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1. Feature

   A Bad Trip

   Rebecca Beach didn’t kill the drug dealer from Topeka. But she’s in prison for life because Kansas’ felony murder law says she did.

   By Allie Johnson

   Published: June 10, 2004

   Rebecca Beach had bad taste in men -- and Jose Arevalo was no exception. Sweet-talking, brown-eyed and slender, he had a nice smile and he paid attention to her, which was...

2. Interview

   Vital Organ

   Sam Beckett uses music to make the K special for suffering Royals fans.

   By Alan Scherstuhl

   Published: June 10, 2004

   Sam Beckett plays the organ at Kauffman Stadium. Nine innings a game. Eighty (or so) games a year. "Charge" and the Mexican hat dance and a little bit of Usher. When...

3. Cafe

   Cha Cha Vivace

   The River Market's newest hot spot lives up to its name.

   By Charles Ferruzza

   Published: June 10, 2004

   One of my elderly uncles once confessed to me that when he was a young soldier, right before he was shipped off to Europe during World War II, he and a couple of other privates...

4. Film

   A Good Buzz

   Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes.

   By Robert Wilonsky

   Published: June 10, 2004

   The first time through, you might dismiss Coffee and Cigarettes as a filmmaker's recess, playtime before the serious business of making a real feature. Jim Jarmusch never...

5. Night & Day

   Yes! Oh Yes!

   By C.J. Janovy

   Published: June 10, 2004

   In 1933, U.S. District Judge John M. Woolsey ruled that James Joyce's Ulysses wasn't obscene. He actually read it and didn't "detect anywhere the leer of the sensualist."...

6. Art

   Mmm, Tasty

   Dana Schutz's mean girls, breeders and self-eaters invade Johnson County.

   By Theresa Bembnister

   Published: June 10, 2004

   This past winter, New York City-based Dana Schutz put up a show in Paris called Self Eaters and the People Who Love Them. In the paintings, women ate their own limbs so they...

7. State Lines

   Dial M for the Mob

   A phone company chief operates dangerously close to a crime ring.

   By David Martin

   Published: June 10, 2004

   Kenneth Matzdorff, the president of Cass County Telephone, mingles easily among the locals at Pat's Family Restaurant in Peculiar, where CassTel is based. "He comes down and...

8. Interview

   Let There Be Darkness

   Metalheads are torn over the Brit rock sensation. And their problem is?

   By Jason Bracelin

   Published: June 10, 2004

   It's so easy to laugh at metalheads because it's so hard for us metalheads to laugh at ourselves. You'd think a genre that came of age in a codpiece, that once rocked bangs...

9. Fat Mouth

   Lights Out

   Perhaps a few more hotel dining rooms should be put to bed.

   By Charles Ferruzza

   Published: June 10, 2004

   There was already a "closed" sign hanging on the door to Remington's, the badly aging steakhouse inside the equally drab Adam's Mark Hotel (9103 East 39th Street) on May 28,...

10. Film

    Fitting the Bill

    Murray makes Garfield more than a bad cat movie.

    By Luke Y. Thompson

    Published: June 10, 2004

    You're a much-loved comedian who just did a low-budget, multi-award-winning film with an acclaimed up-and-coming director. In recent years, thanks in part to your work with the...

11. Night & Day

    Night & Day Events

    Week of June 10, 2004

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Thursday, June 10 Jim Harrison is the good-old-boy author of the novella Legends of the Fall, which was turned into a film of the same name starring Brad Pitt as the...

12. Stage

    Wonder Woman

    One man's obsession with a classic film becomes a manic romp.

    By Steve Walker

    Published: June 10, 2004

    When Late Night Theatre veteran and pop-culture obsessive Philip blue owl Hooser first saw the 1939 film The Women, he fell in love. Among the swoonworthy cast: a wisecracking...

13. Kansas City Strip

    Unholy Roller

    The Lenexa Christian Center's youth pastor sounds pretty unchristian to us.

    As told to Tony Ortega

    Published: June 10, 2004

    This pious porterhouse always gets a spiritual kick out of the liberal weenies at The Kansas City Star. Whether it's pointy-headed Bill Tammeus in Saturday's Faith section or...

14. Night Ranger

    Brew Ha Ha

    Night Ranger goes north and encounters a motley brew.

    By Jen Chen

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Kansas City needs more outdoor festivals. Sure, we get art fairs galore, but we're thinking less artsy and more fartsy, with blocks of food booths, live music and, of course, a...

15. Prairie Dogg

    Voter Rapathy

    Local hip-hoppers try to rap the vote, with mixed results.

    By Nathan Dinsdale

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Gandhi had an indomitable spirit. Martin Luther King Jr. had steely resolve. Mother Teresa had otherworldly compassion. And C.E.S. Cru? With what divine gift -- nay, calling...

16. Night & Day

    Class Reunion

    Thomas Frank tries to free the Free State's mind.

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: June 10, 2004

    This explains a lot: The desk at which Thomas Frank wrote What's the Matter With Kansas? sits beneath a map of Johnson County and a print of John Stuart Curry's mural of madman...

17. Art Capsules

    Art Capsule Reviews

    Our critics recommend these shows.

    By Theresa Bembnister and Gina Kaufmann

    Published: June 10, 2004

    The African Art Experience It isn't often that Kansas City audiences have a chance to see a collection of non-Western art as diverse as the one on display at the Belger Arts...

18. Letters

    Train Wreck

    Letters from the week of June 10, 2004.

    Published: June 10, 2004

    Off track: As a native Kansas Citian, I commend the Pitch on its honest and realistic coverage of the trouble with Union Station (C.J. Janovy's "Move Over, Mary," May 20; Tony...

19. Dig It

    Ginger Spice

    The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on Ron Jeremy, SARS and the Fonz with Ginger of the Wildhearts.

    By Nathan Dinsdale

    Published: June 10, 2004

    G: Where did you say you're from? PD: Kansas City. You know, barbecue, Dorothy ... Oh, that's right. "Carry on Wayward Son" and all that. That's us. Why are you in the...

20. Urban Experience

    Surf's Up

    You're in friendly waters at Telephonebooth.

    By Annie Fischer and Michael Vennard

    Published: June 10, 2004

    6/10-6/12 According to the theory of localism, surfers indigenous to an area (locals) or relocated to an area for a sufficient amount of time (transplants) have the right to...