Waldo Pizza Pin-Up Calendar
Thirteen lovely ladies of Waldo Pizza posed for a pin-up calendar. Now, they’re having a launch party. There will be calendars for sale, pizza to eat, and raffles and prizes. Tue., Dec. 8, 6-9 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day
Archives: December 2009
Chiefs v. Denver Broncos
Denver and Kansas City used to be the best rivalry in the AFC West. But today’s noon game at Arrowhead (1 Arrowhead Drive) provides a study in contrast between a pleasant surprise from Colorado and one of the worst teams in the league. Each coach is in his first year of changing his team’s defensive scheme. Josh McDaniels, however, commands…
Kansas City Chamber Orchestra plays Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons”
Courting your annual bout of seasonal affective disorder, the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra plays Vivaldi’s “The Four Seasons” tonight at 7:30 at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street). Hum the Italian composer’s familiar hymns to pastoral spring and lush summer as you button up your overcoat, then go home reeling from the flurry of cold strings that…
Seams Straight?
Flowers are all well and good, but American sailors on shore leave have always known that doors to the hearts of single European women during periods of wartime rationing are opened with the unbeatable combination of chocolate and nylons. Sheer, flexible leggings are a staple of women’s fashion, and Seduzione Leggs (1911 McGee, 816-221-0153) bills itself as the nation’s only…
Carols and More
Get the sounds of the season stuck in your head at one of the many holiday concerts happening this week. • A Spectacular Christmas opens tonight at 8 at the Off Center Theatre in Crown Center (2450 Grand, 816-842-9999). See mthkc.com for additional showtimes and information. • The Heartland Men’s Chorus will serve Fruitcake tomorrow through Sunday at the Folly…
District 9
District 9 — released last August amid the sort of fanboy hype that films bearing the imprimatur of hobbit king Peter Jackson tend to inspire — opens as an apartheid parable. In this case, the oppressed masses happen to be a race of stranded space aliens slumming on the outskirts of Johannesburg, and they’re about to be further marginalized by…
6 X 10 Festival
Thank the sweet baby Jesus: Here’s a December night in the theater that’s not about yuletide ghosts, Christmas carols, flagpole licking, or good ol’ George Bailey getting worked up to off himself. Instead, this year’s Six By Ten show at the Barn Players concerns, as always, at least six entirely separate, unseasonal topics in six entirely separate short 10-minute plays,…
Late Night University
In college, there was always that brief time between Thanksgiving and the end of the semester when everyone on campus seemed to be pulsing with the pent-up stress of past and future family obligations, coupled with the pressure of finals. It was the time of all-night study sessions and bleary-eyed paper writing, roommate fights and dorm crying jags, angry calls…
First Friday Hitlist
• From 7 to 9 p.m., Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2004 Baltimore, 816-221-2626) features two landscape exhibitions with markedly different strategies. Jeff Aeling’s Looking West is a series of oil landscapes documenting the artist’s travels across America. Seeking unpopulated expanses and open vistas with a wide-angle perspective, Aeling illuminates the scale of American spaces and the color, light and beauty…
Baby, You Can Spin My Dreidel
For proof that Jewish holiday parties just keep getting hipper, look no further than the Hanukkah celebration at Kehilath Israel Synagogue (10501 Conser in Overland Park). It’s called Baby, You Can Spin My Dreidel, and starting at 8 p.m., guests can schmooze and booze with the assistance of a full open bar and tapas. At 9 p.m., New York stand-up…
Airsoft Tournament
If you haven’t heard of Airsoft before, the simplest explanation is that it’s the closest you can get to shooting people for fun without the cops taking an interest. It all began when Japan outlawed firearm ownership in the 1980s. The Japanese still wanted to shoot people, so companies started making scale replicas of pistols and rifles that shot plastic…
Ice Skating
Those who want to strap on blades and glide (or tumble) around some frozen water have an option other than Crown Center. At Park Place, the “mixed-use community” of residences, retail and entertainment at 117th Street and Nall in Leawood, there’s a winter skating center called simply The Ice. Parents can keep an eye on their red-nosed, pirouetting offspring from…
Guy Fieri Road Show
