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Photographer The best advice I ever got: I went to a work-

shop for photography in the spring of 2013.

The photographer who ran the workshop told me, “If you don’t like what you are doing, you might as well take a chance and do what you love. If it doesn’t work, you can always go back to being miserable.” I came home, broke up with my boyfriend, moved to my own place, quit my crappy corporate photography job, and went full time with my business. Two years later and all the ramen noodles were worth it.

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boss I wanted to be a photographer or graphic designer. He took me to lunch at McDonald’s and told me that if I ever tried to be a designer or anything arts-related, I would end up serving him hamburgers instead. Haters gonna hate.

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dings and editing photos. I take road trips and travel for work a lot. I go to Costco way too much. I hang out with my roommate’s cats. I binge-watch Netflix while editing. I am a CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocate) volunteer for the children’s services division in Jackson County.

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who gave me a Valentine’s Day card with a letter in it that he had copied down from the Internet. When I called him out on it, he told me that he did write it, and it was a crazy coincidence. According to him, he didn’t lie to me because “I changed one word and I copied it with my actual hand, so technically I didn’t lie about writing it.” Boys.

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it when people wallow in sadness or selfpity and change nothing. If you want more and you can’t have it yet, work for it. You can’t expect everything to fall into your lap.

You have to work and you have to know that only you can truly determine where your life goes. You will have a stupid boss that you have to smile around even when you want to choke them. You will have to work the day after Christmas. Maybe even on Christmas.

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Fizz Ed Mutiny looMs at the ineptly run Metropolitan CoMMunity College.

By DaviD HuDnall

elieving himself to be Jesus Christ reincarnated, a 22-year-old student named Casey Brezik entered a conference room in the humanities building on the Penn Valley campus of Metropolitan Community College the morning of September 14, 2010. Brezik had been awake for three straight days, beset by schizophrenic delusions of government conspiracies. He had accessorized his all-black outfit with a bulletproof vest. He carried a knife, with which he planned to assassinate Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who was shortly scheduled to give a speech at Penn Valley.

Instead, a confused Brezik stabbed Albert Dimmit, the dean of instruction at Penn Valley, in the neck.

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As horrified onlookers struggled to process what was occurring, Mark James, the recently appointed chancellor of Metropolitan Community College, sprang forward, tackled Brezik, wrested the knife away and detained him until police arrived. Dimmit was rushed to the hospital and recovered after surgery. James — who sustained a minor stab wound to his chest in the scuffle — had saved the day.

“I think there was general awe over that act among everybody at MCC,” says Debbie Goodall, president at the time of the MCC– Business & Technology Campus. (She retired in 2013, after 19 years at MCC.) “Here’s Mark, the new leader of the entire district, wearing a suit, waiting for the governor, and he just responds so efficiently and automatically to this shocking school violence. It was very impressive.”

James, the chancellor of a five-campus community-college system — MCC–Blue River, MCC–Longview and MCC–Maple Woods round out the rest of the district — was unusually well-equipped to confront such a situation.

Virtually his entire pre-MCC professional background had been in law enforcement. He had worked for the Missouri Highway Patrol and also as an ATF agent, where he assisted the Oklahoma City bombing investigation and, in 2002, the D.C. sniper case. He keeps a photo in his MCC office of his time as an undercover police officer: James, wearing a heavy beard and standing next to a Harley, having infiltrated a biker gang.

Beginning in 2005, James served as director of the Missouri Department of Public Safety and Homeland Security. He found his way into higher education via a 2007 task force on campus security that he co-chaired with Robert Stein, commissioner of the Missouri Department of Higher Education. The two hit it off. When Stein learned that there was an opening at MCC for a vice chancellor of administrative services, in 2009, he recommended James as a candidate. The MCC board of trustees — a six-member body, elected by the public — approved. When Jackie Snyder stepped down as chancellor of MCC the next year, James was recommended for the job.

Despite less than a year’s experience working in higher education, he got the appointment.

One of James’ first acts as chancellor was to turn MCC’s campus security into an official, state-commissioned police department.

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officers, plus another six uncertified publicsafety officers. Though it patrols only five small campuses, MCC’s police department numbers nearly as many cops as that of Gladstone, Missouri — an 8-square-mile suburb with a population of 28,000.

If you’re measuring MCC’s success in nonlaw-enforcement terms, however, James’ tenure as chancellor has been a shaky four years. According to faculty surveys and outside studies, the district is in disarray — a condition confirmed by more than a dozen current and former staff, faculty and administrators, many of them longtime MCC loyalists, interviewed

by The Pitch in recent weeks. The beefed-up police department, they say, is merely the most visible way that James has shifted resources away from educating students.

“You’d think a guy with a police background and basically zero higher-ed experience, chosen to lead a community-college district, would bend over backward to familiarize himself with academia and not focus on all the lawenforcement stuff,” says a longtime faculty member who asked not to be identified for fear of reprisal. “Instead, it’s been the complete opposite. He’s consistently shown disdain toward the academic traditions that have been in place at these schools for 100 years.”

Such criticisms might be easier to dismiss as the grumblings of change-averse academics, were it not for the growing body of data indicating that MCC is underperforming. A 2014 report, commissioned by MCC and prepared by CLARUS Corp., a community-college marketing-research firm, concluded: “Nationally, over the last four years, the number of applicants to community colleges has been increasing. But at Metropolitan Community College, from 2010 to 2013, the number of applicants has been in decline (from 14,600 to 11,500).” The report goes on to note that the school’s conversion rate — the percentage of applicants who end up enrolled at MCC — has held steady at 40 percent, though “the typical conversion goal for a community college is 60 percent.”

James’ tenure has also been marked by a significant exodus of high-ranking, longserving administrators, including several vice chancellors and presidents with decades of the kind of higher-education experience that James lacks.

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Fizz Ed continued from page 7 command, and unpopular moves are often necessary to ensure the long-term viability of an institution — particularly at community colleges, where state funds are ever-depleting and donations add up to a fraction of what four-year universities comfortably rely on.

But many of MCC’s critical positions — vice chancellors, directors and, as of last month, a school president — remain unfilled. And several of the past administrators who spoke with The Pitch indicated that most of those who have left MCC in recent years toughed it out under James’ leadership as long as they did out of a sense of duty to the students, whom they believe are getting shortchanged as a result of changes that James has made.

“I think Mark came in with the attitude that he was going to throw the old model into the ocean and start fresh,” Goodall says.

“But if you want to do that successfully, and without turmoil, you have to understand the existing culture and be respectful of it. Good leaders respect the culture they are leading.

Mark has never understood academic culture and never really tried to. He’s only been focused on enrollment dollars, and when you do that, you overlook the standards of academic integrity that are critical to maintain over the long haul. Because if you lose that integrity, you lose your reputation, and you’re just going to continue to bleed.”

Goodall continues: “And that’s why everybody’s leaving. If you look at the number of people who have left and the positions that have not been filled and the dismal morale on those campuses, you have to wonder: What kind of leader is this man?”

Last year, concerned that their voices were no longer being heard, MCC’s faculty voted to unionize — a first in MCC’s 100-year history. And in early April of this year, 75 MCC faculty members across all five campuses held an emergency meeting to discuss concerns about James’ leadership and how, under his reign, “tough choices have mainly come at a cost to the academic side of the house, which ironically represents the mission, the main revenue source, and the college’s reason for existence,” according to notes from the meeting obtained by The Pitch. According to several people present at the meeting, the decision was made to send a letter to the board, censuring James and calling for the removal of his top aide, a woman with longstanding ties to education in the KC area and whom many blame for MCC’s woes.

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athy Walter-Mack first arrived at MCC in 2007, when she was part of a two-person consulting team hired by the school to investigate racial-discrimination complaints, brought by several black students, against two teachers and a staff member. Walter-Mack’s conclusion was that the allegations were unsubstantiated

but that a systemic environment of intolerance existed at MCC. One of the recommendations of the report was to establish a diversitycoordinator position at MCC. Walter-Mack was subsequently hired for that position.

Her pedigree included a stint in the 1990s working in the Kansas City, Missouri, school district, which was then still mired in a decades-long desegregation battle. She had by then been the executive director of the Desegregation Monitoring Committee, a court-ordered governing body through which the district had to clear virtually all of its decisions. Walter-Mack later went to work for Sam’s Town, where she oversaw compliance with city quotas for minority- and womenowned businesses. Later, she returned to Kansas City Public Schools and served as its general counsel.

According to a 2001 Pitch story (“Taylor Made,” October 4, 2001) chronicling leadership problems in KCPS, Walter-Mack attempted to consolidate district power in her office and was subsequently fired by Superintendent Benjamin Demps.

“Really and truly, she [Walter-Mack] was running a large part of the district,” Jack Goddard, chief of staff to the KCPS superintendent at the time, told The Pitch. “A lot of everyday decisions, principals were reporting up through her as much as they were through the superintendent. … You had a really confused chain of command.”

That characterization is likely familiar to staff and faculty at MCC, who now know Walter-Mack in a variety of roles.

When James became chancellor, in 2010, he created a new position — chief of staff — and installed Walter-Mack in it. In 2013, Walter-Mack took on the additional role of vice chancellor of human resources. Owing to her background as a lawyer — she’s licensed to practice in Missouri and Illinois — WalterMack is also highly involved in all legal matters pertaining to MCC.

James (left) and Walter-Mack have ignored the idea of shared governance at MCC, preferring top-down authoritarianism, faculty and staff say.

James has grown increasingly reliant on Walter-Mack, “abdicating daily decision making to her so he can focus on community visibility and fund raising, leaving the running of the academic institution to others,” according to notes from the faculty emergency meeting.

“Everything has to go through Kathy,” says a vice chancellor who spoke to The Pitch on the condition of anonymity. “She is the one making the bulk of the academic decisions, and she is the gatekeeper to Mark. And, therefore, the only way to get any type of policy through is to go through her. And she holds everything up.” (More than one person whom The Pitch interviewed referred to the pair by a pejorative nickname: Kathy Walter-Mark.)

Lisa Minis was the dean of students at MCC–Penn Valley until retiring in 2013; she had been at MCC for more than 20 years. Minis says she initially found James to be direct and honest when he came onboard as vice chancellor of administrative services. But she says James became “almost instantly unapproachable” after he became chancellor and appointed Walter-Mack as his chief of staff.

