Subject: Addiction and Recovery

• Country + Couture

  May 15, 2008

• Going Wayward

  November 7, 2007

• New York Times launches Proof

  From yesterday's stories about The New York Times having to mortgage its building, it seems like the Grey Lady could use a White Russian right now -- or an even stiffer drink. In addition to real estate, the company also runs something like a thousand-million blogs, so it's not surprising that yesterday they revealed yet another one. Meet Proof, the blog not just about alcohol (NYT already has that) but about alcohol and American life.Proof is already off to a heady start thanks to a post that r

  December 9, 2008

• Best Lunch Buffet

  October 18, 2001

• Best Place To Eat and Smoke

  October 9, 2003

• Detroit saved by Kid Rock beer

  Craig GroblerDuring my first (and only) semester at Missouri Southern State University, I had a roommate who would play Kid Rock at ear-splitting levels every morning in the shower. Since he was on the football team, that meant his wake-up calls were around 6 a.m. After a talk with him about the music and a discussion about him being a linebacker versus me being a short communications major, we both agreed to the following: I was going to shut my mouth, he was going to play Kid Rock whenever he

  February 20, 2009

• Jolie Holland

  January 20, 2005

• Cold War Kids

  October 12, 2006

• Cage

  February 1, 2007

• Kidney Collections

  November 13, 2008

• For the Shorteez

  August 14, 2008

• Street Dogs at the Beaumont Club

  March 27, 2008

• Street Dogs

  March 27, 2008

• Holy Junkies

  Michael Timmins of the Cowboy Junkies reflects on the band’s landmark Trinity Session and its 20th anniversary tour and DVD.

  March 20, 2008

• Dogs, Drunks, Thumbs

  The Mexican returns to answer some very important questions.

  January 31, 2008

• Driving While Macho

  All types of dudes do it, so there's got to be another reason for Mexican-Americans' high rate of drinking and driving.

  January 17, 2008

• Mickey Avalon

  August 9, 2007

• Don't Know Smack

  A softly lit Heath Ledger can't save this by-the-numbers Aussie drug flick.

  December 14, 2006

• School of Rock

  September 21, 2006

• DJs Ruckus and That Man Dan

  August 24, 2006

• Go Down Swingin'

  January 26, 2006

• Risky Disco Soundsystem

  November 10, 2005

• Too Young and Too Pretty

  Before someone found Amber McGathey’s body in the Jeep, she’d spent months trying to find her way home

  November 4, 2004

• Cowboy Junkies

  Monday, August 30, at The Granada.

  August 26, 2004

• Buzzkill!

  As auditors try to figure out how Jackson County spends its anti-drug money, perhaps an investigator should ask a kid..

  September 2, 2004

• Cuts Both Ways

  The deputy medical examiner gets probed.

  July 22, 2004

• John Hiatt

  Thursday, July 15, at the Uptown.

  July 15, 2004

• My Chemical Romance

  Tuesday, July 20, at El Torreon.

  July 15, 2004

• Metallica

  Tuesday, May 11 at Kemper Arena.

  May 6, 2004

• Stacey Earle

  Thursday, April 29, at the Mountain Music Shoppe.

  April 29, 2004

• Fluxin' A

  The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on heroin and the Atkins diet with guitarist Tommy Skeoch of Tesla.

  March 18, 2004

• Eroica Trio

  Sunday, November 2, at the Music Hall.

  October 30, 2003

• Over the Rhine

  Monday, October 27, at Grand Emporium.

  October 23, 2003

• Eleni Mandell

  Saturday, August 23, at Davey's Uptown.

  August 21, 2003

• Bobby "Blue" Bland

  Thursday, July 3, at the Grand Emporium.

  July 3, 2003

• Party Crasher

  Now that she's earned her chair in AA, challengers might have a shot at Karen McCarthy's seat in Congress.

  June 19, 2003

• Independence Days

  Former stripper Samantha Steeves and ex-hooker Kristy Childs are trying to pass on what they've learned about sex, dope -- and death.

  January 30, 2003

• Mary J. Blige

  Tuesday, July 2, at Starlight Theatre.

  June 27, 2002

• Best Daily Newspaper Column

  Free for All

  October 18, 2001

• Head Games

  The patients aren't the only ones doing crazy things at Western Missouri Mental Health.

  August 23, 2001

• Around Hear

  After overcoming substance abuse, Corinna uses her music to help other distraught teens do the same.

  May 3, 2001

• Smoke Screen

  A poor, rockin' drag queen is just one of the characters found at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee.

  April 5, 2001

• The Penile System

  The Kansas Department of Corrections' treatment program offends even sex offenders.

  October 5, 2000

• 28 Days

  April 20, 2000

• Junkie bonds

  Cowboy Junkies with Josh Rouse

  February 10, 2000

• Mark Mallman

  July 9, 2009

• Incoming: the Most Serene Republic at the Jackpot, September 13

  Not to be confused with the last post's Awesome New Republic (or for that matter, the Golden Republic, the Republic Tigers, Republica, or, simply, the Republic), the Most Serene Republic will venture down from Canada for a month of US dates, and one of them is in our neck of the woods. They play the Jackpot Music Hall on September 13 with Arts & Crafts labelmates Still Life Still. There was a bit of controversy regarding the indie-poppers, too. Seems that an article in the National Post might

  July 21, 2009

• Over the Rhine

  August 13, 2009

• Dr. Dre's The Chronic to Get Re-Lit

  Dr. Dre's The Chronic will be re-released on September 1 as The Chronic Re-Lit, according to MTV. This is all Death Row's doing, and according to the article, Dre wasn't involved at all. I suppose that's why we're getting this before Detox. ​Seriously, it's been a decade since The Chronic 2001. I'll take an album once a decade if Detox manages to live up to those records, but if we get another Aftermath after all of this (including a Dr. Pepper commercial), I'm gonna be pissed. The Chron

  August 20, 2009

• Ex-players, parents tell-all about Mark Mangino

  Mark Mangino​This is what happens during a disappointing, losing season. The Kansas Jayhawks have lost five games in a row and with Saturday's game against No. 2 Texas in Austin looming, looks like loss No. 6 isn't far away. So the chorus calling for Kansas football coach Mark Mangino's head is getting louder as the losses mount.No one was speaking out when Mangino led the Jayhawks to an Orange Bowl, a school-best 12-1 record and received National Coach of the Year honors. That's not to discou

  November 19, 2009