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In federal prison on a drug conviction, Quentin Carter wrote best-selling novels about Kansas City

• by Peter Rugg
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Quentin Carter, Danika Acklin, Chris Carter, Kansas City

No guitar? No problem — if you have the nerve to let it rip on an air ax.

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Town Without Pity, Column, Commando Melin, Van Halen, Justin Kendall, Washington, DC

The Architects prepare to work their fourth release, The Hard Way, all summer on Warped Tour

• by Peter Rugg
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Kansas City, Keenan Nichols, Warped Tour, Sunset Strip

Highway to Hip-Hop: Kansas City rapper James Christos and crew pack up the van and hit the road DIY-style

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Wayward Son, Column, James Christos, San Jose, California, Missouri

Blue Riddim Band

Ska Inferno
(Markosa Records)

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Kansas City, Paul Desmond, The Skatalites

Audiovox

Audiovox EP
(self-released)

• by Aaron Ladage
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Martin Bush, Brad Chancellor, Matthew Sweet, Audiovox Corporation

D/Will

Battery Effect
(self-released)

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Denzel Williams, North Kansas City, Kansas City

Bachelorette

• by Jeni Schroff
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Annabel Alpers, New Zealand, Electric

Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue

• by Robert Folsom
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Mike Farris, Sam McCrary

Creature Comforts

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Billy Brimblecom, Nashville, Blackpool, Brian Everard

Chomp Womp Soda Fest

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Lawrence (New York), Columbia (Missouri)

Café Augusta creates a “new world bistro” in a Lenexa strip mall

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Micheline Burger, Carol Ann, Genghis Khan, Cafe Augusta

The Girlfriend Experience

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Sasha Grey, Steven Soderbergh, Chris Santos, Manhattan

Easy Virtue

• by ELLA TAYLOR
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Stephan Elliott, Noel Coward, Jessica Biel, Kristin Scott Thomas

Lemon Tree

• by Nicolas Rapold
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Eran Riklis, Doron Tavory, Hiam Abbass, Suha Arraf

The Limits of Control

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Jim Jarmusch, Isaach De Bankole, Bill Murray, Christopher Doyle

The Proposal

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Ryan Reynolds, Sandra Bullock, Canada, Anne Fletcher

Tulpan

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Sergei Dvortsevoy, Cannes, Kazakhstan

The Unicorn’s Speech & Debate team has something to say, as do Ron Simonian’s potty-mouthed characters

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Ron Simonian, Kansas City, Tom Moriarty, Kyle Hatley

Sharp's 63rd Street Grill

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2817

For the Dogs

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Sounds Carl, Kansas City

Local History

• by Hugh Welsh
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Gary Pomerantz, John Bennett, Kansas City, Atlanta

I-35 Collaboration

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Rebecca Ward, Austin (Texas), Emily Sall, Kansas City

Dos Hombres

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2817

Lux Esalare

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day

Dads + Cars

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Caenen Castle, Father's Day

Rhoades Out Of the '70s

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Darryl Rhoades, Rolling Stone LLC, Overland Park, Hahavishnu Orchestra

The Red Balloon

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Overland Park, Jose Cuervo Tequila, Bacardi Ltd.

Castro Movie Nights

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day

Actual Stars

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Mary Spencer, Kansas City School District

The Indie 600

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Independent Filmmakers Coalition of Kansas City

Jerry's Bait Shop

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lenexa

Eat Out Local

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Renee Kelly

Car Show

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 1625

Improv Marathon

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Westport, Alex's Lemonade Stand

The Zone

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Grandview

How to Eat Local in KC

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

Father's Day at Golden Ox

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Father's Day

KC Storm

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Des Moines

Salute Pops

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, AL Central, American League (MLB), Father's Day, Kansas City Royals

Local Growth

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture, Kansas City Public Library, Missouri

Calcium Deposit

• by David Martin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Barbara Shatto, Missouri, Shatto Milk Company

Dark Horse Tavern

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Westport

Skater Pride

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Penn Valley, Red Bull GmbH

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Vincente Minnelli, Bob Fosse, Joe Hardy, Tab Hunter

Pursuit of Happyness

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, The Pursuit of Happyness, Chris Gardner, Jaden Smith, Will Smith

Kona Grill

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Sam Adams, Bud Light, Kona Grill Inc.

For the Hedgehogs

• by Peter Rugg
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Europe, United Kingdom, Western Europe

Reptiles!

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, David Nieves, Johnson County Museum of History

New Art in the Old Neighborhood

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Dan Frueh, Erick Warner

Trying to save Leavenworth from Gitmo detainees, Sen. Sam Brownback lacks good intelligence

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, Fort Leavenworth, Guantanamo Bay, Sam Brownback, Eric Holder

The Old Slow News Day

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Studies in Crap, Columns, Kansas City, AL West Division, American League (Baseball), Major League Baseball

Letters from the week
of June 18

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, Kansas City, Development Folly, Peter Rugg, Carolyn Szczepanski

The quality of gabachos in Tijuana and the rules of funeral food

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Tijuana, Chicago, Gustavo Arellano, San Diego