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Busted

Rich developers helped bankrupt the city's bus system, and now you're being asked to bail it out.

• by Casey Logan
• Tags: Feature, Feature Story, Mark Huffer, Kansas City, Missouri, Anthony Saper

Falling Eaves

City Hall's ineptitude makes a homeowner very nervous.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: State Lines, State Lines, Mary Kletchka, Mitchell Gale, Codes Department, Leawood

Runaway Train

Clay Chastain is a few passengers short of a load.

• by CJ Janovy
• Tags: Janovy, Columns, Clay Chastain, Union Station, Kansas City, Casey Logan

Register This!

The Star wants to probe you -- but here's how to stick them instead.

• by Tony Ortega
• Tags: Kansas City Strip, Columns, Yvette Walker, Kansas City, Gray Davis, Mark Zieman

Black Eye

Modern minstrels -- historical hootenanny or racist revival?

• by Darren Keast
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Daniel Partner, Bob Kilham, Joe Ayers, Detroit

Citizen Arcane

Broadcast knows its Czech vampire films and French library music.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Trish Keenan, Birmingham, Stevie Wonder, Stereolab

Somewhere, Over the Radio...

The new music editor still hasn't found what he's looking for.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Prairie Dogg, Columns, Kansas City, Oregon, Tech N9ne, Hank Williams

The Moose Dodge

Our trip to the Blue Moose made us want to run, run so far away.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, Wichita, Ed Sadler, Night Ranger, Prairie Village

Papa M

Saturday, October 25, at Replay Lounge.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, Richard Buckner, Berlin, David Pajo, A Perfect Circle

Alejandro Escovedo Benefit

Friday, October 24, at Davey's Uptown.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, Alejandro Escovedo, John Evans, Jude Thaddeus, Rex Hobart

Wynton Marsalis Quintet

Friday, October 24, at the Folly Theater.

• by John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Wynton Marsalis, Art Blakey, Ken Burns, Grammy Awards

Sick of It All

Saturday, October 25, at the Granada.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Massachusetts, Rancid (Musical Group)

Franklin Bruno

Saturday, October 25, at the 8th Street Tap Room.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Franklin Bruno, Jenny Toomey, Noel Coward

Christine Kane

Saturday, October 25, at Unity Church of Lawrence.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Christine Kane, Asheville, Greg Brown, Rosanne Cash

Supersuckers

Sunday, October 26, at the Bottleneck.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Seattle, Tucson, Eddie Spaghetti, Sub Pop Ltd.

Over the Rhine

Monday, October 27, at Grand Emporium.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns

Spearhead with O.A.R.

Wednesday, October 29, at Liberty Hall.

• by Geoff Harkness and John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Michael Franti, The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy, Chuck D

Michael Yonkers Band

Microminiature Love (Sub Pop)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Yonkers, Minneapolis, Phil Ochs, Sub Pop Ltd.

Santo Gold

Hold On (Maproom)

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Santo Gold, Dalin Horner

Joss Stone

The Soul Sessions (S-Curve)

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Maxwell (Musician), National Public Radio Inc., Aretha Franklin, Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc.

Ying Yang Twins

Me and My Brother (TVT)

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Lil Jon, Atlanta, Georgia Dome, Ying Yang Twins

Deadweight

Stroking the Moon (Alternative Tentacles)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Ben Barnes, San Francisco, Jon Anderson, Paulo Baldi

Mark Ronson

Here Comes the Fuzz (Elektra)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Mark Ronson, New York City, AT&T Inc., Ghostface Killah

Power House

Mark and Mary Mollentine win friends and influence people at the Governor's Meeting House.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Cafe, Andrew Reeder, Mary Mollentine, Kansas City, The Great Depression, Governor's Meeting House

Thai Town

The Liberda family’s empire expands.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Ann Liberda, Kansas City, Western Union Financial Services Inc., Overland Park

Divided Borders

Brutality and romance make strange bedfellows in Beyond Borders.

• by Luke Y. Thompson
• Tags: Film, Film Review, United Nations, Clive Owen, Angelina Jolie, Martin Campbell

Too Much of a Gooding

Cuba goes over the top in the mawkish Radio.

• by Bill Gallo
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Cuba Gooding Jr., Harold Jones, James Robert Kennedy, Mike Rich

Party Hartley

Marsden Hartley could teach the Young Friends a thing or two.

• by Theresa Bembnister
• Tags: Art, Art, William Rockhill Nelson, Marsden Hartley, Berlin, Randall Griffey

Hue and Cry

Yellowman's cast does the best it can with a stagy take on skin tone.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Dael Orlandersmith, Eugene, Karen Cline-Wright, Brad Shaw

The Boss

In David Brent's The Office, it's better to be popular than competent.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Stuff, Columns, David Brent, Larry David, Ricky Gervais, The Office (TV Show)

Art Scare

A couple of Nelson curators unmask our deepest fears.

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Joyce Youmans, Leesa Fanning, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Dali

This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Sherman Alexie, Kansas City, Angola, Horatio Nelson Jackson

Dead Bolt

When the cemetery needs work, it's time for Kansas Citians to rise from their slumbers and run for life.

• by Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, A.F. Barbe, Pamela Gray, Jesse James, Mary Atkins

Sonic Mayhem

After KKFI's Halloween blues show, Jay Hawkins won't be the only one screaming.

• by Gina Kaufmann, Michael Vennard and Steve Walker
• Tags: Urban Experience, Columns, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Shellee Graham, Elliott Earls, Steve Walker

Fort Fright

History is scary in Sibley, Missouri.

• by Allie Johnson and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Sports/Outdoors, Columns, Maggie McCoy, Gordon Julich, Michael Vennard, Jackson County Parks and Recreation Department

Play Loud

These kids squeeze their own boxes.

• by Christopher Sebela and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Kid Stuff, Columns, Michael Vennard, Kansas City, Chris Sebela, Cool Cats Accordion Orchestra

Patty Party

Meat Puppets get on down.

• by Jen Chen, Kelly Sue DeConnick, Gina Kaufmann and Steve Walker
• Tags: See/Be Seen, Columns, Dresden, Kansas Citians Callyann Casteel, Frank Higgins, Kansas City

Tap on Scrap

The Lied Center gets trashed.

• by Nadia Pflaum and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Performance, Columns, Nadia Pflaum, Wynton Marsalis, Gregory Kozak, Lawrence

Drawing the Line

Letters from the week of October 23, 2003

• Tags: Letters, Letters to the Editor, Edie Harrison, Kansas City, Allie Johnson, Charles Ferruzza