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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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."...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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