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t’s good to be the Jackson County executive — as long as you don’t stick around too long.

Mike Sanders, who has been executive most of the past decade, presumably knows this well. His two predecessors, Katheryn Shields and Bill Waris, became the subjects of federal probes tied to their work in Jackson County politics. Waris was popped by the feds after leaving office for lying to FBI agents in connection with a bribery investigation involving both him and Shields.

Shields was never charged as a result of that investigation but later was indicted on mortgage-fraud charges. (A jury acquitted her.)

After serving visible and well-regarded terms as Jackson County prosecutor, Sanders rode into the Jackson County Executive’s Office in 2007, elected on the strength of his lawman credentials. He promised to clean up county government — a task guaranteed to keep him busy — and has been lauded for getting the county’s financial house in order.

Sanders’ political life so far has been charmed enough to ward off what might have damaged a less well-liked figure. When the county botched its property assessments — one of its core functions — Sanders emerged from the affair largely unscathed.

He went on to the chairmanship of the Missouri Democratic Party in 2012, giving rise to speculation about what office he might seek next, and he drew no serious opposition on his way to re-election as executive in 2014.

But his third term is off to a rocky start.

The FBI is investigating his office’s involvement in awarding a $75,000 county contract to Brittany Burke, a former adviser to Gov. Jay Nixon.

The Kansas City Star broke news of the investigation on June 23, and The Pitch has learned new details about it and about how Burke received the contract: • Sanders and Burke met about a year ago to discuss her obtaining a paid-consultant contract with Jackson County.

• An attempt to award Burke a healthcare consulting contract, worth $75,000, without competitive bidding, was stopped by a county attorney.

• That same county attorney expressed reservations about how much Burke would be paid for the work she said she would perform.

• One county legislator who has been quizzed by the FBI about the contract tells The Pitch that the probe may be looking into whether the contract was influenced by former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl, with whom Burke had a romantic relationship.

An FBI investigation isn’t by itself a rarity for public officials, and many such inquiries fizzle out without formal charges or official consequences. But the stench of such probes can linger enough to cloud a politician’s prospects, as Shields learned. She finished near the bottom of a crowded Kansas City mayoral primary field in 2007; only this year

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othing seemed amiss when Burke appeared before the Jackson County Legislature’s Finance & Audit Committee on November 24, 2014.

She was seated alongside Cathy Jolly, a senior adviser to Sanders, who presented the county staff’s recommendation that Burke receive a $75,000 contract to carry out healthcare consulting for the Jackson County Executive’s Office. Burke had submitted a bid that was presented by county staff as lower than an $85,000 bid for the same services from a consultant in California.

Burke described how she planned to spend the next year “auditing or assessing” Jackson County’s relationships with healthrelated outfits such as the county’s Health Department and Medical Examiner’s Office and Truman Medical Centers. She said her credentials included working as an adviser to Nixon on Medicaid expansion, hemp-oil legislation and expanded prescription-drug care for seniors.

Theresa Garza Ruiz and Crystal Williams, who both lauded Burke’s expertise, were among the legislators who said they knew her previous work. Burke’s contract passed unanimously through the committee and the full county Legislature later that afternoon. It would pay her $6,250 a month for a year, the full $75,000.

What legislators didn’t know was that Sanders’ office had tried to grant Burke that contract without first seeking competitive

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bids for the consulting that the county sought.

Records obtained by The Pitch through a Missouri Sunshine Law request indicate that Burke had a June 25, 2014, meeting with Sanders at the county courthouse in downtown Kansas City. A month later, Burke sent an e-mail to Jolly outlining “[a] list of my services, a proposal for the Jackson County Executive Office and a description of the agreement we discussed.”

That agreement, as specified in that e-mail, was to pay Burke $75,000, in 12 monthly installments of $6,250. The proposal was to evaluate the county’s relationship with Truman Medical Centers, Medicaid expansion and the Affordable Care Act. It was substantially similar to the contract she would eventually receive.

Jolly tells The Pitch that she first met Burke in late July 2014.

“Mike introduced me to her and spoke really highly of her,” Jolly says. “He said he had known her, they had worked together when he was chair of the [Missouri] Democratic Party, that she’s very smart, and we had all these issues with Truman [Medical Centers] and she was probably someone who could help us.”

Jolly, a former Kansas City, Missouri, councilwoman and Missouri representative, started working in Sanders’ office in 2013.

She works as senior policy adviser to Sanders on COMBAT [Community Backed Anti-Drug Tax] and some aspects of the county's relationship with Truman Medical Centers and other public health initiatives.

Jolly tells The Pitch that Sanders had initial conversations with her about getting help sorting out the county’s relationship

with Truman Medical Centers, the Affordable Care Act and other public-health matters. These discussions occurred long before she met Burke.

“It [seeking outside help] really wasn’t my call,” Jolly says. “That was something the county executive felt. His conversation was that they should see if there’s somebody who could advise us on these issues.”

County personnel sought conversations with local health-care executives before Burke entered the conversation last summer.

On August 19, Chief Deputy County Counselor Jay Haden e-mailed Jolly to tell her that if Jackson County wanted to pay Burke more than $5,000, the contract would have to go through competitive bidding.

(Jolly forwarded this e-mail to Sanders.)

That mandate for bidding on contracts worth more than $5,000 was Sanders’ idea.

Shortly after he took office as Jackson County executive, he successfully pushed for the stipulation in order to stem the perception that Jackson County was the place to go for patronage contracts.

A request for proposals was sent out by the county in September, with a deadline of October 14 for responses.

Fred Pilot, a health-care consultant whose office is in California, submitted his bid on October 10. Burke sent hers in on October 14, the same day that county staffers reviewed the submitted bids. (Burke bid under her firm’s name, Tactas, which wasn’t registered as a business with the Missouri Secretary of State until October 21.)

By November 3, it became clear that Burke would win the contract. A week later, on November 10, Jolly continued on page 8

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sent an e-mail to Burke and Haden, introducing them so that they could discuss items from Burke’s bid, including a revision of Burke’s statement of work (her bid’s description of how she intended to carry out the consulting contract).

Burke sent her updated statement of work to Haden on November 11. The following day, Haden e-mailed Jolly about it, writing: “It’s pretty vanilla with no mention of specific agencies. Still a little short on specific deliverables for $75k in my view, but we can live with it.”

Pilot, the other bidder, says he received no communication between the time he submitted his bid and December, when he learned that he hadn’t received the contract.

“There were no questions from the county,” Pilot says.

Pilot says he has been contacted by the FBI. He tells The Pitch that he understood the agency’s line of questioning to suggest that Sanders was under investigation.

Several others contacted by The Pitch also say they’ve had conversations with FBI agents about the contract.

Garza Ruiz, who last year was a county legislator, says she has spoken with the FBI, which asked her about the process through which contracts are awarded in Jackson County. She says she was unaware that the County Executive’s Office had sought a contract for Burke without bidding.

“That’s news to me,” she tells The Pitch. “I think that’s interesting because when Mike first took office, he put in place a county executive order that any contract over $5,000 had to go to bid.” She adds that when she voted in favor of Burke’s contract, “There were no red flags at the time.”

When contracts come before the County Legislature, the body is supposed to choose from among all qualified bidders. The county’s staff makes recommendations to the Legislature based on whichever is the “lowest and best” bid.

In this case, Pilot’s bid was presented to

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legislators as an $85,000 contract. Burke’s was presented as one that would cost $75,000. But legislators were not given any information about Pilot’s background or details from his bid, only the $85,000 figure.

According to Pilot’s bid, however, $85,000 represented the maximum amount he said he would bill for his services. His bid’s pricing laid out a $100-per-hour rate for his work, as well as a $150 hourly rate for a subcontractor who would work with him; the cap for their work was $85,000, but the results of their consultancy might have come in for less money, depending on the number of hours actually billed.

Burke’s pricing laid out a monthly retainer of $6,250 for one year, with no breakdown of hourly billing or other itemizations.

