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This week, Nick Haines discusses the Chamber’s Big 5 initiative to Grow Kansas City’s Medical Research with Dr. Patrick James. We continue our series “Women and Girls Lead” with a profile of Pastor Alice and the Emancipation Station. We look back at the history of Channel 19 which has been chronicled in a new book by Ed Matheny, Jr. called The Audacious Rise of KCPT. And we go behind the scenes at Hammerpress with a video piece by local producer Anthony Ladesich called Such Subtle Beauty.

This week on The Local Show, we examine the progress on the Big 5 initiative to move UMKC’s world class arts programs to a new downtown location and consider what that could mean for Kansas City’s downtown. While the National WWI Museum primarily pays tribute to veterans of the Great War, it also pays tributes to veterans of all conflicts. We take a look at how the museum embraces veterans from all conflicts and all branches of the military. During Prohibition, Kansas City was dubbed The Paris of the Plains. Now, local cocktail connoisseurs celebrate this history with a week’s worth of music, food and carefully crafted beverages in the Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival. We get a primer from American Restaurant’s General Manager Jamie Jamison and former Manifesto Bartender Brandon Cummins. Finally this week, we examine the business of providing people a place to do their business with a first hand look at Port-O-Potty practitioners.

This week on The Local Show, Nick Haines gets an update from Gary Forsee on efforts to host a global symposium on innovations in animal health as part of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 Ideas. We go inside the National Agricultural Hall of Fame which pays tribute to our nation’s food producers. We continue our Women and Girls Lead series with a profile of Brionna Williams who has overcome chronic asthma and obesity to become a highly recruited student athlete. Finally, we document a journey of inspiration which took art students of Paseo Academy from the grasslands of the Flint Hills to an art gallery in Brookside.

For almost thirty years, Gary Neal Johnson has been visited by ghosts each holiday season in the Kansas City Rep’s production of A Christmas Carol. Randy Mason welcomes the veteran actor currently rehearsing for Ebeneezer Scrooge as well as for Willy Loman for the upcoming production of A Death of a Salesman. Mayors and thought leaders from around the country met in Kansas City last week at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts as part of the CityAge summit The New American City.The Local Show was there to capture some of the conversation. In an effort to stay competitive with Google Fiber, Time Warner Cable announced that it will begin offering an cheap internet plan for low income families. And finally this week, Randy Mason talks to Dr. Jacqueline Chanda about all things Kansas City Art Institute.

This week, Nick Haines talks to Johnson County Community College President, Dr. Terry Calaway. We get an inside look from JCCC media students at Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore Deconstruction program. Amber Arnett Bequeaith shares a Christmas cookie recipe for those who have dairy and gluten allergies. And we watch as Sketch Artist Trey Bryan turns patrons at Hotel Phillips into artwork.

This week on The Local Show, we visit three new tech startups in the Crossroads as Google Fiber continues to attract new entrepreneurs. We share a success story from the Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association’s Extreme Recruitment Program which helps kids trapped in the foster care system to reconnect and find a permanent home with relatives. We give a sneak peek of artist Ryan Haralson’s new exhibit “Beyond Words: {A Fusion of Poetry (+)Visual Art (+) Jazz}” which is currently on display at the American Jazz Museum. And finally this week, we give a tip of the hat to the Kansas City Chorale on their recent Grammy win.

This week on The Local Show, we continue our examination of the various aspects of suicide. We talk to Mike Burke and Ray Daniels about the progress being made on the Google project. We celebrate the Grammy victory of Prairie Village native, Joyce DiDonato. We peek in on an entrepreneurial brainstorming session at the Kauffman Foundation that is part of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s Big 5 Ideas. And we celebrate Mardi Gras Kansas-style with the musical stylings of Truckstop Honeymoon.

Mental Health Awareness: Suicide Part Three

Tonight, in part three of of our four part series on suicide, producer Sandy Woodson examines what to do when you someone you know is considering suicide.

Google Zone: Mike Burke & Ray Daniels

The Local Show gets an update on the Google project from Mike Burke and Ray Daniels who are leading the Mayors’ Bi-State Google Innovation Team.

Grammy Gold: Joyce DiDonato

Prairie Village native and international opera star Joyce DiDonato won a Grammy for her performance, Diva Divo.

Big 5: Entrepreneurial Brainstorming

As part of the Chamber’s Big 5 initiative, eight public forums are underway to get your views. The Local Show checked in on one of them this week at the Kauffman Foundation.

New Orleans on the Plains: Truckstop Honeymoon & Mardi Gras in Kansas

Mike West and Katie Euliss, the duo known as Truckstop Honeymoon, relocated to Lawrence, Ks after Hurricane Katrina. The Local Show welcomes them to the show to show how they liven up Fat Tuesday in Kansas.