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The FTC’s local payday-lending settlement isn’t as rich as you’d expect.

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t has been 10 months since federal authorities raided the offices of Mission Hills residents Tim Coppinger and Ted Rowland, following a civil complaint filed by the Federal Trade Commission.

The feds alleged that Coppinger and Rowland ran an online payday-lending scheme that not only deceived borrowers about the costs of their loans but also deposited money into the bank accounts of people who had never authorized payday loans, then charged them fees and interest when they didn’t pay back the phantom loans. These allegations cast Coppinger and Rowland’s enterprise — that went by many names, but which, for simplicity’s sake, I’ll refer to here as CWB Services — as even more odious than the industry’s usual shady players, whose enormous profits depend on triple-digit interest rates and hidden fees. CWB Services wasn’t just gouging customers. It was, according to the FTC, stealing from people.

Since last September, the case had been grinding its way through federal court in the Western District of Missouri. Last week, the FTC announced that a settlement had been reached — one that, at first glance, sounded like stern justice: consumer redress judgments of $32 million against Coppinger and $22 million against Rowland. (Prison time was not on the table, this being a civil case.)

But those big numbers don’t tell the whole story. The settlement is a suspended sentence — what is sometimes referred to as an avalanche clause. That means the court isn’t coming after Coppinger or Rowland for those amounts, as long as the two abide by certain terms of the settlement.

The snow falls if Coppinger or Rowland is ever again found to be participating in the consumer lending business, or if it is discovered that either made false sworn financial statements during the case (say, failing to have disclosed a bank account in the Caymans).

Coppinger and Rowland also have agreed to transfer and relinquish certain assets, mostly corporate and personal bank accounts that have been frozen since the feds’ original bust.

Barring the violation of the suspended sentence, the value of these assets represents the true financial punishment for Coppinger and Rowland.

Matt Wilshire, the FTC’s lead counsel on the case, declined to comment on the dollar amount of those assets. But the bank account numbers that Coppinger and Rowland gave up are listed in the settlement filing, and the values of those bank accounts are listed in previous reports from the receiver assigned to the case.

From Rowland — who argued all along that he was not involved in the operations of CWB and that all he did was provide capital to the 6

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call center run by Coppinger — the feds are taking personal bank accounts, corporate bank accounts, cash surrender value on a life insurance policy, a defunct collections account, and another $275,000 for unspecified reasons. Add it up, and Rowland’s financial penalty appears to be around $400,000, plus some presumably sizable legal fees.

In addition to paying his attorney, Coppinger is giving up several personal bank accounts worth a total of about $520,000.

He also was ordered by the court last year to sell his house at Lake Lotawana, which netted $137,000. And Coppinger is forfeiting his financial stake in several unrelated business entities, the value of which is unclear.

Neither Coppinger nor Rowland is obliged to sell his Mission Hills home, due to homestead protection laws in the state of Kansas.

“Coppinger gets to keep his house and his 401(k), and that’s about it,” Larry Cook, the court-appointed receiver assigned to the case, told The Pitch. “Rowland as far as we know has no equity left.”

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n the first day that Coppinger’s and Rowland’s attorneys appeared in federal court, back in September 2014, Judge Dean Whipple noted the FTC’s allegation that CWB Services had issued $28 million in loans and extracted $46 million in return. “Where did that $18 million go?” Whipple asked. “I expect to learn where that money went.”

Cook has some answers. It appears that $7.5 million went to eData Solutions, a leadgeneration company that solicited borrowers and then sold their personal information

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and loan applications to CWB. (eData Solutions was founded by Joel Tucker, who later sold the operation to the Wyandotte Nation Indian tribe — a workaround that has historically shielded online payday lenders from state prosecution.) According to Wilshire, none of the eData money has yet been retrieved. But he noted that a provision in the settlement allows Cook to continue making attempts to demand and recoup assets related to this case for the next six months; additional clawbacks are, in theory, forthcoming.

Another $6.6 million was paid out to entities owned by an Arizona man named David Harbour, who court documents say is a friend of Rowland’s brother-in-law. Depositions reveal that Harbour’s role was to introduce Rowland to potential investors. Cook found that Harbour and his wife, Abby, used the payments to “buy luxury goods, including private chartered jets, extravagant birthday celebrations, golf club memberships, and vacation homes in Mexico and Idaho.” He submitted a motion for the Harbours to turn over the $6.6 million, arguing that they and Rowland had “created a corporate structure to prevent consumers and regulators from collecting on claims against them. Specifically, they regularly transferred consumer payments away from the lenders, through shell corporations, and then on to DNA Investments [Harbour’s company] and investors.”

Earlier this month, the Harbours agreed to an undisclosed settlement.

Cook’s most recent receiver report says $723,000 in third-party investor money has been recovered in addition to the Harbour settlement. Wilshire declined to identify the

names of those investors, but some clues exist in court filings. An overhead breakdown, filed as an exhibit, shows interest payments from CWB’s payday-lending operation to more than a dozen recipients. The list, which cites only the last names of investors, includes: Stradinger, Schumacher, Bode, Vossler, Redd, Stocklets, McCue, Rixon, Wentz, Krull, Runyan, Moritz, Martin, S. Coppinger, M. Stoetzer, McNitt, Holland and Ewers.

Wilshire said, “Generally speaking, people don’t receive interest payments from an operation unless they made some kind of capital investment in it or have a promissory note.”

Asked whether it was reasonable to assume that these were some of the individuals being pursued for clawback money, Cook said, “At this point we’re looking at those [names] and others and have already reached some settlements. Some of those people have lost significant sums.”

He added: “These are people who purchased, from the defendants, promissory notes that paid out fixed returns between 12 and 30 percent. I’ve yet to determine why some people got 12 percent and some got 30 percent.”

Christopher Koegel, an assistant director of the FTC’s Division of Financial Practices, told The Pitch that the FTC will soon be undertaking a consumer-redress program related to the CWB case. They’ll work from documents and data obtained in the investigation to identify consumers who were harmed by CWB and start sending out checks. A final report from Cook, laying out the full amounts recovered, will be filed later this year.

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he charter bus left Central States Beverage 20 minutes late, foreshadowing what would become a theme for this trip: tardiness. Jon Poteet, the beer distributor’s vice president of marketing, had invited me to tag along with some contest winners headed to Mother’s Brewing Co. in Springfield. I’d been planning a trip to Mother’s myself. If a free ride on a chartered bus to a brewery sounded too good to be true … well, of course it was too good to be true. Yet away we went.

When we set out, there was already beer on the bus — some large-format bottles of Crane brews and other rarities. Everyone knew that beer wasn’t going to be scarce.

Chicken wings and burgers and beers awaited us in Springfield. But the other theme of this

journey promised to be plenitude, and I was looking forward to sampling healthy portions of brews that Mother’s doesn’t ship to KC. The company calls these tasting-room exclusives Backyard Beers — named for the grassy yard facing the tasting room, where much of the beer drinking and Olympic-style beer games would commence. (The tasting room is open from Wednesday through Saturday, with free tours on Saturdays on a first-come, first-served basis at 2, 3 and 4 p.m.)

As we arrive at Mother’s on this early June afternoon, the taps are set to pour Grow Cukes, Not Nukes (cucumber farmhouse ale), Maypole Lager (golden lager), London’s Burning (smoky porter) and Sandy (hoppedup wheat). There are strong beers: Doozy

(double IPA), Love Factory (imperial red ale) and MILF (barrel-aged imperial stout).

There are beers inspired by food: Holy Molé (brown ale with cinnamon, cocoa nibs and ancho, chipotle, pasilla and quadjillo peppers), Knight of the Iguana (chocolate-chai stout) and Chocolate Thunder (nitro porter with Askinosie cocoa). Looking it over, I start calculating how many growlers my refrigerator at home might accommodate.

Brewmaster Brian Allen is taking a turn giving a tour of his brewhouse, which in a previous life was an Interstate Bakery. That closed in 2009, and Mother’s owner Jeff Schrag moved his brewery in shortly after. Remnants of the factory’s Twinkie days linger. A Butternut Breads sign hangs in the taproom. A

“fresh and delicious” sign sits above a cooler.

The old building provokes some headaches, and Allen admits to a certain lovehate relationship with it. Walking through the brewery is a bit like going backstage at Saturday Night Live: Quirk abounds, such as the robot costume — Beer Bot 1.0, “the world’s first beer delivery robot,” according to a YouTube video — that blocks an entryway.

“We did a video,” Allen says. “I kicked it in the balls.”

Last year, Mother’s packaged 10,500 barrels of beer. “We’re hoping to do 12,500 barrels this year,” Allen tells me. “A busy day of shipping beer is probably three full trucks going out”: 22 pallets and about 90 barrels of beer. “On average, we’re probably two trucks a day. Right now, our busiest months of shipping beer is 1,200 barrels of beer out of the door. Our slowest month this past calendar year or 12-month cycle is 650.”

In the grain room, head brewer Doug Riddle stacks sacks of Vienna malt. A picture of a young Tom Cruise rests atop a tank for no apparent reason. A cooler door is covered with a graphic of Han Solo in carbonite. A fog of Pink Floyd rolls from a stereo speaker.

There’s a loose, summer-camp feel to the whole brewery.

Allen leads our tour group to racks of barrels in a humid room. He tells us that the company’s barrel program is, as usual, evolving.

“We started with Foggy Notion, which is barleywine aged in Missouri sherry barrels,” he says. “We did that for three, maybe four years.

And then the provider built a distillery, and they weren’t selling barrels anymore. So we’re trying to get some Spanish barrels in to resume that. Bourbon Barrel Imperial Three Blind Mice is all bourbon barrels. MILF is a combination of bourbon, rum, sherry, brandy and corn whiskey [barrels]. So we’ve got some local distilleries down in the Ozarks who we’ve traded wort for barrels or we’ve bought barrels from.”

The beer in the barrels ages from two to 15 months.

“When we go to do MILF blending, we’ll sample every barrel and assess its character, make sure it’s not bad or infected and then do several different blends and go from there,” Allen says. “A beer like Bourbon Barrel Imperial Three Blind Mice, there’s not much of a blend going on. We’ll taste the barrels to make sure that they’re not infected and have the profile that we want.”

Allen grabs a hammer and a nail and cracks into a barrel for a taste. Inside is what he calls Blackout, a 9.5 ABV beer that has been aging for about a year and a half. What’s in the barrel gives off a funky nose but goes down smooth.

