Spring Break
I will now list all of opera's stereotypes: Viking horns and blonde braids, obese men and women who make walking look like hard work, wrinkly old women who look like the grandmothers of the fair maidens they're supposed to play, and big, obnoxious voices that make the old men in the audience incontinent.
Six members of the UMKC creative writing faculty read their latest material Friday, Feb. 22 in a benefit reading for The Graduate Students in Creative Writing Club. The event featured recently penned works of fiction and poetry which were read aloud by their respective authors in front of students and peers in the University Center.
At 34, WNBA superstar Sheryl Swoopes tasted success more often during her athletic career than most of her peers in basketball, or any other sport for that matter. Drafted by the Houston Comets in 1997, Swoopes and her team won four consecutive WNBA titles.
"Mission Control," the sophomore effort by Athens, Ga. trio The Whigs, is an enigma. The Whigs are undoubtedly a college rock band, likely to fill any and every moderately-sized bar across the country. They play ferociously and their hard-rock style transcends time.
About halfway through the film, the groans started. The audience was audibly frustrated, and they had no qualms expressing it. By the third or fourth time the film "Vantage Point" rewound to start the events over again from someone else's perspective, that frustration was starting to get loud.
Sometimes a very easy all-purpose recipe is a wonderful pick-me-up. After a grueling day, it's hard to be motivated enough to cook. But after a long, tiring day, making a simple recipe can be very relaxing. These banana walnut muffins are incredibly simple to prepare and the payoff is tremendous.
A woman from Holland, Mich., exposed the plight of hair dressers in Afghanistan as she recounted her experiences in the wake of the cultural oppression of the Taliban on Tuesday, Feb. 12 at the Kansas City Public Library. Deborah Rodriguez, author of the New York Times best-selling book, "Kabul Beauty School: An American Woman Goes Behind the Veil" spoke of her experience as a hair dresser in the Afghanistan capital, Kabul, and her role in the founding of the Kabul Beauty School.
The play "9 Parts of Desire," by Heather Raffo, inaugurated the new Jerome Stage at the Unicorn Theatre on Friday, Feb. 15. Raffo's play is a deeply affecting and emotional masterpiece. Her play examines the lives of nine women who are Iraqi or whose lives are connected to Iraq.
Tuesday, Feb. 26 Emotional Eating: Informational meeting from noon to 1 p.m. in University Center room 161. "Flatfile": Interactive art show from noon to 5 p.m. at the H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. "You are one step closer to learning the truth": Art display open from 11 a.
