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Can Kansas City turn its trash problem into an opportunity?

• by Carolyn Szczepanski
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Deffenbaugh Industries Inc., Kansas City, Michael Shaw, Tom Coffman

If you love protests so much, why don’t you marry one?

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Town Without Pity, Column, Justin Kendall, Keith Winge, Kansas City, Peter Rugg

Newcomer Greg Enemy has 20/20 vision when it comes to KC hip-hop

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Greg Enemy, Spike Lee, Kansas City, James Brown

Wild, young indie-rock band the Cherry Tree Parade blossoms with a digitally enhanced sound

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Buckle Bunny, Column, Brandon Chavez, Jonathon Collins, Kansas City, Alex Reed

Talib Kweli

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Talib Kweli, Brooklyn, Mos Def, Big Daddy Kane

The Life and Times

Tragic Boogie
(Arena Rock Records)

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Kansas City, Allen Epley, Blonde Redhead, My Bloody Valentine

Charles S. McVey

Animal
(Impure Records)

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Charles McVey, Lawrence, Grunge Vocal Academy, Nickelback

The Horrors and the Kills

• by Matt Erickson
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, United Kingdom, Apple iTunes, The Kills (Musical Group)

Max Tundra

• by Todd McKenzie
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Ben Jacobs, London, Franz Ferdinand, MySpace Inc.

The Gaslight Anthem

• by Rich Sharp
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Brian Fallon, Paul Westerberg, The Gaslight Anthem

Riverboat Gamblers

• by Chris Parker
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Mike Wiebe, Bernard Madoff, The Supersuckers

Franz Ferdinand

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, Franz Ferdinand, The Ting Tings

Braata promises the sounds, smells and feels of the Caribbean but has a way to go

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Lee's Summit, Caribbean, Veterans of Foreign Wars of the U.S., Steven Raichlen

The Soloist

• by ELLA TAYLOR
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Steve Lopez, Joe Wright, Nathaniel Ayers, Jamie Foxx

Earth

• by Jean Oppenheimer
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Kalahari Desert

Fighting

• by Scott Foundas
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Dito Montiel

The Informers

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Billy Bob Thornton, Kim Basinger, Mickey Rourke, Bret Easton Ellis

Douglass Freed and Barbara Rogers struggle with division at Sherry Leedy

• by Dana Self
• Tags: Art, Art, Barbara Rogers, Tucson, China, Arizona

Happy-Hour Hit list

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Corona (New York), Dos Equis

Living History

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Harry S. Truman, Kansas City Public Library

Freak Show

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, New Orleans, Johnny Mayhem, Guinness World Records Ltd.

VHS or Vinyl

• by Andrew Miller
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Patrick Swayze, Scott Baio, Styx (Band)

Xinyan Li's Convergence

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

So Distinguished

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Bill Brady, Skowhegan, Kansas City Art Institute, JPMorgan Chase & Co.

HOMETOWN PREMIERE

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Ty Jones, Kansas City, Aaron Laue, Kevin Willmott

Author Dalton Conley

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Dalton Conley, BlackBerry Mobile Devices

On the Line

• by Emily Farris
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, Missouri

He's Gay; He Rocks

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Pansy Division, Jon Ginoli, Lawrence (New York), Charles McVey

Songs in the Key of Death

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Rockhurst University, Francis Xavier, King George II of Great Britain, Tim McDonald

Holocaust Remembrance Concert

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Metropolitan Community College, Milton Katz, Central Europe, Czech Republic

Be the Change

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kar Woo, MidAmerica Nazarene University, J.M. Porters, Kansas City

Walk for Hope

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Michael Lintecum, Emanuel Cleaver, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Matchmaking

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Udochi Wilson, Kansas City

NPR Darlings

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Ira Glass, Emmy Awards, Dan Savage, David Rakoff

Memento Mott-Ly

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lee Tisdale, Apryl McAnerney, Colby Smith, David Watne

Violin Virtuoso

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Julia Fischer, Ludwig van Beethoven, Sergei Prokofiev, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Temporary Art

• by Annie Fischer
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, D. Bryan Jordan, Wolfgang Bucher

Truly Masterful

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, UMKC Theatre Department, Barry Kyle, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ron Hutchinson

Still Cutting

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Craig Aikman, Emperor Caligula, Kansas City

Deface the Nation

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jason Sudeikis, Gilda's Club Worldwide, Second City Inc.

Kansas City invested in the Power & Light District using questionable data from C.H. Johnson Consulting

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, C.H. Johnson, The Cordish Company, Charles Johnson, Kansas City

Dear Doctor

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Studies in Crap, Columns, Dean H.R. Wahl, Paul Roofe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, P.T. Barnum

Letters from the week of April 23

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, American Idol, Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas City, Irv Da Phenom

Mexico and the Middle East share more than gabachos might realize

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Gustavo Arellano, Baalbek, Beirut, Monterrey