Western medicine takes a pretty prescription-happy approach to health care. The centuries-old practice of holistic healing, on the other hand, would have you trade those purple pills and sleep meds for alternative treatments such as acupuncture, nutrition counseling or horticultural therapy. And in an era of soaring medical costs, ever-weirder allergies and unpredictable viruses, holistic care is a practice on…
Founded in 1999, the Northland Exposure Artists’ Gallery (110 Main, Parkville, 816-746-6300) offers a scholarship each year to Northland high-school seniors who plan to study visual art. The scholarship is funded in part by the gallery’s annual Blue Dot Silent Auction. Today’s closing reception, from 1 to 4 p.m., marks the last day to bid on exhibited work by area…
Five years ago, Australian comedian Jim Jeffries found that audiences in his homeland were turned off by his overuse of the c-word and jokes about botched abortions, “fingering” and money shots. Moving his act to England, Jeffries both dazzled and offended a whole new audience (including Sharon and Kelly Osbourne and an unhappy ticket buyer who assaulted him at the…
When the students at the Barstow School don their ragamuffin Alphabet City gear and belt “Seasons of Love,” roughly 6,307,200 minutes will have passed since the Off-Broadway debut of Rent and its soaring minutes-in-a-year opening number. In 12 years and change, Jonathan Larson’s best-known (and, sadly, final) musical swept Broadway, Hollywood and any town sizable enough to book a touring…
Otto Preminger’s moody, melodramatic 1944 noir, Laura, is more or less your typical boy-meets-girl love story — except that the boy here is a laconic police lieutenant (Dana Andrews) who falls in love with the portrait of a beautiful socialite (Gene Tierney) after she’s had her face removed by a shotgun blast. He’s going to be seeing a whole team…
Italian screen god Marcello Mastroianni was at the height of his considerable appeal when he made Divorce Italian Style, director Pietro Germi’s fast, deeply wicked farce about marriage, deceit, infidelity and the complex (that is, Roman Catholic) honor code of each. In the movie, Mastroianni is an unhappy husband. Thunderstruck by his 16-year-old cousin and, by law, unable to secure…
(1859 Village West Parkway, Suite F101, 913-788-5555). You can’t go wrong in a place with bowling, pool tables, cartoons, and more than 30 martinis. Beginning-of-the-week fun starts with $9 Bud Light pitchers, $11 Schlafly Pale Ale pitchers and $2 games. Mondays, 2008 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, Night & Day
(1859 Village West Parkway, Suite 102, 913-328-0003). Let the beer flow and the good, cheap times roll with 23 import bottles at $2.50 each. This is also the only place at the Legends where you can drink from the Boulevard Smokestack selection. Mondays, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
(1705 Village West Parkway, 913-334-4500). Take a break from the sunflowers and the buffalo with palm trees and parrotheads. Monday specials include $3.50 classic margaritas (frozen or rocks) and $2 pints of Bud, Bud Light and Miller Lite. Mon., Nov. 10, 2008 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, miller lite, Night & Day
(1712 Village West Parkway, 913-788-4668). Hooters girls don’t have to wear those orange shorts on Mondays — instead, they don black or local football colors. See for yourself while watching Monday Night Football and drinking 25-ounce schooners of Bud, Bud Light and Bud Select for $3.50. Mondays, 2008 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, Monday Night Football, Night & Day
Farmer Brooke Salvaggio’s awesome BadSeed Market (1909 McGee, 913-522-3458) offers a full-blown selection of locally grown and produced organic food every Friday night in the Crossroads Art District, plus a requisite gallery space for openings and events. Tonight, BadSeed hosts Raw Film, Raw Food and RAH! Booty, an interdisciplinary experimental art exhibit combining raw cuisine, film and alt-feminist guerrilla cheerleading….
