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The magician spent years campaigning against fraudulent psychics, even lobbying Congress to ban fortune-telling in D.C.

Capper Building to be uncapped for Fair The Capper Building will go capless for the 2021 Kansas State Fair. The Kansas State Fair Board agreed on Tuesday to pay up to $25,000 to have the roof on the 108-year-old building torn off but to leave the rest of the aging open-air structure in place for the upcoming fair. After the fair, the fair’s contracted architectural firm will explore costs for replacing it with a new building, also open-air but possibly made of steel and a synthetic wood wrap...

The Kansas State Fair Board agreed Tuesday to take bids on some construction and building upgrade projects on the fairgrounds, including a long-delayed estimated $2.37 million project at the Expo I horse exhibition center. A few should be done in time for this year’s state fair, and others – including the Expo center – won’t start until it’s over. Even then, however, at least two buildings on the grounds that are currently closed to the public – the Capper Building and the Bison Are...

NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals OPINION Statue of Teresa Cuevas, founder of Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, will be a welcome presence in downtown Topeka By The Editorial Advisory Board We’re delighted to hear of plans for a statue honoring Teresa Cuevas in downtown Topeka, near Evergy Plaza. Cuevas was a force of nature, and Tuesday was the 101st anniversary of her birth. Cuevas, as The Topeka Capital-Journal’s Tim Hrenchir reported, was “the drivin...

Teresa Cuevas felt it was her destiny to keep mariachi music alive so future generations could enjoy it, says her granddaughter, Michelle Cuevas Stubblefield. Tuesday will mark the 101st anniversary of the birth of Cuevas, the driving force behind Mariachi Estrella de Topeka, one of the first all-female mariachi bands in the U.S. Her family is working with the Downtown Topeka Foundation to honor her legacy by having a bronze, life-sized statue of Cuevas, who died at age 93 in 2013, put up ne...

Recalling ‘Cactus’ Jack Call, the Man Patsy Cline Came to KC to Honor Tribute Show for Country Music DJ Was Clines Final Performance Share this story Published March 4th, 2021 at 6:00 AM Above image credit: Mildred Keith shot the famous "last photograph" of Patsy Cline. (Contributed | Keith family) Almost everybody knows the Patsy Cline-comes-to-Kansas City story. Fewer people know the “Cactus” Jack Call story. Cline died on March ...

A view of Greenleaf Gardens by the author. Last November, the DC Housing Authority (DCHA) selected a co-developer for its planned redevelopment of Southwest’s Greenleaf Gardens community and embarked upon a precedent-setting approach to engaging Greenleaf Gardens residents. Now, DCHA has brought that co-development team into its first meetings with residents and stakeholders to explain the proposal that so inspired confidence in DCHA’s selection committee. Here’s what that proposal entai...

But he was best known for helping the less fortunate. This weeks History Guy video at CJOnline focuses on Cushinberry, who was born 100 years ago this year, on Oct. 24, 1921. Cushinberry grew up at Hoisington in central Kansas, then served as a combat medic in World War II before moving to Topeka. He became the driving force behind Gods Little Half Acre, a garden and donations clearinghouse at 1835 S.W. Fillmore where countless people in need received food, clothing and other necessities...