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where were you during severe winter weather 2010?

It’s the weekend before Christmas, and all through the city, the kids were playing music—and it sounded so pretty!

If you didn’t have Saturday night plans before, now you do. Catch three amazing Kansas City folk bands at Main Street Cafe. Oriole Post (who just released their debut album and had this great write up in the Pitch) David Bennet and For the Birds are playing a holiday showcase. Doors are at 7pm, $7 cover.

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• Local songbird Margo May will be at the Foundation with the Night Owls on Friday. Doors at 9, donations for the musicians are encouraged.
• Andy Warhol’s Life and Legend exhibit is still at Union Station! $12 for adults, $8 for kids.
• The ladies of Bon Bon Atelier are having their holiday open house from 10-6 on Saturday. Drop in for some early Christmas shopping and check out their adorable window display.
• Asthmatic Kitty Cuties Half-Handed Cloud are at Bridgeport Art Space along with David Bennet, Spellmaster and Papa Nartan. 8-12 Saturday, $5 at the door.

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#16 Ice Skating at Crown Center

The skating rink is open for the season. I’ve never been… maybe this year we can all go get win’try together?

Kansas-city based Capybara recently popped up on The World’s Best Ever mixtape curated by We Love You So (the official mixtape of “Where the Wild Things Are.”) Capy’s been on tour since mid-August after a great send-off at the Backyard… I’m feeling a welcome-back show in the near future.

#14 Hi-Hat!

Tucked away on State Line is this adorable little coffee shop that looks like something out of a fairy tale. Little Red Riding Hood goes skipping through the Enchanted Forest, takes a wrong turn at the bridge guarded by a fearsome troll, and in an astonishing twist of fate winds up at Hi-Hat to be greeted by the impossibly friendly baristas and a delicious cup of coffee.

#13 Three-day forecast

Just sayin’.

Enlightening, artful worship that doesn’t travel—Mike Crawford doesn’t take his Secret Siblings on the road, so to hear the songs that worship leader magazine named as “one to watch,” you’ll have to come to KC

#11 We got some pretty little women here

At least, Fats thought so.

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#11 Western Auto Sign

At night, it lights up the skyline.