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Starbeams: Rolling Roof, Sarah Palin’s Daughter * Brookside ‘Survivor’ Hottie

Sarah Palin spoke Monday at Bartle Hall to a crowd of about 1,300 people, predominantly male. Most were hoping for a shot at Sarah’s hot daughter.

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Starbeams: Kelly Celebrates a Birthday & Phelps Gang Burns a Bible

You’ll never guess who’s speaking out about the pastor in Florida sponsoring the BURN A QUR’AN day on 9/11. Not because they think burning the Muslim holy book will endanger the lives of American troops, but because the Westboro Baptist Church burned a Qur’an on a street corner in Washington D.C., in 2008 and nobody covered it.

**You know you’re off-base when even a bunch of extremist wackos looking for excuses to blow up Americans won’t even pay attention to you.

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Starbeams: Brush Creek Green Zone, Party Cove on Inside Edition & Lew Perkins Legacy

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Starbeams: Cleavage Fest, Polar Bear Diet, Bleeding Kansas, Vinca & Kris Ketz Twitter List

The Renaissance Festival is underway in Bonner Springs. Or the Cleavage Festival as I like to call it. Kinda surprised Victoria’s Secret doesn’t have a booth there. I mean, tent.

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Starbeams: Less is More at Summer Movies, Jack Hanna & Obama Wipes Out

Movie attendance in the U.S. this summer was at its lowest point in five years. Yet revenue hit an all-time high. Apparently, movie theaters have adopted the Royals business model.

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Starbeams: Marketing Downtown, Latino Weather Hotties, Case of the Missing Super Bowl

Police in Silver Spring, Maryland fatally shot a guy holding people hostage at the Discovery Channel HQ building. Continue reading

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Starbeams: The Top Five Candidates for Flashing Street Signs

The latest annoying feature on Kansas City streets: Flashing metal stop signs with bright LED lights. They’re being installed where drivers frequently run the stop signs. TOP 5 OTHER FLASHING SIGNS WE NEED: #5.

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Starbeams: Because You Care Enough to Schmooze the Very Best

Late, great Kansas City jazz legend Charlie Parker would have turned 90 Sunday. To celebrate his life Kansas City residents pretended to really care about jazz music for five minutes. Five minutes. Kelly Urich

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Starbeams: Stinking Up Lawrence & Top 5 @ Arrowhead

Haworth hall in Lawrence was evacuated Thursday morning as student noticed a strange smell. Apparently some of the students smelled legally sold football tickets.

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Starbeams: Plaza Security Asleep at the Wheel? Housing Drop

Video of two city workers sleeping on the job has been all over television news and there’s a lot of finger pointing going on as water department employees are questioned. The good news? Continue reading

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Starbeams: Potholes for Pikers, MODOT Does China & Thinking Outside the Bun at Ground Zero

A pothole in Eastern Jack just cost the taxpayers $270,000. Derek Jackson hit it while riding his motorcycle and had to be taken by helicopter to a hospital. Continue reading

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Starbeams: Overland Park Celebrates 50th; Top 5 Accounting

The city of Overland Park turned 50 over the weekend. To that end, I give you the… TOP 5 WAYS OVERLAND PARK CELEBRATED ITS 50th BIRTHDAY: #5.

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Starbeams: Whitlock’s Double D’s, Plaza Flash Mob Flashback & Tiger’s Johnson

According to a study out of France, men are more likely to give a hitchhiker a ride if she has large breasts. Fifteen percent of the men studied stopped to pick up an A-cup, 18% a B-cup while a whopping 24 percent stopped to pick up a C-cup. Continue reading

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Starbeams: Paying in Pesos, XXL Seat Belts, Mario Cart Day & W at Ground Zero

Kansas City is owed more than $1.2 million by property owners for the city mowing over 3,700 of their private properties to comply with standards for weeds and grass. The companies say the $1.2 million is shocking, since they were hoping to pay the clipping in pesos.

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Seatbelt use in Kansas has risen above 80 percent for the first time ever thanks to new seat-belt laws. Continue reading

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Starbeams: Gates vs OK Joe’s, Tax Free Weekend & Dick Talk

The Missouri Sales Tax holiday starts Friday and runs through Sunday.

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Starbeams: Tweeting Along with Kris Ketz, Commerce Tower Blues & Lindsay

Twitter hosted its 20 billionth message posted by a businessman in Japan. Many of us were surprised it wasn’t sent by KMBC TV’s Continue reading

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Starbeams: Dog Daze at Royals, Chiefs & Branson says, ‘Whoa, Nelly!’

A new report by ESPN shows that stadium food may not be as safe as you might think. And certainly not worth the 60 percent markup they gouge families for. Continue reading

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Starbeams: We be fat – so what? – rock with it!

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Starbeams: Papa Bob’s, Westport Flea, Danny Edwards, McCartney & Lindsay Lohan

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Starbeams: Top 5 Things Found in Hole on Westbound 470 Ramp

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