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A brown-haired man in a black Boulevard Brewing Co. fleece jacket, Witte turns right when the tunnel reaches a fork. (Left would take him to Arrowhead Stadium, according to a pair of arrows painted on the white concrete-block wall.) Boulevard’s field quality manager passes pallets of buns and sodas on his way to the three rooms beneath the stadium for vendors. He’s here to train six people on how to fill and use the new Boulevard beer backpacks debuting today. The gear is part of a recently announced partnership between the hometown brewery and the Royals that also includes two Boulevardbranded grills and a pub behind home plate.

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This backpack has been field-tested — it’s been borrowed for employee camping trips, the occasional barbecue, and Sporting KC’s games since St. Patrick’s Day. (A pair of backpacks are at Livestrong Sporting Park all season.) Witte even dropped a few hints on Twitter about the idea, to test the public’s reaction.

“Guys wrote back saying, ‘Man, I wish I could have that when I’m mowing the lawn,’ ” Witte says. “I’m thinking, It’s hard enough to mow my lawn without 50 pounds on my back.”

But if it’s a bit heavy for leisure use, it’s in line with what vendors typically must heft during a game. “It’s not any heavier than a backpack on a backpacking trip,” Witte says. “And it’s just going to get lighter.”

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The backpack was, in fact, designed to dispense hot chocolate. Witte modified an existing product to account for warmer temperatures and to keep the beer flowing consistently. Among the retrofits, Witte has added an insulated line and a regulator to control carbon-dioxide pressure. Cold beer means less foam. When the vendors handle money, they can place the dispensing faucet on a small hook by their belts. A cupholder is snapped to the side of the backpack.

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“I’ve worked in a lot of bars and drank a lot of beer. I can handle this,” says Jason Cherry, a vendor for the past 11 years at Kauffman.

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“Good beer should have a little bit of head,” Kimsey reminds his staff. “Now, put on your proton packs and head out there.”

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us is trying to lose weight. He’s getting married in the fall. Still, he can’t resist when a coffee-shop barista offers him a bag of chips with his sandwich.

Some things — chips, beer — he just can’t live without.

Only 5 feet 3, Gus has a slim face with a neatly trimmed goatee. A baggy John Deere sweatshirt and jeans hide his body. Soon, he’ll leave for his afternoon shift at a machine shop, where he’ll spend the next 10 hours working alongside a bickering crew of men, welding and lifting thousands of pounds of machine parts. The only real difference between Gus and his co-workers: 32 years ago, he was born a woman. continued on page 8

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“The fact that people would be willing to live openly in the face of all kinds of denigration tells me how compelling this urge to live out their true gender really is.”

Gus is just one of the men, women and children living under the transgender umbrella in Kansas City. It’s a community that, because of its complexity, has yet to be quantified.

“The reality is, there is no way for us to count,” says Caroline Gibbs, co-founder of the Transgender Institute.

“There are people who haven’t come out and those under the radar. There’s no way we can know exactly how many trans people are out there.”

So far, the transgender community has been defined by outsiders. Cross-dressers, people who wear the clothing of another gender, are often confused with transsexuals, people who identify as a gender other than the one they were born. It’s a community that has been lumped in with lesbians, bisexuals and gays, which is an uneasy association because gender orientation is not analogous to sexual orientation.

Still, a nascent push from transgender advocates for equal treatment under the law (in 2008, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council added gender identity to its anti-discrimination ordinance), and the movement echoes the early struggles of the gay community for awareness and protection.

“This is the Bible Belt,” says Gibbs, a licensed gender counselor. “It’s not going to be like New York City, Boston or San Francisco. But I do believe that we’re really coming along in Kansas City.”

Gender has always been defined as binary — either male or female. But in workplaces, and lining church pews and bar stools across the city, trans men and women are challenging the notion that gender is fixed. And the change is happening as early as preschool.

Gibbs holds three weekly support groups, one of which is exclusively for children (the group has seven children under the age of 12), who attend the sessions with their parents and try to understand their gender identity. Gibbs’ youngest patient is 4 years old.

Gibbs says this goes much deeper than boys dressing as princesses or girls joining wrestling teams. These are children who persistently express their belief that they’re another gender. For some, she recommends that they consult a local pediatric endocrinologist to discuss taking Lupron, a synthetic hormone that blocks the onset of puberty.

“Someone doesn’t have to shoot up to be 6-foot-4 if they identify as a girl,” Gibbs says. “The family has breathing space, and a child can decide with their family if this is the right move going forward.”

Most of Gibbs’ adult clients didn’t have the luxury of therapy while growing up. She guides them through their

transition by coaching them on how to talk, stand, gesture and dress — visual triggers to help them pass as their preferred gender in the world.

“Trans people have to live with being objectified a lot,” Gibbs says. “It’s an ugly place to be, and nobody wants to live in that place. The fact that people would be willing to live openly in the face of all kinds of denigration tells me how compelling this urge to live out their true gender really is.”

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us’ father didn’t believe that he could have children.

He was content to raise his wife’s three girls from a previous marriage. But at the age of 45, Gus’ father received startling news: His wife was pregnant. It was a girl. They would name her Tina.

The world saw Tina, but Tina saw Gus. When Gus’ mother scolded him for not sitting “ladylike,” he wondered what that meant. He used a boy’s name to join his cousin’s flag football team because girls weren’t allowed to play.

“I remember watching Pinocchio and seeing the part about starlight, star bright, first star I see tonight,” Gus says.

“After that, I started wishing that God would fix me.”

But Gus didn’t become a real boy overnight. When he went to college, he was labeled a butch lesbian. It was easy to meet girls, but the joy of being able to publicly date — Gus’ two high school girlfriends were secret trysts — was overshadowed by the feeling that this wasn’t his true identity.

“I still had breasts, and I didn’t want them to be acknowledged,” Gus says. “They [other women] wanted to touch parts of my body that I hated, and then I wasn’t interested anymore because that desire made me confront the fact that they saw me as a woman. I knew they weren’t attracted to me.”

When Gus came out to his parents as a lesbian, their relationship was rocked. His parents refused to accept his admission. Gus couldn’t accept it himself.

Less than a year later, Gus dropped out of college to pursue a new dream: transitioning from female to male. It was 1998. Then 19, Gus moved to Kansas City and found support at the Kansas City Passages LGBT youth center, though not much of it elsewhere. Gus’ first doctor refused to provide any advice or resources when he asked about gender-reassignment surgery.

Gus met two older trans men (biological women who transitioned to men) through acquaintances, and they told him that this was a journey that he’d have to figure out for himself.

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“My life went on hold,” Gus says. “I just wanted to survive day to day until I could transition.”

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us had to figure out by himself how to transition. Fourteen years later, the generation that refused to help Gus is supporting young trans men and women through their identity changes.

Sandra Meade, a member of the Kansas Equality Coalition’s board of directors, has resigned herself to the idea that she may never have a long-term romantic relationship (a reality not helped by her policy of disclosing to potential partners that she’s a transsexual). But the 50-year-old says this doesn’t have to be the case for the students and activists she meets across the state of Kansas through her presentations for the Transgender Education Project.

“People are transitioning younger,” Meade says. “They can have a full life and relationships. They don’t necessarily have to live with the shame that I did.”

Through her work with the Kansas Equality Coalition, Meade lobbies to get gender identity added to antidiscrimination statutes in municipalities throughout Kansas — like Missouri, Kansas is not among the 16 states that have made that decision — although former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius signed an executive order in 2007 protecting state employees from discrimination based on gender identity.

“The concept of a gender binary is simply fl awed,” Meade says. “It’s a throwback. We need to come to the realization that is what is wrong. It’s not that somebody like me is disordered. I function quite fine. What’s disordered is society’s expectations around the gender binary, the lack of acceptance that says it’s OK for children to be bullied in schools.”

A 2011 study by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force found that 90 percent of the 6,450 people surveyed nationwide had experienced “harassment, mistreatment or discrimination on the job.”

Chapters of the Kansas Equality Coalition in Wichita, Salina, Hutchinson and Pittsburg are pushing their city governments to pass inclusive anti-discrimination policies. The Lawrence City Council voted 4-1 in favor of such a policy last September. Kansas City and Jackson County have enacted legislation to protect transgender people from discrimination in housing and the workplace, but Meade worries that a $500 fine for violating the ordinance is not a real deterrent.

“We don’t have a public-relations problem,” Meade says.

“We have a politics problem.”

Change may be slow in state government, but there has been a seismic shift occurring in churches across the nation.

