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The Bellrays, the Architects, Hopeless Destroyers The Riot Room	Sat., May 17	Westport
Spiritual kin of the Dirtbombs, the BellRays, from Riverside, California, channel a similar blend of soul-soaked groove and steely garage clamor, highlighted by frontwoman Lisa Kekaula’s howling and growling Tina turns. Founded in the early ’90s, the BellRays have gained momentum since the... More>>

Kansas City Disc Golf Day Rosedale Park	Sat., May 17, 9:00am-4:00pm	Kansas City, Kansas	Sports (Participatory)
For a week in 2009, nearly 1,000 disc golfers will descend on Kansas City for the Professional Disc Golf Association's World Championships. Before the discs fly next year, though, the Kansas City Flying Disc Club needs to raise money to host the championships. It starts today with the fourth-annual... More>>

Kansas City Literary Festival Country Club Plaza	Sat., May 17, 10:00am-8:00pm	Plaza / Brookside	Literary Events
In a society where many have had their attention spans bankrupted by instant distractions and cheap thrills, the idea of an event to celebrate literature may conjure images of cabals of literati holding opaque discussions about obscure novels.Valissa Smith will have none of that today at the Kansas City... More>>

Kansas City Puccini Festival Presents La Rondine Folly Theater	Sat., May 17, 7:30pm	Downtown	Music, Free Events
Two things to toast at the Folly Theater tonight at the party following the Kansas City Puccini Festival's production of La Rondine : the master's 150th birthday, and the maestro's seventh year of somehow muscling opera onto local stages for free. Free for us , that is. Festival founder and conductor... More>>

License to Kill Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch	Sat., May 17, 1:30pm	Downtown	Film, Free Events
James Bond movie shown as part of the Library's "Of Spies and Their Toys" film series. One of two known films featuring Timothy Dalton in a rare without-mustache appearance. Check back in September for the "Timothy Dalton's Mustache" film series, including The Rocketeer , Hot Fuzz and The Beautician and the Beast .

Red Line Chemistry, Ligion Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club	Sat., May 17	Westport
After spending a few years treading water in the local scene under the name Penumbra, the members of Red Line Chemistry knew exactly what they wanted to accomplish with their debut album: "To write and record an album that could stand up to anything out there on the professional level," proclaims the... More>>

Tour de Cowtown Acme Bicycle Company	Sat., May 17, 7:00pm	Midtown	Games
Fancy corporate chains and formerly leery suburbanites are reviving downtown Kansas City — or so goes the happy sales pitch since the opening of glitzy Power & Light District. But long before this fluorescent, commercial renaissance, intrepid residents found plenty of reasons to explore KC's urban... More>>

Terry Winters and Creighton Michaels Belger Arts Center	Every week Saturday from Sat., March 8 until Fri., June 6, 12:00pm-4:00pm (more dates/times)	Midtown	Free Events, Art
Art historian Richard Axsom describes Terry Winters ' printmaking style as "organic abstraction delineated with references to early biological life." In lay terms, this means: Winters' works brim with intriguing, ambiguous imagery. "Furrows" might depict a provocatively posed elephant; "Locus" appears to... More>>

Cultural Cocktails Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 6:00pm-8:00pm	Midtown	Night Life
With an exhibition of ancient Chinese art and a display of some vital contemporary art from across the African continent, it's not as though the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art isn't moving people through the "lensed" gallery spaces of its Bloch Building (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278). So what's your story, exactly?... More>>

Comedy Sports Comedy City	Every week Friday, 7:30pm (more dates/times)	Downtown	Theater, Night Life, Comedy
Improv comedy group Comedy Sports is, according to their website, "competitive, improvisational humor. Two teams, the Sharks and the Jets, compete for points by playing a series of improvisational games. The whole match is officiated by a referee who keeps order on the field."

Brilliant! The Adler Collection of American Cut Glass Epsten Gallery at Village Shalom	Daily from Sun., April 13 until Sun., June 22	Leawood	Art
Original examples of cut-glass masterworks and production pieces from the era popularly known as the Brilliant Period of American cut glass (1876-1914).

