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McTavish Weekend: Restaurant Love, Lesbian Comedy, Roasted Disco
The first-ever Kansas City Restaurant Week is today through Jan. 31. That Continue reading
McTavish Weekend: Just a Tease
Another one-woman cabaret show, another reason to get weird for Kansas-born performance artist Rebecca Nagel, who plans to
McTavish: Holiday Flashback Whets Appetite for Granner’s ‘Wee Small Hours.’
Nathan Granner and the Jeffrey Rukman Ensemble Continue reading
McTavish: Comic Koplitz Skewers Men, Talks Sex at Stanford & Sons
Stand-up comic Lynne Koplitz was onstage fluently talking about feeding arsenic to all of the men who drive her and other women crazy.
Besides laughs, she was getting nods from females in the audience on Friday night at Stanford & Sons Comedy Club at the Legends in Kansas City, Kan.
McTavish Weekend: King is the Thing at Voodoo Lounge, Knuckleheads
Leave it to one legend to hand it to another…
McTavish Weekend: Brrr…Too Cold to Go and Do? Never!
Except that my typing fingers (all two) have apparently frozen up on me Continue reading
McTavish Weekend: Rocking and Rolling, Tap Dancing and Getting All Funked Up
The Kansas City Rock & Metal Fest could have been a great way to blow up 2009 on New Year Continue reading
McTavish Weekend: Dreaming of a Caucasian Christmas?
Snow was never needed to have a white Christmas in 1950s suburban Johnson County, a time and place of quintessential Caucasian conformity that continues to fascinate visitors at the annual Very Fifties Christmas exhibit at the Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Road in Shawnee.
Located in the museum’s All-Electric House, the exhibit puts a warm-and-fuzzy Santa hat on the era of liking Ike and keeping your free-thinking thoughts to yourself while un-ironically chuckling at TV’s “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet.” Ah, the good times.
The “latest 1950s holiday home decorating creations” again include a vintage aluminum Christmas tree and color wheel, symbolizing the pinnacle or nadir of post-war America’s ostentatious yuletide yearnings. Decide for yourself (if you dare) during guided tours available every half hour from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Continue reading
McTavish Weekend: Give Us a Kiss!
Hey, want to Continue reading
McTavish: Cranberries go back to the ’90s at Midland
Reunited alternative pop-rockers the Cranberries serenaded nearly 2,000 fans from young adults to graying boomers on Sunday at the Midland by AMC with more than 20 sing-along ditties dominated by the band Continue reading
McTavish Weekend: Kung Fu Fighting Pacifists to Battle in Joco
I remember watching David Carradine as wandering Wild West martial-arts master Caine in the 1970s TV series, Continue reading
McTavish: Lots of Spanish, Not Enough Stage Time for Ronstadt at Midland
Let me say upfront that I don’t know Spanish and I’m not really a mariachi music fan. So why was I at Linda Ronstadt’s Spanish language concert featuring the traditional music of Mexico with Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano on Thursday at the Midland by AMC?
Because I am a Linda Ronstadt fan from way back Continue reading
McTavish: Rob Thomas Simmers with Versatility at Sold-Out Midland
For all his modern rock cred, Rob Thomas is really a throwback to another era when singer-songwriters like Kenny Loggins and Neil Diamond in their prime-time heydays knew how to navigate the middle of the pop music road without sounding irrelevant, or worse, like idiots.
The inclusive Top-40 radio world that those versatile hit-makers once inhabited may now be little more than a Continue reading
