%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Morning Panic: Cattle-killing foot and mouth disease, prototypic member of the Aphthovirus genus in the sexy Picornaviridae family, is so contagious that the only U.S. research facility that studies it is situated on an island 100 miles northeast of New York City in Long Island Sound. Workers who handle the virus aren’t permitted to own animals…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Be alert, and wash your hands: I don’t want to turn this into the “Daily Briefs Crime Blotter,” but I’m friends with some ladies, so I want them to know they should stay out of the women’s room at the Granfalloon on the Plaza, where a 22-year-old woman was robbed at gunpoint — and not by…
By FLANNERY CASHILL The Architects play two CD release shows this weekend, both at the Record Bar. The first, this Friday, is an 18 and over show featuring Outlaw, the Beautiful Bodies and the Dollhouse Rumor. The second, this Saturday, features the Life and Times, the Throttlers, and the Sixteens: sorry, no kids allowed. All paying attendees get…
A press release popped in today informing us that a Lawrence, Kansas, songwriting duo has won the International Songwriting Competition (ISC) prize for Best Children’s Song. Fran Snyder (vaguely familiar) and John Paul Williams (who?) are their names, and the song is “If I Had a Giraffe.” It beat out — make that totally beat the britches off —…
In Drew Bolton and Cody Critcheloe’s latest, a new genre is invented: Forest Punk. The viddy for “Day Job” may not be the Ssion’s most elaborate production, but it’s surely one of the more expensive, judging by the shit that gets demolished in this one. Categories: Music Tags: punk, The Ssion
KEXP, a tastemaking radio/online station out of Seattle has seen fit to throw our pals the Republic Tigers a bone. The Song of the Day podcast reaches scores of people, and today it focused on the Tigers’ “Buildings and Mountains.” Nice. They also posted this video, which I had not seen, from back when there were six Tigers instead of…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM From the “We Don’t Have a Shooting Yourself in the Foot Department But If We Did” Department: Wal-Mart’s brain is a genius at business! Back in the 1990s, everyone thought Wal-Mart would take over the planet because of its evil genius. This story does not advance that theory: Wal-Mart fired Flagler Productions Inc., the Lenexa company…
With four outs to go, professional Royals superfan Tim Scott chats with a fan. Two outs to go, and Scott — one of Kansas City’s best young actors, a musical theater dynamo sitting out this summer’s shows to entertain thousands for 90 seconds at a time at baseball games — is silent, serious. He’s doing that legwork of the mind…
Justin Farmer may not be a fashionista, but he’s learning how to throw a fashion show. After five years of helping with the advertising and marketing of the AIDS Walk, Farmer and his friend Jessica Didion wanted to contribute more to the cause. “We really felt like the 20- to 30-something kind of urban crowd really didn’t participate in it…
Ten years ago, every high school baseball team in Kansas could expect a schedule of 10 doubleheaders — hardly the amount of competition afforded to kids in baseball-rich states such as California. Kansas-bred ballplayers still get only 20 games a year — significantly fewer than most states — so they have to make the most of opportunities like this weekend’s…
Reigning Kansas City Gay Pride queen Daisy Buckët, freshly crowned and sashed, hosts tonight’s Gong Show benefit for the annual AIDS Walk, starting at 8 p.m. at Sidekicks Saloon (3707 Main, 816-931-1430). Like the infamous Chuck Barris-hosted competition of the untalented from the 1970s, the show pits performers against one another in a test to see who can perform their…
Lawrence has one more reason to celebrate these days: Haskell Indian Nations University (155 Indian Avenue, Lawrence, 785-749-8404) has opened a new gallery dedicated to exhibiting works by American Indian artists. The Dick West Art Gallery is named after Haskell alumnus Dick West (1912-96), who was the first American Indian to receive a master of fine arts degree, according to…
This charming new play is based on the true story of the women of Gee’s Bend, Alabama and the magnificent quilts they create which The New York Times has called “some of the most miraculous works of modern art America has produced.” Born into poverty and hardship, Sadie Pettway, like other young girls of Gee’s Bend, learned to quilt at…
Newberry Award-winning author Louis Sachar leveraged his experiences working as a teacher’s aide at an elementary school into a series of books about the fictitious Wayside School, in which all of the classrooms are stacked vertically into a 30-story building (which doesn’t have a 19th floor). As part of its Family Series, the Coterie Theater (2450 Grand, 816-474-6552) stages Sideways…
Free Saturday morning tours of Kansas City’s biggest independent coffee roaster. Saturdays, 10 a.m., 2007 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day
Music performance. Wednesdays, 10 p.m., 2007 Tags: Night & Day
Stephen Shore’s documentary-style photographs color the familiar and the everyday with a personalized and almost diaristic aesthetic, imbuing the banal with a striking sense of humanity. More than 150 images make up this exhibition and include Shore’s celebrated series Uncommon Places, documenting America of the late 1960s and early ‘70s. The American vernacular emerges through Shore’s images of parking lots,…
There are quite a few catastrophes in the world that don’t seem in vogue enough to merit the attention of Irish rock stars or the largesse of sympathetic philanthropists. While the mainstream media laudably heap attention on high-profile stories such as the crisis in Darfur, equally deserving flashpoints go widely unnoticed. Join the discussion by catching tonight’s screening of Invisible…
An exhibition by R. Shawn Bohs. April 4-May 23, 2008 Tags: Night & Day, R. Shawn Bohs
April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and if you can’t make it to New Orleans for Eve Ensler’s “V to the Tenth” festivities, a number of local events are scheduled to remind you that nearly every two minutes, someone in this country is sexually assaulted.Charles Stonewall, a graduate student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, exhibits his take on the…
Money is one of the biggest curses for nationally competitive high school students, not counting the stomping Cloverfield monster of misfiled spelling-bee paperwork. Maybe it’s a good thing that our budding young high school poetry slammers are learning early about the limited earning potential of composing and reciting free verse — it could feed their creative outrage. But still.Fortunately, the…
You can’t spell Kansas City without “K-I-S-S,” but promoter Steve Stierwalt needed more than alphabetical evidence before bringing his Kiss Expo to town. “We look at how Kiss does attendance-wise in the area,” he says. “We also listen to the fans.” Local fans made a persuasive case, so the Kiss Expo arrives at 1 p.m. today at the Overland Park…
Filmmakers from Kansas City and around the world contribute their work to the 2008 Kansas City Jubilee Film Festival today through April 20. The event screens independent films at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222) and the Westport Coffee House (4010 Pennsylvania, 816-756-3222). Among the 100-odd films on view this year, Adam Brumback’s 18th and Vine spotlights Kansas City’s historic and…
The model showing off Heather Rama’s CastOffs fashion designs at cast offs1977.com/flashpage.html strikes a lot of poses inside and in front of the Record Bar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207). That’s probably because Rama, who restores and restyles vintage clothing, works at Westport’s most hopping rock club. The sassy bartender gets tonight off to oversee multiple models walking around her place…
