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Mourning Joe oe Paterno died last week. The 85-year-old coaching legend, who headed Penn State’s football program for 46 years before his late-2011 firing, had lung cancer. His death prompted a waterfall of teary farewells, including one from former Kansas Citian Joe Posnanski.

Posnanski left KC last year, upgrading from Kansas City Star columnist to Sports Illustrated scribe. Also last year, Joe Po started working on a book about Joe Pa. So it was only fitting that Posnanski would have a few public words about Paterno, to whom he’d likely begun to feel close.

But after the events of last year, Posnanski can no longer write a sunny look at a beloved coach in his twilight years. For this souring of narrative, the sportswriter can blame the allegations of child rape on Jerry Sandusky, a longtime assistant coach under Paterno.

In 2002, a graduate assistant reported to Paterno that he’d seen Sandusky raping a boy in the showers of the Penn State locker room. Paterno called his bosses but didn’t call the cops — and didn’t stop associating with Sandusky. When this came to light, in November 2011, the school’s board fired Paterno and Penn State President Graham Spanier.

Posnanski’s obituary for Paterno is short and flowery and gives the coach a pass. “I asked Paterno, at one point in that last month, if he hoped that people would come to see and measure his

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full life rather than a single, hazy event involving an alleged child molester,” he writes. “ ‘It doesn’t matter what people think of me,’ he said. ‘I’ve lived my life. I just hope the truth comes out.

And I hope the victims find peace.’ ” Fifty-two criminal charges and 10 victims add up to a lot more than “a single, hazy event.”

So it’s a good thing crime isn’t Joe Po’s beat, because here in the metro, January has turned into a parade of accused predators.

In Grain Valley last week, a teacher named Matthew Nelson was charged with first-degree child molestation and first-degree sodomy. The tearful 33-year-old was perp-walked in handcuffs out of the police station, for the benefit of TV cameras. The parents of at least four boys, between the ages of 7 and 9, went to police ear-

lier this month after their children reported that Nelson had touched their private areas over and under their clothing during movie viewings and reading times in his classroom at Prairie Branch Elementary.

In Blue Springs, soccer coach Richard Burroughs has been accused of child molestation and sodomy for allegedly touching two girls, ages 11 and 12, at his home. One of the girls reported that Burroughs, 43, had put his hand down her pants during a sleepover with Burroughs’ daughter. The other girl reported that Burroughs wanted to show her something on his computer and rubbed his hand across her chest. Burroughs was arrested January 26. He has denied the allegations.

On Monday, Steven Miller of Overland Park pleaded guilty in federal court to taking photos of himself sexually abusing a 3-year-old boy in 2003. The 30-year-old is facing 15 years in prison.

And then there’s Cole Larson of Raytown.

He was sentenced Monday to seven years in federal prison without parole. The 31-year-old pleaded guilty in September to downloading about 2,000 images of child pornography and to making child porn himself.

Meanwhile, the trial date of Bishop Robert Finn, who authorities say waited five months to report suspicions of child abuse by a priest, was set last week for September 24. That gives Finn plenty of time to lock down Posnanski for a quick bio.

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TWO YEARS AGO, DOWNTOWN’S COSBY HOTEL WAS DOOMED. BUT TWO DEVELOPERS SAY THEY’RE RESTORING THE BUILDING - BIG TIME.

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But even at its most decrepit, beauty was hiding in the decay of the Cosby Hotel. Now this neglected, once beautiful 1881 building — abandoned in 1995 — is coming back, the object of a history-minded restoration.

On a cold late-January day, the place’s old splendor peeks out, visible in glimpses. The original mezzanine ceiling, tin with painted canvas and moldings of cattle skulls, is untouched in a first-floor crawl space. The tile in the building’s upstairs entryway still announces, “Hotel Cosby.” A grand staircase leads to a check-in booth and skylight-illuminated atrium. Cracks in the panes splinter the light coming down. A pigeon can be heard fluttering through a maze of third-floor rooms.

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Creedence Clearwater Revival’s John Fogerty answers the bird, croaking from a worker’s boombox. After years of inactivity, the building is on its way back from the dead.

Architect Lon Booher and developer Jason Swords have teamed up to refurbish the threestory, 15,000-square-foot building at Ninth Street and Baltimore, two years after it was scheduled to be toppled and turned into a parking lot. They bought the building in July 2011 and began a $2.88 million mixed-use redevelopment of the historic site.

“The idea for the second floor is to restore it to how it was originally as a hotel but convert it to office space,” Booher says. “And then the first floor — just commercial, maybe some retail.”

Booher and Swords, of the Sunflower Development Group, previously collaborated on renovating downtown historic buildings, at 1520 Grand pitch.com pitch.com

(the Luna nightclub and the Terrace on Grand event space) and 1531 Grand (which now houses the bar called Czar). This project — a bigger building, part of the Ninth Street Historic District, and potentially full of untouched treasure — is different. And saving the Cosby hasn’t been easy.

In July 2010, city officials declared that the building’s west-facing brick wall had become weak enough to put the whole structure on KC’s dangerous-buildings list. The city ordered an emergency demolition, despite the Cosby’s place on the National Register of Historic Places.

With less than 24 hours to spare — and thanks to efforts by the Downtown Council and a Facebook drive to “Save the Cosby” — those officials called off the wrecking crew and agreed to spend the $4,000 necessary to keep the west wall from falling. But the building still needed new ownership. continued on page 9

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Sean O’Byrne, vice president of business development for the Downtown Council, asked Booher and Swords if they wanted to tour the Cosby. They took O’Byrne up on the offer.

“Of course, we loved it,” Booher says. “I think we were pretty lucky with all of the stuff that was intact. It hasn’t been bastardized horribly over the years.”

The first-floor storefront and tile entries remained, and all of the original woodwork was still on the second and third floors. Booher and Swords believe that they’ll be able to save old tapestries and a lot of the ornate plasterwork and original painted crown moldings.

“Really, outside of the hotel desk, everything else is there,” Booher says. “We still have parts of a certificate of occupancy from maybe the mid-’20s up there.”

And they’re not done spelunking the building for more of its secrets. Booher and Swords have enlisted the help of Rosin Preservation to help identify the building’s original features,

including four painted canvases of women that were attached to the ceilings.

The Cosby was first known as the Woods Building, one of the first multistory commercial buildings in downtown Kansas City and home to several prominent physicians, including one of the city’s first female doctors, Martha Dibble.

In 1899, the building was converted into a hotel

by Joseph Cosby. Its upper floors were closed off in 1964. The building has been vacant since 1995, when Lane Blueprint moved.

The first phase of reconstruction is nearing completion, Booher says. In the past three months, the west-facing wall has been shored up, stabilized and rebuilt with the original masonry. The building also has a new roof.

Mark Moberly, who works for Sunflower, says workers found 30 layers of roofing.

“Every time there was a problem with the roof, they’d just go over it. They wouldn’t pull it up,” he says. “We put a whole new roof on this thing. It was one of the first things that we had to do. If it rained, it’d just be standing water everywhere.”

Booher says he and Swords are now in discussions with the National Park Service about reinstalling the building’s windows. Sometime in the past 15 years, when the Cosby seemed destined to come down, the building’s owner called Architectural Salvage, which saved the original windows and doors.

“We went down to Architectural Salvage and actually bought them back,” Moberly says.

“All of the windows, they have little prisms in the windowpanes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The design was his original.” The windows now sit in the Sunflower Development Group’s offices at 1520 Grand, waiting to be returned. “We’re going to put them back in there,” Moberly says.

