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It all started a few years ago when she saw a girl wearing a pricey, oversized necklace. Cool to look at, she thought. But with a price tag above $20, Brenda Gutierrez couldn’t afford it. But being an arts-and-crafts girl, she decided to make her own trinkets.
“Caught on Safari: Battle at Kruger,” 7 p.m. on the National Geographic Channel, tells the story behind the amazing video of a lion attack in a South African park that has played millions of times on YouTube. We meet the tourist who caught the eight-minute sequence (short version: lions and crocodiles compete to have a baby buffalo for lunch — and both lose) and the safari director who guided them to the scene. See the video in much better resolution than on YouTube...
When Moody Habashi wanted to master the art of shawarma, a Middle Eastern version of the gyro, he went to the source: the restaurant Reem Shawarma, in Ribad, the place to get the grilled meat in Jordan.
How many Kansas Cities are there?” Jack White asked the big crowd in front of him. There are only two, he was told.
Juan Diego Flórez is the most talked about tenor today, a Metropolitan Opera matinee idol whose wedding last month in Lima was attended by the president of his native Peru.
It can be fun to ridicule TV (see “Right Between the Ears” item). But I remember when TV was more than something you watched and made fun of. It was something you watched and made fun of as a family.
In “Redbelt,” acclaimed playwright/filmmaker David Mamet attempts a thinking-man’s martial arts movie.
They might have made beautiful music together … Only last year, KC Mayor Mark Funkhouser tendered an olive branch to light-rail proponent Clay Chastain: Join forces on a regional plan rather than going with Chastain’s voter-approved, soon-to-be-City Council-nixed plan, and a depot would be named after Chastain.
“A Man of No Importance” isn’t the first play about the ennobling effect of making theater, and it certainly won’t be the last.
Let’s get to it: If you don’t sign up very soon for New Letters’ “Writers Lunch” in association with Saturday’s Kansas City Literary Festival, you’ll be out of luck.
A pack of 99 wolves arcs through the air toward a collision with a glass wall at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
He’s traveled around the globe, but trumpeter Clark Terry has touched down in Kansas City many times.