“We’ll probably bring it out in the fall,” Allen says, and someone cracks that Mother’s should rename it Drunk Santa.

We return to the taproom to fill growlers with Backyard Beers. Just released last week: Pink Thing cranberry hibiscus saison. Already, it feels like time for a return visit. continued on page 10

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Tallgrass Brewing Co.

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allgrass Brewing Co. founder Jeff Gill opens the doors to his new, 60,000-squarefoot production facility. This is his $7.5 million vision, what he had in mind back in October 2013 when he set out to build the largest brewery in Kansas.

He did it.

What Gill is about to walk me through is a sleek, modern brewhouse in what was once the headquarters of regional phone carrier Western Wireless. The building’s layout resembles a baseball diamond, with windows wrapping around the brewhouse in 90-degree angles, like a transparent outfield fence with a view of waving Kansas wheat fields and Manhattan Regional Airport.

“We tore out 40,000 square feet of concrete and repoured it,” Gill says. “All of this is brand-new with rebar and able to support forklift traffic and tanks over there and that sort of stuff. So it was a substantial reconfiguration of the building — retrofitting, basically.”

The day of my visit, Tallgrass’s production has ground to a halt, due to a faulty centrifuge. “If the centrifuge isn’t happening, nothing is happening,” Gill says.

Even with the snag, Gill, dressed in jeans and a plaid shirt with an 8-Bit Pale Ale logo on the chest, is in a cheerful mood. And though Tallgrass’s factory isn’t ready for public tours, Gill is showing me around, starting with the “creation station.”

“It’s a pretty tricked-out home-brew system,” Gill says, standing before a trio of kegs.

This is where his brewers dream up new beers and try out new worts, hop characters and yeasts, and it has already yielded one success: 16-Bit DPA. It’s just this kind of innovation that wasn’t possible at Tallgrass’s previous facility. Gill says the brewhouse was running 24 hours a day, seven days a week, leaving little time to work on new recipes.

“It’s hard to retain people when you’re working them that hard,” he tells me. “We were never going to be where we wanted to be in that older facility. We had to upgrade … and make it where we have the capacity and the expandability to grow. We invested a lot of money doing all of that and taking on more risk, but we were also old enough as a brewery and had the right wholesaler partners to be able to feel like that risk is a business risk worth taking. So we pulled the trigger.”

Which means that the 16-Bit DPA soon graduated from the creation station to a release on Tallgrass’s new, fully automated 50-barrel system. It also means that brewers work in 12-hour shifts — the brewery operates around the clock for three or four days, depending on the schedule’s demands.

“It is a far cry from where we used to be,

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with a 15-barrel, two-vessel system,” Gill says.

“We can brew about a week’s worth of production at the old place in a 24-hour period here. Basically everything we moved out here we upscaled about three times,” he adds, “except the brewhouse, which is upscaled about eight times, since it’s a little bit more permanent piece.”

Take the Italian-made canning line, which fills around 60 cans a minute. The previous line could do just 22 cans a minute. “We’re getting ready to get big,” Gill says.

Yup: Gill motions toward rows of towering stainless-steel tanks. “This is our tank farm,” he says. “As you can see, we have spaces for more tanks built in here.”

Each tank is na med after one of the muscled-up hulks and hulkettes from the old NBC reality show American Gladiators: Laser, Sabre, Tank. (“Way more fun than calling it F1, F2, F3,” Gill explains.)

Behind the tanks are several racks of Dark Horse Distillery barrels filled with Buffalo Sweat. “We’re working on lots of barrel aging now,” Gill says. “We’re going to hit that pretty hard the second half of this year, with a lot of cool stuff coming out.”

Tallgrass started the program with a micro-release of Wooden Rooster: the brewery’s Velvet Rooster Belgian tripel, aged in ryewhiskey barrels.

“The biggest thing that we’re going to be doing over the next two years is our Explorer Series,” Gill says. Wooden Rooster crowed first in that new line. “It’s the same thing that I did back in my garage: What sort of cool flavors can I think up and then create?”

Although Wooden Rooster was released in four-packs of 19.2-ounce cans, future Explorer Series beers will be more familiar-looking four-packs of 12-ounce cans. The original idea

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was to continue with the 19.2-ounce cans, but the can manufacturer decided to make the tallboy cans just once a year.

Gill says the plan is to release from six to eight Explorer Series beers each year. Four Explorer Series beers are scheduled to be released through the rest of this year, with Bourbon Barrel Aged Buffalo Sweat to come in September, and a Berliner Weisse later.

“It’ll be a lot of barrel aging,” Gill says.

“There will be other sours coming. Some imperial items, like Russian imperial stout and imperial IPA and some just bigger beers in that regard. Lots of cool stuff within them.”

Farther down the hallway is where Gill plans to open a tasting room, with flagship, barrel-aged and special-release beers on tap.

“We hope to have it open sometime before school is out next spring,” he says.

Until then, the Tallgrass Tap House, in downtown Manhattan, is the destination for tasting Tallgrass’s test brews.

“That’s our test kitchen for new beers now,” Gill says. “For example, the Explorer Series — some of these things are not existing recipes, they’re not proven recipes. So we’ll do them here in our creation station and then we’ll take those down to the Tap House and make those on the 10-barrel system there.”

And the Tap House is already producing beers that could find their way into Tallgrass cans. Gill is bullish about Tap House’s brewmaster Brandon Gunn’s Konza extra pale ale.

(Gunn worked as a brewer for Tallgrass for two years before moving to the brewpub.)

“That could definitely be where something gets started,” he says.

Also in Tallgrass’s future: lagers and radlers. A trip to the hop harvest in Bavaria turned lager-loving Gill on to the idea of making the German-style beers.

Gill (left) rolls out his barrel program.

“I’d like to do a radler because they’re fun,” he says. “There are lots of things that we want to do. It’s just a matter of ‘OK, how are you going to make sure that you can execute all of those ideas?’ The capacity to come up with new ideas always exceeds the capacity to execute those ideas, so we have to pick and choose which ones we can actually pull off.”

In the new facility, though, all bets and limitations are off.

“We want to be a really strong regional brewery,” says Gill, who has already carved out a 13-state territory in the middle of the country. “That’s Step 1 for Tallgrass’s growth.

The decisions that we do over the next two years, at least, are going to be in support of that goal.”

While in Manhattan … drop by little apple Brewing Co.

If you’re making the two-hour trip west on Interstate 70, you might as well add Little Apple Brewing Co. (1110 Westloop Place, Manhattan) to your itinerary. Little Apple offers five flagship beers (Wildcat Wheat Ale, Prairie Pale Ale, Riley’s Red Ale, XX Black Angus Stout and Bison Brown Ale) and a seasonal or two. Try a flight of six tasters for $7, or get a growler to go for $15.

on your way back from Manhattan … grab a growler at Blind tiger.

Topeka’s Blind Tiger Brewery & Restaurant (417 Southwest 37th Street) regularly collects medals at the Great American Beer Fest.

Brewmaster John Dean and head brewer Alvaro Canizales’ beers are on-point and worth a detour.

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ree State founder Chuck Magerl, owner of Kansas’ oldest brewery, is a beer evangelist. As he makes the rounds at his brewpub on a Tuesday morning, he stops by tables to chat with diners and friends, preaching the benefits of a wet Kansas.

“Beer is an integral part of human enjoyment of life, events, activities, things to keep people engaged and interacting with each other,” he tells me. “It’s a convivial beverage best enjoyed in the presence of other earthlings.”

And this is a place where hungry, thirsty earthlings can generally count on finding one another. Officially, I’m here to meet Magerl; the brewpub’s head brewer, Geoff Deman; and sales rep Seth Sanchez. Unofficially, the first thing my eyes seek out is the beer board. You never know which special-to-the-restaurant beers are going to be on tap any given day until you see that board. Today: Cherry Bomb lager and Late Addition session pale ale, with a yet-to-be-named Dortmunder set to join them soon. And, of course, there’s more to come from the tanks.

“Right now, I have what I think is going to be a stunning Pilsner,” Deman says. “It’s young — it’s only about 11 days old — but I’m already really into it. I think, give it another five weeks and it’s going to be pretty good.”

Deman’s work inside the brewpub has been spilling over from Free State’s produc-

tion facility across town. Several of the beers that started at the brewpub have graduated to bottles.

“It’s pretty cool to see those offerings end up in six-packs now,” Deman says. “Both the Winterfest and the Stormchaser were things that I developed down here, and now the first three of the Front Porch Series are all going to be beers that I developed down here. It’s always fun to see people drinking in here and see the immediacy of what you make and people enjoying it, but it’s a whole nother level to see people out and about.”

Free State’s Front Porch, a limited-edition series, includes previously released beers alongside new ones. Free State’s next limited release, Garden Party — a light lager infused with cucumber, juniper berries and basil — is slated for store shelves this month. And a September release of the hop-forward Yakimaniac IPA is on the books. Deman says more favorites could be on the way soon.

“I think eventually you’ll see things like John Brown get out,” he says. “This is a way for us to keep up with the Joneses, so to speak, in terms of getting something new in front of people because new is driving things in craft beer now.”

Keeping up with the Joneses is easier with Free State’s crosstown production brewery online. That’s where the continued on page 12

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Barreling Down the Highway continued from page 11 bulk of Free State’s 10,000 barrels of beer are now brewed. (This year, production is set to hit 11,500 barrels.)

I meet head brewer Steve Bradt at the sixyear-old, 40-barrel brewhouse — where, the second Saturday of every month, he leads tours at 2 p.m. During a typical 45-minute walk-through, he tells the story of Kansas’ oldest brewery (Free State started in 1989) and explains the brewing process. And when it’s over, you try some beers.

“After the pub had been going for the better part of 20 years, we were running out of space to produce beer for the market outside of the pub,” Bradt says. “We realized that we were going to have to up our game and change plans or start telling people no, which we’ve never been good at. You hate to disappoint people.”

One thing that won’t disappoint is the prospect of a tasting room at the production facility. The project has been on the backburner, but Bradt would still like to see it come to fruition.

“We’re right along the bike trail,” he says of the Burroughs Creek Trail. “I think it has potential just to give people another opportunity to see Free State in a different venue.”

Bradt commences this afternoon’s tour.

