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n 2013, not long after John McDonald sold Boulevard Brewing Co., he purchased an old fire station in the East Bottoms, at the corner of Guinotte and Montgall avenues. He had sentimental reasons: The firehouse was built in 1903 by the Heim Brewing Co., the largest beer maker in Kansas City at the turn of the last century — the Boulevard of its day.

A few weeks ago, McDonald — red Boulevard T-shirt, spiky white hair, sharp glasses — arrived at Heim No. 20, as the fire station was once known, and plopped down on a second-floor couch. He and Jamie Jeffries, a local general contractor, have renovated the building and converted it into the headquarters of Bottoms Up Collective LLC. The fire pole remains.

Bottoms Up represents a sort of second act for McDonald’s professional life. Its goals are ambitious — arguably as ambitious as starting a craft brewery at a time when people seemed content choosing between Coors and Budweiser. He means to reinvigorate the East Bottoms and make it a citywide destination for food, beer, manufacturing and entertainment. He said his enthusiasm for this area dates back to his pre-Boulevard days.

“Before Boulevard, I was a cabinetmaker — this was back in the ’70s and early ’80s,” McDonald told me. “So sometimes I’d come down to Case Supply [headquartered in the East Bottoms] and buy cabinet hardware. And I knew it was an old brewery, and then when

I got into doing Boulevard, I started researching it and really got into the history of everything Heim did down here.”

He went on: “The East Bottoms today is kind of like what Southwest Boulevard was when I started working at my dad’s industrialsupply business, back in the 1970s. It’s industrial, a little rough around the edges, kind of this forgotten part of the city.”

Eventually, of course, McDonald bought his father’s building, founded Boulevard and, along with DST Systems, helped spur development and create new jobs along that corridor. Today, the restaurants in the area do steady business, the Roasterie’s airplane dents the skyline, and new bike lanes on the street reach into the booming Crossroads Arts District.

In recent years, McDonald has been steadily buying up property in the East Bottoms. In the mid-aughts, he purchased the old Heim bottling plant (just south of the train tracks on Montgall and built in 1901) and the warehouse next to it, formerly the home of Case Supply, which Boulevard used for storage — overflow warehouse materials, pallets, empty kegs, packaging materials.

A few years later, McDonald bought the storefronts across the street — where the Local Pig and Urban Provisions General Store are now located. (He has since sold those properties to Jeffries.) In the last year, Bottoms Up has added to its portfolio a few vacant lots and some of the housing stock in the area. It continued on page 6

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also recently picked up the Electric Park Café (a diner that once was a Town Topic) and some land adjacent to it.

The plans for all of this remain just that — plans. But every indication is that McDonald is committed to doing something significant in the East Bottoms.

“What I see down here is a part of the city that’s close to downtown, but at the same time is a great place for entertainment because it’s so isolated that nobody really cares about the noise,” McDonald said. “It’s got a great history. And it’s this finite area trapped between the bluff and the river with industrial businesses on both sides. But in the middle of all that, there’s this little community — this manageably sized thing where it seems like we could actually make a difference.”

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he charm and the potential of the East Bottoms are not as immediately obvious as those of the West Bottoms, where art galleries, new restaurants and condos continue to emerge. The five-minute drive east from the City Market to the Bottoms Up offices

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takes you past a Cargill soybean-processing plant, a sheet-metal company, loading docks and a mobile-home park — a vibe less Detroit and more Paducah, Kentucky.

At Hobo’s, a small bar and grill on Agnes Avenue, truckers and men wearing fluorescent vests sip cheap beers and chew on pork tenderloins. At the corner of Guinotte and Olive, two 1-percenter motorcycle gangs — El Forastero and the Galloping Goose — share clubhouse space. The small frame houses that remain in the area — about 240 residences, containing about 369 people, according to the most recent U.S. Census estimates — are mostly old and dilapidated. It’s a neighborhood pocked with condemned structures and scarred by chain-link fences. Some of the dogs are scary, some of the porches overrun with hoarded junk. Trains blow through regularly on the Union Pacific Railroad tracks, which bisect the neighborhood just north of Guinotte Avenue.