The United Church of Christ, a Protestant denomination with 1.2 million members, passed a resolution in 2003 recognizing transgender ministers.

Donna Ross, 58, wasn’t thinking about preaching when she joined Country Club Congregational United Church of Christ in Brookside. She was turning back to the faith that she had lost while struggling to live as a man for the first 50 years of her life.

“Once I embraced who I was, I needed to address the spiritual side of me,” Ross says. “Maybe now that I feel whole and authentic, I believe I’m worthy of salvation.”

A sportscaster for more than three decades, Ross had unintentionally been cultivating a voice for delivering sermons from a pulpit. She believes that the ministry was a calling for her, and the United Church of Christ’s openness allows her to use her gift of speech. Yet Ross, a recent graduate of the Missouri School of Religion in Jefferson City, was nervous about how her classmates might view her.

“I know it was an eye-opener for them,” Ross says. “But it was for me, too … to find acceptance from people that grew up in small towns and rural areas from around Missouri.”

One day, Ross hopes to lead a congregation of her own.

Until then, she fills in at local churches. For Ross, this is a chance to spread the Gospel and rectify what she sees as some Christians’ misguided views of the transgender community.

“The Bible does not say God made man, God made woman, and you should not change from one to the other,” Ross says.

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“This is how I finance my personal journey,” Nikkie says.

“It’s just a steppingstone. Work is the automobile to get me to my destination.”

Nikkie is a linchpin in the Kansas City male-to-female transitioning population. She hosts a support group to address issues such as putting on makeup, shopping, and the actions or gestures that most girls learn in adolescence.

Her hope is to help these trans women build the confidence to attend Girlz Night Out, a weekly social gathering held at downtown bars for the past continued on page 10

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“We’re trying to make the ‘t’ not so silent in Kansas City,” Nikkie says. “It takes everything in the world to make the walk from your car to the front door. You have to have the courage to get dressed, drive somewhere and go out.”

Sandra Meade and Gus have managed to define themselves in a world where definitions are not provided. Reshaping identity, they know, is perilous and often confusing. What they’re doing exposes them to the possibility of discrimination and violence — a tension that may never go away.

The National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs, a collection of 39 agencies that includes the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project, found that transgender people were twice as likely to experience assault or discrimination as non-transgender white individuals. The 2010 study showed that 12 of the 27 homicide victims targeted for being gay or trans were transgender women. Five of the victims were involved in prostitution.

“Trans folks are generally targeted because of their identity or expression,” says Beth Savitzky, Kansas City Anti-Violence Project executive director. “And we’re starting to recognize that transgender people are victimized at a much higher rate than the lesbian, gay and bisexual community.”

A dead sex worker generates sensational headlines. It’s Dee Dee Pearson’s story. The 31-year-old trans woman was killed last Christmas Eve. Kenyan Jones is charged with second-degree murder for, police say, shooting Pearson at 43rd Street and Harrison. Court records say Jones was angry after discovering that Pearson was biologically male, born Darnell Pearson; Jones told detectives that he believed he was paying for sex with a biological woman.

“There’s a risk of violence for both transgender women and men,” Gus says. “With women like Dee Dee, it’s usually because someone feels tricked, or they’re freaked out because of an attraction.”

KCTV Channel 5 called Pearson’s killing a “shooting under salacious circumstances.” The trans community was outraged that newspaper accounts and the police report used Pearson’s legal name rather than what they say was her true identity.

“How do you define a woman?” Meade asks.

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“I feel like who I am as a man is how people respond to me as a man,” Gus says. “I just have to be there for my friends and family. It’s that simple.”

In 2004, after close to three years of hormone treatments and a half-dozen therapists, Gus was ready for the next step. His parents, who had adjusted to his new gender expression, agreed to help him financially with his transition. Gus traveled to Texas with a girlfriend, his mother and his sister to undergo a mastectomy and a hysterectomy.

“My mother every now and then will talk about her daughter that died,” Gus says. “I think it’s just easier for her to see us as two separate people.”

Nearly a decade after the surgery that matched biology with his identity, Gus is happy with his routine life. He lives in the home that belonged to his father, he holds a steady job and he runs a support group for trans men.

“I don’t wear a T-shirt that says ‘transsexual’ on it, and I don’t put myself in a position to be asked questions by strangers,” Gus says.

“I don’t have this strong urge to be open to the public, but I do have this urge to be approachable to other guys like me.”

Relationships have always been tricky for Gus. He has struggled to understand the source of a woman’s attraction. He also has had trouble explaining his journey. Gus’ feelings about the role of fatherhood, however, have never wavered. He adopted an ex-girlfriend’s son and has considered asking his fiancée to sign a prenuptial agreement that would grant him sole custody of any children that might result from their marriage.

“I can’t have biological children,” Gus says, “but I’m aware of the permanence of making a commitment to a child.”

His own father’s beliefs continue to shape Gus. For him, the value in living as a man comes from the virtues of his father’s generation: chivalry, courtesy and stoicism.

“On his deathbed, my dad told me I was a good man,” Gus says.

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LADY LIBERAL Best known as the left-leaning host of her show on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow isn’t your average talking head, being the first openly gay Rhodes scholar (she earned her doctorate from Oxford) and also a classic-cocktailloving mixologist. And she’s an author. Her first book, Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power — wittily written in Maddow’s colloquial style — discusses how deeply militarized the United States has become, but it’s not a work of dry scholarship (she uses the word “whoopsie” in reference to lost nuclear arms). Maddow comes to the Uptown Theater at 2 p.m. (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665) to discuss Drift with Rainy Day Books founder Vivien Jennings. Tickets cost $35 and include an autographed hardcover copy of the book.

Call 816-753-8665 or see rainydaybooks.com.

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The 60th annual Clothesline Sale is free from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday and from 9 a.m. to sellout (around 2 p.m.)

Saturday. For more information, see pembrokehill.org.

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A trip to Leawood’s One Nineteen shopping center for drinks requires a little extra work (in other words, do what it takes to ensure that you don’t look like a hot fuckin’ mess).

That’s not so hard at Fo Thai (4331 West 119th Street, Leawood, 913-322-3636), where the space is so visually stimulating, no one notices that your boots are navy and not black. Water trickles down stones, bamboo stands tall and green under spotlights, and an immense stone Buddha surveys the whole scene. And if you’re tired from all that JoCo frontin’, Fo Thai has your drink. The Breakfast of Champions martini is so simple, we can’t believe we didn’t come up with it ourselves: Three Olives Loopy vodka, half and half, grenadine and a sprinkle of Fruit Loops on top. (Tip: Use your bar napkin, not the back of your hand, to wipe that

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F R I D AY | 4 . 2 0 | SUPER SEEDS

Urban-farming guru Brooke Salvaggio says the seedlings available at BadSeed’s transplant sale have “more integrity and superior flavor” compared with run-of-themill crops. Local farmers sell their organically grown heirloom tomatoes, eggplants, peppers and more ($2.50-$4 per plant) from 4 to 9 p.m. today at BadSeed (1909 McGee, 816-472-0027). See badseedkc.com for details.

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Brawls break out when women lace up their roller skates and hit the floor, and those melees sometimes leave the rink.

But the Kansas City Banked Beauties strive “to avoid drama and gossip in order to maintain professionalism, sportsmanlike conduct and a sense of family,” says Betsy Scalici, aka Tootsie Roller. The new league brings the only banked track (read: slanted downward from the outer track toward the center) to the local roller-derby scene. The league debuts at 6 p.m. at the KC Sports Lodge (19310 East 50th Terrace, Independence, 816-795-7171), when the Banked Beauties take on the Oklahoma City Outlaws.

Tickets cost $15 for adults and $7 for kids; buy in advance at brownpapertickets.com/ event/234071. See kcbankedbeauties.com for more information.

— NANCY HULL RIGDON

S U N D AY | 4 . 2 2 | BEER GARDEN PARTY

Spring brings back green leafy things and the buzz of bar patios. According to experts — us — one of the all-time finest patios is

the Replay Lounge Beer Garden (946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676), established long before smoking bans inspired other bars to create outdoor spaces. Two to three times a month, the Beer Garden features a 6-9 p.m.matinee show with local rootsy acts. Today it’s the high-energy bluegrass of Truckstop Honeymoon alongside the folk reflections of gravel-throated busker Tyler Gregory. Caterer Jason Coen runs the grill, should you feel peckish. The cover charge is $3, as are Boulevard pints.

