Chapungu Nights at Powell Gardens, on display through November 2, is a huge collection of 54 hand-carved, stone sculptures created by the Shona people of the Republic of Zimbabwe. The sculptures, which as a whole have a family theme, are dispersed throughout the gardens, adding to the already beautiful landscape. Suggestion: Powell Gardens is open until 9 p.m. on Thursdays,…
Photos by Scott Spychalski.
By JUSTIN KENDALL A couple weekends ago, I stopped in the Plaza Barnes & Noble to buy The Great Derangement, the latest book by Rolling Stone political columnist Matt Taibbi. I found the book on display on the second floor, and when I flipped open the top copy, a neatly folded note fell out. I naively looked around in the…
By Chris Rasmussen At last, this is the time of the year for big men clad in big suits, David Stern naming names (um, not in that way), homoerotic scouting reports (Knicks GM Donnie Walsh described his draft pick as having “tremendous size” and an “unusual package” … and he’s normal compared to his predecessor) and awkward conversations between Stephen…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Last week I wrote about Royals’ fans delusional belief that the Cardinals are our rivals. Here’s a concurring a post from the talented Andrea Reiher, who blogs for Bugs and Cranks, Zap2It and Ladies… After the jump, she provides the Cardinal fan’s perspective on the I-70 Series. Categories: News
BY DAVID MARTIN This week’s column describes the blocks that road builders and Chamber of Commerce types have put in front of light-rail efforts in Kansas City. In 2001, highwaymen and rich guys like James B. Nutter Sr. bankrolled a campaign against the one and only light-rail plan the city has taken to voters. A neighborhood leader helped the bigwigs…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Along with running the Serato for Kanye West on tour, Montreal’s DJ A-Trak has amassed an impressive collection of trophies, including being the youngest and first to win five DMC championships. He recently contributed a workout mix for the Nike Original Run series, now available on iTunes. Get a free taste below, thanks to Spinner. MP3: DJ…
Little pig, little pig, let me in. Click below to view the slideshow. Categories: Music Tags: Green Jelly, slideshows
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Wal-Mart has pulled its annual convention of flabby, middle-management retail drones out of Kansas City because we don’t have a hotel that can accommodate 8,000 people in the continental breakfast/complimentary body-wash manner to which they’ve become accustomed. Apparently, this represents a loss of 8 million imaginary Americos to Kansas City, some of which local businesses had…
Green Jelly brought the Flinstones, a Ninja Turtle, three little pigs and a Gwar drummer to a show in Kansas City. And no one had as much fun as one little blond kid in the front row.
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Nice guys finish last. Leo Durocher said that 50 years ago, and that is nearly always been true in baseball. John McGraw brawled on and off the field. Ty Cobb hated everyone. Babe Ruth almost dropped manager Miller Huggins off a train. Charlie Finley worked his team into a rage, and the team won three championships in…
The story of a black man tricked into strangling his white wife because she’s careless with her hanky, Othello isn’t bring-the-kids-and-pack-a-basket fare, but I applaud director Sidonie Garrett and the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival for daring it. The sex and murder probably upset nobody these days, but the play’s brute treatment of race — particularly the villain Iago’s irrational…
Tonight’s Coterie Theatre performance of the colorful, calypso-pop musical Once on This Island is, technically speaking, a world premiere, but the inspired-bys and based-upons with this show pile up real quick. Based on Rosa Guy’s novel My Love, My Love, itself a retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid,” this one-act musical fairy tale is a streamlined, Coterie-style update…
Used to be that Sluggerrr had the only raging mullet in Kauffman Stadium’s home dugout. But there’s a new man in town with business in the front and party in the back. Manager Trey Hillman brings his bi-level to Kansas City, along with a whole lot of optimism for the youngsters that dominate his lineup. Names like Gordon, Butler and…
Gracing the central green at the Kansas City Art Institute today are a 1917 Detroit Electric car, a 1932 Pierce-Arrow Model 54 Convertible Coupe and a 1959 Aston Martin DB Mark III, along with many other shiny beauties. The 2008 Art of the Car Concours brings a collection of classic, vintage and other special cars belonging to Midwest collectors to…
Summer is art-fair season, the time when communities everywhere pitch tents and prep credit-card machines in anticipation of shoppers eager to snap up paintings, photographs, pottery and anything else labeled art. This weekend, Kansas City adds another free art event to its summer roster: the District Art Annual in the Power & Light District (14th Street and Walnut). Much like…
All summer long at Westmoreland Park, noble Othello keeps finding his life so bollocksed up that, rather than ask his wife, Desdemona, how her hanky got where it shouldn’t have gotten, he instead elects to murder her in a pique of suspicion and madness. As far as the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival is concerned, Desdemona is pure, Othello is…
For everyone who digs Morrissey’s sensitivity but wishes he had a little more sex appeal: Meet Nina Diaz. Occasionally referred to as the “female Morrissey,” this sparkplug of a singer fronts Girl in a Coma, an all-girl San Antonio, Texas, band. Diaz’s big sister, drummer Phanie D, recruited her for the gig at age 12. Van tours and much cross-country…
In recent years, protest singers have become more synonymous with Rage Against the Machine and Green Day than Woody Guthrie or Bob Dylan (who never owned up to the title anyway). But Woody was the originator, the ruffian who sang directly to union workers and fruit pickers and Dust Bowl sufferers. If you’re gonna sing about morality, you might as…
Experience the drama of Shakespeare favorite Othello in the majestic surroundings of Southmoreland Park. Tuesdays-Sundays, 8 p.m. Starts: June 17. Continues through July 6, 2008 Tags: Night & Day, William Shakespeare
A gourmet gala to benefit Harvesters: Accomplished chefs will join with some of Kansas City’s top chefs to offer a collection of mouthwatering dishes and carefully selected fine wines. Sun., June 29, 6 p.m., 2008 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day
Browne’s Irish Market at 3300 Pennsylvania is calling today’s event its 121st Anniversary Street Fair, but when the Browne clan -— owners of Kansas City’s oldest continuously operating grocery store — closes off Pennsylvania between 33rd and 34th streets today, it will actually be the second street fair for the venerable deli and retail shop. As at last year’s debut…
Ada Niedenthal’s art is a response to the ideas, events, images and people that show up in life – what she sees, what she hears and what she reads. Her creations from the past eight years have been ruled by the Bush administration and her feelings about the results of that administration’s actions or policies show up in her most…