In this harsh, unlovely landscape, though, lies a great deal of Kansas City history. The area was originally settled by Belgian and German farmers, drawn to the river valley by its rich soil. In 1884, Ferdinand Heim, an Austrianborn beer maker from St. Louis, expanded his business westward by purchasing the Star Ale Brewery in the East Bottoms. Specializing in

Clockwise from top left: The northwest corner of Guinotte and Montgall; Turnbull and Northcraft inside their American-made goods store Urban Provisions; Braun holding Penelope, Bottoms Up’s in-house goat; and McDonald upstairs in the former firehouse that serves as Bottoms Up HQ. German lager, Heim and his sons built Heim Brewing Co. into the largest brewery in Kansas City. They constructed multiple buildings for their operation, adjacent housing for their employees, the aforementioned fire station, and eventually a streetcar line connecting Heim Brewing with the City Market.

In 1899, the Heim family built Electric Park, a Coney Island–style amusement park.

Bounded by Montgall, Chestnut, Nicholson and Rochester avenues, it contained a roller coaster, a 2,500-seat theater and a German beer garden (with Heim beer piped directly from the brewery), among other amenities.

John Philip Sousa once performed there. It was, says local historian Jason Roe, “the most popular working-class entertainment venue available in Kansas City.”

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47th Street and the Paseo. That venue, which opened in 1907, is said to have inspired Disneyland; as a child, Walt Disney lived not far away, at 3028 Bellefontaine.

Over time, the temperance movement gained steam, Prohibition hit, and the Heims’ brewery business went under. Many East Bottoms residents scattered, and the area became a mostly industrial section of the city, a place where somebody like Frank Hicks might find work at a body shop, as he did in the 1960s and ’70s.

“I was doing body work on trucks in an old Quonset hut over on the 900 block of Prospect, then at a place on Guinotte across from where the trailer park is now,” Hicks said recently, sitting at a table inside Knuckleheads Saloon, the music venue he owns at the corner of Montgall and Rochester. “Then I bought this spot in 1980. Been here ever since.”

In 1997, Hicks opened a storefront to sell motorcycle parts and fixed-up Harleys in what was originally a railroad boardinghouse, at 2801 Rochester.

“At first, we’d be open from noon to 6 p.m. on Saturdays. Then we started staying open and doing live music from 6 to 9 p.m.,” Hicks said. “You could get a beer and a taco, listen to some music. Then we started staying open

From top: Order up at Local Pig; a former grocery store, soon to be returned to its turn-of-the-century glory. until midnight. Then we opened on Fridays for music. Then Thursdays, too. And so on.

It just became this thing.”

In 2001, Hicks obtained a liquor license and formally opened Knuckleheads as a music venue. It has since become the premier destination for roots, country and blues music in Kansas City, and arguably the entire Midwest. That so many noteworthy touring acts play here has forced Kansas City music fans — many of whom would otherwise remain ignorant of the East Bottoms’ existence — to travel to this remote part of the city.

The Local Pig, which operates inside what is believed to have been a pre-Prohibition saloon, at 2618 Guinotte, has become a similarly irresistible lure to foodies with no previous cause to see the East Bottoms. McDonald bought the building in 2009 and hired Jeffries to renovate it. In 2012, Alex Pope leased the space, offering a modern take on the classic butcher shop, emphasizing locally sourced meats, cheeses and charcuterie.

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to time I’d have to run down to Seattle Fish, which is a fish wholesaler with a location a block east of where Local Pig now is,” Pope told me. “And that building always caught my eye. It just stuck in my head. When I started thinking seriously about opening Local Pig, it just seemed like the perfect place for an old-school butcher shop.”

