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Lucas Wetzel

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What to do in Kansas City this weekend

Take cues from this column to make sure your weekend is without a dull moment

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Where to play disc golf in Kansas City

Disc golf fans share their favorite area courses

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Exploring Kansas City's best bike trails

Thanks to dedicated parks boards, trail-blazers and volunteers, Kansas City is teeming with quality bike trails

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What to do in Kansas City this weekend

Fights, fiestas, festivals, contortionists, choral music, concerts and many other marvelous reasons to leave the house

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After five years of music, Pistol Social Club calls it a day

How the founders of this DIY venue put the West Bottoms — and Kansas City — on the map for avante-garde music

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What to do in Kansas City this weekend

Details about First Friday events, the Main Street Mile, and why you should give a crap about carp

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An interview with the T-rex at 'Dinosaurs Unearthed'

Join KCFreePress.com's Lucas Wetzel as he conducts in-person interviews with T-Rex, Gigantoraptor and friends at the new 'Dinosaurs Unearthed' exhibit at Science City

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Featured videos: The music video magic of Pat Vamos

How local video artist Pat Vamos spins pop songs, cultural detritus and European softcore into music video gold

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Giant Wildcat, manta ray hover over Kansas City skyline

Don't be surprised if Kansas City skies are extra colorful this month. Sean Beaver and other area kite enthusiasts are gearing up for the annual kite festival on April 17.

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Barclay Martin Ensemble to offer live preview of new album before heading to Nashville studio

How to win a pair of tickets to the Barclay Martin Ensemble concert this Saturday at Crosstown Station

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An interview with Justin Wright of Expo 70

The artist behind Expo 70 give us a peek into the analog dreamscapes of his newest album, "Sonic Messenger"

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Critical Mass a 'spirit-lifter' for KC cycling community

A view from within the punk-rock peloton that is KC Critical Mass

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Odd Jobs: Costume shop owner/set designer/pyrotechnician

"Have Guns Will Rent" proprietor Jerry Vest doesn't have a formal degree in history, but who needs academia when you work in the middle of your own museum?

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Local author's Kansas City guidebook hits shelves next week

How local author Katy Ryan compiled 'Moon Kansas City,' the guidebook that she calls a "256 page love letter to Kansas City"

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Ftrd music video: Ghosty / "Team Up Again" directed by Vamos

A melancholy roboman meets the mellifluous strains of Ghosty in this new video directed by Pat Vamos

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Featured video: Robert Bingaman's 'Nevada'

Video by painter and KCFreePress.com contributor Robert Bingaman takes viewer through four months of painting in less than five minutes

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Guinness brewmaster shares steps for pouring the perfect pint

Guinness head brewer Fergal Murray paid a visit to Browne's Irish Market Sunday to demonstrate how to best enjoy 'perfection in a glass'

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Featured video: Missiles strike Lewis and Clark Viaduct

We've all seen the White House and the Statue of Liberty get blown up in the movies dozens of times. But a bridge in downtown KC?

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Art Minutes: 'Cumulus' morphs into second phase

Where else but Paragraph Gallery do roadkill and impromptu performance mingle so deliciously with stir-fry and s'mores?

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Dear Classic Rock, I have a few questions

If I want to love you each and every day, what do the neighbors have to do with it?

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Valentunes

14 songs that capture the spirit of Valentine's Day, from infatuation to irony to regret

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Make your voice heard on KCFreePress.com

We want your stories, your photos, your comments and suggestions

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Concert review: "Living In A Space Age" at Crosstown Station

"Semper Voluptarum" was the order of the night at this cosmic event hosted by Top of the Bottoms

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Final season is underway, but for 'Lost' fans, the fun is just getting started

Your name doesn't have to be on the manifest to feel like you're a fellow survivor of Oceanic Flight 815. Join the conversation in our new "Lost" blog, Oceanic 816.

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2010 Charlotte Street Visual Artist Awards announced

Caleb Taylor, Ari Fish and Sonie Ruffin are the three recipients of this year's Charlotte Street Visual Artists Awards

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Scenes from KC's 'ping pong Fight Club'

'Basement nostalgia' and friendly competition make Wednesday nights at Harling's a must for area ping pong enthusiasts

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A study in crime

Local artist Luke Rocha uses collage and photography to create an artistic study of crime in Kansas City

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King's words contain power, prescience

Listen to the speeches that illuminate the work of the civil rights leader

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Lucas Wetzel's top shows of '09 (and a few to see in 2010)

From the Kansas City Symphony to the Ad Astra Arkestra, 2009 was a memorable year in live music

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Informal Urbanisms

This Wednesday at La Esquina, a New York design team is exploring the potential in disadvantage for the estimated 1 billion people living in urban slums

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Cool Flyers: Dropout Boogie / Jert

In our new weekly feature, we spotlight an especially cool or creative flyer

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New album, tour find local songwriter at the peak of his game

For singer/songwriter John Nolan and his wife Camille, 2009 ends on a high note

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KU grad's new site provides 'eye candy that's good for you'

Pictory invites photographers to submit photos that tell a story

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Springbokkies capture South African flavors in a shot glass

A shot so refreshing even elephants can't resist

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ZOOTennial

Where else can a Kansas Citian tour Africa and Australia in the same day?

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