Quixotic, the popular local music/dance/fashion collective, presents a new program with a new soundtrack and new costumes. Lux Esalare combines aerial dancing with intense video visuals Fri., June 19; Sat., June 20, 2009 Tags: Night & Day
Carl, a miniature dachshund wearing a red bandanna around his neck, says if he were crowned king of the Dog Royalty Contest going on at today’s LollaPAWlooza, he’d “bring peace and harmony to the world.” Sounds like Carl is king of the pooper-scooper, if you know what we mean. But LollaPAWlooza is much more than a beauty pageant. Available at…
What animal has been more maligned over the past two decades than the poor, suffering hedgehog? The pitiable mammal has been the subject of hedgehog-flavored potato chips in Britain (true!) and has been anthropomorphized as a corporate video-game mascot. But that’s the least of it. Who can forget the national panic when African pygmy hedgehogs were linked to a rare…
The month of June is home to many an undignified day of celebration — World Sauntering Day (June 19), Pop Goes the Weasel Day (June 14) and National Chocolate Pudding Day (June 26). And someone has declared June to be National Accordion Awareness Month. In comparison, these questionable “celebrations” make Go Skateboarding Day — a national holiday that’s been marked…
Are you a dad? Do you have one? Well, this is the day to honor either (or both). We have a few Father’s Day suggestions. Sporty dads would enjoy a trip to Kauffman Stadium (Interstate 70 and Blue Ridge Cutoff) where, at 1:10 p.m., the Royals face the St. Louis Cardinals in the finale of a three-game series. Hungry dads…
(15207 South 71 Highway in Grandview, 816-331-6044). Games at this Grandview establishment begin at 7 p.m., and domestic bottles are on special for $3. Mondays, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: Grandview, Night & Day
(13412 Santa Fe Trail Drive in Lenexa, 913-894-9676). Enjoy 50-cent tacos and $2 domestic draws during the games, which start at 7 and 10 p.m. Mondays, 7 & 10 p.m., 2009 Tags: Lenexa, Night & Day
(10325 West 75th Street in Overland Park, 913-962-2330). Before the karaoke starts, enjoy $3 Jose Cuervo, Seagrams 7 and Bacardi Light drinks, 50-cent tacos and Texas hold ’em at 7 p.m. Mondays, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: Bacardi Ltd., Jose Cuervo Tequila, Night & Day, overland park
(528 Walnut 816-474-4696) The late-night happy hour starts at 9 p.m. and serves up $3 margaritas, $2.50 well drinks and $2 draws until midnight. Tue., June 23, 9 p.m., 2009 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
(128 West 63rd Street, 816-333-4355) One of Brookside’s most beloved watering holes starts its reverse happy hour at 10 p.m. and keeps things going until midnight. Get $2.75 wells and $2 domestic long-necked bottles. Tue., June 23, 10 p.m., 2009 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
(444 Ward Parkway, 816-931-5888) From 10 p.m. to midnight, Kona Grill margaritas, cosmos and appletinis cost $4 (with margaritas for the ladies just $3). Wine by the glass is $3.50, Bud Light draft is $3, Sam Adams seasonal is $4, and sake bombers cost $6. Tue., June 23, 10 p.m.-midnight, 2009 Categories: Beer & Spirits Tags: Bud-light, Kona Grill Inc.,…
The border dispute in Lemon Tree feels instantly familiar, and, indeed, Israeli director Eran Riklis’ last drama, The Syrian Bride, also hinged on absurdities and indignities. West Bank widow Salma (Hiam Abbass) is minding her own boundary-abutting business — namely, a lemon grove — when Israeli Defense Minister Navon (Doron Tavory) moves in across the way. When his guards huff…
The first feature by the Russian ethno-documentarian Sergei Dvortsevoy and winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes, Tulpan is a fiction founded on a powerful sense of place. That place, the vast nowhere void of southern Kazakhstan, could easily be another planet. Dvortsevoy has populated the inhospitable terrain of the so-called Hunger Steppe with actors who lived as…
Starring Sandra Bullock as the publishing-house boss who blackmails her assistant (played by Ryan Reynolds) into marrying her, lest she face deportation to Canada, this is nothing but a faint echo of its myriad predecessors, which are too numerous to name. You know every tinny beat and false note by heart, from the implausible setup to the sprint-to-the-airport finish. First-time…
Jim Jarmusch’s anonymous antihero hit man (Isaach De Bankolé), identified in the credits as the Lone Man, exists only in terms of his unspecified mission. He’s introduced in an overhead shot doing tai chi in an airport toilet stall, then taking a meeting in the first-class lounge. A few inexplicable aphorisms later, he’s traveling through Spain by train, grooving on…
Stephan Elliott’s deliciously cheeky screen adaptation of one of Noël Coward’s lesser-known jabs at the British upper crust will charm your pants off. The movie opens with a contemporary rendition of Coward’s “Mad About the Boy,” impressively sung by Jessica Biel as a Roaring Twenties American race-car driver who marries into British aristocracy and finds herself on the losing end…
Steven Soderbergh has no particular stylistic signature and one of the most uneven oeuvres imaginable. But he does have interests. In Che, it was the nature of a historical actor; in The Girlfriend Experience, it’s the nature of acting. The hardcore teen queen who took the name Sasha Grey and refers to her porn films as performance art plays a…
Beef-jerky-fueled, get-in-the-van touring isn’t part of the process for unsigned hip-hop acts. And that’s why underground bomber James Christos is hitting the road. This Thursday, Christos and compatriots — fellow rappers PL, plus Yung 5koob and Bone Locc of the new Pyrex Kidz, together with DJ Jamel Rockwell — leave for San Jose, California. They’ll head down through the Southwest…
There are plenty of reasons to be down these days. The economy. Maybe you’ve been laid off from your job. That’s why Mike Farris & the Roseland Rhythm Revue can be a salve for the soul. In the ’90s, Farris was frontman for the Southern rock band the Screamin’ Cheetah Wheelies, but he got lost along the way fighting his…
North Kansas City, home of rapper and producer Denzel Williams, is a hinterland on the Killa City map. The suburban area — full of car dealerships, well-scrubbed fast-food joints and carefully mown working-class neighborhoods — is in many ways a perfect foil to the scenes of urban plight that outsiders associate with rap music. That’s OK with Williams, who raps…
You wouldn’t know from the number of gigs he has booked lately that drummer Billy Brimblecom is moving to Nashville. The last hurrah of the longtime local musician, before splitting town, will be a reunion show with possibly his best-known act, previously defunct power-pop outfit the Creature Comforts. “We’ve all been having so much fun that we discussed the idea…
Oh, those crazy Chomp Womp kids with their cartoon drawings, cassette mixtapes and shoegazey sounds. Lawrence’s Tennessee Street music collective is bringing the show to the West Bottoms for the Chomp Womp Soda Fest. Beginning at 8:30 p.m. Friday, 14 bands will each play 20-minute sets that will alternate on two stages in the Pistol Social Club and the Foundation…
The revival of the Blue Riddim Band has been one of this year’s best surprises in the Kansas City music scene. The 30-year-old reggae-ska-dub collective is hard at work cooking up a vintage dub album to be released later this summer, but in the meantime they’ve given a proper release to Ska Inferno, a record that’s been waiting in the…
In an electronic age, it’s always nice to see technology being put to good use. In the case of Bachelorette, leader and sole core band member Annabel Alpers not only has found comfort in going electronic but also has made some hauntingly beautiful synth-pop melodies, enhancing the standard guitar-bass-drums setup with computer-based compositions. Instead of going solo with her latest…
