Start Up: Forward Theater Company
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Start-up: Niche Nightclub
As reported in the pages of In Business magazine.
Plan b is betting its future on a growing LGBT market segment.
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Art for the Ages
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In a second floor corner office perched above University Avenue, M. Russell Panczenko, director and chief curator at Chazen Museum of Art, overlooks the dusty beginnings of what will become the museum's adjoining building in an expansion scheduled for completion in 2011. Behind his desk, the walls bulge with renderings of the project for which Panczenko has been lobbying for years. To him, it's a fulfillment of a dream.
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Quarra Stone: Forging its Place in History
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Tap. Tap. Tap. Ane Tempelmann, a master stone carver at age 33, chips away at an elaborate stone carving before her. With a simple tool resembling a flathead screwdriver, she smooths and creates fine detail on a decorative limestone frieze that will, in the end, match and elongate a doorway at the Kansas state capitol building. She has already created a clay mold of the original stonework, repaired flaws and broken areas and, where necessary, added to the design. The process is slow and meticulous. In fact, it has taken Tempelmann many days to work on this three-foot section, and when the project is complete, her artwork will blend perfectly with the building's original facade.
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