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SOUPED-UP SUNDAY

Celebrating what’s known as Kustom Kulture, the hot-rod-crazy, rockabillyloving Gear Grinder event, is already huge after just two previous annual parties. “This is a much bigger group of people than most E R MO people realize,” Cilla Holopter says of the GG demographic. “We’re T A E IN reminiscent of days ONL .COM PITCH gone by from the 1950s — much simpler times.”

Today’s luau-themed installment kicks off at noon with a hot-rod and classic-car cruise (revving at Blue Star Motorcycle Co., 5508 Troost, 816-216-7673), followed by a car show and party at 4 p.m. at Knuckleheads Saloon

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With a mission of connecting women and women’s causes through film, Lunafest showcases the work of female directors — this year’s thought-provoking topics include obstetric fistulas, women’s rugby and the world of an aging nude model. And the fest can be a venue, as well, for raising money for local nonprofits. The program makes its local stop from 4 to 6 p.m. at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972), in support of GaDuGi SafeCenter, the Lawrence crisis center serving victims of sexual violence.

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Drink from 1 to 5 p.m. Pets are welcome. See parkvillemo.org for more information.

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Eliezer (Shlomo Bar-Aba) has been passed over for an Israeli academic prize 16 times; he’s like the Randy Newman of this particular honor. Then he gets a call telling him that he’s this year’s award recipient. Unfortunately, it soon comes to light that the committee has made an embarrassing mistake. The prize is supposed to go to his son, Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi).

This sets the stage for Footnote’s or small-minded comedy of academic errors. It’s the kind of bratty melodrama whose pretense of maturity is destroyed by its gleefully zany, Looney Tunesstyle score and Cedar’s serial abuse of close-ups.

Eliezer is the kind of character prone to saying, “That’s a good idea … a very good idea … but it’s wrong.” Uriel prefers: “There are a lot of true things in your work and a lot of new things. The problem is that the new things are not true, and the true things are not new.” Cedar gives both men human characteristics, but he paints even those in churlishly broad strokes. There’s nothing particularly intelligent or funny about watching Cedar first take potshots at his flawed characters, then insist that they’re actually sympathetic and go right back to mocking them for being incapable of overcom— S IMON A BRAMS ing their own shortcomings.

continued from page 14 Lunafest promotes healthy lifestyles, outreach, empowerment and community change,” says the center’s Ashley Arenholz, who is organizing the event. Tickets are available at the door and cost from $7 to $10.

See lunafest.org/Lawrence or call 785-843-8985 for more information.

— NANCY HULL RIGDON

M O N D AY | 4 . 2 3 | BEYOND THE INSTAGRAM

National Geographic natural-history photographer Mattias Klum has been all over, documenting the rainforests of Borneo, the last

Mattias Klum gets out more than you do.

Shlomo Bar-Aba, as Eliezer, trashes the competition.

lions in Asia and, most recently, the destruction of biodiversity in parts around the world.

See some of his work and hear him speak at 7:30 p.m. in Helzberg Hall at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (1601 Broadway, 816-994-7200). Tickets cost $18-$40; see kauffmancenter.org.

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T U E S D AY | 4 . 2 4 | PARKING LOT HEROES

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Not so much in the stoner aspect but more in the way that their fans are very communityand grassroots-driven,” says guitarist Bonesaw. The band filmed its audience-building experiment, making the documentary Takeover! It screens at 7:30 p.m. tonight only at the Glenwood Arts (9575 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-642-4404). Tickets cost $8.50 and include an acoustic performance by Full Service and a Q&A with the band. Watch the trailer at takeoverthemovie.com.

— APRIL FLEMING

W E D N E S D AY | 4 . 2 5 | STAR SEARCH

Mike Borgia has switched the format of Indie Hit Makers, his weekly slot at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-221-2244). “It’s changed from a three-band bill to an open songwriters forum, with two artists onstage at the same time, trading off songs, followed by audience feedback,” Borgia says. After a short music-biz Q&A, the night rounds out with a “polished, featured act,” he explains. This week, it’s sultry, Nashville-based Kristen Cothron. “To me, whatever comes from a real and genuine place speaks most to me as a songwriter and a singer,” Cothron says.

The music plays from 6 to 9:30 p.m. See hitmakersmusic.com for details.

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James (David Fritts) unpacks bags and ngelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are engaged — it’s official! The news broke last weekend, cleans out six-week-old food from the refrigerand the media half-life of the nonstory prom- ator. He was with Sarah in Iraq but left before ises to be long. All right, we care. But are we the explosion. The interpreter standing next as interested in Jolie’s film about Bosnia, In to her — who taught himself English by readthe Land of Blood and Honey? Yeah, I haven’t ing A Farewell to Arms — was killed. James has survivor’s guilt but also wants change. He seen it, either.

That pull of frivolous, good-news report- longs for a more normal life, away from mortal ing versus in-your-face real-world travails danger and gruesome scenes.

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Their friend Richard (Mark Robbins), confriend, James, a journalist.

Sarah has fame, and not just for her moving cerned for Sarah, visits with his girlfriend of and dramatic photos. She has barely survived three months, Mandy (Ashlee LaPine), an a roadside bomb — the explosion hurled her event planner who’s young enough to be his daughter. She brings balloons 40 feet — and has returned — “Flowers die,” she says. He home, with the help of James, Time Stands Still defends the relationship to his to recuperate in their BrookThrough April 29 at the old friends. She makes him lyn apartment. Carla Noack Unicorn Theatre, 3828 happy, he says. She’s “fun” radiates exhaustion as she Main, 816-531-7529, and “light.” hobbles through the door on unicorntheatre.org Richard is a photo editor crutches — it’s immediately at a magazine where James’ clear that her journey has been too much. I felt her fatigue as she slowly article about refugees has languished for made her way to the sofa. When she gulped months. Richard says he’s pleading the story’s a glass of ice-cold water, my own throat felt case with a staff unable (unwilling?) to find pages for it amid fashion and celebrity news.

Iraq-desert parched.

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That dilemma is at the center of the play.

Under the expert and tight direction of Sidonie Garrett, these four very talented actors explore the nuances of Margulies’ probing, wellwritten drama.

What price do journalists pay to do what they do? What do they give up? They witness the troubled spots around the world, often risking their lives. Mandy admits that she doesn’t understand. At one point, distraught, she recalls a TV program in which a baby elephant is lost and separated from its mother. The film crew was right there, she cries — they could have saved him. It’s a moving query, neither naïve nor unfair. But their place, Richard explains, is to record, not to intervene.

Despite memories that haunt her — particularly a market bombing, in which a badly injured woman desperately searched for her child in the rubble and pleaded with Sarah not to take photos — Sarah is still drawn to that life. “My job is to take pictures,” she says, “to show the world.”

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mber Hansen can tell you about the drawbacks of telling people about artwork before it’s done. Talk was always part of the plan for the Lawrence artist’s most recent undertaking, The Story of Chickens: A Revolution. But her work sparked an outcry before it took physical form.

Hansen drew national attention in February, shortly after the Story of Chickens proposal was made public. At the center of her piece: a mobile BY coop in which five chickens would be transported to loTHERESA cations around Lawrence, so B EMB NIST E R that viewers could develop a Among the more eye-catching pieces is relationship with the birds.

The catch: After a monthlong display of this Laura Ramberg’s “Thinking About My Food urban-farm-cum-sculpture, the artist would Choices,” a ceramic bust in which a chicken sits issue an open invitation to a public butchering, squarely on the person’s head. (The simple title followed by a dinner at which the five chickens sums up Hansen’s point as much as it speaks for Ramberg.) Andrew Neher’s heartfelt “My would be the main course.

The city of Lawrence intervened before dad helped me build the coop,” a hand-drawn Hansen populated her coop, citing city ordi- comic detailing the artist’s misadventures raisnances restricting animal husbandry on pub- ing chickens in Chicago, also stands out.

Hansen’s original plan to display caged anilic property inside city limits (as well as laws mals in public smacks of spectacle, but talking against animal cruelty).

Hansen complied. Instead, she let the empti- with her has convinced me that Story of Chickens ness of the coop make her statement, represent- is an accidental spectacle. She seems caught ing the absence of farm animals in the urban off-guard that something so personal to her, to anyone — food choice — has generated so much environment — where most are consumed.

“The artist did not design the project with political electricity. But not everyone is eager to the intent to defy city ordinance,” reads a Feb- trace his or her food all the way back to its livruary 28 post on the Rocket Blog, a site detail- ing source. If it was predictable that an online ing projects awarded Rocket Grants. (Hansen’s debate would ultimately create more buzz than project had received $4,000 from the program, the actual exhibition, it’s no less unfortunate.

