Treating about 2,000 uninsured patients a year, the tireless University of Kansas School of Medicine doctors-in-training at the Jaydoc Free Clinic have earned their right to party. Now in its fifth year, JayRock, the clinic’s biggest annual benefit event, unites bands, fans and med students in the name of health care for all. Hitting the stage at 7 tonight at…
According to the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City, half of all new infections occur in people under the age of 25, and 79 percent of those people are unaware of their status before they get tested. With that in mind, Chadwick Brooks and Ryan Gove founded the Millennial League in 2008 to increase HIV/AIDS awareness among members of…
Had enough candy hearts and thorny flowers and jeweled expectations? Get a Super Bowl-sized dose of Valentine’s Day-healing subtext with separate interpretations of Igor Stravinsky’s Pétrouchka. Because nothing says, “Honey, sometimes I feel like a doomed, sawdust-filled doll you keep around just to laugh at” like a tragicomic ballet about a wooden puppet’s unrequited love. Tonight at 8, the Friends…
• B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ (1205 East 85th Street, 816-822-7427). Ernest James Zydeco packs ’em in Friday and Saturday nights with all the proceeds on Friday going to Haitian relief efforts. Expect plenty of gumbo, Abita Turbodog and free beads. The show is at 9 p.m. Cover both nights is a $5 donation. Fri., Feb. 12, 9 p.m.; Sat., Feb. 13,…
• The Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634). Festivities begin Sunday with a family-friendly jazz brunch buffet from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and music by Micah Herman & Friends with the Funky Monkey. On Fat Tuesday, the bar opens at 9 a.m. for beignets, coffee and cocktails. Blues band John Paul’s Flying Circus plays at 6 p.m. Sun., Feb. 14, 11…
Philanderers, we feel you: You need a discreet rendezvous with your mistress this weekend, someplace off the radar that will also make her feel special, pampered. Screenland Theatre feels you, too, having expanded its annual Valentine’s Day event to include three romantic movies spanning two locations tonight and Sunday. This year, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie takes over Screenland Crossroads (1656 Washington),…
Philanderers, we feel you: You need a discreet rendezvous with your mistress this weekend, someplace off the radar that will also make her feel special, pampered. Screenland Theatre feels you, too, having expanded its annual Valentine’s Day event to include three romantic movies spanning two locations tonight and Sunday. This year, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie takes over Screenland Crossroads (1656 Washington),…
Philanderers, we feel you: You need a discreet rendezvous with your mistress this weekend, someplace off the radar that will also make her feel special, pampered. Screenland Theatre feels you, too, having expanded its annual Valentine’s Day event to include three romantic movies spanning two locations tonight and Sunday. This year, Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Amelie takes over Screenland Crossroads (1656 Washington),…
• Anthony’s Restaurant & Lounge (701 Grand, 816-221-4088). Go traditionally romantic at the 31-year-old downtown Italian restaurant with a special couple’s dinner that includes two glasses of pink sparkling wine, antipasta, salads, soup, entrées and a shared dessert. Price is $75 per couple, not including tax or gratuity. Sun., Feb. 14, 2010 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
• Balanca’s Pyro Room (1809 Grand, 816-474-6369). Swinger-friendly, queer-friendly and generally unpredictable, this dark bar opens at 6 p.m. and has two-for-one drinks all night to get you in the mood. DJs Pint Size and Chris Michaels bring the beats. Sun., Feb. 14, 2010 Tags: Chris Michaels, Night & Day
• The Granfalloon (608 Ward Parkway, 816-753-7850). Holy beer goggles! Hooking up on the Plaza is both cheap and easy with $1.75 domestic drafts and $2.75 wells from 9 p.m. until close. Sun., Feb. 14, 2010 Tags: Night & Day
• Touche (6820 West 105th Street, Overland Park, 913-383-1555). Many a silver fox and cougar will be on the prowl tonight in JoCo when the nightclub hosts a variety show with comedian David Kious, singers Tony Antonucci and Frank Cherrito, and the tap-dancing McFadden Brothers. Tickets are $65 per person and include a catered dinner and drinks. Doors open at…
