BY OWEN MORRIS Less than a month after The Pitch blogged about it and less than six months after opening, Rev Cafe and Gallery is no more. (KC Perky) The title of this article is “Even chocolate feels bite of recession.” I think a more reasonable title would be, “What in hell’s name are the directors and staff from the…
By NADIA PFLAUM Sean owns a tattoo shop. I almost forgot which one, but luckily I rediscovered his business card after it fell out of the pocket of the jeans I wore last night: Body Art Inc. “Tattooing at it’s finest.” It’s at 7943 Frontage Road, Overland Park, Kansas. I liked his huge ear gauges and imagined throwing gum wrappers…
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL Each week, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. How to Be Happy Though Married Author: Tim LaHaye, pastor, television host, and eventual co-creator of Left Behind, the apocalyptic Christian novel series…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Thanks to Nadia Pflaum, I recently viewed this classic clip of Kash Beauchamp, a manager apparently managing using an alias in Wichita: Is this the greatest use of a prop in an argument in a manager-umpire argument? He at least deserves credit for the greatest use of the shoe in providing commentary since Nikita Khrushchev. Categories: News
A summer festival with entertainment by The Elders & Liverpool as well as additional bands and acts. Other happenings include the “Top of the Summit” idol singing contest, a classic car show, craft fair, food, games and numerous kid’s activities. Fri., July 18; Sat., July 19, 2008 Tags: 1625, Night & Day
Regional acts will include Laura Lisbeth of the Parkville Song Writers Guild, Bob Harvey and his sons, Kasey Rauch and friends and other Parkville favorites. Sat., May 24, 1-6 p.m.; Sat., July 19, 1-6 p.m.; Wed., Aug. 13, 1-6 p.m., 2008 Tags: Bob Harvey, Kasey Rauch, Laura Lisbeth, Night & Day, Parkville (Brooklyn)
Dr. Timothy Thomas, Emeritus Professor of Chemistry, University of Missouri in Kansas City, applied his rigorous scientific training and experience to the most challenging and urgent problem we face today in our world. Meeting of the Community of Reason, room 301. Sun., July 20, 1 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Tim Thomas (Hockey), University of Missouri-Kansas City
Mike and Bob Bryan seem like a Disney Channel show turned into reality: identical twins both make it big in tennis and end up playing as the world’s No. 1 pair. When the Bryan brothers knock into each other in their signature chest bump, it looks like somebody’s running into a mirror. Mike is even right-handed, while Bob plays with…
Mike and Bob Bryan seem like a Disney Channel show turned into reality: identical twins both make it big in tennis and end up playing as the world’s No. 1 pair. When the Bryan brothers knock into each other in their signature chest bump, it looks like somebody’s running into a mirror. Mike is even right-handed, while Bob plays with…
Each Friday night is filled with music and entertainment, refreshments, prizes and, of course, a movie! Sponsored by the Pilgrim Center, Inc., and in cooperation with the Hyde Park Neighborhood Association and the Kansas City, Missouri Parks and Recreation Department. Below is this year’s movie line up: July 11: Transformers July 18: The Last Mimzy July 25: Water Horse: Legend…
Since 1963, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers have been performing the best authentic klezmer music from coast-to-coast at weddings, bat mitzvahs and corporate events. In celebration of National Tapeworm Awareness Day, Steve Winwood joins the boys at the Sprint Center for a three-hour extravaganza of the best traditional Jewish music and spectacular ice dance. Tue., July 22, 7:30 p.m., 2008…
Occasionally, great films can become so influential that they’re eventually cannibalized by other films. After imitators have turned innovation into cliché, the original work might seem like just another incarnation of the familiar. Vertigo enjoys a lasting legacy, however. For instance, a now-common perspective-distorting special effect that was premiered in the movie bears its name. But whereas directors such as…
The Wikis of the world remember the English Beat as a two-tone ska revival band, but the group’s three albums can be heard as contemporaneous with XTC and the Clash. Those were the bands setting the bar in late-’70s Britain, and the Beat was the most fun of the bunch. Shortly after breaking into the U.S. scene with its jittery…
“It Ain’t Supposed to Be” by Exene Cervenka and the Original Sinners, from Sev7en (Nitro Records): Not all punks age well. Lee Ving left Fear, the band, to star in Clue, the movie. Bad Brains’ H.R. got irie and now baffles interviewers with moon-man gibberish. And Henry Rollins continues to jerk himself off with spoken-word albums and a cable talk…
“It’s hard being a human, but being a common person in China is even more difficult,” says one tearful shopkeeper along the soon-to-be-submerged banks of the Yangtze River in Sino-Canadian documentary filmmaker Yung Chang’s lucid, beautifully observed portrait of the same incipient flood zone that served as the backdrop for Jia Zhangke’s Still Life and its companion documentary, Dong. Whereas…
Come on, Tom Petty is great. Friend to man and beast alike, the Petty offends none and pleases all. He even recently pulled the most unobjectionable and down-home move ever: reuniting his pre-Heartbreakers band earlier this year to put out a CD. It’s as if he woke up in a hotel one morning and said, “I’m getting the old band…
Sure, it’s nice that the actors sing their own numbers — Meryl Streep has a fab set of pipes, and the fact that Pierce Brosnan sings like a bullfrog in heat is used to adorable effect. But without the originals’ multiply dubbed wall of sound, these Abba tunes only get their due in a few big production numbers. Otherwise, it’s…
A tightly wound bundle of everything and its opposite — an anti-authoritarian who ran for sheriff of Aspen, a peace-loving gun nut, an iconoclast who relished winners as much as any football coach — the late Hunter S. Thompson pioneered what might be called psychic-war correspondence: corrosive inner dispatches from the long goodbye of ’60s idealism. Alex Gibney’s fascinating doc…
