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Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool"
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How Not to Be a Rap Star
Flying high on Ecstasy, Grey Goose and his own hype, Paul Mussan blew through 100 G's in six months.
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A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion
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Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept
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PB&J Restaurants Inc. comes to the rescue of Union Station’s historic Harvey House Diner
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Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool" (22)
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Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept (15)
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No one feels sorry for Councilman Terry Riley as much as Terry Riley (7)
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How Not to Be a Rap Star (6)
Flying high on Ecstasy, Grey Goose and his own hype, Paul Mussan blew through 100 G's in six months.
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Here's a bit more on why a journalist might be curious about Councilman Terry Riley (4)
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Tom Russell discusses his art, his music and why he doesn't sing about politics
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Eyes of the Betrayer
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Pickin' on Syd
Lawrence's the Gnomes channel the spirit of Syd Barrett
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You'll be sorry you missed these KC acts headed to South by Southwest
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Pharrell Williams is happy to be just one of the band again
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Kansas City Ballet Gets Props from the NYT
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The Other Basketball Tourney, Day Two
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Daily Briefs: The thing with the woman on the toilet; Some talk of TV shows.
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Concert Review: Travis Morrison
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SXSW Day 1, featuring Van Morrison, Cut Copy and pizza for Tech N9ne
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Concert Review: Holy Fuck
12:16PM 03/10/08
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Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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Bad Wizard
Sunday, October 6, at the Madrid Theatre (9 p.m.) / Fred P. Ott's (midnight).
By Geoff Harkness
Published: October 3, 2002
The history of rock is littered with wizards, from the pinball to the electric variety, but few acts re-create aggressive '70s-style scuzz metal better than Bad Wizard. Unlike similar acts straining to recall the magic of Motorhead and the MC5, the Wiz kids leave no room for laid-back stoner bluster, instead choosing the simple but always effective combination of Les Pauls, Marshall stacks and skanky riffs that don't slow down for nothin'. Like a lo-fi AC/DC minus the radio-friendly hooks, Bad Wizard drips buckets full o' sleaze on its forthcoming sophomore effort, Sophisticated Mouth. Vocalist Curtis Brown's concrete-throated yowl sounds like the birth-defected offspring of Bon Scott and Lemmy Killminster, and the recent addition of former Helldorado guitarist Tina Gorin has only increased the band's sonic boom.
