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21. Night & Day

    Support the LAC

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Even in a recession, $5 isn't much. Lay down your Lincoln tonight to help support the Lawrence Arts Center. The songwriter showcase features Stranger Tractor, Sue Malloy, Joe...

22. Night & Day

    See It

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: April 9, 2009

    It has been years now since Kansas City audiences were treated to the wise, absorbing dramas of Missouri-born, world-renowned playwright Lanford Wilson. That makes an event of...

23. Town Without Pity

    Maybe if Missouri and Kansas legislators were high, their actions would make more sense

    By C.J. Janovy

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Dying Seniors to Be Denied Weed If the econocalypse has done anything, it has given us new respect for the men and women who grew up in the 1920s and '30s. Be a cynic about...

24. Studies in Crap

    In the Year 1982: Part II

    By Alan Scherstuhl

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Title: Norman Rockwell 1982 Calendar & Engagement Book Author: Unidentified Kansas City woman (Ms. Rockwell) Date: 1982 Discovered at: 2nd Chance Thrift, 1229 East 63rd...

25. Letters

    Letters from the week of April 9

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Martin: "Red Friday ... and Monday ... ," April 2 TIFFED OFF During Kay Barnes' administration, I attended many functions at which concerned citizens asked her about what...

26. Ask a Mexican®

    ¡Ay, caramba! – despite Bart Simpson’s use of it, this Spanish swear is still valid

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Dear Mexican: For as long as I can remember, Mexicans have been known for doing three things: drinking lots of cerveza, having lots of niños, and saying "¡Ay,...

27. Interview

    Distance to Empty sheds its cover band and prog personas and comes fresh and funky as Antennas Up

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 9, 2009

    For a traveling band, a vodka sponsorship can be both a blessing and a curse. The men of Antennas Up lived that dream — barely. Bombora Vodka gave the Kansas City band...

28. Wayward Son

    Sweet and Lowdown: How a self-described crazy doctor from the Midwest helped Victoria Williams save her Sweet Relief Musicians Fund

    By Jason Harper

    Published: April 9, 2009

    If Victoria Williams sounds unenthusiastic, she says, it's because of the state of health care in America. She wonders why our country's priorities are so fucked up. And then...

29. Bonus Tracks

    Young Lions

    By Nadia Pflaum

    Published: April 9, 2009

    It would be easy to make an association between spring images — blinking baby birds and fluffy newborn bunnies — and the litter of five just-hatched rappers...

30. CD Reviews

    Black Nasty

    Shark Tank
    (Die Nasty Records)

    By Jason Harper

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Looking for a tasteful verse on Black Nasty's latest is like looking for a pleasant image in a manual of genital-ravaging STDs. Born and raised in Wichita and now based in...

31. CD Reviews

    Irv Da Phenom

    American Idol Reject
    (Triple Threat Society)

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Rejection from American Idol is no career breaker. Among the millions of contestants who try out and fail, there are always a few who gain star status upon being guillotined by...

32. Critic's Choice

    Mastodon

    By Peter Rugg

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Will any release this year face the scrutiny aimed at Mastodon's latest album, Crack the Skye? Four LPs in, each new Mastodon release has been licked all over by critics and by...

33. Critic's Choice

    Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Jason Isbell came of age as part of the Drive-By Truckers' triumphant axis of songwriters, alongside Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. Now that he's two years and two studio...

34. Critic's Choice

    Mark Mallman

    By Richard Gintowt

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Mark Mallman has been pedaling along for more than a decade as one of the most underappreciated voices in rock and roll. His pathos-packed piano rock is all about spectacle:...

35. Critic's Choice

    The Black Kids

    By Kyle Koch

    Published: April 9, 2009

    At its most animated, Reggie Youngblood's singing voice creaks like an attic door. During these crescendos of emotion, the lead singer of the Black Kids isn't as much a...

36. Critic's Choice

    Clem Snide

    By Berry Anderson

    Published: April 9, 2009

    It's been a tumultuous 18 years for the Nashville-based, art-country outfit Clem Snide. Anchored by mainstay frontman Eef Barzelay, the band has wafted in and out of the...

37. Cafe

    At Café Seed, Ericka Mingo can make converts out of carnivores

    By Charles Ferruzza

    Published: April 9, 2009

    In the culinary universe, this meat-loving metropolis is most famous for its barbecue, steakhouses and fried-chicken restaurants. But over the years, that mind-set hasn't...

38. Film

    Observe and Report

    By Robert Wilonsky

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Observe and Report writer-director Jody Hill makes mean-spirited tragedies that studios market as inane comedies because otherwise no one would pay a cent to see them. That's...

39. Film

    Beauty in Trouble

    By Michelle Orange

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Czech director Jan Hrebejk's trying foray into soapy realism has at its center the kind of provincial hard-luck lass who shows boob at a funeral and sweetens sauvignon blanc...

40. Film

    Harvard Beats Yale 29–29

    By J. HOBERMAN

    Published: April 9, 2009

    Scarcely less astonishing than Richard Nixon's election 40 years ago was what occurred a few weeks later in Cambridge, Massachusetts, when Harvard's undefeated football team...