Pitch

Wine Makes Us Wet

For a state that still clings to its dry past, Kansas makes surprisingly good wine. But don’t try to ship it.

• by Allie Johnson
• Tags: Feature, Feature Story, Michelle Meyer, Doug Frost, Kansas, Les Meyer

The Bunker Mentality

Independence sets its sights on a live-music club.

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: State Lines, State Lines, Jacki Penny, David Rauzi, Harold Echols, Ollie Gates

Doctor's Orders

A Kansas court bites off a dentist's M.D.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: Update, Follow That Story, Steven Thomas, Kansas State Board of Healing Arts, Caribbean, Overland Park

Dear Diary

An intimate peek inside the lost journals of the Pixies' Black Francis.

• by Annie Zaleski
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Pixies, Frank Black, Boston, Nirvana (Musical Group)

Enjoy the Silence

For Electrelane, words can be very unnecessary.

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Interview, Interviews, Verity Susman, Ros Murray, Brighton, United Kingdom

Pearls of Wisdom

The Prairie Dogg discovers irrefutable truths about wedding music.

• by Nathan Dinsdale
• Tags: Prairie Dogg, Columns, Bobbie McGee, Janis Joplin, Bobbie McGillicuddy, Frank Sinatra

The OK Corral?

The First Friday beer garden fails to earn a post-debate bounce.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, Champaign, Rhode Island School of Design, Chicago, Shiraz

Vote for Change

Tuesday, October 5, at the Midland Theater.

• by John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Bob Dylan, Alice Cooper, Barbra Streisand, Bonnie Raitt

Yo La Tengo

Saturday, October 2, at the Grand Emporium.

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Yo La Tengo, John Kerry, Kansas City

The Silos

Monday, October 4, at Davey's Uptown.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Walter Salas-Humara, Drew Glackin, Konrad Meissner

The Mendoza Line

Saturday, October 2, at the Replay Lounge.

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Columns, Athens (Georgia), Brooklyn

Various

Bridge to Havana (Pyramid/Universal)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: See Now, Music, Peter Buck, Havana, Woody Harrelson, Bonnie Raitt

Travis

Travis at the Palace (WEA Corp)

• by Mandy Jordan
• Tags: See Now, Music, Alexandra Palace, Loch Ness Monster, Scotland, London

Dismember

Live Blasphemies (NMS/Escapi)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: See Now, Music, Matti Karki

Tom Dowd

Tom Dowd & the Language (Palm Pictures)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: See Now, Music, Tom Dowd, Manhattan Project, John Coltrane, Ray Charles

Gene Simmons

Speaking in Tongues (Sanctuary)

• by Geoff Harkness
• Tags: See Now, Music, Gene Simmons, David Lee Roth, Anthony Robbins, C.C. DeVille

East of Eden

The critic has a mild conversion in the basement of Unity Temple.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Cafe, Kansas City, Lou Jane, Birkenstock Sandals, Myrtle Fillmore, Eden Alley

New Kids on the Block

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Jim Nimmo, Shannon Pryor, Phoenix, James Shake

Like Moths to Flame

Americans will likely swarm to Ladder 49, an unabashed homage to firefighters.

• by Bill Gallo
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Jay Russell, Baltimore, John Travolta, Mike Kennedy

Floundering

Cruel, vapid and unfunny, this Shark bites.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Will Smith, Renee Zellweger

Chicago Hope

InPlay's Raisin in the Sun continues to shine.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Lorraine Hansberry, Walter Lee, Penny Weiner, George Forbes

Stage Capsule Reviews

Our critic weighs in on local theater.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Stage Listings, Theatre for Young America, Olathe, Chestnut Fine Arts Center, Martin City Melodrama & Vaudeville Company

Art Capsule Reviews

Our critics recommend these shows.

• by Theresa Bembnister and Gina Kaufmann
• Tags: Art Capsules, Culture Listings, Harlem, Rosemarie Fiore, Molly Murphy, Kris Kuksi

Femmes Fatales

The calendar girl comes to the Crossroads.

• by Steve Walker
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jennifer Janesko, Stephens College

Night & Day Events

Week of September 30, 2004

• by Annie Fischer and Jason Harper
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence, Frederik Schodt, Gary Hart, Nina Chen

The Writing Sutra

Mark Salzman brings the dharma to KC writers.

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Mark Salzman, Santa Barbara, California, China

Adios, Tejas

Latinos relocate their culture confab.

• by Annie Fischer, Jason Harper and Joe Miller
• Tags: Urban Experience, Columns, Annie Fischer, Harry Anslinger, Danny Rivera, Elisa Gonzales

The Clash

Aren't teenagers supposed to be lazy punks?

• by Annie Fischer, Jason Harper and Sarah Smarsh
• Tags: Sports/Outdoors, Columns, Topeka, Aaron Douglas, Kevin Wilmott, Quincy

To a Tea

Annie Fischer|Jason Harper

• Tags: See/Be Seen, Columns, Annie Fischer, Kansas City, Westport, Jason Harper

So Emotional

What's she thinking?

• by Andrew Miller and Steve Walker
• Tags: Performance, Columns, Eddy Villalta, James Woodfill, New Orleans, Peregrine Honig

The Lord's Work

Letters from the week of September 30, 2004

• Tags: Letters, Letters to the Editor, Kansas City, George W. Bush, Nadia Pflaum, Joe Miller