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Entertainment director, American Jazz Museum; general manager, the Blue Room; freelance musician “In five years, I’ll be …” Looking at a thriving city

realizing that we have a great opportunity to celebrate Charlie Parker’s centennial. Kansas City should be planning the biggest yearlong performance of Bird in 2020 and leading the way, claiming the mantle of Bird right here, where he sharpened his ax. There are only 60 months left, and we as a city should be planning this celebration, which in turn could redefine our relationship to jazz and the arts in general.

“I always laugh at …” People who think jazz is dead!

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“I can’t stop listening to …” Bobby Watson’s

Hometown: Lindale, Texas Current neighborhood: Grandview What I do: As the GM of the Blue Room and di-

What’s on your KC postcard? Kauffman Center

or a shot of the Blue Room at night, glowing with crowds lined up, all dressed up, craning their necks to see and hear the action.

rector of entertainment for the American Jazz Museum for the past 17 years, I’ve had some humbling experiences helping me realize that we stand on the shoulders of those who have come before us. I consider myself a steward of Kansas City jazz, a representative of what it meant, means now, and how it continues to create new meaning.

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” KC decided to invest in a new vision for

What’s your addiction? Music … I am addicted

“Kansas City screwed up when …” We stopped investing in arts education. For many years, even during segregation, the city was committed to teaching the arts to all residents, to great cultural and economic result. Many of the great jazz musicians of Kansas City got their training in public schools. For some reason, we decided to let the arts die on the vine, particularly for less-than-wealthy children whose parents can’t afford private lessons. The result is the slow strangling of the arts as a cultural resource, which resonates throughout our society and our economy. The arts pay!

most to “applause.” Applause is so spontaneous and authentic and unscripted, stimulated by inspirational performance, usually artistic.

Of all the sounds I hear in the Blue Room — and I have heard some of the most exciting sounds ever here — the sound I most crave is the sound of uncontrolled clapping and cheering, like an eruption of ecstasy. When I hear it, I know an artist has attained a certain level of expression, rare and wanted. When I hear applause, I know we are doing our job, I am hitting my note, we are making a connection at the level of the soul and the heart.

What’s your game? I love slapping dominoes

down on hard tables and talking shit about it.

What’s your drink? Right now it is Skyfall Merlot and Stoneleigh Sauv Blanc.

Where’s dinner? Gates, Bonefish, Peachtree

18th and Vine, which combined paying homage to the history of jazz while laying the foundation for the future of jazz. We got it right in recognizing the enormous cultural significance of jazz, the soundtrack of American history from the 20th century on.

“Kansas City needs …” To wake up and realize

it is a major player in this world we live in. KC needs to see the enormous potential of leveraging our heritage of avant-garde music, both artistically and economically, as opposed to seeing jazz as a relic, dead and to be spoken of in whispered voices. Jazz lives, but not so much in Kansas City. We need to change that.

“I Have a Dream” Project. Dominique Sanders’ new release. Logan Richardson’s next recording project with the following artists: Pat Metheny, Jason Moran, Nasheet Waits, Harish Raghavan. It will change the way we conceptualize improvisation.

“I just read …” Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff … and it’s all small stuff by Richard Carlson. Recently focusing on a couple of the Books of the Bible: Proverbs from the Hebrew Bible and the Old Testament of the Christian Bible dealing with practical everyday living; Psalms, known as “the book of praises.”

The best advice I ever got: Honor your father

and mother, which is the first commandment with promise.

Worst advice: There is no God. My sidekick: My dog, Domino. Regardless of what type of day I am having, he is always happy to see me.

My dating triumph/tragedy: Meeting my wife.

My 140-character soapbox: Lets bumrush #Bird2020KC and own it. #jazzlivesKC #60monthstoBird2020. There is just too much opportunity waiting to be guzzled.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for?

Having to cut a patron off who had too much to drink.

Who’s sorry now? They are, because they tossed their dinner all over their dashboard.

My recent triumph: Participating and sharing in the success of Mary Moore’s recent benefit for homeless women at the Blue Room last month, closing out the celebration of Women in Jazz.

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Gov. Brownback’s investment portfolio is bullish on Kansas vendors.

hen it came time for Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback to pay for a meal at Topeka barbecue joint Boss Hawg’s earlier this month, his server crossed out the ticket’s tip line and wrote: “Tip the schools.”

Brownback left a little money for Chloe Hough anyway, 10 percent on the $52 tab — markedly below the industry standard for adequate service. You could chalk up the meager gratuity to perceived insolence from Hough, but you can’t say Brownback couldn’t afford to do better by restaurant help. Beyond the $99,636 salary he makes as the governor of Kansas, he holds a considerable stock portfolio — one that has expanded impressively since he took office.

Brownback and other state lawmakers have to file “statement of substantial interest” paperwork with the Kansas secretary of state’s office every year. The SSI form discloses stock holdings and other investments. According to his 2010 filing, Brownback held common stock in 11 companies when he was elected governor that year.

In his most recent SSI disclosure, filed April 24, that portfolio had ballooned to 86 companies, many of which intersect with the functions of Kansas government.

One of Brownback’s holdings: Anthem Inc., which used to go by WellPoint Inc. In 2012, WellPoint bought Amerigroup, a managed-care company that is one of three contractors under the governor’s KanCare program. KanCare, which went into effect in 2014, was Brownback’s bid to privatize the state’s Medicaid program. He hailed it as a means to save the state money on its Medicaid program, one of the largest line items in the Kansas budget. But KanCare got off to a notoriously rocky start, with disabled residents suffering interruptions of their care.

KanCare hasn’t fared much better for its providers.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reported last week that three KanCare providers had lost a collective $52 million in 2014. Amerigroup scored the worst, with $19 million in losses.

It’s not clear when Brownback acquired his WellPoint stock. It wasn’t listed on his 2012 SSI, submitted in April of that year. Amerigroup, the WellPoint subsidiary, received the state’s contract for KanCare in June 2012. Brownback’s SSI form from April 2013 showed his ownership of WellPoint stock.

Brownback also holds stock in Westar Energy, the utility company based in Topeka that serves western portions of Johnson County.

Westar, like other utilities in Kansas, is regulated by the Kansas Corporation Commission.

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The KCC’s commissioners are appointed by Brownback. If Westar wants to increase its rates, it seeks approval from these Brownbackappointed commissioners.

Brownback also holds stock in ONEOK, which owns Kansas Gas Service, another utility governed by the KCC. Before Brownback became governor, his stock portfolio was relatively vanilla and largely devoid of companies that did business in Kansas. Back then, his holdings included national and transnational companies, such as Eastman Kodak, Coca-Cola, Comcast and IBM. His primary listed Kansas investment was 162 acres of farmland in Linn County.

Kansas ethics laws require the disclosure of stock holdings of elected officials, which Brownback has done. The law is silent about whether elected officials can hold ownership positions of companies that do business with, or are regulated by, Kansas government.

The governor's office tells The Pitch that Brownback personally has nothing to do with his stock holdings.

“The Governor’s investments are held in a trust managed by a brokerage firm," Brownback spokeswoman Eileen Hawley tells The Pitch in an e-mail. "The Governor has no dayto-day involvement with the trust for the sale or purchase of stocks. In response to your specific question, he did not direct the sale or purchase of Wellpoint stock. As the investments are owned by the trust and managed by a third party, and not by the Governor as an individual, there should be no potential for a conflict of interest or the appearance of one.”

