Damn ESPN and USA Today’s coaches’ poll. Just when the Kansas Jayhawk family feud between the football and basketball teams had quieted down, they go and kick the football team while they’re down. On a two-game losing skid (and facing an unpredictable Texas Tech team in Lubbock this weekend), the Jayhawk footballers got more bad news today: The Kansas men’s…
When the last pinky-sized 100 Grand bar is gone and the porch light goes out, how will you reckon with the waning hours of October 31? With an extra hour available, thanks to the end of daylight-saving time, there’s no going wrong with the shut-in creepfest double feature. But what to watch? Our sister paper the San Francisco Weekly offers…
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. Paint Me the Story of Frankenstein Authors: Dennis Green (text) and Derek Fox (art) Date: 1976 Publisher: Grosset & Dunlop The Cover Promises: “A book to…
Join the Luscious Ladies of BDU at Firefly Lounge for this late night, science fiction, double feature, floor show. Fri., Oct. 30; Sat., Oct. 31, 2009 Tags: 2308, Night & Day
It’s not every day that one man’s trash really does become another’s treasure. But for artist Chris Martin, it can happen two days in a row. The abstract painter’s works sometimes includes real items, such as sliced bread, old dog blankets, feathers and legal documents. Find out what Martin is saying with these choices, how his Buddhism influences his work,…
Few indie-comic creators reach iconic status, especially in a market dominated by tights, fights and commercial art. Fortunately for fans, cartoonist, musician and author John Porcellino is hitting the road rock-and-roll style to promote his two decades masterminding King-Cat Comics. Brush up on comic-book history and get some art perspective tonight as Porcellino visits the Wonder Fair Art Gallery (803…
The American public is way more familiar with Tom Stoppard than it knows. OK, so if you walked down the street raving about Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, you’d probably get more confused looks and gesundheits than appreciative nods, but if you did the same thing with Shakespeare in Love or Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (the latter of…
Richard Mabion has been a community activist in the Quindaro neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas, long enough to know what draws a crowd and what drops under the radar. An educational event on energy efficiency? Probably not going to fly in what Mabion affectionately terms the ” ‘hood.” But a parade of hydraulic cars with candy and treats for the…
The Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634) threw its first party on October 31, 1999, and, as with any 10-year-old girl, one day just isn’t enough to celebrate a decade of life. So during the bar’s birthday week, secret shows, zombie movies and pumpkin-carving contests on Wednesday and Thursday set the stage for the weekend, when the dark-red den of booze, bands…
The Day of the Dead is not the same as Halloween. But for Wearhaus, the Mexican holiday is a good enough excuse to justify one more night of costumed fun. Attendees to this fashion show and dance party are encouraged to come in costume. A.T.C. Clothing and Mercy Seat Tattoo will provide gift certificates to the best dressed and the…
Westport Center for the Arts presents staged readings of Washington Irving’s Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart featuring actors and actresses: T. Max Graham, Jeffrey Lehr and Katie Kalahurka, accompanied by the terrifying organ music of Marian Thomas. Fri., Oct. 30, 7:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Edgar Allan Poe, Jeffrey Lehr, Katie Kalahurka, Marian Thomas, Night…
The kid-friendly North Kansas City Haunted House (830 East 21st Street) has been haunted this year by the spooky economic collapse. Organizer Shannon Cousins says, “We’re running into a few minor issues getting supplies we need. We’ve been reaching out to community organizations for monetary donations to get supplies we need. Fox News came and did a 30-second segment about…
Children looking for an alternative to making the neighborhood rounds on Halloween this year can tour a haunted house, play games and enjoy refreshments and candy at the 19th annual Rockhurst University Safe Trick-or-Treat. Sat., Oct. 31, 6-8 p.m., 2009 Tags: halloween, Night & Day, Rockhurst University
Maybe it’s the trains, maybe it’s the river, maybe it’s just a bunch of ghosts, but for some reason, this area is rife with budding horror filmmakers. Some of their bloody fruits are part of the KC Creepfest Horror Film Festival, screening today and Friday in Westport. Part of this weekend’s Westport Fright Nights, the film festival begins at the…
The delicious creepiness of October will soon be replaced by November’s indifferent chill, so fall’s last hurrah should be spent outdoors. Tonight, snuggle in for a performance of Danza Macabra, a large-scale shadow-puppet performance by artist Mikal Shapiro. Her celebration of death and the dead, now in its seventh year, haunts the grounds next door to the Telephonebooth gallery (3319…
According to the National Retail Federation, participation in Halloween activities is down in several sectors as consumer spending continues to decline. From carving pumpkins to decorating houses to handing out candy, the econocalpyse maintains its steady death grip on wallets. Here is a list of this weekend’s best Halloween bets for $10.01 or less.• North: Party Monster IV at VooDoo…
The members of the University of Kansas Marching Jayhawks have been playing indoors for decades as part of the Bar Band, wherein marching band members get together and play fight songs in bars for drinks. This, however, is the first time the entire band has ever played an official indoor concert, so its billing as the first-ever indoor concert by…
It’s true: Pride is one of the seven deadly sins. Unless you’re gay, in which case pride is a celebration of self and sexual identity that comes around once a year or so. Those who prefer their pride indoors should peek inside room 106 of the University Center (5000 Holmes) for five hours of films celebrating the 40th anniversary of…
David Hume Kennerly, as the personal photographer to President Gerald Ford, left the White House the same day as Ford with a resignation letter stating, “It’s been real!” He received a letter from President Ford replying, in part, “It’s not only been real, it’s been fun.” In his Pulitzer Prize-winning career, Kennerly has walked through history and then taken pictures…
You’d think that people would expect thought-provoking words from a poet, especially one decorated with the title of state poet laureate. But in 2002, Amiri Baraka’s “Somebody Blew Up America” was a little too edgy for some. His ranting dissection of America’s history of racism as it contrasted with the country’s reaction to the 9/11 attacks spurred the governor of…
It’s worth noting that Halloween was originally a festival marking the end of the harvest season, as well as a period when the division between the living and the spirit world was thinnest, hence the title Lunar Gathering 3: Moon Spirits vs. Harvest Monsters. The intent of the shindig is to present new art in the Lawrence community, an idea…
Undoubtedly, the ghost of Halloween drinking still haunts your pores today, but don’t let it scare you from partying even more. Put this year’s skeleton or witch costume to use one last time during tonight’s El Dia de los Muertos Fiesta at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania). Pitch Mastermind winner Carman Stalker and her Wearhaus fashion event company are throwing…