The Local Pig has since opened a food truck, Pigwich, which draws a steady weekday lunchtime crowd to the East Bottoms.

Outdoor seating was recently added to the east side of the building.

“The hard part in the beginning was getting people to come here for the first time,” Pope said. “Once a first-time person figures out they can take Third Street from the City Market, it’s all good. We’re five minutes from downtown, and the rent is very reasonable.

When you have a situation like that, you can afford to take risks like we have because the overhead isn’t crushing.”

Savannah Northcraft echoes that sentiment. Along with Britton Turnbull, she opened Urban Provisions, a store selling American-made goods — local jewelry, apothecary items, small-batch perfume, KCthemed T-shirts, artisan lip balm and the like — last year. The shop is next door to the Local Pig, where Northcraft’s husband, Adam Northcraft, is the general manager.

“I was getting interested in the idea of doing a lifestyle store of some kind, and I went and found a book about starting a retail store,” Savannah Northcraft told me. “And on, like, the very first page, the author advises against opening a boutique shop in a historically industrial neighborhood. This place is across from a brick masonry and down the street from a trailer park. But the overhead was low enough down here that I felt like I could roll the dice.”

Northcraft said the shop has had “amazing momentum since day one.” Following the lead of the Local Pig, which offers classes in butchering and charcuterie, Urban Provisions has since rented space above the shop and booked craft workshops. Along with Jamie Braun, employee No. 3 at Bottoms Up,

neighborhood.”

Northcraft has also pioneered Third Fridays in the East Bottoms. (The next one is slated for September.)

“It’s one part pop-up shop, one part street festival,” Northcraft said. “Often I’ll come across some product that, for whatever reason, doesn’t fit into what we do at the shop,

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hat seems to excite McDonald most about the possibilities of the East Bottoms is the idea of attracting businesses that, like Boulevard, make things and employ people. He and Jeffries estimate that the efforts of Bottoms Up have brought about 40 new paid positions to the East Bottoms.

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but I still want to work with the people who made it. So Jamie and I put together this event where we use the firehouse, bring some of these makers down here, and do kind of an art walk. Pigwich stays open. Usually there’s a music element of some kind. One time, we served a bunch of free pho. It’s just a cheap way for people to come down, eat, drink, shop and experience a different corner of the city.”

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J. Rieger and Co., a spirits distillery operated by Andy Rieger and Ryan Maybee, accounts for four of those jobs. Last summer, it moved into the 15,000-square-foot warehouse at 2700 Guinotte, the former home of Case Supply.

“John came into the Rieger one night, and

I told him that we’d been looking for a space to do a distillery,” Maybee, co-owner of the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, told me. “I was looking at some pretty expensive 6,000- and 8,000-square-foot spots in the Crossroads.

John said, ‘Don’t do that. I’ve got a perfect spot for you in the East Bottoms.’”

Last November, two years after that conversation, J. Rieger & Co. rolled its first product, Kansas City Whiskey, into retail stores. To avoid selling whiskey that was insufficiently aged, they sourced their first batches from other distilleries. Soon, however, J. Rieger will bottle bourbon and rye that have been distilled and aged in the East Bottoms.

But it is in the historic Heim bottling plant — now attached to the J. Rieger building through a sort of breezeway that Jeffries has built — that McDonald’s grandest plans for the East Bottoms are likely to take shape.

Here, he envisions a food hall, an old idea that has recently come back in style in cities such as New York, Chicago, Los Angeles and Denver. Under one roof, it would combine retail, restaurants, and incubator space for small-business artisan producers. Its working name: Electric Park.

“It’s a loose idea at this point, but I’m enamored with the idea of putting a bunch of things in the same place and having them all work together,” McDonald said. “Early on, I saw it as about food production — we’d lease space to people who produce vinegar, sauerkraut, bread, coffee, cheese, whatever,

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and then have a retail overlay to it all and probably a few restaurants in there. But I don’t necessarily think it has to be just a food hub.