Still, does incorporating 205 Facebook posts which is funded by the Andy Warhol Foundaadvance the conversation — tion for the Visual Arts and or the art? On a recent Satadministered locally by the The Story of Chickens: urday at the Percolator, I ask Charlotte Street Foundation A Revolution Hansen why she decided to and the Spencer Museum of Noon to 6 p.m. Saturday display the Facebook comArt.) “Rather, the interpreand Sunday through ments alongside the artwork. tation of local ordinances April 22 at the Percolator, “They are really little esregarding the care and conbehind 913 Rhode Island, in Lawrence says,” she says. “People spent sumption of chickens has a lot of time and put in a lot unexpectedly become part of effort.” The Facebookers, of the discussion.”

Dozens of comments on the Rocket Blog naturally, agree about their own thoughtfulness. debated Story of Chickens’ moral and artistic Among the comments on display are remarks merits, but a more heated discussion was tak- about how numerous the remarks have been — ing shape on the Spencer Museum’s Facebook about Hansen’s work having started a discussion.

Well, not really. What Hansen started wasn’t page. Printouts of these posts are now part of her Story of Chickens exhibition (through April a conversation, a challenging and idea-rich back22) at the Lawrence Percolator. Hansen had and-forth. It was, as the reproductions at the also made an open call for contributions to Percolator demonstrate, a shouting match.

Artists cried fowl, speaking out against what the show, and several works here tell stories of artists’ interactions with chickens or advocate they perceived were personal attacks against for more compassionate poultry farming or Hansen or an attempt at censorship. Those lobby for vegetarianism. Also on display are concerned with the well-being of the chickens short stories, poems, videos and interviews questioned the project’s legitimacy as artwork.

The word dialogue didn’t really come up. The with farm-knowledgeable local residents.

No chickens were harmed or exploited in the taking of this photo.

words pretentious, psychologically disturbed and castigation did.

Those who stopped typing invective long enough to read Hansen’s artist statement and project description on the Rocket Blog may have picked up on her earnest desire to promote the humane treatment of animals. She grew up on a farm in Iowa where her family raised animals for their own consumption. She eats meat less often now — because, she says, it’s hard to know that the animals were treated respectfully.

On the afternoon I visited, the coop was sitting outside the Percolator, but Hansen has taken it to public places, as planned. The exhibition also includes photographs of the empty coop in different locations around the city, taken by Hansen and Nicholas Ward.

Hansen has invited guest speakers to address a 5 p.m. reception at Percolator at her exhibition’s closing-night event Saturday, April 21.

Speaking are representatives from the groups Animal Outreach of Kansas and Compassion for All Animals as well as University of Kansas professors Elizabeth Schultz and Donald Stull. A chickenless dinner follows. (Well, it’s a potluck, so some wag will probably bring chicken.)

“The meal is a chance for people to sit across from each other and talk to each other face to face,” Hansen says. “There are so many different viewpoints about eating meat. It’s important to hear those perspectives.”

Her optimism might be earned after all. I left the gallery with my own position intact (full disclosure: I don’t eat meat), but Hansen’s earnest consideration of the way we treat and interact with animals has stayed with me. Even the most irate Web commenter willing to stop by the gallery or attend the dinner might just re-examine the questions that surround how we produce — and consume — our food.

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Most important, the counter service has been tacos, a hearty pozole, Cuban red beans and rice, abandoned. I’m long on the record as one who and coconut rice pudding.

Eight weeks ago, Robert Krause not only detests having to order at a counter before being changed the menu and the décor of the restau- seated, but I used to especially dread the experirant but also gave Esquina a total personality ence here. I found the staffers behind the Esquina overhaul. It’s no longer a taqueria where custom- counter a particularly smirky bunch. Consider ers order at a counter. A few people still wander my complaint now dropped. The svelte waitin, hoping to find a calabaza taco (a pumpkin- resses at the new, Mediterranean-style Esquina and-butternut-squash puree with grilled are attentive and patient (and lovely). The elegant zucchini and goat-cheese cream), but Krause has Amanda proved to be an articulate advocate for moved on to a new, more elaborate version of the every dish on the menu one recent evening. I don’t think she was right Spanish-inspired menu that about everything she recomhe introduced in February.

Esquina mended, but she was on the “I realized that this locaFried-eggplant fries ........$8 money for most of them. tion and this concept needed Artichoke fritas ...............$8 Krause’s April menu adds a different kind of menu and Vegetarian paella ........ $16 more dishes than have been a different kind of food serBeef tenderloin ............ $24 subtracted. Some heavier vice than we were offering,” Cinnamon panna cotta ...$7 Chocolate terrine ............$7 winter choices — a braisedhe told me. “I had envisioned pork-shoulder stew is one Esquina as a casual taqueria — are gone, as are the fried serving creative dishes, but oysters that I first tried in February. Compared our customers wanted something different.”

Krause even thought about tweaking the with the latter, I think I prefer this menu’s slenname of the venue (“I wanted to keep a Span- der spikes of battered, fried eggplant, arranged ish flair”) but ultimately balked. He has changed like thick pencils in a water glass and served with almost everything else, though. For one thing, a dollop of bittersweet-colored romesco sauce (a he has added sleek, comfortable booths that smooth paste of tomatoes, red peppers, onions, came from a failed restaurant in Kansas City, garlic, almonds and olive oil).

The same sauce comes with a trio of fried Kansas (the short-lived Hash House A Go Go in the Legends complex). The corner storefront artichokes, cleverly battered in a way that makes still lets in plenty of sun during the day, and the the tasty thistle look more like a snazzy little lighting at night is so soothing and romantic lamb chop than a vegetable. (There is a real lamb that Esquina may have the best-lighted dining starter, two-bite “lollies” of roasted lamb searoom in the metro: You look good under those soned with chiles, cumin, cinnamon and paprika. amber dome fixtures — and you can still see It takes brave unselfconsciousness or a strong inner child to order a dish so named; either way, what you’re eating.

Krause prefers the bare bulbs hanging in I don’t regret being unable to do it.)

I’ve eaten so many plates of rubbery marithe back of the room: 50-year-old, 1,000-watt

Saffron infuses a rich paella (left), but the chocolate terrine is richer still.

nated octopus that I’m usually wary of ordering it, but the version here sounded fascinating: Krause serves it barbecued. He tenderizes the flesh by poaching it in court bouillon before tossing it on the grill and slathering the pieces in a delicious sauce that’s sweet but vinegary.

The rubber factor is blessedly low, but the dish is nowhere near delectable enough to change my mind about octopus.

On the other hand, I don’t know that I could eat enough plates of Esquina’s beef tenderloin, one of Krause’s featured entrées. It’s roasted and grilled over hickory and oak and served dripping with a creamy horseradish aioli, atop a piping-hot mound of mashers made with a Spanish cow’s-milk cheese. Less satisfying is the chicken entrée — though maybe I’m just spoiled by the Sofia Vergara-sized birdbreasts served at Stroud’s. The roasted breast and thigh on this plate are moist but inadequately meaty.

They’re accessorized by a mound of chilled Tunisian potato salad, delicately seasoned with clove and nutmeg, that’s more memorable than the main course. “It plays off the tapenade we serve with it,” Krause told me later. It plays to win. The salty olive bits are accented by sweet green and purple grapes and a hint of saffron, a refreshing formula.

I’m a sucker for saffron, the world’s most costly spice (and a seasonal one — it’s the name for the vividly orange stigma of a springtime crocus), which adds luxurious notes to Krause’s paella. He whips it into a sassy, sunflower-yellow aioli for the two versions: one a steel pan loaded with prawns, shrimp, clams, mussels and chorizo; the other meatless. The former is visually impressive but, for all its oceanic ambition, lifeless. I needed an extra order of that aromatic aioli to find the flavor, even in the chorizo.

Its meatless twin, though, might be the best vegetarian paella I’ve ever tasted. The saffron

rice is thick with mushrooms, onions, peas, peppers and braised fennel. Vegetarians are generally well-served at Esquina. I love the potato-and-egg casserole — prepared with local mushrooms — that Krause calls simply a tortilla. And the kitchen crew can prepare the huevos rotas without the serrano ham.

The dessert selection is modest but inventive.

“People love the two textures of the cinnamon panna cotta,” server Amanda said. “It’s topped with an icy pear granita.” What came out of the kitchen was a wineglass filled with discreetly spiced eggless custard, blanketed with gratuitous shards of pear-flavored ice. I scooped the fancy snow-cone shavings out of the glass and onto a bread plate before giving up in frustration.

Too inventive.

