Fall of the Republic is a film by Alex Jones. This screening is presented by The Truth Movement. Sun., Jan. 31, 1:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Alex Jones, Night & Day
A wine reception fundraiser hosted by Advanced Financial Solutions benefiting the Kansas City Storm Women’s Football Team. The event’s theme is helping women with their New Year’s resolutions and many prizes will be given away with that theme including: spa packages, gym memberships, life coach sessions, personal organizer session, sleep better packages and more. Thu., Jan. 28, 5:30-7 p.m., 2010…
Unknown quantities make for a show that can keep an audience on its toes. When blues-rock guitarist Fast Johnny Ricker plays host to a showcase of singer-songwriters tonight, he’ll preside over a couple of newcomers and one well-reputed performer. Daniel Quin Shay and Rayyan Kamal are fresh to the scene, while Preston Girard is an established player with two albums…
Brevity is not only the soul of wit but also a critical ingredient in short films. Today, the YWCA of Greater Kansas City spotlights local artists who get right to the point, presenting more than a dozen short independent films — some socially conscious, some with local flavor, some evocative, some provocative, others intended simply as entertainment — at the…
Add to the typically impressive elements of a Kansas City Symphony performance: lithe limbs undulating in perfect symmetry, metal spheres revolving from hips to heads, and lean bodies stacked artfully atop one another. Cirque de la Symphonie sets circus-style tricks to a live, orchestral soundtrack. Experience the eye-boggling feats of professional acrobats, jugglers and other finely toned performers at the…
KC Power, Kansas City’s Australian Football Club, will be hosting an Australia Day event to welcome back old faces, as well as greet new ones. Festivities include watching Aussie Football matches, KC Power videos, and a hand passing contest. Sat., Jan. 30, 2-6 p.m., 2010 Tags: Australia Day, Kansas City, Night & Day
Café Sebastienne inside the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art is the setting for a lively night of cabaret performed by Kansas City’s own Alacartoona. Enjoy a special prix fixe menu with two drinks (wine or champagne). Sat., Jan. 30, 2010 Tags: Kansas City, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Night & Day
Know where Missy Koonce will be tonight? At the Kansas City AIDS Walk Kick-Off party. The actress, singer and theater director is this year’s master of ceremonies for the charity launch event, which also promises food, plenty of entertainment and a preview of the 2010 AIDS Walk campaign. Just head to Flo’s Cabaret (1911 Main, 816-283-3567) at 5:30 p.m. to…
Art critic Gregory Volk is based in New York, but he’s an adviser to Kansas City’s Charlotte Street Foundation, and his writing about local artists is largely responsible for putting our town on the map among the nation’s artistic movers and shakers. If you’re an aficionado of KC’s great art scene, circle today’s date on your calendar for Gregory Volk:…
Recent theatrical releases haven’t offered much to horror connoisseurs. The scariest sight to be found on any multiplex screen so far this year is probably the Rock in his Tooth Fairy garb. But with the After Dark Horrorfest, which showcases eight indie shockers in one harrowing weekend, genre fans can make up for lost screams. Lake Mungo, an old-style suspense-over-gore…
If you’ve been cursing Kansas City’s icy side streets this winter, just imagine trying to navigate a treacherous course on a motorcycle. Arenacross, an often-forgotten sport, returns with shows at 7:30 tonight and 10 a.m. Sunday at an equally often-forgotten local venue — Kemper Arena (1800 Genessee). Arenacross consists of off-road motorcycles racing on dirt tracks arrayed with obstacles, steep…
Described by The Boston Herald as “one of the Limon Company’s great dancers,” Jennifer Scanlon discusses the Jose Limon and Henry Purcell masterpiece, The Moor’s Pavane, which will be performed during the Kansas City Ballet’s winter season. Thu., Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Henry Purcell, Jennifer Scanlon, Jose Limon, Kansas City Ballet, Night & Day
