In this week’s Pitch: Koch talks to Steddy P about IndyGround’s six years as an independent label, I chat with Billy Brimblecom about the Blackpool Lights reunion, and Anderson gets the skinny on the Murder Ballad Ball. Plus the Gay Blades and My Chemical Romance. Get some! Categories: Music Tags: Blackpool Lights, indyground crew, murder ballad ball, steddy P, Steddy…
Hessam Ghane kept his cyanide under his kitchen sink. According to the feds, the 60-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Iran was admitted to an Overland Park, Kansas, emergency room on February 4, 2003, because he had threatened suicide using cyanide that he had acquired through his years as a scientist. Police searched Ghane’s home in Independence, Missouri, and found a…
Country legend Loretta Lynn is still kickin’ shit, touring the U.S. of A. She’s even experienced a comeback of sorts in recent years, thanks to Van Lear Rose, her 2004 album produced by Jack White. Their duet, “Portland, Oregon,” remains an absolute monster of a song. Today we bring you news that the Coal Miner’s Daughter has announced a date in…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. Boys’ Life, September, 1968 Publisher: Boy Scouts of America Discovered at: Liberty Antique Mall, Liberty, MO The Cover Promises: In the future, ghostly kids will don aluminum-foil PJs to attend school in that stupid hatch from…
A successful example of the tropes exchange program, The Warrior’s Way happily treats its novelty, mash-up premise — cowboys meet ronin — as the most natural thing in the world, and goes ahead with its business. Yang (Dong-gun Jang) earns the enmity of his assassin brothers by sparing the last infant member of a rival clan, so departs to America…
Meet the artists and discuss what it is to create a portrait, what is meant to be captured or said about a subject, and how these artists approach this in very different ways. Portrait features works by John Sebelius, Molly Murphy, Cody McLouth and Marguerite Rappold. Sat., Dec. 4, 6-9 p.m., 2010 Tags: Cody McLouth, John Sebelius, Marguerite Rappold, Molly…
Reliable as Santa Claus, Dickens’ old holiday classic just keeps coming back. Maybe the Ebenezer Scrooge’s morality lesson means more in these crappy economic times. Nov. 19-Dec. 26, 2010 Tags: Ebenezer Scrooge, Night & Day, Santa Claus
Tea doesn’t always refer to the drink made from the camellia sinensis plant. Sometimes it’s a light meal. Get sophisticated in Westport every Sunday when the Teahouse & Coffeepot (4309 Jefferson, 816-756-2868) hosts English Afternoon Tea from 2 to 5 p.m. For $19 a person, this repast includes finger sandwiches, petit fours, scones and preserves, and a bottomless pot of…
Timothy Sandefur discusses his new book The Right to Earn a Living, which charts the history of economic liberty. Mon., Dec. 6, 6 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day, Timothy Sandefur
At the end of the traditional “12 Days of Christmas,” you’re just left with a whole bunch of stupid birds you have to feed and a “true love” (read: stalker) you probably want to dump. This year, try a new approach — and make the holidays a little more fabulous — when the 12 Divas of Christmas join the quarter-century-old…
With representation from every corner of the United Kingdom, Central Standard Theatre (in partnership with Guy Masterson Theatre Tours International and the Blackout Theatre Company)presents British Invasion Week at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. Guy Masterson, a Scot, brings two much-lauded programs of works by the Welsh Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood and a very Christmasy evening at Fern Hill (made up…
With representation from every corner of the United Kingdom, Central Standard Theatre (in partnership with Guy Masterson Theatre Tours International and the Blackout Theatre Company)presents British Invasion Week at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. Guy Masterson, a Scot, brings two much-lauded programs of works by the Welsh Dylan Thomas: Under Milk Wood and a very Christmasy evening at Fern Hill (made up…
With representation from every corner of the United Kingdom, Central Standard Theatre (in partnership with Guy Masterson Theatre Tours International and the Blackout Theatre Company)presents British Invasion Week at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. The final production comes via Blackout Theatre Company, which performs Harold Pinter’s surreal, suspenseful The Dumb Waiter, in which two hit men await their next assignment. The British…
Nerds, unite! Are you an album obsessive with an appetite for comic books or a comic obsessive with a taste for rockin’ and rollin’? Hanker no more, because the first ever Rock and Comic-con, presented by Jim Kilroy, brings together alluring collectibles from both worlds under the same roof. Aside from vendor tables with records and comics, the event features…
Santa’s bringing a fat sack of Kansas City art this year — a magical sack in which canvases are not punctured by metallic sculpture, and delicate ceramics can bang together without breaking. Such are the benefits of cavorting with elves. To put it in a different and slightly less enchanting way, the Kansas City Art Institute has a pretty awesome…
The newly opened River Market Event Space (140 Walnut, 816-591-4346) is abuzz with local artists, craftspeople and vendors for the Honeypot Holiday Shop, sponsored by the Wedding Hive. The event, from noon to 4 p.m., aims to provide locally made gifts for everyone, not just the nuptially inclined. Offerings from these queen-bee vendors include vintage stylings of Adelaide’s Homesewn, one-of-a-kind…
Artist Dave Loewenstein wears many hats: cross-country public-works muralist, printmaker, filmmaker, writer, co-founder of the community art space Lawrence Percolator. So take the Lawrence-based creative at his promise of “curious new things” during his studio’s first open house in several years. The 4-1-1 studio (411 East Ninth Street) showcases stencil prints, graphic novelettes, mural studies and more. Haggling is welcome…
Tomboy Design Studio sells locally designed, sweatshop-free apparel, and exhibits clothing, textile art and design work by independent creators each month. The shop presents a tribute to the memory of Lee Ann Bell, the founder and head artist of Fiber Lab. Check out dyed Shibori and sublimation-dyed fabrics, along with the store’s custom couture, from 6 to 9 p.m. Fri.,…
Sometimes — say, when Republicans have just rushed Washington — a joke about the possibility of a Sarah Palin presidency is as apt to induce tears as laughter. So one might prefer mental escape from a comedy club, rather than wry and timely observations about world affairs. This weekend, Iliza Shlesinger offers political refuge at Stanford’s Comedy Club at the…
Tomboy Design Studio (1817 McGee, 816-472-6200) sells locally designed, sweatshop-free apparel, and exhibits clothing, textile art and design work by independent creators each month. The shop presents a tribute to the memory of Lee Ann Bell, the founder and head artist of Fiber Lab. Check out dyed Shibori and sublimation-dyed fabrics, along with the store’s custom couture, from 6 to…
Remember your crush on your middle-school teacher and the hives it inspired every time he called on you in social studies? Pretty torturous stuff for a seventh-grader. And that nickname bestowed by mean girl Bethany Williams, likening your front teeth to walrus tusks? Totally lame. But then her high-society parents got busted in a sex scandal, and she had to…
The Power & Light District issued the call, and Kansas City’s discerning cinéastes responded, paring down a field of 10 Christmas classics, old and new, to the three most-wanted movies of this holiday season. They’re being screened at the AMC Mainstreet 6 (1400 Main, 816-474-4545) on successive Saturdays at 11 a.m. (Tuesdays, too, at 7 p.m.). There’s still a chance…
The Power & Light District issued the call, and Kansas City’s discerning cinéastes responded, paring down a field of 10 Christmas classics, old and new, to the three most-wanted movies of this holiday season. They’re being screened at the AMC Mainstreet 6 (1400 Main, 816-474-4545) on successive Saturdays at 11 a.m. (Tuesdays, too, at 7 p.m.). In a break from…
