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Film
7:00 am
Wed June 19, 2013

LGBT Film Festival Serves Up Divine Fare With A Dash Of James Franco

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James Franco is the director of "Interior. Leather Bar."
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Divine in an iconic pose from the movie that made her a star: John Waters's "Pink Flamingos."
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Flight 93 passenger Mark Bingham with his mom, Alice, from "The Rugby Player."
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Michael J. Willett is the latest accessory - a gay best friend - in the LGBT Film Festival title "GBF."
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Any film festival centered around themes that appeal to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered audiences or their supportive allies is sure to be as eclectic as its targeted demographic. This year’s Kansas City LGBT Film Festival at Tivoli Cinemas in Westport makes good on that promise.

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Classical
5:00 am
Wed June 19, 2013

Off-Season: Kansas City Symphony's Miles Maner

Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
The Kansas City Symphony's Miles Maner plays an excerpt from a Saint-Saëns piece in the KCUR studios.
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There are some artists, like musicians and dancers, whose contracts are for roughly 40 weeks a year. So, how do they spend the rest of their time?

We asked Kansas City Symphony musicians, on contract for a 42-week season, to share stories about their plans for the off-season.

Miles Maner, associate principal, bassoonist and contrabassoonist

On learning to love the bassoon

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Visual Arts
12:07 pm
Tue June 18, 2013

You Can Buy The Kansas City Board Of Trade Building, And Its Art

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Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
At the end of June, the Kansas City Board of Trade, founded in 1856 by Kansas City merchants, will begin trading Kansas City wheat futures in Chicago.
Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
Jac T. Bowen constructed "Sheaves of Wheat," in 1966, from 1/2 mile of brass tubing. The relief depicts eight major grains - wheat, corn, sorghum, grain sorghum, oats, rye, barley and soybeans.
Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
A sparrow chirps on a tassel of corn.
Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
The building will be sold with the artwork intact.
Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
CME Group Inc., the new owner of the Kansas City Board of Trade plans to sell the building housing the exchange.
Credit Julie Denesha / KCUR
"Heartland Harvest," was created in 1999 by Joel Marquardt with Gastinger Walker Harden Architects.
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The Kansas City Board of Trade is slated to close its trading floor on June 28 after more than 150 years in Kansas City. In December, CME Group bought the exchange and plans to move operations to Chicago. The Board of Trade building at 4800 Main is on the market, including one of Jac T. Bowen's sculptures.

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Performance
5:00 am
Tue June 18, 2013

[VIDEO] In This Scene... 'As You Like It'

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Rosalind, played by Carla Noack, and Orlando, played by Todd Carlton Lanker, in 'As You Like It'.
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The Heart Of America Shakespeare Festival celebrates its 21st season in Southmoreland Park with the comedy "As You Like It."  This year, the production is set in 1967 and the costumes and music hearken back to the Summer of Love.

Act Three, Scene Two, In The Forest of Arden

In this scene, Rosalind, played by Carla Noack, is banished from her uncle's court. She takes refuge in the Forest of Arden disguised as Ganymede, a man. There she meets Orlando, played by Todd Carlton Lanker.

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Visual Arts
4:30 pm
Thu June 13, 2013

Laura McPhee, Photographing The Grandeur Of The West

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Credit Laura Spencer / KCUR
Artist Laura McPhee at the Kemper Museum.
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
One Car Passing, Valley Road, Sawtooth Valley, Idaho, 2003; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches.
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Isaac Babcock, Biologist for the Nez Perce Tribe, Dressed for Tranquilizing and Radio-Collaring Wolves, Fourth of July Creek, Custer County, Idaho, 2003; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches.
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Aspens Carved by Sheep Herders, Fisher Creek, White Cloud Mountains, Idaho, Summer Solstice, 2003; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Mattie, Fisher Creek Turnout, Challis School District, Idaho, 2004; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches.
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Laura McPhee, Judy Tracking Radio-Collared Wolves from Her Yard, Summer Range, H-Hook Ranch, Custer County, Idaho, 2004; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches.
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Rocks from Sawtooth National Forest for Landscaping in Sun Valley, Pettit Lake Road, Blaine County, Idaho, 2004; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches;
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Endangered Sockeye Salmon Fry, Main Vat Room, Sawtooth Fish Hatchery, Custer County, Idaho, 2004; chromogenic print, 72 x 96 inches.
Credit ©Laura McPhee / Collection of the Alturas Foundation and courtesy of Carroll and Sons, Boston
Mattie in Her Grandmother’s Wedding Dress, Laverty Ranch, Custer County, Idaho, 2005; chromogenic print, 96 x 72 inches.
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In the exhibition Laura McPhee: River of No Return at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, the more than two dozen photographs - each six by eight feet - loom large. McPhee's series explores the grandeur of the West, tensions between ranchers and environmentalists, and human impact on the land - and its often unintended consequences. 

Growing up McPhee

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KC Currents
3:58 pm
Mon June 10, 2013

Fiddler Betse Ellis Goes Solo

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Fiddler Betse Ellis.
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For 15 years, fiddler Betse Ellis helped lead and shape the Wilders, an internationally-known old-time country quartet which, for years, toured the US and Europe.

But in December of 2011, the Wilders announced they were going on an indefinite hiatus. Ellis, however, is still going as strongly as ever. She stopped by KCUR this week to talk about her solo career, her new CD, and give us a live, in-studio performance.

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