“We’ve got a little bit of everything going on today,” he says. “We’re starting the Octoberfest. Because it is a little bit longer of a process, it takes us awhile, so we usually get started in late June, early July on the Octoberfest brewing, and that will be out in mid-August.”

Bradt moves on to the bottling line, where brown-glass bottles of Ad Astra Ale clink together as they move down the belt. The machines whir, vroom and zip, sounding like a NASCAR pit crew changing tires.

“This does about 150 bottles a minute,” Bradt says. “We usually package a couple of days a week, and we sort of build up the beer to do around 1,500 or so cases on a packaging run. … The main manual-labor part of our process is the guy pulling them off and setting them on pallets at the other end.”

Back in the brewhouse, Bradt motions toward a towering tank that Free State just added to its collection.

“Later this year, early next year, it’ll probably be time for another,” Bradt says. “We’ve still got room to grow. We could easily double our production, almost triple our production in this building before we really start growing into a point where we’re going to have to do some pretty major expansion work with the building.

“We’ve got quite a bit of growth that we can do by simply adding more tanks,” he adds. “The basic improvements are in place.

Set up a tank, plug it in and be ready to go.”

Those tanks are helping supply Free State’s expansion into Iowa. Next, the plan is to return to Nebraska in 2016.

“There’s quite a bit of business to be had in that four-state region,” Bradt says of Kansas,

Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. “It’s really nice to keep things as close to home as you can. It really allows us to make sure that we have the freshest stuff out there, and we can support it.”

He’s serious about fresh beer.

“It’s not that unusual that it might come off the line and be out the door and be in our distributor the same day,” Bradt says.

There’s a rebellious vibe to Free State. You can see it in the banners on the walls. One proclaims: “There are still 29 dry counties in Kansas. Their populations are dwindling.”

“Something may have changed since that was posted, but there are still a few of them out there,” Bradt says.

Another banner, in the brewhouse, reads: “FDR repealed Prohibition in 1933. We elected him to four terms.” And, of course, there’s Free State’s adopted motto, a quote from the diary of Brother Epp: “Because without beer, things do not seem to go as well.”

Bradt leads me back to the beginning but stops at a big walk-in cooler. Inside it, aging in Templeton Rye barrels, is Owd Mac’s Imperial Stout, which sold out in minutes during last year’s dock sale at the brewery.

“That’s the majority of the barrel work,” Bradt says. “There’s a handful of others in here as well, sort of long-term barrel projects.

We keep some of the vintage barleywine back in here so we have some different things to bring out for the holidays. We still have barleywine in here going back at least four or five years, I think, and a handful of small-batch stuff or stuff we set aside from downtown.

“This is the best tornado shelter in Douglas County,” Bradt says of the walk-in. “If you really have to hunker down for a while, you’ve got some provisions.”

I find myself wishing that the forecast called for heavy weather.

After taking the Free State brewery tour … get a flight at 23rd Street Brewery.

The KU-centric crosstown brewpub (3512 Clinton Parkway, Lawrence) offers a monster of a flight: all nine beers on tap for about $10. Get a taste of the year-round brews with Jayhawk names (Crimson Phog red ale, Rock Chalk Raspberry Wheat, Wave the Wheat) along with specialty beers (Russian Imperial Stout). Brewmaster Russell Brickell works up the beers on a 15-barrel brewing system, and you can see the tanks inside the silolike pub. And if you find a beer you like, there’s a growler with your name on it.

On your way up Interstate 35 … make a pit stop at Ninja Moose Brewery.

Hamilton, Missouri, is a day trip unto itself.

The hour drive up Interstate 35 and east on Highway 36 takes you to Scott Falke’s year-old taproom (105 West Bird), where he now has 11 beers on draft. Get on the list to join the mug club or pick up a growler for future trips.

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The 1986 fantasy is the latest of this summer’s Pitch-

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makes us realize truth”). See it at Phosphor Studio. From Original Oddity Productions in Columbia, Missouri, comes The List, which centers on a 70-year friendship and a childhood bucket list. Well-received in Columbia, the play finds a stage here at Crown Center’s Heartland Forum.

Drama fans should save time for Bryan Moses’ ThisThatThen , a three-act “epic romance” at the Living Room, and Alli Jordan’s The Snake That Stole the Flower, on the Unicorn Theatre’s Jerome Stage. Jordan’s 2013 Fringe entry earned one of our Best of KC honors, and her new script — a rural-Missouri scorcher with tarot readings, animal masks and auditory hallucinations — sounds promising.

Hang around the Jerome Stage to see Bond: A Soldier and His Dog, featuring local actor Logan Black. The combat veteran, who served as a Specialized Search Dog Handler, has based this debut one-man show on his experiences in the Anbar Province with his canine partner, Diego.

The Heartland Men’s Chorus meets karaoke at Big Gay Sing, hosted by drag queen Daisy Buckët. Prepare to sing along at Union Station’s City Stage. Jesus on Toast isn’t a menu item but a café owner’s contrivance to boost business.

Or is it? Find out if it’s fraud or miracle at the Musical Theater Heritage stage, also at Crown Center. Paul Mesner Puppets offers two productions: the family-friendly Star Wars parody

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Death Star, and a more naughty The Georgette Show, starring the opinionated Mesner alterego Georgette.

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Where to start? Here’s what we’re most curious to see. (See kcfringe.org and cstkc. com for show schedules and descriptions.)

Out-of-town performer Timothy Mooney makes his sixth visit to KC’s Fringe, following up last year’s erudite, entertaining Shakespeare’s Histories: Ten Epic Plays at a Breakneck Pace. This trip, he brings two shows: Breakneck Hamlet (a one-man, 9,000-word, one-hour take on the Dane) and Criteria, his own sci-fi piece, set in a future world in which “numberism has replaced racism” (a favorite at previous Seattle and Winnipeg Fringe Fests). Find Mooney on the Unicorn’s Jerome Stage.

Right Between the Ears, the public-radio comedy program marking its 30th anniversary this year, puts on a show at Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center. Another comedy, Whim Productions’ Badder Auditions, takes off from last year’s Fringe hit Bad Auditions, reprising the largely improvisational sendup of the audition process. The rotating group of players appears on Union Station’s City Stage.

Zany comedies are Fringe’s bread and butter, but there’s reason to make The Ballad of Lefty and Crabbe your main course. The vaudeville-inspired musical, penned by Ben Auxier and Brian Huther (of comedy duo “Dog and Friend Dog”) and Seth Macchi, blends new tunes with old-timey quirks. See it at the Living Room, directed by KC Rep’s Jerry Genochio.

Actor and prolific local playwright Forrest Attaway can swing from the light to the heavy.

He wrote the humorous and interactive Outta Beer and Outta Space in 2013 and the dark Columbus Day last fall. Who knows what to expect at The Grave, a show described as both a comedy and a drama — involving a dead man, his ex-wife and his girlfriend — starring Seth Macchi, Peggy Friesen and Amy Attaway.

At the Living Room.

“From lightly comic to disturbingly dark” goes the provided description of the short plays by local playwrights Margaret Shelby, Lindsay Adams and Victor Wishna that form the hourlong The Art Is a Lie (a title taken from the Pablo Picasso quote “Art is a lie that

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behind last year’s Fringe fave Red Death — turn their telescope on Carl Sagan and the Voyager Golden Records in Voyage to Voyager.

The multimedia play is staged, appropriately, at Union Station’s Gottlieb Planetarium, featuring Coleman Crenshaw as the beloved Kermit-voiced astronomer and original animation by local artist Billy Blob.

Also at Union Station, playwright Dave Hanson aims for rewatch value with Bird in the Hand, a crypto-conspiracy thriller tuned to the key of Alfred Hitchcock. Audience members can see the show in one of three spaces, with a different secret hidden in each telling.

To those losing track of appended acronyms (LGBT? Isn’t there a “Q” somewhere?), Whim Productions offers a tongue-in-cheek education in Alphabet Soup: Stories From Queer Voices. The bill comprises four short plays from talented LGBTQIA writers and plays on Union Station’s City Stage.

At the Buffalo Room (inside Westport Flea Market), see Ry Kincaid’s Presidential Briefs, a comic musical with an original song for each U.S. president. Attend for a Taft rap and to see how Kincaid briefs our briefest president (the tragic William Henry Harrison).

And finally, if you’re tired of sitting through The Vagina Monologues every year, veteran artists Heidi Van and Peregrine Honig have erected a fitting alternative. The pair’s The Penis Monologues (playing on the Unicorn’s Levin stage) looks at envy, intimacy and the sexual politics keeping the male member down.

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From left: Mooney does no ordinary Hamlet; Paige Runge and Jason Cavallone in The List; and Paisley in Bill Clinton Hercules.

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even intriguing shows from talented writers and performers make up the Invasion, Central Standard Theatre’s play festival. Relive — or rediscover — the politics of the Clinton administration when Bob Paisley reprises the one-man Bill Clinton Hercules, a mesmerizing and entertaining TED-like talk by the 42nd president (and potential First Gentleman). The politics of 16th-century England are the focus when a blustery Tudor king dominates in An Audience With Henry VIII. Gavin Robertson, who previously appeared in a memorable one-man Bond parody, solos in Crusoe: No Man Is an Island, in which he inhabits three characters, including a hit man and an Alzheimer’s patient. He costars as well in The Six Sided Man, based on cult novel The Dice Man, with Nicholas Collett, who also solos as the famed Horatio Nelson in Nelson, a Sailor’s Story. Inspired by the words of a certain Great War figure, Katharine Hurst stars in Mata Hari: Female Spy. And KC musicians Victor and Penny (Jeff Freling and Erin McGrane) talk and perform in the Paisley-directed theater piece Project X. See cstkc.com for fuller show descriptions, times and tickets.

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“People watching — that’s my favorite thing,” Henderson told me when I stopped by her shop one rainy afternoon. Through the storefront’s large window, she sees “orange, purple and green hair, and red high heels and black tights” — people living, working and dining along midtown’s restaurant row.

“It’s just awesome. They’re mostly younger than me — which I like because I don’t want to act my age.”

The dreary, drizzly weather that day meant business was running light, so Henderson had spent the morning in her on-site workshop, making rainbow-striped, gay-pride pendants out of polymer clay. Her new favorite medium, the clay provides vibrant hues and varied textures, creating eye-catching items that beg to be touched.

Color and curiosity are central to Henderson’s approach, which she has honed over 20 years of making jewelry. Admiring the shop’s purple display cases and black-and-whitestriped walls, I asked Henderson if she’d seen Beetlejuice.

