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Electric Six, the Gay Blades, Millions of Brazilians, Antennas Up! The Riot Room	Sat., November 21	Westport	Music
This Detroit-based band’s reputation as a comedy act was forever cemented with its video for a cover of Queen’s “Radio Ga Ga,” but that’s not how Electric Six frontman (and sole remaining founding member) Dick Valentine sees it. After all, the band had been solidly... More >>

The Get Up Kids, Kevin Devine, Mansions RecordBar	Sat., November 21 more dates/times	Westport	Music
Jim Suptic of the Get Up Kids inadvertently caused a media firestorm back in July when he jokingly apologized for his band’s role in creating emo music — the interview with Drowned in Sound was seized upon by Rolling Stone and the UK’s Guardian. If you’ve logged on to... More >>

WYETH: Three Generations of Artistry Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from Thu., September 17 until Sun., November 29, 10:00am-4:00pm more dates/times	Westport	Art
As if to prove that the Kennedys aren't the only dynastic family with a recently deceased patriarch, the new exhibition at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick Boulevard, 816-753-5784), Wyeth: Three Generations of Artistry, opens today. Andrew Wyeth, the most well-known and most... More >>

Hatebreed, Cannibal Corpse, Unearth, Born of Osiris, Hate Eternal The Beaumont Club	Sun., November 22	Westport	Music
Hatebreed gained fans beyond its hardcore niche by touring with Slayer and the Deftones, leading to big sales for The Rise of Brutality in 2003. But the album was a step away from the Connecticut band's original mission statement: to create old-school hardcore music in the face of the... More >>

Dollar Sushi Monday at Friends Friends Sushi & Bento Place	Every week Monday	Westport	Food & Drink
Addicts know that sushi can be an expensive habit, especially in the landlocked Midwest. But $1 sushi specials make it possible to get your raw-fish fix for little more than the cost of fast food. Friends Sushi and Bento Place (1808 West 39th Street, 816-753-6666) shills sashimi and sushi... More >>

Russian Circles, Young Widows, Git Some The Riot Room	Mon., November 23	Westport	Music
It's no small feat that this instrumental trio from Chicago works the spaces between indie rock and metal with enough individuality so that both sound fresh. Russian Circles describes its sound as "epic" yet its music is remarkably unpretentious. Midway between busy freakouts that recall Tera... More >>

All Souls Documentary Series All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church	Every week Tuesday, 7:00pm	Westport	Film
On Tuesdays at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church (4501 Walnut, 816-531-2131), folks engage in inexpensive educational entertainment. That's how Carolyn MacDonald describes the Tuesday Documentary Film Series, which is meant to get viewers talking about social justice. Every week,... More >>

The DIRTY Game Show! Missie B's	Every week Wednesday, 10:00pm	Westport	Adult Free Events Games Nightlife
"What is a bunghole?" Find out the answer to that and other filthy questions tonight at Missie B's (805 West 39th Street, 816-561-0625). At 10 p.m., the city's most famous drag bar hosts the Dirty Game Show. The host (wearing heels and a wig) will pick rowdy contestants from the crowd. They... More >>

Summer Breeze: A Yacht Rock Tribute RecordBar	Wed., November 25	Westport	Music
Between the years 2005 and 2008, the masterful, low-budget viral video series Yacht Rock, made by a bunch of 20-something dudes out in California, had music geeks glued to their Channel 101 bookmark hoping for a new episode like farmers praying for rain for their thirsty crops. Beginning with... More >>

Sinbad's Cafe and Hookah Lounge Sinbad's Cafe and Hookah Lounge	Every week Friday, Saturday, 4:00pm-2:00am more dates/times	Westport	Nightlife
Anyone who is smoking age (that's 18, yo) can take a seat and puff delicious apple-mint smoke at Sinbad's Café and Hookah Lounge (3929 Broadway, 816-255-3988). The new Westport hangout — designed for smoking flavored tobacco from beautiful, freestanding glass pipes fitted with... More >>

Season to Risk, Iron Rite Mangle, New Franklin Panthers, Little Murders RecordBar	Fri., November 27	Westport	Music
Talk about influence. For a time there in the ’90s, it seemed that people in the Midwest were even sneezing differently — louder, more dissonant, more staccato — because of bands such as the Jesus Lizard, Shiner and Molly McGuire. Classrooms were disrupted, and relationships were... More >>

The Good Foot The Levee	Fri., November 27 more dates/times	Westport	Music
On the whole, the seven members of the Good Foot, who have converged on Kansas City from Midwestern states such as Nebraska and Iowa, are laid-back. At rehearsals, members casually straggle in. Collectively, they emit a self-effacing sense of humor. And they're taking their recent success with... 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... More >>

Hearts of Darkness RecordBar	Sat., November 28	Westport	Music
Afrobeat is not for the faint of spirit. Pioneered by the mercurial Nigerian Fela Kuti in the '70s, the genre is a Yoruba spin on James Brown-style funk. It's loaded with horn breakdowns, improv jazz solos, call-and-response vocals, and rhythmic figures woven as tightly as clay-dipped braids.... More >>

Folk Revolution with Mati Mat The News Room	Every week Tuesday, 10:00pm	Westport	Music
From the 2008 Buckle Bunny Chronicles: It is supposed to be Warrensburg punk night at the Brick. On the menu: the sibling rebel yells of Kosher and Super Black Market. But first, a skinny guy in a white wifebeater and ripped blue jeans steps up with an acoustic guitar. Matthew Alvarado knows... More >>

Interchange Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art	Daily from Tue., April 7 until Fri., December 4	Westport	Art
Every month, we seem to come back around to discussion of Kansas City's outsized influence on the art world. A small media market in many ways, this town has for many years boasted an arts community with deep roots (and benefactors with deep pockets). And it's also true that artists are... More >>

Best Exercise Class 2008: Aerial Fabrics with Rachel McMeachin Scott Fitness 1.0	Every week Monday, 5:30pm	Westport	Health & Fitness
A year ago, 16 amateurs who stared up at two strands of silk hanging from the ceiling of Rachel McMeachin's industrial loft in the West Bottoms were crazy enough to think they could fly. McMeachin had become fascinated with the art of aerial fabrics -- the way lithe acrobats twirled their feet... More >>

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Camp Harlow The Levee	Every week Saturday, 5:00pm	Westport

Groove Agency The Levee	Every week Friday, Saturday, 10:00pm	Westport

Team Trivia Outabounds Sports Bar & Grill	Every week Tuesday, 9:00pm	Westport

Guest DJ Night Karma	Every week Wednesday	Westport

Dart Night Chez Charlie	Every week Thursday	Westport

DJ Rico Karma	Every week Thursday	Westport