5/06 Thurs. Hot or not
Learn the do's and don't's of fashion at 9 tonight by attending the Fashion Slam! at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St. The show will help raise funds for The Social Service League, 905 Rhode Island St. The organization provides shoes to low-income school children and operates a store of used and inexpensive clothing. The show will involve four teams comprised of downtown Lawrence employees who will be given 40 minutes to create a fashion do and a fashion don't with clothes and props provided by the Social Service League. At the end of the evening each team will display their creations on the runway, and it will be left up to the audience to decide who is the Fashion Slam! winner. Following the Fashion Slam!, the Jackpot Saloon, 943 Massachusetts St., will host an evening of music to benefit The Social Service League. Music will begin at 10 p.m. and bands featured are The Eudoras, Clamsl!, The Charge Droplets and This Is My Condition. The cost for the Fashion Slam! is $5, and all ages are welcome. The cost for the evening of music is $2 to $4, depending if you still have your ticket from the Fashion Slam!. Only those who are 21 and older can attend.
5/07 Fri.
Mandofest
All you hardcore mandolin fans (you know who you are) who are dying for an all-mandolin concert, tonight's your night! Mandofest is coming to Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., at 7. This show features mandolin players from all over the United State, including John Reischman with John Miller, Mike Marshall, Josh Pinkham, Scott Tichenor, Uptown Mandolin Quartet, Kory Willis with The Midday Ramblers, the Mandofest Orchestra and others. You probably won't find more eight-stringed action than here! Cost for this all ages show has yet to be announced. For more information, go to www.mandolincafe.com/mandofest.
5/08 Sat.
Do you feel like I do?
You will.
Come sail away to Sandstone Amphitheater (or Verizon Wireless Amphitheater...but that doesn't mean we have to give in) to hear some great (we're being generous) rock. Tonight at 7:30, 101.1 FM the Fox presents Trent Green's Summer Kickoff Concert featuring Styx and Peter Frampton. Your guess is as good as ours as to what in the sweet name of Mr. Roboto the Chiefs ProBowl quarterback has to do with early '80s concept rock. But hey, his name's on the bill. At least it's not Mike Sweeney's Summer Catch Christian Rock-off. The show will open with everybody's favorite blonde twins from the '90s. No, not Olsen but Nelson. Tickets range from $17 to $42 and can be purchased online at www.ticketmaster.com or by calling (913)721-4200.
5/09 Sun. Mixing it up
where it's at this week's happenings
The Installation Class 2004 Annual Exhibition starts today in the Art and Design Gallery, located on the 3rd floor of the Art and Design Building, 1467 Jayhawk Boulevard. Fourteen students will get the chance to show off their mixed media pieces and a semester's worth of hard work. Installation art may include traditional and new approaches to creating artwork, such as sculpture, video, photography and sound, and sometimes involves holistic notions of space. "Students really have to come to terms with content and form more so than when the work rotates around the use of a specific material," says Maria Velasco, associate professor of installation art. "All of a sudden there are all these media talking to each other." The exhibition runs through May 14 and admission is free. For more information call 864-4401.
5/10 Mon.
Down the bunny hole.
It's time to revisit an old childhood friend, and take another trip down the rabbit hole to Wonderland. Directed by Theresa G. Buchheister, known for Dr. Faustus and Red Horse Animation, Alice In Wonderland (Brought to You by Best Butter), is an adult version of the Lewis Carroll classic that little kiddies should not be present for. The curtain drops for this production at 2:30 p.m. In the Inge Theatre in Murhpy Hall, 1530 Naismith Dr. Best yet, it's free. Too bad hooka hits aren't.
5/11 Tues. With a rebel yell...
Music and politics have always been a marriage made in spin heaven, or hell. Official and unofficial campaign songs are publicly agonized over almost as much as voting records. It could even be argued that Howard Dean's defiant "rebel yell," and the requisite nerdy remixes, broke the fiery doctor's presidential bid. So take a break from the dirty world of partisan music with the Plea for Peace Tour concert at Liberty Hall, which starts at 7:30 tonight. The music presented here is a call for action in any direction, with the primary message of "Vote, dammit!" You can listen to the bands Cursive and Darkest Hour rock out and register to vote all in the same night. It's an all ages show and tickets are $13.50. There will be plenty of opportunities to voice your political convictions, and you won't have to listen to tacky campaign tunes like Bruce Springsteen's "No Surrender" (Kerry's pick) or Bush's regally irritating choice, "Hail to the Chief."
5/12 Wed. Grand slam.
If you know you've got the talent and skills, or if you just want to see what people think of your poetic nature, come to the Poetry Slam session at the Hawks Nest, Level 1 in the Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard, from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. and show what you've got. Listen to the best and worst poets on campus battle for the $90 first prize gift certificate first or enter the contest yourself. Poets have five minutes to slam, and the audience will pick the winners at the end. If you have last-minute thoughts, don't worry, you don't have to sign up in advance to participate. For more info call 864-SHOW.
5.06.04 Jayplay
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