Weekly wine tastings. Saturdays, 2004 Tags: 3750, Night & Day
In the stories that follow, and elsewhere on Pitch.com, it might seem as if we’ve got one thing on our mind. It’s true — and we’re not ashamed of it! Welcome to our Second-Annual Sex Edition. We think it’s a pretty nice package. The Truth Behind Zoey The fact that a dead girl turned out to be a porn star…
A play about the music of the 1950s. Like the warm embrace of mom’s womb, if you’re a baby-boomer! Feb. 7-March 2, 2008 Tags: 275, Night & Day
Daily food and drink specials offered 3-6pm, Monday through Friday. Bar area only. Mondays-Fridays, 2007 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
Half-price appetizers at the bar only with purchase of alcohol. Excludes shrimp and burnt ends. Mondays-Thursdays, Sundays, 3-6 & 9 p.m.-midnight, 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Every third Friday. Salsa Dancing with Swing. Third Friday of every month, 8 p.m.-1:30 a.m., 2007 Tags: 620, Night & Day
Reba and Kelly Clarkson live. Sat., Feb. 16, 2008 Tags: Kelly Clarkson, Night & Day
The Main Street Rag, a quarterly literary magazine based in Charlotte, NC, is pleased to co-sponsor a new monthly poetry series at The Writers’ Place. The event will take place every third Sunday at 7 p.m. and will be hosted by Main Street Rag co-founder Shawn Pavey. Third Sunday of every month. Starts: Dec. 16. Continues through Aug. 19, 2007…
Chris Bohjalian’s The Double Bind opens a hazy threshold between fiction and reality, incorporating locations and the descendants of characters from F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby into a characteristic work of clockwork suspense. Best-selling Oprah laureate Bohjalian tells the story of Laurel Estabrook, a college student who grew up in West Egg, the fashionable district across the bay from…
An exhibit commemorating the 50th anniversary of the launch of Sputnik. Jan. 5-March 2, 2008 Tags: 2785, Night & Day
The series begins with Absolute Wilson by Katherine Otto-Bernstein – an intimate portrayal of Robert Wilson’s journey from learning-disabled outsider to internationally acclaimed artist. Free; tickets required. Fri., Feb. 15, 7-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Robert Wilson
The 48th annual CARQUEST World of Wheels features exhibits of custom cars and related products. Millions of dollars worth of one-of-a-kind hot rods, concept cars, classic antique cars and customized motorcycles will be on display. Fri., Feb. 15, 12-10 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 16, 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 17, 11 a.m.-8 p.m., 2008 Tags: CARQUEST Corporation, Night & Day
Side-by-side exhibitions commemorating the 60th anniversary of President Truman’s decision to recognize the state of Israel. Feb. 15-April 13, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Sorry, Hallmark — the most enduring image of Valentine’s Day isn’t puppies in heart-shaped baskets or frilly cursive fonts. Rather, it’s seven dead gangsters with blood spilling out, courtesy of Al Capone’s mob. The 1929 St. Valentine’s Day Massacre has inspired pro-wrestling events, a Marilyn Monroe movie and even a James Taylor song. The slaughter’s brutal legacy also lives on…
Thomas Hart Benton moved to Kansas City in 1935 to teach at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he produced the predictably controversial and indisputably sexxxy “Persephone,” an American regionalist interpretation of the mythical story of the goddess of fertility. The work now hangs at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (see Thursday). This was just one milestone in a…
The cult-movie world lost one of its sickest minds when Peter Jackson ascended to respectability. Long before directing the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Jackson helmed this shocking trifecta: 1987’s Bad Taste, in which aliens harvest humans for fast food; 1992’s Dead Alive, which piles up more guts than any movie in the splatter-obsessed zombie genre; and 1989’s Meet…
In October, 26-year-old Jack Polson of Overland Park was diagnosed with embryonal sarcoma of the liver, an extremely rare and painful cancer. Polson began aggressive chemotherapy at KU Medical Center in January. Now his friends and family invite the community to help. Lend a hand and both feet tonight and Jig for Jack at The Gaf Pub & Grille (7122…
Today, the Irish Museum and Cultural Center inside Union Station (30 Pershing Road, Suite 700) caters to youth who yearn for an American Idol experience, minus Simon Cowell. During the Young Irish Talent Showcase, kids between the ages of 6 and 18 will honor the great green isle through performances — of song, dance, poetry or just about anything that’s…
Tonight’s Sacred Sexuality for Women 101 class is all about how to improve your sexual connection. The $15 Communiversity course covers how our chakras — the body’s energy centers — affect intimacy and focuses on the body movements that help move this energy around. Oh, and “self-pleasuring techniques” are also on the syllabus.The women-only class starts at 7 p.m….
February is Great American Pie Month. Celebrate it with a warm wedge of sweet, juicy pie. That sounds innocent enough, but long before the 1999 film American Pie depicted a different way of enjoying America’s best-loved dessert, there was a sexy — sometimes dirty — subtext to the word. Sweetie pie has been a term of affection for decades,…
According to Chinese astrology, 2008 is the Year of the Rat. But here in Kansas City, it’s the Year of the Warrior — the Roller Warrior. The all-female league put this cowtown on the roller-derby map when it won the 2007 national championship, making the Roller Warriors the team to beat in 2008. In honor of Valentine’s Day, these rink…
As youngsters, most people learn their ABCs, that they should call 911 in an emergency and that the police are their friends. But once you get a little older and rack up a few speeding tickets, the police can start seeming more like punishers than pals. That’s when a little citizen knowledge can go a long way.Learn how to deal…
South Dakota sports heroism is a limited topic, much like Great Moments In Jewish Basketball History. The state has its sports heroes, though they had the good sense to leave the state. Baseball great (and WKRP in Cincinnati actor) Sparky Anderson and noted South Dakota State University alum Adam Vinateri both left the allure of the Corn Palace of Sioux…
Author Christine Amsden, a local science-fiction and fantasy writer, appears today from 2 to 4 p.m. at Borders in Olathe (15350 West 119th Street, 913-764-0336) to discuss the release of her second novel, Touch of Fate. Amsden is hardly an ordinary paranormal writer, though — she copes with Stargardt’s disease, a degenerative condition of the retina that impairs vision…
