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Art director and creative strategist, Kansas City Public Library skills of each member. My dad, who was an attorney prior to retirement, had a favorite saying: “I don’t attempt heavy–duty auto repair, and mechanics don’t practice law. But we trust each other when the time comes when we need the other’s help.”

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Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Current neighborhood: Waldo What I do: As part of the library’s creative team,

I help share stories about the amazing things the library does to support the KC community.

What’s your addiction? Puns (much to the chagrin of my friends and colleagues). Aside from that, reading and a pretty broad pattern of media consumption.

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of Parks and Recreation are on, so long to whatever else I’d planned on doing.

landmarks and notable places! But I’d have to go with the Central Library, of course. It’s a wonderful example of successfully repurposing a historic building — it was previously the First National Bank — and it’s become a downtown jewel and vital community resource.

Finish these sentences: “Kansas City got it right when …” It embraced the creative community. The local arts and culture scene played a big role in the city’s revitalization, and the imagination and innovation of the people working in those areas very much helped shape KC’s current identity.

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“I always laugh at …” Bad jokes.

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ues to screw up when it backs projects that emphasize parking more than placemaking or are designed for cars over community. We need to learn from our past that highways often do more to divide neighborhoods than connect them — we have to explore other paths to progress.

What’s your drink? Morning regimen: green tea.

After–hours social occasions: Old Fashioned. cheese. Big fan of Spin Pizza, a frequent customer at Milwaukee Deli, and a devotee of Fervere’s Cheese Slipper Saturdays.

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“I can’t stop listening to …” This American Life, RadioLab, Studio360, On the Media. What can I say … I enjoy public–radio programming.

“I just read …” Working at the KC Library means always having a steady supply of great reads.

My most recent favorite is So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed by Jon Ronson. Fascinating case studies about the power of people to harness the Internet and social media tools to mete out righteous justice or, conversely, destroy reputations. It’s made me more cognizant of my own digital behavior and more sensitive to how others use their cyber–soapboxes.

The best advice I ever got: Acknowledge that others have strengths and talents that you don’t – the best teams draw on the strongest

My dating triumph/tragedy? Julie and I worked together at the same organization — and even within the same department — for several years before we eventually came to the realization that we were made for each other. Next–level workplace collaboration!

My brush with fame: Working at the library,

I’ve been fortunate to have crossed paths with a number of notable authors or public figures we’ve hosted: Sandra Day O’Connor, John Lithgow, Anita Hill, Jill Lepore and others. I also met Chuck Palahniuk during a KC book signing event years ago, and I gave him a drawing of a drunk angel I’d done. He laughed and said he rarely gets gifts from audience members, but he often receives unsolicited gross–out stories.

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for KC. Get involved. Learn about local issues and find a way to take part in making this community even better.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? For taking so long to get back to several

people on collaborative side projects. I love working with creative, enthusiastic folks, and I have a hard time saying no to those kinds of opportunities.

Who’s sorry now? The people around to hear my next pun–laced commentary. Sorry in advance, whoever it will be.

My recent triumph: Being a part of getting the Young Friends of the Library organized this past year. Our group has some fantastic members with a lot of passion, and it’s been a blast finding fun, creative ways to promote the KC Library and all it has to offer.

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t’s been a very good year for Think Big Partners.

The business incubator, start-up accelerator and co-working space recently moved into the rehabbed, seven-story historic Globe building, at 1712 Main. It has become a hotspot for local tech entrepreneurs and enthusiasts — a place where people work, gather and discuss the big, bright digital future.

Last month, it was announced that Think Big will play a role in the move to rewire downtown into a so-called “smart city” — a $15 million public-private project between Cisco Systems and Kansas City, Missouri, at a taxpayer cost of $3.7 million. Think Big is supposed to develop what the initiative calls a “living lab” — a place to foment business ideas in service of the project’s vague but potentially exciting goal of making city services more digital and connected.

Think Big’s mission of tech-driven entrepreneurialism perfectly embodies Mayor Sly James’ vision for Kansas City as a sort of Great Plains version of Silicon Valley, and the mayor is an outspoken fan. He frequently tweets about, and from, Think Big events.

And last year he appointed Think Big’s founder, Herb Sih, to the board of the city’s Economic Development Council.

Like the mayor, Sih is a civic cheerleader and tech believer. Among his recent tweets: “‘Building software for good’ … anyone who says building technology companies can't change the world hasn't come to terms with IoT…” (IoT stands for “Internet of Things,” a buzzy concept related to the “smart city” designation.)

“Building software for good” is an unlikely description of Sih’s previous professional activities, though.

In a 2011 interview with Silicon Prairie News, Sih boasted that a company he started, Clickspeed, was the only Kansas company on the Inc. 500 — a list of the fastest-growing private companies in the United States — in 2007.

What was Clickspeed? According to filings with the Kansas Secretary of State, which list Sih as a director of the company, Clickspeed was in the business of “Internet marketing.”

But calling Clickspeed an “Internet marketing” company is like calling a shark a fish.

Clickspeed was a lead generator for online-payday-lending companies, outfits that charged borrowers triple-digit interest rates for loans.

As The Pitch has reported, Kansas City evolved over the course of the past decade into a national nerve center for the online-paydaylending industry. These operations have been prosecuted by state attorneys general and private citizens alike for misleading borrowers with hidden fees; lending over the Internet into states where payday loans are forbid-

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den; and, in the case of two local companies busted by federal agencies last fall, debiting the bank accounts of people who did not even request loans, and then charging them interest on phantom loans. Hundreds of millions of dollars were made locally by defrauding desperate borrowers from around the country.

This industry enriched not just lending entities but also the many individuals and companies that cropped up to service them — lawyers, bankers, call centers, debt-collection agencies, and lead generators.

Lead generation by itself is not a pernicious concept. It’s a time-tested method of marketing houses, cars, jobs, whatever. But here’s how Benjamin Lawsky — who, as superintendent of New York’s Department of Financial Services, has aggressively fought online payday lenders — describes payday lead generators: “Lead-generation firms do not typically make payday loans directly, but instead set up websites marketing those illegal loans.

Through promises of access to quick cash, the lead-generation companies entice consumers to provide them with sensitive personal information such as Social Security and bank account numbers and then may sell that information to payday lenders operating unlawfully.”

Sih tells The Pitch that he was never involved in the day-to-day operations of Clickspeed and hasn’t been involved in the lead-generation industry in more than six years. (His LinkedIn bio, which states that he left the company in October 2013, contradicts this.) He says Clickspeed did “marketing, advertising and lead generation for a variety of industries,” including auto dealers, consumer surveys, colleges, credit cards, mortgages, and “marketing for the short term lending industry aka cash advance/payday loans.”

But this representation of Clickspeed — as an agnostic marketer for all kinds of clients, a few of which happened to be payday-loan companies — does not square with the accounts of two former employees who spoke to The Pitch on the condition of anonymity.

They say Clickspeed’s lead generation focused almost exclusively on feeding information to online payday lenders.

“Clickspeed did a few client surveys and tried a Groupon-like endeavor called DealBug that failed,” says one of the former Clickspeed workers. “Clickspeed did deal with auto dealers in the form of buy-here-pay-here lots that focused on the subprime clientele. Title lending wasn’t a far stretch from payday lending — most of the variables were the same, and we were already targeting the same demographic — so it was an easy transition to what we were already doing in the payday space.”

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This person adds, “Herb was the main point of contact at Clickspeed and ran the office” until late 2012.

Another former employee says, “The whole game was payday, and all our resources were directed toward selling people’s personal information to guys like [Scott] Tucker and [Steve] Mitchem.”

Tucker and Mitchem were the alleged owners of two of the largest online-paydaylending operations in the Kansas City area.

Tucker recently paid $21 million to settle a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit over deceiving borrowers.

Some scattered digital ashes help corroborate the employees’ characterization.

On a job-board post dated 2009, a Clickspeed representative brags: “We at Clickspeed offer a very competitive, high converting affiliate program for payday loans. We have been in the industry for a very long time and have an extensive network, real time reporting, etc.”

Of Clickspeed, a former employee’s LinkedIn bio states: “We specialize in payday and title loan lead generation and we process over 3,000,000 applications monthly.”

And a mailing-list vendor purporting to sell Clickspeed’s data — that is, a big file containing the personal information of people who filled out applications for payday loans through Clickspeed — describes Clickspeed as “ONE OF THE LARGEST LEAD GENERATION COMPANIES IN THE UNITED STATES FOR THE PAYDAY LOAN INDUSTRY. ... THESE PEOPLE HAVE APPLIED AT ONE OF OVER 75 WEBSITES ON-LINE FOR A PAYDAY LOAN.” Clickspeed is not the only payday-related

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He also, according to state filings, founded a call center called Clearvox, which sources say serviced the payday-loan business of Jim Carnes, who is Sih’s brother-in-law. In 2012, Carnes sold his online-payday-lending company, Go Cash Loans, to EZ CORP, a Texasbased conglomerate of payday lending and pawn shops, for $50 million.

