Re:Verse (616 Ward Parkway, 816-436-3320). Get half off wine by the glass, well drinks, domestic bottles and drafts and small plates from 2 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday. Go today and hang around for another deal: $4 mojitos from 7 p.m. to close. Mondays-Fridays, Sundays, 2-7 p.m., 2007 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
Occupational exhibit for kids. Jan. 26-April 27, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
An experiential book study of “Dark Side of the Light Chasers”, by Debbie Ford, including an open discussion, exercises and meditations. People can either choose to come every week or join in whenever they are available. Mondays, 7-8:30 p.m. Starts: Jan. 14. Continues through March 3, 2008 Tags: Debbie Ford, Night & Day
METAL! Fri., Jan. 25, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
“Simply the best there is,” raved The Boston Globe. Emotion, spirit, and vision embody this quartet that exploded into the classical musicworld in 1989. They are joined by Kansas City pianist and Van Cliburn Competition winner Stanislav Ioudenitch in a performance of the Franck piano quintet. Fri., Jan. 25, 8 p.m., 2008 Tags: kansas city, Night & Day, Stanislav Ioudenitch,…
Thousands of years before doctors began touting the benefits of wine and chocolate consumption, the ancients knew the score. The Greeks called wine the juice of the gods. The Aztec emperor Montezuma is said to have drunk nothing but chocolate and described it as the “divine drink, which builds up resistance and fights fatigue.” Tonight, the International Visitors Council of…
This screening is part of the library’s Film Noir Series. Tue., Jan. 29, 6 p.m., 2008 Tags: 1710, Night & Day
Comedy. Jan. 23-24; Sun., Jan. 27, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Open Mic Night for aspiring comedians. Wed., Jan. 30, 2008 Tags: Mic Night, Night & Day
Comedy. Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
This exhibition underscores Sinsabaugh’s artistic and historical significance. Best known for his Midwest Landscapes of the early 1960s, his Chicago Landscapes (1964-66), and his American Landscapes (1969-83), Sinsabaugh used a huge 12×20-inch view camera to make photographs of unprecedented subtlety and originality. Given the rarity of his work, it is notable this exhibition was assembled solely from the holdings…
Friday, January 25, is the deadline for The Pitch Ultra Music DJ Contest submissions. Send us a mix of you at your best, and we’ll put you in the running to be one of five finalists who will compete on February 23 at NV for the grand prize, a DJ slot at the Ultra Music Festival at the Winter Music…
“Mary Susan” by Blood on the Wall On the Pixies’ best days, it seemed as though Black Francis and Kim Deal were joined at the hip (a painful idea, given the former’s heft). That same chemistry enlivens Blood on the Wall, a Brooklyn outfit fronted by the sibling duo of Courtney and Brad Shanks. Channeling choice bits of sonic detritus…
“Wax Simulacra,” the lead single from the Mars Volta’s upcoming The Bedlam in Goliath (out January 29), terrifies progheads who treasure the California octet’s sprawling experimentation. Excepting new drummer Thomas Pridgen’s polyrhythmic pyrotechnics and some free-jazz flair, it’s a standard three-minute alt-rock number, with singer Cedric Bixler-Zavala treading dangerously close to Billy Corgan’s whine. With eight of Bedlam’s 12 tracks…
I had mixed feelings when I heard that Jan Imber and Ira Auerbach, the hardworking couple who had turned a dreary Subway sandwich joint on 39th Street into the wildly popular Bell Street Mama’s, were taking over the former Nichols Lunch. God knows Imber and Auerbach needed a bigger venue (the old place barely seated 60 customers) and a lot…
We at the Department of Burnt Ends have recommended quite a few witty T-shirts of our own design lately. But we also like to point out when other people have good ideas for slogans to slap across your chest. Like “LBJ for the USA.” Neil and Julie Swanson didn’t come up with that catchphrase. But through their Web site, RetroPresident.com,…
Accordion-playing railroad worker Sam Shublom is the first to say he marches to the beat of a different drummer — and he has the bumper stickers to back him up. Shublom is a native of Kansas City, Kansas, who still lives on the same street where he was born. He has left a couple of times, he says, but even when…
Barnum & Bailey lay claim to the greatest show on Earth, but anyone who’s ever seen the Dirtbombs in action knows otherwise. The Motor City outfit unveils its latest batch of punk-and-soul-fueled garage rock next month on We Have You Surrounded. For a preview, head to Pitchfork to download “Sherlock Holmes” from the upcoming album. This cover of a 1984…
“Circles” by the Noise FM Like most wide-eyed young rock bands, the Noise FM isn’t above a good gimmick. In high school in Fort Scott, Kansas, Alex Ward, Austin Ward and Derek Wright — who were then in a band called the Pond Monkeys — brought a collection of cosmetology heads onstage when they performed. “Every once in a while,…
As the final notes of Don Dokken’s acoustic set echo through the hall, he thanks the crowd and departs the stage. There’s no doubt — Dokken’s still got it, and he sees headliners Queensryche waiting in the wings to tell him so. Together, riding a high of unplugged euphoria, they all remain unaware of the ominous convergence of shadows around…
“The Car That Almost Killed Me” by Erick Sharda For a few hours last August, Erick Sharda disappeared. The ginger-haired dandy had missed work — and, more startling, a gig with his band, the Popsicles — before friends and family found him. Sharda was at KU Medical Center, in a coma. He was riding his bike home just after midnight…
Josh George’s paintings may seem to be simple figures and cityscapes. They can feel like illustrations, and the figures sometimes seem stylized and cartoonlike. But they’re not so easily dismissed — the collage-based work reveals itself to be physically and emotionally nuanced. George is a Kansas City Art Institute graduate for whom everyday stuff and situations are worthy of…
Feature: “Blood for Blow,” January 10 The Facts of Life — and Death I think Justin Kendall’s article about the murder of Anthony Rios and Olivia Raya was disgusting. Facts are facts, but I don’t think he needed to add his own personal opinion, especially relating to an article where someone has lost a life, in this case, two people….
“100 Days, 100 Nights” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Sharon Jones may be the most authentic soul-music performer to emerge in decades, but before that, she was in and out of jail — on a daily basis. Touring on the heels of her latest, 100 Days, 100 Nights, Jones and her backing band, the Dap-Kings (Amy Winehouse’s sometime…
