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Jeneé Osterheldt

How can we stand by and do nothing?

She was leaving a high school homecoming dance. It should have been a night that ended with happy memories and silly pictures to be posted on her Facebook page the next day.

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Aaron Barnhart

Television honors those who serve

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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Timothy Finn

Leonard Cohen fans say 'Hallelujah' to upcoming concert in KC

Monday night, Leonard Cohen, 75, will perform at the Midland theater. It will be his first concert in Kansas City, which is grand news to a lot of his diehard fans around here, many of whom will be seeing him for the first time.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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