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A pleasant roll through the park in The Ball

By ROBERT W. BUTLER

The Kansas City Star

It’s called The Ball, but technically it’s two balls — a big one 9 feet in diameter and a smaller one about 7 feet suspended inside the first.

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Alongside the beauty queens of squashes — the green, gold and white acorn; the pale yellow delicata, striped with forest green; the bright red-orange red kuri; and the comically shaped turban — butternut squash is the wallflower.

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Robert W. Butler

A pleasant roll through the park in The Ball

By ROBERT W. BUTLER

The Kansas City Star

Take our box office prediction poll

Butler’s Top Five

Movie stuff

Movie Mom | ‘Beverly Hills Chihuahua,’ ‘Blindness,’ ‘Flash of Genius,’ ‘Nick & Norah,’ ‘Religulous’

‘Friday the 13th’ at Screenland

Now showing

The Tivoli goes noir

What happened to the Western?

Timothy Finn

Tina Turner still rocks the house

MORE ENTERTAINMENT HEADLINES

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Stargazing: Kinnear finds his ‘Flash,’ ‘Express’ star didn’t know about Davis

Pretenders’ new album as solid as ‘Concrete’

Stargazing | Thicke keeps his soul, Kitsch loses his shirt

Miss it? The Palin-Biden debate, SNL style

'Lion King' is an enjoyable visual spectacle

Stargazing | Dion gets his history lesson out, Knightley wasn’t making a history connection

Goldengrove a telling portrait of death and coming-of-age

Interview | Pickler picks her shots

Harley Marshall returns with ‘Salvaged’

This is anything but old hat

Detail-rich Warren Buffett biography is an exercise in excess

KC Ballet dances into season with comedy and Americana

The Theatre for Young America founders keep it all in the family

Colleges the backdrop for events

It’s a bull market on book on economic crisis

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