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My sidekick: @BarkleyScoop My dating triumph/tragedy: While in portfoTwitter handle: @JasonElm Hometown: Canoga Park, California Current neighborhood: Fairway-ish What I do: I’m responsible for making sure that everything we make for our clients is rad.

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around people. Friends, strangers — it doesn’t matter. I have this constant curiosity about people — who they are, what they’re thinking. It makes me crazy to be alone.

What’s your game? Words With Friends

lio school, I offered to walk a classmate to her car after a night class. She refused and acted insulted, as if I’d implied that she couldn’t take care of herself. Twenty years later, we’re still together.

My brush with fame: In 1998, Matthew McConaughey tried to start a fight with me after his entourage overheard me saying he was a dick.

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What’s your drink? Rieger’s whiskey with one giant ice cube. A square one, not a round one.

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went to KC SneakFest hoping to snag some tricked-out gym shoes. That plan hit the skids when I spotted the Air Jordans. They cost about $1,000.

An event Saturday, June 20, claiming to be the Midwest’s largest sneaker expo filled the Kansas City Convention Center with thousands of shoes — table after table of seriously impressive kicks. No such assembly would be complete with limited-edition Nikes, and

Treading lightly into KC SneakFest’s shoe nerdvana.

Scenes from SneakFest, including Alzado’s wares (middle) the ones here were splattered with colorful camouflage, shining like solid gold or seemingly made out of cork.

Large, handwritten signs reminded me not to touch the shoes, but when I saw a pair covered in faux leopard fur, I barely hesitated to violate the directive. As I stroked the toe,

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I imagined what would happen if you wore these on a rainy evening or stepped in a mud puddle the next morning.

And then there they were, those epically expensive Air Jordans. Looking at them, I understood: Nobody else was here to find a little workout-time eye candy. This was about aficionados, curation, display. Status. Nobody else here was wearing five-year-old Old Navy flip-flops.

My boyfriend grew up during Michael Jordan’s heyday, and his being among these shoes returned him to that covetous time of the initial burst of Air Jordan frenzy. For the serious shoe nerds at SneakFest, those days are still going on. If he had spent the time since then maintaining a few still-in-the-box pairs of AJs, perhaps he could have traded for something here. Alas, we were the odd couple out, and we settled for admiring a very un-Michael Jordan pair of light-up Back to the Future space boots.

Oh, yes: This year’s SneakFest theme was “Kickin’ Through Time.”

“How much do you want for those?” my boyfriend asked the spaceman.

“I was thinking $800,” he replied.

We kept moving.

I was glad to meet Kyle Stanley, of Alzado Co., an Olathe artist who hand-illustrates canvas shoes such as Converse and Vans. His SneakFest offerings included likenesses of Edgar Allan Poe and Albert Einstein, and characters from The Nightmare Before Christmas.

This stuff did not cost $1,000. (According to the Alzado Co. website, you can get a pair for $120.) The vibe was somewhat homier.

“One woman brought us pictures of her grandchildren, and we did portraits,” Stanley’s assistant told me.

“I’d be afraid to wear them,” I said.

The assistant stepped out from behind the table and pointed at her feet. She wore a nearly immaculate pair of Alzado Co. shoes.

“I’ve had these for about four years,” she said.

“They hold up pretty well.”

I also ran into Off Days Customs, which sells hand-illustrated and customized shoes and other accessories by 19-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, artist Big Tuss. His stuff favors superheroes and images of football and basketball stars. Like everything else at SneakFest, these were conversation pieces, but you’d have the conversation while wearing the shoes out in the world.

After wandering around for about an hour, my boyfriend and I headed home to tend our Birkenstocks and Crocs. There’s no curating comfort. But it’s never too late to start saving up for the right Air Jordans.

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ore casinos, more money. More money, more problems.

It took less than a year for Wyandotte County’s Hollywood Casino Grant Fund to devolve into dispute.

The grant program started as a fairly straightforward method to disburse a sliver of Hollywood Casino’s revenues toward local nonprofits, under the broad mandate of improving community health. In 2013 and 2014, the call for potential grant recipients drew, respectively, $1.6 million and $1.9 million worth of applications. Those were stacked up against $500,000 in available funds each year.

A six-member committee, appointed by a rotating set of Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, commissioners, reviewed those applications and determined which entities would receive proceeds, and how much. By the usual standards of UG politics, the process seemed serene.

The peace didn’t last.

Earlier this year, after a group of UG commissioners criticized the program — saying it wasn’t transparent enough and that certain commission districts weren’t getting their shares — the UG Board of Commissioners decided to do away with the review committee.

Over protests from UG Mayor Mark Holland, 8th District Commissioner Jane Winkler Philbrook and several nonprofit groups, the UG Commission elected to handle the casino grants itself.

Now the UG Commission is trying to unwind a mysterious grant, earmarked for an obscure foundation whose leadership says it didn’t ask for the money.

The Pitch has learned that the Wyandotte County district attorney is investigating what appears to be some sort of nonprofit identity theft. Who’s responsible? That depends on whom you ask.

“This is the sort of thing I was concerned about,” Holland tells The Pitch. “And we will have to see how this plays out.”

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ohn “Tiny” McTaggart called an emergency meeting of the Wyandotte County Parks Foundation June 2.

The Wyandotte County Parks Foundation is a small 501(c)(3) organization that raises money privately to provide extra support to the county’s parks program. McTaggart, also the longtime mayor of Edwardsville, runs it. “We are all about building accessible playgrounds for disabled and handicapped children,” he tells The Pitch. Board meetings for this foundation aren’t all that common, occurring quarterly.

Emergency meetings are rarer still.

McTaggart had summoned the rest of the board to ask if anyone knew why the founda-

tion’s name and tax identification number were on a $27,000 grant from the Hollywood Casino Grant Fund. That figure amounted to far more than a blip; the foundation ended 2013 with just $121,376 in the bank.

None of his fellow board members had an answer for him — and the board had not yet seen the application for the grant that would have sent money to the Spring Valley Neighborhood Association, a small neighborhood group near the Rosedale and Hanover Heights neighborhoods in southeast Wyandotte County. The application asked for $20,000 to repair sidewalks and gutters along Eaton between 43rd and 45th streets — where there are no parks in sight.

The Spring Valley Neighborhood Association’s president is James Milligan, an architect.

Milligan’s ties to the UG Commission seem to be limited to his working for Populous, the firm that 7th District Commissioner Jim Walters founded.

Milligan tells The Pitch that he applied for the grant because because he was told to do so by 3rd District Commissioner Ann Murguia.

“For the casino grant, Ann approached me and said, ‘Here’s an opportunity to continue improving the sidewalks and curbs and aprons at the end of your driveway,’” he says.

So Milligan applied online, through the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation, the conduit for accepting casino-grant applications. Casino grants have to go directly to 501(c)(3) organizations, however, and the SVNA isn’t that type of nonprofit.

E-mails obtained by The Pitch show that UG employees urged Milligan to use the UG’s federal tax identification number, rather than the SVNA’s, to apply for the grant. He tried that.

The GKCCF’s website rejected the application.

“Deep sigh … this really is not that hard,” reads a March 16 e-mail from Murguia to UG employees. “Both these groups simply want to use the UG as their fiscal agent since they are the primary partner in the grant applications. We need a 501c3 number from the UG that the GKCCF computer application system will accept.”

The following day, UG Public Works director Mike Tobin responded to Murguia’s e-mail: “We sent the information for the Park Foundation 501c3 to James Milligan yesterday, copied you on the email, but have not received a response back from him. I am assuming the # worked for him.”

That assumption was correct. The application went through, and the SVNA ended up with more money than had been requested on the paperwork. Murguia awarded the neighborhood association $22,000, and At-Large Commissioner Hal Walker chipped in another $5,000.

Was WyCo’s Hollywood Casino Grant Fund defrauded?

Murguia thinks politics are at play.

Murguia says it was Tobin who was put in charge of finding a tax number that would work. “Mike Tobin was charged with the task of finding a UG 501c3 number so the money could stay with them and do the work this summer or fall,” she tells The Pitch.

Tobin did not respond to several phone calls seeking comment.

Meanwhile, nobody told the Parks Foundation that its tax information had been used to grease the SVNA grant application. (Milligan’s application itself was full of errors. For example, it listed David Hurrelbrink as the president of the Parks Foundation, though he hasn’t served in that capacity for at least three years.)

