Thursday 7.14The best movie of 2016 so far is about to leave theaters. Tonight is your last chance to see The Lobster on a local big screen, and you should take it. Writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos has made a uniquely twisted and ultimately sweet and melancholy love story, with Colin Farrell and Rachel Weisz heartbreaking as a couple genuinely in love….
Hometown: St. Joseph, where the Pony Express started and Jesse James ended.Current neighborhood: The NorthlandWhat I do: I started and help run a business called Swappa. It’s an online marketplace for buying and selling used mobile devices.What’s your addiction? Brazilian jiujitsu. For sport and leisure, I like to roll around with other adults in pajamas and try to choke them.What’s…
Torn Label Brewing Co.’s tasting room at 1708 Campbell turns a year old this weekend. To celebrate, Torn Label is releasing Funky Monk, the brewery’s Monk & Honey Belgian-inspired ale that has been aged in Union Horse rye whiskey barrels with a variety of wild yeast strains. This is a taproom exclusive, on draft and in bottles. (Torn Label offered…
Since he was child, French-born cellist Yo-Yo Ma has been revered for the way he brings classical compositions to life. But a lifetime playing the works of long-dead Western composers night after night can make even the most dedicated genius feel mired in routine rather than blessed by a calling.In part to remedy this professional hazard, Ma — with a…
Eyes, skin, scars — the faces, the details, are matter-of-fact. Painter Ryan Wilks has found an unsensational calm in a roiling subject, one portrait at a time.For Gender Treason, a series on display this month in the lower-level gallery at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, the artist depicts members of the LGBTQIA community — that’s lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender/transsexual, queer, intersexual,…
Brian WilsonEven a passive Beach Boys fan will have a hard time denying the holiness of Pet Sounds. Wednesday at the Kauffman Center, you have a chance to hear that album live in its entirety, performed by Beach Boys founding member and iconic pop mastermind Brian Wilson (with the help of an all-star band that includes former Beach Boys Al…
Pianist T.J. Martley can stride behind a singer with the best. But hearing him with his own ensemble is an uncommon treat. In that setting, you have a better opportunity to catch a solo of eloquence and introspection, perhaps while he’s delightfully pulling you along a composition by Keith Jarrett or Paul Bley. Martley, part of KC’s new jazz generation,…
Thrash-metal maniacs Ghoul hail from Creepsylvania, which might be a state, a country or a collective state of hallucination. The four masked mutant madmen have been wreaking havoc around the world for 15 years, and they kick off their next tour opening for British grindcore band Carcass on Sunday, July 17, at the Granada. That tour also sees the band…
In its original incarnation, Lawrence Field Day Fest featured the sort of games played during elementary school field days. Those games have gone by the wayside in favor of three days of the best local music the area has to offer. Past years have focused on indie and rock acts, but the fifth edition has the fest branching out with…
Downtown has yet another elegant space for cocktails. Sasha’s Baking Co. (105 West Ninth Street) is expanding its hours to include bar service from 5 to 11 p.m. on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. (Its more bakerylike daily hours — 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday — remain the same.) Owners Jackie Kincaid…
Missouri Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s vaunted “sanctity of life” investigation ended last week with all the pop of a firecracker dunked in a puddle. The only drama in a planned news conference came not from the attorney general candidate but from an uninvited marsupial. The Missouri Senate had announced that it would disclose the findings of a yearlong GOP attempt to…
Scott O. Wright, the irrepressible federal judge who died on Monday, was delighted to be the subject of an impeachment resolution in the Missouri General Assembly 12 years ago.Wright’s rulings overturning the Legislature’s abortion laws had infuriated some Republicans, including Ed Emery, a House member from Lamar, who had vowed when campaigning to “return Godly values to our culture.” Emery,…
