Of course you watch The Godfather whenever it’s on AMC — which is, like, every three days or so. You tell yourself that you’ll stick with it just long enough to see Michael’s sit-down with McCluskey and the Turk, because that’s some badass must-see TV right there. Next thing you know, Michael’s getting his ring kissed, and the door is…
A bit of Thailand comes to downtown Kansas City at a party called the New Beginning and the New Year. The festivities at the Clubhouse on Baltimore (1228 Baltimore) mark the birthday of the king of Thailand, feature different aspects of Thai culture, and celebrate the American new year. “It’s been a couple of decades since there’s been a Thai…
These days, new-realist painter Greg Eltringham is the chairman of the painting department at the Savannah College of Art and Design. But back when Late Show Gallery curator and Pitch Mastermind Awards laureate Tom Deatherage hosted exhibitions out of a house on Charlotte Street, Eltringham was his second-ever featured artist. “He amazes me,” Deatherage says now. “He gets better all…
Arts Incubator (115 West 18th Street, 816-421-2292) opens its doors for its semiannual members’ exhibition, which features works 24 inches square and smaller, from 6 to 9 p.m. The exhibit runs through December 29. Fri., Dec. 5, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day
A group show featuring the works of more than 30 artists, including Zac Eubank, Apryl McAnerney, Travis Pratt, Jesse Small and others, will be on exhibit at Pi Gallery (419 East 18th Street, 816-210-6534) between 6 and 9 p.m. Not one of the works is taller or wider than 12 inches. The show runs through December 27. Dec. 5-27, 2008 Tags:…
Kelly Seda’s ruminations on mortality are on view at the Mercy Seat Gallery (210 East 16th Street, 816-421-4833), from 7 to 10 p.m. Mercy Seat Fri., Dec. 5, 7-10 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Prints, drawings, sculpture and toys by University of Kansas students and faculty are on display and up for grabs at the Red Door Gallery (1735 Walnut, 323-317-7049), from 6 to 10 p.m. The show runs through December 27. Dec. 5-27, 2008 Tags: Night & Day, university of kansas
Performance art, animation, digital film, audio art and music are at KCAI’s Epperson Auditorium in Vanderslice Hall (4415 Warwick, 816-802-3423), starting at 7 p.m. Fri., Dec. 5, 7 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Vanderslice Hall, Warwick
Paintings and prints by Erlene Flowers are at Red-Light (323 Southwest Boulevard, 816-421-1484), from 6 to 9 p.m. Erlene Flowers Fri., Dec. 5, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Erlene Flowers, Night & Day
Poetry and photographs by R. Shawn Bohs are on display at {:m Gallery (2014 Main, 816-560-1450), from 6 to 9 p.m. Fri., Dec. 5, 6-9 p.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, R. Shawn Bohs
In Noel Coward’s play Private Lives, a character famously remarks, “Extraordinary how potent cheap music is.” Get a real understanding of that line at an iPod battle. It’s like a breakdance or DJ battle but with far more crowd involvement. Two teams or competitors create a playlist of five songs each on their iPods, which they then surrender to a…
In 2003, a 100-percent-guaranteed-to-offend film known as Bad Santa hit screens, just in time for Christmas. Produced by Joel and Ethan Coen of Raising Arizona and The Big Lebowski fame, Bad Santa is the anti-Miracle on 34th Street — out of synch with the Christmas spirit and blasphemous of all things Santa.The film’s main character, played by Billy Bob Thornton,…
Tonight’s Cheetah Girls performance is an enticing draw, as prefabricated, hyper-mediated corporate franchises go — the musical equivalent of Outback Steakhouse’s Bloomin’ Onion appetizer. Sure, it’s tasty while you’re eating it, but after it’s gone, it’s hard to remember, and you feel bloated and sleepy. Consider instead soulful, sweet-voiced Aaron Neville’s 8 p.m. performance at the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s…
(3801 Broadway, 816-753-4949). This corner bar has an all-day happy hour from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., with 50 cents off all bottles and wells and 25 cents off drafts. After 6, PBR Light is $1 a can. Mondays, 2008 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
3740 Broadway, 816-561-1099). Popular with neighborhood loafers, wayward hipsters and the Kansas City Fake Mustache Club, this spot that many still refer to as “Kenny’s” slices 50 cents off wells and 25 cents off domestic drafts until 6 p.m. Mondays, 2008 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day
(3601 Broadway, 816-756-2577). This gay sports bar welcomes everyone to watch basketball games and talk shows from 4 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., when there are $2 wells and $2.50 domestic bottles. Mondays, 2008 Tags: 269, Night & Day
Lee Jeans’ biggest day of the year was finally here. On the first Friday in October, Lee spearheaded the annual Lee National Denim Day. Across the country, hundreds of thousands of employees at various companies paid $5 to wear jeans to work, raising about $5 million for breast-cancer research and women’s cancer programs. At Lee’s headquarters, about a hundred staffers,…
Rock and roll may not make people dance like it did in your mom’s favorite John Travolta movies, but it still has the power to inspire some violent head-bobbing. The Melismatics sprint to the front of the neck-dance pack with pogo drumbeats and bass lines that sound like they’re in heat. The Minneapolis band charmed the producers of such TV…
Juliana Hatfield’s How to Walk Away is a hummable bummer of a record — all about finally accepting the realization that it’s time to break up and probably has been for a while. She’ll always sound like the indie girl next door, on whom so many freshman guys had a crush back when “My Sister” and “Universal Heartbeat” were all…
It all makes for an entertaining show, but if you look past Eagles of Death Metal’s winking irony, goofy mustaches, smirks, aviator glasses, devil horns, super-rawk poses and Spinal Tap-worthy album and song titles (Death By Sexy, “I’m Your Torpedo,” “Prissy Prancin’,”etc.), you’ll find a band with some serious chops that’s getting better with each disc. No wonder, really, because…
For a film “based on a true story” — that of Leonard and Phil Chess’ eponymous record label, featuring the likes of Muddy Waters (Jeffrey Wright), Howlin’ Wolf (Eamonn Walker), Etta James (Beyoncé Knowles), and Chuck Berry (Mos Def) — there doesn’t seem to be a single fact contained within writer-director Darnell Martin’s fiction, which renders pre-rock musical history as…
A visitor to John Huff’s house in Kansas City, Kansas, could lose half a day just studying his stuff: the little bowling trophy by the sink, the curtains with a multicolored pattern of records on them, the sequin-and-stitches owl tapestry from 1974. In fact, it could be 1974 here, save for the CD player (which actually seems to get less…
In days of historic parsimony, the unrelenting bass lines of The Rhythm EP can feel excessive, blithe and self-indulgent. Unhinged from its social context, however, DJ Norrit’s debut release on Tactic’s Think 2wice Records fulfills the promise of what it purports: four tracks of mostly electronic remixes meant to drag your ass to the dance floor. Each song takes its…
Peter Case has left disparate Polaroids along his musical path. To some, he’s the sunglasses-and-mop-top leader of Los Angeles power-pop pioneers the Plimsouls and the Nerves. To others, he’s a rootsy singer-songwriter with heart-on-sleeve love for Lightin’ Hopkins and Woody Guthrie. Though he’s been a solo folkie for more than 20 years — much longer than his stint in California’s…
