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This Olathe Calendar of Events is presented by the Kansas City Real Estate Network.
December 2009 - Posts
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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from the December 2009 issue of KC Stage
My favorite season is the holiday season, and here it is again with all its grand traditions: cutting down a beautiful tree to cover it with plastic lights and watch it wilt, emptying the bank account in a futile effort to thrill once-a-year relatives, and baking with ginger. There’s one tradition, however, that can’t be beat, and that’s bundling up and heading down to the Kansas City Repertory Theatre to see the venerable and never-changing holiday show, A Christmas Carol.
Wait a minute—I just flipped to the performances section and it says the Kansas City Repertory isn’t doing A Christmas Carol. They’re doing something called A Christmas Story. What? They’re doing a movie? How can you do a movie on stage? It’s probably full of singing and stuff, and I don’t mean the lovely Christmas carols in A Christmas Carol, but Broadway-styled showtunes. Showtunes! What’s Broadway got to do with Christmas? Where’s my Ebenezer Scrooge, ghost of Christmas past, and cute little Tiny Tim? How will I learn my lesson that greed is bad and giving is a blessing? How will I be guilted into displaying the required amount of holiday cheer? How can “oh fudge!” replace “bah humbug”? This is horrible! Christmas will never be the same.
What’s this I see? There are other Christmas shows out there besides A Christmas Carol? You mean there are other theatres hoping to cash in on the holiday spirit? Maybe the Kansas City Repertory is onto something. Maybe it is time for change. After all, it’s been a new century now for almost a decade. I’m ready to start a new tradition, and I call it “seeing as many of these so-called holiday shows as I can before Santa arrives with my good-boy loot.” I’ve made a list, I’m checking it twice, and I’m ready to cram in so much Christmas cheer that I’ll cry candy canes.
And just to show that I’m a good sport (or that old habits die hard), I’ll start by seeing what the Kansas City Repertory has to offer. I’ll go see this movie musical. After all, movies have been translated to the stage before (I still dream of a musical version of Robocop). As a matter of fact, it says the American Heartland Theatre is doing It’s a Wonderful Life. That was a movie, right? But it also says it’s a “live radio play.” Now I’m really confused. Movies, theatre, radio—all at the same time? What happened to rigidly divided lines between artistic mediums? Where’s the purity? I guess it doesn’t really matter, as long as it’s about Christmas.
The good part of going to It’s a Wonderful Life on stage is you get to see it in color, and I don’t mean that weird day-glo color that Ted Turner used to paint movies with. I’ve been watching that old black and white movie for years, and the new millennium demands color. The American Heartland Theatre is ready to give it to me, but they’re not the only ones. All you far-flung Kansans out there can also choose to see It’s a Wonderful Life at the Topeka Civic Theatre or at Emporia State University. All three are by different playwrights, so I guess I can just see all three versions and skip the movie this year. Fudge humbug, Mr. Potter.
Still, even with all the movie plays, I’ll miss my caroling. Nothing fills the air with joyous noise like “Silent Night, Holy Night” or gives me yuletide goosebumps like “Jingle Bells”. What’s Christmas without music? But what’s this I see in KC Stage? Well, deck my halls—there’s plenty of music out there in this city, and one show that looks very near and dear to my heart. The Dickens Carolers will be performing at the Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre. It’ll be like watching A Christmas Carol without all the spooky time travel stuff (I always made a point of visiting the restroom when the ghost of Christmas future showed up). It looks like my Christmas will be merry after all, and Christmas at the Chestnut doesn’t stop with Dickens, either. They’ve also got a sequel to The Taffetas called A Taffeta Christmas. Sequels are like movies. That’s one holiday-loving place.