“Exactly,” she said. “I was thinking Alice in Wonderland meets Beetlejuice.”

The whimsical décor also includes glittery skulls, an oversized top hat and a large sculp-

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ture of a tree. Henderson originally wanted to call the store Oh Wow, after the reaction she had hoped to elicit from all who entered.

“Then I looked up the domain,” she said, laughing. “‘Oh wow’ is taken — and you don’t wanna go there. I mean, you may want to go there, but it’s not what I had in mind.”

Instead, she settled on Shimmerwyck, which she defines as “a combination of sparkly things and wicked things.” If that sounds like a fairy-tale world, the effect isn’t far off.

“I had an older woman in here — I’d say she was in her 80s,” Henderson told me. “She said, ‘This is the absolute cutest shop I have ever been in my entire life.’ I almost cried.

She was an older woman, so she’s probably been around.”

The intriguing jewelry and accessories include bracelets woven from pop tabs, earrings made from bullets and guitar picks, and headbands with colorful devil horns stitched to the top. One artist includes descriptions of the supernatural benefits of each stone she uses. Another wraps seashells in wire to create one-of-a-kind necklaces.

“I carry a really wide variety,” Henderson said. “It’s contemporary, modern and minimalist. It’s weird, funky – and purple.”

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said, jewelry makers have been steadily “trickling in.” She welcomes new artists as long as the offerings remain diverse — she said she doesn’t want to have two people doing very similar beadwork, for example. She also aims to keep prices affordable, with the average item selling for about $30.

“I love going to art fairs at the Plaza and in Brookside, and I look at the jewelry and I just fall in love,” she said. “But I couldn’t afford one earring, let alone two. Everybody can walk in here and afford something.”

Everybody can also find something to eat walking down 39th Street. Just a few minutes from cuisine for every craving — from barbecue at Q39 to baklava at Sultan’s Bakery to shrimp tacos at Drunken Worm — Henderson had trouble choosing when I asked her which restaurant was her favorite.

“I want to try everything on the street,” she said. “I try to meet everyone on the street, too. Everyone here is so friendly. I picked such an amazing spot, and I’m so happy with it.”

The only drawback: Henderson said the strip has so many restaurants that people sometimes don’t head to the neighborhood to shop. But if you visit this neighborhood only for lunch, you’re missing out. Henderson is nearby and ready to add color to your day.

And she has probably already spotted you walking down the street.

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Viewers who demand stylistic or tonal consistency, for instance, are sure to notice that Schumer’s character-introducing voiceover comes on strong, returns when it’s not needed, and then disappears altogether.

Professionals in the medical and publishing communities seem unlikely to recognize or approve of the ways their vocations are conducted here. (NBA players benefit more without achieving greater verisimilitude.)

Judd Apatow fans and skeptics seem bound to quarrel equally with his direction of Trainwreck, which mutes certain notes that demand exclamation while, as usual, dragging out a few too lightly conceived sequences. At just over two hours, this is the comedy impresario’s shortest film in a while. After the lumbering This Is 40, that counts as a victory, at least until the DVD resurrects the inevitable outtakes and alternate scenes.

Trainwreck’s plot — promiscuous, lightly alcoholic young career woman finds unlikely love with nerd-hot doctor — is rote in its romantic-comedy paces, and its morality (any such funny-love story requires a moral compass to tamper with) is far more conventional than the low-judgment early gags suggest.

Those jokes (a couple of them dependent on that vanishing voice-over) are the movie’s surest, mostly because they hew most closely to the cheerfully ribald sensibility of Inside Amy Schumer, the Comedy Central show that has made Schumer a justifiably everywhereat-once cultural presence. But after a smart start, the movie’s machinery relies on reversing the romantic-comedy gender roles — hardly a revolutionary stroke. And from the director of The 40-Year-Old Virgin and a comic as relevant as Schumer, making the woman a sexually voracious slob and the man an understanding grown-up feels distressingly shopworn — even if the idea trades on Schumer’s established persona.

“I’m probably, like, 160 pounds right now, and I can catch a dick whenever I want,” she recently told a fancy audience while accepting a Trailblazer Award at Glamour U.K.’s Women of the Year ceremony. Almost nothing in Trainwreck is that offhand in its desire to shock — or that funny.

Yet, ultimately, these are quibbles. Fresh, Trainwreck is not. But it’s funny in ways that linger past what a little more shock or novelty might have delivered. Somehow, it makes

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One reason that Trainwreck is the year’s most satisfying comedy so far is its casting, which updates those bygone rules more than rewriting them. Whatever else Schumer is — an eyebrow archer perhaps more than a true fire starter — she’s a genuine actress (and a writer unselfish about sharing fine moments with good co-stars). And there’s genius in deploying former Saturday Night Live chameleon Bill Hader as the male lead. On the surface, he’s working the finicky-smart-guy end of a fairly familiar spectrum, but he also makes a believable character out of some funny lines and is more than just Schumer’s straight man.

Everyone else (two words: Tilda Swinton) appears to be having a pretty good time, too, and, as corny as it sounds, the results are infectious.

Corn is Trainwreck’s secret fuel. The thing works as few recent romantic comedies have because it tries so hard to work as more romantic comedies used to — for starters, by being open about trying at all. Its makers and its characters alike are effortful people, even when they’re being accused of that most modern deal breaker, conspicuous underachievement. The Woody Allen-style montage contains spoken reference to Woody Allen, played for light irony yet also lovingly rendered, and the movie as a whole feels openhearted, despite its characters’ indulging the occasional flight of meanness.

Then again, the new rule book is written mean. We’re past anyone being old-fashioned now — Cary Grant never said, or was told, “Fuck you,” and why should he have put up with that? The rest of us, far from Cary Grantness, learn early to forgive more. Which is why the romantic comedies we like best have always told us how we say we’re sorry now, not how we say I love you.

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That was my choice, though, and if there’s one thing Ant-Man tells you over and over that it’s about, it’s choices (see also: second chances, redemption). Which makes it less vital Avengers tributary and more amusing Avengers After-School Special. Speaking of PSAs: The Marvel-minded have to stay all the way through every last CGI credit (hey, those folks work hard, so, you know, cool) to get to the Easter egg. Wouldn’t you know, it’s homework, and it’s Captain America. — S.W.

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’ve experienced and tasted a number of things at Erik Borger’s Il Lazzarone pizzeria since it opened in the River Market. I’ve eaten some remarkable wood-fired pizza (and been served one that was all but inedible). I’ve been waited on by a couple of excellent servers (as well as by two who were memorably disappointing). I’ve marveled at the impressively appointed bar (and been baffled by a bartender who somehow lacked even a rudimentary understanding of hospitality).

About the only thing I haven’t seen in the place is an actual lazzarone. Probably because, however you define that Italian word — a lazy e r Mo bum, a smirking playboy, a lowdown scoundrel — a true lazzarone probably t a e in Onl .com couldn’t afford to run up pitch a check here. Borger’s pizzeria does for KC’s relatively blue-collar pizza market what Miuccia Prada did for handbags. The rustic, delicate pies are constructed from superb ingredients, and the prices reflect both that overhead and Borger’s not inconsiderable ambition.

The pretty, lightly scorched pizze at Il Lazzarone mean, you see, to be officially sanctioned. True Neapolitan pizza, the serving staff assures you, must hew to the rigid guidelines of the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana. Borger’s original Il Lazzarone, in St. Joseph, was authenticated by the American

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The Margherita D.O.C., Lazio and Crepa pizzas bring Naples to the River Market. delegation of that group; he’s waiting for this second of his restaurants to gain the same endorsement.

His more immediate concern, however, should be earning the less formal seal of approval from customers, some of whom have steadily told me since the restaurant opened that Il Lazzarone’s lackadaisical service and uneven food have left them reluctant to return. On some of my own visits, I’ve seen what they mean.

To give general manager Josh Young and his staff the benefit of the doubt: Il Lazzarone opened on great gusts of hype (some of it from me, given that I was and remain a fan of the St. Joseph location). But enough time has elapsed to expect Borger and Young to give their diners a consistent experience — or a better one, anyway, than a couple of the ones I’ve had here.

I’m thinking of the Saturday that I stopped by around 11 p.m. The dining room was empty, so I headed back to the bar, with its long, inviting countertop and visually appealing array of well-chosen spirits and liqueurs. A few patrons were enduring sexually explicit hip-hop that had been cranked up to something like concert volume (chaser music — high-volume sounds that encourage visitors to pay their bills and get out). A friend and I sat at the bar, waiting

Il Lazzarone Charcuterie...................................................$16 Supremo pizza..............................................$16 Pesto pizza....................................................$16 Crepa pizza....................................................$16 Margherita D.O.C. ........................................$18 to be acknowledged, but gave up after a few minutes. The bartender followed us out to the dining room, which was churchlike by comparison.

“Sorry about that,” he said, “but the Blackhawks just won the game, and everyone in the bar is so excited.”

Everyone? The roomful of hockey fans consisted of three people at the bar, all looking at their cellphones, and a group of three women at one table. The bartender walked back to what seemed to be his personal party, and my companion and I shared a meal in the dining room. No other customers came in.

A few weeks later, also after 11 p.m., I had a much more congenial experience dining at the bar (where 1950s jazz was playing at a very mellow level), but I was one of three people sitting there — the other two patrons were Il Lazzarone employees — and the only one eating. It was a Sunday night, when the restaurant closes at midnight, allowing restaurant-industry people to stop in for a late-night drink and a pizza, ahead of what for many of them is a day off.

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There’s much more vitality in both the bar and the dining room during the more familiar dinner hours, 6-10 p.m., when there is an honest sense of excitement about the place. And Il Lazzarone can be exciting, when its 20 pizza choices, three salads and decent appetizers are made right and served professionally.

The basic combinations are, almost without exception, the most satisfying. The non-D.O.C. Margherita is just San Marzano tomatoes, extra-virgin olive oil, basil, mozzarella and sea salt, but it’s intensely flavorful and filling. Among the more theatrical offerings, the Crepa — with mozzarella, olive oil, applewoodsmoked bacon, garlic, basil, sea salt and a balsamic glaze — is a delicious mix of sweet, smoky and salty. And the Supremo — topped generously with tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil, sea salt, pepperoni, sausage, red onion, garlic, basil and Brussels sprouts — is visually artful and a memorable mélange of tastes and textures.

