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Local filmmaker Kevin McKinney suggests in his documentary "Corporate FM" that radio stations that cut local programming are hurting themselves and their communities.
If there is dysfunction and dissension in Camp Van Halen, it wasn't evident Tuesday night.
Who knew the new "Avengers" movie would create a shawarma buzz? After one of the movie's ferocious battle scenes, Iron Man craves one of those Middle Eastern wraps, a street-vendor staple.
Will Smith has saved the world time and again, but in the "Men in Black" movies he does it with Tommy Lee Jones. No one was waiting for a third one, but here they are, 10 years later. Except Jones is missing in action for half the picture.
Dogs and the women who love them form the warm and gooey center of "Darling Companion," Lawrence Kasdan's fitfully amusing comedy-drama starring Diane Keaton and Kevin Kline.
At first blush, "Bernie" looks like the kind of mockumentary perfected by Christopher Guest and his repertory company of improvisers -- a finely etched regionalist portrait composed of equal parts affection and venomous satire.
The dead cluster around Thomas Cromwell in this darkly magnificent sequel to "Wolf Hall."
HBO's 'Hemingway and Gellhorn': A colossal collision of love, war and egosThu, 24 May 2012 05:00 CDT
A few days after they married quietly in Wyoming in November 1940, Ernest Hemingway and Martha Gellhorn headed for the bright lights of New York. But first they made a brief stop in Kansas City.
Is the young, beautiful blonde truly a time traveler from a war-torn future, promising safety and enlightenment for a chosen few?
"X Factor" auditions are coming to Kansas City, and producers are seeking thousands of fans to cheer on the hopefuls.
As recipients of millions of new smartphones and tablets, our pockets and purses in 2011 bulged with media, if not money. As a result, the mediasphere grew ever denser and noisier this year -- a din that only increased as people strove to break through it with deeds that were outrageous, audacious or just plain dumb.
Creed was once the biggest band in the world, a commercial juggernaut that filled arenas and sold millions of albums.
For years the Coterie Theatre has pushed the boundaries of acceptability when it comes to what a children's theater can and can't do.
A horn section backs up country singer Jerrod Niemann this weekend in south Louisiana's Bayou Country Superfest, a two-day festival that includes Carrie Underwood, Keith Urban, Rascal Flatts, Jason Aldean, Sara Evans and others.
Lady Gaga has met Thailand's premier "lady boys" at a Bangkok drag show featuring busty dancers who were not born that way.
A memorable melody. Distinctive stage presence. Some horse-trading of votes.
Donald Trump's Miss USA pageant is keeping up with the Kardashians.
Elton John is canceling three Las Vegas performances on doctors' orders after being hospitalized with a respiratory infection.
The 19th-century conflict between the Hatfield and McCoy families became the definitive feud of American history. To this day it provides a shorthand way of describing a hate-laced, unbending, seemingly endless battle between two groups. But what in fact happened between the Hatfields and McCoys?
You won't find sweet-and-sour pork and General Tso's chicken on the long and deep menu at the ABC Cafe in Overland Park. What you will find are many dishes, well-made and bursting with flavor, that hardly ever show up elsewhere in town.
Chef Yahia Kamal's new Marble Top Café offers a warm and appealing Old-World decor and features a self-serve ordering counter with a case displaying his Yummy's Choice products to go. Another display offers his spice blends. But the real draw is a simple eat-in or take-out menu that features $9.99 vegetarian, gyro and chicken gyro combination plates.
The summer theater season in Kansas City really means the summer musical season, because you'll be hard-pressed to find plays that don't involve singing, dancing and over-the-top emotions between now and early September.
David Schwimmer is coming back to the New York stage - by way of "Detroit."
The Kansas City Symphony with guest conductor Bernard Labadie returned to the stage of Helzberg Hall on Friday night, demonstrating that great orchestral music is not simply relegated to late 19th- and 20th-century composers like Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Brahms.