“How are we proposing to pay her max?” county attorney Haden wrote in a November 3 e-mail to a Sanders assistant. “Is that based on an hourly rate, per task completed, or just a flat lump sum price? If lump sum, unless we can pay her upon completion of all work, we’ll need some basis upon which she can submit periodic billings. Again, that could be an hourly rate, tasks completed, or percentage of total work completed.” (No written reply to Haden’s e-mail is among the records that The Pitch reviewed.)

Determining which bid is “best” is more subjective than which is (or appears to be) “lowest.”

Pilot works exclusively as a health-care consultant, having previously worked for the California Health Benefit Exchange, the nation’s first state exchange under the Affordable Care Act. Among the credentials cited in his bid, Pilot lists a study he completed for the Utah Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing. His subcontractor, Fred Forrer of Public Momentum LLC, helped 14 states implement healthcare exchanges under the ACA, according to Pilot’s bid.

But Jackson County staff, according to county records, favored Burke over Pilot because of her pricing and because she was based in Missouri.

Burke had been Gov. Nixon’s point

At odds? From left: Sanders, Jolly and Burke person for health issues such as Medicaid expansion.

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hat was Burke supposed to do for the county?

That depends on who is being asked.

County materials describe the contract that she won in broad terms: “developing a strategic plan for public healthcare in Jackson County” for how the county spends its public-health money, and how it manages federal health-care services and Medicaid expansion.

That description reflects what Burke outlined in her bid materials.

Looking back, Jolly seems unsure of Burke’s role.

“I don’t know what conversations she had with the county executive,” she tells The Pitch. “It was my thought that she would give us a report: Here are some issues, here are some ways to work it out. The issues were very dispersed. They ran the gamut from budget issues to space to public-health issues.”

Shortly after Burke’s contract started, Jolly described it this way in an e-mail: “She is here to assess and evaluate our finances and relationship with TMC [Truman Medical Centers] and related health care issues.

Ultimately, she will give us a recommendation on how to finance and what health care items the County should be responsible for.”

That description suggests Burke was brought on to examine the county’s relationship with Truman Medical Centers. Which makes sense, given that Jolly’s role in Sanders’ office is overseeing policy for COMBAT and TMC. (Some COMBAT funds go to TMC, making the two fairly intertwined.)

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TMC’s relationship with the county has sometimes been tense. Two years ago, TMC sold four buildings to Children’s Mercy Hospitals and Clinics. That property included the Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office.

The county wasn’t aware of the deal ahead of time and was surprised to receive an eviction notice for the medical examiner.

Burke herself seemed lost about what she was supposed to do.

On January 13, 2015, she wrote to Jolly: “My biggest obstacle so far is I don’t have a clear understanding of the goals and objectives are [sic]. I have an abundance of information with a lot of dead ends. Before I put a strategic plan together, I need a better understanding of what you would like to see ultimately accomplished.”

A few weeks later, Burke suggested trying to place Sanders in local media stories about the measles outbreak from earlier in the year, to generate positive stories about the executive. That idea went away faster than most rashes.

By February, not yet three months after Burke began cashing checks as a consultant, her relationship with county employees had begun to wear thin.

Burke frequently e-mailed county staffers about meetings, parking spots, requests for guidance — making her seem less like an independent contractor and more like a county employee. These persistent e-mails annoyed her county recipients.

When she sent a complaint about scheduling snafus to Sanders assistant Miriam Hennosy, Hennosy sent an e-mail to Sanders: “I am beginning to feel like Jane Fonda in ‘They Shoot Horses Don’t They?’…I am the

last person who will be helping Brittany…I can’t seem to help myself.”

Weeks later, Burke made suggestions to county executive staffers for how to better organize which parking spot she could occupy on county property.

“You are wearing me out with these type of demands,” Jolly wrote back. “I believe YOU are working FOR the county.”

Missing in all of this is any direct feedback or input from Sanders about what Burke was supposed to do.

Burke was starting to understand that her role with the county was more limited than she had thought. In a March 24 e-mail to Jolly, she wrote: “When we discussed yesterday, you requested that I focus solely on appropriations and lease agreements. I went through the plan I sent and some of what is included is now not applicable to my current scope of service….I will wait to hear from you or Mike about whether or not to proceed with any health care policy issues or assisting with communication structure.”

By June, the FBI was asking about Burke.

Barbara Casamento, an employee in the county’s Finance & Purchasing department, sent an e-mail to her colleagues on June 2, letting them know that Bob Shaeffer, an FBI agent, had called to discuss Burke’s contract.

For now, Burke continues to work on the contract, with the county paying its monthly fee. She declined to be interviewed for this story.

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urke has been well-known in Missouri politics for years, first as a broadcast journalist and then as a community-relations coordinator for trade unions. In 2012, she was communications director for the Missouri Democratic Party at the same time that Sanders was its chairman.

That job propelled her into Nixon’s office, where she rose from deputy press secretary to public-affairs adviser. Her work for the

two-term governor also included a stint as his liaison for Medicaid expansion.

But Burke wasn’t widely known outside political circles until last month, when the St. Louis Post-Dispatch published a story about a police report she had filed in April regarding being the victim of a possible sexual assault. Among the story’s revelations was that Burke had conducted an affair with Missouri House Speaker John Diehl while she worked in Nixon’s office. (Diehl resigned in April, after sexually charged text messages that he had exchanged with an intern became public.)

Why did the FBI care about Burke and her contract with Jackson County? Dan Tarwater, a longtime Jackson County legislator, tells The Pitch that when the FBI interviewed him, the line of questioning suggested that Burke’s work with the county was connected to Diehl and to state funding for the Truman Sports Complex.

“They seemed to think there may be an issue that was tied to the [Jackson County] Sports Authority, the $3 million that comes from the state,” Tarwater says. “I said, ‘I think that all may have been handled before all this.’ He said, ‘Oh, no, it wasn’t.’”

Missouri, as part of a larger pact for keeping the Kansas City Chiefs and the Kansas City Royals at the Truman Sports Complex, is supposed to chip in about $3 million annually to the county. But Nixon left that money out of his initial state budget proposal in the midst of an attempt to cobble together cash for a new football stadium for the Rams in St. Louis.

The Truman Sports Complex funding was one of two initiatives that Jackson County lobbied hard for in the last legislative session. The other was a last-ditch Hail Mary to exempt the COMBAT tax from being affected by tax-increment financing, a move that went nowhere.

Diehl, the Republican House Speaker for a party with a veto-proof majority in the Mis-

souri General Assembly, was arguably the most influential person in Show-Me politics before he resigned in disgrace. Now the FBI, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, is asking Jefferson City insiders about Diehl’s relationship with — and possible influence on — Burke.

Tarwater adds that the FBI also asked him questions about whether Burke was qualified to receive the county heath-care consulting contract. “The line of questioning from the FBI is that she didn’t have any credentials,” Tarwater says. “They were all made up.”

Crystal Williams, a Jackson County legislator, counters that Burke’s bona fides may not be out of order. “Let me be clear: It’s not rocket science,” Williams says of Burke’s contract. “She’s compiling data.”

Williams confirms that she received a call from the FBI but says she told the agent that she didn’t have anything to add to an investigation.

For Sanders’ part, he’s keeping himself and his staff off-limits to any discussion about Burke or the FBI probe.

“Due to the ongoing federal inquiry, Jackson County employees cannot comment on our contract with Tactas,” says county spokesman Mark Siettman.

According to Siettman, the FBI has not asked to speak with Sanders.

Such a stance leaves several questions lingering: • What did Sanders see in Burke?

• How did he not know that she couldn’t receive a $75,000 contract without competitive bidding?

• How much, if at all, did Sanders follow up with Burke once she started working with the county?

• What did he want her to achieve, and did he think she was meeting those goals?

But perhaps those are questions that the FBI will pin down.

