Pitch

He's The Scrap Man

Bankruptcy-claiming, codes violating Tom Wright reigns over blocks of junked-up Troost.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: Feature, Feature Story, Tom Wright, Dona Boley, Terry Young, Richard Tolbert

Water Sports

Kansas City's newest fountain puts the wet in Westport.

• by Lila Seuter
• Tags: State Lines, State Lines, Westport, Kansas City, Brandon Wilcox, Marcel Cerveau de Bulle

Terminators

A movie theater discounts seniors.

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Kansas City Strip, Columns, Cinemark Inc., Hollywood, Motion Picture Association of America, Cole Davis

Burger King of Pain

Neil Hamburger laughs to keep from crying.

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Neil Hamburger, Los Angeles, Ulysses S. Grant, Adam Sandler

String Out

DMB violinist Boyd Tinsley finds his own voice with his solo debut.

• by John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Boyd Tinsley, Dave Matthews Band, Cincinnati, Charlottesville

Metal Meltdown

The Club Wars troops lose the battle of Westport.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Around Hear, Columns, Rick Allen, Darrell Whiteaker, Grandview, Westport

Red, White or Blue?

Wine tasting a Boozefish includes an assortment of blue drinks.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, Westport, Standard Improvement Company, Fred Germaine, California

Jumbo's Killcrane

Saturday, July 12, at the Replay Lounge.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, Lawrence

Will Kimbrough

Thursday, July 10, at Davey's Uptown.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Will Kimbrough, Jon Dee Graham

Conner

Friday, July 11, at the 8th Street Tap Room.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Lawrence, The Strokes, Julian Casablancas, James Duft

Ziggy Marley

Sunday, July 13, at the Uptown Theater.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley

Blueprint

Wednesday, July 16, at La Tasca.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Jay-Z, Aesop Rock, Raland Scruggs, RJD2

Pernice Brothers

Wednesday, July 16, at the Bottleneck.

• by David Cantwell
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Joe Pernice, Pernice Brothers, Brian Wilson, Chappaquiddick

Ashley Casselle

Saturday, July 12, at XO.

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Ashley Casselle, John Digweed, United Kingdom, Paul Van Dyk

Norah Jones

Monday, July 14, at the Midland Theatre.

• by John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Norah Jones, Ravi Shankar, Blue Note Records Inc.

Radar Brothers

Sunday, July 13, at the Replay Lounge.

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Jim Putnam, Senon Williams, Steve Goodfriend

The Starting Line

Wednesday, July 16, at the Granada.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, McDonald's Corporation, Matt Watts, AOL LLC, Good Charlotte

Vic Chesnutt

Silver Lake (New West)

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Styrofoam, Widespread Panic

Glenn Branca

The Ascension (Acute)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Glenn Branca, New York City, Rhys Chatham, Lee Ranaldo

Lisa Stansfield

Biography (Arista/BMG Heritage)

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Lisa Stansfield, Barry White

D4

6Twenty (Flying Nun)

• by Michael Tedder
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, AC/DC (Band), Dillinger Four, Dismemberment Plan, The Dillinger Escape Plan

Locust

Plague Soundscapes (Anti/Epitaph)

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, San Diego, Justin Pearson

Lynch Mob

REvolution (Deadline)

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Don Dokken, George Lynch

Serart

Serart (Serjical Strike/Columbia)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Arto Tuncboyaciyan, Serj Tankian, Frank Zappa, System of a Down

Swap and Chop

After Platters cracked up, the Hotel Phillips turned its dining room into a high-priced Chop House.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Cafe, Cafe, Paul Dionne, Michael Dunn, Kansas City, Billie Cassin

Sour and Sweet

The Sour Octopus pulls sophisticated dining into the Northland.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Pete Peterman, Jennifer Maloney, Wayne Thiebaud, Hannah Bistro

Reduced-Salt Dogs

In the slick and handsome Pirates of the Caribbean, more is somehow less.

• by Gregory Weinkauf
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Geoffrey Rush, Jonathan Pryce, Keira Knightley, Orlando Bloom

Minor League

The comic-book Gentlemen is two-dimensional.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Alan Moore, Sean Connery, James Dale Robinson, Stephen Norrington

The Odd Couplets

A fiber and poetry show hangs together uneasily.

• by Theresa Bembnister
• Tags: Art, Art, Michele Fricke, Jerry Bleem, Karin Birch, Harvey Hix

Still Smilin'?

Part Disney, part Barnum, the man who saved comics is all Stan Lee.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Stuff, Columns, Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Marvel Entertainment Inc., David S. Goyer

Face to Face

Grown-ups have their own way of playing Cowboys and Indians.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, David Levinthal, Andres Serrano, Barbie Dolls, Ku Klux Klan

This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Frederic Pohl, Union Station, Rachel Brumer, Kansas City

In Retrospect

They all went to Budapest in nineteen-ninety-something, but why -- and where are they now?

• by Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Budapest, Prague, Arthur Phillips, Paris

Lasso Act

Writers say howdy at Bloomsday Books.

• by Gina Kaufmann, Andy Nelson and Sarah Smarsh
• Tags: Urban Experience, Columns, Gina Kaufmann, Sarah Smarsh, Beau Bledsoe, Stephen Ambrose

Husky

There's more to corn than meets the eye.

• by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Sarah Smarsh
• Tags: Sports/Outdoors, Columns, Sarah Smarsh, Bonner Springs, National Agricultural Center, Havana

Movie Madness

Spidey takes on Westport.

• by Gina Kaufmann and Sarah Smarsh
• Tags: Kid Stuff, Columns, Westport, Hyde Park Neighborhood Association, Pilgrim Center, Primate Party

Good Times

He's not really Willie, silly.

• by Gina Kaufmann, Sarah Smarsh and Steve Walker
• Tags: See/Be Seen, Columns, Willie Nelson, Real Willie, Jon Peck, Tom Bradshaw

Tip Your Hat

It's last call for the Last Call Girls.

• by Gina Kaufmann, Sarah Smarsh and Steve Walker
• Tags: Performance, Columns, Gina Kaufmann, Sarah Smarsh, Anna Labia, Bill McKemy

Twice as Vice

Letters from the week of July 10, 2003

• Tags: Letters, Letters to the Editor, Kansas City, Allie Johnson, Missouri, Kansas