“A lot of struggling community colleges and four-year institutions have turned to business leaders to try to steer them through budget problems,” Minis tells The Pitch. “And there are examples of that working out. It’s not always a bad idea. But Mark wasn’t really a businessman. He’s an ATF guy.”

She goes on: “And Kathy didn’t have any higher-education experience, either. And I can’t speak for all the deans at MCC, but I can say that, for me, she inserted herself into parts of my job where there was no reason for her to be involved. And it became a detrimental thing. She created problems where there were none, and she was critical and intimi-

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dating, and she usually made things worse.

And the perception was that she had Mark’s blessing to be doing all these things. And if she didn’t want Mark to hear your concerns, he didn’t hear them.”

In 2014, the American Association of University Professors — an organization that, according to its website, “defends academic freedom and tenure, advocates collegial governance, and develops policies ensuring due process” — conducted surveys of the MCC faculty and the faculty senate. A recurring theme is that Walter-Mack and James are dismissive of the long-held traditions of shared governance in higher education. Perhaps because of his background in law enforcement, James’ approach to MCC has been more top-down than a culture that typically exists at institutions of higher education. One anonymous piece of feedback, a comment made by a faculty senate member, makes the point this way: “Our institution is being run by a lawyer with no HR training who heads HR and serves also as chief of staff to the chancellor. Any HR professional in the country would be shocked by this. The existence of HR departments in 2014 is universally considered to mean the existence of an independent office that manages personnel issues with protection for both the employees and the employer. At MCC, it has been used the last 10 years as a weapon against employees, with no regard whatever for knowledge of HR as a profession or for the reasons that HR is a profession.”

A real-life example of how such an arrangement can become problematic occurred recently at MCC. In 2014, shortly after Hasan Naima was appointed president of the MCC– Business & Technology campus at “Meteropolatin Community College,” as his LinkedIn profile spells it, complaints began to surface about his leadership. These included allegations of racist and homophobic statements, according to multiple MCC employees briefed on the matter.

Among Walter-Mack’s daily operations is advising campus presidents and making recommendations as to who should be appointed by the board as campus presidents.

At the same time, as head of HR, she is also required to respond to and assess human resources complaints — and, in theory, to oversee background checks of prospective hires.

MCC declined to comment on the HR investigation into Haima.

“We respect the privacy rights of our employees and do not comment on confidential personnel matters,” says Christina Medina, spokeswoman for MCC. Regardless, a vote of no confidence was cast against Naima last month, after which he resigned. His position has not been filled.

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Fizz Ed continued from page 9 no system or protocol in place where you can feel confident that what you share is going to be private or even investigated at all. Because you’ll be seen by her [Walter-Mack] as a liability or a threat. And that’s a real cancer to an institution.”

MCC doesn’t think so.

“The obligations and responsibilities of any employee holding either of these positions is the same, there are no conflicting obligations,” Medina says, in an e-mail, of WalterMack’s dual positions. “Ms. Walter-Mack in her role as chief of staff has worked closely and daily with human resources. When the Associate Vice Chancellor [for Human Resources] position became vacant in 2013 Ms. WalterMack agreed to take on the duties without any change in compensation. This cost savings is enough to support the salary and benefits of at least one faculty member.”

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he 2014 AAUP surveys (previously mentioned) followed an identical set of surveys in 2009, prior to James’ appointment as chancellor. The results tell strikingly different stories about faculty morale before and after James took over. Among the faculty: • In 2009, 18 percent of those surveyed characterized as false the statement that MCC “fosters shared governance by maintaining reasonable workloads, supporting faculty development of shared governance skills, and rewarding participation in governance work.” In 2014, 44 percent of respondents called that statement untrue.

• In 2009, 20 percent of faculty considered the relationship between faculty and the governing board uncooperative. In 2014, that number was 50 percent.

• In 2009, 16 percent of faculty respondents disagreed that the president, officers and board consulted the faculty in matters of shared concern. More than twice as many 2014 respondents — 35 percent — registered that complaint.

Among the faculty senators — those elected to deal directly with the chancellor and MCC officers — the results are starker.

• A full 60 percent of faculty senators in 2014 disagreed that negotiations and communications were “carried out in good faith and in an atmosphere of trust,” up from just 20 percent in 2009.

• Compared with the same question in 2009, more than three times as many faculty senators surveyed in 2014 said they weren’t given timely access to information necessary to give input into the governance process.

• Seven percent of faculty senators in 2009 responded “no” when asked, “Does the Board respect and support the faculty’s traditional role in institutional governance?” In 2014, 42 percent of faculty senators said “no.”

• In 2009, 10 percent of faculty senators

said the chancellor — Jackie Snyder at the time — did not have “adequate academic as well as administrative credentials to serve as the chief academic officer of the district.”

In 2014, several years after James took over from Snyder, 86 percent answered that the chancellor was inadequately credentialed.

• In answer to the question “Does the chancellor respect and support the faculty’s traditional role in institutional governance?”: In 2009, 19 percent said Snyder didn’t. In 2014, 72 percent said James didn’t.

If James and Walter-Mack have taken any action to remedy the sharp dips in morale among faculty revealed in the AAUP surveys, few have noticed.

Medina of MCC stresses that James inherited a difficult financial situation upon taking the reins of MCC in 2010, and has made tough decisions regarding retirement programs and insurance coverage that, while unpopular among faculty, have put the school back on stable footing.

“In light of the severe fiscal belt-tightening required over the last several years, it is not unexpected that there would be some impact on morale,” Medina says in an e-mail. “The Chancellor has always taken the concerns of all employees very seriously. When faculty brought him concerns about the delivery of on-line classes, he listened and acted upon their input. When faculty brought him concerns about the process being utilized for the revision of the associate degree, he listened and acted upon their input. Most recently the restoration of professional development funds for faculty and converting over 35 faculty members to a permanent faculty track were the direct result of input from faculty.

These are but a few examples.”

Meanwhile, the brains continue to circle around the drain. Gone from MCC: • Tuesday Stanley, vice chancellor of student development, enrollment management and administrative services (who worked at MCC 2006–2014) • Lisa Minis, dean of students at MCC–Penn Valley (1989–2013) • Tom Vansaghi, associate vice chancellor of college and community relations (2004–13) • Juan Rangel, director of community engagement for the Institute for Workforce Innovation (2006–13) • Shelli Allen, dean of student development at MCC–Maple Woods (2000–14) • Jennifer Sacks Saab, project manager and interim director of enrollment services (2005–14) • Steve Frommelt, director of accounting (2010–14) • Mary Birkel, communications and public relations manager (2007–14) • Kathy Hale, director of enrollment management (1991–2013) A scan of MCC’s most current organizational chart reveals at least eight high-level vacancies at the college, including vice chancellor of student development and enrollment

management, director of academic programs, director of accounting, director of budget and planning, and president of the Business & Technology Campus.

In December, Paul Long, an MCC employee for 21 years, either resigned or was removed

by James from his position as vice chancellor of academic affairs and technology. According to multiple sources, Long was one of the last remaining members of the leadership team not installed by James and Walter-Mack.

This year, MCC is up for reaccreditation by the Higher Learning Commission, its governing body; the process occurs every 10 years.

Some say Long’s exit may have been precipitated by his sounding alarm bells about the school potentially not hitting the marks with the HLC in terms of academic standards.

From the early-April emergency meeting notes: “To this day, no reason has been given for Paul’s removal, although it came on the heels of Paul explaining at Senate his concerns about HLC holes, such as in policies that he could not get past Kathy Walter-Mack, the diversity piece, and his growing inability to run the academic side of the house because of Kathy’s interference in his budget, in professional development, and in his communications with Mark.”

Long declined to comment. MCC declined to comment on the situation or on Long’s interim replacement.

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istorically, the MCC board of trustees has been deferential to James’ recommendations; non-unanimous votes are rare. Having seen little evidence that its concerns about Walter-Mack are being communicated to the MCC board of trustees by James, the faculty is likely to vote in favor of sending a censure letter to the board sometime in May. “He [James] tells us [faculty] that he’s protecting us from the board, but it’s clear to us that the board doesn’t really understand how big some of these problems are,” says a faculty member.

A faculty senator’s comment from the AAUP survey: “It is worth noting that many of our best and brightest are leaving MCC. Why? The response is usually they got an opportunity they can’t pass up, one they don’t have at MCC. However, if people were happy, they wouldn’t look elsewhere. We’ve never had the turnover that we now have, and the reason for that is the incredibly low morale and sense of futility that permeates MCC. Employees used to stay at MCC for life. Not anymore. The Board really needs to be thinking about employee resignations as a sign of an ailing institution.”

It’s possible that the board may have a different matter to attend to in the very near future. Just last week, Park University confirmed that James is a finalist for the presidency there.

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Spinning Tree Theatre’s Michael Grayman and Andy Parkhurst have grabbed hold of the story’s essence and created a thoughtful, funny and moving production in the intimate Just Off Broadway Theatre.

Tevye (Gary Neal Johnson), a poor milkman in 1905 imperial Russia, is our first glimpse into the village of Anatevka and its Jewish community. “Every one of us is a fiddler on the roof, trying to scratch out a pleasant, simple tune without breaking his neck.

It isn’t easy,” he says. “And how do we keep our balance? … tradition.”

“Tradition” may be one of the show’s main components — and the name of its lively first ensemble number — but it doesn’t get a final say. Coming up against a society in the throes of prerevolution, Anatevka finds itself permeable to the outside world. “May God bless and keep the czar … far away from us,” the rabbi (Trevor Belt) entreats — but not so much.

Based on stories of Sholem Aleichem, Fiddler on the Roof took nine Tony Awards in 1965, and the ’71 film received a Best Picture Oscar nomination. Though the story takes place 100 years ago (period costumes by Kate Mott), its modern sensibility connects us to characters we recognize: men, women and children who find themselves in situations that still feel current. History repeats that way, but the musical’s creators — book by Joseph Stein, music by Jerry Bock, and lyrics

by Sheldon Harnick — haven’t used a heavy hand. Quite the contrary.

We become well-acquainted and involved with the folks of Anatevka, most of all Tevye.

