I'm playing with No Nigerian Scammers and The Alters. Show starts @ 10! 1727 McGee, probably $5ish. ICE CREAM SOCIAL NO ICE CREAM EVENT PAGE!

Founded in 2005, this is the seventh Beware All Stylebiters group show. Beware All Stylebiters is a crew of talented artists that collaborate on different themes, artworks, and shows. "Battle Conditioned" is a collection of head-to-head collaborations between two artists on individual artworks. Each artist involved first turns in a half-finished piece of art. That piece is then photographed, and then given to another artist to finish. The challenge lies in the burden of completing another artists work, which may be of a contrasting style, or a piece even becoming a collaboration by two artists who have never met. Each finished work will be exhibited with a photograph of the piece before the exchange between artists and resulting collaboration.

This is a free event with refreshments provided and live music by DJ Sure and Forest of Luxury
Opening Friday, August 6th, 5 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Here's the link to the event!

6-8 PM! Here's the event page for more info. 329 Southwest Blvd. $5-$10 readings! Come see me!

Repurpose Me studio, 4031 Cambell St.11 AM - 5 PM both days! CYNICAL TAROT will have a table at this jam, come by and get some locally made goods. Megan Mantia is doing live bookbinding Saturday! Event here.

1715 Wyandotte, 7 PM. Inspired by the Cringe Night series founded in Brooklyn, "Dear Diary..." brings you a night devoted to the mortifying moments of adolescence -- a live reading of real diary entries from David Wayne Reed, Rita Brinkerhoff, Susanna Lee aka Lucky DeLuxe and more! Convened by the fabulous Meghan Whelan!

At the Newsroom, 3740 Broadway, 9 PM. It's going to be radical, my set is featuring the broken Lowery Bea(s)tmaster and my busted wrist. (facebook event page)

Chez Charlie, 38th & Broadway, 7 PM - ??? Come get an evening cocktail from Mr. Mark Inman, and I will be available to read your cards. I've been using my 2nd wave feminist deck since I was a small child, and the response to my readings has been really positive, so give it a go! This is ongoing on Tuesdays, yo.

10 PM, Balanca's (1809 Grand) DJs Shanannagins and Casey Guest and Teen Perspective! SSION performing their new hit single at midnight! Me and Kyle Devine performing! Ay! Facebook event page!

No cover! 7 -9 PM, Davey's Uptown (34th & Main) Blondie Brunetti is playing Amy Farrand's sweet Wednesday evening party! New songs, acoustic-style but with an electric guitar! Dinner will be available from Heather Hands (and I had it last week and it was deeeelicious).

My audience-participation experiment The Volunteers is playing for the first time! Members of The Alters, Blondie Brunetti, Dream Wolf, No Nigerian Scammers, plus selected volunteers from the audience will play. We're playing last to give people time to sign up for a slot in the band. With 45 Watts (rock n roll!), Park Avenue ft. Anna Young (r&b love songs!), and Austin's My Education (instrumental quintet). It will be totally rad.

23 E. 12th St. 1:00 - 3:30 PM

Ron Megee, Rita Brinkerhoff and Gina Kaufmann will be standing on soap boxes, shouting real Facebook status updates onto the street to greet visitors. By adapting online behavior to a physical space, visitors will get to see the humor, loneliness and occasional beauty of broadcasting unrelated sentiments into a shared void. Concluding this performance, Pitch Managing Editor Scott Wilson will speak -- with his signature brand of incisive, analytical, self-deprecating humor -- about how people behave differently in the dark.

This is part of an Urban Culture Project group art show titled Community + Loneliness, curated by the brilliant Angela Lopez. Glenn North, Poet-in-Residence at the American Jazz Museum, will be assembling some performers to respond to this theme as well.

Again at the Brick, 8 PM, with storytellers!

23 E. 12th St.!
May 5th and 6th!
7:00 - 9:00pm!

Meet our Body System Guides!
Charlie Mylie
Jamie Burkhart
Dalton Carter
Steven Lande
Rita Brinkerhoff
Kevin Schowengerdt
Shannon Stubbs
Maria Calderon

Energy Provoked Music by Jim Button

EVERY BODY HAS COMMUNITIES!
is a live taping of an educational video that encourages the audience to participate in activities that stimulate the major body systems. Through activity and education this video will unite Children and Adults on how we can connect with our subtle body systems through posture and movement to improve health.