And in state filings from 2006, Sih is listed as one of three owner-managers of Centrinex.

(The company is now run by Bart Miller, one of the other listed owners, according to its website. Miller did not respond to a request for comment.) According to a 2012 lawsuit in Kansas federal court, filed by Centrinex against a company it accuses of stealing its trade secrets, Centrinex “has particular and specialized experience, expertise, and trade secrets in the payday loan industry and support for those operations by way of its call center services it provides to others.”

Sih’s partner in all three of these businesses — Clickspeed, Clearvox and Centrinex — is a man named Matthew Kirk. Last year, a Johnson County judge entered a $55,000 judgment against Kirk and Clickspeed for not paying Clickspeed’s lease at 6363 College Boulevard, in Overland Park. In separate lawsuits filed in 2012 and 2013, both in Kansas federal court, former employees accused Clickspeed of withholding wages and commissions.

Perhaps for these reasons, Clickspeed closed its College Boulevard office in 2013.

Kirk moved the operation to an office in Leawood’s Park Place, at 5325 West 115th Street, where sources say Clickspeed was rebranded as Oceanus Digital. For a digital company, Oceanus barely exists on the Internet. As with many online-lending operations, the “About Us” on its website is a refrigerator-word-magnet collage of meaningless corporate tech-speak; the company claims to “activate new customers through digital, mobile and social media strategies.” The site adds: “Our mission is to create disruptive marketing campaigns to captivate, engage and convert customers.”

The only place Oceanus comes up in a Web search is at online-payday-loans.com, a site that helps consumers compare payday lenders and avoid rogue loan sites. A post there from an anonymous user, dated October 2013, alleges that Sih and Kirk not only did lead generation but also were involved in financing the lending side: “The players behind Sky Lending, Sky Loans, Sloc Ltd, and Flus Medios are Matt Kirk, Herb Sih, Vince Hodes and Michael Connor all out of Kansas City.

Matt and Herb run also run a payday lead generation company called Clickspeed which is shutting down and becoming Oceanus — marketing themselves as a digital agency but they are still heavily involved in payday and run several portfolios including Lonestar, Harvest and Sky Lending.”

Reached by phone, Kirk declined to comment on anything related to online lending operations. “I have nothing to say,” he said.

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A few months ago, Oceanus vacated its space in Park Place, an agent at the Park Place office confirmed.

So where is Kirk operating Oceanus, or whatever he’s calling Clickspeed now?

Think Big Partners.

A front-desk representative at Think Big last week confirmed that Kirk keeps office space at Sih’s incubator. Asked whether he was running an online-payday-lending operation out of Think Big, Kirk repeated to The Pitch that he had “nothing to talk about.” Sih says he believes that Kirk is running a “consulting” business.

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ast Thursday, June 11, the nonprofit Communities Creating Opportunities hosted a forum on payday lending at the Gem Theater, near 18th and Vine. Mayor James and other community leaders listened to heartbreaking tales of those caught in the debt trap of payday loans. Elliot Clark, a Marine and a Vietnam War veteran, told of how he ended up spending $56,000 in interest after taking out five $500 payday loans to pay for a medical emergency. Courtney Marzenberg, a disabled woman, told the crowd she pays $500 every month to a payday lender.

These are hardly anomalous anecdotes.

A recent case before the Missouri Court of Appeals, Hollins v. Capital Solutions Investments I Inc., documents jaw-dropping usury by payday lenders, including an $80 loan that turned into a $19,000 balance.

Clark said he didn’t see anything wrong with small consumer loans — only with the way they’re practiced by payday lenders. “The problem isn’t that a payday lender is making money,” he said. “The problem is, how much money are they making?”

Mayor James took the stage and signed CCO’s Pledge for a Moral Economy. The pledge stated: “It is wrong to take advantage of vulnerable families by charging triple-digit interest rates. I support reform measures that will stop the debt trap.”

James called payday loans a “short-term emergency that turns into a long-term prison” that “lenders promote like candy.” Of payday lenders, he said, “They’re like roaches that never go away. It’s not the kind of industry we need in Kansas City.”

What about a company like Sih’s Clickspeed, which developed technology to connect desperate borrowers with those roaches, and then took a cut of each predatory deal?

Does the mayor believe that it is appropriate to keep Sih on the board of an organization with the stated priority of “support[ing] the development of disadvantaged and opportunity areas in Kansas City, Missouri”?

“It is important to have entrepreneurial, high-tech representation on Kansas City’s EDC Board of Directors, and that is why I appointed Herb Sih,” James said in a statement to The Pitch.

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TACOS, PIZZA, SANDWICHES — SOME OF THE METRO’S BEST LUNCHES ARE IN KANSAS CITY, KANSAS.

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don’t live in Kansas City, Kansas. I don’t work there, either. But I cross the Kaw with some frequency — to eat.

My Crossroads desk isn’t far from some perfectly fine lunch options. But not long ago, I found myself craving the street tacos at El Camino Real, on Seventh Street in downtown KCK. So I headed over the bridge and, quite inadvertently, launched myself on a weeklong food odyssey. On the way to those tacos, you see, I noticed a new pizza place. And then I started wondering what else I might be missing each weekday afternoon.

Plenty, it turns out.

KCK’s historic downtown has endured more than a few changes over the past halfcentury, some of them disappointing. I’m thinking of that ill-fated attempt to create a “pedestrian mall.” What a few generations ago was a thriving retail hub is today not much to look at. The stretch of Minnesota Avenue and its surrounding grid that once drew workaday foot traffic is today … quaint.

But a certain earnest quaintness can be a virtue when it comes to lunch. This is the realization that struck me on that recent day when the urge for tacos struck and I could think of no sensible antidote in the urban core

on the Missouri side of the state line. What was I thinking? All I had to do was hop onto Interstate 670, cross the river and get in line for those tacos.

This time, though, I paid closer attention to the cafés and pizzerias and bodegas that had flown by unnoticed on previous drives.

How many silent promises had I made to myself, over the years, to pull into a parking space in front of Tao Tao or Johnny C’s Deli & Pasta and see why they were such constants? I decided to make good on some of those promises.

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Springfield cashew chicken (top left) is a staple at Tao Tao (top right).

The Big Grill & More (above right) serves a great pulled pork (at left). stopped was one I hadn’t seen before. For good reason: It’s new around here.

Nick’s Italian Pizza (714 Minnesota Avenue, 913-321-1610) is no place for the pizza snob. Nick Brunetti Jr.’s pizzeria, in a corner of a former urban food court, within sight of a Subway franchise, is open just six hours a day, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and the menu is solid but unimaginative. But the line to get to the counter grows long during the lunch hour, and for good reason: Brunetti makes a terrific pie, chewy and flavorful, hand-tossed and given ample flavor with fresh marinara sauce that suggests a family recipe. The prices help, too. Two big slices and a beverage go for just $5.50.

Nick’s is named for Brunetti’s Italian-born father, a tribute that’s perhaps part mea culpa.

The two Nicks opened a pizza place together a couple of decades ago, but it didn’t go well.

Blame a little family pride.

“We had different ideas on how to run the place,” Brunetti Jr. tells me. “So I left and moved to Florida.”

In 2008, he returned to Wyandotte County, taking over his 77-year-old father’s pizzeria when the elder Brunetti’s health began to fail.

“He’s very proud of the changes I’ve made,” Brunetti Jr. says. “I instituted better ingredients and more variety in the kind of pizza we offered. I also added hot chicken wings, Philly cheesesteaks, a club sandwich and a greater variety of salads.”

That variety is fi ne, but the pizza is the thing here. Most days, there are about a dozen featured pies, including a marinara-slathered deep-dish version that Brunetti insists isn’t a Chicago thing. No, no — it’s a “Nick Brunetti stuffed pizza — my version of a stuffed pizza.”

That means, he adds, “I use all the ingredients I have in my refrigerator, including ham, bacon, cheese, vegetables, and we bake it for a

long time and ladle our own fresh homemade marinara over the top. We offer it every day, and it sells out very quickly.”

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ike Nick’s, most of my favorite lunch spots in KCK are family operations. Several blocks west of the Brunetti operation, for instance, is the humble but locally revered Tao Tao Restaurant (1300 Minnesota Avenue, 913-342-1331), where the owner and full-time cook is 70-year-old Annie Der. She has run the tiny storefront Chinese restaurant for the past four decades. Sometimes her oldest son, Irving, is there to help in the kitchen; another son, Leo, takes orders at the takeout counter.