He’s the center of this story, and Johnson is note-perfect, with a multilayered portrayal that’s sensitive, heartfelt and humorous.

(His “If I Were a Rich Man” exudes a low-key authenticity.) We’re wholly engaged by this father of five daughters who cleverly and resourcefully maneuvers his everyday relationships with his wife, his children, his neighbors — even his God, with whom he feels personally connected. “Sometimes I think, when it gets too quiet up there, You say to Yourself, ‘What kind of mischief can I play on My friend Tevye?’” he says.

Julie Shaw inhabits Tevye’s wife, Golde, with the right mixture of aloofness and wifely meddling as a woman who knows her place but can still yield power. Their “Do You Love Me?” touchingly hits at the essence of their 25-year marriage. Their three oldest daughters

Fiddler on the Roof Spinning Tree Theatre Through May 10, at Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Penn Valley Drive, 816-569-5277, spinningtreetheatre.com (Kami Rodgers, Sara Belhouari and Megan Herrera) bring distinct voices to roles that not only represent society’s constraints — shown in their “Matchmaker”: Playing with matches, a girl can get burned — but also the changes encircling the family. (In a second supporting role, Rodgers also comically portrays her dead Grandma Tzeitel in a hilarious nightmare sequence, “The Dream,” in Act 1.)

A large cast has been assembled, more performances than can be noted in this space. But a few highlights: Bob Wearing wears fear and uncertainty like well-fitting clothes, eliciting sympathy for his weak-kneed tailor Motel, who courts eldest daughter Tzeitel. We feel his joy in his celebratory “Miracle of Miracles.”

T.J. Lancaster brings a strong presence as Lazar Wolf, a well-to-do butcher competing — and bargaining — as well for Tzeitel’s hand. Also good is Mead D’Amore as Perchik, a student from Kiev with revolution on his mind. And in a small role, Matthew A. King lends his charisma and powerful singing voice to the Russian soldier Sasha.

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Johnson and the fiddler Schriock: in tune part in this production and are woven into scenes as members of the community: Fiddler Jonathan Lloyd Schriock, music director Angie Benson on piano and accordion, Joe Levens on guitar and mandolin, and James Westbrook on clarinet. This fusion makes for smooth segues and for especially fluid storytelling.

Grayman and Parkhurst have made efficient use of the performance space, augmenting a simple set (design by Matt Mott) with staging that gives it texture and depth. This is noticeable in the ensemble numbers, familiar songs freshly rendered: a boisterous “To Life,” with its Russian-style dancing; a moving “Sabbath Prayer”; a genuine, sweet “Sunrise, Sunset” that skirts sentimentality; a hallucinatory “The Dream” (aided by Shane Rowse’s effective lighting design). And in “The Wedding,” the audience holds its collective breath as dancers balance bottles on their heads.

Life in Anatevka is more balancing act than song and dance, with forces outside this community’s control working to crash the party, as they historically tend to do. And these villagers, like ghosts from the past, leave us with a wistful yet haunting “Anatevka,” a town and its people brought briefly back to life.

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Welcome to Night Vale’s Cecil Baldwin discusses the podcast’s evolution into an international phenomenon.

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he fictional community in Welcome to Night Vale is more H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham than Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon. In less than three years, the podcast about a strange desert town has become an international phenomenon with a novel slated for a fall release through Harper Perennial.

The voice of Night Vale’s community-radio station is Cecil Palmer, portrayed by Cecil Baldwin. His performance and the writing of creators Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor create a vivid and odd world for listeners. Though the show has had hundreds of live broadcasts, with guest stars such as Wil Wheaton and Andrew W.K., and a series of sold-out European dates last year, Baldwin says it hasn’t always had such a strong foundation.

“The first couple of episodes, we were just trying to figure out what the tone was, what the comedy [was], what would the show sound like,” he tells The Pitch. “The next couple of episodes is all about, who is this person who’s talking to us?”

The Pitch caught up with Baldwin before the crew headed out on tour to discuss the show’s evolution from podcast to live show to book.

The Pitch: Welcome to Night Vale’s touring shows are essentially one-man performances, yes?

Baldwin: I’d like to think of them not as one-man shows because we have a lot of really talented actors who travel with us, not to mention a lot of really talented musicians also performing with us, as well. I like to think of myself as the traffic cop who knows who’s coming in next and who’s leaving next.

It’s my job to stay grounded and stick up there while the guest stars come in — you make them look as good as possible, and then they can drift away again, and the traffic cop is left to keep the show moving.

I’ve noticed that your performance changes based on the people with whom you’re interacting. Is that a conscious choice or something that happens in the moment?

There definitely is a lot of room for whatever happens in the moment. For “The Librarian,” we tallied it up, and we performed that script over 75 times, I think almost 80 times. It definitely makes you — when you’re up onstage, you want to serve the audience that you’re performing for. And if they are really into something, you feel like you want to give them more of that. But sometimes you also recognize that you’ve put together a show and you have to kind of stick to what the show itself needs.

You make certain decisions, and you’re like, “Well, let’s stick to that.”

When Night Vale started, it was just you.

The addition of actors and characters seems to have really allowed you to express more of

your character because you have something to play off.

Oh, certainly. There are very specific moments where that has come about in live shows, where I’ve been onstage performing with somebody in one of our anniversary shows or in one of our live shows. I’ll make an acting choice based on who I’m with, and then that acting choice will carry over into the podcast. So, in the past, the podcast was creating the material, and the live shows were just there, literally like a live taping, where now it’s gotten to the point where the live shows themselves are just as influential over what gets released online. It’s really interesting.

Is there a specific example to which you can point?

My initial reaction to Steve Carlsberg.

Cecil always had that sort of fear and loathing for Steve Carlsberg from the beginning, but it wasn’t very over-the-top. It was just like a kind of general grumbling about Steve Carlsberg. I really want to say that it was in a live show — I think it was our one-year anniversary show — where Hal [Lublin] comes onstage, and we do a scene. And just because I wanted to try something new, I kind of stepped away from the microphone and just started screaming at him as loud as I could, like a huge temper tantrum. And it got a huge laugh, and everyone said it was hilarious, and I just kept it for the next show. And then it just kind of followed us around, so that way in, like, every show where Hal Lublin does Steve, there’s usually some moment where Cecil just loses his cool and freaks out. I think we’ve carried that over into the podcast at least once.

Your host and traffic cop, Cecil Baldwin I think it’s “The Debate” where you screamed so loudly that I had to bite my hand to not disturb other people at work.

But that reaction would have never happened if it had been just me alone onstage, you know? It’s because I know Hal is so funny, and he will take it and he’ll just look at me with those big sad eyes and then sort of laugh and shrug it off. He understands that how the actor understands the function of Steve is to be this sort of punching bag of Cecil’s and just sort of shrug it off and laugh Welcome to Night Vale Monday, May 4, at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, in Lawrence.

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a big goofy laugh and then be like, “Oh you don’t really mean that.” He gets it. And having smart actors makes all the difference in the world.

There’s that idea in fiction of the unreliable narrator, and I think Welcome to Night Vale explores that explicitly in that Cecil has a definite opinion.

Oh, of course, yes. … There’s the episode where Cecil gets a name, he starts expressing opinions on the stories he’s talking about, he starts expressing his opinions about his relationship, with this crush on this scientist, Carlos. And then as the show goes on, it becomes about interaction with other people around him, for good and bad.

And, you know, it’s a really great, amazing

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opportunity to tell a story in a long format, where, I think, we’re up to episode No. 63 by now. You get a little bit of information every week about this character, Cecil Palmer, and you get to build on that so slowly that it’s like a really good stew, you know, where you don’t get everything in all at once, and then you get out. You put just a little bit in and then you let it simmer, and then you put a little something different in and you let it simmer. Yeah, I love telling stories in this sort of epic, long format, just because it helps you bring out the nuances: your character, their relationship with other characters. It’s really great.

Up until Welcome to Night Vale started doing live shows, the fandom depiction of Cecil is quite different. I think the only thing they got right is the fact that you have glasses.

Yeah. Yeah. [Laughs.] It’s very weird, right?

It is completely invented by the Internet.

And he looks kind of like a blond-haired combination of the Egon from the Ghostbusters cartoon and Giles from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

I could see that. I’ve heard him described as a — if Tim Gunn were one of the cast of Mad Men, you know. Stuff like that. I want to say it was Mike Rugnetta of PBS Idea Channel. He and I were talking, and he put forth this idea that, “If you can’t cosplay it, does it really have a fandom?” You know, it’s sort of the eternal question of the Internet.

The book comes out later this year, and I’m curious if there was any sort of feedback, like in terms of your involvement with that book, or is that strictly the creators?

The creation of the book is strictly Joseph and Jeffrey. It’s their novel. They’re writers, and this is the novel that they wanted to write. However, I am definitely doing the audiobook, which is going to be a lot of fun for me. It’s just very different. In the world of the Night Vale podcast, I’m kind of like a co-creator, in that I’ve been working on this project since the beginning and kind of started at the ground and influenced the writing with my acting, and their writing influences my acting.

I am really looking forward to recording the audiobook. It’s a normal-size novel, so it’s going to be a big chunk of time, and I’m really excited to kind of use the understanding I have of Joseph and Jeffrey’s comedy and use of language and infuse it into a project that is told from a different point of view than the podcast. I just think it’ll be a real interesting challenge, and hopefully the fans of the podcast will enjoy listening to 11 solid hours of me talking, or something like that.

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ired of the Royals fighting their way through the American League? Then take a break from the brawls, and look at SPOART: Signal/Playbook by Zophia A. McDougal opening at Front/Space (217 West 18th Street) Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. What to expect? “An integration of the athletic concepts of signals and playbooks with the practice of art making,” the gallery says. “The show celebrates the nobility of intuition and critical, honest thought in times of great pressure and expectation.” You’ll need tickets to McDougal’s KCAI thesis exhibition; look for SPOART postcards at spots in the Crossroads or see zophiamcdougal.com. See it by appointment through the end of May. Innovere (2401 Summit) opens May 1.

The industrial/entrepreneurial incubator celebrates its official nonprofit status with a reception from 5 to 9 p.m. The group exhibition The Spirit of Innovere includes artwork by Charlie Chick, Eric Markham, Theresa Martin and Linda Taylor.

