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Mac LethalCongratulations Over the last decade and a half, the Kansas City rapper Mac Lethal has become a personality locally and beyond. He has a huge…
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Shapiro Brothers Shapiro BrothersAs one of the early acts at Kansas City’s Porchfest this year, the Shapiro Brothers set their latest songs free from the…
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The ConquerorsWyld Time (High Dive Records)A remastered version of the Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl was recently released in conjunction with Ron…
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The Sexy AccidentChampagne BabycakesJesse Kates is a coordinated guy. The front-man and creator of The Sexy Accident has been at it for a decade,…
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Lyal Strickland PreservationLyal Strickland’s day job, raising grass-fed beef cattle on 900 acres or so just north of Springfield in Buffalo, Missouri,…
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Given the titanic success of Kansas City native Gillian Flynn's third novel Gone Girl and the subsequent David Fincher film, it isn't surprising that…
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Based on its trailer and the reputation of its rowdy star, one might expect the new Jack Black comedy The D Train to be thick with predictable shenanigans…
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What starts as a seemingly benign spat over less than an acre of land turns toxic and deadly in Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev's masterfully crafted…
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Movies about artists typically stumble toward their most basic goal: to link the paint on the canvas to the psyche of the painter. Ed Harris’s Pollock…
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Dr. Alice Howland is at the top of her game as both a linguistics professor and a smart, sophisticated and sexy New York woman in her fifties, played by…
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Cheryl Strayed's best-selling memoir Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail suggested to more than a million readers that the way to tame…
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"Science fiction is a laboratory for experimenting with ideas," says Chris McKitterick.The film Interstellar stretches scientific knowledge to spark our…