There’s glorious holiday music happening all over the region. Folks in Lee’s Summit can enjoy the Holiday Magic of the Lee’s Summit Symphony Orchestra. The Civic Opera Theatre celebrates 25 years of opera magic with The Wise Women. The Heartland Men’s Chorus offers a different kind of magic with their holiday show, Fruitcake (oh, I get it). And the magical Musical Theatre Heritage promises A Spectacular Christmas, but I’m scared it might just be more showtunes. Yes, there’s plenty of music magic to go around, and I’ll enjoy every single note.
Of course, Christmas isn’t just for me. I’ve got the little ones to think about, and I know there’s some appropriately-themed material out there just for them. One of them is almost a movie, since it’s written by the guy that wrote The Wizard of Oz. It’s called The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, and it’s at Blue Springs City Theatre. The kids are already looking forward to Madeline’s Christmas at the Theatre for Young America, and I suspect they’ll also enjoy The Nativity as presented by Paul Mesner Puppets. We might even make a day of it in Topeka and catch A Winnie the Pooh Christmas Tail. If you don’t get children started on these holiday traditions early, they may never take, and that could mean the end of civilization.
Now I know I promised to try and see everything holiday related, but every year there’s just a few shows I don’t get. These are shows that pretend to be about Christmas, but they don’t treat it with all the due reverence that our national holiday deserves. The most notorious of these, of course, is The Santaland Diaries, and I see that it’s being done this year by Sonlight Productions. The Mystery Train also has a show called Dressed to Kill, which doesn’t sound very Christmasy at all. I might go see them, but I won’t laugh at their irreverence. Then the Martin City Melodrama wants to make fun of Christmas with their Holiday Vaudeville and the—huh … The Ridiculously Reduced Christmas Carol. Could it be? Diet Dickens? And what’s playing at the Olathe Community Theatre? Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge? Cratchit is a character in A Christmas Carol, but this play is written by Christopher Durang. He’s famous, right? He wouldn’t be mean to Christmas. Well, maybe there’s more to this holiday than meets the eye, and maybe I’ll get a little Christmas Carol after all. See you at the theatre.
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Reviews - Current Performances
- 3.67 Little House on the Prairie - The Coterie Theatre. (3 Votes)
Ratings - Current Performances
- 5.00 Miss Witherspoon - Unicorn Theatre. (1 Vote)
- 4.00 Martin City Melodrama's 25th Season! - Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company. (2 Votes)
- 3.67 Little House on the Prairie - The Coterie Theatre. (3 Votes)
Ratings - Top Ten Rated Shows of the Last 3 Months
- 5.00 Dreamgirls - Ruskin High School Theatre. (4 Votes)
- 5.00 Palomino - Kansas City Repertory Theatre. (2 Votes)
- 5.00 Madeline's Christmas - Theatre for Young America. (2 Votes)
- 4.50 The Fontina & Gruyere Show - Byrd Productions. (2 Votes)
- 4.13 Into The Woods - Kansas City Repertory Theatre. (15 Votes)
- 4.00 It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play - American Heartland Theatre. (3 Votes)
- 4.00 Killer Joe - UMKC Theatre. (2 Votes)
- 4.00 Maul of the Dead - The Coterie Theatre. (2 Votes)
- 4.00 Martin City Melodrama's 25th Season! - Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company. (2 Votes)
Reviews - Five Most Recent of Past Performances ****
- 5.00 HMS Pinafore - Lyric Opera of Kansas City. (1 Vote)
- 4.00 It's A Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play - American Heartland Theatre. (3 Votes)
- 3.42 Cabaret - The Barn Players, Inc. (19 Votes)
- 2.00 The Laramie Project (Undergraduate Fall Production) - UMKC Theatre. (1 Vote)
- 2.00 Arcadia - UMKC Theatre. (3 Votes)
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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The show I’m most eager to see in the new year has got to be “Venice” at Kansas City Repertory Theatre.
