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41. CD Reviews

    Joe Stickley's Blue Print

    Smoke Leaves Town
    (Peola Records)

    By Christian Schaeffer

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Hailing from St. Louis, Joe Stickley's Blue Print is a folk-rock band — in that order. The gentle strums of Stickley's acoustic guitar provide the engine for many songs...

42. Critic's Choice

    Charlie Wilson

    By Danny Alexander

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Snoop Dogg knew what he was doing when he reached out to Charlie Wilson for a sam­ple and four guest vocals to enhance Tha Dogg­father, the rapper's 1996 follow-up to...

43. Critic's Choice

    Sugarland

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 28, 2009

    It's no insult to point out that country music radio confectioners Sugarland are about as pop as country comes. That's pop as it used to be: melodically unfussy, equal parts...

44. Critic's Choice

    Hopewell

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Each time Hopewell swings through the Replay Lounge, the tiny venue seems to have a harder time containing it. Few bands bring a show as mammoth as Hopewell's, replete with...

45. Critic's Choice

    Hubert Sumlin

    By Chris Parker

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Hubert Sumlin's brand of the blues creeps in like fog. It moves with a deliberate groove, slowly enveloping you until suddenly you're soaking in it. His guitar playing has an...

46. Critic's Choice

    Rockfest

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: May 28, 2009

    For the fourth year in a row, tickets for this huge all-ages rock festival sponsored by KQRC 98.9 have sold out. Fortunately, plenty of scalpers close to the gates at Penn...

47. Cafe

    Kate's Kitchen is like First Watch, only better

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: May 28, 2009

    This is an embarrassing admission, but it's true: I always wake up on the wrong side of the bed. One of the reasons I'm not much of a breakfast eater is that I'm perpetually...

48. Film

    Up

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: May 28, 2009

    First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who finds his inner child, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, during a series of magical adventures experienced...

49. Film

    The Brothers Bloom

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Writer-director Rian Johnson's movies are clever and soulful confabulations. The filmmaker's screenplays read like novels, and he serves up movies that could play like...

50. Film

    Drag Me to Hell

    By Nick Pinkerton

    Published: May 28, 2009

    Director Sam Raimi defaults to the horror romps that made his name (the Evil Dead trilogy). Playing a bank loan officer, Alison Lohman bears the brunt of this film's...

51. Stage

    After seeing the Rep’s A Flea in Her Ear, the critic is buzzed

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 28, 2009

    At the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's dizzy, lavish A Flea in Her Ear, there's only one problem most audience members might face: They might be glutted. So generous is...