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Hello, Live Music, We Missed You
The Freedom Affair is a nine-piece band known for getting crowds dancing. But they haven't had a live show since February 2020, and fans have had to make do with headphones instead of dance floors. That's about to change.
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A Tale Of Two Cities’ Parks
After spending most of my free time in parks for a year, I visited St. Louis and saw a city that related to its parks very differently. My attempts to understand why revealed a stark truth: Kansas City's parks were designed to separate people, not bring them together.
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The Vaccine Selfie Dilemma
One by one, Kansas Citians wind their way through the bewildering maze that is the vaccine rollout. Sharing a selfie is one of the few ways to celebrate the milestone with friends and family. But there's a catch.
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A Chiefs Fan's Alternate Pandemic Reality
A year ago, KCUR aired the "coronavirus diaries" of a Kansas City native teaching English in China. Back then, his account of life in quarantine — including an eerily quiet Super Bowl watch party — seemed unimaginable. Now, the normalcy of his post-COVID life is what's surreal.
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Coffee, Coffee, Coffee
Running around less has not meant laying off the coffee, just drinking more of it at home. Keeping up with changing customer demand has been a wild ride for people in the hot beverage business.
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P.E. For Sad Grownups
Remote P.E. has forced gym teachers to re-think fitness for their students. But can they help stir-crazy adults?
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Becoming American Is Still A Dream Come True
They chose American citizenship in a pandemic and a snow storm, with chaos in the nation's Capitol. Here's why.
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A Pizza Chef And A Turkish Restaurateur Walk Into A Bar...
Two men living on two separate continents went into the pandemic with plans to open two very different restaurants. When COVID upended those plans, fate — and technology — threw them together.
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A Small Business Owner Stays Afloat In A Big Box Store
For 15 years, Kip Ludwigs carefully calculated every move she made as owner of her dream business, Solaris Massage in Kansas City. When the coronavirus threw all her plans out the window, she found solace and solutions in unlikely places. Here's her story.
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A Year Without Hugs
Wilma Gibson is the matriarch of a big, affectionate family. But she lives alone and hasn't touched her daughter — or anyone else — in a year.
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