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1. Feature

   The Year in Film: The Hit List

   The top movies of 2007

   By OUR CRITICS

   Published: December 27, 2007

   It's that time of year again. Our six critics don't often agree, but we've combined their top-10 lists (allowing for ties) to pretend that they do! So without further ado, the...

2. Burnt Ends

   Double-Odd '07

   The Department of Burnt Ends thanks you for making it so easy to find this year funny.

   Published: December 27, 2007

   JANUARY The Wallflower Candidate January 20: Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback announces his campaign for president, promising to out-right-wing everyone else. FEBRUARY Death Is...

3. Night & Day

   Say You Got aResolution

   By Chris Packham

   Published: December 27, 2007

   New Year's Eve inspires not just weirdly soppy Scottish laments about old forgotten acquaintances but also a lot of turgid writing. Un-fun English essayist and fancy lad...

4. Night & Day

   Sounds of Success

   By Nadia Pflaum

   Published: December 27, 2007

   The duo called Tactic had a pretty amazing 2007. Its remixes were featured on the Mad Decent record label, and the two DJs collaborated with local musical phenomena such as the...

5. Night & Day

   Copse and Watchers

   By Caleb Goellner

   Published: December 27, 2007

   From the dawn of humankind, the potent aesthetics of the natural world have served as catalysts for inspired appreciation. This affection comes as varied and complex as nature...

6. Night & Day

   Songs to Chill to

   By Richard Gintowt

   Published: December 27, 2007

   For a dude whose name is synonymous with Hawaiian shirts and parrot hats, Jimmy Buffett has enjoyed a longer hot streak than a volcano. In 2001, he was kicked out of a Miami...

7. Night & Day

   Game Enhancement

   By Richard Gintowt

   Published: December 27, 2007

   When sports get boring, the bored do eggnog bong rips. That's why the University of Kansas men's basketball squad's early season slate of cupcake opponents — such as...

8. Night & Day

   Get Sloppy

   By Nadia Pflaum

   Published: December 27, 2007

   The song playing on DJ Mike DiLeo's MySpace page is called "Bring Enough to Spill Some," which is a pretty sexy philosophy, especially when the "some" in the equation is...

9. Night & Day

   Sparks Flies On

   By Nadia Pflaum

   Published: December 27, 2007

   Usually, the traditional rules for anniversary gift-giving seem very limiting, if not completely boring. (Seriously, the sixth anniversary is "iron and sugar." Is there a cake...

10. Night & Day

    Big-Hearted Crooner

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Let's face it: The holiday season is shit for live music. Local bands go into hibernation, leaving our darling music scene at the mercy of the dreaded...

11. Night & Day

    Candy Cottage Cannibals

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: December 27, 2007

    New York's Metropolitan Opera stages Engelbert Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel at noon today. As part of the Metropolitan Opera: Live in High Definition Series,...

12. Night & Day

    Primal Prints

    By Sarah Smarsh

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Beasts and birds adorn the walls of the Bourgeois Pig (6 East Ninth Street in Lawrence) with Bird + Watchers, an installation of new art by printmakers Patrick Giroux and...

13. Night & Day

    Faith/No Faith

    By Chris Packham

    Published: December 27, 2007

    In an exchange with a reporter from American Atheist magazine in 1987, former President George H.W. Bush said, "I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor...

14. Night & Day

    1924 Main

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: December 27, 2007

    (1924 Main, 816-472-1924). Hit this upscale eatery tonight for a price that's a little more downscale: three courses of such fancy fare as crispy rock shrimp or a panko-crusted...

15. Night & Day

    Big Sky Blue Earth

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: December 27, 2007

    A couple years ago, Paul Malinowski (ex-bassist for Shiner) and Sam Hoskins (ex-drummer for Elevator Division) spent a weekend in Champaign, Illinois, tracking three songs at...

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    Post Party

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: December 27, 2007

    When a good chunk of the money is blown and the sparkling wine is gone, a new party for the New Year will just be springing up. After the ball drops, Jardine's (4536 Main,...

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    Dropping Pins

    By Jen Chen

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Experience a different sort of ball drop tonight at The Legends when Pin-Up Bowl (1859 Village West Parkway) hosts its bowl-a-rama of a New Year's Eve party. Starting at 1...

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    Instrumental Artistry

    By McKay Stangler

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Missouri musicians and artists were practicing their own version of Behind the Music long before VH1 ever made it a franchise. The traditional art of luthiery — the craft...

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    Ballroom Stars

    By Sarah Smarsh

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Now that Dancing With the Stars has sparked a ballroom-dancing renaissance, top-notch dancers are touring the country like the skating pros of the Ice Capades. Kansas City's...

20. Night & Day

    The One That Bit You

    By Chris Packham

    Published: December 27, 2007

    Kansas City culinary mainstay The Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634) is both the cause of and the solution to area hangovers this first bright morn of 2008, opening at 11 a.m....