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21. Night & Day

    Pinball Wizard

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Do you find musicals too sissy and operas too stuffy? Then perhaps you can benefit from musical theater's great compromise — the rock opera. Sure, the actors still break...

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    Brothers in flipper arms

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Just as homosexuals reclaimed the word "queer," the performers in the 999 Eyes Authentic Vaudevillian Freak Show are reclaiming the word "freak" and showing the world just how...

23. Night & Day

    Farm Fresh

    By Carolyn Szczepanski

    Published: May 29, 2008

    These days, it's not just the gas pump that's sucking you dry but also the grocery store. One way to save a few bucks is to cut out the corporate middleman. So skip that trip...

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    Mixed bag of designs

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Creative minds are a bit like ants: One of them is a whisper in the wind, but a mass of them could carry you down a hole and eat your brains out, like in that scene in the new...

25. Night & Day

    Dancing Forever

    By McKay Stangler

    Published: May 29, 2008

    When Fred Astaire arrived in Southern California at the dawn of Hollywood's golden age, few were wowed by his singing, acting or even his now-legendary dancing. Nobody...

26. Night & Day

    Dog Day Morning

    By Eric Barton

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Chances are, more important things seem to override your good intentions to work out, like, say, triple-margarita hangovers. But throw in the benefit of tiring out your mutt at...

27. Night & Day

    To Come: Revues by Revue

    By Jen Chen

    Published: May 29, 2008

    At the end of May, Revue Boutique (1415 West 39th Street) closed its doors — kind of. Owner Terry Richardson plans to move a couple of doors over and open a new space...

28. Night & Day

    Umbrella Song

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Thanks to 1971's A Clockwork Orange, a generation of filmgoers can't hear "Singin' in the Rain" without experiencing ultraviolent flashbacks. But if Clockwork survivors can...

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    They Are Real

    By S.T. Vockrodt

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Aside from Ron Paul supporters and professional wrestling fans, it's difficult to imagine a more hardened group of believers than those who accept the idea that...

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    Artistic Ascendance

    By Chris Packham

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Painter Nicole Mauser has been generating warm feelings in the hearts of curators and gallery directors around Kansas City over the past two years, including Kate Hackman of...

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    True Grit

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Here's the true measure of the epochal awfulness of the present administration: There's so much shit flying these days that most folks hardly remember that President Bush...

32. Night & Day

    Crow: Home, kinda, sorta

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: May 29, 2008

    It's a more than six-hour drive to get from Kennett, Missouri (population 11,260), to Kansas City's Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road). Yet it seems likely that a few...

33. Night & Day

    Dog Deals

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: May 29, 2008

    As if the opportunity to play late-night skeeball wasn't enough reason to head to Velvet Dog (400 East 31st Street, 816-753-9990) any night of the week, how about two-for-one...

34. Night & Day

    The Didgeridoo: A Poem for You

    By Chris Packham

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Did you ever do a didgeridoo? Like the indigenous natives of Uluru? That's in Northern Australia, or "Oz" to you! Then meet Phil Shiva Jones, Australian musician; the...

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    Foregone conclusion

    By Chris Rasmussen

    Published: May 29, 2008

    It is extraordinarily difficult to be a Kansas City sports fan this year. The Royals again occupy the American League Central's basement; the Chiefs are dismal; and even Kansas...

36. Night & Day

    Third Eye Open

    By Chris Packham

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Third Eye Productions, a Crossroads-based film- and video-production company, made an immediate effort to fit into the neighborhood when it opened its space at 2024 Main. "We...

37. Art

    The Urban Culture Project’s Studio Program artists show their stuffing

    By Dana Self

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Lee Piechocki's series "I've Been Crazy This Week" is eight postcard-sized drawings done in a faux naïve style. The brightly colored doodles are abstract narratives of...

38. Ask a Mexican®

    Here’s an astute observation about big-truck-lovin’ rural farm workers

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Dear Mexican: I'm from a little Podunk area that relies heavily on labor-intensive agriculture (mostly raising tobacco) and has a lot of Mexican immigrants. I've noticed that...

39. Stage Capsules

    Theater

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: May 29, 2008

    The Drawer Boy The final show in a season of trifles at the Rep, The Drawer Boy has a winning humility and an old-fashioned sense of what a serious theater company owes its...

40. Martin

    While the mayor and the ATA bicker over light rail plans, here’s one that makes sense

    By David Martin

    Published: May 29, 2008

    Automobiles made streetcars disappear from Kansas City in the 1950s. Billions of passenger miles later, we still can't agree on how people can move around in anything that...