It’s all takeout at Tao Tao, even if you don’t have to take it very far. Der has added, over the years, a small dining room — two tables, swamped by four big video arcade games.

This little-used space is for customers who’d

just as soon open their Styrofoam boxes of pineapple chicken or kung pao shrimp on the premises rather than in their cars or back at the office. Taking a few bites lightens the load, after all; the meals here are all sold by the pint or the quart.

Ask Der how much Minnesota Avenue has changed in her time here, and she shrugs and points to a framed vintage photograph near the front counter. It’s a copy of a 19th-century daguerreotype taken of this building, back when it was C.T. Savage’s Everything Store.

Waiting outside in the image are a horse and buggy, just where I’ve left my Ford Focus.

“Everything changes, all the time,” Der says. “But business is better now than it was when I first opened.”

Tao Tao, she adds, is not a philosophical reference. It’s much more about lunch. “In China,” Der says, “tao tao means really busy.”

The menu at Der’s restaurant hasn’t changed much since 1975, which is good news for fans of egg foo young. There are eight different varieties of that dish here, as well as that great Missouri culinary innovation, Springfield cashew chicken, with its breaded, deep-fried chicken in thick brown gravy. It’s way closer in concept to Stroud’s than it is to Shanghai — and I’m grateful for that.

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The store shelves are worth investigating, too. This may be one of the few venues in town where you can walk out the door with laundry soap, a statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe, Mexican pottery, a gilded piñata, and a styrofoam box filled with braised lamb stew.

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six-year-old Big Grill & More (501 North Sixth Street, 913-371-0088). Another family business, it’s owned and operated by the Dantzler family: Louisiana-born Ray and his siblings Jerri, Tracy, Pilmon and Lela.

“We don’t open,” says Ray’s daughter, also named Tracy, “unless there’s a Dantzler in the kitchen.”

The storefront, paneled in old-fashioned knotty pine like a 1940s kitchen, is a lovable mash-up of old-school barbecue restaurant and neighborhood diner. The burnt ends, beef tips, ribs and smoked chicken wings are all outstanding (and inexpensive), but you can also find plenty of satisfaction in nostalgic roadhouse fare. There’s a moist meatloaf (drenched in shiny brown gravy). There are smothered pork chops.

The fact that the Dantzlers have built a business in a location that’s not on a busy stretch of Sixth Street is a testament to their good cooking (and equally skilled meat smoking). Or it could just be the desserts — sweet-potato pie, peach cobbler, pear cobbler — made by Jerri Dantzler Martin. With those delicacies nonnegotiably part of your immediate future, you may need to think twice about ordering that second plate of fried okra.

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amily recipes are also the calling card of the 15-year-old Johnny C’s Deli & Pasta (1113 North Fifth Street, 913-281-3663), in a dreary strip center near the courthouse.

“A long, long time ago, there was a fancy restaurant here,” says owner and namesake John Caracci. “Did you ever hear of the Chandelier Room?”

I admit it got by me.

“It’s OK. No one else seems to remember it, either.”

I’m not going to forget the food here, though: ample subs, good hot sandwiches and satisfying pasta dishes. The lasagna dinners, which include salad and bread, cost less than $10 and taste exactly like my grandmother’s. (Caracci’s Sicilian grandmother, like mine, added a pinch of sugar to the sugo.) And Caracci is justifiably proud of his muffaletta: “I make my own olive salad and my own giardiniera,” he says. “And I serve it on a crusty French roll.”

I was more curious about his Reuben, though. Some places don’t bother slicing their own meats for the sandwich, but Caracci does. Still, the pastrami on his Reuben should be a bit thicker. The rest of the traditional components are here — sauerkraut, Swiss cheese, Thousand Island dressing, marbled rye (from Bagelworks, in this case) — but I’d also suggest putting the sandwich on a grill to make it exceptional.

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Famous lasagna (top) at Johnny C’s, making tacos (above) and the finished product (below) at El Camino Real.

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f course, it’s the tacos at El Camino Real (903 Seventh Street Parkway, 913-342-4333) that sent me into KCK in the first place, and the 15-year-old storefront café still brings it hard. The guacamole is made to order, the tortillas freshly grilled all day, the chunky pico de gallo still fiercely hot.

Tip big here, because these waitresses are never not in motion. They don’t just serve their customers — they wash dishes, grill tortillas, pack up takeout orders, make the guacamole, and ring up sales. There’s no ego here, and the food itself is appropriately humble — and absolutely delicious.

It’s also cheap enough that you might be tempted to order every last kind of taco. I have — at different times, mind you — and there’s not a loser in the bunch. Start with the grilledfish tacos and the Rajas, which combines poblano pepper, queso and onion. Have just a couple and you’ll still have room for one of the seafood dishes — chilled shrimp cocktail, for sure, and the camarones a la Diabla, a devilish dish of prawns boiled in some intensely spicy chili concoction and served over rice.

And look, when I say hot and spicy about the stuff here, I mean it. The salsa in the squeeze bottles is addictive but positively nuclear. Put some on a tortilla chip and it detonates in your mouth.

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butcher shop and café, makes tacos to order, and you get hungrier by the second as you wait in line, watching carnitas sizzle on one flat-top grill and beefsteak on the other. I’ve tasted almost all of the 11 different variations on the taco theme here, and it’s hard to name a favorite. Today it’s the barbacoa (made with steamed beef cheek, lusciously tender). But I

can’t rule out ordering another discada taco (imagine a tortilla wrapped around marinated beef, pork, bacon, hot dogs and ham) tomorrow.

This café and carnicería makes its presence known on weekends by the intoxicating fragrance of roasting chickens on the big outdoor grill in front of the building. The birds

n one working week, I visited these six family-owned restaurants and either discovered or remembered that each is well worth becoming a staple when you take a lunch break. Each reflects the diversity, talent and graciousness that have always made up the heart of downtown Kansas City, Kansas.

That’s what I’d call successful. And at least one of the proprietors I met defines success on similar terms.

“When we first opened the pizzeria in this neighborhood,” Brunetti Jr., of Nick’s Pizza, says, “we weren’t doing all that well. I wasn’t sure how successful we could ever be. But in the last few years, our business has really picked up quite a bit. Now I like this location a lot. It’s not making us rich, but I can’t complain.”

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The occasion is John Kolvenbach’s On an Average Day, a play the company first staged in its inaugural season. And though Kolvenbach’s script ultimately offers more to actors than it does to audiences, there’s nothing average about the Living Room’s remount, which showcases some of the company’s strongest design and acting work to date.

Lights up on the troubled Bobby (Matt Weiss), sitting alone in a kitchen as warm and well-appointed as a Russian prison. On the radio, an AM talking head prattles about the gold standard. Bobby shifts stacks of old newspapers around, leaves a pyramid of empty beer cans alone. He looks wild, hungry, like a stray dog.

Then, without warning, the screen door flies open. It’s John Kolvenbach, there to borrow a cup of sugar and a few plot lines from Sam Shepard.

No, sorry, it’s Jack (Rusty Sneary), Bobby’s estranged brother, barging in with a crumpled paper bag and a host of prickly questions.

What’s with the newspapers? Where’s all the food? And what died in the refrigerator?

Bobby’s answers aren’t illuminating. He talks in meandering spirals that reveal anxiety, delusions and an erratic — occasionally violent — temper. (Weiss is almost too convincing in the role.) But Jack slowly pieces together enough fragments to grow suspicious. His brother’s newspapers are all about unidentified bodies and unsolved crimes. And he’s on trial, we learn, for pushing a fat man out of a moving car. (The man had it coming, Bob dodges — he had too many chins.)

As Jack grows increasingly frustrated by his brother’s deflections, the cramped kitchen becomes a pressure cooker, steeping pathos in Pabst Blue Ribbon. Rusty Sneary has never looked more grounded than he does here, lecturing calmly while wringing out his aggression with a quick crushing of an empty beer can. And those cans keep coming; the brothers throw as many beers as they guzzle, splashing the chaff-colored nectar around like blue-collar Jackson Pollacks.

Beer stains only augment the set (design credited to Matt Weiss, Jon Cupit and Marlin Deen), which depicts the brothers’ childhood home as a fully realized piece of gross: windows caked in yellow newsprint, walls streaked with black mold. A square flat, suspended from the ceiling, adds vertical definition and a sickly glow from an overhead fixture. Bobby can’t muster the energy to eat, let alone play house.

