Jeff Klein uses the sonic emanations of ceremonial crystal bowls in his practice as a holistic healer. He promises that audiences at his performance tonight at 7 will come away feeling transformed. “Even though this is going to be a concert situation, people will feel it at a very deep level,” he says. “The tones of the bowls are perfect….
Mention a show at a “radical” bookstore, and certain members of the comic-book-reading demographic might think you’re speaking in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle-ese about a really awesome Barnes & Noble. Older people might be intimidated by the word’s left-leaning political connotations.Tonight, forget semantics and get hip to the acoustic indie rock of Eddy Burke at the Crossroads Infoshop and Radical…
Rabbi Brad Hirschfield used to be kind of scary. As a young man, he joined a militant Jewish group that wanted to take back the holy land, even at the cost of Palestinian children. After going back to academia and searching his soul, Hirschfield realized that “finding faith without fanaticism” was possible.You Don’t Have to Be Wrong for Me to…
“My songs aim to be conversation set to music,” Irving Berlin once remarked. And even in that statement, we can’t miss the craft he applied to make it seem off the cuff. Berlin and his life beg the question: Has anyone ever worked harder to make it appear that there’s been no work at all? He did this by knocking…
OK, let’s play that word association game. Let’s start with beach and January. You’re thinking downtown and Kansas City, right? No? Fortunately for you, the volleyball stars on the AVP Crocs Hot Winter Nights Tour tonight at the Sprint Center can help you forget that 5-degree windchill factor. The competitors include two-time Olympic bronze medalist Holly McPeak and gold-medal winner…
Thieves Highway assembles the usual film noir suspects — femme fatale, double-crossing boss, revenge-driven hero — but the events unfold in a unique setting: a fruit market. Directed by Jules Dassin, this 1949 movie stars Richard Conte as Nico Garcos, a trucker avenging his burgled father; Lee J. Cobb as monstrous produce mogul Mike Figlia; and Valentina Cortese as Rica,…
University of Missouri-Kansas City writing teacher Michael Pritchett’s first novel, The Melancholy Fate of Capt. Lewis, is a rich, demanding split narrative. The book alternates between a fictional account of the suicide of Meriwether Lewis and a contemporary narrative of high school teacher Bill Lewis’ own struggles with depression and his attempt to write a book about the explorer. “Originally,…
To be a Kansas City Chiefs Cheerleader, a woman needs more than pompoms. Cheerleader director Elaine Hart prides herself on her squad’s ability to entertain and engage people by singing, dancing and communicating with poise.Aspiring cheerleaders can brush up on all of those things with a series of classes starting today near Arrowhead Stadium. The classes stress such universal skills…
The first rule of improv is agreeability. If someone says the scene you’re sharing takes place in Louis Armstrong’s colon, you go along with it. Playing nice can chafe, though, which might explain Improv Thunderdome, the gloves-off comedy grudge match that stomps its first team at 9 tonight at the Westport Coffee House (4010 Pennsylvania, 816-678-8886) and doesn’t relent until…
Some dudes are really into model railroads. Other guys are way into motorcycles. Of these two subcultures, guess which produces trade magazines featuring bikini-clad models straddling gleaming engines. Hint: It ain’t the boxcar enthusiasts.Wide Open magazine — the title derives from pinning the throttle, OK? — sponsors its annual exhibition of motorcycles, celebrities and swimwear called the Wide Open Bike…
Film lovers on either side of the argument that a director’s first job is casting should look no further than Robert Altman’s perfectly cast but far from perfect Popeye. For his loose-limbed 1980 adaptation of E.C. Segar’s cartoon, Altman hired gifted mimic Robin Williams to mumble, growl and hiccup in the title role; gave born Olive Oyl Shelley Duvall a…
The Kansas Jayhawks’ imperial death march to the Big Dance — and inevitable March letdown — is on. With a tight defense and an explosive offense, the Jayhawks have breezed through a preseason schedule with few — if any — scares. A few weeks ago, the rock chalk Jayhawk chants drowned out a death rattle from the RedHawks of Miami…
At last year’s Cannes Film Festival, the American painter turned filmmaker Julian Schnabel (Basquiat, Before Night Falls) won the jury’s Best Director award for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, his French-language adaptation of the bestselling memoir by the late Elle magazine editor Jean-Dominique Bauby. Felled by a massive stroke at age 43, Bauby was left fully conscious but paralyzed,…
Hey, kids, have you heard that The Man is trying to take away your right to smoke in bars and restaurants? Click on this photo below for a printable version of this flier that you can hand out to all of your friends to let them know that your right to light up is in jeopardy! Categories: News Tags: 239,…
Hidden in a blue-collar neighborhood on Kansas City’s east side, Anthony Rios plotted the last drug deal of his life. It was a Friday evening, December 20, 2002. The rugged, pudgy-cheeked 28-year-old had spent most of the day selling pounds of cocaine and marijuana from the kitchen of a modest ranch-style home on Hardesty that he shared with his girlfriend…
Half-price bottles of wine every Monday and Saturday night. Mondays, Saturdays, 2007 Tags: Night & Day
The 2008 show offers 400,000 square feet of the latest in boats, personal watercraft, RVs, ATVs, hunting and fishing accessories, and vacation getaways. Other show features include games and activities for the entire family as well as a seminar lineup packed with today’s top hunting and fishing personalities. Thu., Jan. 10, 2-9 p.m.; Fri., Jan. 11, 2-9 p.m.; Sat., Jan….
The Kansas City Plant, where non-nuclear components for nuclear bombs are made, is scaling back production and moving all the assembly from Bannister and Troost to a site near the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. Members of an organization called PeaceWorks KC are concerned that workers vacating the old site will leave behind beryllium dust, PCBs, acidic and alkaline liquids,…
Art exhibit. Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays, Sundays. Starts: Dec. 27. Continues through Feb. 3, 2007 Tags: 2639, Night & Day
This documentary looks at health care in the U.S. as provided by profit-oriented health maintenance organizations (HMOs) compared to free universal care in Canada, the U.K. and France. Wed., Jan. 16, 6:30 p.m., 2008 Tags: Canada, Europe, France, Night & Day, United Kingdom
Rolland Love will present a monologue about Silas Goodrich, the character he portrayed with the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery on the Missouri River. He will also talk about how the Missouri River has changed during the past 200 years since the Lewis and Clark expedition. Rolland, an award winning author, will also discuss how to write and market…
Every country dweller out there knows that gossip is as much a part of rural living as rocking chairs on the porch. It’s all too easy for neighbors to stick their noses in one another’s business, and any outsiders to the area are likely to become instant fodder for rumors. It is this countrified experience that inspired award-winning author Sara…
Mario Matteoli, “Sun Keeps Beatin’ Down” When the Weary Boys rolled through Lawrence a year ago, the band made quite an impression with its crowd-pleasing concoction of Sun Records country, old-timey busking and Cajun fiddling. Since then, bandleader Mario Matteoli has gone solo, trading in his former band’s electrifying rumpus for the pensive balladry of his idols Townes Van Zandt…
Geography partly explains the power and appeal of blues belter and boogie-woogie piano banger Marcia Ball — but only partly. Raised on the Texas border in the small southwestern Louisiana town of Vinton, Ball discovered her own voice at ground zero of American roots music. Rockabilly, zydeco, country, R&B, swamp rock and juke-joint blues poured through the airwaves and the…
