ansas City’s Metropolitan Organization to Counter Sexual Assault (MOCSA)is hosting its fourth annual fundraiser, “Young at Art” Cocktail Party and Silent Auction. The event will begin at 6:00 p.m. at the Webster House and auction items range from paintings and jewelry to dinner packages and Opera tickets. One unique offering this year is a wine auction. All proceeds benefit MOCSA’s…
This is a four person scramble tournament. Cost is $85.00 per person. Food and Beverages will be provided by Adams Pointe and Boulvard Brewing Company. There will be a running silent auction, which will include the drawing for a M4 Patrol Rifle and many other great prizes. Kansas City Royals Hall of Famer Frank White will be the Special Guest…
Los Angeles-based death metal outfit Lightning Swords of Death brings their dark, umlaut-rich blend of heavy sonic distortion, morbid lyrics and Cookie Monster vocals to Korruption for a satanic blast of brutal truth-telling. With guitar-plucker Roskva, dynamic front-man Autarch, Reverend Black bringin’ in the low tones and Thrudvang on the skins, Satan will truly rise and walk the earth tonight…
It’s the start of the work week and it’s friggin’ 90 degrees outside. What are you, Job? The Biblical Job, we mean, not Gob Bluth. Because how much can a single person possibly be expected to endure? Cafe Trio can help smooth the temporal transition between Monday and Tuesday with icy-cold mojitos in three flavors for five bucks each. If…
If you’re ambulatory and bored by such early-evening television broadcasts as Wheel of Fortune and Seinfeld reruns, join the Westport Walking Group for its weekly wandering around the neighborhood that was, in a year called “yesteryear,” the starting point for Western pioneers. Also, did you know that walking around is, like, good for your kidneys or something? Four out of…
Pickleball, a low-impact sport for players aged 50 and up, is the fastest-growing sport in the United States, inevitably destined for arena crowds around which the blimps of various tire manufacturers orbit, players revered as gods, lucrative endorsement contracts and doping scandals. And you can get in on the ground floor every Tuesday at the Matt Ross Community Center. Described…
HEY, WALLFLOWER! Do the ladies think you’re a real “square?” Can’t get any respect from the boss? Does your pastor look in your direction every time he preaches about the damned cast into the fiery pits of hell? Then you need to switch churches, tape your glasses back together and learn how to dance, Pointdexter. As a partner dance, West…
Dancing when the music moves you isn’t just encouraged — it’s a major part of each performer’s success at the 28th-annual Kansas State Fiddling and Picking Championships, which began Saturday and conclude today in Lawrence. “This event emphasizes that this music is participatory,” event organizer Gayle Sigurdson says. “Listening is secondary.”Saturday featured workshops geared primarily toward experienced musicians, but today…
Multicultural quintet Hot Peas ‘N’ Butter paid its dues in New York City’s tough children’s music circuit before cutting three multilingual albums of Afro-Caribbean, jazz, rock and Latin-inflected music for kids, including Mo Hotta Mo Butta, its latest release. The group’s fun, percussive repertoire includes non-edgy, untransgressive songs about bicycles, dogs, train cabooses and zoos, all very much in keeping…
A recent hit single from British group the Wombats suggests, Let’s dance to Joy Division/And celebrate the irony, but the Balanca’s clientele already knows all about partying to a gloomy soundtrack. Recently, the weekly dance night Fallout, which covers the darkest shades of the musical spectrum, moved from Fridays to Thursdays. The repercussions shouldn’t be apocalyptic — with the same…
Given the theoretical nature of time travel, it’s easy to get hung up on paradoxes. That’s probably why the idea of piercing reality at 88 mph in a DeLorean is so appealing. Make like a tree and get out to see Back to the Future tonight at the Spencer Museum of Art (1301 Mississippi, in Lawrence). The first in the…
(529 Walnut, 816-527-0999). From 4 to 6 p.m., martinis and double wells cost $5. Domestic bottles are a steal at $2.50. Mondays-Fridays, 2008 Tags: 548, Night & Day
(112 East Missouri Avenue, 816-421-3505). Pass one of the few hump days left of the summer on the patio from 3 to 6:30 p.m., when Foster’s cans, Amstel Light and 1554 draws are $2.95; wells are $3.95; selected wines are $3.45 a glass; and Talisker 10-year and 18-year scotch are half-off. Tater and the Gravy Train play old-style country at…
(500 Walnut, 816-471-6300). Wells and house-brewed pints are $2 from 3 to 7 p.m. If that’s not going to cut it, Long Islands are only $4 all night. Mondays-Fridays, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
(20 East Fifth Street, 816-471-6300). Inside and outside from 4 to 6 p.m., all domestic bottles and 23-ounce Bud Light draws are $2, import bottles are $2.50 and wine and Stoli martinis are $5. Mondays-Fridays, 2008 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, Night & Day
(528 Walnut, 816-474-4696). Before eating some of those puffy tacos, hook yourself up with $2 draws and $3 house margaritas from 3 to 6 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 2008 Tags: 548, Night & Day
If anyone should feel vindicated by the apparent collapse of market conservatism into a morass of corruption, indictment and general skulduggery, you’d think it’d be Thomas Frank. With the 2005 publication of What’s the Matter With Kansas?, the highly praised author, newly minted Wall Street Journal columnist and Kansas-bred populist became a household name in conversations about the right’s exploitation…
Want to be an Earth-loving tree hugger but don’t know where to begin? Get some ideas during the Uptown Theater’s Green Fest. “From vaccinations to tips to save money to green roofs to genetically modified food, it will be fun,” Uptown owner Larry Sells says. More than 40 environmentally conscious vendors will be on hand, along with food, films and…
According to Phil Shafer, the man behind Sike Style Designs and Sikenomics Clothing, the future ain’t what it used to be. As the magentas, aquas and purples of his fall line of streetwear don’t quite match up with the complex, mineral shades of most of 2008’s autumn trends, it’s safe to say that the theme of Shafer’s fall release party…
Geechy Guy, not to be confused with the tow-truck drivin’ yokel comic strip character “Geech,” is a comic veteran who began his career by kicking Ray Romano’s ass on Ed McMahon’s Star Search. Guy, who bears a slight resemblance to A Brief History of Time author and flippin’ genius Stephen Hawking, continues to set off his custom “joke grenades” at…
When Comedy City, Kansas City’s longest-running improv comedy show, set up shop in the Westport Flea Market Bar & Grill (817 Westport Road), the result was something rare: the happy union of two institutions that will not die. Hooters couldn’t kill the Flea, home of serious trivia (on Wednesdays and Thursdays), karaoke (Fridays), the funk band Soulbandit (on Sundays) and…
It’s hard to get away with successful satire in a supercharged, hyperpolitical atmosphere. Remember, for example, the depressed state of comedy in the early years of the war in Iraq. So imagine how difficult it must have been to produce successful humor during World War II. You can see some of the best lampooning for yourself at the free screening…
If puppet master Paul Santos has his way, “The Felt Show Sampler,” a performance that his group is doing tonight and Wednesday at 8 at Jackpot Music Hall (943 Massachusetts in Lawrence, 785-832-1085), will soon hit the road. “We’re trying to make it more of a compact show if we’re going to tour,” Santos says. His secret for getting to…
Hardcore breakdowns usually share songs with clear, confident female vocals about as often as supermodels show up at Rush concerts. And yet, Flee the Seen, which alternates its crushing slow-down segments with sickle-sharp melodies, combines these elements in combustible fashion. Kim Anderson’s strong, smoky singing soars over jagged riffs, dense drumbeats and her own staggered bass lines. Guitarist R.L. Brooks…
