The Kansas City Star

Bob Devaney's time as Nebraska's athletic director has ended. Bill Byrne is the new man. This should be a happy, nostalgic and satisfying time for Devaney and all Nebraska fans,...

Marlo Finner has been waiting, thirsting, hungering for Saturday night since March 1990, when he scored 35 points in his final game for Chicago`s Wendell Phillips High. It`s been so...

Remember ''Lumpy'' from ''Leave It to Beaver''? Well, he`s grown up, has become an expert in tax-free bonds and plans to move to Kansas City. Frank Bank, known to television...

Dee Snider spent the better part of the 1980s as the clownlike screamer of metal band Twisted Sister. He wasn`t always happy about it. ''Twisted was based on an image...

When the president of the United States tried to make reservations to stay over for the presidential debate Sunday, these elegant hostelries had no rooms for the head of state:...

While attending Wellesley College in the early `70s, filmmaker Lizzie Borden had an encounter with a con artist who passed himself off as a fashion- magazine photographer. ''I got out...

Heeeerre`s TV`s late-night beauty brokers. Victoria Jackson, a makeup artist from Beverly Hills, Calif., chats with actresses Meredith Baxter Birney and Ali MacGraw about her ''no makeup'' makeup system during...

When hot young designer Christian Francis Roth toyed with Crayola crayon motifs in his playful, pricey fall women`s collection, the fashion mavens loved it. But Hallmark Cards Inc. was not...

This Iowa city with major-league aspirations will soon wrest Kansas City`s claim to having the tallest building between Chicago and Denver, Minneapolis and Tulsa. At 44 stories, or 630 feet...

One day the busy composer Lalo Schifrin paused to notice that wherever there was dance, there was the clarinet. ''This is true around the world,'' Schifrin said. ''Think of Greece...