It’s more about making stuff.”

To ease some of the costs associated with McDonald’s vision, architectural historian and consultant Cydney Millstein is working to get the bottling plant on the National Register of Historic Places. Built in 1901, the plant was designed by Charles A. Smith, who, as lead architect for the Kansas City school district from 1898 to 1936, also designed many of the city’s public schools.

“You can get on the National Register for significant architecture but also due to the history of a building,” Millstein said. “In the case of the Heim bottling-works plant, the architecture is pretty unique. There are some water-plant buildings around town that have some commonalities, but the Palladian-like windows, which allow so much light in, are really interesting. But its history is just as significant — its ties to Heim and the beer industry.”

Millstein submitted a nomination for the National Register at the end of July. Once historical tax credits are lined up, the plans for Electric Park will come into clearer focus.

In the meantime, Bottoms Up has bought all the available land-bank holdings in the East Bottoms and also recently closed on a substantial amount of residential real estate, purchasing those properties from Robert Ehinger.

“Right now, we either own or have under contract about 12 houses, most of them on Agnes and Prospect and Montgall and

Kansas avenues, all from the same seller,” Jeffries said. “And we bought the Electric Park Café building from him, also. The one exception is, we bought, from Frank Hicks, the original grocery store on Montgall that served the East Bottoms in the early 1900s.

It’s run-down and uninhabitable right now.

But we’ll be renovating it and turning it into something.”

The plan with the residences is to continue renting to the tenants at the same prices, with the aim of restoring and preserving the structures. Vacancies that arise — a few of the houses that Bottoms Up purchased were empty — will be filled with an eye toward bringing the makers and chefs involved in the Electric Park project to live in the East Bottoms.

“We are actively trying not to be perceived as wanting to take over the neighborhood,” Jeffries said. “All the places we bought, people have been living there a long time. We’re not about to come in and start kicking those people out.”

Bottoms Up has also won a grant for a Brownfields assessment of the area bounded

by Front Street and Guinotte Viaduct, and

by Wabash and Bellefontaine. A thumbs-up from that assessment would pave the way for urban agriculture in the area. Bottoms Up has been in talks with the Giving Grove, a local nonprofit that assists low-income communities with growing orchards on vacant lots and community grounds. Rob Reiman, director of the Giving Grove, said the East Bottoms plan would likely involve a cluster of 20 trees along the train tracks.

McDonald and Jeffries have big plans for the former Heim Brewing bottling plant.

“Some apple, some pear, some Asian pear, maybe some hazelnut,” he said. “And we’re also talking about edible landscaping, where you’d have some bush cherries, some serviceberry, maybe some fig, maybe clove currants.

I suspect we’ll be planting either this fall or next spring.”

If this is all beginning to sound a bit utopian, it’s useful to remind yourself that McDonald — who sold Boulevard for a reported $100 million — is not a move-to–Mission Hills, donate-a-wing-to-the-museum type of guy. He still lives on the West Side. He would prefer to use his money to build something useful and new — and something with a certain cool factor. Talking to him about these ideas, there is a sense that profit alone would not define their success. You wonder whether he views the East Bottoms as an opportunity to add another layer to his KC legacy.

“I think maybe, yeah,” McDonald said when I asked him that question. “But I also really do see opportunity in the East Bottoms.

I think it’s a component of a much larger trend of people wanting to move back to the city.

And some of the things we’ve done so far down here are working.”

He went on: “I’ve gambled on strange ideas before, and they’ve worked out. Sometimes you have to be a little crazy to see the potential in things.”

