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41. CD Reviews

    Audiovox

    Audiovox EP
    (self-released)

    By Aaron Ladage

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Look, we know you've been eyeing those overpriced, noise-canceling headphones for months now. If you really need an excuse to splurge, the eponymous debut EP from the KC-native...

42. Bonus Tracks

    D/Will

    Battery Effect
    (self-released)

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: June 18, 2009

    North Kansas City, home of rapper and producer Denzel Williams, is a hinterland on the Killa City map. The suburban area — full of car dealerships, well-scrubbed...

43. Critic's Choice

    Bachelorette

    By Jeni Schroff

    Published: June 18, 2009

    In an electronic age, it's always nice to see technology being put to good use. In the case of Bachelorette, leader and sole core band member Annabel Alpers not only has found...

44. Critic's Choice

    Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue

    By Robert Folsom

    Published: June 18, 2009

    There are plenty of reasons to be down these days. The economy. Maybe you've been laid off from your job. That's why Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue can be a salve for...

45. Critic's Choice

    Creature Comforts

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: June 18, 2009

    You wouldn't know from the number of gigs he has booked lately that drummer Billy Brimblecom is moving to Nashville. The last hurrah of the longtime local musician, before...

46. Critic's Choice

    Chomp Womp Soda Fest

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Oh, those crazy Chomp Womp kids with their cartoon drawings, cassette mixtapes and shoegazey sounds. Lawrence's Tennessee Street music collective is bringing the show to the...

47. Cafe

    Café Augusta creates a “new world bistro” in a Lenexa strip mall

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: June 18, 2009

    I don't know Micheline Burger or her daugh­ter, Mijanou Cackler — I've never spoken to them — but if they had come to me with their idea for opening a...

48. Film

    The Girlfriend Experience

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Steven Soderbergh has no particular stylistic signature and one of the most uneven oeuvres imaginable. But he does have interests. In Che, it was the nature of a historical...

49. Film

    Easy Virtue

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Stephan Elliott's deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of Noël Coward's lesser-known jabs at the British upper crust will charm your pants off. The movie opens with...

50. Film

    Lemon Tree

    By Nicolas Rapold

    Published: June 18, 2009

    The border dispute in Lemon Tree feels instantly familiar, and, indeed, Israeli director Eran Riklis' last drama, The Syrian Bride, also hinged on absurdities and indignities....

51. Film

    The Limits of Control

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Jim Jarmusch's anonymous antihero hit man (Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits as the Lone Man, exists only in terms of his unspecified mission. He's...

52. Film

    The Proposal

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Starring Sandra Bullock as the publishing-house boss who blackmails her assistant (played by Ryan Reynolds) into marrying her, lest she face deportation to Canada, this is...

53. Film

    Tulpan

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: June 18, 2009

    The first feature by the Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy and winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Tulpan is a fiction founded on a powerful sense of...

54. Stage

    The Unicorn’s Speech & Debate team has something to say, as do Ron Simonian’s potty-mouthed characters

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: June 18, 2009

    Although we're in the traditional dead weeks of early summer, fresh work is flourishing on Kansas City stages. That's a problem in which to luxuriate. At the Unicorn Theatre,...