As the cans pile up, the set — and the

On an Average Day Through June 28 at the Living Room Theatre, 1818 McGee, 816-533-5857, thelivingroomkc.com brothers — grow wilder. Director Scott Cordes has harnessed all of the script’s potential energy, pushing his actors to feverish extremes as they sift through a childhood that was, in many respects, a fantasy. And he and his cast deserve special commendation for top-notch fight choreography and movement work. Sneary lumbers around stage like an injured bear, and Weiss’ hands seem to have a mind of their own, clawing the air or fluttering like trapped birds at his sides. The brothers’ physical clashing is like poetry (or porn) for acting nerds.

But chops-flexing scripts don’t necessarily make efficient theater, and Kolvenbach runs himself ragged showing us what he’s willing to attempt. Bobby’s sincere, hilarious nonsequiturs (“I’m like a social piranha”; You ever see a grown man in shorts?”) dry up when we need them most, leaving Jack to labor through

Jack (Sneary, background) confronts his brother, Bobby (Weiss), after years apart. monologues as subtle as an applause sign.

Worse, the playwright is a backseat driver with his script’s heavy reliance on italicized emphasis: “You spend your whole previous Life trying to get someone to understand half a Sentence of what you’re Thinking and then all of a sudden you’re completely Seethrough,” Bobby raps at one point.

Still, the play’s second-act reversal is wellplaced, and the dialogue is more often surprising than sentimental. Jack confesses to a crime worse than what’s already on the table, and the brothers trash the stage in a gritty, realistic fight scene. Weiss breaks a bottle; Sneary returns a little half-digested Pabst to the earth.

On an Average Day is an arresting tour de fortitude for its performers. For those merely watching, the result is a mostly satisfied exhaustion — a readiness, perhaps, to crack open a beer.

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deaf son, and a family deaf to his emotional needs, share the stage in the Unicorn Theatre’s production of Nina Raine’s Tribes, a play that speaks with uncommon clarity about assimilation and frustrated communication.

The playwright’s views are filtered through a family of selfabsorbed academics and artists who may as well be laborers at the Tower of Babel. Nightly dinners become punishing critical panels as contrarian patriarch Christopher (David Fritts) lectures while his wife, Beth (Jan Rogge), a well-intentioned but clueless novelist, attempts to keep the peace.

The couple’s neurotic adult children further crowd the small London flat (warmly designed by Gary Mosby). Ruth (Nicole Marie Green) is an aspiring-slashexpiring opera singer, and Daniel (Jake Walker) is a driftless student struggling to complete his thesis and outgrow a rotten love.

Trapped in the middle of the linguistic fray is their deaf brother, Billy (Paul Ososki), a skilled lipreader who was never taught

Tribes Through June 28 at the Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, 816-531-7529, unicorntheatre.org sign language (and whose family never bothered to learn).

Raine lends each family member a palette of amusing, sometimes endearing quirks, such as Beth’s music-minded tittering (“Of course it’s silly — it’s Wagner”). But there’s plenty to begrudge, too — see Christopher’s crass polemic on deaf victimhood, in which he calls such persons the “Muslims of the handicapped world.” And the perilously sharp writing makes no attempt to welcome us to this family tribe, thrusting us immediately into warp-speed harangues that make Billy’s perspective plain.

While we lag behind the family dialogue, leaning forward in our seats to chase the words, we find it hard to imagine a less hospitable home for a deaf person.

When Billy’s new girlfriend, Sylvia (Lisa Lehnen), comes for dinner, the family’s microaggressions become the main

course. Christopher badgers Sylvia into berating the deaf community (her parents are deaf, and she’s losing her own hearing) and admitting the limitations of sign language even as we see that she signs fluently and beautifully.

Fritts is exceptional here, as playful as he is pigheaded.

Though Christopher is undoubtedly a villain to some, the actor subtly suggests vulnerability underneath, the academic’s crippling need for validation. He’s invested in painting the deaf as cultish and crude because he’s invested in isolating Billy from that tribe.

Rogge is similarly strong as the clueless matriarch, bringing her usual casual grace; we can’t help but feel fond of her Beth, whether she’s squinting, lizardlike, through reading glasses or shuffling around stage in a bubblegum-pink kimono, plotting her

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Walker and Green have great chemistry as the jockeying siblings, and Walker is especially good in Act I, his aggressive quips stretched taut by insecurity and an unspecified mental illness.

Although very little happens in Act I, Raine’s sharp-honed dialogue reveals the intricate family dynamics that will carry the show.

The language alone is enough to propel us through a somewhat scattered Act II, which fascinates even as it stumbles. A work blunder from Billy isn’t given time enough to pay off, and Daniel’s late-play communication breakdown feels too thematically convenient. Raine may be juggling one motif too many.

These factors aside, though, Tribes provides supremely rewarding characters. When Billy embargoes any non-signed communication with his parents, Raine achieves a reversal that’s as heartbreaking as it is just.

(Ososki is commanding throughout, relaxed but resolute about claiming his voice.) The hearing members of the family are now the ones panicking over missed cues, shouting “What? What?” like a chorus of dull parrots.

As Billy assimilates further into the deaf community, Sylvia grows more and more estranged from him. Lehnen, herself an American Sign Language interpreter, is hypnotic in the role, signing with the poetic expression of a symphony conductor. As her character’s hearing fades over the course of the show, she also loses the crispness in her voice, and Lehnen shows us that upsetting devolution with memorable skill.

The Unicorn’s sensitive production — skillfully directed by Theodore Swetz — is an empathetic but unpreachy exploration of how tribal affiliations leave us alternately sated and starved.

Raine invites us, like Sylvia, to straddle two worlds and tribes, to encounter a snippet of music and a stanza of sign with the same untempered wonder.

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And if you’ve wanted to sample Justus’ cuisine without making the trip, things are about to get easier for you.

The James Beard Award-nominated chef says he’s about to sign the lease for his longgestating second restaurant, Black Dirt, at 5050 Main. He plans to open it by the end of the year.

“It won’t be Justus Drugstore Lite,” he says, “but a completely different concept that’s more casual, more accessible and contemporary, but not modernist. I’ll be doing my own take on a lot of classic dishes, and the menu will be constantly evolving and changing.”

Ever since his Smithville restaurant began generating acclaim, Justus has searched for a venue closer to the heart of Kansas City.

In 2007, he found a potential spot in the Crossroads, but that deal never panned out.

Now, after months of sometimes intense negotiations between Justus and developer Van Trust, he’s taking on a high-visibility address in a neighborhood that’s in the midst of a significant revitalization, anchoring the street-level northwest corner of the mixeduse development 51 Main.

“We had been courted by Van Trust on several of their other projects,” Justus says of his new zip code, “but 51 Main felt right for what I wanted to do. I liked the proximity to the colleges, to Brookside. I feel like this corridor has something happening — a little like the Central West End in St. Louis. Elegant, beautiful and not super-complicated.”

Justus and his wife, Camille Eklof, can now focus on turning their south-Plaza corner into a 162-seat venue — one that’s much different from Justus Drugstore. The name tells the story, he explains: “Black Dirt is the richest soil available for fruits and produce. It speaks to our interest in farm-to-table dining and sustainability.”

It also speaks to another matter, he adds: ego.

“The Drugstore was created as a forum for doing things the way that I wanted, with complete creative control,” Justus says. “But there’s a price that comes with total control.

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he bar at Bristol Seafood Grill is all but empty when I arrive for happy hour on a Monday — a welcome lull for bartender Austin Jacobs. He has only just arrived, and the task I’ve given him — whipping up one of the restaurant’s brand-new Porthole cocktails – requires some concentration.

The Porthole is, for starters, the vessel itself: designed by Martin Kastner for Chicago’s famed cocktail lounge the Aviary, it’s fashioned out of two thick glass plates.

Filled with delicious drink ingredients — in the Bristol’s case, vodka, fresh fruit and herbs in three different combinations — it resembles a high-concept pinwheel. Beyond its aesthetics, though, the Porthole is also a demonstration of fast infusion, which means each sip of the cocktail is meant to give the drinker a new flavor.

The Power & Light District’s Bristol is one of only two restaurants in the country to feature Porthole cocktails on its menu. (The other is Bristol's sister restaurant Devon Seafood, in Chicago.) That suggests a capital-B, capital-D Big Deal, so here I am, asking Jacobs to show me the view through, well, you know.

We begin with the Orange Sage Porthole: Grey Goose, lime, sage and house-made ginger syrup. On a towel-covered bar space, Jacobs carefully unscrews the top plate and begins to artfully assemble freshly cut limes, lemons and sage. He furrows his brow and replaces the plate, spending a few moments

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“As you can see, there are a lot of moving parts to this,” he says.

Once the vessel is secure, he stands it up and pours a pre-batched liquid into the spout — the vodka with the ginger syrup and the orange and lime juices.

