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• ‘Men in Black 3’: Men in blah | 2 stars

  May 24, 12:00 PM
  

  Will Smith has saved the world time and again, but in the “Men in Black” movies he does it with Tommy Lee Jones. No one was waiting for a third one, but here they are, 10 years later. Except Jones is missing in action for half the picture.

• KC Rep's Eric Rosen looks to future

  May 25, 2:14 PM
  

  He’s sticking around. He’s sticking around. At least for a while. That’s the word from Eric Rosen, Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s 41-year-old artistic director, who plans to remain at the helm of the city’s leading nonprofit theater company at least through 2014.

• ‘Bernie’: A troubling, quirky gem | 3 stars

  May 23, 4:15 PM
  

  At first blush, “Bernie” looks like the kind of mockumentary perfected by Christopher Guest and his repertory company of improvisers — a finely etched regionalist portrait composed of equal parts affection and venomous satire.

• Uplifting Dirty Dozen Brass Band gets the crowd dancing

  May 25, 7:27 AM

  Opportunities to witness a large crowd dancing to a jazz band have become distressingly rare in Kansas City. The exceptional sight was on display Thursday at Crossroads KC as more than 200 people — most in their twenties and thirties — cavorted to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.

• Fans by the thousands sought for 'X Factor' auditions at Sprint Center

  May 24, 1:02 AM
  

  “X Factor” auditions are coming to Kansas City, and producers are seeking thousands of fans to cheer on the hopefuls.

• 'Idol' winners beginning to bear a striking resemblance (poll)

  May 22, 2:07 PM
  

  "American Idol" viewers could be in for a serious case of deja vu if Phillip Phillips wins on the Fox talent contest's 11th season finale next week.

• As ‘SNL’ season ends, signs of a coming shift

  May 22, 8:25 AM
  

  How can “Saturday Night Live” possibly replace (fill in the blank)? How many times have we asked that question across nearly four decades?

• Hip Hop Hall of Fame finds NYC home

  May 22, 8:40 AM

  Organizers say the Hip Hop Hall of Fame Museum has found a home in midtown Manhattan.

• Dino O’Dell talks aliens, cereal and flapjacks

  May 21, 3:47 PM
  

  Huge news for the under-10 crowd: Dino O’Dell and the T-Rex All-Stars have a new CD out. Actually waaaaaay out — it’s titled “Outer Space.” And yes, fan favorite Zar, the rapping space alien from O’Dell’s 2007 album “Itty Bitty Monsters,” turns up on this one as well.

• Creed at the Midland

  May 22, 4:01 AM
  

  Creed played the first of two shows Monday night at the Midland. The band performed My Own Prison on Monday and was to play Human Clay on Tuesday — both albums were to be played in their entirety.

• Musically impressive ‘Everyday Rapture’ hits and misses on opening night

  May 21, 9:32 AM
  

  “Everyday Rapture” is a curiosity — a fictionalized autobiography of the Topeka actress who co-wrote it and performed it in all of its New York incarnations.

• Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees dies at 62

  May 20, 7:13 PM
  

  Robin Gibb, a founding member of the Bee Gees who helped propel the group to international stardom, has died. He was 62. Gibb's representative Doug Wright announced in a statement that Gibb passed away Sunday "following his long battle with cancer and intestinal surgery."

• New Theatre owners celebrate 40 years of entertaining KC

  May 19, 8:47 PM
  

  Dennis Hennessy and Richard Carrothers, owners of the New Theatre, have spent 40 years in show business. If you want to get a sense of how they accomplished that and built an audience of 25,000 season ticket holders, well, all you have to do is listen.

• Daughtry still an idol among a smaller crowd of admirers

  May 20, 12:03 AM
  

  Six years after his fourth-place finish in “American Idol,” Chris Daughtry isn’t the live draw he used to be, but he remains a hero among a large group of loyal fans. Friday night, his band Daughtry headlined a show at the Midland.

• George Clinton is all business in Crossroads concert

  May 19, 10:40 AM
  

  George Clinton and the P-Funk All-Stars’ concerts at Crossroads KC have become a rite of spring. The troupe has performed there almost every year since the venue opened. It was clear from the first song that something was different at Friday night’s concert.

• Guest conductor, symphony perform with sleek elegance

  May 19, 6:08 PM
  

  The Kansas City Symphony with guest conductor Bernard Labadie returned to the stage of Helzberg Hall on Friday night, demonstrating that great orchestral music is not simply relegated to late 19th- and 20th-century composers like Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky and Brahms.

• ‘The Fantasticks’ has fine performances, brave actor on crutches

  May 19, 10:04 PM
  

  Sometimes a show is more than a show. Sometimes, because of unique circumstances, it becomes an event.

• TV networks playing for laughs in a big way in the fall

  May 18, 8:47 AM

  LOS ANGELES - What's so funny about the TV networks' new fall schedules? Everything - or at least that's the hope of programmers who unveiled their new lineups to advertisers this week in New York and have gone cuckoo for comedy in a way not seen in at least 15 years.

• ‘Battleship’: Abandon ship! | 1 star

  May 17, 3:08 PM
  

  Plenty of entertaining blockbusters were inspired by sketchy source material. “Pirates of the Caribbean” came from a Disney theme park ride. “Resident Evil” hailed from a popular video game. Even “Real Steel” was arguably prompted by the Mattel toy Rock ’Em Sock ’Em Robots. “Battleship” proves that sometimes a dumb idea for a movie just results in a really dumb movie.

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