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9 CAN THE TINY-HOUSE MOVEMENT GROW BIG IN KANSAS CITY?

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erry Rouse, a wiry 67-year-old engineer, has spent the better part of the past year building his dream home: a 60-square-foot box on a trailer that he can attach to the hitch on his Crown Victoria sedan and haul to, presumably, his dream lot.

From the outside, the structure resembles a child’s playhouse, a deluxe version of a certain kind of suburban backyard architecture. Inside, it is equipped with almost all of the basic amenities enjoyed by humans in the Western world, almost all of said amenities scaled to miniature size.

Rouse so far keeps his tiny house — as such structures are known — parked behind the Arts Asylum, a former church at Ninth Street and Harrison that has been converted into artists’ studios. I met him there the first Saturday in May. He was wearing a neon-green T-shirt tucked into his jeans. On the gravel beside his tiny house, he was cooking steak in a GoSun Stove, a solar-powered device that he had recently purchased. He pulled out a little tube to reveal small, sizzling slices of sirloin that he had bought that morning at a farmers market.

“The other day, I used this to make these applepie — I guess you’d call them empanadas,” he told me with an earnest smile.

Rouse was initially inspired to build his tiny house by a news item he saw a few years ago, about a guy who claimed that he could pull his entire living space behind him on a bike. “I wanted to see if I could go that small and really simplify things,” Rouse told me. “It seemed like an interesting challenge.”

On Craigslist, he found a flatbed trailer, built from rot-resistant teak decking, for $500.

He spent another $275 modifying the trailer so that a house could be erected on top of it

without blowing away in the wind. He put up the walls — 7 feet by 10 feet — and siding, and made openings for a few windows. He bought a wind-resistant Ondura roof from Lowe’s. He installed a battery box and a connector so that he could plug into the electrical grids common at RV parks. He added a propane heater: a Dickinson Newport, familiar to boat owners.

“On the coldest day this winter, I was able to heat this space with 475 watts,” Rouse said.

“That’s about five light bulbs.”

Eventually, Rouse will outfit the house with solar panels, at a cost of about $3,500; for that upfront expense, though, he’ll have power, he said, to “basically last me the rest of my life.”

Inside the house, there’s a mini refrigerator that opens from the top and uses less than 115 watts a day — “less than a fluorescent light,” Rouse said. (Charging his laptop is what consumes the most electricity.) In a space that adds up to about the size of a school janitor’s closet, there is also a sink, a small stove, two upright seats that can slide into each other to form a bed, and three 5-gallon brewing kettles — one insulated for hot water, another containing a purification system — that power a shower area that also contains a compost toilet. Two spray

hoses dangle in the area between the sink and the shower. One is for the dishes, the other for the body. A wall of the shower folds down for additional kitchen-counter space.

“I got a lot of these ideas at an RV convention I went to last year,” Rouse said. “Those people have spent a lot of time and energy figuring this stuff out already. That reminds me, you haven’t seen my guest bedroom yet.”

He pointed out bolts that he had installed on each end of the house, from which he can hang a hammock. “I like the hammock because it’s elevated higher than the bed is, so on a nice day, you can lay on it and see straight out the windows.”

Rouse figured that his cost to put up this tiny house would end up between $12,000 and $15,000. (It’s on the tiniest end of the tinyhouse spectrum; most tend to be three or four times larger and cost between $20,000 and $40,000.) Going smaller than small has allowed him to indulge in a few filigrees.

“I’ve got a tin ceiling in here,” he told me.

“I could never afford that in a regular house.

But since there’s so few materials, I can afford it in here. I try to surround myself with beauty.

To me, beauty enhances the earth and doesn’t

detract from it. That’s the appeal of tiny houses for me.”

Rouse owned a home in the Volker neighborhood for 20 years — he’s a distant relative of the Volker family’s, he told me — but he recently separated from his wife and sold that house. He has been more or less living at his studio at the Arts Asylum for the past year as he finished up his tiny house. He hopes to have it completed by the time he semi-retires next month.

Rouse began the project without a firm destination for where he would ultimately park it. “It was kind of a vulnerable undertaking in that way,” he said.

Around here, he has a few options. A friend of his who owns some wooded property in Wyandotte County has offered to let Rouse park his house there. There’s also space in a friend’s Volker backyard if he wants it.

But both are situations in which he’d be living in a legal gray area. Local laws haven’t formally caught up with the growing subculture of tiny-house enthusiasts. Is Rouse’s home an RV? Is it a house? What zoning and coding ordinances is it subject to? These were questions that hadn’t been asked in Kansas City just a year ago. Now, as more people become interested in downsizing their lives, for economical or environmental reasons, these questions are being posed more often. And answers are beginning to arrive.

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t’s funny to think about how my views on housing have changed in just the last few years,” Josh Farmer said one morning in mid-April, sitting in the passenger seat of my truck. “Just in terms of continued on page 10

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what you need and don’t need. You grow up thinking you need all this space. And really, you need so little of it. Or at least that’s how I’ve come to feel. Here, take a right on Indiana.”

Farmer, a bald, bespectacled man in his 40s, is the unofficial ringleader of Kansas City’s tiny-house movement. Earlier that morning, about 15 people — a white couple in their 20s, an elderly woman, a Hispanic couple with two small kids, a woman named Joyce who had driven from Tulsa to attend — had gathered in a conference room at the Lucile H. Bluford Branch of the Kansas City Public Library, at 3050 Prospect. Farmer wore a Hawaiian shirt and gave a brief tutorial about how to search the Land Bank of Kansas City. Now he was leading a tour of East Side properties and vacant lots for sale that he thought might make good spots for tiny houses — even for a tinyhouse community.

Farmer came to Kansas City from New York in 2012. His background is in education, and he has worked for a variety of nonprofits, including community centers and day-care programs. In 2010, while living alone in a fourbedroom house in upstate New York, Farmer contracted Lyme disease while on a hike. It went undiagnosed, and he became very sick.

When he did receive treatment, his medical bills piled up fast.

“That experience put me face to face with the idea that anything can happen to anyone,” he told me. “I was doing well financially at the time. But if you’re living a lifestyle that is enormous and your ability to finance that lifestyle is taken from you, you’re left with dire circumstances. So that’s when I started investigating new ways to live.”

He picked up freelance writing assignments covering organic-farming issues and moved to the Kansas City area after meeting some people here while researching that topic. “I couldn’t believe you could buy an entire house here for what would be a down payment in New York,” Farmer said. (He’s now working as a property manager in a shared living space in Independence, and he still does some freelance writing on sustainability issues.)

In December, Farmer linked up with Kendall Quack and Jeremy Luther (Luther is the art director for The Pitch), who had just begun the process of building a tiny house, to form a Facebook page called Tiny House Collective Kansas City. The collective now has more than 1,000 members and serves as a forum for technical construction questions as well as water-cooler talk about tiny living.

They have also formed a nonprofit land trust of the same name that intends to establish tiny-house communities and villages in part-

Farmer, top, of Tiny House Collective Kansas City; below, Rouse, left, with Luther, outside his tiny house (interior at left)

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nership with Kansas City neighborhoods. The nonprofit will also offer education, material support and information to those wishing to pursue their own tiny houses.

“I got into the tiny stuff originally back in New York, theorywise,” Farmer said. “Out here, it became more real. I was facing my own circumstances of having a reduced income but still wanting a place of my own to call home.

And I had seen tiny projects take off in other municipalities. So I started looking into how that might happen here. And slowly, the pieces seem to be falling into place.”

