By SCOTT WILSON More than a decade after his only solo visit to Kansas City — and 19 years since his band, American Music Club, played its only local date* — Mark Eitzel is coming back to cry for you. Since reuniting in 2004, AMC has changed rhythm sections, but Eitzel’s low wail remains the same. And the man’s songwriting…
By JEN CHEN I’ve been to Tommy Farha’s Café & Bar only twice — both times in the context of Wornall bar tours — but I liked the bar’s laid-back diveishness. Located at 80th and Wornall, the cozy place draws a steady crowd of neighborhood regulars and serves up beer for cheap. I never met the eponymous co-owner Tommy Farha,…
By CHRIS PACKHAM • The Snowpocalypse is coming! Also, it has been downgraded from Snowpocalypse to Snownoyance. Yesterday, I heard 4 to 8 inches. Now they’re saying 1 to 4 inches. At this rate, it’s going to take 85.5 years to submerge the Statue of Liberty. Please note that I am a red-blooded patriotic veteran and that I don’t…
By CRYSTAL K. WIEBE In The Pitch’s recent Cheapskate Edition, we touted the joys of bingo and cheap PBR on Tuesday nights at the Brick. Sadly, though the weekly Game Night will continue with free Wii bowling, bingo will be part of the activities only once a month — on the last Tuesday, for Customer Appreciation Night. That means a…
In 2006, Time magazine chose “You” as its Person of the Year, lauding millions of Internet providers for turning once-private amusements (amateur singing, pranks on friends, infant antics) into global entertainment. These snippets don’t reveal much about the individual contributors to that collective “You.” Shorn of social context, they’re just “guy who wakes sleeping pal with fireworks” or “baby…
Local and national Latino writers return to Kansas City this year for the second-ever Segunda Página, a literary showcase coordinated by the Latino Writers Collective. Renowned author and cultural crusader Helena Maria Viramontes headlines this year with a reading and a reception. As a student, Viramontes participated in the 1968 Chicano Blowouts, a series of protests against unequal conditions in…
Bourgeois Lawrencians of the postgrad variety can sometimes feel like they stepped into a Nada Surf song when they visit the University of Kansas campus: I want to know what it’s like on the inside of love/Standing at the gates, I see the beauty above. Fortunately, we wallflowers are exactly the sort of people the Spencer Museum of Art (1301…
When you think smoking ban, you envision jacked-up rules about what times you can smoke and how much food the place sells, right? Yeah, that’s what the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council apparently thought, too, because the smoking ban it passed last Thursday is full of restrictions that look straight out of IRS tax code. For example, in bars that…
When old-timey burlesque returned to Kansas City in the early 2000s, there was something about combining fishnets with ample hips that seemed so right for the Paris of the Midwest. Cut to ’08, and the art form once relegated to smoky midtown bars has hit The Legends at Village West, where a new burlesque show has begun at Stanford and…
In the Great North, they’ve got the aurora borealis. For everybody else, there’s Rock ‘n’ Bowl. It’s Wednesday Night Quarter Mania at Mission Bowl, and grease is in the air. Hot dogs, fries, tots, nachos and other treats are going for mere quarters. At the snack counter, a young man in a long-sleeved, tomato-red shirt squeezes ketchup evenly onto three…
The very first time I saw the Wii’s motion-sensitive “Wiimote,” a single thought bounced in my head like a toddler on corn syrup: Finally we’re gonna get an f-ing brilliant lightsaber game. It was inevitable, a perfect match for the technology. Never again would I be caught doing the Star Wars geek’s dance of shame (humming through pursed lips…
The King of Kong (New Line) Seth Gordon’s best-of-2007 documentary about the battle for Donkey Kong supremacy remains a work-in-progress: Billy Mitchell, the longtime titleholder dethroned by Steve Wiebe over the course of this hysterical, thrilling, and occasionally sad little film, recently reclaimed the throne — and Wiebe has vowed to come after him again. And so it goes,…
Aqua Teen Hunger Force: 5 (Warner Bros.) Barn of the Naked Dead (Legend House) Bordertown (THINKFilm) Canvas (Universal) Chancer: Series 2 (Acorn Media) The Comebacks (Fox) Curb Your Enthusiasm: The Complete Sixth Season (HBO) Daddy Day Camp (Sony) Damages: The Complete First Season (Sony) Drumline: Special Edition (Fox) El Cid: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition (Miriam Collection) Emergency!: Season Four (Universal) Groundhog…
The Radisson Hotel and Suites City Center and Chameleon have joined forces to create YA! Youth Arts. Each First Friday the lobby at the Radisson becomes an art gallery. The August First Friday will feature an exhibit of photos of children creating art in Antigua. First Friday of every month, 5-9 p.m., 2006 Tags: Antigua and Barbuda, Night & Day,…
Weekly film screening with local film critic. Tuesdays, 6:30 p.m., 2007 Tags: 1400, Night & Day
Wacky Ray Cooney farce about murder and adultery. Nov. 28-Feb. 10, 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Conceptual theater piece based on that play by that one guy. Jan. 22-Feb. 15, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Born Aramintha Ross, a slave in Maryland in the early 1800’s, Harriet Tubman became the courageous rescuer of hundreds of slaves via the Underground Railroad. Tubman’s remarkable life of over 90 years was packed with amazing adventures, bravery against all odds, and unwavering commitment to the freedom and dignity of African Americans. Sometimes called “Moses” or simply “The Conductor,” Tubman…
Happy Hour Monday-Thursday 4-6pm. Drink and food specials. Mondays-Thursdays, 4-6 p.m., 2007 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
Half-price appetizers Monday-Friday 4-6pm with your Guest Rewards Card. Half-price appetizers 11pm-close. First Monday-Thursday of every month, 11 p.m.-midnight; Mondays-Fridays, 4-6 p.m., 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Puppet exhibit. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: Sept. 18. Continues through July 31, 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Major Jackson, author of the poetry collections Hoops and Leaving Saturn, and winner of the 2000 Cave Canem Poetry Prize, reads from his work at Mabee Theater, Rockhurst University, 54th Street and Troost, Kansas City, Mo. Thu., Feb. 7, 7:30 p.m., 2008 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day, Rockhurst University
Tow Lot Vanitas is an exhibition composed of photographic images that Kansas City artist Miki Baird captured at close range from the inside and the outside of vehicles stored at the Kansas City, Missouri Tow Lot. Thursdays, Saturdays, 12-5 p.m. Starts: Jan. 19. Continues through Feb. 9, 2008 Tags: kansas city, Miki Baird, Night & Day
Dance to music by DJ Cruz. Thursdays, 10 p.m., 2007 Tags: DJ Cruz, Night & Day