By the time the Parks Foundation board found out about the zombie grant, so had the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office. Ed Brancart, chief deputy under WyCo District Attorney Jerome Gorman, attended McTaggart’s emergency meeting — during which the foundation voted to reject the grant.

“The casino grant was applied for fraudulently without the consent of the Foundation to improve sidewalks in neighborhoods,” reads McTaggart’s letter to UG Assistant County Administrator Joe Connor. “Although a good cause, improving sidewalks does not fit into the mission of the Wyandotte County Parks Foundation.”

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urguia says she’s “stunned” that the Parks Foundation sent the money back.

“Since this incident, I’ve taken a look at the Wyandotte County Parks Foundation website, and their mission includes partnering with community organizations,” she tells The Pitch. “I think this was a great opportunity to partner with a grassroots community-based organization and I think they missed that opportunity.”

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So why use the tax ID of a different grassroots community-based organization to do it?

“I really don’t know who made a mistake,” Murguia says. “Or if a mistake was even made.”

In fact, Murguia says the Parks Foundation should have taken the money, no matter who asked for it. She blames politics for the foundation’s refusal to accept the grant.

Mark Mohler, once a political ally of Murguia’s who has since become an adversary, is a member of the foundation’s board. He campaigned for Murguia in Rosedale when she first ran for office, in 2007, but the two have since fallen out. “I think there are more than one person on the Parks Foundation that does not like the new system,” Murguia says. “But I do think in particular, Mark Mohler, who is on the Wyandotte County Parks Foundation board and also president of Rosedale Development Association, is upset that RDA did not receive more funds and as a result has been part of creating these problems.”

Mohler says that’s hooey.

“What I’m concerned about is not whether one process is better than another,” he says.

“I’m concerned about any process by which someone was able to apply for a grant using the foundation’s name without first getting permission.”

Murguia, who supported the idea of commissioners having a closer role in doling out casino grants, counters that there’s nothing wrong with the new process. “I don’t think the new system has caused this political problem,” she says. “I think people that don’t like the new system have made this a political problem.”

McTaggart says this episode is a black eye for the casino grant fund. “It’s one of the dangers of this kind of a process, that projects get approved that ordinarily wouldn’t have,” he tells The Pitch. “If it had been in the old process, they would have nipped this in the bud.”

Milligan, who seems like a man who wanted a few bucks for his neighborhood, instead got a visit last week from a district attorney. Milligan was at work at the time but later met with Gorman and another prosecutor for about an hour in downtown KCK. “Especially with somebody like me, the president of Spring Valley Neighborhood, it’s all volunteer,” Milligan says. “This is the first time I’ve ever done it. It’s a negative in my box for something like this in the future, which is unfortunate…. I thought I was doing a good thing.”

What, if anything, the DA plans to do next is unknown. Gorman didn’t respond to a call seeking comment. For now, that $27,000 sits unused.

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A lawsuit accuses a Sporting Innovations co-founder of corporate espionage.

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porting Innovations, which develops technological applications for professional sports teams and entertainment groups, fired its co-CEO, Asim Pasha, June 16 and then took him to court a day later.

The company says he spent the last year there using its resources to prepare the launch of a competing business.

The firm, affiliated with the owners of Major League Soccer’s Sporting Kansas City, filed suit June 17 in the U.S. District Court of Western Missouri, accusing Pasha and his son, Zain Pasha, of colluding with a New York company to create a similar enterprise and misappropriating Sporting Innovations’ proprietary business information in the process. The 28-page filing also accuses Pasha of running up “tens of thousands” of dollars in charges on company-issued credits cards to fund personal expenses.

Before co-founding Sporting Innovations, in 2011, Asim Pasha worked at Cerner for 13 years. He and Sporting Innovations, a company that has achieved rapid success, have received mostly glowing media coverage.

According to the lawsuit, Pasha hired his son August 1, 2013, as a project manager. Two months later, Sporting Innovations struck a consulting deal with Vernalis Group, a New York technology consulting firm.

By the middle of 2014, the lawsuit claims, Asim Pasha had begun manipulating Sporting Innovations’ computer network so that he could have full administrative access to the system and limit contact between Vernalis and other Sporting Innovations executives. Soon after, Vernalis started submitting “substantially higher” invoices without supporting documentation of the work performed, the lawsuit says.

Sporting Innovations also charges that Pasha, his son and a Vernalis executive named Nader “Nate” Hanafy started planning the launch of a new company, called Knowledge Works. Sporting Innovations says the three tried to conceal what they were doing but got sloppy and left traces of their activities on Sporting Innovations’ network.

Sporting Innovations claims to have recovered online conversations between the Pashas and others, including what appear to be incriminating statements. For example, the lawsuit says Pasha and his son used the chat feature on their Sporting Innovations

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Gmail account on September 29, 2014. They deleted much of the conversation, except this line: “and then actual expenses we siphon.” Another e-mail exchange days later, quoted in the lawsuit, made reference to a meeting with an unnamed professional sports team that supposedly had a “lot of ... interest for KNOWLEDGE WORKS.”

By November 2014, the Pashas apparently had grown nervous about being discovered.

According to the lawsuit, Zain Pasha seemed to express dissatisfaction with other Sporting Innovations employees, writing to his father in an electronic chat: “I’m your son.

They should be scared to piss me off, but they aren’t.” Asim Pasha responded, according to the lawsuit: “[F]ocus on things that MATTER (win [sic] wink) while keeping sufficietn [sic] visibility here...DONT [sic] get MAD, GET EVEN.” “Or get ahead,” Zain Pasha replied, according to the lawsuit.

By late Februar y 2015, Sporting Innovations says, Asim Pasha had stopped responding to company e-mails, particularly ones that asked for documentation to justify high-dollar charges on a companyissued credit card. The company says he kept tinkering with administrative access to Sporting Innovations’ computer system as the company tried to regain full control of the network.

Zain Pasha resigned from Sporting Innovations March 16; the lawsuit says he refused an exit interview and never returned his company-owned laptop. Three months later, Asim Pasha was fired, according to the lawsuit.

The lawsuit adds that Kurtis Ruf, owner of Ruf Strategic Solutions, in Olathe, was aware of what the Pashas were doing and participated in some of their conversations. Ruf is not named as a defendant. His company has done work with Sporting Innovations.

Ruf did not respond to a message seeking comment for this story. Nor did Hanafy, the executive with the New York firm with whom the Pashas allegedly worked.

Zain Pasha couldn’t be reached for comment.

Sporting Innovations is being represented by Kansas City lawyers Kirk May and Jeremy Suhr, of Rouse Hendricks German May. It’s not yet clear whether the defendants have retained legal counsel.

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ight years ago, Nicholas and Angela Snyder fell in love — not with each other but with Leotron, a robot that the couple had built from an old radio, some electrical plugs and a Polaroid camera. It sat on Angela’s desk at work.

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“Little did we know that we were both pretty enamored with robots,” Nicholas Snyder tells me. “People at her office kept asking where she found it, and she said we made it.”

Since then, the Snyders have assembled more of what they call Nerdbots, each a oneof-a-kind construction that gives fresh purpose to objects found at junkyards, estate sales and antique stores. A vintage coffee canister becomes a torso, for example, or an old alarm clock evolves into a wise-looking head.

This weekend, the Snyders are eager to show off their custom sculptures at the Kansas City Maker Faire, the family-friendly DIY celebration that takes over Union Station Friday and Saturday.

“People tend to buy our stuff online, so we don’t get to hear the stories behind why they picked a certain bot,” Nicholas Snyder says.

“With this event, it’s all about getting to know the people and connecting with them on a very nerdy level.”

Robot lovers and self-proclaimed nerds aren’t the only ones who will find something to love at this event. Now in its fifth year, the Maker Faire is “more diverse than it has ever been,” says Christy Nitsche, director of programming at Union Station’s Science City.

Last year, more than 16,000 people, including makers from 40 states, attended. And Nitsche expects additional growth.

Among the attractions this time: Los Angeles’ Two Bit Circus, a group of self-described “artists and intellectuals” whose STEAM Carnival combines robotics, electronics and lasers to create life-size, high-tech versions

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of arcade games. Also new this year, KC Film + Media’s “script to screen” event includes staged readings of original scripts, special effects and talent casting.

Meanwhile, old favorites are returning, among them the Power Racing Series, which challenges participants to build and race an electric car within a $500 budget. According to Maker Faire producer Luis Rodriguez, there’s too much to see in a single day.

