
Check out the finalists and the winners in our 28-Second Film Fest contest