Boulevard’s new visitors center quietly opened last week. Let me loudly say that I’ve visited the space at 2534 Madison twice, and it’s amazing. Let’s start with the best part: the second-floor beer hall, which features 24 taps, several of those pouring test beers. (I sampled Cranberry Orange Radler, Milk Stout, Helles, Black Walnut Ale and cider.) Don’t expect to…
St. Louis Cardinals fans cultivate a reputation for being the most knowledgeable in baseball. It’s to the point that the hashtag #bfib (best fans in baseball) is sometimes used ironically, as in How’d that sweep taste, #bfib #GoCubs.Turns out, Cardinals fans are the best at something else: terrible grammar.The writing app Grammarly analyzed the comments left on stories at Major League…
Lady Dynamite herself Maria Bamford will be performing at the Folly Theater on Thursday, October 20. The comedian is riding high on the afore-referred-to Netflix series, which, if you are among the few that have not seen it, get thee to your queues now. Bamford is a once-in-a-generation voice.Tickets go on sale Friday, July 15, at 10 a.m. via the…
Today, in bills that you wonder why you haven’t seen before, legendary punk band Bad Religion plans to team up with Against Me for a fall tour titled the Vox Populi (voice of the people) tour. The tour includes a Tuesday, October 18, stop at the Midland. The two originally had planned to tour together back in 2013, but due…
1990s alt-rock icons Garbage exploded onto the music scene just over 20 years ago, with an innovative, withering blend of rock and industrial sounds, led by the magnetic Shirley Manson with sounds curated and crafted by guitarists Duke Erikson and Steve Marker, all helmed by producer and drummer Butch Vig (who also produced Nirvana’s Nevermind and the Smashing Pumpkins’ Siamese…
Early last year, the ex-wife of Jackson County Sheriff Mike Sharp told Raytown police she felt scared of him.“After the midnight and 2am texts Saturday and Sunday morning it’s obvious that you are watching my house know my comings and goings,” Cindi Sharp wrote in an e-mail to her ex-husband on February 3, 2015, that she shared with police. “That…
“Women can take action to prevent rapes” is a real Midwest Voices opinion column that appears on The Kansas City Star’s website. I’m reluctant to link to this garbage to give the Star traffic from it, but here you go, if you must read it. (UPDATE: The Star pulled the story, and publisher Tony Berg issued an apology in a…
Weapon-wielding Republican gubernatorial hopeful and former NAVY SEAL Eric Greitens has a new campaign ad in which he shows his fitness for office by showing off his fitness.A former Navy SEAL fond of snug black T-shirts, Greitens shot his most recent spot in a dramatically lighted gym. The ad is a montage of Greitens, a former Navy SEAL, doing sit-ups,…
Thursday 7.7There’s no better time to behold Debbie Harry’s lips becoming tactile through a TV screen, seducing a young James Woods. David Cronenberg’s 1983 media-horror satire, Videodrome, has been remastered in 4K, and Film Society KC shows it tonight at Screenland Armour. Cronenberg didn’t foresee the tiny screens of our mobile phones, but he envisioned our growing addiction to video….
Last year, Missouri’s slow — s-l-o-w — label-approval process forced Torn Label Brewing Co.’s first bottle release, KC P’rye’d, a hoppy red-rye ale, to be a Kansas exclusive. Not this year. It’s headed to both sides of the state line. I stopped over while Torn Label was bottling it last week, and Rafi Chaudry told me this year’s version of…
Hometown: KirksvilleCurrent neighborhood: WestportWhat I do: I advocate for and promote the rights of people with disabilities to help create a more inclusive community. Also, I participate in and help promote adaptive sports in KC.What’s your addiction? The two W’s … wine and whiskey. Always going to a tasting for one of the two. Also, I’m a baseball genius.What’s your…
The Charlotte Street Foundation wants to spend the whole weekend with you. Flesh Crisis 2016, a three-day bill of performances by local, national and international artists, goes from 7 to 9 p.m. July 7, 8 and 9 at La Esquina Gallery (1000 West 25th Street; see facebook.com/fleshcrisis).The symposium’s first night has Nash Bryant, Wolfgang Bucher, Dominic Burkart, Jose Garza, Valerie…
