Experience your light! No imagination required. You can have the rare opportunity of a direct experience of your inner light with Spiritual teacher, Joey Klein. Enjoy an evening discovering the energy of light within all of us. In truth, we are all light. Through teachings, meditations and physical movement, Joey gives you the tools to create this experience for yourself…
DJs Murderbot & CQuence. Tuesdays, 10 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Hard boiled detectives, beautiful but deadly women and the perfect crime with the not-so-perfect payoff. Welcome to the world of film noir. * Jan. 15: Jules Dassin’s Thieves’ Highway * Jan. 22: Orson Welles’ Touch of Evil * Jan. 29: Mickey Spillane’s Kiss Me Deadly. Tue., Jan. 22, 6 p.m., 2008 Tags: Jules Dassin, Mickey Spillane, Night & Day, Orson…
Mark your calendars now for this special annual event when attention is drawn to our national symbol. Everyone is invited to the seventh annual Eagle Day celebration. See a live eagle presentation by Operation Wildlife at 10:30 a.m. or 1:30 p.m. All ages will enjoy the special eagle crafts and activities that are available all day. More information will be…
Hard-Rockin’! Prove you’re worthy of rock stardom by covering classic rock, heavy metal, modern rock and alt-rock hits. Team up with friends – you play lead guitar and get a friend to handle rhythm and bass. Registration required. Snacks will be served. Wed., Jan. 23, 1:30 p.m., 2008 Tags: 615, Night & Day
Comedy. Wed., Jan. 16; Thu., Jan. 17; Fri., Jan. 18; Sat., Jan. 19, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Though it unnerved censors when it was released in 1980, Solo Sunny, a film about a single woman trying to find herself, soon became a pop-culture hit in socialist East Germany. Today at 12:30 p.m. at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick), Larson Powell, assistant professor of German and film studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, leads…
Gregory Hickman-Williams was hoping that the release of his first CD, Passages, would be a life-changing experience. The singer had been performing for decades but was still undiscovered by the public. A CD-release party was scheduled for March 26, 2006, but Hickman-Williams wasn’t there. The previous week, he suffered the first of several heart attacks. The party took place as…
Kansas City’s Urban Culture Project has been transforming disused downtown spaces into dynamic art venues since 2003, franchising like the cultural equivalent of a casual-dining restaurant chain, only with a product that’s way better for you. For its Third Friday openings in January and February, the UCP leverages a couple of its various galleries into a two-venue exhibit that pivots…
Do the words chamber music have to evoke stuffy 18th-century affairs attended by elites decked out in wigs, corsets and lead-based makeup? The Chiara String Quartet (motto: “Chamber music in any chamber”) wants to cultivate classical music lovers wherever it goes. And it’s willing to go nearly anywhere — bars, schools, churches, hospitals, galleries, even a trailer in the…
On any given night at any dueling piano bar in America, there are three songs that — guaranteed — will be played: “Don’t Stop Believing” by Journey, “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band and “Jack and Diane” by John Mellencamp. After that, it’s all in the hands of the biggest tippers. Since opening in October, Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano…
If there’s one thing tightwads don’t like to do, it’s waste time on some hunt for cheap booze that turns into a bar tab. So the Department of Burnt Ends offers up this cheapskate agenda for a full day of the things we all like most: freebies. 1 8 a.m. Even tightwads have to work out, but paying for a…
“Or What” by Erik Voeks (new track) I feel a bit guilty. Erik Voeks has just given me his last copy of Sandbox — an album he released in 1993 on Rockville, the same St. Louis label that kick-started Uncle Tupelo’s career. With the album long out of print, Voeks and his wife, Coleen, frequently comb eBay and Amazon for…
Agreat brooding thundercloud of a movie, There Will Be Blood arrives as if from nowhere on a gust of critical acclaim, lowering over a landscape of barren mesas and hot, scrubby hills. Paul Thomas Anderson’s epic, no less than his career, is both fearfully grandiose and wonderfully eccentric. A strange and enthralling evocation of frontier capitalism and Manifest Destiny…
“People will get their feelings hurt.” That’s what local rapper Vertigone promises about Verses: An MC Battle, which goes on Friday at the Record Bar. A key practice in underground hip-hop, freestyle battling pits two MCs against each other in a verbal fistfight of impromptu insults and rhyming punch lines that’s as down-and-dirty as a schoolyard brawl but also requires…
Nearly two decades into its life, Yo La Tengo continues to explore new creative avenues. The Hoboken, New Jersey, trio lived up to the promise of its latest title, I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass, with bullying grooves that answered the sucker punch of The Onion’s famous article “37 Record-Store Clerks Feared Dead in…
Sour Babies, “Momentary Boy” Halcyon sounds are on tap at the Record Bar Sunday night as KC’s newest boyfriend-girlfriend singer-songwriter duo, the Sour Babies, delivers sweet lullabies. Backed by a drummer and a bassist, singer Brent Jamison and clarinetist Danielle Perica first soothed a fairly sizable crowd of fatigued souls two weeks ago at their debut show at the Brick….
North Lawrence’s burgeoning road-hog haven consists of a Harley dealership, a tattoo parlor and the Slow Ride Roadhouse (1350 North Third Street). The spick-and-span Slow Ride is home to a never-say-die subculture of “99 percenters” — the bikers who don’t plug their butts with meth and toss each other across bar tops. Against a backdrop of faux-Western landscape and neon-orange…
The latest in a recent line of psychedelic dance acts brought to Lawrence by Cicada Rhythm is Vibesquad, a one-man crunkadelic squadron from Erie, Colorado. Saturday at the Jackpot, Aaron Holstein, the man behind the squad, gets busy with both live instruments and DJ gear, producing the kind of sound that Lawrence kids eat up: an anti-category mishmash of grimy,…
Mr. Marco’s V7, “Boogerfunk & the Bear” Holding down a weekly residency requires three key ingredients: talent, a plethora of material, and enough cheap booze to make people forget that they just saw your band seven days ago. The Cocktail Sessions with Mr. Marco’s V7 promise all that and a Turkish rock opera, which the workaholic band has been developing…
Many years ago, I was moved by reading actress Shirley MacLaine’s account of being a poor young dancer in New York during the 1950s. In order to survive, she was clever at making meals out of nothing — at visits to a low-cost cafeteria, she’d buy a single order of raisin toast and make lemonade out of a glass of…
Deep Thinkers, “Get Down” from Reprogram In 2005, the Deep Thinkers had just wrapped up recording their second album and were closing in on a deal when, suddenly, the brakes hit: The disc flew out of the group’s control and landed in obscurity, shelved until what the Thinkers feared might be the end of time. Fast-forward to the present….
A little history for ya: Andy Vihstadt’s Download column has been a beloved part of this page since Al Gore invented the Internet. Recently, the Wayward Blog introduced another free-music roundup, the totally legal Monday Music Junkie. This week, we asked Andy to prepare a print version of the MMJ for our readers who are too cheap to pay for…
For a ceramics major, Travis Pratt sure knows how to paint. That’s not to say ceramists can’t paint, but talent in one medium doesn’t necessarily guarantee success in another. Pratt recently graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute, and the Nerman Museum has already purchased one of the paintings exhibited in House, which opened at the Late Show on…
