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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.

• Community Faces | Belton Veterans Day Parade

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.

Alice Thorson

The Nelson’s American Indian exhibition — more than 200 objects — opens Nov. 11

We’re all familiar with totem poles and beaded moccasins, feathered headdresses and kachina dolls, but these well-known art forms don’t begin to encompass the richness of American Indians’ contributions to American art history. Kansas Citians and other visitors will have access to a fuller, more detailed picture of the art produced on this continent when the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art opens its new American Indian galleries on Nov. 11.

• Photos | "The Art of Our Native Peoples" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Joe Klopus

Pianist Ed Simon the sideman shines in a project of his own, Afinidad

Consider, for a moment, the sideman. The best ones have strong ideas of their own. And those ideas just keep growing as the sideman works with strong leaders.