“The idea is for this to be sitting on a table for up to 30 minutes,” Jacobs explains. “You can drink it right away, but it’s important to let it sit, because the alcohol will take on flavors of the fruit and the sage. Each Porthole has about 10 ounces of liquid and 4 ounces of booze — a little more than a regular martini, which would be 3 ounces — and we recommend pouring just 1 or 2 ounces at a time, so that you can really taste how the cocktail changes with each pour.”

Bristol serves its Portholes with two glasses — “It’s kind of a couples thing,” Jacobs says.

And it’s priced for couples, at $23 each. The overhead is steeper than usual, though, at $99 for each complex Porthole. (The Bristol has 10.)

Jacobs pours me a taste of the Orange Sage cocktail, and I’m a bit disappointed. The citrus fruit comes through powerfully, but the effect is essentially like lemonade. I figure it needs to infuse longer, and Jacobs has an idea to pass some time. He’s a whiskey lover, and he proposes a riff on a Manhattan using smoked pink peppercorns, loose-leaf Earl Grey tea, brandied cherries, cinnamon sticks

Porthole cocktails: for the patient drinker and thyme. He’ll use the Porthole for this, too.

There is no batched mix for this drink, so Jacobs stirs together Dark Horse rye, white sweet vermouth and a splash of water before funneling it into the dry ingredients he has assembled in the Porthole. We stare at the concoction for a few minutes, taking in its impressive summer hues of gold, ruby and deep green. Finally, Jacobs pours a taste over ice. He has made an excellent Manhattan, but the rye dominates.

I pour another taste of the Orange Sage, and this time I can taste some of the ginger, along with some of the floral sage notes. The citrus is still big and bright, but the passage of five minutes has clearly allowed some science to occur.

Back to Jacobs’ “Golden Manhattan,” as he calls it.

We have abandoned the ice and are now pouring the rye cocktail into small tasting glasses. I can smell the pepper on this sip before I taste it, and what starts as a swift kick in the mouth pummels my throat all the way down. It’s not unpleasant, but it instills some fear of what the next sip might yield.

I look at my watch and start counting down another five minutes.

After this latest intermission, Jacobs’ creation has taken on deeper, richer and more complex flavors. Traces of pepper are tempered by the thyme. In another five

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“The thing with the menu Portholes is that they’re more approachable, which is important for our clientele,” Jacobs says. “They don’t want anything too crazy and experimental.” And they may not want to wait as long as it takes to experience what turns out to be a stunning succession of flavors.

“It helps to understand how flavors work together, and I think the point is that this gives you some creative license,” Jacobs says.

“Like, you can take everything that makes a certain spirit taste a certain way and try to create something else. Just now, I realized we have juniper berries in back, so what if we take Samogon — a Russian grappa — and use it with juniper berries and orange zest and all the things that flavor gin? How would the grappa translate? Stuff like that.”

Jacobs grins, pouring out the last of his Golden Manhattan. “Also, I think this is way more work than just making a drink,” he says.

He’s right, of course. I hold up my final taste and toast the fruits of his labor.

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Sierra Nevada Beer Masterclass, with brew-

masters Steve Dresler and Scott Jennings, at Tapcade (1701 McGee), 6 p.m. $10 ticket includes tasting glass, pint glass and six samples.

Cinder Block releases 2014 KC Weiss aged in oak barrels at the brewery (110 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City), 6 p.m.

KC Bier Co. liters of Dunkel plus yard games (croquet, bocce ball, ping pong, corn hole), at Char Bar (4050 Pennsylvania), 6-9 p.m.

Torn Label happy hour at Whole Foods Lone Elm Taproom (14615 W. 119th St., Olathe), 5-7 p.m.

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Pints for paws benefit for Spay & Neuter KC at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway), 5 p.m.

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Deco Auto — on the eve of Center of the City — has the right attitude.

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This, Garcia and Flowers say, is the essence of their band: good friends, hanging out. All three members are busy: Garcia is a middle school teacher by day, Flowers is a gardener and Tomek — who joined in 2013, after Bacon departed — remains with the Rainmakers. (He’s absent for our interview, Garcia explains, because that storied KC band is playing a festival in Norway.) But Deco Auto offers these three an excuse to take a break from their heavily scheduled lives. What’s more, the band’s longevity has deepened the friendship.

“I think if you’re in a band for, like, a year or two, you’ve probably gotten over some communication hurdles,” Flowers says. “You can be friends with people, but being in a band with someone is just a whole different relationship, because you’re dealing with artistic expression and money and schedules and all these things that are really easy for people to fight over. And if you can get over those hurdles, you’re fine.”

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ast year’s Center of the City was the festival’s biggest, loudest yet, a colossal threeday weekend packed with local and regional punk acts taking over the bar Vandals in April.

Vandals is no more, but Center of the City is back for a fourth go-round, with a new home.

Beginning Thursday, June 18, and stretching over Friday and Saturday, 34 acts are headed to Harling’s Upstairs, hell-bent on busting speakers and eardrums.

Among the festival veterans is Deco Auto, slated to play its third Center of the City. But the three-piece — guitarist and lead singer Steven Garcia, bassist and singer Tracy Flowers and drummer Pat Tomek — isn’t an obvious booking for an event known for gnarly punk and hardcore.

“Center of the City is punk as fuck,” Garcia says. “We’re not typical. I mean, the stuff I’m writing right now is I guess what I would call power pop — emphasis on the power. It’s loud and it’s bold, but it’s also very melodic.”

That’s fine with Center of the City founder and organizer Mike Alexander.

“Unfortunately, a lot of people see the punk aspect of it as a music thing,” Alexander says of the festival. “It’s really more of a punk attitude

and an independent attitude that you have, not necessarily the music you end up playing.

I think as long as you have that attitude of zero pretension and are making the music you want to make, that’s what it’s about.”

That description fits The Curse of Deco Auto.

The songs on that album, issued this past February, hit hard, especially when Garcia is going to town on his guitar, but are never without a sweet hook. And his voice is both gutsy and crystalline, an ideal tenor to deliver the songs’ sharp edges. Flowers’ harmonies help round that out some, and when she sings lead, as on “The Introduction,” she recalls a less annoying Lisa Loeb. All told, the record pays homage to mid-1990s alternative rock without copycatting much of it, and it plays just fine even with the volume up only halfway or so.

Flowers and Garcia — she good-naturedly calls him the band’s “dictator” rather than its leader; Garcia says his style is “benevolent fascism” — founded Deco Auto in 2011 with then-drummer Michelle Bacon (the Phillistines, Dolls on Fire). By then, seven years had gone by since Flowers moved to Kansas City from Philadelphia with her husband.

Deco Auto plays serious games.

“This band gives me a sense of family,” Flowers says. “My family all played music, and when we’re home we all get out our instruments and play together. When I moved to Kansas City, it was like the rug was pulled out from under me.”

For a time, Flowers was playing with Bacon in a band called the Straight Ups — music she describes as “goofy playtime stuff, just for fun.” Things changed when she met Garcia.

“This is the first serious band I’ve ever been in,” Flowers says. “Steve’s been doing music for, like, 15 years longer than I have been. He writes all the songs, he tells us how to play them, and we do what he says. Even if I don’t get it at the time, I trust that he knows where it’s going to go.”

Sitting at a table at Screenland Tapcade, Flowers and Garcia do not seem particularly serious. They are frequently distracted from our conversation either by the (winning) Royals game playing on the large screens on one side of the room, or by Top Gun, playing elsewhere in the room.

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The annual Jazz in the Woods festival has been dismissed in recent years by “true” jazz fans for its emphasis on smooth music, but don’t let that deter you from this weekend’s 26th-anniversary celebration.

More than 25,000 people came out to enjoy the sets last year, and this year’s lineup isn’t anything to sneer at. The last album from bassist Julian Vaughn, who hails from Kansas City and performs Friday, claimed two top-10 singles on Billboard’s jazz charts. Najee, Saturday’s headliner, has an impressive résumé that includes a pair of platinum albums and a tour with Prince. Earlier in the evening Saturday, local blues star Samantha Fish and chanteuse Molly Hammer are highlights. Bring a lawn chair. Admission is free.

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Stuart Murdoch on Belle and Sebastian’s dance revolution

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here are better Belle and Sebastian albums than Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, but the Scottish outfit has never made a more energetic record. Songs such as the opening “Nobody’s Empire” and the sweaty “Enter Sylvia Plath” amp up yester-B&S’s gentle gambol to Daft Punk-like BPM. Bass lines wriggle. You can smell heat coming off the keyboard patch cords. Someone brought conga drums. Even the slower numbers simmer with new tension, as though the conga player were pounding on the studio door to get another turn.

