On a cold Saturday evening in late February, a line snakes out of the Gem Theater and onto 18th Street. People wait in anxious knots. The rumor, passed from way up front:...
The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick, 816-753-5784) has newly painted black gallery walls for its latest exhibition, Julia Oschatz: Where Else. Tonight's...
John Raux's photography and writing from his 2,600 mile walk on the Pacific Crest Trail. Food and Drink will be provided. Paintings displayed in a related exhibition at Beige,...
Fundraising event, with live and silent auction of masks by local artists. Sat., April 5, 2008
Wonderscope art program for kids -- dress for artsy mess. Tuesdays, 10 a.m.-noon, 2007
Lidia's market inspired brunch a trip to the bountiful anitipasti buffet featuring Italian meats, cheeses and salads from Kansas City's farmer's market. Select a hot entree...
Puppet and marionette exhibit. Aug. 7-July 31, 2007
Classic musical comedy. March 20-April 13, 2008
Ang Lees closely observed comedy of manners kicks off the KC Librarys Culture Clashes film series. The 1992 movie follows an elderly tai chi master (the...
Max von Sydow plays a hypnotist and magician with revenge on his mind in Ingmar Bergmans 1958 spooky, symbol-heavy contemplation of death, mysticism and performance. The...
The Screenlands Coen brothers retrospective starts with the filmmakers lean, mean 1984 noir. The murders arent crimes of passion, the adultery throws off no...
If cinema is society's most unforgiving mirror, then the Imaging Blackness exhibition can tell the civil rights story as vividly as any textbook. The traveling exhibition of...
According to the premise of R.W. Klamm's new play, bumblebees defy science with their ability to fly. Bob, the protagonist of Fly Like a Bumblebee, is kinda like that. He's...
On any given Sunday afternoon, when your buddy says she's going for a "beer run," she probably means swinging down to the corner store for a six-pack. Not today. Just after...
College is supposed to be a time to meet new friends and explore new social situations. So it sucks that Lawrence can't seem to support a gay club. "There's been clubs that...
If any local publication knows how to party, it's this rag. Take Artopia, for example. That's the bash The Pitch throws every year as we give away $1,000 each to four local...
The Writers Place needs to pay the bills, y'all, because being the destination for KC's literati as well as the more passively literate doesn't come cheap. Today, the...
Here's some trivia you won't hear on Jeopardy: What 1970s "rock-and-roll revivalist comedy group" was featured in the movie Grease, had a syndicated TV variety show — one...
Although both institutions are full of creative people, there's little collaboration between the faculties of the Kansas City Art Institute and the Conservatory of Music and...
Comic books are much cooler than they used to be. Once upon a time, readers were automatically classified as outcasts. Now, comics-loving hipsters scoff as superhero references...