Subject: Rollerderby

• 'Year of the Warrior'

  October 1, 2007

• Roller Warriors TV series premieres tonight

  I'm really looking forward to Metro Sports' documentary series on the tough skating and fighting chicks in the Kansas City Roller Warriors. The series debuts tonight at 9, replays at 9:30 and airs Thursday nights at 9:30 for seven weeks. Roller Warriors recalls the 2008 season (the 2009 gets rolling next weekend). Last month, I talked with Charlie Parker, the producer of the series, who told me he went into the project knowing nothing about roller derby or the women who skate and bleed.

  January 15, 2009

• Stealing Time: Where's Kendall?

  Sorry, Stealing Time fans, but Kendall's out sick today. In his absence, we'll try to provide you with worthy diversions. In honor of the new roller derby season that starts this weekend at Municipal Auditorium, here's this trailer for the 1972 movie Kansas City Bomber, starring you-know-who:

  January 23, 2009

• Watch Party

  February 26, 2009

• Letters from the week of February 5

  February 5, 2009

• Blood on the Rink

  January 22, 2009

• Guitars + Bruises = Cool

  August 28, 2008

• Texecutioners

  July 10, 2008

• The Incredible Heat Machine

  December 20, 2007

• Balloon Watching

  November 9, 2006

• One-Armed Candid

  Brooke Leavitt's one-elbow attack is one reason roller derby hasn't been a Kansas City bomb.

  June 23, 2005

• Hot Rolls

  It's skate or die for KC roller girls.

  November 11, 2004

• Skate or Die

  Or is it skate and die?

  August 12, 2004

• Whip It

  October 1, 2009