It has been a while since photographer Rusty Leffel’s work has been exhibited. That ends Friday with In Your Face, a two-man exhibition, which also includes drawings and portraits by Kwanza Humphrey, at the Late Show Gallery (1600 Cherry) from 6 to 10 p.m.

We also get an opportunity this month to see Emmett Merrill’s printmaking thesis exhibition, The Bridge, at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (2012 Baltimore). Also on display: Midwest Metaphors: Studio Art Quilt Associates Regional Members Showcase, and Art of KC Voices (in partnership with Whispering Prairie Press).

Mid-America Arts Alliance (2018 Baltimore) fires up its Live in the Crossroads series with an exhibition preview of Estamos Aquí (We Are Here) and a parking-lot concert by Oklahoma City’s Tequila Azul at 7 p.m. Estamos Aquí is part of M-AAA’s national traveling program, which stays in KC through May 15. The show features colorful serigraphs by Latino/Chicano artists in residency in Austin, Texas. The indoor gallery space is open First Friday from 6 to 8 p.m.

ArtsKC (106 Southwest Boulevard) throws a block party in support of its annual artsfund drive. Baltimore Avenue between 19th and 20th streets will be filled with booths

by ArtsKC artists and organizations. Look for music, food, drinks and a 50/50 raffle, with proceeds supporting Kansas City’s museums, musicians, dancers and artists.

The Drugstore (3948 Main) holds an open studio from 6 to 9 p.m. that it’s calling a “blockactivated evening,” with the 20 artists from various disciplines who work there. Other venues collaborating for the evening include the Talk Shop (3936 Main), which is premiering I, Too, Am America, a photography exhibit by the Langston Hughes Club, “an arts and culture 18

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Owl + Mouse designs hosts a pop-up shop at the Campground (6 Westport Road; also at 8183 Studio, 1735 Oak); Oddly Correct Coffee (3940 Main) keeps later hours, from 6 to 9 p.m.; “artist-adventurer” Jeremy Collins holds an open house at his Meridian Line studio (2 West-

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An open house at Belger Crane Yard Studios (2011 Tracy) runs from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Meet the Belger’s artists and tour their studios, including the Asheer Akram Metal Workshop, Belger Crane Yard Gallery, Red Star Studios, and the Lawrence Lithography Workshop. Ceramic work will be for sale, and the Belger will also

hold classes and workshops with live demonstrations. The Pakistani Cargo Truck is slated to be there, too, as well as the opening of Meredith Host’s new solo exhibition, inspired by her 2014 artist residency in Jingdezhen, China. A complete schedule is at craneyardstudios.org.

Don’t miss these events: HEX at Hint (1906 Wyandotte), a digital media gallery, with Kokofreakbean by Michael Vasquez; Monsters, Myths and Mayhem by David Frizell at Hilliard Gallery (1820 McGee); Smoke on Paper: Recent Smoke Drawings by Dennis Lee Mitchell, at Todd Weiner Gallery (115 West 18th Street).

After several years of extensive renovations, the Kansas City Museum (3218 Gladstone Boulevard) launches a new exhibition season from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday, with performative readings, starting at 7:30 p.m., inspired by the museum building’s past century and its inhabitants. (Space is limited. RSVP to anna .tutera@kcmo.org.) The exhibition Divining the Museum: Visions of Past, Present and Future features work by 13 artists under the curation of Paige Beltowski and Max Adrian, who are hoping to reinvigorate the 1910 estate of Robert A. Long and reintroduce people to its rich history by setting up new works next to artifacts from the museum’s collection. Look for Beltowski’s works in the carriage house and Adrian’s in the main house’s former library.

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If the location and name sound odd (and sound even odder together), well, they are.

But, as Falke explains, production breweries can be anywhere.

“If you’re a production brewery, it doesn’t matter where you are,” he says. “I looked at renting a couple of places down in Liberty, but what I’d pay in two years in Liberty, I could buy a building, completely renovate it and basically build a brewery and never have to pay rent.”

So in July 2013, Falke bought the boardedup old telephone-company building at 105 West Bird.

“We just took it down to nothing but a brick shell and a dirt floor and built it back from there,” he says. “It’s come a long way.”

A U.S. Army reservist (he just received his 20-year letter), Falke decided, while spending 2010–11 serving in Afghanistan, that he wanted to open a brewery when he returned to the States. He had been homebrewing since 1992 but hadn’t made beer professionally.

“When I started working on my Ph.D. [at the University of Kansas School of Medicine], I really got into the science of the brewing process,” he says. “That’s when I really picked it up and got interested in it.”

When Falke returned home, he picked up his teaching gig at William Jewell College but didn’t stop talking about opening a brewery.

Finally, his wife called him out.

“My wife just said to me, ‘Are you just going to talk about this for the rest of your life?

Or are you ever actually going to do it?’” he says. “It was like, OK, game on.”

Falke quit his teaching gig in May 2014.

“This represents freedom, I guess,” he says, while sitting at the bar of the brewery.

Classic-rock tunes — Pink Floyd, Bad Company, Led Zeppelin — play over the speakers.

“This is the brewhouse that the Army built, really. We just saved all of my income from when I was over in Afghanistan and put it in the bank. This whole place has been built off that.”

The taproom was never part of the plan.

But it has quickly become a big part of Ninja Moose. He says the residents of Hamilton kept dropping by to tell him that they needed a nice place to have a drink.

“It became an ‘if you build it, they would come,’ ” he says. “It’s fun to get people in here and actually drinking something we’ve made. In a town this size, everybody knows each other. Anytime kids are home from college, their folks bring them in here. And we’re starting to pull people in off the highway a lot more now.”

But where did the Ninja Moose name come

Falke’s Ninja Moose is unique to Hamilton. from? Falke admits that he had a bit of trouble reading a map while on a fishing and canoeing trip with his father, his uncle and a cousin.

“We were sitting on the banks of one of the lakes up there [Boundary Waters], trying to decide where we’re going to go, and I looked at the map, and I was like, ‘No way. These guys named a lake Ninja Moose Lake. You gotta be kidding me,’” he says. “My cousin’s like, ‘You idiot. It’s Nina Moose Lake.’ So I misread it on the map, and then it just kind of became this character. ‘Hey, watch out for ninja moose when you’re out today.’”

That character popped in his head when he was filling out the LLC paperwork.

“I couldn’t decide on a name, so I wrote Ninja Moose on there,” he says. “I stuck it on there and thought that I’d come up with a better name later on.”

He hasn’t yet.

Falke is brewing on a pilot system for now.

He says he’d like to have a planned five-barrel system running by the end of the summer.

“I never brewed on a large scale before this,” he says. “I’m still not brewing on a large scale. We’re basically homebrewing in the brewhouse.” He laughs and goes on: “We’re making 15-gallon batches and putting them in 5-gallon kegs. Just enough to feed the taps in the taproom.” continued on page 21

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Ninja Moose’s beers fall into three categories: House (5 to 6 percent ABV), Premium (7 to 8 percent ABV) and the Hamilton Series (9 to 10 percent ABV), such as an imperial stout. (If you can’t stay in Hamilton, Ninja Moose offers 64- and 32-ounce to-go growlers.)

Falke plans to add a beer to his taps the first weekend of every month until all 12 taps are flowing.

“We’re paying attention to what people like, and we’ll make the beer that people want to drink,” he says. “Right now, we’re just fooling around with recipes.”

Once the recipes for his beers are finalized, Falke says he’ll start branding Ninja Moose’s beers. He expects that to happen sometime in the summer.

Last year, Falke launched a mug club.

It sold out in less than a month, and now

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Tappings of Lagunitas Waldos’ Special Ale Imperial IPA, Perennial Saison de Lis and Ciderboys Peach County Cider, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway)

Torn Label tap takeover, at Green Room

Burgers & Beer (4010 Pennsylvania), 6 p.m.

Torn Label tap takeover, at Barley’s Brewhaus (5031 W. 135th St., Leawood), 5 p.m.

Mikkeller 1000 IBU IPA, at Flying Saucer (101

E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Tallgrass tasting, at Gomer’s (1606 W. 75th St.), 4–7 p.m.

Beer, wings and onion strings for $10, at Gordon Biersch (11652 Ash, Leawood), 4–11 p.m.

Friday, May 1

Firkin Fest, at Screenland Crossroads and Tapcade (1701 McGee), 6 p.m.

Charleville Microbrewery debut happy hour, with Half-Wit Wheat, Hoptimistic

IPA, Strawberry Blonde Ale and Ale Mucho Hoppo Double IPA, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 4–6 p.m.

Charleville Microbrewery tapping and glass night, with Half-Wit Wheat, Tornado Alley, Tripel Wit, 2013 Barley Wine and Ale Mucho

there’s a waiting list that’s 50-people deep.

“As soon as we get 50 names on a waiting list, we order more mugs,” he says.

Falke has expanded Ninja Moose’s hours, staying open five days a week: from noon to 8 p.m. Tuesday through Thursday and from noon to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday (closed Sunday and Monday). The hours aren’t the only thing expanding. So is the brewery’s building.

“We’re getting ready to just about double the size of the building,” he says. “We’re planning putting an outdoor patio … we decided to close it in and just make that usable space year-round.

“We’re planning on adding 15 feet out to the west, the full length of the building,” he adds. “We’re also planning to add 20 more feet behind the building and going all the way across the north end of the building. That will all be production brewhouse.”

Falke hopes to have the foundation finished by sometime this summer.

“We’re just steadily moving forward, brewing every day just about, which is nice,” he says. “It’s what I love to do.”

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Hoppo Double IPA, at the Foundry (4057 Pennsylvania), 6 p.m.

Oaked Dunkel tapping, at KC Bier Co. (310 W. 79 St.), 4 p.m.

Boulevard tap takeover, at Green Room Burgers and Beer (4010 Pennsylvania)

saTurday, May 2

Firkin Fest, at Screenland Crossroads and Tapcade (1701 McGee), 6 p.m.

BriarFest, featuring Cinder Block, 75th Street, Rock & Run, 23rd Street, KC Bier Co., and Big Rip, at Briarcliff Village/ Mulberry Lake, $25, 2:30 p.m.

Big Brew Day, at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City), 10 a.m.–4 p.m.

