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21. Night & Day

    Repeat Viewing Alert

    By Scott Wilson

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Part existential fantasy, part romantic affirmation, part absurdist parable, Groundhog Day is also just plain funny, whether you spelunk its philosophical depths or just want...

22. Night & Day

    Free Symphony Concert

    Published: March 12, 2009

    This performance is part of a series of free community concerts being presented by the Kansas City Symphony. The string quartet performing features: Andrew Fuller, violin Kevin...

23. Night & Day

    Punk Drunk

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: March 12, 2009

    On the final days before St. Patrick's Day, leprechauns are lurking. But it's not enough to be just Irish and drunk tonight at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania,...

24. Night & Day

    SHE'S COME UNDONE

    By Brent Shepherd

    Published: March 12, 2009

    A couple of hours spent gazing upon the lovely Catherine Deneuve is the payoff. The catch? A couple of hours (and then some) of director Roman Polanski messing with your head...

25. Night & Day

    Gloria Mengel Benefit Concert

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Gloria Mengel is a 10-year-old with a brain tumor that is impairing her vision. This fundraiser is to help her family while she is in treatment. The concert includes the JACOMO...

26. Town Without Pity

    Want the fun of a public meeting without having to be there? Twitter is the only way to fly.

    By Scott Wilson

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Twitter — the social-networking Web site that allows real-time status updates in 140-character bursts — isn't going to make your life easier. Unless, that is, you'd...

27. Studies in Crap

    Bad Heart

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Title: A Heart Speaks: A Promise to Cherish Author: LaVyrle Spencer Publisher: Jove Books, New York Date: 1986 Discovered: Donated by Jen Chen The cover promises: Women are...

28. Ask a Mexican®

    Here’s why the Mexican loves the asshole Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Dear Mexican: Not sure if this has been asked before, but how do you feel about Arizona's Sheriff Joe Arpaio? I think the guy's a fucking racist, who's just out to get...

29. Interview

    With amps up loud, the Dactyls come screaming out of the Lawrence scene

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: March 12, 2009

    The block in the east Lawrence neighborhood where the Dactyls practice might just be the nexus of the town's music scene. Across the street, the Get Up Kids are prepping for...

30. Wayward Son

    Rite of spring: The fifth-annual Pitch Ultra Music DJ Contest raged on despite the down economy

    By Jason Harper

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Even if one does not drink, take drugs or succumb to a seizure, it's tricky to retain the particulars of an event such as The Pitch Ultra Music DJ Contest at NV. The intense...

31. Interview

    SXSW KC ’09 – It’s Official

    By Jason Harper

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Republic Tigers frontman Kenn Jankowski accurately describes South by Southwest as "Mardi Gras for hipsters." But more than that, the huge music, film and interactive festival...

32. Bonus Tracks

    Sliccs Gotcha

    Prince of Whales
    (Major Factor Records)

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: March 12, 2009

    If you run across Sliccs Gotcha while driving, don't tailgate. On "Used to Shootouts," the last track of his new release, Prince of Whales, Sliccs casually warns: I'm used to...

33. Critic's Choice

    Andrew Bird

    By Elliott Johnston

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Along with eccentric one-of-a-kinds like Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom, Andrew Bird would make a fine professor at some school for indie overachievers. Flying around in a...

34. Critic's Choice

    Cotton Jones and Human Highway

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: March 12, 2009

    What these acts share in common is a realization of artistic detours. Maryland's Cotton Jones is a duo consisting of Michael Nau and Whitney McGraw; previously, the pair...

35. Critic's Choice

    Thomas Function

    By Matt Erickson

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Few bands are named so that that you can tell in an unconscious minute that you'll love what they do, that you'll immediately feel a perfect kinship on their first chord....

36. Critic's Choice

    Secret Chiefs 3

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Best known as one of the main creative forces in Mr. Bungle, guitarist Trey Spruance has long shown interest in a broad range of styles, including modern classical, obscure...

37. Critic's Choice

    Black Lips

    By Matt Erickson

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Sneaking below the radar of college radio, NPR and, until recently, the mainstream press, Atlanta's Black Lips has built a significant national following by playing its guts...

38. Cafe

    You don’t have to wait for the last day of the Mayan calendar to make a trip to Fiesta Azteca

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: March 12, 2009

    We don't need any more bad news. But a friend of mine, who obsesses over things such as the Mayan calendar, called one day to tell me to start living it up because the world is...

39. Film

    Two Lovers

    By ELLA TAYLOR

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Though Two Lovers is based on a Dostoyevsky story, director James Gray's lack of interpretive distance from his subject, coupled with extreme overacting from lead actor Joaquin...

40. Film

    Wendy and Lucy

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: March 12, 2009

    Modest but cosmic, Kelly Reichardt's Wendy and Lucy is a movie whose sad pixie heroine, Wendy (Michelle Williams), already skating on thin ice, stumbles and, without a single...