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True true blood: As pop culture sucks on myths, some real Kansas City vampires tell their stories

• by Peter Rugg
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Peter Rugg, Kansas City, Hot Topic Inc., True Blood

Dear Plog: The Pitch news blog — answering made-up readers’ questions since just now

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Town Without Pity, Column, Sean Tevis, Dean Palos, Barack Obama, Olathe

Gone 11 years, Kristie Stremel and the original lineup of the meteoric ’90s band Exit 159 are returning to Earth

• by Danny Alexander
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Kristie Stremel, Jamey Wheeler, Aaron Weber, Kansas City

Seasoned hard-rockers Martin Bush and Brad Chancellor turn over a new pop leaf with Audiovox

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Buckle Bunny, Column, Martin Bush, Audiovox Corporation, Brad Chancellor, Lawrence

These Arms Are Snakes

• by Saby Reyes-Kulkarni
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Seattle, These Arms Are Snakes, Brian Cook, Portugal. The Man

The Pretenders

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Chrissie Hynde, The Pretenders (Musical Group), James Honeyman-Scott, Pete Farndon

Rufus Wainwright

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Rufus Wainwright, Judy Garland, Neil Diamond

Flogging Molly

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Dave King, Flogging Molly, The Pogues

William Elliott Whitmore

• by Elliott Johnston
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, William Elliott Whitmore, Cable News Network LP LLLP, Iowa

Black Milk

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Curtis Cross, Birmingham, Bo Jackson, Che Guevara

When the economy batters restaurants, new restaurateurs go for the safe and familiar

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Chase Wilcox, John Westerhaus, Debbie Gold, Los Angeles, West Chase Grille

Fired Up

• by Aaron Hillis
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Eric Christian Olsen, Molly Sims, Nicholas D'Agosto, Sarah Roemer

Michael Cross ventures through the looking glass — some

• by Dana Self
• Tags: Art, Columns, Michael Cross, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Martha Stewart, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MET finds comedy in murder, and UMKC finds something new in Dickens

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Jon Daugharthy, Christopher Gill, Lucy Maycock, Jeanne Averill

How Bassoon Is Now?

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Dan Brown, Kansas City Civic Orchestra, Christopher Kelts, Eric Stomberg

Say It Fur-Ever

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, HELP Humane Society

Free Film Screening

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 347

Picturing History

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Raymond Starzmann, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Harry S. Truman

Presidential Review

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Barack Obama, The White House, Washington, DC, Jimmy Carter

Pomeroy + Mardi Gras

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 1080

Party Gras

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, New Orleans, Kansas City

Northern Lights

• by David Martin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Big 12 Conference, Nebraska Cornhuskers (Basketball), Kansas Jayhawks, Waco

Smell of the Kill

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Barbara David, Parkville (Brooklyn)

Joe Cartwright Trio

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Gerald Spaits, Joe Cartwright, Kansas City, Ray DeMarchi

Ain't No Party Like a Birthday Party

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Stacy Smith, Toyota Motor Corporation, Kansas City, Warped Tour

Violinist Nicholas Kitchen

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Nicholas Kitchen

Magical Forest

• by Robert Barossi
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Big Apple Circus Ltd., Cirque du Soleil, The Lion King

Justice Still Needed

• by CJ Janovy
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Alvin Sykes, Emmett Till, U.S. Department of Justice, Kansas City

Bring Sheet Music

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Tim Scott, Jessalyn Kincaid, Lauren Braton, Nathan Granner

Creative Neighbors

• by Penny LaRocque
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Allan Winkler, Audra Brandt, Brent Cox, Erica Leohner

Jungle Boogie

• by Jen Chen
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2817

Young, Gifted and Black

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City

Bike Away

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Justin Timberlake, Beau Baker, Academy Awards, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Saluting Shorts

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Caleb Goellner, University of Kansas, Kansas

Mystery Train Dinner Theater

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Union Station

Cool Kirby

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, David Kirby, Henry James, Johnny Cash, Little Richard

What was the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City doing as the housing market went insane?

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, Kansas City, Thomas Hoenig, U.S. Federal Reserve, Jeffrey Miller

Paper trails

A trip back to 1950s KC

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Studies in Crap, Columns

Letters from the week of February 19

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, Kansas City, Lee's Summit, David Martin, Mike Sheperis

Here’s a serious answer to a serious pinche problem

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Mexico, Chester, Gustavo Arellano, Cicely Marston