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Beth Lipoff

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Beth Lipoff is an intern for Up to Date.

She grew up in Overland Park and has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University and a master's degree in public history from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Her work has appeared in the Kansas City Star, Sunset Magazine, the Johnson County Sun, the Kansas City Jewish Chronicle, Spirit Magazine, Northwestern Magazine, the Lawrence Journal-World and the Independence Examiner.

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Up to Date
12:05 pm
Sun January 13, 2013

Film Critic Cynthia Haines At The 2013 Critics' Choice Movie Awards

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Cynthia Haines and "Lincoln" star Daniel Day Lewis
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Cynthia Haines and Jack Black
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The 18th Annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards was recently held at the Barker Hangar in Santa Monica. Calif., and was broadcast live by the CW. Up to Date film critic Cynthia Haines attended and chatted with various nominees.

Up to Date
6:00 pm
Thu January 10, 2013

What's Showing In Independent, Foreign & Documentary Film

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Any Day Now
Brooklyn Castle
Hyde Park on Hudson
Not Fade Away
Zero Dark Thirty
Promised Land
The House I Live In
The Impossible
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Visit a small town, ripe for fracking exploitation, and zip down Central Park West with FDR. Feel the pain of a gay couple in the 1970s as they fight to care for an abandoned, mentally ill teenager.

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Up to Date
11:45 am
Thu January 10, 2013

The Weekend To-Do List: January 10-13, 2013

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Elvis Presley
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Looking for something to do for the weekend of January 10-13, 2013? Brian McTavish has some great ideas as he returns with the Weekend To-Do List.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Wed January 9, 2013

Food: From Farm To Table

The American Way of Eating
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Food is a major part of American culture, and the way we mass produce it has made headlines in the last few years— many of them not good.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue January 8, 2013

A Life In The National Guard

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An airman with the Kansas National Guard's 117th Air Refueling Squadron returned home after a deployment with CENTCOM.
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We’ve all seen the war films of heroic soldiers fighting battles, but what does that battle look like for those left at home?

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon January 7, 2013

Paradise Found In The Flint Hills

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Flint Hills
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For one local woman, an isolated cabin in the middle of the Flint Hills with no modern conveniences is paradise.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon January 7, 2013

Diet Can Fix 'Milk And Cookie' Disease

A Healthier Wei
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Kids take medicine for all kinds of chronic conditions these days, like constipation and acid reflux, but are medicines really necessary?

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Thu January 3, 2013

It's A Bird; It's A Plane; It's A Statute?

The Law of Superheroes
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What would happen if Superman had to get a warrant for his x-ray vision? Can you imagine Batman in small claims court when his batarangs damage city buildings?

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Thu January 3, 2013

Job Market Predictions For 2013

Diane Stafford
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What will the job market hold for 2013? Nobody has a crystal ball, but certain trends are giving us a hint.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue December 18, 2012

Parents, Teens, Sexuality & The Holidays

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Plan B pill
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No one ever said it was easy to raise a teenager, but what do you do when Plan B becomes Plan A?

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Up to Date
9:48 am
Tue December 18, 2012

Looking To The Future At UMKC

UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton
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Leading a large university is no cakewalk, and the University of Missouri-Kansas City is no exception.

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Up to Date
11:52 am
Fri December 14, 2012

The Best In Independent, Foreign & Documentary Film 2012

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Moonrise Kingdom
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Our critics have made their lists for the best independent, foreign and documentary films of 2012. See their choices below, and get a preview of each film with our trailer playlist.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Thu December 13, 2012

What's Showing In Independent, Foreign & Documentary Film

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Anna Karenina
The Flat
The Silver Linings Playbook
Hitchcock
The Big Picture
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The name Hitchcock conjures up images of a screaming Janet Leigh and flocks of truly angry birds, but a new film looks at the love story between the director and his wife.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Wed December 12, 2012

Stressed For The Holidays?

Harriet Lerner
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The holidays are a time of good cheer, celebration and togetherness. So what do you do if your family has just gone through a divorce or other domestic clash?

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue December 11, 2012

The Book Doctors

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The Commitment by Dan Savage
Dear Life by Alice Munro
How Fiction Works by James Wood
The Books They Gave Me by Jen Adams
Crewel by Gennifer Albin
Dancers Among Us by Jordan Matter
What do You Want to Do Before You Die by The Buried Life
Mr. Penumbra’s 24 Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Sweet Tooth by Ian McEwan
The Book of Gin by Richard Barnett
Whirlybird Anthology of KC Writers
Cleopatra's Nose by Judith Thurman
Unpacking My Library: Writers and Their Books by Leah Price
1616: The World in Motion by Thomas Christensen
The Island at the Center of the World: The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony That Shaped America by Russell Shorto
Amsterdam by Geert Mak
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Family conflict, gay marriage and social scandals aren’t just the stuff of newspaper headlines. They also make good subjects for books.

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