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21. Night & Day

    Old Time Music

    Published: May 21, 2009

    The brand new show Babes in Hollywood salutes the music and careers of Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney from Hollywood to the Broadway stage. Thursdays, 8 p.m.;...

22. Night & Day

    Blues Blowin'

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: May 21, 2009

    In 1994, Kansas City-born Lee McBee recorded 44 on the local label Red Hot. Begun as a side project with a backup band called the Passions (later to become the Confessors), 44...

23. Night & Day

    HONORING THE FALLEN

    By Brent Shepherd

    Published: May 21, 2009

    What better place, this Memorial Day, than The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial (100 West 26th Street, 816-784-1918) to honor those who made sacrifices for us?...

24. Night & Day

    Dogs Off-Leash, On-Screen

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Sometimes, in the arms of waifish models, tiny dogs get to appear at fashion shows — as accessories. Tonight, however, dogs will own the runway at Penn Valley Off-Leash...

25. Night & Day

    Road Trip

    Published: May 21, 2009

    At the heart of Wichita flows the scenic Arkansas River and along it are the "Museums on the River." Comprised of Botanica, The Wichita Gardens, Exploration Place, Mid-America...

26. Night & Day

    Hot Looks for the Summer

    Published: May 21, 2009

    The shops of Independence Center are putting on a summer fashion show. Active wear, beach styles and formal/party looks for all ages will be featured. Sat., May 23, 2...

27. Night & Day

    Social Alarm

    By Chris Packham

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Leonard Zeskind's vigilance over the past three decades has produced a comprehensive picture of the shifting tides of the U.S. white-supremacy movement and anti-Semitism...

28. Night & Day

    Hannibal's Waldo Bar & Grill

    By Jen Chen

    Published: May 21, 2009

    (7438 Wornall, 816-523-9964). Formerly called Fin's, Hannibal's sports a salmon-colored façade and a garage-door window that takes up almost its entire storefront. Just...

29. Town Without Pity

    Power Switch

    By Scott Wilson

    Published: May 21, 2009

    By now, every child in kindergarten knows that coal-fired power plants spew destructive carbon dioxide into the air. Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson is way older than a...

30. Studies in Crap

    G-mail

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Title: E-mail From God for Teens Author: Claire and Curt Cloninger Publisher: RiverOak Publishing Date: 1999 Discovered at: Goodwill, Olathe The cover promises: Can God craft a...

31. Letters

    Letters from the week
    of May 21

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Feature: "Dead Man," May 14 'Til Death Do They Part Overall, Nadia Pflaum's piece on Dennis Skillicorn was a good presentation of his case and pending execution. Pflaum...

32. Ask a Mexican®

    Mexican pirates? Hell, yes, there are Mexican pirates.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Dear Mexican: My wife and I have an argument going on about pirates. And because you are the source for all things Mexican, I'd thought I'd ask: While I know there were...

33. Interview

    Black Lodgers Ed Rose and Ryan Pope talk about the past and the prospective future of their storied Eudora studio

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 21, 2009

    There's a giant FOR SALE banner hanging on the front of Black Lodge Recording Studio in Eudora, Kansas. If anyone steps up, one of our music scene's defining institutions could...

34. Wayward Son

    In the early '70s, Kansas City was young, high and horny, and everyone went to the Ballroom

    By Jason Harper

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Mother Earth has left the building. On a rainy night, the old hippies are being hustled out the door. It was supposed to be a reunion party for the radicals, scenesters...

35. Bonus Tracks

    First-Annual KKFI Benefit Concert

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Charles Larry, better known to the city's hip-hop denizens as F.L.O., wants to help support radio station KKFI 90.1. Having grown up with Mz. Shai, host of the station's...

36. CD Reviews

    Sons of Great Dane

    Why Ramble?
    (self-released)

    By Grant Snider

    Published: May 21, 2009

    The intersection of alt-country's dusty gravel road and power pop's cherry-blossom-littered boulevard is well-traveled. But no matter how many times you cross it, it's nearly...

37. CD Reviews

    Justin Ripley

    Europeans
    (self-released)

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Every couple of months or so, we get a little care package from Justin Ripley. It isn't filled with cookies or mittens but rather handmade CD-Rs with somewhere between 16 and...

38. Critic's Choice

    Pierced Arrows

    By Matt Erickson

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Pierced Arrows is a phoenix of a band. Fred and Toody Cole's new band, born of the ashes of the long-lasting underground phenom Dead Moon, proves that they haven't quit on each...

39. Critic's Choice

    The Decemberists

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Are the Decemberists too literary, too melodramatic, too grandiloquent, too anachronistic for their own good, as their detractors suggest? That depends on what "too" means....

40. Critic's Choice

    They Might Be Giants

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 21, 2009

    The world could stand to be in love again, and the ocean levels are damn sure rising up, so here's to revisiting Flood, They Might Be Giants' brand-new record of 1990, that...