(10002 East 63rd Terrace, 816-737-8566). Hook up with budget-priced pints of Bud, Bud Light, Busch and Miller Lite for $1.50 at this neighborhood suds emporium. Tuesdays, 2009 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, miller lite, Night & Day
Eight days ago, the Bush administration concluded with a traditional winter blast of frigid D.C. air and ignominy and left us with a palpable sense of, like, hope or something. Historians will spend decades sifting through the debris of the past eight years of political recklessness, framing it in accordance with their varying agendas. Meanwhile, alt-folk troubadour Todd Snider eschews…
Twelve restaurants in the Power & Light District are offering special deals for one week only. With each Restaurant Week visit, you will receive a free $10 Gift Card valid at the participating restaurant. For more information, see www.districtrestaurantweek.com. Jan. 26-Feb. 1, 2009 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
A pairing of two of the most ambitious — and bloated — acts in heavy music today, this double bill doesn’t offer quite as much culture clash as if, say, P-Funk had toured with Kiss in the ’70s. But it does ensure some prime awkwardness value for your dollar. Slipknot gleefully encourages its fans to revel in the extreme, overstimulating…
If Wichita’s Livy High is fishing for a spot on this year’s Rockfest lineup, the band’s full-length debut, Love, Hate, and Everything in Between, might just be the perfect bait. Singer, sole founder and songsmith Jason Carroll, with the help of producer Rick Beato (Shinedown, 12 Stones), has crafted 11 truly catchy, radio-ready songs that are more than worthy of…
When Grey’s Anatomy finally flatlines, singer-songwriters will officially be fucked. Where else will America go to discover adorable, semi-quirky crooners who sell mediocre songs masquerading as anti-corporate art? Fortunately, Australia’s Lenka is slightly ahead of the curve with her background in an ambient electronic combo known as Decoder Ring and with a melodic sensibility that’s more Regina Spektor than Jewel….
Only by the Night, the fourth album from Nashville’s Kings of Leon — brothers Caleb (vocals and guitar), Nathan (drums) and Jared Followill (bass), plus cousin Matthew Followill (guitar) — wound up on many music critics’ Top Albums of 2008 lists. KoL earned nowhere near this much love for its first three offerings, back when the group was a raw,…
Brendan Fraser returns to the multiplex day care as Mo Folchart, a member of a race of “Silvertongues” — those who, when they read aloud, can suck people out of and into the texts they’re reciting. Mo has abstained from practicing his gift ever since his wife was slurped off into limbo just as a motley assortment of roughs from…
The solo debut from Minus Story singer Jordan Geiger’s new project is one of those records so soaked in intimacy that it’s almost built to be listened to alone. Vocally (and somewhat lyrically), Geiger bears a striking resemblance to a much more well-balanced Daniel Johnston. But whereas Johnston tends to keep things sparse and a bit more lo-fi, Geiger layers…
Two Saturdays ago, I saw the most promising local band that I’ve discovered so far this year. At a sports bar. In a strip mall. In Lenexa. Seriously. Pet Comfort is a new five-piece indie-rock act that’s better-suited to midtown stages. I missed a New Year’s Eve set at Riot Room, but people who caught it raved about the band…
Around Kansas City, the story is damn near legendary: A bunch of white hipsters go down to Jamaica’s Reggae Sunsplash Music Festival and impress a mostly black audience of 20,000 with an inspired 5 a.m. performance as the sun creeps over the mountains. The live recording of the show gets nominated for a Grammy (in 1986), and all of a…
When times are tough, fresh new ideas need to rise — like good yeasty dough. It was during the chilly early days of the Great Depression when an executive at Continental Bakeries thought of a way to put the baking pans, typically used for the company’s summertime confection of shortbread fingers, back into business. Continental’s shrewd exec, Charles Dewar, realized…
