Pitch

Party Cove Pimps

24 hours with those who get off filming the Lake's sex shows.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Kevin Barber, Marc Hinrichs, The Game (Rapper), Craig Morgan

Buyer's Remorse

The KC Strip is the sirloin of Kansas City media, a critical cut of surmisin' steak that each week weighs in on the issues of the day, dictating its column to Pitch writers.

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

One Big Dog

On a road trip west, we hear a yarn about an area bad boy. Also: the return of a driven-out business.

• Tags: Backwash, Columns, Paul Thomas, Sprint Center, Delbert Dunmire, Kansas City

The True Anchorman

This Week We Love

• by Annie Fischer
• Tags: Backwash, Columns, Gary Lezak, Kansas City, California

Heavy Rebels

The Symbol Heavy collective marries art and hip-hop in ways this city’s never seen.

• by Andy Vihstadt
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Symbol Technologies Inc., Luke Rocha, Kansas City, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien

Wailin' Jenny

Sandwiched between jam bands, Jenny Carr and the Waiting List were peanut-buttery good.

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Wayward Son, Columns, Jenny Carr, Billy Joel, Mick Jagger, Luther Perkins

Still Bloomin'

Hothouse Flowers rise again.

• by Mike Warren
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Show Preview, Leo Barnes, Dublin, Irish Sea, Bono (Musician)

Jungle Love

Hometown boy Mike Dillon rocks the jungle.

• by Jesse Nathan
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Show Preview, Mike Dillon (Executive), Mark Southerland, Malachy Papers, Bill Ware

Hit the Road

• by Andy Vihstadt
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Show Preview, Indianapolis Motor Speedway, NASCAR, Ted Nugent, Hostess Twinkies

Queensryche

Wednesday, September 6, at the Uptown Theater.

• by Chris Glenn
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Chris DeGarmo, Ronnie James Dio, Queensryche

Honky

Saturday, September 2, at Davey's Uptown

• by Jesse Nathan
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, J.D. Pinkus, Butthole Surfers, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top

Def Leppard and Journey

Wednesday, September 6, at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Def Leppard, Journey (Musical Group), David Bowie, Steve Augeri

Relapse Contamination Tour

Wednesday, September 6, at The Granada.

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Kansas City Star, Ottawa

Street Jizz

Saturday, September 2, at the Pistol Social Club (1219 Union Avenue).

• by Megan Metzger
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Cody Critcheloe, Pete Doherty, Ashley Miller

Now It's Overhead

Dark Light Daybreak (Saddle Creek)

• by Eryc Eyl
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Athens (Georgia), Omaha, Saddle Creek Records, Flannery O'Connor

Public Enemy

Bring That Beat Back — The Public Enemy Remix Project (Slam Jamz/Koch)

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Flavor Flav, Professor Griff, Chuck D, DJ Terminator

Moiré

Public Execution (Mind Machine)

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Waylon Callahan, Paul Kelley, Slayer (Band)

Labor Day at the Empire Room

Monday, September 4

• by Chris Milbourn
• Tags: Spin Cycle, Show Preview, 1151

Bar Raid

Just like Quantrill, we head to Lawrence to raid the bars. Pillaging optional.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, William Quantrill, Lawrence (New York), Red Lyon, Lawrence Massacre

La Vida Coco

A popular new suburban Mexican joint isn't, you know, Mexican.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Peter Doucette, Leawood, Manhattan (Kansas), Caribbean, Coco Bolos New Mexican Wood Fired Grill & Cantina

Vintage Veg

KC vegetarianism has always been Inn.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Kansas City, Myrtle Fillmore, Lee's Summit, Tom Taylor

Practical Magic

An eerie melodrama explores the dark arts in turn-of-the-century Vienna.

• by Bill Gallo
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Neil Burger, Vienna, Gustav Mahler, Sigmund Freud

Break-ups

This stale romantic comedy has neither romance nor comedy.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Bart Freundlich, David Duchovny, Garry Shandling, Maggie Gyllenhaal

A Good Gamble

Full Deck makes a bet on art inspired by Mexican bingo.

• by Ray T. Barker
• Tags: Art, Columns, Israel Garcia, Mary Kay McGinty, George W. Bush, Mexico

Art Capsule Reviews

Our critics recommend these shows.

• by Ray T. Barker, Annie Fischer and Alexandra E. Fox
• Tags: Art Capsules, Culture Listings, Elissa Armstrong, Warwick, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Stage Capsule Reviews

Reviews and previews of upcoming shows.

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage Capsules, Listings, Dolly Parton, Lanford Wilson, Lebanon (Missouri), Gary Campbell

The Short Goodbye

• by Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: DVDish, Reviews, Robert Wilonsky, Peter Jackson, FOX Broadcasting Company, Charlize Theron

Road Rage

In FlatOut 2, life is a highway strewn with carnage.

• by Luke O'Brien
• Tags: Game On, Reviews, Evel Knievel, NASCAR, Jack Benton, GMC Jimmy

Our top DVD picks for the week of August 29:

• Tags: What Else Is New?, Reviews, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Sony Corporation, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Think Film Co. Inc.

Special Food Edición

Think twice about calling that cerveza from south of the border Mexican.

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Mexico, Bud Light, Budweiser, Pyramid of the Sun

It’s Not Easy Being Green

Kansas City Strip, August 10

• Tags: Letters, Letters, Kansas City, Kay Barnes, Richard Tolbert, Alan Manker