Let’s just pretend for a moment that you don’t know anything about soccer. For you, the net brings back fuzzy memories of recess traumas, and the term bicycle kick sounds like hipster slang. Fútbol is football, American style, and Chiefs season can’t start soon enough. Well, it’s four months till the pigskin gets tossed around Arrowhead, but you can still…
The recent work of Andrew Lyles shows us a process – one of a remarkably focused investigation of color and form. This process starts with an exploration of the possibilities with painting. Andrew works to find relationships within a surface that have meaning for him as a reference to the world as he sees it. These surfaces are rich and…
Some Kansas Citians enjoy few spring rituals more than that annual dose of Royals optimism: believing that the season has arrived for our baseball team to prove everyone wrong. And this year starts with a boost: the fresh memory of Zack Greinke’s 2009 Cy Young Award. The truth should start to emerge this weekend, when the Royals face the Boston…
Make up for your oversized carbon footprint by taking part in the 14th-annual EarthWalk. The three-mile amble begins at Theis Park (across the street from the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum) and continues along Brush Creek. Registration begins at 8:30 a.m., but walkers who arrive early can limber up with free yoga at 8. Some eager marchers have been…
No one vomits recreationally. Well, no one except the folks at KC Sprints. Their idea of combining indoor bicycle sprinting and booze leads to so much retching and heaving that an onstage puke bucket accompanies the competitors as they race. The 500-meter course involves a computer-generated simulation that tracks the progress of the bikes, which stay on rollers so they…
At 57, Neil Patch, part owner of Retro Downtown Drinks and Dance (1518 McGee, 816-421-4201), is betting on the idea that people are looking for a drinking spot that offers none of the following: cheap PBR, strippers, loud indie rock, french fries. Instead, his newly opened bar at the edge of the Crossroads has only premium beers on tap and…
Most of us take for granted the amenities in modern restaurants — consistent food, trained servers, clean dining rooms and bathrooms. But if there hadn’t been an entrepreneur like Fred Harvey (1835-1901), there probably wouldn’t have been a model for the 20th-century chain restaurant. British-born Harvey created the first restaurant empire in the United States, building tidy and well-run dining…
The distractions that plague day-to-day conversation can sometimes mangle a tale’s true meaning. But for those willing to clear their thoughts and lend someone their ears, telling and listening to a story is still within the realm of possibility. Embrace the art of live storytelling during the Lawrence Arts Center’s (940 New Hampshire in Lawrence) first Story Slam. The 18-and-older event…
After 19 years of stamping and clomping on and off Broadway and around the world, Stomp goes on. The international percussion sensation, which in the past featured Jar Jar Binks actor Ahmed Best, begins a three-day engagement at the Midland (1228 Main). The show’s primal appeal is twofold: If frantic drumming and dancing aren’t enough for you, there’s the demolition….
A month of Paul Rudnick carries on in Kansas City theater with yet another chance to relish the playwright’s gift for the barb. This time the show is Valhalla, a historical comedy that contrasts the gay experience of 1940s Texas against that of opulent royal Bavaria. It’s the second show of Eubank Productions’ new Egads Theatre Company, and it joins…
Kermit the Frog taught a generation of youngsters that “It’s Not Easy Being Green,” but KC’s City Market is determined to prove to residents of all ages that going green is easier than they might think. From 8 a.m. to 3 p.m., the City Market (20 East Fifth Street) hosts Get Your Green On, which has nothing to do with…
Because it’s foremost a celebration of independent filmmaking, it’s only fitting that Kansas City FilmFest 2010 is presented by an organization called the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee. Continuing through Sunday, primarily at AMC Mainstreet theater (1400 Main), the festival boasts more than 100 independent shorts and features from eight countries competing for juried awards, plus workshops, panels, seminars and other…
The KU Dance Marathon is a benefit for the Children’s Miracle Network. The 12-hour dance marathon will include activities for the whole family, including food, games and relay races. The opening ceremony will feature the KU Pep Band, the University Dance Company and a speech from the families who have benefited from the Children’s Miracle Network. Entertainment also will be…
Lawrence Fair Trade, a local advocacy group dedicated to raising awareness of global economic injustice, and the Ecumenical Christian Ministries, with help from the Community Mercantile and the KU French Club, will screen the documentary The Price of Sugar, which takes place on the Caribbean island of the Dominican Republic, where tourists flock to pristine beaches with little knowledge that…
If you leave the house just once to celebrate National Poetry Month — as opposed to reclining with your usual cruel April stack of volumes — go to Lawrence today. As part of the University of Kansas Libraries’ poetry-month program, Ted Kooser, a Pulitzer Prize winner and former U.S. poet laureate, reads at 7 p.m. at the campus’s new boutique…
A lifelong Kansan, Rachel Larson grew up on a farm in north central Kansas. She studied art at the University of Kansas where she earned a B.F.A. in 2007 with specialties in sculpture and art history. Sun., April 11, 7-9 p.m., 2010 Tags: kansas, Night & Day, Rachel Larson, university of kansas
More than 500 classic and muscle cars plus dozens of pieces of memorabilia will cross the auction block during the Kansas City Auction. Among the collector cars up for bid are a 1971 Chevrolet Chevelle SS Convertible, a 1970 Plymouth Cuda with 61,000 miles, a 1940 Ford Custom Street Rod and a host of Camaros, Corvettes and Mustangs. Fri., April…
During the Second Friday Artwalk in KCK, check out the art of Joseph Smith. From the artist’s statement: My still life paintings allow me to explore the use of chiaroscuro as a major tool. I set my still life paintings up in a portion of my home that receives the sun on a southern journey for the play of light…
For the first time in what seemed like weeks, sunlight glinted off the granite steps of the Jackson County Courthouse as Jonathan Harmon and two members of his legal team burst through the doors and outside. Grinning, their dress shoes clattering and blazers flapping, they raced toward 12th Street like stir-crazy kids ditching school. For four weeks in Circuit Judge…
Because this show is a comedy, and a terrifically funny one, Paul Rudnick’s Pride & Joy and Other Plays deals in frequent surprises. There’s the Long Island mother whose son becomes a woman and then, to her great confusion, a lesbian. And the receptionist who asks a flamboyant public-access host to work his magic and turn her baby gay, so…
Never Shout Never’s Christofer Drew is made of love. Proof: He recently gave his cell phone number to a 45-year-old homeless woman after a show. “She keeps calling me, like, every other day,” says the teen sensation. “I’ve just been pretty much helping her through, like, this drug problem she’s having. Sometimes, after a show, I’ll get a pack of…
Dear Mexican: I know that Mexicans and pochos can be black, white, Asian and indios, but I just got my U.S. Census form. Figured you would be the best person to ask about question No. 9 — race. I know I’m not white (I been pulled over too many times for BS reasons), I’m not black (I haven’t been beaten…
There’s a stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and an underage, barely dressed Dakota Fanning begging for street cred by playing dress-up as Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, respectively, front girls of the ’70s-era, teen proto-punk sensation the Runaways. Watch Dakota strut around in a corset! Look at the chick from Twilight,…
Essentially a locked-room mystery with lashings of gore and sexual brutality, Niels Arden Oplev’s adaptation of Swedish novelist Stieg Larsson’s The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo relies more on the mystery, but it has two complex, compelling leads driving its story. Mikael Blomkvist (Michael Nyqvist), a disgraced investigative journalist, is asked by industrialist Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube) to investigate the…