More than anybody else in Kansas City, Farmer has worked with Kansas City, Missouri, officials to translate the laws that affect tiny housing. As a result, tiny houses in Kansas City are inching closer to a safe emergence from the shadows.

Tiny houses can run as small as 50 square feet and up to about 600 square feet. They fit into two general categories: tiny houses on wheels (like Rouse’s) and tiny houses on slabs (designed to be permanent structures akin to a carriage house or a shed).

In Kansas City, tiny houses on wheels do not have to reckon with housing codes; they are technically legal dwellings only on the grounds of an RV park. Tiny houses on slabs would theoretically have an easier time becoming legally compliant, Jeff Lee, an engineer in KCMO’s City Planning and Development Department, explains.

“There haven’t been enough [tiny-houserelated inquiries] that’ve come before us to where something new would need to be written into an ordinance yet, but there’s nothing really prohibiting them [tiny houses],” Lee says. “Any home in the city must have one room that is 120 square feet, no matter what.

So, in theory, you could have a 120-squarefoot living room that doubles as a bedroom to meet that requirement. Then all other habitable rooms must be no less than 70 square feet. That includes the kitchen, so you need 70 square feet for that. A bathroom is not a habitable room, so it can be smaller. But to fit everything we require into a bathroom, you need about 40 square feet. So if you add that up, you could probably build something

that meets the minimum requirements of our building codes that’s about 230 square feet.”

Lee adds: “But you have to remember, that isn’t taking zoning into account. The city has no true minimums on zoning, but a lot of subdivisions do, and we have no control over that. So even if you’re clearing with our codes, you still would have to check subdivision covenants to see if it’s allowable. Generally, I think a person would have a harder time clearing something like this with the subdivisions than with the city.”

There are other wrinkles to be ironed out, Farmer told me. “There are codes for ordinary housing that make perfect sense for normal houses but make no sense at all for tiny houses.

For example, wiring — a regular house is required to have something like a minimum of 10 circuits. But a tiny house really only needs one or two.”

A couple of people I spoke with, who wished to remain anonymous, have skirted some of these laws by converting sheds and garages on their properties into tiny homes. I’ve also heard it suggested that a person could purchase a dilapidated house from the Land Bank — many go for $1,000 or less — and then construct an accessory building on the property and convert it into a tiny house.

There’s also the option of pursuing a planned tiny-house district, which would begin with a proposal to City Planning & Development and then require approval by the City Council. A pilot program soon to be launched

by Habitat for Humanity Kansas City may attempt just that — and, in the process, help resolve some lingering questions for those who want to build small within city limits.

That program, says Habitat KC’s executive director, Jessica Ray, will probably involve 13 new tiny houses built in a cluster, on property that will be purchased by Habitat KC at 30th Street and Highland.

“We initially planned to do two houses, but it quickly began to seem as though demand was much greater than that,” Ray says. “We now see it as an opportunity to be a bigger, more transformational thing for the neighborhood and the people who live nearby.”

These houses will likely be in the range of

500–600 square feet — the larger end of the tiny-house spectrum — and cost “hopefully under $50,000,” Ray says, “though nothing is finalized yet.” Habitat will carry the mortgages for these homes. (Tiny houses have historically been difficult to finance with traditional mortgages.) The organization is in talks with some local architects to possibly design the houses — “We’ve seen a lot of interest in this from the local design community so far,” Ray says — but may also use house plans that are available for free at tiny-house websites.

For those interested in the program, Habitat KC is hosting an informational session at its office (1423 Linwood) on Wednesday, May 13. Ray says the application process is similar to that for other Habitat KC housing. Applicants must be employed, make less than $35,900 a year (or $41,050 if applying as a couple), and have less than $1,000 in credit-card debt. (Student-loan debt, medical debt and vehicle debt don’t factor into the calculation.)

“We’re looking for people who are either currently paying high rental rates or who are living in less-than-favorable conditions,” Ray says. “That includes college graduates who are living in their parents’ basement because of student-loan debt. Those are the kinds of folks we love bringing into our program.”

In exchange for the zero-interest loan and the Habitat-constructed tiny house, successful applicants are required to perform 250 hours of labor on their own house or others’ houses, and to complete 30 hours of homeowner education. Eight hours of that instruction — on downsizing and tiny living — will be conducted by the Tiny House Collective.

“I think, increasingly, people want to live more simply,” Ray says. “But they still want their own homes. And there’s two roadblocks to that: construction experience and money.

And Habitat can address both of those. We offer volunteer opportunities so that members of the tiny-house community can get experience with building. And we’re offering funding through our program to those who need it. And by building these tiny houses close to one another, the goal is to build community while giving people an opportunity to live more affordable lives.”

MacFarlane and Berry are closing in on completion of their tiny house on wheels.

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ansas City is far from the Pacific Northwest, where tiny abodes can be found in relative abundance. (In 2013, accessory dwelling units — civic legalese for tiny houses — accounted for a full quarter of all new singledwelling permits issued in Portland, Oregon.)

But given the high quantity of cheap, vacant land in Kansas City’s urban core, there’s real opportunity for the trend to take off locally.

This will require not just the blessing of City Hall and the comforting hands of Habitat KC but also the spirit of pioneering. Rouse isn’t alone in his quest, and reasons for pursuing the tiny lifestyle vary.

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reasons. He likes the idea of being 26 years old and owning his own home and having no mortgage or utility bills. And he’s put a lot of time into artsy things like making the bathtub from a horse trough, things like that.”

She went on: “I’ve traveled a lot but would always get homesick, not necessarily for Kansas City but for my belongings and my cats. So I think it’ll be really nice to be able to travel and live with those things — to bring a sense of familiarness to traveling but also to be able to stay in one place as long as we want. And when you’re 26 and own your own house, it frees you up to do other things financially.”

Inside KC’s city limits, on two lots just off Chestnut Avenue in the Historic Northeast, Roger MacBride has built a cluster of cottagelike structures that he calls his “pirate ship.”

It includes a 400-square-foot carriage house, a 200-square-foot “birdhouse”-slash-music room, a shipping container that has been remodeled and repurposed as a shed, and a 700-square-foot residence that faces the street.

Fenced in the back corner of the yard, chickens lay MacBride four eggs every day. He bought the property for $7,000 back in 2001.

“Most of what I’ve built here was done using stuff I’ve hauled out of construction-site dumpsters,” he told me. “You wouldn’t believe what gets thrown out. I got guys who’ll tip me off and say, ‘Hey, there’s a bunch of

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two-by-eights at this site. They all have nails in them, but if you want to pick out the nails, they’re yours.’”

MacBride added: “That 1950s mentality really fucked this city up. They basically outlawed chickens and gardens in the city for a long time. And everybody OD’d on the size of houses. You want a big house, that’s fine. Live out in Johnson County or somewhere else.

People like me should still be able to do our small, weird, efficient thing in the city. The good news is, it seems like the city is becoming more receptive to people like us.”

In a secluded, wooded area in the Volker neighborhood, Quack and Luther are about halfway through construction of their tiny house on wheels, which will double as HQ for Tiny House Creative, their design studio.

They’re motivated in part by Luther’s student debt — he currently pays $900 a month — an amount that will become much more manageable after they X out the $800 a month in utilities and rent they’re paying at their apartment.