Participate or just watch!!!!

BRING YOUR KIDS! Or tell some kids! This is a family oriented show!

Czar Bar (www.czarbar.com)! 17th & Grand!

$5! Music at 10 PM!

It's Dream Wolf's debut show! Wahoo!

7-9 PM! Dinner show at the Czar Bar, not sure who else is playing. Nice 'n early for all us worker bees!

I'm playing at the Czar Bar (www.czarbar.com, Grand and 17th-ish, around the corner from Mercy Seat) tonight. 9 PM! $5! Cosmic Tady Brothers, Blondie Brunetti, the Alters, and Mer (from Minneapolis yo)!

Silent art auction to benefit Doctors Without Borders, providing free medical care to the injured in Haiti. 6-9 PM at the Austin Walsh Studio, 2001 Grand Ave. Ste. 800. I've got a skelebird drypoint print up for auction, and Kash Click Money Order will have a table (amazing masks by Bernie Evans! an elaborate prank pulled on the enemies of your choosing by Kash Click! a hand-carved pipe by Jake Johannes! and more!). And Expo 70 is playing! And there's beer!

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THIS SATURDAY, my cover band Blondie Brunetti is playing at the Pistol (1219 Union Ave. KCMO) with The Altars, LIZZ KING (Baltimore) and MC BREEZEEONE. Show starts at 10 PM, bring some dollars for the touring bands! We will be doing some Usher, Charles Manson, and Jason DeRulo just to give you an idea. It's going to RULE.

Opening First Friday, February 6th

@ The Brick, 1727 McGee

9 PM until the bar closes! Notice the late start time, and come by after the awesome earlier openings on Friday!

It's the annual West 18th Street Fashion Show, and I am in charge of the opening number! It is inspired by Busby Berkely, Esther Williams, and drag queens everywhere. Featuring some gals from the Roller Warriors, we are the KANSAS CITY SEA SIRENS! It'll be rad.

Show starts at 8 PM sharp at 18th and Wyandotte - out in front of YJ's Snack Bar. There are tons of awesome designers, and I'll throw an inflatable shark at you. Be there or be sad to be missing one of the best events in Kansas City.

DID I MENTION IT IS TOTALLY FREE AND KID-FRIENDLY? Now I did!

TUESDAY June 10th 7:30 PM: PECHA KUCHA @ Bar Natasha (1911 Main Street). This is Kansas City’s first Pecha Kucha night and I am honored to be invited to present! All the presenters get 6 minutes and 40 seconds to show you 20 slides of our work and talk about what we are doing! Admission is free, but call the bar at 816-472-5300 to reserve your spot – they are expecting a big crowd. Other presenters that night: Jesse Small, Egawa + Zbryk, Johnny America, Peregrine Honig, Ryan Gedney, Hector Casanova, Josh Olsen, Dominique Davison & Angela Carroll. PECHA-KUCHA!!! Click on “Kansas City” for more info about this awesome project!

SATURDAY June 7th 7 PM: BULLesque presented by Titties for Pitties @ the Riot Room in Westport (formerly the Hurricane)! We had to reschedule because of the rain last month, but we are back in action raising money for Mid-America Bully Breed Rescue. There will be a pitbull fashion show, there will be burlesque, there will be bands, and I will MC in a gorgeous outfit. And I might sing about pitbulls.

FRIDAY June 6th 9 PM: Donkey Show XIX @ Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee. Toga Party!!! With Lights and Siren, Aerial Fabrics, Flamenco Estencias, Buddy Lush Phenomenon, burlesque stars Rita Brinkerhoff & Gilda Lily, Susan Speck on bagpipes and MORE! I think you get a discount if you come in a toga. Mine is gold and shiny. There will be Greek-related games! Presented by Spice of Life Productions! Donkey Show

SUNDAY June 1st 6:30 PM: At the Speakeasy, 1219 Union in the West Bottoms. Our featured model is MAMA LOU: STRONGWOMAN EXTRAORDINAIRE. She is a KC native who now lives in New York and can break phone books. Even big ones! She is hot as heck. I will be MCing, and I will try not to make Mama Lou too angry, as I am sure she could totally take me. Dr. Sketchy's KCMO

