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Jeneé Osterheldt

Don’t be so quick to sit in judgment

When football superstar Steve McNair was found shot twice in the head and twice in the chest on the Fourth of July, with 20-year-old Sahel Kazemi lying dead at his feet, a lot of people summed it simply: cheating football player dead. Add it to the rcent steaming pile of adulterous celebrities and murderous scandals.

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Aaron Barnhart

Three fine shows — 'Entourage,' 'Eureka' and 'Leverage' — start new seasons this summer

Three of the very best shows to be developed for summer in recent years return to television this week. (And no, “Mad Men” isn’t among them.)

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Timothy Finn

The Black Crowes play a fresh dose of retro at the VooDoo Lounge

Next month brings the 40th anniversary of the first Woodstock music festival. Thursday night at the VooDoo Lounge, the Black Crowes spent more than two hours reviving the spirit of that mythic event and the sounds (and aromas) of that era. The Crowes first flourished in the early 1990s, but they’ve always had a deep, unrepentant appreciation for classic-rock sounds. Thursday night they evoked all of them: the Allmans, Faces, the Band, the Byrds, Skynyrd, several flavors of the Stones, Wilson Pickett. And to prove they’ve got some classic country-rock in their bones, they covered Gram Parsons’ “She.”

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Robert W. Butler

‘Food, Inc.’: A horror movie with a message | 3 ½ stars

I’m happy to have any appetite at all since watching “Food, Inc.” Director Robert Kenner’s documentary is powerful. Maybe even life-changing.

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Robert Trussell

Martin City Jr. presents 'Bounce'

Martin City Jr., the children’s theater wing of the Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company, is performing “Bounce” through July 31. Martin City founder Jeanne Beechwood wrote and directed this piece, which includes original songs by Jon Copeland.

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Alice Thorson

Provocative 'Black Is, Black Ain't' probes issues of race

From the election of President Barack Obama to the recent death of Michael Jackson, the idea of race in American society never seems to be far from our minds. So a new exhibit at the Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace presents an opportunity to provoke discussion and explore just what it is we’re thinking about.

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Joe Klopus

A temporary gig turns into a career for trombonist Wycliffe Gordon

Wynton Marsalis thought he heard something in trombonist Wycliffe Gordon. And Gordon has proved him right.

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