It’s hard enough getting through winter even when you have a heated home and clothes to wear. What if you wore only feathers and had to forage through snow and ice for your food and shelter? That’s life (particularly challenging during the coldest season) for wild birds. The flocks that live in the woods of the Overland Park Arboretum and…
Jeff Evrard Photography & WearHaus join forces to create a magazine that centers on Kansas City fashion using local, printers, models, stylists, locations, clothing and hair and make up professionals. Faction is a by-monthly publication focused on fashion photography and creativity. There are no ads, no written content, just photos. Wed., Feb. 24, 6-9 p.m., 2010 Tags: Kansas City, Night…
As network news coverage of Haiti dwindles from “near constant” to “occasional,” the human crisis resulting from the earthquakes continues. Shipments of clothes, food and medical supplies are rapidly absorbed by a devastated population. The Beware All Stylebiters Crew, a Kansas City collective of artists, has organized tonight’s KC Help Haiti art show and silent auction from 6 to 10…
Broadway actor Anthony Rapp, best known for originating the role of Mark Cohen in RENT, talks about “Fighting for What is Right.” Sun., Feb. 21, 5:15 p.m., 2010 Tags: Anthony Rapp, Mark Cohen, Night & Day, Rent (Musical)
This show by the Kansas City Society of Burlesque will feature audience participation games such as Truth-or-Dare, Cherry Stem Knot Races, and What’s My Position? (a risque twist on the classic game show What’s My Line?), with Love Hangover Relief gift bags as prizes, which include a free admission to future KCSOB shows, gifts from businesses that sponsor KCSOB events…
The students in Mr. McClendon’s Digital Television Production classes at Paseo Academy will be showing films they produced in honor of Black History Month. There will be a short Question and answer segment with each filmmaker. There is a parking on the Southwest side of Paseo off of 48th Street.at Fri., Feb. 19, 7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Black History Month,…
For those intimate with the KC and Lawrence music scene, watching the documentary 72 Musicians is like playing a game of who’s who. Which Phillips brother is that? And isn’t that Be/Non? Filmmaker Robert Moczydlowsky interviewed a slew of area singers, guitar slingers and general band folk. But he doesn’t identify them onscreen as they describe what it’s like to…
The Kings of Kansas City have finally made it home. The Kings — the real-life black family at the heart of Nathan Louis Jackson’s warm and compassionate drama Broke-ology — hail from Kansas City, Kansas, but they’ve been the toast of Lincoln Center and off-Broadway, wowing The New York Times and The New Yorker. Now they make their debut here…
This isn’t really country-club season, but that’s no excuse not to work on your golf game. The Kansas City Golf Show takes place in the conveniently climate-controlled Overland Park Convention Center (6000 College Boulevard) today through Sunday. Swingers — of putters and irons — can consult experts about how to ease their slice and lessen their gross scores. The show…
For free entertainment this weekend, you could stake out a spot at the Crown Center food court and watch not only a comprehensive array of anime and video-game-themed costumes but also an equally wide range of amusing reactions from bewildered shoppers. But if you purchase a $45 pass to Naka-Kon, the convention for which people don their colored tights and…
Ira Glass is the unlikeliest of radio celebrities. His voice seems to emanate from his sinuses. He pauses and says like more often than your 12-year-old sister. If there were a competition for the biggest geek on public radio, even Garrison Keillor couldn’t break Glass. And yet, the host of This American Life has the coolest show on the dial because…
Don’t act as though you haven’t tried to Riverdance, because everyone old enough to have seen those commercials from the ’90s knows better. But to see how the Irish step-dancing routines really go, see some of the final — as in last-ever — performances of Riverdance in a production at the Independence Events Center (19100 East Valley View Parkway, 816-795-7577)…
You can bob your head to your favorite rock bands in this town any night of the week, but how often do you get a chance to hear authentic ragtime piano? Well, the aficionados at Kansas City Ragtime Revelry give you that opportunity when they present ragtime and novelty pianist Frederick Hodges at 7 tonight at Community Christian Church (4601…
There’s no shortage of romantic stereotypes when it comes to authors: the misunderstood alcoholic, the quill-holding Victorian, the no-longer-publishing New Hampshire recluse. These stock characters probably exist because the truth — that writers spend endless hours staring out windows and agonizing over commas — is kind of dull. But in an attempt to dispel those nasty rumors, the Kansas City,…
The easy-listening dinner-show phenomenon has gained momentum this winter: Wide-eyed crooners and family-friendly bands have been stage-hopping all over the city during prime dining hours. For those who need a little more variety to unwind on hump day, there’s the weekly Weirdo Wednesday Supper Club at Czar Bar (1531 Grand, 816-221-2244). It’s no run-of-the-mill open-mic night. Amy Farrand (American Catastrophe,…
Special guest artists Elijah Gowin and Marcie Miller Gross and JCCC moderators Mary Wessel adjunct associate professor, photography, and Debra Hillen, adjunct professor, fashion merchandising and design, will give a presentation in the museum’s Hudson Auditorium. Thu., Feb. 18, 3:30-4:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Debra Hillen, Elijah Gowin, Marcie Miller Gross, Mary Wessel, Night & Day
Clare Doveton was born and raised in Lawrence, Kansas. Doveton moved to New York City in 1994, where she received her BFA in Fine Arts Painting at Parsons School of Art and Design. Over the last 15 years she has shown throughout New York City, San Francisco, as well as the midwest. In 2004 she moved her studio back to…
Spooky Dog, the Coterie at Night’s outlandish Scooby-Doo parody, is pure playground. That might sound like an insult, but I mean it as the highest praise. For 40 years now, fifth-grade Doo theorists have speculated on three key aspects of Mystery Machine lore: Who’s high, who’s gay, and why Fred always proposes sneaking off with Daphne. As its mystery-solving teens…
Months after losing their jobs at KCHZ 95.7 (the Vibe), Mike and Chantal Savage still aren’t sure who fired them. During their four years as morning hosts at the local radio station, much of it in conflict with management, the Savages say they asked several times for a formal meeting with someone at the corporate level. (KCHZ is owned by…
Dear Mexican: People talk about the costs of illegal immigration on our society. What about the savings? Has there been any research into how much more a meal at a restaurant would cost without Mexicans cooking and washing dishes? What percentage increase would we see with supermarket produce if migrant illegal laborers were paid a fair wage? El Mojado Acaudalado…
A sign in front of the old Paseo YMCA announces the coming Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center. But the wooden board offers a clue that the project has run into problems: The sign bears the logo of Douglass National Bank, which failed two years ago. Barbecue king Ollie Gates recently stepped forward to take the lead on the project….
Though crafted outside the Hollywood system, the best of these 10 entries are, in some ways, the most familiar — their most radical element being that they operate in popular genres that usually don’t get much Academy Award attention. The live-action nominees can be neatly divided into serious films about imperiled children and darkly comic movies about goofy adults. Writer-director…
Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island begins with U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels (Leonardo DiCaprio) seasick, head in the toilet. The film is his prolonged purging, with Daniels coughing up chunks of his back story in flashbacks and dreams. He joins his new partner, Chuck Aule (Mark Ruffalo) topside, and their destination looms into view: an ominous hunk of rock in Boston Harbor…
Nick Oliveri pouring his heart out, coffeehouse-style, on acoustic guitar? What’s next, Lemmy Kilmister’s harpsichord tour? The gaunt, goateed Oliveri, with roots traceable to the Southern California desert-rock band Kyuss, has led a desultory and never-tame life in music. He first caterwauled his way onto a national stage as the oft-naked bassist, screamer and secondary songwriter for Queens of the…
