Pitch

A Boy's Life

The Supreme Court effectively threw out the Kansas Sodomy Law, but Attorney General Phill Kline won't let Matthew Limon out of jail.

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Feature, Feature Story, Gilbert Limon, Matthew Limon, Mike Limon, Phill Kline

Dance Revolution

The latest battle of Westport: taxation without representation.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: State Lines, State Lines, Westport, Bill Nigro, Craig Glazer, Pam Ptacek

Hurl Power

KC's celebrity chicks make us sick.

• Tags: Kansas City Strip, Columns, Shandi Sullivan, San Diego, Blue Springs, Kansas City

Repent!

And your sinful love of pop-punk may be forgiven.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, The Ramones, Blink-182, adidas AG, Green Day

Messin' With Texas

Musicians take cracks at G-Dub, with varying results.

• by Jason Bracelin
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, John Mellencamp, The Beastie Boys, NOFX, Pennywise

Generation Why?

Lipriddle and Generation Relevant pander under the guise of goodwill.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Prairie Dogg, Columns, Nicole Chavez-Circello, Olathe, Costco Wholesale Corporation, Toni Collins

Mock the Monkey

It may soon be the year of the ape, and the Night Ranger can't shake her inner chimp.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, P.F. Chang's China Bistro Inc., Chris Koppers, Bacardi Ltd., Dallas Clark

Sellouts

The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on deflecting criticism and keeping it real with guitarists Jeff Stinco of Simple Plan, Tom Wisniewski of MxPx and Josh Cain of Motion City Soundtrack.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Dig It, Columns, MxPx, Motion City Soundtrack, Jeff Stinco, Josh Cain

Sevendust

Tuesday, January 27, at the Uptown Theater.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Sevendust, Dee Snider, Perry Farrell, Wal-Mart Stores Inc.

Murder By Death

Wednesday, January 28, at the Replay Lounge.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Bloomington, Sarah Balliet, Vince Edwards, Indiana

Jimmie Meade Benefit

Sunday, January 25, 1-11 p.m, at B.B.'s Lawnside Bar-B-Q.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Jimmie Meade, Kansas City, Chicago, Lee McBee

Toby Keith

Saturday, January 24, at Bramlage Coliseum in Manhattan.

• by Ali Ryan
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Toby Keith, The Taliban

Lee Rocker

Friday, January 23, at the Grand Emporium.

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Lee Rocker, Brian Setzer

Unicorns

Thursday, January 22, at the Replay Lounge.

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

Guttermouth

Monday, January 26, at Mojo's in Columbia.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, Kansas City, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., Ryan Adams, Warped Tour

The Urge

Saturday, January 24, at the Granada Theatre.

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Lawrence, St. Louis

Steve Poltz

Thursday, January 22, at Davey's Uptown.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Steve Poltz, Eddie Vedder, Walter Matthau, John Prine

Peter Cincotti

Friday, January 23, at the Folly Theater.

• by John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Peter Cincotti, Harry Connick Jr., Frank Sinatra

Wyclef Jean

The Preacher's Son (J-Records)

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Wyclef Jean, Austin Powers, Star Trek

Android Lust

The Dividing (Projekt)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Bangladesh, United Kingdom

DJ Rice

The City (Drop Down)

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, 1782

Laika

Wherever I Am I Am What Is Missing (Beggars/Too Pure)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Guy Fixsen, Margaret Fiedler, Miles Davis

P.O.D.

Payable on Death (Atlantic)

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Marcos Curiel, P.O.D. (Band), Jesus Christ, Marshall

REQ

Car Paint Scheme (Warp)

• by Dave Segal
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Brighton, United Kingdom, Damian Harris

Lamb

Between Darkness and Wonder (Universal)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Paul Simon, Depeche Mode

Home Plates

George Brett's scores a couple of hits, but it's not about the food anyway.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Cafe, Cafe, Jack Dempsey, George Brett, AL Central Division, American League (Baseball)

Trophy Case

When it comes to sports treasures, Chappell's runs circles around George Brett's.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Jim Chappell, George Brett, Lee's Summit, LeRoy (Minnesota), Chappell's Restaurant & Sports Museum

Painting by Numbers

A picture may say 1,000 words, but this film about one says considerably less.

• by Luke Y. Thompson
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Jan Vermeer, Van Ruijven, Tracy Chevalier, Colin Firth

The Butterfly Effect

In The Butterfly Effect, Ashton Kutcher comes unstuck in time.

• by Gregory Weinkauf
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Twentyish Evan, Ashton Kutcher, David Cronenberg, Amy Smart

Bog Log

Ashley Miller gets happily lost in a land called Ratlin.

• by Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: SeeSaw, Columns, Ashley Miller, Matt Greenblatt, Paul Brennan, Garrett Peek

Training Season

Nobody’s perfect, including award-winning young filmmakers.

• by Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jeph Scanlon, Frank J. Zamboni & Co. Inc., Peter Rudy, Academy Awards

This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Dario Robleto, Kym Griswold, Simon Cowell, Jon Stewart

Crossroads Blues

Author Elijah Wald knows that Robert Johnson never sold his soul.

• by Christopher Sebela
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Robert Johnson, Elijah Wald, Bing Crosby, Gene Autry

Big Chili

The Clay Guild hosts the Souper Bowl.

• by Kelly Sue DeConnick and Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Urban Experience, Columns, Kansas City, Kelley Sue DeConnick, Holly Reiss, National Football League

Master Debaters

All lawyers aren't all bad all the time.

• by Michael Vennard
• Tags: Sports/Outdoors, Columns, Michael Vennard, Snow Creek, Kansas City, Gore-Tex

Space Oddity

Martians land on Sesame Street.

• by Robert Bishop and Sarah Smarsh
• Tags: Kid Stuff, Columns, Sesame Street, Robert Bishop, Kemper Arena, Sarah Smarsh

A Different Kind of Naked

Peregrine Honig translates nude paintings into sculptures.

• by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Gina Kaufmann and Michael Vennard
• Tags: See/Be Seen, Columns, Peregrine Honig, Baltimore, Gina Kaufmann, Jesus Christ

Not a Tuba

This brass band blows audiences away.

• by Gina Kaufmann and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Performance, Columns, Columbia, Lawrence, Michael Vennard, Gina Kaufmann

Bus Crash

Letters from the week of January 22, 2004

• Tags: Letters, Letters to the Editor, Kansas City, Kit Bond, Night Ranger, Miller High Life