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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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Sex Edition
Our second-annual issue dedicated to all things sex.
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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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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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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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Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool" (21)
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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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Booty Crawl (10)
We find our nemesis and a lot of booze during a Waldo bar hop.
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No one feels sorry for Councilman Terry Riley as much as Terry Riley (7)
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China Syndrome (7)
For a real immigration debate, just look at what happened when the Chinese invaded Mexico.
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Buckle Bunny Confidential: The Young Woman's Guide to Getting Down With Rocker Boys
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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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Oh, Omé: This local cage fighter turned R&B singer thinks he knows how to treat a lady.
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Pickin' on Syd
Lawrence's the Gnomes channel the spirit of Syd Barrett
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Kris Kobach tagged as a "New-Wave Nativist"
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Daily Briefs: Thinkofthechildren; Stolen Monkeys; Emanuel Cleaver is Very Delicate
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Daily Briefs: Be Terrified For Your Kids; Funkhouser's Ambitions; Obama -- Now Even Blacker!
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Concert Review: Holy Fuck
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Monday Music Junkie: Del tha Funkee Homosapien, Cajun Dance Party, Elbow and More
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Michael Bublé Musicans Tonight at River Market Brewery
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Since 1996, Calexico frontman Joey Burns and drummer John Convertino have been pushing steadily out from the margins of the lo-fi art-rock world of Giant Sand and the Friends of Dean Martin (their former groups, and two that shaped their Southwestern tones and otherworldly eclecticism). The band's newest album, Garden Ruin, surges like a flash flood over the pair's mariachi and post-folk bridge-building. They haven't abandoned the desert; they've just made it bloom with new colors. With plentiful steel-string acoustics, straight back-beat drumming, recognizable rock structures, hints of political protest, an absence of instrumentals, the illustrations of comic artist James Jean, and an almost Love-ly orchestration of horns and strings, the band has reset its range and reconfigured its audience.