It’s an unexpected party disc, a great night at the disco from the band you just saw in the coffeehouse, and the party is gaining momentum on the road. The band’s first-ever KC stop comes just a few days after the kind of goodtimes non sequitur that’s increasingly common for the 2015-model Belle and Sebastian: a viral video in which a stage-crashing Jon Hamm tosses a Gummy Bear into frontman Stuart Murdoch’s waiting mouth, a dozen feet away. The group’s New York stand this month included stage dancers, and the new songs are everywhere accompanied by pithy little short films projected on a screen above the stage — a sign of Murdoch’s confidence after last year’s movie God Help the Girl, which he wrote and directed.

Ahead of Belle and Sebastian’s Uptown Theater gig, I called Murdoch a few hours before the band’s Radio City Music Hall concert.

The Pitch: Everyone’s writing about this as your disco album, but you guys have always been a pretty danceable live act. Are there frontmen or bandleaders you’ve admired or tried to emulate?

Murdoch: As soon as you leave the bedroom and get out onstage, you have to give people something to move to, something to feel good about. But I put the least thought possible into what I do live because there are so many other things in life you have to think about. What I do onstage is not a very conscious thing. I’m not one of those people who admires people for their stagecraft. I’m not a fan of seeing bands in big venues. But once you get in front of 1,000 people, you have to invent some kind of stagecraft.

Recently I’ve loved Future Islands. I love the way that guy [singer Samuel T. Herring] moves. But if I didn’t like their music, I wouldn’t care about the way the guy moves.

I remember seeing Pulp in about 1992, and they were the first band for a while that really had a frontman. What I saw in the 1980s — Jesus and Mary Chain, New Order — no one was playing with the audience.

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Belle and Sebastian with Courtney Barnett Thursday, June 18, at the Uptown Theater a conversation. He completely understood the audience.

What do you know or believe now about performing that would have surprised you 10 years ago?

Everything! Anything! Because, again, it’s the one aspect of the job that I never thought about. I had all these plans for a sort of secret band and to make a couple of records, and it would all be very bookish and underground, and suddenly we were thrust out into the limelight. But I really don’t think there’s anything in my life that’s given me so much pleasure as touring and playing the music. I’ve been reveling in it this tour, this year — everything from getting your laundry done every week to working out every night the songs you’re going to play, keeping the show fresh, having fresh ideas every night.

We change the show every night.

How much of your catalog did you rehearse for this tour?

We started off with 20 or so, including the new ones, which take longer to work out.

But by the time you go out, it’s closer to 40 — maybe 50 now.

You recorded the bulk of Girls in Peacetime in Atlanta. What was different about making a record there?

We go where the producer is, usually, and we never mind leaving home for the record be-

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In Scotland, this is a dance floor. (Murdoch is the one in the hat.) cause you feel like the French Foreign Legion — you lose yourself in the process. Ever since we did The Life Pursuit [2006], we’ve loved coming to America. We found Atlanta to be very livable and easy to negotiate. And we had a great producer [Ben H. Allen III, whose credits include Animal Collective and Gnarls Barkley], and he had fabulous engineers and people working with him.

Between recording over here and touring a lot this year, you’ve spent more time on planes lately for someone who doesn’t like to fly. What’s your air-travel knockout method of choice?

My method of choice is meditation. I’ve been doing some Buddhist-style meditation and thinking a lot about that kind of stuff. But my method of reality is Valium.

You’ve generally trailed plenty of B-sides after your albums. What got left off the record this time?

We’ve licked the platter clean, to quote an old nursery rhyme, the last couple of albums.

Which is good, in a way, because it means you haven’t messed up many tracks. We recorded 16 songs this time and we meant to record 16.

We usually narrow down to 11 or 12 for the album, and in this case we had 12 tracks on the record and we made a deluxe vinyl version with the other four songs.

What lessons did you learn from making the movie that found their way into Girls in Peacetime?

I think it’s having an effect that I’m feeling

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now, that’s just starting to creep in. It’s cool to go back to the band and throw my lot in and not always be a performer. But now that we’ve played a few shows on this tour, the director side of me is coming out. We’ve started to use dancers. and every new song has a video thing to go with it. I never thought I’d get into that stuff, but now that I think of things visually more and more, it’s a different thing from just making a video. We want to make something to accompany, rather than overwhelm, the song.

When you use dancers for a couple of the bigger shows on the tour, and when you’re making bolder strokes in general onstage, are you conscious that people might read you ironically?

Is any of it ironic?

Not at all. Irony is a dangerous thing. As soon as you put your tongue in your cheek, it’s a little dishonest. It might seem like we’re being corny because we’re embracing crappy things from the past — my taste is as bad as all the things in the past — but it’s real. I don’t like irony in music. I’d rather have bad honesty than good irony.

You’ve said that you keep an endless list of possible song and album titles. Do you have a title picked out for a book or a memoir down the line?

I think they’re all interchangeable, the titles. The phrase “girls in peacetime want to dance” — I jotted that down and thought it would be a song title, and then I forgot about it. And then we were doing the album artwork, and it came back to me. Titles are almost like tweets, in a way: concentrated ideas, little pockets of imagery. They can turn into anything.

Speaking of Twitter, you used it to call out a Pitchfork freelancer after she wrote that God Help the Girl was emblematic of Belle and Sebastian’s being “steeped in whiteness.” You tweeted that you’d like her to come to your Chicago date. Did you resolve that spat?

I had some correspondence with the actual writer. She explained herself, and then I explained a bit more about the group and our background, and we agreed to disagree.

She was on the guest list for the Birmingham show because that’s where she happened to be staying at the time, but I didn’t see her afterward, so I don’t know if she came. That’s the first time I’d experienced Twitter notoriety. It was shocking to me. People called me all kinds of terrible things, so I shut down for a while.

Besides social media, you’ve mentioned another digital habit in past interviews. If you’re still doing Scrabble or Words With Friends on your phone these days, I’d like to play you.

I did get into that for a while, but I stopped.

I’m not sure what happened. No, wait — we had a baby.

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Nick Spa cek

Lawrence’s Free State Fest has something for everyone.

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ast year, Lawrence’s Free State Fest dropped “Film” from its name in order to more accurately represent what the organizers wanted to offer. No longer just a film fest, this weeklong arts extravaganza now includes stand-up comedy, author appearances and a healthy dose of music. We’ve rounded up a few highlights.

Well, not quite musical theater. But some festival events blur the line between different media, or at least offer a combination. Tuesday night, following the screening of the Elliott Smith documentary Heaven Adores You, Get Up Kids lead singer Matt Pryor and friends (including Pryor’s bandmate Ryan Pope, along with Thom Hoskins and Heidi Gluck) pay tribute to the legendary songwriter with “Between the Bars: The Songs of Elliot Smith live.” Thursday, after a screening of The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead, stick around for a live set from Mike Watt and the Missingmen.

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If you’re going to Free State Fest, you’re likely either cherry-picking individual events you’d pay to see or you’re saving yourself the trouble and getting an allaccess pass for the week ($150, or $50 for just the movie pass). But there’s also an enticing selection of freebies for budget-conscious festivalgoers.

Some events — such as Jon Ronson, author of The Psychopath Test and the recent So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed, at Liberty Hall on Tuesday — require you to show up early in order to secure your spot. George Clinton and P-Funk’s show Wednesday in front of the Arts Center will require you to merely show up, hit it and quit it. The

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Several big names are attached to this year’s lineup, demonstrating what a notable event Free State Festival has become. Monday features a stand-up set from the hilarious (and Grammy Award-nominated) Tig Notaro; Friday offers a screening of Call Me Lucky with star Barry Crimmins and director Bobcat Goldthwait; Saturday brings in best-selling author Dennis Lehane (Mystic River, Shutter Island) for a Q&A. Add serious discussions on “The Future of Technology in Higher Education” (Wednesday) or frivolously launching a rubber chicken during “Science Live!” (also Wednesday), and the breadth of the festival’s appeal becomes readily apparent.

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Tyler, the Creator

Tyler, the Creator seems intent on pushing his listeners to their limits on his latest album, Cherry Bomb. The 13 tracks pluck juicy notes from electronica, soul and R&B, spliced with Tyler’s steady flow. But it’s not always to the benefit of the song. Regardless, Tyler carries unabashedly on, apparently reveling in the chaotic spiral he has created. There are enough sterling moments on Cherry Bomb to make up for these transgressions, and Tyler’s raps are often so razor-sharp with unpleasant truths that it’s easy to forgive him for reaching a bit production-wise. And a reminder: Tyler, the Creator is just 24 years old, still exploring the sounds that best fit his art. He’s close to figuring it out.