Last week, the Cosby’s developers were awarded a 10-year property-tax abatement from the Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority. Here’s how the money breaks down: $493,025 in state historic tax credits; $335,498 in federal historic tax credits; $150,000 in developer equity; and a $1.9 million loan. (Removing lead-based paint and asbestos has al-

ready cost the developers around $130,000.)

Booher says he and Swords hope to have the building finished by the end of the summer, with first-floor tenants moved in by early fall.

“If we have tenants, we could be 100 percent by October,” Moberly says. “They can do the work that quick. The big work to stabilize the building has been done. Now it’s a lot of cosmetic things.”

The developers are reluctant to name their prospective tenants, but they say they’re in talks with a couple of restaurants for the first floor and office tenants for the second and third floors.

“We’re kind of at a standstill right now on the first floor, waiting to see what tenant we get,” Moberly says. “We don’t want to knock down a wall that they may want. We think that within a week, we’ll have those tenants signed and we’ll be able to move forward.”

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19 Below Gallery (5 West 19th Street, 816-471-1019). Trey Morgan and Michael K. Knutson each started 10 individual pieces of art and then exchanged them, to allow the other artist to complete the works. The result is an amalgamation of scraps from trash bins and thrift stores, imagery evocative of a childlike understanding of the world. The artists say their pieces are influenced by “the dive-bar scene and the exploits therein.” The opening of Historian in Our Own Minds is from 5 to 9 p.m.

La Esquina (1000 West 25th Street, 816-221-5115). Ari Fish’s latest installation, High Seas, Low Planes, comes equipped with big, boulder-shaped pillows and mobile scooters upholstered with comfort foam so that folks can experience her work comfortably in its

intended form: as a “temporary temple.” Composed of colorful poly-filament clouds, hanging vinyl forms and projected color-light schemes, the enshrined space also has a soundtrack: white noise, bell tones and low hums. The opening reception is from 6 to 9 p.m.

Slap + Tickle Gallery (504 East 18th Street, 816-716-5940). The gallery with the website that proclaims “no dress code or hoity-toity, artsy-fartsy constipated egostistical bullshit allowed” presents Erotica 2012, its fifth annual artistic celebration of sensuality, beautiful bodies and exposed skin. Eighteen local and national artists show work alongside performance artists Kiki Severe, Annie Thrax and Zion. The opening goes from 6 to 11 p.m. This one’s not for children.

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Director Stephanie Johnes follows two teams — North Carolina’s Bouncing Bulldogs and South Carolina’s Double Dutch Forces — over the span of three months, from training to the day of the national competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem. The Bulldogs’ squad is composed of mostly white kids, while the Double Dutch team is mostly black. Newsday called the 2007 film “an arrestingly frank look at race and culture in America.” Skip on over to a free screening of Doubletime at 2 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-843-2787). See lawrenceartscenter.org for more information.

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RASSLE LOCAL

Metro Pro Wrestling isn’t the glitzy, pyrodrenched cable-TV rasslin’ seen on Monday and Friday nights. But that doesn’t mean the show lacks soap-opera drama. Metro Pro promoter Chris Gough says new feuds begin tonight at the Turner Recreation Center (831 South 55th Street, Kansas City, Kansas, 913-287-2111). Also expect the debut of a few new stars and the return of former WWE superstar Trevor Murdock, continued on page 12

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who’s back to help Metro Pro Champion Bull Schmitt (probably not the name on his birth certificate) settle the score with Kansas City’s best wrestler. That would be Jeremy Wyatt along with “Showtime” Bradley Charles and their shit-talking manager, Steven J. Girthy.

Gough also promises a renewed focus on tagteam wrestling, shiny new belts (if they arrive on time) and a championship match. Doors open at 6 p.m. The matches start at 7 and include the culmination of Showtime’s feud with curly-haired Jayhawk-lover Tyler Cook, in a “falls count anywhere in Kansas” match for the Kansas title. Stay vigilant, KCK people. Tickets cost $15 for adults ($20 for front row) and $5 for kids. Call 816-222-5455 for more information, and see the entire card at metrowrestling.com.

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You don’t need eagle eyes to catch a glimpse of the feathered national symbol. Organizers of the 11th Annual Eagle Day at Wyandotte County Lake Park (91st Street and Leavenworth Road in Kansas City, Kansas) have binoculars available for checkout, allowing you to see the wild eagles hanging out along the water. Get a closer look at 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m., when Operation Wildlife representatives show off a captive flock of birds of prey, including eagles, owls, hawks and falcons. At 11:30 a.m. and 2:45 p.m. Ty Smede, photographer and author of The Return of the Bald Eagle, shares insight about the creature that — unlike most Americans — mates for life.

Festivities last from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., with related activities occurring in Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Schlagle Library (4051 West Drive, inside the park).

“Bald eagles have made an amazing comeback throughout the United States since the days of DDT, dieldrin and other toxic chemicals that had nearly wiped out the entire lower 48’s population of eagles, brown pelicans and ospreys back in the ’60s and early ’70s,” says Craig Hensley, education specialist at the KCK Public Library. For more information, call 913-299-2384 or see kckpl.org.

— CRYSTAL K. WIEBE [DANCE]

BELLYFUL OF FAIRIES

Far, far away from the lands of the Middle East and North Africa, the women of Belly Dance United are trying to “bring belly dance home

The eagles are landing in WyCo (Saturday). to the average person,” says Tamera Gonzales, the group’s artistic and executive director. “We mix it up a little and relate it back to American experiences that everyone knows.” Case in point: Through tonight’s presentation of Elemental, the dancers hope to take their audience on a journey through the fairy tales of the Victorian era. “There will be performances by all types of fairies, representing air, water, earth and fire. Also, elves, fire elementals, fairy godmothers, divas, nymphs, water sprites and more,” Gonzales says. Meant for all ages, the show goes on at City Stage Theatre at Union Station (30 West Pershing Road, 816-460-2020) at 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost $15 for adults, $10 for seniors and students, and $8 for kids under 7. For more information, see bellydanceunited.com.

— BERRY ANDERSON [ART]

FLOAT ON

A cluster of people is waiting for something.

They avoid eye contact with one another the way urban dwellers do. But instead of a bus or a train arriving, a deluge of water suddenly overtakes them from both sides. This is The Raft, a video installation by artist Bill Viola at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278), on exhibit through April 29.

Washing over its audience like waves, the slowmotion film “allows you to see the expressions on the people’s faces in a way that seems to suspend time,” says Leesa Fanning, the Nelson’s associate curator of modern and contemporary art. “It’s not like anything we see in our waking consciousness. It’s more dreamlike.” Fanning hosts an hourlong panel discussion, beginning at 2 p.m., in the museum’s Atkins Auditorium — with Buddhist lama Chuck Stanford, psychologist Linda Moore, and Unicorn Theatre director Cynthia Levin — on the social and spiritual implications of The Raft. See nelson-atkins.org for more information.

— NADIA PFLAUM

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Chrysalyn and Jeff Huff noticed a Craigslist ad: A woman whose husband had been injured needed assistance tearing down a barn, and free barn wood and metal were promised to those

who helped. The Huffs volunteered their labor, and they used the resulting wood to frame a woman’s heirloom mirror and construct a table bench for a family Thanksgiving. “It was the perfect situation. We were able to help her, and she was able to help us,” Chrysalyn Huff says.

The Huffs celebrate their urban-farmhouse style with the grand opening of Restoration Emporium (1300 West 13th Street, 913-915-2124), their West Bottoms shop, which joins several other resale shops that are open the first weekend of the month. They sell barn-wood creations, such as wine racks, as well as other repurposed home-décor items that they and others have made. The grand opening runs from 8:30 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. today. For more information, search for Restoration Emporium on Facebook.

