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21. Letters

    Facing the Music

    We get schooled by a state education official; we also hear from a musician who loves us — and some others who don’t.

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Feature: "The Underdogs ofSoutheast," December 6 Fact Check Peter Rugg's article refers to Southeast High School as a "charter" school. Charter schools in Missouri must...

22. Ask a Mexican®

    On Catholics and Fairies

    As always, our cultures have way more in common than not.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Dear Mexican: I teach in Spanish and English to migrant students (young adults, mostly) who are getting ready to take the GED. We were talking about the concept of fairies the...

23. Interview

    Gaga Man

    Former Doris Henson frontman Matt Dunehoo finds little to cry about in New York.

    By Megan Metzger

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Looking at Babyteardrops.com, you might think the site is some bizarre joke. Clip-art roses and butterflies reminiscent of some mall chick's "tramp stamp," curlicues against a...

24. Buckle Bunny

    A Drum Machine

    C&C Drum Company's Bill Cardwell doesn't just build sweet custom kits. He lets his heart beat, too.

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: December 13, 2007

    In his dusty Gladstone workshop, Bill Cardwell, founder of C&C Drum Company, has a half-finished Christmas present for the girlfriend of someone named Isaac. There's also...

25. Bonus Tracks

    Party of Five

    Five Defy is Kansas City's Best New Talent.

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Like most bands, Kansas City's Five Defy appreciates a little free publicity — even if it's on a past-due electric bill. "We were playing this Earth Day show sponsored...

26. Bonus Tracks

    EEHH?

    Vincent Gallo goes against the grain with RRIICCEE.

    By Jon Solomon

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Years before he was a filmmaker, Vincent Gallo was into music. He joined his first band at age 9, and by 16, he'd moved from Buffalo to New York City, where he played in Gray,...

27. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Professor Murder

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Some things are best in small doses, including synth-laden dance-punk. That may be why Professor Murder sticks to EPs rather than full-length albums. Despite the critical...

28. Critic's Choice

    Namelessnumberheadman

    By Jason Harper

    Published: December 13, 2007

    A humble Kansas City trio of indie-pop engineers, Namelessnumberheadman has never really needed much encouragement or recognition to keep recording awesome songs. Nor does the...

29. Critic's Choice

    Dinosaur Jr.

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: December 13, 2007

    What were the odds? The likelihood of this indie-rock touchstone's original lineup ever reuniting — guitarist and singer J. Mascis, drummer Murph, bassist and singer Lou...

30. Critic's Choice

    Black Cobra

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Using just drums, guitar and a microphone, the two members who make up San Francisco's Black Cobra crank out colossally monolithic riffs that are every bit as punishing as any...

31. Critic's Choice

    Pinback

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 13, 2007

    The commercial success of Modest Mouse may have something to do with the fact that Pinback is finally reaching a smidgen of the adoring audience that it has toiled for a decade...

32. Critic's Choice

    Between the Buried and Me

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Between the Buried and Me's latest release, Colors, flows like a single 65-minute composition, but the group isn't playing the album sequentially during this tour. Instead, the...

33. Spin Cycle

    DJ Cyan

    By Chris Milbourn

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Many DJs wish they had as much creative freedom as DJ Cyan, who spins at Karma every Monday night. She has so much freedom that the bartenders allow her to play avant-garde...

34. Cafe

    Hold the Jokes

    Stix offers entertaining Asian food without the teppanyaki shtick.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: December 13, 2007

    At the end of 2006, I sat down and wrote a list of resolutions. But instead of making it a wish list of the things I hoped I would do this year (eat less, exercise more, pray...

35. Fat Mouth

    Checkout Time

    Chef Marshall Roth felt as if he could never leave the Hotel Phillips.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: December 13, 2007

    It didn't take long for Entertainment Concept Investors, the Cordish Company's restaurant and club division, to lure at least one high-profile chef from a competing downtown...

36. Film

    Will Power

    That old last-man-on-earth setup? It really works.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: December 13, 2007

    There are two momentous performances in the Darwinian horror fable I Am Legend. One is by the movie's star, Will Smith — but more about him in a minute. The other is by...

37. Film

    It's All Relative

    Noah Baumbach sees family for what it is: prickly.

    By JIM RIDLEY

    Published: December 13, 2007

    There are comedies of discomfort, and then there's Margot at the Wedding, Noah Baumbach's scalding follow-up to The Squid and the Whale. An immersion in sibling malice and...

38. Stage

    God Bless 'Em, Every One

    The Barn Players exploit the inevitable tension between art and Christmas Dickens.

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Bear with me a moment as I resuscitate an old horse for one more round of flogging. Mired somewhere between tradition and bad habit, annual productions of The Nutcracker or A...

39. Art

    Worlds Collide

    At the Byron Cohen Gallery, these two strong artists shouldn't be together.

    By Dana Self

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Lawrence Gipe's heady work emerges from propaganda, advertising, commercial and historical photography, newspapers and other ephemera. The Santa Barbara, California, artist...

40. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: December 13, 2007

    Beverly Hills 90210: The Third Season (Paramount) Big Love: The Complete Second Season (HBO) Born Killers (Lionsgate) The Boston Red Sox 2007 World Series Collector's...