This year marks the 18th annual Día de Los Muertos exhibition of artwork and ofrendas (altars) at Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery (919 West 17th Street), starting with a 6-10 p.m. reception Friday, October 7, and continuing with a street festival from 1 to 9 p.m. the next day. At the latter, expect vendors, music, cultural activities and refreshments for sale….
Fans of KC Bier Company’s offerings will no longer have to venture to the beer garden at 79th Street and Wornall Road — beginning Monday, October 3, the brewer will distribute bottled versions of its Dunkel, Hefeweizen and Helles beers at retail stores. The beer will come in 12-ounce longneck bottles, available in six-packs or by the case.KC Company notes…
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has agreed to fixes demanded by the American Civil Liberties Union in advance of the November election.Kobach faced a hearing on Friday in which he was going to have to explain why he should not be held in contempt of court. In May, U.S. District Court Judge Julie Robinson ordered the state to register…
A coalition of civil rights activist groups is asking the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office to open an investigation into the death of Ryan Stokes — who was shot twice in the back by a Kansas City, Missouri, police officer three years ago — as a violation of the Civil Rights Act.The Rev. Vernon Percy Howard Jr., president of…
For the benefit of anyone drawn into the hotel room by the charming music, the band’s name was spelled in wooden letters on the floor. This was the 2015 Folk Alliance International conference, and the musicians who’d made this endearing gesture had come a long way: Oh Pep, of Melbourne, Australia.Oh Pep is primarily the work Olivia Hally (the Oh)…
Thursday 9.29In the midst of an apocalyptic energy crisis, an estranged couple wakes up in bed together and is immediately kidnapped by men in gas masks. When one of them is later killed, the day starts over. The new low-budget sci-fi flick ARQ puts a claustrophobic spin on time-looping movies like Groundhog Day and Edge of Tomorrow. Sure, it feels…
In a racially charged political year, the Coterie Theatre’s production of The Nine Who Dared: Courage in Little Rock — an absorbing true account of court-ordered school desegregation in the late 1950s — feels timely, and sadly apropos. The play’s opening weekend coincided as well with the day, 59 years ago, when nine black students first tried to attend an…
Missouri has looked for years for a leader willing to fight big money. Someone to wrest control from multimillionaire meddler Rex Sinquefield and other groups and people who routinely write seven-figure checks to influence elected officials. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon said he would be the one. He vowed to lead a movement to limit campaign contributions, taking it to the…
Hometown: ClevelandCurrent neighborhood: WestwoodWhat I do: GlassBandit provides glass-recycling pickup for residential houses (curbside), apartments, condos and businesses.What’s your addiction? E-mail. I can’t stop checking my e-mail.What’s your game? I love to play soccer. You’ll find me at the Soccer Lot about four nights a week.What’s your drink? I’m a big fan of Great Lakes Brewing Co., out of Cleveland,…
A historical core sample of oppression and overcoming materializes before you in “Property,” the sculpture of found and fabricated objects by Nick Cave (the American artist, not the Australian musician) recently installed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The 1,000 objects he has laid into old sewing boxes tap into Cave’s personal story and commingle it with the history of…
Rodney Beagle’s beer is coming to Colony Espresso and Beer — it’s just going to take a little while. The North Kansas City coffee shop and bar is in the beginning stages of filing the necessary paperwork, but Beagle — a homebrewer who spent time learning to brew at Big Rip Brewing Co. — says he expects to have a…
Since March, Leslie and Nick Goellner have gone over every detail of their soon-to-open new restaurant, the Antler Room. And it shows — their buildout of the space at 2506 Holmes Road (formerly Chips and Dips Mediterranean Café) is subtle and sophisticated, with custom woodwork in each room that highlights the custom tables (built by Leslie’s father, John), midcentury-inspired bentwood…
