Pitch

It takes more than green to improve Kansas City’s public spaces — seeing red helps

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Kansas City, Rachel Riley, Roxana Shaffe, Michael Oliver

Local folkie Margo May finds her niche — and her voice

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Margo May, Kansas City, Margaret May, Manhattan (Kansas)

Spirit of 72: A new documentary about Kansas City’s music scene is asking for subsistence

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Wayward Son, Column, Bob Moczydlowsky, Allen Epley, Megan Hamilton, Mike Tuley

Actors & Actresses

Arrows
(The Mylene Sheath)

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Kansas City, Stella Link, Mogwai

Ernest James Zydeco

Jubilee
(Jam Rat Records)

• by Robert Folsom
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Blind Willie Johnson, Kansas City, Louisiana, Bayou State

Grandmaster Flash

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Grandmaster Flash, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Melle Mel, The Bronx

John Doe and the Sadies

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Bakersfield, Hank Snow, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson

Abe Vigoda

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Abe Vigoda (Band), Los Angeles, No Age (Band), Vampire Weekend

Black Francis

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Frank Black, Pixies, Herman Brood, Nashville

Chung’s Rainbow Korean Restaurant could use a visit from Doraemon

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Carol Ann, Overland Park, South Korea, Seoul, Chung’s Rainbow Korean Restaurant

The Hurt Locker

• by Scott Foundas
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Iraq, Kathryn Bigelow, Baghdad, U.S. Army

O'Horten

• by Scott Foundas
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Odd Horten, Bent Hamer, Baard Owe, John Christian

The Ugly Truth

• by Chuck Wilson
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Katherine Heigl, Gerard Butler, Abby Richter, Eric Winter

The pros in Are We There Yet? suffer indignities, while the amateurs in A Midsummer Night’s Dream hit a glorious Bottom

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Jessalyn Kincaid, Tim Scott, Fly Girls Cathy Barnett, Jeremy Riggs

FIELD OF DREAMGIRLS

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, A League of Their Own, Lori Petty, Rosie O'Donnell, Geena Davis

The Frickin' Frolic

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Allyson Frick Dobson

Heavy Cello

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Aaron Kerr, Andrew Foshee, Kansas City, Lawrence (New York)

E.T. Outside

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Charlotte, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial

Get Back(gammon)

• by Sammy Loren
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City

Gran Torino

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Clint Eastwood, Westport, Gran Torino

CALLING ALL FILMMAKERS

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City

From the Sea

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas, Academy Awards, Kansas City, Country Financial

Go Jump in a Lake

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Labor Day

LOCAL BOY MAKES GOLD

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Billy Mills, Lawrence (New York), Haskell Institute, Oglala Lakota Nation

Tailspin

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

Flying Saucers

• by Casey Lyons
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Frisbee, David Hemmeline, Eric McCabe, John Chatham

Shorties in Nighties

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City

Local Pretty Things

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Betsy Blodgett, Westport, Angela Muir, Kansas City

Heatin' Up the Block

• by Casey Lyons
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jason Isbell, Lawrence (New York), Reverend Horton Heat

A remodeled delight

• by David Martin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, AL Central, American League (MLB), Kansas City Royals, Major League Baseball

From a Distance

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Studies in Crap, Columns, Kansas City, Giles Cain, Ralph Stout, Dresden

Letters from the week
of July 23

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, Kansas City, John Humphrey, Nadia Pflaum

What? Sotomayor not really Latina?

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Sonia Sotomayor, Puerto Rico, U.S. Supreme Court, San Antonio