Lonestar, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ashton Shepherd, Adam Gregory, the Average White Band, Grady Nichols, Sean Costello. Sun., June 22, 2008 Tags: Adam Gregory, Ashton Shepherd, Grady Nichols, Night & Day, Sean Costello
Every Monday, Kansas City’s most comfortable rock bar turns into a movie theater. Those plush curtains at Crosstown Station (1522 McGee, 816-471-1522) pull back to reveal a giant screen during Movie Madness, from 4:30 p.m. to close. Enjoy happy-hour specials ($2.25 wells, $2 domestics and $3 import draws) and complimentary popcorn. “It’s a laid-back time,” says bartender Andy Fisher. Due…
Appearance by the author of the internationally acclaimed Josephine B. historical fiction trilogy, for a reading and signing of her long-awaited next novel, Mistress of the Sun. This is a joint event with historical mystery author Rebecca Stott for her new book, Ghostwalk. Thu., June 19, 7 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Rebecca Stott
Declare Yourself! is a group show of 20+ national and local artists; Television is a series of photographic images by Rockhurst Senior Jack Gustafson. Mondays-Fridays, 7:30 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturdays, Sundays, 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: June 6. Continues through June 28, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Appetizers are half-off; domestics and mixed drinks run $2 to $3. Mondays-Fridays, 4-7 p.m., 2008 Tags: 548, Night & Day
There are other entertainment districts in Kansas City. Places where one can park for free, wear whatever they want and visit a bar where the bartenders remain fully clothed and behind the bar instead of on top of it. One such place is Waldo, home of the Fourth-Annual Waldo Crawldo pub crawl. In true pub-crawl fashion, the event is hosted…
Gamers get a lot of guff for spending their free time inert. Yeah, World of Warcraft, Magic: The Gathering and other games can be entertaining, but they generally don’t involve cardio or sunlight.That’s where Dagorhir comes in. Dagorhir is like an outdoor adventure smoothie: Take the physical activities of sports and martial arts, combine them with fantasy role-playing, and a…
The premier of a ballet that will unveil the working of spiritual forces and depicts a journey of liberation from destructive behaviors. Sat., June 21, 8 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day
The story of William Quantrill’s infamous 1863 raid on Lawrence carries weighty historical significance far beyond an excuse for fans of university teams to despise one another. A retelling of the raid is part of the critically acclaimed but box-office-butchered 1999 film Ride With the Devil, which screens tonight at 7 at the Truman Library (500 West U.S. Highway 24,…
Barbeque has been synonymous with Kansas City for a century, so it’s no surprise that our saucy town hosts the 2008 American Royal Rib America Festival — a traveling party that makes four Midwest stops this summer. The festival kicks off its KC leg today and runs all weekend at Kemper Arena (1800 Genessee). Along with the food, the family-friendly…
It’s been a bitter year for the Royals, but even a 12-game losing streak can’t dim the majesty of a huge fireworks display. This year, KBLV 99.7 “The Boulevard” and the Royals team up to host the Kansas City Sky Show, a pyrotechnic bonanza of apocalyptic proportions and the largest of its kind in city history. Organizers promise on-field special…
The past 27 years have brought a sea change within the borders of our southern neighbor. In 1982, the foundations of Mexico’s dominant PRI party were starting to crack, as voters threw out President López Portillo and installed President Miguel de la Madrid, who proved no more adept at solving the country’s economic maladies. Though it took another two decades…
Local basketball fans don’t often get to watch professionals play the game. Since the departure of the Kansas City Kings two decades ago, NBA fans in KC get their fix only through obscure cable channels. That changes as the KC Pro-Am Summer League plays its second season at Penn Valley Community College (3201 Southwest Trafficway). The 12-team league features professional…
The Kansas City Wizards got off to a blustery start this year, playing three of their first four home games in 40-degree weather with 30-mph winds. That kind of weather doesn’t deter Chiefs fans — as long as they can steel their senses with beer. To that end, the Wizards are working with O’Malley’s Irish Pub (500 Welt in Weston,…
Calling anyone who ever made a Barbie-sized coffee table out of the white plastic thingy inside delivery pizza boxes: For the past three days, the convention area of the Hyatt Regency Crown Center (2345 McGee) has looked like it was hit by a pink glitter bomb. It’s the site of the 2008 National Barbie Doll Collector’s Convention, which kicked off…
When members of the Jim Rose Circus sideshow brought their freaky selves to Lollapalooza in ’92, it was widely reported that their antics made audiences vomit. Since then, the world has witnessed a freak-show revival, with modern-day extremists playing off of the creepy carnie shows that traversed the country back in the day. Contemporary examples showcase real-deal chromosomal disasters, people…
Cheap fuels destroy the environment, and clean energy doesn’t yet deliver at the right price. However, though there’s no quick-and-easy fix to the problems created by fossil fuels, there are plenty of ways to improve the future.Consider a greener future tonight at a screening of The Great Energy Revolution at Solidarity Revolutionary Center & Radical Library (1109 Massachusetts, Lawrence). Hosted…
As a kid, did you ever dream about getting locked inside the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) and having crazy adventures late at night? Well, forget it, Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler — this is real life, and the museum has security guards and motion detectors. Once you put aside your juvenile fantasies about running away, there’s a better…
“The words and the music don’t just coexist,” Dan Morgenstern writes in his liner notes for Dan Jaffe’s Playing the Word. Morgenstern, director of the Jazz Institute at Rutgers University, says Jaffe’s words and music “come together, they swing and sing.” On the album (and in its companion book), Jaffe riffs spoken-word-style about jazz performers, devoting significant time to such…
Recently, Ruth Bates filed a lawsuit against her old boss, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser, his wife, Gloria Squitiro, and the city of Kansas City. In it, Bates accuses Squitiro of making sexually charged remarks and racially insensitive comments. One example: “I hope they don’t throw hot tamales at us” before an event in the largely Hispanic Westside. Once the…
Claude Lelouch’s A Man and a Woman, one of the silliest love songs in the canon of French fluff, gets a beguiling makeover 42 years on in this new soufflé. Roman de Gare, which loosely translates as “airport novel” and was written and directed under the pseudonym Hervé Picard, is stuffed with fakers. At the center is an unlikely couple:…
Early on in the Unicorn Theatre’s production of the inventive Broadway hit Well, just a couple of seconds after we realize that the play has, in fact, started, actress Melinda McCrary insists that what we are about to see is not a play at all. “It’s a theatrical exploration,” McCrary grandly says, “of issues of health and illness both in…
Many have Soul Asylum filed between the mid-’80s Minneapolis bands the Replacements and Husker Du or know it only for “Runaway Train.” Neither perspective cuts it. With more than a quarter-century spent performing together, and having released 11 albums and 18 singles, Soul Asylum can still claim roots as an exciting bar band — one that made the leap to…
“Stabbed in the Face” by Wolf Eyes, from Burned Mind (Sub Pop Records): Like death metal on heavy narcotics and dipped in axle grease, Motor City trio Wolf Eyes re-creates the ominous twisting, turning cacophony of a rotisserie ride on the demonic midway. Arrangements wind from minimalist clanging, punctuated by squawks of horn skronk and sputtering electronics, into accelerating sheets…