Visual appeal was all that the pesto pizza I tried had going for it. The house-made pesto — accompanied on the pie by cherry tomatoes, parmigiano-reggiano, sausage, olive oil and sea salt — was ridiculously salty the evening I sampled it. (Like a couple of other pies that I tried here on different visits, this one was more blackened in places than charred, a difference of mere seconds in the oven that yields a distractingly burnt taste.) I admired its look but gave up after a few bites.

I had looked forward to trying the signature Margherita D.O.C., with its fragrant basil complementing the mozzarella di bufala (the latter being key to its D.O.C. status). But most of the Il Lazzarone pies I’d ordered so far had been comically stingy with the fresh herb, and this was the most egregious case yet: two lonely leaves, banished far off-center.

Much better was the Lazio pie, one of the

menu’s 10 white pizzas. It’s divinely unfussy — mozzarella, grape tomatoes, olive oil, sea salt and garlic (and, nominally, basil, though again assigned only as a spartan accent) — and thoroughly rewarding in its simplicity. It’s even good the next morning, chilled from the refrigerator.

The salad choices are not particularly memorable here — I’m not sure that the kale, apple, walnut and feta combination I ordered was even served with the promised olive oil.

A caprese salad, listed among the five appetizers, was tasty enough but visually a bomb. A charcuterie plate, on the other hand, was nice to look at but indistinct in its flavors.

Like the St. Joseph location, the River Market Il Lazzarone has a no-frills, industrial aesthetic: concrete floors, exposed brick walls, tables made of rough-hewn planks and rebar.

The atmosphere is urban and cheerily noisy when the room is populated, and watching the Naples-manufactured Acunto Mario Forni oven — the exhibition kitchen’s centerpiece — is like peeking into a scene from Dante, the flame within dancing hypnotically.

Unlike the St. Joseph Il Lazzarone, though, this one seems to have less Erik Borger. The convivial chef-owner lives with his wife and children in St. Joseph and has seemed to me less visible here the more recently I’ve visited.

When an ambitious restaurateur isn’t able to be as hands-on as he needs to be, the quality control — for both food and service — is going to suffer. And at Il Lazzarone, it has. But not insurmountably.

Borger should be able to iron out his newer place’s kinks, flubs and irritations with relative swiftness if he pays attention. The potential here remains great. The room is hugely appealing, and when the pizzas are made to Borger’s standards, they’re as good as Neapolitan pizza gets. The trick to this Il Lazzarone earning respect will be for Borger to raise his staff’s standards and then make sure that those — and his food’s — are met.

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hipotle bills its touring Cultivate event — from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Saturday, July 18, in Penn Valley Park (Pershing Road and Main Street) — as a “food, ideas and music festival.” So it is: Admission is free, with Rye doling out samples, Portugal the Man headlining a six-act entertainment bill, and Boulevard beer flowing. And the ideas? Well, for one, the Denver-based burrito chain is coming to remind everyone of its factoryfarm-eschewing, GMO-shedding ways.

For another, Cultivate offers a preview of its Pizzeria Locale offshoot, the first local outpost of which opens July 22 in Waldo.

(It means to do for Neapolitan pies what Chipotle did for burritos, give or take the latter’s assaultive size.) And Chipotle’s other sister concept, ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, is also offering its rice bowls.

As traveling infomercials go, then, this one has its heart and its price tags ($6 for beer, wine and the Chipotle-branded food) more or less in the right place.

Smartly, the festival’s most philosophical-minded elements have the benefit of air conditioning. Several short films, which Cultivate’s organizers say “speak directly to the journey toward better food and a healthier environment,” play on a loop in a climate-controlled cinema tent. There also are exhibitions demonstrating how “responsibly raised” animals have it better than their factory-birthed brethren and how genetically modified organisms are used in food,

as well as a children’s area and a “Guac From Scratch” station. It’s a little bit state fair and a little bit Tomorrowland.

In the Tabasco-sponsored chefs’ tent, the hourly demonstrations kick off at 11:30 a.m. with Colby Garrelts, the James Beard Award-winning chef and co-owner of Bluestem and Rye. After that, the creators of Pizzeria Locale, Bobby Stuckey and Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson, take the stage, followed by Amanda Freitag, chefowner of New York City’s Empire Diner. Chef,

restaurateur and TV personality Graham Elliot goes on at 3:45 p.m., and Austin-based chef Tim Love (owner of Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, Woodshed Smokehouse, Love Shack and Queenie’s Steakhouse) caps off the day at 5:15 p.m.

Samples from Rye will be available in the Artisans’ Hall tent, as well as items from the Roasterie, Shatto Creamery, Poppy’s Ice Cream Truck and Little Freshie. In the Tasting Hall tent: samples from Somerset Ridge winery and from regional breweries

Friday, July 17 Empyrean tasting, at Gomer’s (3838 Broadway), 4–7 p.m.

Monday, July 20 Coop Ale Works beer school, with founder J.D. Merryweather and featuring Blackberry Saison, Oktoberfest, F5 IPA, Alpha Hive Double IPA and DNR Belgian Strong Ale, at Barley's Brewhaus (11924 W. 119th St., Overland Park), $15, 6 p.m.

Woodchuck tasting, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway), 4–6 p.m.

Thursday, July 16 Free State tap takeover, with Homestand Helles, Cloud Hopper Imperial IPA, Garden Party, and Cherry Bomb lager, at Barley's Brewhaus (16649 Midland Dr., Shawnee), 4:30 p.m. Cherry Bomb is exclusive to Barley’s Midland and the Free State taproom.

Amager/Jester King Danish Metal, at Flying

Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Beer and food pairing with free samples, at Gordon Biersch (11652 Ash, Leawood, 5–8 p.m.

Wheat beer tasting with Spiegelau glass, at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City), $15, 6–7 p.m.

Torn Label tap takeover, with KC P’Ryed,

Omega Saison, Café Dubbel and Alpha Pale, upstairs at the Burger Stand at Casbah (803 Massachusetts, Lawrence), 6 p.m. Also, burger pairings, raff les and giveaways.

saTurday, July 18 Belgian Independence Day, with 6-ounce pours of 4 Hands Hugo, Boulevard SaisonBrett 2014, Cantillon Kriek, Chimay Dorée, De Ranke XX Bitter, Foret organic saison, Goose Island the Ogden, La Trappe Puur, McCoy’s Belgian Wit, Mikkeller Spontanapricot, New Belgium La Folie, Struise Pannepot, and Stella Artois, at the Foundry (424 Westport Rd.), noon–close.

Free State tasting, at Village West Discount Liquor (11010 Parallel Pkwy., KCK), 4:30– 6:30 p.m.

Boulevard Sporting Saison release, at the Sporting KC match vs. Montreal Impact, at Sporting Park (1 Sporting Way, KCK), 7:30 p.m.

sunday, July 19 Beer social with Foos, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), noon.

Tuesday, July 21

Belgian Independence Day celebration ,

at Westport Ale House (4128 Broadway), 5:30 p.m. Meet Boulevard brewmaster Steven Pauwels and find T-shirts, games, a Flemish lesson, and food pairings with four Duvel beers. Also, an 8 p.m. raffle drawing for a chance to win gift cards, Boulevard gear and a trip for two to Brewery Ommegang in Cooperstown, New York.

Belgian Independence Day, with trivia, tappings and swag. at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7:30 p.m.

River North beer dinner, at Pig & Finch (11570 Ash, Leawood), 7 p.m.

Perennial 2015 Savant Beersel tapping , at

Betty Who and Max Frost play Cultivate. including KC Bier Co., Free State, Torn Label, Cinder Block and Mother’s.

Meanwhile, the music starts a little after noon, with Max Frost, Betty Who, Smallpools, St. Lucia and Portugal the Man each playing sets (and DJ Christopher Golub filling up the downtime). For times and details, see chipotlecultivate.com.

E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com Free State tasting, at Rimann Liquors (3917 Prairie Ln., Prairie Village), 4:30–6:30 p.m.

Torn Label beer school, at Burg & Barrel (7042 W. 76th St., Overland Park).

Wednesday, July 22 Delirium snifter glass night, with Tremens, Red and Deliria, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

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

Beer-and-cheese pairings , at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City), $15, 6–7 p.m.

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Founders KBS takeover, at Fox & Hound (10428 Metcalf, Overland Park), 6 p.m.

Belgian IPA tapping, at Gordon Biersch (100 E. 14th St.), 4:30–7:30 p.m.

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N ata l ie G a l l a Ghe r about it or doubted ourselves, even though we’ve never really done anything substantial.”

Gibson is referring to the band’s lack of online material: just two EPs on a Bandcamp page, the more recent from October 2013. But a 7-inch EP titled Bel-Ray Flats is on the way, due on High Dive Records as soon as the vinyl is in hand. And the group has a full-length album in the process of recording that they hope to have out next year.

“It really takes us a long time,” Gibson says of recording and releasing music, “but we definitely need a bigger catalog of music, so that people can find us.”

A few more minutes at this table, and I might not be able to find these two. The fog machine has continued to run, and Gibson is dressed in black. Nicholas, his long hair loose around his face, the strands disappearing into his animal-print button-up, is camouflaged more by his conspicuous quiet; he has let Gibson answer most of my questions. But once you discover Organized Crimes, their music doesn’t let you go easily.

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n an e-mail a few days before our interview, Alec Nicholas explained that his band, Organized Crimes, didn’t make a habit of practicing. All the same, he wrote, I was welcome to join him and his bandmate at the Strawberry Hill apartment they share.

My presence would give them a good excuse, Nicholas said, to rehearse a few songs.

When I arrive, the apartment — a spacious residence on the top floor of a two-story building — is dark, the air filled with a thick fog.

There’s a large hall lined with closed doors, and Nicholas leads me through one of them, where Cortland Gibson is setting up the band’s equipment. He’s crouched behind a mobile station tricked out with various loop pedals, drum machines, knobs, electronic pads and wires. Nicholas directs me to a folding chair before assisting Gibson; both men use the flashlights on their iPhones to navigate.

Fifteen minutes later: music. Gibson’s hands fly over his immense makeshift soundboard as his body oscillates to the synth sounds shaking out of the nearby speakers.

He’s a joyful Dr. Frankenstein at the operating table. Nicholas stands off to the side, microphone in hand, singing in a high voice heavily distorted by effects. Behind them, over a white sheet, a projector blends psychedelic images and video clips.