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In The Grave, playwright Forrest Attaway shows a well-honed comic voice and a sure ear for dialogue. He’s helped by a fine cast with impeccable timing. In a story that could’ve been clichéd, Attaway and his actors have found fresh perspective. Amanda (an outstanding Peggy Friesen) sits graveside with her son, Charles (the versatile Seth Macchi), awaiting the arrival of her recently deceased ex-husband’s live-in girlfriend, Elizabeth (a very good Amy Attaway), as they prepare for burial. It’s funny and emotionally true.

Agent Hanson (playwright Dave Hanson, with a clear sense of humor) assigns audience members to their missions in Bird in the Hand, a clever take on the whodunit. Attendees are divided among three viewing venues and get only one piece of the mystery’s puzzle. (At the end, we mingled to compare notes and fill in missing pieces.) Actors do a convincing job as agents, spies and pawns, and it’s all good fun.

Alphabet Soup, a group of four very short plays by local LGBTQIA writers, comprises four stories on pertinent topics but isn’t quite ready for prime time. The exception: Raphael Isabella Tate’s humorous and heartfelt A Triple Balance, a well-crafted and -performed solo work on gender identity. Nick Sawin’s Ace of Leaves also shows promise.

The Art Is a Lie also groups four short plays, centered in this case on visual art. The two standouts: Victor Wishna’s enjoyably witty and intelligent The Impressionists and Margaret Shelby’s slightly overlong but interesting The

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he Fringe Festival is always a gamble. Its pay-to-play setup and anything-goes sensibility afford diversity of genre and topic but guarantee nothing. Fringe audiences know this — some shows will disappoint while others will yield rewards.

We know, too, that the clock is not our friend. The first night, four shows I’d hoped to see shared a single time slot. On any given Fringe day, with most productions running 60 minutes and others more, I resign myself to pushing shows I’m curious about into the hope-to-see-later column. (Fringe runs through Sunday, July 26.)

One prize was Bond: A Soldier and His Dog. Logan Black, a talented local actor, turns out to be a skilled playwright as well. He stars here in his first play, a solo show, in which he recounts his combat experiences as a military dog handler in Iraq and his close relationship with his bomb-sniffing yellow Lab, Diego. It’s a vivid and compelling piece of storytelling, and is deeply moving — not to be missed.

Never having been much for clowns, I nearly bypassed the aptly named troupe Box of Clowns and its “Mom?” A Comedy of Mourners.

I’m glad I didn’t. The three artists from Portland, Oregon (Laura Loy, Anna Sell and Jeff Desautels), who trained at the Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre, incorporate athleticism, physical antics, slapstick, song, vocalization and humor as they move about on and within a very small platform. It’s a skilled and funny performance, and ultimately touching.

If you’ve ever longed for plot explanation as a Shakespeare play progressed, or if you just love Hamlet, then don’t skip the succinct and engaging Breakneck Hamlet, a fast-moving hour that condenses the great play. Timothy Mooney portrays all of the main characters, including the lead, mingling narration and editorial comment with the Bard’s words. It’s an animated and eloquent performance, and amusing as well.

The entertaining Mooney also appears in his own play, Criteria, a solo one-act set in a not-so–United States two or three centuries distant, when distinct territories exist under a castelike system based on Social Security numbers. What begins as exposition to get us up to historical speed shifts into the absorbing, very personal tale of Albert and his experiences on a mission on enemy turf.

The Snake That Stole the Flower, a new play

by Alli Jordan, is a well-written, beautifully choreographed drama about the serious legacy of Huntington’s disease. Excellent actors bring out Jordan’s distinctively drawn characters: Lauren Pope as a returning but standoffish daughter, Seth Macchi as her former beau, Margaret Shelby as her new-agey mother, and Chris Roady as their small-town pharmacist. I

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couple of days prior to the onset of the KC Fringe Festival, I was able to see a few of the Invasion’s U.K. imports as well as a new show by local act Victor and Penny. (Additional plays debut this week.)

Going in, I knew little about Nelson: A Sailor’s Story, which chronicles British war hero Horatio Nelson. But the audience’s ignorance seems to be one of the points of this humorous and affecting solo piece. The 18th-century admiral, a statue in London’s Trafalgar Square, comes to life and begins his story, brushing away pigeons and watching the goings-on of people beneath his gaze in present-day London. This hourlong play engages on many levels, thanks to a fine script and the excellent Nicholas Collett, who not only enacts the central character but also portrays multiple roles — in action scenes on a warship (including squirm-worthy rudimentary surgery) and in the reflections and thoughts on Nelson’s life. I’ll never view a historical statue — or the average recruit — in quite the same way.

From the moment King Henry VIII storms onto the stage, he rules the house and the hour.

That we sit while he stands is just one of the factors tormenting this monarch, who has been dead 468 years, he says, and is getting testy. That proves a good thing for An Audience With Henry VIII. Ross Gurney Randall makes a larger-than-life and imposing king — he convinces an audience member to get him a

From left: Jeff Desautels, Laura Loy and Anna Sell are a Box of Clowns; Logan Black tells of his Bond; and Ross Gurney Randall is the Invasion’s Henry VIII. chair — and delivers pure entertainment as he parodies this “sinner among kings and a king among sinners” while recounting facts of his rule. The real king wasn’t exactly hilarious — he signed 80,000 death warrants, he tells us.

But that isn’t the only thing about which he waxes nostalgic or complains: Jousts, his first royal wife, the pope, Thomas Cromwell, Cardinal Wolsey and, of course, Anne Boleyn all have their turns. It’s a delightful performance.

Mata Hari Female Spy felt more theatrical than intimate. The nonlinear story, about the life and death of the mysterious European exotic dancer and celebrity before and during World War I, felt disconnected at times and lingered too long in others. But Katharine Hurst’s engaging solo performance made me want to know more about this woman and her debatable guilt.

Victor and Penny (Erin McGrane and Jeff Freling), personable and accomplished local performers, debuted Project X, a work that mixes spoken word with song. Those two parts don’t yet meld, but it’s a work in progress and may be different by its next Invasion appearance. Backed by the very talented Loose Change Orchestra (bass and woodwind), the music-filled second half was note-perfect.

Shows continue through Sunday, July 26, including Bill Clinton Hercules, Crusoe: No Man Is an Island, and The Six-Sided Man.

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mid the dozens of assemblages and paintings by Douglas Schwietert filling a fifthfloor studio in the Hobbs Building, one of the canvases leaning on the floor shows two women sitting under a tree, crying. Dressed in Victorian white dresses, with hairstyles to match, they cover their faces and weep into each other’s arms. A large, stately house is behind them across a field, and above, in arched lettering reminiscent of the gateway to an old cemetery, letters spell out “We Sell Memories.”

That plural pronoun’s ambiguity only makes the phrase — also the title of a new solo exhibition by Schwietert at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, from which the unfinished painting itself is absent — more evocative. For one thing, it’s a tongue-in-cheek commentary on how art is the physical remainder of experience. The experience of creation and the memories that fuel the artist’s inspiration become tangible records. These, in turn, are often offered up to the marketplace, sure, but their lasting value is measured not in dollars but in the power to inspire in the viewer new stories, to generate new energy.

And proxy inspiration and energy must hereafter suffice, for Schwietert — after attending We Sell Memories’ First Friday opening July 3, amid admiration from a steady stream of fellow artists and friends — died July 8.

At Leedy-Voulkos are 36 works selected from Schwietert’s collection by one of his closest friends, artist Lori Raye Erickson. With the help of artist Christel Highland, a curator for MLB Designs, Erickson here shows us some of Schwietert’s best work from the past decade. This includes some of the assemblages for which he had become wellknown, which incorporate reproductions of black-and-white photographs of people from around the mid-19th century to the early part of the 20th, layered with bits of text or titles that spark a narrative slant. The exhibition

Douglas Schwietert: We Sell Memories Through August 29 at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center 2012 Baltimore also demonstrates his range in several series of paintings.

In the latter category: “Interior,” a 2007 series of five depictions of various tables. Done in acrylic and enamel over charcoal outlines, they have a quiet presence. It’s a privilege to see four of them together on a single wall.

