Presented by the Brookside Business Association, this four-day shopping event features local businesses — beauty supply to boutique clothing to candles to pet care — putting their wares out on the sidewalk and inside at lowered prices to get ready for fall inventory. Store hours vary. Thu., July 7; Fri., July 8; Sat., July 9; Sun., July 10, 2011 Tags:…
Featuring Storm Front, Westminster Chorus, Musical Island Boys, Swedish Match and more, this concert is sponsored by the Barbershop Harmony Society. Tickets can be purchased at barbershop.tix.com or at the Folly box office. Thu., July 7, 4:15-6:30 p.m., 2011 Tags: Night & Day, SPEBSQSA Inc., Swedish Match
This fiber exhibit showcases the work of Jason Pollen, a local artist who was the Chair of the Kansas City Art Institute Fiber Department from 1995-2010. Due to unsuccessful corrective back surgeries, Pollen was left chronically disabled. This collection of abstract and figurative work was first created from bedside, then in a wheelchair and finally, into his studio. It chronicles…
This is a gay-friendly version of the story of six unemployed Brits who decide to put together a striptease act. The Full Monty is directed by Barb Nichols. Get tickets at unionstation.purchase-tickets-online.com/public/show_events_list.asp or call 816-460-2020. Mondays, Thursdays-Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sun., July 10, 3 p.m.; Mon., July 11, 8 p.m.; Sun., July 17, 3 p.m. Starts: July 7. Continues through July…
Local kid-rocker Jim Cosgrove will be performing two shows live in the Programming Room today at 11 a.m. for this free family-friendly show. Reserve some spots today for this educational, high-energy show by calling 816-741-4721. Tue., July 12, 9:30 & 11 a.m., 2011 Tags: Jim Cosgrove, Night & Day
At the age of 15, Jason Bowers wasn’t really supposed to be in the kitchen. But a friend from down the road in Kirksville, Missouri, was manning the meat slicer. So Bowers would sneak in back and fry up a few steaks for the cooks. If he got caught, that would likely be the end of his career at the…
All too often, the source of a public relations disaster is nothing more than poor timing and a dash of forgetfulness. This week, the Army Corps of Engineers is learning that lesson. Every year, the corps sends out letters to landowners in flood-prone areas. But this year, those letters are rubbing farmers the wrong way. The idea in the letters,…
This week, in our tangible, paper edition: A chat with Marideth Sisco about the Ozark country-noir film Winter’s Bone. Sisco appears in the film and contributed a number of songs to it, and she’s a really smart, friendly lady. Check it out here. And see Sisco and her band perform songs from the film (and more) Friday at Crosstown Station….
The second installment of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows doesn’t come out until July 15 (it does premiere in London tomorrow), but we have this to tide us over: Kansas City Potter fanatic Mandy Maynard’s Hallows, a parody of Beyonce’s Halo. She apparently is a triplet and tried out once for American Idol — and Simon called her and…
Last night, relatively new Lawrence act Major Games opened for guitar wonder Marnie Stern at RecordBar in Kansas City. Tonight the band plays with local band the Generals at the Eighth Street Taproom (10 p.m.). We recently typed with members Doug, Jeremy and Steve. Categories: Music Tags: Major Games
This weekend, I saw the last 45 minutes of Green Lantern (so awful) and all of X-Men: First Class (wonderful) at the I-70 Drive-In Theater. Unfortunately, between features, the reel operator didn’t play one of those cheesy intermission cartoons to entice me to buy a bucket of buttery popcorn. Maybe I would have ponied up had they played Kansas City-based…
Adults may soon be praying for snow. Snow & Co., an artful frozen-cocktail bar is coming to the Crossroads this fall in the former Black Bamboo space at 1815 Wyandotte. “We want to change perceptions,” says partner Jerry Nevins. “It’s not a girly drink thing; it’s a frozen-drink thing.” Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: snow & company
It’s been more than a month since an EF5 tornado tore through Joplin, but new footage of the twister keeps coming out. Above is the latest video, and it’s still frightening. H/t: Turner Report. Categories: News Tags: Joplin tornado
The grocery-store shelves and kitchens of Kansas City may be telling a different story than the rest of America. Because odds are, the best sauce in your fridge isn’t KC Masterpiece. But don’t tell that to Consumer Reports , which ranked KC Masterpiece among its “very good” sauces – a list that also included Great Value Original and Archer Farms…
%{}% A search of a computer at an Independence priests’ home where the Rev. Shawn Ratigan was staying has turned up photos of a child, The Kansas City Star reported today. Ratigan is charged with three counts of possessing child pornography — up-skirt photos of young girls taken at the church and around the school. The Star reported that a…
You can already get a beer down at Burger King’s Whopper Bar in the Power & Light District, but that might not be the only fast-food joint serving brews in the future. Sonic is going to test market beer and wine at two Florida locations, and Starbucks is already serving beer and wine at four Seattle-area coffee shops. While alcohol…
The second annual Rock the Crossroads 5k run/walk goes down this Saturday, July 9, at 7:30 p.m. In case you missed last year’s, it’s basically a low-key 5k that goes through downtown and the Crossroads, at the end of which you get to watch a free show on the Grinders outdoor stage. Categories: Music Tags: rock the crossroads
Sad news. Blair Shanahan Lane, the 11-year-old girl struck in the neck by a stray bullet on the Fourth of July, died Tuesday around 5 p.m. Police responded to a call about a girl being injured in a fireworks accident at 43rd and Pitman around 9:15 p.m. July 4. But this wasn’t a fireworks accident. Officers figured out that Lane…