Later this spring, Krause plans to add halfsized desserts to the menu, but I can’t imagine anything smaller than Esquina’s dense chocolate terrine, which isn’t much bigger than a dental-floss dispenser. It wins on taste, though — it’s a terrific finale, rich and fudgy and topped with a fluffy froth of Chantilly cream with a tiny silver pitcher of warm chocolate sauce on the side. It is but a hint of a dessert, and all the more distinct for it.

This second incarnation of Esquina is a vast improvement over its predecessor, and Krause is already thinking about the restaurant’s third act.

“Sometimes I don’t want to just make a menu change,” he told me. “Sometimes I just want to gut the place and start over.”

I’m certainly intrigued to see where Krause’s restlessness takes him — and his diners — next.

But let me enjoy Esquina for a little while, as it is right now.

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In the Groove GHOSTY RETURNS AS A THREE-PIECE WITH ITS BEST ALBUM YET.

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t’s Kansas City, and everybody plays in everybody else’s bands, but even by those standards, the members of Ghosty are remarkably promiscuous collaborators. This point is driven home when I meet with the band at the Brick, a venue chosen because drummer Bill Belzer is playing a show there later in the night with his other band, Lazy.

Ghosty frontman Andrew Connor — who is also a member of the ACBs, Mary Fortune, Power & BY Light, and a couple of other D AV I D projects I probably don’t even know about yet — gets H U D N A L L a shout-out from the stage during Lazy’s set. Bassist Mike Nolte, who used to run sound at the Brick, has recorded dozens of local bands at More Famouser, the studio he operates in Shawnee. Earlier in the day, he’d been going over some new Making Movies tracks, songs produced by Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin. “I’m pretty impressed with those guys,” Nolte tells me. “Their stuff keeps getting better.”

The same could be said for Ghosty, whose new self-titled full-length, out this week, is the finest rock record to come out of Kansas about Andrew’s songwriting that brings out City, and maybe the entire Midwest, this year. new sides in the people he plays with,” he says.

Soulful, complex, dirty and drenched in melody, “I weaseled my way in slowly. It reached a point Ghosty is a triumph on every count: as a record- where they would either have to let me play in ing, as a songwriting résumé, even as a piece of the band or file a restraining order against me.”

Connor, Belzer and Nolte (who has been a art. (The vinyl design, conceived by Continents’ member of Ghosty since about 2003) like the Jim Button, is minimal and striking.)

Connor has led Ghosty in various iterations, challenge of performing as a trio. “Everybody with up to seven members at a time, for over a really has to know their parts,” Connor says.

“You have to hold up your end. decade. For most of that time, I think that’s good for you, the band has hewed closely to Ghosty good for us, to have to fill in a lively, intricate pop sound LP release, with Fourth all that space with only three that I’ve always condensed to of July and Mary Fortune. people.”

“Pavement with a heart.” But Friday, April 20, You wouldn’t necessarily Ghosty is a different animal at the Replay Lounge. guess that Ghosty is the work entirely. This may in part be With Minden and the ACBs. of a trio — it’s rich and full and credited to it being the work Saturday, April 21, at RecordBar. artfully arranged — but the inof a three-piece, a lineup that strumentation has a rawness coalesced on Connor’s 30th suggesting that the primary birthday.

“There was a whole year — most of 2010 instruments were maximally utilized. Belzer’s — where there weren’t any Ghosty shows,” percussion has a precise, closed-in quality — Connor says. “Then we got Bill in, and our the sounds he gets from his kit on “You Saved first practice was January 7, 2011. I remember Me” are like drum porn. Nolte’s bass lines stab, I wanted to schedule it specifically for that day.” thump and motor along like a wild power tool.

Connor’s vocals, usually elegant, even get a little “Really?” Belzer asks. “That’s so sweet.”

A drummer in Kansas City bands, on and unhinged. She had this rabbit’s foot for sale/And I off, for about 20 years, Belzer had long been bought it/I always buy that shhhhhiitt, he snarls enamored of Ghosty. “I think there’s something on “You Shut Me Out.”

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“I wanted us to sound less like a stiff, white indie-rock band and more in the groove on this one,” Connor says. “Bill’s a real groovy drummer, which was a part of it. And I think the fact that we recorded on analog makes it sound really fat and huge, like an old soul record or something. I recently became obsessed with the new Dr. John album, which was recorded by the Black Keys’ Dan Auerbach, who’s a total analog purist. I just really respect the sensibility they’ve got going on, where it’s all about musicianship and these huge sounds on the record. It takes my breath away, it’s just such an amazing record.”

Nine of the 13 songs on Ghosty are analog recordings, which altered the studio process.

The band practiced and rehearsed the songs for months and then pounded them out at Westend Recording Studios in Kansas City, Kansas, over a weekend. “If the album has a consistent sound, it’s because we recorded the drums, bass and guitar together in the studio on the same day,” Nolte says.

“The last record I was involved with, there was too much Pro Tools editing involved, all this slicing and changing of arrangements,” Belzer says. “It’d been probably 15 years since I’d done a record on tape. So going through the process of having to get the rhythm tracks done, and done right, on the day we’re tracking rhythm, pitch.com

Ghosty inches ever closer to the bright lights.

was tough. I was all winded and feeling like an old fat bastard. I was trying to cut deals with Andrew and Mike so they’d let me leave and come back the next day. But they wouldn’t. They forced me to stay, and I just had to get through it.

And I think this album ended up being the most rewarding thing I’ve ever worked on because of that — because I know how hard I worked to get those sounds that ended up on the record.”

All three members have been playing in bands long enough to know that hard work and a killer record aren’t typically indicators of fame and fortune, or even critical acclaim from national outlets. They’re post-jaded, maybe even cautiously optimistic. You don’t press 500 vinyl copies of your album unless you think some people want to buy it.

“It’s true, Ghosty has yet to come up with a good publicity story,” Connor says. “What can you really say about us? We’re just three dudes.

There’s no hook. I’m just not good with that stuff. And I can’t control that stuff. So I just try to keep it all about making the music. The joy is in the playing, you know?”

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streetside Paint the Town LURKING AT THE NELSON’S LATEST OPENING; ON THE FRINGE AT ARTOPIA laces I don’t belong: zumba classes, welllighted bars, Bath & Body Works, church, Miami. Also: fancy opening-night parties at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. And yet, through some collision of unnameable, unknowable forces, there I was last Friday night, celebrating the debut of the Nelson-Atkins’ latest exhibit, Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fair, 1851–1939. Young profesBY sionals! Old white women!

D AV I D Actual caviar!

As a teenager, trespassH U D N A L L ing on the grounds at night, drinking Keystone Light cans, smoking pot from foil pipes, and being chased off by security guards, I perhaps did not fully appreciate the Nelson’s grandeur. On Friday, a perfect spring evening, I accidentally spilled some of my drink on the lush, green grass and felt guilty about it. Whoever is doing the landscaping over there has some tight game.

Perhaps you’ve driven down Emanuel Cleaver II Boulevard in recent weeks and observed a strange scaffolding structure sitting on the southern tip of the museum’s lawn?

That thing is called the Sun Pavilion. A tall, handsome man in an expensive-looking suit explained it to me. The pavilion houses three rooms, which are powered by the 150 or so solar panels atop it and surrounding it. In one of the rooms, there are these two handles connected to a computer. You grab the handles and spin them as fast as you can, and the computer tells you how much energy you’ve generated. Or something. All I know is, a boy tried it out, and the computer told him that he’d scored a 14.

“Why don’t you try it?” someone suggested.

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been a humiliation I was not equipped to bear.

And that kid had been really firing away at the thing. I approached the machine with great dread. This is it, I thought. This is the end of going out in public. This is the death blow.

But my concerns were for naught. I ratcheted that motherfucker up to 14 in a matter of seconds. (Subsequent anecdotal evidence seemed to reveal that 14 was the highest speed attainable at that time of day.) My manliness was temporarily affirmed.

The Nelson-Atkins also contains art, I think?

I know this because I was given a brief tour of the World’s Fair exhibit just as it was closing up for the night. There were a lot of bowls and vases and jewelry, about which I have nothing interesting to say; I am off the hook because we wrote about that stuff in last week’s issue. On the way out, I passed a tableful of little swag bags with bracelets from Helzberg Diamonds in them.

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aturday night at the Screenland Crossroads was a different, deranged species of art party. Every year, The Pitch awards grants to four local creative types and then celebrates with a bash called Artopia. The 2012 winners were Gregory Kolsto, of the coffee shop Oddly Correct; artists Judith G. Levy and Peter Warren; and the Owen/Cox Dance Group. This week’s cover boys, Ghosty, performed two sets outside in the tornado-watch weather.