“We want to get people making again, to get their hands dirty and learn to do whatever it is they want, and leave knowing where they can go in the city or the region to learn more about it,” Rodriguez says. “We’ll have somebody talking about urban farming next to a welder next to a robot guy.”

Erik and Rachael Messner, of Messner Family Farm, might indeed find themselves greeting fairgoers near robot types, who in turn may feel compelled to try some of the couple’s mustache wax. Made with beeswax from Messner Farm’s Kansas City–area hives, this styling product for dapper dudes is one of the products for sale at Maker Faire (along with the Messners’ beeswax lip gloss, which Rachael adores so much that she keeps it in every room of the house).

The Messners got into beekeeping on a whim four years ago, starting with lessons from YouTube, which Erik calls “the lazy man’s mentor.” They also raise chickens and grow fresh produce. But the bees remain the big challenge.

“You can be a total moron and keep chickens,” Erik says. “Bees ask a lot more of you.”

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insect repellent and lip tints, the Messners hope to create some buzz for bees at Maker Faire. “We want to inspire people to love bees, whether they’re planting some flowers for them or want to keep them themselves,” Rachael says. “Bees are awesome.”

In keeping with Maker Faire tradition, the event also features plenty of hands-on activities for all ages, such as sensory science

exhibits, ceramics and pottery, and a greenminded crooner called Eco Elvis. At one exhibit, kids can earn a robot driver’s license by steering a radio-controlled robot through an obstacle course and retrieving an object.

“It’s fun to watch what people are doing and look at things, but I think it’s more fun to do something hands-on,” says Keith Woeltje, an infectious-diseases physician from St. Louis who builds robots as a hobby and is issuing those not-quite-legally-binding driver’s licenses in Kansas City for the second time. “It’s a blast.”

Some of the makers are still children themselves. The FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Team from Lee’s Summit North High School has created a robot that aids in recycling. Along with several other teams, it’s set to demonstrate a game called Recycle Rush, in which robots earn points by delivering “litter” to “landfills.”

“There’s nothing in the curriculum in high school quite like this,” coach Lynn Griffith says. “I love overhearing the conversations when the kids tell people, ‘We

In addition to the Snyders’ Nerdbots (at left), Maker Faire includes hands-on activities and life-size Star Wars characters. built this.’ The look on their faces is just priceless.”

No matter your age, whether you’re just checking it out or returning for the fifth time, the Maker Faire is, as Nicholas Snyder says, your best bet if you’d like to be “struck with nerdy inspiration.”

“We’re excited to see all of the faces we saw last year at Maker Faire,” he adds. “We enjoy the camaraderie there between all the other nerds, if you will, and all the other makers.”

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ummer doesn’t get much better than an evening in the park, watching a great tragedy.

The park is Southmoreland, on the eastern edge of the Plaza. The evening is courtesy of the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, an expert party host in its 23rd season.

And the tragedy is an unmissable King Lear, directed by Sidonie Garrett and starring John Rensenhouse.

Preshow festivities — gate greeters, lecturers, Shakespeare parodies, food and drink vendors — set the seasonal mood and offer amusement to balance Shakespeare’s cruel, gripping masterpiece. So get to the park early, but dedicate yourself to the whole night. The festival’s production is fluid and absorbing, and the acting, by more cast members than can be singled out here, is uniformly fine. Give or take a show day’s weather, this is as perfect an evening as summer affords Kansas Citians.

I chanced to see Lear on a cool, breezy evening, but the play’s intensity is enough to provide distraction from any meteorological discomfort (as well as city sounds). In festival artistic director Garrett’s care, Shakespeare’s characters come alive, intriguing us with their sometimes savage self-interest. The story’s betrayals reveal some of humankind’s worst traits (Shakespeare had plenty of material in England’s royal history up to that time), and the destructive actions taken by family members against one another — rivalries and competition that turn poisonous — remain sadly recognizable today.

Lear is preparing to voluntarily give up his throne to make way for the next generation, and he decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters: Goneril, Regan and Cordelia — Kim Martin-Cotten, Cinnamon Schultz and Emily Peterson, respectively, all very good — who must first profess how much they love him. While the two older sisters falsely charm and flatter him, Cordelia lets her bond speak for itself: “I cannot heave my heart into my mouth,” she says. “You have begot me, bred me, loved me. I return those duties back as are right fit, obey you, love you and most honor you.”

Sincerity, especially from a relative, can be a difficult thing to correctly gauge, and Lear’s emotional radar malfunctions. But that’s one of the beautiful components of Shakespeare’s art here. In Lear — the play and the character — the Bard paints the inner landscape of human nature in relief against the broader social canvas. Lear disowns the devoted youngest daughter and determines to spend his senior years between the houses of his remaining offspring and their husbands (Brian Paulette, as Duke of Cornwall, and Collin Vorbeck, as Duke of Albany, both

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The Earl of Kent (a strong Matthew Rapport) calls Lear on his mistaken assumption and is banished for his trouble. But he remains loyal to Lear, whose pride and selfimportance keep him from distinguishing authentic sentiment from fake.

It’s easier to see others’ faults more clearly than one’s own, and in a parallel story line, the Earl of Gloucester (Mark Robbins, forceful and moving) misreads his own sons: the legitimate Edgar (the excellent physical actor Jacques Roy, also this production’s fight director), a son “by order of law … no dearer in my account,” and the bastard Edmund — “there was good sport at his making, and the whoreson must be acknowledged.” Edmund, skillfully portrayed by Kyle Hatley, is not only a bastard but also an SOB — a seemingly ordinary next-door guy who’s really a scheming, violent knave.

The play isn’t all ungrateful children and chess-game maneuverings. The emotions and machinations of the first half (long but never a slog) build in the second, culminating

Rensenhouse and Fiorini: out in the cold in swordfights, murder, anguish, torture and madness. I found all of it riveting — though I reflexively turned away from the eye-gouging scene. The stagecraft was that convincing.

Up to the festival’s usual high standards as well are the costuming (by Shakespearein-the-park veteran Mary Traylor) and the effectively designed modular set (by Chaz Bell), which moves around and into place with seeming ease. If you hear thunder or see a flash, you might think the weather is turning; more likely, it’s Rusty Wandall’s sound and Ward Everhart’s lighting.

But any appointment we make with King Lear depends on the lead, and Rensenhouse is superb. As a good king but clueless father, he is sensitive yet commanding as he slowly peels away the ruler’s many layers. He makes his Lear’s misguided decision making and the man’s descent into madness nuanced and deeply affecting. It’s a lordly, heartbreaking performance.

When the play ends, the hour is late, but the night hasn’t felt drawn out. Garrett’s wellmounted rendition of this deeply satisfying story is essential as both civic event and drama. It’s an experience I won’t be alone in wanting to repeat at least once before this summer’s last show.

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mong the better-founded tenets of the Strunk and White school of not writing like a jerk is the stern caution against not-un constructions: not unlike, not unkind, not unhandsome, etc. Not unwise advice for, say, someone writing a college-entrance essay — as teenage Greg is doing when we meet him at the start of Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, a not unimpressive, not unfunny, not unmoving recombining of some very not unfamiliar elements.

Greg is the title’s Me, a smoothly workshopped rendering of unsmooth male adolescence: sardonic but callow, private but quick to blurt out the truth, paralyzed by self-awareness but oddly industrious when the plot demands it. The plot comes from Jesse Andrews’ youngadult novel of the same name, which Andrews has adapted for director Alfonso Gomez-Rejon in a screenplay that emphasizes Greg’s deep inward focus. There is indeed a dying girl, and there is an alive-with-quiet-wisdom Earl, but what’s presented as a conversation among three distinctive personalities is really just Greg talking to himself.

The story is told in a flashback that interrupts itself with demonstrations of the wit and whimsy at play in Greg’s head. Blocky stop-motion animation illustrates a few of the emotional beats, and we see snippets of the crude but ambitious short films that Greg and Earl make together. Some of this is charming; some of it is mugging. There’s a hint of Michel Gondry or Wes Anderson in the flavor, but the confection and the feelings it means to conjure are out of sync, an Easy Bake cake on a dinner plate.

And those are Me and Earl’s good points.

Under minimal scrutiny, Gomez-Rejon’s buzzed-about movie — it won the two big prizes at Sundance and was that festival’s big story when it was picked up for a reported $12 million — reveals its limitations. There’s a Garden State ho-humness to its epiphanies — a safe white boy coming to terms with his own winning eccentricity, with lessons about intimacy subbing for treatment or actual intimacy — sure to invite backlash if crowds make it a hit. Yes, Rachel — the girl — provides predictable soul and convenient generosity of spirit.

