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Saturday featuring the top swing, salsa, tango and jumping jazz bands and dance clubs in KC! Marquee Lounge is Kansas City's new headquarters to jump, jive and wail! Everyone is welcome to watch or join in. Free thirty minute lessons at 830pm. Dance bands start at 9pm http://kcrestaurantguide.com/themarquee.htm

— It’s time to hit the gym and get a tan, in preparation for the fourth annual “Shamrocks & Shenanigans” St. Patrick’s Day Festival, which will feature DJ Pauly D from the hit MTV reality show Jersey Shore. Guests should plan to arrive early for the annual Shamrocks & Shenanigans party. The day-long festival begins with a ‘green’ breakfast at McFadden’s and Raglan Road followed by music, contests, games and giveaways in KC Live. The festivities continue with live music and deejay entertainment. Kansas City based bands Dolewite and the Patrick Lentz band take the stage for free concerts, followed by DJ Pauly D. The event is free and open to the public, but attendees must be 21 or older. The fourth annual “Shamrocks & Shenanigans Festival” is presented by Miller Lite.

DISTRICT RESTAURANT WEEK OFFERS GUESTS EXTREME VALUE WITH LOW PRICE POINTS, COMPLIMENTARY GIFT CARDS Biannual District Restaurant Week Immediately Follows City-Wide Event The Kansas City Power & Light District hosts its sixth Restaurant Week from January 31 through February 6, 2011. Fourteen restaurants will participate in the event, which immediately follows the second annual city-wide Kansas City Restaurant Week. District Restaurant Week is a biannual event that provides guests the opportunity to try a variety of District restaurants’ menus, all at lower price points to promote savings during a time of economic uncertainty. Participating restaurants will offer: • Lunch: Two-course meals priced at $10 - $15 for lunch • Dinner: Three-course meals priced at $25 - $30 for dinner • Dining Gifts: Every guest ordering the Restaurant Week meals will receive a complimentary gift card with each visit to use at a later date at the participating restaurant ($5 for lunch; $10 for dinner). To ...

NoRTH RESTAURANT BRINGS CREATIVE NEW OPTIONS TO MODERN ITALIAN MENU LEAWOOD, Kan. – Classic recipes with a modern twist has been the standard for NoRTH restaurant’s menu and now the three-year-old Leawood restaurant is offering a variety of new items that use imaginative combinations featuring timeless Italian ingredients. Take the restaurant’s new Bucatini for example. NoRTH chefs designed an innovative recipe using the restaurant’s wildly popular Braised Short Rib to create a pasta dish adding the tender meat from the Braised Short Rib to pasta, baby tomatoes, roasted peppers and garlic ($17). The new pasta entrée is just one of the new pasta menu options. Others include: Chitarra with butternut squash, Brussels Sprouts and hazelnut brown butter ($15) and Strozzapreti with chicken, mushrooms, spinach, toasted pine nuts in a light parmesan cream ($19). “We use our guest’s response to our menu to generate innovative new creations. We’ve tweaked a few items on the menu to align with t...

Vote today to help decide the People’s Choice award winner. “Weeeeeee’re off to feed the hungry…” by Black & Veatch won the Jurors Favorite award at Harvesters’ 10th annual Canstruction competition. Thirteen incredible, edible sculptures are on exhibit through February 7 at the Ward Parkway Center, 8600 Ward Parkway, Kansas City, MO. At the end of the exhibit, all of the nonperishable food items used in the sculptures will be donated to Harvesters to feed hungry people in our community. This year’s creative Canstruction sculptures used nearly 38,000 cans of food and will provide more than 23,000 meals to the hungry. During its 10-year history, Canstruction has provided more than 282,000 pounds of food—more than 217,000 meals—to feed the hungry. Other 2011 award winners include: Best Meal – “Angry About Hunger” by BRR Architecture Structural Ingenuity – “SpiderCAN!” by Urban Prairie Architectural Collaborative Best Use of Labels – “Colorful Harvest” by Ellerbe Becket an AECOM Compan...

The Chinese New Year provides all the traditions and rituals you need to clean away the bad luck of last year, be optimistic for the year ahead, cultivate friends and placate your enemies. Here’s all you have to do: During the last few days of the last moon, clean the house, pay debts, cut your hair, and buy some new clothes. Decorate your doors with vertical scrolls of Chinese characters on red paper; the text seeks good luck and praises nature, and even keeps away evil spirits. For good measure, burn a little incense in your home; it’s a mark of respect to ancestors. Light your house brightly on Chinese New Year’s Eve, February 2, and serve a large family dinner. On Chinese New Year’s morning, give the kids lucky money in red envelopes. Splash the color red everywhere; it’s the color of luck. Greet everyone you meet with your best wishes for a happy Chinese New Year. Get rid of your old grudges, and make up with anybody you need too; now is the time for goodwill and reconciliation. A...

RA Sushi will help draw attention to heart disease next month with a Go Red party and month-long fundraiser to benefit the local chapter of the American Heart Association. The Go Red party is from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 2 and is open to the public. Guests are encouraged to wear red and will enjoy complimentary appetizers. The event will help raise money and awareness for the America Heart Association in honor of its Go Red for Women movement. February is American Heart Month, drawing attention to heart disease, America's No. 1 killer, and the strides being taken through research and education to raise awareness of risk factors and to decrease death rates. RA will also launch a specially-created Go Red sushi roll and cocktail at the event. The two Go Red menu items will be available through Feb. 28 and $3 from the sale of each will benefit the local chapter of the American Heart Association. “It’s only natural that RA Sushi, with our signature red interior design and logo, woul...