Song and Dance
For The Song and Dance Project 2009, local dance group Kacico Dance joins forces with local songwriters to perform at various locations throughout the metro. Fri., June 12, 6:30 & 8 p.m., 2009 Tags: 620, Night & Day
Archives: June 2009
Wedding Styles
Tonight’s wedding showcase isn’t your typical bridal mart. It doesn’t take place in a suburban convention center, and chain stores are not allowed. “It’s not going to be a boring wedding show,” promises organizer Garnet Baker of Scarlett Garnet Jewelry. Starting at 5 p.m. at the Terrace on Grand (1520 Grand), the Wedding Hive — a group of local, independent…
Free Wheelin’
When the Lee’s Summit-based nonprofit group Wheels to Freedom holds a free car wash, it definitely means free: No donations are allowed unless you have an unused wheelchair stashed away. Those are the wheels that organization founders Randy and Laura Horn are looking for. Since 1997, the Horns have collected wheelchairs to ship off to disabled people in developing countries….
WHEN SAM MET TESS …
To truly appreciate the chemistry between Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, one must witness it at the moment when the match was struck. The Downtown Lawrence Film Festival will chart the cinematic course of Tracy and Hepburn’s timeless romance over the summer, all the way through 1967’s Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. Tonight, when Tracy’s down-to-earth sportswriter meets Hepburn’s high-minded…
Dramatic Art
Juvenal Merst was an American artist known for his minimalist sculpture and photography. But who was he, really? And why did history nearly forget him, despite his enormous contributions to art? Such is the substance of The Juvenal Players, directed by Pablo Helguera and featuring curators and art critics familiar with Merst’s life and work. It was Merst’s request that…
Free Street Fest
The KCK Arts Network presents the 1st Annual Downtown KCK Street Festival as part of the Second Friday Art Walk. The free event will also be the kickoff for the KCK Downtown Improvement District. Minnesota Avenue will be closed to create a pedestrian street festival atmosphere connecting the various art gallery locations together. Two stages of live music, food &…
Raging C-3PO
In his science-fiction stories, elder nerdsman Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics that, without going into a lot of detail, would have seriously hindered any robot hoping to participate in the Ultimate Fighting Championships. Taking a cue from the late Asimov, the fifth-annual Robofest lists about 30 rules constricting the behavior of robots (and none of the rules forbids…
End of the Line
Tom Moriarty knows how to sell a play: “There’s a drug deal gone wrong, and then it’s just rock and roll from there” is how he describes Desperate Times — Desperate Measures, the first full-length play by Ron Simonian since 2006’s Next of Kin. Simonian, a Kansas City playwright, comic and urban legend, has been scripting and staging plays for…
Jog the Dog
Those with cynophobia should steer clear of the Country Club Plaza from 7 to 10:30 a.m. today — the plush shopping district will be overrun with dogs. Canine attendance for the 22nd-annual Dog-n-Jog, benefiting the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City, is projected to hit 1,000. Other than the one- and two-mile runs and walks, festivities include agility demonstrations, a…
Folding Light
A collaborative multi-media video piece by Nancy Loo Bjorge, Jim Jewel and Marty Olson that includes stop-motion paper folding, LED lights, and audio. The artists encourage the audience to approach the video piece as a tool for meditation. Folding Light will be screened through out the summer exhibition in the YWCA Black Box Theatre. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Starts: June…
Beer Pong for Babies
Beer Pong is a game in which players throw a ping-pong ball across a table to land the ball in one of six cups set up in a triangle formation. When a ball lands in a cup, the defending team must remove the cup from the formation and consume its contents. The team who eliminates the opposing team’s cups first…
Wall Street
Michael Douglas may reprise his Oscar-winning role as infamous investor and corporate raider Gordon Gecko in Money Never Sleeps, due in 2011. Greed certainly makes for good performances, even for Charlie Sheen. Mon., June 15, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Academy Awards, Gordon Gecko, Michael Douglas, Night & Day, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Jorge Garcia Almodovar
