| | | John Travolta helped Kansas City's Airline History Museum take off – but a con man almost took it down BY DAVID MARTIN  Paul Sloan sits on a courtroom bench on a November morning, waiting for a clerk to call his name. The 63-year-old's considerable girth stretches the fabric of an olive-green sweater. Sloan is here, at the Cass County Justice Center, on charges that he stole $51,000 from the Airline History Museum, an homage to flight that occupies a hangar at Kansas City's downtown airport. The museum arose out of an effort to restore a Constellation, a piston-driven plane that recalls a more glamorous age of passenger aviation. Over several years, Sloan wormed his way into positions of authority, his hands greedy for what little cash the museum had. He collected a lavish salary as the museum's director, a... more >>
| | | | | | | | Mountain Man's ascent is less rugged than relaxed BY JENNY KRATZ  Molly Erin Sarle is watching a man fly a model airplane. The singer-songwriter reclines on her deck in California, perched over the wide expanse of a nature preserve. Birds chirp in the background, and Sarle gasps and giggles as the man loops his airborne contraption a bit too close to her for comfort. "Take your time," she says to me in her easy, doll-like voice, holding the phone to her ear. "I... more >> | | | | | | | | 77 South - Dining and Lounge Experience BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  A black-and-white photograph in the lobby of the new 77 South restaurant in Leawood shows a handsome couple. She's a vivacious-looking blonde with big, bouncy hair; he has serious sideburns and wears one of the natty polyester jacket-and-pants combinations known in the 1970s as a leisure suit. You need to study this photograph to truly appreciate the concept of 77 South, a restaurant that exists... more >> | | | | | | The Illusionist BY J. HOBERMAN  Sylvain Chomet's The Illusionist breathes life into a celluloid fossil, lovingly animating an unproduced script by the great filmmaker Jacques Tati. At least in part, The Illusionist is a chaste father-daughter romance — additionally so, in that animator Chomet, perpetrator of the splendid retro-toon The Triplets of Belleville, was given the... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog UPDATE, Wednesday, February 2 at 2:59 p.m.: Anthony B's show at Crosstown Station has been canceled, and replaced with a date at the Granada in Lawrence. The new show time is tomorrow, February 3... Fat City The first night that executive chef John McClure worked the kitchen at Starker's Restaurant, the dining room had eight covers. A little over a month later, he was busting out 700 plates of food f... Plog The Harry Potter Puppet Pals video was bound to attract copy cats -- including one straight out of Lawrence, Kansas. Women's golf and volleyball players put together one featuring Kansas Jayhawk... | | | | |
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