%{}% Here’s how to prepare ice cream without an ice cream maker. Granted it takes longer but I didn’t even know it was possible. A quandary over buying baked beans or making your own for a family gathering. I say buy them from a barbecue restaurant and then just claim them as your own. It disappeared for a couple of…
%{}% In space, no one can hear you bitch: The only people allowed to go into space are extraordinarily rich people like Mark Cuban who can actually pay Russians to launch them into orbit, or the astronauts in government space programs, who are qualified via a lot of fancy, rarefied knowledge such as how to fly jets and how to…
Kansas City police say 18-year-old Larry L. Mitchell Jr. was the homicide victim from Tuesday night. Police found Mitchell, suffering from gunshot wounds, in the street near 54th and Wabash. Mitchell was pronounced dead after being taken to a local hospital. Police say a suspect was arrested Wednesday morning and charges are pending. Categories: News Tags: homicides, Larry L. Mitchell…
And it’s free, too. Indeed, continuing in the trend of local hip-hoppers giving away their homespun releases for free download to receptive headphones (see also: MilkDrop and G-Train, among others, I’m sure) is young lion thePhantom*, with his latest, Phantastic: Hummingbird Grooves For The Neo-Conscious Mind. He set up a dedicated site using Bandcamp at Phantastic.me, where you can stream…
If you aren’t over 60, weren’t working from home or not sitting in front of the TV Wednesday right before 5 p.m., you would’ve seen KU’s Mark Petterson, drop the ball in final Jeopardy. The question category? The History of Flight. Kansas National Merit Scholar Petterson, will walk down the Hill this Sunday with a BA in English and Creative…
If you score one of the part-time jobs at Frankly Basic, the cute boutique at 327 E. 55th St., maybe you’ll get a discount on their $24 flip-flops. Apply with this guy by calling (816) 444-7797. Categories: News Tags: Jobs
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. The Beanie Baby Handbook Author: Les & Sue Fox Publisher: Scholastic Date: 1998 Discovered at: Maj-R Thrift, W. 47th Street The Cover Promises: Your toys are…
Kansas City Storm Women’s Football Team takes on the Minnesota Machine. Special guests include various youth swim teams from the Kansas city area. Sat., May 16, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: kansas, Kansas City, Night & Day
Watch the Kansas City Zoo’s cheetahs – GiGi, Claire, and Sadie – chase the lure at the end of a motorized track. It moves fast, but these girls can run 60+ mph, so it’s fast-paced, exiting animal action. The demonstration is 10:30 a.m. at the Cheetah Exhibit near the African Marketplace. Sat., May 16, 10 a.m., 2009 Tags: kansas city…
The Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company has been making bodies and heads spin as of late. DeeAnna Hiett, one of the principals, received a 2008 Charlotte Street award; the dancers have been in talks with the Cultural Exchange in Mexico (on hold because of you-know-what); and the National Endowment for the Arts highlighted the troupe in its most recent report —…
No, Zoppé isn’t a new iced-coffee beverage at Starbucks. It’s the name of an Italian family that has presented one-ring circus shows since 1842, when a French clown met an equestrian ballerina in Hungary and they eloped to Venice. It was an omen of the family’s fortunes: The Zoppé clan has toured the world with its old-fashioned namesake circus, carting…
Jason Harris (also known as J.Bling), who will graduate May 16 with a B.F.A. degree in digital filmmaking from the Kansas City Art Institute presents a show that will blend sound design, animation and performances by musicians, V-J artists and D-J artists from Kansas City, St. Louis, New York, Nigeria and Kenya. All will be playing music that Harris created…
The purpose of the LGBT community picnic is to provide a relaxed, family-friendly setting for community members to gather and socialize. The theme: Unclique. It’s time to meet new people, face to face in an environment that encourages conversation and camaraderie. Hot dogs, chips, and water will be provided. Questions and RSVPs can be emailed to kc2009communitypicnic@live.com. Sun., May 17,…
Natural Artifice is a fashion show featuring the debut collections of Glib Engrish by Sovannra Yos and NRapp Designs by Nicole Rapp. Thu., May 14, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: 2502, Night & Day
The “color field” abstract painting style is usually characterized by flat planes of color presented as pure and striking compositions of form and color, without gesture or movement. The late Dan Christensen, a Kansas City Art Institute graduate, was a notable practitioner, though the range of his sizable body of work resists categorization. Through August 30, the Kemper Museum of…
“Art” is more than just paintings of bucolic forest cottages or porcelain bisque figurines of large-eyed children; many artists prefer to engage in conceptual work that must be experienced. The Urban Culture Project has a long history of nontraditional visual exhibitions and performances, including today’s 6 p.m. opening of Kansas City artist Paul Shortt’s Missed Connections, an examination of the…
The Tony Award-winning musical Kiss of the Spider Woman carries a black widow’s bite. Set inside a prison cell in Latin America, the story concerns Molina — a homosexual jailed for corrupting a minor — and Valentin, who, barely conscious, is hurled into the cell just as Molina is summoned by the Spider Woman, the harbinger of death. Rather than…
As part of National Bike Month, 20 local organizations — including the Mid-America Regional Council, the Metro, Whole Foods and the Missouri Bicycle Federation — have partnered up to organize Greater Kansas City Bike Week. Giving even more pedal power to Kansas City’s bike scene, Bike Week events offer Kansas Citians the opportunity to sample a wide array of area…
Punk It is a fashion, art and music show hosted by local designer Cali Roberta, in response to Fashion Week KC. Punk It features collections by Cali Roberta and other local independent, punk-influenced designers Take A Halliday, Monkey Wrench Clothing, and POPHEARTS modeled during the musical performances of Pixel Panda and The Spook Light. Fabric art by Cali Roberta and…
The tenants of Leawood shopping haven One Nineteen rally together today for the Summer Style Showcase from 6 to 8 p.m. at Soho 119 (4419 West 119th Street). The event is structured around a series of seminars hosted by One Nineteen’s retailers on the sunny season’s trends for 2009. The workshops, scheduled in 30-minute intervals, offer advice on floral and…
Octarium can choralize anything — classical, pop, even Toto’s “Africa.” “Our goal is to make choral music less stuffy,” says Krista Blackwood, who founded Octarium in 2003. Along the way, the Kansas City octet of men and women (the name is Latin for eight as one) has produced three recordings (Octarium, Hodie and Essentials, all available at octarium.org). In Octarium,…
A banker shows up for an important job interview. The interviewer begins, “What is your biggest weakness — “The banker starts to answer.— “sexually?” the interviewer adds.This is Banker’s Dozen, an evening of absurdity, ambition and banking, courtesy of James Nelson, improv comic and just-graduated UMKC acting student. Nelson has written and directed 12 quick-moving, bank-related comedy scenes with compatriots…
Chinese artist Deng Wushu expresses his hopes for a peaceful, optimistic future in the exhibit Through the Eyes of a Child. The works are grounded in the artist’s personal life experiences and philosophy of life. Thursdays-Saturdays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: May 15. Continues through Sept. 25, 2009 Tags: Deng Wushu, Night & Day
Sally Helm, proprietor of Brits, an import shop in downtown Lawrence (929 Massachusetts, 785-843-2288), has always wanted to mount a big event to celebrate the culture and foods of the United Kingdom. But she decided to start small. Helm’s first Mini British Faire takes place today, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., behind her shop and — think small here…