There’s a wit to staging David Mamet’s Boston Marriage in the stateliest drawing room at the Webster House, an 1885 schoolhouse at 16th Street and Wyandotte that hosts high-end antiques, an interior-design firm and a restaurant ($3 truffle fries at happy hour!). Mamet’s Gilded Age women-in-love comedy, an amusing go at Edith Wharton and Oscar Wilde, feels at home here…
Nicholas Goss doesn’t care if people think his band — six 20-something musicians making orchestral pop and wearing ruffled psychedelic clothing — is weird. Mammoth Life just wants to stun Kansas City’s senses with aural and visual art. The theatrics are just part of his philosophy. “We passionately, ambitiously try to manifest this wild vision of being in a pop…
Dear Mexican: Why do so many Mexicans work for Taco Bell and El Pollo Loco? Don’t they know that they only add a false credence to the belief that this is Mexican cuisine? The bastardizing of the truly great and diverse food of Mexico by the money-hungry corporations of the United States contributes, I feel, to the overall misconception about…
Sometime a little after noon on Thursday, January 21 — two days after a previously unknown pinup boy and Republican state senator in Massachusetts single-handedly destroyed the Democratic Party by winning a special election to replace Sen. Edward M. Kennedy — KMBZ 980’s conservative talk-show host Darla Jaye signed on to her Twitter account, where she is known to post…
In the trailer for Edge of Darkness, the question is posed in flat-voweled Bostonian: “Did you shoot my daughtah?” And Mel Gibson, much-bereaved and much-vengeful, from Hamlet to Ransom to Revolutionary America, sets out to settle another score. Gibson is Thomas Craven: veteran, homicide detective, lonesome widower. His daughter, a postgrad intern at a research-and-development firm in the Berkshires, is…
Springfield, Missouri’s favorite foursome boasts a mouthful of a moniker. Unlike most buzz bands of the last decade, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin crafts charming pop music that’s worth its lengthy name. The band stumbled upon fame in 2005 with its debut, Broom, which was recorded in the house of lead guitarist Will Knauer. After receiving blessings from Pitchfork…
American music lives in A.A. Bondy’s bones. After his band Verbena cashed in their chips in 2005, Bondy sold his electric guitar and moved to the Catskills, where he crafted 2007’s austere solo debut, American Hearts. The emotional aftermath of a failed love affair produced last year’s moody, richer When The Devil’s Loose. With Southern-gothic underpinnings and sleepy folk instrumentation,…
You probably saw P.O.S. at 2009’s Warped Tour, engulfed by the crowd as he rapped on top of a beat-up instrument case. Forsaking the stage for the intimacy of the pit is an old punk-rock habit — and an instinctual move for this Minneapolis rapper who grew up on vintage punk acts such as Minor Threat and Black Flag. Stefon…
No group is better suited to bring the spirit of Spinal Tap to life than Anvil. Thanks to last year’s sleeper-hit documentary Anvil! The Story of Anvil, the scrappy Canadian metal band is bound to generate hype for years to come — an unexpected coup, indeed. A perpetually beleaguered act, Anvil arrived on the metal scene in the early ’80s,…
Title: How to Live With a Bitch Author: George Leonard Herter Date: 1969 Publisher: Herter’s Inc., a Minnesota sporting-goods outfitter now distributed by Cabela’s Discovered at: Half Price Books, Westport Representative quote: “All facts show that many women have built-in traits to nag, bitch, insult, try to be cruel and try to be demanding. ” (page 59). There’s crap, and…
Before Beth Barden opened a restaurant, she taught sex education, so she’s a straight-talking woman. She knows that some people had issues with her first Succotash, the sassy little bruncheonette operating in the City Market for eight years. She admits that she had problems with the small, awkwardly designed space and its ridiculously tiny kitchen. Barden will even agree that…
Chairman Mao ruled the People’s Republic of China for roughly two decades. This weekend, Larryville residents can judge Chairman Mao’s historical legacy firsthand — not in the flesh, of course. But they can witness the leader’s hip-hop namesake: DJ Chairman Mao, a prolific New York City writer and DJ. Chairman Jefferson Mao’s illustrious rap sheet includes his DJ residency at…
