The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 38

7 tfMiMwbad '-AlEm Moot the now bad guy tha Docoptlcon tV-TV 1H '0 wst SfA-' -I -rj TRANSPORHERSs DARK OP THI MOON 'ititt kata ml fbrlntwiM prolonged sequences i sdrfl and dastructtofx Vt GOING BACKJOMAKINGIHIS A GRASSROOTS TELEVISION STATIONBOBBYJOTSCH OF KSMOKCT jjf ENTERTAINMENT KSMO reflects community diversity yrprvi nses above Throe's charm thanks to affects action and -I Sy ROGER MOORE OriandOSantfMl All die an-fmiml addeSe-mwy of jii of invader thrjUery along with f' i' (I'-Xr-fP'V1- -r J) I ton money can buy serve Dark of die well The funniest best-executed Transformars photo gallery and trailer at rj 4' si ft Xm I pare-- 1 7i V-i' '-7 robots diat look like can and trucks series dehv-en the popcorn in gigantic fistfuls of fun Ifi as head-alappingly stupid as ever a product-place ment action film witH a Camaro as a hero and 'M other motoring as villains But Michael cartoon-come-to-life co-opts NASA history nd redecorates fiivy with a gusto as over4he-top as any Shia LaBeouf rant ram or riff Hey what's an SEE MOON DI I PHOTO BV SHANE'KEYSCR ILLUSTRATION BV NEII NAKAHOOO THE KANSAS I 1 1 i Dana Wright anchors "Your Kansas on KSMO one of the few weekly shows like It on local TV Government gave owner permission to buy KSMO only If tt agreed to start airing more programs aimed at the community OPENING NIGHT "Transformers Dark of the opens in a few theaters in 3-D and I MAX as early as 8:45 tonight The movie takes over in all formats all over at midnight AARON BARNHART Cable channel programs Include a big dosa of grassroots content msm ym were to happen across while channel-r pretty unlikely given wSen airs but whatever chances are i redith Corp made him general manager of its CBS affiliate KCTV5 He was also given the reins to KSMO a low-rated station Meredith bought in 2005 Under Totsch KSMO he likes to call it has ramped up its local programming More than 70 live sports telecasts will air on the station in the next year more than any local broadcaster That schedule includes a recently announced roster of Friday night high school football games beginning in September KSMO also airs games from the Missouri Valley SEE KSMO D3 The fact that it airs on a weekend night on a local TV station KSMO long known as Channel 62 and more recently cable channel 10 does not sully its luster Indeed according to the man who pig it on the ait has an important role to play in what might be one of the most intriguing broadcast experiments anywhere the country going back to making this a grassroots television Bobby Totsch said recently doing it the old-fashioned way" Totsch previously a top executive at the CBS affiliate in St Louis came to Kansas City in late 2009 after Me Lunch ledy: TtaC6iumtxJi i rh hi hnasH UNi scnoot Doory soctpna prlndPBl Khrtbtrty jnnoff resignation In May alter rewiw--i tlons that she though earning (90UOOO a yeat sworn on Moral forms that dtejnadt just that her own two cMdran would qual- MLifrirferb 1 eiAi nl 1 lyrprnaucto-pncf iq)ooi you'd stop cm it because it looks like nothing else op television not just the arresting screen- also the quality of die films that are screened on the show and the tightly edited HD-showcase nature of the interviews Put simply is more polished than most shows about film that air on national cable channels kmehei filling close-ups of actress Erin McGrane as she sits knee-to-knee with local filmmakers on a couch and interviews thorn about their projects ft' JS' vo BLOG EXCERPT I Valorie Engholm A good baby sitter is hard to find POLL RESULTS Mom2mom members voted online Do you text with your kids? 36 pareane Always It's the only way we communicate whan apart 21 percent Never not a texter Wo talk percant Sometimes Today Is the last day to register to wine (50 gtit card to Hobby Lobby Gat goingt This' expires at 11 am whan a winner will bie randomly drawn from-all-tho registrations What are you waiting for? A months agn a friend of mine became pregnant for the: first time and asked me what the hardest thing kbout being parent waft I reaiiykaow what to say Ift not easy being a parent and there are a lot of challenges But I coukint really pick one thing that was the hard- However after today realized what the hardest thing about parenting really is and it isn't leaving them with a sitter No na Ifl finding sitter for me it is See neither my husband nor I have family in Kansas City except for my husband's dad and he doesn't really babysit My aunt and uncle used to live here but they moved away long before I started having children So if we want to do anything like go to a movie go out to dinner or go to wort we need to hunt down a baby sittec This my friends is not an easy thing todoi Tb read VWorlaY entire blog and thoM of other featured bioggore go to mow2momhcxom i THIS WEEK'S QUESTION Do you pack your qMdren for camp or a summer trlpT A Yes Are you kidding? Who knows what pack! ft No Ifs ttieir responsibility I help They do some I do some It wasn't temper tantrums though I have-been driven to tears having to watch those It wasn't sleepless nighty though I have been driven to tears with those a wel I told her it was hard leaving them with baby sitters because I miss than even though I found that to behind of cheesy But it is fiord I miss them! Log on to mom2momhcxom and dick on to votei Click on lmom2mom and of the to see past polls V-NBN e-K.