Over four songs, Nicholas and Gibson trade lead-vocal duties. Nicholas is on drums for two, setting up “Game Over Song” with a glittering, cymbal-intensive introduction as laserlike twangs ricochet off the walls. On “Bel-Ray Flats,” he demolishes a ZZ Top-worthy guitar riff while Gibson takes over on drums, both sticks in one hell-raising hand. At one point, during a song that they haven’t yet titled, both band members are reaching over each other, adjusting their loops and turning dials.

It seems like an elaborate game of Twister, yet it’s a riveting sonic event. These men are doing just fine without a regular practice schedule.

“People always tell us, like, ‘You just need more people,” Gibson tells me later. He and Nicholas sit across from me at their kitchen table. Last year, Gibson adds, their group was a visually minded six-piece. “When we shot all those videos [they’re on the band’s YouTube page], they [the other members] lost interest in sticking around because it took us so long to do. But that kind of thing is important for us. We knew from the get-go that we wanted our shows to be something more than just a show. We wanted it to be an experience.”

So, after three years with six members, Organized Crimes cut the gang in half. And

Two are enough: Nicholas (left) and Gibson then, a few months ago, Sam Sartorius parted with Nicholas and Gibson. That further reduction of manpower hasn’t fazed the band — “Too much creative influence is cancer,” Gibson says — though they admit that the songs they play were conceived with several more hands in mind.

But Organized Crimes was probably always destined to be a duo. Nicholas and Gibson have been friends for the last 12 or so years, and they’ve played music together in some capacity for almost as long. They both grew up in the small town of Berlin, Delaware. Their move to Kansas City, Gibson says, came from a combination of making friends online — “This was around the time MySpace was popular” — and wanting to get out of their home state.

Now, Gibson, 25, and Nicholas, 23, feel that their friendship is strong enough to withstand anything that happens to their band.

“It’s kind of like we’re married sometimes,” Nicholas says, “because we’ve lived together for a very long time and we’ve invested so much money together, so we own so many things together.”

Gibson agrees: “We’ve put in so much time and money. We’re nowhere near thinking about stopping. We’ve never thought twice

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J a z z B e at 12th Street Jump, at thE Broadway Kansas City

Every month on 12th Street Jump — the jazz variety show recorded live at the Broadway Kansas City (formerly the Broadway Jazz Club) and broadcast over 100 NPR stations — jazz masters honor a legend with music, while hosts keep the hour flowing with wit. Wednesday, Charlie Christian is the focus of the program. Christian, who died in 1941, brought the electric guitar to jazz with Benny Goodman’s sextet. After hours, he’d jam with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, heralding the music to be known as bebop. Guitarist Rod Fleeman, who has traveled the world with singer Karrin Allyson, fills Christian’s chair.

Joining him are pianist Joe Cartwright, bassist Tyrone Clark, drummer Michael Warren, and singers David Basse and Eboni Fondren.

— Larry Kopitnik 12th Street Jump, 7–9 p.m. Wednesday, July 22, at the Broadway Kansas City (3601 Broadway, 816-298-6316), free admission.

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he difference between Dominique Hall’s debut album, last year’s ATOMS, and this April’s EP, Free Food, is hard to find at first. Hall, who performs as Dom Chronicles, still coats his raps in a fine layer of hazy beats, a sonic parallel to lyrics that often draw inspiration from weed and women.

But in nearly every track on Free Food, Hall seems determined to flesh out his interests.

My energy and my chi is a true reflection of me, Hall announces over shimmering synths on “Goku.” Ahead of Hall’s RecordBar show Saturday night, I chatted with the 25-year-old about his next project and what he really wants to say.

The Pitch: You’ve mentioned working on new material since Free Food came out. What can you tell me about that?

Hall: Right now, I’m working on an album called Reality Makers, which will come out at top of the year in 2016. It’s going to be all original production, no samples — I’m working on building my own production credits. I want to make something that’s all the way me, which is also where the storyline [for Reality Makers] comes in. Basically, it’s a story about a guy who’s making his way through his city, and he’s trying to come up as an artist — and that’s me.

It sounds autobiographical. How much of your songwriting is invented and how much of it is real?

Everything I write relates to a purely personal experience, whether it’s about girls I’m talking to or things that I’m doing or things I might have or things I’m trying to achieve — those are all real things. But I also have a spiritual side that most people really don’t get to 24

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Dom Chronicles With Farout, ToG’s, Tone Bruh, Smokey Bare and Tre Da Lyric Saturday, July 18, at RecordBar see, and part of it is explaining that, explaining what I really believe and my personal morals.

I think some people get the wrong idea about me because they think my music is all about weed or money and stuff like that, and they might not pick up those little lines that I put in my songs that show my spiritual side.

With this next album, that’s what I want to do. I want to express myself more, in a real and true way, because I hold back a lot.

You’ve been on the local label Indyground for just over a year. How has that affected your career?

Steddy P [rapper and label founder] gives me a lot of creative freedom, and it’s really helped shape me as an artist as well as an adult.

I don’t have funding — I do everything myself and I pay for everything myself. So Steddy P has helped me create budgets and understand the financials of the business, to where I’m the one in charge of the money I get back and the money I spend. So really, it’s all on me.

In some ways, Indyground is like a collective. I run things by them [the other artists on the roster], and we’ve all got creative input and we all share our music with each other before it’s out. I think it’s good to have multiple opinions because if I just went with what I thought all the time, my career wouldn’t be where it’s at. And I’m still learning more about that to this

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Hall: the perks of independence day. I’ve only been on the label for a year, and I feel like there are even more resources now.

On the other hand, being on a label — no matter how big or how small — raises expectations a bit. What are some of the challenges you’ve faced since signing?

There’s plenty of things — really, the main thing for me is remembering it all. Before I got with Indyground, I wasn’t very organized with a calendar. I just kind of did things. Indyground just makes me more marketable, but the business side of it can get complicated. There’s always setbacks. Sometimes life just gets in the way, and that’s why I feel like sometimes artists stop trying as hard because they feel like their lives aren’t together.

Another big thing is just staying disciplined.

I have to save a lot of money because when I go on tour, I can’t work. I’m surviving solely off the music that I play on the road and the money I get from merch, and that goes back into the business, too. We’re not staying at hotels on the road. We’re staying at people’s houses, and they hook us up with food.

And often, we’ll trade shows with artists and we’ll host people here in KC when they’re on tour. When we go there, they got us, and when they come here, we got them. I guess you could view that as a struggle, but I see it more as a phase than anything else. There are definitely struggles, but there’s no progression without them.

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ile under “scary as fuck.” That’s one way to classify Bummer’s newest EP, Spank, and it’s pretty accurate. If the Olathe trio’s goal was to prove just how mercilessly loud and savage it could be, then Spank chalks up the chilling victory over just six songs.

(Two of those — album opener “Estocada” and “Infinite Witches” — are reprised from its fall 2013 EP, Milk.)

“Estocada” sets the tone for Spank’s subsequent 18 minutes with a bone-rattling bass line and lead singer Matt Perrin’s harsh shout. “Bad News” gives you only a few seconds to catch your breath before the guitar riffs snarl into math-rock territory, and “Dude Baby” buries its rancorous chorus in an earthquake of sludge and noise.

These aren’t drawbacks. Inside all this seemingly unfiltered rage, Bummer demonstrates remarkable discipline. Drummer Sam Hutchinson builds a steady racket on “Double Stairway to Heaven,” nailing down the track even as Perrin’s tetchy chords threaten to rip out the foundation. Bassist Mike Gustafson keeps the closer “Dorm Water” from f lying off the rails with a gloomy, menacing pulse. If the calculated fury on Spank doesn’t terrify you, you’re not playing it loudly enough.

— N.G. Bummer EP release shows: Thursday, July 16, at RecordBar; Saturday, July 18, at Love Garden Sounds, in Lawrence.

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Music Forecast Jeff Black, Kevin Gordon

Saint Motel

Chipotle Cultivate Festival

Van Halen

Jeff Black has spent more than 25 years in Nashville, but that doesn’t mean the Kansas City native has forgotten his roots. Friday, the singer-songwriter returns for an intimate show at Knuckleheads’ Gospel Lounge. Black is a storyteller in the tradition of Pete Seeger, and his talents seem to sharpen with each release. Case in point: last year’s Folklore. On that album, Black’s voice is both campfirefriendly and solemn. Opener Kevin Gordon treads a bit more heavily in country territory, but he’s just as skilled an artist.

Friday, July 17, Gospel Lounge at Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

JUNIOR’S PATIO PARTY EVERY SUNDAY LIVE BAND 9PM - MIDNIGHT LIVE DJ MIDNIGHT TO CLOSE DRINK SPECIALS ALL NIGHT!

THU JULY 16TH

MONEY FOR NOTHIN’ SUN JULY 19TH

MITCH AND KYLE WED JULY 22ND

Since Cold War Kids’ 2006 debut, Robbers & Cowards, only Nathan Willett (lead singer and guitarist) and Matt Maust (bassist) remain. On the band’s latest album, Hold My Home, these two demonstrate an interest in maintaining the strong-willed, arena-ready rock that catapulted them to stardom. Sure enough, Willett and Maust can still hold down their hooks, but on the whole, the album feels a little insincere. Though their content may be lacking, Cold War Kids de-

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Eddie Van Halen’s recent interview with Billboard, in which he claimed that David Lee Roth “does not want to be [his] friend,” does not inspire confidence in the longevity of Van Halen’s summer tour. No dates have been canceled following Eddie’s harsh words — likely because after four-plus decades with Van Halen, Roth has learned to shake it off. In any case, fans of the legendary rock band can watch the two fake it or duke it out Wednesday at Cricket Wireless Amphitheatre.

Wednesday, July 22, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-825-3400)

haley young

Fall Out Boy, Wiz Khalifa

Portugal the Man, at Chipotle Cultivate Festival liver solid shows, as the generally enthusiastic reviews for the band’s latest tour reflect.

Chances are, you’ll find something to jive to Sunday at Crossroads KC. Sunday, July 19, Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 E. 18th St., 785-749-3434)

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Perhaps the biggest surprise of Fall Out Boy’s 2013 comeback, Save Rock and Roll, was the fresh, relevant feel that it gave to the decadeold band. That feeling didn’t dissipate on this year’s spastic American Beauty/American Psycho, either. Perhaps in an effort to expand its fanbase, Fall Out Boy has hooked up with rapper Wiz Khalifa for a few dates this summer. Wiz is promoting his forthcoming album, Rolling Papers 2: The Weed Album. Up-andcoming rapper Hoodie Allen opens the show.

