Turn in nearly any direction these days, and you’ll likely come across scenes of apocalypse. Scientists, politicians, novelists and Hollywood pitchmen — everyone has a vision of the Earth’s undoing and the role we humans will play in its decline. Artist Davin Watne has also been pondering such dark concerns lately. His new exhibit, Life Is a Collision, opens tonight…
Kansas City, Kansas, kicks off its art season this weekend with its Follow the Dotte Art Walk. Between 5 and 8 p.m., restaurants and galleries — including Imago Dei Gallery (730 Armstrong), Hangers on the Hill (613 North Sixth Street) and the Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities Gallery (756 Armstrong) — will open their doors for artist receptions. Follow the…
People, merchandise, energy and ideas are the building blocks of a marketplace. All these plus happy hour, live music and homegrown KC products make up the West Bottoms Urban Bazaar. The biannual event’s organizer, Patrick Ottesen, says that “many different circles will collide” in the 5,000-square-foot loft space called the Foundation Room (1221 Union, 816-283-8990), renewing the spirit of the…
When it comes to celebrating St. Patrick’s Day in Westport, most put feast before fitness. However, one long-standing Westport tradition calls on the nobler and less Guinness-induced charitable spirit of local athletes to get the holiday running. Meld with a blur of green this morning at the 30th-annual Westport St. Patrick’s Day Run (Westport Road and Pennsylvania).The four-mile run starts…
In the 1,820 days since the United States invaded Iraq, taxpayers have shelled out nearly $500 billion to allegedly disarm the evil-doers and build democracy in the Middle East. So what do we have to show for the massive expense as we approach the war’s five-year anniversary? Nearly 4,000 American soldiers have been killed — more than 900 of them…
Each year, as Woody Allen dumps another movie without ceremony onto the great heap that is his oeuvre, our perspective of his previous films shifts. One beneficiary of such hindsight is Everyone Says I Love You, the 1997 musical that felt so slight, it might dissolve. More than 10 years later, it hasn’t. Despite the rough edges that mark much…
Domestic longnecks and well drinks $1.50. Mondays, 2007 Tags: Night & Day
World-famous Aeros dancers. March 14-15, 8 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Stop by or call in any time before 7pm the day of, and sign up. Play starts at 7 and concludes when the final game is finished. Players receive a discounted beverage, and the winner receives a Nighthawks’ gift certificate. Fridays, 7 p.m., 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Sometimes it’s tough being a kid, but life is a lot easier — and a lot more fun — when you’ve got an extremely large, slobbery, 182- pound canine buddy to share your adventures! Follow the exploits of Henry and Mudge throughout the seasons in this charming new musical based on Cynthia Rylant’s best-selling books. Suggested for Grades Pre K-3….
The Loren Pickford Trio, featuring Pickford on sax and flute, presents traditional jazz stylings in the Ox Lounge at Kansas City’s historic Golden Ox Steak House and Restaurant every Friday and Saturday evening. No cover, no minimum. Fridays, Saturdays, 6:30-10:30 p.m., 2007 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day
Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World and All Aunt Hagar’s Children is the Cockefair Chair Writer-in-Residence at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. Public events to be announced at a later date. March 17-21, 2008 Tags: All Aunt Hagar, Night & Day, Pulitzer Prize Committee, University of Missouri-Kansas City
Deb Sokolow’s elaborate diagrammatic drawings read like graphic novels. Often constructed from pen, pencil, watercolor, and correction fluid on paper, each drawing’s story features diagrams, floor plans, texts, and illustrations that chart an anonymous, paranoid narrator’s obsessive explorations of the circumstances and clandestine connections between various characters and places. For the Kemper Museum, Sokolow will work directly on the gallery…
At 6 a.m. on January 15, Rob Dalzell is already two hours into his day. He’s chopping olives and joking with two employees in the concrete bowels of his first restaurant, 1924 Main. He wears a black T-shirt and pin-striped black pants with the word “Chefwear” on the hip. The employees — Chrystal Tatum and Lindsey Kiliany — playfully roll…
“Tears of…” by Glorytellers from Glorytellers (Southern Records): Though he has enjoyed his share of indie-rock adulation, Geoff Farina’s prior projects, Secret Stars and Karate, were hardly typical rockers. Toward the end, Karate was playing art galleries and nontraditional spaces (read: bars) in an attempt to find a better fit for its jazzy, minimalist postrock. Farina picks up that thread…
“ GGHOHSTSSNTHAUS” by Coat Party: You or someone you know has fallen for it: “Dude — wanna have a coat party?” “Um, OK.” (Coat is pulled over head. Fade to black. Defenselessness ensues. A quick knee to the groin, and you’re down for the count.) “It’s a term that I heard when I was in high school, when I was…
“No Depression” by Uncle Tupelo from the band’s debut album, No Depression, available on Sony Legacy: A couple of weeks from now I’ll spend a weekend proofreading the upcoming installment of the magazine No Depression. This issue marks an anniversary of sorts — this will be issue No. 75 — but for a lot of us, the occasion will be…
Along with the green Bud Light and locals behaving more like Americans than any time of year, this St. Paddy’s weekend brings an explosion of KC underground hip-hop events. First, Friday at the Record Bar sees the return of the prodigiously talented Anti-Crew: two skinny college kids whose loud mouths and hard beats come accompanied by the live backing band…
“Maryanne” by Nick Jaina from Wool (Hush Records): Nick Jaina sings ornate folk songs with a French Quarter flair, evoking a modern-day Moulin Rouge in a style similar to Beirut and Devotchka. The former New Orleans resident once had the cojones to pen an entire jazz opera about the town’s legendary funeral parades. Nowadays, he surrounds himself with the cream…
“Paint It Red” by the Valley Arena Named after a 1954 battle of the French Indochina War in which the French army got massacred, Long Beach, California’s the Valley Arena wants to remind listeners not to underestimate the underdog. Out last year on Anodyne Records, the band’s second full-length, Sesso Vita, is a mix of groove-heavy bass lines, thrashing cymbals…
“Conventional Wisdom” by Built to Spill Monday is St. Patrick’s Day, KC’s special time to drink beer for breakfast, paint shamrocks on shit and puke in public. But if you’re going to that Built to Spill concert on St. Paddy’s, leave the shenanigans at the door. Last time the Idahoans graced the underused Madrid, some no-goodnik ruffled the beard of…
“Typical Girls” by the Slits For most vinyl diggers, the Slits’ 1979 LP, Cut, is a curio of the first degree. Three topless, mud-slathered jungle women grace the cover, suggesting a militant feminist punk band or Blondie gone wacko. But the notorious cover’s significance has been usurped by the legacy of the music: an ahead-of-its-time mashup of punk rock, dubwise…
Yeah, yeah. Hollywood leaves dreams raw and bloody. The movies lie. The business corrupts. What few golden ideas it lucks into, it de-alchemizes into the same old shit it splatters onto screens by the thousand. All of this is as well-established in American life as evolution used to be. It’s the chum that feeds a thousand blogs, the focus…
Over the years, I’ve learned that in Kansas City, there are a lot of ways things are supposed to be done. For a while, I worked at a midtown Italian restaurant that was considered hip and happening. The young owners had a great deal of style, and they took some risks that were daring at the time: They played…
