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The Guitar House in Columbia, Missouri is a Late Victorian Italianate home built in 1859. The house was constructed by David Guitar, an officer in... the Confederate Army. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.
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The Missouri United Methodist Church is a United Methodist church in downtown Columbia, Missouri on Ninth Street. The building was constructed in... 1929 out of Indiana Bedford limestone. The sanctuary seats 1000 people. Because of its architectural quality and contributions to religion in the state, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Missouri United Methodist Church has a long music tradition. It has a large Skinner pipe organ . The Church hosts an annual Missouri United Church Concert Series featuring the Columbia Chorale, the 9th Street Philharmonic Orchestra as well as other well-known groups such as Chanticleer and the Vienna Boys Choir. .
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The National Guard Armory in Columbia, Missouri was built as a Works Progress Administration project in 1940. The art deco building on Walnut Street... sits on the north side of downtown Columbia. Today the building is owned by the city and used as a youth recreation center.
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The Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts is a concert and entertainment venue in downtown Columbia, Missouri, occupying most of a city block between... 9th street between Locust and Elm Streets. It was designed after the Opéra Garnier by the Boller Brothers, built in 1928, and is on the National Register of Historic Places. It Columbia's only surviving pre-Depression movie palace and vaudeville stage. It is also the resident home of the Missouri Symphony Orchestra as well as a performance venue for many of Columbia's non-professional community groups and for touring artist from around the world. The 1,218-seat theatre is often simply called The Missouri Theatre The theater opened on October 5, 1928 to a flurry of excitement from the community of Columbia. It was built at a cost of over 400,000 dollars which is equivalent to over 4.5 million dollars today. Advertisements in the Columbia Daily Tribune proclaimed the "Formal Opening of your new Missouri Theatre—Friday Evening… A $400,000 Showhouse of Unrivaled Beauty and Extravagant Setting in Central Missouri. The Magnificent Splendor of This Palace of Amusement Will Dazzle and Thrill You.
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Jessica Brooke Capshaw is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jamie Stringer in The Practice and for her role as Dr. Arizona Robbins... on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. She was introduced in the show's fifth season as an attending surgeon and the new head of pediatric surgery. Originally contracted to appear in three episodes, Capshaw's contract was extended to the remainder of the fifth season, with her becoming a series regular in the sixth season. Capshaw was born in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw, and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive, and high school principal. She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994 and Brown University in 1998 with an English degree. She then attended acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Capshaw married Christopher Gavigan, co-founder of The Honest Company, former CEO, and member of the board of directors of Healthy Child, Healthy World, on May 22, 2004, in East Hampton.
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Carl Michael Edwards II is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #99 Fastenal, Aflac, Kellogg's, Best Buy, and UPS Ford Fusion in the NASCAR... Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing. He won the Busch Series championship in 2007 and nearly won the Sprint Cup Series title in 2011, but lost by a tiebreaker. Edwards' big break came in 2002, when he competed in 7 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events for MB Motorsports. His best finish in the seven races was 8th at Kansas Speedway. He also ran one Busch Series race for Bost Motorsports, finishing 38th at Gateway International Raceway. However, it was enough to impress Jack Roush, and Edwards became a full-time Truck Series competitor in 2003, driving the #99 Ford F-150 sponsored by Superchips. He won Rookie-of-the-Year honors in addition, to three race wins, eventually finishing 8th in the points standings at the end of the season. In 2004, he notched three more race wins, including the season-opening Florida Dodge Dealers 250 at the Daytona International Speedway. At season's end, Edwards finished 4th in the points.
