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Seg. 1: Go Dog Go, With Puppets. Seg. 2: Fair Pictures. Seg. 3: Eems On Making Music Without A Genre

Segment 1: A puppeteer takes on a beloved childhood classic with virtually no narrative, but lots of dogs.

Mesner Puppet Theater is staging two very different productions this summer: P.D. Eastman's Go, Dog, Go! and The Tempest, by William Shakespeare.

Segment 2, beginning at 12:35: A photographer on being the artist-in-residence at the Missouri State Fair.

Rather than turning his lens on animals, rides or performers, Matt Rahner focused on the people visiting the fair, in his series Fair Pictures.

Segment 3, beginning at 27:00: Eems, a Kansas City musician, tells his story.

From hating music while singing in church as a kid on Kansas City's "northside" to inventing ukelele hip-hop to getting into drill teams. His new EP is called Dreems.

People don't make cameos in news stories; the human story is the story, with characters affected by news events, not defined by them. As a columnist and podcaster, I want to acknowledge what it feels like to live through this time in Kansas City, one vantage point at a time. Together, these weekly vignettes form a collage of daily life in Kansas City as it changes in some ways, and stubbornly resists change in others. You can follow me on Twitter @GinaKCUR or email me at gina@kcur.org.
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