John Toth didn’t have the cure to Lyme disease. But he tried to sell it. Toth, 61, proved quite the snake oil peddling scumbag. In September 2001, the Topeka physician and a group of associates started a company called American Biologics. Their strategy: Market and sell a microscope and drugs to diagnose and treat Lyme disease. They claimed that there…
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. Is He Straight? The Checklist for Women Who Wonder Author: Bonnie Kaye, M.Ed Date: 2004 Publisher: iUniverse Representative Quote: “If your husband spends excessive time on the…
The Fantasticks is a romantic charmer and at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time. Sat., Feb. 12, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Feb. 13, 2 p.m.; Thu., Feb. 17, 7:30…
This collaboration between the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative and veterans and supporters from Iraq Veterans Against the War is a direct response to the suicide epidemic and violation of GI’s right to heal within the GI and veteran community. Fri., Feb. 11, 5-9 p.m., 2011 Tags: Iraq Veterans Against the War, Night & Day
Adam Sandler’s latest turn as a redeemable cad casts the Grown Ups star as Danny, a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon ready to settle down after meeting 23-year-old hottie, Palmer (Brooklyn Decker). That is, until she stumbles upon the fake wedding ring he totes around to help him get laid. The two end up heading off to Hawaii with Danny’s assistant,…
Last year’s revival of the womencentric music festival Lilith Fair was largely a failure. Because so few people bought tickets, 13 dates were canceled. The show did go on in Kansas City, and that was the last time we saw festival founder and headliner Sarah McLachlan, whose emotive balladry hasn’t changed much over the years. She returns with two of…
Masquerade meets bigheartedness at Val-O-Ween 2011: the Amazeball, the second annual benefit for local AIDS service organizations at the Madrid Theatre (3810 Main). The Millennial League of the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City put on this holiday mash-up for 500 people in 2010. This year, attendees are treated to the dirty jokes of YouTube sketch-comedy duo Jessica and…
Pretty petunias are great, but a flower garden doesn’t feed the family. In keeping with the urban-farming trend, the Metropolitan Lawn and Garden Show at the American Royal Center (1701 American Royal Court) devotes much of its schedule to showing how to grow, prepare and save your own produce and herbs. The “Garden of Eatin’ ” area comes courtesy of Powell…
Johnson County Community College’s Performing Arts Series presents a cavalcade of classic comedy stars at 8 p.m. On the roster: Ed Grimley, Jiminy Glick, Franck Eggelhoffer the wedding planner, and more. All right, all of these “stars” are actually personas of one comedy legend. He’s bringing them all for An Evening With Martin Short, a one-man show at Yardley Hall…
When the University of Kansas men’s basketball team last faced the Iowa State University Cyclones exactly a month ago in Ames, Iowa, badass KU juniors Marcus and Markieff Morris — identical twins, with matching tattoos — demonstrated why they both are likely bound for the NBA. The brothers combined for 50 points and 24 rebounds, leading the way to an…
If you first met her in the pages of Eat, Pray, Love, you may consider Elizabeth Gilbert some kind of Voice of the American Woman — an Oprah-doing, happiness-wooing, living, breathing, om-ing guide to conquering womanly restlessness. Her follow-up memoir, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage, won’t convince you otherwise. But throw Gilbert’s bibliography in reverse, and the picture…
Harriman-Jewell Series presents Kansas City’s own opera superstar, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. The acclaimed mezzo will sing her fourth recital for the Series on her birthday and in her hometown. She will be joined by pianist David Zobel, who played for DiDonato’s 2006 recital, to perform arias and songs by Rossini, Haydn, Chaminade, Hahn, Buzzi-Peccia, Di Chiara, and Leoncavallo. Sun., Feb….
Monday is a traditional day off in the theater world, but many singers drop in anyhow for Musical Theater Heritage’s lively cabaret nights. Mon., Feb. 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Mon., March 21, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Mon., April 25, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Aug. 1, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Sept. 12, 7:30-9:30 p.m.; Mon., Nov. 14, 7:30-9:30 p.m., 2011 Tags: 275, Night & Day
It’s a universal fact: The ladies love them some Viggo Mortensen. So for us men who can’t compete with the Rings trilogy’s Aragorn or the badass Russian gangster Nikolai from Eastern Promises, Mortensen’s turn in John Hillcoat’s 2009 adaptation The Road is the great equalizer. Dragging his young son through the ravaged gray wasteland on a perilous quest for a…
Northland Exposure ArtistsÆ Gallery in Parkville will host Art for the Heart of the Shelter, a fundraiser and art show benefiting the Friends of Parkville Animal Shelter. The gallery’s member artists will include animal-themed pieces of art for sale among their regular displays, and refreshments will be served. Sun., Feb. 13, 2-4 p.m., 2011 Tags: Night & Day, Parkville (Brooklyn)
If your leg lust isn’t satiated by Valentine’s Day, see new, local burlesque troupe Divine Divas perform its Tribute to Love Show at 8 p.m. Monday at Czar Bar (1531 Grand, 816-221-2244). The $10 cover also includes performances by Dutch Humphreys and Jesse James Gang Band. Mon., Feb. 14, 9 p.m., 2011 Tags: Czar Bar, Jesse James, Night & Day,…
Burlesque Downtown Underground’s newest show, Addicted to Love, takes up different perspectives of human emotion by way of neo-burlesque performances. Every “luscious lady” in the show — including the troupe’s newest member, Ivory Wilde — is a professional actor, dancer or singer. Addicted features a few cabaret-style songs done without the removal of clothing — but with special guest Steven…
If you could take a time machine back to the late 1990s, it would be possible to revisit the entire sordid Clinton-impeachment scandal, from the president’s dumb liaison with a White House intern to the testimony of the undisputed Worst Confidante Ever, Linda Tripp. Thanks to the immutable laws of physics, time travel is impossible, so if you’re in the…
When the inspiration of a Valentine’s Day production is infamous alleged pornographer Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde, you know not to expect moonlight and roses. Even in Vienna, La Ronde’s cynical and explicit account of a string of random sexual encounters was considered so transgressive, it took 20 years to reach the stage — and even then, its 1921 premiere was…
McArthur Genius Fellowship winner Sarah Ruhl’s quirky comedy comes to life directed by Ric Averill. While at a café, a man dies, but his cell phone will not stop ringing. The woman at the next table picks it up and finds herself stuck in the middle of the dead man’s troubles. She meets his widow, his mother, his mistress, and…
The war in Afghanistan — Operation Enduring Freedom — is enduring longer than expected (the conflict is approaching the decade mark), and the war in Iraq will soon be entering its eighth year. Yet it has become all too easy to block thoughts about war — and the astronomical economic, political, social and human costs. The Kansas City Actors Theatre…
%{}% A suicide attempt is always hard to understand — especially if the person tries to do himself in by driving his car into a truck on the highway. That’s messy and painful. Then again, if the police find out that the person attempting suicide had been making and distributing child pornography for years, it makes total sense. North Kansas…
A couple of nights ago, I noticed that several large windows facing Walnut Street at Thirsty’s Cantina in the River Market were boarded up with plywood. If you didn’t know that the restaurant and saloon wasn’t closed — and it isn’t — you might think it was. A Fat City reader also wanted to know what was behind the boarded-up…
UPDATE: The St. Louis County Medical Examiner released a statement today saying August Busch IV’s girlfriend, Adrienne Martin, died from an accidental overdose of oxycodone, according to our sister paper, the Riverfront Times. Read the medical examiner’s statement after the jump. Original Story (February 7): The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is reporting that the 27-year-old girlfriend of former Anheuser-Busch chief executive…
