Editor's note: This column has been updated since it originally appeared on the Web on March 28. Its an election year. But Molly Korth Williams hasnt taken the...
Fundraiser for Accessible Arts. Thu., April 3, 2008
One of the few films to deal, even in a fictional way with Jack Kerouac and the Beat movement of the 50s, this film is based on Carolyn Cassadys memoir about her...
Author of The Ministry of Special Cases and For the Relief of Unbearable Urges: Stories appears at Helzberg Auditorium, Kansas City Public Library, 14 W. 10th St., Kansas City,...
Art about or inspired by war. Nov. 17-May 17, 2007
Recommended for grades K-3. Anyone who has ever been on a losing team will be able to relate to this humorous and entertaining production. Miss Nelson, Viola Swamp and the...
All dance classes feature live flamenco accompaniment with Beau Bledsoe and students from the Manos Rojas studio. All sessions include multi-media seminars about flamenco form...
To fans of Major League Baseball, April marks the start of six months of hearing cracking bats. With collegiate baseball, an aluminum ping replaces the sound of wood hitting...
Onstage, Kansas City actor James Wright flips from comic galoot to suave, old-time crooner as if he had a switch under his shirt. Last month, in Frankie and Johnny in the...
John Lennon asked us to "give peace a chance" almost four decades ago. Today, war continues around the globe, and some people still regard peace the way picky children do...
There's nothing like a lazy Saturday morning stroll through your local farmers market and conversation with the friendly folks who grow your food. It may be a few more weeks...
John Brown has a decidedly murky historical reputation. For the past 150 years, historians and pop-culture scribes have argued over his merits and flaws. Was he a heroic...
If he watched soccer, Pat Buchanan would be very displeased. Major League Soccer has officially given up on becoming a venue for U.S.-born players in the prime of their...
BCR, a band falling into the broad musical category of "Afro-nuclear wavabilly funk swing reggae turska," somehow manages to transcend that genre with some serious musical...
Marathons and triathlons are mere gateway drugs to the world of adventure racing. The fast-growing sport combines the standard disciplines of cross-country running, mountain...
When Art Morey began judging Kansas City Golden Gloves events nearly three decades ago, the amateur boxing tournaments packed the seats at Municipal Auditorium. Golden Gloves...
A lot of us fell asleep in college art history courses, an easy feat given the dimmed lights, comfortable auditorium seats and endless slides of Caillebotte's midcareer works....
Google the name Lee Bowers and you get dozens of links to pages about the assassination of John F. Kennedy. At the time of the 1963 shooting, Bowers was a 38-year-old railroad...
They have hairy faces and sexy fishnet stockings, and they've been fighting for a more ethical art world for more than 20 years. They are the Guerrilla Girls, a masked...
Turnabout, they say, is fair play. And when Leavenworth resident Chris Love and his friends heard that Topeka's notorious homo-hating minister Fred Phelps and his clan were...