The twisting, turning conference realignment story did not bring out the best in Kansas City broadcast journalism. In May, 810-WHB host Kevin Kietzman “broke” a story about Missouri receiving an offer to join the Big Ten. No offer arrived, forcing Mizzou officials to work with other universities to save the Big 12 Minus Two. Last Thursday, KCTV 5 reported that…
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. Help, Lord – The Devil Wants Me Fat! Author: C. S. Lovett Date: 1977 Discovered at: Goodwill, Springfield, MO Publisher: El Camino Press, La Verne, CA…
While the United States has exited the World Cup tournament, there is still plenty of great soccer to watch and the quarter-finals boast a pair of powerhouse match-ups. KC Live is screening every one. Please see our World Cup Soccer Bars Directory for a list of additional local venues where fans will gather to watch the games. On Friday, July…
Bracingly inept, Jonah Hex is the rare 80-minute movie that you can’t even call “taut.” Rather than teasing out curiosity about its outcast hero’s past, Jonah pelts the viewer with clumps of exposition, including a hasty comic-book-graphic origin montage illustrating the strange case of Hex (Josh Brolin), a former Confederate war machine whose near-death experience gave him the ability to…
Twelve years ago, Jose Saenz was a Los Angeles Unified School District dropout and run-of-the-mill tagger known on the east side of Los Angeles as Smiley, a nod to the way he flashed his trademark brilliant grin. At age 22, he sidled up to two young east-side men peddling dope on North Clarence Street in Boyle Heights, pretending to be…
Castle: 1) cushy home of a fairy tale princess; 2) royal headquarters defended to the death by brave knights. Toss out these preconceptions before visiting the castle-centric exhibit now at the Kansas City, Missouri, Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3407). As its title suggests, Bunce Island: A British Slave Castle in Sierra Leone, concerns an evil castle – not…
When H&R Block Artspace opens 2010 Kansas City Flatfile tonight, not even the director and curator, Raechell Smith, will have seen every piece in the biennial exhibition. With 180 artists in the drawers, a viewer would need a few visits to see them all. “This is the largest group we’ve had,” Smith says. “A lot of them are new to…
Traditional Indonesian gamelan music involves an array of instruments built and tuned to be played together. Woodwinds and plucked strings lean heavily on the percussive contributions of metallophones, drums and gongs. It’s the kind of music you’d expect to hear at, for instance, a performance at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street). In fact, that’s exactly where…
Add freshly bagged greens to Mexican food and Boulevard Brewery to the list of reasons to hit Southwest Boulevard. The Rosedale Farmers Market happens from noon to 4 p.m. every Sunday through October 17 in the Southwest Boulevard Family Health Care parking lot (340 Southwest Boulevard, at the corner of Rainbow, in Kansas City, Kansas). Right now, you’ll find spring…
Elgin Lumpkin knows something about sprucing up. He traded his dowdy name for the sleeker Ginuwine as he embarked on an R&B career. The man best known for the sultry 1990s hit “Pony” has since turned his attention to more charitable endeavors. Ginuwine and his wife, Sole, are co-founders of the S.P.R.U.C.E. Foundation (the acronym stands for Special People Requiring…
The Elders, Pogey, Eddie Delahunt, Kelly, Dog Tree, Bagpipers, Irish Dancers and others will perform during this anniversary celebration that is also a fundraiser for Cycling for Change. Sat., June 19, 4-11 p.m., 2010 Tags: Eddie Delahunt, Night & Day
Lakeside Nature Center participates in a nationwide series of events designed by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Scientists hope to learn more about how birds survive in cities — and how they use urban green spaces such as parks, rooftop gardens, and even potted plants on balconies for food, resting sites, and shelter. The lab will collect data from events,…
Le Fou Frog hosts a viewing party for World Cup Soccer games featuring the French team. The restaurant opens at 12:30 p.m. and offers a buffet. Thu., June 17, 1 p.m., 2010 Tags: FIFA World Cup, Night & Day
Le Fou Frog hosts a viewing party for World Cup Soccer games featuring the French team. The restaurant opens at 9am and offers coffee and croissants. Tue., June 22, 9 a.m., 2010 Tags: FIFA World Cup, Night & Day
The United States makes its second appearance in the World Cup, competing against Slovenia. Root on the national team from the living room at KC Live, where all 64 games will be screened during the Summer of Soccer promotion. For more places to watch the World Cup, see our World Cup Soccer Bar Directory. Fri., June 18, 9 a.m., 2010…
According to the International Federation of Association Football (call it FIFA) and World Cup organizers, U.S. residents have purchased more than 130,000 of the 2.8 million tickets that are available for World Cup games being played in South Africa. Those unable to make the 9,000-mile trip overseas can watch the games on local screens, including the ones below. For a…
The sixth annual Party With a Purpose on Holmes Street is part afternoon in the park, part homes tour, part concert and all for a worthy cause: Proceeds benefit AIDS Walk Kansas City, which helps local people affected by HIV and AIDS. Funds raised last year crested the $10,000 mark. Organizers hope to rake in even more this year —…
According to bra manufacturers, the average American woman has grown in recent years from a 34B to a 36C. But, as Oprah and Cosmo never tire of pointing out, the relationship between a bra and the woman it fits is sometimes less about actual size than it is about psychology. It’s that relationship that shapes Cups, Joni Sheram’s one-woman hit…
Lorraine M. López, the first-ever Latina finalist for the prestigious PEN/Faulkner award for fiction, returns to Kansas City from her new home in Los Angeles, along with poet Gloria Vando, as part of the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Mark Twain Writers Workshop and the annual Cuarta Página reading series by the Latino Writers Collective. López’s collection Homicide Survivors Picnic and…
Media theorist Marshall McLuhan suggested that there are two kinds of video consumption: “hot,” demanding our focused attention (such as a big-screen theatrical film), and “cool,” ingested passively (like TV). Now well-established as an artistic medium, video is, in McLuhan’s terms, decidedly hot. The best work engages the viewer’s focus and imagination, a give-and-take in which the viewer meets the…
The plastic flies today when disc golfers play for Community LINC, a transitional housing program. Registration for the benefit tournament starts at 8 a.m. at Thornfield Disc Golf Course (6701 West 167th Street in Stilwell). At 9, teams of two or four engage in the age-old sport (well, the ’70s sport) of trying to get a Frisbee into a raised…
Keep your toddler on a leash this Father’s Day weekend during the Kansas City Chalk and Walk Festival. We don’t want a repeat of 2007 when a little kid trampled some Buddhist monks’ half-finished sand mandala at Union Station. Sand mandalas, the elaborate and colorful circular designs that are meant to help with meditation, and infioratas, carpets made of flower…
Sushi and cover bands don’t go together like soy sauce and steamed rice, but the owners of downtown Overland Park’s new Intentions (7316 West 80th Street, 913-652-6510) hope that patrons want their sashimi served to the sounds of Smokey Robinson tributes instead of shakuhachi (the Japanese bamboo flute). Party people might remember the restaurant and nightclub as onetime biker bar…
