Pitch

Ten years ago, a rapist stabbed her and left her for dead. She survived — and so did her case.

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Shane McFall, Kansas City, Kansas, Ted Hunt

The sixth-annual North vs. South Music Festival brings middle America’s best unknown indie-rock heroes to Kansas City

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Austin (Texas), Mike McCoy, Kansas City, Lawrence (New York)

Beggars’ Banquet: Myra Taylor led the charge for people to like Kansas City music at this year’s Pitch Music Awards Ceremony

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Wayward Son, Column, Myra Taylor, Kansas City, Megan Birdsall, David Wayne Reed

The Beatbox: Royce Diamond

Aficionado
(Datura Records)

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Royce Diamond, Jay-Z, Kansas City, Kansas

The Cool Kids

• by Ray Cummings
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Antoine "Mikey Rocks" Reed, Evan "Chuck Inglish" Ingersoll, Luke Skywalker, The Cool Kids (Band)

Dave Alvin

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Dave Alvin, Chris Gaffney, The Blasters (Band), The Knitters (Band)

The Brunettes

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, New Zealand, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Heather Mansfield, Leonard Cohen

Lil Wayne

• by Caleb Goellner
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, Lil' Wayne, Kansas City

Eddie Adel takes a gamble with R.A. Long’s Sawmill – and builds something unique

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Lee's Summit, Eddie Adel, Barbara Scott, Trader Vic's Inc., R.A. Long's Sawmill

Inglourious Basterds

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Quentin Tarantino, Hollywood, Cannes, Aldo Raine

In the Loop

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Colin Powell, James Gandolfini, London (England), Tony Blair

Post Grad

• by Vadim Rizov
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Michael Keaton, Alan Arkin, Alexis Bledel, Carol Burnett

Shorts

• by Aaron Hillis
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Jimmy Bennett, James Spader, William H. Macy, Jon Cryer

Be Thankful

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Women's Equality Day, Kansas City Public Library, Washington Square Park, Westin Crown Center

Ballroom Fever

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Laura Cantu, Louis & Company, Johnny Rowlands

A Black Tail Affair

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Belton, Las Vegas, HELP Humane Society

Happy-Hour Hit list: College Bars

• by Annie Fischer
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Free State Brewing Company, Kansas, Jim Beam Brands Co.

Lewis Hyde: Culture as Commonwealth

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lewis Hyde, Kansas, Hall Center for the Humanities, University of Kansas

Cultural Eclectic

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Melinda Minks, Omaha

P&L Value Week

• by Jonathan Bender
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City

Feed Your Soul

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Elbert Anderson, Eldredge Jackson, Peabo Bryson

Rock Poet

• by Nick Spacek
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Chicago, Denver, Karl Alvarez, Nathen Maxwell

Rocket from the Stage

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jon Fulton Adams, David Wayne Reed

Fiddle Me This

• by Casey Lyons
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Amanda Shaw, Lawrence (New York), New Orleans, KU Lied Center of Kansas

EPIC FAIL

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Brian Dunkleman, Simon Cowell, Kansas City, Ryan Seacrest

AMERICAN AIR POWER

• by Robert Folsom
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Charles Wheeler, Kansas City, CH-47 Chinook Helicopter, Mid-America Youth Aviation Association

Trade Out

• by Annie Fischer
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Rose Brooks Center

Street Tricks

• by Abbie Stutzer
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York)

Sweet Freedom

• by Nadia Pflaum
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Darryl Burton, Centurion Ministries Inc., Cheryl Pilate

LOVE AND OTHER TREACHERIES

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kenneth Branagh, Henry V, Denzel Washington, Emma Thompson

Greenfest 2009

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 3560

Kansas City Guitar Society presents Guitars in the Park

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Beau Bledsoe, Fernando Achucarro, Istanbul, Paraguay

District Restaurant Week

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2817

DUDE. JUST ... DUDE.

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

Midnight Movie Madness Presents: Pulp Fiction

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

J.E. Dunn pays $1.1 million to make minority-contracting complaints go away

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, J.E. Dunn, H&R Block Inc., Ralph Rodriguez, Bill Torres

Letters from the week
of August 20

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, Charles Ferruzza, Olathe, Pitch.com, Ernest Evans

What the Bible says about illegals

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Jesus Christ, Mexico, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Gustavo Arellano