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21. Cafe

    Screw Zagat. Vita Totta’s namesake joint earns retro respect

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Eleven years ago, a Zagat Survey of Kansas City restaurants was quite generous: It listed mini-reviews of 419 local dining establishments. The 2000 version was much fussier,...

22. Fat Mouth

    A eulogy for the one-of-a-kind Shifra Stein

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: June 5, 2008

    I used to call Shifra Stein my "foul-weather friend." Unlike the fair-weather type, who never seem to be around or helpful when times are tough, Shifra was the perfect person...

23. Film

    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Behold Adam Sandler, in a passable Israeli accent and outsized codpiece, as a super-heavy named Zohan the Mossad. He catches barbecued fish in his butt crack on a Tel Aviv...

24. Film

    Kung Fu Panda

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: June 5, 2008

    By all means, gather up the little ones and take them to this perfectly pleasant, very good-looking, modestly funny, dispiritingly unoriginal variant on the nerd-with-a-dream...

25. Film

    Note by Note: The Making of Steinway L1037

    By Jim Ridley

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Given rapt attention and care in the framing, there is no more engrossing subject than man at work. The proof, yet again, is in director Ben Niles' chronicle of the production...

26. Art

    Photographer Gary Sutton confounds with beautiful war images

    By Dana Self

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Kansas City artist Gary Sutton's refined exhibition of digital photographs at Jan Weiner both pleases and frustrates. Ultimately, it results in a visual and conceptual...

27. Stage

    The American Heartland pulls off a Perfect Wedding

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Last Saturday morning, a few hours before I caught Perfect Wedding, the no-sex sex farce knocking them dead at the American Heartland Theatre, I suffered through 27 Dresses. On...

28. Game On

    Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

    By Gary Hodges

    Published: June 5, 2008

    John Edwards might see two Americas, but this simpleminded little game enthusiast is more preoccupied with America's two Wii owners. One is the Nintendo fan: the cat who bought...