Tuesday, July 21, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater (633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-825-3400)

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Free Shit

Hook Heaven

Twang With Me

Pray to the Weather Gods

Ready to Rock

Folk On

Yes, I Know Guac Is Extra

Worth the Weeknight

Limited Seating

The Show Must Go On

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It takes little effort to get into the music of Saint Motel. The Los Angeles four-piece has unlocked that most holy of combinations: danceable grooves; party hooks; and sexy, sing-along choruses. The band’s latest release, last year’s My Type EP, checked off all those boxes and wrote in a few new ones.

Saint Motel pulses through speakers and delivers hand-wrapped packages of California sunshine, but they’re not without depth, either. Chicago rock band Empires opens.

Tuesday, July 21, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Since the summer of 2011, Chipotle Cultivate Festival has been going from city to city, but this is the first year that the food-and-music event has staked its flag in Kansas City. In addition to some tasty eats and libations — provided by Chipotle and a few local vendors — Saturday’s fest offers food exhibitions and chef demos. That’s all spliced between sets from a lineup including headliner Portugal the Man. Also on deck: electro-pop act St. Lucia, power-pop foursome Smallpools (think Passion Pit on a sugar high), the badass Betty Who, Austin producer-songwriter Max Frost, and resident Chipotle DJ Christopher Golub. Bonus: This fest is free.

Go get your guac on.

Saturday, July 18, Penn Valley Park (Pershing Road and Main Street, chipotlecultivate.com)

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TheaTer

Dates and times vary.

Comedy

Annie Warbucks | July 17-19 and July 22-25,

ay thursd

Harpoon’s Good Time | 6-9 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946

Theatre in the Park, 7710 Renner, Shawnee, theatreinthepark.org

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Massachusetts, Lawrence

eddie Ifft | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W.

The Invasion International Theatre Festival, with seven one-act, single-performer plays

f Lair o ers y la t r a

119th St., Overland Park

damon Wayans | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

from local and U.K.-based artists, through July 26, 6-10 p.m. Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, cstkc.com

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

The Kansas City Fringe Festival | Through

FIlm

July 26, multiple venues, kcfringe.org

National Theatre live: The Audience | 2 & 7 p.m.

Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania musIC

Shrek: The Musical | White Theatre at the Jewish Community Center, 5801 W. 115th St., Overland Park, thejkc.org

max Berry | 7 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W.

A Year with Frog and Toad | The Coterie Theatre,

Brother Bagman, Chuck Burns & Tyron, Brenda Forrest & the Bodhi Band | Davey’s

MUSeUM exhibiTS & evenTS

135th St., Overland Park

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

A Centenary of Australian War Art | National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

Bummer, Coward, sharp Weapons | 9:30 p.m.

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Brody Buster | 7 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. Filthy still, Arthur and the Neanderthals |

8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Gnarly davidson, Joy, Voyager | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Kathleen Holeman | 7 p.m. The Broadway Kansas

City, 3601 Broadway

In solace, Pros and Cons, Vitali, oko Tygra |

6 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

The legendary shack shakers, Pine Hill Haints | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

Friday | 7.17 |

eddie Ifft | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park damon Wayans | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

Fiery stick open | 5-11 p.m. Liberty Memorial, 100

CommuNITy eVeNTs

W. 26th St.

Friday Fireworks | 9:30 p.m. Worlds of Fun, East

Loop I-435

NIGHTlIFe

lotus laFleur’s open sketch night | 7 p.m. Uptown

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Chad Abernathy | 5 p.m. Hotel Phillips, 106 W 12th St.

silento, T-Wayne, lil Ronnie | 8 p.m. Crossroads

Geeks Who drink | 8 p.m. Tapcade, 1701 McGee

off the Wall film series: Labyrinth | 8:45 p.m.

Norman dexter’s Comedy showcase | 10 p.m.

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

snuff dope | 9 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., americanjazz museum.org

musIC

Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

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

Take Five Tour | 6 p.m. Tuesday, American

FIlm

Comedy

Psycroptic, Arkaik, ovid’s Withering, the Kennedy Veil, A Plague in Faith, sedlec ossuary | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

Rd., unionstation.org

Third Thursday at the Nelson: Transformation, with live music from Run With It and Dan Matic, a pop-up tattoo parlor, and Mobile Magic and the Parlor Show | 6-9 p.m., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

matt Hopper, Jacob Teichroew Quartet | 6 p.m.

Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Gridiron Glory: the Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing

Crosseyed Cat and Brandon Hudspeth | 8 p.m.

Martin City Brewing Co., 500 E 135th St.

eboni Fondren Quartet | 8:30 p.m. The Broadway Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

Freddie Gibbs, staxx with dJ Goku, Jooby Truth, Josh sallee, loogey, 1 Bounce, Gee Watts |

7:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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

david Hasselhoff on Acid, Houdini light machine, After Nations | 9 p.m. The Riot Room,

Holy White Hounds | 10 p.m. Davey’s Uptown

4048 Broadway

Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

everette deVan & the Wild men of KC, lady d. | 5:30 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St.,

The James Isaac Group | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee +

Overland Park

shawn James and the shapeshifters, Cowgirl’s Train set | 7:30 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino,

Filthy 13 | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Filthy still, Arthur & the Neanderthals | 6 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Amanda Fish and friends, lost and Found |

8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

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

1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

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Soul Preservers with Brian Danker | 9 p.m. The

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Other Colors, Rev Gusto, CS Luxem | 10 p.m. Replay

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Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Randy Rogers Band, Stoney LaRue, Wade Bowen | 6 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

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Comedy City in Our City | 8 p.m. The Exchange Event Space, 113 W. Lexington Ave., Independence

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The Schwag | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

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

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

Damon Wayans | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Shiner, the String & Return | 9 p.m. RecordBar,

1020 Westport Rd.

SPORTS & ReC

Sister Mary Rotten Crotch, C-Rex, Wick & the Tricks | 8 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

The insane inflatable 5k | 8:45 a.m., $59-$100, Kansas Speedway, 400 Speedway Blvd., KCK, insaneinflatable5k.com

Starhaven Rounders | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 West-

port Rd.

Steamboat Bandits | 9 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

That Dragon, Astronaut Merit Badge | The Brick,

Mutt Strutt, a 2-mile walk/jog on the Trolley Trail, Van halen, the Kenny Wayne Shepherd Band | 6:30 p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St.,

Bonner Springs

Project Walk-KC Sand Volleyball Tournament,

1727 McGee

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Train, the Fray, Matt Nathanson | 7 p.m. Starlight

Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

DJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

Trapt, Sons of Texas | 6 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Mer-

DJ Proof | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts,

riam Dr., Merriam

benefiting the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City | 8 a.m. City Gym, 7416 Wornall

Lawrence

MOSH PIT PRESENTS:

DJs Vinyl Richie and K-Fan | 11:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Mike Scott’s Vinyl Resurrection | 10 p.m. Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

benefiting Project Walk-Kansas City, a spinal-cord injury recovery center | 4-10:30 p.m., $210 per team, Volleyball Beach, 13105 Holmes, projectwalk-kansascity.org

Putting the Boots to ALS 5k | 8 a.m.-noon, Rockhurst High School, 9301 State Line Rd., project5forals.org

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farmers markets Briarcliff | 3-6 p.m. Thursday, Briarcliff Village,

niles Garden | 4-6 p.m. Monday, Clymer Center,

Brookside | 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Border Star

northeast | 4-7 p.m. Thursday, 3001 Indepen-

City Market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-

north Kansas City | 7 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednes-

4175 N. Mulberry Dr.

Montessori, 6321 Wornall

3 p.m. Sunday, 20 E. Fifth St.

Cottin’s Hardware Store | 4-6:30 p.m. Thursday, 1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence

friday night Market | 4-9 p.m. The BadSeed,

1909 McGee

Gladstone | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-6 p.m.

Wednesday, Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect, Gladstone

Ivanhoe | 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nutter Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center, 3700 Woodland

KCK | 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Keeler Women’s Center, 2220 Central, KCK

KC organics and natural Market | 8 a.m.-

13th St. and Highland

dence Ave.

day, Caboose Park, southeast corner of Armour and Howell

107th Street | 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Grand Court Retirement Center, 501 W. 107th St.

overland Park | 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,

7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, between 79th and 80th streets, west of Metcalf

Parkville | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Wednesday, English Landing Park, First St. and Main

Raytown | 2-7 p.m. Thursday, 1-8 p.m. Saturday, 6210 Raytown Rd., Raytown

lawrence | 7-11 a.m. Saturday, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, 824 New Hampshire

St. luke’s | 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Thursday, St. Luke’s Hospital, 4401 Wornall Rd.

lee’s Summit | 7 a.m. Saturday and Wednesday,

Shawnee | 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Shawnee City

corner of Second and Douglas, Lee’s Summit

Hall, 11110 Johnson Dr.

liberty | 7 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Feldmans Farm

troostwood youth Garden & Market |

3-8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 1-6 p.m.

Wednesday, 5142 Paseo

Wednesday, Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr., Merriam

Waldo | 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Habitat for Humanity

Mission | 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Mission Farm

Zona Rosa | 5-8 p.m. Thursday, Zona Rosa, 8640

and Flower Market, 5613 Johnson Dr.

Sporting KC vs. Montreal Impact | 7:30 p.m. Sport-

ing Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK

ReStore, 303 W. 79th St,

N. Dixson Ave.

Mo-Kan Cat Club Cat Show, with cat training demos, Ask the Vet sessions and vendors | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. KCI Expo Center, 11728 N. Ambassador Dr., mokancatclub.org fIlM

Greater Kansas City | 2 p.m., $10, Maloney’s Sports Bar and Grill, 7201 W 79th St., Overland Park

Faberge: A Life of Its Own | 1 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas,

CoMMunIty eventS

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Bikers for Boobies KC Summer Ride | 10 a.m.,

Chipotle Cultivate festival, with chefs Tim Love,

$30/$50, Prairiefire, 5701 W. 135th St., Overland Park, bikersforboobieskc.org

Community Dance night, benefiting City in Motion | 7-9 p.m. City in Motion School of Dance, 3925 Main

the Great American family Campout | 2 p.m. Shawnee Mission Park, 7710 Renner Rd., Shawnee, jcprd.com

WWe Raw | 6:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

Megan Birdsall | 5 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park the Bon ton Soul Accordion Band | 4 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

the lucky Graves, Bone Spur, Be/non, benefiting Mosh Pit | Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Mars light, Kill vargas, Hyperbor | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Bottle Breakers, Black luck, the Protesters |

9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Dom Chronicles, farout, toGs, tone Bruh, Smokey Bare, tre Da lyric | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Platinum Rock legends, the Clique | 8 p.m.

