Pitch

A college drop-out abandons a lucrative tech career for a life of inner-city poverty – and hopes to save an urban school district from oblivion

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Robyne Turner, Kansas City, Sherry Payne, Linda Crabill

Ambush at Channel 5: One TV type gets a dose of her own hidden-camera-style investigation and finds it "uncool"

• Tags: Burnt Ends, Columns, Rick Iler, MySpace Inc., Department of Burnt Ends, Aaron Keller

Now in her 90s, Kansas City jazz singer Myra Taylor has had a life of ups and downs in the music industry

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Myra Taylor, Harlan Leonard, Kansas City, Lou Blasco

Musica Viva: DJing is a second language for Kiko De Gallo

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Wayward Son, Column, Casey Adams, Mariposa, Ivan Diaz DeLeon, Nara Prefecture

Meet the contestants for the fourth-annual Pitch Ultra Music DJ Contest

• by Chris Milbourn
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, MySpace Inc., Miami, Kansas City, Shaun Flo

Twelve Kansas City bands share their thoughts on Armageddon before bringing mayhem to the Mission Theatre

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Dustin Johnson, Missouri River, Holden Simpson, Krista Julius

Clipse says 'We Got It 4 Cheap' — and means it

• by Andy Vihstadt
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Re-Up Gang, Maybelline Beauty Products, The Clipse, Columbia

Jeff Wood

Underneath Me
(Independent)

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Jeff Wood

Tactic

We've Only Just Begun
(Tactic Traxx)

• by Chris Milbourn
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Ben Fuller, Blaqstarr, Kanye West

Ha Ha Tonka

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Alan Lomax, Springfield (Missouri), Bloodshot Records, Kings of Leon

The Alan Parsons Project

• by Megan Metzger
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, The Alan Parsons Project, Human Genome Project, Eric Woolfson, Austin Powers

Cephalic Carnage

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Cephalic Carnage

Michael Wolff Trio

• by John Kreicbergs
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Michael Wolff, Arsenio Hall, Sonny Rollins, Tony Williams

Brimstone Howl

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Lincoln (Nebraska), Jay Hawkins, Hives LP

Quintron & Ms. Pussycat

• by Flannery Cashill
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, New Orleans, Lawrence

Eyes of the Betrayer

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, Dustin Albright, MySpace Inc.

Kansas City’s Corona Cantina #1 still has some problems to work out, but we’ll raise a few bottles to the concept

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Carol Ann, Kansas, Marno McDermott, Green Bay Packers

Vegetarian lovers of Mexican food long for more than beans, rice and cheese

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Fat Mouth, Columns, Darren Mark, Kansas City, Toluca, Mexico

Be Kind Rewind

Michel Gondry attempts to celebrate DIY filmmaking but comes up short, stale and flat.

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Michel Gondry, Jack Black, Mos Def, Passaic

Scope It: Stanton Fernald and Jack Rees enlighten us with medical supplies and plastic

• by Dana Self
• Tags: Art, Columns, Stanton Fernald, Jack Rees, University of Kansas Medical Center, Alexander de Large

The Unicorn’s new Jerome Stage is the perfect place to get intimate with women who live a world away

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage, Stage, James Wright, Gary Mosby, Ba'ath Party, Cynthia Levin

Art Exhibitions

• Tags: Art Capsules, Culture Listings, Tomoko Takahashi, Chris Packham, Nicole Cawlfield, Susi Lulaki

Theater Productions

• Tags: Stage Capsules, Listings, Leonard Bernstein, Alan Scherstuhl, Daniel Doss, Steven Eubank

Laughing Pains

• by Robert Wilonsky and Jordan Harper
• Tags: DVDish, Reviews, Frank Lucas, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Noah Baumbach, Ridley Scott

Our top DVD picks scheduled for release this week:

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

Hell Yes

Dante's inferno rages on in Devil May Cry 4.

• by Chris Ward
• Tags: Game On, Reviews, Devil May Cry 4, Street Fighter II, Sony PlayStation3

Catwalk Fundraiser

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Black Student Association, Bourbon Street, Hurricane Katrina, William Jewell College

Touch It

• by Penny LaRocque
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City Art Institute, Charlotte Street Foundation, H&R Block Inc.

Adrenaline Paddling

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Colorado River

Sometimes You Feel Like

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Elizabeth Tashjian, Johnny Carson, Don Bernier, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Oscar Party

• by Caleb Goellner
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Academy Awards, Massachusetts

KC Style

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Creative Talent Agency

Rah, Rah

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

Photo Genius

• by Penny LaRocque
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Stephen Shore, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Andy Warhol, Walker Evans

Bird Tales

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Wings Inc., Metropolitan Community College

Jess Walter

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, National Book Awards, Kansas City Public Library

Drinking Game

• by Chris Rasmussen
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Miller Lite, Jagermeister Liqueur, United Cerebral Palsy

CPR Courses: Heartsaver AED

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2515

Sanitary and Side-Splitting

• by Julie Seabaugh
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Brian Regan, Carson, Comedy Central

Surprisingly Good

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Rooney (Band), Jonas Brothers, Sprint Center, Jason Schwartzman

Black Comedy

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Shawn Edwards, Coming to America, American Film Institute, Eddie Griffin

Drunk on Power: The developer of downtown's entertainment district fights the neighborhoods' right to party

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, The Cordish Company, Jefferson City, Jon Engelman, Westport

Games People Play

Readers debate the merits of a governor's son's art-school project, local bands — and threeways.

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, Kansas, Terry Moore, Jacqueline Allen, Kansas City

You want to know the real source of Mexico's problems? Spain

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Mexico, Spain, Rio Grande, Rome