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Mike Dillon's GoGo Jungle, Hairy Apes BMX Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club	Fri., May 16	Westport
Mike Dillon's creativity knows no bounds. A member of once-local act Billy Goat, the planet's only punk-rock vibraphonist lands in his native Kansas City. Bassist J.J. Richards and drummer Ray Pollard join Dillon to form Mike Dillon's Go-Go Jungle, making music that incorporates Dillon's not-too-demented... More>>

Strung Out, Super Black Market, Roanoke, Nomathmatics, FFM, Matthew Brian Record Bar	Fri., May 16	Westport
Though largely commercially obsolescent, old-school pop-punk bands still pack clubs, because fans welcome the opportunity to see their heroes play full shows indoors, like they did in the pre-Warped days. Strung Out won’t even make a cameo on the festival circuit this summer, putting together an... More>>

Xanadu Kansas City Public Library, Central Branch	Fri., May 16, 8:45pm	Downtown	Free Events, Film
A tuxedoed Gene Kelly, age 68, roller-boogies. In split screen. Then triple-split screen. And then a great gold X swells up and over him, a chintzy computer effect suggesting that he has just botched a Family Feud answer, and then we're treated to that year's girl: Olivia Newton-John, she of the windswept... More>>

Aubergine Vintage Couture Aubergine Vintage Couture	Daily	Westport	Buy and Sell
Old black-and-white movies can make our grandparentsâ€™ wardrobes seem awfully romantic. Women didnâ€™t leave the house without stockings, men always wore hats and T-shirts were considered underwear. But anyone who goes out in a New Deal-era getup on a summer day in... More>>

The 99.7 FM The Boulevard Rock Art Crown Center	Fri., May 16, 10:00am-9:00pm (more dates/times)	Midtown	Music, Art
Studying the oil painting "Self With Green Background," one wonders about the artist, painted in shadow, staring out with the hunched shoulders and uneasy gaze of a pervert. Hollow-cheeked and sunken-eyed, he wears an expression of mingled guilt and indifference. Who but the most observant would recognize... More>>

Free Play The Replay Lounge	Every week Friday, 3:00pm-6:00pm	Lawrence	Free Events, Night Life, Culinary, Games
The Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts in Lawrence) may be painfully hip now, but the rebel paradise opened in 1993 as a humble arcade serving burgers and PBR. With Free Play , the dive gets back to its roots, spotlighting pinball machines rather than indie bands. From 3 to 6 p.m. Fridays, pinballing is... More>>

Separated at Birth -- Pat Alexander & Michael Converse Urban Culture Project Space	Daily from Fri., April 18 until Sat., June 7	Downtown	Art
From 6 to 9 tonight, the Urban Culture Project spotlights artists from its Studio Residency Program with three shows and two open studios for Third Friday Art Downtown . Painterly La La , at Paragraph Gallery (23 East 12th Street), includes diverse works fashioned from wood, fabric, foam, glass and found... More>>

Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company White Hall at UMKC	Thu., May 15, 7:30pm (more dates/times)	Midtown	Dance (Performance)
In 1991, internationally known UMKC dance instructors Mary Pat Henry and Leni Wylliams joined forces and created their own troupe. The Wylliams-Henry Contemporary Dance Company has since gone on to spotlight some of the finest established and emerging choreographers in the world.The company presents its... 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>>

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."

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>>

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>>

Happy Hour at Pierpont's Pierpont's	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 4:00pm-6:00pm	Midtown	Night Life, Culinary
Ever feel like going back in time? Say, to the year 1914? If so, the place to visit is Pierpont's at Union Station (30 West Pershing, 816-221-5111), a crown jewel among KC historical preservations.Alas, there's no newfangled time machine on hand waiting to zap you back in time at Union Station (yet), but... 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>>

Noon Power Yoga Maya Yoga	Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, 12:00pm-1:00pm	Midtown	Classes and Workshops
An hour of yoga power led by Amy Jin Schmelzer: Open up, flex and relieve stress over your lunch break; get back to the office feeling great.

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>>

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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1/2 Price Menu The Wine Bar	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, 3:00pm-6:00pm	South	Culinary

Arte de Seduccion Emerald House	Third Friday of every month, 8:00pm-1:30am	Westport	Dance (Participatory)