There are almost certainly many more Kansas Citians in various stages of tiny-house building. Some may turn up Saturday, May 16, at Troost Festival, where the Tiny House Collective will have a booth with information about tiny living, financing tiny houses, and everything else under the tiny sun. It coincides with more news from Farmer, last week, that

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is living in a 206-square-foot tool shed that she converted into a living space. She’s confident that a tiny-house village will materialize in KC sometime in the next year, and she plans to move into the city and join it when it does.

(Kite is an officer in the Tiny House Collective nonprofit.) In the meantime, she’s using her Independence ADU as a test run.

“My husband died 11 years ago, and me and my kids had to downsize from a 2,220-squarefoot house to a 650-square-foot house,” Kite told me. “When my kids moved out, I decided I didn’t want all the overhead and mortgage of a regular house. It was a financial decision.

So I moved in here and finished the walls, drywalled the ceiling, got electricity running out to here, and I’m about to get water run out to here. I’ve got a sketchbook filled with tiny-house pictures, I’ve watched all the Jay Shafer videos and read the Dee Williams book [The Big Tiny] and gotten pretty plugged into the movement.

“My son lives in California, and he’s about to have a baby,” Kite continued. “I want to be able to lock my little door and use the money I’m saving on a mortgage and utilities on traveling to see his son. I would rather put my money into memories than possessions at this point in my life.”

Not far from Kite, Sami Jo MacFarlane and Matt Berry, a couple in their mid-20s, have been building a 144-square-foot tiny house on wheels in MacFarlane’s parents’ Independence driveway over the past eight months. Apart from the insulation of the roof, they’ve done everything themselves, consulting YouTube videos and the Tiny House Collective for instruction. They’re hoping to have it completed

by June 4 in order to drive it to Cape Cod, where MacFarlane has a summer job lined up.

“I’m a go-green type of person — I was in the Peace Corps, I worked in the Amazon jungle with indigenous communities. I’m all about alternative energy and solar panels and ‘use less, waste less,’” MacFarlane told me.

“Matt is more into it for creative and financial

Quack, top right, and Luther, above, and their home in progress; above, left: MacFarlane, Berry, Quack and Farmer talk tiny. the Tiny House Collective is entering into a partnership with the library’s Bluford Branch to establish a tool library, a place where tiny builders can check out tools for free.

Meanwhile, the Tiny House Collective nonprofit continues to think big.

“I’ll be spending a lot of time in the next few months combing through charitable foundations and large corporations who do community giving and block grants, amassing a list of potential donors,” Farmer told me last week.

“The grants range from $5,000 to a million.

That grant cycle won’t start until 2016. In the meantime, we’re trying to do some private fundraising, also.

“I know — it’s hard to keep track of it all,” Farmer continued. “There’s so much tiny stuff going on right now. Big tiny stuff!”

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For years, I bleached the life out of my locks, giving hollow reply to well-meaning hairstylists who called my natural shade of blond “dirty” or “dishwater” or (worst of all) “mousy.”

Today I’m older and … let’s not say wiser but agree, instead, that I’m more practical. Which means I have given up bottlebased quick fixes and am learning to love what nature gave me. Or at least to live with it. While my split ends grow out, I’m left with fine, frizzy, damaged hair that probably resembles a handful of straw under a microscope.

I’m trying to be patient. But every once in a while, I just want my hair to look good.

That’s why I jumped at the chance to attend a preopening event at Posh KC Blow Dry Bar, a new salon in the Power & Light District. If these stylists could make my hair look good, I figured that they can make anyone’s hair look good.

My poor stylist would face an extra degree of difficulty: Two months out from my last trim, my hair had started doing that weird “mullet” thing in the back. (Anyone who has short hair knows what I’m talking about.) The game was definitely on.

When my friend Tina and I arrived at Posh, we noted that the place, though it felt small, was sleek and fancy. Large, white, geometric lights hung from the ceiling, and pictures on the walls encouraged celebratory intoxication: “Save water. Drink champagne,” read one decorative directive.

Naturally, everyone present had flawless hair and makeup.

Feeling suddenly apprehensive about the bird’s nest on my head, I encouraged Tina to get styled first. The salon’s list of services contained several options, from buns and braids to ponytails and curls. Then, of course, there was the blowout, apparently intended to add volume and make your hair appear shiny and smooth. For the sake of time, however, Posh wasn’t offering this service at the party I attended.

I decided to have them tease my hair and make it Jersey Shore big. Tina, who already has shiny, smooth hair, opted for gentle, flowing curls.

Stylist Christopher De Sayegh, who owns Phoenix Hair and Art Studios in Olathe, got to work on Tina’s hair with the curling iron. I grabbed some of the hors d’oeuvres (provided

by Cleaver & Cork) and chatted with Posh co-owner Kelly Ragsdale about the salon’s makeup: an all-natural, mineral-based line

by Jane Iredale. It’s the kind of stuff I’d feel comfortable smearing all over my face and eyelids, and it comes in toylike sliding and stackable packages.

Concerned that my party bite had left cilantro in my teeth, I retreated to where Chris had finished Tina’s do. I saw that soft waves now brushed her shoulders. Impressive. But now it was my turn. I took Tina’s place — and began apologizing for the state of my hair.

“I love your hair,” De Sayegh said, and I don’t think he was lying. “Can I just have fun with this?”

Stylist De Sayegh (left) with other stylists and guests at Posh’s party Abandoning my big-hair ambitions, I told him to do it his way. He spritzed my head with dry shampoo, picked up a small-barreled curling iron and began twisting my hair into tiny ringlets. His enthusiasm was contagious.

He told me that he considers himself an artist and looks forward to opportunities to be creative with hair. Working at Posh, he told me, gives him the chance to do that.

“I like mohawks and mullets,” he said, when I asked him about his favorite hairstyles. I’m pretty sure he was kidding. “I’m the good kind of crazy,” he added.

He turned my chair and started on the back of my hair, the part that had recently grown out of control. My hair is like the weeds in my front yard: One day, they’re barely peeking from between the cracks in the sidewalk; the next morning, they essentially have tentacles.

Somehow De Sayegh managed to tame the chaos. After about 15 minutes in his chair, I had a headful of bouncy curls that looked neither too girlish nor too cutesy.

My hair was ready to go out and have fun — even if I was heading home to the couch and Netflix.

I compromised by making a special stop at the Roasterie to show off my new do. Even if my hair would be frizzy again by morning, for a short while, it did look good.

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ometimes, Meryl Streep just isn’t available.

That’s one playwrighting lesson worth internalizing from the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s world premiere of Sticky Traps, a promising play that makes superhuman demands on its actors and suffers here from inattentive direction.

Written by KC Rep playwright-in-residence Nathan Louis Jackson and directed by Kyle Hatley, Sticky Traps centers on Linda, a grieving mother who has recently lost her youngest son, Cameron, to suicide. The bulk of the action is confined to a small chapel in Kansas, where Linda and her two surviving children — Montrell, a former college football star, and Charlotte, an Atlanta lawyer — prepare for Cameron’s funeral.

The opening scene plods as characters deliver exposition as though rattling off baseball-card stats. But the script gathers momentum when two unwanted guests intrude. The first is a church mouse, squealing helplessly on a glue trap. The second pest is larger and louder: Linda’s estranged brother, the not-called-Fred-Phelps-but-definitelyFred-Phelps Rev. Pratt.