“Bed II,” from a 2009 series of four, is difficult to see without feeling foreboding or sadness. It’s a stark white object centered before us in two-point perspective against a shadowy background, and its occasional reappearances elsewhere in the show — including a couple of times in three dimensions — are equally jarring. In one case, it’s a platform for antique amber medicine bottles, under the title “Sickbed.” In another iteration, it’s perched on top of a metal trunk inscribed with the declaration “Charity has no blanket.”

Schwietert worked as a U.S. Army medic in Germany, an experience that would seem to inform his art, and he finished some of what’s on display here after a cancer in remission returned a couple of years ago. Yet the thread of autobiography in these works is purposely loose, if it’s visible at all. Rather than prompt your curiosity about the artist, the many satisfying details layered into each of the creations at Leedy-Voulkos fire your broader imagination. That’s the idea: In his statement for this show, Schwietert writes that his goal is accessibility. What we see here, he adds, “can mean anything anybody wants it to. There are no solutions.” When one of Schwietert’s fragments shows a girl photographed 100 years ago, posing with a thenquite-alien telephone, you see the potential

From left: “Sickbed,” “Nothing New Here” and “The Last Two Men on Earth” for poetry in a tiny glimpse of someone else’s anonymous history.

The same invitations to the mind’s eye extend from “The Girl Across the Street,” from the man in a top hat and his “Trophy,” from a barefoot kid carrying a crate of tin cans on a “Factory Floor,” and from “Cornina” (a blindfolded doll’s head on a Corina cigar box that makes music). And you can file under “no solutions” the unmistakably straightforward image here of Earth’s last two men, facing off at gunpoint.

“My job is to … keep the work simply puzzling and open-ended,” Schwietert writes.

He has accomplished just that with the play of images throughout these works, and by virtue of strong craftsmanship demonstrated in a wide field of materials: battered boards, dented metal, obscuring paint, antique news clippings, old tools, string, tacks, glass, wiring and other scraps.

“Nothing New Here” — one of two pieces that he completed this year — is a wittily selfreflexive jab at the very nature of making art. A Parthenon-like building looms as if in an overblown postcard, encircled by impossibly tiny cars and people. Above the scene, Schwietert tacked a slice of slatted boards and draped some rough brown cloth across it, with the title words in block letters carved in a white space between.

As in so much of the art here, you can look at “Nothing New Here” and see discrete parts, awaiting each viewer’s mental addition or arrangement. In each sum is a resonant echo.

The original story may be lost, may never have existed in one definite narrative, but in that echo is Schwietert’s invitation to create endless new tales.

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Not So Secret

At the W bar, Mike Strohm’s cocktails are the best kinds of show and tell.

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Natalie GallaGher

ike Strohm raises the butcher’s knife over his head. When he brings it down in front of him, there’s a sickening crack.

He raises his arm and slams the blade down again, then again, and again.

The ice block in front of him doesn’t stand a chance.

Finally, Strohm — having bashed an impressive cube from the block, then shaved it down to fit the Burgundy glass that he has selected — sets down his tool. His work as a gleeful executioner over for now, he returns to the project at hand: assembling one of his signature cocktails, called Giggle Water.

As Strohm builds the drink, I observe his work space. He and co-owner Merideth Veritasi opened the W bar six weeks ago, billing it as a speakeasy and making it appropriately less than obvious. It’s not hard to miss the door at 6-1/2 Southwest Third Street, in downtown Lee’s Summit. There’s an intercom, then a short walk up a dark, narrow stairway before the W’s handsome room reveals itself.

The W seats just 38 people, and not necessarily in maximum comfort. The stools and chairs are luxurious but mustered tightly together. Strohm says this hasn’t stopped the bar from filling up — and staying full — on the two nights a week it’s open for business: Friday and Saturday. (Thursdays are coming soon.)

I’ve come to visit Strohm on a Monday, and I see that the W, for him, is very much a fulltime job. He’s here five days a week, making his cocktail menu’s syrups, bitters, vermouths and tonics — “basically everything except the alcohol,” he says. And when he’s not at the W, he’s tending his expansive home garden, which provides nearly all of his ingredients.

“Whatever I can grow, I grow,” Strohm says. “It’s kind of taken over my life. I grow the food that I eat, that my kids eat. Everything comes from my own garden. For me, using those in my drinks makes a difference, not just in the quality but also in my own happiness.”

And what he doesn’t raise himself is not without labor: “I get my honeycomb from a beekeeper in Independence, so I have to drive down and meet her every week and bring it up here, break the honey down. I’m not big enough where I can call in for my deliveries.

I have to go pick it all up.”

In time, he adds, he’ll grow his own citrus trees. Right now, he’s planning a greenhouse, which he wants to construct. Next spring, he’s building beehives for the roof of the W’s building — a tricky plan, considering Strohm’s severe bee allergy.

His dedication and the bar’s homeyness are evident as he mixes my drink. In front

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of him are Mason jars and other receptacles filled with curious contents: honeycomb, whole ginger root, cocoa nibs.

“Prep here is more than just cutting lemons and limes,” he tells me as he puts the finishing touches on the Giggle Water.

What he hands me is a neon-orange liquid, garnished with a few delicate, minuscule flowers. It consists of Uncle Val’s Botanical Gin, a house floral tonic, orange flower water, rose water and a splash of soda. It could pass for an Aperol Spritz, and there are a few flavor similarities: citrus, hints of bubblegum. But Strohm’s creation keeps giving with every sip, delivering gentle spices and subtle lemongrass.

He’s pleased to hear my report of these flavors. That house tonic water, he explains, is made with lemongrass, rose petals, orange flower petals, cardamom and coriander. He describes the process in scientific details. I continue drinking.

Next, Strohm makes me something that’s not on his menu; he wants to try out a favorite new product, Averell Damson Gin Liqueur, which is made with damson plums. It contains muddled honey and peach, and the liquid this time is a deeper color, pinkish-orange.

Here, the plum notes and peach juices wed lavishly. I feel like I have just taken a bite of the most perfectly ripe piece of fruit. I approve of Strohm’s name for the drink: James and the Giant Peach.

Nearly a year ago, when Strohm was still

Strohm is serious about his Giggle Water (above right). tending bar at ’37 Steak — the upscale restaurant at Harrah’s Casino — he developed a smoked-bourbon cocktail using a slab of apple wood. Today, he’s working up a spinoff of that drink, this time using mezcal and jalapeños.

Strohm muddles honey and sliced jalapeños, then adds Mezcal Vago, lime juice and dry curaçao. He shakes and strains all this into a rocks glass containing another custom-cut ice cube, then places the glass on the apple wood. He torches the wood and traps the rising smoke with a glass globe. This process he repeats several times over the next few minutes before deeming the cocktail — which he calls the Furies — complete.

At first, all I get is heat — a lot of heat. Then the smoke flavor, which, when it comes, is rich. The finish is a pleasantly sour pucker.

I tell Strohm that I find the drink a touch confounding, but I assure him that this is in no way a refusal to drink it. Strohm wonders aloud whether he should have added more peppers. He looks eager to tinker further.

“This gives me the chance to do exactly what I’ve always wanted to do, which is to dork out back here and experiment,” he tells me. “Basically, this is a blessing for me.”

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1-1/2 ounces house plum tonic 1 ounce Averell Damson Gin Liqueur 3/4 ounce Hayman’s Old Tom Gin 1/4 ounce honey 6 peach slices Muddle peach and honey, add other ingredients. Shake, strain, fill with soda water, garnish with peach. slices.

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Gabriella Petrick geeks out about wine.

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eet your ultimate drinking buddy: Gabriella Petrick, Ph.D. Petrick, an associate professor at George Mason University and a visiting fellow at the Linda Hall Library, knows her booze. Specifically, she knows wine — the focus of her three-month fellowship. I’d like to know more about wine, so ahead of Petrick’s talk at Linda Hall July 30, I’ve asked her to meet me at Il Lazzarone.