The crowd was diverse — actually diverse.

Like, I don’t see a lot of Burning Man-style hulahooping in my weekend routine. It has definitely been awhile since I’ve seen a woman walking around with only a thin layer of paint between her nipples and the rest of the world. Lots of Fringe Fest representation. I’m into it. It’s easy

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to forget the number of interesting people in this city who don’t just hang around midtown.

The festivities included belly-dancing, a burlesque performance and a fashion show.

There were free cans of Red Bull everywhere, plus free Tallgrass beer. In one of the rooms — the Screenland is subtly huge — singersongwriter Clay Hughes played a set and was joined by rappers thePhantom* and Kyle James, son of Mayor Sly James. That dude is everywhere these days.

Outside in the parking lot, the DJ was mashing Biggie with Washed Out. The wind whipped a Boulevard Wheat bottle off a ledge and almost cracked my skull open. I was ready to ride the storm out, but, alas, it never really arrived.

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APRIL 18 JOHNNY WINTER APRIL 19 JJ GREY & MOFRO APRIL 20 DAVID ALLAN COE APRIL 21 BAND OF HEATHENS W/ ADAM HOOD APRIL 22 GEAR GRINDERS CAR SHOW, CRUISE AND MUSIC APRIL 23 JOHN EDDIE APRIL 25 OUTLAW JIM & TOMMY WORMACK APRIL 27 RAY WYLIE HUBBARD & HAYES CARLL MAY 4 & 5 MERLE JAM MAY 6 WALTER TROUT MAY 8 WISHBONE ASH MAY 12 DELBERT McCLINTON MAY 16 TAJ MAHAL & ANDERS OSBORNE MAY 25 SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE SKIDS JUNE 2 THE LOWRIDERS W/ JIMMY THACKERY

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In 2011, folk-pop legend Suzanne Vega wrote and starred in an off-Broadway play, Carson McCullers Talks About Love, and she collaborated on the play’s music with singersongwriter Duncan Sheik. Sheik is best-known for his mid-’90s triple-A hit “Barely Breathing,” but he also draws water on Broadway as a composer. The two, who apparently hit it off, appear side by side at JCCC. Sheik is promoting his most recent release, Covers 80s: Duncan Sheik, a folkie-oriented take on ’80s classics by such bands as the Smiths, the Cure and the Thompson Twins — it isn’t quite as cheesy as it sounds.

Saturday, April 21, at Yardley Hall at Johnson County Community College (12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, 913-469-4445)

Better Make Room, the latest from IndyGround Entertainment figurehead Steddy P, dropped April 17. It features guest spots from many of the usual local rap suspects — CES Cru, Soul Servers — along with a new approach: completely original beats, no samples involved. Joining Steddy and DJ Mahf on the tour in support is IndyGround engineer Matthew Sawicki, whose guitar playing ought to add a fresh element to the standard hip-hop MC stage show.

Friday, April 20, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Pontiak, with Expo 70 and Muscle Worship Be good to your ears and bring along the plugs for this triple bill. Pontiak, a brotherly threepiece from Virginia that’s signed to Thrill Jockey, sludges out ’70s stoner rock in the vein of Black Sabbath. Similarly thunderous but more thoughtful and restrained is Lawrence’s Muscle Worship. Expo ’70, a project from Kansas Citian Justin Wright, is more partial to noisy electronic drones but it, too, is quite loud.

Tuesday, April 24, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

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backing band. I like it my way better, but the act’s blossoming fanbase doesn’t seem to care one way or the other. Grey works Southern blues, roots rock and liberal jams into his sound and comes out the other side sounding like an amped-up Allman Brothers Band.

Grey hails from the South but has chosen Knuckleheads to celebrate the release of his first live DVD/CD, Brighter Days.

Thursday, April 19, at Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

Daniel Tosh Minden Saturday’s RecordBar show (see Music feature) doubles as a farewell for the breezy dance-pop act Minden, whose members are packing the car and relocating to Portland, Oregon. That’s a bummer — frontman Casey Burge has been steadily evolving into one of KC’s more polished songwriters — but we wish them luck in the Pacific Northwest and greedily await this stacked bill, which also includes Ghosty and the ACBs. Saturday, April 21, at RecordBar

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Daniel Tosh isn’t as obnoxious as Dane Cook but he has become nearly as famous by simply standing in front of a camera playing YouTube videos and then making mean jokes about the people in them. (I’ve noticed that many of the same people who were finding Cook funny back in 2005 are big-time fans of Tosh’s Talk Soup-like Comedy Central show, Tosh.0.)

Tosh’s jokes often are racist and misogynistic (Tosh is as white as a glass of milk), which goes over well with, you know, racist and misogynistic people. The whole thing kind of grosses me out, and I’m pretty sure it’s a net loss for society. But he’s occasionally funny without relying on latent racism, and boy, do the kids love this guy.

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Máirtín de Cógáin: 4 p.m. Indian Creek Community Church, 12480 S. Blackbob, Olathe, 913-829-0712.

JJ Grey & Mofro with Cas Haley: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Sabaton, Ancient Creation, Obliterate the Apex, Alsatia: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Slaughterhouse, Classified, Rudy Williams: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

FRIDAY, APRIL 20 Buckethead, That 1 Guy, Wolff & Tuba: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Cake: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Ghosty (LP release), Fourth of July, Mary Fortune: Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

I:Scintilla, the Gothsicles, Razorwire Halo, Revolta Morte: Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Steddy P & DJ Mahf with Matthew Sawicki, Royce Diamond, Farout & J Bomb, Brett Gretzky, Info Gates: 9 p.m., $7, $9. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Stoned Coe Picnic: David Allan Coe, Levee Town, Mary Bridget Davies: . Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

SATURDAY, APRIL 21 Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Ghosty, Minden, the ACBs: RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

DJ Mark Stylz, DJ Allen Michael: Mosaic Lounge, 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076.

The Sound of Breath with Alan Jabbour and Ken Perlman: 7:30 p.m. Rime Buddhist Center and Monastery, 700 W. Pennway, 816-356-9127.

Suzanne Vega, Duncan Sheik: 8 p.m., $35, $45.

Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500.

SUNDAY, APRIL 22 The Knux with James Christos and Brooks: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Ricky Nelson Remembered: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500.

Daniel Tosh: 7 & 9:30 p.m., $45, $75. Municipal Auditorium/Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St., 816-513-5000.

MONDAY, APRIL 23 Bastard Suns, 2Twenty2, the Faded Age, the Rackatees: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Pierced Arrows: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

TUESDAY, APRIL 24 All Shall Perish, Carnifex, Fleshgod Apocalypse, the Contortionist, Renouncer: 6 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Evanescence, Weaving the Fate: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Pontiak, Expo ’70, Muscle Worship: 9 p.m., $8, $10.

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Snow Patrol, Ed Sheeran: 7 p.m., sold out. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25 Arrah and the Ferns, Claque: 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

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Woods, MMOSS: 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

UPCOMING Aziz Ansari: Thu., May 10, 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Avicii: Thu., May 24. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816283-7300.

Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood: Sun., May 27. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Bible of the Devil: Wed., May 9, 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

The Bunny the Bear: Tue., May 8. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Buzz Beach Ball: Sat., June 2, 3:30 p.m. Livestrong Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, Kansas City, Kan., 913-912-7525.

Glen Campbell: Thu., April 26. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Jimmy Cliff: Friday, June 15. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

George Clinton & the P-Funk All-Stars: Friday, May 18. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Creed: Mon., May 21; Tue., May 22. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Daughtry, Safetysuit, Mike Sanchez: Fri., May 18. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Dirty Dozen Brass Band: Thursday, May 24. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Pat Green: Saturday, June 2. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Heartless Bastards: Tue., May 29. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. (hed)p.e., Mushroomhead, American Head Charge, Corvus, and more: Thu., May 3. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Hot Chelle Rae, Electric Touch: Tue., May 1, 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Shooter Jennings: Saturday, April 28. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

KC Music Festival: Fri., June 1; Sat., June 2. Berkley Riverfront Park, at Lydia and Front streets, 816-221-0636.

KC Spring Dance Party: Saturday, May 5. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Kittie, Blackgaurd, Bonded by Blood, Sicadis, Sidewise, and more: Wed., May 9. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Miranda Lambert, Chris Young, Jerrod Neimann: Fri., May 11. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Los Lonely Boys: Sun., April 29. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777.

Mayor Hawthorne & the County, the Stepkids: Mon., May 21. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

M83, I Break Horses: Tue., May 1, 8 p.m., $15. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Marilyn Manson, Pretty Reckless: Wed., May 16.

Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Idina Menzel: Tue., June 19. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

New Edition: Fri., June 1. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Nickelback, Bush, Seether, My Darkest Days: Tue., June 5. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Origin, and more: Fri., May 18, 6 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Ozark Mountain Daredevils: Saturday, June 9. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Polyphonic Spree: Sat., May 12. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Portugal the Man, the Lonely Forest: Mon., April 30, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Real Estate, the Twerps: Sat., April 28, 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Van Halen: Tue., May 22. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Weir, Robinson & Greene Acoustic Trio: Saturday, May 26. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Don Williams: Sun., June 17. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Xiu Xiu, Dirty Beaches: Tue., May 22, 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

ZoSo: Saturday, June 16. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

nightlife T H U R S DAY 1 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Rocco DeLuca, 6 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Author and the Illustrator, the Admirals, Tom Goss, 9 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. North America, Dean Monkey & the Dropouts, Captains of Moderation.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Traindodge, Waiting for Signal, Drop a Grand, 8 p.m.

77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727.

The Patrick Lentz Band, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Jimmie Bratcher, 7 p.m.

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

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

DJ Avalon Ultra Lounge: 5505 N.E. Antioch, 816-452-CLUB. Thorough Thursdays with DJ Double U, Phat Boi. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Goomba Rave, with Team Bear Club.

HIP-HOP Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Chirpin’!: Hip-hop at the Jazz.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Bill Crain Quartet.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. Ron Carlson and Shannon Lipps, 7 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Kerry Strayer and the New KC Seven.

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

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

Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455.

Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m.

Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

Bike Night with the Star Blues Band.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919.

Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game.

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

Marquee Lounge: 1400 Main, 816-474-4545. Thursday West Coast Retro Dance Nights.

Michael’s Lakewood Pub: N. 291 Hwy. and Lakewood Blvd., Lee’s Summit, 816-350-7300. DJ Pure, beer pong, pitcher specials, 9 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. ABCs of Improv Comedy Show, 10 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m.

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

EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

FOLK Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. John Keck presents Elaine McMilian and Nicolette Paige, 7 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Vi Tran & Katy Gilchrist’s Jam Session, 10 p.m.

Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Blues Jam hosted by RocknRick’s Boogie Leggin’ Blues Band, 7 p.m.

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

Open Jam with JD Summers featuring Jeremy Butcher and the Bail Jumpers.

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

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

F R I DAY 2 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913384-5646. Sidewise, Skinmask, Levein, Second Signal.

The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Far Beyond Driven (Pantera tribute), Facelift (Alice in Chains tribute), Sabbath Disciples (Black Sabbath tribute), Quietly Violent, 7 p.m.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Jose Hendrix, 9 p.m.

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

Cover Me Badd.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. The Hilary Watts Riot, the Cave Girls, 9:30 p.m.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816421-0300. 22-20s, Sons of MANY MORE Great Dane, Chupacabra, Hot Dog Skeletons.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. The Stolen Winnebagos.

ONLINE AT The Levee: 16 W. 43rd PITCH.COM St., 816-561-2821. The Magnetics.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816931-9417. Robin’s B-day party with High & Dry, Frankowski, Scott Stanton, and more.

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

Catfish Keith.

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Karma.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Mike Dillon, Yojimbu.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. The Groove Pilots, 8:30 p.m.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Valency.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. The Majestics Rhythm Revue.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378.

The Outlaw Junkies.

BrewTop Pub and Patio: 8614 N. Boardwalk Ave., 816584-9292. Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders.

KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. The Nace Brothers Parrot Fest Pre-Party, 9 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. 420 Fest with 3 Son Green, Lenny Mink, Ashes to Immortality, the Green Brothers, 8 p.m.

DJ Aura: 3832 Main. Green Velvet.

The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Mingle with Team Bear Club.

Hotel: 1300 Grand, 816-226-3232. Rockwell Fridays with Salvatore Palazzolo featuring the Jukebox Heroes (DJ Mike Scott and Spinstyles).

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Nug Life Party with Hoodwerk (HoodNasty and Clockwerk), Ruby Weapon, Select Inverse, 10 p.m.

JAZZ Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. 4 Mad Cats: See How They Swing, Also: book signing by Candice Millard, 7 p.m.

Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Ron Carlson Trio.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Rich Hill, 5 p.m.; Bram Wijnands Trio, 7 p.m.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. The Phoenix Queens, 4:30 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. The Sons of Brasil.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-322-1000. Karaoke with Jim Bob, 9 p.m.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Mitch Fatel, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.

Marquee Lounge: 1400 Main, 816-474-4545. 4 to 7 Cocktail Hour, 4 p.m.; Famous Friday Happy Hour.

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

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

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816454-4500. Happy Hour, 4-6 p.m.

ELECTRONICA The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. The Floozies, Spankalicious, Electric Theory.

S AT U R DAY 21 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

A Greater Tomorrow (EP-release show), Shockrome, Untamed, Prag, Holmes & Hollows, and more, 4 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Celebrating Record Store Day with Soft Reeds, Fullbloods, La Guerre, Spirit is the Spirit.

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

Charlie & the Stingrays.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816753-1909. Appropriate Grammar (CD release), the B’Dinas, the Cave Girls, Gentleman Savage.

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

Exit 54 Music Showcase with Emphatic on the outdoor stage, 1-9 p.m.; KC/DC, 9 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Vera, Chuck and Dave, 7 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Nervous Rex.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Janet the Planet, Jorge Arana Trio, 10 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Hard@Play.

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

Studebaker John and the Hawks; Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Sellout.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Origins of Groove, 9 p.m.

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

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Fuzz Nasty.

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

Band of Heathens with Adam Hood and the Living Deads, 8:30 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Delta Dogs.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Cadillac Flambe.

Harling’s Upstairs: 3941-A Main, 816-531-0303. The Vine Brothers (CD release), 10 p.m., free.

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

Drakkar Sauna.

DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Gold Label Soul.

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Samurai Saturdays.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. DJ Cruz on the patio, 10 p.m.

77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727.

DJ Malaka.

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. DJ Jay E. The Well: 7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700. DJ Ashton Martin.

HIP-HOP Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Fly Guy Click, Gee Watts, Dom Chronicles, the Bayou Boss.

JAZZ

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. ’80s Party.

KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Parrot Fest with Glen Mock & the Tropical Dreamers, and more, at noon.

Marquee Lounge: 1400 Main, 816-474-4545. Saturday Night Dance Showcase.

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816454-4500. Happy Hour, 4-6 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. The Finsters, 7 p.m.

FOLK The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Kevin Hiatt, 6 p.m.

METAL/PUNK

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. The Sons of Brasil, 8:30 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Shades of Jade, early show.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Stonehaven, Vanlade, Ancient Creation, Vomit Assault, 8 p.m.

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ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Pretty Funny, 5 p.m.; the Return of Loaded Dice and Holy Cow, 10 p.m.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

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SINGER-SONGWRITER Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Whalen Reads the Manuel, Ashley Jones and Jerod Rivers, and more, 9 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Battle of the Bands with Untapped Market, and more.

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The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Scars on 45, Heroes + Villains, Kristen May of Vedera, 8 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Chain and the Gang, 7 p.m.

Sidecar at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Murder Death Kill, Conflicts, Aerodyne Flex, 6:30 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Tiny Horse, Matt Woods, Michael Dean Damron, Adam Lee, 9 p.m.

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

Lee McBee and the Confessors.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Liquid Lounge DJs, 10:30 p.m.

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JAZZ

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

Gear Grinder Luau with Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, the Rumblejetts, 1 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Waterdog Nation.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Truckstop Honeymoon, Tyler Gregory, Earth Day matinee show, 6 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Doug & Telisha Williams.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Craig Smith, 6 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. Bukeka Shoals and Ken Lovern.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986.

Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786.

Service Industry Night.

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

Magic Mondays with Jason Dean.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday on the main floor, 10 p.m., free.

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs.

Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m.

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

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816454-4500. Happy Hour, 4-6 p.m.

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

T U E S DAY 2 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Roster McCabe, early show.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Puberty Wounds, Whole Kogan, Vestibule, early show.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Club Wars.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Rock Paper Scissors, 6 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Is/Is, Going to Hell in a Leather Jacket.

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

Brandon Hupseth and Shinetop.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation.

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

JAZZ Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Rich Hill.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Joe DeFio, 11 a.m.; Mark Lowrey Jazz Trio open jam session, 5 p.m.

