Apropos of absolutely nothing, I once read an interview with the late Tammy Faye Baker where she announced that when she was depressed she liked to go shopping at T.J. Maxx! I have another friend who fights her depression by going to all the mark-down emporiums in one day: T.J. Maxx, Marshall’s, Tuesday Morning. She combs the aisles for bargains: “It…
KSHB Channel 41 reports that Kansas City Police are investigating the death of a man who was beaten up and run over by a car Wednesday night. The Kansas City Star says the victim was beaten by three or four men and left lying in the intersection of East 11th Street and Grand Boulevard around 10 p.m.Then a car hit…
%{}% The two sides of Schlitz beer. The fun, partying hot-rod guys in one place, and the angry manager limiting beer samples at another. This meal is like a sitcom gone bad. A couple with double-lung pneumonia on one side, and a mother giving her daughters the birds and bees speech on the other. A long, thoughtful post on when…
A week after the Kansas City Health Department suspended operations at the historic New York Bakery and Delicatessen at 7016 Troost, the business is still closed and people are wondering if it will ever re-open. After all, the venue had been reportedly up for sale before the Health Department cited the longtime owners — Jim and Barbara Holzmark — for…
Don’t go to Balanca’s tonight expecting the usual Thursday night dance party to the sounds of the Cure, Nine Inch Nails and other acts that fit into the goth, electronic and 80s categories. Dustin Prewitt, one of the DJs behind Fallout Thursdays, announced today in a MySpace bulletin, ” We’re getting bored with the whole goth/industrial/electronic/80s bullshit. So we’re switching…
The Precious Doe Memorial Committee is going to have a press conference today. They’re going to announce a special day of events on April 25 — the day Erica Michelle Green’s headless body was found at 59th and Kensington. The city knew the girl as Precious Doe for several years, and the dedication of Precious Doe Memorial Park and a…
Fashion show announcements have really been filling up my inbox lately. I don’t know why more fashion shows happen in the springtime. Maybe it’s because a lot of high, artistic fashion actually doesn’t involve that much fabric, and in cooler months the skimpy little outfits would make the models shiver, which might make it harder for them to strut in…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Teen Beat Video Rock Stars Magazine Author: Probably whoever it was who first used the words “monetize” and “youth culture” in the same sentence. Date: Fall,…
Four years in a row, four Masterminds. Once again, we’re presenting four of the city’s aesthetic adventurers with $1,000 each — no strings attached — just for doing what they do. Each year, we’ve asked our readers to nominate artists, innovators and entrepreneurs who are changing the city’s cultural landscape. This isn’t a popularity contest or a lifetime achievement award;…
Composer “Fats” Waller dealt with hardship through comedy. American Idol winner Ruben Studdard will channel the prolific songwriter and pianist in Ain’t Misbehavin’ tonight at 7:30 at the Lied Center in Lawrence (1600 Stewart Drive). The show is a musical journey of Waller’s life and a tribute to the black musicians of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and ’30s….
Incorporating cutting-edge forensic science, unparalleled audience interaction and amazing visual effects, CSI Live takes the fast-paced, mind-blowing production from your TV screen live to the Carlsen Center. For ages 9 and up. Sun., April 5, 2 p.m., 2009 Tags: Carlsen Center, Night & Day
If you’re in the habit of dozing off around 7 p.m. and waking up at 3 a.m. to put on your steppin’ shoes, you probably know about the Mutual Musicians Foundation (1823 Highland, 816-471-5212). The speakeasy-tinged jazz venue is known for its dawn-welcoming jam sessions, which attract a mixed crowd of jazz cats and socialites who simply want a place…
Every third Thursday, Wearhaus brings local designers to mint for a free fashion market. Drink specials, $8 manicures and music by DJ Stevie Cruz. First Thursday of every month, 5:30-9:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
The April exhibit at Pi Gallery includes Kachina paintings by David Goodrich. April 3-27, 2009 Tags: David Goodrich, Night & Day
The Slap and Tickle Gallery (504 East 18th Street, 816-716-5940) presents Terra Firma, an exhibit of multimedia works by Chris LaValley. Incorporating painting, sculpture, ceramics and drawing, LaValley’s pieces have the feel of collages whose constituent parts were found, rather than individually created, by the artist. The Slap and Tickle, not content with monthly wall exhibits alone, also presents a…
Exquisite Creatures is a characteristically striking exhibit at the Mercy Seat Gallery (206 East 16th Street, 816-421-4833), a collection of almost painterly photographs by area artist Emily Louise Lodigensky. Timeless and immaculately composed, these pieces render ambiguity and near-abstraction through the most representational of media, their effects accomplished through digital-compositing techniques. “I generally keep a databank — libraries of interesting…
A screening of Proceed and Be Bold! followed by a question-and-answer session with the subject of the film: Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. Kennedy is an internationally recognized printing press artist, though he would rather be referred to as a humble Negro printer. This event is part of KCAI’s Current Perspectivs lecture series. Thu., April 2, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: Amos…
The ACLU and a federal judge last month had to talk an overzealous prosecutor out of filing child pornography charges against some Pennsylvania teens who had taken semi-nude, nonpornographic camera-phone photos of themselves. Lost in the whole discussion: The reality that people start shaping their own identities as teenagers, and that sexuality is one important component of that process —…
(1600 Cherry, 816-474-1300) hosts XX Chromosome, an exhibit of works by female artists. “It’s not feminist-themed in terms of the work,” participant and organizer Tuesday Schmidt says. “The only connection is that the artists are female; the band is female.” Artists include Maura Cluthe, Ali Moline, Tiffany Matson, Faye Woods, Ellie Kort and Rachel Kort. And that band, for tonight’s…
Organizers consider this month’s exhibit at Wonder Fair: Art Gallery and How! to be “a much belated union” of the Kansas City and Lawrence art scenes. Exactly why this should be so is not quite as clear as the fact that it is is a group exhibition of new Kansas City art, curated by Kelly Clark and Bri Lauterbach. Thursdays-Saturdays,…
Here, at the dawn of whatever era follows the Susan Jacoby-dubbed Age of American Unreason, it’s worth pausing to thank artists, such as those in the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, who labored mightily to keep the flame of enlightenment above the rising waters of the Bush years. This independent theater company, which generally mounts serious works rather than marketable ones, has…
If the multitalented Tommy Davidson hasn’t been quite as visible since the groundbreaking sketch-comedy show In Living Color went off the air, he’s been no less busy. In addition to featured roles in Booty Call, Woo and Juwanna Mann, as well as a seriocomic turn in Spike Lee’s Bamboozled, Davidson spent five seasons voicing beleaguered patriarch Oscar Proud in the…