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

Drew Six | 10 p.m. Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-

land Park

A.J. Gaither, Dusty Rust, them Pickless fools, Jim Winters and fred | 8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112

CoMMunIty BenefItS

Dunk tank fundraiser, benefiting Susan G. Komen

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Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St.

Rosedale | 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, 4020 Rainbow Blvd., KCK

Merriam | 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, 4-7 p.m.

7.20 gs

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12:30 p.m. Saturday, Minor Park, Holmes at Red Bridge Road

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Kelley Gant | 8 p.m. Hotel Phillips, 106 W 12th St. Global Dance festival, with Flosstradamus, Seven Lions, Peking Duk, Wax Motif, Moody J | 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main Molly Hammer | 9 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. Bryan Hicks Quartet | 8:30 p.m. The Broadway

Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

the Sluts, nicholas St. James, Approach | 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Keith Sweat, Blackstreet, SWv, troop | 7 p.m.

Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

Swell featuring Roy Davis Jr., Jason Kidd, Michael Ryan | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway the temptations | 8 p.m. Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr.

3 Son Green, luna Jamboree | 9 p.m. Californos,

4124 Pennsylvania

Graham Elliot and Amanda Freitag, and music by Portugal the Man, St. Lucia, Smallpools, Betty Who, and Max Frost | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Penn Valley Park, Pershing Rd. and Main

In the Shadows, We Are Gigantic, Boreal Hills, Wasted effort, A Blacksmith’s Daughter, A Blanket Statement, Dogwood | 6 p.m. Jackpot Music

Walter trout, Javier Mendoza Band | 7:30 p.m.

MuSIC

I Prevail, Dangerkids, fit for Rivals, Dayseeker, the Animal in Me | 6 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Mas-

8:30p.m.TakeFiveCoffee+Bar,6601W.135thSt.,Overland Park

Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Darryl White, the Jeff Jenkins Quartet |

Bass face, organ Jazz trio | 6 p.m. Green Lady

Lounge, 1809 Grand

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

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

DJ thundercutz | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway four Color Zack, Shaun flo | Hotel Nightclub, 1300

Grand Blvd.

Art Exhibits & EvEnts Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org Animal:Mineral — Kelley Seda & Melissa Powlas | 6-9 p.m. Fridays, Kiosk Gallery, 916

E. Fifth St., kioskgallerykc.com

Coloratura: Explorations of Music & Art,

gold label Soul with hector the Selector |

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

Sunday | 7.19 |

by Camry Ivory, sponsored by Art in the Loop | 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Thursday, Oppenstein Brothers Park, 12th St. and Walnut

ComeDy

family tour hour at the Kemper | 2-3 p.m.

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

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

Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

4525 Oak

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Stiletto Charity Party | 5 p.m. Black on Burlington, 1327 Burlington, North Kansas City, hotstiletto.com

TO WIN

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Kansas City’s Big Picnic: rain or shine; no grills, stakes or tenting | 4-7 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art Sculpture Park, 4525 Oak, free, nelson-atkins.org

The Beatles

LOVEPACK

PRIZE

Emmet Gowin: Photographs | Nelson-Atkins

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Philip Haas: The Four Seasons | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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

mo-Kan Cat Club Cat Show, featuring cat train-

third thursday at the Nelson: transformation with live music from Run With It and Dan

film

third thursday at the Nerman | 3:30-

ing demos, Ask the Vet sessions, and vendors | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. KCI Expo Center, 11728 N. Ambassador Dr., mokancatclub.org

Matic, a pop-up tattoo parlor, and Mobile Magic and the Parlor Show | 6-9 p.m., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

4:30 p.m. Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park. nermanmuseum.org

including a limited edition hat & t-shirt and special edition notepad.

setts, Lawrence, libertyhall.net

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Sodom and Gomorrah in Sedalia: The 1974 Ozark Music Festival | 2 p.m. Kansas City Central

World War I and the Rise of Modernism |

SPortS & reC

KKfi Jazz Band | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Kansas City t-Bones vs. Sioux City railcats |

Shai hulud, ghost Key, Cryptodira, Smash the State, uberficker | 8 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Airplane! | 7 & 9:30 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachu-

Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

5:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

• Voted KC’s Best Gentleman’s Club • 70 Girls • Oldest Adult Club in Missouri • Full Service Kitchen • Great Place to Watch Sporting Events • VIP Lounge • Cover Friday & Saturday ONLY! • Premium Bottle Service

muSiC

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Sweet martha, Alex Sons & 2819 Crew, Come Back Calamity, Benji harp, Katie Canfield |

4:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

the Appleseed Cast, Annabel, Coaster, Adjy | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Monday | 7.20 |

the Jeff Austin Band, the old Salt union |

30 seconds east of the Power & Light District 2800 East 12th Street • Kansas City, MO 64127 816.231.9696 • www.KcShadyLady.com

8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Cold War Kids, hembree | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at

Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

Cryin’ out loud, old fangled | 5 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

ComeDy

KCstandup.com open mic | 6 p.m. The Riot Room,

4048 Broadway

lucky Deluxe’s comedy open mic | 9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

SPortS & reC

Danzig, Pennywise, Cancer Bats, hellevate | 7:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

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Wednesday | 7.22 | CoMeDy

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

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

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quick hits Dear Dan: I’ve been happily married for 12 years.

I’m deeply in love with my wife — she’s amazing, very sexy and gorgeous. I used to be jealous, but about six years ago, I lost my feelings of jealousy.

In their place, I developed a strong desire to share my wife with other men. It’s my only fantasy.

She knows about this, but she says it’s wrong.

I never asked her to actually do it. Am I wrong for feeling this way?

A Shamed Husband, a Marital Erotic Deadlock Dear ASHAMED: Objectively speaking, there’s

nothing wrong with your fantasy — hell, there would be a fuck of a lot right with your fantasy if your wife were turned on by it. So when your wife says, “It’s wrong,” try and hear what she should be saying: “It’s wrong for me.”

And if you’re the optimistic type, you can opt to hear, “It’s wrong for me at the moment.”

There are lots of women out there happily cuckolding their husbands — or happily playing the role of hot wife — who rejected the idea when their husbands first shared their fantasies.

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gether for two years. I moved in a year ago, and we have been happy living together since. During the past year, I’ve come across a lot of his ex’s old belongings: letters and pictures. It’s not like I snoop. He’s kind of a hoarder, and I frequently find this stuff tucked in books or drawers. It’s starting to frustrate me. I long ago threw away most of my ex’s things, and the stuff I did keep is stored in a box that’s out of sight and mind.

I don’t necessarily want him to throw all this stuff away, but I want to feel comfortable in our shared environment. I also want to be able to think about our life together and not his past.

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a hoarder but definitely a tucker. I tuck letters and photos and other keepsakes into books, stuff them in the backs of drawers, set them on shelves or beside the rest of the tchotchkes. I do this because (1) I’m not organized/depressed enough to scrapbook, and (2) I like running across old photos or letters when I’m looking for something else.

Perhaps your boyfriend feels the same way, or maybe your boyfriend is a hoarder and a slob. Either way, my advice is the same: Own up to your insecurities — tell him that there’s nothing about his past that should prevent you from enjoying your present — and then ask him to make a reasonable accommodation. Tell him

that you would like to place his ex’s pictures and letters, as you run across them, into a box that’s clearly labeled and easily accessed, but out of sight and mind.

If he says yes, take that yes for an answer.

That means putting whatever you find away, refraining from griping at your boyfriend about the stuff he chooses to hold on to, and reassuring yourself that a day will soon come when your shared environment is completely ex-proofed.

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D a n S ava ge I have wanted to pursue these fantasies pretty much for as long as I have been in serious relationships. My husband and I have been married for four years, and we worked hard to get to where we are today, learning how to communicate and setting rules. Lately, though, I feel like my feelings are changing. While we do all our communicating with other women in group-chat settings, my husband has more free time than I do. Some days I wake up to literally hundreds of message exchanges, and I can’t keep up or get a word in.

Making it worse: I oftentimes have to talk to him about mundane things, like bills and what we’re having for dinner, while his conversations with other women revolve around hot sexts. We have better sex than ever, and I come harder, faster and more often after he has been with another woman. But I’m not sure how to reconcile these feelings of jealousy and inadequacy. I worry that he’s thinking, “What am I doing with her when I could be by myself and get all the pussy I want?”

I do not want to quit seeing other women (see the bit about hot, hot sex), but I do not know how to balance my fears and jealousy.

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ception that proves the rule — typically, husbands get straight couples into cuckolding — but you’re not a cuckold. Cuckolds are men.

Women who are turned on when their husbands cheat on them are cuckqueans. (Credit to Annie W., a former co-worker, who introduced me to that term.)

OK, let’s make a list of everything your husband would lose if he dumped you: love, stability, history, family, intimacy, hot sex, and someone to co-tackle the day-to-day crap (cleaning, bills, dinner) that he would otherwise have to tackle all by himself. He would also lose a wife who’s happy to let her husband fuck other women — lots of other women — and those wives are few and far between. I’m not saying you’re wrong to feel insecure, just that you have more leverage — and more value — than you seem to realize.

Inform your husband that these feelings of jealousy and inadequacy, which are fueled by his thoughtlessness and inconsideration, are putting your arrangement and maybe even your marriage at risk. Your cuckquean marriage, which he ought to regard as a paradise, is only gonna work so long as you feel included (in the fun) and secure (in his commitment).

Tell him that he has to cut way, way back on the sexting, which has gotten way the fuck out of hand, and that he has to make an effort to include you more, or he risks getting cast out of paradise.

Dear Dan: I’m a wife and a cuckold. I’m turned on when my husband sleeps with other women.

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Sweat Turning Into New Kink Dear STINK: I haven’t heard of this, and it

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She found our bondage stuff, just a set of cuffs and a blindfold, and completely lost her mind.

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