Pratt frames his arrival as a courtesy: He’s there to warn Linda that his church will be picketing Cameron’s funeral. Like Phelps, Pratt was once a civil rights lawyer. Also like Phelps, he has spent his twilight years peddling hate as a godly virtue. But Jackson imbues Pratt with a little more charisma and a

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Mark Robbins is tenacious as the shrewd reverend, condemning sinners with jocularity and a disarming smile. Robbins has a composure that belies Pratt’s “God hates fags” fanaticism. A sham offer to his sister — cancel the funeral and avoid the picketers — sounds almost diplomatic in his care. But a late-play monologue (well-crafted by Jackson and flame-thrown by Robbins) lets us peek at the internal combustion that drives him.

Jackson’s dramatic engine roars with a similar intensity, for better and for worse. Over the course of the 90-minute show, his characters flip through a Rolodex of family secrets, culminating in a shocking act of violence.

But Jackson stakes too much of the conflict on Linda; his play sails or fails on whoever acts the role. Blair Sams is capable, but her Linda is too brittle, evoking little beyond canned rage.

Directing missteps compound Sams’ troubles, and the play’s. The energy onstage is hamstrung by lateral blocking and too little for the actors to do. For much of the play, the cast members cling tightly to the pew

Robbins and Sams: sibling rivals ends, like frightened passengers on a plummeting jet.

The technical elements are humble but handsome. Christopher Kriz’s sound design escalates tension with the commingled jeers of protesters and the revving engines of the Patriot Guard Riders. Meghan Raham’s pitched-roof chapel and Jeffrey Cady’s rosy lights warm the nave while draping corners in solemn shadows.

Although Jackson devotes the most time to the battle for Cameron’s dignity, an alternate storyline — Montrell’s and Charlotte’s diverging views on race — is subtler and more compelling. Jackson is smartly attuned to the ways in which both sexuality and race can fuse (or, in some cases, fracture) our identities. Dawn-Lyen Gardner finds a soft side to the pragmatic Charlotte, mounting a spirited challenge to Montrell’s “Halfro-American” taunts. Joshua Boone makes an especially strong impression as Montrell, layering humor and disappointment in a nuanced performance. Boone’s entrance noticeably buoys the rest of the cast.

Sticky Traps doesn’t feel ready yet. But Jackson has avoided familial-tragedy clichés and, in the process, penned something inarguably bold: an acerbic, often surprising tale of ties that cleave instead of bind.

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Hardy and Theron gear up together. packed with surreal carnage both automotive and human.

The story, too, is crazier this time. We see Max captured by an army of pale, bald, shrieking quasi-mutants known as War Boys: motorpsycho Morlocks dwelling in a cave network called the Citadel and ruled by the decaying, messianic warlord Immortan Joe (an unrecognizable Hugh Keays-Byrne, who played Toecutter in the first Mad Max). When Max’s impressionable, dim owner, Nux (Nicholas Hoult), goes out with the other War Boys to stop a group of trucks fleeing from Immortan’s rule, Max goes with them, bound to the front of a truck like a living hood ornament.

The War Boys are chasing Imperator Furiosa (Charlize Theron), a rogue, one-armed warrior who has liberated a tanker filled with oil and a clutch of Immortan’s beautiful, nubile brides.

Once Max manages to free himself of Nux, he attempts to seize Furiosa’s tanker. His goodguy days, it appears, are over — though we know that he’ll change his mind.

It’s hard to do justice in words to Fury Road’s nonstop, breathtaking, hysterical action. Miller and team are on record as saying the stunts, for the most part, are real, yet there’s an other worldliness to these sequences. This is not the dusty, grotty world of The Road Warrior, where we could almost taste the dirt. Here, we watch the movie in a weird state of vicarious pain, delirium and ecstasy. It actually takes something out of us. It’s a work of almost religious horror and beauty — the Sistine Chapel of action filmmaking.

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ate and Scott Meinke feel like they ran a marathon last weekend. In a way, they did. Saturday, May 9, the young couple — Kate is 29; Scott turns the same age in two weeks — and five employees officially opened Heirloom Bakery & Hearth.

The Meinkes' bakery, café and coffee shop revives an address that was last home to a gas station and repair shop. They unlocked the doors at 7 a.m., and within 45 minutes, a line of customers was snaking across the parking lot and south on Oak Street. The following morning — Mother's Day — the Meinkes opened at 8, an hour after customers had begun lining up.

It was a well-behaved group, mostly neighborhood residents who had walked over with dogs and baby strollers, eager to try the yeasty cinnamon rolls (excellent) or the pigs in a blanket (sausage sheathed in the lightest, flakiest pastry) or the house-made pop tarts familiar to patrons of Thou Mayest, in the Crossroads.

There were fruity scones and cookies, as well as quiche and shiny Key lime pie. And there was plenty of bread, available by the slice, toasted with various spreads and butters.

While barista Jeramy Longley played the hissing espresso machine like a musical instrument, Heirloom's baking staff was rolling out pastry, and the sales staff was busily filling boxes with muffins, scones and galettes.

On both Saturday and Sunday, the Meinkes sold out of nearly everything by early afternoon. (Heirloom's hours are 7 a.m.–6 p.m.

Tuesday–Friday, 7 a.m.–4 p.m. Saturday and 8 a.m.–3 p.m. Sunday.)

It's a good sign for the future success of the place, which cost the entrepreneurs more than $400,000 to open. That price tag includes a top-to-bottom renovation — with the assistance of John Anderson at Utilitarian Workshop — of a 1950s building originally designed for repairing cars, not baking cookies and crackers.

Heirloom Bakery & Hearth represents the changing face of a neighborhood lately touted as "East Brookside." Because the actual Brookside shopping district, several blocks to the west, can't expand south or west, the neighborhood east of Oak Street is becoming prime real estate for new businesses. The Meinkes like being part of this change: Kate Stueve Meinke grew up in this neighborhood and wanted the opportunity to return (they live just a few blocks from the new bakery), after years of living in Washington, D.C. The Meinkes met in D.C. after both had graduated from college — Scott majored in art history at American University; Kate studied studio art at Drake University in Iowa — and Scott had wandered, unexpectedly, down a different career path. "I had always loved baking," says the Oklahoma native, "but while I

was living in Washington, I started working at the Spring Mill Bread Co. and fell in love with the art of baking bread."

Breads will be the primary calling card at Heirloom Bakery & Hearth: sandwich loaves, in particular. "This is a neighborhood with a lot of families, a lot of schools," Kate Meinke says.

Those breads and their freshly baked biscuits will also be featured in the breakfast dishes and lunch items, including a build-your-own breakfast sandwich that they plan to serve six days a week.

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Opening day, the bakers at Heirloom were in full flour. curvy travertine marble coffee bar awaits diners who may just want to stop in for a cup of Thou Mayest coffee and a cinnamon roll. Family photographs adorn the tables, adding to the easy affability of this neighborhood addition.

Saturday, a third of the patrons seemed to be be juggling babies. "Do you have children?" one customer asked Kate Meinke. She smiled and said, "Right now this bakery is our baby."

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Chris Meck tries out songwriting for his Guilty Birds.

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here was little fanfare when Chris Meck and the Guilty Birds released their debut recording, a self-titled four-song EP, in March.

Meck, who has been writing for the band for nearly two years, didn’t see much point in celebrating.

“We didn’t really have a release show at all,” he says. “The goal was to get it done before we went to South by Southwest, just so that we would have it, because you kind of have to have something to put in people’s hands down there. It’s just an EP — once upon a time, they used to call them demos. And it took longer than I would have liked, but I had to have songs I didn’t hate on there.”

Meck isn’t indulging in false modesty.