Ben Stiller has never been named People’s “Sexiest Man Alive,” but when you have the directorial power to cast yourself as the world’s most handsome fellow, you don’t have to wait for some magazine’s approval. Zoolander originated as a skit at the 1996 VH1 Fashion Awards before Stiller miraculously extended the bit to make a full-length feature. The absurd plot…
The Taylor Ranch in Oak Grove is haunted. So says Premiere Paranormal Research, a group of local ghost hunters. The last time PPR co-founder Tiffany Black investigated the place, doors slammed by themselves, and digital-recording equipment picked up voices commanding “get back!” and “get out!”This small-scale paranormal research team wants to keep funding its ghost hunts and also wants to…
Certain foods lend themselves especially well to expressing a cook’s individuality, and chili sits atop that list. There’s little consensus about which ingredients and spices define chili. The only requirement: It should taste good. That’s why chili cook-offs are so thrilling, especially one with a group of participants as diverse as those competing in Songbird Café’s first Chili Bowl. Among…
Check out dancer and multimedia artist Betsey Barratt’s group show with Krysztof Nemeth’s lowbrow pin-up drawings, photographer and painter Nikki Moreno’s portraits of models and burlesque performers, portrait photographer Greg James Arendall’s black-and-white images, and the work of “urban photographer” Bob Womack, at River Market Art Company (208 Delaware, 816-556-4703), 7 p.m. to midnight. The suggested donation of $3-$6 also…
Since opening in 2006, Foundation Architectural Reclamation (1221 Union Avenue) has supplied antique windows, doors, lighting and accents to such local landmarks as City Tavern and the Rieger Building. But the West Bottoms center has also been the site of some unforgettable events. Today is the annual Night World party, inspired by Chicago architect Bertrand Goldberg’s 1979 drawings of an…
“Once you get past the fact that you’re looking at actual heads, you notice the incredible intricacy and craftsmanship that went into decorating them.” Local Tibetan expert Bob Adamo isn’t describing a serial-killer documentary or an episode of CSI. He’s talking about the latest exhibit at midtown new-age store Aquarius (3936 Broadway, 816-931-6303.)Titled Bodies Revered, the exhibit showcases a private…
Texas artists Jeff Shore and Jon Fisher help christen the new Kemper at the Crossroads space (33 West 19th Street, 816-753-5784) with a sculptural video installation composed of handmade kinetic sculptures and props, wood, wires, lights, motors, vinyl records, analog electronics and video sequencing software, 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Nov. 7, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Jeff Shore, Jon Fisher,…
Roy Inman’s brooding black-and-white photographs interpret a short story by local mystery writer Nancy Pickard at Landon Gallery (329 Southwest Boulevard, 816-474-4771), 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Nov. 7, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Roy Inman
Honor lost loved ones at the Mattie Rhodes Día de Los Muertos celebration (919 West 17th Street, 816-221-2349). Enjoy music, food and art, including more than 20 ofrendas, or altars, 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Nov. 7, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Los Muertos, Night & Day
The voyeuristic works of Bret Gotschall are on view at Plenum Space Gallery (504 East 18th Street, 816-665-9849), 7 to 10 p.m. Fri., Nov. 7, 7-10 p.m., 2008 Tags: Bret Gotschall, Night & Day
Surreal drawings, prints and paintings by Art McSweeney are hanging at Red-Light (323 Southwest Boulevard, 816-421-1484), 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Nov. 7, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Art McSweeney, Night & Day
A group show, featuring art by Midwesterners Jake Beeson, Chris Foxworth, Kris Kanaly, Brett Millard, Will Willmott and Thomas Woodward, is on view at Skinless Productions (504 East 18th Street, 660-441-2031). Songstress Sal Retta will perform at the reception, which runs from 6 p.m. to midnight. Fri., Nov. 7, 7 p.m.-midnight, 2008 Tags: Brett Millard, Chris Foxworth, Kris Kanaly, Night…
New paintings by Murf are at the Slap-n-Tickle Gallery (504 East 18th Street, 816-716-5940), 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Nov. 7, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: 180, Night & Day
