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Night & Day
So Distinguished
Published: April 23, 2009
KCAI's Current Perspectives lecture series continues with Distinguished Alumnus Bill Brady. Brady graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1991 and went on to attend...
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Night & Day
On the Line
By Emily Farris
Published: April 23, 2009
Nearly 2,500 people in Kansas City, Missouri, are living with HIV or AIDS, according to the most recent statistics from the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services....
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Night & Day
Holocaust Remembrance Concert
Published: April 23, 2009
Metropolitan Community College-Maple Woods will honor individuals, poets and musicians who practiced their art during the tumultuous era of the Holocaust. This...
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Martin
Kansas City invested in the Power & Light District using questionable data from C.H. Johnson Consulting
By David Martin
Published: April 23, 2009
Last week, I played watchman at the Power & Light District, walking through the downtown fun-o-rama and pulling on doors to see how many of them actually opened. Parts of the...
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Town Without Pity
If you love protests so much, why don’t you marry one?
By Scott Wilson
Published: April 23, 2009
Last Wednesday, April 15, Americans had two choices: Make sure they had filed their income-tax returns by midnight or make sure they had filed their returns before going...
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Studies in Crap
Dear Doctor
By Alan Scherstuhl
Published: April 23, 2009
Title: This week, an assortment of alarming medical correspondence Author: Various deans, doctors and professors associated with KU Medical Center Date: 1930s and...
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Letters
Letters from the week of April 23
Published: April 23, 2009
This week, we bring you another Letters page of reader comments at Pitch.com. David Martin's April 16 column about federal stimulus money paying for brand-new buses —...
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Ask a Mexican®
Mexico and the Middle East share more than gabachos might realize
By Gustavo Arellano
Published: April 23, 2009
Dear Mexican: First of all, please don't think that I'm a self-loathing Mexican; I was born in the United States to northern Mexican parents. As far as I know, my ancestry is...
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Interview
Newcomer Greg Enemy has 20/20 vision when it comes to KC hip-hop
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: April 23, 2009
Greg Enemy hops onstage at the Brick in stepped-on Keds and a vintage Kansas City Jazz T-shirt. He dips the mic stand like a dance partner, rearing back with an I feel good...
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Buckle Bunny
Wild, young indie-rock band the Cherry Tree Parade blossoms with a digitally enhanced sound
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: April 23, 2009
It's the night of Cherry Tree Parade's CD-release party, and the Thursday-night crowd at Czar Bar doesn't know what to expect from the young local band. Having never caught a...
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Bonus Tracks
Talib Kweli
By Kyle Koch
Published: April 23, 2009
Brooklyn, New York, in terms of hip-hop, is a universe unto its own. Big Daddy Kane, Notorious B.I.G., Jay-Z, Mos Def — these Brooklyn-bred rappers make up an all-star...
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CD Reviews
The Life and Times
Tragic Boogie
(Arena Rock Records)By Richard Gintowt
Published: April 23, 2009
If you had to pick one band to represent Kansas City in a national battle of the bands, would there be any better choice than the Life and Times? These guys have consistently...
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CD Reviews
Charles S. McVey
Animal
(Impure Records)By Jason Harper
Published: April 23, 2009
On his fourth and longest release so far (at nine songs), Lawrence piano-banger Charles S. McVey puts his recording-school degree to extensive use. Piled high with booming...
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Critic's Choice
The Horrors and the Kills
By Matt Erickson
Published: April 23, 2009
Just when you're sure the cathartic wail and supercharged sexuality of real, big-beat rock and roll has breathed its last, you suddenly become aware that it's still alive. You...
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Critic's Choice
Max Tundra
By Todd McKenzie
Published: April 23, 2009
Parallax Error Beheads You, the third album by London's Max Tundra, is dizzying in its excess. Sophisticated chamber pop morphs into acid-house raves; paranoid new-wave riffs...
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Critic's Choice
The Gaslight Anthem
By Rich Sharp
Published: April 23, 2009
Ever watch an old episode of Three's Company, focusing only on the laugh track? Once you think about it being there, the prerecorded guffaws are all you can hear. Ever since we...
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Critic's Choice
Riverboat Gamblers
By Chris Parker
Published: April 23, 2009
No one has doubted the Riverboat Gamblers' ability to entertain, thanks to frontman Mike Wiebe's rafter-climbing acrobatics and frequent forays into the audience. The group's...
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Critic's Choice
Franz Ferdinand
By Richard Gintowt
Published: April 23, 2009
Critiquing Franz Ferdinand is a lot like critiquing Junior Senior or the Ting Tings: What's the point? As long as the girls can shimmy and shake to it and the guys can follow...
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Cafe
Braata promises the sounds, smells and feels of the Caribbean but has a way to go
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: April 23, 2009
I was having a particularly stressful day last week and I said to myself, You need to get away! You need a tropical vacation on a Caribbean shore! Yes, that's exactly what I...
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Film
The Soloist
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: April 23, 2009
The Soloist opens with newspapers thudding onto lawns, a quaint sight that makes the movie practically a period piece, even though the events that inspired it took place within...
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