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1. Feature

   Art Crimes

   Some of Kansas City's best paintings don't hang in galleries.

   By Nadia Pflaum

   Published: June 5, 2008

2. Night & Day

   Jane Kurtz - Benefit Dinner for Ethiopia Reads

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Join Jane Kurtz at an Ethiopian Buffet -- Adults $15.00, Children $ 7.50. Proceeds benefit Ethiopia Reads, an organization with a mission to build a reading culture in Ethiopia...

3. Night & Day

   Saturdays at the Bijou

   Published: June 5, 2008

   A new, ongoing film event in which classic feature films will be shown preceded by short cartoons, cliffhanger serials, and other vintage shorts. Every other Saturday. No...

4. Night & Day

   Kansas City Royals v. Texas

   By Eric Barton

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Used to be that Sluggerrr had the only raging mullet in Kauffman Stadium’s home dugout. But there’s a new man in town with business in the front and party in the...

5. Night & Day

   RubberMade: Sculpture by Chakaia Booker

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Since the early 1990s, Chakaia Booker has worked almost exclusively with recycled tires. Through a physically demanding process of twisting, slicing, and weaving found rubber...

6. Night & Day

   Kansas City Symphony: Symphonie Fantastique

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Michael Stern brings the season to a dramatic conclusion with Symphonie Fantastique - Hector Berlioz's revolutionary musical embodiment of the love of his life concludes an...

7. Night & Day

   Well

   By Alan Scherstuhl

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Early on in the Unicorn Theatre's production of the inventive Broadway hit Well, just a couple of seconds after we realize that the play has, in fact, started, actress Melinda...

8. Books

   Summer Reading

   Six intelligent Kansas Citians recommend nonescapist but funny books

   By Chris Packham

   Published: June 5, 2008

   Summer reading recommendations generally take the form of prescriptions for escapism, the literary equivalent of striding around a sunny beach with a Dos Equis, your hairy beer...

9. Burnt Ends

   Goodbye, Royals!

   Published: June 5, 2008

   It's that time of year again, when the Royals fade into obscurity with the likes of the Tampa Bay Rays. Wait, the Rays are batting for first place this year? Well, OK, it's...

10. Letters

    Letters for the week of June 5

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Feature, "Are You Ready for some Women's Football?" May 22 Storm Warning The KC Storm, the area's longest-running women's football team, is in its fourth season. Due to...

11. Ask a Mexican®

    Mexicans in the U.S. won’t ever have it as bad as American Indians and black people

    By Gustavo Arellano

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Dear Mexican: First it was the Native Americans, then it was the blacks, then the Japanese. For a while, Muslims. Now I fear that American prejudice will soon overwhelm...

12. Interview

    The best chestnuts of Wakarusa 2008

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Rain or shine, pot or 'shrooms, whiskey or Dasani, this year's Wakarusa Music and Camping Festival is upon us. Now in its fifth year, the Wak continues to sizzle, growing in...

13. Buckle Bunny

    Winston Apple looks back on 40 years of songwriting

    By Crystal K. Wiebe

    Published: June 5, 2008

    “Hearts on the Line” by Winston Apple, from Hearts on the Line (Speakeasy Productions): The words true, love and heart appear in virtually all of the 15 tracks on...

14. Bonus Tracks

    The Download

    Sigur Rós

    By Andy Vihstadt

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Iceland's Sigur Rós announced its fifth LP last week. Out June 24 on XL Recordings, Með Suð Í Eyrum Við Spilum Endalaust, which translates as With a...

15. CD Reviews

    The Beautiful Bodies

    By Jason Harper

    Published: June 5, 2008

    “Touch Me (But If Only You Knew How)” by the Beautiful Bodies, from Touch Me (self-released): The Beautiful Bodies' debut, Touch Me, is an awkward and only...

16. CD Reviews

    Fag Cop

    By Flannery Cashill

    Published: June 5, 2008

    “I’m Fuckin’ Dead” by Fag Cop, from I’m Fuckin’ Dead (Eat Records): Fag Cop's I'm Fucking Dead is a fast and brutish EP that growls like a rat...

17. Critics' Choices

    The Fiery Furnaces

    By Ray Cummings

    Published: June 5, 2008

    “Ex-Guru” by the Fiery Furnaces, from Widow City (Thrill Jockey): What took this NYC bro-sis outfit so blasted long to get into the live-album game? The mad-genius,...

18. Critics' Choices

    The Age of Rockets

    By Aaron Ladage

    Published: June 5, 2008

    Not regularly listening to the Age of Rockets? That probably means you're either (a) allergic to Auto-Tune, or (b) not a MySpace-obsessed 14-year-old girl. These aren't cheap...

19. Critics' Choices

    Russian Circles

    By Saby Reyes-Kulkarni

    Published: June 5, 2008

    “Death Rides a Horse” by Russian Circles, from Enter (Flameshovel Records): It's no small feat that this instrumental trio from Chicago works the spaces between indie...

20. Critics' Choices

    Rockfest

    By Andrew Miller

    Published: June 5, 2008

    For one evening every summer, the Liberty Memorial becomes the world's biggest lighter, its simulated flame saluting a parade of rock-radio fixtures. Rockfest's musical menu...