Come and learn about snowflakes, glaciers, and icebergs! Some cold subjects, but no mittens required! Fri., Dec. 7, 3 p.m., 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Show off your tattoos and get a discounted drink. Wednesdays, 2-6 p.m., 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Join us for a day of quiet contemplation during the stressful time of the holidays. Reflect on the images found in Nature as She pulls her energy inward for a time of rest. Enjoy Goddess Oracle and Spiral Tarot card readings, exquisite self-care, meditation, sacred movement, warm soups, and chocolate delights! Reserve your space by Dec. 1st and receive a…
Artist Alisha Gambino’s calling card is larger-than-life. After graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute, the KC native spent nearly a decade working on eye-catching murals such as the Lewis and Clark piece in the River Market and the colorful immigrant tributes on buildings throughout downtown Kansas City, Kansas. For her upcoming exhibit, though, Gambino is scaling down her artistic…
%{}% This season tends to bombard us with images of bright and shiny new electronic gadgets that will be out of date by New Year’s Day. Searching for a good gift can be stressful. But for 25 years, the KC Clay Guild has offered a holiday shopping alternative. For something truly original, check out the 25th-Annual KC Clay Guild Holiday…
Because their own protests frequently earn the attention of the local FBI and police, it stands to reason that members of Kansas Mutual Aid would take a vested interest in the San Francisco 8. In the eyes of the Lawrence resistance organization, the recently revived cases, which involve former Black Panthers indicted for crimes to which they were allegedly tortured…
Call it writer’s block, lack of inspiration or just plain lazy-assitude, but the disinclination to finish — or even start — a project strikes most artists at one time or another.The women behind LOCA, or Local Artist Collective (1909 McGee, inside the Bad Seed), understand this malady, which is why they started their group in the first place. “Sometimes it’s…
The mayor’s massive Christmas tree, towering in front of Crown Center, could bring out the grinch in those hoping to celebrate an eco-friendly holiday season. The 100-foot pine traveled more than 1,500 miles to be adorned with more than 7,000 lights. It’s hardly a tribute to energy efficiency or Oregon’s old-growth forests. At least there is a responsible way to…
Today’s opening at Unit 5 Gallery & Framing (1920 Wyandotte, 816-841-5500), Patterns of Behavior, is an exhibit by a group of women collectively exploring notions of gender. The artists include A. Lloyd du Pont, Anne Hatakka, Laura Kukkee, Anne Pearce, Ouida Touchon, Susan White and Debra Di Blasi.Di Blasi exhibits her mixed-media-on-paper art, a series called “Makeup Artist.” Though inspired…
In among the many departmental open houses from 5 to 8 tonight at the Kansas City Art Institute (4415 Warwick, 800-522-5224), one interdisciplinary collective of students, under the guidance of Assistant Professor Dwight Frizzell, stages an annual arts showcase called Media Discharge.”We’ve only been calling it Media Discharge for two years now,” Frizzell says. “When they came up with…
In C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce, the narrator awakes in a mysterious gray city and eventually realizes that he is a ghost, as are the people he encounters. Incandescent figures appear and urge the ghosts to follow them to heaven, but most choose not to abandon their purgatorial — yet strangely familiar — new surroundings. Inspired by The Great Divorce, Jenny Bellington’s…
Though Karen Land loves dogs and the outdoors, she never pictured herself as a dog sledder. She hated the cold and enjoyed a good night’s sleep in bed. Then, during a hike with a beloved canine pal, Land read Gary Paulsen’s book Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod. She caught the madness. Land, a writer, moved to Alaska…
Call it Heartland Horror — or Flatland Fear Flicks or Children of the Cornfed or whatever you choose. Tonight’s one-sitting festival of Lawrence-based SenoRealtiy Pictures’ short horror films digs deep into the terror of Kansas. It’s a red-state bloodbath. (And a cheap one: Just $5 gets you in.) Screening nine films, most created for HorrorChannel.com’s Heartland Horror series, the…
Bible literalists, take note: You will probably not be interested in today’s Skeptical Bible Studies meeting, sponsored by the Community of Reason. Instead, check out the great acoustic show to the right of this space. For everyone else, Community of Reason coordinator Theo Schubert describes the meetings this way: “John Van Keppel started the group. He used to have meetings…
His only goal as he fielded the kickoff was not getting leveled before his first step. Reggie Johnson’s team, the Southeast High School Knights, had just given up another touchdown. The Grain Valley Eagles led, 27-0. And the second quarter had just started. As Johnson caught the kickoff, he could already see blue Eagles uniforms pounding down the field…
A new Buffalo Wild Wings that opened in Belton on Monday drew in sports-bar lovers with the promise of one year of free wings to the first 100 people through the door. To be clear, those lucky people actually received a coupon book with 52 vouchers for six free wings each. Here at the Department of Burnt Ends, we’ve dreamed…
Laurenn McCubbin says she should have known that the quiet couple — dressed like they were straight out of 21 Jump Street — were undercover agents intent on busting her cabaret-style art gathering. This past summer, McCubbin helped establish a local chapter of Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School in Kansas City. A New York City-based artist who was sick of boring art…
Punk died, the Silver Jews sang, the first time a kid shouted “Punk’s not dead!” The words are never uttered in Julien Temple’s Joe Strummer: The Future Is Unwritten, and maybe that’s why you come away from this epic doc feeling hopeful about the health of punk’s lingering ideals. Piecing together snippets of everything from Raging Bull to an animated…
Casting Nicole Kidman as The Golden Compass’ glacial, intractably smooth megalomaniac Mrs. Coulter is no less inspired for being obvious. Indeed, she was the first and only choice for director Chris Weitz, who adapted this first installment of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy. Despite the book’s description of the nefarious doyenne’s panther-black mane (the fantasy equivalent of the black…
With his latest album, Vibe and Completions, Kansas City crooner Douglass sounds like he’s out to restore that early-’90s “quiet storm” R&B style. Back then, artists such as Maxwell wore the mysterious element of soul on their sleeves and put out tender jams that even your parents could enjoy. Nowadays, singers whore themselves out as eagerly as many of their…
The Devil Rides Out’s members hail from some of the most colorful acts the local scene has produced in the past decade. Guitarist Nick Grazier and drummer Bob Rodriguez played with the Deathray Angels, once renowned for a stage show that incorporated stage blood and pyrotechnics. Frontman Thad Carson served stints with Bent and Ultrafuge, making him a decorated veteran…
With last year’s Sacrament, Lamb of God continued its decade-long evolution into a more nuanced metal monster. Having ditched the shock-value moniker Burn the Priest in 2000, the Virginia band has found subtler ways to incorporate religious iconography, such as the communion wafers scattered on Sacrament’s cover. After several albums filled with pointed anti-Bush diatribes, Sacrament targets ambiguous enemies. (For…
Before hearing a single synthy beat, you know that a band with a name like VHS or Beta likes the ’80s. But once Craig Pfunder’s hollow vocals kick in, you might guess wrong about the band’s hometown. Although Pfunder’s faux British accent evokes Robert Smith and Ian McCulloch, VoB is from Louisville, Kentucky. Pfunder, a guitarist by trade, didn’t even…
Whereas the recent reunions of the Pixies and Alice in Chains have largely been nostalgia packages, the 2005 revival of the Lemonheads marked an artistic resurgence for Evan Dando. It came after eight years of spotty solo recordings and a brief stint fronting the MC5 (seriously — for 41 shows). Backed by the Descendents’ rhythm section (now touring with Dando…