WORLD Irish Museum and Cultural Center: 30 W. Pershing Road, Ste. 700, 816-474-3848. Old Music, Modern Voice, 4 p.m.

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

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

Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

SIN. Hotel: 1300 Grand, 816-226-3232. Hotel California Service Industry Night with DJ Ashton Martin, 9 p.m.

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

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. Karaoke, 8 p.m.

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. The Ultimate DJ and Karaoke Showdown.

Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.

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

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 7 p.m.

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

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

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

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. Dave Hayes Band Open Jam. R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777. Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Free pool.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Jazz Jam with Nick Rowland and Sansabelt.

VARIET Y Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. Local Music Sunday, DJ Dropout Boogie, 8 p.m.

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Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. Dave Hayes Band.

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

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Tasteless Tuesdays hosted by Kim and Candice, with DJ Charlie, Rock, punk, and more. Nintendo games, Missouri beer specials, and midnight riot, 9 p.m., free.

JAZZ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Mark Lowery, 8 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Horror Remix.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Coda Pursuit Team Trivia with Teague Hayes, 7 p.m.

Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free.

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

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. It’s Karaoke Time!

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Critter’s Tye Dye Tuesday.

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

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m.

The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Beer Pong, team registration starts at 9:30 p.m., tournament starts at 10 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Finnigan’s Hall: 503 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City, 816-221-3466. Abel Ramirez Big Band, 7:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. TeleTuesday open country jam hosted by Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

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

Marquee Lounge: 1400 Main, 816-474-4545. Clear Ten Tengo, 7 p.m.

W E D N E S DAY 2 5 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Flashbulb Fires, Heartscape Landbreak.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Vagabond Swing.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. The Life and Times, Major Games.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Deviator, 500 BC, the Clementines, 8 p.m.

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

Shinetop Jr. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling.

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

Gospel Lounge with Carl Butler, 7:30 p.m.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Piano time with T.J. Erhardt, 7 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913239-9666. Rick Bacus Trio.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Levee Town.

DJ Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Punker Than Hell DJs, 9:30 p.m.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Pure.

ACOUSTIC The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Head for the Hills.

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JAZZ Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. KC Ragtime Revelry with Marty Eggers & Virginia Tichener.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Joe DeFio, 6 p.m.

Sullivan’s Steakhouse & Saloon: 4501 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-345-0800. Candace Evans Duo, 6 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders, 8 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. The Girlie Show with Daisy Bucket, Loretta Martin, Tajma Stetson, Christa Collins, 8 p.m., $5.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: MANY MORE 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717.

Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m.

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

ONLINE AT Limelight Karaoke.

PITCH.COM Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game.

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

Karaoke, Ladies’ Night.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Hilarious Hump Day with Gary “G Thang” Johnson.

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

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Club Jerry’s, reverse happy hour, 9 p.m.-12 a.m.

Marquee Lounge: 1400 Main, 816-474-4545. 4 to 7 Cocktail Hour, 4 p.m.; Live Music Wednesdays + Guys Night Out with Mark Lowery, 7 p.m.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m.

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m.

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Ladies’ Night.

Outabounds Sports Bar & Grill: 3601 Broadway, 816214-8732. Karaoke with DJ Chad, 9 p.m.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

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

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816454-4500. Happy Hour, 4-6 p.m.

The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Pop Culture Trivia.

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

Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-8561514. Pride Night, 8 p.m.

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EASY LISTENING Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

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OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 7 p.m.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 6 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, $2.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m.

Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816-833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30-11 p.m.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Chad Brothers and Danny McGaw.

VARIET Y Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Indie Hit Makers, 6 p.m.

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Dear TUSH: You and your boyfriend aren’t failing gayness.

Gay men and boys can be successes in life, in love and in the sack without acing — or even enjoying — anal intercourse. Anal doesn’t define you as gay men and it certainly isn’t all there is to gay sex. There are so many ways that you and your boyfriend can get off together — mutual masturbation, oral sex, frottage (aka “wet humping”) — that are just as pleasurable, just as “real” and just as gay as anal intercourse. But if you and your boyfriend want to give anal another go, here’s a crash course in anal sex-ed …

First, experiment on your own. Use fingers and toys and lots of lube. I recommend that you get your hands on a butt plug, get your ass on that butt plug, and get yourself off with that butt plug in your ass. Exploring anal penetration solo will allow you to experience anal pleasure without any pressure or expectations. You can really take your time and you won’t feel like you’re disappointing your boyfriend if you have to bail.

Your boyfriend should do the same. I don’t care if your boyfriend is a top — or thinks he is, or is topping because you want to bottom.

Your boyfriend will be a better top if he knows what it feels like to be penetrated and enjoys penetration himself.

OK! So you’ve both done some exploring on your own — jacked off with fingers and toys — and there you are, just you and your boyfriend, hanging out. Your butts are squeaky clean and, hey, you’ve got the house all to yourselves. … Is it time to fuck? Not yet. Now you’re gonna spend some time sticking fingers and toys in your butts and jerking off together. For extra credit, you can experiment with rimming, if you haven’t already, because nothing relaxes anal sphincters quite so effectively. (Once more with feeling: squeakyclean butts!) The point is for you to do anal a few pitch.com

times with the boyfriend and for both of you to get off — you and the boyfriend — without his dick going anywhere near your ass.

Now you’re ready to get fucked.

You’re going to need lots of lube and lots of patience. Have your boyfriend apply lube directly to your hole. He should gently rub your hole for a bit, to help it relax, before using a finger or two to push some lube just inside you.

You can apply the lube to his dick. Move into whatever position feels most comfortable for you — him on top, you on top, face to face, doggy style — and point the tip of his hard cock directly at your hole. He should apply some pressure: uniform, constant, gentle pressure. You’ll feel your asshole begin to open as the head of his cock enters you. Keep breathing as the rest of his dick slowly — a fraction of an inch at a time — slides into you.

Once he’s all the way inside, your boyfriend may be tempted to start banging away, porn-star style, but that would be a huge mistake. Your boyfriend should instead stay perfectly still for the first minute or two while you breathe and relax. Kiss your boyfriend and stroke yourself during the brief lull before the fucking starts.

Then he starts moving inside you — very slowly.

He pulls out an inch or two and slides back in; you keep breathing and stroking; he pulls back an inch or two more and slides in. With each successive thrust, your boyfriend will be able to pull out a little farther, and before you know it, he’ll be fucking the hell out of you.

The whole process (the hole process?) — from patient foreplay to full-on ass fucking — takes 30 minutes at least.

P.S. You don’t have to use condoms, but you should. Using condoms is a good habit to get into, and if you have any concerns about cleanliness, well, a condom is your best friend. There

Dear Dan: I’m an intern at the health and wellness center at my university. This is safe-sex awareness month on campus. We got donations from some sex-toy companies. Among the products we received is something marketed as “Desensitizing Anal Wipes” by a company called California Exotic Novelties.

We gave away these samples at our recent expo. After the fair, a student came up to my boss and me. As a young gay man, he expressed concern that desensitizing anal wipes were not safe to use because masking pain could, in fact, lead to engaging in activities that you may not otherwise. I’m assuming that what he meant here is that if you are experiencing pain during anal sex, you probably shouldn’t proceed. I know that with anal you need to take things slow, use lots of lube and work your way up to it, but that’s about the extent of my knowledge in this area. But I’d like to know what the Dan Savage take is on anal-desensitizing wipes. Yay or nay?

A Sensitive Subject Dear ASS: Googling “desensitizing anal wipes” got me this: “…perfect for using before anal sex to reduce friction pains and ease entry.”

Anyone who’s too stupid to use lube for anal sex — or anyone who is using lube but somehow doesn’t realize that reducing friction and easing entry is what lube is down there to do — probably won’t be harmed by a “desensitizing” moist towelette that retails for $3.99. I don’t know what the active ingredient is, but I can’t imagine it’s a pharmaceutical-grade topical anesthetic. So I doubt that anyone who uses a DAW is going to wind up with an ass so benumbed that he won’t realize he’s being torn to shreds until after he sees blood and santorum all over his sheets, pillows, walls, floor, boyfriend, ceiling, Xbox 360, cats, etc.

That said, desensitizing anal wipes play on common fears and misconceptions about anal sex — namely, that anal sex is supposed to hurt.

Anal done right isn’t painful, of course, even if it takes time, practice and some patience to get used to. Some people do experience discomfort when they first attempt anal, but discomfort isn’t pain. It’s important for people to understand that if anal sex hurts, they’re doing it wrong — not enough lube, not enough foreplay, not enough practice — and they need to stop. Desensitizing wipes send the opposite message.

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