What’s better than staying home to watch that worn-down VHS copy of The Goonies that you’ve owned since you were in short pants? Why, watching it with a mess of strangers in the open air, of course. All month, the Pilgrim Center, a group dedicated to improving the Westport community, has been showing free movies at 7:30 p.m. at Gillham…
There aren’t many places where known traitors can fraternize in public without inviting scorn, but the Tarpeian Rock Festival provides an especially inhospitable habitat for turncoats. Named for the cliff from which ancient Romans tossed the treasonous, the event offers a lower-elevation hazard: the drag strip at the Kansas City International Raceway (8201 South Noland Road, 816-358-6700). During the festival,…
All drawing levels are welcome. Quick gesture drawings to longer 20 minute poses are covered. Instruction available. Bring a 18 X 24 inch newsprint pad and conté crayon, all media are welcome. Tags: Night & Day
A four-part conversation about “The Mystery of Love”. Tue., July 17, 6:30-8 p.m.; Tue., July 31, 6:30-8 p.m.; Tue., Aug. 14, 6:30-8 p.m.; Tue., Aug. 28, 6:30-8 p.m. Tags: Night & Day
Spend a hot summer evening catching lightning bugs! Learn all about this bright beetle and its habits. Stories, crafts, and a firefly search on the front lawn will complete the evening. Registration required. Ages 4 and up. Tags: 436, Night & Day
Learn to make the classics like hamburger hobo packs, fire roasted sweet corn or a wild berry cobbler baked in a dutch oven. Tags: 94, Night & Day
This class leads you to discovery of your natural psychic sensing styles. Tags: Night & Day
Students in the art of fronting a band have two reasons to go to Lawrence tonight: Karen Orzolek and Finn Andrews. Karen O., as we know her, is the lead singer of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, which will surely sell out The Granada (1020 Massachusetts, 785-842-1390). The howlin’ art-school grad reinvented the hipster-rock-girl persona with her custom-made outfits and hyper-active,…
By now, Louise Bourgeois’ “Spider,” our favorite of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art’s lawn sculptures, seems as integral to the museum as the building itself. Less so is Wichita native Tom Otterness’ “Crying Giant.” The 5,700-pound misfit is a big-bellied bronze with an enormous bowed head propped up by spindly arms. Located in the southwest corner of the…
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Tonight, a celestial alignment occurs when the sun, the moon and the Earth are as close as they get to a straight line. Will gravitational forces conspire to rip the continental plates from the Earth’s crust, flinging them into the stellar void? Dude, don’t be so apocalyptic. It’s just a full moon, and it happens once a month. Sometimes…
In this spoof of STAR WARS and a handful of other sci-fi flicks from the 1970s and ’80s, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr (Bill Pullman) and his half-dog/half-man sidekick, Barf (John Candy), must rescue a spoiled Druish princess (Daphne Zuniga) from the evil Lord Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) in time to pay off Pizza the Hut. With SPACEBALLS, director Mel Brooks…
Double-stuffed, ripe with choices, coming on like a clown car parked in a cornucopia, the K.C. Fringe Festival is your chance to gorge on all that its legion of artists, performers and exhibitionists have to offer. With dozens of events between today and Saturday, you gotta have your priorities in line. The lineup includes absurdist sketch-comedy troupe Bacon Shake (Bohemian…
Oh, sure, everyone knows Ryan Seacrest is the diminutive, nice-guy host of American Idol. But way back in 2002, he didn’t get all the glory. Slap this in your pop-culture-trivia file: For the show’s inaugural season, Seacrest shared hosting duties with comedian Brian Dunkleman, whose contestant-ribbing wasn’t quite so cheesy. These days, Dunkleman cracks his wit on the stand-up circuit…
Here’s a category that VH1 wouldn’t address on its World Series of Pop Culture: Bushisms. You know, the awesome fouls that the president commits against his native tongue. Do you have an assortment of them memorized? Do you know your nucular bombs from your love-practicing obstetricians? Take your best Bush impression to the ImPEACEment Party from 6 to 10 tonight…
Kickball is typically associated with middle school wholesomeness, but it’s a ruthless bitch of a game for grown-ups. Kaw Valley Kickball is a Lawrence league of 24 teams representing area businesses. Kickball isn’t exactly a game you need to play sober, and drunken slides have left many participants with bloody knees. A particularly exciting season of crowd-pleasing misbehavior prompted the…
It’s impressive to see a Shaquille O’Neal slam dunk. But watching Jason “Wee-Man” Acuna attempt the same feat would be even more entertaining. That’s kind of the idea behind the sporting event happening today at The Woodlands (9700 Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas). During the Wiener Dog Nationals, the stubby-legged midgets of the canine world get to do their…
Dogstock 2007, a four-day festival in tiny Melvern, Kansas, could just as easily be called “Wakarusa Redux.” The jam-happy headliners include Vince Herman’s Great American Taxi, Papa Mali and Green Lemon. This year marks the fifth anniversary of the homegrown festival, which helps the Akita Adoption and Rescue Foundation. But Dogstock also stretches beyond Waka’s reach with big draws that…
Fans of hand-to-hand combat seeking the biggest bang for their buck should expect nothing less than TOTAL MAYHEM (cue your Jerry Bruckheimer soundtrack of choice) when the Titan Fighting Championships roll through town. TFC 8 tosses a dozen of the most agile meatheads on the planet into a six-sided cage, where they’ll scramble like alley cats to pummel the bejesus…
Graffiti artists from Indiana, Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City descend on one elementary school playground today for the Midwest Graffiti Expo. It seems that the allure of the spray-paint can has already become irresistible to some kids in the neighborhood of James Elementary School (5810 Scarritt), as evidenced by the appearance of gang tags, and our legendary local…
Feminist philosophies and woman-written ’zines pack the shelves seven days a week at Solidarity! Revolutionary Center and Radical Library in Lawrence (1109 Massachusetts). This week, women take over the walls as well. A handful of female artists and activists who find their creative outlet in a variety of mediums will debut the Radical Women of Lawrence Art Show tonight. The…
Word on the street — er, MySpace — is that KC is getting a new late-night talk show. Executive Producer Darron Story tells the Pitch that KCPT Channel 19’s After Hours will combine elements of the Letterman-Leno-Kimmel style and Regis and Kelly. Story, who scored an R&B hit with the band Lo-Key in the early 1990s, will co-host After Hours…
Examining the roots of Transformers: The Game is deep stuff: It’s a video game based on a movie based on a cartoon based on a toy. But unlike most laughably forced movie tie-in games (Da Vinci Code for the PS2, anyone?), there’s good sense in creating one devoted to giant robots beating the holy hell out of each other….
Hard Boiled: Two-Disc Ultimate Edition (Weinstein) The Criterion version of John Woo’s masterpiece, about two cops (the overworked Chow Yun-Fat and the undercover Tony Leung) gunning for the Hong Kong Triads, is still the “ultimate” collection. It has a better commentary track (with Woo and Pulp Fiction co-writer Roger Avary, among others) and better extras (a Woo student film and…
