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continued from page 15 The Writers Place (3607 Pennsylvania, 816-753-1090). The Latino Writers Collective, including poets Maria Vasquez Boyd, Jose Faus, Miguel M. Morales and featured reader Gustavo Adolfo Ayabar, invites you to a fiesta filled with poems and wine. It gets under way at 7 p.m. Admission costs $3 for members and $5 for nonmembers. See writersplace.org for more information.
sides of Crown Center’s Ice Terrace (2425 Grand, 816-274-8411). Today, the city’s only public outdoor rink begins its 40th season with three hours of free skating from 6 to 9 a.m. After that, the Ice Terrace is open daily. Admission costs $6 for those between the ages of 5 and 60 (free for everyone else), and skate rental is $3. See crowncenter.com for a full schedule and more information.
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Local comics and editorial-cartoon aggregator GoComics.com allows users to discover new artists, read news about comics, and catch up on everything from Calvin and Hobbes E R O M to Twaggies. And it couldn’t have done it without Universal T A INE Uclick — its parent comONL .COM H PITC pany — or social media. UU director of marketing Gene Willis speaks at today’s Social Media Club KC November breakfast, from 7:30 to 10 a.m., about the use of social media to blow up the comics world. The event at the Kansas City Café (1532 Grand, 816-471-7111) costs $5 (an extra $10 buys breakfast). RSVP at smckc.com.
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hen we asked McCoy’s Public House bar manager Randyl Danner to predict which beer would go fastest at this year’s Strong Ale Festival, she listed two brews: Deschutes Brewery’s Chasin’ Freshies (an IPA made from an heirloom strain of hops from Willamette Valley) and Perennial Artisan Ales’ Fantastic Voyage (a milk stout brewed with coconut). Try these beers plus selections from more than 30 breweries from 1 to 5 p.m. today on Pennsylvania Avenue between Westport Road and 40th Street. Tickets cost $30 in advance and $35 at the door. Buy them at beerkc.com.
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With a full tank of gas, the right pair of shoes and a few energy drinks, one might make it to all eight stops during today’s Wyandotte County Museum Crawl. Start or end up at any one of the museums, and for one $5 ticket, from 2 to 6 p.m., visit as many as you’d like: the Clendening History of Medicine Museum at KU Medical Center, the Grinter Place Historical Site, the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, the Old Quindaro Museum, the Quindaro Underground Railroad Museum, the Strawberry Hill Ethnic Museum and Cultural Center, the Sumner High School Alumni Room, and the Wyandotte County Historical Society and Museum. Purchase tickets in advance at one of the museums. For more information, see visitkansascityks.com (click on “Events”) or call 913-321-5800.