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If blues doesn’t automatically come to mind as a KC musical legacy the way jazz or shitty lite metal does, it should. KC blues exports Trampled Under Foot and Samantha Fish have garnered four nominations for the 2012 Blues Music Awards, putting them up against the ranks of Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton?

That’s big-time, yet one or two of the Schnebelen sibs or Fish herself still stops by sometimes for the Monday Night Jam at Point Loco (7439 Broadway, 816-333-8226). “When our original spot [Hannibal’s Waldo Bar] closed last

year, I knew we couldn’t let this jam go,” says Hanna Sandbeck, a Point Loco bartender who has helped promote the jam since it began. “It creates such fun energy on an otherwise slow, boring night.” It also means a lot to the musicians, and PBR drafts are only $2. The jam starts around 8 p.m.

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The life of a vegetarian sushi lover is complicated when glancing over the fish- and crustacean-heavy menu. Cucumber? Yes! Avocado? Mmm. Oh, and crab … damn! You might be happier if you learned how to create your own sushi. Which FIND you can do at the Merc MANY MORE (901 Iowa, in Lawrence, 785-843-8544) during the co-op’s vegetarian sushi class, taught by LISTINGS Nancy Stark, chef and ONLINE AT owner of chefshopPITCH.COM stark.com. “Students will learn how to make sushi rice and all the various fillings,” she says. “I will show them how to handle the rice and the bamboo-rolling mat to make nori rolls. We’ll also do vegetarian gyoza.” Fried dumplings — yes! Stark’s course runs from 7 to 9 p.m. The cost is $20 per person or $18 for Merc owners and seniors. For more information and to register, stop by the store or see communitymercantile.com.

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Lee Ward has made his life’s work about death.

He’s the director of the privately owned Museum of Funeral History in Independence, and he’s also working on a book about the history of funerals in Jackson County. Many white-owned funeral homes refused to provide burial services for blacks, and the discrimination gave rise to black undertakers and funeral parlors. At the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400), Ward discusses 150 years of this history in a program titled “The Final Sendoff: African-American Funeral Homes.” He explains: “People are going to wonder: How does this white guy know all about black funerals? Well, it’s because I’ve been doing it for 50 years, both the research and owning funeral homes. I also had the privilege of interviewing the last living, black funeral director in KC from that period, Charles Kerford. He is 93 years old and a Tuskegee airman. I’ve learned so much from him.” Ward’s talk begins at 6:30 p.m., following a reception at 6. RSVP for this free program at kclibrary.org or call 816-701-3407.

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Want to elevate your next debate with Uncle Bubba about “the illegals”? Head to a program of the International Relations Council at Carmen’s Café (6307 Brookside Plaza,

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816-333-4048), where Jacob Prado, KC’s Mexican consul, is scheduled to offer a nuanced perspective in a discussion of Mexican foreign policy. Linda S. Trout, IRC’s executive director, explains: “The United States and Mexico share a complicated and significant relationship, one that it is important for all informed citizens to understand. This relationship involves much more than immigration and illegal drug trafficking, although these are important issues.” Energy security, climate change, banking and debt crises, human rights and global health are also weighty concerns.

The event begins at 6 p.m. with a social hour that includes appetizers and a cash bar. Registration is $10 for IRC members or $15 for nonmembers. If Prado’s speech leaves you craving more discourse on pressing world matters, consider also registering for Great Decisions, a grassroots group-discussion program of the Foreign Policy Association that kicks off with Prado’s talk. Learn more at irckc.org or call 816-221-4204.

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art Phone Call TELEPHONEBOOTH’S TIM BROWN AND HIS WINTER INVITATIONAL FETISH

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im Brown might hold the strongest convictions of anyone exhibiting art in Kansas City. Venture into Telephonebooth, a no-frills gallery that the artist operates in a storefront on Troost Avenue, and you might feel a little cold this time of year. There’s no electricity, so Brown limits visiting hours to when the sun is up. Over BY hot tea near the space’s woodTHERESA burning stove, The Pitch talked with Brown recently B E M B N I ST E R about the 12th annual Winter Invitational, a hodgepodge gathering of works installed in waves as they arrive at the gallery.

The Pitch: You ask artists to send or bring work to the Telephonebooth for the Winter Invitational. These are artists with whom you’ve had longstanding relationships. Which works did you You don’t like themes for group shows. Why receive that surprised you, and why?

Brown: The conceptual artists, being more is that?

I would just say I’m not a big fan of themes horizontal in process, always surprise me.

Horizontal? Do you mean that in the planar for group shows in galleries because they often put the art in secondary relation to some persense?

Planar as a metaphor — horizontal or asso- sonal unity, and I am fundamentally a pluralciative, an axis of meaning in contrast to verti- ist. But occasionally a salaried curator has time to write a well-crafted essay cal, which is more like being for the art, and then it’s not a obsessive and working on one 2011–12 sales method but a contributhing very intensely for years.

Winter Invitational tion to history, so that’s great, Painters have a tendency to Noon–5 p.m. Saturdays and then I like themes. do that because color is infiin February, Still, many of the artists in nitely complex, and it’s easy at Telephonebooth, the Winter Invitational subto fall down the rabbit hole 3319 Troost, mitted work with nature as of that universe.

816-582-9812, telephoneboothgallery.com a theme. How do you explain And how are the conceptual that? artists more of it?

Well, it might be fashionMost conceptual artists I know are principally about the quality of the able now to make things that are very polished. metaphor, and that means they have to keep Claude Lévi-Strauss’ book The Raw and the Cooked talks about ways culture happens, eithinking well to keep making things.

Tim Brown — gallerist, producer, paradigm shifter — runs the Telephonebooth.

ther directly or processed and mannered. The artists I work with are more in the raw category, and those artists might also be reflecting on our world in a less neoliberal technocratic manner, and thereby more concerned with nature and the natural.

As a gallerist (if you would permit me to call you that), you like to let the work speak for itself.

Why? I absolutely accept that. Gallerist is a contrasting term to dealer, who are people principally concerned with making money. Gallerists celebrate the art. They also contribute to the art economy substantially, but often indirectly, by being the originating venues that dealers track and use to prescreen their choices.

I can even parse out my category a step further and say I’m a gallerist at an artist-run gallery,

which means I try to make choices that good working artists respect.

As far as letting art speak for itself, I would say I like to let the art stand on its own. But often, when civilians come in to look at things, it’s my job to talk and speak for the art, hopefully in ways people not familiar with it can understand, so they can continue their own dialogue.

You also refer to yourself as a producer. Why do you choose that word to describe what you do?

Cultural producer is a term that grounds art in a material and historical context, and is in contrast to terms of personality and commodity fetish, like transcendent, genius, etc. That likely reflects the generational paradigms of my teachers. The Frankfurt School gets credit for the approach.

Will you explain what you mean by “commodity fetish”?

Talking about things you are invested in with loving and virtuous terms to reinforce the value of your own investment (or sale).

That happens often with art, but it’s hard to see the patronage and incentive if you aren’t on the inside. And when you are inside, it’s much more fun to drink the Kool-Aid and believe it.

As an artist (or producer), to accept that art might be tied to history has consequences regarding what I want to speak to with the things I make and the artists I support.

What paradigms do you hope you and your generation set?

I’m not sure if paradigms get set but maybe lived through, processed, maybe further worked on. If I could hope for a paradigm shift, that would be my choice, that people mature and notice how things connect, that norms of greed might give way to ideas of sharing. I actually think that will have to happen sooner than later as accumulation and extraction are becoming a problem here.

Paradigms as legacy is a tough question, so let me hope I have more time to work on it.