more at kansascity.com
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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Rating: PG-13 - Running Time: 158 minutes - Showtimes: 12:50 PM, 4:25 PM, 7:55 PM, 11:10 PM
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There are two types of people in the concert hall: A few of them make music and the rest of us listen to the music that the first group of people make. Simple enough? Not any more it isn't. And, maybe that's not such a bad thing. David Perronnet of Friends of the Symphony talked with Tim Jepson, principal timpanist for the Kansas City Symphony, about why we should think about the relationship between musicians and the audience differently.
more at KC Metropolis
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From the November 2009 issue of KC Stage
Siobhan McLaughlin Lesley, president of the board of directors of Kansas City Ballet, announced that renovations have begun on the historic Union Station Power House building located on the west edge of the Union Station campus at Pershing and West Penn. The Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity will be the permanent home for the professional ballet company, its large and nationally respected school, and will serve as a unique resource for the not for profit performing arts community in the Kansas City region. The building is named in honor of Todd Bolender, who served as artistic director from 1981 to 1995.
When completed, the ballet center will include seven studios, a physical therapy suite, a community conference room, and a 700-800 foot lobby area, dressing/locker room facilities for the professional company members, and efficient space for support staff in marketing, development, finance, and general and school administration. Located next to the recently opened National Archives Records Administration, the property will also provide 180 secure and free parking spaces adjacent to the building. A virtual tour of the renovations is available online at www.kcballet.org.
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On the hunt for a new place to take the kids–especially during this last, LONG week of Christmas vacation? We just discovered Jumping Jax, an inflatable jumping facility, located in south Overland Park. You’ll find it at 12022 Blue Valley Parkway.
Their site says they book private parties for birthdays, teams, etc. And, catch this– they [...]
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Join us as we celebrate a ribbon cutting for the new AT&T wireless store in Olathe. The new retail store is designed to provide consumer and small business customers with a more interactive and informative
hands-on experience when shopping for wireless, broadband, video and entertainment services. The new 3,779 square foot store is conveniently located just north of Chick-fil-A in the Olathe Point Shopping Center.
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Winter Policy: If the Olathe School District closes, the Coffee will be cancelled.
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Upcoming Kansas Arts Commission Winter 2010 Workshops
Empowered Volunteers Create Fundraising Success
2:00 - 3:15 pm, Wednesday, January 13
Telephone/Online Workshop
For boards and staff of arts nonprofits.
KAC Fiscal Year 2011 Grant Guidelines
10:00 - 11:15 am, Thursday, January 28
2:00 - 3:15 pm, Friday, January 29
Telephone/Online Workshop
Learn about the many changes to the grant guidelines.
Arts-in Communities Project Mini-Grants
4:00 - 5:00 pm, Wednesday, February 3
Telephone/Online Workshop
All applicants for this grant category must participate in one of these workshops.
Arts-in-Education Grants Program and Writing Curriculum Guides
1:00 - 3:00 pm, Thursday, February 4
Hays Arts Council, 112 E. 11th St., Hays
10:00 am- 12:00 pm, Friday, February 5
Manhattan Arts Center, 1520 Poyntz Ave., Manhattan
Learn about the changes to this grant program and how you can maximixe your organization’s success in education programs.
KAC on Tour: One-on-One Meetings with Grant Applicants
11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Tuesday, February 16
Bowlus Center, 205 E. Madison Ave., Iola
11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Wednesday, February 17
Hays Arts Council, 112 E. 11th St., Hays
11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Thursday, February 18
City Arts, 334 N. Mead, Wichita
11:00 am - 2:00 pm, Tuesday, February 23
KAC Offices, 700 S.W. Jackson Suite 1004, Topeka
Arts-in Communities Project Mini-Grants
10:00 - 11:00 am, Thursday, February 25
3:00 - 4:00 pm, Friday, March 5
Telephone/Online Workshop
All applicants for this grant category must participate in one of these workshops.
