Barbecue sometimes seems like the lifeblood of this city — a grilling, roasting, simmering bond among the citizens of the metro. Ribs, brisket and burnt ends connect Kansas to Missouri and the Northland to southern Johnson County, bringing all segments of the local populace together in a collective quest for the best representative of our city’s most famous export.So why…
After 17 years of celebrating local films, Lawrence’s annual Harvest of Arts Film Festival has built up too much legacy to go about changing its silly name. Beyond the gassiness in that “of arts,” the name implies that the arts themselves are reaped and sown in some predictable manner instead of being arrived at through mysterious inspiration alongside the requisite…
Movies of indie-auteur Kevin Willmott suggest that the celluloid world differs little from reality. His faux documentary C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America posits that the South won the Civil War in a way that unnervingly suggests similarities with real-life race relations. Be there for the red-carpet rollout of Willmott’s “what if” critique Bunker Hill at the Screenland (1656 Washington,…
As a good Crossroads resident, The Pitch is required to host a gallery show every First Friday and also keep the lawn mowed, or we’ll get reported to the neighborhood association and possibly have to pay a fine. Although the mower won’t start for some reason, Pitch Art Director Zach Trover, who is very clever with his hands, has organized…
It’s just about time for Halloween, which means haunted houses have flung open their doors, and at least one metro theater company feels required to act out a certain classic story about impressionable newlyweds and alien transvestites. OK, so maybe it’s also the 35th anniversary of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. Even so, the latest local production of the…
Kansas City is lucky to have a community radio station such as KKFI 90.1, which gives airtime to diverse viewpoints, local characters, and music that commercial frequencies prefer to tune out. But running a radio station ain’t cheap. That’s why, several times a year, 90.1 holds events to earn itself some much-needed moolah. For example: The station celebrates 20 years…
(1719 West 39th, 816-753-3939). From 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., hook yourself up with $3.75 calls, $2.50 PBR bottles and $6-$7 appetizers made with local ingredients. Got more cash to work with? Try the Death in the Afternoon, a mix of absinthe and sparkling wine for $10. Mondays-Fridays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m., 2008 Tags: 3731, Night & Day
(4057 Pennsylvania, 816-960-0866)Pints of Red Light Raspberry, Hog Pound Brown Ale, Ginger Shandy and other house brews are only $2 after 10 p.m. Mondays-Fridays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Pennsylvania
Pints of Red Light Raspberry, Hog Pound Brown Ale, Ginger Shandy and other house brews are only $2 after 10 p.m. at The Foundry. Mondays-Fridays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m., 2008 Tags: 3811, Night & Day
(1617 Main, 816-221-6272). Shake the beats with Kiko de Gallo and shake the change out of your duct-tape wallet with Bud Light and Miller Light drafts, domestic bottles, California rolls, spicy tuna rolls and edamame, all for only $3. Mondays-Saturdays, 10 p.m.-1 a.m., 2008 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, california, Kiko De Gallo, miller lite, Night & Day
Let’s be honest. As funny as The Big Lebowski is, the film’s dissection at the hands of film students, stoners and frat boys has stripped it of its true meaning: a towering testament to bowling. Bowling is an important sport because, as the Dude proved so many times, competence isn’t impossible after an adult beverage or two.Royal Crest Bowling Lanes…
Tonight, models and music take over Raoul’s Velvet Room for Lush, the bar’s weekly hump-day party. Starting at 10 p.m., DJ Highnoone spins his brand of modern Top 40 mashups while RSKE Clothing brings an array of hot models in cool clothes. The recently launched Lush will offer fashion shows and theme parties. There’s no cover charge, and the bar…
Prohibition couldn’t stop it. The Depression only made it mad. Not even late-’90s MTV and Top 40 radio exposure could kill it. Open marriages commandeering its name have only made it stronger. It’s swing! It’s dancing! And it lives!Jump, jive and celebrate the unsinkable swing dance tonight in the Kansas room of the Kansas Union (1301 Jayhawk Boulevard on the…
To date, there are 562 American Indian tribes in the United States. That’s not just a big number; it’s enormous — more than twice the number of the world’s countries. And though it’s a stretch to expect all 562 to appear at the KC Indian Fest, several tribes from across the nation will be represented, including Navajo, Omaha and Cherokee….
No one knows more about street parties than natives of New Orleans. So after Big Easy products Cowboy Mouth and Trombone Shorty kick-start Lawrence’s two-day Get Down Town festival on Friday night, a member of the Crescent City’s most iconic musical family headlines Saturday’s full slate. The son of Aaron “Everybody Plays the Fool” Neville, Ivan Neville has appeared on…
Celebrate the ninth-annual Día de Los Muertos (915 West 17th Street, 816-221-2349) from 6 to 10 p.m. Come back Saturday for the Day of the Dead Festival, which runs all day between 2 and 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 6-10 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 4, 2-10 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day
featuring artists Héctor Casanova, Lori Rae Erickson, Gear, Adrian Halpern, Jessica Manco, Noah Moore, Matthias Soda Potter, and Sha9agin at (2012 Baltimore, 816-474-1919), with a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Adrian Halpern, Baltimore, Hector Casanova, Jessica Manco, Night & Day
The work of Jaime Lakatos examines the disappearance of the natural world. At Mercy Seat (210 East 16th Street, 816-421-4833), with music in the Mercy Seat Alley by the Sixteens and Hopeless Destroyers, between 7 and 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 7-10 p.m., 2008 Tags: Jaime Lakatos, Night & Day
Shattuck’s photographs will be on display at the Midwestern Musical Company (1830 Locust, 816-931-6962). A reception from 6 to 10 p.m includes a performance by Smashing Bumpkins. Fri., Oct. 3, 6-10 p.m., 2008 Tags: midwestern musical company, Night & Day
Paintings, drawings, prints, videos, installations, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, metalwork and jewelry by more than two dozen graduate students from the University of Kansas Fine Arts and Design departments are showing at the Red Door Art Gallery (1735 Walnut, 323-317-7049) from 6 to 10 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, university of kansas
(201 Wyandotte, 816-421-5222). Steve Mumford’s “War Diaries” is in the Mallin Gallery, Claire Rau’s “Booby Traps” is in the Jacqueline B. Charno Gallery, and “Opposition” is in the Underground Gallery from 5 to 8 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 5-8 p.m., 2008 Tags: Claire Rau, Jacqueline Charno, Night & Day, Steve Mumford, Wyandotte
A dozen color-saturated images by Los Angeles photographer Anthony Lepore are on display at the (4420 Warwick, 816-753-5784) between 5:30 and 7:30 p.m. Lepore speaks about his work tonight at 6:30. Fri., Oct. 3, 5:30-7:30 p.m., 2008 Tags: Anthony Lepore, Los Angeles, Night & Day, Warwick
by Jerry Miller are on display at Corridor Art Space in the office of Gould Evans Associates (Westport Manor Square, 4041 Mill Street, 816-931-6655) from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 5-7:30 p.m., 2008 Tags: Gould Evans Associates, Jerry Miller, Night & Day, westport
Paintings by Joe Hoskins are at Red-Light (323 Southwest Boulevard, 816-421-1484) from 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Oct. 3, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: 180, Night & Day
