Tuesday, June 06, 2006
Radishes
I don't care about the radishes, you are not going to work
Kansas City's Irish Festivals, Music, Pubs & Events
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Speaking of movies, Terence O'Malley's movie Nelly Don: A Stitch in Time about the Kansas City's legendary Irish-American business woman, continues to have more screenings added at the Screenland in downtown Kansas City:
The Kansas City Star describes a movie called Millions as:
Irish siblings find a bag of cash; will they spend it on themselves or on good deeds?6:30 p.m. Sunday, Westport Presbyterian Church
The Wyandotte Players, who present their shows at Kansas City Kansas Community College, are offering the Irish play, Martin McDonagh's The Beauty Queen of Leenane from June 16-25.
the darkly comic tale of Maureen Folan, a plain and lonely woman in her early forties, and Mag, her manipulative ageing mother. Mag's interference in her daughter's first and possibly final chance of a loving relationship sets in motion a train of events that lead inexorably towards the play's inevitable dénouementThat reminds me of the time I had a shedload of pints that led inexorably towards an inevitable dénouement one Thursday. The Beauty Queen of Leenane opened in 1996 in Galway and went on to win four Tony Awards in New York.
If you missed it, yesterday's Kansas City Star carried an AP article on Ireland supposedly, but really on Dublin specifically - and even more specifically, on the rapidly expanding European headquarters of Internet search-engine giant Google, which it calls a symbol for the new, immigrant-rich Ireland.
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