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The People vs. Erotic City
It took the gang rape of a 14-year-old before authorities shuttered the orgy room.
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The People vs. Erotic City
Behind the glory holes, orgy rooms and sex booths is a board of directors that includes a felon, a preteen and others who think things aren't that bad.
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KC's Iron Chef
He wants to be a restaurant mogul, but first Rob Dalzell has to prevent another opening-day disaster.
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Fox 4's Shawn Edwards isn't just a blurb whore
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Sure, global warming has skeptics. But how many teach science at Mizzou?
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Sure, global warming has skeptics. But how many teach science at Mizzou? (16)
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The People vs. Erotic City (14)
It took the gang rape of a 14-year-old before authorities shuttered the orgy room.
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Smoke Scream (9)
Sure, people feel strongly about the smoking ban. But that doesn't mean we can't discuss it rationally.
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How Not to Be a Rap Star (10)
Flying high on Ecstasy, Grey Goose and his own hype, Paul Mussan blew through 100 G's in six months.
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Riot On, Man
The Riot Room rocks us like the Hurricane used to.
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Claw and FSTZ introduce dubstep to Kansas City
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John Brewer and Brandon Draper get down to Organic Proof
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A night out at the Mutual Musicians Foundation and Jardine's reminds us what this town's all about
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Depression
Remembering the greatness of No Depression.
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Daily Briefs: Life Gives Lemons to Yael T. Abouhalkah
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'It's a Great Day to Be a Jayhawk'
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Daily Briefs: Voting, Dunking and Drinking
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The Wayward Blog Still Allows Smoking
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New Kids On The Block Reunite
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KC Singer Janelle Monáe Signs to Bad Boy Records, Invents Cybersoul
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“The Hollows” by WHY?, from Alopecia (Anticon):
Why (usually printed with a question mark) is one of the musically juiciest groups working anywhere near the hip-hop banner today — and it boasts one of the lyrically driest frontmen in music, period. With a voice that sounds, in its natural state, like drunk Mike Doughty singing into a fan, vocalist Yoni Wolf half-chants, half-groans hilarious and off-putting verses about, say, faking suicide for applause in the food courts of malls or sucking dick for drink tickets at the free bar at my cousin's bat mitzvah. Those little gems are from the Oakland band's latest, Alopecia, a record awash in shadowy instrumental landscapes — lo-fi acoustic guitar, orchestral backdrops, despondent piano, hollowed-out beats — and bristling with lyrical fangs. As with Wolf's best writing, standout tracks "Good Friday" and "The Hollows" shine a world-weary light on small, dark, seedy spaces: a Starbucks bathroom, an "art museum john" ("Good Friday"), the dark corner of a basketball court ("The Hollows") — all of which are used as sites for clandestine acts of perversion. Sam Mendes, eat your heart out.
