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. Coronet magazine Date: September, 1947 Discovered at: North Kansas City estate sale The Cover Promises: “The tragic failure of America’s women. A shocking indictment…
Today’s Earth Fest at Theis Park is a little reminder that every day is Earth Day. Explore five little “villages” where you can get tips on how to live a little greener. This event, sponsored by Bridging the Gap, features performances by StoneLion Puppet Theater and Eco Elvis. Sat., May 9, 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 2009 Tags: Earth Day, Night &…
Through its current production at Off Center Theatre (2450 Grand, on the third floor of Crown Center), Musical Theater Heritage offers a musical time warp into the 1950s. Anyone who has seen the similarly nostalgic show Forever Plaid will recognize the format of The Taffetas. Four singers from Muncie, Indiana — in this case, young women about to make their…
Set in a hotel with two connecting rooms, the play Unnecessary Farce takes a sting operation to silly new heights. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m.; Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., May 16, 2 p.m.; Sat., May 23, 4 p.m.; Sun., May 24, 7:30 p.m.; Wed., May 27, 1 p.m.; Sat., May 30, 2 p.m.; Saturdays, 4 p.m.; Sun., June…
Inventing the Shuttlecocks reveals the creative process that led American artists Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen to create the four Shuttlecocks in the Kansas City Sculpture Park. The exhibition will celebrate the 15th anniversary of their installation. Wednesdays, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.; Thursdays, Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Starts: May 13. Continues through Aug….
Bare, the potent new musical at the Unicorn, tells a familiar story — Catholic-school boys struggling with their sexuality — in a familiar form. What’s surprising about it isn’t the turns of its plot or the way, by the end, a tickle of feeling, inspired by the first act, becomes a cascade. It’s that a musical so doggedly conventional can…
Kansas City photographer Mike Sinclair approaches city parks determined to recognize equal beauty in pastoral landscapes and prosaic scenery. By shooting the easily ignored corners of our public green spaces along with more stylish sites, he suggests how parks shore up a city’s well-being. Sinclair borrows his title from American social history. The City Beautiful movement — out of which…
On the hunt for locally-grown, organic vegetables? Head to Minor Park for the KC Organics Farmers Market. Saturdays, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Starts: May 21. Continues through Oct. 17, 2005 Tags: 178, Night & Day
Every year, the Kansas City Art Institute celebrates the end of the year with an art blowout — a three-day exhibition and sale of works by students and faculty. Painting, sculpture and other kinds of art are displayed throughout the campus. Also happening on Friday: Flux Fest, performance art, animation, digital film, audio art, music and new media, hosted by…
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…
Artistic ferment is inevitable in a college town that shrewdly juggles its tight-jeaned hipsters with its beer-guzzling frat boys and its basketball team. One of the many venues in Lawrence that nurtures creative expression is the Wonder Fair: Art Gallery & How! (803 Massachusetts, in the basement of the Casbah Market). Wonder Fair’s newest exhibit, Thumbs to the Heavens, celebrates…
More than 50 local artists are joining the effort to honor, in a celebratory way, victims of brain cancer and those who are fighting it. The third-annual Head for the Art group exhibit, from 7 to 9 this evening at the Hilliard Gallery (404 East 18th Street, 816-561-2956), raises funds for the Head for the Cure Foundation, whose beneficiaries are…
This art exhibit features the Plein Air landscapes and figurative studio paintings from Flint Hills artist Zak Barnes. Fri., May 8, 5-9 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day, Zak Barnes
Set to launch this summer in 12 cities, entertainment rag Glance dresses up KC in its love this weekend for the magazine’s inaugural fashion-week celebration. Celebrity hosts and musical guests punch up 40 back-to-back shows, revealing the works of local and national designers. “We feel as though Kansas City has a lot of hidden talent, and until now they haven’t…
Berneice Williams-Little has been creating oil paintings for just five years, but don’t you dare call her a beginner: She’s 81 years old, and her vibrant personality is reflected in her colorful artwork. The paintings by this retired nurse, artist and poet will be featured in the 20th-Annual Art Exhibition, hosted by the Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center (720…
Equal parts Jackass stuntman, David Blaine-style endurance artist and action-movie hero, Tito is a one-man YouTube highlight reel. During The Most Performative Piece Ever, which strings together cover versions of performance-art classics, Tito will undergo 24 hours of punishment and degradation in a quest for transcendence. He’ll spend eight hours facing the wall in a dunce cap; he’ll use his…
Kacico Dance company presents A Concert of Solos, represent a wide range of styles of contemporary dance, each with its own flavor and mood. May 7-10, 7:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: 621, Night & Day
For the KCK Second Saturdays, the Sixth Street Gallery at the YWCA presents an exhibition of color floral photographs by artists Sylvia Rose Augustus and Marian Brickner. May 8-June 9, 2009 Tags: Marian Brickner, Night & Day, YWCA
Review Studios presents a solo exhibition by Andrea Flamini. The artist, who just had a retrospective in Rome, Italy, this past December, will present all new 2009 works in the Review Studios Exhibition Space, including: B/W photographs from the Blind Files series, and Notebook #4, a multi-channel video installation based on the writings of 1987 Nobel Prize, U.S. poet laureate…
Think now is a bad time to start a business? Jonathan and Seth Freiden, owners of the awesome U.S. Toy in Leawood, might convince you otherwise at a panel discussion tonight. The talk is part of a series called Stories of Success organized by the Network, a division of the Jewish Federation of Greater Kansas City for Jewish professionals ages…
Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities presents two photography exhibitions tonight, by artists Cathy Denning and Carol V. Kariotis, Ph.D. Fri., May 8, 5-8 p.m., 2009 Tags: Carol Kariotis, Cathy Denning, Night & Day
Chaz on the Plaza honors mothers with a special menu served Sunday, May 10 from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. It features a variety of a la carte menu items ranging from more exotic egg dishes such as Eggs Sardou to griddle favorites like original buttermilk pancakess to hearty choice like roast leg of lamb (a Chef Hahn specialty) or…
Bestselling author Nathaniel Fick gives a presentation on his book The Afghanistan Inheritance. Mon., May 11, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Afghanistan, Middle East, Nathaniel Fick, Night & Day