And yes, the gently platonic boy-girl friendship and the interracial bond between two young men in what looks like a predominantly white high school fail to gain true dimension.

Yet Andrews’ script is true to its limits in ways that make it, well, not unadmirable. It sticks to Greg’s frustrating voice at all times. Me and Earl isn’t unpandering, but it’s also less solicitous than the average recent teen weepie.

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SHOP @ LOCAL be beside the point. Me and Earl isn’t about Greg’s awakening from ignorance; it’s about how he uses that awakening to get into college. What moves an audience must also move an admissions board and vice versa, and everybody knows that whenever a movie kid who doesn’t want to go to college decides to get a four-year degree after all, he and the world and the people who urged him to go are all better for it. And this is the story’s chief not-unbad point — there isn’t much of a message besides “pay attention to the people around you and to your own opportunities.”

The other problem is that Rachel the stoical leukemia patient turns out to be a better artist than Greg the offbeat auteur. That information should be a spoiler, but Me and Earl doesn’t hinge on any talent but Greg’s. His late understanding that Rachel has harbored her own stubbornly idiosyncratic worldview becomes another way for Andrews to congratulate his character for trying a little harder. That’s better, I suppose, than the same story told from Rachel’s point of view, which would involve her weighing treatment decisions while toiling on a secret five-year plan to make a man out of the boy down the block. Gross. To show their own strengths and intelligence, young women on film apparently require a dystopian setting a safe distance from boys who are struggling to self-actualize. Not even a brave fight against a deadly illness is enough.

That any of this resembles depth is because of the young actors, who are reason enough to see Me and Earl: Thomas Mann as Greg (reminding you of an early Edward Norton), Olivia Cooke as Rachel (both actress and character could be related to the Natalie Portman of Garden State) and RJ Cyler as Earl (doing more than he seems to be). As the adults, here mostly to appear offbeat, Nick Offerman and Jon Bernthal provide their not overwhelming recognizability before their skills, though Connie Britton and Molly Shannon are terrific as Greg’s and Rachel’s respective mothers.

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t’s been a long time since I’ve worn a bib, but I think I’ve found the Kansas City restaurant where I wouldn’t be embarrassed to put one on.

At Blvd Tavern, every order of chef Derek Nacey’s twice-fried chicken wings comes with two e Mor folded damp towels — but demands at least three times as many. I walked t a e in Onl .com out of the three-monthpitch old restaurant wearing more hot sauce than I’d tasted. But I’d tasted enough to know that I was going to need more soon. These wings are addictive enough that you set aside certain gentlemanly niceties in favor of getting down to sloppy business.

Nacey is from upstate New York, the region that gave America the Buffalo wing as we know it. But his fat, meaty version — he calls the dish “KFC wings” — is a world away from the Empire State. The K is for Korean, and the flavor is a knockout. Nacey brines the wings in salt, pepper, lemon juice and honey before dipping

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The wings come with a mound of crunchy, house-made kimchee, an ideal complement.

Korean chicken wings are, as Nacey rightly points out, “a thing” — a beloved dish in bigger cities. Around here, they’re on the scarce side.

But the demand is there. On the March evening when the chef and his wife, Meghan Nacey, opened Blvd, their first restaurant, it took just an hour to sell out of the wings.

Even in Kansas City, no restaurant flies on chicken wings alone, but Blvd could almost get away with it. Still, the Naceys offer a small but smart menu of familiar pub favorites. There are just nine entrées on offer right now, but each is beautifully and expertly prepared. It’s almost too modest for the Naceys to call their place a tavern.

It is a tavern, though, with a cocktail menu about twice as long as the list of things to eat and with a bar that dominates the long dining room. Almost every seat in the house faces

Blvd Tavern features the best of Buffalo: wings (background) and beef on weck. that metal-topped counter, the sole relic of the previous tenant (Nica’s 320, which became Nica’s Lagniappe Cajun Kitchen).

Nearly everything on the menu complements the wines, beers and mixed drinks in one way or another. It’s easy to find a beverage to put with the fried starters or other small plates, such as steamed mussels or grilled asparagus. As for those terrific, slippery wings, I found that a steady flow of ice water helped, even if my grip on the glass wasn’t always sure.

Once you’ve cleaned yourself up a bit, you’ll have some choices to make about the main course. I went first for the fish and chips and was rewarded by succulent, flaky hunks of cod that had been doused in a light beer batter and fried just right. They arrived with crispy, hand-cut fries and a mercifully small dish of that British staple, bland mushy peas. On another visit, I sampled the seared flat iron steak, a flavorful cut of beef if not the most tender, but it’s winningly moist here. Nacey lends it

an added richness with a melting dollop of shallot-herb butter.

Only one entrée at Blvd vaults past the $25 mark, but it’s worth it. I’m willing to pay a premium for lamb chops that are this fork-tender, with just this suggestion of slight grassiness.

It comes with a jumble of rice that’s seasoned with preserved lemon and saffron, and I’d order it all summer should Nacey decide to listen to his regulars and keep it through the season.

No meat gets more abuse from restaurant kitchens than the lowly grilled chicken breast, which is generally there only as a reluctantly made alternative for those too cheap to go for lamb or Duroc pork chops. So I wavered before ordering Nacey’s brick chicken, having suffered through a lot of burnt, botched or just plain bad birds over the years. But Blvd’s dish, brined and rubbed with garlic and herbs before grilling, retains a supple juiciness under an exterior that’s slightly crisp and engagingly seasoned.

The daytime menu has a good burger and a fine plate of shrimp and grits, but its standout is another culinary homage, this one legitimately New York-directed: beef on weck. The sandwich of thin-sliced roast beef is to western New York what a brisket sandwich is to a Kansas Citian, and Nacey does his birthplace proud.

He uses a soft Farm to Market salt roll, tarting it up by brushing the surface with caraway seeds to give a fairly reasonable facsimile of a kummelweck bun. The dressing is a creamy, fresh-tasting horseradish sauce; the meat is on the money; and the side cup of steaming au jus is heavenly.

It’s a rich sandwich and well worth a little restraint, the better to end up with a bit to take home — and to leave room for Blvd’s superbly flaky apple croustade (with salted-caramel ice cream). I don’t know what part of the country invented this delicacy, but it seems to work well with every dish on Nacey’s menu, including the Korean wings.

Hand me my bib.

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he search for rare beers has become one of KC’s most popular amateur sports. And Saturday’s sixth annual KC Nanobrew Festival, in the West Bottoms, makes it easy not just to get into the game but also to win it — at least for an afternoon.

From 2 to 6 p.m., some 750 people are expected to rubberneck, sip and compare notes in the parking lot outside the former Golden Ox (the building soon to be home to Stockyards Brewing Co.). A $30 ticket buys unlimited tastings, a 16-ounce IPA session glass, water, and a food voucher to one of the food trucks (Jerusalem Café, Detroit Coney, Back Rack BBQ or Helen’s on Wheels).

“It’s literally like having 150 limitededition beers on tap,” says Robert Rys, one of the festival’s five organizers. Together, they’ve grown it from a Brookside backyard party with about a dozen kegs to a curiosity seeker’s paradise that taps about 150 5-gallon kegs from 60 home brewers.

KC Nanobrew crew (top, from left): Sady, Rys, Cummings, Rydzewski and Moats “You have all of these people homebrewing, and nobody can taste their beers,” organizer Frank Rydzewski says of KC Nanobrew’s roots. “So let’s have a festival that’s not commercial at all. We have a bunch of home brew — invite your friends and family. It’s a fairly reasonable ticket price. And you get to taste 100 different home brews, if you can.

You’ll have beers there that you’ll never be able to find again.”

We’re talking over drinks at the Belfry — Rys and Rydzewski, joined by Tim Sady. (The other two organizers, Chad Moats and Chad Cummings, couldn’t make it.) Inevitably, our conversation turns to the beers that got away, such as Rydzewski’s coffee stout.

“I’ll never make that coffee stout again,” he admits. “It’s a mistake that turned out awesome.”

Not that a brewer can count on most mistakes yielding a drinkable outcome. But without duds, there’d be less thrill in the hunt.

“Out of 150, there are going to be some bad beers,” Rydzewski concedes.

Rys adds, “There may be a bad beer there, and we’re fine with you dumping it out. But I’ve had better-than-craft there.”