Rachael Blackburn Cozad, director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art for 11 of its 18 years, has resigned, the museum confirmed Friday.
Sometimes a show is more than a show. Sometimes, because of unique circumstances, it becomes an event.
In Symphony's first rehearsal, new concert hall sounds like 'dream come true'Thu, 02 Jun 2011 14:19 CDT
If you're going to have a new beginning, you might as well do it with Beethoven. And more specifically, Beethoven's First Symphony.
Broadway Across America and Theater League have announced a joint 2011-2012 season of touring Broadway shows.
Big stars! Big sounds! Big darn deal.
There's an easy trick to writing a good Jewish joke -- just make the idiot at the center of it sound Jewish.
After eight TV movies, including the recent "Benefit of the Doubt," there's no doubt that Jesse Stone "has legs" like Thomas Magnum of "Magnum, P.I.," says the man behind both characters, Tom Selleck.
R&B singer Usher Raymond is locked in a legal battle with his ex-wife arising from a custody fight over their two sons.
Late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien visited Boston to talk about the art of comedy and how he got started in it.
The Classical Beat | Symphony lines up familiar composers, led by an expert in the fieldSat, 12 May 2012 23:00 CDT
In its concerts next weekend, the Kansas City Symphony will perform classical music in the strictest sense. Led by early music specialist Bernard Labadie, the orchestra will perform symphonies by Johann Christian Bach, Joseph Martin Kraus and Franz Joseph Haydn with pianist Arnaldo Cohen as the soloist in a concerto by Felix Mendelssohn.
Nearly 22 million TV viewers seems like a lot - but for an "American Idol" season-ender, it's a new low.
Maybe you're not into explosions and computer-generated whatzits. That's cool.
The Cannes Film Festival got its biggest shot of celebrity adrenaline yet on Tuesday, even if it was only half the dose some were expecting.
'This Means War': This romantic action comedy stars Reese Witherspoon as a woman trying to choose between two handsome suitors. But as this sloppy, scattered, utterly synthetic piece of Hollywood widgetry unspools, it becomes increasingly clear that the romantic tension at play exists mostly between the men in question.
Peter Berg has spent a good chunk of his life around the military, first as the son of a Marine who was an avid naval historian, then while embedded with Navy SEALs in Iraq to research a film and most recently as the director of the naval board game-inspired action movie "Battleship," which opens Friday in U.S. theaters.
Batman's 'Dark Knight' wheels roll into KC; women 'under-represented' on filmWed, 16 May 2012 20:50 CDT
The Tumbler and the Bat-Pod (what used to be known as the Batmobile and the Batcycle) from Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" will be in town this weekend. The machines are touring the country in advance of "The Dark Knight Rises," scheduled to open July 20.
The Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., will be rocking on the roof this season.
When it comes to inspiring others, costume designers rarely gain fame or fortune, even when films and TV shows spin off commercial cosmetics and clothing lines based on their work. But that is starting to change. On May 30, HSN will debut the Atwood by Colleen Atwood collection, pegged to the release of the film "Snow White and the Huntsman" on June 1.
It's called the Chevy Music Showcase/Kansas City, a series of short documentaries on eight local bands, presented by local Chevy dealers. Starting May 30, the documentaries will air on KCWE Wednesday's between 9:30 and 10 p.m
They'll headline an all-ages show at the Beaumont Club on July 14, a Saturday. Also on the bill: Big D & the Kids Table, Subu
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If you missed their set at Middle of the Map or saw it and are craving a longer one, here's your chance. They'll be at the Jackpot Music Hall on July 26, a Thursday
The Daytime Emmy Awards have found a new home at cable news channel HLN.
It was a great night for Phillip Phillips, but for "American Idol," maybe not so much.
In the realm of local French restaurants, Tatsu's is reliable, comfortable and unwavering in its commitment to a kind of traditional satisfaction, a comfortable spot halfway between steak frites and creative high style. Call it the immovable feast.