TUESDAY May 27th 6 PM: Midwest Mermaid Parade! Organized by the beautiful Sheri Parr, the parade will start at 6 PM at YJ’s Snack Bar (18th & Wyandotte) and progress to the Brick (1727 McGee). The rule is: dress like a mermaid and bring an instrument to play if you have one! Also bring children, it is cool! We will be accompanied through the streets by the Mount Righteous Marching Band (11-piece band WITH A CHOIR). Once we arrive at the Brick, Wee Snuff will perform, and we will see Mount Righteous in all their glory. I will be wearing seaweed in my hair! Mount Righteous Mark Southerland/Wee Snuff

6-8 PM: Young Professionals Happy Hour at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, East Sculpture Terrace. Channel your inner celebrity with the popular exhibition In the Public Eye: Photography and Fame. Grand Marquis is performing, Jaimie Warren is taking red carpet photos, and the dream team of Rita Brinkerhoff, Taylor Triano (Gilda Lily) and Laurel Sears (Mademoiselle Mielle) will be performing various aspects of celebrity throughout the evening. At 6:45 p.m. head to the Bloch Building for an in-gallery talk by Jane Aspinwall, Assistant Curator of Photography. Then it's back outside for more of Grand Marquis and cocktails! This is a free event with a cash bar! The celebrity aspect I will be performing is TRAINWRECK CELEBRITY, so look out world! Ha! Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

Life @ 3 Feet is a show of nine young photographers ages 4-8! The opening will be at the Landon Gallery (329 Southwest Blvd., next to Lulu's Noodle Shop). And... BONUS! I will have a large mural on display! Please bring the kids - the entire photo show is hung at a kids-eye level, and they can draw on the wall just like me. Huzzah!

I'm collaborating with Gary Huggins on an installation for this Beware All Stylebiters show! It will blow your damn mind. 5-10 PM at 507 E. 16th St. in the east Crossroads! Definitely there will be work by Loo Ruzich and Jeremy McConnell as well as many other of the Stylebiters crew. Come out and see us!

The KCK YWCA is having an all-lady art show at their 6th Street Gallery in honor of Women's History Month. So-new-it's-still-drying work by me can be seen Friday, March 14th from 5-8 PM. I know that Lori Raye Erickson has a piece in it as well, and lots of other ladies women and chicks. Come by! 1017 N. 6th Street in Kansas City, KS.

Rah! Booty is releasing a book! And I'm performing a special number combining religion and beauty at the release party. With Cody Critcheloe, Annie Cherry, No Mathmatics and more! Show starts at 9:30 PM at the Brick, 1727 McGee, KCMO.

I will be MCing! M'Chelle will be modeling and performing! There shall be prizes! 6-11 PM, 1331 Union, top floor. Click here for more info!

Rita Brinkerhoff and Sturdy Gurlesque perform at the Slap & Tickle, a new gallery in the Crossroads. They are having an erotic art show, Sturdy and I will be performing at the opening. She plays with fire!

Located across from Grinder’s at 541 E. 18th St. AND IT’S FREE!!!

The show is organized by Lucky DeLuxe, and all proceeds go to benefit Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art School. There are burlesque performers, magicians, comedians, and… ME! I hear it is a gorgeous stage!

Cabaret DeLuxe at Stanford & Sons Comedy Club - located out at Legends in Kansas City, KS. Their number is 913-400-7500 if you need directions. Donations are being taken in lieu of a cover charge.

I have two new pieces in Telephonebooth's winter invitational show. Open Saturdays from 12-5 PM. Telephonebooth is located at 3319 Troost, and is located on the internets at www.telephoneboothgallery.com.

Saturday 11/3 and Sunday 11/4, 10 AM to 4 PM at Hoop Dog Studio, 3308 Troost! Come see lots of artwork by Rita Brinkerhoff, Lori Buntin, Karl Marxhausen and Lauren McEntire. See art in its natural environment! Yeah! ONE WEEKEND ONLY!

I have a piece in this show since I'm participating in Open Studios this year - the opening is from 5-8 PM Friday, October 18th at the Artist Coalition (201 Wyandotte, across from the River Market Scott Fitness).

See you there!

Miss Brinkerhoff will be modeling for the fabulous Dr. Sketchy's KCMO!

Hosted by the lovely Laurenn McCubbin, Dr. Sketchy's is 4 hours of burlesque life drawing. With booze! And prizes! And a mid-class special performance! Wheeeee!