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The tragic story of how Kansas City leaders, blinded by the Wizards’ pro-sports glamour project, turned their backs on an idea that might actually have saved Bannister Mall

• by David Martin
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, John Sharp, Kansas City Wizards, Major League Soccer, Lou Austin

Pet Comfort won’t poop all over the Kansas City music scene

• by Richard Gintowt
• Tags: Interview, Feature, Jason Trabue, Weezer, Rivers Cuomo, Luke Baker

With his rap documentary, Chris Williamson hopes to set Mics on Fire

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Wayward Son, Column, Chris Williamson, Kansas City, Craig Kearney, Tech N9ne

The Beatbox: Big Scoob

Monsterifik
(Strange Music)

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: Bonus Tracks, Columns, Kansas City, Olathe, Tech N9ne

Black Clover Beerfest

• by Jason Harper
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Jeremy Willis, Arcadia, Avery, James Christos

The Turnpike Music Showcase

• by Aaron Ladage
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Lawrence (New York), Topeka, Kansas, Blitzen Trapper

Perez Hilton Presents

• by Jeni Schroff
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Perez Hilton, Ida Maria, Ladyhawk, Iggy Pop

Can promise conquer problems at the Westside Local? Here’s hoping so

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Troy McEvers, Rick Martin, Ross, Los Alamos, The Westside Local

The Informant!

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Mark Whitacre, Steven Soderbergh, Marvin Hamlisch, Federal Bureau of Investigation

A few choice finds at the Kansas International Film Festival

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Film, Film Reviews, Alice Blue, Elias Plagianos, Alex Karpovsky, Alex Appel

The Burning Plain

• by Aaron Hillis
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Guillermo Arriaga, Charlize Theron

Cloudy With a Chance
of Meatballs

• by Ernest Hardy
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Christopher Miller, Phil Lord, Anna Faris, Bill Hader

Lorna's Silence

• by Nick Pinkerton
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Luc Dardenne, Arta Dobroshi, Fabrizio Rongione, Jean-Pierre Dardenne

Youssou N'Dour: I Bring
What I Love

• by Nicolas Rapold
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Africa, Senegal, West Africa, Youssou N'Dour

Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre humanizes sea monsters; Minds Eye Theatre makes humans into monsters

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Stage, Stage, Edward Albee, Paul Orwick, Emily Green, Kansas City

Time for Sondheim

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Stephen Sondheim, Eric Rosen, James Lapine, Kansas City

Walk a Mile In Her Shoes

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, UMKC's University

Plaza Pzazz

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Ronald McDonald

Night Lines

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Brenda Cardenas, Francisco Aragon, John Olivares Espinoza, Kansas City Public Library

All in the Family

• by Danny Volin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Andrew Wyeth, James Wyeth, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Barbara O'Brien

Author Tracy Daugherty discusses Hiding Man

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Donald Barthelme, Tracy Daugherty

Kansas' Cannes

• by Alan Scherstuhl
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Michael Moore, Capitalism: A Love Story, Dziga Vertov, Overland Park

Ice Off

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Los Angeles Kings, National Hockey League, New York Islanders

Cyber Cliffs

• by Casey Lyons
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jones Pool

Stage Lit

• by Danny Volin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Edgar Allan Poe, Bruce Roach, William Wilson, Rex Hobart, Electric

East Coast Unbias

• by David Martin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, AL East, American League (MLB), Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball

Happy-Hour Hit list: Football

• by Annie Fischer
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Leawood, The Black Eyed Peas

Disguise the Limit

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Smith & Wesson Holding Corp., Olay Skin Care Products

Kansas City Cup Challenge and Festival

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 1055

Quarter Horse Show

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 604

SALUTE WHEN YOU SAY THAT

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Gary Cooper, Lou Gehrig, Will Kane, AL East

For Your Ears Only

• by Nick Spacek
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 1151

Full Frontal Comedy's "Really Big Show"

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Mad TV, Saturday Night Live

Keeping the Beat

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Wes Faulconer, Tool (Band), Aloke Dutta, Danny Carey

Third Thursay Visiting Artist Presentations

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Laura DeAngelis, Matt Dehaemers

A Different Time

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Bonner Springs, Kansas City

Flexing Fun

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Harrah's Entertainment Inc., The Walt Disney Company

Minds Eye Theatre Presents Extremities by William Mastrosimone

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 3391

Communal Bounty

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kensington (New York), Kansas City

A&E

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Apache Indians, Sylvester Powell, Kansas City Barbecue Society

Baby Vroom

• by Casey Lyons
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Dee Snider, Kansas City, Twisted Sister, Kansas Speedway

The Wizard of Oz in High Definition

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, 2226

Letters from the week
of September 17

• Tags: Letters, Letters To The Editor, Kansas City, Missouri, Vietnam, Samantha Bernstein

Here’s a vision of life after the Reconquista

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Gustavo Arellano, Carlos Mencia, Chicago, Durango