Deadwood Edition Issue #112

April 18, 2006

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How now, Justin Roelofs

In the Mayan ruins at Palenque, the past is irretrievable, the future irrelevant. Birds call in the jungle; lizards skitter across ancient stone. The tourists arrive, and snap photos with cellphones and send postcards. Justin Roelofs came to download vibrations.

Keeping Lawrence weird

Is the sky really falling on Downtown Lawrence's rare retail haven?

In her 10 years owning The Casbah, Terri Faunce has done more than her fair share of treading water. She's added roommates, cancelled her cable, sold items on eBay and called in plenty of family favors. But with her store's first-quarter earnings paling in comparison to previous years, Faunce is beginning to question the viability of her three-decade-old downtown retail establishment at 803 Massachusetts St.

Friends of the Kaw clean up the Kansas River and educate the public on environmental issues

Our weekly reminder that people aren't all bastards

Rachel Treanor knows all about the Kansas River's bad reputation.

Style Scout: Grant Noble and Dana Parsons

Grant Noble and Dana Parsons

Brawlroom Blitz

Lawrence ladies cruise onto KC roller-derby scene

The Kansas City Roller Warriors begin their second season on April 29 at the Winwood Skate Center in KC, Mo. The all-female roller derby league will welcome a smattering of Lawrence ladies into the league, including Julie Ibach and Anne Mergenmeier of Pipeline Productions and Wheat State Pizza Manager Jamie Olmstead

'Thank You for Smoking' a double-edged vice

"Thank You for Smoking," adapted from Christopher Buckley's 1994 novel by writer/director Jason Reitman, is at its best when it lets Nick loose in the savage game of verbal one-upsmanship.

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Review: Rumble Roses XX - 360

Not for gamers

If you consider yourself a gamer, this is not a title for you. This is a title for 13-year old boys who apparently haven't discovered the resources of the internet. You'd be better off watching scrambled Cinemax.

Okay, That's It.

Why everyone at Fox News deserves syphilis.