It’s about damn time, Kansas City Repertory Theatre. At last, after several seasons out in the cold and then a 2008 marked by spirited flirting, your first production of 2009 finds you shacked up once again with your old flame Pre-eminence. Remember how good it feels? To set the standard, to be the theater to which patrons subscribe not out…
Gypsy violinist Roby Lakatos is not only a scorching virtuoso, but a musician of extraordinary stylistic versatility. Performing classical music, jazz, and in his own Hungarian folk idiom, Lakatos is the rare musician who defies definition. “If violinist Roby Lakatos were paid on the basis of how many notes he plays in any given performance, he’d probably be the richest…
Quilting is both folk tradition and fine art, a dual role that local fiber artist NedRa Bonds understands intimatel. Her grandmother taught her to quilt, and Bonds later became an art teacher. Her needle has stiched a visual history of the Quindaro area of Kansas City, Kansas — once a stop on the Underground Railroad. Another work focuses on the…
Sometimes inspiration requires a little interaction. That’s the concept behind 3-C Hour: Creativity + Community + Coffee at Kacico Dance (2540 West Pennway, second floor). For one hour a month through April, the dance studio will open its doors to creative types of all stripes — dancers, musicians, writers, graphic designers, visual artists, martial artists, architects, whomever. The point is…
As industrial nations mature and prosper, so do their national arts. And art in China has been booming. “You see that effect in the scale of a photographic print, for example,” says Raechell Smith, director of the H&R Block Artspace (16 East 43rd Street, 816-561-5563). “An artist can’t afford to print a large-scale image unless they have some viability and…
Ralph Covert is a Disney Recording artist who writes songs for the youngins. Grab a toddler and catch one of his two performances at Reading Reptile. Sun., Jan. 25, 1 & 3 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day, Ralph Covert, The Walt Disney Company
Out with the rat and in with the ox. What better way to celebrate the Chinese New Year than by visiting one of the metro’s fine Chinese restaurants? • Mandarinism (4800 West 135th Street, Overland Park, 913-239-8899) fuses the best of other cultures’ cuisines with traditional Mandarin dishes to create food that’s exciting, new and delicious. One bite of the…
If you’re not watching The Daily Show on Tuesday and Wednesday nights, there’s a decent chance you’re tuned to 10 Items or Less on TBS. The improvisational comedy series set in a grocery store has been known to beat old Jon Stewart in the ratings, believe it or not. If the dorky store manager of Greens and Grains seems strangely…
Haskell Indian Nation faculty member Dr. Reeze L. Hanson has quilts on display at the Dick West Art Gallery at Haskell Indian Nations University. The exhibit is open through February 20. Hanson and Dr. Joni Murphy will give a gallery talk from 4-6pm on January 29. Tuesdays-Fridays, 1-4:30 p.m. Starts: Jan. 16. Continues through Feb. 20, 2009 Tags: Haskell Indian…
As Juliette, a Frenchwoman newly released from prison, Kristin Scott Thomas is so relentlessly unbending, so full of necessary enigma, that she almost had me believing that Philippe Claudel’s domestic drama had something brave to say about mothers who murder their children. Whey-faced, gray-skinned and devoid of makeup, Juliette camps out with her eager-to-please younger sister (Elsa Zylberstein) and sets…
Sam Graves goes to bed wearing an apron. As the congressman drifts to sleep, he calculates the sales tax on dry goods. He wakes to the sound of the shop-door bell. Or at least that’s the impression he likes to make. The Republican frequently invokes Main Street in his “Straight Talk With Sam” newsletters. In Graves’ mind, Congress needs to…
In 2004, Mac Lethal and Okwerdz squared off in an epic freestyle battle on the storied stage of Scribble Jam. Over the instrumental from Biggie’s “Ten Crack Commandments,” Okwerdz asked the audience about Mac: When the fuck did Elijah Wood have a baby with Sloth from the Goonies? Mac rebutted: Mac Lethal came through to chop herbs/One of my testicles…
