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THURSDAY it's electrifying'. Local electronic
artist Superargo's barrage of blips, melodies and robotic seduction sounds something like a soundtrack to a Mario Brothers feature film, especially when his set includes the video-image backdrop. This unique sound is enough to dazzle any music fan —and make them dance. See them with Grand Buffet at the Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts St., at 10:00 p.m. Tickets are $2. In Kansas
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City, catch singer/songwriter/storyteller James McMurtry at the Grand Emporium, 3832 Main St., at 8:00 p.m. His father, Larry McMurtry, wrote Last Picture Show, but far from riding his father's fame, the younger McMurtry has plenty of talent in his own right. Tickets are $10-12
SUNDAY shake it up, baby.
For Shakespeare lovers who want a change, check out the French opera version of the classic, Romeo and Juliet. The Lyric Opera of Kansas City is performing Romeo et Juliette, sung in French, but with "easy-to-read" English translations above the stage. Tickets range from $10 to $62, but if
DiCaprio
you arrive one hour before the curtain, with valid student ID, you can get a ticket for $5. The show begins at 2 p.m. at the Lyric Theatre, 11th and Central in downtown Kansas City, Mo. If you don't like ballet, or you want to refresh your memory before the show, rent it on video. Try 1996's William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet with Leonard DiCaprio and Claire Danes or Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 version. To follow up the tragic love story, head to the Kansas City Festival of Wines. Located at the Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd. Tickets are $50 in advance or $60 at the door, but all money will be donated to the American Heart Association. The event starts at 1 p.m. and continues until 6 p.m. Call 913-451-7400 for info.
FRIDAY need exorcising? Reverend Billy of the Church of Stop Shopping preaches anti-consumerism at Swarthout Recital Hall in Murphy Hall today. His
and consumerism at Swarthout Recital Plan is today. His lecture, Other Love, concentrates on America since the Sept. 11th terrorist attacks. Tickets are $12 for the public, $10 for students through Student Union Activities, the Lied Center and University Theater. The show begins at 7:30. Today is also the second day of the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, which features the National Flat-Pickin' Championships. Events run through Sunday. Ticket prices range from $18 to $80. Visit www.wvfest.com for more information. Arr, I've a proposition for the fair and true: Drop your country twang, because today be
Reverend Billy
International Talk-Like-a-Pirate Day! Follow suit, or ye may be forced to walk the plank. Check out www.talklikeapirate.com for a countdown, a how to and pirate advice.
SATURDAY get out of town The Plaza
Art Fair has been a Kansas City tradition since 1932. From 10 a.m.to 10 p.m.go to the Country Club Plaza in Kansas City to see over 230 artists represented in a nine-block stretch of outdoor exhibitions. Come to see the wonderful local arts and crafts ranging from graphic design to pottery, while getting a taste of the Plaza's finest cuisine and outdoor musical performances. Washington D.C.-based Q and not U will be headlining at the Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire St.Also, come check out Black Eyes, Antelope and Lawrence's own (blue), featuring former members of Ghosty and Plot to Kill the President. This all ages show will cost you a mere $6. One man's trash is another man's treasure. It's also your chance to be the best-dressed this Halloween. The University Theatre has been doing some fall cleaning, resulting in its Garage Sale and Halloween Costume Sale on the circle drive in front of Murphy Hall, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will also be a second garage sale in Inge Theatre in Murphy Hall from 8 a.m. to noon.
Q and not U
MONDAY pop rocks. 80s icon Billy Idol will be performing at the Uptown Theatre in Kansas
City, 3700 Broadway, at 7:00 p.m. For this all ages show, plan to spend $35 if you buy in advance and $37 the day of the show. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. Get your blues on with the Jazzhaus' open jam, featuring the Spanktones. Beginning at 10 p.m., bring $2 and get ready for a healthy cooction of funk, rock and blues.
Idol
WEDNESDAY rare hip-hop happening. Four of the most accomplished hi
hop acts in the region reunite in the confines of the Pool Room, 925 Iowa St., to take us back on a tour through their hip-hop heydays. The show starts at 9:00 p.m. with DJ-P's playful pastiche of breaks and beats, guaranteed to get the crowd more excited than grade-schoolers at a skating party. Kansas City native and Scribble Jam finalist Mac Lethal's hard-hitting wordplay is both irreverent and introspective, and Lawrence hip-hop vets Approach and Archetype are known for making any party a funky good time. This is an 18+ event, so you have no excuse to miss it.
TUESDAY more than two to tengo. Although
they've mellowed out a bit since their 1997 masterpiece, "I can feel the heart beating as one," experimental/indie mainstays Yo La Tengo are never anything less than lucid, hypnotic, wistful or basically any word you'd use to describe how it sounds to wake up from an achingly beautiful dream and still be there. Does this make sense? Find out for yourself at the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts St., at 9:00 p.m. Tickets are $13.50.
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