Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. CHiPs Colorforms Date: 1981 Discovered at: DAV Thrift Store, Independence The Cover Promises: “Create your own scenes from Chips with COLORFORMS plastic pieces that Stick Like…
If you need to regain some national athletic pride after watching the U.S. men’s hockey team lose to Canada in overtime at the Vancouver Olympics, then the Missouri Mavericks could be the chance. The metro’s Central Hockey League team has racked up an impressive record for its first year on the ice, with the team holding on to a solid…
Howl at the Moon, the World’s Most Dangerous Dueling Pianos is having its 2nd annual St. Paddy’s Day bash. Located on the 2nd level of the Power & Light District, Howl has everything you need this St. Paddy’s Day to feel the luck o’ the Irish. From Green Beers to Green Jell-O shots. Wed., March 17, noon, 2010 Tags: Jell-O…
Author Courtney E. Martin discusses the history of Barbie and the influence it has had on the self-image of American girls. Thu., March 11, 6:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Courtney Martin, Night & Day
Get your blues and jazz groove on as you help out the homeless during the 13th-annual Jazz Outreach, this year at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania). Running from 3 to 9 p.m., the concert features the lively sounds of the Jazz Disciples, Jim Mair, Ronnie Reed & Millennium, Greg Carroll, Everette DeVan, Leon Brady and the Kansas City Youth Jazz,…
The intersection of Broadway and Linwood marks the starting point for the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade. This year’s theme is Going Green in KC. Wed., March 17, 11 a.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day, st. patrick’s day
The trouble with St. Patrick’s Day is that it often falls on a weekday. Like this year, for example, the 17th of March is a Wednesday and since it’s not a national holiday that means most of us don’t have the day off from work. That’s why Brookside always holds a St. Pat’s Warm-Up Parade a few days before. The…
Party down in Waldo at The Well, which features music by the Kelihans and Rattle and Hum. The $10 ticket also gains entry to Lew’s until 3 a.m. Wed., March 17, 8-3 a.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day
Harry (Billy Crystal) and Sally (Meg Ryan) are on-again, off-again friends for fourteen years until they finally realize just how much they truly love each other. Rated R. This screening is part of the A Little Romance With Your Comedy film series. Tue., March 16, 6 p.m., 2010 Tags: Billy Crystal, Meg Ryan, Night & Day
SpaceRockSpasm showcases new work in audio and video by Kansas City-based artist Barry Anderson. The installation features a selection of works, fragments, and experiments highlighting influences ranging from underground cinema to comic books, Kraut rock to geo-politics, Gothic monsters to theoretical physics. The exhibition will also include excerpts of sound compositions by Kansas City-based composer Christopher Biggs. Tuesdays-Fridays, 10 a.m.-4…
Library of Congress exhibition showcasing photographs of a surprisingly vibrant world that has typically been viewed only through black-and-white images. The exhibit features work by photographers such as John Bachon, Jack Delano, and Marion Post Wolcott on behalf of the Farm Security Administration and the Office of War Information. They document not only the subjects in the pictures, but also…
Gear up for the St. Patrick’s Day holiday with this concert. The Kansas City Symphony presents Celtic Superstar Natalie MacMaster, who stuns crowds around the globe with her feverish fiddling and mesmerizing step dancing. Fri., March 12, 8 p.m., 2010 Tags: Kansas City, Natalie MacMaster, Night & Day, st. patrick’s day
Fueled by anger, desire, luck and, ultimately, hubris, one of modern Hollywood’s most infamous cautionary tales belongs to bartender-turned-filmmaker Troy Duffy. So thoroughly did the egotistical head-case Duffy piss off every major player and power broker he courted — including Miramax don Harvey Weinstein — that his film The Boondock Saints, about two vigilante Boston Irish brothers, was released in…
Fueled by anger, desire, luck and, ultimately, hubris, one of modern Hollywood’s most infamous cautionary tales belongs to bartender-turned-filmmaker Troy Duffy. So thoroughly did the egotistical head-case Duffy piss off every major player and power broker he courted — including Miramax don Harvey Weinstein — that his film The Boondock Saints, about two vigilante Boston Irish brothers, was released in…
Fueled by anger, desire, luck and, ultimately, hubris, one of modern Hollywood’s most infamous cautionary tales belongs to bartender-turned-filmmaker Troy Duffy. So thoroughly did the egotistical head-case Duffy piss off every major player and power broker he courted — including Miramax don Harvey Weinstein — that his film The Boondock Saints, about two vigilante Boston Irish brothers, was released in…
Cole Porter’s musical spin on Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew was the highlight of his career as a composer and lyricist: In the years after Kiss Me Kate opened in 1948, Porter suffered a series of hardships, including his wife’s death and the amputation of his right leg. He never wrote another song after that. But Musical Theater Heritage’s concert…
One needn’t be named Guggenheim, Getty or Kemper to become a major player in the art world. Case in point: Herb and Dorothy Vogel — he a postal clerk, she a librarian — who spent 40 years curating one of the world’s most extensive and important collections of minimalist and conceptual art. Envisioning their pursuit as their eventual retirement plan,…
Cover only what you have to before entering the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665) this weekend. Exposed skin — preferably of the inked-up variety — is the rule during the Real Deal Tattoo Convention. Those whose epidermis remains decorated only by nature can take this opportunity to consult with some of the dozens of tattoo artists from this area and…
• Snake Saturday Parade and Family Fun Festival: Chances are, there were no snakes in postglacial Ireland around 400 A.D. However, for the 26th year, North Kansas City commemorates St. Patrick’s ousting of the reptiles from Emerald Isle with a parade beginning at 11 a.m. sharp at 14th and Swift, ending just past 18th Avenue on Howell Street. In a…
• Irishpalooza in Martin City: A full Sunday of kid-centered activities starts at 11:30 a.m. in the downtown district of a city within a city, at 135th Street and Oak. Expect clowns, games, crafts, an inflatable slide, a moonwalk, and the finals of the Junior Idol singing competition prior to the parade kickoff at 2 p.m. Arrive early — close…
If you’d like to pretend that St. Patrick’s Day means more to you than drinking green beer and reciting dirty limericks, then head to Westport Presbyterian Church (201 Westport Road) for the Celtic Celebration Weekend presented by the Westport Center for the Arts and St. David’s Welsh Society. Activities begin with a 1 to 4 p.m. celebration of Celtic music…
Good luck getting into the intimate Foundation (1221 Union, 816-283-8990) performance space without an advance ticket during Quixotic v. Nomathmatics. The star power of the flamboyant dance, music and design ensemble combined with the fashion-forward beats of hipster DJ duo Nomathmatics guarantees a packed house for this fundraiser, which kicks off at 9 p.m. Expect bright lights, body contortions and…
For nearly 40 years, artist Moshe Frumin’s work has been the re-creation of ancient musical instruments based on archaeological finds uncovered by the Haifa Museum in Israel. From sources that include ancient wall paintings and the images on coins, he has built authentic reproductions of the 21 lost objects on display in his first U.S. exhibition. Moshe Frumin — Ancient…