For more than 100 years, the little farmhouse at 4309 Jefferson was a private residence. Then last month, the owners of Temple Slug, the futon shop next door, turned the building into the new Teahouse and Coffeepot. They completely gutted the house to create a bright, comfortable place to serve a variety of loose-leaf teas; espresso and French-press coffee; and…
The tragedy of Big Edie and Little Edie Bouvier Beale is a great American story — part mystery, part gossip and part whatever the hell you want to read into it. The Edies, an aunt and a cousin of Jackie O, were East Hampton socialites who let their lives and their home descend into squalor. The decline was recorded in…
Liquor and broken hearts are steeped in love affairs of their own. And John Yuelkenbeck, a bartender at Dave’s Stagecoach Inn, has plenty of stories attesting to that. “This one guy, real nice guy, his girlfriend broke up with him on Valentine’s Day at the bar. She dumped him, and he got completely trashed and threw up,” he says. So…
Feature: “War Chest,” January 21 Heart of Gold Thank you for Carolyn Szczepanski’s article on Eduardo Loredo and his need for a new heart. Are there any updates on his status? Have they gotten anywhere close to raising the $500,000? Is there any solution? Has the family or the Mexican Consulate explored trying to get him help in other regions,…
Garry Marshall’s embarrassingly star-studded stiff Valentine’s Day is a kind of greatest rom-com hits compilation, painted over with layers of gloss, as if in the hope that the pastiche won’t show. Though occasionally teasing the notion that maybe the titular Hallmark holiday isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, Valentine’s Day inevitably barrels forth in its real mission: to make…
First-time writer-director Scott Teems has given 84-year-old master actor Hal Holbrook a dream role in Abner Meecham, a Tennessean who walks out of a nursing home and returns to the remote farm where he spent his life. On arrival, Meecham discovers that his son (Walton Goggins) has rented the place to a local bad apple named Lonzo Choat (Ray McKinnon)…
Why he’s sexy: Langhorne Slim, like a poet on a motorcycle, pairs swagger and sensitivity in his achingly beautiful folk ballads. What he’s all about: The folk troubadour crafts lighthearted acoustic tunes that hearken back to the joyful optimism and frank sorrow of ’60s and ’70s folk acts. On his latest release, 2009’s Be Set Free, Slim’s raspy yelp and…
Why he’s sexy: Mixing sleek beats and soulful instrumentation, RJD2 melds genres into an eclectic mishmash of stylish electro. What he’s all about: Following in the footsteps of DJ Shadow, Ramble John Krohn — better known as RJD2 — has a reputation for building supple, expansive soundscapes, though his best-known composition remains the Mad Men theme. Hip-hop producers often struggle…
Why she’s sexy: St. Vincent’s Annie Clark looks like a waif, sings like a siren and wields her tongue like a Ginsu knife. What she’s all about: Clark has played with Sufjan Stevens and the Polyphonic Spree, but her own sweetly lilting confections come with sharp edges. She’s like a Disney film in a porn theater, cutting her lulling delicacy…
Why he’s sexy: Sondre Lerche’s stellar pop craftsmanship steals your heart with playful wit and unaffected earnestness. What he’s all about: Over a decade of releases, the Norwegian wunderkind, now 27, has demonstrated admirable versatility, sampling elegant songwriter pop (2004’s Two Way Monologue), jaunty jazz pop (2006’s Duper Sessions) and spiky power pop (2007’s Phantom Punch). Like Elvis Costello (whom…
Editor’s note: Charles Ferruzza returns next week. It’s a bitter-cold January morning, and the air inside the Patric Chocolate factory, located in a tiny industrial park on the outskirts of Columbia, Missouri, carries hints of something acrid and sharp. If you sniff hard, you can detect a hint of cocoa. Then your eyes water. The smell emanates from the melanger,…
It’s a fact: Most songwriting is romantically inclined. Whether it’s Usher desiring to have intimate relations in a dancing establishment or Roky Erickson howling about how so-and-so is going to mourn his absence, the themes of sweetness, joy, pain and heartache are in any songwriter’s catalog. Eleven years ago, North Carolina native Richard Alwyn (now of Brooklyn) dedicated a songwriting…