Kansas City is about to go off the hook or off the chain or take a stop through flavor country. It all depends on which catchphrase explodes from celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s mouth when he takes the stage at the Midland tonight for the Guy Fieri Road Show. The 21-city tour for the star of the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins…
BluesBQ
One would think that there’d be a glut of joints offering true barbecue-and-blues experiences in this town. Friendly, greasy dives that you’re able to smell before you enter. Places where casually dressed patrons, surrounded by handbills of past shows, gnaw burnt ends wrapped in white bread and tap their toes to nationally known blues acts. There is only one such…
Star Wars in Concert
If you’re anything like us, you’re disappointed to learn that billionaire George Lucas didn’t spring for any bulbous Cantina Band masks for the members of the orchestra and choir playing tonight’s Star Wars In Concert performance at the Sprint Center (1407 Grand). However, unlike the Star Wars tribute “Pops” concerts mounted by local symphonies, this performance of composer John Williams’…
A Spectacular Christmas
You never know who is going to show up in George Harter’s living room at Christmastime, but you can bet that the stories they share and the heartfelt holiday classics they sing will get you into the spirit of the holidays. Act I is a musical comedy, and Act II is a holiday concert like you’ve never experienced or heard…
Christmas Around Town
Christmas Around Town, a free family event, features a bell choir and the lighting of the Mayor’s Christmas Tree at Shawnee City Hall, as well as visits with Santa Claus, sleigh rides, magicians, music and more at Shawnee Town Museum. Local downtown businesses will have holiday open houses during the business day and family activities starting at 4:30. Sat., Dec….
Heart of America Chorus
The Heart of America Chorus and Kansas City Chorus are please to present their 64th annual Holiday Harmony Spectacular. Both choruses will be performing wonderful seasonal a-capella songs. The show also features headliner quartets High Definition and Zing! Zing was recently crowned the International Queens of Harmony. Sat., Dec. 5, 2 & 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: Kansas City, Night &…
Sea Shells X-Rays
Dr. Antonia Racela, born in the Philippines, was exposed to the beauty of the ocean and its beaches. He has always collected shells found on the beaches throughout the world. As a pathologist he became curious about their interior structure. His sea shell x-rays are on display in the church’s Steeple of Light Gallery. Mondays-Fridays, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Starts: Dec….
Independence Mayor’s Christmas Concert
The 25th Annual Independence Mayor’s Christmas Concert is a benefit for Community Services League. As in the past, the concert will feature a variety of musical performances by area residents including: Independence Fourth Grade Students; Fort Osage Touch of Class Choir; William Chrisman Concert Chorale; and The Spirit of Independence. Admission is free, but photos with Santa are available for…
Sam Stryke’s Christmas Jazz
Enjoy Christmas jazz with the best of both worlds-nostalgic renditions of favorite carols and stirring jazz improvisation. Pianist Sam Stryke and his jazz trio will bring holiday warmth to a December evening. Tue., Dec. 8, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: 1292, Night & Day
Small Works
Small Works will feature a selection of fine art by area artists including Larry McAnany, David Goodrich, Jane Pronko, Mindy Goodman, James Woodfill, Nora Othic, John Davis Carroll, Apryl McAnerny, Jesse Small and more in a variety of mediums and styles all within the size guideline of 12 inches or less. Fri., Dec. 4, 6-9 p.m.; Saturdays, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.;…
WorldVision: AIDS
This multi-media, interactive exhibit that allows Americans to step into the lives of actual children affected by HIV and AIDS in the hardest-hit region of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa, where about 25 million people are infected with HIV. Visitors walk through a replica of an African village and experience the effects of the pandemic in a real way as they…
Best Free Music
For those who are drawn to guitar stores but lack the chops (or the audacity) to hang out and jam, the work is done here for you. Earlier this year, following a six-year stint in the El Torreon building, Midwestern Musical Co. (est. 1989 in Shawnee) set up shop in the former MoMo Gallery at 19th Street and Locust. Run…
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