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  Wastedland 2: Artists Bring Unique Film Screening to Kansas City

  By Madison Noordhoek on February 22, 2017

  Collaborative artists foster revolutionary ideas while thriving off each other’s creativity. Jaclyn Danger, co-founder of screening collective The Cannonball Roarers, hosted a unique “secret screening”...

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  Young Philanthropists Offer Travel Opportunity for Students

  By U-News Staff on February 7, 2016

  What if you could spend the summer traveling America, helping with service projects and internships and taking courses in colleges across the country, all while...

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  Netflix strikes again with ‘The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’

  By Hope Austin on March 18, 2015

  Need something to lighten you up after binge-watching “House of Cards”? Netflix original “The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” is exactly what you are looking for. The...

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  Talking fashion with Kara Laricks

  By Kynslie Otte on April 29, 2014

  Overland Park native, fashion designer, writer and motivational speaker Kara Laricks has conquered reality television, the New York fashion world and an elementary school classroom....

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  UMKC students and veterans remember 9/11 (Video)

  By Jessica Turner on September 16, 2013

  Video Credit: Erin Melrose Students gathered at the University Playhouse on the 12th anniversary of Sept. 11 to reflect on and remember the tragedy that...

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  Arctic Monkeys in the AM

  By Lindsay Lillig on September 16, 2013

  Only two years after the release of the fourth studio album “Suck It and See,” the British-indie band Arctic Monkeys released their newest album “AM.”...

• Art Sounds: Performance provides poetic reflection on Occupy Wall Street Movement

  By Joey Hill on March 21, 2013

  The Kansas City Art Institute. in collaboration with UMKC, hosted the fifth operatic reading of poet of late Dina Von Zweck’s “A Day In The...

• Do the Harlem Shake: UMKC to participate in national craze

  By U-News Staff on February 19, 2013

  A year ago a DJ in New York called Bauer released an electronic dance track called ‘Harlem Shake.’ One year later, this track is likely...

• Submissions deadline approaches for student magazine

  By Roze Brooks on November 27, 2012

  Number One Magazine’s submissions deadline is 5 p.m. on Dec. 1. In addition to publication, the student magazine will also offer two awards for creative...

• Soda, an antidote for socialism

  By U-News Staff on October 15, 2012

  My trip to New York City last week provided a needed escape from my tribulations back home. It’s difficult to be an activist in Kansas...

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