Aaron Barnhart
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
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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Joe Klopus
KC band Crosscurrent takes on Lennie Tristano’s ‘weird bop’
The heady inventions of pianist Lennie Tristano are 65 years old now, but they still sound modern to everyone. Jazz people are still testing themselves on his territory. That’s the reason for the Kansas City band Crosscurrent. The group, playing at Take Five Coffee Bar on Saturday, plays Tristano and Tristano-inspired music most excitingly — and it isn’t quite like anything else on the local scene.
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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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Alice Thorson
Lawsuits aren’t the only answer when an artwork’s origin is questionable
When artworks in a collection turn out to be lost, stolen or fake, there are ways other than lawsuits to resolve the matter.
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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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