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Feature
Anthony Mots was driving the firetruck that killed Aaron Becerra. Afterward, Mots’ brothers in the Kansas City, Kansas, Fire Department rallied to defend him
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: July 17, 2008
Central Avenue curves fast through Kansas City, Kansas, lined with auto-detailing shops, gas stations and panaderias. At 18th Street and Park Drive, it meets a confusing,...
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Interview
As Diamond Hoo Ha proves, Supergrass is best served fun
By Jason Toon
Published: July 17, 2008
"Rebel in You" by Supergrass, from Diamond Hoo Ha (Astralwerks): It's been said that Oasis was the new Beatles and Supergrass was the new Monkees, but now it's the other way...
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Critic's Choice
The Black Crowes
By Matt Erickson
Published: July 17, 2008
Often, an artist's answer to ennui is to risk commercial viability by striving to break new, often uncomfortable ground. For fans, this can be painful to watch, and for Black...
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Critic's Choice
Boris
By Matt Sullivan
Published: July 17, 2008
"Statement," by Boris, from Smile (Diwphalanx Records): No band frustrates record collectors quite like Tokyo's Boris. The hyper-prolific and experimental trio's latest full...
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Critic's Choice
Dexter Romweber
By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 17, 2008
"Blues That Defy my Soul" by Dexter Romweber, from Blues That Defy My Soul (Yep Roc Records): Dexter Romweber's admirers include Jack White, Neko Case and Cat Power —...
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Critic's Choice
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Published: July 17, 2008
Come on, Tom Petty is great. Friend to man and beast alike, the Petty offends none and pleases all. He even recently pulled the most unobjectionable and down-home move ever:...
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Critic's Choice
Exene Cervenka
By Flannery Cashill
Published: July 17, 2008
“It Ain’t Supposed to Be” by Exene Cervenka and the Original Sinners, from Sev7en (Nitro Records): Not all punks age well. Lee Ving left Fear, the band, to...
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Critic's Choice
Rockin' The Colonies
By Richard Gintowt
Published: July 17, 2008
The Wikis of the world remember the English Beat as a two-tone ska revival band, but the group's three albums can be heard as contemporaneous with XTC and the Clash. Those...
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Bonus Tracks
The Download
By Andy Vihstadt
Published: July 17, 2008
While El-P wraps up his follow-up to last year's I'll Sleep When You're Dead, the New York rapper, producer and label CEO is giving away the second installment in his mixtape...
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Buckle Bunny
It’s the Last Days of the Spidermums
By Crystal K. Wiebe
Published: July 17, 2008
"Over and Over the Same Things" by the Spidermums, from Spidermums (self-released): After six promising months, the best-named band in Kansas City is breaking up. Yet, even...
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Cafe
The Skillet Licker’s diner food might not be anything special, but its people are
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: July 17, 2008
My restaurant specializes in home cooking, but everyone who writes about us just talks about the doughnuts," Karen Allred said one day recently as she swept a wisp of red hair...
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Fat Mouth
Melbee’s shuts the lid on its piano
By Charles Ferruzza
Published: July 17, 2008
MelBee's was an interesting case study. It was a sophisticated, upscale restaurant in a neighborhood populated mostly by inexpensive diners (Town Topic, Village Inn), hardware...
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Film
Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
By Jim Ridley
Published: July 17, 2008
A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite — an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an iconoclast who relished winners as...
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Film
Up the Yangtze
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 17, 2008
"It's hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult," says one tearful shopkeeper along the soon-to-be-submerged banks of the Yangtze River in...
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Film Feature
The Dark Knight
By SCOTT FOUNDAS
Published: July 17, 2008
What a brooding pleasure it is to return to Christopher Nolan's Gotham City — if pleasure is the right word for a movie that gazes so deeply into the souls of restless...
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Film
Mamma Mia!
By ELLA TAYLOR
Published: July 17, 2008
Sure, it's nice that the actors sing their own numbers — Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact that Pierce Brosnan sings like a bullfrog in heat is used to...
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Night & Day
High Marks
By Andrew Miller
Published: July 17, 2008
Occasionally, great films can become so influential that they're eventually cannibalized by other films. After imitators have turned innovation into cliché, the original...
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Night & Day
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers with Steve Winwood
Published: July 17, 2008
Since 1963, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been performing the best authentic klezmer music from coast-to-coast at weddings, bat mitzvahs and corporate events. In...
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Night & Day
Children's Film Festival
Published: July 17, 2008
Each Friday night is filled with music and entertainment, refreshments, prizes and, of course, a movie! Sponsored by the Pilgrim Center, Inc., and in cooperation with the...
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Night & Day
Kansas City Explorers vs. Newport Beach Breakers
Published: July 17, 2008
Mike and Bob Bryan seem like a Disney Channel show turned into reality: identical twins both make it big in tennis and end up playing as the world's No. 1 pair. When the Bryan...
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