Petrick’s research project at the Linda Hall Library is titled “Tasting the New World: Wine, the Environment, and the New Global Palate.” Essentially, the project — which she says will become a book — focuses on the evolution of taste.

“I’m really fascinated with food choices that people make every day, and that’s sort of at the center of all of my research,” Petrick says. “Most of my stuff comes from my own personal quest. When I was a kid, my parents had a lot of German wine. It wasn’t cabernet [sauvignon], and it didn’t taste like it does now. I was working in Napa in the ’90s, and the flavor of wine has really changed since then. My question is, Why is that? What’s driving this new taste of wine?”

At Il Lazzarone, Petrick selects a bottle of Barbera d’Alba: a bright, acidic red. She prefers an Italian bottle like this, she tells me, over a New World red. A cabernet sauvignon from California, for instance, is too jammy, she says — big but without tannins.

Petrick’s research begins around the 1940s and ’50s in the United States, when winemakers were overwhelmingly producing sweet dessert wines — what Petrick calls, with a wry smile, “hangover wines” — and it details the progressive shift in production and palate.

“There’s this big shift, and Napa starts it,” Petrick says. “People like Joe Heitz and Robert Mondavi [two prominent California winemakers] — they started to think about the types of grapes that can be grown in the valley, and over time they start to plant different types of grapes. And then, one of the biggest inventions today — and it sounds really boring — is refrigerated tanks. By simply refrigerating the tank through fermentation, and being able to control the temperature of the wine, it vastly improves the quality.

So I’m interested in what’s going on in the vineyard and what’s going on in the winery.”

Petrick is petite and talks quickly. She spends most of her days surrounded by academic journals and textbooks, and she’s eager to share her discoveries and theories with actual people. Though our conversation doesn’t feel like a class, I see later that my notes detail wine’s technological and agricultural advances. These improvements in process, she tells me, have trickled into the

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“There’s a way in which we became a little more worldly after World War II,” Petrick says. “There were all those GIs who drank French wine or German wine and had access to things that they never had here because we just didn’t produce it. Wine is everyday in Europe. Here it was a special occasion.

And then you’ve got the rise of people like James Beard, you’ve got Gourmet magazine, you’ve got Kennedy in the White House — these things might seem unrelated, but it’s all about the shifting culture of America in many ways and coming into its own as a world power, and I think wine reflects that.”

These are all points, Petrick says, that she will touch on in her lecture at the Linda Hall Library Thursday, July 30. That talk, “Red or White: How Cabernet and Chardonnay Came

Petrick: sweet — but not too sweet — on wine. to Define Wine,” comes two-thirds of the way through her fellowship and just ahead of her August departure for a new position at the University of New Haven. There, she’ll teach courses on beer history, hospitality and food culture.

It’s not just the wine talking when Petrick sounds a little sad as our conversation turns to her fellowship ending. Though the next year will be busy — in addition to her new teaching position, Petrick will see the release of at least two books, one academic (Industrializing Taste: Food Processing and the Transformation of the American Diet, 1900–1965) and one for the masses (Sweet, Sour, Salty, Bitter: Taste in History) — Petrick plans to continue visiting the Linda Hall Library as she builds her case for wine academia. Plus, she adds, she still has a long list of Kansas City happy hours to try out.

“I’m a strange person in many ways,” Petrick says as the wine in our bottle diminishes. “Food has always been at the center of my life. And life is too short for bad food.”

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f you want to try one of Heirloom Bakery & Hearth’s homemade Pop-Tarts, you have to get up early.

I stopped by the almost maddeningly popular Brookside café on a recent afternoon hoping to savor one of the fruit-filled pocket pastries, only to stare at an empty platter. An employee told me that the breakfast sweets usually sell out by 9 a.m. (I call foul on overachievers causing a run on this classic slacker foodstuff. Who are you people?) I ordered a scone and slunk away.

The next morning, having vowed to rise with the dawn like a farmer, I slept through my alarm. I woke in a panic, pulled on the first outfit I could find and rushed out the door, muttering, “Pop-Tarts, Pop-Tarts, Pop-Tarts” all the way back to Heirloom.

I arrived at 7:10 a.m. A family of four followed me in at 7:11. I heard the kids behind me point out the Pop-Tarts to one another.

“I’m getting one of those,” the boy said. “Ooh, me, too,” the girl echoed. Reader, I deprived those children. When it was my turn to order, I did not hesitate to ask for the last two tarts. Hey, I’d set my alarm. (I did ease my greed-crippled conscience by asking whether more tarts were on the way; yes, I was told, there were.)

Heirloom’s pastry chefs aren’t the only ones in Kansas City revamping the childhood treats. Sasha’s Baking Co. and 8-Bit Bakery (which sells its stuff at Green Room Burgers & Beer) also make versions of the Pop-Tart.

But it was Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott that set me on this journey. I had noticed a sudden proliferation of “Mott tarts” on the 10-year-old bakery’s Facebook page — along with the admonition that its reimagining of the Kellogg’s goody had come fi rst in this market. The shop made this point by posting a dated screenshot, establishing that we could have been eating Mott tarts whenever we wanted for two whole years. (Also, we wouldn’t have had to get up with the roosters to do it; Natasha’s opens at 10 a.m. weekdays, 9 a.m. Saturdays and noon Sundays.)

Clearly, a blueberry-filled gauntlet had been thrown down. But let’s not fight, you guys. No, let’s all make like sugary fruit filling and warm, flaky crust and hug it out. There really can’t be too many artisanal Pop-Tarts in one town, can there?

That’s a purely rhetorical question, but I ate all the local ones anyway, just to make sure — sharing them with my Pitch colleagues.

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looking crust and a simple swath of frosting and sprinkles. Depending on the flavor, the frosting colors range from basic white to electric blue.

Heirloom: This tart appeared softer and flakier — more like a pie pocket, as one taster observed. “It looks inviting,” he added. He also said it looked as though a 3-year-old had applied the frosting, which added to its charm.

8-Bit: Plucked from the small pastry case on the bar at Green Room, this tart looked somewhat wilted. The colors of the sprinkles had begun to bleed into one another, like a reflection of Christmas lights in a wet window.

Sasha’s: The crisp, agreeable-looking tart had a thick schmear of white frosting topped with a beautiful constellation of rainbow sprinkles. I immediately posted a photo to Instagram.

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Natasha’s: The macarons, which are available in all the colors of the rainbow, as well as flavors such as Cap’n Crunch and brownie batter.

Heirloom: Try one of the scones. The strawberry-mint-chia is delightful.

8-Bit: Treat the Pop-Tart as an unorthodox complement to one of Green Room’s chocolate-flavored stouts.

Sasha’s: Go ahead and get the Pop-Tart.

It tastes exactly as its appearance leads you to hope.

Natasha’s: This pastry pocket tasted like

the crispy edge of the piecrust that hugs the side of the pan — and damn, do I love piecrust.

Heirloom: Taste testers called it “croissant-y” and “buttery,” with the flaky corners described as “dough-intensive.”

8-Bit: Much like Heirloom’s, this tart’s crust was more reminiscent of a Toaster Strudel than a Pop-Tart.

Sasha’s: The crust struck just the right balance between crispy and flaky, like a regular old toaster pastry with center-of-the-pie aspirations.

FILLING

Natasha’s: The berry-flavored center was fruity and pleasingly tart, but a bit more filling wouldn’t have hurt.

Heirloom’s: One taster said the blueberry filling seemed “more real,” possibly due to the presence of actual fruit chunks.

8-Bit: This tart tasted better than it looked.

The strawberry-balsamic flavor delivered a pleasantly sweet-and-savory dynamic. Other flavors include caramel-bacon and brownsugar-cinnamon.

Sasha’s: The sweet, plentiful strawberry filling contained large fruit chunks and was so delicious that I could’ve eaten two. It’s good that I resisted because this pastry is big enough to share — but trust me, you won’t want to.

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he Pitch and the City Market are teaming up Saturday, August 1, for the City Market Beer Festival.