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ore than a year ago, Maija DiethelmFloyd decided to sell her Boozefish Wine Bar at 1511 Westport Road. It has taken about a year, but last month she closed a deal with first-time saloon owner David Sederholm.

When the new bar and bistro opens in mid-June, it will be called the Standard Pour, a play on the 155-year-old financial-services company Standard & Poor’s.

Sederholm, a vice president and portfolio manager with the Commerce Trust Co., is in the process of renovating the building’s interior. The 60-year-old is not leaving Commerce Trust to tend bar. He has hired most of his staff already, including longtime 75th Street Brewery manager Craig Mackin as general manager.

Sederholm says he has no plans to hire a chef to operate the small Standard Pour kitchen; instead, he’s looking for an up-andcoming kitchen crew to oversee a menu that he says will be “neighborhood-friendly but a little edgy.”

“We’ll have our own signature neighborhood burger,” Sederholm adds, “but we hope to surprise people with interesting dishes and dinner specials.”

Sederholm says he “wasn’t looking for an adventure,” but the chance to remake Boozefish “just sort of walked into my life.”

A new adventure was the reason that

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Sederholm remakes Boozefish.

Diethelm-Floyd decided to sell Boozefish, which she had opened in 2001. Originally, she had wanted to move to France — her late father lived there his entire life — and spend more time with family there. But a part-time job with Annedore’s has turned into a fulltime career as retail sales and marketing manager.

Diethelm-Floyd and Annedore’s owner, Sheri Weedman, calling themselves the “Mac Mamas,” have launched a new line of macarons at the confectionery, featuring an array of flavors (chocolate, raspberry, citron, pistachio, lavender and vanilla).

“It was bittersweet, selling the business,” Diethelm-Floyd says, “but I was ready to take a new journey myself. I’ve been going through the transition to the new business with David, and he has a wonderful vision for the venue, which is exactly what I wanted a new owner to have.”

Sederholm lives close enough to his new venture to be able to walk to Standard Pour every night, if he wants.

“It’s a great opportunity, and I think it will be an asset to a great neighborhood,” he says.

“I loved Boozefish and I think the regulars there will respond to Standard Pour in much the same way.”

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fire last week has temporarily closed Michael Forbes Bar & Grille. But the doors at 128 West 63rd Street won’t be closed for long. Restaurateur Forbes Cross expects his three-year-old Brookside restaurant to reopen in June.

The bad news?

“We’ll be closed during our two busiest weekends of the year,” Cross says. “The Brookside Art Fair and Mother’s Day.” An electric panel in the restaurant’s basement caught fire around 11 p.m. April 22. But the automatic alarm system alerted the fire department before the restaurant’s bartender could dial 911, Cross says.

“Our bartender was calling 911 and looked up, and the fire trucks were already here,” he says.

The dining room suffered smoke damage and will require replacing fabrics and upholstery, Cross says, but most of the fire damage was in the basement of the building.

Losing the two busiest weekends in May will hurt, Cross says, “but we’re planning a grand-opening event for June.”

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Volunteers make lots and lots of Polish food for Saturday.

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The 31st annual Polski Day is Saturday, May 2, with food service at the church and a parade at 14th Street and Central, both beginning at 11 a.m. It’s a true feast day.

To prepare for the festival’s dinner, the women of All Saints Parish begin cooking weeks in advance, including 2,700 gołąbki (beef-stuffed cabbage rolls), 3,000 pierogi and more than 3,000 Polish-style cookies.

Food prices range from $6 for Polishsausage sandwiches to $15 for a complete dinner. And varying in price are numerous a la carte items and desserts.

“When we started the festival in the 1980s, it was mostly the Polish community who came, and most of the neighborhood was still speaking Polish,” says Cathy Kolenda-Smith, longtime Polski Day chairwoman. “Now everyone comes to the festival: Irish, Italian, Hispanic. It’s a tribute to the historically Polish community, but everyone is welcome.”

Grinders takes over the High Noon Saloon & Brewery. tretch (aka Jeff Rumaner) is expanding his Grinders empire. The owner of the rock-and-roll pizza joint announced on social media earlier this week that he’s taking over the High Noon Saloon & Brewery in Leavenworth.

“Well seems it almost official. Grinders will be taking over the world famous High Noon Saloon and Brewery in Leavenworth KS,” he wrote.

The High Noon Saloon had teased that a transfer of ownership was in the works.

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Here’s a hint.”

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Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys are back — and not a moment too soon.

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side from the intricately patterned boots, Scott Hobart, in his corduroy pants and tucked-in oxford, does not particularly look like a honky-tonk singer. He can sure drink like one, though, and before he slides into a bar seat at Coda Bar & Grill during a weekday happy hour, he orders a shot of whiskey and a draft. It has been 10 years since he and his band toured as Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, but there are some habits you don’t break.

Last month, the band released Long Shot of Hard Stuff on Little Class Records, its first album since 2005’s Empty House. Hobart confesses that he’s almost as surprised as his fans might be.

“It is so absurd that 10 years later, just when you thought we were out, we’re back. Watch out!” Hobart says, laughing. “This was just sort of a whim of a record. We definitely wouldn’t have done it if Jody [Hendrix] and the rest of the guys over at Little Class hadn’t said, ‘Hey, if you guys ever want to do a record, we’re happy to help.’”

So it was last September that the band — guitarist and lead singer Hobart (stage name Rex), bassist Tilden “Blackjack” Snow, guitarist Brendan “J.B. Morris” Moreland, pedal-steel player Nate “Solomon” Hofer and drummer Mike “T.C. Dobbs” Dolembo — began thinking about new material.

The band and Little Class Records agreed on a December deadline. But Hobart hadn’t written a song with lyrics since Empty House, and everyone in the band had gone through a decade’s worth of changes. Hobart had moved several times before returning to Kansas City with his wife, and most of his bandmates had started families and found new paths.

“By now, all bets are off,” Hobart says.

“We’ve shifted gears after pushing for a lot of years on the road and making albums back to back and all that. We did four albums, we were on Bloodshot [Records], but we could never really make anything pop. It was like, ‘Well, we’ve done all we can. We were in the right places and the right moments and we tried, and we’re just not over the top. We’ve got to get back to real life.’”

At 43, Hobart is living a fairly standardissue “real life.” He has a job (as a theater tech), and he’s a dad, with a 2-year-old son and another kid on the way. He also happens to play in a country band, one that is universally admired and could have been one of Kansas City’s wildest success stories with just this much more luck.

Hobart acknowledges this last part with a smile and a shrug and not a shred of bitterness.

“I feel like one of the reasons that we never really popped was because people would hear us and compare us to Merle Haggard, George Jones and those guys,” Hobart says,

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“and it’s like, ‘Hey, you know what? Those guys are really good! I’m gonna go listen to a George Jones record!’ Why buy our record at that point? I can’t blame anyone for that. And I’m proud of what we did on Bloodshot and everything we’ve done.”

Still, Hobart wasn’t looking to repeat himself on Long Shot. He was done writing what he calls the “heartbreak songs” of his earlier albums, what he now thinks of as “absurdly sad tunes, up to the point of tragic comedy.”

And he wasn’t interested in putting too much pressure on the band and risk sapping the enjoyment out of it. The goals of this year’s Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, he says, are substantially different from what they once were.

“I feel like the band is more of an escape than it ever was before,” Hobart tells me. “It’s our card game. It’s where we go to have fun, and I think that comes through on the new record. I wanted to write some fun songs and get some new subject matter and open things up a little bit within the genre of honky-tonk and country.”

So there are plenty of classic country elements on Long Shot — including Hobart’s robust tenor, which seems designed to curve around the wailing notes of a slide guitar. But there are also surprises, such as the jangly, new-fashioned “Get’n My Honky Tonk Back On.” And though the love-spurned tales that Hobart once favored are indeed MIA, it doesn’t mean that he’s any more cheerful. On “Jones’n for Merle Haggard (to Bring Me Back Home),” he assumes the character of an artist who has

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fallen short of his dreams: Followin’ in the footsteps of my honky-tonk heroes, wonderin’ what went wrong, he sings, Could you put mama on the phone so I can tell her she tried?

Hobart delivers those lines with a cowboy’s confidence, all twang and tranquility. He’s not the character in the song, he says. And though he didn’t really figure on the rebirth of his band, he is pleased to discover that there’s still room to grow for Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys.

“I feel like, at least on our first three records, we were really trying to emulate that old, classic sound,” Hobart says. “There were some original ideas in the music, but we were still really studying the form. It wasn’t until Empty House that we kind of started realizing the craft of the style. And for that record, we were recording in this cold warehouse back here with Chad Meise [sound engineer at Davey’s Uptown], and we were just doing it, and I remember it being a more ‘us’ kind of record. And this record is another step in that direction.”

Coda has gotten livelier as we’ve talked, and tonight’s entertainment — the Phantoms of the Opry, which Hofner also plays in — has filed in. Hobart has a way of turning a serious statement into a joke, and he rolls his eyes as he finishes his thoughts on the band’s future.

“I guess we’re finally finding ourselves after all these years,” he says, laughing and reaching for his beer.

Nothing wrong with that.

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Ken Lovern’s OJT — Organ Jazz Trio to those unfamiliar — has a new album out called New Standards for the Green Lady, and it’s a doozy. Lovern’s roisterous Hammond B-3 organ, Brian Baggett’s drippingwith-blues guitar, and Kevin Frazee’s quick and supple drums turn pop standards into jazz standards with exceptional delight.

“Eleanor Rigby” hasn’t been this much fun since Ray Charles recorded it. You want “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” riffing with both anguish and joy? You’ve got it. There’s a lightness to this music that can make your shoulders sway in rhythm and pull you right out of your seat. OJT has been a regular at Green Lady Lounge for the past couple of years; Friday night, the group returns to light up the joint.

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hen Anna St. Louis, the bass player for garage-rock trio Bloodbirds, departed for California in October 2013, the local music community was bereft. A beloved band had come to a sudden stop. Feeling even sadder were Bloodbirds’ lead singer and guitarist Mike Tuley and his wife, drummer Brooke Tuley.

“We wanted to keep the band going, and we talked about it at first,” Mike says. Doing that, though, meant more than simply finding a replacement for St. Louis.