It’s the chance to be among the first to try — or even to be — the next big small thing that’s at KC Nanobrew’s heart. Cinder Block brought a keg one year. And things have gone pretty well for that brewery ever since.

“I was right next to Bryce [Schaffter] from Cinder Block three years ago, and he was serving out of trash cans,” Rys says. “And now he runs his own brewery.”

“Anyone who comes to this could be a brewer next year,” Rydzewski says. “We have no qualifications. We don’t taste your beer.

You just sign up and say, ‘I’m going to bring a keg.’”

Cinder Block, as an emeritus figure, is bringing its beers Saturday but isn’t serving them from trash cans. So are Big Rip, Rock & Run, Red Crow and KC Bier Co. (Crane Brewing reps are slated to appear but not to serve.)

“Some of them will come back and sponsor us because we don’t have a big corporate backing,” Rydzewski says. “We operate pretty close to break-even, for the most part. We’re not in it for big profits. It’s more like, how do we get the community together at this big event.”

“We thought about being a nonprofit, but it was too much paperwork,” Sady says.

“Every year, we grow,” Rys says. “We don’t make any profits, so any revenue that we get, we literally put it in the next year’s [festival], making it bigger and better.”

But not too much bigger. “It still feels like you know everyone there,” Rydzewski says.

There soon may be more people among that “everyone.” In late May, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council unanimously approved an ordinance to allow nanobreweries to operate in business districts. Rys, Rydzewski and Sady say that’s the dream, even if realizing their own version of that dream doesn’t happen overnight. The organizers have looked at spaces to set up their own operation, but they haven’t yet found a cost-effective location.

“It’s still an option, but we all have full-time day jobs,” Rydzewski says.

“And wives, too,” Rys adds.

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New Belgium/Family Bicycles bike ride and custom-bike contest, with La Folie, Trip-

pel, Pear Ginger, Cocoa Molé, and Rampant, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 10:30 a.m.–1 p.m.

KC Nanobrew Festival, in the parking lot outside Stockyards Brewing Co. (1600 Genessee), $30, 2 p.m.

Tap That Topeka: A Capital Brew Festival, with more than 40 breweries and 140 brews (800 block of S.W. Jackson, Topeka), $35/$65, noon (11 a.m. VIP).

sunday, June 28

Foos beer float social, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), noon.

KC Ale Trail book signing and five-course beer dinner, at Whole Foods (7401 W. 91st St., Overland Park), $45, 4–6 p.m.

Tuesday, June 30

Deschutes Pinedrops IPA launch party, also

with Not the Stoic, Foray, Fresh Squeezed, Twilight and IRA, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 5–11 p.m.

Wednesday, July 1

Bottle share, at the Belfry (1532 Grand), $20, 6:30 p.m. Bring a bottle of German style to share.

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

KC Pet Project night, at Up-Down (101 Southwest Blvd.), 3–10 p.m. That night’s token sales go to the shelter's animals.

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The friendship map

Atlas takes its own route toward success.

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n the middle of the small basement where Atlas holds its weekly Monday-night practice, the five band members cluster together, more or less facing one another. Cords crisscross in an impossible web, threatening to trap these five full-grown men as they rub elbows and somehow avoid bashing their instruments together.

Atlas has been playing in basements since it formed, in 2007, and the members — lead singer and guitarist Jeremy Chugg, steel guitarist Jonny Wooddell, guitarist Josh Orwig, drummer Dave Dalbey and bassist Nick Welch — show zero discomfort in cramped, subterranean quarters. And though natural light seems not to be their thing, there’s a window of sorts here: a big whiteboard on one wall, covered in painstakingly neat script. Look at it and you see a whole future laid out: the practice agenda, proposed set lists for future gigs, the hypothetical track listing for the band’s forthcoming album, metrics for each song’s completion, even bulleted budget goals.

“We’re all teachers and project managers here,” Orwig says, laughing as he notes my reaction to all this data.

The future is close, judging by the next song I hear them rehearse, an in-progress number titled “Do You Know Me.” It’s a catchy, cozy slice of Americana that seems hardly to need more work. “Back Home” is next, the lead track off the band’s most recent full-length, Ten Twenty, released last October.

The feel is vintage Laurel Canyon, familiar and worn-in from the first chord, easy to nod along with.

For another new song, “Parade,” Wooddell abandons his steel guitar for electric, and the sound turns groovy and upbeat. Atlas may have surprises in store.

“Here’s how it works with us,” Wooddell says later. “Jeremy will come up with some lyrics, kind of the skeleton of a song, and bring it to practice. We’ll all come together as one band to flesh it out, but we’re all coming from different playlists. Some of us are listening to Sturgill [Simpson]. Some of us are listening to Daft Punk. Whatever we bring comes together in one song, which is how ‘Parade’ happened.”

“We all like similar styles of music, but we all have particular cups of tea that we prefer, that we bring to the table,” Orwig adds. “We’ve been trying to tap into those for a while, and ‘Parade’ is an example. Essentially, every time we write something, it’s a snapshot of where everyone is at and what they’re listening to. The main thing is that we’re all trying to grow every time we write something.”

We’re assembled now upstairs in the living room of Chugg’s Roeland Park home, chatting as Sturgill Simpson’s Metamodern Sounds in Country Music plays in the kitchen. Beers are handed out; “drinking” was written into the practice agenda. This is how it usually goes.

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any next-level success is almost a shame for the music. The smart, cohesive Ten Twenty would easily fit into the national conversation, somewhere between albums by Dawes and American Aquarium. Atlas’ untitled, inprogress new album is shaping up similarly, benefiting from the quintet’s steady approach and uninterrupted lineup. The men play with genuine shared assurance, and it shows on record.

“We have a lot of friends in Kansas City who have been around and played music, and the reality is, they don’t play for eight years,” Orwig says. “They go really hard for two or three years, and they sound a thousand times better than we do, and they sell a lot more T-shirts and make a lot more money, but then it’s over. We’re in this for the long run, and we’re doing exactly what we want.”

“We’ve been through births, deaths, unemployment, strokes,” Welch says. “We’ve kind of gone through a bunch of shit together as friends, and it’s more about that than it is about the music. It just happens to be the music that brings us here together on a Monday night.”

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Be the space big or small, Atlas can rock it.

Although Atlas isn’t in any immediate danger of veering into dad-rock territory, its members — all in their late 20s and early 30s, all married, two of them fathers — have come to hold these Monday-night sessions as their versions of poker night. When I suggest, based on the tight set of songs I’ve just witnessed, that they might not need such a strict practice schedule, Dalbey laughs and says, “Don’t tell our wives.”

“We were all single when we started the band, so we’ve been through all of that together,” Chugg says. “None of us had kids before we got together as a band, and now there’s four kids. We were all friends and roommates before we were in a band, so it really feels like the music is secondary to all of us hanging out.”

“For a while, it seemed like every time Atlas would do anything, people would be like, ‘So, are you guys trying to make it?’ Because that’s the expectation, right?” Orwig says. “And I would usually have some kind of smart-aleck response, like, ‘We are.’ We’re making music and having fun, and we’ve got the opportunity to hang out and be together every week. I feel like that’s what we’re most passionate about, especially because me and Nick have kids, and it would be easy to be like, ‘Oh, I can’t go out for the next four years.’”

Orwig’s claim that the band isn’t seeking

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Lisa Engelken’s singing possesses a distinctive clarity and a bold dynamism.

A dash of funk and an abundance of attitude mark the opening number on her new album, Little Warrior, and her voice soars with a playful sass on the album’s second tune, her take of the Cars’ “You Wear Those Eyes.” A long way from her native Big Skies, Kansas, where she was the youngest in a household of 13 children, Engelken now lives in San Francisco.

Saturday night, Engelken returns to her home state for the local release of her album at Take Five. She’s joined by Kansas City jazz masters Roger Wilder on piano and Gerald Spaits on bass, plus San Francisco drummer Matt Swindells.

— Larry Kopitnik Lisa Engelken Quartet, 8 and 9:15 p.m. Saturday, June 27, at Take Five Coffee + Bar (6601 West 135th Street, Overland Park, 913-948-5550), $18 admission.

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¿ Quién es Bonzo?

Post-Cowboy Indian Bear, C.J. Calhoun dives into his solo work.

