Think the Chiefs served up too many big plays to the opposition last year? The young Chiefs defense might change that this year, but second-year Chiefs linebacker Corey Mays serves up something different from 6 to 10 p.m. at the 801 Chophouse (71 East 14th Street). Mays and several teammates trade shoulder pads for ties and aprons during Celebrity Waiter…
As part of a new initiative to bring new adult theatre opportunities to Lawrence, the Lawrence Arts Center is pleased to present its first-ever New Play Festival from September 16-18. These exciting new shows (The Paludan Sisters: It’s All Relative; American Bear; Prop 8 On Trial) range from a musical memoir to a Midwestern drama to a multimedia experience ripped…
The Kansas City Club will feature The Works of Ernst Ulmer Exhibit & Sale, on Third Friday Art Nights, Friday, September 17, 2010 and Friday, October 15, 2010, from 5:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. A portion of the proceeds will go towards the Ernst Ulmer Scholarship Fund for an Art student attending Kansas City, Kansas Community College, in Kansas City,…
Art Flea brings the wonderfully low prices of a flea market to a fine art sale. Local artists sell their creations and things they collect for $1-$50. Art Flea happens every Third Saturday through December. Third Saturday of every month, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Starts: Sept. 18. Continues through Dec. 18, 2010 Tags: Night & Day
Mike Sinclair is a celebrated artist and commercial photographer whose architectural scenes and large format prints capture the mystery of Kansas City parks and mainstream middle-class Americans at leisure across the Midwest. Sinclair studied in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, Champaign, in 1981, after earning a BA from Southern Illinois University in 1974. He was a 1999…
Rock and roll will never die, and neither, apparently, will the Rolling Stones. Interviewed in Esquire some years back, Satan remarked that he finally took down his “Welcome, Keith Richards” banner because it just looked embarrassing hanging there. Now, as we wait for the Glimmer Twins to coax Charlie Watts out of his idyllic repose to hit the road one…
Encouraging communication, collaboration and the sharing of resources, the newly launched nonprofit CinemaKC endeavors to become a real-world — and virtual — hub for filmmakers and film organizations. An initiative of the Film Society of Greater Kansas City, which also aims to recognize the achievements of area filmmakers, CinemaKC debuts its film program at 7:30 p.m. at the Screenland Crown…
Gao Zhen and Gao Qiang, brothers from Jinan, China, have collaborated on their mixed-media art and installation projects since the mid-1980s. The political transformation during that period, in which the country adopted state-controlled capitalism, has been as dramatically tectonic as the Chinese Revolution in 1949, in which the Communist Party took control of the country. The Gao brothers’ work breaks…
Baseball is for pantywaists. Football is played by the enfeebled. Hockey is a eunuch convention on ice. You want real sports? Try pushing a sled filled with weights until you vomit. It’s known as “the prowler,” and it’s just one of the grueling events at Next Level Games, a sort of strongman Olympics at Watson Park (Seventh Street and Tennessee,…
In our age of reality programming, it makes perfect sense that a musical, written by two actor friends in a mere three weeks to meet the deadline for a musical-theater festival, should turn out to be about … two actor friends rushing to write a musical in a mere three weeks to meet the deadline for a musical-theater festival. Or…
Pulitzer Prizes for drama aren’t easy to come by, but during his illustrious career, August Wilson managed to win two — one for The Piano Lesson and one for Fences. Both are part of his 10-play Pittsburgh Cycle, a chronicle of the 20th-century black experience in Pittsburgh’s Hill District (with one exception) that is told one decade at a time….
