Subject: Richard Nixon

• The Dick Isn't in the Box

  October 29, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Thinkofthechildren; Stolen Monkeys; Emanuel Cleaver is Very Delicate

  March 10, 2008

• Esquire endorses Nixon, Barnes, Moore

  October 15, 2008

• The 10 Greatest Sad Christmas Songs, Nos. 5 and 4: James Brown, Simon & Garfunkel

  5. "Santa Claus, Go Straight to the Ghetto," James Brown A soulful appeal that might be a little less sad if its command weren't so urgent: Fill every stocking you see, and don't forget any kid. A sharp electric guitar chord drives the song like a spur to the side of the reindeer. 4. "7 O'Clock News/Silent Night," Simon & Garfunkel Lenny Bruce dying of an overdose, Martin Luther King marching for fair housing, Richard Speck indicted for killing nine student nurses, and Richard Nixon s

  December 22, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Friday, 01/09

  Proof that you don't need to take out a mortgage to have a great time in Kansas City on New Year's Eve. [Bradical Mindspew]I know the Internet allows for a niche market but I wonder just how many Canucks reading the Canadian Press were wondering what's new in Kansas City in 2009. If you run into any of our neighbors from the great white north this year, you'll know the article worked. [Canadian Press]From the history books: Richard Nixon proves himself the ultimate dick host by serving guests (c

  January 9, 2009

• Citrus is a global story but orange juice is 100 percent American

  A smallish crowd showed up for Pierre Laszlo's speech last night at the Central Library, which is a shame because Laszlo is clearly passionate about citrus fruit, especially orange juice.Speaking with an accent that sounded part French and part Roberto Benigni, Laszlo was in clear professor form delivering facts with PowerPoint slides to back him up. While Laszlo's book is about the history of citrus, his speech was in effet OJ 101.

  January 28, 2009

• Poetic Justice

  November 4, 2004

• Harvard Beats Yale 29–29

  April 9, 2009

• Watchmen

  March 5, 2009

• Frost/Nixon

  December 25, 2008

• For the makers of Shatto Milk, success is cold and tasty

  September 18, 2008

• BookScam

  April 5, 2007

• Granny the Terrorist

  September 21, 2006

• Don't Call Me That

  May 25, 2006

• Get Inside

  Your three-month forecast of the summer’s top movies.

  May 18, 2006

• Net Gain

  New worlds collide in the Kemper's Ping-Pong Diplomacy.

  April 6, 2006

• A Killer Show

  Even presidents from blue states bleed red.

  November 17, 2005

• Inaction Hero

  November 17, 2005

• Fortune Smiles

  NCK Restaurant is an authentically stereotypical Chinese restaurant.

  July 28, 2005

• Strip Tease

  A closer look suggests that Jess & Jim's Steakhouse was overexposed by Playboy.

  April 7, 2005

• Deep Impact

  A documentary revisits the moment when porn went mainstream.

  April 14, 2005

• Now and Then

  Mark Kurlansky sums up the spirit of ’68.

  January 27, 2005

• Run, Dick, Run

  Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

  January 20, 2005

• Hot Ticket

  Michael Moore fills seats on both sides of the aisle.

  July 8, 2004

• Jesus Is in the Big House

  Putting it's faith in a prison ministry, the Kansas Department of Corrections saves money if not souls.

  February 12, 2004

• Home Plates

  George Brett's scores a couple of hits, but it's not about the food anyway.

  January 22, 2004

• Twin Peaks

  Cheryl Weaver plays battling alter egos in the terrific Mineola Twins.

  December 11, 2003

• Still Kickin'

  The MC5's Wayne Kramer isn't growing old without a fight.

  November 13, 2003

• Mood Music

  A church organ gets to dress up.

  October 30, 2003

• Broadway Revival

  The food is still "killer" at the Grille on Broadway.

  June 12, 2003

• Dem Blues

  The left, turning right, was plain wrong.

  May 29, 2003

• That '70s Place

  Cafe Harold's is mod.

  February 13, 2003

• Jenny From the Crock

  Lopez's got backlash in Maid.

  December 12, 2002

• Neil Young

  Are You Passionate? (Reprise)

  May 23, 2002

• Lambchop

  Is A Woman (Merge)

  March 21, 2002

• Power to Will

  Comedian Will Durst finds funnies in every section of the newspaper.

  February 21, 2002

• Duck Hunt

  The Raphael brings out the duck, while Bo Ling’s ponders new construction.

  July 19, 2001

• Heroes Never Die

  Eugene McDaniels witnesses the resurrection of his blacklisted soul classic.

  May 10, 2001

• Wizards of Oz

  Eccentric scientists work wonders in The Dish, a distinctively Australian time capsule.

  April 26, 2001

• Shearer Delight

  The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively, posilutely.

  April 26, 2001

• Johnny Cash; Willie Nelson

  At San Quentin; Red Headed Stranger(Columbia/Legacy)

  August 10, 2000

• The nitti gritti of Scritti Politti

  Just because Santana has found a career rebirth critically doesn't mean the same thing should happen to Scritti Politti.

  February 24, 2000

• Dennis Skillicorn is dead, but the Public Interest Litigation Clinic is still very much alive

  Jennifer Merrigan Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon never called Dennis Skillicorn's lawyer at the Public Interest Litigation Clinic to say that he'd denied Skillicorn's petition for clemency. Scott Holste, the governor's press secretary, wrote up a press release that was sent to media outlets shortly after 5 p.m. yesterday, but nobody notified Jennifer Merrigan, Skillicorn's lawyer. As a result, Skillicorn himself didn't find out that he was denied clemency until after Merrigan read it on the The Kansas

  May 20, 2009

• Hard Line

  May 28, 2009

• Life lessons from Kissinger, George W., and Randy Jackson: Studies in Crap and Fox News are Going Places

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Going Places: How America's Best and Brightest Got Started Down the Road of Life Author: E.D. Hill, former host of Fox News' "I Have Nothing Else To Live For So I May As Well Watch This" Morning Show Publisher: The Regan imprint of HarperCollins, the same people who brought you O.J.

  June 11, 2009

• The Old Slow News Day

  June 18, 2009

• Dear Jay Nixon: Cover kids now

  Some Missourians aren't waiting around for Washington to fix health care -- they're telling Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon he can reform it now. Kansas City's Partnership for Children has been passing around a letter to the governor (here's a PDF), arguing that he could cover an additional 90,000 kids by taking advantage of some of his special governor privileges. That way, he wouldn't have to go to the legislature, which shot down many of his proposals this year. (After observing their behavior, we wo

  July 23, 2009

• Rally to 'Put People First' and protect kids from the budget hatchet

  ​How's this for some math that doesn't quite add up?Missouri's Department of Social Services keeps track of 9,000 kids in foster care, investigates 75,000 reported cases of child abuse annually and provides 43,000 children daycare while their low-income parents go off to work. To do that -- and more -- the Child Division takes up just 3 percent of the state's multi-billion-dollar bank account. Now, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon says he needs to cut $60 million from the state's 2010 budget to make en

  July 31, 2009

• Men betray killer instincts in Glengarry Glen Ross; women bleed in the Actors' Equity Showcase

  August 13, 2009

• With Farragut North and 1937, dirty tricks and unlikely victories take over local stages

  November 19, 2009