Songwriting, he says, is a relatively new practice for him, despite a long tenure in the local music scene. (He has played guitar with Kristie Stremel and Tony Ladesich, as well as in Gaslights, Atlantic Fadeout and Tiny Horse; he’s now with the Architects.) He began writing in earnest two years ago, at 41. It was a promise to his late wife, Midwest Music Foundation co-founder Abigail Henderson, who died in August 2013 following a five-year struggle with breast cancer.

“We had a lot of conversations as her time was dwindling about what I was going to do,” Meck says, “and I said I thought maybe it was time for me to step out of being a sideman and take on a different role and see if I could even do it, see if it was something I could grow into, fronting a band. And she felt like that’s what I needed to do, too.”

Henderson’s request came with another stipuation: After she was gone, he would perform on the opening Friday of every Apocalypse Meow fundraiser: MMF’s biggest annual event, which Henderson spearheaded in the fall of 2008. It was a date that Henderson and Meck’s band, Tiny Horse, had kept every year except 2011, when Henderson’s deteriorated health prevented her from playing.

“It’s been one of those things where I literally had a gig before I had any material,” Meck says. “A lot of those first gigs came before we were really ready for them because people heard my story or they knew me from other projects and felt they could trust me.”

The first Chris Meck and the Guilty Birds gig came at the sixth annual Apocalypse Meow, just a few months after Henderson died. Meck was petrified.

“It’s funny because I’m never nervous to just play guitar,” Meck says. “It’s a whole different thing when they’re your songs and you’re the singer. You’re shouldering a whole different world than when you’re just a guitar player. I started playing with the Architects in October [2014], and I’ve done a couple of the biggest crowds I’ve ever played to, but I wasn’t nervous

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for that at all. Right now, I’m more nervous to play for 50 people at the Brick with my band than for 3,000 with the Architects because I have a lot more responsibility with my band.”

Meck shouldn’t worry. Despite multiple lineup changes, he and his Guilty Birds — keyboardist and singer Camry Ivory, bassist and singer Calandra Ysquierdo and drummer Michelle Bacon — deliver an assured, accomplished sound. His EP may be short, but it’s a flavorful slice of what his band does — bluescolored rock and roll — and it’s very good. “Dark Sea” can be read as a requiem for Henderson — My love has gone across the dark sea/Try as I might, I cannot follow — but it’s not as mournful as it is moody, the lyrics buffered by an energetic interplay between organ and guitar.

“At first, I think there were a lot of expectations about what people were going to hear,” Meck says. “I think people thought they were going to hear a lot about Abby dying – and there are bits and pieces of it here, in a lyric or something…. I started writing the first songs of the batch when Abby was still here, and we’d just started hospice care. I had a lot of

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Guilty as charged: Ysquierdo, Meck, Bacon and Ivory (from left) heavy emotional stuff going on, but I was trying to figure out a way to channel that without being a super-sad bastard about it.”

We’ve been talking at a booth inside the Brick, which is mostly empty at this postlunch, pre-happy-hour time of day. Meck speaks with an even, plain tone; there’s little grief in his expression but there’s little humor, either. He exudes square-shouldered resolve.

“My main reason for doing this, other than the promise I made to Abby, is that every time a band ends — and they all do, unless you’re the Rolling Stones, apparently — you have to start over if you’re just the guitar player,” he tells me. “I’ve done that so many times that I felt like I needed to at least try and see if I could run a band under my own name because that’s something I’ll never have to start again.”

He goes on: “What keeps me coming back to it is just feeling like each time I have a new song, I feel like I can see that it’s better than the first few that I wrote, and I feel like it’s getting better and it’s improving. And as I’m noticing improvement, it makes me want to go back and do it again.”

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You’re named a Rising Star in DownBeat’s critics poll for three consecutive years only if you’ve awed people. Well, Israeli-born trumpeter Avishai Cohen has done more than awe the masses with his compositions and performances; he has opened doors to new worlds. His own music, constantly reaching out and exploring, is jazz with a sense of adventure — never repetitive, never trite. Or he can take a standard like “Willow Weep for Me” and wrap it with an invigorating blues that you would never expect. On Thursday night, Cohen brings his trio Triveni, with Eric Revis on bass and Nasheet Waits on drums, to Take Five Coffee + Bar, a spot that continues to grow beyond suburban coffee shop into a soughtafter stop on the jazz map.

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n “Live By the Water,” the first song off Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear’s debut full-length, Skeleton Crew, Ward’s strong, sonorous tenor flows over gentle, folky guitar chords. The lyrics sketch out scenes of simple comforts — All I need’s a sip of cherry cola and pie, Ward declares — while Ruth Ward, the eponymous Mama Bear, Ward’s mother, adds her warm, alto harmony. It’s charming at first listen, but as the album rolls on, the charm evolves into something deeper.

Since the Independence, Missouri, duo signed to Glassnote Records last October, life has changed dramatically for them. As Skeleton Crew sees a U.S. release Tuesday, May 19, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear are in the middle of their first European tour. I chatted with Madisen Ward by phone a few hours before he hopped on an international flight.

The Pitch: The last time we really talked was at that little coffee shop in Independence, Missouri, before the whirlwind started. How do you feel about all these changes?

Madisen Ward: It’s incredible, but there’s also a sense of complacency — a sense of, we kind of feel that this is where we need to be. My mom’s been playing for so long, and it’s not something we ever imagined would happen, but it’s something we always hoped would happen. It feels very comfortable, but it’s not a thing or an opportunity that everyone is granted, so we feel very fortunate. It’s a true blessing.

By the time this interview runs, you’ll be a few dates into your first European tour. Is this the first time you’re going to Europe? What are you excited to see or do?

It is my first time! The most exciting thing is being acquainted with these different cultures and knowing that we’re playing for folks that don’t even speak the same language, and we hope it’s received well. I’ve never been out of the country before, and I can’t wait to soak it all in. Berlin is a place my mom and I are really excited about going to, and we’re doing [Later ... With] Jools Holland over there [in London], and that’s going to be pretty incredible.

Does it ever feel more like you’re traveling with a parent, rather than with a bandmate?

That’s not a factor for me. My dream was always to get in the industry, one way or another, whether it be music or through acting — I love acting and stuff like that. My mom and I, we’re still very individual in our approach to things, and we split up after the shows and we go off on our own paths. But the music is what we always come back to, and I would be crazy to think that having a parent there is a reason not to pursue an opportunity like this. It doesn’t make me un-

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It’s a beautiful experience, and we try not to get on each other’s nerves and hang out.

Tell me about how your relationship with your mom has changed as your music career has taken off.

I think we’ve just grown to respect each other more, in a way that we hadn’t before.

There’s always the mother-son thing, but we’re business partners now, and to keep this thing afloat, we’re depending on each other. It’s hard to describe, really, but I’ve had many day jobs, and you respect your co-workers — but not to this level.

Tell me about the new album. I notice that a few of the songs that made it are from the 2011 EP that you guys did. How much is old and how much is new?

There were songs that we had put on our EP that the label had fallen in love with and that they wanted to hear on this album, and we knew that there were a lot of people around the world that hadn’t heard the songs that we had been playing back here.

But the new album has a few new tunes that I’d written after we got signed, even things I was writing on the way down to the studio in Nashville that ended up on the album. And some of the revisited songs feel brand-new, whether it’s the tempo changing

Ruth and Madisen Ward are out of hibernation. or some session musicians adding different chords here and there. I think anyone who’s familiar with our EP is going to experience those songs in a completely different way.