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Lisa E. Wilcox is an American actress who has starred in film and television. Wilcox's best known film role is in the 1988 hit horror film A... Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master as Alice Johnson. In 1989, she reprised the role in the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Her television credits include the soap operas General Hospital in 1987 and Knots Landing in 1989. She has made guest appearances on several television shows, including Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope, Walker, Texas Ranger, Hardcastle and McCormick, and Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season three episode "The Vengeance Factor" as Yuta. In 2009, she starred in the thriller film Imago under the direction of Chris Warren, alongside actors such as Natalie Jones, Danielle Jones, Melanie Donihoo, Parrish Randall and Debbie Rochon. Wilcox is a nominee for the Streamy Awards 2010 with the FEARnet produced webseries Fear Clinic. Wilcox was born in Columbia, Missouri. In 2000, Wilcox and A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 co-star Tuesday Knight founded a footwear jewelry retailer company called ToeBrights which is still in business today.
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Juliet AnnMarie Huddy , is an American television news reporter, currently appearing on Fox News Channel. Huddy was born in Miami Beach, Florida, the... daughter of John, a television producer, and Erica Huddy, a singer/performer. Her brother is FOX News reporter John Huddy Jr. She graduated from Langley High School in 1987 and earned a degree in political science with a minor in psychology at the University of Missouri in 1992. After completing her education, she began her news journalism career at age 21 as a reporter/producer for KARO-FM's morning newscast in Columbia, Missouri. She later relocated to Ventura, California to join KADY-TV — a station owned by her mother and father – where she initially worked as the station's promotions director and executive producer but later turned to reporting at the Ventura County News Network. As promotions director, she won numerous ADDY awards. She was executive producer of "Armed Response", a finalist for the IRIS award given by the National Association of Television Program Executives .
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Lucas York Black is an American film and television actor. He is known for his roles in the CBS television series American Gothic as well as roles... in films such as Sling Blade, Jarhead, Friday Night Lights, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, Legion, Get Low, and All the Pretty Horses. He also appeared on an episode of outdoors with TK and Mike. Black was born in Decatur, Alabama, the son of Jan, an office worker, and Larry Black, a museum worker. He has two older siblings, brother Lee and sister Lori. Black was raised a Southern Baptist. He grew up in Speake, Alabama and played for the Speake Bobcats, graduating from high school in May 2001. He currently resides in Columbia, Missouri. Without any formal training as an actor, Lucas's film debut was in the 1994 Kevin Costner film, The War. He was subsequently cast as Caleb Temple in CBS's television series American Gothic, which ran from 1995 to 1996, and in the films Sling Blade, Ghosts of Mississippi and The X-Files. Later in 1997 Black starred in the TV film Flash, which aired on The Wonderful World of Disney. In 1998, Black was offered a part in The Horse Whisperer.
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Kenneth W. "Ken" Griffin was an American organist. Griffin was born in Columbia, Missouri. His biggest hit was "You Can't Be True, Dear" , which was... first released as an instrumental, and later that year re-released with a vocal by Jerry Wayne dubbed in. Both versions became popular, selling over 3.5 million copies. He also starred in a 1954-55 syndicated television series, 67 Melody Lane. He recorded on a variety of record labels including Columbia and Rondo. It was in the 1940s in Aurora, Illinois that Griffin broke into the nightclub circuit, playing at the Rivoli Cafe nightly. The sessions at the Rivoli cafe were broadcast on the radio station, WMRO, and the program became popular. Griffin died on March 11, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois at the age of 46, of a heart attack and was buried at Lincoln Memorial Park in Aurora. Columbia had many hours of Griffin's unreleased recordings on tape, and continued to release "new" recordings of Griffin's music for a number of years after his death. Griffin's version of Ebb Tide was played in the fifth season premiere of the popular TV drama series Mad Men.
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Jessica Brooke Capshaw is an American actress. She is known for her role as Jamie Stringer in The Practice and for her role as Dr. Arizona Robbins... on the ABC television series Grey's Anatomy. She was introduced in the show's fifth season as an attending surgeon and the new head of pediatric surgery. Originally contracted to appear in three episodes, Capshaw's contract was extended to the remainder of the fifth season, with her becoming a series regular in the sixth season. Capshaw was born in Columbia, Missouri, the daughter of actress and producer Kate Capshaw, and Robert Capshaw, a sales manager, marketing director, business executive, and high school principal. She is the stepdaughter of director Steven Spielberg. She graduated from Harvard-Westlake School in 1994 and Brown University in 1998 with an English degree. She then attended acting classes at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London. Capshaw married Christopher Gavigan, co-founder of The Honest Company, former CEO, and member of the board of directors of Healthy Child, Healthy World, on May 22, 2004, in East Hampton.