Let’s get the fine print out of the way: The festival is free to attend, but you gotta buy the beer. Good news, though: It’s cheap. Four beer tickets — that’s four 6-ounce pours or two 12-ounce pours — go for $10. And $20 buys you 10 tickets.

With that out of the way, let’s talk about the beer.

We’re still adding to the lineup, but here’s the start of a list set to feature about 100 different brews.

Tallgrass sierra Halcyon Wheat nevaDa 16-Bit Double Pale Ale Ginger Peach Saison 8-Bit Pale Ale

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Haymaker Records is home to a quirky roster.

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which Arana considers a huge bonus to being part of the Haymaker family.

“It’s really hard for a band to put out vinyl by themselves,” Arana says. “They don’t make enough money to do it, usually. And Brenton is good about getting the records out in town and getting them to shops. It’s nice that he’s putting out some of the more oddball music around here.”

But Cook says one person’s oddball tastes are another’s treasures — and, for him, Kansas City is the ultimate treasure chest.

“I have a total sense of pride in my city,” he says. “There’s a great sense of community happening, and it’s so fun to see it in action. I think that environment works well for labels and artists. There’s a real sense of, ‘Hey, we’re all in this together.’”

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housands of records line the shelves of the dining room in Brenton Cook’s midtown home. Each album is in a Mylar sleeve, packed tightly into quadrants, alphabetized and organized by a code that only Cook knows. More records are piled on the dining-room table.

Even more, Cook tells me, are stored upstairs.

Altogether, he has about 10,000 records.

It’s an impressive collection, one that he puts to use at a DJ gig called the Monthly Layover at MiniBar. But it’s also physical evidence of Cook’s commitment to music — along with his year-and-a-half-old label, Haymaker Records.

“It’s still pretty new,” Cook says. “I’ve been trying to put the name out there.”

Having signed six bands in the time since he formed Haymaker in January 2014, Cook seems serious about building a label. His roster is a mix of new and established acts from disparate genres, including Be/Non, the 21-year-old eccentric prog-rock project of local music veteran Brodie Rush; far-left-of-center garage-pop act Schwervon; psych-electro weirdos Monta at Odds; math-rockers HMPH and Riala; and the Jorge Arana Trio, which defies classification.

“They could go into jazz or experimental or math rock,” Cook says. “I love the diversity. I think KC has a lot of great musicians in different genres here, but I think there is a big market for music that is underrepresented. And it doesn’t bother me that a couple bands on my label I don’t even know where to group them.

“The main thing is that it has to be out of the norm, music that makes you think,” he

continues. “There can be a lot of different bands that fit into that. I can’t even say how the label is going to be five years from now, but I just know that I want a sound that’s complex. All of the bands that I’ve signed encompass that.”

Jorge Arana, guitarist, keyboardist and the namesake of his trio, sees Haymaker Records as an oasis of misfits.

“Honestly,” he says, “it seems like the only real label or spot where you can find some of the more outsider kind of music. Before it, there wasn’t anything close to that.”

What really matters, Cook says, is that these bands now have a home and a clear path to release their music. Cook isn’t interested in artist management. His role as label owner is not to mold or coddle bands but to give them a larger platform.

“It’s the same concept,” Cook says, “that Midwest Music Foundation has worked so hard for: building a community, making resources available for musicians, connecting people, providing platforms for some national exposure for Kansas City artists. I’m still working on the national-exposure part of that equation for Haymaker Records, but it is a big goal for the label and something I’m dedicated to making happen.”

Midwest Music Foundation can take some credit for shaping Cook’s vision. For the last few years, he has been the organization’s main Web person. (Cook is a software engineer by day.) He’s also behind MMF’s Midwestern Audio compilation series — an alllocal-music mixtape released annually — and

Cook: an audiophile in his natural habitat he’s the DJ at MMF’s annual SXSW showcase, the MidCoast Takeover.

“Brenton has been a great asset to the KC music community,” says MMF executive director Rhonda Lyne. “He’s passionate about music, and that shows in his work and how he supports artists. He’s grown from an avid fan and record collector into one of the people helping put the music out there.”

Cook, soft-spoken and friendly, says the inspiration for Haymaker Records started when he was pulling shifts at public-radio station KMST at the University of Missouri– Rolla (now the Missouri University of Science and Technology).

“I found my niche there at that radio station, in the midst of a really boring city in a pretty boring part of the country,” Cook says.

“It was all I wanted to do, and it helped shape my tastes. I feel like a lot of people aren’t crazy about putting out a math-rock album right now. I feel like some people think that genre is dead. But I really like that music, and I think there’s a lot of people that may come around to it. There are certainly plenty of people making that kind of music.”

Now 36, Cook intends to prove that. The next few months will be some of his busiest yet. In August, he’ll put out HMPH’s debut full-length, Headrush. Riala’s first LP, Be Here | Be There, will follow in September. At some point this fall, Be/Non’s Mystic Sunrise/Sunset Magic will also arrive. In addition to a digital release, all these albums will be out on vinyl,

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Rev Gusto prepares for the next phase.

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last spoke with Rev Gusto in the spring of 2014, just as the band was getting ready to release its first vinyl — a 7-inch, put out by Sid Sowder under his Too Much Rock Singles Series umbrella. Back then, the band’s five members — lead singer and guitarist Jerry Frederick; his brother and bassist, Sam Frederick; drummer Quinn Hernandez; guitarist and trumpeter Shaun Crowley; and guitarist and keyboardist Peter Beatty, all between 20 and 24 years old — emanated a sort of wideeyed elation about their place in the local music scene. Big things, they agreed, were coming soon for Rev Gusto.

About a month later, the band was scooped up by local label High Dive Records, and work on an album soon began.

Just over a year later, Rev Gusto is at last releasing Burnt Out Friends — which stays true to the low-fi, rough-hewn pop that the band developed in basement practice sessions five years ago. Ahead of the band’s album-release show Saturday, July 25, at Harling’s Upstairs, I spoke with Crowley about this milestone in Rev Gusto’s career.

The Pitch: What has being on a label been like for Rev Gusto?

Crowley: It’s been definitely a learning experience, to say the least. You definitely learn how long it takes to make a record when you do it through the real process instead of doing it on your own. You don’t think about all the details that a record label thinks of, and it’s nice to have them to guide you through everything.

Another thing is that, when we kind of started working on this record, we all moved into a house together. So there was a lot of pressure around that, and then there was having deadlines for when things needed to be done, and that was new for us. We’re a bunch of young dudes, so being on time is not always the easiest things for us. But we became very anxious with this record.

How do you mean?

In the earlier stages of living together, and especially when we just moved in, we wanted to get the record done as fast as we could.

And there was definitely tension because everyone wanted it to be perfect, and you never got to get away from anyone because we lived together.

We realized that certain things were out of our control, and that really put us at ease — knowing that we were all on this ride together, and we all wanted the same things, and we have to all work together for this album to be successful. But it was also nice having everyone in the house when we wanted to get stuff done because I could just go to their room instead of call them.

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Rev Gusto With White Girl and Toughies Saturday, July 25, at Harling’s Upstairs

great because it means the hard work of the last year and all the pressure of recording is finally over.

One of my favorite things about Rev Gusto is that you guys have a really approachable sound, and then there’s the occasional trumpet.

It’s a very pleasant surprise on record.

Yeah! We get a little bored with guitars, to tell you the truth. We try to stay away from that redundant sound as much as we can.

Honestly, though, one day at practice, Jerry asked me to play melody with trumpet in it — I used to play trumpet in high school — and it sounded great, and that’s something we wanted to revisit on this record. We really wanted to push ourselves to play new instruments and try new sounds.

When Rev Gusto first started, most of the band members couldn’t even drink. It’s rare that a band as young as you all were when you started has stayed together.

Rev Gusto moves up in the world.

