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1. Feature

   Hyatt Regency skywalks designer Bob Berkebile is the godfather of green building

   By Carolyn Szczepanski

   Published: April 10, 2008

   When Bob Berkebile rushed to the chaotic scene of the Hyatt Regency disaster, his first thought was, Did I kill these people? It was the night of July 17, 1981. Berkebile and...

2. Cafe

   Boudreaux's Louisiana Seafood & Steaks tries for Mardi Gras but drops too many crab balls

   By Charles Ferruzza

   Published: April 10, 2008

   I didn't grow up anywhere near a bayou, so the closest I came to jambalaya as a kid was hearing the Hank Williams song on a TV variety show. (There's a bubbly 1973 version by...

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   Gross-Out

   By Carolyn Szczepanski

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Here's a gut check: Our collective crap could cost us more than $3.5 billion. After years of paving, flushing and letting problems fester underground, Kansas City's sewer...

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   Local Eats

   By Kenton Schuster

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Springtime is here again, and these days, eating local is as hip as the latest iPod. The Tuesday Lawrence Farmers Market is fertile ground for even the most uninitiated foodie....

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   Indoor Clash

   By Richard Gintowt

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Coming into the 2008 season, the Kansas City Brigade had plenty of reasons to be optimistic. An on-the-ropes Chiefs franchise did nothing in the offseason to appease its ornery...

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   Bold Mood

   By Lorna Perry

   Published: April 10, 2008

   There isn't one meek or mild thing about the fiery color red. Red has long symbolized strength and power in addition to two seemingly contradictory emotions: full-blown rage...

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   Don't Lose Your Lunch

   By Crystal K. Wiebe

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Nothing says summer like a float down the Fury of the Nile. That old wet-and-wild float ride is one of the classic amusements at Worlds of Fun (4545 Worlds of Fun Avenue),...

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   Vaudeville Camp

   By Andrew Miller

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Like NPR favorites the Ditty Bops, Vermillion Lies combines dual female vocals with unusual instrumentation (gas can, flour sifter, typewriter) and perky, variety-show banter....

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   Going Greenaway

   By Scott Wilson

   Published: April 10, 2008

   Peter Greenaway started his career behind the camera as a London bureaucrat in the mid-1960s. The onetime painter edited and directed short films for England's Central Office...

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    Trade Right

    By McKay Stangler

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Campaign season has brought with it a flurry of globalization-related pandering, with candidates questioning the wisdom of trade deals they once supported and making promises...

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    Beer, Pong

    By Caleb Goellner

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Everyone could benefit from living a little bit healthier. And there's no better way to improve one's health than through diet (beer is totally vegetarian) and exercise (table...

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    Rescued Fashions

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: April 10, 2008

    The model showing off Heather Rama's CastOffs fashion designs at cast offs1977.com/flashpage.html strikes a lot of poses inside and in front of the Record Bar (1020 Westport...

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    Persistent Visionaries

    By Chris Packham

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Filmmakers from Kansas City and around the world contribute their work to the 2008 Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival today through April 20. The event screens independent films...

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    Rock and Roll All Nite

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: April 10, 2008

    You can't spell Kansas City without "K-I-S-S," but promoter Steve Stierwalt needed more than alphabetical evidence before bringing his Kiss Expo to town. "We look at how Kiss...

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    Bucks and Ballads

    By Chris Packham

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Money is one of the biggest curses for nationally competitive high school students, not counting the stomping Cloverfield monster of misfiled spelling-bee paperwork. Maybe it's...

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    Documenting Survival

    By Penny LaRocque

    Published: April 10, 2008

    April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and if you can't make it to New Orleans for Eve Ensler's "V to the Tenth" festivities, a number of local events are scheduled to remind...

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    Time Pieces

    Published: April 10, 2008

    An exhibition by R. Shawn Bohs. April 4-May 23, 2008

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    Army of Children

    By McKay Stangler

    Published: April 10, 2008

    There are quite a few catastrophes in the world that don't seem in vogue enough to merit the attention of Irish rock stars or the largesse of sympathetic philanthropists. While...

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    Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969–1979

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Stephen Shore’s documentary-style photographs color the familiar and the everyday with a personalized and almost diaristic aesthetic, imbuing the banal with a striking...

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    Brenden MacNaughton

    Published: April 10, 2008

    Music performance. Wednesdays, 10 p.m., 2007