Remember that “Barely Legal” sign next to Totally Nude Temptations on Grand that we told you about? The one nobody knew much about? Turns out it’s legal. KSHB Channel 41 reports that the city wrapped up it’s investigation and the sign meets all the city’s size requirements (ha ha, size matters) and they even got a quote from an unnamed…
Last week, we reported on the proposed city ordinance change that could revoke your favorite bar’s 3 a.m. liquor license. The changes include raising the gross annual sales requirement from $100,000 to $250,000. Jim Hess, co-owner of Dave’s Stagecoach in Westport, said the changes would cost jobs and money. Some of commentors were upset that the changes included an exemption for bars in…
If the phrase “insert tab A into slot B” makes your mouth go dry, you’re not gonna like the new Justice League paper toys that come with Arby’s kids meals right now. But here’s a reason to love ’em: They’re designed by KC artist Matt Hawkins. Hawkins works for an Overland Park company called C3. They also make kids’ meal…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Male Annual Date: 1971 Discovered at: Brass Armadillo Antique Mall, Grain Valley, MO The Cover Promises: Swamp nymphs, rapist bikers, Nazi bordellos, and, for the fetishist,…
In an effort to show today’s audiences the hard-fought struggle toward justice in education, the Rockhurst University fall film series examines the topic from a variety of viewpoints, cultures and time periods. Each film will be introduced by a member of the foreign language faculty who will also lead a post-screening discussion. The series begins with Ramon Menendez’s Stand and…
As part of its yearlong 75th-anniversary celebration, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) teams up with Quixotic performance ensemble — the stunning multi-sensory amalgam of Kansas City musicians, designers, dancers and aerialists — to present Surface, performed on the museum’s grounds. Founded five years ago by Anthony Magliano, sound designer and visual artist, and Keelan Whitmore, ballet dancer…
Now that there’s so much federal cash floating around, aimed at making the United States more energy-efficient and eco-friendly, the University of Central Missouri wants to make sure plenty of women pluck the financial fruit from the new green economy. To that end, UCM is working with the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor to create the Evergreen…
Fight Night tells the story of con man Michael Dublin, who works the underground boxing circuit. He invents his best scam yet when he meets Katherine Parker, a female fighter with the skills to take down a man twice her size. In a scheme Dublin calls “fight-rigging, in reverse,” the two hit the road. But his shady past catches up…
Amateur cyclists, who labor up and down our relentlessly undulating city streets, can rest assured that even the sport’s top professionals are being warned that the final stage of the Tour of Missouri will be more than a breezy victory lap. To get to the finish line of the 600-mile marathon, the cyclists will have to grind 72 miles around…
Thomas Frank, the author of the bestseller What’s the Matter with Kansas?, presents the revised paperback edition of his book, The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule. Tue., Sept. 15, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: kansas, Night & Day, Thomas Frank
From the rubble of the World Trade Center rose Anne Nelson’s play The Guys, based on her experience assisting a New York fire captain write eulogies for the men he lost when the towers fell on 9/11. Likely the first dramatic work to address the tragedy, it premiered off-Broadway barely a year later. It’s no less poignant today, as the…
Parkville, that pretty, fast-growing hamlet on the Missouri River, has become a serious restaurant destination only in the past few years. It boasts an excellent French restaurant, Café des Amis, two great pizza joints, a dozen or so fine independently owned cafes, a wine bar, and the only restaurant in the metro that serves both fried chicken and Middle Eastern…
The recent flurry of local musicians playing reggae inspired Mike Dunn and Patrick Brown this past winter. The two men decided that they would put on a Kansas City reggae festival. Around the same time, Brown bought a few Sony HD cameras and decided to put his journalism degree to work by shooting a local reggae documentary. He wanted to…
Comedian Brian Regan isn’t an idiot. He just plays one onstage. Though he’s actually among the sharper wits specializing in observational comedy, Regan’s hook is a trait we’ll call imbecilia — a knack for dropping about 80 IQ points right before your eyes as he portrays the all-too-common man’s inability to wrap his mind around the most basic daily occurrences….
The great male opera stars of the past, from Caruso to Pavarotti, have had rich, seductive voices. But their burly physiques? Definitely not so sexy. The new generation of international male opera stars, including Juan Diego Flórez and Salvatore Licitra, are as easy on the eyes as on the ears. When the Lyric Opera opens its production of Tosca tonight…
Olé isn’t a word that gets enough usage around here. It requires a certain bravado, a certain ecstatic outpouring of instantaneous revelatory cheer. Tonight, say olé like you mean it from 5 to 9 at the Latino Arts Festival at Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities (756 Armstrong in Kansas City, Kansas). It’s a celebration of the dance, art, music, poetry…
Facing a rent increase in her basement studio, transplanted Syracuse, New York, artist Lacey Lewis needed to find a new place to paint. The challenge: Stay true to her adopted home of Kansas City, Kansas, and maybe find room for others to work, too. The result: Red Door Studios, opening today at 738 Armstrong in KCK (913-909-5408; look for —…
“We got guns! Dey got guns! All God’s chillun got guns!” Three decades before Dr. Strangelove pitted us against the Soviets at Doomsday’s doorstep, the Marx Brothers picked on someone their own size in Duck Soup, leading tiny bankrupt Freedonia to war against neighboring Sylvania — because of a woman. Wealthy Mrs. Gloria Teasdale is no Helen of Troy, but…
The treasures of Western civilization have typically been paintings and sculptures, objects of beauty that serve no practical purpose. Meanwhile, designers from countless aesthetic schools have crafted phenomenal objects of beauty that, because you could also sit on them or read by their illumination, were not considered to be quite as valuable. Marilyn and Peter Frank’s F2 Lab, a design…
With its cheap drinking holes and bohemian spirit, Westport is always peppered with artists. They might be kicking back or helping you kick back. (How many inked-up servers do you know who aren’t slinging drinks and sandwiches to support their creative endeavors?) All this weekend in Westport, about 150 visual artists have been at work, putting themselves and their paintings,…
Traffic. It’s an excuse for lateness, a source of frustration, something you gotta deal with each day. For many of us, that’s already plenty to think about. For Tom Vanderbilt, traffic expert and author, it’s the basis of a pop-science book. Vanderbilt’s tome, titled Traffic: Why We Drive the Way We Do, offers deep answers to the question everyone in…
The fifth-annual Waldo Crawldo is coming up Saturday, September 19, and if you haven’t visited the nabe since the bar crawl’s 2008 installment, you’ve got some catching up to do. Welcome to the new Waldo:• The Well (7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700). The owners of Lew’s Grill and Bar just opened a second location a block to the north. It’s an upscale,…
Experience the wealth of talent our area has to offer at the Bulldog (1715 Main, 816-421-4799) when local songstress Kirsten Paludan (Olympic Size) presents the Troubadour’s Music Club. From 8 to 11 p.m. every Wednesday, invited solo musicians and bands representing various genres take over the stage in the Crossroads bar and restaurant for stripped-down performances of well-practiced songs and…
