| | | Kansas City's Man Class was designed for at-risk youths, but it's gained some unlikely new students: veterans BY PETER RUGG  The young men shuffle into the classroom all wearing the same red shirt. They know why they're here. They're already cracking jokes about it. "Real men beat their wives," one says. "Real men scratch where it itches," another counters. "Real men take care of business," a more mature one advises. "I've got a kid I'm trying to take care of." "Yeah, you think it's yours," someone says. They take seats at three cheap office tables. The building feels like a school — empty hallways, pale walls, posters scrawled with life lessons. It belongs to a program called YouthBuild, which teaches job skills and arranges employment for at-risk young people. But a new wrinkle was recently added to ... more >>
| | | | | | | | Exile is kind to local musicians BY DANNY ALEXANDER  Cody Wyoming cuts through laughter and frustrated side talk on the third run-through of the Rolling Stones' eccentric, spiraling ballad "Let It Loose." "This is the toughest one," Wyoming says with his hand raised, gathering everyone's attention in this dimly lighted West Bottoms rehearsal space. "We're starting off with it, so we can have some fun later." The announcement elicits laughs, b... more >> | | | | | | | | A Fig Tree grows in Lee's Summit BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  The Fig Tree Café & Bakery in Lee's Summit may be the area's best example of the restaurant as melting pot. The owners, Robin Graves-Altoom and Taleb Altoom, took a former Minsky's Pizza location, polished it up and created a cozy family-style diner that serves comfort food American (Philly cheese steaks, cheeseburgers, Reuben sandwiches) and Middle Eastern (gyro and shawarma sandwiches, l... more >> | | | | | | Somewhere BY MELISSA ANDERSON  Dissolute action-movie star Johnny Marco (Stephen Dorff), first seen doing laps in his black Ferrari, has no destination in Somewhere, Sofia Coppola's mood ring of celebrity lassitude. Coppola's fourth feature is, at times, similarly aimless and empty. But those who groan that the writer-director has made another indulgent film about the obscenely privileged have overlooked Coppola's redoubtable ... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog In light of Abe Vigoda stopping by the Jackpot next week, we thought we'd look at some other bands that reference real people in their band names. Turns out, it was pretty easy. So, what's with... Fat City The Kansas City Health Department has released its annual Grade A Food Excellence Awards for food safety, and tucked in among the stadium stands, theme-park kiosks, and school cafeterias of the ... Plog Kansas' medical-marijuana community is taking its semi-regular shot at legalizing medical pot. As usual, it's a bit of a Hail Mary.Lawmakers on Monday introduced the Kansas Compassion and Care Ac... | | | | |
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