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The last exhibition — A Universe of Collisions — is by Phunam, Matt Lucero and Tuan Andrew Nguyen, a trio known as the Propeller Group, which operates out of Los Angeles and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The result of three years of development at Grand Arts (it debuted in May at the 2015 Venice Biennale), it was inspired by a statistical impossibility: During the U.S. Civil War, two bullets fired from opposite sides happened to collide in midair. The Propeller Group set out to replicate this artifact, this time using Cold War weaponry, a Soviet AK47 and a U.S.-made M16. With the help of engineers at Chesapeake Testing and material called ballistics gelatin, which captures what can’t be seen with the naked eye, the artists managed to recreate this story 21 times. Other documentation on view includes two videos, depicting the collisions and dramatizing the weapons’ history, as well as largescale drawings of shrapnel patterns from the shots — versions of a “violence poetica,” after a fashion.

The Late Show has in recent times seemed poised to close, and the title

of August’s exhibition feels like a selfaware hint from dogged owner Tom Deatherage: It’s Been a Rough Summer … But We Keep On. It features works on paper by Steve Frink and Jason Needham. Still on view is Old, New, Borrowed and Blue, with highly salable works by some of KC’s hottest, including Travis Pratt, Emma Jennings, Adolfo Martinez, Dave Matthews and Laura Nugent. The Late Show is a bit off the beaten Crossroads path, at 1600 Cherry. But true to its name, it stays open until 10 p.m. on the first Friday, and it’s always worth a visit.

Another East Crossroads favorite that is likewise open from 6 to 10 p.m. first Friday, Plenum Space (504 East 18th Street, on the second floor), has a winner this month. Samuel Davis is an adjunct professor of ceramics at Johnson County Community College and has shown his porcelain and mixed-media works a bit in Kansas City since coming here from Clemson University (South Carolina), where he earned his MFA in 2009. His art mixes traditional and humorous styles to explore ideas of anxiety, memory and social change. Featured in the exhibition Cast Away is a little white bull topped with birds and standing on a pedestal ringed with colored images of clips of other animals; the piece, “Fight or Flight,” states the delightfully obvious but eternal dichotomy of every confrontation.

MLB Designs is a small, upscale gallery and interior-design boutique that has been in the former Byron Cohen space (2020 Baltimore) long enough to be taken for granted. But if you haven’t

stopped in lately, now is a great time: Stuart Wheat, a sculptor known for wall hangings made of bright, colored layers of flat forms painted in various coordinated graphic designs, is showing a flatter side of himself. In his current show, he has miniaturized his kinetic colorscapes into compact 2-D canvases that dance with intense, disciplined grids of impasto.

Other August 7 highlights include Soul Selfie at Hilliard Gallery (1820 McGee), a group show of true self-portraits curated by Teresa Magel; Avery Fowles: Hyper Pattern at Beco Gallery (1922 Baltimore); Joel Gwidt’s solo show at Jones Gallery (1717 Walnut), titled Convergence of Perspective; Stephen Dinsmore’s Just Desserts at Blue Gallery (118 Southwest Boulevard); and new works by Chico Sierra at Alpha Gallery (2014 Main).

Meanwhile, if you’re looking for a party, there are at least a few on the calendar: Imagine That (2040 Central) puts on its third annual Southwest x Central Street Fest Friday, with art and music celebrating the nonprofit art studio that supports adults with developmental disabilities. Mid-America Arts Alliance (2018 Baltimore) has a live performance by Katy Guillen & the Girls on its outdoor stage at 7 p.m. and hubcap art inside.

And even though Kultured Chameleon no longer has a brick-and-mortar presence in the Crossroads, it still co-sponsors a good time with its Block Party @ Art Alley (1701 Locust), starting at 5 p.m., with live graffiti painting, hip-hop, a skate jam and related vendors.

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ilda Radner was just 42 when she died of ovarian cancer in 1989. An original cast member of Saturday Night Live (1975–80), she developed memorably hilarious characters: Roseanne Roseannadanna, Emily Litella, and the Barbara Walters parody Baba Wawa. For those who remember her well — and those not so familiar — local actress and theater teacher Helena Cosentino recalls that comedic genius in her new show, Gilda: A Tribute to the Beloved Comedienne Gilda Radner, which debuts August 7 at the Fishtank. “Ever since I was a little girl, I have been in love with Gilda,” she says. I spoke with Cosentino by e-mail about that love and her work in theater.

