Subject: Rome

• Down Payments on a Christly Education

  November 4, 2007

• Best Alternative to Fountains

  January 27, 2000

• Another Helping

  November 15, 2001

• Pope embraces schism with Platte City address

  Pope Benedict XVI's recent decision to ex-excommunicate four priests has a significant connection to Kansas City. The priests belong to the Society of Pius X, whose U.S. headquarters is in Platte City. A French archbishop named Marcel Lefebvre founded the society in 1970 as a response to the reforms adopted during the Second Vatican Council. Lefebvre offered Mass in Latin against the orders of Rome. In 1988, he consecrated four priests as bishops, which led to his excommunication. A defiant Lefe

  January 26, 2009

• Best Decadent Dessert

  October 17, 2002

• Zoo Me, Baby

  January 30, 2003

• Empire Strikes Back

  January 27, 2005

• North Korea leader orders Italian, in a big way

  Flickr: Sashertootie History is filled with stories of kings and queens who had demanding culinary tastes -- the legendary chef Antonin Careme worked for King George IV and Czar Alexander -- but today's news that Kim Jong Il, the leader of North Korea, ordering the opening of the country's first Italian restaurant and "sending North Korean cooks to Naples and Rome last year to reproduce authentic Italian pizza and pasta" is a new twist on the tale, particularly since most North Koreans can

  March 16, 2009

• In an economic wasteland, zealots still make a living

  February 5, 2009

• "Mythological Subjects"

  February 28, 2008

• Greetings From Toronto ...

  Where old masters, drunk teenagers, and Asia Argento make the fest’s first week a blast.

  September 13, 2007

• Seasons in the Sun

  September 6, 2007

• Top of the Pops

  Anything goes — and anything went — at the Pitch Music Awards ceremony.

  August 16, 2007

• Junior Achievement

  Jasper Mirabile, Jr., does his father's legacy proud.

  June 6, 2002

• Cannes Report: We Aren't the World

  How the Americans fared at Cannes.

  May 31, 2007

• Big Balls in Cowtown

  Little wonder cowboys are a dying breed.

  October 21, 2004

• Who Needs Clothes?

  The Nelson reveals that a hot body was sexy 200 years ago, too.

  March 1, 2007

• Hollow Cost

  December 7, 2006

• Cracked Code

  May 18, 2006

• Spin Cycle

  March 23, 2006

• Family Values

  Letters from the week of

  March 23, 2006

• Cheap Souvenirs

  Art Institute students went to Italy last summer, and all we got were these dirty jeans.

  February 16, 2006

• Dialing for Darwin

  The Vatican's newspaper disses intelligent design, but we can't get no benediction.

  February 9, 2006

• ¡Olé, Colombiano!

  October 27, 2005

• Critical Fatwa

  October 27, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  October 13, 2005

• Say Cheesecake

  Tracking down cheesecake by the cube, sliver and slab.

  September 15, 2005

• Party Pooper

  It wasn't just cranky neighbors who brought down Westport's biggest dance club. Its owner was the real buzz killer.

  September 15, 2005

• Going for Broken

  Jim Jarmusch's road movie is filled with fetching existential ambiguities.

  August 11, 2005

• Serfs Up

  Meet Lord Crume in ye olde scullery.

  February 24, 2005

• Hit the Flora

  There’s just no rest for Total Yard Gardeners.

  January 20, 2005

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  Our critic weighs in on local theater.

  July 8, 2004

• Art Sleuth

  Does the Nelson have a counterfeit Roman sculpture in its collection?

  April 8, 2004

• Kay's Doomsday

  We better hope a gay marriage ban in Kansas makes a last-minute legislative comeback.

  April 1, 2004

• The Emperor Strikes Out

  Caligula attempts to portray Rome's sexy, gory past, but giggles ensue.

  February 5, 2004

• Shake It

  Let the kids rap, people.

  January 29, 2004

• Heiruspecs

  Sunday, November 30, at the Hurricane.

  November 27, 2003

• The Right Snuff

  The avant-garde jazz was lights out at El Torreon's adults-only night.

  September 11, 2003

• Elementary Watson

  Bobby Watson helps his students solve the mysteries of jazz.

  April 17, 2003

• Everything's OhKay!

  Tech N9ne is the smoking gun in Mayor Barnes' most recent campaign.

  March 20, 2003

• Everything Must Go

  Three local galleries put a price on art, imaginatively.

  December 19, 2002

• La Dolce Velveeta

  Life is dull at Johnson County's La Dolce Vita.

  November 7, 2002

• Reiki Road

  John Crundall travels from Australia to lay his hands on Kansas Citians.

  September 12, 2002

• Run of the Green Mill

  The Green Mill’s pizzas shine, but everything else is the same old grind.

  November 1, 2001

• He Scores

  Ennio Morricone has written great music for good, bad and ugly films.

  March 29, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of October 5, 2000

  October 5, 2000

• Gladiator

  May 4, 2000

• Angels & Demons

  May 14, 2009

• Touring KC's fountains by bike

  An estimated 200 cyclists turned out this weekend to wind their way through sleepy Sunday streets, taking in the watery sculptures that often put Kansas City in the same sentence as Rome, Italy. The 2009 Fountain Tour, hosted by the Kansas City Bicycle Club, included 25- and 45-mile courses, along with a guided tour led by two-wheeling history fan, Pat Leary. I tagged along with Leary's crew, leisurely taking in the sun, city and historical tidbits. Click here for a slideshow.  

  June 22, 2009

• Give Opera a Chance

  August 13, 2009