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Life Sucks

It’s hard out here in the U.S., when you escape Colombian assassins, only to fall in with KCK drug smugglers.

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Flor Devia, Germain Devia, Jacinto Hernandez, Millie Molina

Widow Shopper

A war memorabilia collector hits up widows of vets.

• by Ben Paynter
• Tags: State Lines, News Story, John Angolia, Mike Bussell, Robert DeCamp, Allen DeCamp

Charge It

Nothing says Earth Day

like electric cars and massive potholes.

• Tags: Burnt Ends, Columns, Mark Higley, Sam Swearngin, Kansas, Lawrence (New York)

World's biggest pothole!

• Tags: Burnt Ends, Columns, Dennis Gagnon, Colleen Newman, Mark Funkhouser

Upstaged!

An investigation turns up rejected names for Sprint’s music phone.

• Tags: Burnt Ends, Columns, Sprint Nextel Corporation, Apple iPhone, Apple Inc., Apple iPod

Hey, Claire McCaskill

Why don’t you ever call anymore?

• Tags: Hey, You!, Columns, Claire McCaskill, Bill Clinton, Jesse Jackson, Washington, DC

Wax On, Wax Off

Digital DJ-ing is a whole new Tactic.

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Brent Lippincott, Ben Fuller, Napster Inc., Daft Punk

Home Again

Happily, at least one 75th Street drinking institution is alive and well after the Waldo fire.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, MySpace Inc., Sports Illustrated, Kansas City Fire Department, Kansas City, Waldo

My Little Chickadee

Dave “Chilidog” Crawford is a musician’s musician and a bounder’s bounder.

• by Megan Metzger
• Tags: Heartbeat City, Columns, James Fulton, D.B. Cooper, Roy Orbison, W.C. Fields

Eric's Trip

Split Lip Rayfield's Eric Mardis journeys forward in wake of loss.

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Eric Mardis, Kirk Rundstrom, Kansas, Wakarusa Music Festival

Date My G

You could make out with a rap star ... or could you?

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Fat Joe, Lil' Wayne, Young Jeezy, Puerto Rico

The Download

• by Andy Vihstadt
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Sage Francis, Jolie Holland, Kansas City, MySpace Inc.

Shiner

Making Love (Anodyne)

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Allen Epley, Lula Divinia

Sterilize Stereo

Bugs and Daymares (self-released)

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Jake Kersley, Mike Doughty, Rufus Wainwright

Love of Diagrams

Mosaic (Matador)

• by Ray Cummings
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Antonia Selbach, Monika Fikerle, Pete Wentz, Mission of Burma

The Ponys

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Matador Records Inc., Brian Case, Deerhunter

Neko Case

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Neko Case, Loretta Lynn, The New Pornographers

Open Hand

• by Aaron Ladage
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Allen Epley, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Paul Malinowski

Yo La Tengo

• by Ray Cummings
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Ira Kaplan, Yo La Tengo, Georgia Hubley, James McNew

Geoff Koch

• by Ben Westhoff
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Omaha, St. Louis, Red Lobster Seafood Restaurants

DJ AM

• by Chris Milbourn
• Tags: Spin Cycle, Show Preview, Adam "DJ AM" Goldstein, Nicole Richie, Ben Stiller, Demi Moore

One Is Not Enough

One Bite Japanese Grill is so satisfying, we could barely stop eating.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Franklin, Central Missouri State University, SAM'S West Inc., Antioch, One Bite Japanese Grill

The Portable Chef

Tim Doolittle packs up for Vegas.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Kansas City, Tim Doolittle, Mike Saluzzi, The Venetian, Cafe At Briarcliff Village

Trash Daze

Rodriguez and Tarantino overcome nostalgia in their cut-and-run grindhouse mash note.

• by Scott Foundas
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Freddy Rodriguez, Hollywood

BookScam

In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn’t happen today.

• by ELLA TAYLOR
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Clifford Irving, Richard Gere, James Frey, JT LeRoy

Tinkle Twinkle

With the help of its piano, UMKC’s graduate theater department sparkles in the basement.

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Tony Bernal, Noel Coward, Garry Essendine, Patrick Du Laney

The Big Valley

Never mind Laura. Who killed Twin Peaks?

• by Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: DVDish, Reviews, David Lynch, Robert De Niro, Barry Levinson, Bernard Malamud

For the Birds

Wing Island might make you cry fowl.

• by Chris Ward
• Tags: Game On, Reviews, Nintendo Wii, Sparrow Wing

Our top DVD picks for the week of April 3:

• Tags: What Else Is New?, Reviews, Lions Gate Entertainment Corp., Ludwig van Beethoven, Home Box Office Inc., The Walt Disney Company

A Shot and a Laugh

• by Jesse Nathan
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Danny Schluck, Lawrence (New York), Granada

Destroyed! By MADNESS!

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Allen Ginsberg, William Shatner, Pennsylvania

The Art of Peace

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 542

Hump-Day Harvest

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day

Royals vs. Tigers

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day

Rime Buddhist Center and Monastery

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Rime Center

Devil's Advocates

Two Shook Hardy lawyers continue the firm’s dark legacy.

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, David Hardy, Brian Yates, Bryan Pratt, Mark Behrens

Letters from the week of April 5

“Every day, injured soldiers return from Iraq to suffer more than they should.”

• Tags: Letters, Letters, Justin Kendall, Kansas City, Styrofoam, Jim Barone

Close the Ocean

Really, what makes you think all illegals are Mexicans?

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Bill O'Reilly, The Taliban, Glenn Beck, Lou Dobbs