Spring Break
I just want to let you know - the N.E.R.D. concert was off the chain. The performances blew me away, and I was left wondering why UMKC doesn't do stuff like this more often. The atmosphere was on fire and I left with my ears ringing and my voice completely gone.
Each year, the annual UMKC Spring Dance Concert offers colorful and quality dance performances, but this year's concert adds a community outreach dimension. This year, on April 17 and 18, the UMKC Dance Department will be dedicating some of its performance works to people in need, and will ask audience members to bring non-perishable items to the concert as donation to charity.
The greatest thrills come when you're least expecting them. The Kansas City Repertory Theatre knows that, and they show it in their new play, "The Borderland." When Eleanor (Angela Cristanello) appears on her neighbors' doorstep in the middle of a raging thunderstorm, the Hammonds' life is upended.
After an enormous buildup to the must-see movie of the year, "Sunshine Cleaning" left audiences weeping in glee. Well, not quite. "Sunshine Cleaning" didn't have quite the audience as say, "Fast & Furious," which has thus far raked in $70 million at the box office.
Poetry is a complicated art. "Writing poems is harder than writing poetry," Michelle Boisseau said. "You can write lots of poetry and never really write a poem that holds it all together in a kind of intense connection." Boisseau has been teaching at UMKC since 1995.
Charles Everett Pace convincingly portrayed Langston Hughes Tuesday evening at the Kansas City Public Library Central Branch. The Langston Hughes interview was the first of three "Meet the Past with Crosby Kemper III" events hosted by the library. It is a series featuring re-enactors who are interviewed by the library's director as if they were a certain historical figure.
It's springtime again - Easter ushers in the beginning of a new season, and the annual Easter Bunnies Exhibition at the Country Club Plaza. The display of hand-painted bunnies throughout the Plaza courtyards and street corners has been an annual tradition since the 1930s.
MONDAY, APRIL 13 Rebuilding the Crescent City: Kansas City Public Library hosts Dr. Jacob Wagner, assistant professor of Urban Planning and Design at UMKC, for a talk on Disaster, Demolition and Preservation since Hurricane Katrina, at 6:30 p.m. the KCPL Central Branch.
Dear Readers, I pride myself on the fact that there has never been a game I could not master, whether it be Monopoly, Halo or even Chicken. Once when I attended a family reunion on my dad's side, I was dared to enter a watermelon-eating contest. I don't particularly care for watermelon, but when my cousins issued the granddaddy of all commands - the "triple-dog dare" coupled with "he's too sissy to do it" taunts - my pride prevailed and I prepared myself for the gluttony to come.
It's that time of the semester again. Coffee in one hand and a book in the other, you'll stay up all night memorizing, cramming and forcing a semester's worth of material into your head. Have you thought about what you're doing? Do you know what could happen if you don't get enough sleep before you take your final? You probably don't take a second to think these things through rationally.
