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21. Night & Day

    Drink Like It's friday

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Tuesdays are associated with pressing issues, conflict and competition — in the workplace, productivity tends to be high on this second day of the week. However, in...

22. Night & Day

    A Real Battle

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Today's visit from World Wrestling Entertainment's RAW roster promises to be a special time for the ongoing saga of good vs. evil. Last night was the company's pay-per-view...

23. Night & Day

    Let Your Disc Fly

    Published: May 8, 2008

    For a week in 2009, nearly 1,000 disc golfers will descend on Kansas City for the Professional Disc Golf Association's World Championships. Before the discs fly next year,...

24. Night & Day

    Bike and Brains Needed

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Fancy corporate chains and formerly leery suburbanites are reviving downtown Kansas City — or so goes the happy sales pitch since the opening of glitzy Power & Light...

25. Night & Day

    Opera For All

    By — Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Two things to toast at the Folly Theater tonight at the party following the Kansas City Puccini Festival's production of La Rondine: the master's 150th birthday, and the...

26. Night & Day

    Works of Cart

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Wheels are probably the most economical, elegant and enduring development in machinery. Thanks to rotating discs, mankind has the ability to travel quickly, gamble efficiently...

27. Night & Day

    Good Bookish

    Published: May 8, 2008

    In a society where many have had their attention spans bankrupted by instant distractions and cheap thrills, the idea of an event to celebrate literature may conjure images of...

28. Night & Day

    Leave it in Park

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Scenic Cliff Drive, on the bluffs above the Missouri River, is a beautiful stretch of road to vaguely admire through the windshield as you speed through George E. Kessler Park...

29. Night & Day

    Paint by Band Members

    By — Flannery Cashill

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Studying the oil painting "Self With Green Background," one wonders about the artist, painted in shadow, staring out with the hunched shoulders and uneasy gaze of a pervert....

30. Night & Day

    Meat is murder, he wrote

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Even if you're not enamored of your fellow man, it's still possible to feel empathy for animals and celebrities. Without benefit of wrinkly forebrains or sentience, animals are...

31. Night & Day

    Zombie Billy

    Published: May 8, 2008

    What happens to a zombie rock-and-roller when he puts his head on the ground? Why, he gets worms! Hear Nashville freak-folk act Zombie Bazooka Patrol sing all about that and...

32. Night & Day

    Cinematic WTF

    Published: May 8, 2008

    A tuxedoed Gene Kelly, age 68, roller-boogies. In split screen. Then triple-split screen. And then a great gold X swells up and over him, a chintzy computer effect suggesting...

33. Night & Day

    sunday picnic

    Published: May 8, 2008

    The second-annual LGBT Picnic, presented by the Lesbian & Gay Community Center of Kansas City from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., provides a great opportunity for springtime pigging out in...

34. Night & Day

    Third Friday Hit List

    Published: May 8, 2008

    From 6 to 9 tonight, the Urban Culture Project spotlights artists from its Studio Residency Program with three shows and two open studios for Third Friday Art Downtown....

35. Night & Day

    Canadian Pastoral

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Here's a plot we've had enough of: A big city professional hauls off for the hinterlands, where he (or — a very slight possibility — she) is first shocked and then...

36. Feature

    The Shawnee Mission East class of '08 loves its gay homecoming king

    By Jen Chen

    Published: May 8, 2008

    On a cold February night, the Shawnee Mission East gym is packed. It's Senior Night, and the boys' basketball team is taking on the rival Shawnee Mission South Raiders. It's a...

37. Janovy

    Kansas City's Hispanic contractors say H&R Block didn't earn its tax break

    By C.J. Janovy

    Published: May 8, 2008

    City Hall lists Rodriguez Electrical in its official directory of minority- and women-owned construction companies certified to do business with the city. The address for...

38. Burnt Ends

    Kansas Republicans, no longer content fearing Arabs and carbon dating, ask for new ideas

    Published: May 8, 2008

    The Kansas Republican Party is asking for 50 new ideas to redefine the GOP's efforts in the state. It's almost as if Republicans are bored with God, guns and gays. The Kansas...

39. Ask a Mexican®

    News flash: Cops isn't a reliable source for documenting how often Mexicans flee the police

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 8, 2008

    Dear Mexican: In the television show Cops, the white folks pull over and hope that no one finds the concealed syringes. The black folks are pulled over for leaving the scene...

40. Interview

    The Khrusty Brothers bring their weird-ass gospel to the stage

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 8, 2008

    “Sympathy for Jesus” by the Khrusty Brothers, from The Khrusty Brothers (self-released): When the Khrusty Brothers took the stage at the Record Bar a couple of...