more at the Kansas Arts Commission
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Performances for this week
- Always ... Patsy Cline - Chestnut Fine Arts Theatre
- Dressed to Kill - The Mystery Train
- Little House on the Prairie - The Coterie Theatre
- Live at the Fishtank! - Improv-Abilities
- Martin City Melodrama's 25th Season! - Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company
- Miss Witherspoon - Unicorn Theatre
- New Year's Eve Cabaret - Quality Hill Playhouse
- A New Year's Eve Party & Cabaret - Musical Theater Heritage
- Run for Your Wife - New Theatre Restaurant
- White Christmas - Music Theatre for Young People of Kansas City
Auditions for this week
- Chicago - City Theatre of Independence*
- Curtains - Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy
- Footloose - River City Community Players
- Twilight of the Golds - Topeka Civic Theatre & Academy
*Members of KC Stage receive a discount to these affiliate theatres with their KC Stage Membership card.
Visit KC Stage for event details.
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Because Kansas City only produces second rate jokesters nowadays when it comes to mainstream success, this town’s independent moviemaking community continues to thrive.
more at KC Confidential
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Event: 4th Annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Breakfast
Theme: “Quality Education for All: Reaching the Dream”
Keynote Speaker: Dr. J. Wm. Covington, Superintendent of the Kansas City Missouri Public Schools
Times: Light Breakfast 8:00-8:30am and Program 8:30 – 10:00am
Cost: Admission is free but RSVP are requested to be sent to Jennifer Platter at jplatter@mnu.edu or (913)971-3393
Our Sponsors: MidAmerica Nazarene University, Sprint Foundation, City of Olathe, Mission Support USA/Canada - Church of the Nazarene, NAACP - Johnson County Chapter, Performance Leadership Group, American Jewish Committee
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE.
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Playbill has a photo album of the Kansas City Rep's "A Christmas Story"
more at Playbill
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So many options, so little time. For those who seek entertainment and cultural enlightenment in our fair city, the calendar has just entered its brief winter hiatus. But soon enough, as the new year unfolds, we’ll be back to the daily dilemma: On any given night, it seems, if you want to hear music or watch theater or go to an art opening or see a new movie, you can be pulled in two or five directions at once.
more at kansascity.com
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Singers can audition before the Metropolitan Opera National Council starting at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Performing Arts Building at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Judges will be Roger Pines, dramaturg from Lyric Opera Chicago; Richard Bado, chorus master of Houston Grand Opera; and Patricia Wise, soprano and professor of voice at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Winners of this district competition will compete in the regional auditions Feb. 13 in St. Louis. The winner of that contest will compete in the national semifinals March 7 at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The Grand Finals Concert will be March 14, a ticketed event with full orchestra. Anyone interested should e-mail Wilma Wilcox at wilmawilcox@yahoo.com. The auditions are open to the public.
from kansascity.com
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Avery Brinkman is so excited she can barely contain herself. A third grader at Sunny Pointe Elementary, she is preparing for the biggest role of her young life – an angel in the Kansas City Ballet’s production of “The Nutcracker.”
more at The Examiner
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The editors and writers of Playbill.com put their heads together this month and looked back at the events of 2009 to choose significant news stories that made headlines and touched the industry uniquely. They follow, in no particular order of importance...
more at Playbill
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Nine good things that happened in the local music scene in 2009.
more at kansascity.com
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The theater community offered so much vital, interesting work this year that it was tough to narrow it all down to nine. But here we go...
more at kansascity.com
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Fred Andrews, founder and president of the long-running Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee (this year it became the Kansas City FilmFest), is partying down this afternoon with a few friends. It’s more than just a holiday get-together.
more at kansascity.com
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Have you been able to dig out of the Christmas snow (and the Christmas wrapping/boxes/trash) yet? If your kids are anything like mine, they’ve been clamoring to go sledding since we finished unwrapping the last present yesterday.
So, I thought I’d re-share our list of favorite places to sled in the Kansas City metro. We published [...]
