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Elizabeth Banks will film "Catching Fire" this fall.

Elizabeth Banks nurtures a baby boom

May 15, 3:42 PM

With “The Hunger Games” in the rear-view mirror, the ensemble comedy “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” just ahead and a 14-month-old at home, Elizabeth Banks is tired.

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Saturday at Penn Valley Park, in the shadow of the Liberty Memorial, radio station KQRC celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rockfest, the biggest outdoor festival in Kansas City and one of the biggest in the nation. This year's lineup featured 15 bands, including main-stage acts Chevelle, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown.

Saturday at Penn Valley Park, in the shadow of the Liberty Memorial, radio station KQRC celebrate the 20th anniversary of Rockfest, the biggest outdoor festival in Kansas City and one of the biggest in the nation. This year's lineup featured 15 bands, including main-stage acts Chevelle, former Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash, Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown.

Community Faces | Rockfest 2012

May 15, 9:05 PM

Saturday at Penn Valley Park, in the shadow of the Liberty Memorial, radio station KQRC celebrated the 20th anniversary of Rockfest, the biggest outdoor festival in Kansas City and one of the biggest in the nation. This year's lineup featured 15 bands, including main-stage acts Chevelle, Slash, Five Finger Death Punch and Shinedown.

Timothy Finn

The songs remain the same, but the band often changes

Tuesday night, Van Halen will headline a show at Sprint Center. It will be the band’s second show in Kansas City in more than four years. Its previous show was also at Sprint Center, in October 2007. That tour was famous for reuniting lead singer David Lee Roth with the band for the first time in more than 20 years.

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Television

Big Jake has trouble jumping into pickup

May 16, 1:27 PM

Big Jake, a large mixed-breed dog, just turned 8.

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Robert Trussell

Topeka native draws on her history for ‘Everyday Rapture’

Sherie Rene Scott was on the phone reflecting on the difference between facts and truth.

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‘The Fantasticks’ expected to resume Thursday

May 14, 10:39 AM

The opening night performance of “The Fantasticks” at the Off Center Theatre in Crown Center was cut short after actor Vightor Zophoniasson suffered a torn Achilles tendon in the first act.

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The Classical Beat | Symphony lines up familiar composers, led by an expert in the field

May 12, 11:37 PM

In its concerts next weekend, the Kansas City Symphony will perform classical music in the strictest sense. Led by early music specialist Bernard Labadie, the orchestra will perform symphonies by Johann Christian Bach, Joseph Martin Kraus and Franz Joseph Haydn with pianist Arnaldo Cohen as the soloist in a concerto by Felix Mendelssohn.

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