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From the standpoint of the Kansas Insurance Department and the companies involved, the acquisition of a health insurance company is a straightforward business deal, subject to statutory requirements.

The Jazz Ministry of Saint Peters Church, Noble Art Pianos and pianoculture.com proudly announce the arrival of a new Sauter Omega 220 Concert Piano at Saint Peters Church.

Appearing at the 10th Annual Cherokee Jazz and Blues Festival on Sunday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Cheorkee Community Center will be Kevin Mahogany.

Mitchell Zuckoff's new oral biography "Robert Altman" is a brilliantly researched, near-cinematic evocation of how the boy from Kansas City became one of the twentieth century's greatest native Americans.

December 2, 2009 from KPLU - On a wet, chilly October afternoon, the prodigiously talented young jazz pianist Eldar visited the KPLU performance studio in Seattle, where he immediately warmed everyone up with his outgoing personality and stunning solo piano work.

Popular Cherokee 'party' celebrates 10th Anniversary The plans for the 10th annual Cherokee Jazz and Blues Festival have now been set, with the immensely-popular event taking place on Friday Jan.

Director Robert Altman walks on the street outside the Fitzgerald Theater in St.

Dear Mr. LaSalle: Who are the most consistent great actors in films? Mark Ferraro, San Mateo Dear Mr.

When American auteur Robert Altman died on Nov. 20, 2006, his biographer was left with a pile of transcripts.

Trumpeter Nicholas Payton doesn't know what he's going to play when he steps into the sanctuary of Grace Cathedral on Friday night, when his golden tones will echo through the great Gothic vaults.

Mitch Zuckoff exchanged many e-mails with Robert Altman 's widow, Kathryn , before embarking on his biography of the legendary director.

Image of the sax player on the door of Wally's Cafe tagged Bostonist by AntyDiluvian .

A new biography of Kansas City native film director Robert Altman has one bombshell political revelation: Altman once tattooed a dog owned by President Harry S. Truman.The New York Times review of the book notes it in passing and Slates Brow Beat blog has all the details.Heres the gist: After Altman returned from World War II he somehow got into ...

Clue: The Departed , which must have been around Martin Scorsese's thirtieth picture, and did win the directing Oscar, cost $90 million --so don't go that way.

Robert Altman's films never told us what to think or feel. The Kansas City-born director - of classics like "McCabe and Mrs.

Duone E. Coffey, 94, of Lebanon, died Thursday, Oct. 1, 2009, in Lebanon. She was born March 1, 1915, in Lebanon, to Lawrence and Ida Belle Hooker Pennington, who preceded her in death.

Old-fashioned word, "virtue" - and here's a 22-year-old jazz piano whiz doing his best to give original substance to the concept.

JAZZ STANDARD Swings Into October with Return Visits from Saxophonist Joshua Redman and the 7th Annual Festival of New Trumpet Music JAZZ STANDARD, one of the nation's premier jazz clubs, presents another month of great jazz in October.

Sony Masterworks is pleased to announce the release of Virtue , a new recording from jazz keyboard virtuoso Eldar , on August 25.

Shrink Directed by Jonas Pate Runtime: 110 min. COINCIDENCEVILLE WOULD HAVE been a better title for Shrink, the film in which psychiatrist Henry Carter and a handful of Los Angelinos crisscross past credulity but for the convenience of showing our interrelatedness.