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As spiffy as they look now, you’d never know that the two auditoriums of the new Screenland Crown Center have been gathering dust for more than two years.
more at kansascity.com
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Kate and I are signing off for a few days…but want to wish each one of you a peaceful, healthy holiday season. Whatever you celebrate, whether it’s Christmas, Hannukah or Ramadan… May your every wish come true!
A big thanks to our loyal readers for your comments, suggestions and encouragement. This is a labor of love [...]
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Walk MS participants in various stages of life - students, professionals, homemakers, retired individuals - join together to create a world free of MS. A key to each Walk’s success is the phenomenal number of dedicated volunteers. By walking or volunteering and raising money to fight multiple sclerosis, you join more than 200,000 Americans who will contribute more than $37 million to Walk MS 2010.
While there is no registration fee or minimum pledge amount, the reason we walk is to end MS. We request and challenge each participant to raise at least $25. By raising $100 by the day of Walk, you qualify for a t-shirt ($125 after the Walk).
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I wanted to share a few things before getting to the meat of this post. Last weekend, we took the kids to see Santa and we had a great time! We headed out to the Bass Pro Shop in Olathe, KS, near 119th St. and I-35. It was our first time, and I had a [...]
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Visit GAGE Center this Saturday December 19th for the 3rd annual Somersault With Santa event. This event is sponsored by GAGE center. The center is transformed into Santa Wonderland. The event is for toddlers to 12 years. A donation of a non-perishable food item is appreciated. Youngsters will venture through an awesome maze featuring candy cane obstacle course. 
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Come out and Skate with Santa at Line Creek Ice Arena this Saturday December 19th. Come see Santa on ice from 2:00-4:00pm Cost is just $5.00 to skate with Santa, and that includes skate rental! Line Creek Community Center & Ice Arena is part of Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation. A new session of Learn to Skate classes begin in early January. 
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Contest Winners Announced!!!!
***Congratulations to our 2 Globetrotters Ticket winners! PAUL HIMMELSTEIN and KELLY MULVIHILL (Eudora, KS) will receive 4 tickets each to the Jan 2 show!***
For over 30 years, the popular Deanna RoseChildren’s Farmstead in south Overland Park has been a free attraction for all visitors. The facility was open to the public and funded [...]
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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A great way to meet the Chamber staff learn about all of the advantages and ways to get involved in your Olathe Chamber of Commerce!
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Winter Policy: If the Olathe School District closes, the Coffee will be cancelled.
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Winter Policy: If the Olathe School District closes, the Coffee will be cancelled.
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Winter Policy: If the Olathe School District closes, the Coffee will be cancelled.
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Contest Update: Thanks for making this our biggest giveaway EVER! Congratulations to PAUL HIMMELSTEIN and KELLY MULVIHILL, our lucky winners!!!
**Ticket Giveaway Runs Through Noon on Wed., December 16!!**
I told you we were in the giving mood–and with Christmas fast approaching, we have another giveaway for you! Sprint Center has been generous enough to give us (2) [...]
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***CONGRATULATIONS to Randi Graves McFadden–our lucky winner of the Family Adventure Pass! Thanks to everyone for entering…and more importantly, thanks for reading! ****
Christmas is coming and we are in the giving spirit! This is a BIG one! You could win a Family Adventure Pass (for 4 people) to Paradise Park! The pass is good for [...]
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The Jazz Concert to benefit The Children's Place is on Saturday December 12, 2009. Kansas City native and platinum selling and award winning singer and songwriter Carol Duboc is joined by three time Grammy nominee Hubert Laws in concert celebrating her new CD Burt Bacharach Songbook benefiting The Children’s Place. The concert will be held in Kansas City's Folly Theater with a wine tasting at 7 p.m. and the concert at 8 p.m. 
