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On television, 2011 was a year of overexposure and oversharing

As recipients of millions of new smartphones and tablets, our pockets and purses in 2011 bulged with media, if not money. As a result, the mediasphere grew ever denser and noisier this year — a din that only increased as people strove to break through it with deeds that were outrageous, audacious or just plain dumb.

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Timothy Finn

Creed gives the faithful a night of enduring hard rock

Creed was once the biggest band in the world, a commercial juggernaut that filled arenas and sold millions of albums.

Creed at The Midland

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Joe Klopus

Pianist Ramsey Lewis will shine on KC

Pianist Ramsey Lewis has been making irresistible grooves for upward of 50 years. Now, approaching his 77th birthday, he’s plugging in the electric band again and kicking up his heels. They’re calling it the Sun Goddess Tour, and it touches down at Saturday at the Gem Theater.

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Robert Trussell

KC Rep's Eric Rosen looks to future

He’s sticking around. He’s sticking around. At least for a while. That’s the word from Eric Rosen, Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s 41-year-old artistic director, who plans to remain at the helm of the city’s leading nonprofit theater company at least through 2014.

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Alice Thorson

Longtime American curator to leave Nelson for Texas

For two decades, Margi Conrads put American art front and center at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, through big shows of American greats, stellar acquisitions and a comprehensive reinstallation of the museum’s American galleries.

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Patrick Neas

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

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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