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41. Night & Day

    Brotherly Love

    By Eric Barton

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Mike and Bob Bryan seem like a Disney Channel show turned into reality: Identical twins both make it big in tennis and end up playing as the world's No. 1 pair. When the Bryan...

42. Night & Day

    Avoid Tweety

    By Peter Rugg

    Published: July 10, 2008

    It's a damn shame how many tattoos are drunkenly selected off the artist's wall of flash art after the artist rejected your first seven ideas because he couldn't draw them from...

43. Night & Day

    Texecutioners

    By Carolyn Szczepanski

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Kansas City owes the Texas Rollergirls a debt of gratitude for being the trailblazing team that laced up some skates and set off the neo-roller-derby frenzy back in 2003. The...

44. Martin

    Jackson County politics: grade school with more lawsuits

    By David Martin

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Every once in a while, I think I should start paying more attention to Jackson County politics. The Kansas City Star will update a lawsuit or a controversial contract, and I'll...

45. Burnt Ends

    The House of Kline

    Double Hockey Sticks is back. And this time he’s got a real house.

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Questions about where Phill Kline calls home have lingered since Johnson County Republicans Republicans handed him the District Attorney’s Office in December 2006. Kansas...

46. Ask a Mexican®

    Here’s why Mexicans have a hunka burnin’ love for Elvis

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Dear Mexican: What's the fascination Mexicans have with Elvis? Good Roceando Tonight Dear Gabacho: Your question is spot-on, but it's taken awhile for Elvis Presley to...

47. Interview

    Feist has sung with a lot of Canadians. Unfortunately, she missed out on these classics

    By Michael Gallucci

    Published: July 10, 2008

    “1234” by Feist, from The Reminder (Polydor): You really can't blame Feist for grabbing the solo reins and steering her career into ubiquity. After all, if you were a...

48. Wayward Son

    Love Garden drops its first single: a 7-inch from Ad Astra Per Aspera

    By Jason Harper

    Published: July 10, 2008

    “Danger Bird Blues” by Ad Astra Per Aspera, from Danger Bird Blues EP (Lovegarden Sounds/Sonic Unyon): While bands, labels and retailers are all looking for new,...

49. CD Reviews

    Smoking Popes

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: July 10, 2008

    If the most enduring proto-emo bands were the ones that wrote the best hooks, Smoking Popes was right there with the Promise Ring and the Get Up Kids. Like those groups, the...

50. CD Reviews

    Reggie and the Full Effect

    By Aaron Ladage

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Wild rumors are standard-issue for the intentionally enigmatic Reggie and the Full Effect. But if the latest Internet scuttlebutt is true, Last Stop: Crappy Town is KC-native...

51. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Thomas Bartlett

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Ever wonder what life would be like if Kevin Bacon hadn't saved America's small-town kids from anti-dancing legislation? It might sound a bit like Thomas Bartlett's...

52. Critic's Choice

    Black Diamond Heavies

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: July 10, 2008

    “Everything is Everything” by Black Diamond Heavies, from A Touch of Someone Else’s Class (Alive Records): Best paired with sticky summer heat, the sounds of...

53. Critic's Choice

    Son Ambulance

    By Matt Erickson

    Published: July 10, 2008

    “Horizons” by Son Ambulance, from Someone Else’s Déjà Vu (Saddle Creek Records): This Omaha collective, led by a former chess prodigy, is musically...

54. Critic's Choice

    Snoop Dogg

    By JAIME LEES

    Published: July 10, 2008

    A'ight, here's the dizzle: The d-o-double gizzle Snoop Dogg is in KC this Saturdizzle. Snoopizzle is guarantizzled to pull out sweet summer jams such as "Drop It Like It's Hot"...

55. Critic's Choice

    The Hacienda Brothers

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: July 10, 2008

    “Leavin’ on my Mind” by the Hacienda Brothers from Music for Ranch and Town (self-released): The Southwest music scene lost one of its greats when Chris Gaffney...

56. Critic's Choice

    Dropkick Murphys

    By Aaron Ladage

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Seeing Dropkick Murphys at the Beaumont in the middle of July may not be the same as catching one of the band's legendary St. Patrick's Day concerts in Boston, but that doesn't...

57. Critic's Choice

    Jason Isbell

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Jason Isbell has a Southern-rock pedigree to which any alt-country junkie can testify. Born to a musical family near Muscle Shoals, Alabama, Isbell spent six years spreading...

58. Cafe

    All the good things about 39th Street’s Blue Koi survive the expansion to Leawood

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: July 10, 2008

    When a beloved Kansas City, Missouri, restaurant tries to expand its customer base by opening a location on the Kansas side, there's always the danger that something will be...

59. Fat Mouth

    Fox’s Drug Store might have the last soda fountain in town – and might be the last place you can smoke where you eat

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Just when you think history has shifted permanently in one direction, you stumble upon something so amazing, it's as if time has momentarily stopped. Case in point: the lunch...

60. Film

    Hellboy 2: The Golden Army

    By CHUCK WILSON

    Published: July 10, 2008

    Hollywood's Endless Superhero Summer rolls on with the arrival of Hellboy II: The Golden Army from Pan's Labyrinth director Guillermo del Toro. But before this review goes any...