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1. Feature

   Blood for Blow

   The Raya and Rios slayings looked like another act of random violence until the trial revealed what they had gotten themselves into.

   By Justin Kendall

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Hidden in a blue-collar neighborhood on Kansas City's east side, Anthony Rios plotted the last drug deal of his life. It was a Friday evening, December 20, 2002. The rugged,...

2. Film

   Eye of the Beholder

   Julian Schnabel sees only treacle in the story that inspired his Diving Bell.

   By SCOTT FOUNDAS

   Published: January 10, 2008

   At last year's Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury's Best Director award for The Diving Bell...

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   Silas Goodrich of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Rolland Love will present a monologue about Silas Goodrich, the character he portrayed with the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery on the Missouri River. He will also talk...

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   Sicko (PG-13) by Michael Moore

   Published: January 10, 2008

   This documentary looks at health care in the U.S. as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free universal care in Canada, the U.K. and...

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   An Idyllic Vision: The Modern Japanese Landscape"

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Art exhibit. Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Starts: Dec. 27. Continues through Feb. 3, 2007

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   Kansas City Sportshow

   Published: January 10, 2008

   The 2008 show offers 400,000 square feet of the latest in boats, personal watercraft, RVs, ATVs, hunting and fishing accessories, and vacation getaways. Other show features...

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   Cheap Wine

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Half-price bottles of wine every Monday and Saturday night. Mondays, Saturdays, 2007

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   Jayhawks rock on

   By Justin Kendall

   Published: January 10, 2008

   The Kansas Jayhawks' imperial death march to the Big Dance — and inevitable March letdown — is on. With a tight defense and an explosive offense, the Jayhawks have...

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   Yams and Spinach

   By Scott Wilson

   Published: January 10, 2008

   Film lovers on either side of the argument that a director's first job is casting should look no further than Robert Altman's perfectly cast but far from perfect Popeye. For...

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    Strap Your Hands 'Cross My What?

    By Chris Packham

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Some dudes are really into model railroads. Other guys are way into motorcycles. Of these two subcultures, guess which produces trade magazines featuring bikini-clad models...

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    Improv Battle

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: January 10, 2008

    The first rule of improv is agreeability. If someone says the scene you're sharing takes place in Louis Armstrong's colon, you go along with it. Playing nice can chafe, though,...

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    How to Cheer

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: January 10, 2008

    To be a Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader, a woman needs more than pompoms. Cheerleader director Elaine Hart prides herself on her squad's ability to entertain and engage people...

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    Overland Exposition

    By Chris Packham

    Published: January 10, 2008

    University of Missouri-Kansas City writing teacher Michael Pritchett's first novel, The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis, is a rich, demanding split narrative. The book...

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    To the Core

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Thieves Highway assembles the usual film noir suspects — femme fatale, double-crossing boss, revenge-driven hero — but the events unfold in a unique setting: a...

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    Windchill Beach

    By Eric Barton

    Published: January 10, 2008

    OK, let's play that word association game. Let's start with beach and January. You're thinking downtown and Kansas City, right? No? Fortunately for you, the volleyball stars on...

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    A Master Honored

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: January 10, 2008

    "My songs aim to be conversation set to music," Irving Berlin once remarked. And even in that statement, we can't miss the craft he applied to make it seem off the cuff. Berlin...

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    Learning Tolerance

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Rabbi Brad Hirschfield used to be kind of scary. As a young man, he joined a militant Jewish group that wanted to take back the holy land, even at the cost of Palestinian...

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    Shake It to the Left

    By Caleb Goellner

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Mention a show at a "radical" bookstore, and certain members of the comic-book-reading demographic might think you're speaking in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-ese about a really...

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    Sonic Recital

    By Chris Packham

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Jeff Klein uses the sonic emanations of ceremonial crystal bowls in his practice as a holistic healer. He promises that audiences at his performance tonight at 7 will come away...

20. Martin

    Spin Zones

    Maybe if KC teams gave up their little choirboy acts, they'd win some damn games.

    By David Martin

    Published: January 10, 2008

    Results are the poetry of sports. Scoreboards speak perfect truths. Missouri, we learned in late November, had a better football team than Kansas. Chiefs boss Carl Peterson...