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21. Stage Listings

    Stage Capsule Reviews

    Our critic weighs in on local theater.

    By Steve Walker

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Curious George While actor Ry Kincaid plays screen icon James Dean at night at the Westport Coffee House in the June production of Little Bastard, he's making a monkey of...

22. Critic's Choice

    Hella

    Sunday, June 13, at the Jackpot Saloon.

    By Nathan Dinsdale

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Whenever I run into people who say "hella," I've always had an itch to sock them in the jaw with a pipe wrench. You know the people. Everything is hella cool. They always get...

23. Sports/Outdoors

    Get Jiggy

    Break out the kilts.

    By Annie Fischer, Christopher Sebela and Michael Vennard

    Published: June 10, 2004

    SAT 6/12 Coming from a lifetime of competitive judo, Steve Scott's first time at the Scottish Highland Games was a bit of culture shock. "The guy I was up against was standing...

24. Critic's Choice

    Bear vs. Shark

    Monday, June 14, at El Torreon.

    By Nathan Dinsdale

    Published: June 10, 2004

    What would have happened if Jaws had been filmed on Lake Michigan instead of off New England, or if Gentle Ben had been based in Ann Arbor instead of the Everglades? Don't...

25. See/Be Seen

    Little Italy

    Eighteenth Street turns into a catwalk.

    Published: June 10, 2004

    SAT 6/12 As flirty circle skirts and sweet flats adorned with tiny bows skipped down a number of New York City runways not too long ago, we imagined that the models were on...

26. Critic's Choice

    Kansas City MeatFest

    Saturday, June 12, at the Brick.

    By Nathan Dinsdale

    Published: June 10, 2004

    I hear Starship built its city on rock and roll. That's super and all, but even the leathery, anemic bar whores who still request that song need to eat. Which is why we built...

27. Performance

    James Dean

    Was he really a Little Bastard?

    By Michael Vennard and Steve Walker

    Published: June 10, 2004

    6/10-6/12 The fascinating life and grisly death of screen icon James Dean is rich material for writers and actors alike. Most recently, James Franco's uncanny performance as...

28. Critic's Choice

    Aretha Franklin

    Thursday, June 10, at the Crossroads Amphitheatre in Marshall, Missouri.

    By David Cantwell

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Aretha Franklin hasn't released a single within spitting distance of her own standards since "A Rose Is Still a Rose" in 1998 or a better-than-average pop album since Who's...

29. Critic's Choice

    Glass Candy & shattered theatre

    Friday, June 11, at the Replay Lounge.

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Perhaps the only interesting attraction at Science City is its hall of optical illusions, which combines vase-or-face-variety visuals with dizzying, surreal effects that could...

30. Critic's Choice

    Rush

    Sunday, June 13, at Verizon Amphitheater.

    By Geoff Harkness

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Sneering hipsters who think that Rush is a little too gray around the temples to rock obviously haven't kept up with the news. On New Year's Eve, guitarist Alex Lifeson pulled...

31. Critic's Choice

    Tortoise

    Saturday, June 12, at The Granada.

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Not so very long ago, Tortoise was the hottest ticket in post-rock. The Chicago quintet didn't invent the genre -- Slint got there first, then broke up before the hype hit --...

32. Critic's Choice

    The Bellamy Brothers

    Saturday, June 12, at the Mission Cattle Drive.

    By Geoff Harkness

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Howard and David Bellamy are not your average country music shit kickers. As the Bellamy Brothers, they became one of the genre's most revered and successful acts. But the duo...

33. Critic's Choice

    Bela Fleck and the Flecktones

    Monday, June 14, at Liberty Hall.

    By Geoff Harkness

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Word-association test: What comes to mind when you think of banjos? If you said Hee-Haw, Deliverance or The Beverly Hillbillies, you're probably not alone. But music...

34. Spin Cycle

    Chaos Theory v 2.0

    Saturday, June 12, at the Uptown.

    By Nathan Dinsdale

    Published: June 10, 2004

    You've been slacking and you know it. But it's OK. The first step toward recovery is admitting that you have a problem. You acknowledge that your money-maker is bursting at the...

35. Hear & Now

    Karrin Allyson

    Wild for You (Concord)

    By John Kreicbergs

    Published: June 10, 2004

    For former Kansas City jazz chanteuse Karrin Allyson, keeping up with the Norah Joneses can be hard work. Then there are the Kralls, the Connicks and the rest of the...

36. Hear & Now

    Approach

    Ultra Proteus (Coup d'Etat)

    By Geoff Harkness

    Published: June 10, 2004

    When Lawrence indie label Datura issued Approach's Ultra Proteus EP in the fall of 2002, the disc quickly earned rightful status as a local hip-hop classic. By utilizing live...

37. Hear & Now

    Temple of Solitude

    Temple of Solitude (Independent)

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Regular readers of Action Comics will remember the Fortress of Solitude as Superman's home away from home, a remote arctic compound where the Man of Steel could take a break...

38. Hear & Now

    Bockman's Euphio

    Gorjus: Fighting Bockman's Euphio Twelve and Twenty (Totoba)

    By John Kreicbergs

    Published: June 10, 2004

    If you listen close enough, you can hear it. That distinct sucking sound emanating from the jam-band world as Phish exits stage right and the rest of the rabble jockeys to take...

39. Hear & Now

    Lost in the Zoo

    3 (Independent)

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 10, 2004

    A weirder, more self-deprecating sense of humor would serve Lost in the Zoo well. Or maybe a lute player. Or anything off-the-wall. The trio has the cool-guy retro look down...