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Carl Michael Edwards II is a NASCAR driver. He currently drives the #99 Fastenal, Aflac, Kellogg's, Best Buy, and UPS Ford Fusion in the NASCAR... Sprint Cup Series for Roush Fenway Racing. He won the Busch Series championship in 2007 and nearly won the Sprint Cup Series title in 2011, but lost by a tiebreaker. Edwards' big break came in 2002, when he competed in 7 NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series events for MB Motorsports. His best finish in the seven races was 8th at Kansas Speedway. He also ran one Busch Series race for Bost Motorsports, finishing 38th at Gateway International Raceway. However, it was enough to impress Jack Roush, and Edwards became a full-time Truck Series competitor in 2003, driving the #99 Ford F-150 sponsored by Superchips. He won Rookie-of-the-Year honors in addition, to three race wins, eventually finishing 8th in the points standings at the end of the season. In 2004, he notched three more race wins, including the season-opening Florida Dodge Dealers 250 at the Daytona International Speedway. At season's end, Edwards finished 4th in the points.
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Lisa E. Wilcox is an American actress who has starred in film and television. Wilcox's best known film role is in the 1988 hit horror film A... Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master as Alice Johnson. In 1989, she reprised the role in the sequel A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child. Her television credits include the soap operas General Hospital in 1987 and Knots Landing in 1989. She has made guest appearances on several television shows, including Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope, Walker, Texas Ranger, Hardcastle and McCormick, and Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season three episode "The Vengeance Factor" as Yuta. In 2009, she starred in the thriller film Imago under the direction of Chris Warren, alongside actors such as Natalie Jones, Danielle Jones, Melanie Donihoo, Parrish Randall and Debbie Rochon. Wilcox is a nominee for the Streamy Awards 2010 with the FEARnet produced webseries Fear Clinic. Wilcox was born in Columbia, Missouri. In 2000, Wilcox and A Nightmare On Elm Street 4 co-star Tuesday Knight founded a footwear jewelry retailer company called ToeBrights which is still in business today.
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Howard C. Hickman was an accomplished stage leading man, who entered films through the auspices of producer Thomas H. Ince. He co-starred with his... wife, actress Bessie Barriscale, in several productions before returning to the theatre. Hickman is also fondly remembered for his brief appearance as John Wilkes in Gone with the Wind.
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Race Owen is an American actor who plays Damian Wakefield on the MyNetworkTV limited-run serial American Heiress. His movie credits include Ride... with the Devil and Takedown. In addition, Owen has been a guest star on the television shows Dawson's Creek, Drake & Josh, Sleeper Cell, and the daytime drama Passions.
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Robert Patrick Benedict is an American stage and screen actor. He is perhaps best known for his work on the television science-fiction series... Threshold and the college drama Felicity. Benedict was born in Columbia, Missouri. He graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor's degree in Performance Studies. Benedict is the front man and guitar player in the Los Angeles band Louden Swain, which completed its third album Suit and Tie in February 2006. His sister, Amy Benedict, is also an actress. He resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Mollie, their son Calvin and daughter Audrey. On CBS's Threshold, Benedict played physicist Lucas Pegg, member of a secret government team investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial species. On the critically acclaimed WB series Felicity, he appeared as Felicity Porter's dorm mate, Richard Coad. On Alias Benedict was Sydney Bristow's short-term CIA partner, Brodien. His additional television series credits include Birds of Prey and Come To Papa, with guest appearances on NCIS, Monk, Medium, Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Snoops, Burn Notice, Supernatural and Beverly Hills, 90210.
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