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41. Critic's Choice

    Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction

    By Chris Parker

    Published: May 21, 2009

    It has been at least two decades since Nine Inch Nails and Jane's Addiction burst on the scene, inflaming imaginations with their decadent, hard-edged sound. The flame still...

42. Cafe

    A move and a modernization only improve Accurso’s

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Last week, I watched a bulldozer smooth over the surface of the northwest corner of 51st Street and Main. A red-brick building that had stood there was obliterated after...

43. Film

    Terminator: Salvation

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Both warnings and advertisements, the Terminator films are technophobic teases, selling tickets by promising the decade's model of killing machine: the classic V8 1984...

44. Film

    Cowtown Ballroom ...
    Sweet Jesus!

    By Jason Harper

    Published: May 21, 2009

    From 1971 to 1974, Midwestern youth, mind-altering rock, and THC-enhanced blues and country found a home inside KC's Cowtown Ballroom at 31st Street and Gillham. Some of...

45. Film

    Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Wide-eyed kids attended by their pouchy-eyed parents will have few complaints about Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; all you people in between and beyond could...

46. Film

    Sin Nombre

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Before setting pen to paper, Sin Nombre writer-director Cary Fukunaga purportedly rode the rails in the company of real illegal immigrants traveling from Mexico to the United...

47. Stage

    MET’s Kiss of the Spider Woman can’t quite escape its confines

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre's courageous production of Terrence McNally's Kiss of the Spider Woman (music by John Kander and lyrics by Fred Ebbs) isn't quite what I would...

48. Art

    From the shadows of polarized ink to a friendly card game at the KC Artists Coalition

    By Dana Self

    Published: May 21, 2009

    Janet Simpson, director of the Kansas City Artists Coalition, has been supporting Kansas City artists for 20 years with humility and diligence, often far from the public's...