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
As promised we're continuing our Brown Bombers videos from this week's feature story, "Spit Happens." Here's Taylor Brown, 17, spitting like a woman possessed at the Blue Room: