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Six ways the city has wrecked a vital agency. Two projects that work anyway.By Nadia PflaumThursday, January 08Like most cities of its size, Kansas City gets millions of dollars in federal money to provide safe, secure and affordable housing to its... More >> -
All You Need Is LoveA year through Mark and Gloria’s happy looking glass.By C.J. JanovyThursday, January 01Early January: A Hole New Year As the new year begins, anyone with e-mail is still snickering over Kansas City first lady Gloria Squitiro's... More >> -
Midtown Miscreant blogger Mark Smith finds cheer in Kansas City’s most depressing placesBy Justin KendallThursday, December 25Snowflakes streak through the air and melt as soon as they hit the ground on an early December afternoon. "It's a good day for blight," says the... More >> -
From Kansas City’s industrial frontier, a heartwarming tale of warehouse warfareBy Justin KendallThursday, December 18Rain pelts Chuck Mabie's Lexus ES300 as he zooms through the gaudy, hot-pink gates of Warehouse 1. More than a decade ago, Mabie worked inside... More >> -
The ghost of Alvin Ailey brings the Jazz District back to lifeBy Carolyn SzczepanskiThursday, December 11As more than 400 students pour out of Allen Edison Village School in silent, single-file lines, a few of them can't stifle dance moves. Passing... More >>
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Broward - Palm Beach
The Agent From Iran
How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy
By Deirdra Funcheon
On November 29, 2004, Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, checked into Le... More >>
Dallas
Blown Over: Galveston and Texas Gulf Coast Struggle After Hurricane Ike
Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston residents try to put the pieces back together
By John Nova Lomax
Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston's streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn't offer unscripted... More >>
Denver
In life and death, tattoo artist Kauri Tiyme made her mark
By Alan Prendergast
For more photos of Kauri Tiyme, go to westword.com/slideshow.
The maid found her. It was close... More >>
Houston
Hurricane Ike's Wake
Forgotten and overlooked, Galveston and the Texas Gulf Coast struggle on in the storm's aftermath
By John Nova Lomax
Sean Penn did not patrol Galveston's streets in an airboat. Kanye West didn't offer unscripted... More >>
Miami
The Agent from Iran
How a mother of two ended up in a plot to smuggle high-tech gear to the enemy.
By Deirdra Funcheon
On November 29, 2004, Shahrzad Mir Gholikhan and her ex-husband, Mahmoud Seif, checked into the... More >>
Minneapolis
An open letter to the man who raped my wife
A jolting tale of incest, rape, and the strength to heal
As told to Erin Carlyle
At about 10 a.m. on a weekday in mid-November, Bill sat down to write a letter. A steady rage... More >>
Phoenix
Hollywood Heartthrob: How a Lucky Break and a Lot of Cash Made the Band
By Niki D'Andrea
One Thursday last spring, Ted Myers was stuck in a cubicle, trying to figure out his future.... More >>
San Francisco
Baggage
The city's politicos made the enviros happy by banning plastic bags, but left us with more pollution and cost
By Joe Eskenazi
San Francisco is a city that enjoys being scratched behind the ears by an adoring world. And... More >>
St. Louis
Class Conscious: St. Louis educators are desperately seeking ways to get kids back in school
By Aimee Levitt
Lamont White was two months into his junior year at Normandy High School when he dropped... More >>
Blog
Plog
See Morrison's mistress testify
Thu Jan 8, 4:26 PM
The clips are short, but the Wichita Eagle has a couple of videos of Linda Carter testifying at yesterday's pretrial hearing of abortion doctor George Tiller. Carter answers questions about the affair and says Morrison was willing to "make peace... More >>
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Columns
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A walk with a former prostitute, after her five-year sentence
Thursday, January 08Every once in a while, someone in public office decides that the city's prostitutes need managing. In 1918, the director of the Kansas State... More>>
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Partly Cloudy, Chance of Armageddon
Thursday, January 08Click 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 January 8
Thursday, January 08Letters: "A Google Expert," December 2, 2008 History Repeats I missed Joshua Lawson's original letter. I have no intention of responding to... More>>
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Curses and compadres – classic Mexican contributions
Thursday, January 08Dear Mexican: I'm a Spanish teacher, and I've been hearing my students say a phrase that I am unsure what it means (if it truly means anything,... More>>
Letters
Letters from the week of January 8
Thursday, January 08
Letters: "A Google Expert," December 2, 2008
History Repeats
I missed Joshua Lawson's original letter. I have no intention of responding to... More >>
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