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21. Janovy

    Merry Blue Christmas

    If the season doesn't seem Hallmark-perfect, here's proof that you're not alone.

    By C.J. Janovy

    Published: December 20, 2007

    “Silent the Night” by Tom Hall with the Voices of Vision: The man is alone on Christmas Eve. A window glows in the house across the street. He can hear somebody...

22. Burnt Ends

    Grinched

    Here’s a lineup of those who have found themselves on the receiving end of a Grinch this holiday season.

    Published: December 20, 2007

    The trees are trimmed, the cash registers are ringing and rosy-cheeked people are counting their blessings as they head into a new year — or so the commercials suggest....

23. Ask a Mexican®

    Tyranny of the Bourgeoisie

    The Mexican weighs in on Latin American elites and gallery-going assimilated Mexicans.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Dear Mexican: U.S. citizens are sick and tired that, for more than 40 years, Latin American elites have lived like monarchs because they pimp their poor to American businesses...

24. Bonus Tracks

    Maw Knows Best

    Lawrence band introduces its holiday mix of death and destruction.

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 20, 2007

    The mix tape or CD has been an immaculately conceived Christmas gift for ages. Unfortunately, maudlin holiday cuts by the likes of Sufjan Stevens and Bright Eyes place the...

25. Bonus Tracks

    Pure Energy

    The Kinetiks make Music History.

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 20, 2007

    A generation before Spencer Goertz-Giffen came of age in the tiny Kansas town of Goessel, dancing was taboo. But when the floodgates opened and the Mennonite village in which...

26. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Bob Mould

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: December 20, 2007

    If you still own a copy of Sugar's Copper Blue (1992), its cobalt-tinted jewel case probably stands out like a sore thumb in your collection, beckoning you to remember...

27. CD Reviews

    The Pedaljets

    The Pedaljets (OxBlood)

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: December 20, 2007

    In a bittersweet, almost mythical case of bad timing, when widespread recognition came calling for the Pedaljets in 1990, few people realized that the cele­brated KC...

28. CD Reviews

    ID

    Avatar Hotel (Self-released)

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Isaac Diehl (ID) isn't afraid to take chances — not with his delivery as an MC and not with the musicians with whom he surrounds himself. Along with past...

29. Critic's Choice

    Bacon Shoe

    By Jason Harper

    Published: December 20, 2007

    In Bacon Shoe's ideal world, unicorns would cum gravy and prostitutes would lick it up. Moreover, this Kansas City freak-hop group would have its own label, an Adult Swim...

30. Critic's Choice

    Boston and AC/DC Tribute

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Bill Bishop still recalls the first time he felt "More Than a Feeling" under the influence of potent party favors. "Never before then or since then ... has anything ever...

31. Critic's Choice

    The Incredible Heat Machine

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 20, 2007

    When Darkuary's doldrums sap the life out of otherwise lively bodies, a good ska show can be just what the doctor ordered. The Incredible Heat Machine is one such catalyst,...

32. Critic's Choice

    The Dylan Paul Band

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: December 20, 2007

    You gotta hand it to anybody — especially a white teenager from Lawrence — who has the nerve to even try to channel Stevie Wonder. But because he sounds so earnest,...

33. Spin Cycle

    Winter Wonderland II

    By Chris Milbourn

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Around here, it's been a long time since a memorable party has been revisited with a sequel. Rehashing this old tactic of rave promoters is one Mr. Nuro, with his Winter...

34. Cafe

    A Bit Prickly

    The new Cactus Grill in Prairie Village has its sharp moments.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: December 20, 2007

    One of my shortest restaurant jobs was at a Mexican joint back in the 1970s. I was fired after working there barely a week. Not for the usual reasons (bad attitude, skipping...

35. Fat Mouth

    Chicken Lickin'

    The wait for Stroud's and the long absence of K.T. Fryers keep anxieties sizzling.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: December 20, 2007

    I've been hearing a lot of clucking about the city's fried-chicken restaurants. A friend of mine applied for a job as a waitress at the long-awaited new Stroud's...

36. Film

    Director's Cut

    Tim Burton makes a gorgeously gruesome Sweeney Todd.

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Here's the thing: Tim Burton has pulled it off. Nearing the end of an uncommonly strong year for American movies, he has taken a hallowed classic of the modern musical...

37. Film

    Good-Time Charlie

    All aboard Mike Nichols' fast, funny time machine.

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Hell of a thing, getting Mike Nichols to adapt the yer-kiddin'-me story of Charlie Wilson, the congressman from Lufkin, Texas, who damned near single-handedly helped the...

38. Film

    Savage Love

    Testing the limits of familial bonds, one nursing-home application at a time.

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: December 20, 2007

    It's hard to imagine a more potent test of family solidarity than the decision-making process regarding what to do with a sick and helpless relative. When it comes to...

39. Art

    Look Closer

    Filmmaker Jon Scott Anderson fools with Mother Nature.

    By DANA SELF

    Published: December 20, 2007

    Two centuries ago, English poet William Wordsworth lamented that, in our petty pursuit of material gain, the natural world's beauty was too often lost to us. Though Kansas...

40. What Else Is New?

    Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

    Published: December 20, 2007

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume Two — The War Years (Paramount) Alien Apocalypse (Anchor Bay) Balls of Fury (Universal) Black Moon Rising (Anchor...