A young visitor to the Rabbit hOle climbs out of the tunnel that’s part of the exhibit for ‘The Funny Thing’ // Photo by Beth Lipoff Tucked away in an industrial neighborhood in North Kansas City, the Rabbit hOle’s 150,000 square foot building doesn’t stand out much from the outside. Inside is a different story, as you go up, well,…
Created with RNI Films app. Profile ‘None’ Somehow, with the contagious call-and-response chant “What’s your zodiac sign?” Fatman Scoop and the Crooklyn Clan popularized astrology as an unlikely dancefloor subject on the 1999 club hit “Be Faithful.” Twenty-five years later, the anthem remains undefeated, and dance parties, like this weekend’s Zodiac Disco, are still asking you to proclaim your astrological…
Jim ‘Mr. Stinky Feet’ Cosgrove. // photo courtesy the artist For the last 25 years, Kansas City kid-rocker Jim “Mr. Stinky Feet” Cosgrove has been playing shows to young’uns the world over, with more than 4750 shows performed across North America and Europe. Add to that ten albums and three children’s books, to say nothing of his time as a…
Christian King, a doula with Uzazi Village in Kansas City, wraps Mikia Marshall, 33, with a kanga cloth to help take pressure off her stomach on Feb. 27, 2024 (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent) Christian King watched her sister lie sick in a hospital bed for days after suffering a placental abruption while giving birth. Finally, after their mother pleaded with hospital…
Keep Them Coming with Kristen Thomas. // Photo by Nicole Bissey The nipple can be an erogenous zone on all bodies, regardless of gender. There can be psychosocial reasons for people not wanting their nipples played with, such as taboos or bad past experiences. Some women who once loved to have their partner suck on their nips while they came…
Photo by Carissa Dorson If you’re a fan of indie cult fave filmmakers Justin Benson and Aaron Moorehead, take note: Michael Felker, the pair’s longtime collaborator who edited most of their movies made his feature directing debut at SXSW, and the results are pretty solid. Felker’s Things Will Be Different is a lean, clever sci-fi thriller that fits right in…
Guster. photo by Allison Scavo Guster The Madrid Theatre Tuesday, March 13 Guster is currently on their “We Also Have Eras” tour, putting a new spin on the execution of concerts. An Extra Long Evening with Guster, their hilarious and true set, is a performance of songs through a play. It begins with the origin of the band and its…
Art by Cassondra Jones Looking for delicious plans? Whether you want to impress a date, show your fam the best of KC, or just get out of the house, we’ve got you covered… all while supporting (mostly) local. Here is your weekly roundup of the best food and drink offerings around Kansas City. Cheers! Something New Kin Seltzer: Kansas City’s…
Courtesy A24 Do you like The Coen Brothers’ Blood Simple? How about Panos Cosmatos’ Mandy? Do you think you’d be into a movie that combined the themes of the first with the visuals of the second, and added in the tragic, queer-coded vibes of Tracy Chapman’s Fast Car and…like…The Hulk for good measure? If the answer to all of the…
CPKC Stadium at media preview day. // Photo by Hannah Strader Written in blue lettering on the interior wall of a building that still smells of sawdust and plaster, there reads, “Somewhere out there, there’s a fan who’s here for their first time, their last time, or their only time. I owe that fan my best.” It’s a poignant phrase…
Mama Drama // Photo courtesy of Nicole Burch About 15 years ago, local comedian Nicole Burch made the move from Kansas City out to Los Angeles, in an effort to further push her comedic career. Within her second day in LA, she was already auditioning for and being accepted by the Groundlings Theater, which has paved the way for many…
The National Nuclear Safety Administration plans to expand its Kansas City facility, which develops and manufactures the non-nuclear components of nuclear weapons. Missouri lawmakers are hoping to approve a sales tax exemption on construction materials for the private developer building the expansion (Allison Kite/Missouri Independent) Kansas City-area lawmakers want to give a sales tax break to developers expected to expand…
Activist Jae Moyer holds up a sign protesting new legislation that would restrict access to gender-affirming care in the state. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — State employees would no longer be able to so much as call transgender children by their chosen pronouns under a bill blocking transgender minors in the state from receiving gender-affirming care. The legislation is barreling…
Making Memories (Image Proposal // Work by Celina Curry The Charlotte Street Crossroads Artboards are double-sided, side-by-side billboards that exist above 125 Southwest Boulevards. The project launched in the Fall of 2008, and has featured over 100 artists since. A call for proposals is issued every year in the fall, and participating artists are chosen through a competitive process. Selected…
Photo by Thorsten Thielow It’s hard to believe that at a time when news stories big and small are constantly being shoved into our eyeballs via a never-ending parade of platforms, that a tale this terrifying might fall through the cracks. And yet, that’s exactly what happened to the news at the heart of Whatever It Takes, from The Fourth…
Courtesy of Vanessa Prewitt Think you’re busy this week? Try telling that to Vanessa Prewitt. She’s the president of Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade’s Board of Directors, and she’s up to her eyeballs in pre-raucous revelry. The annual parade has been going strong for 50 years and is purported to be the second largest St. Pat’s parade in the…
Shrimp po’boy and mac and cheese from The Ship. // Photo by Lauren Textor The Ship Last week, I spent two of my three free nights at The Ship in the West Bottoms. Typically, I don’t order food when I’m at a bar to drink. It’s easier to get tipsy on an empty stomach. But there comes a time of night when…
Backspot. // Courtesy SXSW The glitz and glamour of film festivals is what usually snags the headlines, but it’s easy to forget that they’re also a significant platform for smaller independent films seeking an audience. In that regard, SXSW is exactly the place where a film like D.W. Waterson’s directorial debut, Backspot can shine. Part coming-of-age tale, part sports movie,…
A detail from Mike Hartung’s painting titled “Retribution.” (Ksenya Gurshtein) “I’ve always bristled at the fact that art needed to be uplifting,” painter Mike Hartung says in the opening of “Hartung — Not for Sale,” a 2022 short film about the artist by Patrick Troll. If you, too, are looking for something other than uplift — if, say, grim laughter…
A Kansas City police car waits at a stop sign along Troost Avenue. The new federal lawsuit over KCPD alleges that the system of state control intentionally discriminates against Black Missourians. (Dominick Williams/The Beacon) Three residents filed suit against the state of Missouri this week to end state control of the Kansas City Police Department. Under the current system of…
Guster. // photo credit Alysse Gafkjen This year, long-running indie rockers Guster celebrate their 30th anniversary with both a new album album, Ooh La La, out May 17 on Ocho Mule Records—and a big tour. It also marks the 25th anniversary of the band’s 1999 breakthrough, Lost and Gone Forever, so the band is celebrating all of these hallmarks with…
A Kansas Republican Party newsletter from Friday highlights the fundraiser event that night with headliner Ted Nugent. (Illustration by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The executive director of the Kansas Republican Party said Monday that an event at a GOP fundraiser Friday night that allowed people to kick and beat the president in effigy was the result of “poor judgment”…
Flogging Molly. // photo by Allison Scavo Flogging Molly with Amigo the Devil and Gen and the Degenerates Uptown Theater Friday, March 8 Formed in Los Angeles in 1994, Celtic punk band Flogging Molly is still making waves. Native born Irish lead singer Dave King busted out from backstage as members of the band quickly followed behind to kick the…
Chiefs fans gather in the Power & Light District after the Super Bowl win in 2020. A Kansas City lawmaker wants the Chiefs to make a statement about celebratory gunfire after major wins. // Photo by Zach Bauman/Beacon With the Chiefs having just won their second Super Bowl in a row, now is not the time that they can afford…
