Tim Finn in the Kansas City Star has more on The Elders unique gig at the Pilgrim Chapel in KC’s Midtown.
There are some quotes from […]

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Update on moving to Ireland from America.
The Irish Customs, thanks to the Gardaí, now believes I am really here and the container of my personal […]

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What do you do when you come home from work to get rid of all those anxieties that have built up?
Dave McDermott in the […]

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Some people said yesterday in Ireland changed - that it was cold where it had been warm. In truth it depended on which door you […]

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For anyboby keeping track of what I may be up to - which is an unhealthy number of you - here’s the latest state of […]

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The Lawrence outfit 23rd Street Brewery won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival last weekend in Denver.
Crimson Phog, the beer by 23rd […]

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Yesterday I awoke to a horrible blue sky. A perfect blue sky.
No clouds anywhere. It went on for hours before we got the comfort […]

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Just a quick note to remind you that the Music Schedule for the Weston irish Festival 2007 this weekend is posted.
SATURDAY 10-13-2007
CONDITION UPDATE
3 Covered Live […]

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I knew this was coming of course but still, your first time is special.
It being only five minutes since I’m back living in Ireland I’m […]

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TONIGHT Friday October 12th, 2007 at 9pm in the Paddy O’Quigley’s at 119th & Roe is balladeer Brendan Loughery from Ireland.
And tomorrow night, Saturday […]

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Am off to push more paperwork around. My boxes of personal effects arrived in Dublin from Kansas City yesterday.
But I’m still working on getting them […]

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A few days ago I was in County Derry, and while the bucketing rain of the early morning roundabout journey there via Belfast was exhilarating, […]

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I never became a citizen of the US when I lived there. Because I was already a member of another club that gave me enough […]

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Of the 2 canals which almost define Dublin’s city centre, it is the one to the south, the Grand Canal, that I’m most familiar with […]

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Less than an hour after Columbus Day and I find myself in Ireland all nostalgic for the day I had this time last year.
Or maybe […]

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The Heatons are back.
Matt & Shannon Heaton are playing another concert at Big Plain House in Lenexa almost a year since their last gig in […]

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I thought I had mentioned this ages ago, but I don’t see it anywhere.
If you’ve ever looked east from Gillham when you’re at 38th Street […]

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Although I have a habit of painting skies a roaring yellow, pink, or green, and of posting photos with skies of blue, in reality the […]

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I went to a play last week. In the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Is This About Sex?
Not really. But not not really either.
Using sexual manners and […]

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While I was out of town (the town I live in as well as the town I left, that is) the Pitch announced its Best […]

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