The Pitch: Tell us about your upcoming show, Gilda: A Tribute to the Beloved Comedienne Gilda Radner. How did it come together?

Cosentino: In this show, I will pay homage to some of Gilda Radner’s infamous characters and quirky musical numbers. But I will also be telling a story about a brave woman who used humor and laughter to get through the struggles and cruelty of a life cut short, from being the fat kid to being a young woman on top of her game struck with terminal cancer.

This has been a longtime dream of mine — the idea has been with me for years. Anyone who knows me knows that I have wanted to do this one-woman show for a long time. I have had moments throughout the years of working on this tribute. But this year, as I was watching the 40th-anniversary special and I realized that I am the same age that Gilda was when she was diagnosed with cancer, I knew it was my time to drop any fears or roadblocks and just take a leap of faith. I have an amazing amount of support from family and friends and am at a place in my life that I have surrounded myself with creative people willing to help with various aspects of this production.

I had already researched, watched and read all I could about Gilda. So I started picking out aspects of her story and life that I felt needed to be told, but also those that pulled at my heartstrings. I studied her performances and then decided what I wanted to include in my show. I chose some pieces based on theme and others because I just love them.

What inspired you to develop a piece around Radner’s career?

Ever since I was a little girl, I have been in love with Gilda. People like me, who grew up with her, miss her. She died way too young and she has been gone for more than 25 years.

My younger friends do not know her. I hope to transport them back to a time when humor was innocent yet edgy and poignant. Gilda is a classic and timeless. What I discovered in this process is that not only do I love her as a performer but I also admire her strength, courage 14

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and ability to laugh at herself and make fun of the fears and challenges she faced. If I can show my audience a glimpse of the spirit of Gilda, this show will have been a success.

How are you affected by the audience?

I love how Gilda Radner puts it, that performing is a way to send and receive love. I feel that way, also. I am so very grateful that anyone would want to come to my performance.

This one particularly is a big deal because of how I feel about Gilda, how moved I am to tell her story, and the vulnerability I feel when it is just me up there onstage.

You did graduate work in collaborative theater. How does it differ from a traditional theater process? And does it affect your approach as a theater teacher?

My work is inspired by Ruth Zaporah’s Action Theater; Playback Theatre; Gabrielle Roth’s 5Rhythms movement practice; Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed; and Anna Halprin’s Life/Art process. In grad school, I had the opportunity to travel and do workshop intensives with these master teachers. Then I came back to Kansas City and combined aspects of all these forms to make my own process. It is the process that I call Storizenmotion. It can be used to generate original work as an ensemble collaboration or for solo exploration.

Gilda: A Tribute to the Beloved Comedienne Gilda Radner Through August 16 at the Fishtank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte, 816-809-7110, brownpapertickets.com This one-woman show has a similar process when it comes to compiling and editing my work. I have taken from many sources and have worked to create an arc and through-line in my production, relating stories and characters together in order to give my best effort to share Gilda with my audience. As a teacher, I use these forms with my theater students as acting exercises, and also as a means to create interactive scenes around peer pressure and anti-bullying.

What’s your favorite theater genre?

I am a lover of experimental and interactive theater. I love theater that extends beyond entertainment. Anna Halprin, who created The Life/Art process, and Gabrielle Roth have been my two biggest influences. They have inspired me to use acting, art and movement to process through, heal and celebrate life.

How and when did you decide on a career related to theater?

I don’t know that I ever actually decided. It is what I have always done. I did decide, as an undergrad, to get a teaching certificate, and

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Cosentino enacts the many faces of Radner. kind of fell into teaching and found I loved it. I love seeing my students up onstage and inspiring the theater bug in them. I love seeing them grow up into young adults having success and still a part of the theater world.

