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21. Night & Day

    Bluestem

    By Jen Chen

    Published: March 19, 2009

    (900 Westport Road, 816-561-1101). Tuesdays through Fridays, enjoy food and drink specials in the cool lounge from 5 to 7 p.m. A Kobe burger plus a good red make for a fine...

22. Night & Day

    DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Paul D. Miller, a composer, multimedia artist and writer also known as D.J. Spooky That Subliminal Kid, will give a lecture as part of the Current Perspectives lecture series...

23. Night & Day

    An Evening with Phil Vassar

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Contemporary country crooner Phil Vassar comes to JCCC's Carlsen Center for a special performance. Fri., April 24, 7:30 p.m., 2009

24. Martin

    Mayors, civic leaders and their task forces all claim to want to help the Kansas City School District. So far, no results.

    By David Martin

    Published: March 19, 2009

    So I'm on hold, and a recorded voice is describing the mission of the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation. The foundation, I'm learning, strives to improve the quality of...

25. Town Without Pity

    Who says public officials won’t say what they’re really thinking?

    By Scott Wilson

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Pitch staff writer Justin Kendall has been keeping tabs on his favorite political huggermugger, Missouri state Rep. Cynthia Davis. Oh, how Kendall wishes that she lived closer...

26. Letters

    Letters from the week of March 19

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Feature: "Strategos," March 12 Armed With Knowledge Peter Rugg's article on school-shooter training was great. Thank you for the fair and informative view of the program,...

27. Ask a Mexican®

    Why Mexican women don’t use tampons

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Dear Mexican: Why is it that when I go to the Mexican supermarkets to buy productos femeninas, fully 98 percent of the aisle provided for such things is composed of maxi pads,...

28. Interview

    The grass grows around absent-minded rapper Devin the Dude

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Babies will cry. Politicians will lie. And Houston rapper Devin Copeland will wake up, roll a blunt and smoke his way into another bleary-eyed day. Copeland, who performs as...

29. Buckle Bunny

    Chronically Popfree online radio has become a full-time job for Justin Bale, aka Chronic the Hedgehog

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Justin Bale doesn't understand a lot of things. Like, why won't the '80s go away again? Why does so much indie and alternative rock sound wussy? The founder of...

30. CD Reviews

    The Dactyls

    The Dactyls (EP)
    (Yeti Party)

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: March 19, 2009

    The Dactyls allow the inner bong-rocker in all of us to party hard without feeling like we just took a hit of something that's gonna show up on a drug test the next day. The...

31. CD Reviews

    Space Station Lounge

    Flight of the Surrey (EP)
    (Independent)

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Space Station Lounge plays short, catchy folk tunes, but singer and multi-instrumentalist Turtle adds cosmic touches befitting the group's name, such as sci-fi soundtrack...

32. Bonus Tracks

    Anti-Crew

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Live bands and rap music rarely go together well. Hip-hop, perhaps more than any musical form, relies on synthetic sounds, turntables, and basically anything not resembling a...

33. Critic's Choice

    Katy Perry

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Katy Perry kissed a girl, and she liked it. She had an ex-boyfriend who was "gay" but didn't like boys. These are the biographical pillars, the paradoxical details, on which...

34. Critic's Choice

    Chimaira

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Using a literal interpretation of viral marketing, Chimaira has started leaking clips from its April release at spread-the-infection.com. Fans download fliers from the site,...

35. Critic's Choice

    Sleepy Sun

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: March 19, 2009

    The heavy psych-rockers of Sleepy Sun, drawn together in 2005 by the landscape and general weirdness that is Santa Cruz, California, possess an arsenal of jam-band...

36. Critic's Choice

    In the Pines

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: March 19, 2009

    It's a wonder that In the Pines came back to Kansas City, after the warm way it was received in Germany and Austria last summer. Fortunately for us, our city's reigning...

37. Critic's Choice

    Red Kate

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: March 19, 2009

    If you're gonna live up to an alias like L. Ron Drunkard, you better play music fit for drinking. Kansas City's Red Kate fits the bill with its accelerate-around-the-curves...

38. Cafe

    A new chef makes a more casual, less expensive City Tavern

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: March 19, 2009

    There are three kinds of dining companions: the interesting conversationalist, the deadly bore and the monologist. I'm always happy to break bread with the first type, I dread...

39. Film

    Duplicity

    By SCOTT FOUNDAS

    Published: March 19, 2009

    Whether it's the amnesiac superspy of the Bourne franchise or the weary law-firm fixer of Michael Clayton, screenwriter and director Tony Gilroy specializes in characters who...

40. Film

    Black Hand Strawman

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: March 19, 2009

    As the grandson of Sicilian immigrants, I don't know whether to be proud or embarrassed by local filmmaker Terence O'Malley's long but riveting documentary Black Hand Strawman,...