Jagged Little Pill touring production // Photo by Matthew Murphy, Evan Zimmerman for MurphyMade, 2022 Starlight Theater has announced its 2024 AdventHealth Broadway series, with a diverse lineup of musicals celebrating uniqueness, resilience, and the triumph of the underdog. The 2023 season just wrapped up recently, including Jagged Little Pill: The Musical and Rain—A Tribute to the Beatles. Here is…
Native Gardens. // Courtesy Unicorn If the idiom is true and “good fences make good neighbors,” then can we assume the inverse also applies? That’s the idea behind Karen Zacarías’ Native Gardens, currently onstage at the Unicorn Theatre. Zacarías’ work takes the form of a simple, even borderline formulaic comedy. There are some weighty issues at play but they are…
Evelyn Hofer // Photo by Hayden Kalp Last saturday, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art unveiled the Evelyn Hofer (1922-2009) feature exhibit. Hofer, a photographer, was best known for her gritty, street level photography. Although relatively unknown in the states, her work is celebrated throughout Europe. Her career as a photographer spans several decades, and if a picture says a thousand…
Macmo Green and MajorPac Mascot on Stage at the Major Cannabis Expo at T-Mobile Center. // Photo by Joe Ellett The second annual Major Cannabis Expo took place this past Saturday, allowing for one of the first ever organized, recreational cannabis events to take place in Kansas City. The event began at 10 a.m. with different vendors from dispensaries to…
May Pang sits a table inside Leawood Fine Arts, ready to sign signatures at The Lost Weekend: The Photography of May Pang. (Photo by Joe Ellett) While he may have passed over 40 years ago, John Lennon’s spirit and stories still remain alive through his past companion, May Pang. At Leawood Fine Art, Pang shares her many candid photos and…
Moon Bar pop-up at Swordfish Tom’s. // Photo by Brooke Tramel Some of us follow roundabout paths to find our calling. For Saranya Hubbard, co-owner and drink designer of Moon Bar, she knew where her path was leading from the moment she mixed her first drink. “I started out as a bartender in Bangkok, and I fell in love with…
Courtesy Travis Carroll-Photographer Let’s raise a glass to Restless Spirits, a family-owned, Irish-style craft distillery founded in 2014 by Benay Shannon, a retired science teacher turned award-winning distiller, and her husband, Mike Shannon, a whiskey lover and successful brand executive. If you’ve visited their tasting room in North Kansas City, you’ve likely spied the 500-gallon copper pot they dubbed “Darby…
A museum in Paola is in the middle of ongoing efforts of trying to return objects from a 38-piece collection of pre-Columbian artifacts. /./ Photo by Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector PAOLA — A Peruvian artifact estimated to be more than a thousand years old, well-wrapped in white tissue paper and stuck into a borrowed school duffel bag, marks the first success…
1984: The Talking Heads line-up for the concert film ‘Stop Making Sense’ (L-R Steve Scales, Bernie Worrell, Jerry Harrison, Ednah Holt, David Byrne, Lynn Mabry, Tina Wemouth, Chris Frantz and Alex Weir) pose for a portrait in 1984. // Photo by Sire Records/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images If you were to come up with the platonic ideal of a filmed concert,…
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real. // photo by Mike Dotson Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real with Talia Keys Knuckleheads Saturday, September 16 and Sunday, September 17 On Saturday and Sunday night, California country rockers Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real took over Knuckleheads for two sold-out shows. Multi-instrumental wizard Talia Keys opened both nights. Our…
Rob Zombie. // photo by Barry Meitler The Freaks on Parade Tour with Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Ministry, and Filter Azura Amphitheater Friday, September 15 On Friday night, titans of shock rock Rob Zombie and Alice Cooper brought ‘The Freaks on Parade Tour’ to Bonner Spring’s Azura Amphitheater for a night of theatrical performances. Costume changes, props, fire, and more…
On Nov. 11, the annual THUNDERGONG! is set to make its arrival back to Uptown Theater. Benefitting the Steps of Faith Foundation, a nonprofit organization that supports amputees through prosthetic funding, care, and hope, tickets go on sale Friday morning at 10 a.m. With Sudeikis hosting the rock and roll variety show, attendees are in store for an evening full…