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This Friday night, December 11th, KC Magazine presents the 4th annual KC's Sexiest Singles Auction at Harrah's Casino. KC's sexiest singles (named by KC Magazine) will be auctioning off amazing, once in a lifetime date opportunities. 100% of the proceeds benefit Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City (BBBS-KC). Last year’s event hosted 400 guests and raised over $35,000. Tickets are $25 and include 2 drink tickets. The Emcee for the evening is last year’s Sexiest Single and 38 The Spot’s Holly Starr. Singles will include two Chiefs Cheerleaders, some of Kansas City’s most successful entrepreneurs, a KC Wizards player, lawyer, landscape artist, a model and much more. 
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Come to the Kansas City Zoo this weekend for a visit with Santa and his friends - Tropics style! On Saturday December 12th and Sunday December 13th, come to celebrate a tropical tradition, a Lei welcome, and enjoy hot coffee from Kansas City's own Roasterie and get a FREE photo with Tropical Santa and Mrs. Claus taken by the Kansas City Zoo Photo Club with a donation to Harvesters Community Food Network. Meet some of the Zoo's residents in the Lobby, and help the Zoo collect Pennies for Penguins by making a Penguin Penny Bank. 
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Save the date for Santa Paws for NAWS on Monday December 21st. Get Yappy Happy with Santa! Zona Rosa is pet-friendly and Santa invites pet lovers to bring their dogs to Santa Paws for NAWS (Northland Animal Welfare Society) from 5 to 8 p.m. on Monday, December 21. Each person will receive one free photo with Santa compliments of Zona Rosa. NAWS will be accepting pet food donations to help support local shelters. Also, tonight only from 6 - 8 p.m., microchipping will be available for just $25. Give the gift of a family reunion, because with a microcip, your pet can have a clear pathway home! 
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The 50 Plus Olathe Senior Holiday Party is this Friday December 11th. Celebrate the holiday season with friends at the Millcreek Center. Enjoy holiday themed treats, listen to a musical performance by the Side by Side Experience, and play BINGO free. You might even get a chance to have your picture taken with SANTA himself! This is one holiday gathering you won’t want to miss! 
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Back by popular demand, Zona Rosa is once again offering horse-drawn carriage rides throughout the center. Tickets are now available for purchase at Zona Rosa Guest Services. Tickets are $5 each and with each ticket adult ticket purchase, one child twelve and under may ride for free! We will be blocking an area right in front of The Grove building for loading/unloading. 
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The Holiday Craft Show at High Blue Wellness Center in Belton MO is this Saturday December 12th. Get into the spirit of the holidays by joining the folks at the Wellness Center on Saturday, December 12, from 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, for lots of great Christmas shopping opportunities! Plus, they will be giving away a free annual family membership to the High Blue Wellness Center, 3 free personal training sessions and 3 free Kinesis sessions! And, tell the little ones they, "better watch out," because Santa Claus is coming to town! 
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One of the most popular searches on our site continues to be “indoor swimming pools”–and now is a great time for us to share our list!! Swimming is great exercise for the whole family, and many indoor pools have special holiday hours. It won’t be long now before the kiddos are on winter break and [...]
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Missouri Town 1855 Christmas Open House is this Saturday December 12th. An old fashioned Christmas is what you will find at Missouri Town 1855. Residents of Missouri Town 1855 prepare for the holidays with decorating, singing and hearth cooking. A special visit from a 19th century St. Nicholas will delight all children. German, French and English traditions will be part of this event. Come on out and celebrate the heritage of a traditional Christmas. 
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He sees you when you’re sleeping. He knows when you’re awake. He knows when you’ve been bad or good…well, you know the drill. For those of us using Santa as a bribe/threat/gentle reminder for good behavior this month, we’ve put together a list of local Kansas City appearances the jolly old elf will be making.
I [...]
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With the holidays fast approaching, there are quite a few shows coming to Sprint Center in downtown Kansas City. Three of them are especially family-friendly–and an evening out would make a fantastic gift!
Coming up on Wednesday, Dec. 9, 2009 is Star Wars: In Concert. There’s only one KC performance, and it sounds like it’s going [...]
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