The 19th annual Festival of Color youth art show features works by students from various local high schools. The juried exhibition includes several awards. Sat., April 18, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Sun., April 19, 12-4 p.m., 2009 Tags: 126, Night & Day
Do you like to drink beer? Do you like it better when there are lots of rules involved and a referee to tell you if you’re doing it correctly? Or maybe you like beer but only in a competitive gaming form, because then you have a skill rather than a problem. If this sounds like you, then you sound like…
The Tree of Life performances features the contributions of several academic departments at KU including the Center for Science Education, The Commons, Hall Center for the Humanities, Kansas Space Grant Consortium, the Department of Music and Dance, the Department of Theatre and Film, the Lied Center and a number of resident and touring artists, including the commissioned involvement of two-time…
Football players have their Friday-night lights, says Lawrence High School film and media teacher Jeff Kuhr, “and I tell my kids that this is our moment, this is our time to shine.” The moment he refers to is the fourth-annual Focus Film Festival, which the school has presented since it first enlisted Kuhr to educate, inspire and embolden the next…
Been putting off that STD screening? Take it from us — you owe it to yourself and your current and future partners to get pricked and swabbed. (It only hurts for a second.) And this is the month to do it. Throughout April, Planned Parenthood of Kansas and Mid-Missouri is offering free STD testing. There are only 10 days left…
801 Chop House (71 East 14th Street, 816-994-8800) might be among the priciest restaurants in the metro, but not during happy hour. From 3 to 6:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, sample the fine offerings of executive chef Christopher Dennis for a pittance. What’s on special? Lamb sliders, mini burgers, lobster corn dogs, shrimp cocktail and oysters are all just $1…
Back in 2004, when Lew’s Grill & Bar (7539 Wornall, 816-444-8080) first opened, locals believed that Midwest gods had shined upon them and granted Waldo its own Chicago-style bar. Rumor had it that the owners of the long, narrow space with the high ceiling were from the Windy City and had come to KC to serve up Old Style and…
Ever wonder why your favorite pub doesn’t carry Boulevard Single Wide yet? Or why you can only find a half-dozen out-of-state microbrews on grocery store shelves? It’s the Man, man. And, in this case, the Man is the beer behemoth — corporations with bigger budgets for marketing, bottling, shipping and distribution. The sad reality is that half of the seemingly…
Chronicling one year in the Rimini of his boyhood, Federico Fellini’s Amarcord is at heart a wistful coming-of-age tale, fueled by youthful mischief and tempered by familial dysfunction. And it suggests, in its own deliriously loopy way, an influence on Barry Levinson’s Liberty Heights, Norman Jewison’s Moonstruck and Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amélie, among others. Fellini puts the usual conventions in a…
The Midwest is no mere breadbasket. Wildflowers sprinkle color through inland seas of grasses, and abundant trees of various families break up the plains. Transform your garden into a teeming microcosm of the surprising prairie at the Native Plant Sale, from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the City Market (Fifth Street and Walnut). The Missouri Prairie Foundation, which…
Been to a record store lately? Yes? Good for you. You deserve a treat. Today is Record Store Day: the third-annual celebration of independently owned record stores and the people who keep them in business. Conceived in 2007, the occasion is observed by more than 300 mom-and-pop shops across the country. Kansas City’s vinyl holdouts are hip to the cause,…
The Harriman-Jewell Series brings the nationally-renowned Aspen Santa Fe Ballet company to the Folly Theater. The dance troupe will perform Twyla Tharp’s Sweet Fields (1992), Jorma Elo’s Red Sweet (2008) and Moses Pendleton’s Noir Blanc (2002). This sophisticated company performs lively programs enjoyable for all audiences. Sat., April 18, 8 p.m., 2009 Tags: Aspen Santa Fe Ballet, Jorma Elo, Moses…
For The Song and Dance Project 2009, local dance group Kacico Dance joins forces with local songwriters to perform at various locations throughout the metro. Sat., April 18, 3 p.m., 2009 Tags: 620, Night & Day
For The Song and Dance Project 2009, local dance group Kacico Dance joins forces with local songwriters to perform at various locations throughout the metro. Sun., April 19, 2 p.m., 2009 Tags: 620, Night & Day
Kansas City jazz icon Millie Edwards will headline Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Jazz Cabaret ’09. The first of two Cabarets, the April 21 production will be held at 7 p.m. in the Jewell Center on the KCKCC campus at 7250 State Avenue. Tue., April 21, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: Jewell Center on the KCKCC, Kansas City, Kansas City Kansas…
Hey There, Harvey Girl!, an interactive, dinner theater mystery, is set in 1889, a time when the men were tough, the range was rough and a woman’s touch was sorely needed. The famous Harvey Girls were going out to civilize the west . . . when murder is served up as the main course! With a killer on board the…
Join KU Queers & Allies for Pride Week, full of events for the queer and straight ally community. Schedule of events: Monday, April 20th: 10:50-1:50 Kiss-In Lawn in front of Strong Hall (The kiss-in is a PW tradition here on campus. Basically queer people get together in a visible place on campus and…..do some PDA! This event takes place in-between…
Of the artists on Chicago-based “insurgent country” label Bloodshot Records — an indie that has nurtured modern Americana faves such as Ryan Adams, Neko Case and Split Lip Rayfield — veteran road dog Wayne “the Train” Hancock is probably the truest to the mythos of classic country music. While he’s got the middle-finger-toward-Nashville attitude of ’70s outlaws Merle Haggard and…
Lawrence songwriter Rusty Scott first appeared on the local scene with an appearance at KJHK 103.7’s 2007 Farmer’s Ball, after which he landed a track on the station’s Farm Fresh Sounds compilation. His rootsy songwriting sense presented a stark contrast to the disc’s indie-rock contingent. Scott frequently uses acoustic guitar and harmonica as the jumping-off point for his campfire songs,…
If he had done nothing more than write the 1970 Ray Price hit “For the Good Times,” Kris Kristofferson would have earned a place in the great American songbook. But he has also given us “Help Me Make It Through the Night” and “Me and Bobby McGee.” Now, 40 years down the road, he’s still touring, spinning poetry and turning…
Lovely to look at but too slow to get lost in, Jan Troell’s new movie is a tribute to still photography filtered through a portrait of working-class life wracked by war and want in early 20th-century Sweden. Written by Niklas Rådström, from a story by Troell and his wife, Agneta, about her ancestor Maria Larsson, a mother of seven who…
The Cherry Tree Parade is kind of all over the map, but that isn’t such a bad thing for a young band finding its footing. The Kansas City group’s self-titled debut EP is out this weekend, and it features some real bright spots. “Movin’” balances ethereal wisps of melody with a pummeling rhythm reminiscent of Cursive or Murder By Death….
When Edwin Morales, better known as DJ Konsept, moved to Chicago in May 2007, he left a bevy of local admirers in his wake — and a promise to return. Good DJs, like good friends, keep their promises. Neon, a Thursday-night dance party in Lawrence founded by Morales and partner DJ Cruz, has been one of the most successful and…
Finding singer-songwriter Barclay Martin in a crowded bar is easy. As the doorman at Crosstown Station says, Martin is the guy who looks like Jesus. At a table chatting with friends, Martin bears an uncanny resemblance to the Christian savior. His dirty-blond hair dangles well past his ears, a week’s worth of stubble coats his angular cheeks, and his conversational…
