While we had some shots of Federation of Horsepower’s frontman Gregg Todt and drummer Kriss Ward in the studio as part of Money Shots, in this video you can hear Todt and guitarist Troy Van Horn work out some fantastic riffage. Producer Ryan Marchman also explains the specifics of the recording process in Locust Studio. Categories: Music Tags: Federation of…
Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. Shots from short, intimate acoustic show at the Pistol on Wednesday night with local singer-songwriters Doby Watson and Mat Shoare. Categories: Music Tags: Doby Watson, mat shoare, the Pistol
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. Pretty Pussies Author: None listed Date: 1942 Publisher: Samuel Gabriel & Sons Discovered at: DAV Thrift, Kansas City, KS The Cover Promises: You will find it hard…
Public radio’s weekly jazz, blues and comedy jam returned with a brand new name: 12th STREET JUMP. Broadcast live on FM 89.3 KCUR, the show got a brand new home as well: The 12th Street Rag, the bar and lounge located on the lobby level of the Kansas City Marriott Downtown. Saturdays, 11:30 p.m.-1 a.m., 2010 Tags: Kansas City, Night…
The March 31 performance will include a series of performances based around the idea of fragmented narratives pulled from various sources such as books, personal letters, mad-libs and movie boxes. Performers will be Lynley Farris, Wm. Howell, Rhiannon Birdsall, Sammi Persons, and Paul Shortt. Last Wednesday of every month, 8 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day, Paul Shortt, Rhiannon Birdsall,…
Due to JCCC’s spring break, this month’s Third Thursday at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is planned for the fourth Thursday of March. The event takes place in the museum’s Hudson Auditorium with special guest artists Amy Myers and Todd Cero-Atl and JCCC moderators Larry Thomas, professor, fine arts, and Laura Gascogne, associate professor, fine arts. Myers creates intricate,…
Affiliation with such publications as Time and the New Yorker automatically lends weight to a writer’s name. The Ivy League-educated John McPhee started his career at the former and has been a staff writer at the latter since 1965, while managing to write 27 books on such subjects as modern-day cattle rustling, ecology, family doctors, geology and oranges. As part…
New York artist Ian Davis’ first Kansas City exhibition, Faith in the Future, at Kemper at the Crossroads (33 West 19th Street, 816-753-5784), is a vibrant, sometimes haunting exhibition, of wide-angle scenes in which the artist painstakingly creates large crowds of tiny little men. Sometimes in business suits, sometimes in lab coats, they’re generally gathered around focal points such as…
Eleven dancers hit the H&R Block City Stage (30 West Pershing) at 8 p.m. for Interlaced Terrain, the spring repertory concert for 12-year-old downtown dance group Reach … a Movement Collective Inc. The program, which happens again at 8 p.m. Saturday, features choreography by artistic directors Marisa MacKay, Maggie Osgood and Richard Parsons, along with debut pieces from Bobbi Foudree…
To celebrate the new Triple Twist slide, Great Wolf – KC will join all 11 Great Wolf Lodge locations in a bold attempt to break a world’s record on March 26-27. The Great Wolf Lodge World’s Largest Waterslide-athon will take place over 24 consecutive hours with one designated slide per resort. Every slider who descends the designated slide will count…
The 3rd annual Glee Medicine Show: curing cynical disorders in art seeks to provide an art experience that engages the senses and soul of both the savvy gallery goer and normal joe. This year’s show explores the idea of generosity and promises to be a unique offering with archways of bologna, hand drawn advice from an oracle booth, gifts of…
Daisy Bucket, one of Kansas City’s leading drag celebrities also known in the worldwide touring dragapella beautyshop quartet The Kinsey Sicks, will emcee this one night only event of ‘tasty pasties’ and ‘naughty niceties’. Burlesque entertainment from all over the city will be performing and raising money and awareness for HIV/AIDS. There will also be giveaways and prizes. Included in…
Kansas City sports fans must make a choice: It’s opening day for two of the town’s more successful franchises — the Kansas City Wizards and Kansas City Roller Warriors. The Wizards face D.C. United for a 7:30 p.m. soccer match at the CommunityAmerica Ballpark (1800 Village West Parkway, 913-387-3400). To recap, the local team secured the MLS Cup in 2000…
For most, the final week of March marks the beginning of spring. For fans of comic books and pop culture, the equinox indicates a more important time: convention season. Kick off the annual tradition locally this weekend with Planet Comicon at the Overland Park International Trade Center (6800 West 115 Street). Guests include former TV Hulk Lou Ferrigno; Lost’s Mira…
Was it some clear-eyed Chatroulette idler who first said, “We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men; we are crude and sorrowful and superficial — I believe we are lost”? No, it was a soldier in Erich Maria Remarque’s All Quiet on the Western Front, the definitive novel of World War I. A year after the book’s 1929…
“I’m an American Indian,” says renowned Oglala Sioux activist and actor Russell Means. “I’m not politically correct. Everyone who’s born in the Western Hemisphere is a Native American.” Such semantic distinctions are duly noted this weekend, when Haskell Indian Nations University presents the sixth-annual Stories ‘N Motion Film Festival. Tonight at 6, the romantic thriller Rez Bomb screens at Haskell…
Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal macking on the silver screen in Brokeback Mountain opened some people’s eyes to the existence of gay cowboys. Gays in musicals may not need to enlighten the populace to their existence, but The Big Gay Musical, now in a three-day engagement at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania), puts a cinematic stamp on gay theater. Writer and…
American folk music has always reveled in misery. After all, isn’t our historical landscape littered with dead children, abused workers and mistreated minorities? But, hey, that doesn’t mean we can’t party. Few families have had more fun dishing out the hard truth than the Guthries. Grandpa Woody set the tone for subversion 70 years ago with “This Land Is Your…
If you’ve paid attention to the classical music scene over the past two decades, you’ve probably heard of William Bill McGlaughlin. He’s kind of a big deal. McGlaughlin was the music director of the Kansas City Symphony for 12 years before leaving to start his National Public Radio show, Saint Paul Sunday. McGlaughlin returns to Kansas City to celebrate the…
Wellesian in girth if not exactly in talent — if Clerks is his Kane, is Mallrats his Magnificent Ambersons? — filmmaker Kevin Smith has nonetheless won the loyalty of an adoring demographic with which he shares a love of pop culture, profanity and pushing the boundaries of taste. In addition to writing, directing and acting, Smith has added raconteur to…
In a world where one is either an inept schlemiel (the one who spills the soup) or a luckless schlimazel (the one upon whom the soup is spilled), the accident-prone yet unfailingly polite Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati’s mostly nonverbal comic persona) illustrates that one might be both at once. Falling somewhere both chronologically and stylistically between Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp and…
A hot game tonight at Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7050) determines who goes to the Final Four — in the women’s bracket. This season, we saw Nebraska women go on a 30-game winning streak that lasted until the Big 12 semifinals earlier this month. We saw Baylor’s 6-foot-8-inch freshman Brittney Griner dunking — and then getting suspended for a couple…
