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1. Feature

   Buried Truth

   Up at the airport, under what's slated to be a private racetrack, no one's resting in peace.

   By Nadia Pflaum

   Published: November 15, 2007

   It has been light for only an hour, but the Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel is open for business. In the back of the Cleaver II Boulevard complex, two new coffins, still...

2. Night & Day

   Sweat Lodge Ceremony

   Published: November 15, 2007

   Release the illusions of this physical world through this ancient, indigenous ceremony connected to the Lakota Native American Inipi (sweat lodge) Ceremony. Embrace the Oneness...

3. Night & Day

   Sammy Hagar

   Published: November 15, 2007

   Sammy Hagar is persistently unable to maintain a driving speed below that of the posted speed limit. Fri., Nov. 16, 8 p.m., 2007

4. Night & Day

   The Plaza's Season of Lights

   Published: November 15, 2007

   It's like an extremely undramatic fireworks display! But it's our holiday tradition, and we love it. Nov. 22-Jan. 13, 2007

5. Night & Day

   Wild Turkey Day

   By Megan Metzger

   Published: November 15, 2007

   Before you whip out the sweatpants and prop your turkey-stuffed self in front of the TV, spend the morning in your shiniest duds getting crunked and getting down to some live...

6. Janovy

   A City That Works?

   A painful summer has passed, but tough problems remain.

   By C.J. Janovy

   Published: November 15, 2007

   If anyone wanted a piece of Mayor Mark Funkhouser, this was the perfect chance. It was midday on October 31, and the banquet hall at the Argosy Casino was packed with 250...

7. Burnt Ends

   Bye Bye, Buffalo

   Slap these plates on the back of your ride.

   Published: November 15, 2007

   Kansas' buffalo license plates are on the endangered list. And instead of hiring six-figure consultants to design new personalized plates, to be unveiled in 2010, the state is...

8. Letters

   Porn Again

   To each porn lover, his own.

   Published: November 15, 2007

   Feature: "Sex Police," October 25 Free Willy I just finished readin' "Sex Police," and I got a few things to say. To start with, who do these people think they are? I...

9. Ask a Mexican®

   Sick Society

   Here's a check on all of those hospitals that have supposedly closed, overwhelmed by illegals without health insurance.

   By Gustavo Arellano

   Published: November 15, 2007

   Dear Mexican: Is Lou Dobbs right when he says that close to 80 hospitals in California have been closed down because of the illegals, or is he lying? Cabrónes No...

10. Interview

    Black Hole Solar Panel

    Environmentalism is not superunknown to Chris Cornell.

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: November 15, 2007

    "Habits control people more than people control habits," Chris Cornell says. The environmentally aware former Soundgarden leader is talking about how hard it is for people to...

11. Wayward Son

    Shorty Knows Best

    The year's best scene-boosting hip-hop mix comes from an unlikely source: commercial radio station KCHZ 95.7, the Vibe.

    By Jason Harper

    Published: November 15, 2007

    "Handles" by Approach, feat. DJ Sku, produced by Salva, featured onHeat from the Street: If Kansas City radio is a party, and its commercial stations are the DJs, what are...

12. Bonus Tracks

    Analog Roam

    Eric Bachmann turns a taste for wanderlust into classic singer-songwriter gold.

    By Jason Harper

    Published: November 15, 2007

    “Man O’ War” by Eric Bachmann, from To the Races (Saddle Creek) Tall, bearded and bear-throated, Eric Bachmann first rose to national attention in the early '90s as the...

13. Bonus Tracks

    Ex Guitaris

    Kansas City's Expassionates take the scenic route.

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: November 15, 2007

    “Nine Lives” by Expassionates: Since 1964 or thereabouts, it's been all too easy to assume that guitars, bass, drums and vocals amount to rock music. The subtler elements of...

14. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Joe Jackson

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Britain's Joe Jackson has been off a lot of people's radar since his "Steppin' Out" days, but the man hasn't been wasting time. Besides crafting variations on his new-wave...

15. Critic's Choice

    Annuals

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: November 15, 2007

    The token phrase indie rock doesn't quite do justice to North Carolina's Annuals, a six-piece band that stirs up a mighty racket akin to My Morning Jacket or Broken Social...

16. Critic's Choice

    Dethklok

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: November 15, 2007

    If Spinal Tap and the Blues Brothers could earn the respect of the genres they parodied, there's no reason Dethklok can't be embraced by the death-metal community. The animated...

17. Critic's Choice

    Sammy Hagar

    By Megan Metzger

    Published: November 15, 2007

    To paraphrase a colleague, Van Halen made history as being the second band to get worse after Sammy Hagar left (Montrose was first to suffer the paradoxical decline). In 1996,...

18. Critic's Choice

    The Lawrence Arms

    By Aaron Ladage

    Published: November 15, 2007

    One would assume that a band called the Lawrence Arms would have at least a little something to do with the free state's finest city, but a quick listen proves that this trio...

19. Spin Cycle

    Open Decks

    By Chris Milbourn

    Published: November 15, 2007

    Local bedroom DJs wondering how to break into the DJ community in Kansas City: You came to the right column. Friday at The Point, resident spinners Mr. Nuro and Bucho are...

20. Cafe

    Malaysian Persuasion

    The Malay Café helps make the Northland an ethnic-dining destination.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: November 15, 2007

    I can't remember which famous New York restaurant critic — Mimi Sheraton or Gael Green? — maintained her anonymity by sometimes wearing costumes to restaurants....