Tuesday, June 23, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9900)

Belle and Sebastian

Show me a person who dislikes Belle and Sebastian, and I’ll show you someone who holds similar distaste for the smiles of newborns and ice cream on a hot day. Throughout its extensive 18-year career, the Scottish band has stayed true to its hallmark majestic folkpop while exploring new sounds. On Belle and Sebastian’s latest, Girls in Peacetime Want

to Dance, the band borrows joyful disco elements to lift songs up even higher. Stuart Murdoch remains an enigmatic frontman, and Girls finds him at his funkiest.

Thursday, June 18, Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s The High Country clocks in at a brief 27 minutes, but there’s a lot accomplished in that time. Perhaps thanks to a recent lineup change — founding member John Cardwell parted ways with the band while bassist and founding member Tom Hembree was welcomed back — The High Country finds SSLYBY at its loudest and catchiest yet. The band has never sounded this assured or tight, and it’s enough to impress longtime fans and make new ones.

Friday, June 19, Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Melissa Etheridge

Last year, Melissa Etheridge released This Is M.E., her first album on her own label. It took her 26 years to get to this point in her career, and the result is an uplifting collection that

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Wednesday, June 24, Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)

Boulevardia

There’s a lot to like about year No. 2 of Boulevardia, the three-day West Bottoms urban street fair. Of course, there’s the beer, but there’s going to be plenty of delicious food, tempting buys in the maker village and carnival rides. But this Father’s Day weekend is about the music, with a lineup that features lots of local favorites and national headliners: the Mowgli’s, Big Head Todd & the Monsters, Atlas Genius, J. Roddy Walston & the Business, and Mayer Hawthorne. And did we mention beer?

Friday, June 19 – Sunday, June 21, West Bottoms (boulevardia.com)

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Annie | Through Sunday, Starlight Theatre, 4600

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Jesus Christ Superstar | Through Sunday, Musical Theater Heritage, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com Judy Barbra Liza | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com King Lear | Heart of America Shakespeare Fes-

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Group, Störling Dance Theater, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Co., Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, AileyCamp the Group, CRISOL danza Fusión and youth performances | 8 p.m. Gem Theater, 1601 E. 18th St.

Semiotic Weapons, Donner Diaries, the Uncouth, the Plug Uglies, Stinkbomb, Uberficker, Protestors, Lazy Ol’ Bitch | 7 p.m. Harling’s Upstairs, 3941-A Main

Jokefighter | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Aries spears | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

dan + shay | 7 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light

Hans sturm | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

District, 14th St. and Grand

Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

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matt Hopper trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809

Grand

Broadway

doyle Bramhall ii, nicholas david | 7 p.m. Knuck-

damon Parker | 7 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. scattered Hamlet | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam

Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

leheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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ten foot Beast, Ward | 10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

marley young, yung Versace | 6 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

nigHtLife

stan Kessler trio | 7 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601

Belle and sebastian, Courtney Barnett | 7 p.m.

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

Cost of desire, meatshank, elysium | 9:30 p.m.

Peter frampton, Cheap trick | 7 p.m. Starlight

B right | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Jake stanton, Adriana nikole, Jason Buice |

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

1205 E. 85th St.

royals vs. Brewers | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

starkill, night demon, skinned, Cancerous Womb, Logistic slaughter, torn the fuck Apart | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

nos, 4124 Pennsylvania

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

sachusetts, Lawrence

8:30 p.m., Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Amanda fish Band | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

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something & the Whatevers, the ex-Bombers, the mr. & the mrs. | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Mas-

Peggy Chilson & geoff Wilcken | 7 p.m. Califor-

Comedy

A Year with Frog and Toad | The Coterie Theatre,

Karaoke | 9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Performing Arts

festival on the Vine, featuring Owen/Cox Dance

Tribes | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

royals vs. red sox | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Center of the City fest, featuring the Death Scene,

Once | Through Sunday, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, theaterleague.com

dJ g train | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachu-

setts, Lawrence

global summer massive, featuring Flux Pavilion,

Yellow Claw, Ookay, Dotcom and Skrux | 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

Friday | 6.19 | Performing Arts

festival on the Vine, featuring Owen/Cox Dance Group, Störling Dance Theater, Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Co., Cleo Parker Robinson Dance, AileyCamp the Group, CRISOL danza Fusión and youth performances | 5 p.m. Gem Theater, 1601 E. 18th St. KC symphony’s season finale: A Hero’s Life | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

Comedy

dante and rebekah Kochan | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Aries spears | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

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Boulevardia | 5-11 p.m. 12th Street Bridge, 12th St. and Hickory, boulevardia.com

James Ward, BmW | 5:30 p.m. The Blue Room,

Fiesta Kansas City | 5-11 p.m. Crown Center, 2450

Jazz in the Woods | 5:30-11 p.m. Corporate Woods

Grand, fiestakansascity.com

1600 E. 18th St.

office park, 9401 Indian Creek Pkwy., Overland Park

Kim and the Quakes | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mas-

Community events

sachusetts, Lawrence

local life third Fridays in Downtown overland Park | 5-9 p.m., between 79th and 80th streets, west of Metcalf, downtownop.org

Film

off the Wall film series: Tron | 8:45 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

ComeDy

Ju lee anna, sam Gordon, lisa Peters, rod reyes | 8 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway Dante and rebekah Kochan | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park aries spears | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Justin Williams, Joe noh, Blair socci and martin morrow | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

midnight metal: noisem, iron Guts Kelly, altered Beast | The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

F e s t i va l s

Perpetual Change | KC Live Stage at the Power & Light

Boulevardia | 11 a.m.-11 p.m. 12th Street Bridge, 12th

District, 14th St. and Grand

St. and Hickory, boulevardia.com

rev Gusto | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts,

Fiesta Kansas City | Noon-11 p.m. Crown Center, 2450 Grand, fiestakansascity.com

shades of Jade | 9 p.m.-1 a.m. The Tank Room,

Community BeneFits

Lawrence

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royals vs. red sox | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium 2015 Big slick Celebrity Classic | 4:30 p.m. Kauff-

man Stadium, bigslickkc.org

7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

Room, 4048 Broadway

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musiC

Be/non, long shadows, Drakkar sauna | 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

luke Bryan, randy Houser, Dustin lynch |

6 p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

Bukeka | 8:30 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway matt Carrillo | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W.

135th St., Overland Park

starhaven rounders | 6 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 West-

Nall, Overland Park, bigslickkc.org

staxx + Goku, indians and astronauts | 9:30 p.m.

royals vs. red sox | 6:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium musiC

tK, J. thiess, rizzi myers, sigma, lindsay alderman | 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. tim Whitmer, shults, Boogaloo 7 | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

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Center of the City Fest, featuring Deco Auto, the

Electric Lungs, Biff Tannens, Rackatees, Smash the State, Odds Against, Dead Ven, Hipshot Killer, Hossferatu, Red Kate, Four Arm Shiver, Bombs Over Broadway | 6 p.m.

Harling’s Upstairs, 3941-A Main

Cowtown Playboys, Popskull rebels, 58 Delrays | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main ernest James Zydeco | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

1205 E. 85th St.

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

Pat lok, sheppa, lC | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048

Broadway

mingle with tom richman, maal and team Bear Club | 10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

soul Preservers featuring Brian Danker | 9 p.m.

The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

Filthy 13 | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. the Flying Balalaika Brothers, various Blonde, nuthatch-47 | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Big slick Celebrity Bowl | 10 a.m. Pinstripes, 13500

port Rd.

The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Saturday | 6.20 |

2715 Rochester

Ha Ha tonka, she’s a Keeper | 9 p.m. Knuckleheads

Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Head injuries, airport novels, Get Busy living, onward to Glory | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

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

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

exhibition on screen: Van Gogh — A New Way of Seeing , from the Van Gogh

Museum Amsterdam| 1 p.m. Saturday, 7 p.m.

Tuesday, Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

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

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Kansas City society for Contemporary Photography: inaugural exhibit | 6-9 p.m.

Friday, Kiosk Gallery, 916 E. Fifth Street, kioskgallerykc.com

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

Place (Series) + Lines In My Eyes , Constructive Interference , exhibits by Bill

way Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

Jacobson and Stuart Allen | Through Saturday, Haw Contemporary, 1600 Liberty

Brother Gruesome, Psychic Heat, Gnarly Davidson | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts,

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Jackie allen, Gerald spaits Group | 7 p.m. Broad-

Lawrence

Center of the City Fest, featuring the Bad Ideas,

Fiscal Spliff, the Shidiots, Brutally Frank, the Wilderness, Black Luck, Scene of Irony, Iron Guts Kelly, Bottle Breakers, People’s Punk Band, the Haddonfields, Stiff Middle Fingers | Harling’s Upstairs, 3941-A Main

David Hasselhoff on acid, after nations | 8 p.m.

Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Disentomb, Cerebral effusion, Delusional Parasitosis, iniquitous Deeds, embodied torment, unmerciful | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Doghouse Daddies | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs

PerForminG arts

Damon Fowler | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon,

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

Philip Haas: The Four Seasons | Big slick Celebrity Party and live auction |

someone still loves you Boris yeltsin, Future Kings, missouri loves Company | 8 p.m. The Riot

Art Exhibits & EvEnts

evan epperson and the aviators | Jazzhaus, 926-

1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America |

third thursday at the nelson: Fair as Folk, with Kansas City B-cycle, Cowgirl’s Train Set, DJ Miscela, the photo bus, vendors, food trucks, and activities | 5-9:30 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

third thursday at the nerman | 3:304:30 p.m. Thursday, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org What You Might Have Missed , works by

David Ford | Through Saturday, Plug Projects, 1613 Genessee, plugprojects.com

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

man vs. animal, the mr. and the mrs. | Jackpot

the Grisly Hand | 10 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Jazz in the Woods | 5:30-11 p.m. Corporate Woods office park, 9401 Indian Creek Pkwy., Overland Park

royal thunder | 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

liverpool | 8 p.m. Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino,

Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

3200 N. Ameristar Dr.

Dave scott/scott Whitfield sextet | Take Five

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Brody Buster Band, Rolling foliage | 6 p.m. Replay

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Jeff the Brotherhood, Josh Berwanger Band, young Bull | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

The Nace Brothers’ Roots of Steel Show | 7 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Sleep Signals, echo 4our | 6 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence Taake, Wolvhammer, Stonehaven | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Monday | 6.22 | PeRfORMiNg ARTS

Musical Monday | 7:30 p.m. Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center, 2450 Grand

Tyler the Creator, Taco | 9 p.m. Midland, 1228 Main

COMeDy

Paul Shinn Trio, OJT | 6:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge,

Marc fairfield, Jason Kidd, Jonah Brotman |

1809 Grand

9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

The Sonics, the Latenight Callers, the Quivers | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

gold Label Soul with Hector the Selector |

Studebaker John and the Hawks | 9 p.m. B.B.’s

Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Summer Concert Series: Rattle & Hum | 6:30 p.m.

Zona Rosa, 8640 N. Dixson Ave.

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

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

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Boulevardia | 11 a.m.-6 p.m. 12th Street Bridge,

12th St. and Hickory, boulevardia.com

fiesta Kansas City | Noon-11 p.m. Crown Center,

2450 Grand, fiestakansascity.com

Sunday | 6.21 |

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Open-mic night, presented by KCstandup.com | 7 p.m.

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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Royals vs. Red Sox | 1:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Charles Williams | The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Cinemaphonic with Cruz & Cyan | 10 p.m. Replay

Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Tig Notaro, part of the Free State Festival | 7:30 p.m.

experimental film Showcase, part of the Free State Festival | 5 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, freestatefestival.org

Sporting KC vs. Real Salt Lake (away game) |

KC Symphony’s Season finale: A Hero’s Life | 2 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

COMeDy

9 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

f00D & DRiNK

village Shalom father’s Day 5k/10k | 7:30 a.m.

Village Shalom, 5500 W. 123rd St., Overland Park, fathersdayrun.org

The Connection Odell Beer Dinner | 7:30 p.m.

Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

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DJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway DJ Rico | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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

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The Life and Times | 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Pan Astral | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway The Smashing Pumpkins, Ex-Cops, Katie Cole | 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main UMB Big Bash featuring Rob Thomas and the Plain White T’s | 7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Waldo Jazz Collective | 7-10 p.m. The Piano Room,

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delta Spirit | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. dirty Heat | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Lawrence

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Jim Beisman | 7 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

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Sebastian Bach, Wilson | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

george Clinton and P-funk | 8:30 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Hoping A Massive Masturbator Eventually Retrains Exacting Dick Dear HAMMERED: Here’s how you retrain

his dick: Your boyfriend stops doing what he’s always done — no more masturbating or fucking in the style to which his dick has become accustomed — but he keeps on having sex and he keeps on masturbating. But he is not allowed to revert to jackhammering away at your pussy or his fist if he doesn’t get off. If he doesn’t come, he doesn’t come. Eventually his dick, in desperation, will adjust to newer, subtler sensations, and he’ll be able to get off without jackhammering.

Or not.

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guy (and our sex life is amazing), but I’m not sure how to move past the in-between phase we’ve found ourselves in. Have we been in FWB-land too long to come back?

Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I both spent a lot

of time masturbating when we were young, and pretty much trained our brains to come only one way. He can only come from masturbating furiously, or sometimes from a marathon of jackhammer sex. A few years before I met him, I toned down the masturbating to retrain my brain and pussy and tried a bunch of new things, and I can now come from different acts and positions. It wasn’t easy, but I am so happy with this versatility. I’m starting to get annoyed that he isn’t working harder to overcome this jackhammering reliance. It hurts, it’s super boring, and it makes me feel like I might as well be an inflatable doll. We’ve talked about it, and he says he’ll masturbate less, and that does help (read: Now it’s a half hour of jackhammering instead of hours), but I’m still eager for more variety — and to be able to walk after sex and ride a bike the next day. For what it’s worth, about half the time he just lets me come buckets and then gives up on himself. Can you recommend anything that would help him?

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I am OK with it or not. There’s more to it, though.

He is perfect in every facet of his life. A perfect person and a gift to the world, so any woman would be crazy not to want him for herself. We are deeply in love, but I’m afraid of a woman’s ultimate intention for a guy like my partner.

Jealousy Annoys Gay Guy Dear JAGG: Gay and bi men are just as inter-

ested in having partners who are perfect in every facet of life, JAGG, and yet you trust your boyfriend to fuck other guys and come home to you. You’ll just have to trust your giftto-the-world boyfriend to do the same with women: fuck a woman now and then but come home to you after. The “ultimate intention” of whatever woman your boyfriend fucks should concern you less than your boyfriend’s ultimate intention. Does he ultimately intend to stay with you? Or would he ultimately prefer to be with someone else? If he wants to stay with you — and he’s likelier to wanna stay if being with you doesn’t mean he never gets to have sex with a woman ever again — then you’ll have to trust that your same-sex relationship is strong enough to withstand a little oppositesex hooking up.

Dear Dan: I’m a 25-year-old heterosexual female, and I’ve been in a long-term friends-with-benefits relationship for a little more than four years.

My FWB partner and I have recently decided to move from being FWB to actually dating. The issue is that we’ve both become so accustomed to the late-night sexting-and-hookup routine that going on dates seems awkward and forced.

It doesn’t help that neither of us has been in a relationship before, so we both feel a little in the dark on how to navigate this. I really do like the

Dear LID: Dating is what people do before entering into a relationship — or it’s what most people used to do — and you two are already in a relationship. It was a FWB relationship, yes, but it was still a relationship. And people in relationships don’t typically go out on dates. So, yeah, the reason going out on a date with your boyfriend feels awkward is because you’re not dating, LID, not at this stage. You’re together. So be together: Go places, do things, have dinner, see friends, go home, sex amazingly. Spend more time together, build on what you’ve already established, (i.e., the emotional and sexual connection that carried you through the last four years), and stop stressing about performing the roles of “boyfriend” and “girlfriend.”

Dear Dan: Recently, while masturbating, as I was approaching climax, I had a sharp pain in my abdomen. It felt like my intestine wanted to burst though my abdomen, kind of like a hernia. It really sucked and it ruined my orgasm. This has happened a handful of times in the past. I mentioned it to my doctor once, and I tested negative for a hernia. I’m a 52-year-old male in reasonably good shape; I’ve been going to the gym on the reg for the past few months. This sucks in that when my wife and I play, part of it involves my wife putting me in four-point restraint, masturbating me, then tickling me post-orgasm. It would really suck for this to happen while tied up and has me concerned about our sex play.

Advice, an explanation, or a good theory would be welcome.

Gut Ruins Orgasms, Addling Nerves Dear GROAN: I would advise you to speak to

your doctor, GROAN, but I don’t think you should worry about this too much. And I would theorize that you tense a particular muscle or set of muscles when you masturbate and every once in a great while this muscle group revolts and spasms painfully; your return to gym-going may have contributed to your most recent spasm.

So long as your doctor gives you the all clear, GROAN, I don’t think you should stop going to the gym — or masturbating or letting your wife tie you to the bed. Risking the occasional spasm, however painful, seems a reasonable price to pay for regular orgasms and adventurous sex.

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