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When you're driving in circles, there's no such thing as fast money.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: Feature, Feature Story, Aaron Daniel, Steve Chick, NASCAR, Kansas City

Going Bust

A scientific study finds that renderings like the new image of Precious Doe are a waste of time.

• by Casey Logan
• Tags: State Lines, State Lines, Alvin Brooks, Kansas City, Louisiana State University, Frank Bender

Royals Flushed

Tony Peña may have had faith, but his decisions down the stretch begged belief.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Kansas City Strip, Columns, AL Central Division, American League (Baseball), Kansas City Royals, Major League Baseball

Blood on the Tonsils

Nobody shrieks like the Blood Brothers.

• by John LaBriola
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Seattle, Cody Votolato, Edvard Munch, Jim Morrison

British Steel

Holly Golightly isn't exactly happy-go-lucky.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Holly Golightly, Bucktown, Chicago, Billy Childish

Shut Up and Dance

Rockers should stop whining about DJs and start shaking their asses.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Around Hear, Columns, Bubba Sparxxx, Cyndi Lauper, Michael Jackson, Kansas City

First Down, Many More to Go

At the Quaff, everyone's a player.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, AFC West Division, American Football Conference, Kansas City Chiefs, National Football League

Mars Volta

Wednesday, October 8, at the Granada.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, The Mars Volta, Freddie Mercury, Geddy Lee, Jeremy Michael Ward

Death Cab for Cutie

Tuesday, October 7, at the Granada.

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Death Cab for Cutie, Ben Gibbard, John Roderick, Long Winters

Pretty Girls Make Graves and S Prcss

Friday, October 3, at the Bottleneck.

• by Robert Bishop and Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Pretty Girls Make Graves, The Smiths (Musical Group), Dharma Bums, Morrissey (Singer)

Nada Surf

Sunday, October 5, at the Bottleneck.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Ric Ocasek, Nada Surf, Matthew Caws, California

Fifteen Minutes Fast

Saturday, October 4, at the Hurricane.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, Kansas City, Tempe, Jeff Kritzstein, Arizona

Ayanna Hobson and Little Buster's Soulbrothers Band

Friday, October 3, at the Folly Theater.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, National Federation of the Blind, B.B. King, Ayanna Hobson

Trailer Bride

Tuesday, October 7, at Davey's Uptown.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, The Geraldine Fibbers, Emily Dickinson

Atmosphere

Saturday, October 4, at the Granada.

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Slug (Rapper), Minneapolis, Sean Daley, Public Enemy

Tora! Tora! Torrance!

Saturday, October 4, at the Brick.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, P.J. Harvey, Minneapolis, Torrance, Nirvana (Musical Group)

Outkast

Speakerboxxx / The Love Below (Arista)

• by Dan LeRoy
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, OutKast, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton, Andre "3000" Benjamin, Georgia

Super Furry Animals

Phantom Power (Epic)

• by Dan Reines
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys, Coldplay, Oasis (Band)

Moaning Lisa

Break Me (Aquarium)

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Moaning Lisa, Poison (Band), Bret Michaels, Los Angeles

Smokin' PotPie

We're giddy over the intoxicating food at this retro-cool new place.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Cafe, John Williams, Sarah Ponak, Pol Pot, Khmer Rouge, PotPie, PotPie (#1195979)

Honky-Tonking

Legendary saloonkeeper Harry Murphy's Country Club will be anything but snooty and exclusive.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Kansas City, Harry Murphy, Wyandotte, Howard Boyd

It's a Black Thing

The teacher, not the teaching, makes this School of Rock.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Jack Black, School of Rockwould, Marvin Gaye, Nick Hornby

Time and Again

Once more, Denzel is a good cop caught in a bad situation.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Matt Whitlock, Sanaa Lathan, Carl Franklin, Eva Mendes

Bear Essentials

Kids theater isn't porridge in this Goldilocks.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Sidonie Garrett, Theatre for Young America, William Shakespeare, Cinnamon Schultz

Ode to Kansas

Filmmakers get to the bottom of sketchy Garden City, Kansas, politics.

• by David Casey
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Connie Morris, Aaron Paden, Lawrence (Kansas), Mark von Schlemmer

This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Brandon Ward, Forrest Gump, Westport, Found Magazine

Frank Talk

Al Franken is coming! But we guess the Star probably managed to tell you that much already.

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Al Franken, Ann Coulter, Paul Gigot, Kansas City Star

Fort Lonely

A Brooklyn author flashes back to the 1970s.

• by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Allie Johnson, Christopher Sebela and Steve Walker
• Tags: Urban Experience, Columns, Brooklyn, Jonathan Lethem, Mattie Rhodes Art Center, Dylan Ebdus

On the Trail

Bikers enjoy Missouri scenery -- for a good cause.

• by Gina Kaufmann, Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Sports/Outdoors, Columns, Katy Trail, Missouri, Texas, Gina Kaufmann

A Second Chance

Old toys never die.

• by Gina Kaufmann and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Kid Stuff, Columns, Michael Vennard, Prairie Village, Kansas City, Bonner Springs

On the Road

Skate artists go coast to coast.

• by Gina Kaufmann and Michael Vennard
• Tags: See/Be Seen, Columns, Jeremy Fish, Gina Kaufmann, Lawrence, San Francisco

Hey, Frenchy

David Sedaris gets some love in the States.

• by Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Performance, Columns, David Sedaris, Ira Glass, Lawrence, Gina Kaufmann

Now and Zinn

Letters from the week of October 2, 2003

• Tags: Letters, Letters to the Editor, Kansas City, Tony Ortega, George W. Bush, Victor Zinn