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21. Night & Day

    Addonizio's Verse

    By Chris Packham

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Families like this don't exist, do they? Writers J.D. Salinger, David Foster Wallace and filmmaker Wes Anderson tell stories about remarkable families whose individual members...

22. Martin

    The Dance

    The company that's bringing us an entertainment district pulls some tricky moves.

    By David Martin

    Published: November 22, 2007

    We've given them land. We've given them money. We've given them patience. Now I'm prepared to give them a colum­nist in a tutu. I speak of Cordish, the East Coast company...

23. Burnt Ends

    Bare Biker Gets Busted

    It's not clear why the cops brought him down, but it may have been a bike seat infraction.

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Every month, hundreds of art enthusiasts flood the Crossroads Arts District for First Friday gallery shows and street performances. This month, they were treated to a different...

24. Burnt Ends

    Doc Gets Sick Over His Own Ad

    Who knew his anti-coal plant ads were actually paid for by a gas company?

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Dr. Steve Simpson is probably one of Lawrence's more progressive pulmonary physicians. He's concerned about the planet's future and the exhausting of natural fuels such as oil...

25. Letters

    Letters from the week of November 22

    Bike riders — and the KC drivers who wish they'd get off the roads — make some noise.

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Feature: "Uneasy Riders," November 8 If It Bleeds... Hopefully, Carolyn Szczepanski's article "Uneasy Riders" serves as a wake-up call to motorists in KC. As one of the...

26. Ask a Mexican®

    Nice Headlights!

    What kind of TV watcher seriously wonders why car commercials feature babes?

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Dear Mexican: What's the deal with Spanish-language car-dealership commercials that feature bikini-clad porn-star wannabes copulating with used cars? I just saw one in which...

27. Interview

    PB&J

    Peter, Björn and John put the sweet into Sweden.

    By Keegan Hamilton

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Flip to the entry for Sweden in the encyclopedia, and the description sounds almost utopian: phenomenal public schools, impossibly low crime rates and a universal health-care...

28. Buckle Bunny

    Ladies’ Night

    A local showcase at the Hurricane brings out four female-fronted bands.

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: November 22, 2007

    The problem with a lot of events and magazine spreads devoted to Women Who Rock! is the underlying prejudice that a woman rocking is somehow novel. There's no question that...

29. Bonus Tracks

    Boy Blue

    DJ Mike Relm introduces middle America to Turntablism while opening for the Blue Man Group.

    By Ben Westhoff

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Mike Relm, a nerdy-looking Asian guy who wears a suit and tie while he spins, is introducing turntablism to legions of middle-American families. The San Franciscan opens for...

30. Critic's Choice

    YIP-YIP

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Hard-touring Florida duo Yip-Yip — Jason Temple and Brian Esser — plays outsider electronic music that would have sounded right at home on a Revenge of the Nerds...

31. Spin Cycle

    Le Castle Vania

    By Chris Milbourn

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Many in the electronic-music community think that most of their numbers came into electronic music from a hip-hop angle. But if you took a poll, you would probably find that...

32. Bonus Tracks

    Golden Gobblers

    This music year saw a lot of birds. These Here are the Turkeys.

    By Michael Alan Goldberg

    Published: November 22, 2007

    In honor of Thanksgiving, we bring you some of 2007's top turkeys: Folks who — either by fate or their own dumb actions — have earned our scorn, pity or both this...

33. Critic's Choice

    Cattle Decapitation

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Topping Rolling Stone's recent list of the 20 most gruesome band names, Cattle Decapitation, with its decadelong streak of bludgeoning, gore-obsessed metal, fits its branding....

34. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Published: November 22, 2007

    The new one from Hot Chip doesn't hit stores until next year, but thankfully the London act is throwing its fans a bone. Put that secondary e-mail address to good use and sign...

35. Critic's Choice

    Go Kart

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: November 22, 2007

    These days, Larry Groce and Brad Gaddy kick out new-wave jams with their in-demand cover band, the Zeros. But long before they ever pulled in four figures per gig, Groce and...

36. Cafe

    The Naked and the Fed

    A reproduction of Botticelli's unashamed Venus watches over diners at Café Verona.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: November 22, 2007

    In 15th-century Florence, wealthy Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici was a patron of the arts who commissioned the painter Sandro Botticelli to paint "The Birth of Venus,"...

37. Film

    One of Us Must Know

    The elusive Bob Dylan is masterfully considered in I'm Not There.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Something about that movie, though, well I just can't get it out of my head/But I can't remember why I was in it or what part I was supposed to play.— Bob Dylan,...

38. Film

    Badlands

    The Coen brothers transcend themselves with No Country for Old Men.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Hold still" — it's what the hunters say to the hunted in Joel and Ethan Coen's No Country for Old Men. The first time we hear the words, they're spoken by out-of-work...

39. Stage

    Jolly Young Elves

    Adults pack The Coterie hoping for a glimpse of Harry Connick Jr., but it's the little ones who put glitter in his music and lyrics.

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: November 22, 2007

    The kids are thronged on the floor, their little legs folded up in what my DeSoto elementary teachers used to call "Indian style," and the grown-ups whisper excitedly about...

40. Art

    They Play Well With Others

    This year's Charlotte Street Foundation Award winners are strikingly different from one another — but they put on a good show.

    By Dana Self

    Published: November 22, 2007

    Thoroughly different, the engaging four artists who won prestigious Charlotte Street Foundation Awards this year have their works combined to excellent effect in a group...