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21. Night & Day

    Power & Light & Art

    By Penny LaRocque

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Summer is art-fair season, the time when communities everywhere pitch tents and prep credit-card machines in anticipation of shoppers eager to snap up paintings, photographs,...

22. Night & Day

    AUTO AS ART

    By Hannah Zimmerman

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Gracing the central green at the Kansas City Art Institute today are a 1917 Detroit Electric car, a 1932 Pierce-Arrow Model 54 Convertible Coupe and a 1959 Aston Martin DB Mark...

23. Night & Day

    Kansas City Royals v. Seattle

    By Eric Barton

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Used to be that Sluggerrr had the only raging mullet in Kauffman Stadium’s home dugout. But there’s a new man in town with business in the front and party in the...

24. Night & Day

    Coterie Achievements

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Tonight's Coterie Theatre performance of the colorful, calypso-pop musical Once on This Island is, technically speaking, a world premiere, but the inspired-bys and based-upons...

25. Martin

    KC's light-rail villains look poised to mount another attack

    By David Martin

    Published: June 26, 2008

    It could have happened. Today, in fact, city officials might be cutting the ribbon on a light-rail line stretching from Vivion Road to 75th Street. In 2001, the city went to...

26. Burnt Ends

    Loch Lloyd’s gate offers protection from the poor, suffering masses

    Published: June 26, 2008

    The Village of Loch Lloyd seems impervious to the pain others are suffering due to $4-a-gallon gas and falling home prices. Developers of the gated community in northern Cass...

27. Web Exclusive

    The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s Othello doesn’t flinch from the obvious race issue

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: June 26, 2008

    The story of a black man tricked into strangling his white wife because she's careless with her hanky, Othello isn't bring-the-kids-and-pack-a-basket fare, but I applaud...

28. Letters

    Letters for the week of June 26

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Friend or Foe? It is, unfortunately, great disappointment and sadness that now compel me to write. You used to have heart, brains, balls; where did your moxie go? When...

29. Ask a Mexican®

    Here’s why U.S. citizens aren’t rushing to buy land in Mexico

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Dear Mexican: What do you think would happen if U.S. citizens could buy land and set up businesses in Mexico as easily as Mexicans can do so in the United States? Might that...

30. Interview

    Hip-hop newcomer D/Will gets cerebral on two new releases

    By Nadia Pflaum

    Published: June 26, 2008

    “Glory” by D-Will, from Heir of Abraham (self-released): Denzel Williams is a nerd. You can't tell just by looking at him — he doesn't wear glasses taped at...

31. Wayward Son

    Tommy Ramone gives the Mountain Music Shoppe a brush with CBGB

    By Jason Harper

    Published: June 26, 2008

    “Home Sweet Reality” by Uncle Monk, from Uncle Monk (Airday Records): Who can walk into a music shop, look around at the guitars and drums and keyboards and basses,...

32. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Liz Phair

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: June 26, 2008

    After signing with ATO Records and announcing her upcoming sixth album, Liz Phair told reporters, "I can honestly say, for the first time in 15 years, I feel creative." The...

33. Critic's Choice

    Ingrid Michaelson

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: June 26, 2008

    “The Way I Am” by Ingrid Michaelson, from Girls and Boys (Cabin 24): Ingrid Michaelson may well be the poster child for the modern independent singer-songwriter:...

34. Critic's Choice

    Vans Warped Tour

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Since its inception in 1995, the Vans Warped Tour has been a forum for teenage kids to see all the bands they like in one day. Any pretensions of it actually being "punk" are...

35. Critic's Choice

    I Love You

    By Jason Harper

    Published: June 26, 2008

    ”March of the Dead” by I Love You, from Drone, Drugs and Harmony (self-released): Like fellow locals Ad Astra Per Aspera, Kansas City's promising I Love You thrashes...

36. Critic's Choice

    KCK Street Blues Festival

    By Danny Alexander

    Published: June 26, 2008

    “Hey There” by Myra Taylor, from My Night To Dream (APO Records): To feel the heart of Kansas City, you have to go to the blues — the root of all jazz, soul,...

37. Critic's Choice

    Modey Lemon

    By Chris Parker

    Published: June 26, 2008

    “Become a Monk” by Modey Lemon, from Season of Sweets (Birdman Records): For good bands, genres are training wheels, not blueprints. Not to disparage Modey Lemon's...

38. Cafe

    Dining at Trezo Vino Wine Bistro is an inexpensive way to feel like a big spender

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: June 26, 2008

    A couple of weeks ago, I walked out of one of the new restaurants in the Power & Light District — I won't be coy here; it was Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant —...

39. Film

    WALL-E

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Many will attempt to describe WALL-E with a one-liner. It's R2-D2 in love, 2001: A Space Odyssey starring the Little Tramp, An Inconvenient Truth meets Idiocracy on its way to...

40. Film

    Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film Festival

    Published: June 26, 2008

    Chris & Don: A Love Story Tina Mascara and Guido Santi's documentary is a charming, illuminating portrait of the complex and storied queer romance between literary icon...