Thursday 3.31 Consider this fair warning: You have 10 days to catch one of the most influential thrillers of the last decade before it leaves Netflix. 2009’s Let the Right One In approaches its supernatural subject matter (vampirism) in the most naturalistic and practical way possible. An awkward 12-year-old boy in Stockholm is bullied at school. He befriends a “young…
Kansas City is one of the most successful stops on New Belgium’s Clips Beer and Film tour. So it’s no surprise that the 16-city fest, which doubles as a fundraiser for BikeWalk KC, is coming back to Theis Park on Thursday, June 9. (Last year’s Clips drew 2,300 people to the park and raised $17,500 for BikeWalk KC.) Clips is…
Friday and Saturday, the Kansas City Public Library and the University of Missouri-Kansas City color in our black-and-white, Prohibition-busting, cowtown-boozetown-machinetown-jazztown-balltown past with a symposium called Wide Open Town. (Among the archival images you’ll see: Muehlebach Field, built in 1923 and later called Municipal Stadium, shown here as a football hub.) Visiting scholars and prominent locals (including Chuck Haddix and Stuart…
Hometown: Girard, Kansas Current neighborhood: Union Hill What I do: I represent an array of clients in class-action and contingency matters, while chairing the Young Friends of Art board of directors and managing KC Gooners. What’s your addiction? International travel. Whether it be North London for an Arsenal match, Tanzania to hike Kilimanjaro, Peru for a post-bar-exam trek to Machu…
Kansas City Mayor Sly James says the city could about a month away from learning when the future of Kansas City International will go before voters. After a nearly hour-long State of the City address, followed by his guest appearance with local band the Naughty Pines, James took questions from a dozen members of the media. The Pitch has been…
Like one of Jonathan Gold’s reviews come to life, City of Gold — documentarian Laura Gabbert’s paean to gastronomic urbanism, its greatest living champion and its natural capital city — finds the lyrical in Los Angeles’ hot-dog trucks, Korean street food and hagfish. Like Gold, a native Angeleno who won the first Pulitzer Prize ever handed to a food critic,…
It’s hard to think of anyone who has written about the food, drink and restaurants of Los Angeles more effectively (or, really, just plain more) than Jonathan Gold has. Which means it’s hard to name anyone who has written better about Los Angeles than Jonathan Gold has. That’s among the messages spirited, fortune-cookie-like, inside City of Gold, director Laura Gabbert’s…
%{}%Some will leave I Saw the Light wanting to hear actual Hank Williams recordings and read a few words about him. Others will be tempted to get up in the middle of this maddening, sloppy biopic and start streaming Williams’ songs in the popcorn line. Do that and you’re likely to skip the rest of the movie and leave the…
Though art provides plenty of future shock, some months’ shows suggest instead a look over our shoulders. April, for instance, is a chance to time-travel back, back, back to … March 2016, when the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts’ annual conference swept into virtually every art space in Kansas City. This First Friday, April 1, a number…
When it comes to authentic New York-style bagels, many Kansas Citians have no frame of reference. Growing up in Stilwell, Kansas, just south of Overland Park, I thought bagels didn’t exist beyond the sad, stale rings at Panera Bread, or the cheesy concoctions at Einstein Bros. (paired with some kind of sugary schmear). Only when I got a little older…
Try to remember a time when a production of The Fantasticks, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt’s romantic chamber musical, wasn’t a day trip away. The show opened Off Broadway in 1960 and ran for 42 years and some 17,000 performances. Its popularity hasn’t dwindled since. The Kansas City Repertory Theatre — known then as the Missouri Rep — performed it…
We still like to say it out loud: The Kansas City Royals won the World Series. Five months later, the world championship continues to sound improbable, even with the very real energy of the victory parade still ringing in our ears, our legs still aching with the memory of the many miles we walked just to be a part of…
Can there really ever be too much of a good thing? Yes, although in the restaurant universe, it’s unlikely that anyone is going to complain about portions that are too generous, booths that are too comfortable, service that’s too attentive or a menu with an abundance of choices. And that’s the quandary for Jarocho Pescados y Mariscos, the cozy seafood-and-shrimp…
Ra Ra Riot’s early recordings — such as the Syracuse band’s debut LP, The Rhumb Line, in 2006 — were hailed as baroque pop gems. That was due in no small part to the band having both a cellist and a violin player. But after the departure of cellist Alexandra Lawn, Ra Ra Riot’s music took a synth turn. In…
Ernie Krivda may be best-known in his native Cleveland, Ohio — where he was born 71 years ago as Krvda Ernö — but he brings a resume any jazz musician would envy. He started out with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra. Cannonball Adderley introduced him to Quincy Jones, with whom he toured and recorded. And he has performed with Chick Corea,…
Kawehi shot to fame two years ago, when the Hawaiian-born artist’s cover of Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” went viral. She and her husband had been living in Lawrence for less than a year, but the Kansas City scene was quick to claim her as our own. The Internet response was due to Kawehi’s particular rearrangement. Using a microphone, a live-looping setup…
Gary Clark Jr. When Blak And Blu — Gary Clark Jr.’s major-label debut — arrived, in 2012, it was like discovering a new gospel. The Austin guitarist was heralded as one of the most authentic new talents in blues; in 2013, he won a Grammy for Best Traditional R&B Performance. Clark’s answer to this success was to sequester himself in…
