Pitch

You Got Schooled

Kansas lawmakers get the smack-down from a judge fed up with the state's places of learning.

• by Joe Miller
• Tags: Feature, Feature Story, Terry Bullock, U.S. Supreme Court, Kansas, Topeka

Loco Motive

Dinosaur or no dinosaur, Union Station needs money. Taxpayers’ money.

• by David Martin
• Tags: State Lines, State Lines, Mary Bloch, Kansas City, Union Station, David Ucko

Hard Sell

Channel 5’s “explosive” series caused all sorts of eruptions, we’re sure.

• by Tony Ortega
• Tags: Kansas City Strip, Columns, Xavier Von Erck, Columbia, Phoenix, John Rabe

Mind Over Matter

The Super Furry Animals can't be constrained by Mother Nature.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Gruff Rhys, Super Furry Animals, Wales, Neil McFarland

Turnbuckles and Turntables

Vince McMahon pile-drives the music industry with WWE Originals.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Vince McMahon, World Wrestling Entertainment Inc., Chris Jericho, Jim Johnston

Oh, Brother

The Free State Music Festival chases the blues away.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Prairie Dogg, Columns, Lawrence (New York), Holiday Inn Hotels & Resorts, Kansas City, Easter Island

Singin' in the Pain

The Night Ranger pops her karaoke cherry at the Brick.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, Bettie Page, 7-Up, Dale Earnhardt, Axl Rose

Roll Out

The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on Playboy, Popeyes chicken and Harry Potter with Ludacris.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Dig It, Columns, Harry Potter, John Lennon, Rush Limbaugh, Tupac Shakur

Rufus Wainwright

Monday, February 23, at Liberty Hall.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Rufus Wainwright, Hayden Christensen, Anakin Skywalker, Kate McGarrigle

The Dan Doran Band

Friday, February 20, at the Phoenix.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Van Morrison, Kansas City

Cannibal Corpse

Wednesday, February 25, at the Bottleneck.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Germany, Ace Ventura, Australia, Cannibal Corpse

Primus

Tuesday, February 24, at Memorial Hall.

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Les Claypool, San Francisco, Clear Channel Communications Inc.

Coco Montoya

Friday, February 20, at the Grand Emporium.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Coco Montoya, Dave Grohl, Albert Collins, John Mayall

C.J. Chenier and the Red Hot Louisiana Band

Tuesday, February 24, at the Grand Emporium.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, C.J. Chenier, Billboard.com, Kansas City Blues Society

Alaska

Monday, February 23, at the Bottleneck.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Lou Barlow, Russell Pollard, Elliott Smith, Lesley Ishino

The Mountain Goats

Wednesday, February 25, at the Replay Lounge.

• by Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, John Darnielle, The Mountain Goats (Musical Group), Bangor, Bogota

Heavy Frequency Awards

Three p.m. Sunday, February 22, at Royals Stadium Club.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Columns, Celine Dion, Nashville Pussy, Chloe Bridges, Ryan Red Corn

Buddy Lush Phenomenon

Thursday, February 19, at the Cup and Saucer.

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

Courtney Love

America's Sweetheart (Virgin)

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Courtney Love, Hole (Musical Group), Frank Sinatra, Sid Vicious

Al Green

I Can't Stop (Blue Note)

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now

All Night Radio

Spirit Stereo Frequency (Sub Pop)

• by Mandy Jordan
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, 527

Juvenile

Juve the Great (Universal)

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Juvenile (Rapper), Mannie Fresh, New Orleans, Cash Money Millionaires

The Lovelies

White Leather (Force MP)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Blondie (Band), Milwaukee, Liv Lovely

Primetime Heroes

A Date With Destiny (Noisome)

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Hear & Now, Hear & Now, Kuala Lumpur, Elmer's Glue, New Found Glory, The Sex Pistols

We'll Take Manhattan

Café New Yorker proves Johnson County has a taste for eccentricity.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Cafe, Cafe, Yorkers Dan, Brett Evans, Dean Martin, Manhattan

Honor Your Elders

The New York Bakery & Delicatessen ages gracefully.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, New York City, Times Square, Barbara Holzmark, Overland Park

Rites of Spring

Bernardo Bertolucci revisits young love with The Dreamers.

• by Gregory Weinkauf
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Bernardo Bertolucci, Paris, Anna Chancellor, Florian Cadiou

Hack, Man

What's a great actor doing in a dump like Mooseport?

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Gene Hackman, Maura Tierney, Wes Anderson, Lex Luthor

Mind Games

Randy Regier's toys are us.

• by Theresa Bembnister
• Tags: Art, Art, Randy Regier, Abilene (Kansas), Peso Largo, Salem

Myth Demeanor

There's more for the eye than for the head in The Queen's Story's legends.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Evaporated Milk Society, Laura Muir, MTV Networks Company, Allison Waters

Fab Film

Forty years ago, Al Maysles met the Beatles.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Stuff, Columns, The Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Al Maysles, David Maysles

Tot Models

At the Most Beautiful Baby Contest, infants try modeling before they can walk.

• by Michael Vennard
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Colleen Adams, Trevor Morgan, Star Discovery Inc., Independence Center

This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Spike Lee, Quintard Taylor, Kansas City, Overland Park

Pardon Me, Boy

Is that a miniature choo-choo? Yes, yes!

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Union Pacific Corporation, Union Station, Amtrak, Devin Connelly

Ancient Abs

The Nelson examines love handles of the past.

• by Kelly Sue DeConnick, Christopher Sebela and Steve Walker
• Tags: Urban Experience, Columns, Ellen Mariani, T.C. Boyle, George W. Bush, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Turn Blue

Thwart hypothermia for charity.

• by Gina Kaufmann, Christopher Sebela and Michael Vennard
• Tags: Sports/Outdoors, Columns, Lake of the Ozarks, Special Olympics International Inc., Christopher Sebela, Gina Kaufmann

A Toss Up

What is Mardi Gras without booze?

• by Gina Kaufmann, Michael Vennard and Steve Walker
• Tags: Kid Stuff, Columns, Kansas City, Gina Kaufmann, Kansas, Roeland Park

Nice Lips

Mardi Gras gets mouthy.

• by Gina Kaufmann and Sarah Steele
• Tags: See/Be Seen, Columns, The Flaming Lips, Anne Winter, Wyandotte, Eugene Chadbourne

Kitten Call

Ann-Margret's Ameristar show is no gamble.

• by Gina Kaufmann and Steve Walker
• Tags: Performance, Columns, Las Vegas, Ann-Margret, Peggy Lee, Kansas City Ballet

Soldier On

Letters from the week of February 19, 2004

• Tags: Letters, Letters to the Editor, Kansas City, Europe, Missouri, Jason Whitlock