It’s a great time to be in the business of finding things. Found Magazine and foundmagazine.com have earned cult audiences just by being hip receptacles of cultural detritus, and YouTube has made icons of society’s lamest and most pathetic personalities. Still, it helps to have a gatekeeper to sort through the muck. In that respect, Nick Prueher and Joe Pickett…
Being outside in the springtime is refreshing to a point. If you (or your hair) need a break from April’s elements, head indoors to Second Nature, an annual benefit for MyARTS, a downtown youth center that allows teens to explore their creative talents in fully equipped art studios. Tonight’s benefit, from 5 to 8 p.m. at 1522 Holmes, has a…
Billed as a “a Carnivàle dialogue between artists and the public,” Sorry for the Miscommunication is a thorough, Crossroads-spanning street primer on Kansas City’s First Friday art-walk extravaganzas, combining wall-space exhibits by some of the area’s best-and-brightest visual artists with live performances, fashion shows and music. For starters, Voler: Thieves of Flight, aerial fabric performers, grace the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center…
It’s tough enough for a small business to stay afloat in these economic times, let alone try to pull aboard other community groups. But that’s the way The Wheel Cyclery rolls. To celebrate its 15th anniversary, the Northland bicycle shop (5126 Northeast Antioch Road, 816-455-2453) is unveiling a new logo with a new outlook that puts civic involvement and environmental…
Artopia. Say it again: artopia. A combination of art and utopia, the little word suggests a heaven of free expression, a place where the aesthetic reigns supreme. Now, close your eyes and think about what’s in your artopia. You’re totally picturing belly dancers, Brazilian dancers and fashion models. And you’re hearing the strains of some great local music right now,…
Audio killed the silent cinema star, but not Charlie Chaplin — the Little Tramp refused to go noisily into that good night. Almost a decade after The Jazz Singer altered the course of movie history, Chaplin took a stand against technology with his nearly silent comic masterpiece Modern Times, the tale of a poor factory worker who clashes with the…
The Chiefs turned secretive upon hiring new general manager Scott Pioli. Reporters who follow the team have lost access to information and even the use of certain restrooms. The Kansas City Wizards, by contrast, train on fields at Swope Park, one of Kansas City’s oldest and largest public facilities. Joining the Wizards in the park this year is rookie defender…
The Roxy (7230 West 75th Street, Overland Park, 913-236-6211). PBR cans at this Overland Park strip-mall bar are $2 every day, all day. Starts: April 6. Daily, 2009 Tags: Night & Day, overland park
Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676). Lawrence hipsters know all about the $1.75 cans of PBR Light and Hamm’s every day. Starts: April 6. Daily, 2009 Tags: Lawrence (New York), Night & Day
Have a Natural Light for $1 during happy hour from 4 to 6 p.m. and $2 after happy hour. Starts: April 6. Daily, 2009 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
The News Room (3740 Broadway, 816-561-1099). Sixteen-ounce cans of Bud and Bud Light are $3 until they run out. Starts: April 6. Daily, 2009 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud Light, Bud-light, Night & Day
Sunday mornings haven’t been quite the same since Meet the Press host Tim Russert died. No offense, David Gregory, but the show isn’t the must-see TV that Russ made it. Besides, it’s hard not to be seduced by George Stephanopoulos, the silver-tongued host of ABC’s This Week. The University of Kansas presents a town-hall meeting with the perfectly coifed pundit…
Every month, we seem to come back around to discussion of Kansas City’s outsized influence on the art world. A small media market in many ways, this town has for many years boasted an arts community with deep roots (and benefactors with deep pockets). And it’s also true that artists are inspired by their surroundings. The Kemper Museum of Contemporary…
For those who wish they lived in glamorous New York City, comedian Colin Kane is here to break it down: The Big Apple can be damned annoying. As he rants tonight about stupid bums and more-stupid tourists, Midwesterners in the crowd may feel relieved to call a less congested metro home. However, given Kane’s penchant for insults, those warm fuzzies…
The Lawrence Arts Center will screen just under two hours of short films, featuring the winners of the First Annual Short Film Festival. Seven of the films will receive recognition, including an overall Best Picture. Other categories are Documentary, Youth, Art Film, Acting, Cinematography and more. In addition to these winners, excerpts from several other entries will be shown. All…
Pop music, in its truest sense, is a lot like Fruit Stripe gum: Yummy for about 30 seconds and then a bit flat. The Ting Tings walk that line like kids at a candy store, shoveling handfuls of sweet treats into our mouths and hoping the sugar rush doesn’t wear off. It’s a winning formula for kids who swear by…
Based on the roman à clef by Philippe Grimbert, a French Jewish psychoanalyst whose parents committed suicide when he was young, Claude Miller’s World War II domestic drama is unusually attentive to the way the Holocaust disrupted lives that were messy enough to begin with. Not one but two dark family secrets stoke the hyperactive imagination of François (played by…
Quintron and Miss Pussycat is the band that plays in the bar at the end of the world. When the duo bangs out its “swamp tech” brand of garage-dance rock, the sound is simultaneously ominous and gleeful. Creating gospel tones from his customized Hammond-Rhodes hybrid organ, complete with automobile grill and working headlights, Quintron wails and croons stories of life…
Just when you’re at your lowest — when all is bleak, when no one calls and when even your cat slinks under the bed at the sight of your disgraceful, shambling approach — along comes Morrissey to remind you that, hey, it could be worse: You could be Morrissey. I was driving my car/I crashed and broke my spine/So, yes,…
Kansas City, Kansas, could use new leadership. The area has long suffered from a reputation as the Sunflower State’s wellspring of crime, gang activity and general lawlessness. On The Lyrical Chronicles of the Wyandotte Ambassador, Mad Marlon claims that his home county suffers the additional slight of having to pay the highest taxes in the state. “What kind of baby…
Vin Diesel’s already-dubious ripped-tough-guy star has dimmed enough to warrant a return to the car-chase series that made him. In the latest, notably slack Fast & Furious (number four), Diesel reprises the role of larcenist/muscle-car-enthusiast Dominic Toretto opposite Paul Walker’s import-fancying undercover agent Brian O’Conner. The untimely death of Dom’s partner-in-crime sends the rivals converging on thoroughly unremarkable drug-runner Campos…
During its March 27 CD-release party at Czar Bar, Little Brazil played two songs that don’t appear on Son, the band’s new record: “Easier” and “Happy Birthday.” The latter honored the owner of the band’s new label, Anodyne Records. He was celebrating over vodka and cupcakes near the entrance of his bar. John Hulston has a lot to celebrate. This…
It takes broadsiding to get us to buy a CD these days, and that’s exactly what Bart Davenport delivered at his recent Record Bar show supporting the Botticellis. With an aloof grin and the chops of a musician’s musician, Davenport charmed the small but appreciative crowd with a flawless set of West Coast pop. No recording could do justice to…
For Britney Spears, the unceremonious revealing of her lady bits in a paparazzi photo was tantamount to a burlesque routine gone horribly wrong. After years of lusting after the unmentionables buried beneath her low-cut jeans and writhing boas, Americans were confronted with a squished bagel. This, along with the prolonged debacle that followed, brought Britney down to earth, making her…