Eddie Moore is looking for a home. It doesn’t have to be anything fancy. Actually, it’s probably better if the place is a little rough here and there — not big, not formal. Moore, the jazz pianist who leads Eddie Moore and and the Outer Circle, knows Kansas City boasts some really beautiful places, old and venerable joints, coat-and-tie rooms.That’s…
The Uptown filled up early for last night’s long-anticipated Lianne La Havas and Leon Bridges show. By the time La Havas took the stage, at 8 p.m., the floor had filled almost shoulder-to-shoulder, and the space only got tighter for the remainder of the sold-out event. Both artists played to personal strengths and utilized the energy of the crowd —…
Monday morning, Kansas City’s biggest media organization kneecapped its most visible, prolific and engaged opinion writer, the sometimes maddeningly quixotic Yael T. Abouhalkah, a four-decade Star veteran. His firing was good news for just one person, Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback, the endlessly deserving target of Abouhalkah’s sharpest attacks in recent times. Among those for whom the dismissal is not good:…
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has rescinded its decision to rescind support for the constitutional amendment to raise the cigarette tax in Missouri by 60 cents a pack.On Monday, the paper published an editorial encouraging voters to say yes to Amendment 3, a ballot question to raise the nation’s lowest tobacco tax. Childhood health and education programs would receive most of…
Rain had threatened to unsettle the second-ever Local Natives show in the Kansas City area (the first was in Lawrence a little more than two years ago). Yet thankfully for the 500 or so fans who came out to the Crossroads last night, the weather held through the band’s 80-minute set, which blended music from each of Local Natives’ three…
Following a jubilant performance at the Bottleneck in Lawrence last weekend, the Anniversary has announced another local show, this time in Kansas City. The band will appear at the RecordBar (1520 Grand Boulevard) on Wednesday, November 9. Tickets are $20 and are available now via Ticketfly. Based on last weekend’s performance, it’s worth the school night. With each member of the…
Last night’s sold-out Chance the Rapper show at the Midland began as an enormous and surreal hassle. Opener Francis and the Lights was supposed to take the stage at 8 p.m. (with doors at 7:30 p.m.), yet 1,500-plus young fans wrapped around the outside of the Midland well after 9, from the Main Street entrance back around the corner of…
I wonder how many casual filmgoers are going to finish watching The Magnificent Seven this weekend and think: “Wow, that was a lot like Suicide Squad.” Of course, The Magnificent Seven, starring Denzel Washington, is a remake of the 1960 Western of the same name, which itself is a remake of the 1954 Kurosawa classic Seven Samurai. But with its aging A-list movie…
Steve Martin and Martin Short8 p.m. Friday, September 23The Midland1228 MainThe 85th Annual Plaza Art Fair5-10 p.m. Friday, September 2310 a.m.–10 p.m. Saturday, September 2411 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, September 25Country Club PlazaInvicta Fighting Championships 197 p.m. Friday, September 23Kansas City Scottish Rite1330 Linwood Blvd.Hallmarket10 a.m.–5 p.m. Saturday, September 24Crown Center Square2450 GrandPhantasm9:30 p.m. Saturday, September 24Alamo Drafthouse1400 MainDavid Bowie: A…
Adam Roberts loves movie posters. That’s not especially surprising, given that Roberts (and his brother-in-law, Brent Miller) run the Screenland theater franchise. But Roberts has taken his love to the next level: He’s partnering with local artists and Vahalla Studios for a series of film showings and accompanying screen prints. It starts Friday, October 7, with the remastered Phantasm (long…
The Kansas City Star has documented some of the failures of the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department’s crimes-against-children unit. The Star obtained memos in which police officials use words like “gross negligence” and “incompetence” to describe the unit’s performance. Written by Glenn E. Rice, Donna McGuire and Ian Cummings, the story raises serious questions about police department leadership. An unidentified…
Thursday 9.22The next draft-only release from Double Shift Brewing Co. (412 East 18th Street) is a Wheat Wine, brewed with honey malt and aged in brandy-soaked oak. It’s a big one at 9.1 percent ABV, and I’m hoping to try this one. Celebrate the three years of Cinder Block Brewery (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City) with a firkin…
