Subject: Abilene

• B-A-C-K-N-K-F-C

  August 23, 2006

• My Hometown: Not as Lame as We Thought

  April 18, 2006

• Cluck, Cluck!

  September 10, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Affidavit Action! Barack Obamania! And the Coolest Name in Kansas City!

  January 30, 2008

• Cluck, Cluck!

  September 10, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Kiss my shuttlecock!

  In a Kansas City Star editorial yesterday, Yael T. Abouhalkah posited the existence of a "good" Mayor Mark Funkhouser and a "bad" Mayor Mark Funkhouser: "The good Funkhouser is the one Kansas Citians thought they were electing in 2007, the one who was going to attack the city's financial ills," writes Abouhalkah. He never explicitly defines the "bad" Funkhouser, but he's the one who spends a lot of time on national television bitching about his wife's ejection from City Hall and suing the City

  December 4, 2008

• Abileen

  January 13, 2005

• Are we really ready for life without American cars?

  November 27, 2008

• Texas Tigers and Other Tales of South by Southwest

  The Wayward Son finds his way back from Austin.

  March 20, 2008

• Keen for Hank

  September 1, 2005

• Yo, Kansas City! It's time to rock the vote!

  August 4, 2005

• The Black Diamond Heavies

  7:30 p.m. Saturday, June 18, at Davey's Uptown. Sunday, June 19, at Fred P. Ott's on the Plaza.

  June 16, 2005

• Redemption Song

  How Micah P. Hinson escaped desperate youth and bloodthirsty babes.

  April 21, 2005

• The De-Kline of Western Civilization

  Inspired by the Kansas Attorney General’s knowledge of popular music, the Prairie Dogg takes a tour of Kansas libraries.

  August 26, 2004

• Brother's Keeper

  Tom and Floyd Bledsoe hated each other so much they wanted to send each other to jail for murder.

  August 3, 2000

• Her name is Rio

  Brian Mossman is doing his best to breathe life back into the independent movie theater.

  June 29, 2000

• Firefighter learns that Sunshine Law enforcement remains weak

  A Camden Point firefighter's request for public records from his fire protection district is a struggle that typifies many citizens' battles for open government.

  May 4, 2000

• Concert Review: Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women

  BY ROBERT FOLSOM I'm a girl watcher, I'm a girl watcher/Here comes one now. Or five. And they weren't girls. They were Dave Alvin's Guilty Women taking the stage to the tune of the O'Kaysions' "Girl Watcher" Friday night at the Folly Theater, just ahead of their bandleader. Scott SpychalskiClick for more pics of Dave Alvin and the Guilty Women. Alvin formed his all-female backing band in 2008 after the death of his close friend, West Coast singer-songwriter Chris Gaffney, who had been a memb

  August 24, 2009