Faith Healer Unicorn Theatre	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., April 23 until Sun., May 18	Westport	Night Life, Theater
A central question in Brian Friel's play Faith Healer is whether the title character is just that — or a con man. Francis Hardy is an Irishman who spent his life traveling the countryside in Scotland and Wales, bringing hope to the poor and the crippled. But even he seems unsure about the... More>>

The Dick West Art Gallery Haskell Indian Nations University	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday	Lawrence	Museums, Art
Lawrence has one more reason to celebrate these days: Haskell Indian Nations University (155 Indian Avenue, Lawrence, 785-749-8404) has opened a new gallery dedicated to exhibiting works by American Indian artists. The Dick West Art Gallery is named after Haskell alumnus Dick West (1912-96), who was the... More>>

Illegitimate Art and Design Illegitimate Art and Design	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, 12:00pm-8:00pm	Midtown	Buy and Sell, Art
Duncan Busser just might make it in flyover country. Tired of the East Coast, the former Philadelphian decided to take his RV for a spin around middle America in search of something new. Visiting his brother in Kansas City, Busser quickly fell for this town's Midwestern charm. Brusser is bringing his years... More>>

Julia Oschatz Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., April 4 until Sun., July 6	Westport	Museums, Art
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 reception, which runs from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m., marks the German artist's first solo museum gig in the United States. The show includes... More>>

In the Public Eye Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art	Daily from Sat., March 8 until Sun., June 15	Midtown	Free Events, Art
At this point in our cultural history, it's conventional wisdom that celebustalking paparazzi are degenerate subhumans, like payday lenders or telemarketers. Because the nexus of fame and photographic technology is now catching shots up Britney Spears' skirt, it isn't exactly heartbreaking to learn that... More>>

Open Jam with Billy Ebeling Knuckleheads Saloon	Every week Saturday, 1:00pm-5:00pm	North
Billy Ebeling is no James Brown, but he is one of the area's hardest-working musicians: The Lawrence-based singer, songwriter and guitarist performs at under-the-radar venues nearly every night of the week, both as a solo artist and fronting his Late for Dinner Band. With his smoke-flavored vocals,... More>>

Marcie Miller Gross Review Studios Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Fri., May 9 until Fri., June 13, 10:00am-4:00pm (more dates/times)	Southeast Missouri	Art
Utilizing recycled wool sweaters Miller Gross creates site responsive installations and sculptural objects for this exhibition. Working with an inventory of parts consisting of pliable planes and seams, she uses shifting systems of order to create a new set of associations.

Life at 3 Feet Sabrina Staires Photography/ Landon Gallery	Daily from Fri., May 2 until Thu., June 5	Downtown	Art
Life at Three Feet is an exhibit of photos by very young photographers. "The idea behind it was that kids are always at First Friday exhibits, running back and forth through the studios, often with nothing to look at," says Sabrina Staires, who organized the exhibit. She distributed disposable cameras... More>>

Sunday Prix Fixe Dinner The Drop	Every week Saturday	Midtown	Culinary
If you feel trepidation about approaching Martini Corner on a Sunday evening, be advised that the prix-fixe dinner at The Drop (409 East 31st Street, 816-756-3767) from 5 to 10 p.m. is an excellent justification for avoiding the end-of-weekend "nesting" behavior associated with, oh, let's say, your mom... More>>

A Painter's Pad Thomas Hart Benton Home	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 10:00am-4:00pm	Westport	Art
Thomas Hart Benton moved to Kansas City in 1935 to teach at the Kansas City Art Institute, where he produced the predictably controversial and indisputably sexxxy "Persephone," an American regionalist interpretation of the mythical story of the goddess of fertility. The work now hangs at the Nelson-Atkins... More>>

Wicked Music Hall	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Tue., May 6 until Sun., May 25	Downtown	Theater
It ain’t easy being green. Just ask the most infamous inhabitant of the Land of Oz – Elphaba, aka the Wicked Witch of the West. The misunderstood sorceress gets some sympathy, though, in Wicked , the book-turned-Broadway sensation that tells her side of L. Frank Baum’s fairy tale. Tonight, a... More>>

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