The City Market Cinema series has been presenting outdoor screenings of popular movies all summer. A showing of Rocky Horror Picture Show closes out the season tonight. Fri., June 26, 9 p.m.; Fri., July 31, 9 p.m.; Fri., Aug. 28, 9 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day, The Rocky Horror Picture Show
After Detroit automakers steal his innovative design for windshield wipers, Robert Kearns (Greg Kinnear) launches a seemingly hopeless legal battle seeking reparations. Mon., June 29, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Detroit, Greg Kinnear, Night & Day, Robert Kearns
Been hearing voices lately? During the Kansas City-area Barbershop Festival, you definitely will — in rich, a cappella harmony. The festival is a fundraiser for the Oak Park High School Music Department. It spotlights the vocal talents of area chapter choruses and quartets, plus the 125-member Joint Chorus. Also taking to song: quartets High Definition, Back in Business and ListenUp!…
As David Lynch famously (and somewhat awkwardly) said about music: “You listen to music sometimes — whoa — things just come out at you. … There are certain sounds that want to be in there, and you work on those sounds to make them marry to the image and jump it.” Obviously, Lynch knew what he was doing when he…
Faye Kellerman is the Author of 25 novels, including 19 New York Times Bestselling mysteries that feature the husband & wife team of Peter Decker & Rina Lazarus. Prism is Faye’s first novel written with her daughter Aliza that is written for teens. Prism is an electrifying novel of paranormal suspense. Three teens become trapped in a parallel universe, where…
Hamza Walker, associate curator and director of education at the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, is no stranger to Kansas City. He served as national adviser for the Charlotte Street Foundation and weighed in on KC’s annual Flatfile show a few years back, selecting favorites for a “salon wall” — right around the same time as The New…
A small community in Africa continues to reap the benefits of its connection to Kansas. Comfort the Children, a Lawrence-based charitable organization, strengthens that relationship with its first local fundraiser, “Kansas to Kenya: Start the Connection,” from 7:30 to 10 p.m. at Milton’s (950 Massachusetts in Lawrence). Founded in 2003 by University of Kansas alumnus Zane Wilemon, Comfort the Children…
Today’s Urban Farm Tour is a rare opportunity to visit more than 30 farms and gardens — from Shawnee, Kansas, to Independence, Missouri — that bring traditionally rural food-producing techniques to the city. From 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., visitors can use a single ticket ($5 for individuals, $12 for families) to visit the sites in the tour booklet and…
In the world of comics, many hats are worn. The often-collaborative medium calls for writers, artists and inkers. For comic-book triple-threat Ande Parks, wearing many hats is a literal and figurative regularity: The fedora enthusiast tends to write, illustrate and ink with a hat atop his noggin. Catch Parks’ discussion of his craft today from 1 to 2 p.m. at…
The Westport Moving Picture series presents the 2002 film Changing Lanes, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Ben Affleck, and William Hurt. Sun., June 28, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Ben Affleck, Night & Day, Samuel L. Jackson, westport, William Hurt
Over the past four days, the Lawrence area has hosted performers who specialize in Spanish and Latin American music. Folks such as Argentinian classical guitarist Carlos Gutkin and Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza have been giving master classes and public performances in conjunction with the first annual International Festival of Spanish and Latin American Music. The festival continues today with a…
The Kansas City Tribe is a full-contact, full tackle women’s football team and member of the Independent Women’s Football League. Come watch the local ladies sack the Los Angeles Amazons today at the field at Center High School. Sat., June 27, 2009 Tags: Independent Women’s Football League, Kansas City, Los Angeles Amazons, Night & Day
The Museum’s costumed interpreters will be busy with summer tasks like darning socks, scrubbing laundry on a washboard, sewing on a treadle machine, planting sunflower seeds, churning ice cream and stocking up at the Dry Goods Store. An old-fashioned game for the whole family will also be part of the day’s activities. Sat., June 27, 10 a.m.-2 p.m.; Sat., July…
Something about the Royals encourages thrift. Maybe it’s the hard-to-escape parking charge or team owner David Glass’ Wal-Mart fortune. Maybe it’s the losing. In any case, there’s a thrill to enjoying a baseball game at Kauffman Stadium (Interstate 70 and the Blue Ridge Cutoff) while spending as little money as possible. Monday nights offer budget-minded fans the equivalent of an…
Shopping can be exhausting, but during the summer, rewards sometimes await in the form of free outdoor concerts. Two Northland shopping plazas provide musical entertainment tonight (and every Thursday) throughout the summer. From 7 to 9 p.m., Zona Rosa (Interstate 29 and Barry Road, 816-587-8180) offers Jazz on the Square. Susie Thorne is tonight’s performer, and the event includes food…
Featuring entries from the United States, Canada, the Czech Republic and Israel, plus a short-film competition — and an ampersand and a plus sign — the Kansas City Gay & Lesbian Film + Video Festival lights up Westport’s Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania) tonight, launching a full week of entertaining and provocative new features, shorts and documentaries, as well as live…
The effort that Kate McKay has poured into her second-annual fashion show is pretty ambitious. McKay, a junior at the Pembroke Hill School, sewed 25 original designs that she’ll send down the runway at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway). Her models, fellow Pembroke students, will also show off earthy jewelry by local designer Laura Sterchi. Attendees can bid on clothing…
What do you do when a squinty-eyed man in a trench coat tempts you with a delicious-looking piece of candy? Do you accept or reject the stranger’s gift? Learn how to handle this situation and mull the odd, perverse and random things that could happen when you engage an unfamiliar person during Stranger Danger tonight at the Foundation Room (1221…
The American Restaurant (200 East 25th Street, 816-545-8001). From 5 to 7 p.m., braised beef sliders, crab fritters and a locally made cheese-and-charcuterie plate are $6 at the bar. Best of all, legendary bartender Willie Grandison will be on duty. Listen to his stories about his 35 years at the American while sipping his signature drink, the Stinging Bee. Wed.,…
The Buck O’Neil Negro Leagues Baseball Classic is designed to educate players, coaches, and fans on the history of the negro leagues, provide a competitive tournament experience, and a platform to provide baseball in the urban and inner city. The tournament is brought to you by the Kansas City Sports Commission in partnership with the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Games…
Tire Marks and Dog Barks is a Dice Run to benefit the Animal Haven animal shelter of Merriam. The ride will begin at Shawnee Cycle Plaza and end at Animal Haven after a 100 mile ride. Sat., June 27, 9 a.m., 2009 Tags: 92, Night & Day
So maybe you’re in the mood for something greasy, a little sleazy and lot satisfyin’. That would be Town Topic — the album and the place. The album is by longtime Kansas City blues- and jazzman Mark Montgomery, who covers the blues on this album like cheese on a patty and plays several instruments doing it. The title track is…
“I love beauty — it’s not my fault,” the septuagenarian Valentino sniffs to reporters backstage at his spring show in February 2007. Filming the last year of the designer’s reign — Valentino retired in September 2007 after 45 years in haute couture — dedicated follower of fashion Matt Tyrnauer crafts the slick, superficial portrait that you might expect from a…
Michael Bay’s 2007 Transformers offered Bay at his most surprisingly reflective and unexpectedly restrained — the domestic scenes involving Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) and his parents (Kevin Dunn and Julie White) felt particularly sincere — and also his most ingenious, as he merged man and machine in beautifully choreographed fight sequences to get us wondering, “How’d he do that?” Well,…