“It didn’t seem right, to try and take what you have with one group of people and take another group of people and do those same things,” Brooke says. “That seems untrue.”

“We had this thing at the beginning of practice where we sort of jammed, where everyone just played whatever they felt like playing,” Mike adds, “and it was this cacophony, and eventually we’d get a chord or a loop and tie everything together.” He adds: “Anna is, like, the soul of the band. She wrote the bass lines that start a lot of our songs. She’s a principal songwriter. We can’t replace her.”

I’ve met the Tuleys at their Westwood home, and we’re sitting together in the couple’s backyard. The sun hasn’t quite set, but the Tuleys’ 8-month-old son, Blue, has gone down for the night. A baby monitor sits on the patio table. Both musicians admit that the arrival of their firstborn made them somewhat less motivated to reconfigure Bloodbirds, yet the band has survived.

“I mean, yes, our friend moved, but our relationship still exists, and there’s always potential,” Mike says. “Every time Anna’s come back, we’ve gone down to our basement and jammed. We were sitting on hundreds of songs, too, and we recorded 17 or 18 before she moved.”

Eight of those recordings, from 2013, made it onto MMXVIII, Bloodbirds’ new full-length, which the band introduces with two shows this weekend: Friday at Love Garden Sounds, in Lawrence, and Saturday at FOKL Center.

MMXVIII is the first release for the band since the excellent Psychic Surgery, which came out in February 2013, and it doesn’t disappoint.

Mike Tuley’s voice is as raw and guttural as ever, embedded here in layers of face-melting guitar riffs, deep bass lines and fierce drum rhythms. It’s very fine psychedelic punk-rock.

St. Louis is flying in for the record release.

The trio hasn’t practiced the songs together since she moved, but the Tuleys aren’t especially worried about that.

“Two years definitely feels, emotionally, like a long time ago,” Brooke says. “Those feelings in those songs have a different meaning now, but I don’t think it’ll be hard to get back in the groove.”

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“We’ve been spending some time on those songs, rehearsing in our basement — mostly when my parents come over to watch the baby — but we won’t really know what they sound like until Anna’s here and we’re at full volume.”

Mike is quick to add that, though St. Louis is back in town for the shows and both old and new Bloodbirds tunes will be played, the group isn’t making strict rules about the set list. Brooke released her own solo album, the moody and enchanting First Midnight, last April, and St. Louis has also been working on her own tunes. These are extensions of the band, Mike says, and Bloodbirds fans will recognize that.

“You know, some of the best advice that I got in my life was from Kirk Kaufman at Juniors Motel [Recording] Studio, up in Iowa, when I was 18 and I was trying to be, like, a band dictator about something,” Mike says.

“He goes, ‘Hey, man, no makin’ no rules here.’ And it washed over me. We’ll just play whatever we feel like playing next week. It’s still Bloodbirds, even if that means Anna is singing and Brooke is playing bass and I’m playing drums.”

Brooke agrees: “I think if we had continued to play, even without her leaving, the sound would have evolved to be different than how it started, like everything does.”

The air is getting cooler, and Brooke rubs her hands together. A second-grade teacher

The Tuleys keep St. Louis close. by day, she has, at any hour, an air of infinite patience, with a calm, even voice. Her eyes drift occasionally to the baby monitor, but Blue seems to be enjoying an uninterrupted sleep. Becoming a parent, she says, has transformed her and the way she approaches music.

“I think creativity just changes and takes on different forms,” she says. “For me, musically, playing my own solo stuff works well because it’s easier than forming a band and finding a practice space. It’s so easy and natural to pick up a guitar and sit on the floor and sing to the baby. That’s nice.”

She goes on: “One of the biggest differences of being a parent now and playing music is that we don’t get to be as uninhibited as before because it’s like, ‘Oh, there’s a baby that relies on us.’”

“And then you don’t get to see him, which is a bummer,” Mike agrees. “Like, ‘cool, I went to band practice, but I don’t get to see my kid today.’ That sucks. Your energy is torn, and obviously the kid wins out for us.”

The Tuleys liken playing in Bloodbirds before to being on a search for a specific sound, for an elusive, perhaps unattainable element. A year and a half later, the dynamic has changed — but no one seems upset about that. “The chase,” as Brooke calls it, has been forfeited for a set of new experiences.

“I always say that while Anna was here, it was like extra enrichment. She just made it really nice,” she says. “But life in Kansas City here has been good for us, and we’re happy.”

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James McMurtry

With his long curls, gray-streaked goatee and out-of-time round spectacles, James McMurtry looks about the way he sounds: a little rough around the edges, a little older than he planned to be. But fans of the Texas singer-songwriter’s latest full-length, February’s Complicated Game, like him that way. It’s that dust and grit that give his Americana deep flavor. And there’s nothing scraggly about McMurtry’s way with the language. The son of novelist Larry McMurtry and an English-professor mother, McCurtry is a natural-born storyteller. Every song lands a vividly imagined protagonist inside an impeccably structured vignette.

Thursday at Knuckleheads, McMurtry lays out a batch of his stories with the usual sure grace.

Thursday, April 30, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

Billy Joel

Sure, Billy Joel hasn’t released a pop album since 1993’s River of Dreams, but if we’re being honest, the man hardly needs to. His catalog brims with hits, and the old stuff still yields new fans ready to fill arenas alongside folks who have long been with the Piano Man. And Joel’s shows these days aren’t just the smashes; he’s a one-man deep-cuts station. It’s an approach that works: The singer-songwriter’s wildly successful monthly residency at Madison Square Garden, sold out since January 2014, is proof enough. Friday at the Sprint Center, concertgoers can expect a filling two-hour show that spans the length of Joel’s industrious career. You might want to do some vocal warm-ups in preparation for the unavoidable crowd sing-alongs.

Friday, May 1, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

The Who

Though only two of the Who’s original members — guitarist Pete Townshend and singer Roger Daltrey — are around to celebrate the band’s 50th anniversary, don’t believe for one second that Tuesday night’s Sprint Center show will come up short. The 71-year-old Daltrey still has one of rock’s most incendiary

voices, and hearing him charge through “Baba O’Riley,” “Behind Blue Eyes” and “Won’t Get Fooled Again” is draw enough. Bonus: Ringo Starr’s son, Zak Starkey, is the band’s drummer on this tour; we have a feeling he’ll do Keith Moon justice. Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, open.

Tuesday, May 5, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

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Les Claypool is completely insane. How else might one explain the bizarre interpretation that his band, Primus, gave the soundtrack to the classic 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory? It seems rather like the opening lines of a complicated and bad joke: Thrashmetal-funk band reunites classic lineup for a new, Wonka-themed album; tour to include exclusive chocolate bars. But despite Claypool’s sense of humor, this is no joke. Drummer Tim Alexander performed on the October-released album, titled Primus and the Chocolate Factory With the Fungi Ensemble, and is touring with the band now for the first time in nearly two decades. Wednesday night’s show at the Uptown will feature a two-hour set divided

A bit of stigma comes with participating in those nationally televised singing competitions, but Luke Wade — a runner-up on the seventh season of The Voice — seems to have avoided the associated trappings. He may not have the title or the superstardom, but the Texas native does have a nearly flawless instrument, and that’s his saving grace. Wade’s voice has a cozy, worn-in warmth, and on his latest release, The River, he uses it to sell some stirring soul songs. Fans of Ray LaMontagne and St. Paul & the Broken Bones will find a lot to love at Wade’s Bottleneck show Tuesday night.

Tuesday, May 5, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)

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Living Legend

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Comedy

Cock | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorn

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Hippieman | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

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Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat | The Coterie

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Kauf drops with dustin Kaufman | 10 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

Fiddler on the Roof | Spinning Tree Theatre, at Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Penn Valley Dr., spinningtreetheatre.com

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

Freedom Rider | UMKC Theatre, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry, umkctheatre.org

SHoPPing

greater Kansas City gardeners Plant Sale |

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Gomer’s Square, 99th St. and Holmes

Hold Up on Dead Man’s Creek | KC Mystery Train, KCMT Tiffany Ballroom, 903 Harrison, kcmysterytrain.com

Spring Plant Sale | 4-7 p.m. Overland Park Arboretum,

8909 W. 179th St., Overland Park, opabg.org

The Last Night of Ballyhoo | Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, metkc.org

Food & dRinK

Sineann Wine dinner with five courses by chef Bobby

Bowman | 7:30-11 p.m., $85, Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, 4814 Roanoke Pkwy., jaxfishhouse.com/event

The Liar | UMKC Theatre, James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry, umkctheatre.org

The Who | 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

Wine Tasting on the Terrace | 6-8 p.m., $25, Overland Park Arboretum, 8909 W. 179th St., Overland Park, opabg.org

Sidewalk Chalk, Abstract Rude, myka 9, neL, dutch newman, negro Scoe, dJ gear | 8 p.m.

ensemble ibérica presents the music of mexico | 8 p.m. Bentley Guitar Studio, 122 S. Main, Parkville,

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

ensembleiberica.org

Til Willis & erratic Cowboy, my Feral Children, miry Wild | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Kansas City Symphony: Don Juan, plus mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 20 | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for

SPoRTS & ReC

Royals vs. Tigers | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium muSiC

The Band oasis | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

your Robot Friends, Jasper, Kingo Bole | 8:30 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main nigHTLiFe

Blue october, Ashleigh Stone, Legendary Skies | 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence Kathleen Holeman duo | 7 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

JJ grey & mofro, Anderson east | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Kodascope, Lonnie Fisher & the Funeral | 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

major games, Psychic Heat, maybe not | 8 p.m.