It’s weird how long it’s been. The biggest difference I can think of is how easy it’s gotten for us to write songs together. It used to take us a couple practices — Jerry would bring us lyrics and chords, and we’d have to take it through a couple nights — and now we can practice once every two weeks for 45 minutes and still get something done. Now, we don’t even have to think about how our music sounds when we’re onstage. Instead, we can think about the presentation versus what notes we’re hitting, and that’s helped us create a far more energetic live show.

Especially now, with this album, it finally feels like it might actually be paying off. It’s like a big breath out for everyone. We’ve accomplished a big goal, which was to get a fulllength release out. And after the Harling’s show, we’ll go on a three-week tour with [local band] Scruffy & the Janitors. That’s going to be a thing for us, bringing our music to different cities.

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Graham Nash — one-fourth of the former Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young — brings his solo tour Saturday to the Uptown. The 73-year-old legend has promised a set stretching across his 50-plus-year career, which we take to mean songs from his days in the U.K. pop sensation the Hollies up through his time with CSN&Y and beyond. Nash has proved himself an intimate storyteller, and there is no doubt that he can command the attention of a full audience.

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We don’t often get to see Ces Cru perform around these parts. So when the group has the headlining spot at a local venue, it’s best to block off the night — and the following morning. The Strange Music duo’s latest album, Codename: Ego Stripper, showcases the formidable talent and skill with which rappers Ubiquitous and Godemis deliver their razor-sharp rhymes. If you want hiphop with as much heart as it has bite, hit Ces Cru’s Saturday-night show at the Riot Room.

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The invasion international Theatre Festival, with seven one-act, single-performer plays

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10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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

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

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What moon Things, alien Jones, Josh Berwanger Band, sinple | 8 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

KantCon tabletop gaming convention | 9 a.m.-

NiGHTLiFe

11 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, kantcon.com

Bass Hertz official Takeover | 8 p.m. The Bottle-

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neck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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

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

Rd., unionstation.org

Take Five Tour | 6 p.m. Tuesday, American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., americanjazz museum.org

Wyandotte County Fair | 5-10 p.m. Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, 13700 Polfer, KCK, wycofair.com

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Karaoke underground, dJ martin Bush | 10 p.m.

FiLm

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Friday | 7.24 | peRFoRmiNG aRTs

KC dance Festival | 7:30 p.m. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., follytheater.org

Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy’s Revenge |

9:15 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania

sand Cinema: Big Hero 6 | 9 p.m. Longview Lake Beach, 11100 View High Dr.

agent x-12, the ovaries-eez, danny pound & doug mcKinney, invisible public Library | 6 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Baby Birds don’t drink milk, the Fog, dean monkey & the dropouts, arc Flash | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

sporting KC away game vs. Real salt Lake |

10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

Be/Non, Jorge arana Trio, schwervon, HmpH, Riala | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Comedy

The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

Rookie of the year, Jet Black Cat, Get Busy Living | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

MUSeUM exhibiTS & evenTS

Jeff Richards | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy

spoRTs & ReC

al Burnes, Jake Redpath, Glenn Bolton, Josh shirley | 8 p.m. Opera House Coffee & Food Emporium, 500 Walnut, operahousekc.com/events

Rocky Laporte | 7:30 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Coliseum, valkyrie, Bummer | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, Kansas City T-Bones vs. Winnepeg Goldeyes | 7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

Royals vs. astros | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

4048 Broadway

The Floozies, Break science, Wick-it the instigator, sunsquabi | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

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

North Kansas City | 7 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Caboose Park, southeast corner of Armour and Howell

4175 N. Mulberry Dr.

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Montessori, 6321 Wornall

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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

Mary Poppins | Starts Friday, at Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

continued from page 29 Fresh to Def, Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

James Ward Band, Gray Matter | 5:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

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.

Olathe | 7:30 a.m. Saturday and Wednesday, Black Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St.

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

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

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

Lawrence | 7-11 a.m. Saturday, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday,

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

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

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

Shawnee | 7 a.m.-4 p.m. Saturday, Shawnee City Hall, 11110 Johnson Dr.

Listener, Lonesome House, Paper Champion, Not Like Igor | 7 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club,

Mike Scott’s Vinyl Resurrection | 10 p.m. Local

Liberty | 7 a.m.-noon Wednesday, Feldmans Farm & Home, 1332 W. Kansas

Mark Lowrey Trio with Shay Estes | 9 p.m. The

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

Soul Preservers featuring Dropout Boogie |

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

Wednesday, Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr., Merriam

Troostwood youth Garden & Market | 3-8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 1-6 p.m.

Wednesday, 5142 Paseo

NIGHTLIFE

Godzillonaire, Creek Heathens, Soiled Dove |

7 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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

boat Dr., North Kansas City

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

3402 Main

Broadway Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Saturday | 7.25 |

Tim McGraw, Billy Currington, Chase Bryant | Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

PERFORMING ARTS

12th St., follytheater.org

Phantom Blues Band, Teresa James and the Rhythm Tramps | 7 p.m. Frontier Park, 15501 W. Indian

Creek Pkwy., Olathe

Scrappy’s Attic, Abraham Washington, Protestant Dinosaurs | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

COMEDy

Rocky LaPorte | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. Jeff Richards | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

77 Jefferson, Boss Hooligan Soundsystem |

ExPOS

Snow tha Product, Audio Push, Le$ Paul, Grooms and Katie, Seuss | 7 p.m. The Granada,

KantCon tabletop gaming convention | 9 a.m.11 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, kantcon.com

7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

F E S T I VA L S

Via Luna, Temp Tats, Wrong Kata Trio | 9 p.m.

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Mission | 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday, Mission Farm and Flower Market, 5613 Johnson Dr.

KC Dance Festival | 7:30 p.m. Folly Theater, 300 W.

Chuck Mead | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

824 New Hampshire

Wyandotte County Fair | Noon-10 p.m. Wyandotte

County Fairgrounds, 13700 Polfer, KCK, wycofair.com

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FILM

Girl with a Pearl Earring | 11 a.m. Tivoli Cinemas,

4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

SPORTS & REC

The Bubble Run | 9 a.m., $50, Kansas Speedway, 400 Speedway Blvd., KCK, bubblerun.com Global Wrestling Federation’s Resurrection, with

Ricky Cruz vs. Brandon Espinosa, KC Wolves vs. Guns and Beer, Mike Outlaw vs. Mr. Reality, Shawn Nautilus vs.

Brandon Aarons | 7 p.m. Independence National Guard Armory, 2323 S. Crysler Ave., Independence, gwfent.com

Waldo | 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 303 W. 79th St,

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

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

MuSIC

Cannonball Adderley and Nancy Wilson Tribute with Todd Strait and Karla Harris | 6 p.m. Green

Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Victoria Barbee | 8 p.m. Hotel Phillips, 106 W 12th St. Bloodrail, A Different Breed, Houdini Light Machine | Jackpot, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Winnepeg Goldeyes | 7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village

Buzz Beach Ball 2015, with Alt-J, Awolnation, Taking Back Sunday, Glass Animals, Milky Chance, Andrew, McMahon in the Wilderness, and more | Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK

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

Chubby Carrier and the Bayou Swamp Band, Josh Hoyer and Shadowboxers | 9 p.m. Knuckle-

West Pkwy., KCK

heads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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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

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Autumn Twilight, Dwelling Among Mountains | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art,

4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Coloratura: Explorations of Music & Art,

We will be looking for you!

by Camry Ivory, sponsored by Art in the Loop | Oppenstein Brothers Park, 12th St. and Walnut

Adam Cvijanovic: American Montage |

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Family Tour Hour at the Kemper | 2-3 p.m.