It’s a Science Fiction Triple Feature at the Coterie Theatre (Crown Center, 2450 Grand) as the young-audience venue presents three one-acts. In Ray Bradbury’s The Veldt, two children love their virtual-reality playroom — a predatory African setting — a little too much. In Daniel Keyes’ Flowers for Algernon, Charlie Gordon has an IQ of 68, but an experiment increases his…
It’s another Tuesday at Media Corp, so every desk around the office is empty. Tuesday is show-and-tell day at Media Corp, a boutique marketing company with headquarters buried between medical suppliers and insurance offices in an Overland Park business park. As employees gather in the conference room, they leave toys scattered in their wake, like a pack of unruly children…
Dear Mexican: I work at a large hotel in Orange County where 80 percent of the employees are Latin American, primarily Mexican. I love all of them and enjoy working with them. However, the one thing that bothers me is that when they are speaking to each other, they only speak in Spanish. They do it in front of our…
Directing himself as a verifiable big-movie lead after some time in supporting-actor Triple-A ball, director-star Ben Affleck models a full line of warm-up suits to play Doug MacRay, a second-generation blue-collar stickup man, the brains of his four-man bank crew. The setting is Charlestown, the square-mile, majority-Irish Boston neighborhood that shares a peninsula with Cambridge. It’s half-gentrified and still identified…
In a peppy Eurocomedy from Turkish-German director Fatih Akin, young wild-haired Greek-German Zinos Kazantsakis (Adam Bousdoukos) runs a lumpen-loved schnitzel joint in a former Hamburg warehouse. Events with socioeconomically loaded undertones send this Akin protagonist spinning: Rich, pasty-faced girlfriend (Pheline Roggan) chases a job in China, light-fingered brother Illias (watch-twirling Moritz Bleibtreu) gets parole, crass childhood friend Thomas (Wotan Wilke…
Magic Kids belong to the legion of young artists sucking inspiration from ’60s pop — Phil Spector’s horn- and string-laden symphonies, two-minute Brill Building paeans and the Beach Boys’ harmonies. Last month’s full-length debut, Memphis, takes its name from the band’s hometown and follows up on a pair of buzzworthy singles (“Hey Boy,” “Superball”). The album channels endless summer and…
I’m Still Here — “that Joaquin Phoenix movie” — forces us to ask: Are they fucking with us? Directed by Phoenix’s brother-in-law, Casey Affleck, the film purports to document Phoenix’s high-profile “retirement” from acting, his alleged attempt to transition into a hip-hop career, and his subsequent and much-publicized meltdown. Whether the retirement was contrived or permanent, Phoenix has not appeared…
As far as teen comedies informed by 10th-grade English syllbuses go, Easy A, partly inspired by The Scarlet Letter, is remedial ed compared with Clueless and 10 Things I Hate About You. To boost her popularity and to sex up her guy pals’ — and strangers’ — reputations, brainy California high-schooler Olive (Emma Stone) convinces her classmates that she spreads…
Ariel Rosenberg (better known as Ariel Pink) has found modest success and acclaim in obscure, eight-track bedroom recordings. That hardly makes him an anomaly in today’s music landscape. Critics and tastemakers have an unfortunate habit of prematurely ejaculating over the perceived “authenticity” of those practicing the lo-fi, DIY aesthetic, confusing unsophisticated production with righteous artistry. But Pink is truly a…
Besides Roy Orbison, Midlake might be the most buzzed-about musical export to have emerged from the sleepy college town of Denton, Texas. Singer-songwriter Tim Smith, guitarist Eric Pulido, drummer McKenzie Smith, bassist Paul Alexander and guitarist Eric Nichelson have lived in Denton for more than a decade. And, much as Orbison once did, the band specializes in dark, dreamy rock….
Lazy doesn’t do drugs — except for that one time on tour. Brock Potucek recalls one night of debauchery with his band on the group’s recent West Coast tour. The rest of Lazy’s members laugh and reminisce with Potucek between puffs of cigarettes. They’re sitting in a warehouse-style loft above the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center. Several of them live here, in…
Kansas Citians have never fully embraced the spicy cuisine of the Louisiana parishes. True, Westport’s Kiki’s Bonton Maison had a relatively long run, but the list of Creole and Cajun restaurants that have come and gone is lengthy. It includes Copeland’s, the Big Easy and the most recent failure, St. Joseph’s Boudreaux’s Louisiana Seafood & Steaks, which had a brief…
Shawnoahia Farr sits on a bench at a bus stop, her face a snarl. She has an appointment at KU Medical Center, and she’s behind schedule. Farr lives less than five miles from the hospital. If she owned a car, the trip would take minutes. Farr, however, relies on public transportation, which means delays, transfers and the company of noisy…
