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Night & Day
Unusual Theater
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: March 5, 2009
Tuesday morning at 10 may seem like an odd time to see a play. But it just may be the best hour to catch the world premiere opening today at the Coterie Theatre (2450 Grand)....
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Night & Day
Rust Still Dreams
Published: March 5, 2009
In the exhibit Rust Still Dreams, artists Jordan Briceland and Charles Ray consider rust not corrosive but creative. Thursdays-Saturdays, 12-9 p.m.; Sundays, 12-6...
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Night & Day
Labtinis and Cow Stuff
Published: March 5, 2009
In the artist's own words, this local exhibition features "watercolors, acrylics and prints of drinking dogs, singing bikers, K.C. buildings and cow stuff." Charlie Podrebarac...
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Town Without Pity
Broken Piggy Banks
By Scott Wilson and Nadia Pflaum
Published: March 5, 2009
Last week, we raked Missouri Sen. Kit Bond over the mesquite for being a hypocrite about pork. Missouri's one-man bacon explosion earned honors for wrapping himself around...
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Studies in Crap
An 1891 U.S. history textbook isn’t exactly Howard Zinn, but it’s surprisingly high-minded
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: March 5, 2009
Click here to learn what your great-grandparents knew about U.S. history. Click here for more Studies in Crap. Click here to write a letter to the editor.
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Letters
Letters from the week of March 5
Published: March 5, 2009
Feature: "True True Blood," February 19 Bloodsucking Friends Peter Rugg's story on local vampires was so captivating. I have always been intrigued with vampires, and I...
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Ask a Mexican®
Pinche, pinche and pinche, OK?
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: March 5, 2009
Dear Readers: Before we move on to your spicy preguntas, a bit of housecleaning. Primeramente, gracias to all the know-nothings who responded to my 100-word-essay challenge,...
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Interview
Appleseed Cast goes for new, mainly instrumental highs on latest album, Sagarmatha
By Aaron Ladage
Published: March 5, 2009
Christopher Crisci is a man of few words. Well, that's only partially true. When he's not performing, the lead singer and guitarist for the Appleseed Cast is a relatively...
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Bonus Tracks
Meet the DJs
By Jason Harper
Published: March 5, 2009
The DJs have been assembled. And the clock is ticking, ticking ... down to 9 p.m. this Friday night at NV (220 Admiral), where a fresh crop of DJs will face off with randomly...
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Buckle Bunny
Hot Shots Part Deux: Shots Fired reloads for a reunion show and possibility of new material
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: March 5, 2009
For the self-proclaimed "worst-behaved rock band" in Kansas City, burnout was inevitable. The dissolution of Shots Fired occurred on the heels of endless months of touring,...
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Critic's Choice
Raphael Saadiq
By Chris Packham
Published: March 5, 2009
Former Tony! Toni! Toné! bass player and singer Raphael Saadiq (aka Charlie Ray Wiggins) spent much of the last decade super-producing albums for Mary J. Blige, the...
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Critic's Choice
Hank III & Assjack
By Richard Gintowt
Published: March 5, 2009
As Waylon Jennings famously asked, "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" The answer from Shelton Hank Williams III is a resounding "no." The third-generation torchbearer has...
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Critic's Choice
Jucifer
By Matt Erickson
Published: March 5, 2009
It's the economy, stupid. This notion has been taken to heart lately by musicians in particular. But with just two instruments and two people, you have a little more room to...
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Critic's Choice
Blitzen Trapper
By Richard Gintowt
Published: March 5, 2009
When Blitzen Trapper set the stage for Stephen Malkmus at Liberty Hall last August, it felt like a passing of the torch. Like Pavement, Malkmus' deceased indie-rock fraternity,...
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Cafe
The new Peachtree Restaurant is glamorous enough for the Power & Light District, but the original buffet is more fun
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: March 5, 2009
My friend Truman loves soul food — he's from the South — and has eaten at the new Peachtree Restaurant in the Power & Light District several times. His major...
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Film
Watchmen
By J Hoberman
Published: March 5, 2009
The most eagerly anticipated (as well as the most beleaguered) movie of the year, Watchmen is neither desecratory disaster nor total triumph. In filming David Hayter and Alex...
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Film
The Class
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: March 5, 2009
Compare Laurent Cantet's terrific The Class with Mr. Holland's Opus and Dangerous Minds. Note the structural similarities: misbehaving students, a charismatic educator who...
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Stage
The Unicorn’s Clean House knows the importance of a dirty joke
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: March 5, 2009
Here's the key to enjoying The Clean House, Sarah Ruhl's highly touted comedy, now receiving great tides of applause at the Unicorn Theatre: Accept that a play can share...
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Art
Time is Deep at Grand Arts, but the space is a little shallow
By Dana Self
Published: March 5, 2009
Deep Time + Rapid Time is a sprawling, messy exhibition organized by the shifting collective Spurse. The group's research-oriented work emerges here as a laboratory in which...
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