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Let's Go Prospecting!

Spend some time on prospect avenue and you'll find success stories where some see only blight.

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Arthurine Simmons, Brad Reeder, Joe Giamalva, Kansas City

Hot Jiggity

Our Wayward Son introduces you to music by the ACB's, the Black Lips and others.

• Tags: Pitchcast, Columns, Franz Schubert, Jason Harper, Apple iTunes

Lost Boy

Lawrence rapper Adru the Misphit channels his troubled past into pounding hip-hop.

• by Andy Vihstadt
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Andrew Roufa, Lawrence, Manhattan (Kansas), Washburn University

Walk Like Waldo

Nine bars. Nine hours. And a whole lot of inappropriate boob references.

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night Ranger, Columns, Waldo Walk, Bobby Baker, Tommy Farha, Waldo Bar

A Doggone Drag

The Dogstock 5 music festival left its Akita-rescuing owners up to their eyeballs in debt.

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Buckle Bunny, Column, Randy Long, Eric Noble, Longs Drug Stores Corporation, Oskaloosa (Kansas)

Kazaam!

Abracadabras are the hardest working band in Blue Springs.

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, John Nixon, Kyle Rausch, Big & Rich, Missouri

The Afterparty

The Afterparty (self-released)

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Danny Fischer, Dave Regnier, Elie Wiesel, Josh Mobley

The ACB's

The ACB's (self-released)

• by Megan Metzger
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Konnor Ervin, Rivers Cuomo, Girl Scouts of the United States of America

Anders Parker

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Bob Dylan, Jeff Tweedy, Ken Coomer, Joe Pernice

The Weakerthans

• by Aaron Ladage
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, The Weakerthans, Broken Social Scene, Canada, John Samson

Fred Eaglesmith

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Fred Eaglesmith, Toby Keith, Woody Guthrie

Split Lip Rayfield

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Emporia, Eric Mardis, Jeff Eaton, Kirk Rundstrom

New on New Hampshire

A move to downtown Lawrence gives Michael Levy's bistro a fresh start.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Michael Levy, Hampshire St. Bistro, Lawrence (Kansas), New Hampshire

Egg Roll Poll

Here's the latest on a tough election to determine the country's top Chinese restaurants.

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Lee's Summit, China King, Overland Park, Clay Center

Making Good

An accessible narrative belies something much darker and stranger in Eastern Promises.

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, David Cronenberg, Viggo Mortensen, London, Steven Knight

The Big Valley

• by ELLA TAYLOR
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Iraq, Vietnam, Deerfield, Paul Haggis

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

• by Nathan Lee
• Tags: Toronto Film Festival, toronto, Bob Dylan, Chris Columbus, Toronto, Takashi Miike

Knit Happens

Raised in Craftivity ain’t your grandma’s crochet work.

• by Dana Self
• Tags: Art, Columns, Elaine Bradford, Houston, Annette Messager, Ben Schachter

Stage Capsule Reviews

Reviews and previews of upcoming shows.

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage Capsules, Listings, David Selznick, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Theresa Rebeck, David Zippel, American Heartland Theatre

Art Capsule Reviews

Our critics recommend these shows.

• Tags: Art Capsules, Culture Listings, Orly Cogan, Baltimore, Elizabeth Huey, Santiago Ramos, H&R Block Artspace

Saturday Night Fever: 30th Anniversary Special Collector's Edition Feeling Feverish?

• by Jordan Harper and Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: DVDish, Reviews, Wall Street, Robert Wilonsky, Oliver Stone, Quentin Tarantino

'Roid Rage Returns

Metroid Prime 3 is the best you can get for the Wii.

• by Chris Ward
• Tags: Game On, Reviews, Nintendo Wii, Metroid Prime 3: Corruption, Wii Remote Controller, Lara Croft

The Week's Other DVD Releases

• Tags: What Else Is New?, Reviews, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Catherine Deneuve, Buena Vista Home Entertainment Inc., Lions Gate Entertainment Corp.

Swing, Swing

• by Sarah Smarsh
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Organizer Laura Bogue, Baltimore, St. Louis, Iraq

Viva la Fiesta

• by John Amick
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, San Antonio, Wyandotte

Mint Condition

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Craig Comstock, Lawrence (New York), Frank Black, Anne Pierson

Fairs of Art

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2882

Not That Cheney

• by Santiago Ramos
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Frank Lloyd Wright, Mamah Borthwick Cheney, Loving Frank, Nancy Horan

Audio Excitement

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York)

Hank Jr. Warms Up

• by Chris Rasmussen
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Minnesota Vikings, National Football Conference, National Football League, NFC North

Nighthawks at the Diner

• by Megan Metzger
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Michael Hogan, Lycra, Brian Koon, Fedora Day

Autumn Art Night

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kate Hackman, Deanna Dikeman, Madrid, Nate Fors

Google War (Beta)

• by Lisa Horn
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Google Earth, Brian McClendon, Jerry Dobson, Lawrence (New York)

Smut Onstage

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Sara Crow, Craig Aikman, Faye Dunaway, Joan Crawford

Negative Space

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Dominique Elkind, Kansas City Art Institute, Jonathan Strange

Poetry Respected

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Dennis Weiser, Duke Ellington, John Wayne, Westminster College

Local Looks

• by Ashley Brown
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Karl Lagerfeld, Los Angeles, New York

Drink and Ride

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Portland, Sarah Gibson, Westport

Patch Attraction

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

When Pigs Fly

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Roger Waters, Pink Floyd, Lied Center, David Gilmour

The Stooge

Our former U.S. attorney tells some foul-smelling stories.

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, Kwaim Stenson, Bradley Schlozman, Missouri, Todd Graves

letters from the week of September 20

• Tags: Letters, Letters, Kansas City, Justin Kendall, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Missouri

Speedy Kicks Ass

There's nothing looney about lovin' the fastest mouse in all of Mexico.

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Speedy Gonzalez, Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., Freddy Lopez, Howard Stern