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21. Night & Day

    Art-School Electronica

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Though generally associated with laptop-generated dance beats, the term "electronic music" also encompasses the far-ranging work of modern composers who incorporate industrial...

22. Night & Day

    Ground Art

    By S.T. Vockrodt

    Published: April 24, 2008

    After about age 12, life presents few opportunities to use chalk. Exceptions: schoolteachers at blackboards and college students using campus sidewalks as an advertising medium...

23. Martin

    A white woman wins a lawsuit after elected officials reveal that they're sensitive to racial diversity

    By David Martin

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Melissa Howard is living the dream. She sued politicians for being politicians — and won. A Platte County jury recently awarded $2.1 million to Howard, a 46-year-old...

24. Update

    Jesse Herd's sentence offers justice for Shorty

    By Justin Kendall

    Published: April 24, 2008

    The whispers are hard to ignore inside the federal courtroom in Kansas City, Kansas. It's Monday, April 21, and in minutes, U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil will determine...

25. Burnt Ends

    The Department of Burnt Ends smokes out some saucy new beers

    Published: April 24, 2008

    If there are two things synonymous with Kansas City, they're booze and barbecue. While the rest of the country sneaked sips at Prohibition-era speak-easies, Kansas Citians...

26. Letters

    Letters for the week of April 24

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Letters, April 10 Smoke This! I'd like to respond to the comment made by Jill W. on the April 17 Letters page. She goes on and on (zzzzz) about complete nonsense...

27. Ask a Mexican®

    The Mexican throws devil horns to the metal vs. emo madness

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Dear Readers: The paperback version of my book is out in stores now, cheap enough so that even a Guatemalan can afford it. And if you pick up this copy of The Pitch early...

28. Interview

    The Raconteurs overcome side-project status with Consolers of the Lonely

    By Austin Powell

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “Rich Kid Blues” by the Raconteurs, from Consolers of the Lonely (Warner Bros.): The one thing I hate is being labeled a side project," moaned Jack White in August...

29. Buckle Bunny

    Gabe Holcombe, founder of Lawrence's Lillerne Tape Club, is addicted to analog

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: April 24, 2008

    At 24, Gabe Holcombe is just old enough to remember when a trip to the music store meant that you came home with cassettes. He's not sure what his first tape was. Maybe...

30. Bonus Tracks

    Electronic duo Fuck Buttons discusses its recent acts of Horrrsing around

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “Sweet Love for Planet Earth,” by Fuck Buttons, from Street Horrrsing (ATP): Englishmen Andrew Hung and Benjamin John Power aren't noise-rockers in the...

31. Bonus Tracks

    The Decemberists' Colin Meloy tries his hand at American Soul

    By DARRYL SMYERS

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “We Both Go Down Together” by Colin Meloy, from Colin Meloy Sings Live! (Kill Rock Stars): Colin Meloy, the Anglophilic frontman for indie rock darlings the...

32. Bonus Tracks

    Download: the Rosebuds

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: April 24, 2008

    A year after its release, the Rosebuds' third LP is getting an overhaul. Sweet Beats, Troubled Sleep (Night of the Furies Remixed) includes revisions from the likes of Bon...

33. Critic's Choice

    Casiotone for the Painfully Alone

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “Lonesome New Mexican Nights” by Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, (Stationary Heart Recordings 7-inch): Chicagoan Owen Ashworth is a lo-fi kingpin of sorts,...

34. Critic's Choice

    Popa Chubby

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Though the Bronx ain't exactly the next Delta, Popa Chubby has certainly put the place on the blues map. Equal parts Willie Dixon and Jimi Hendrix, Chubby (whose real name is...

35. Critic's Choice

    Harptallica

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Harptallica, from Harptallica: A Tribute (self-released): Few metal bands have had their catalog revisited quite as often as Metallica....

36. Critic's Choice

    The Roseline

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 24, 2008

    “Lust for Luster” by the Roseline, from Lust for Luster (self-released): Over the past two years, the Roseline has quietly become one of the best live acts in the...

37. Cafe

    At Paradise India, one intuitively knows to just start eating

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Idon't know about you, but I'm a lot more excited about Indian cuisine since I discovered that actress Jennifer Love Hewitt, the Modigliani-faced star of the TV series Ghost...

38. Fat Mouth

    Finally, the time has come for a bite of the deep-fried weenie

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 24, 2008

    Last week, I was goaded by Ellen Schenk, the co-host of KMBZ 980's Morning News program, to actually eat a unique delicacy that I had been talking about — in this column...

39. Film

    Boarding Gate

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: April 24, 2008

    There's basically only one reason to see Olivier Assayas's meta-sleazy, self-consciously hypermodern, English-French-Chinese-language globo-thriller, Boarding Gate, and her...

40. Film

    Baby Mama

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 24, 2008

    I've seen this episode of Baby Mama before, sometime in January 2007, when it was titled "The Baby Show" and aired on the other prime-time series starring Tina Fey, 30 Rock....