SAD AND SEXY
In Portugal, fado music is mournful, haunting, dramatic, melancholic and deeply heartfelt. Tonight, local trio Fado Novato — singer Shay Estes and guitarists Beau Bledsoe and Jordan Shipley — promises a performance straight out of the historic district of Alfama in Lisbon. Where does one find such a sexy time? Renée Kelly’s Harvest, at Caenen Castle (12401 Johnson Drive, Shawnee, 913-631-4100). “It’s pretty intimate for a castle,” Estes says. Admission ($25, $20 in advance) includes a glass of wine and Lisbon-inspired snacks during the 7 p.m. performance. At press time, the event was sold out. See fadonovato.com for updates. — CHARLES FERRUZZA
M O N D AY | 1 . 2 8 | HAPPY-HOUR HIT LIST: SUSHI JOINTS
Are you one of those I-don’t-eat-meat-butI-love-sushi types? Maybe you like cheap drinks but refuse to contribute to the overfishing of the ocean? Either way, the specials at these independently owned sushi joints are for everyone. Kato Sushi (6340 Northwest Barry Road, 816-584-8883). From 4:30 to 6:30 p.m., get $1.50 selections of nigiri and $3.95 selected appetizers. The drink deals are just as good: $2 domestic bottles, $2.50 Japanese bottles, $3.50 glasses of house wine, $3.95 selected martinis, and $5 22-ounce cans. Sushi Gin (9559 Nall, Overland Park, 913-649-8488). This spot is known for its all-day $1 nigiri specials, and its happy-hour specials (from 5 to 7:30 p.m.) change daily. On Monday, get 22-ounce Kirins, glasses of house cabernet, gin and tonics, and large servings of sake, all priced at $4.50. Dragon, Alaska and New York rolls cost $4.95 each. Sushi House (5041 West 117th Street, Leawood, 913-663-3333). Around since 2002, this tidy location has a new happy-hour menu (with deals from 3 to 6 p.m.) that includes $3 house sakes, $4 draws, and $5 house martinis and sangrias. All appetizers are $2 off.
A KANSAS CITY LOOPER
Asked about tonight’s film showing at the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400), Robert Butler gave us this picturesque endorsement: “We can’t time travel,” the former Kansas City Star film critic said, “but if you’ve ever wondered what it was like to sit in a smoky jazz club in the
1930s and experience great musicians squaring off in a classic ‘cutting contest’ for musical supremacy, Robert Altman’s Kansas City provides the next best thing.” Fall in love with our town again at 6:30 p.m., in the Stanley H. Durwood Film Vault, on the library’s top floor. Admission is free. See kclibrary.org.
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LIED CENTER PRESENTS Saturday
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A LITTLE MORE COUNTRY THAN THAT
Honky-tonk times are had at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300) at 7 p.m. every Tuesday with the invitational jam Elkheart’s Downtown Outlaw Fiasco. “We’re more Johnny Cash than Alice in Chains, for sure,” says Dutch Humphrey of the three-hour event, which features a DJ, an occasional local act, and a $5 shot-and-a-beer special. Even if you aren’t down to jam, Elkheart — rounded out by Tim Gutschenritter, Evan John McIntosh and Brent Windler — lays down a sweet Americana set about an hour in. There’s no cover, and it’s for those 21 and older only. See czarkc.com.
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BANG BANG ROCK AND ROLL
There’s really something for everyone at the Science of Rock ’n’ Roll: silenced drum kits, old jukeboxes and record cutters, recording opportunities in soundproof booths, and enough local memorabilia to remind you that KC rocks just as hard as Austin. Tickets for the exhibit, at Union Station (30 West Pershing Road, 816-460-2020) through May, cost $15 for adults and $12.50 for kids 14 and younger. See scienceofrock.com for more information.
SURVIVORS
Karen Thompson Walker’s The Age of Miracles smartly combines a contemporary coming-of-age novel with an is-this-the-endof-the-world fable. It’s among last year’s most memorable books, and the author stops here tonight to talk about it. For this Rainy Day Books event, she’s joined by Patricia O’Brien, who writes novels as Kate Alcott and who last year put out her own but-we-were-just-getting-started story, The Dressmaker, set on the Titanic and during the aftermath of its sinking. Both books are new in paperback; choose one as part of your $15 admission to this 7 p.m. discussion with Rainy Day’s Vivien Jennings. It’s at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street). For tickets and more information, see rainydaybooks.com. — SCOTT WILSON
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