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

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

4525 Oak

The Drugstore holds a yard sale in its gallery space to benefit local artists | 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday and

Emmet Gowin: Photographs | Nelson-Atkins

10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday, at the Drugstore, Westport Rd. and Main

Philip Haas: The Four Seasons |

Graham Nash | 7 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

MuSIC

Marco Maggi: Drawing Attention | Kemper

The Rackatees, Bombs Over Broadway, Documentary, Voice of Addiction | 9 p.m. Davey’s

Brad Colerick | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Rochester

The Lawrence Battle of the Bands | 4 p.m. The

Make Your Mark | Kemper Museum of Contem-

Suspect, Cudi Mac, Dutch Newman, Landes, DJ Alv Diesel | 8 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Pennsylvania

World War I and the Rise of Modernism |

Traveling Broke and Out of Gas, Brody Buster Band | 9 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

porary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Sunday | 7.26 |

Ces Cru, Houston Zizza, Joey Cool | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Godson, Copeland Keys, Soopa Mooni Downz, Kadesh Flow, Jordan Baumstark, DJ Alv Diesel, Dose | 3 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway KC/DC, Revolution Calling | 8 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s

Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Robert Earl Keen | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Mas-

sachusetts, Lawrence

King Britt, Liondub | 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 West-

port Rd.

Lazy, Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, the Fog |

COMEDy

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

@ Up Arts Baz a town Arts Dar istric t

The MI-5, Project Seven 1 | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124

Page 7, Street Level uprising | 5 p.m. Replay

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Primitive Man, Amenaza, Keef Mountain |

10:30 p.m. Jackpot, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Anthony Raneri, Allison Weiss | 7 p.m. RecordBar,

zaar Arts Barts District wn A @ Upto

1020 Westport Rd.

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KantCon tabletop gaming convention | 9 a.m.-

7 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, kantcon.com

R5, Jacob Whitesides, Ryland | 7 p.m. The Mid-

land, 1228 Main

Monday | 7.27 |

SPORTS & REC

PERFORMING ARTS

Arts Baza @ Uptown Arts ar District

Cider Mill Century Bicycle Tour: 25-, 57-, 75- and 104-mile options available | Louisburg Cider Mill, 14730 Hwy. 68, Louisburg, kansascyclist.com/events

Move Live on Tour, with Julianne and Derek Hough | 8 p.m. Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St., kcconven-

Upcoming Events

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

Royals vs. Astros | 1:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Ida McBeth | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Winnepeg Goldeyes | 1:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village

My Oh My | The Brick, 1727 McGee

@ Arts Bazaar trict Dis Uptown Arts

West Pkwy., KCK

tion.com/events

MuSIC

Lee DeWyze, Leslie DiNicola | 7 p.m. RecordBar,

1020 Westport Rd.

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Lany | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Louis Neal Big Band | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Todd Strait with Quartet Midwest | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Tuesday | 7.28 |

the Velvet teen, Josh Berwanger Band | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Alex Wiley, Johnny polygon, tae Miles, Mike turner, Ark Noah, Sir Adams, Second Hand king | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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Aobeats, robokid, Hunt for the Breeze, yung Wall Street, Sigrah, Nmezee | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

CoMeDy

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The New Rijksmuseum | 7 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050

Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

Bulletboys & tracii guns, rudy Sarzo | 6 p.m.

Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, the Bright Light Social Hour, Letts | 6 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

Hemingway, Dream ritual, ordinary people, Not like igor, Better off | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

young rising Sons, Hunter Hunted | 8 p.m. The

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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“Mono is a viral illness for which there is no real treatment other than the tincture of time,” Gaster said. “Mono is a pretty insidious illness in that it typically causes really severe fatigue, which can linger for a long time. Other common symptoms are muscle and joint aches.”

Could fatigue and aches still be affecting mood and interest in sex? “They could,” Gaster said. “It would not be typical, but they could.

The duration of mono symptoms is typically around three months, but they can persist to some degree for one to two years in more severe cases. None of the effects of mono are typically considered ‘permanent.’ So it would be important to reassure someone that the

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more than 10 years, practicing some kind of nonmonogamy for more than seven. We tried different things — open, dating others, FWBs — but after a bi threesome with another guy a year ago, we knew that was our thing. For a while, everything was great, but roughly a month after that defining threesome, I came down with a bad case of mono. In a couple of months, we resumed our bi sex dates with our FWB, and I noticed I had a hard time getting horny and even had a hard time getting (and staying) hard. More foreplay was needed and fewer distractions were acceptable. I even resorted to pharmaceutical help. We assumed I was still recovering and that diet and exercise would make it all better. Then I had a work-related crisis that lasted until March (and blamed stress from that because things didn’t really change), and finally in March, I got shipped off to a war zone. And I still don’t have the drive I had a year ago. My brothers-in-arms ogle every female who happens to be around, and sometimes they hook up even though they’re not in open relationships — unlike me, who is in one but has no desire to hook up with anyone. I rarely masturbate these days, and if I do, I need sexts and naughty pictures from my wife (and our FWB) back home to get in the mood. I just recently started to get morning wood again, and I blame all this on the stress of being in a war zone. But I fear that these are just excuses, and I may have to accept the fact that I’m just getting older and this is how my libido is gonna be from now on. I’m turning 30 in a few weeks, so that doesn’t help, either. What are the chances that this is just an unlucky chain of events, and when this is over, I could go back to being my old horny self?

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effects of mono that are still present after 12 to 18 months could still likely resolve as more time passes.”

You came down with mono less than a year ago, so you’re still in that one-to-two-year symptoms-could-persist window. You also dealt with a work-related crisis before being shipped off to a combat zone — that sounds extremely stressful, and not everyone reacts to stress the same way. The stress of being in a combat zone could make the guys around you horny while having the opposite effect on you.

Be reassured, like the doctor said, that things — your dick included — will most likely right themselves in another 6 to 12 months.

The fact that morning wood is returning seems like a good sign, as is the effect that a few dirty texts from the woman (and FWB) waiting for you back home have on your dick.

Come home safe — and props to you and your wife for continuing to grow together sexually. That’s probably why you’re still together, and still in love, despite having married so young.

Dear Dan: My wife is a submissive. I’m not a

natural Dom, but I’ve become more comfortable assuming the role. Recently, she stopped hormonal birth control, and her sex drive and interest in capital-S Submission kicked into high gear.

She joined FetLife and went to her first munch a couple of weeks ago. She’s not shopping for a Dom. She’s looking to socialize, discuss this part of herself, and not feel like such a freak.

She thought she hit it off with a few folks but now realizes that she may have been sending mixed signals. The munch was advertised as casual, but she says most left that night with a hookup or play plans. One man in particular seems to read her interest in friendship as sexual. My wife is quite upset. How can she find a group

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that munch are kinksters, not psychics. If she’s not interested in playing with anyone other than her spouse — if she has a hot Dom at home and is there only to make kinky friends — all she has to do is say so. Munches are informal meetups where kinky people, from nervous novices to wizened pros, get together without the pressures or expectations of a play party.

Your wife’s presence at a munch is not an invitation to fuck, of course, but someone who respectfully expresses an interest in playing isn’t guilty of bending Emily Post over a bondage bench with the intent to fuck her ass. Most people who go to munches are open to play, but those who aren’t are welcome. Your wife just needs to let her new friends know she’s interested only in socializing. You could help her send that unambiguous, nonmixed signal by accompanying her to the next munch.

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Dear Dan: I’m a 24-year-old heterosexual female.

I discovered that my boyfriend still had an online dating profile up and was checking it regularly.

We had a calm discussion about it, and he assured me that he just found the messages he got flattering and offered to take it down. I told him if that’s all he was doing, then there was no reason he couldn’t have those ego boosts and a monogamous relationship with me, too. Had I not been such an avid reader of your column, Dan, that discussion would’ve gone very differently. And, really, it’s not like he was going to forget that other women existed — nor would I want him to.

Though I may look back on this and cringe, right now we’re in a great place. We have fun and are sexually compatible and have really excellent conversations. Thank you!

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cause it’s nice to be reminded that not everyone is cheating or being cheated on, is miserably single and looking to get into a relationship or is trapped in a miserable couple and looking to get out, is kinky and stuck with a vanilla partner or vanilla and stuck with a kinky one.

Some people are doing just fine. And yes, I do think your boyfriend’s answer is perfectly plausible — some people are on dating apps for the ego boosts alone (they’re called “time wasters”) — and here’s hoping that it’s totally truthful as well.

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