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21. Night & Day

    Norway's Favorite Daughter

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Eleven years later, it's about as uncool to admit enjoying Celine Dion's "My Heart Will Go On" as it is to say the movie that made it famous is your favorite. But not...

22. Web Exclusive

    MoDOT Tosses Cyclists Over the Handlebars

    By Carolyn Szczepanski

    Published: April 17, 2008

    It looked good recently for a proposed law in Missouri that would make roads safer for cyclists. But then the Missouri Department of Transportation threw up a the state capitol...

23. Ask a Mexican®

    Actually, you're lucky you get to press 1 for English

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Dear Mexican: Our customer-service department uses a phone-tree system that asks all callers to press 1 for English, 2 for Spanish or a few other numbers for commonly spoken...

24. Burnt Ends

    Tip your Styrofoam cups in celebration of our Anti-Earth Day Awards

    Published: April 17, 2008

    These days, everybody wants to be green. Environmental boutiques are sprouting up across Kansas City, and Toyota Priuses roam the streets like the buffalo that once grazed the...

25. Letters

    Letters for the week of April 17

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Martin, "Who's That Girl," April 3 Link Not I am somewhat amazed at David Martin's column linking Molly Williams to Chris Koster with no further evidence than that she...

26. Interview

    Holsey Turner, aka Hozey-T, is Kansas City's newest unknown rapper on the rise

    By Nadia Pflaum

    Published: April 17, 2008

    “Rise” by Hozey-T: It never hurts to be the new guy. You know the appeal — he walks in out of nowhere and steals all the attention. That's how it was when a...

27. Wayward Son

    Devin Blair explores his inner Journeyman on a lo-fi '60s psychedelic trip to see the Wizards

    By Jason Harper

    Published: April 17, 2008

    “The Journeyman” by Devil Blare, from The Journeyman (Murder in the Living Room Records): A thick, nasty, cold, piss-ass drizzle is coming down over Community...

28. Bonus Tracks

    A soccer mom looks back on a life of loving Bon Jovi

    By Robert Bishop

    Published: April 17, 2008

    She sits at the kitchen table of her house in the suburbs, staring into a glass of chardonnay on this overcast Tuesday afternoon. "It's my life," the not-quite-40-year-old...

29. Bonus Tracks

    Kansas City Rockers Paper Cities will melt your little house of cards

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Persons driving past Mike's Tavern on Troost at approximately 2 a.m. last Halloween witnessed two dudes in powder-blue leisure suits brawling with an inebriated, masked...

30. Bonus Tracks

    Download: Tokyo Police Club

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Tokyo Police Club's Elephant Shell joins the ranks of highly anticipated release dates marred by early leaks, so Saddle Creek Records decided to up the ante. The Canadian...

31. CD Reviews

    Hopeless Destroyers

    13% More Punk!
    (Self-released)

    By Flannery Cashill

    Published: April 17, 2008

    “Trouble” by the Hopeless Destroyers, from Now With 13% More Punk! (self-released): The Hopeless Destroyers don't waste time. Their newest EP, all 11 minutes of it,...

32. CD Reviews

    The Wilders

    Someone's Got to Pay
    (Free Dirt Records)

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 17, 2008

    “Happy That Way” by the Wilders, from Someone’s Got to Pay (Free Dirt Records): For a red-hot decade, Kansas City's the Wilders have been walking the line...

33. Critic's Choice

    Common

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 17, 2008

    “Thelonius” by Common, from Like Water for Chocolate (MCA Records): Rare is the rapper who can maintain his musical edge while moonlighting as an actor. Then...

34. Critic's Choice

    Daughtry

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: April 17, 2008

    In North Carolina's Chris Daughtry, America has finally found a new-century rock hero it can believe in: an affable, chrome-domed underdog whose 2006, self-titled debut went...

35. Critic's Choice

    The Cops

    By Jason Harper

    Published: April 17, 2008

    “Terribly Empty Pockets” by the Cops, from Free Electricity (The Control Group and Mt. Fuji Records): One can imagine this band's genesis: "Hey, guys," one of them...

36. Critic's Choice

    Outhouse

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Taking its name from the infamous punk-rock dive on the edge of Lawrence, Outhouse was one of Kansas City's picks to click in the postgrunge era. The band hooked up with...

37. Cafe

    At Happy Gillis Café & Hangout, a neighborhood gathering place returns to form

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 17, 2008

    A couple of months ago, Todd Schulte and his wife, Tracy Zinn, took over the old Gillis Sundries space at the corner of Gillis and Pacific in the historic Columbus Park...

38. Fat Mouth

    Few lament the passing of Cheesehead when there are so many other options

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 17, 2008

    A couple of people called last week to tell me that Cheesehead Homemade Gourmet Grilled Cheese Sandwiches at 16th Street and Grand had closed. I walked by the joint, and that...

39. Film

    Forgetting Sarah Marshall

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Jason Segel is responsible for two of the most cringe-inducing, hands-in-front-of-your-face moments in the recent history of television, both of which occurred during the sole...

40. Film

    88 Minutes

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: April 17, 2008

    Jon Avnet's cheesy new thriller is 105 minutes long, and I feared that 100 of them would be eaten up by Al Pacino chewing scenery. Alas, it's worse than that. Pacino again goes...