Night & Day Events

Tuesday, April 19
Indian cuisine is notorious for its aphrodisiac properties. Zoe LaGrece knows that already, but she's willing to share her wealth of knowledge for those who are, you know, feeling amorous. For her class East Indian Delight (6 to 8 tonight, $24; call 816-235-1448 to register), she'll teach students how to prepare rasam (spicy lentil soup), biryani (a layered basmati), flavorful vegetables with saffron rice, chutney, pakoras and raita. Press materials promise that students will then "dim the lights and experience another land." If the land of the Westport Roanoke Community Center (3601 Roanoke) isn't exactly the terrain you had in mind, re-enact the menu in the privacy of your own home. Please.

Wednesday, April 20
If National That Sucks Day makes us too crabby to leave the house on Friday, we'll check out the exhibit that opened from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. that night at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Naomi Fisher: Clear Cut shows the Miami-based artist's unsettling images of heroines we find totally admirable -- high-fashion seductresses who often wield knives -- in Starburst palettes of red, pink, orange and yellow. The museum's press materials describe her sexually charged drawings and photographs as creations in which "tropical landscape, decorative pattern and fairytale figures collide in nightmarish scenarios." We won't catch Fisher herself, who was in town for the show's opening, but we'll find her "ladies" (as she calls them) at the museum (4420 Warwick, 816-753-5784) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. today.