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stage Boys to Men DIFFERENT OBSTACLES ON DIFFERENT STAGES FOR TOM AND HUCK AND ADAM AND LUKE emember endless summers and their limitless possibilities, of viewing the world through the lens of a child? And don’t we all still grasp sometimes for that carefree feeling? A couple of hours at an action film, a happy hour, a musical performance — a play — can soften life’s concerns, for a while. Such is the world of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, who play with abandon but also suffer the intrusion of the adult world around them.

Wonderment and innocence are palpable in the creative production of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (adapted for the stage

by Laura Eason and directed by Jeremy B. Cohen) at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Based on Mark Tom Sawyer offers rewards at Kansas City BY Twain’s 1876 novel, the story Repertory Theatre with (from left): Trinrud, D E B O R A H of Tom, and his family and Nichols, Tann and McKiernan. friends and community, maHIRSCH terializes before us, realized In the Unicorn’s Next Fall (above right), with an artfully simple set (de- Sneary (seated) listens to Robbins. signed by Daniel Ostling, who also did Arabian In this cast of eight, actors take on more than Nights and the memorable Metamorphoses) and some inventive staging. The famous picket one role. Michael Nichols very adeptly handles fence is the centerpiece, serving not only to three: the frustrated-with-Tom schoolmaster, separate scenes but also to symbolically split the verbose minister, and the scary Injun Joe. Nance Williamson imbues Aunt Polly with the spheres of children and adults.

In the province of Tom and Huck, dead cats all of a guardian’s annoyance, love, worry and cure warts, and a bartering system prizes dead watchfulness. (She also does an appropriately rats, slingshots and apple cores. Pirates are stern turn as Widow Douglas.) Also good are heroic, school an inconvenience. And girls ruin Justin Fuller as friend Joe Harper; Nate Trineverything — Tom’s “engagement” to Becky rud as Tom’s brother, Sid, and as Doc Robinson (the graveyard murder Thatcher (sealed with the exvictim); and Joseph Adams change of a brass doorknob) The Adventures as the beleaguered, wrongly hampers, according to Huck, of Tom Sawyer accused Muff Potter. his and Tom’s adventures. It’s Through February 12 Scenes change often but also a world where a graveat Kansas City Repertory fluidly. When it’s time for yard murder becomes “the Theatre, 4949 Cherry, 816-235-2700, kcrep.org church, pews on wheels roll graveyard game.” And so, that in and out with ease (and big solid fence sometimes actors mingle with puppets comes apart, and real-world Next Fall to compose a congregation). consequences permeate the Through February 12 A tree branch or sometimes world of make-believe. at the Unicorn Theatre, one or more windows are This production of Tom 3828 Main, 816-531-7529, suspended from above to Sawyer premiered at Conunicorntheatre.org realize a classroom, a cemnecticut’s Hartford Stage in etery, a cave opening. And 2010 and had runs at the Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Repertory staircases are used to create the illusion of Theatre of St. Louis. (It debuts at the New Vic- spelunking. Sound effects by Daniel Baker and tory Theater in New York City in early March.) Aaron Meicht, of Broken Chord, populate a The adult actors have traveled with the produc- sparsely attended courtroom scene with ontion and comfortably inhabit their roles’ skins. lookers and use echoes to depict a cave’s depth.

Tim McKiernan is a perfectly unaffected The lighting, too (designed by Robert Wierzel), Tom, bringing boyish energy to his antics. is creatively employed to set mood, focus attenRobbie Tann’s Huckleberry Finn is both mis- tion and even whitewash a fence.

The night I attended, a couple of scenes chievous and innocent, with the right amount of bravado. Hayley Treider is a natural Becky played too slowly, and the sudden reappearance of the missing Tom, Huck and Joe, as well and exudes a child’s joys and fears.

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as Tom’s transition to narrator near the end, felt abrupt. But this production animates Twain’s words, wit and characters. This incarnation of his story of human foibles is a pleasure to behold, if just for a couple of hours.

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ixed marriages are nothing new and can reveal a different set of human foibles.

Opposites attract, after all, whether the divisions between them are religious or political or class. Prior to seeing the Unicorn Theatre’s Next Fall (directed by Jeff Church), which was a Tony Award nominee in 2010, I wondered what would make this play’s central coupling different from one that any of us could name, whether famous or close to home.

In Luke and Adam’s relationship, one of the two men is a fundamentalist Christian who believes homosexuality is a sin. That can kind of put a damper on things.

An aspiring 20-something actor, Luke (engagingly played by Rusty Sneary) has come to New York City to take auditions and wait tables.

He meets Adam at a party given by their mutual friend Holly (the capable Heidi Van). The neurotic Adam (Charles Fugate) is older. At 40, he works in Holly’s candle store and feels a midlife crisis approaching. But Luke is attracted, and a flirtation starts, then a relationship, despite Luke’s unquestioning religious faith that Adam constantly questions.

The story unfolds between 2004 and 2009 and jumps back and forth in time, allowing us to observe Adam and Luke’s evolving life together. Adam is continually confounded

by Luke’s unwavering fundamentalism and troubled by Luke’s need to pray for repentance after they have sex. Though his views are unfathomable to Adam, Sneary’s Luke is genuine and believably resolute. A touching scene in Act 2 demonstrates their attempt to come together spiritually. There’s obvious love

between them, even if it remains unclear what drives that devotion.

Romantic relationships necessarily coexist with families and friends, some of whom tote Bibles. So it’s not a shock that Luke hasn’t come out to his Southern, fundamentalist, conservative father (a commanding but nuanced Mark Robbins). When Butch (not a subtle moniker) travels to NYC unexpectedly, Luke must “degay” the apartment for his dad, an effort that includes removing a Truman Capote book and trying to get Adam out of the way.

Luke’s parents are 20 years divorced. His mother, Arlene — acted with the right balance of muddleheadedness and vulnerability

by Merle Moores — abandoned Luke in the sandbox when he was only 5. Butch and Arlene eventually commingle with Adam, Holly and Luke’s friend, Brandon (Doogin Brown), in a hospital waiting room in 2009, where another complication emerges. Only family members can consult with doctors, make important decisions, or be by the patient’s side. Though a partner, Adam isn’t considered “family.” Plus, Luke’s parents don’t know who Adam really is (or do they?), so he must sit in the waiting room with Holly and Brandon, a religious gay man with his own issues.

Crisis can strengthen faith, push it away or deliver it to nonbelievers looking for answers.

Geoffrey Nauffts’ play alludes to these possibilities but has too much going on to delve into them. Adam’s continued ridicule of, and incredulity at, Luke’s belief system wears thin, and the story’s many thematic elements fail to bind into a satisfactory whole.

But at Next Fall’s center are these two men, who try to be there for each other when personal, familial and institutional barriers get in the way. The play lacks focus, but the struggles still make for thought-provoking theater.

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If you’ve never heard of Brobecks BBQ, on Indian Creek Parkway, you aren’t alone. I was right there with you, in fact, until a couple of weeks ago, when I stopped there on a Friday night. I was with two friends, one of whom had heard about BY Brobecks from a friend of a CHARLES friend (or something like that).

“It’s across from the QuikF E R R U Z Z A Trip at 435 and Roe,” Deb said from the backseat of my car. I hadn’t noticed anything resembling a barbecue shack on this suburban stretch, but there it was, The Rub Bar-B-Que 10512 South Ridgeview Road, Olathe, at the back of an indistinct shopping complex.

Most of the big names in Kansas City barbe- 913-894-1820. Hours: 11 a.m.–8 p.m. cue — Gates, Arthur Bryant’s, Jack Stack, Rose- Sunday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–9 p.m. dale — are easy to locate. Their free-standing Friday–Saturday. Price: $–$$ buildings have operated, in some cases, for chise operation. It so closely mimics the look decades. But there’s always someplace off the and the serving style of a Chipotle that I almost beaten path, waiting to be discovered, like some ordered a soft taco by mistake.

The restaurant’s Facebook page calls it “Kansecret clubhouse that can be found only by folsas City’s newest upscale bar-b-que.” Upscale? lowing the aroma of burning hickory.

That alluring smell floats out of three barbe- Not by my standards (the Jack Stack restaurants cue restaurants that I’ve recently discovered. In are the only truly “upscale” smoked-meat operations in the metro), though it addition to Brobecks are the does have six monitors — all Rub in Olathe and Biemer’s tuned to ESPN — and it uses BBQ in Lawrence. All three Brobecks BBQ metal flatware with the pasmoke their ribs and brisket Barbecue salmon dinner ....................$14.95 per napkins and disposable and pork over fragrant hickory Burnt end dinner .....$11.95 plates. Maybe that qualifies wood, the official perfume of as upmarket in Olathe. the Kansas City metro. You Biemer’s BBQ One thing the Rub does can detect the sultry scent Pulled pork right, though, is serve a sinfrom Brobecks’ smoker, in the sandwich ................. $5.69 gle rib. That option is perfect parking lot outside the restauBBQ plate dinner ...... $9.59 for people like me, who can’t rant, but it’s less immediate The Rub Bar-B-Que eat a whole slab but want to at the Rub, which has one of Single rib ................... $1.99 taste a meaty rib or two along those shiny stainless-steel Hillbilly Bowl ............. $9.49 with a pulled-pork sandwich gas-and-wood Southern Pride or smoked brisket. The Rub’s smokers on the serving line. rib wasn’t the meatiest I’ve It’s very sleek but a little sterile. I think the olfactory qualities of a barbecue ever tasted (or the heftiest), but it was tender.

But its best-selling dish is much less dainty. restaurant are almost as important as the taste of the pulled pork and fries. If it doesn’t smell It’s called the Hillbilly Bowl, and all I can say is, diabetics should beware. The thing is sweet like a barbecue joint, it really isn’t one.

The Rub is the product of Kevin Boetcher, — disturbingly sweet — like a dessert made out David Tines and former Applebee’s executive of meat. It’s in a bowl, all right: a big old slab of Dan Janssen, a new casual-dining venue that’s cornbread, encrusted with a thick layer of sugar eight months old. Their contest team, Tender and topped with a choice of smoked meat, a Racks ’n Smokin’ Butts, placed in the 2010 Amer- generous spoonful of this joint’s mediocre baked ican Royal Open Barbecue Competition. Cre- beans and a baseball-sized mound of fried onion dentials notwithstanding, their place feels less straws. Once you pull the teeth-jarringly sweet like a barbecue restaurant than like a Chipotle. cornbread out of the bowl, the rest of the ingredients make for perfectly adequate nibbling.

“That was the design,” Janssen says.

A more traditional ’cue experience can be had The Rub looks like the prototype for a fran-

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at Biemer’s BBQ in Lawrence, which operates out of a red- and yellow-painted, 1960s-vintage, former fast-food building at Ninth Street and Iowa. It’s cheery inside and spotlessly clean, with such festive decorative touches as silk sunflowers popping out of pretend window boxes.

It smells good and smoky, and the wholesomelooking kids behind the counter could have been culled from an episode of Hee Haw. The music system plays the blues — the real blues.

All of the sauces here — they’re not made in-house but do come from the owner’s recipes — are molasses-based and seriously sweet, but the version labeled “Very Hot” delivers an unexpected kick-ass aftertaste. It’s delicious with the crinkle-cut fries, which come served with a smart dusting of garlic powder, onion salt and paprika.

The beef brisket at Biemer’s is outstanding, and the pulled pork gorgeously tender (even if it’s served on the cheapest kind of supermarket burger bun). The prices are divinely cheap, and the ribs score on every point: meaty, fall-off-thebone tender and flavorful.

Biemer’s has been in its current location for four years, previously operating out of a Phillips 66 station (where the Basil Leaf Café now serves its fancy pasta). The employees all wear T-shirts (emblazoned with “We rub our meat daily”), which are also sold to the public. A tasteful gift idea, I think.

And if tasteful is what you want in a barbecue joint, look no further than Overland Park’s Brobecks BBQ. It offers sit-down service, and the waitresses are friendly. The server who worked my table one day brought out a complimentary sample of the restaurant’s best-selling dip, a

ham-salad concoction made with house-smoked ham and turkey. The dip version is served with chips and cellophane-wrapped crackers. You get only two crackers with the sample, but it’s not a lot of ham salad. But this stuff is better than my mom’s, so order the sandwich version, a thick curl of ham salad on soft white bread.

The barbecue is terrific here, too. The salmon — offered only on weekends — is exceptional, with a delicately crispy exterior and a moist, smoky, pink interior complemented by a dollop of mustard-dill sauce. The burnt ends I tried were perfectly tender, and the smoked chicken supple and moist.

Brobecks serves the traditional sides — baked beans, slaw, steak fries — and they are, as tradition dictates, hit-or-miss. The macaroni and cheese, our waitress warned us, is Kraft — “You know,” she said, “out of the box.” A cheesy-corn mixture is particularly heavy on the cheese, and the smoked baked potatoes, despite a vaguely hickory taste, are disappointing and dry.

Brobecks began life as the Stilwell Smokehouse before moving to its current location four years ago. On the busy Friday night that I dined there, the patrons were mostly older but surprisingly diverse: black, white, gay, straight.

“Everyone likes barbecue,” our waitress told us.

It’s true! And I like it with macaroni and cheese, so I scandalized my friends and ordered a little crock of it. It was definitely Kraft. Tasted just like my mom’s — great with ham salad.

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resh off a tasting event at the Foundry, Deschutes brewmaster Brian Faivre is happy to be back in Missouri for a glimpse of what his life might have been. Eight years ago, Faivre was preparing to accept a position with the Saint Louis Brewery, maker of Schlafly beer.

“We had driven the U-Haul to St. Louis and left it packed,” Faivre says. “When we pulled up at the rental house, the cops were there because the current tenants’ vehicle had ended up in the Meramec BY River. Maybe the universe was J O N AT H A N pushing us toward Bend.”

The universe had help getBENDER ting Faivre to Oregon: Larry Sidor, the Deschutes brewmaster who left the Bend-based company in December to launch his own microbrewery (which is expected to open in Bend this summer), had done the job for eight years. Now he’d chosen his successor.

Faivre wasn’t unknown to the company.

He has family in Bend and had previously met Sidor. And he was already a fan of the Deschutes label.

“They were doing all these unique things at Deschutes — beers with great flavors and characteristics,” Faivre says. “I had a few offers. One was at Schlafly. One was at Anheuser-Busch. But I had the opportunity to work closely with Larry [Sidor], and that was the best decision I made.”

On a sunny Tuesday in January, he sits pouring distance from a bottle of Black Butte Porter, the flagship beer of the brewery that he has captained for the past month. Kansas City already has 22-ounce bottles of Mirror Pond

Pale Ale (Deschutes’ No. 1 seller) and Black Butte on shelves, and the beer has started to flow from area taps. Beer fanatics may also luck into a bottle of Hop Henge IPA (which Faivre says has 11 different hops), the Abyss, or Black Butte XXIII (the 2011 version of an annual tweak on Black Butte Porter, this one flavored with orange, chilies and chocolate nibs).

“We’ll be at beer festivals, and people will ask for the lightest thing we have. So we hand them this jet-black porter,” says Deschutes’ digital marketing manager, Jason Randles. “We tell them to drink with their mouths, not their eyes.

And they fall in love because it is such an easy beer to drink.”

Missouri is the 18th state that Deschutes has entered, and Kansas is set to follow this spring.

The company is now the fifth-largest craft brewer in the country. The Deschutes rollout in Missouri was initially slated for last summer, to coincide with the release of the brewery’s alliance with Boulevard — the Collaboration No. 2 White IPA — but demand for the brewery’s hop-forward beers made that impossible.

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Bottoms up: Randles (left) and Faivre

“We were out of stock in our backyard, so we weren’t ready to expand,” Randles says.

And while it was Sidor who headed up the collaboration, Faivre had a chance to come to Kansas City and learn about Boulevard over the course of the IPA’s development.

“I met Steven [Pauwels] last year. I fell in love with [Boulevard’s] beers,” Faivre says. “And I was really surprised by how different Kansas City is than St. Louis. There’s bits of Colorado and hints of the Northwest.”

There will be more of the Northwest in the coming months as Deschutes expands its offerings in the city. Mirror Pond and Black Butte arrive in six-packs next month, along with Red Chair NWPA and Inversion IPA. As wheat defines Boulevard, hops are at the center of Deschutes’ identity. Randles estimates that 80 percent of the hops used by the company come from the nearby Yakima Valley. It’s why Deschutes uses primarily whole-flour hops instead of pellets — and why Labor Day is the

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brewer’s Christmas. When Faivre gets the call that harvesting season is under way and the hop vines are being picked in Oregon, he fires up his brew kettle. Within four hours of being picked, those hops are being made into beer.

“We started with onion sacks of hops,” Faivre says. “Today we have a refrigerated truck. It’s the best day in the brewery. Everyone finds their way down to us because of the smell.”

The fresh-hop brews, which include Hop Trip and Fresh Hop Mirror Pond, won’t arrive until fall, but Hop in the Dark is coming in May. Deschutes calls it “Cascadian dark ale,” but the rest of the world tastes a black IPA. “We use a cold steeping process with the grains,” Faivre says of the brew, which has roasted malt and citrus hop notes. “We then brew a more traditional IPA behind it. You’ve got this dark Belgian with candied sugar, and it’s pitch-black, with this reddish head.”

After that is Twilight Summer Ale, a summer seasonal made with Amarillo hops, and Black Butte XXIV in June, produced for the brewery’s 24th anniversary. Deschutes anticipates an Amarillo hop-crop shortage, so its staff is playing with different versions of hops. The goal is to find the blend that matches the hoppy nose and bright fruit flavors that define Twilight.

“All of our beers start as experimental beers,” Faivre says. “We’re on our 43rd revision of a gluten-free beer.”

Deschutes is charting a rapid expansion, like many players in a U.S. craft-beer market that saw 15 percent growth in the first half of 2011 (according to the Brewers Association). By adding five fermenting tanks, Deschutes will be able to increase its total capacity to more than 300,000 barrels a year. (Boulevard’s recent expansion of its original cellar bumped its annual capacity to 200,000 barrels.)

“We have five year-round [beers],” Faivre says. “But the key to our success has always been the ability to experiment.” Let the KC experiment begin.

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60 kids showed up,” Moore says. “Last time, we had 350.”

Caspa (real name: Gary McCann) has temporarily relocated to Los Angeles to take advantage of an abundance of shows like Connectorville. “I was at the forefront of dubstep in the U.K., and I want to be at the forefront in the States,” he says. “It’s not about playing L.A., Chicago, New York. I want to play places like Nashville, Houston, Kansas City. It’s important to push the sound at these places. I’d come over in 2006, 2007, and my shows would be 25 guys holding beers in Kentucky. Now it’s young girls dancing.”

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ome club people in the U.K., where dubstep was birthed, sneer that the genre jumped the shark a decade ago.

There are DJs and promoters in the United States who believe that it’s the future of the live-music industry. At least one Facebook page and numerous Web forums exist solely to explain why Skrillex, perhaps the most famous dubstep artist in the world, is not actually a dubstep artist.

Is dubstep over or is it just beginning?

Who is dubstep, and who is not dubstep?

What is dubstep? These are not calm waters.

Some facts exist. On December 1, 2011, Skrillex — a Los Angeles-based DJ who has integrated dubstep aesthetics into more traditional electronic dance music — was nominated for BY five Grammys, including Best New Artist. Two days prior, D AV I D nu-metal relic Korn linked a H U D N A L L stream to its latest, dubstepinfluenced album, The Path to Totality. In October, international heartthrob Justin Bieber revealed that his upcoming album would experiment with the genre.

Just over a year ago, in January 2011, Britney Spears released “Hold It Against Me,” a Dr. Luke- and Max Martin-produced single that cliff-jumps into a classic dubstep bass-drop two-thirds of the way in.

Friday, somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 people — mostly teenagers and 20-somethings, many of them wearing bright colors, some of them waving glow sticks — will attend Connectorville, a dubstep party at the Midland headlined by the influential British DJ and producer Caspa.

“Kansas City is one of the fastest-growing dubstep scenes in the country,” says Eric Noble, a St. Louis promoter and booking agent who is producing the show. “And it’s really exploded in the past year or so. It’s caught on huge with all these 18- to 22-year-old kids in the Midwest.”

Noble came to electronic music, like a sizable segment of current dubstep audiences, via the jam-band festival scene. “I started to notice, a few years ago, how packed the late-night electronic tents were getting at these festivals,” he says. “There was a real shift happening in that culture.”

Noble began managing and booking shows for Kevin Moore, aka Spankalicious, a St.

Louis DJ now living in Cincinnati. Moore, a former drum instructor, was spinning hiphop when he was first exposed to dubstep, in 2008. (The first artist he heard, coincidentally, was Caspa.) “I loved that it had the bass tones of hip-hop — those sounds that make you want to nod your head — but without all the bullshit of contemporary rap lyrics,” Moore says. “It’s like getting back to the roots, where you actually feel the music.”

Dubstep’s appeal can be a puzzling thing to grasp. Like house or trance, dubstep is, at its core, a manipulation of tension and release.

A house track, for example, tends to build hypnotically, crest as the energy in the room crystallizes, and then explode into a propulsive disco beat. We receive the sounds our bodies crave. Dubstep songs — to the extent that they can be generalized — are set to skittish beats and offer no such intuitive musical relief. The payoff moment is instead the arrival of a rumbling, amorphous bass, delivered at a frequency so low that it mostly negates its harmonic value. The DJ often joggles the note to create a jagged, metallic stutter, known as “wobble bass.” Think of a robot farting or a frog croaking out lasers — or, increasingly, a thrash-metal band crashing a rave.

“I see dubstep going two ways right now,” Moore says. “There’s some people sticking to the dub-reggae roots, with that low subbass sound. Then there’s the Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff, the horror-film stuff, where it’s gotten to be more like a metal thing with the drops. It’s like an early ’90s Pantera mosh

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“Locally, it’s become more focused on that harder, screechy metal sound that Skrillex does,” says JJ Soderling, a local DJ who performs as FSTZ and hosts a dubstep-centric party at the Gusto Lounge with Barbaric Merits the first Friday of every month. “It definitely picked up around here sometime around 2010, I’d say. The trance scene died, electro and house could only go so far, and so a lot of people slid over to dubstep. It’s what the kids want.”

Given that it brushes up against the aesthetic sweet spots of jam bands, metal and hip-hop (its tempo is not far off from Southern rap), it is perhaps not surprising that dubstep is taking root in American youth culture. The physicality of the experience also helps explain why venues can charge $35 a head for a show like Connectorville and count on people showing up. “In a huge venue like the Midland, a dubstep show can be like a psychedelic opera,” Moore says. “There’s a culture and a fashion to the scene — girls dress up, there’s sex appeal to it. But, really, it’s all about the laser lighting and feeling that bass drop in your chest.”

There’s a gold-rush quality to the dubstep craze. “The St. Louis market for dubstep is totally saturated right now — so many promoters have popped up,” Noble says.

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n its 2009 debut, Try Brother, Capybara crafted a percussive, giddy sound that won the band notice here in its hometown and out across America’s digital divide. One of its songs was featured on Spike Jonze’s mixtape for Where the Wild Things Are, and Will Wiesenfeld, the arty beat maker behind Baths, sang the band’s praises in an interview with Pitchfork. Capybara has kept a relatively low profile for the past 18 months or so but is re-emerging this week with a sophomore album, Dave Drusky. It’s more spacey and more subdued, but it also retains some of the indie-rock-via-The Lion King vibes of the debut. The Pitch recently checked in with the band on a corporate-style, five-way conference call.

The Pitch: You moved into a house together to record this? Did you do all the recording at the house?

Jared Horne (guitar): Yeah. I think we like to be around each other in general. We have kind of a special bond together. [Others laugh.] I’m really only half-joking. It works well because we share a similar outlook, a sense of humor. So it was a lot of us goofing around in the house, and the recording kind of went along with that.

Mark Harrison (drums): We recorded for a week at Chris Cosgrove’s studio. But that was mostly taking advantage of tracking and final touches and some special guitars and amps over there. Pretty much everything had been written and demoed at the house before we went into Cosgrove.

Was there a specific sense from the beginning of how you wanted this record to sound?

Darin Seal (synths): We probably spent as much time talking about what we wanted it to sound like as we did recording it. Which I’m not sure is a good thing. But I don’t think at any point did we say, This is what we want it to sound like. continued on page 24 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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Horne: I think one of the biggest things was the production value. I think we specifically tried to spend more time in general thinking about reverb and particular sounds, to make it more cohesive.

Harrison: There were two main things that I think we wanted to change. One was reverb.

We didn’t use reverb on the first one, and we wanted to use it to create a little more space in the songs on this one. The other thing was stressing the vocals a little more. I think we imagined the vocals more upfront on this one.

Horne: With the guitars — and the guitar production came from everyone; Darin played a huge role in the guitar parts — I think my particular style with writing and recording them is to layer them. Which I think comes through in a song like “Late Night Bikes,” where there’s lots of tracks on top of one another. I like a really treble-y guitar sound that’s kind of thin, almost.

Harrison: Another thing is that we used to switch instruments a lot before, and we don’t anymore, so there’s a natural consistency between the songs that comes from everyone concentrating more on their own instruments.

Is there one of you who typically comes in with an idea for a song? How are the songs shaped?

Joel Wrolstad (vocals, sampler): There’s truly not one way. Sometimes Darin would have an idea, a bass line with a synth line or something, and I’d add some stuff to it. Then somebody else adds an idea.

Harrison: With Try Brother, we were in different rooms, working apart, layering, and we built the album that way. With this one, there were more concrete ideas that we all added to in more of a group setting. We just sort of assume roles. There’s no technique or formula. There’s constantly a ton of ideas floating around, and over time they get combined with other ideas.

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Seal: We all have varying levels of influence on different songs. I would try to push a Juggalo influence. Sometimes you get voted down.

People use words like “tribal” or “jungle” to describe your sound. How do you feel about that perception?

Harrison: I don’t know. I find that to be surprising. I think there are a lot of different moments. There’s that weird Jumanji type of sound at the end of “Late Night Bikes,” I guess. But I think 75 percent of it is not jungle-sounding, or whatever, at all.

Horne: I think some of the ways we use rhythm in our music are a little bit quirky, so they can be recognizable in that way.

Are you planning on touring for this record?

Harrison: Well, we all have full-time jobs.

A tour means a lot of different things. It means we have to change the ways we’re living our current lives. I’m in Austin right now. We kind of need to take it one step at a time. And we have a lot of music we want to record, and we don’t want there to be as long of a gap between this and whatever comes out next, as there was between Try Brother and this new one.

Who’s Dave Drusky?

Seal: Dave is a friend of ours who was with us when we went on this long tour out west of here. He was basically just living with us in the van, hanging out the whole time. At the house, we have this dry erase board with a todo list on it. And when we were making this record, I walked in one day, and Mark and Joel had written a list of 15 ideas for naming the album. And I saw “Dave Drusky” on there, and it was just, like, no hesitation: That’s the name of the album. If there’s something the four of us can agree about, it’s that Dave Drusky is an amazing dude.

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Fat Fish Blue, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474.

Jared Blake: On the Main Stage. 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Cowboy Indian Bear, Fourth of July, Soft Reeds: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Dr. Dog: 8:30 p.m., $15. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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FRIDAY, FEB. 3 Chippendales: VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777.

Connectorville: Caspa, ill-esha, Antiserum, MattyG, Spankalicious, and two stages of regional DJs and producers: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Hemlock, Blue Felix: Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646.

The Sexy Accident, Samantha Clemons: 6 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

SATURDAY, FEB. 4 The Cave Girls, Thee Devotion, the I’ms: The Brick, 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634.

Grace Kelly Quintet, with Phil Woods: Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., 816-474-4444.

Kris Lager Band: Trouser Mouse, 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222.

Otem Rellik, Galaxies, Ambulants: Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

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Falling in Reverse, Enemies Laid to Rest: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

MONDAY, FEB. 6 Children of Bodom, Eluveitie, Revocation, Threat Signal: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Estelle, Stacy Barthe, Ava Bella: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Other Lives: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Shearwater, the Caves: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

TUESDAY, FEB. 7 Mat Kearney, Robert Francis: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Scale the Summit, Elitist, David Hasselhoff on Acid, the Fortress: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

WEDNESDAY, FEB. 8 Railroad Earth, Dumptruck Butterlips: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Supersuckers, the Spittin’ Cobras: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

UPCOMING Andrew Bird, Eugene Mirman: Fri., March 23. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Blind Pilot: Sat., March 3. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

The Chieftains: Wed., March 7. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, 816-994-7200.

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Cloud Nothings, Mr. Dream, O, Giant Man: Mon., March 12, 8 p.m., $10. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Corrosion of Conformity, Torche, Valient Thorr: Fri., March 9, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Cursive, Ume: Fri., March 2, 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

D.R.U.G.S., Hit the Lights, Like Moths to Flames, Sparks the Rescue: Sun., Feb. 19. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

The Elders 10th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Hoolie: Sat., March 17. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Elephant Revival: Wed., Feb. 22. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Every Avenue: Thu., Feb. 23. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Excision, Liquid Stranger, Lucky Date: Mon., Feb. 20.

The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Experience Hendrix tribute tour: Wed., March 28, 8 p.m.

The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

The Fresh Beat Band: Fri., Feb. 24, 5 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Jim Gaffigan: Thu., March 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Galactic: Thu., March 15. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

Hate Eternal, Goatwhore, Fallujah, Troglodyte, Gornography: Wed., Feb. 29, 6:30 p.m., $14. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

The Head & the Heart, Drew Grove & the Pastors’ Wives: Sun., March 4. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Katie Herzig: Mon., March 5. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Jane’s Addiction: Fri., March 16. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Junius, O’Brother: Sun., Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Mindless Self Indulgence: Wed., March 21. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Needtobreathe, Ben Rector: Sun., March 11. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Punch Brothers: Sat., March 3. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

Puscifer: Tue., March 6. Municipal Auditorium/Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St. (in the Convention Center Complex), 816-513-5000.

Radiohead: Sun., March 11. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Reptar: Thu., March 8. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Reverend Horton Heat, Larry and His Flask, the Goddamn Gallows: Sat., Feb. 25. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Rusko, Nmzee: Wed., Feb. 29. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

SOJA, the Movement, Kids These Days: Thu., Feb. 23.

