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21. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Trent Reznor

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Trent Reznor has been pretty generous since becoming a free agent. In addition to the first disc of his instrumental Ghosts I-IV, he's giving away The Slip (that's halo 27, if...

22. Interview

    Local jazzers Shay Estes and Mark Lowrey band together to give old, new and obscure charts fresh injections

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 22, 2008

    ”Where You At” by Shay Estes and the Mark Lowrey Trio In the jazz world, words such as ensemble and trio are traded far more often than band. Most jazz players are...

23. Buckle Bunny

    Can emo songwriters be funny? Matthew Alvarado thinks so

    By Crystal Wiebe

    Published: May 22, 2008

    “Now Run” by Matt Alvarado (MPF Records): It is supposed to be Warrensburg punk night at the Brick. On the Friday, May 2, menu: the sibling rebel yells of Kosher and...

24. Critics' Choices

    The Queers

    By Matt Sullivan

    Published: May 22, 2008

    “Noodlebrain” by the Queers, from Love Songs for the Retarded (Asian Man Records): The Buzzcocks and the Ramones may have laid the groundwork for pop-punk, but the...

25. Critics' Choices

    Dresden Dolls

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: May 22, 2008

    When a band empties its B-sides vault, it's either fleecing its following with cash-grab ephemera or enjoying a period of prolific creativity. Given the Dresden Dolls' history...

26. Critics' Choices

    Colour Revolt

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: May 22, 2008

    “Naked and Red” by Colour Revolt, from Plunder, Beg and Curse (Fat Possum Records): One gets the impression that Oxford, Mississippi's Colour Revolt really dug the...

27. Critics' Choices

    Head of Femur

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 22, 2008

    “Climbing Up Fire Escapes” by Head of Femur, from Great Plains (East Park Plaza Music): When Saddle Creek Records was blowing up like Furbies, Nebraska's Head of...

28. CD Reviews

    The Republic Tigers

    By Jason Harper

    Published: May 22, 2008

    “Feelin’ the Future” by the Republic Tigers, from Keep Color (Chop Shop Records): Under each song entry in the liner notes to the Republic Tigers' debut...

29. CD Reviews

    The Away Team

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: May 22, 2008

    “Give and Take” by the Away Team, from The Away Team (self-released): The Away Team is actually a hometown squad, featuring the sort of polite young men you can...

30. Cafe

    Raglan Road is a classy, if Disney-fied, new-old Irish saloon

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Raglan Road is a classy, if Disney-fied, new-old Irish saloon. Raglan Road, 170 East 14th Street, 816-994-9700. Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday...

31. Film

    Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: May 22, 2008

    H ere's your hat, Indy, but what's your hurry? Because 19 years after a Last Crusade that clearly wasn't, it's almost unfathomable that this hoary mishmash is the best that...

32. Film

    Box Elder

    By Scott Wilson

    Published: May 22, 2008

    The title, a reference to a loud but harmless insect and also to a Pavement song, stinks. But the movie — an unsophisticated, sometimes too leisurely campus comedy...

33. Art

    The drawings and sketches of arctic explorers at the Linda Hall Library recall a romantic time of adventure

    By Dana Self

    Published: May 22, 2008

    If you want a hot romance, you need look no further than Ice: A Victorian Romance at the Linda Hall Library. William B. Ashworth, the curator, is an associate professor of...

34. Art Capsules

    Art Exhibitions

    By Chris Packham

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Cursive New York artist Creighton Michael's definition of drawing is extremely elastic, encompassing traditional pencil-on-paper imagery, painting and sculpture. Gesture is key...

35. Stage Capsules

    Local Productions

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 22, 2008

    Perfect Wedding It's a farce, so that title is a joke on just how over-the-top imperfect things are going to get, but it's at the American Heartland, so it's also a promise. No...

36. Stage

    The Kansas City Repertory Theatre finishes its season with its most affecting act in years

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 22, 2008

    It could be easy to make too much of The Drawer Boy. It's certainly the Kansas City Repertory Theatre's most affecting, involving production since Jitney, almost two years...