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21. Night & Day

    Kacico Dance Lessons

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Kacico Dance offers weekly professional level dance classes for experienced dancers in ballet, modern, improvisation, contact improvisation, and strength training. Call for...

22. Night & Day

    Walk the Walk

    By Penny LaRocque

    Published: January 17, 2008

    According to the World Health Organization, 33 million people worldwide live with HIV and AIDS. Closer to home, approximately 4,500 people in the Kansas City area have the...

23. Night & Day

    Uncooked Confidential

    By Carolyn Szczepanski

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Paul Nison found a way to cure a nasty digestive disease and trim his utility bills at the same time: He stopped cooking. At age 20, this fast-talking New Yorker was diagnosed...

24. Night & Day

    Get a Jay-Oh-Bee

    By Chris Packham

    Published: January 17, 2008

    It's possible to construe the recent layoffs at Kansas City anchor tenants Sprint and Cerner as indicators of a local economy in distress. Counterbalancing the pessimism of...

25. Burnt Ends

    A Tightwad's Timeline

    Here's a plan for your a.m. and p.m., you cheap S.O.B.

    Published: January 17, 2008

    If there's one thing tightwads don't like to do, it's waste time on some hunt for cheap booze that turns into a bar tab. So the Department of Burnt Ends offers up this...

26. Martin

    Armchair Diagnosis

    The behavior of the mayor's wife begs an explanation.

    By David Martin

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Gloria Squitiro is one unconventional first lady. She’s from a strange place — Long Island, the inscrutable East. She teaches natural childbirth. And after helping...

27. Ask a Mexican®

    Driving While Macho

    All types of dudes do it, so there's got to be another reason for Mexican-Americans' high rate of drinking and driving.

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Dear Mexican: The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reports that Mexican-Americans have the highest proportion of DUIs and alcohol-related traffic fatalities of...

28. Letters

    Tax Guardians

    Readers come out strong against the Citadel project.

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Feature: "Your Tax DollarsNot at Work," January 3 Street Education Carolyn Szczepanski's story on the Citadel Plaza project was great in-depth journalism —...

29. Interview

    Need More Pop

    Erik Voeks of Needmore Discs could use a little love for his own music.

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: January 17, 2008

    “Or What” by Erik Voeks (new track) I feel a bit guilty. Erik Voeks has just given me his last copy of Sandbox — an album he released in 1993 on Rockville,...

30. Wayward Son

    Whither BAKC?

    Bands Across Kansas City is putting local bands on the shelves at Best Buy, but who's buying?

    By Jason Harper

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Readers might have noticed a letter in last week's Pitch attacking Bands Across Kansas City. Joe Jacobson of Richmond, Missouri, griped that the company takes money from bands...

31. Bonus Tracks

    MPFree

    The week's best free shares in music downloading

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: January 17, 2008

    A little history for ya: Andy Vihstadt's Download column has been a beloved part of this page since Al Gore invented the Internet. Recently, the Wayward Blog introduced another...

32. Bonus Tracks

    Good Thinking

    The Deep Thinkers got it in their heads to give away their new one for free.

    By Caleb Goellner

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Deep Thinkers, “Get Down” from Reprogram In 2005, the Deep Thinkers had just wrapped up recording their second album and were closing in on a deal when, suddenly,...

33. Critic's Choice

    Mr. Marco's Cocktail Sessions

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Mr. Marco’s V7, “Boogerfunk & the Bear” Holding down a weekly residency requires three key ingredients: talent, a plethora of material, and enough cheap booze...

34. Critic's Choice

    Verses: An MC Battle

    By Jason Harper

    Published: January 17, 2008

    "People will get their feelings hurt." That's what local rapper Vertigone promises about Verses: An MC Battle, which goes on Friday at the Record Bar. A key practice in...

35. Critic's Choice

    Yo La Tengo

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Nearly two decades into its life, Yo La Tengo continues to explore new creative avenues. The Hoboken, New Jersey, trio lived up to the promise of its latest title, I Am Not...

36. Critic's Choice

    The Sour Babies

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Sour Babies, “Momentary Boy” Halcyon sounds are on tap at the Record Bar Sunday night as KC's newest boyfriend-girlfriend singer-songwriter duo, the Sour Babies,...

37. Critic's Choice

    Taint

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: January 17, 2008

    North Lawrence's burgeoning road-hog haven consists of a Harley dealership, a tattoo parlor and the Slow Ride Roadhouse (1350 North Third Street). The spick-and-span Slow Ride...

38. Spin Cycle

    Vibesquad

    By Chris Milbourn

    Published: January 17, 2008

    The latest in a recent line of psychedelic dance acts brought to Lawrence by Cicada Rhythm is Vibesquad, a one-man crunkadelic squadron from Erie, Colorado. Saturday at the...

39. Cafe

    Dining for Dollars

    A cheapskate’s tour of Kansas City restaurants reveals some surprises.

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Many years ago, I was moved by reading actress Shirley MacLaine's account of being a poor young dancer in New York during the 1950s. In order to survive, she was clever at...

40. Film

    California Burning

    An epic gusher, Paul Thomas Anderson’s There Will Be Blood strikes oil, and then some

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: January 17, 2008

    Agreat brooding thundercloud of a movie, There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of barren mesas and hot,...