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ast October, Cowboy Indian Bear, one of the area’s most beloved and most promising local acts, called it quits. There was no drama to report or cause of death given other than the five members’ desire to follow different paths. For frontman C.J. Calhoun, that meant the pursuit of his solo musical project, Bonzo Madrid.

There has been scarce audible activity from Bonzo Madrid so far, save one haunting track on Calhoun’s SoundCloud page (“Mausoleum”), so buzz is high ahead of Calhoun’s set Thursday at Lawrence Field Day Fest. Just don’t tell him that.

The Pitch: Which came first: Bonzo Madrid or the end of Cowboy Indian Bear?

Calhoun: I’ve been kind of kicking around this [Bonzo Madrid] album for a couple years, but I was obviously really focused on Cowboy Indian Bear and I didn’t have time to focus on them [my own songs]. As Cowboy Indian Bear was kind of coming to an end, we talked about if we wanted to keep playing together. I wanted to play on my own for a while, and I thought that would be helpful for me, to learn how to carry the show dynamically on my own.

I’ve just always played in bands since I was 14. I’ve never really attempted to write songs from the standpoint of “I need to carry this set on my own.” It’s just something different that I hadn’t done, and that kind of excited me.

And how is that for you, playing solo, without the support of a full band?

[Laughs.] I get so, so nervous. It’s kind of ridiculous. We played so many shows together that I wasn’t getting nervous at all for the last two years. It’s something I was just really com-

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There’s not a lot of places for musicians to play outside of bars, and it’s loud, which makes it hard for someone to play solo because you get talked over and drowned out. It’s easier with a band because you can look at your friends and go, “We’re going to out-volume them.” Having to do that on your own, it’s nerve-racking, and I get a little shaky.

It’s like when baseball players retire. They never talk about missing the games. They talk about missing the team, the camaraderie they have with their teammates. I think just having to figure out how to present your music the way you want without that built-in support behind you, that’s a different mindset.

Tell me about the sound you’re going for with Bonzo Madrid and how it differs from Cowboy Indian Bear.

On a few different songs that are going to be on the record, I was really enjoying the idea of taking one instrument and trying to create a soundscape with just that instrument, as opposed to the way I wrote for Cowboy Indian Bear, which was a lot of sonic layering. I have one that I built out of just pianos, and I have one that’s all a cappella vocals. Honestly, most of the songs came out of doing, like, songwriter exercises, for lack of a better term. That’s where it came from musically. And lyrically it came from different places, obviously.

What’s the plan for the album?

I recorded about 15 songs, and I’m hoping to cut it down to nine or 10 because it’s going to

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be pretty dense. But we should be done mixing by the end of the month, and I think I’m going to have it out in the fall. I’m really proud of it, and I think everybody [from Cowboy Indian Bear] is going to be on the record, too. It’s not like we broke up because there were issues. It was just kind of the next phase for us.

Cowboy Indian Bear was such a huge part of your musical life. What’s been the most important thing you’ve learned since that band ended?

I think, once you’re out and you’re working and releasing music and touring and stuff — I feel like the way a lot of music is released anymore, there’s kind of a push for what’s next.

It took Cowboy Indian Bear a couple years to make our last record, and the promotional cycle of that was just a couple months, and then it was like, “What’s next? What’s the next album? What now?” The luxury of starting fresh is that I can take my time finishing this record, and no one is necessarily waiting for when it’s going to come out. That’s kind of nice, to be just completely on my own schedule with it and completely relaxed.

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Album Review The SluTS S/T

Ryan Wise and Kristoffer Dover are not nice guys. That’s the point, anyway, that the Lawrence duo seems hellbent on making with every song on its first full-length.

The blistering, foul-tempered 11 songs make for a tight, sophisticated improvement over last July’s The Loser. That EP’s four tracks reappear here, but the spitting anger that drove them benefits alongside a new show of restraint. Album opener “Let Me Go” sees guitarist and lead singer Wise demanding — over fuzzy, booming guitar chords and Dover’s propulsive drumming — to be released from a relationship that has fizzled out.

Lyrically, things don’t get much better for him: “Loser” finds him snarling over a few sad souls he has known, and on “Used to Do It,” he grouchily laments the end of a more, uh, physical relationship.

Despite the animosity that Wise vents across these songs, the Sluts manage to keep things fun (even with Wise’s proclamation, I don’t believe in fun, on “No Fun”).

Credit this to the crunchy pop hooks at the heart of every track. Whatever else they say, the Sluts want you to dance just as hard as you throw your punches. This new album gives occasion for both.

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(“Tacky”) to Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines” (“Word Crimes”). But the album’s most successful songs ended up being Yankovic originals. (See “First World Problems,” in which Yankovic — in his jovial, winking tone — delivers a searing admonishment of the trivial concerns of wealthy 1 percenters.) Tuesday at the Midland, Yankovic is destined to deliver a smart, entertaining show — a rare phenomenon in modern music.

Tuesday, June 30, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

Heartless Bastards, Craig Finn

Doby Watson

Kansas City singer-songwriter Doby Watson’s Live-In Son is a stirring, nine-song collection of mostly acoustic Americana. The tracks on that album, which would sound best with a bottle of wine on a rainy afternoon, show off Watson’s songwriting chops. They’re sparse and melancholy but with just enough hope to keep Watson from a pity party. His twangy voice isn’t quite pretty enough for the sad lullabies he’s dedicated to crafting, but his grainy singing works in his favor. Watson doesn’t perform all that often these days, so don’t miss this chance to catch him Thursday night.

Thursday, June 25, MiniBar (3810 Broadway, 816-326-8281)

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For the first time since 1999, the Rolling Stones — frontman Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood, and drummer Charlie Watts — are performing in Kansas

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On last year’s Mandatory Fun, “Weird Al” Yankovic reminded everyone just how relevant his irreverent pop-culture parodies can be. He reimagined — and sometimes improved — the hits, from Pharrell’s “Happy”

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City. Say what you want about exorbitant ticket prices for Saturday’s show at Arrowhead Stadium or the band members’ ages (most of whom are now in their 70s), but here’s some truth: This concert and the entire 15-city North American “Zip Code” Tour comprise one of the most celebrated live music events of the summer. The band is playing cuts from the 1971 classic Sticky Fingers, which was reissued this month. Bonus: Grammy Award-winning English rocker Ed Sheeran opens the show.

Saturday, June 27, Arrowhead Stadium (1 Arrowhead Drive)

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Steve Earle & the Dukes

Having the blues isn’t always a bad thing. On Terraplane, country legend Steve Earle dives headfirst into the genre with that truth firmly in mind. Though the 11 tracks are Earle originals, they recall — with uncanny craft — the crusty, gritty blues of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Lightnin’ Hopkins. Earle revels in these sounds, offering alms to those who paved the way for the songs on Terraplane. It’s not his definitive work, but it’s a satisfying turn for this musical chameleon.

Wednesday, July 1, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

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They may call themselves Heartless Bastards, but the band isn’t afraid to let its emotions hang out on its latest album, Restless Ones.

But even as lead singer Erika Wennerstrom wrings out inner angst on lyric after lyric, she does so with a lionhearted delivery bolstered by a wall of psychedelic riffs (“Gates of Dawn”). Wennerstrom’s voice is about as sweet as a rattlesnake’s bite, but she gives the songs on Restless Ones their definitive mettle. Also on deck Wednesday night: Hold Steady lead singer Craig Finn, touring now in support of his new solo album, Faith in the Future. The songwriting talent in the room for this show is on another level. Don’t miss it.

Wednesday, July 1, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

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Hairspray | New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park, newtheatre.com

Judy Barbra Liza | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com King Lear | Heart of America Shakespeare Fes-

tival | Southmoreland Park, 47th St. and Oak, kcshakes.org

Comedy

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

Love Song and On an Average Day | The Living Room, 1818 McGee, thelivingroomkc.com

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

Pippin | Starting Tuesday, Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

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The Taste Test | Through Saturday, Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central, kcmeltingpot.com

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Tribes | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

Bass Face, Brett Jackson Quartet | 5:30 p.m.

A Year with Frog and Toad | The Coterie Theatre,

Festival | 7 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania

Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

Bongotini | 7-9 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence

Broadway Jazz orchestra | 7 p.m. The Broadway

Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

Hayes Carll, ryan Culwell | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

John paul’s Flying Circus | B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

1205 E. 85th St.

Lawrence Field day Fest, with Toughies, Bonzo Madrid, the Clementines, Rev Gusto, No Cave | 7 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence Lawrence Field day Fest, with Spencer Mackenzie Brown, Jorge Arana Trio, Chastity Belt, Voyager | 8 p.m.

