Pitch

Backed by local ministers, Petro America promised investors millions -- but it's the CEO who got rich

• by Mandy Oaklander
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Wiley Scruggs, Owen Hawkins, Martin Roper, Halliburton Company

Todd Tally's Field of Dirty Dreams: The struggle to bring Kansas City a worthy biker rally

• by Peter Rugg
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Fat Feeder, Todd Tally, AL Central, American League (MLB)

Janelle Monae's roots in one of Kansas City's most historic — and troubled — neighborhoods

• by Danny Alexander
• Tags: Interview, Music Feature, Janelle Monae, Loretta Norman, OutKast, Antwan "Big Boi" Patton

CVLTS

Black Hole, Hi Five
(Amdiscs/Atelier Ciseaux)

• by Nick Spacek
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Gaurav Bashyakarla, Josh Thomas

Saharan Gazelle Boy

Strange Teen Heart
(The Record Machine)

• by David Hudnall
• Tags: CD Reviews, CD Review, Darin Seal, Joy Division, Staind, Thompson Twins

Free Energy

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, James Murphy, Free Energy (Band), LCD Soundsystem, Astralwerks Records

Curren$y

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Curren$y, Lil' Wayne, New Orleans, Doritos

Halloweenie Roast

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Fourth of July, Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Beaumont

Ryan Bingham

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Critic's Choice, Show Preview, Ryan Bingham, Texas, Ryan Adams, William Elliott Whitmore

The high-concept Backfire BBQ sputters out of the gate

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Steven Schussler, Jack Stack, Jonathan Bender, American Chopper, Backfire BBQ

Hereafter

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Clint Eastwood, Peter Morgan, Hereafter (Movie), Bryce Dallas Howard

Heartbreaker

• by Melissa Anderson
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Romain Duris, Vanessa Paradis, Monaco, French Riviera

Howl

• by J. Hoberman
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Allen Ginsberg, Howl (Movie), Jeffrey Friedman, Rob Epstein

Mademoiselle Chambon

• by Michelle Orange
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Mademoiselle Chambon, Stephane Brize, Sandrine Kiberlain, Vincent Lindon

Mesrine: Killer Instinct and Mesrine: Public Enemy No. 1

• by Nicolas Rapold
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Jacques Mesrine, Vincent Cassel, Jean-Francois Richet, Wikimedia Foundation Inc.

Stone

• by Nick Schager
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Stone (Movie), Robert De Niro, Edward Norton, Cape Fear (Movie)

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

• by ELLA TAYLOR
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Woody Allen, Anthony Hopkins, Lucy Punch, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

For Ana Maria Hernando, it's all about the metaphor

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Art, Columns, Ana Maria Hernando, Buenos Aires, Jane Austen, Nina Sonando

The Beast

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Chris Packham, Jack the Ripper, London

Meet the Artists

• by Sean Rosner
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Sean Rosner, Lawrence Arts Center

Spring Awakening

• by Grace Suh
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Spring Awakening (Musical), Bill Jones

Sympathy for the Devil

• by Grace Suh
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Conor McPherson, Ben Brantley, Jerome Stage, Kansas City

Coyote on Cannabis

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Peter Coyote, Law & Order: Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Jerry Hardin

Death Becomes Her

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Return to the Sunflower State

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jeremy Rockwell, Paul Flinders, Yuri Zupancic

Rock Out For a Reason

• by Jill Muir
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Center for Justice and Sustainability, William Jewell College, Heidi Mikhail, Sara Swenson

The Edge of Hell

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Chris Packham, Kansas City

She'll Suck You Dry

• by Chance Dibben
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Mitch Brian, Ron Megee

Boo-Lesque

• by Jill Muir
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jill Muir, Halloween

Equally Unimpressive

• by Chris Rasmussen
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, AFC South, AFC West, American Football Conference, Jacksonville Jaguars

Macabre Cinema

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Chris Packham, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Shining

Freedom Song

• by Grace Suh
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Harriet Jacobs, Steppenwolf (Band), Chicago, Jessica Thebus

Who Ya Gonna Call?

• by Lorna Perry
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Rob Garcia, John Wornall, Lorna Perry

Chambers of Poe

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Edgar Allan Poe, Santa Fe

Man, That's Totally Elfed Up

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

Jack and Jill

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Theatre Critics' Association, Jane Martin

Fiddler on the Roof

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Fiddler on the Roof (Musical), Tony Awards

Six Shots to the Dome

• by Scott Wilson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Don Bernier, Kansas City Art Institute, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Audra Brandt

Roadside Politics

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, M.T. Liggett, Mullinville, Bob Epp, Hillary Clinton

Beth Scalet Tribute

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Beth Scalet, National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Alan White, Elaine McMilian

Bullet Whisperer

• by Danny Volin
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Iraq, Middle East, Brian Turner, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Don't Call It a Comeback

• by Brent Shepherd
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jerry Seinfeld, Brent Shepherd, Bee Movie

Free Energy at RecordBar

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, Astralwerks Records, DFA Records

When Kansas City coughed up $24 million for improvements, one neighborhood's leaders put politics over people

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, Robert Jenkins, Mark Funkhouser, Kansas City, Terry Riley