Haus, now open on Martini Corner at 3044 Gillham Road, is a bar, restaurant and beer garden with a limited menu of wurst, bier and fritten (sausages, beer and fries). Chris Seferyn partnered with Desmond Carr, Shawn Fahey and four other investors in Haus. Carr and Fahey also will be managers.
The Kansas Department of Agriculture cited these restaurants for six or more critical health code violations. Most critical violations are corrected at the time of the inspection.
Four years ago, Natalie George came up with a far-fetched idea: Wouldn't it be neat to have a Café Gratitude restaurant in Kansas City?
The menu at Sweet Siam Thai Bistro in Lenexa offers some traditional riffs, including a rainbow of curries, silky noodle and throaty basil-infused dishes -- but it also strays just a bit with eclectic interpretations, such as pan-fried catfish in a ginger-soy sauce lettuce and ka proud grilled lamb chops served in a basil sauce with shrimp-fried rice.
Any restaurant celebrating 80 years in business is obviously doing something right. One thing, in most cases. Like many longtime establishments, Herrera's Tenderloin Grill has resisted the temptation to change with the times, serving the same sandwich since 1932.
"I wanted to fall head over heels with the Boot, but I'm old school when it comes to love," reviewer Jill Wendholt Silva writes of the new Italian restaurant in Westport by budding chef/owners Aaron Confessori and Richard Wiles. "I want something I can count on."
Dance is at the heart of Baroque music. It's the galliards, minuets and gigues that give energy, joy and bounce to Baroque. The Bach Aria Soloists will demonstrate as much when the group joins the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company for a Baroque-flavored "Dance Extravaganza" at 7:30 p.m. Saturday at Spencer Theatre, 4949 Cherry St.
The Garden of Eden in Lucas, Kan., the most significant folk art site in the state, underwent an extensive restoration in the last year funded by the Kohler Foundation of Wisconsin. The foundation acquired the site from a group of private owners, has deeded it to a newly formed nonprofit, Friends of S.P. Dinsmoor's Garden of Eden, and last weekend held a rededication of the tourist attraction. In the early years of the 20th century, Dinsmoor, a Civil War veteran, built a limestone "log" cabin and surrounded it with 150 concrete sculptures depicting biblical and populist-leaning scenes. The town of Lucas, population 407, in recent years has expanded its folk-art footprint with a museum and other efforts. On Saturday, it will open what must be the most artistic public restroom on the planet. Coined Bowl Plaza, the downtown structure includes whimsical ceramic tableaux by Lawrence collagist Mri-Pilar, shown here working last weekend in the women's room.
James Salter, author of prize-winning books including "Dusk and Other Stories," has received a lifetime achievement award for short fiction.
The Kansas City Chorale celebrated its 30th season Saturday night with it inaugural concert in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts' Helzberg Hall. Members of the Phoenix Chorale joined the chorus as it explored the cathedral-esque acoustic environment with numbers from its a cappella repertoire.
Despite its ill-chosen title, "Masters of American Dance," Friday's opening performance of the Kansas City Ballet's concluding program in its inaugural season at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, was a delicious affair.
After countless leaps, pirouettes and pas de deux, Kimberly Cowen's remarkable 20-year career as a dancer with the Kansas City Ballet is coming to an end. Her final role will be in Todd Bolender's "Souvenirs," part of the Kansas City Ballet's "Masters of American Dance."
Who would Michelle Obama be if she could be anyone? Beyonce.
Cannes: Red carpet to after parties with Kanye West, Kim Kardashian and moreThu, 24 May 2012 12:16 CDT
Kanye West showed off his short film and his celebrity girlfriend -- TV reality star Kim Kardashian -- in Cannes, the only place for anyone famous to be this week.
Phillip Phillips, a bluesy Georgia guitar man, was crowned the new "American Idol" on Wednesday after defeating teenager Jessica Sanchez in record viewer voting. He was the fifth male winner in a row.