The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

James mcmurtry, max gomez | 9 p.m. Knuckle-

heads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

david nail | 8 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St.,

Overland Park

dJ g Train | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Jessimae Peluso | 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

What They Did for Love: the Songs of marvin Hamlisch and Burt Bacharach

| Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com

CommuniTy BeneFiTS

Rain Pryor | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Art Bra KC , benefiting the University of Kansas

exPoS

Cancer Center’s Patients in Need Fund | 7 p.m. TWA Museum, 10 Richards Rd., Ste. 110, artbrakc.com

Kittens, Spinstyles | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048

KC Tattoo Arts Convention | 2 p.m.-midnight, Sheraton Crown Center, 2345 McGee, villainarts.com

Shuttlecork 2015 | 5:30-10 p.m., $250, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

mondo disco with Ray Velasquez | 10 p.m. The

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dJ Parle & dJ Savy | 9 p.m. Prime Blu, 619 Mas-

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Broadway

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

oh my gawth with Sanam Tala | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Cinco de mayo Fiesta | 5-11 p.m. Guadalupe Center, 1015 Avenida Cesar E. Chavez

SHoPPing

open-mic night | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

Friday | 5.1 |

greater Kansas City gardeners Plant Sale |

9 a.m.-5 p.m. Gomer’s Square, 99th St. and Holmes

PeRFoRming ARTS

good Ju Ju | 8:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m., 1420 W. 13th Terr.

City in motion dance: Circles, Cycles & Seasons | 8 p.m. City Stage Theater, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing

Spring Plant Sale | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Overland Park

Rossonian, nuthatch-47, the Feel Bad Hit |

September mourning | 6 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

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Sticky Traps | KC Rep, Copaken Stage, 13th St. and Walnut, kcrep.org

Royals vs. Tigers | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium Same-gender Couples’ doubles Tennis Tournament, sponsored by the USTA Missouri Valley | Noon-midnight, Plaza Tennis Center, 4747 J.C. Nichols Pkwy., tennislink.usta.com muSiC

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urban mining Vintage | 9 a.m.-9 p.m., 3924 Walnut

Abstract Rude, myka9, Approach | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Rain Pryor | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

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Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

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KC Tattoo Arts Convention | 11 a.m.-midnight, Sheraton Crown Center, 2345 McGee, villainarts.com

American Soldier | Nelson-Atkins Museum

of Art, 4525 Oak

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

Cinco de Mayo fiesta | 9 a.m.-10 p.m. Guadalupe Center, 1015 Avenida Cesar E. Chavez

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Blaque Lyte Royale, featuring Chicago artist-

SHOPPiNG

curators Paul Nudd and Chris Kerr | 2-7 p.m. Saturdays, Telephonebooth Gallery, 3319 Troost, telephoneboothgallery.com

9 a.m.-3 p.m. Gomer’s Square, 99th St. and Holmes

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Good Ju Ju | 8:30 a.m.-6 p.m., 1420 W. 13th Terr.

Greater Kansas City Gardeners Plant Sale |

a.m.-9 p.m. Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, 63rd St. and Brookside Blvd., brooksidekc.org

Spring Plant Sale | 9 a.m.-noon, Overland Park

Arboretum, 8909 W. 179th St., Overland Park, opabg.org

Eclectic Expressions Art Exhibit and fundraiser for Arts in Roeland Park | 6-9 p.m.

Urban Mining Vintage | 9 a.m.-6 p.m., 3924 Walnut

Saturday, Roeland Park City Hall, 4600 W. 51st St., Roeland Park, createfulstudios.com

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first friday at 2016 Main, exhibition by Fresh Produce Art Collective and resident artists of Seedco Studios | 2016 Main Event Space, 2016 Main (back entry), seedcostudios.com

Crafts & Drafts Brunch | Noon, RecordBar, 1020

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Make Your Mark | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Mapping Coyote Black, Natalie Ball | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org

Freedom Rider | The UMKC Theatre premiere, co-written and directed by Ricardo Khan, runs May 1-10 at the James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry, umkctheatre.org; above, Emily Phillips (left) and Maya Jackson.

Peter Max, a Retrospective — 1960-2015

Crybaby Ranch album-release show with the Garage King and the Blue Boot Healers | 7 p.m.

New Riddim, Here’s to the Life, Calamity Cubes | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Charlotte Embry & Soigné | 8:30 p.m. The Blue

9:45 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Extra Ordinary, the Knew, Young Bull, Hidden Planets | 9 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508

5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Eye of the Realist, Reverse Order, Vineyard Brooklyn Rye, Crystal Baller | Jackpot Music Hall,

PERfORMiNG ARTS

| 6-9 p.m. Saturday, 1-4 p.m. Sunday, Town Center Plaza, 5000 W. 119th St., Leawood, roadshowcompany.com

Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Meet Me at the Museum Tour | 2-3 p.m.

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

Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces | Nelson-Atkins

Locust, Lawrence

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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

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

Mat Shoare Band, Major Games, Knifecrime |

Roger Wilder Quintet, Tim Whitmer Quartet |

943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Jon Harrison & the Cash Cows, Phantoms of the Opry | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts,

Lawrence

Billy Joel | 8 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

Saturday | 5.2 | City in Motion Dance: Circles, Cycles & Seasons | 8 p.m. City Stage Theater, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., cityinmotion.org

Kansas City Symphony: Don Juan, plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

World War I and the Rise of Modernism | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Vance Joy, the Kooks, Joywave, Hembree |

7:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

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C-Bo, Ghost, Killa Tay, Marvaless | 8 p.m. The

Lee & the Breakups, the Snotrockets, Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

Danny Cox | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Mountain Sprout | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

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Giggle with Gilda, featuring Tom Papa, benefiting Gilda’s Club Kansas City | 6:30-10 p.m., $35, $50, $150, Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr., GildasClubKC.org Jessimae Peluso | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

COMMUNiTY BENEfiTS

Camp Bloom, benefiting the Kansas City CARE Clinic

| 8 p.m., $125, 12th Street Bridge, 12th St. and Hickory, campbloom.com

Crawl for Cancer, benefiting St. Luke’s Cancer In-

stitute, Breast Cancer Research Foundation, Gilda’s Club Kansas City, Harvesters, Alex’s Lemonade Stand, and others | Power & Light District, 14th St. and Walnut, crawlforcancer.org/kansascity

Golf for Guatemala fundraiser tournament, benefiting Engineers Without Borders | 8 a.m.-4 p.m., $125/person, $500/team, Deer Creek Golf Course, 7000 W. 133rd St., Leawood, ksuewb.webs.com COMMUNiTY EVENTS

14th Annual Village Crawfish festival, benefiting reStart Inc. | 6-11 p.m., $45/$55, St. Pius Church, 55th St. and Woodson, Mission, crawdaddies.org

Polski Day | 11 a.m. All Saints Parish, 811 Vermont, KCK, polskiday.com Tractor Cruise: a 35-mile loop around Wyandotte

County with stops at Grinter House, Wyandotte County Lake and Cabela’s | 8:30 a.m.-4 p.m. The National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, 630 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs, aghalloffame.com SPORTS & REC

Cinco de Mayo 5Qué, 5k run/walk, 1k walk, and kids

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MUSEUM ExhibitS & EvEntS Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries | Museum at Prairiefire, 5801 W. 135th St., Overland Park, museumatpf.org

Phosphene | 8 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

InvItatIon to BId for frontIer School SyStem-charter School

Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, the Grisly Hand | 10 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

“A Higher Form of Killing,” with Diana Preston, BBC broadcaster and Oxford-educated historian | 6-7 p.m. Tuesday, free with RSVP, National World War I Museum at the Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

To Be a Man, Kathryn King, Sunflower Native, My Father’s Gun, Aluna, Engage the Broken |

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

Viva, the Giraffe Bros. | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810

Cherry, lindahall.org

Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West | Union

Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org

Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Truckstop Honeymoon | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Broadway

Charles Williams Quartet | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

NiGHTLiFE

Floyd Mayweather vs. Manny Pacquiao pay-perview boxing | 8 p.m. Twin Peaks, 19821 E. Jackson Dr., Independence, 14805 W. 119th St., Olathe

Cinco de Mayo Fiesta | 9 p.m.-midnight, $25/$35, KC

Royals vs. Tigers | 6:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

Same-Gender Couples’ Doubles Tennis Tournament, sponsored by the USTA Missouri Valley |

Joints & Jams with Johnny Quest | 10 p.m. Replay

8 a.m.-midnight, Plaza Tennis Center, 4747 J.C. Nichols Pkwy., tennislink.usta.com

Live Block at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

KC Cabaret variety show | 9:30 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Issue Date: April 16, 2015 Project Location: 6455 Commerce Street, Kansas City MO Project Description: Construct new pre-engineered metal framed gymnasium building with related sidewalk and parking lot improvements. Gymnasium is 8,862 Gross SF of area with high school sized basketball court. Additional supporting rooms include Tickets, Locker Rooms, Toilets, Coach Office,Equipment Storage and Mech/Elec Room.

Project Dates: Bid Packages must be requested prior to Monday, May 11th at 10:00 AM Bid Packages can be obtained from Ms. Schneider at dschneider@frontierschools.org.

MANDATORY Pre-proposal Conference on May 11th at 2:00 PM at the project site.

Proposals due: May 26, 2015 at 1:00 p.m.

Public bid opening: May 26, 2015 at 3:00 p.m.

Submit to: Frontier Schools, Inc. 30 West Pershing Road, Suite 402 Kansas City, MO 64108 Attention: DeWana Schneider Number of Copies Required: One (1) bound copy marked “Copy”, one (1) unbound original marked “Original” and one (1) Digital copy in PDF format.

Kentucky Derby Party | 5 p.m. Fuel, 7300 W. 119th

Insurance Requirements (NO EXCEPTIONS WILL BE MADE TO THESE REQUIREMENTS): Prior to the start of Work, Contractor shall at its own expense, procure and maintain in effect during performance and until final completion the following insurance. The insurance required shall be written for not less than the following limits, or greater if required by law.

Backfat, Martin Carpenter and the Souvenirs, Lara Wisdom, Shades of Jade dinner show | 6:30 p.m. Coda, 1744 Broadway

Lindsay Lowend, Matej b2b Stov, Thumpur b2b Stov, Marcobiotics b2b Moody J, Boatss b2b Yung Grandpa, Azoic Realm b2b Dspang | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

1. Worker’s Compensation Workers’ Compensation insurance with coverage and limits complying with the statutory requirements of the jurisdiction in which the services are performed.

Bon Ton Soul Accordion Band | 4 p.m. Kanza Hall,

Magic 107.3 Saturday Groove Party | 7 p.m. Voo-

33rd Annual Kids Fishing Derby | 8:30 a.m. Old

Lake Jacomo Beach, 22300 Colbern Rd., Lee’s Summit

St., Overland Park

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7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Zack Bramhall Band | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Doo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Sunday | 5.3 | PERFORMiNG ARTS

Brother Bagman, Monzie Leo and the Big Sky, the Cactus Blossoms, KC Rain Dogs | 8 p.m.

Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Cop Knock, Crazy Eyes, Monster | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Full Count Soul Band | 9 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union

City in Motion Dance: Circles, Cycles & Seasons | 2 p.m. City Stage Theater, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing

Rd., cityinmotion.org

The Kansas City Chorale performs Herbert Howell’s “Requiem” | 2 p.m. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, 416 W. 12th St., kcchorale.org

The Gooch Palms, Death Valley Girls, Mime Game, the Modern Era, Admiral of the Red |

Kansas City Symphony: Don Juan, plus Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20 | 2 p.m. Kauffman Center for

Los Lobos, Kris Lager Band, Maria the Mexican, Head Hochos, Chris Meck & the Guilty Birds, Amanda Fish Band | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads

Midwest Chamber Ensemble Season Finale,

Nicolette Paige, Stylez, Terry Notez, DJ Gear, DJ A Will, Alv Diesel | 3 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Prayers for Bobby, a concert dedicated to issues of struggle, alienation and acceptance of young LGBTQIA people | 11:15 a.m. All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut, allsoulskc.org

8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Organ Jazz Trio | 9:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge,

1809 Grand

the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

featuring Bach’s Fifth Brandenburg Concerto | 7:30 p.m.

Lutheran Church of the Resurrection, 9100 Mission, Prairie Village, midwestchamberensemble.org

2. Employers Liability Employer’s Liability insurance covering all personnel directly or indirectly connected with the performance by Contractor, with unaggregated limits of $1,000,000 Bodily Injury by Accident (Each Accident); $1,000,000 Bodily Injury by Disease (Policy Limit); and $1,000,000 Bodily Injury by Disease (Each Employee) 3. Commercial General Liability Commercial General Liability insurance, covering claims for bodily injury, death and property damage, including: premises and operations; independent contractors; products and completed operations coverage for not less than three (3) years from the final completion date; personal injury; property damage liability including X, C and U coverage; blanket contractual liability, covering Contractor’s obligations under this Agreement; broad-form property damage liability coverage, with limits of $2,000,000 per occurrence and $5,000,000 aggregate per project.

4. Commercial Auto Liability Commercial Auto Liability insurance providing coverage for all owned, non-owned, and hired automobiles used by the Contractor in the performance of the Work with a combined single limit of not less than $1,000,000 for each occurrence of bodily injury and property damage.

5. Excess/Umbrella Liability (General and Major Subcontractors) Excess or Umbrella Liability insurance with a limit of not less than $10,000,000. This limit applies in excess of each of the coverage set forth above in paragraphs (2) Employer’s Liability; (3) Commercial General Liability and (4) Commercial Auto Liability which are scheduled as primary. Umbrella or excess liability policy shall follow the form of the primary coverage set forth herein, exceed the underlying policy without gaps in limits and provide coverage as broad as the underlying insurance coverage.

6. Builder’s Risk The owner will procure and pay for “Builders Risk” insurance in an amount to be determined. The contractor will be notified of this amount prior to execution of the contract. The contractor will be responsible for the first $1,000.00 of the deductible amount. Note this is a $1,000 deductible for each claim.

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Comedy

Killer moon, morningGlories, eddie moore and the outer Circle | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

two eatest Th e g r p or t s s in s minute

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

Westport Rd.

Karl mcComas-Reichl Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Rain Pryor | 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Rural Grit Happy Hour | 6-9 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee

exPos

KC Tattoo Arts Convention | 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

stolstafir, Ancient vvisdom, Keef mountain, Hyborian | 8:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

F e s T i vA l s

Waldo Jazz Collective | 7 p.m. The Piano Room,

Bill Brine

Sheraton Crown Center, 2345 McGee

Cinco de mayo Fiesta | Noon-8 p.m. Guadalupe

Center, 1015 Avenida Cesar E. Chavez

CommuniTy BeneFiTs

march for Babies , benefiting March of Dimes |

8 a.m. Power & Light District, 14th St. and Walnut, machofdimes.com/kansas CommuniTy evenTs

Fourth Annual Kansas City Chihuahua Parade,

benefiting Great Plains SPCA | 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $5 per dog, Barney Allis Plaza, 12th St. and Wyandotte, kcdogparade.com sPoRTs & ReC

Royals vs. Tigers | 1:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium same-Gender Couples’ doubles Tennis Tournament, sponsored by the USTA Missouri Valley |

8 a.m.-5 p.m. Plaza Tennis Center, 4747 J.C. Nichols Pkwy., tennislink.usta.com

sporting KC vs. Chicago Fire | 4 p.m. Sporting

Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK

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age play Dear Dan: My partner is 31 years older than I am.

I know the math: He’ll be 60 when I’m 29. But that isn’t the problem. The issue is, he’s been a lifelong bachelor and never been monogamous.

He’s fucked hundreds of women and is close friends with a lot of his former fuck buddies.

Because of our four-year friendship before we hooked up, I know a lot about his sex life. The problem isn’t jealousy — and it isn’t knowing that he’s fucked every woman he’s friends with or that he fucked someone else after declaring his love for me. It’s that I know too much. We both feel vulnerable at times — him because I’m still in contact with one ex, and me because I feel like I’m fighting his past preference for nostrings-attached relationships. He tells me this relationship is different and he loves me in a way he hasn’t loved anyone before. But I still feel like I’ll never attain any sort of primacy.

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your partner is going to be 60 and you’re going to be 29, which means you’re somewhere in your 20s and he’s somewhere in his 50s, right? (Math is hard!) And because you two were friends for four years before he realized you were the only woman he wanted to stick his dick in for the rest of his life — pay no attention to the woman he dicked during the brief interlude between telling you he loved you and the aforementioned realization — that means … um …

Math is hard, as Barbie says, especially when you don’t have all the relevant data. The same goes for giving advice.

Answering your question without knowing your actual ages is difficult because it makes a difference whether you’re 21 and he’s 52 (which means this man befriended you when you were in high school) or you’re 28 and he’s 59 (and you met this man after you got out of college).

Likewise, it would help to know how long you two have been together.

Essentially, you’re asking me to game out the odds for both long-term success and monogamous success (and, yes, those are two different things), and that’s hard to do without knowing your ages and how long you’ve been together. And I would definitely give your relationship slimmer odds of long-term success if your partner were the kind of middle-aged man who befriends and eventually beds high school students. Conversely, I would give your relationship fatter odds of long-term success if you were three years into it and your partner had been successfully monogamous all that time.

That said, cheating and breakups regularly happen in the absence of significant age gaps and friendship networks composed exclusively of ex–fuck buddies. (People tend to partner with people in their same age demographic, so

cheating and breakups almost always happen in the absence of significant age gaps. But that is correlation, not causation — and sophistry, too!) There are no guarantees. Your partner may revert to nonmonogamous form at some point and either cheat (boo!) or ask for permission to open up your relationship (yay?).

You could find yourself in a caretaker role in 10-plus years and find yourself asking him for permission to open up your relationship. Or you guys could stay together and stay faithful until death comes for one of you — most likely your partner, leaving you plenty of time to hook up with your ex, if he’s still available.

Oh, shit — blah blah blah, I haven’t answered your question. You’ll obtain primacy — or realize you’ve already attained it — after a significant chunk of time has passed. So give it more time. Either it will work out or it won’t.

But even if this relationship isn’t a long-term success, it can still be a short-term success.

Good luck.

Dear Dan: I’m 62 and happily married for 20

years to a sweet guy who doesn’t seem particularly interested in sex any longer. We are open to allowing each other freedom, with full disclosure, and have occasionally done this. When I watch music videos of John Sebastian in his 20s, I cream my jeans. And I have noticed similar reactions to sweet, intelligent young men in their 20s and 30s. I don’t necessarily discriminate on the basis of age — or gender, color, etc. — and if a cute guy or gal in my age group came on to me, I’d consider the offer. But what I’d really like is a young man who finds me attractive and would be interested in seducing, or being seduced by, yours truly, even though I’m old enough to be his grandma.

Wicked Older Woman Dear WOW: A study you’re not going to want to read and that I’m not going to cite — because

By

D a n S ava ge it lumps people who are sexually attracted to the elderly together with people who are sexually attracted to prepubescent children — puts the percentage of people attracted to senior citizens at .15 percent of the population. That means there are more than 11 million gerontophiles of all ages out there. We’ve already established that math is hard, so I’m not going to try to figure out how many gerontophiles are in their 20s and 30s. But there should be lots.

And there are probably a few nongerontophile guys (and gals) out there who are willing to take a walk on the postmenopausal side. How to make it happen? The same way everyone else does: Get online and advertise for what you want (clearly and explicitly), and get out of the house (you never know whom you’ll meet).

Then seize — safely — the opportunities that come your way.

Dear Dan: My partner and I — both 40-

something males — had a threesome with a very cute 20-something college student who approached us online. He considers himself straight and has a girlfriend, but he “has been wondering” about his sexuality. The evening went incredibly well, but he had the typical “curious guy” freak-out the day after. Texts and e-mails flooded in — he wanted (more) guarantees about our health status even though we played safe during sex. He said he told his girlfriend. (“She was understanding but pissed!”) He also said we could never get together again. Then he started drunk-texting us at night, offering to send us more sexy photos and talking about how much he wanted to see us again. Sober texts arrived in the morning apologizing for his drunken behavior. We’ve tried to be there, not just for the sex but also for his process afterward. Did we do this guy a disservice by engaging with him? (Also, I’m not convinced there really is a girlfriend.)

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oring the campsite rule (“Leave ’em in better shape than you found ’em”) because this guy is a mess right now. But some queers can’t seem to accept themselves — or even recognize themselves — until after a clarifying queer sexual encounter or three. In all likelihood, this 20-something will one day look back at his “typical ‘curious guy’ freak-out” as an important part of his coming-out process as a gay or a bi man. So you probably did him a favor.

(Although I would describe his freak-out as cliché — and increasingly atypical.) As for the real-or-imaginary girlfriend: If she exists, she should dump him. Not because of your actions but because of his.

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