Tonight is Kansas City’s First Fridays. As per usual, you can check out our weekly First Friday Hitlist right here for all the hottest, coolest, and best exhibitions going on in and around the Crossroads. Saturday, from 6-9:00 p.m. at Lawrence’s Wonder Fair Art Gallery, is the opening reception for Justin Marable’s “Why ReThink,” a traveling exhibition featuring screen prints…
Jim Kilroy organizes huge shows. I met up with the man behind Club Wars at his third floor office at the Uptown Theater and talked about bands, MySpace and the past 20+ years of rockin’ out. The Pitch: So, how did you get started out promoting? Jim Kilroy: I’ve lived in the Kansas City area my whole life, in Overland…
In October, Jason Miller show his disgust for the deer harvest at Shawnee Mission Park by dousing himself with a bucket of cow blood. The animal rights activist is promising similar tactics at a protest at Steve’s Meat Market on Saturday afternoon. The DeSoto shop — a family-run operation that’s been in business for the past four decades — received…
You might want to get flowers next weekend, but for now it’s more important that you get your hands on a dozen chicken wings. Winter and football make wing eaters of us all. So stock up on wet-naps and tuck your napkin into your collar — it’s time to chew on the top five chicken wings in Kansas City. 5….
The authors of Girldrive, the subject of this week’s book review, decided to make Kansas City a stop on their cross-country tour primarily because of Maria Elena Buszek, a published feminist scholar and professor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Buszek was acquainted with the mothers of both authors, Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein, because of their mutual…
When Muhammad Ali met George Foreman for the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974, there was more than just the boxing match. Granted, the boxing match was epic and a stone classic that resulted in Ali regaining the world heavyweight championship. This was all documented in the film When We Were Kings. If you enjoyed Leon Gast’s documentary, then you’ve…
Here’s something most people wouldn’t expect to see at the Kansas City Public Library: Playboy Playmates projected on a big screen. But that was part of last night’s presentation at the downtown library by Hugh Hefner biographer Steven Watts. The author, a history professor at the University of Missouri, spent five years researching, interviewing and observing the controversial publisher for…
Stephen Colbert is the University of Kansas’ honorary student body president. The University Daily Kansan reports that KU’s student government passed a resolution naming The Colbert Report host el presidente. Of course, this was just a successful attention grab by KU student senator Tom Cox. The next step for Cox is getting Colbert on campus. He’s sending Colbert a copy…
Fat City caught up with Christopher Elbow to find out about a small-batch release of chocolate bon bons for Valentine’s Day. For the effort, he teamed up with Patric Chocolate out of Columbia, Missouri. “I have used Patric chocolate before to make some small batches of bon bons. Last year was the first year that Alan from Patric and I…
With the rise of smart-girl blogs like Jezebel has come a whole new examination of the word feminist. In Girldrive, Nona Willis Aronowitz and Emma Bee Bernstein embark on a cross-country road trip, stopping at points on the map where they’ve arranged to interview an assortment of women. The goal: Ask these women how they view womanhood and modern feminism….
Puritanical Missouri state Sen. Matt Bartle’s crusade against Missouri strip clubs has resurrected in the midst of a federal investigation of pay-for-play politics in the Show-Me State. We’ve been here before. The Kansas City Star says Bartle’s bill, S.B. 586, which the Senate endorsed, would: outlaw nudity in strip clubs require a six-foot buffer between strippers and customers shut down…
As America bemoans the death of “good” MTV (our dear blogger Nick even takes part in a post earlier today), from the ashes arises this cringe-worthy real-life interaction. In this beautiful trainwreck of an interview, behold as Jersey Shore’s infamous Snooki asks French rock band Phoenix (who are stopping by our fair city on April 21) if they know what…
There are plenty of small-plates options around Kansas City — Extra Virgin, La Bodega, Avenues Bistro, Carmen’s Cafe, Taste, One80. But you have to work your way through most menus plate by plate. And since it’s easy to get hung up on favorites and expensive to order the entire right half of the menu, it would be great to see…
Amanda Nervig was already good at math when she enrolled in the Fiber Department at the Kansas City Art Institute, which is why she took to the Brother KH 930 like a geek to Comic-con. The ominously named Brother knitting machine is Nervig’s BFF, helping her speed through the creation of brightly colored scarves, dresses, sweaters and vests. There are…
%{}% This guide to preparing cheese fondue at home has plenty of cheese-laden photos to make you hungry. The crew from the Roasterie is down in Costa Rica, picking out the beans for your coffee. They had me at pie lollipops — a photo guide to making tiny pies on sticks. The scratch and sniff blazer has arrived — although…
Of Montreal is noted for their insane number of covers. Seriously, I have something like seven dozen songs in iTunes that I snagged from You Ain’t No Picasso a couple years back, and they are all absurdly diverse, reverent, and done with Kevin Barnes’ irresistibly crazy sense of style. This duet, done with Solange Knowles on the Jackson 5’s “I…
It’s not even worth the effort to make fun of MTV anymore, being as how Jersey Shore does a fine enough job on its own. *rimshot* However, the network has placed a whole slew of content online in recent months, making it possible for anyone with a decent Internet connection to relive their misspent youth watching far too much television….
“Let’s get high, baby”: As far as Myspace blurbs go, San Fran rock crew Girls’ description is pretty right on. Mixing fuzzy garage rock with ’60s psychedelia and pop melodies worthy of the Beach Boys, Girls is fronted by wild child Christopher Owens who grew up in the Children of God cult. After fleeing and living as a gutter-punk, a…
%{}% Kansas City lawmaker Jason Holsman must like his Sundays anger-filled. Yesterday, the Democratic state rep introduced H.B. 1986, which would make pro sports teams and franchises that blackout games (like the Kansas City Chiefs) ineligible to receive taxpayer dollars a year later. Holsman told KSHB Channel 41 that taxpayers should get to watch the teams they subsidize with their…
There’s no shortage of opinions on bacon. Some see it as the decline of our civilization; others would argue it’s the best thing we’ve ever done as a culture. Today, you can debate either side when Fat City’s Charles Ferruzza and the food critics talk about the ubiquitous pork product on The Walt Bodine Show (KCUR, 89.3 FM) from 10…