The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Lawrence Field day Fest, with Vedettes, Mr. and the

Mrs., Not a Planet, Pink Royal | 9 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Lawrence Field day Fest, with the Ovaries-eez,

Young Bull, Various Blonde, Paper Buffalo | 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Lit, the philistines | Town Center Plaza, 5000 W.

Free State Festival Beer dinner | 5:30 p.m. Maceli’s, 1031 New Hampshire, Lawrence, freestatefestival.org Winning Dad, part of the kansas City LBgt Film Festival | 7 p.m. Friday, at Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com; the festival runs through July 2, outherenow.com.

pope of dope, dirty Force Brass Band | 8 p.m.

The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

trio red | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St. unwritten Law, ten Foot pole, total Chaos |

8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Victor & penny and the Loose Change orchestra | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

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

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Card table theatre’s your Funniest Five, part

of the Free State Festival | 10 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Faizon Love | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

doby Watson, thom Hoskins, mat Shoare, kurtVee | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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

mike Watt, part of the Free State Festival | 9 p.m.

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

Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

the great Lenexa BBQ Battle | 4:30-11 p.m. SarKo-Par Trails Park, 87th St. Pkwy. and Lackman Rd., Lenexa, lenexa.com

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

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Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

Longview Charity Horse Show | 6:45p.m.Longview Horse Park, 12600 Raytown Rd., saddleupinc.com muSiC

Jeff Bergen’s elvis show | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

tommy Castro & the painkillers, ronnie Baker Brooks, deanna Bogart, the nick Schnebelen Band and tasha taylor | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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Sand Cinema: Annie | 9 p.m., $5 per car, Longview

Lake Beach, 11100 View High Dr.

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

damon parker | 7 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

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

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

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Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

City market Crawfish Festival, with the Bon Ton Soul Accordion Band, the MGDs | 6 p.m. City Market, 20 E. Fifth St., thecitymarket.org

everette deVan with Sharon thompson, gray matter | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St. Shay estes, Lonnie mcFadden | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

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The Hussy, Wet Ones, Kool 100s, Witch Jail | 9:45 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org Final Friday Art Walk | Massachusetts Street between Seventh and 11th streets, Lawrence

Final Friday Lawrence Art Party | 5:309:30 p.m. Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St., Lawrence

Kongos, Kangaroo Knife Fight | 8 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

Philip Haas: The Four Seasons |

Steve Lambert Quartet with Megan Birdsall | 8:30 p.m. The Broadway Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

Make Your Mark | Kemper Museum of Contem-

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Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring Nicholas St.

James, Arc Flash, David George & A Crooked Mile, the Electric Lungs, the Sluts | 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America |

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring Drew Black

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Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring Sona, Crystal

Baller, Something and the Whatevers, Sister Rat, Sedlec Ossuary | 9 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Michael Feldman’s Whad’ya Know? | 10 a.m. Yardley Hall, JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park,

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

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

Fiesta Filipina | Noon-8 p.m. Filipino Cultural Center, 9810 W. 79th St., Overland Park

Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring Mad Kings, David Hasselhoff on Acid | 10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Goomba Nights with Bear Club | 10 p.m. Replay

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Bob Log III, Molly Gene, Kodascope | 8 p.m. The

9 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Lonnie Ray | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

erboat Dr., North Kansas City

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Pennsylvania

25th Annual Blues & BBQ, benefiting Sherwood Center, with Lauren Anderson, Crosseyed Cat, Old No. 5s and KC Aces | 6-11 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Kansas CIty Roller Warriors’ Rink of Fire:

Knockouts vs. Black Eye Susans, Victory Vixens vs.

Dreadnought Dorothys | 5 p.m. Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St., kcrollerwarriors.com

25 years of Briarcliff Music Festival, with the Elders, Victor & Penny and the Loose Change Orchestra | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Briarcliff Village, 4175 N. Mulberry Dr.

Long view Charit y Horse Show | 8:30

Last Bus of the Night: A Revue, based on the manuscript for Last Bus of the Night by J. Alexander Greenwood | 6 p.m. Writers Place, 3607 Pennsylvania

Urban Grown Birthday Bash family-friendly

Power Walk 5k, featuring a 5k race and walk, a

COMeDy

Urban Grown Tour Day 1, three-hour guided bike

Sporting KC vs. Colorado Rapids | 7:30 p.m.

Soul Preservers featuring Dropout Boogie |

Saturday | 6.27 |

Onward Crispin Glover, Robot Monkey Madman, Dark Satellites | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Froyo 5k | 9-11 a.m., $24-$50, Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., froyo5k.com/kansas-city

Breakfast & Blooms: garden and estate tours |

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Randall Conrad Ollinger, Tyler Gregory, Fireside Collective | 8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112

and music | 6:30 p.m. Wednesday (with a 6 p.m. reception), Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., RSVP for the free event at kclibrary.org

Drunken Personal History | 10 p.m. Kick Comedy

Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania

Faizon Love | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

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

8 a.m.-3 p.m. Bingham-Waggoner Estate, 313 W. Pacific, Independence

picnic | 5-9 p.m. Westport Middle School, 300 E. 39th St., cultivatekc.org

tours of local gardens | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. St. John Community Garden, 3920 St. John Ave., cultivatekc.org

volkerfest, with art, live music and family-friendly

activities | 3-9 p.m. Roanoke Park, 38th St. and Roanoke

a.m. Longview Horse Park, 12600 Raytown Rd., saddleupinc.com

Men in Heels race, Zumba and yoga | 8-11 a.m. Theis Park, 47th St. and Oak, kansascity.dressforsuccess.org

Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK

yoga in the Park | 9 a.m. City Market Park, Third St. and Main, thecitymarket.org

MUSIC F00D & DRINK

Tim Whitmer Quartet, Molly Hammer, Boogaloo 7 | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

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

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Bear Grillz, Roscoe Whyte, Brooks Brown, Architekt | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Maker Faire Kansas City | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Union

KC Nanobrew Festival | 2-6 p.m., $32, Stockyards

DJ Dave Step | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-

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Flippin Sweet Memorial Disc Golf Tournament, benefiting the Tom Karlin Foundation for suicide prevention and depression awareness | 7:45 a.m.-3:45 p.m., $50, Thornfield Disc Golf Course, 6701 W. 167th St., Stilwell

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DJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

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

Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., makerfairekc.com

DJ Sike Steez | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway 28

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Brewing Co., 1600 Genessee, kcnanobrews.com

The Biff Tannens, Bottlebreakers, electric Lungs, Nuthatch-47 | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown

Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

elvin Bishop, Dwayne Dopsie, Carolyn Wonderland | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester Black Joe Lewis, part of the Free State Festival | 6:30 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Brother Dege, Casper McWade, Dusty Rust |

8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

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Krizz Kaliko | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr.,

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Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring Eyes of Iolite,

Young Readers, the Philistines, Gnarly Davidson, Psychic Heat | 7 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Club Kids Reunion, a get-together for those who partied in the late ’80s and early ’90s in Kansas City | 8 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring the Primetime

Dirty Stomp with Hector the Selector | 10 p.m.

Heroes, Drop a Grand, La Guerre, the Noise FM, Westerners | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring Lusty Flowers,

land Park

DJ Dave Step | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-

Heidi Lynne Gluck, Your Friend | 9 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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

Lawrence Field Day Fest, featuring the People’s Punk Band, Federation of Horsepower, Varma Cross, emorial, 100 Bruiser Queen, Maybe Not | 9 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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25th Annual Blues & BBQ, benefiting Sherwood Center, with Diane “Mama” Ray, Stone Cutters Union, Amanda Fish, Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats, Knock Kneed Sally, Coyote Bill Boogie Band, Atlantic Express | 3 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Saturday-Night Sock Hop, with DJ Superwolf and DJ Daddy T | 6 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union Ave. Third Annual Summer Bar Olympics | 1 p.m.

Sharks, 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Shawnee

Lilac 94 | 7:30 p.m. Fishtank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte, lilac94.com

Sunday | 6.28 |

5:30 p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

Schlambert | 8:30 p.m. The Broadway Kansas City,

The Rolling Stones, with Ed Sheeran | 8 p.m.

Storm and the Beat Adjustment, Burea featuring Black | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Arrowhead Stadium, 1 Arrowhead Dr.