I have to say, there’s something that kind of bothers me: I keep seeing your band referred to as a mother-son duo, which is factual, but some people attach a cutesiness to the phrasing, and a mother-son novelty thing is far from the heart and soul of your band.

Yes! I’m so glad you said that. The heart and soul is — I know it sounds lame, but it really is the music. That’s the heart and soul.

A big part of it is wanting and having that need to share our music with other folks, and when I think of her back in the day — she used to play for so many people. She’d go into people’s homes and have coffeehouse sessions, and people adored her voice and her guitar playing for years. She’d been all around, and me coming in later, going into the coffeehouse circuit, being able to join in on that experience — it was amazing. My mom is a musician, and I’m a musician, and we decided to come together and make this music.

That’s the real heart and soul of what we do.

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Making Movies

Making Movies hardly needs a gimmick at this point. The much-loved local four-piece, fronted by Panamanian-American brothers Enrique and Diego Chi, makes a mix of heady Latin rhythms and smart alternative rock, with lyrics in both Spanish and English. But there’s an added enticement Friday at the VooDoo Lounge, when the band pays tribute to Farnia Records and 1970s New York City salsa music (complete with ’70s costumes and a 10-piece band). If you’ve never seen Making Movies live, here’s an excellent introduction. Maria the Mexican, Son Venezuela, Mark Lowrey and others join the lineup. Bonus: The show is a fundraiser for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, so you can have fun for a good cause.

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Diarrhea Planet might make you sick — sick with jealousy over the band’s insane, four-leadguitarists attack. On last year’s Aliens in the Outfield EP, the six-piece delivered a blitz of pop punk disguised as extra-loud metal. And that release was but a snack compared with its fulllength predecessor, 2013’s I’m Rich Beyond Your Wildest Dreams. Diarrhea Planet is preparing to release another full-length later this year, so you’ll likely get a taste of that Saturday at the Riot Room. This is not a tame band, so don’t expect a tame show: When that third beer gets spilled on you, just go with it, man.

Saturday, May 16, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Spoon

With the August 2014 release of They Want My Soul, it seemed that Spoon had finally rejoined the land of the living after a four-year hiatus, following the (somewhat shocking) commercial success of 2010’s Transference. Now on tour in support of that record, the Austin band appears committed to its cause once more — and with an additional member, guitarist Alex Fischel. The album is a solid achievement, full of energetic rock and some of the hookiest Spoon songs yet. Frontman Britt Daniel and

drummer Jim Eno are at their best when left to their own devices, and if a four-year cooling period is what the band needed to get its rock legs back, well, some things are worth the wait.

Monday, May 18, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

anyone to repress the body swaying brought on by “Hot in Herre.”

Tuesday, May 19, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

New Kids on the Block, TLC, Nelly

Beck and Willie Nelson

Anyone who was dramatically slamming doors and escaping (or reveling in) teenage angst with a Discman in the ’90s will appreciate the triple bill taking over the Sprint Center Tuesday night. If you were the girl who carefully taped the Bop magazine poster of Joey McIntyre to your bedroom wall, New Kids on the Block may appeal to you most. TLC is a two-piece since the 2002 death of rapper Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes (her parts are played over the speakers), but the opportunity to hear the live version of cuts from the band’s seminal CrazySexyCool (now 21 years old) is worth the ticket cost alone. (“No Scrubs” was perhaps the most important feminist song of the decade.) And though NKOTB fans might not have the same appreciation for Nelly’s Country Grammar, it will be hard for

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It’s not that Beck and Willie Nelson aren’t well-suited to each other — their fan groups undoubtedly overlap. It’s just that seeing the two share a bill isn’t what we expected. And no one else can expect it, either: This is the only U.S. show featuring both Beck and Nelson. For whatever reason, Kansas City lucked out. Whether you turn up at Starlight on Friday night to bask in the presence of one of the country’s elder statesmen or to be soothed by the sounds of Beck’s Grammy Award-winning Morning Phase, you shouldn’t be disappointed.

Friday, May 15, Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, 816-363-7827)

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Cock | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorn theatre.org

Dr. Seuss’ The Cat in the Hat | The Coterie Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

Hold Up on Dead Man’s Creek | KC Mystery Train, KCMT Tiffany Ballroom, 903 Harrison, kcmysterytrain.com open House at musical Theater Heritage,

with food and drink, and tours of the space | 5-8 p.m. Friday, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, third level, mthkc.com

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

The 2015 young Playwrights Festival, read-

Thursday | 5.14 |

Bike-in movie: The Goonies | 7-11 p.m. Boulevard Drive-In Theatre, 1051 Merriam Lane, KCK

ings from members of the Coterie’s Young Playwrights Roundtable | 7 p.m. Sunday, the Coterie Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, level one, thecoterie.org

Groovement | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts,

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

Comedy

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

donnell Rawlings | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

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

Andrew Santino | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Lawrence

Chris Hazelton Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Jasper | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park Freedy Johnston, Gary Cloud | 7 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

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Briarcliff Farmers market | 3-6 p.m. Thursday, Briarcliff Village, 4175 N. Mulberry Dr.

laura lisbeth | 10 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th

Bike-in movie: The Goonies | 7-11 p.m. Boulevard Drive-In Theatre, 1051 Merriam Lane, KCK

Tom Stoppard’s new play Hard Problem | 7 p.m.

Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com muSiC

Gary Allan, Tucker Beathard | 7 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

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

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

The monthly layover with Brenton & daniel |

donnell Rawlings | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy

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

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

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Friday | 5.15 | Clownesque with Beth Byrd | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts

leheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Bar, 3611 Broadway

Greg meise organ Trio | 8 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union

Kansas City Ballet: Dances Daring (Then and Now) | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway,

Roll on: The iron Fest of John daley, featuring the Philistines, the People’s Punk Band, Delicious Friction, Dave Tanner, Tony Ladesich, Kyle Dahlquist, Troy Van Horn, Gregg Todt, Jason Beers | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Bram Wijnands | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

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Pianist Behzod Abduraimov | 8 p.m. Folly Theater,

300 W. 12th St., follytheater.org

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

Avishai Cohen’s Triveni | 7 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

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Screenland at the Symphony: disney’s Fantasia with the Kansas City Symphony | 7 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

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

Comedy

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

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Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Beck with Willie nelson and Family | 7 p.m.

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7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

Book of Gaia | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

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

Drew Six | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

American Soldier | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Electric Tinks | 8:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Animalia: 19th- and 20th-Century European Prints and Drawings | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Eyes of Iolite, No Cave, UltraVivid | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Blaque Lyte Royale, featuring Chicago artist-

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

Filthy 13 | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Free Acid: A tribute to the Grateful Dead | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Chris Meck & the Guilty Birds, the MGDs, Maria the Mexican | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Mime Game | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main

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

Smallpools, Hunter Hunted | 6 p.m. RecordBar,

Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

Saturday | 5.16 | Gurukul Dance Co.: a repertory of East Indian classi-

8 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union

cal, folk, ballet and aerial dance | 6-8:30 p.m. H&R Block City Stage Theater, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., gurukulacademykc.com

Sunset in the Park with Katy Guillen & the Girls | 7-9 p.m. Penn Valley Park, Pershing Rd. and Main

Kansas City Ballet: Dances Daring (Then and Now) | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing

Soul Preservers featuring Dropout Boogie |

Tornado Rose, Walker and the Texas Dangers, Arthur and the Neanderthals | 8 p.m. Westport

Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcballet.org

DJ Ryan Hood | MiniBar, 3810 Broadway Kimbarely Legal | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Mas-

New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Outlander Highland Scotch Tasting | Reserva-

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Ozanam Guild Martini Mile: 4-mile relay and 1-mile

Donnell Rawlings | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

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

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

Urban Kids Fishing Derby, ages 4-16 (with an adult)

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Civil War Swap Meet | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. John Wornall

Alligator Fest with the Bon Ton Soul Accordion Band and AZ-One | 6 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grind-

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Cartel Chroma, Team*, Driver Friendly | 7 p.m.