Blind soccer field construction underway at KSSB. // Courtesy of KSSB Kansas City Blind All-Stars (KCBAS) recently received funding from The Victory Project to install a blind soccer field on the Kansas State School of the Blind (KSSB) campus this fall. Blind soccer, also known as 5-a-side soccer is an adaptation of soccer for those who are blind or visually…
Chat Pile. // Photo by Bayley Hanes In our series No Skips, we sit down with an artist or band and go track-by-track through their latest release. For some of us, the banter in a concert where a song gets explained is our favorite thing in the world, and we’d just like to keep living in that. Every song has…
Courtesy of United Colors Gallery Beetles and vintage girls don’t typically go together, but this time, we are making an exception for the current exhibition at United Colors’ container gallery. Colony, presented by artist Marika Arellano Christofides, is transforming a shipping container into a bio-fantasia filled with colorful beetles and butterflies made with old-time golden girl elements for the month…
Photo by Tarik Sykes The Kansas City Royals came through with the win on Saturday, September 16, against the Houston Astros during the Salute to the Negro Leagues game presented by U.S. Bank. The Royals wore KC Monarchs jerseys, while the Astros represented the Houston Eagles to pay tribute to baseball history. Our photographer, Tarik Sykes, was there to capture…
Dallas Moore. // photo by Miek Dotson Touring in support of his latest album, No God In Juarez, released earlier this summer, “The Hardest Working Man in Honky Tonk” Dallas Moore took to the Knuckleheads stage on Friday, September 15. Our photographer, Mike Dotson, was there to capture the outlaw country performer in all his glory. Categories: Music Tags: dallas…
Enter Shikari. // photo by Jeffrey Allee British electronic rock outfit Enter Shikari packed recordBar Thursday night in the first show on their USA & Mexico tour of their seventh and newest album, A Kiss For the Whole World, which was their first album to hit #1 on UK charts. Enter Shikari has been making music since 1999 and has…
Flyer courtesy of // The Truman Friday, Nov. 17th will be an all-timer as Snail Mail, Caleb Hearon, and others will converge at the Truman for the 2nd annual benefit show for KC Tenants. KC Tenants is a non-profit, union organization created and ran by tenants. The aim of the organization is to ensure that all Kansas City resident has…
Adobe Photos A recent report by an international human rights group ranked Missouri in the bottom third of all states for child rights, in part because Missouri still allows child marriage and corporal punishment in schools. The report, published by the non-governmental organization Human Rights Watch, measured every state’s laws against the standards of the Convention on the Rights of…
Attorney General Kris Kobach said the change would reflect “scientific fact as recorded by the doctor at the time of birth.” // Sam Bailey/Kansas Reflector TOPEKA — The state will no longer recognize transgender Kansans’ identities, reversing birth records back to assigned sex at birth and halting future modifications of birth certificates following a federal judge’s ruling. “Kansas birth certificates…
Kansas City, MO – January 13, 2022: STATIC PHANTOMS at the Hotel Kansas City, Library Room If one had to imagine a perfect pairing of two area musicians, Dedric Moore and Krysztof Nemeth from Monta and Emmaline Twist, respectively, would absolutely be it. Thankfully, they agree, and formed Static Phantoms. Their debut EP, Bathed In a Blue Light, introduced the duo’s…
Courtesy photo Lawrence funk band The Whips are hosting their album release party at Lucia this Friday, September 15, where they’ll be playing their new album, How to Hold a Grudge, live in its entirety for the first time. Despite their youth, the band has become one of the biggest draws in Lawrence, having packed the Granada on a double…
The Cast Of KcRep’s 2023 production Of Cyrano De Bergerac. // Photo by Don Ipock Actor James Chen has tried his hand at every type of role, but the one he’s inhabiting right now asks him to pluck the best of the best from all that has come before. The Long Island native is in KC, tackling the indomitable role…