3601 Broadway

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Future Stages Festival, with presentations from

Anthony Schauman | 9 p.m. Tank Room, 1813 Grand

the Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Symphony and Lyric Opera of Kansas City | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org

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Faizon Love | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

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Fiesta Filipina | Noon-6 p.m. Filipino Cultural Center,

9810 W. 79th St., Overland Park

Community events

urban Grown tour day 2: a three-hour bike tour through local gardens | Noon-5 p.m. Juniper Gardens, 100 Richmond Ave., KCK, cultivatekc.org musiC

ahuf, CWill, spinstyles | 5 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

andy andrist, James inman, maeret Lemons, Jero-me toliver | 8 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Hood nizzle, dJ Rob, street King, nefertiti phoenix, Cherokee | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries | Museum at Prairiefire, 5801 W. 135th St.,

627 Big Band | 8:30 p.m.-midnight. Green Lady

Lounge, 1809 Grand

the souveneers, dusty Rust | 5 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

sunday jazz brunch with michael mcClintock and Broken string | 10 a.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

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

Cherry, lindahall.org

Chamomile and Whiskey, elephant Gun | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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

marcus Lewis Big Band | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Rural Grit Happy Hour | 6 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee sparrow, staydes | 7 p.m. The Scene KC Rock Bar,

Pippin | Starting Tuesday and running through July 5, at Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

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

dark star orchestra | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at

the Whiskey Charmers | 11 p.m. Westport Saloon,

Kegs and eggs with x ambassadors | 6 a.m. The

Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Hermon mehari trio | 6 p.m. The Majestic, 931

Tank Room, 1813 Grand

nick schnebelen Band | 7 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside

the Beautiful ones, sharp Weapons, ninth Life, vitalis, Local | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Mer-

sol driven train | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

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

14816 E. U.S. Hwy. 40, Independence

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Drafthouse, 1400 Main

Karaoke sammitch | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

messy monday with vinyl Richy & the phoenix Club | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway open mic | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire,

Lawrence

Tuesday | 6.30 | Comedy

trashmouth Baker Band | 2 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside

BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Monday | 6.29 | FiLm

Faberge: A Life of Its Own | 1:30 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

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

Cindy Kaza | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

marc Broussard, mingo Fishtrap | 7 p.m. Frontier Park, 15501 W. Indian Creek Pkwy., Olathe

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Tank Room, 1813 Grand

Broadway

BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Hampshire, Lawrence

vela, Fresh the plaza, the Bends, Junkyard Genius | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Wednesday | 7.1 | Comedy

Guy torry | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

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

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atlas, pleasures, Captiva, imperial | 7 p.m. The

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Folkicide, Rabbit Killer | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Heartless Bastards, Craig Finn | 9:30 p.m. Record-

Bar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Kinddub, Quantum, Cuddy mac, star B, apollo Lason | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Community events

otherwise, For the Broken, scarlet view |

“Weird al” yankovic | 7:30 p.m. The Midland,

parkville’s July Fourth Celebration, with vendors

6:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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Dear Dan: I am a male grad student who is technically engaged to a female grad student.

She has numerous positive qualities, but she is repulsed by sex. She is very sensitive about her repulsion and becomes distraught when I broach the subject. She says that even the thought of doing anything sexual with me elicits a panic attack. She also insists that she is “broken” because, in the hopes of preventing me from leaving her, she forced herself to go further than she felt comfortable. We are both virgins, and the furthest that we ever went sexually was cunnilingus. She has never seen me completely naked or expressed any interest in making love to me.

When she revealed that any form of sexual affection prompted panic attacks and psychological distress, I decided to call off our engagement. She proceeded to threaten to kill herself and blame me for her aversion to sex. I agreed to continue the relationship but insisted that we postpone marriage. She refuses to go to couples counseling.

I love her and enjoy her companionship, but my sexual self-esteem is devastated. I feel rejected and bitter, and I am still with her mainly because of guilt. Although she denies that this contributes to the situation, she also holds strong religious convictions. She claims that she always had a weak libido and that bodily fluids (especially semen) disgust her. Finally, despite her use of oral contraceptives, she fears pregnancy. She also disapproves of my family and friends, my interest in science, my distrust of religion, and my use of antidepressants. My questions: (1) If I did cause or contribute to her sexual aversion, do I have a lifelong obligation to remain with her? (2) Barring cheating, the impetus for her decision to break up with a previous boyfriend, what other options do I have? (3) Could her sexual aversion ever dissipate? (4) Could her sexual aversion stem from asexuality?

Gradually Escalating Threats Obligate Unending Togetherness Dear GETOUT: (1) You are not obligated to stay

with this unpleasant woman for the next 50 years just because you made the mistake of proposing to her. And even if she started fucking you, do you really want to be with her?

(2) Why bar cheating? If taking herself hostage is so intimidating that it prevents you from breaking up with her (threatening to kill herself = taking herself hostage), then go ahead and cheat on her, or pretend to cheat on her, and let her break up with you.

(3) Her sexual aversion may dissipate over time. Or it may not. But someone who doesn’t want to fuck someone — and she clearly doesn’t want to fuck you — rarely starts wanting to fuck that someone down the road. So she may get over her sexual aversion in time, but she’ll probably be fucking someone else when she does … even if she’s married to you.

(4) Could be that, sure. But unless you’re willing to live a sexless life with a manipulative spouse who disapproves of your family, friends, meds, etc., the root cause of her sexual aversion is irrelevant.

Dear Dan: I’m getting married to my partner

next month. I’m super-pumped. Her family is awesome and supportive. I’ve had a long backand-forth with my family about the wedding — including inviting them and saying how much it would mean to me if they would come. I’m trying to be the bigger person, even though they have never been supportive of me as a queer person.

I suspect some of them are not coming, as I got a pretty intense e-mail from my sister-in-law about how my family can’t support my engagement because blah blah Catholic blah. Yesterday was the RSVP due date, and none of them have responded. So it is now to the point where I’m going to have to call and outright ask if they’re coming and potentially absorb all their rejection personally. Here’s the kicker: I found out through Facebook that my brother, who I used to think was my ally (he said he and his GF were going to try to make it to my wedding), is getting married seven days after we are! And he forgot to invite me?! So with this knowledge, what am I supposed to say when I call asking for RSVPs?

Please Please Please Help Dear PPPH: You are not going to absorb your shitty family’s rejection personally because you are not going to call each and every shitty member of your shitty family to personally ask each individual shit if they’re coming to your wedding. The shits aren’t coming — adjust your seating charts accordingly. And you know what? You don’t want these shits at your wedding. You don’t want to see your shitty sister-in-law’s sour face when you look out at

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your guests. You don’t want to see your shitty brother’s face — the shit throws you noncommittal shitty scraps and then in a shit move fails to invite you to his own wedding — when you cut the cake. You want people at your wedding who love and support you, who love and support your relationship — and your shitty family has made it abundantly clear that they are incapable of loving and supporting you.

It’s worse than that: Your shitty family has made it clear that they will seize any opportunity to wound you. So stop creating those opportunities. Don’t send any more invitations.

Don’t make any more phone calls. Unfollow the fuckers on Facebook. Devote a week to grieving your loss — this kind of rejection is painful — and then resolve to focus on your wife-to-be, your education, your friends, and your career. Focus on the life you and your fiancée are embarking on together. She’s your family now.

Dear Dan: My boyfriend and I have been together almost two months. Lately, he doesn’t seem that interested in investing in our relationship, but when I talk to him, he says the opposite. We are a bit long-distance (he lives an hour away). Two weeks ago, he went home to visit his parents. I was going to see him when he got back, but he said he wasn’t feeling well. Then last week, he went to his best friend’s wedding. Now he tells me that he’s got to go back home this weekend to get his laptop. Through all this, his texting responses have gone down to where I’m lucky to get a reply. If we’re on the phone and the call drops, he doesn’t try to call me back, and he never answers when I call him back. I’m just trying to keep the lines of communication open, especially since we don’t see each other all the time, but he’s making it difficult. What would be the best way to approach this?

Boyfriend’s Absences Worry Lonely & Invested New Girlfriend Dear BAWLING: Don’t call or text your boy-

friend for two weeks. If he doesn’t call or text you in that time — and he won’t — then you cancel your three-month anniversary party.

My hunch is that this relationship has been over for a while, but your boyfriend lacks the decency to put you out of your misery. Looking on the bright side: You won’t have to waste any of your money on a traditional three-month anniversary present — a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos — or any more of your time on this guy.

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