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117 Homicides and CountingAs City Hall tries to fix its Aim4Peace program, the killing continues.By Peter RuggThursday, November 20Anti-violence activists pull up to the corner of 27th Street and Benton, cars following as slowly and methodically as a funeral procession.... More >> -
Life of KemperCrosby Kemper III is rewriting the book on running a library.By Carolyn SzczepanskiThursday, November 13Even in a crowd of people who know him, R. Crosby Kemper III is easily overlooked. He's a rich, connected man whose name is branded across the... More >> -
A Picture of Hope: Abigail Henderson fights cancer – and rallies musicians for health careBy Jason HarperThursday, November 06Abigail Henderson feels best when she's onstage. The drummer pounds away behind her, the bass player rides the roots and the fifths in a... More >> -
A Pitch reporter volunteers for the McCain campaignBy Peter RuggThursday, October 30The first McCain volunteer I met was Mary, 74, a Republican precinct captain from Blue Springs. When I walked into the campaign headquarters at... More >> -
Kansas State Senate candidate Kelly Kultala fears a political hit manBy Justin KendallThursday, October 30Kelly Kultala is in a hit man's cross hairs. Kultala, a Democrat running for Kansas state Senate, isn't paranoid. She has proof: a $3.05 check... More >>
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Broward - Palm Beach
Residents of a Davie trailer park think their contaminated water made them sick
By Amy Guthrie
Allan Payan lifts a photograph from a shelf inside his singlewide trailer home. The smiling... More >>
Dallas
Dallas Cast Reunion Leaves Fans Southforked
Thirty years after Dallas, fans worldwide came, saw and were conquered.
By Robert Wilonsky
This wasn't supposed to be a story about a catastrophe. This wasn't supposed to be about a... More >>
Denver
Denver Snowboard Bandits lived for excitement, but the FBI got the final thrill
By Joel Warner
For photos of the Snowboard Bandits in action, go to westword.com/slideshow.
The guy in the... More >>
Houston
The Collector: Mack McCormick's Huge Archive of Culture and Lore
A great American folklorist has spent a life squirreling away bits and pieces of Texas culture. Now time is running out on him and his inventory.
By John Nova Lomax
An evening at Mack McCormick's house in Spring Branch always has the same structure, if vastly... More >>
Miami
A Stripper, a Mobster, and a Murder
Yep, that's Miami.
By Natalie O'Neill
Hauling a fishing rod and bait, Orlando Maytin and his 12-year-old son trudged through a vacant... More >>
Minneapolis
The Green Institute faces possible foreclosure after 15 years
It was ahead of its time, but now the nonprofit has a looming debt problem
By Beth Walton
ANNIE YOUNG WENT to bed exhausted. For more than 12 years, the large, outspoken woman had been... More >>
Phoenix
Can Maynard James Keenan Put Arizona Wine on the Map?
By Michele Laudig
Early-afternoon sun shines intensely on the sleepy vineyard, where row after row of grape-laden... More >>
San Francisco
Voodoo on the Vine
The origins of the increasingly popular Biodynamic wine are steeped in the occult and bad science.
By Joe Eskenazi
In a remote corner of the Benziger Family Winery, you can just barely hear the tour guide's... More >>
St. Louis
Mistress of Horror: Nobody writes vampire novels the way St. Louis' Laurell K. Hamilton does – and yes, there's lots of sex
By Aimee Levitt
On the warm, moonless night before Halloween, 65 people huddle around a campfire at Eureka's... More >>
Blog
Plog
Google breathes Life into old KC
Fri Nov 21, 1:33 PM
By JUSTIN KENDALL Our blog brother in Dallas, Unfair Park, points out that Life magazine's photo archives are now a Google search away. This includes a couple hundred beautiful black-and-white (and some color) shots of a bygone KC, during floods,... More >>
Most Popular
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Monopoly Boy The second-in-command of Wyandotte County’s power company faces a 57-count indictment.
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Wrap It, Grandpa The Greatest Generation is Kansas City’s newest high-risk group for HIV.
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Columns
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Broken Circuit Merriam’s new retail haven just lost its anchor tenant. What now?Thursday, November 20Circuit City filed for bankruptcy last week, which was sad news for the city of Merriam. The electronics retailer played a feature role in a... More>>
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Ed Wolf dogs Mrs. Mayor, and Mary Pilcher Cook hounds the Star
Thursday, November 20No one is running Kansas City, Missouri, so thank goodness there's a big daily paper to keep an eye on things. What? Uh oh. Hang on —... More>>
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Jack to the Future Cashill's The Chautauqua Rising might make your lunch come up, too.Thursday, November 20Click here to find out what makes this book so crappy Click here for more Studies in Crap. Click here to write a letter to the editor. More>>
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Letters from the week of November 20
Thursday, November 20Martin: "Fantasy Island," November 13 Justice Ain't Free I usually like David Martin's columns, but his criticism of Kansas City's... More>>
Letters
Letters from the week of November 20
Thursday, November 20
Martin: "Fantasy Island," November 13
Justice Ain't Free
I usually like David Martin's columns, but his criticism of Kansas City's... More >>
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