The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Chaka Demus & Pliers | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Devin the Dude | 10 p.m. Blvd. Nights, 2805 South-

west Blvd.

Diarrhea Planet, Left & Right, the Author and the Illustrator, Sundiver | 8 p.m. The Riot Room,

4048 Broadway

Dog Fashion Disco, Beebs and Her Money Makers | 11 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Electro Possum, Death Valley Wolfriders, Exeter, Terror Tractor, Meatshank | 8 p.m. Davey’s

Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Samantha Fish CD-release show with Katy & the Girls | 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

11th Annual Troost Festival | Noon-9 p.m., 31st St. and Troost

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Ashley Wallbridge, Eric Coomes | Mosaic Lounge,

30th Annual Turkey Creek Festival | 10 a.m.-

Bloom, North Fork | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachu-

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Dead Man’s Hand, Echo Collider, Seventh Day | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Anaal Nathrakh, Incite, Secrets of the Sky, Dark Apostle, Nefirum, Contraktor | 2 p.m. The

presented by Burlesque on the Rocks | 9 p.m. The Buffalo Room at the Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd.

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Triumph of the Wild, the Ovaries-eez | 6 p.m.

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Screenland at the Symphony: Disney’s Fantasia with the Kansas City Symphony | 7 p.m. Kauffman

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Family Tour Hour | 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

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Dear CAYA: My thoughts, in no particular order …

(1) Three out of four women need direct, focused and sometimes intense stimulation of their clit in order to climax — sailing a dick up the vaginal canal isn’t going to do it for most women — so either you lucked out and all of your previous girlfriends were 25 percenters or many/most/all of your previous girlfriends were faking it.

(2) I’ve never met a man who wasn’t fixated on stimulating his dick during sex and/or having his dick stimulated for him during sex.

(3) If your wife is picking up on your negativity about the way her pussy works, that could negatively impact her enthusiasm for sex in general and sex with you in particular.

(4) Your wife is fantasizing about something when she closes her eyes and starts rubbing her clit. You might be able to have more productive conversations about your sex life — and your desire for a more adventurous one — if you drew her out about what’s going on in her head when she’s getting off. Tell her how sexy she looks. Tell her that you would love to know what she’s thinking about. Tell her how hot her fantasy is if she opens up about it (and don’t freak out if she’s not fantasizing about you), and carefully build on her fantasy with some dirty talk. Once she opens up about whatever it is that’s unspooling in her head, you can suggest realizing her fantasies in real life — and a few of yours as well.

(5) And … um … lastly … your wife may need to block you out — she may need to clamp her eyes shut — in order to climax because … um … she may not be sexually attracted to you. That’s harsh, I realize, and

D a n S ava ge with someone you’re not into — and having to tiptoe through the awkwardness — isn’t something you can avoid in online dating. You would have to do that even if only cis lesbians responded to your ads, as you’re presumably not attracted to all cis lesbians. Having a coffee now and then with a trans woman you most likely won’t find attractive — but you never know — is a small price to pay to make the online dating world a less shitty place for trans people. It’s what an ally would do.

Dear Dan: My wife is one of those women who

needs manual stimulation of her clit during sex to climax. Before meeting her, I had several long-term girlfriends, and not one needed to do this in order to climax. Before we got married, I explained that I wanted to explore and push the boundaries, and she promised me that would happen. But she has no fantasies, kinks or fetishes, and she’s not into any of the things I’ve proposed. Bringing this all together is that when we’re having sex, she’s so fixated on stimulating her clit, it’s almost like we are in two different worlds. When she’s working toward an orgasm, her eyes are shut and she’s concentrating on the rubbing — whether she’s doing it or I am — and I can’t help but wonder if the work it takes to get her to orgasm is part of the reason she’s not interested in exploring.

I’ve talked to her several times about how I’m yearning to do more, but I haven’t brought up my thoughts on how the way she comes may be affecting things.

By

I hope that’s not the case. But if marital sex for her is a joyless exercise — she gets you off then clamps her eyes shut and gets herself off — then this is a problem that can’t be fixed, and spending the next five decades trying to fix it will be both futile and frustrating.

Here’s hoping that your wife’s issue is something more common and something that can be fixed — she’s sexually repressed but can work through it; this masturbatory routine was her go-to for years, but you two can find new and exciting ways to get her off. Those new and exciting ways to get her off will most likely require her to fixate on stimulating her clit — and that’s OK.

Dear Dan: I’m a lesbian who has been pretty

successful at online dating. Lately, however, I’ve had a few women contact me who turned out not to be cisgender. I’ve tried to remain open, but I’ve never been attracted to a trans woman.

I don’t rule out the possibility that it could happen. But one great thing about online dating is that you can express preferences before going on a date, and I’d rather not unknowingly walk into these potentially awkward and painful situations. Is there something I could put on my profile expressing my preference for cisgender women that is not offensive to trans people? It’s important to me that I remain an ally.

Can I Say? Dear CIS: You can put “not into trans women” in your online dating profile, but you’ll have to hand in your Trans Ally card. Gay men are likewise free to put “no fats, no femmes” or “white guys only — just expressing my preference” on their profiles, and too many do (and not all of them are white guys), but gay men who do that have to hand in their Not an Asshole cards. Occasionally having coffee

Dear Dan: I’m a 29-year-old gay guy in a committed relationship. My boyfriend says he feels sexually inadequate because I’m not the type of guy who needs to come in order to feel that I had great sex. Honestly, foreplay and receiving anal sex are much more pleasurable for me. If I want to come, I will, just not all the time. As long as there’s plenty of kissing, touching and licking — and all the other wonderful “ings” — I don’t feel like ejaculation is a big deal. He thinks it means I’m not attracted enough to him. He’s self-conscious because his dick is a bit on the small side, and my not coming seems to make it worse. I’ve told him that I find him utterly attractive — bless those legs, that chest, that ass — and I always try to make him have an orgasm.

I’ve also tried to come more often for him, but sometimes I’m just not in the mood. I’ve also told him that he’s not doing anything wrong and that this is just the way I’m wired. He says he still feels inadequate. I don’t know what else to do or say.

Orgasms Reliably Great Although Sometimes Missed Dear ORGASM: You’ve done the reassuring

thing (about his size), you’ve done the explaining thing (this is just the way you’re wired), and you’ve done the meeting him halfway thing (coming more often to appease/mollify). Now it’s time for the exasperated ultimatum thing. I’ve taken the liberty of scripting your ultimatum: “You have to stop obsessing about whether I come every time we fuck. I would never make you feel bad about your dick, but you’re making me feel bad about my dick. So here’s the deal: You’re going to drop this. You’re going to take ‘Yes, I’m attracted to you’ and ‘This is how my dick works’ for an answer. And you’re not going to bring this up anymore. Sometimes I’ll come, sometimes I won’t. Putting up with that — and getting over your insecurities or at least shutting up about them — is the price of admission to be with me. If you can’t pay that price, if my not coming every time we have sex is something you’ll never get over, then we should break up.”

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