In his first solo exhibition since receiving the prestigious 2008 Charlotte Street Foundation Award, Jorge Garcia Almodovar continues to implement interactive materials into his eye-catching, site-specific work. Monta at Odds will perform at the opening reception, which lasts from 6-10pm. Fri., June 12, 6-10 p.m., 2009 Tags: Jorge Garcia, Night & Day
New-Age Folk
On their current tour, New York’s Gypsy Nomads are playing venues with such names as Witches Brew, Faerie Moon, Heart of the Dragon, Goddess Blessed, Mystickal Voyage and Chrysalis Moon. The gypsy-cabaret duo sounds like it could be the poster act for Magic: The Gathering, but the team of Samantha Stephenson and Scott Helland is more of a neo-medieval band…
Biker Babes
The Hittem Hard Motorcycle Club, Kansas City’s all-women riding association, puts on its fifth-annual Biker Fear Factor competition today at its clubhouse at 3040 Manchester Trafficway. Contestants — who must be 21 years old to enter — will brave six elimination rounds of motorcycle-related challenges. The events are kept secret because organizers say they don’t want anyone to practice beforehand….
Local History
The Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel, Warren R. Watkins Jr. is proud to say, is the oldest continuously operating black-owned business in Missouri. He is the third-generation Watkins to run the funeral parlor, which opened its doors in 1909. During this 100th year, the Watkins family will celebrate with a rededication ceremony today at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center…
Ph-iesta
Fiesta may imply a Mexican party, but this weekend, a totally different ethnic group has latched onto the word for its alliterative value. With Fiesta Filipina, the Filipino Association of Greater Kansas City honors Philippine independence from noon to 8 p.m. today and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday at the Filipino Cultural Center (9810 West 79th Street in Overland…
Crossroads Cuisine
If gazing at art, gawking at people and feeling in with the in crowd make up the allure of First Fridays in the Crossroads District, then the second Sunday of this month focuses on a more primal instinct: hunger. Today — from 3 to 8 p.m., rain or shine — the first Taste of the Crossroads happens in the Freight…
Skate Fest
Kansas City native and BMX freestyle pro Rick Thorne has 27 screws in his head. He also once broke his palate and his eye socket when he crashed into the corner of a loading dock. “Fluid from my brain was leaking out through my mouth,” he says. Lovely. Usually, though, he hits his mark. For instance, he took no spills…
Pizza with a Side of Folk
Is anything better than zuppa, insalata e vino? Enjoying them with folk music, of course! The four metro locations of Spin Neopolitan Pizza invite those with a taste for reasonably priced, authentic cibo italiano to come out every Tuesday evening this summer to hear the tunes of local folk musicians on their patios. This week, hear acoustic guitar sprinkled with…
MultiLingual Poetry
His name may sound Spanish, but poet Craig Santos Perez hails from the Pacific island of Guam. The poems in his new book, From Unincorporated Territories, reflect his island upbringing with the imagery of cliffs, ocean, tropical flowers and, of course, tourist hotels. Through English, Spanish and words traditional to the Chamorro people, Perez traces the lasting influence — and…
Watchmen Watcher
Photographer Clay Enos has been shooting rock-and-roll photos for years, but the publication of his most recent work has reached a far wider audience: fans of the cult hit Watchmen, the ultra-reverent film adaptation of the famous comic-book series. Director Zack Snyder hired Enos to document the making of the movie, and a number of those stills made it onto…
Sometimes Three
There’s that music that teenage girls love. It has a pleading voice and earnest lyrics. It’s catchy, and its platitudes stick in naïve minds like Hubba Bubba in braces. The piano-heavy pop on Pardon the Invasion by local four-piece Sometimes Three sounds more like coming-of-age music than slick, super-produced power ballads. On “Fade,” lead singer Chris Accardo’s urgent, heartfelt lyrics…
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