This past Friday night, students from the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts put on a show that the whole town should have seen. That would have laid to rest criticisms that the Kansas City, Missouri, School District is beyond hope. In fact, the night made me impatient to see these kids get out into the world and start making their voices heard beyond a high school auditorium -- even if it was filled to capacity. Anchoring the night was a house band with Leonard Tann on
Here's the first of three videos we'll be posting this week of the Brown Bomber's performance at the Blue Room. These are the readings we quote in this week's feature story, "Spit Happens," and your chance to see how amazing these young writers are. Robert Brown's up first:
