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tockyards Brewing Co. is taking over part of the former Golden Ox space in the West Bottoms, with early October targeted as the beermaker’s opening day.

Last October, The Pitch published a sneak peek of six new breweries set to open in late 2014 and throughout 2015. Greg Bland’s Stockyards Brewing Co. was among them.

Bland, director of environmental services at Travois, knew then that he wanted to take over the historic West Bottoms steakhouse space, but he didn’t want to talk about it until the lease was officially signed. The ink is now dry.

“It’s the Golden Ox,” Bland says. “It’s the history of the West Bottoms … so I feel really great that I can come in and work in this space and the environment that was created here, to bring something new and exciting to what was the old Stockyards and the West Bottoms, which is now sort of a cool revitalized area.”

Bland started talking with Bill Haw Jr. about a year ago about available spaces in the district. Bill Haw Sr., owner of the Golden Ox building and much of the rest of the Stockyards District, joined the conversation six to eight months ago. The plan is to split the old Golden Ox space into two separate businesses, with Bland’s Stockyard Brewing Co. claiming the old Ox bar and much of the space to the south and west of the building. The other half remains available for a potential restaurant.

“It’s really important for me to be coming into this space to sort of utilize the history and the nostalgia and what everybody loves about the Golden Ox space and keep that tradition alive in a new fashion,” Bland says. “We would like to keep the Golden Ox name in some fashion, maybe not necessarily the big Golden Ox sign on the outside of the building.

Maybe have it be inside so you can remember that this was the Golden Ox. This was the Ox bar, but it’s now Stockyards Brewing.”

Bland says the bar space will stay pretty much the same, though he’ll add new furnishings, tables and seats, and install tap lines and bar equipment.

“We’re looking at what to do with the floor, what to do with the ceiling,” he says. “But the fixtures are cool. The bar is cool. … We’re just going to touch it up, clean it up a little bit.”

Bland plans to put his 15-barrel, threevessel brewhouse in the southwest dining room that connects to the bar. “That’ll see the majority of the renovation,” Bland says.

Bland will produce about 1,500 barrels of beer in his first year, brewing primarily ales to keep up the schedule. (Lagers take longer to produce.) Among the beers he plans to make: a black IPA, a dark pale ale, stouts, porters, and a few lighter beers such as his Kentucky common. The plan is for four year-

round beers and from four to five rotating seasonals and one-off beers.

Once Stockyards is up and running, Bland expects to add distribution, starting in kegs, in Missouri and Kansas.

Bland started as a home brewer eight years ago. He has taken classes at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago, but he plans to hire a brewmaster. He aims to order his brewing equipment this week; he’ll need six months for the equipment to be built and installed.

“We’re really hopeful for October 1,” Bland says of his opening date. “That’ll give us a little time to run a few batches through the new system and see how everything is up and running, and have a few soft openings and a true opening in early October.”

Bland says he’s working with two architecture firms. Framework Design is doing “all of the hard architectural drawings, the drafting and everything.” And John O’Brien, from Hammer Out Design, who worked on the Amigoni wine company’s tasting room and the old R Bar space (now Voltaire) across Genessee, is also helping with the concept and design.

Bill Haw Sr. says he wanted new blood in the district.

“The Golden Ox had become a haven for old males, primarily,” he says. “Greg is obviously a young male with a young concept, and that was really attractive.”

Haw Sr. says the old Ox space was “too damn big” for just one tenant. He and Kerry Amigoni say they’ve put out feelers to local chefs for the other half of the building, but everything is in the preliminary stages.

“As we’re approached, most people see

Bland’s Stockyards has a home. the beauty of keeping it a steakhouse and potentially using the name because we do own the name,” Amigoni says. “We’re hopeful that something like that can happen. We just haven’t met the exact right person yet.”

Haw Sr. has already tried Bland’s brews.

“Beer is the only alcohol that I drink 99 percent of the time,” Haw Sr. says. “I love Boulevard Pale Ale. I love that Boulevard is local. I love the fact that Greg will be even more local to us as a tenant in the building. I think I’ve tried three of the brews now, and they were excellent. It’s exciting to me that he has great products, and keeping the whole concept here in the building seems like a good fit.”

In other Stockyards District news, Haw Sr. says Foutch Brothers’ plan to convert Kemper Arena into a youth sports complex, which came under legal threat last year, isn’t dead.

“It’s not dead at all,” Haw Sr. says. Kemper Arena is going to go up for request-forproposals again, and the Foutch plan, he says, is coming back. “It’s going to take a pretty good plan to beat this,” he says. “We want to maintain the warmth there is for the past, but young people and new trends is obviously where the future is.”

Haw Sr. is also looking at a proposal for a prospective market-rate apartment complex (about 230 units) that would go where the Golden Ox’s south parking lot is now and complement the upscale apartment building already under construction on Genessee.

“I think it is going to happen,” Haw Sr. says.

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ashington Days is coming unglued.

The annual meeting of the Kansas Democratic Party has ground to a halt. In the windowless meeting room of the downtown Topeka Ramada Inn March 7, party leaders can’t figure out where eastern Kansas ends and western Kansas begins. They can’t even agree on the meaning of their own party’s bylaws.

A proposal to elect two vice chairs, which was overwhelmingly rejected earlier in the day, is resurrected and approved, when delegates realize that they don’t want to choose between the two nominees: Kathryn Focke of Manhattan and Melody McCray-Miller of Wichita.

“They were all drunk last night, and they’re all fighting today,” one delegate mutters.

The last order of business at this meeting, which resembles a contentious family reunion, is to pick a new party chair to succeed Joan Wagnon, who is stepping aside after four years of toil in the Sunflower State’s hardest political job.

The choice should be easy — one of the nominees doesn’t even want the job. Former state Rep. Dennis McKinney, of Greensburg, declined a nomination by western Kansas Democrats who, like McKinney, feel that the party has abandoned them.

“If your great-grandparents came to this country to work in the mines, and they were dirt-poor and they were part of the early labor movement in Kansas that helped us to be one of the first states with unemployment compensation and … workplace safety rules, and then one day you wake up and your town is described as a ‘craphole’ small town, you

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have to understand why we’re not connecting with the people and culture of Kansas,” McKinney says, recalling the pejorative for rural Kansas towns that got party communications director Dakota Loomis fired just before last year’s elections.

McKinney’s remarks draw a long standing ovation. But he has bowed out of the race.

So, by default, the duty falls to former Lake Quivira Mayor Larry Meeker.

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The gregarious, ebullient Meeker takes the party’s reins after the disastrous 2014 election cycle, one in which Meeker also found himself on the losing end again.

Despite his professional and civic credentials, Meeker couldn’t overcome northwest Johnson County’s proclivity for Republican candidates. Voters there re-elected Brett Hildabrand, whose background is obscure, whose participation in local politics is scant and whose legislative achievements are few.

(In February, Hildabrand introduced the Fantasy Sports Legalization Act to protect the sanctity of his couch-potato hobby.)

Meeker likes to point out that he lost by 6 percentage points last November, bettering 2012’s 10-point defeat, which first sent Hildabrand into office. Moral victories don’t count in politics. Winning does. These days, Kansas Democrats aren’t doing much winning at the polls.

In fact, they’re winning less often than ever before — even in a state historically known for its populism and now besieged by failing Republican policies.

Democrats have failed to put a statewide candidate in office over the last three election cycles. In Johnson County, they’ve been nearly eradicated, save for state Reps.

Nancy Lusk and Jarrod Ousley. In reliably blue Wyandotte County, House Minority Leader Tom Burroughs came within 145 votes of losing his seat. This was in a year when Democrats seemed poised to reclaim relevance.

The party bet big on state Rep. Paul Davis to unseat Gov. Sam Brownback. Davis turned out to be a wooden, flimsy anti-Brownback candidate, who offered few original ideas and ultimately let Brownback’s aggressive campaign define him.

Davis and other political analysts pin the loss on the national attention cast on independent Greg Orman’s bid to defeat U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts. With Republicans clamoring to regain control of the U.S. Senate, national-party activists spent $8 million to fend off Orman. The infusion of cash supposedly helped bring more GOP voters than usual to the polls, which also helped propel the down-ballot candidates Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach to victory.

Equally to blame was Kansas Democrats’ one-way strategy that emphasized Davis over other candidates, urban counties (Sedgwick, Shawnee and Wyandotte) over the rest of the state, and an education-only message over other campaign planks that would have attracted more diverse constituencies to the polls.

Meeker acknowledges that he has his work cut out for him to restore Kansas Democrats to relevancy. Is he the right man for the job?

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ast summer, the Kansas Democratic Party’s executive director, Jason Perkey, was confident in his party’s chances in 2014.

Intuitively, he was right. Brownback’s tax policy wasn’t producing the jobs promised when the tax cuts passed in 2012. Instead, headlines told of the disastrous effect they were having on the state’s finances.

to carry Sedgwick, even though he ran with Wichita businesswoman Jill Docking on the ticket.

The Hispanic outreach also bombed, with the party losing in predominantly minority counties Seward and Finney.

Democratic strategist Chris Reeves, who lives in Overland Park, recalled Kansas Democrats’ clumsy effort to court Hispanic voters as part of a lengthy exegesis on liberal

But even with 61 organized county parties, that covers little more than half the counties in the state and shows a significant weakness in western Kansas, where Democrats once had solid representation in the Statehouse with 10 House members from central and western districts.

Democrats now don’t have a single lawmaker west of Wichita.

“We did not have good showings in western Kansas, in the Big First [Congressional district],” Wagnon concedes. “And that needs to change.”

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Strategically, Perkey missed. Perkey, who has been executive director since 2012, described a strategy that would identify potential donors and crossover voters. The big-data approach to campaigning mirrored the technological ground game that the national party used to send Barack Obama to the White House in 2008 and keep him there in 2012.

Perkey added that the 2014 effort was to focus on boosting turnout in Johnson, Sedgwick and Shawnee counties, as well as target Hispanic voters in southwestern Kansas.

“It’s very sophisticated stuff,” he told The Pitch last May. For all the party’s data, here are some troubling numbers. Since 2008, there are 46,000 fewer registered Democrats in the Sunflower State. In that same period, Republicans have added about 24,000 voters to their ranks. In Democratic stronghold Wyandotte County, turnout was 35 percent in 2014, making it one of three Kansas counties with a turnout of less than 40 percent.

Despite the emphasis on four counties with large concentrations of Democrats, Davis carried only Shawnee and Wyandotte.

Johnson County was crucial to Davis, but he lost there by 3,000 votes. Davis also failed

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blog Daily Kos. In it, he wrote that Docking appeared before a Hispanic organization in Dodge City, but she found out that the party had failed to print any campaign literature in Spanish.

“It didn’t exist,” Reeves wrote of the party’s Hispanic strategy. “No one was there to run it.”

Reeves traveled to Kansas’ 105 counties to try to organize the party’s campaign effort. But he learned that Democrats had little infrastructure and had made too few inroads to rural parts of the state.

“Kansas is becoming more red and it’s easy to see why,” Reeves tells The Pitch in an e-mail. “Small towns in the west and southeast are shrinking, some dying. The kids leave those communities and come to Johnson County and Sedgwick and the metro areas. They come to the metros, and they are already diehard Republicans, at least in part because we’ve never made a serious effort to talk to them.”

Wagnon rejects the notion that the party hasn’t made an effective effort in rural Kansas. She points to 51 organized Democratic parties in the state, roughly twice what she inherited in 2011. She adds that there are 10 more that are forming.

.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp carries himself more like a rascally schoolyard troublemaker than a member of Congress. The twoterm tea-party Republican’s demeanor is no different on an October 8 evening in Salina.

Seated at a table during a debate before about 250 people, he listens to Kansas State University professor and 1st District Democratic candidate Jim Sherow field a question about the state’s 50-year energy plan.

With a minute to answer, Sherow nervously replies that fossil fuels will remain a critical part of the economy “for some time to come,” and he adds that other countries are well ahead of the United States in their investment in energy alternatives, biofuels and wind power.

“We need to step up our game because not only does it improve the global climate situation we are all facing but it also creates jobs here in Kansas,” Sherow says, eliciting applause from this central Kansas crowd.

Talk of energy alternatives draws a smirk from Huelskamp, Kansas’ 1st District congressman, whose politics are so far to the right that even House Speaker John Boehner finds him repellent. Once the clapping dies down, Huelskamp rolls his eyes and goes to work on his opponent.

“Clearly the professor does support the president’s global-warming agenda that would involve less use of coal, less use of natural gas, less use of oil products, and would cost thousands and thousands and thousands of Kansas jobs,” Huelskamp says, borrowing from the first page of the GOP playbook: Tie your opponent to Obama.

He then makes a case for the Keystone XL pipeline.

“If we could build a pipeline from Keystone, we could create more Kansas jobs,”

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She didn’t depend on an organized state Democratic infrastructure, instead leaning on support from moderate Republicans who were willing to vote for the daughter-in-law of longtime Kansas Republican Congressman Keith Sebelius.

But the political foundation that supported Sebelius and other statewide Democrats, such as Paul Morrison, was brittle.

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Huelskamp adds, above a growing din of groans and derision from the audience.

Sherow, a relative unknown, polled in a statistical dead heat with Huelskamp for much of the summer. The former Manhattan mayor seemed to ride a wave of dissatisfaction with Huelskamp, who earlier in the year helped engineer a federal government shutdown.

Sherow attracted support from a klatch of moderate Republicans who had grown tired of the GOP’s move to the right, as well as most major newspapers in the sprawling district that covers more than half the land area of Kansas.

But, as the campaign wore on, Sherow had trouble getting support from the state party. The well-funded Huelskamp campaign bombarded western Kansas households with mailers that Photoshopped Sherow next to Nancy Pelosi.

Sherow couldn’t match his opponent’s messaging and couldn’t get help from an unwilling state party.

“Ever since he was in the Statehouse, Huelskamp has been putting together a sizable voter contact list, and by this time, it must be huge. There’s good field organization throughout the 1st District” for Huelskamp, Sherow says. “The Democrats lack that. We failed to build organization.”

There was a time when Democrats held a majority in the Kansas House. That was in 1991.

The “Summer of Mercy,” a weeks-long protest of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, marked a new and unusual chapter for the Kansas GOP — and the beginning of the end for Kansas Democrats.

The protesters included a young Huelskamp, who went to jail for being too overbearing. They galvanized Kansas Republicans, spawning a wave of GOPers obsessed with abortion and social issues propelling them to candidacies in typically nonpartisan local races, such as school boards and county commissions. The movement also organized Republicans on a precinct level for the next 20 years.

Democrats shied from the hyper-local races.

The result was a well-organized party infrastructure for Republicans in which higher offices, such as state House and Senate seats, were filled with dependable, motivated candidates from lower offices who had years of support and legislative experience. It also generated a donor base, while the same for Democrats eroded, particularly in rural Kansas.

Democrats bet big on more visible races.

In 2002, they won when popular Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius ascended to the governor’s mansion over Tim Schallenberger. Sebelius won again in

ernor’s office, and a wave of conservative lawmakers soon followed in 2012 to further isolate state Democrats.

And Kansas Democrats remain slow to learn their lessons. The party’s all-in strategy with Davis failed, and the party provided little help to candidates such as Sherow.

“They had expended their budget by the time they saw an opportunity in my race,” Sherow tells The Pitch. “Water was under the bridge and long gone.”

Davis nearly matched Brownback’s fundraising dollar for dollar. (Brownback took loans from Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer that are now the subject of an FBI probe.)

The Davis campaign focused almost entirely on education and the state budget. Sherow says those issues weren’t top priorities in rural Kansas compared with wages, agriculture, rural health care and water resources.

“When we first started our campaign, there was a Democratic field plan to turn out voters, especially mail-in ballots, and make sure we had our voters going,” Sherow says. “There were supposedly field representatives in offices in all the districts, the congressional districts. And I forget how much money my campaign put in, $5,000 or $7,500. I asked, ‘Where’s the field rep in Dodge City?’ It never got there. Finally, my campaign manager and I talked to my staff members, and I said, ‘We’re going to quit paying.’ We said, ‘That’s it. We’re done.’”

The story of education cuts didn’t play well, either, among the counties that Davis’ campaign courted, such as Johnson, where schoolchildren are given iPads to complement the curriculum.

Much like the national party, Kansas Democrats were reluctant to take firm stances that would resonate with constituencies.

An obvious issue was the party’s weak stand for gay rights.

Early in the 2014 legislative session, Rep. Charles Macheers, a first-term Shawnee Republican, introduced a bill that would allow Kansas businesses to refuse service to gay customers.

Davis, the party’s legislative leader, cast a vote against the measure but refused to take the floor to speak out against it. (It took hard-line conservative Sen. Susan Wagle to kill the bill.)

The meek handling of the bill by Democrats infuriated LGBT advocates in Kansas.

“The problem is much bigger than just LGBT issues,” says Thomas Witt, executive director of Equality Kansas. “The problem with this party is, it won’t stand up for anything. … We can’t get Democratic leadership to talk about Medicaid expansion to save our lives.”

Meeker: “I think most people understand it’s broken.”

Morrison, who switched parties out of political expedience more than adherence to Democratic principles, believed that he had a better chance of defeating incumbent Attorney General Phill Kline with a “D” behind his name. He was right. (The highly organized Johnson County GOP precinct committee people quickly installed Kline in Morrison’s old job.)

Morrison resigned amid a sex scandal after barely a year in office. Sebelius left Topeka to take a cabinet position with the Obama administration. That left Mark Parkinson, a lame-duck governor who had no interest in running for office or, party insiders say, building a network.

“What they didn’t do is, they didn’t spend much time building a party infrastructure,” Wagnon says.

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hen he traveled to Europe for the first time, as a teenager, in 1967, Meeker says Kansas had meaning to the people he met on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. Europeans then understood that Kansas was the home state of Olympic distance-running star Jim Ryun and of the Menninger Foundation, a renowned psychiatric facility that moved to Houston, in 2003.

When he traveled to Istanbul more recently, he checked into a hotel where a concierge saw “Kansas” on Meeker’s travel documents.

“No evolution,” the hotel worker quipped.

Kansas may suffer an image problem abroad, but in the state, Republicans easily outmaneuver Democrats with a simple slogan: “Small government, low taxes.” That tagline has become the mantra of Republicans in Kansas and elsewhere, a simple, succinct message that quickly describes what the party stands for.

Kansas Democrats have no equivalent.

“At the end of the day, we end up being for a laundry list of things,” Meeker tells The Pitch. “These days, laundry lists don’t sell too well.”

Meeker’s idea for a Kansas Democratic slogan? “Restoring economy.”

“I think most people understand it’s broken,” Meeker says.

“At least it’s a theme,” he goes on. “We have NRA members. We have pro-choice members. We have Greenpeace members.

We need a message that resonates with the NRA members, the pro-choice members, the Greenpeace members.”

Meeker’s plans for reassembling the party is a long play, one that eyes success in 2020.

“You don’t build a party overnight,” Meeker says. “You don’t build it in one election.”

While Meeker has some obvious tasks — recruit better candidates, raise more money, build a wider party infrastructure — his most challenging problem may be mending fences within his own party.

The often-described chasm between Kansas moderates and conservatives is deep. But the divisions are more significant within what remains of the Kansas Democratic Party. The infighting was apparent at Washington Days in March as well as in Reeves’ travels across the state.

“I think there are a lot of bright minds in the party, and no one is expecting to agree with everyone,” Reeves tells The Pitch in an e-mail. “Someone told me on the trail Democrats in Kansas view each other as mortal enemies first — they will do whatever they can to defeat or stop another Democrat far before they go after Republicans.

It’s largely true and, unfortunately, it isn’t always wrong. That said, it happens way too often.”

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Christian Micheal Shuster’s intention this weekend is pretty straightforward: He’s here to blow your mind.

“I’m going batshit crazy with avant-garde, futuristic menswear,” he says. “It’s definitely my best work yet.”

There’s fair reason for his confidence: Shuster has sent several of his solid runway collections to retail. Now he’s comfortable letting his artistic, kitschy side take the lead.

That means quilted cotton jumpers, Napoleonic and Victorian military influences, and a light-up prosthetic limb. Yes, really.

“I’m walking my finale look down the runway with a friend of mine who’s not necessarily a traditional runway model,” Shuster says.

“He has a prosthetic lower right leg.”

So, yeah, the Kansas City native loves surprising people. And he says he’s looking forward to showing designers from the coasts what his hometown is all about.

“They can’t fathom in their mind that someone from Kansas City would be a fashion designer and show at a quality level,” he says. “They immediately look at me and say, ‘Aren’t there cows walking down the street?’

And I want to look at them and say, ‘Yes. There are cows walking down the street. We have to dodge them on a daily basis on commutes.’”

He laughs and adds: “I’m a Kansas City man, and I don’t plan on leaving. I love where I live.”

JANE OF ALL

When Chelsea Riane talks about her methods for dyeing fabrics, you almost get hungry.

For instance, she uses her favorite spice, turmeric, to produce a beautiful, vibrant yellow.

The pretty shade of rose in some of her line: avocado pits and stems. And she has found that boiled-down red-onion peels generate a sumptuous shade of gold or amber.

“I go on hikes and find berries, and I boil them down and turn them into a dye,” Riane says. “I have a pomegranate tree in my backyard, and those produce a really beautiful pink dye.”

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Those natural dyes are central to Jane of All, Riane’s new line of lingerie and ready-to-wear clothing, which launches Friday night. KC Fashion Week’s runway is also a good excuse for the KC native to come north again, after a recent move to Austin, Texas. There, she has helped spearhead Design Lab, a design boutique.

Jane of All is a twist on the old phrase “jack of all trades,” and its clothing line rather appropriately encapsulates a variety of influences.

Lucia’s Sarto designer Nataliya Meyer styles a model.

“This collection is basically inspired by ’90s grunge streetwear,” Riane says. “It’s going to be looks you can wear every day that take influences from hip-hop, grunge and everyday wear like flannels, dresses and skirts.

It’s something that you would see anyone wearing on a day-to-day basis.”

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Jessica Lynn Collins is still unsure of how she ended up with a sewing machine.

The children’s fashion designer and mother of six from Columbus, Nebraska, started making hair accessories after giving birth to a daughter eight years ago. Somehow, amid the

13 chaos of new motherhood, she began sewing clothes and posting photos online. Before she knew it, her creations were in demand.

“I spent a couple of years just making clothes casually for other moms,” Collins says. “I just started sewing one day, and it’s led to what I’m doing now. I never knew I would do this.”

Her label, Jessica Lynn, is all about dressing up and having fun. Her current collection, she says, is inspired by Native American designs, especially feathers and fringe. She’s excited to make clothes for older children, even if her own daughter no longer makes the best model.

“She literally tore her Fourth of July dress on a fence post,” Collins says. “I’m like, ‘You had it on for an hour!’ She’s just too rough.”

Collins has shown her clothing across the country, but her heart is still rooted in the small-town Great Plains.

“I love doing shows in the Midwest so much more than the coastal shows,” she says. “You have a little more say here in what’s going on, and you can stay on top of it a lot better.”

ANDREA MARIE LONG DESIGNS

The diverse style repertoire of Kansas City Fashion Week veteran Andrea Marie Long sounds like a cast of characters from a really bizarre version of The Breakfast Club.

Women warriors influenced her first collection. The next year, she drew inspiration from turn-of-the-century ballerinas and Gypsies (known as Roma). When she saw a photo of an Ivy League campus from the 1940s, she immersed herself in the preppy world of plaid, tweed and houndstooth.

Now, she has learned to hand-paint silks, allowing her to fully realize this year’s theme, which she’s calling “sea folk.”

“The color palette is blue, green, turquoise and earthy yellows,” she says. “It’s very fresh, clean and modern, but I still use vintage silhouettes.”

In line with her vintage love, Long also enjoys giving forgotten fabrics and other items their moments again in the limelight.

“At least a third of my collections are usually repurposed,” Long says. “If it serves my purpose and needs a new life, I love to do that.”

Speaking of new life: The Kansas City native says she’s eager to see how much her hometown’s fashion scene has grown in such a short time.

“It’s all about sustainability,” she says.

“People are very interested in figuring out how they can get something unique that supports an artist. They also help the economy and those that are creating awesome things.”

LUCIA’S SARTO

When it comes to bedazzling her clothing with sequins, Nataliya Meyer says the only hard part is self-restraint.

The Ukrainian designer, who calls herself an “easily distracted artist,” loves anything colorful and shiny and takes care to avoid go-

ing overboard. Her new collection, however, has just the right amount of bling.

When I stop by Meyer’s West Plaza clothing and tailoring shop, she shows off her newest runway pieces, talking excitedly about the fabric she purchased on a recent trip to Greece. Her new looks combine lush textures, fur accents and delightfully unexpected hints of sparkle including Swarovski crystals.

Some of her clothing would look equally at home on a runway or in line at a local café, but all of her pieces share a meticulous attention to detail. Meyer places an intricate, hand-beaded necklace on the table, then tells me that she can’t remember exactly how long it took her to finish it. She’s not one for tallying up the hours.

“Most normal people come home from work and watch television or spend time with their family,” Meyer says. She lives in Kansas City with her husband and their son. “I sit down and work on my beading.”

In addition to her own label, Oblivion Clothing, Meyer also makes custom pieces — commissions that have encompassed, she says, a Nightmare Before Christmas–themed wedding gown along with classic-yet-feminine suits for lawyers.

“They are all my babies, and I have to take care of them all,” Meyer says of her customers.

“It’s my job to make them feel a little better than when they came in. Sometimes I almost get high on that feeling.”

ARCHITEXTURE

Working alongside family can be challenging, but husband-and-wife design team John and Christina Moncke complement each other’s strengths.

“Christina is like an architect,” John says.

“She knows fashion, design and style, but she also knows how to build the garment.

My point of view is more aesthetic and brandfocused.”

At their studio at the Bauer, in the Crossroads, John and Christina create Architexture: a women’s clothing line that they say is “modern, minimalist and elegant.” Some of their influences are unexpected; for example, how does their love of cars render itself into a wearable garment?

“For us, fashion is about design,” John says. “We might see a beautiful car and be inspired by the sculptural lines, material and color. When we see an architect’s use of frosted glass and steel, we translate this into clothing with translucent silk organza and metallic-silver materials.”

They both still work day jobs: Christina teaches college fashion courses, and John is a designer for Sporting KC, working on such things as player uniforms and retail scarves. Though not originally from Kansas City, they’ve found a happy home amid the city’s burgeoning culture of artists.

“We like the lifestyle and people here,” John says. “There is a vibrant creative community in KC.”

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f you’ve ever bemoaned theater’s lack of PowerPoint slides or Baha Men references, I’ve never met you. But you might be the ideal audience for Women Playing Hamlet, a cute and uncomplicated new comedy from playwright William Missouri Downs.

The Unicorn gives Downs’ script the royal treatment, loading down four talented actors with sampler platters of roles that, in an inversion of Shakespeare-era performance, give women every part. Wacky high jinks, as they say, ensue. And if you can suspend snobbiness, you’ll probably have a pretty good time.

The opening line, a cornball knock-knock joke, breaks the fourth wall and sets the tone for the show. Jessica (Katie Karel), the play’s anchor and narrator, is an anxious actress in her late 20s, well past the 15 seconds of fame that being thrown from the George Washington Bridge in the opening credits of a Tarantino film bought her. Now she’s playing Hamlet, passing up a cushy stint on The Young and the Restless for the grit and greater integrity of the stage. To help her nail the role, she hires an acting coach who once played Hamlet to critical acclaim, consults a foppish literary scholar who can’t control his orgasms (because comedy!), and presents Hamlet’s symptoms to a psychiatrist.

Complicating things are the death of her father, her mother’s remarriage (at his funeral, because comedy!), and an understudy who wouldn’t mind edging her out of the role.

If that sounds like a lot of voices to sustain, it is. Downs’ revolving door of quirk strives for the offbeat edge of Christopher Durang and achieves a few moments of organic, surprising comedy — a shifting pay scale for Gwen’s acting students stands out.

Too often, though, he coasts on — or repeats — easy gags and predictable punch lines, with results that steer the action perilously close to inadvertent kitsch. A joke about the ubiquity of acting MFAs is amusing once or twice, but not eight times.

The Unicorn’s cast is solid, though you sense desperation at times. Karel does her best to energize sarcastic straightwoman Jessica. Cathy Barnett earns every laugh as a lecherous humanities professor, stroking her mustache with pornographic relish. And Meredith Wolfe is a dedicated, expressive performer, bringing a distinct voice to each of her seven roles.

Kathleen Warfel seems most in tune with the script’s sensibilities, committing fully to the silliness instead of swimming upstream.

Her mock Minnesota accent (as Jessica’s mother) is as gleeful and goofy as her mock British (as too-titillated Lord Derby). Barnett takes the opposite tack, scoring occasional points for realism and restraint. She finds

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authentic vulnerability and angst in Gwen, and her evolving relationship with Jessica is one of the play’s most satisfying.

All of Downs’ lightning-bug characters crop up, ostensibly, to help solve the play’s puzzle: Jessica has a “block” when it comes to understanding Hamlet (and, thus, playing him). But despite contemplating a host of ills and treatments, Downs never seems to settle on what that block is.

It’s Hamlet’s loneliness, Gwen posits.

Millennials can’t relate; in the digital age, they’re never alone.

It’s bad writing, Jessica retorts, needless pomp bloating a simple revenge plot.

Even a bartender (conveniently, also a Shakespeare buff) proposes a thesis: Hamlet’s waffling is decidedly feminine. Men are better at making decisions, he argues, because they have fewer characters to play in life. Women, on the other hand, “have to play many roles: wife, nurse, teacher, daughter, caregiver …”

From left: Wolfe, Karel, Barnett and Warfel Sorry, male nurses and teachers. You heard the man.

The play is at its best when the zany background noise softens to reveal real conflict.

Act 2 gives us one of the play’s tautest dramatic sequences, a lean confrontation between Gwen and Jessica in which their cool banter heats up. Downs can write crackling, focused scenes when he gives himself room.

The technical elements add style and polish to the script. Scenic designer Ian R. Crawford finds creative ways to flesh out a bare stage.

(The set, Jessica explains, should be achieved through “verbal scene painting.”) A classic curtain serves as both proscenium and punch line, pinching scenes short to comic effect.

Alex Perry’s smart lights provide definition and spectacle (when called for), and Georgianna Londré Buchanan’s costumes inject appropriately wild colors and fabrics.

Women Playing Hamlet is a fast-paced and lighthearted show, and if you demand nothing else from it, you’ll leave entertained. But those who prefer method in the madness may wonder why this world premiere made the cut.

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mpulsive ceramist” sounds like an oxymoron. It’s hard to imagine improvisation figuring into such a painstaking, multistage endeavor, in the same way it’s hard to imagine ancient scribes idly chiseling song lyrics into stone tablets.

At Belger Crane Yard Studios, though, Lauren Mabry’s roomy Passages suggests just that kind of offhanded ease. In a show that expands our collective imagination, she employs thin drizzles and chalky color fields with glazes that come across almost like doodles. The colors flow and coalesce like free-form jazz.

Many of Mabry’s sculptures share the same utilitarian title (“Cylinder” or “Pipe Form” appear a few times), underscoring that we’re seeing variations on a theme. That theme?

A sort of indulgent erraticism, as industrial forms (ceramic pipes) and humble materials (toothy earthenware) become canvases for energetic expression.

Mabry’s tallest sculpture, one of three titled “Pipe Composition,” is also her most frenetic.

Whereas most of her works combine abstract gashes and color fields, this tall, ceramic pipe section thrusts together recognizable symbols and cartoonish characters in close proximity.

Mabry glaze-paints different “frames” — a tictac-toe grid, a box formed from black bones — to isolate colorful scenes. In one, a childish stick figure beams under a crude sun. In another, an amusing caricature of a head on a plinth shows a red nose swollen like an Elmer Fudd injury.

Lauren Mabry plumbs utility and color at Belger Crane Yard Studios.

But orbit around the cylinder, and darker images emerge: a menacing, jagged-toothed dog; satanic red beams from a cloudy sky. The tone depends on your vantage point and on which end of the pipe is up. Flames at the top lick down like stalactites; chunky artichoke greens twist up from the bottom. The effect is equal parts rail-yard graffiti and satirist’s sketchpad, a mesh of different styles finding a strange harmony.

But the works that made me look the longest were simpler. Mabry’s two “Spilling Pipes” draw us inside the cylinders, where Lauren Mabry: Passages Through April 18 at Belger Crane Yard Studios, 2011 Tracy, 816-474-7316, redstarstudios.org competing colors funnel out of their frames to pool on the ground. If you’ve ever rinsed out a paint tray, you’ll recognize the pattern — Mabry perfectly captures the kinetic mingling of pigments spilling down a drain. A deliberately patchy glaze adds texture to the pipe exterior, a dulled shell for the streaked symphony within.

Instead of throwing, Mabry has fused many of these pieces from once-functional sections of ceramic pipe. Their utilitarian past seems crucial to her practice, transforming workaday structures into assertively decorative pieces. Nowhere is that tension better ex-

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“Spilling Pipe” (left) and “Cylinder” by Mabry ploited than in the vibrant green “Pipe Form,” which is simultaneously garish and elegant in its evocations. The piece is unique among Mabry’s offerings in its color consistency and its continuous, wrap-around pattern. Peacock colors — lacy fields of green striped with glittering bronze and blue glaze — add an aggressive edge.

Mabry repurposes that same glimmering bronze in another, messier “Pipe Form.” In its new context (the inside of a variegated, thrown pipe), the glitter takes on a corrosive vibe, evoking rust instead of a peacock’s preen. Although the pipe’s exterior is less surprising — an even wash of glaze gives the base a laminated feel — the rough interior is stunning, a subtle nod to Mabry’s industrial inspirations.

Cylinders make fertile canvases for the artist, allowing her to create progressive “scenes” of color. Speckled chaos fades to balanced design and then to chaos once again. These are Grecian urns for the modern admirer, fussy curves blunted, representation largely eschewed. Pipes may be passages, but from the outside they’re smooth and impenetrable, leaving us to stalk around in punishing circles as we hunt for a way in. In Mabry’s world, there’s always something new around the (U-)bend.

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tery trout amandine, but the server never brought any. On another of my visits, I’d been served a basket of Farm to Market baguette, but the butter with it (whipped with herbes de Provence) was a suspiciously parsimoni­ ous portion. These aren’t small details for a restaurant of Charisse’s ambition.

Craine says pasta doesn’t sell especially well here, so his current menu has just a cou­ ple of choices, both of which are very good (and blessedly generous with the garlic): a ro­ bustly seasoned clam linguine and a strozza­ preti — the tubelike noodle called the “priest strangler” because, legend has it, a greedy priest suffocated when he wolfed down a portion — with briny grilled Gulf shrimp in a brawny sauce of tomato and poached garlic.

Craine says one of them is likely to go away for a while.

There are nearly twice as many starters on this menu as there are entrées, owing to the neighborhood’s dependence on the happy­ hour crowd. To go with a cocktail or a glass of wine at the 10­seat communal table (where I saw, one afternoon, a man wearing a gold­ sequined dinner jacket, looking casually el­ egant), there are meat boards, cheese boards and three different preparations of steamed mussels.

There’s also a dessert board, a plank of wood boasting a mini crème brûlée, pumpkin bread, ice cream (from Poppy’s in Lee’s Sum­ mit), and nuts and berries. It sounds wonder­ ful, but on the night I ordered it, it came with only the pumpkin bread, sliced nearly as thin as a round of bologna. The ice cream­filled profiteroles, however, were delicious, and the velvety chocolate pot de crème was the best such dish I’ve had in recent years.

The challenge here is getting people to stay for dinner. “It can be disheartening to see the mass exodus from this neighborhood at 4:30 p.m. every weekday,” Craine says. “And I understand that even if some of these people live less than 15 or 20 minutes away, they don’t want to drive back downtown to eat dinner in a restaurant.”

I’d make the trip for the steak frites alone, but Craine is philosophical about the likeli­ hood of boom times every night. “If we do the best job, our customers will find us no matter where we are,” he says.

That’s not as catchy a mantra as “location, location, location,” but it’s at least as true. And for all of Charisse’s minor eccentricities, it’s still a restaurant to which I’ll happily return.

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Maybe.

I’ve never completely bought into the no­ tion that address alone sets a new restaurant’s fate in motion. Cafés die in seemingly bullet­ proof locales, and I’ve seen the occasional dining flower come up through very hard pave­ ment. (One thing I do believe in, however: the curse. But that’s another column.)

But what about seemingly viable spots that resist restaurant permanence? What about, for instance, 1006 Walnut? It’s a location that’s neither poisson nor poulet, far enough north of the Crossroads and the Power & Light District and south of the River Market to stake out its own identity with a growing perimeter of urban dwellers, who could use a restaurant to frequent. This stretch of down­ town hasn’t been a dining destination for a half­century, but it’s a neighborhood clearly poised for renewal.

That revival didn’t come in time for Aixois Brasserie, the sophisticated satellite of the Brookside French bistro. Megan and Emman­ uel Langlade opened it in the summer of 2012 but pulled out after just two years. Last Sep­ tember, the Langlades turned Aixois Brasserie over to their executive chef, 32­year­old Jason Craine. He kept the Aixois name for a couple of months (“It made the transition smoother,” he says) and then rechristened the restaurant Charisse (after Craine’s wife) in November.

“This is not an old­school French bras­ serie,” Craine says. “We’re a Midwestern res­ taurant doing French­style food.” The menu calls his food “old French/ new American,” and in­ e r o M deed, anyone expecting a version of what the Langlades attempted t a ine Onl .com here is in for a surprise. h pitc Yes, there are quite a few dishes from the French repertoire (onion soup, bouillabaisse, steak frites), but Craine also makes a very good burger and has added filet mignon and a dry­ aged Duroc pork chop to the lineup. “And these recipes,” Craine says, “are all mine.”

French things French: Craine’s beef bour­ guignon is now the best in the city, a sumptu­ ously tender stew with slowly braised meat, onions, carrots, parsnips and red wine. It’s slightly sweet, impressively supple and sooth­ ingly rich. If you’re still winter­chilled, order the dish while it’s still there; Craine says he plans to drop it and other hearty items from the menu in April, when he introduces his spring collection of dishes. “I try to rotate dishes in and out depending on the season,” he says. “I want my warm­weather dishes to

Charisse Caesar salad .................................................... $7 Chevre salad .................................................... $7 Flank steak frites .........................................$22 Golden trout....................................................$19 Gulf shrimp pasta ..........................................$19 Dessert board, small ......................................$9 be more focused on regionally sourced pro­ duce and herbs.”

Mind you, Craine isn’t about to serve less beef. He has already learned that Kansas City wants it year­round. “I offered a French dip sandwich at lunch,” he says. “And when I took it off the menu, I got angry phone calls from our regulars. I had to put it right back on.”

I’d consider making an anonymous com­ plaint if he tried to take his superb steak frites off the menu. The meat­and­spud classic isn’t a rarity in the metro, but the one here involves flank steak marinated in olive oil, gluten­free soy and Worcestershire sauce and then grilled just right. And the crispy, golden fried potatoes are no afterthoughts; they’re blanched, then fried twice, and they’re delicious, particularly with a dollop of Craine’s silky bearnaise.

One French borrowing I could do without: the intimidating hauteur lobbed my way by a server during one of my visits. He managed, in one meal, to break nearly every commandment

Charisse’s beef bourguignon is extraordinaire. of good service, culminating in an attempt to drop the check before my table had decided whether to order dessert. This being 1006 Wal­ nut, the restaurant was barely half­full that night, and we hadn’t overstayed our welcome.

(I had better service during my other visits.)

Less Continental is Craine’s Caesar salad, which comes closer to being, say, a breakfast dish than it does to being a Caesar salad. Sure, you can see romaine and taste white anchovy, but you’re also confronted with fried bacon bits, an over­easy egg — perhaps an ironic protest to the fact that no one uses raw egg yolks in the dressing anymore? — and a dis­ cordant tomato. I preferred the chevre salad, which was first­rate when I tried it: two pucks of warm, creamy goat cheese with berries, spinach, arugula and candied nuts. The beet salad, on the other hand, was too light on the beets but good for fans of fragrant roquefort and fresh pears.

With those salads or with any of Craine’s saucier dishes, a good, chewy baguette is called for. You want it to sop up the cherry­ port reduction on the pork chop or to wipe out the bowl when you’re finishing that sleekly delicious bourguignon. And I would have loved a slice with the decadently but­

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oney and bread have changed hands lately in Kansas City. Two popular downtown bakeries — Bloom Baking Co., in the River Market, and Fervere, in the Crossroads — have new owners.

Sarah Darby purchased Bloom Baking Co. March 1 from Janet O’Toole and Stephen Zaragoza, who opened the bakery in 2010.

Darby, who was a nurse for 14 years, tells me that she bought Bloom because she was ready to make a career change — but she’s not changing what has made Bloom popular.

(She does plan to expand the bakery’s lunch options eventually.)

“We want the transition to be as smooth as possible,” she says. “Everything is staying the same: the staff, our bread baker and our pastry chefs. All of the recipes came with the sale of the bakery.”

Meanwhile, at Fervere, two longtime bakers there — Chad Russell and Dan Wehner — purchased the 15-year-old business from founder Fred Spompinato, who retired in midJanuary. Russell says he and Wehner have a couple of bread-minded partners: Chris and Kate Matsch, who own Lenexa’s Ibis Bakery.

“They’ll be our silent partners,” Russell says.

“It’s not a merger or a takeover. They were able to help Dan and I finance the purchase.”

Fervere will continue, Russell says, as it always has. “We’re staying in the same location. The breads will stay the same. We’ll continue to offer our seasonal breads.

“Dan and I are both creative,” Russell adds. “We may introduce new breads. I’m very interested in creating a loaf using ancient grains.”

Ibis, as I reported this past January, is coming downtown. Chris Matsch says that when he opens his Crossroads location, tentatively in early 2016, it will remain separate from Fervere. “We may collaborate on different kinds of flour, since we’ll be milling our own grains,” he says.

So changes behind the scenes, yes, but not to the bread itself at two of the city’s most beloved bakeries. At a handful of other bread-centered operations around town, though, some recipes have been improved. As the loaves I picked up from the shops below attest, it’s a good time to bring home some local bread.

Fervere (1702 Summit, 816-842-7272) is famous for its crusty, rustic loaves, such as the fragrant olive-rosemary bread and the fruit-laden “orchard.” But it’s the airy, chewy “cheese slipper” that many of the customers crave. (The pizzalike, produce-topped version we recognized in our Best of Kansas City issue last fall is coming back for another run of Saturday evenings this summer.)

Russell is also continuing to turn out the bakery’s “box bread,” a dense, square loaf

Thursday, March 19 Beer madness, featuring one $10 beer sampler and access to a brat-and-appetizer buffet, at Gordon Biersch (11652 Ash, Leawood), 4–11 p.m.

Brewers table, featuring 4 Hands Brewing Co. brewers and reps; food pairings; and tappings of Madagascar, the Woodsman third-anniversary edition (only keg outside the brewery), barrel-aged Late Harvest Saison (collaboration with chef Josh Eans) and Downfall bourbon barrelaged imperial stout with raspberries, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Oskar Blues night, with Pinner Throwback IPA, Death by Coconut and Ten Fidy, at Barley’s Brewhaus (5031 W. 135th St., Leawood), 4:30 p.m.

Perennial Mint Chocolate Stout tapping, at 75th Street Brewery (520 W. 75th St.), 6 p.m.

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Border Brewing Co. reopens with six taps (406 E. 18th St.), 4–11 p.m.

Perennial tasting, at Gomer’s (3838 Broad-

way), 4–7 p.m.

Tallgrass sampling, at Lukas Liquors (13657 sold in a smallish pasteboard box. He calls it “the healthiest bread you can possibly find,” though it tastes better than that suggests. The square loaf, inspired by German vollkornbrot, is made with whole rye and wheat, and six other seeds and grains. “Fred created it,” Russell says, “because he felt guilty making something as decadent as the cheese slipper.”

Bloom Baking Co. (15 East Third Street, 816-283-8437) offers as many as 15 different loaves each day (including a couple available at half size). The crusty baguettes are as Parisian as downtown gets.

McLain’s Bakery (201 East Gregory Blvd., 816-523-9911) has never really been a destination for fresh sandwich loaves, but after the venerable shop was sold to Grand Street LLC last year, general manager Jeff Hirleman decided to change that. He has introduced two sizes of a floury, soft rustic loaf, as well as baguettes and yeasty dinner rolls. The round rustic loaves are very soft and make one hell of a bread pudding (which is also sold there).

Baked in Kansas City (706 Westport Road, 816-561-2253) has endured several conspicuous staffing changes in the year since it opened. The bread was consistently good from the outset, and when Pete Peterman was at the oven, the place made a run at greatness. But Peterman didn’t stick around, and I hadn’t heard who had replaced him — until I dropped by last week.

That was a few days after the food critics’ panel on KCUR 89.3’s Central Standard, of which I’m a part, reached a consensus that

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From left: McLain’s baguette, Farm to Market’s Irish soda bread, McLain’s rustic loaf, Fervere’s cheese slipper, Bloom’s multigrain half loaf, slices of Fervere’s box bread, and Andre’s potato-garlic bread the hardest bread to find in Kansas City was a properly pungent, dark, soft rye. If I’d only known that Baked in Kansas City, with new bread baker Joey Phillips, now makes such a loaf. It’s hefty, outstanding and makes the best grilled cheese you’ll ever work up at home.

Andre’s Confiserie Suisse (5018 Main, 816-561-3440) remains far better known for its delicate pastries and chocolates than for its breads. But from Wednesday through Saturday, the baking staff at this patisserie sells a rotating selection of five kinds of freshly baked breads, all of which are excellent.

The baguettes (available only by ordering in advance) are for the weekend, assuming that you’ve already polished off Thursday’s delectable potato-garlic bread.

Then, of course, there’s Farm to Market (in grocery stores metrowide). So many restaurants offer the different styles of bread baked by this hometown bakery that it would be heretical to narrow its offerings to any one favorite. The limited-edition seasonal loaf on the shelf now, though — a sugar-crusted Irish soda bread — has a deserved following. It’s not for every taste, but it’s a fine vehicle for corned beef and a spoonful of punchy mustard.

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River North Brewery beer school with brew-

ery co-founder and brewmaster Matt Hess, at Burg & Barrel (7042 W. 76th St., Overland Park), 7 p.m.

Tuesday, March 24 Avery Brewing Co. tasting, at Rimann Liquors (3917 Prairie Ln., Prairie Village), 4:30– 6:30 p.m.

Beer tasting, featuring a special flight of Brett/Wild Ale, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 7–9 p.m.

Wednesday, March 25

Avery Brewing tap takeover, featuring the Beast, Mephistopheles, Samael’s, Uncle Jacob’s bourbon-barrel stout, Tweak imperial stout with coffee, and Liliko’i Kepolo, plus a surprise case of a rare beer, at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Midland Dr., Shawnee), 4:30 p.m.

Avery tasting, at Rimann Liquors (15117 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa), 4:30–6:30 p.m.

Brewer’s happy hour, featuring Gordon Biersch beers, at Gordon Biersch (100 E. 14th St.), 4:30–6:30 p.m.

Tapping of Draft Choice Special IPA, the

new seasonal beer at Amerisports (3200 N. Ameristar Dr.)

Traveler Beer Co. glass night, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

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More Panic, Less anxiety

Adriana Nikole finally feels at home.

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n a bright weekday afternoon at Mills Record Co., a couple of people are flipping through used records in the store’s recent addition. They seem unperturbed by the impromptu photo shoot that has taken over the stage area, where Adriana Nikole has taken out her guitar and, at the photographer’s request, begun to play. She does so quietly, her music barely above the volume of the grimecaked rock pouring out of the speaker next to her. The browsers don’t look up.

Then Nikole (her stage name drops her surname, Moreyra) starts to sing, and “Veil,” the heartbreak ballad she’s playing, suddenly fills the room. Her voice is burly and bluesy yet fully in her control; when the final verse calls for a falsetto, she ends with a trill that would make Minnie Riperton proud.

Nikole seems reluctant to put her guitar away, now that she’s going. As she and I regroup elsewhere in the shop, she fidgets, tugging the edges of her sweatshirt’s sleeves down around her fingertips, and her voice is once again soft. I suggest that she seems more comfortable belting out a song for strangers than having a conversation with one.

“Oh, my God, I’m so bad at talking,” she admits. “My banter at shows is horrible. Horrible. I’m still working at it. In between tunings, like, what am I gonna say?”

Nikole has battled depression and anxiety as long as she can remember, she says.

Conversations — with anyone — have never been easy.

“I was the type of person that would go to the neighborhood bar with a book,” she tells me. “I would witness everybody around me, living their lives. I would go out to places and I would see things happening, but I would be too afraid to approach anyone because I wanted to be a part of it so bad.” She pauses, thinks, goes on: “I don’t know if that makes sense. It’s about being accepted. I was afraid it would never happen.”

Things changed for Nikole seven years ago, when someone gave her a ukulele. She was 24 and still living in her native Royal Oak, Michigan. New instrument in hand, she began attending area open-mic nights.

“The ukulele kind of saved my life,” she says. “My first open mic in Michigan, I was so scared. I could only play a few chords on ukulele. I had to have friends hold up lyrics for me because I didn’t have the muscle memory yet. I sang this old Irish tune, and the whole place went quiet, and I remember thinking, like, ‘Maybe I should keep doing this.’ It made me feel like I had a purpose, and I really learned to open up. I’ve been opening up ever since.”

When she moved to Kansas City two and a half years ago — after stints in Nashville, where she picked up the guitar, and Knox-

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“My thing is just to really get the emotion In January, she formed a backing band across,” she says. “I want people to relate called the Panic, with drummer Josh Enyart, to it, to listen to the tremor in the vocals or guitarist Jason Nash (both of the Jorge Arana Trio) and bassist Devin McCollum, who per- something and feel what I feel.”

And there is something undeniably reforms as Dmac. latable about Nikole. She looks a little like a “I got really lucky,” Nikole says of the goth Snow White: pale face, dark hair, mouth Panic. “Those guys know how to create a splashed today with bright-purple lipstick. sound around me, and I think we’re having a lot of fun. And that’s the thing I’ve learned When you hear her talk about the importance living here: I feel like I was so scared of every- that music has in her life, you believe her.

“I want to promote awareness for depresthing that I was sheltered in my own way, and sion and anxiety and those issues,” she says. once I just started meeting everybody and networking and doing open mics, it opened “I grew up with that, big time, and it stunted this huge world to me. Having a good support a lot of things in my life. I’m glad I am where I’m at now. I’m amazed that I am because, at system really helped me.” one point, I thought I’d be dead.”

Though she has been performing for six She goes on: “I still have dark days. When I years, it wasn’t until Nikole landed in Kansas do, I’ll force myself to pick up the guitar. It’s a City that she felt ready to record. Thanks to friend. Things may not be where I want them Enyart, Nash and Dmac, she’s fleshing out material for her debut release. That won’t to be, and music may seem so hard at times,

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Nikole: an introvert with a big voice but before I had music, things were so dark.

I didn’t like myself. I think that’s the thing: I found something that I love, that actually makes me happy, and I count that blessing every day.”

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J a z z B e at Ida McBEth, at thE BluE RooM

Just as Julia Lee was the vocal symbol of Kansas City jazz in the 1950s, the iconic Ida McBeth, many would agree, is today’s equivalent. For more than 30 years, audiences have flocked to hear McBeth pour her soul into every shiver-inducing moment of a live performance. In her capable hands, a song transforms into a feeling.

Her talent knows no boundaries. McBeth hopscotches across blues, gospel, funk and R&B. She can mold a jazz classic to her style and, in the next breath, drive you to the edge of tears in a ballad. She holds nothing back. Saturday at the Blue Room, prepare to take it all in.

— Larry Kopitnik Ida McBeth, 8:30 p.m.–12:30 a.m. Saturday, March 21, at the Blue Room (1600 East 18th Street, 816-474-6262), $10 cover.

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Sylvan Esso chases honesty in music.

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n paper, Amelia Meath and Nick Sanborn are unlikely bandmates. She was one of the lead singers in the all-female folk trio Mountain Man. He produced electronic beats for Megafaun and worked on his own as Made of Oak. United as Sylvan Esso, though, Meath and Sanborn share a musical partnership that goes down as easy as champagne at a wedding.

That’s just the sort of sound that Sylvan Esso brings on its self-titled debut: celebratory, effervescent pop that rewards the discerning listener while delivering radio-ready hooks. Less than a year since that record’s arrival, the Durham, North Carolina, duo is still riding a strong wave of critical approval.

Ahead of its show Friday at the Bottleneck, I got ahold of Sanborn on the road to ask him about honesty, pop and, obviously, Taylor Swift.

The Pitch: After a couple of years of getting a lot of blog traction, Sylvan Esso was one of the most hyped bands at 2014’s South by could be more personal, I think, and maybe Southwest. Then, last May, when your album more honest and less black-and-white. That came out, things really started happening. was the other thing we talked about a lot: How have things changed?

Sanborn: In a lot of ways, but mostly it’s how frustrated we both were with the trend just been amazing how quickly the shows in pop lyrics of oversimplifying a situation. have grown. They’re so much bigger than we I think something we both really love about being alive and reflecting that through our thought they were going to be. In our most music is that being a human is a really comideal dreams of where we are now, I don’t plicated thing, and it’s almost never very think either of us thought we were going to cut-and-dry. The more people that tap into be playing to anywhere near as many people that, I think, the more people will respond as we’re going to be playing tonight. We’re going to D.C. tonight, and we’re selling out to what they do.

We didn’t want to do something that the [1,200-capacity] 9:30 Club. It’s been soldwas like, “You broke up with me! You’re out for over a month, which is just totally the worst!� or “I’m gonna fix you!� Because overwhelming. nothing is ever that simple. I mean, I love Our own projects just never did as well Taylor Swift, but is there really a chance as this project is doing. We always knew that all those breakups were really not her people who were doing well and just never fault? Like, seriously. It must be so complireally thought that that was going to be us.

When you and Amelia first joined forces, cated. It must be so intense and hard to be Taylor Swift, but really, her boyfriends are what were those conversations like? just terrible? [Laughs.] On her newest record, I guess the only thing we kept talking though — have you listened to it? about was that we just wanted to make a Um, yes. Like, a million times. pop record that didn’t assume the listener Yeah, of course. But she finally kind of was an idiot. And not in an elitist way — did what I was wanting her to do, and that’s not in the way that like, “Oh, we’re gonna on “Style,� where she intellectualize pop� kind of gets mad at or something snooty this dude for being like that. But I think Sylvan Esso with other women, but we just found ourFriday, March 20, at the Bottleneck she also admits that, selves both big fans of like, “Oh, yeah, this is pop music and kind of just complicated and constantly having to forgive our favorite artists in order to love kind of unhealthy, but we’re just going to keep doing it.� And I was like, “Awesome! their records. Like, anyone I can name right She perceives that this isn’t this one-sided now, at some point on their latest record, there’s been a moment like, “Really? That’s thing.� And that song’s a jam, and everyone the lyric you ended up with? That’s where can relate to it.

I think there’s this theory that you need you stopped writing?� to universalize what you’re saying in order We just really thought that pop music

Sylvan Esso: confident and complicated to have people understand it, and I don’t think that’s true. I think the more honest you are about how complicated something is, the more people will actually be able to relate to it. Because if it’s true, there’s no way you’re the only person who’s had that experience. There’s probably a bazillion parallels for the listener.

Reading other interviews with you both, I get the impression that you and Amelia have a really strong musical connection. What attracted you to her music?

It wasn’t until she asked me to do a remix that I saw she was someone I could really work with. I had been trying to find someone to work with. I had been a sideman for so long, playing in all these other bands, and I just wanted my own thing. The idea of an electronic band had been slowly forming, and I was trying to figure it out. And I think, as a big fan of hers, I knew how to put her music in context, so that other people could hear it the way I heard it and, hopefully, love it as much as I loved it.

How has working with Amelia in Sylvan Esso influenced your own approach to music?

It’s tough to put my finger on specifics just because everything about my life is different now than it was three years ago. In general, I think she’s made me much more confident, musically. I feel much better about the work that I do even without her now. That’s been the biggest shift. She’s taught me to trust myself, and I do, a lot more than I did before.

I don’t think either of us would be where we are without the other one.

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The Fog, Bummer, Nubiles, Slave Label

The lineup at FOKL Thursday night is not something you can miss with a clear conscience. Four young bands at the top of the local hardcore scene (or on their way there) are set to kick up the volume of this show to levels that would make your neighbors call 911. High Dive Records’ newest signee, the Fog, brings its own ambient weirdness, while label mate Bummer crushes you with meaty metal power.

Nubiles hasn’t released anything since last spring’s excellent cassette EP, so we’ve built up a sore need to hear more from this rabid, trash-talking trio. Slave Label, out of Overland Park, has been together less than six months, so bring an open mind — and probably some earplugs.

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There is no cure for the blues like the blues.

California singer-songwriter and guitarist Tommy Castro, one of the genre’s finest practitioners, can tell you as much. The riffs on his most recent album, 2013’s The Devil You Know, set your speakers smoking. Opening for him Friday at Knuckleheads is local blues act Amanda Fish Band, which delivers plenty of sizzle by itself, thanks to frontwoman Fish (sister of national blues treasure Samantha

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If you’re wondering where the party was this weekend, we’ve found it for you.

Friday, March 20, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

TVOTR finally seems to be right where it wants want to be.

Saturday, March 21, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

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Screaming Females

TV on the Radio issued Seeds this past November, less than a year after the death of its bassist, Gerard Smith. In some ways, then, the album feels like a kind of catharsis, a set of songs to push the Brooklyn quartet past its grief and into fresh waters of renewal. Sonically, it doesn’t breach brand-new territory for the band, but the music itself delivers big, with TVOTR untangling knotted emotions to find a good deal more optimism than it has ever conveyed before. Rain comes down like it always does, sings Tunde Adebimpe on the closing title track, This time I’ve got seeds on the ground. Thirteen years after the band’s debut,

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Marissa Paternoster has a growl that will make your skin crawl. The frontwoman for Screaming Females can be haunting — see “Hopeless” — or full-out terrifying, as she is on “Ripe,” the latest single off the band’s forthcoming album.

Add that to her undeniable prowess on guitar, and Paternoster transforms onstage from woman to ferocious beast. Hear her come to life Tuesday at the Riot Room.

Tuesday, March 24, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

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Listening to Bob Seger’s most recent album, Ride Out, you would never guess that it was the Detroit rocker’s first in eight years. Seger has kept his signature growl and stayed true to his preferred theme of independence. Sure, all the songs sound like the kind of thing your dad might listen to on a road trip to, say, a national park, but there’s nothing wrong with that. In fact, it’s oddly comforting to know that, long after the wane of Seger’s 1970s and ’80s popularity, songs such as “Night Moves” and “Stranger in Town” remain American classics.

Expect those and plenty of other radio chestnuts when he stops Friday at the Sprint Center.

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Thursday | 3.19 | Comedy

Ahmed Ahmed | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

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third thursday at the nelson-atkins museum of art

dr. david Gallo talks about ocean exploration,

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as part of Linda Hall Library’s To Boldly Go lecture series | 7-8 p.m. Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry, lindahall.org

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Chicks Are Funny | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Kauf drops with dustin Kaufman | 10 p.m. Uptown

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

John mulaney | 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

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nAiA division i men’s Basketball national Championship | 10:45 a.m., and 12:30, 2:15, 4:30, 6:15, 8 & 9:45 p.m. | Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St.

nAiA div. i Women’s Basketball tournament | 9 a.m. & 4:30 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

Community events musiC

the Future of the West Bottoms | 6:30 p.m. Kansas

City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

tedxLive: truth or dare | 2-6 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Atkins Auditorium, 4525 Oak, reservation required, nelson-atkins.org

theater Dates and times vary.

Angels in America: Part I and Part II | Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Copaken Stage, 13th Street and Walnut, kcrep.org

The Art of Murder | KC Mystery Train, venues vary, kcmysterytrain.com

Black Pearl Sings | Spinning Tree Theatre,

Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central, spinningtreetheatre.com

Hair | Starting Friday, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, 4949 Cherry, kcrep.org

Jitney | Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, metkc.org The Lot — Where Things Happen | 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org

The Merchant of Venice, produced by the

Heart of America Shakespeare Festival | Through Sunday, White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center, 5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park, jcckc.org

Remington Steele Magnolias | Late Night Theatre, Missie B’s, 805 W. 39th St.

White Rabbit, Red Rabbit | KC Fringe, H&R Block City Stage Theater, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., kcfringe.org

Women Playing Hamlet | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

Band Quattro | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205

E. 85th St.

Jason Boland & the stragglers | 8 p.m. Kanza

Hall, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

daisy Buckët & michael pagan trio | 7 p.m.

Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

earl & them or the 24th street Wailers |

7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Gaelic storm | 8 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino,

third thursday this month is “Body in motion,” with a talk about the human form (nude-image warning), music from Diverse (playing Michael Jackson) and DJ Miscela, eye relaxation with yoga teacher Megan Wyeth, hulahooping with Allysha Woodson, and a round of the game Five Card Design, 6-9 p.m., 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org.

mondo disco with ray velasquez | 10 p.m. The

draws for a Cause, benefiting Habitat for Humanity Kansas City | 6-10 p.m., $40/$50, Bou-

Friday | 3.20 |

levard Brewing Co., 2501 Southwest Blvd.

perForminG Arts

1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

the Ghost inside, the Acacia strain, Gideon, in Hearts Wake | 6:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Johnny Hamil’s Gav7d | 8 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union Heat index with Karita Carter | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Honky-tonk song swap with dusty rust and the roamin’ oklahomans | 9 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Community BeneFits

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

Community events

Academy of st. martin in the Fields with Jeremy denk | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts,

1601 Broadway, hjseries.org

Fredericks Brown | 8 p.m. Polsky Theatre at JCCC,

third Friday in downtown overland park |

5-9 p.m., between 79th and 80th streets, west of Metcalf, downtownop.org

12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, jccc.edu/performingarts-series

Kansas City Ballet: Giselle | 7:30 p.m. Kauff-

man Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcballet.org

sports & reC

nAiA division i men’s Basketball national Championship | 9 & 10:45 a.m., and 12:30, 2:15, 4:30, 6:15, 8 & 9:45 p.m. Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St. musiC

Jet moran album-release show with dose, pimpzilla, ya Boy moe, super shaq, Gonzoe, eiman | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

susan and William Goldenberg, violin and piano | 3 p.m. Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont

Bob Bowman with Kathleen Holeman | 8:30 p.m.

The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Comedy

tommy Castro, Amanda Fish Band | 7:30 p.m.

mime Game, Cauldron point, via Luna, Crystal Baller | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Ahmed Ahmed | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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Corey Holcomb | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Jesse Cain | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

dJ thundercutz | 10 p.m. Vandals, 3740 Broadway dJ tulipana | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway Grandtheft, eric Coomes | Mosaic Lounge, 1331 Walnut

Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

sylvan esso, Flock of dimes | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck,

Chris Hazelton, the mGds | 9 p.m. Green Lady

rupaul’s drag race: Battle of the seasons |

9 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

urban trivia Comedy show | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts

Bar, 3611 Broadway

Lounge, 1809 Grand

J.B. and the moonshine Band | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Jeff Jensen Band | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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StEwart CopEland: off thE SCorE we d n es

blers Club, 3402 Main

1809 Grand

Shameless day party kickoff with Breaking Bad News, s.o.l.d.i.e.r., BluntRap, Alv Diesel, DJ Atom Marquette | 3 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048

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Once Great Empire Returns, Ashes in Vein, Wicken | 8 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

Broadway

Pop Goes the Evil, Bone Spur, Brody Buster early show | 8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Super Dank | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

L.A. Price | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Troglodyte, Circle of Trust, Eyes of iolite | 8 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Dominique Sanders Trio | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

TV on the Radio, Nostalghia | 8 p.m. The Midland,

1228 Main

Scotty & the Soultones | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410

S. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs

Tycho | 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Shades of Jade | 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

Sona, Cupcake, Alien Hellbop | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Squids KC, Knifecrime, the Heavy Figs | 10 p.m.

Police drummer Stewart Copeland and pianist Jon Kimura Parker’s chamber group, featur-

ing Marlon Martinez (pictured above left), Yoon Kwon and Judd Miller, blows up genres at 7:30 p.m. at the Lied Center of Kansas in Lawrence, 1600 Stewart Dr.; tickets: lied.ku.edu, 785-864-2787.

8 p.m. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St.

Amber Underwood, Molly Hammer | 7 p.m.

L i T E R A R y/ S P O K E N W O R D

MUSiC

Riverfront Readings: Emergent Voices | 7-9 p.m.

Bowdog | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th

Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway NiGHTLiFE

The Aural Exciter with DJs Robert Moore and Tulipana | 8 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

COMEDy

Ahmed Ahmed | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park Corey Holcomb | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. ExPOS

Flirt Friday | 9 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riv-

erboat Dr., North Kansas City

The Greater Kansas City Home Show | 10 a.m.-

Flow with Todd Howard, Marcobiotics, OJ Shrink | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

2015 Hot 103 Jamz Music Conference | 8 a.m.-

Kimbarely Legal | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

8 p.m. Bartle Hall, 301 W. 13th St., kchba.org

4 p.m., $65-$100, VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 103musicconference.com COMMUNiTy EVENTS

Solidisco, Half Dead Bear, DJ Architekt, AudioMattic, DJ Lektrik | 10 p.m. The Riot Room,

4048 Broadway

Soul Preservers featuring Elliott Oliver | 9 p.m.

Legislative Coffee with Reps. Keith Esau, Linda Gallagher and S. Mike Kiegerl | 10 a.m. Johnson

County Lackman Library, 15345 W. 87th St., Lenexa SPORTS & REC

PERFORMiNG ARTS

Cherish the Ladies | 8 p.m. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, jccc.edu/ performing-arts-series

Kansas City Ballet: Giselle | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcballet.org

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NAiA Division i Men’s Basketball National Championship | 10:30 a.m. and 12:30, 2, 4, 6 & 8 p.m. | Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St.

Cinemaphonic with Cruz & Cyan | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

St., Overland Park

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

Brokenmast, Sundiver, Riala | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar,

DJ Rico | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

1020 Westport Rd.

The Candymakers Jam | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs

DJ Tres, Jason Kidd, Mike DiLeo | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Gold Label Soul with Hector the Selector |

Gamelan Genta Kasturi with i Ketút Gedé Asnawa and family | 7 p.m. Grace and Holy Trinity

Cathedral, 415 W. 13th St.

Grand Villanova, the Bipolar Magnets, the Peoples Punk Band | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Keenan and Lorna Kay’s Country Cutz | 8 p.m.

The Ship, 1217 Union

MUSEUM ExhibitS & EvEntS

Angela Hagenbach, Linnaia McKenzie | 7 p.m.

Cowtown: History of the Kansas City Stockyards | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Brett Jackson Quartet | 6-9 p.m. Green Lady

Ingenious Objects: geometric puzzles by Stewart Coffin | Linda Hall Library, 5109

Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

Lounge, 1809 Grand

The Ship, 1217 Union

Saturday | 3.21 |

Whiskey for the Lady, Kansas City Hustle, Victor and Penny | 8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112

NiGHTLiFE

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives |

Bar, 3611 Broadway

Schlambert Quartet | 9:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge,

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New Riddim, Page 7 | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ram-

Potlickers, One Deep Breath | 10 p.m. Uptown Arts

Levee Town | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E.

85th St.

Maroon 5 | 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

Cherry, lindahall.org

War & Art | National World War I Museum, Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

ida McBeth | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Xtreme BUGS | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org/bugs

John Michael Montgomery with Sara Morgan & the Belairs | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

Meta Hi-Fi | 10 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

NAiA Div. i Women’s Basketball Tournament | 2 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

1813 Grand

Sporting KC vs. Portland Timbers | 7:30 p.m.

Phil Neal and the Wornalls | 7 p.m. RecordBar,

Westport Bar Employee Reunion | 6 p.m. Buzzard

Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK

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1020 Westport Rd.

Rude Revue & Burly Q | 10 p.m. The Tank Room,

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Jorge Arana trio, dams, Various Blonde, riala | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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American Soldier | Nelson-Atkins Museum of

Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

Blue dream, Braingea | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Animalia: 19th- and 20th-Century European Prints and Drawings | Nelson-Atkins

Born Cages, dreamers, the Kickback | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Cool ghouls, Josh Berwanger Band | 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

family tour Hour at the Kemper | 2-3 p.m.

Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

red, islander, 3 years Hollow | 7 p.m. The Granada,

1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Make Your Mark | Kemper Museum of Contem-

Mapping Coyote Black, natalie Ball | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces | Nelson-Atkins

screaming females, the Bad ideas, nature Boys | 8:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

monty rand

porary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Wednesday | 3.25 | Community eVents

Bob seger & the silver Bullet Band | 8 p.m. at the Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, sprintcenter.com

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

third thursday at the nelson: Body in motion | 6-9 p.m. Thursday, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

third thursday at the nerman | 3:30-

4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park. jccc.edu/museum

To Honor the Unidentified and Its Honor Is Here Pledged, gina Adams | Nerman

Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org

World War i and the rise of modernism | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Sunday | 3.22 |

decker, LesserHasBeens, don’t Know dorothy, good time Charley | 8 p.m. The Riot Room,

the Bros Landreth, old sound, mark robinson | 6 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Jeff Harshbarger group | 8 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

Consider the source, Pigeons Playing Ping Pong | 9 p.m. Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

4048 Broadway

When Kansas City Went to War, with Henry Bloch, Edward T. Matheny Jr. and Bill Dunn Sr. | 6:30 p.m.

Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org fiLm

Westport Rd.

Jazz brunch with gerald spaits, roger Wilder and dave Chael | 10 a.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

Lee mcBee tribute show with mike morgan & the Confessors | 6 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205

shiner soundtrack series: The Virgin Suicides | 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

roger Clyne and the Peachmakers with miles nielsen & the rusted Hearts | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

the skull | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway us Lights, talking Animals, snow Boots | Jackpot

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American Pinup | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Amfms, HmPH, sinple, dsoedean | 8 p.m. The

E. 85th St.

Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Patio grand opening with ganz, sigrah, nmezee, Leonard destroy, Azoic realm |

Jody Wisternoff, sheppa, Bill Pile | 9 p.m. The

dark time sunshine, goldini Bagwell, rafael Vigilantics, simple steve | 10 p.m. RecordBar,

7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

the stargazer Lilies, Cs Luxem | 10 p.m. Replay

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

1020 Westport Rd.

Tuesday | 3.24 |

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

earl sweatshirt, Vince staples, remy Banks | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Performing Arts

Performing Arts

Kansas City Ballet: Giselle | 2 p.m. Kauffman Center

for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcballet.org Comedy

Comedy’s Best Kept secret tour | 8 p.m. Kick

them Pickless fools, dr. Cotton | 5 p.m. Replay

Bernadette Peters | 7:30 p.m. Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr., Lawrence, lied.ku.edu

Charlie Wilson | 7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

susan and William goldenberg, violin and piano | 7 p.m. KCK Public Library, 625 Minnesota Ave.

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Monday | 3.23 |

Corey Holcomb | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

301 W. 13th St.

John, presented by national theatre Live and dV8 Physical theatre | 7 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050

Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

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the greater Kansas City Home show | 10 a.m.-

6 p.m. Bartle Hall, 301 W. 13th St., kchba.org musiC

nAiA division i men’s Basketball national Championship | 7 p.m. Municipal Auditorium, 301

Blue monday Jam with Ken Lovern & oJt with molly Hammer | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

W. 13th St.

musiC

nAiA div. i Women’s Basketball tournament | Bayside, senses fail, man overboard, seaway | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Paper Buffalo, night school, dott | 10 p.m. Replay

12th Street Jump celebrating the music of Hugh masekela with Hermon mehari | 7 p.m. Broadway

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nAiA div. i Women’s Basketball tournament |

6 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

4048 Broadway

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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nAiA division i men’s Basketball national Championship | 6 & 8 p.m. Municipal Auditorium,

nadus, sigrah, nmezee, dJ B-stee, traxxx romay vs. natalie Hands | 9 p.m. The Riot Room,

outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders | 7 p.m.

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Herbalize | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main

6:30 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight guy in my 30s dating a woman in her mid-20s. We’ve been together for a year, and I’m crazy about her. In love, even. She’s gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving and very sexual.

She’s perfect. In her late teens and early 20s, she had a wild sex life. She attended sex parties, had loads of NSA hookups, sexted with random guys she met online, etc. She revealed this to me slowly and carefully out of fear that I’d look down on her, but what she didn’t know is that I have an intense cuckold interest. I’ve asked her, ad nauseam, for every detail she can recall about these encounters. The ones centering on “alpha jocks” with extremely large cocks are the ones I enjoy most. I have intense fantasies of some alpha male taking her away from me, or my catching her with a hot young soccer player or a good-looking musician — any guy at the top of the social pile.

The idea of watching her have sex with one of them is exhilarating. But it’s also gut-wrenching.

I haven’t told her how much I would like her to go through with an actual hookup. I’m certain this would not be well-received; she’s made it clear that she’s not proud of her past. My interest in cuckolding does not come from a healthy place.

The first girl I was in love with had sex with another guy while talking to me on the phone. She went into detail about how huge his penis was, how good it felt, and so forth, while I shook with envy and misery and excitement. It was a terrible, traumatizing experience, but now it rules my sexual fantasies.

Dear HURTME: Your girlfriend can’t put this period of her life behind her while she’s with a man who demands to have every last detail recounted.

Checking in with her about how she’s feeling will give you a better idea of how receptive she would be to cuckolding you. If sharing stories about her past makes her feel sexy (because the encounters were hot) and makes them meaningful (because the stories enhance your sexual connection), then your girlfriend might be open to the idea. Or she might not.

There’s only one way to find out if you would enjoy being cuckolded and that’s to do it. But there are questions that you first need to ask yourself: Have you built a firewall between your sense of your own sexual desirability and your kink, a kink that’s about your eroticized fear of sexual inadequacy and not your actual sexual inadequacy? Are you sure you won’t wind up in the fetal position on the floor? And if being cuckolded in reality is painful, not sexy, can you process your feelings without lashing out at or slut-shaming your girlfriend?

A few sessions with a kink-positive shrink might help you answer those questions. You can find one through the American Associa-

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Dear Dan: Can a girl love a man but also want an open relationship? Or does wanting an open relationship mean that the girl doesn’t love her man? (I’m the girl in this situation.)

Perplexed Over Lusty Yearnings Dear POLY: Wanting to fuck other men isn’t proof that a girl (or a boy or a SOPATGS*) doesn’t love her man. When two people make a monogamous commitment, they’re promising not to fuck other people. If you can’t see yourself sleeping with just one man for the rest of your life — or being in a relationship with just one man at a time — then a monogamous commitment isn’t for you. And if the man you’re with wants a monogamous commitment — if being with him means that you can’t sleep with other men — then he might not be for you, either. * Some other point along the gender spectrum Dear Dan: I’m a gay man married to a wonderful man. For most of our 12-year relationship, we’ve had a boring sexual script that is all about him getting blown. He just doesn’t seem interested in much else, and although we’ve talked about it over the years, nothing has really changed. He’s selfish in bed. He’s a wonderful husband otherwise, and I love him deeply. Recently, he was out of town, and I ended up meeting an experienced spanking Dom. We’ve met several times, and I’m counting the days until he whales on my butt again. Not in my wildest imagination could or would my husband ever do something like this with me. I’m more sexually fulfilled than I have been in a decade. I’m also lying and cheating. I’m deeply torn. If I tell my husband, my guess is that he won’t take it well. It could cause our marriage to unravel. If I keep lying, I bear the moral burden of the lie, and he could find out anyway.

Still Professing a Normal Kink Dear SPANK: We all have sexual limits, and we’re all entitled to our sexual limits, but expecting your spouse to do nothing but blow you for 12 years isn’t a limit. It’s bullshit. Your husband’s complete disregard for your feelings — your sense of sexual fulfillment — tips over into the sexual-abandonment category. His actions don’t excuse your affair, but horniness, frustration and duress drove you to this, and your husband has to take his share of the responsibility. You say your marriage might unravel if you were to tell him. Whatever fallout there might be — the end of your marriage or renegotiated terms — is better than the status quo. Tell him.

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