Steve Paul
Senior Writer and Arts Editor, Kansas City Star
- Arts and Entertainment, Opinion and Editorial
- Kansas City, MO
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Senior writer and arts editor, The Kansas City Star; book critic, culture watcher, jazz hound, wine slurper, restaurant critic.
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It's a big music year so far for #KC, #Lawrence bands (@phinnagin in @inkkc): inkkc.com/content/10-of-…
10 of the year’s best local music releases (so far)
inkkc.com — It's no secret that some of the better music being recorded these days is coming out of our own backyards, from local bands recording with local producers in studios tucked away in downtown lofts or basements or someone's garage.
@theshortandlong I think I chased him off, but he (she?) will be back. #raccoonwatch
So who wants to come get the fat raccoon roaming my backyard during cocktail and cigar hour? #kc
Good: RT @wilmasgoodfood: Rolling Wilma to Moore,OK today to help feed folks that just got their lives rocked. I'll try to keep you posted.
Tomas Young, wounded Iraq vet, decides he'd rather live than die (@kcstar): bit.ly/118VeNn #kc
Tomas Young, wounded Iraq war vet, says he will live on for now
kansascity.com — Tomas Young, the paralyzed Iraq war vet who announced earlier this spring that he was ready to die, said that he has decided to live for now. “I decided to go on until I reach a point where it has become too unbearable by my standards,” Young said Monday.
Wow; what an honor, a UK prize shortlist: RT @HarrietLerner Hurrah for son ben and LEAVING THE ATOCHA STATION. ow.ly/lbNbP #books
Oldest book award shortlist unveiled
bbc.co.uk — The shortlists for the UK's oldest literary awards - the James Tait Black prizes - have been announced. Books by American author Ben Lerner and Scot Jenni Fagan join the latest works by Alan Warner and Kirsty Gunn to make up the shortlist for the fiction prize.
This is good news: RT @maudnewton RT @paulbogaards Bark, Lorrie Moore's first story collection in fifteen years, coming in March '14. #books
Grt MO bk: RT @sarahw Hooray for STONER. RT @nprbooks: Decade Later And Across An Ocean, A Novel Gets Its Due n.pr/19RAkYu
Edwin Frank Of 'The New York Review of Books' And Anna Gavalda, Translator Of 'Stoner' : NPR
npr.org — John Williams' Stoner sold just 2,000 copies when it was originally published in 1965. It's now acknowledged as a classic work, is a best-seller across Europe and the No. 1 novel in the Netherlands.
Good eats and ideas at Chow Town (@kcstar food blog) - new posts: rhubarb, farm tours and more: bit.ly/12F1FMq #kc #food
KansasCity.com | Chow Town
kansascity.com — Romaine is so 2012. And iceberg? 1997 called: It wants its lettuce back. According to this story in the New York Times, kale is this spring's coolest salad green. "The fashionable plat du jour these days is the humble kale salad, which seems to telegraph a certain veggie-chic for the juice-cleanse set," the article announces.
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