The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

George Strait, Martina McBride: Sat., Feb. 25. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Symphony X, Iced Earth, Warbringer: Sun., Feb. 26.

The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster: Wed., March 28. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Josh Turner: Thu., March 1, 6 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

The Ultimate Doo-Wop Show: Fri., March 2. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

VNV Nation, Straftanz: Thu., March 1. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Ron White: Sat., March 10, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Whitechapel, Miss May I, After the Burial, the Plot in You, Structures: Fri., March 16, 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Whitehorse: Fri., March 9. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Yacht: Fri., March 2, 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Yonder Mountain String Band: Thu., March 29. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

Youth Lagoon: Mon., March 12. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Zola Jesus, Talk Normal: Fri., Feb. 24. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. JD Summers Band.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Sonic Sutra.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS

T H U R S DAY 2 ROCK/POP/INDIE Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. The Uzis, Claire & the Crowded Stage, Vago.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Ryan Engel and the Dirty Dishes.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Arum Rae, White Dress, Not a Planet, the Monarchs.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

The Nace Brothers, 8 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Charlie Parr, 6 p.m.

DJ The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Jumanji, DJ Molicious, DJ Soap.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. First Friday with DJ G Train, 10 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL

HIP-HOP

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

Mike Elrod and the Roosters.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. First Friday with Jason Vivone and the Billybats.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. The Lonnie Ray Blues Jam. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Acoustic Blues with Dan Bliss.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Bluz Benderz.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Ces Cru, Mr. History, JL (of B Hood), the Phanatics, 9 p.m.

DJ The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Team Bear Club.

ACOUSTIC Sidecar at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Martin Bush, Andrew Ashby, 8 p.m.

JAZZ Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m.; Customer Quartet, 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Ladies’ Night.

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. “You Sing It” Live Band Karaoke.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. John Heffron, 7:30 p.m.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Ladies’ Night.

EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSION Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

JD Summers with Jeremy Butcher and the Bail Jumpers.

The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Open Mic, Low Dough Beer Night, 8 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

F R I DAY 3 ROCK/POP/INDIE Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378.

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Mouth, the Werks.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Dream Wolf, the Brannock Device, Gorge Arana Trio.

The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070.

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The Bunkhouse: 17965 Hwy. 45 N., Weston, 816-6400000. The Mickey Finn Band, 9 p.m., no cover.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986.

Counter Culture.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Brokenmast, the Slowdown.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Hybrid.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Windup Birds, Bellafonte, Instant Tradition.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Connie Hawkins and the Blues Wreckers.

JAZZ B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

David Basse.

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Wild Men of Kansas City, 8:30 p.m.; Indigo Hour, 5:30 p.m.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Dwayne Mitchell Trio.

Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-6495420. Jerry Hahn.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Karaoke, DJ, drink specials.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m.; Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m.

Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816421-4201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

METAL/PUNK The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Metal Wars.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Capture the Flag, Parts of Speech, Sundriver, 77 Jefferson.

S AT U R DAY 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Bella Muerte, Embrace This Day, Gunpowder Secrets, 5 p.m.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Lenny Mink & the Lost and Found, Cherry Clover.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, MANY MORE 785-832-1085. Minden, Gun Show, the Devil.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. The Crumpletons, 7 p.m.; Moonlight Drive, 10 p.m.

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RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Janet the Planet, 9 p.m.

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Dynamite Saloon: 721 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785856-2739. Pat Nichols, free.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

The Atlantic Express, Hal Wakes, 8 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Kris Lager Band.

DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Saturday Soulclap with Josh Powers.

The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. MVMNT with Brent Tactic, DJ Archi.

HIP-HOP The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. BluntRap, Thunderalbum9million, thePhantom* and the Phantastics, J. Boozer, Les Paul, 9 p.m.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Jazz Disciples.

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WORLD The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8421390. Bob Marley Birthday Celebration featuring Ras Neville and the Kingstonians, Jah Kings, DJ Stiga.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Irish Sessions, 3 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Mistura Fina.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070.

The Jeremy Nichols Band, 8 p.m.

R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777.

Rex Hobart and the Honky Tonk Standards.

River’s Bend: 2 Main, Parkville. Jason Craig & the Wingmen.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. John Heffron, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke with KJ David, 9:30 p.m.

VARIET Y The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Waka Winter Classic.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Dead Girl Derby Pants Off Dance Off Competition with Hipshot Killer, Maps for Travelers.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Winston Apple Band, Dog Tree, a fundraiser, 6 p.m.

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T U E S DAY 7 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

Trampled Under Foot.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Monique Danielle and Rick Bacus.

DJ The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Night at the Apocalypse with DJ Travis Read.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m.

JAZZ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Mark Lowrey Presents.

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Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Salty Dawg.

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Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Sunday Funday with DJ G Train.

JAZZ Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Bram Wijnands, Philip Wakefield, Mike Herrera.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke, $5.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986.

Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Double Deuce Poker League, 4 p.m.; Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Lucky’s Super Bowl, 4:30 p.m.

McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. Super Party; Sindustry Sundays, 8 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Syncopation, 6 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free.

M O N DAY 6 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.

JAZZ Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Tim Doherty’s 9plus1 Big Band.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m.

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OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Open Mic. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Grand Jam hosted by Supermassive Black Holes, 9 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m.

Power & Light District: 13th Street and Main, 816-8421045. KC Cocktail Week.

The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Vainglorious, the Monarchs.

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The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550.

Industry night.

Power & Light District: 13th Street and Main, 816-8421045. KC Cocktail Week.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.

Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

VARIET Y Madrigall: 1627 Oak, 816-472-4400. 2 Step Tuesday, featuring KC Elite 2 Steppers, and Grown & Sexy Sliders.

W E D N E S DAY 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

The Congress, B-Side Ramblers, 8 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.; Bound to Happen, Lost Lander, Magentlemen, 9 p.m.

ACOUSTIC Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Michael Shultz Acoustic Showcase.

JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mike Runyon & Doc Proctor.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. The Kick Comedy, 7:30 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 8 p.m.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 29-year-old gay guy who’s not sure where to find what I’m looking for. I’m turned on by the idea of a dominant guy, but most guys I attract are pure vanilla. When I look online at fetish-friendly dating sites, most dom guys say, “If you have a list of things you will and won’t do, you’re not a sub.” I want to give up control, but I don’t want to be some guy’s “bitch.” Can there be dominance without degradation? Is a boyfriend who’s an equal in life but in charge in the bedroom a unicorn?

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You were right to run from those dominant tops who insisted that “true subs” don’t have preferences, limits or lists. Not even submissive guys into degradation and being someone’s “bitch” should fall for, or submit to, that kind of crap.

Dear Dan: Your question last week from the guy who “stumbled over” his brother’s femdom sex blog reminded me of a funny story. My little brother came out to my conservative-but-notparticularly-religious Jewish parents in 1995. It was rough. Our parents refused to help pay for my wedding because I insisted on inviting my brother and his boyfriend. Mom and Dad are now embarrassed by their behavior and worship his husband. (It helps that my brother married a doctor — some stereotypes are true.)

Last year, my parents found out that my older brother, their straight son, is kinky. A vindictive ex hacked into his e-mail and sent a letter to everyone in his address book. Big bro has a dungeon, his girlfriend is his slave, and he’s made BDSM porn. The e-mail came with pictures. Mom, completely distraught, called her gay son: “Why can’t Josh have a normal relationship, like yours!”

As far as Mom is concerned, her gay son is normal and her straight son is a freak. Is that progress, Dan? Brothers Done Shocking Mom Dear BDSM: I don’t know if it’s progress, but it’s hilarious. And I trust that you’re sticking up for your kinky straight brother now like you did for your gay brother.

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