What brought you to KC or kept you here?

I was born and raised in KC. Yes, I have lived different places at times in my life, but I always seem to come back. This is where my family is. I am also blessed with friendships in this city that are real and long-lasting. KC also has a thriving theater and art community. It is fun for me to see my talented friends having successes and being supported here. I have always said Kansas City is a great place to live.

What contemporary women performers make you laugh?

I tell you, the funniest female performer I know is my best girlfriend, Wendy Jo Smith, a Kansas City native. She is a female drag queen, singer, rap artist and comedienne known as Wendy Ho. Her stuff is surely not appropriate for children or for those easily offended, but she makes me laugh like no one else. She is bold, truthful, edgy and an amazing talent.

What’s the best part about what you do?

I feel so lucky and blessed that I get to live out my passion, and I am surrounded by amazing, talented, creative people.

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n her nearly 45-year career, Pam Grier has often seemed less like an actress and more like an alchemist, turning unpromising material into gold.

Since her breakthrough role in Jack Hill’s 1971 women-in-prison movie, The Big Doll House, Grier has taken on racial stereotypes, sexism, the drug trade, arms dealers, genocidal Martians and garish ’70s fashion — and usually emerged victorious. Four decades ago, in revenge dramas such as Coffy and Foxy Brown (which gave the rapper Inga DeCarlo Fung Marchand her stage name), she opened the door for future action stars such as Michelle Yeoh and Cynthia Rothrock, and she made the cover of Ms. And she has renewed her stardom in the years since, gaining her most recent set of fans as Jennifer Beals’ supportive older sister, Kit, for six seasons of The L Word.

Yet her star power and her legacy have never been more intertwined — or more effective — than in Jackie Brown, Quentin Tarantino’s 1997 reworking of Elmore Leonard’s novel Rum Punch. Friday night, August 7, Grier appears at Kansas City Comic Con’s 35 mm screening of Jackie Brown, at the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet (1400 Main). At 4 p.m.

Saturday, she’s at Bartle Hall to talk about her career as part of Comic Con; see kansascity-

comiccon.com for tickets and the rest of the lineup.

Grier spoke with The Pitch last week by phone.

The Pitch: I read your memoir, Foxy: My Life in Three Acts, because I wanted to make sure I knew enough about your career.

Grier: [Laughs.] Oh, my God. I look at it and go, “I’m tired — 45 years.” But look at what Betty White has had. Florence Henderson is 81, come on!

My granddaddy Ray said that if a woman can’t do anything, a man won’t respect her.

So he taught all of his granddaughters and my mom and my aunt how to hunt, fish and shoot, bring the boat and drive the tractor.

That was so we could have something from a rural and urban environment as well as a military environment, so we would have a self-esteem and something of value to trade, so we’ve got some education.

We’ve been contributing to the economy since 1974, when we had the oil embargo, when 49 to 60 percent of women stayed at home and weren’t equal in the workforce.

When they had to go out into the workforce, it boosted the economy greatly. For example, if you take away all the women for one week and have them not work, see what happens to the economy. It absolutely will

Pam Grier celebrates Jackie Brown Friday night at the Alamo.

crash. One week, not a month — one week.

You’ve said you’re a comic-book fan. What kind of comics have you enjoyed reading?

I was escaping into Superman, Supergirl.

You had Wonder Woman. We had the Hulk.

My favorite is Archie. That was so romantic to me. Archie and Veronica, are you kidding? I enjoyed them so much, superheroes who saved the underdog, who fought crime.

I loved some of the Batman comics, even though I found some of them spooky.

In the prison movies you did and the revenge dramas you made with Jack Hill, you and Hill managed to slip in some serious takedowns of sexism, racism and illicit drugs.

That was the only way we could get it in because we’d have had opposition if anything was just forthright and honest.

Jack hadn’t gone into the black community to see a lot of the narratives, so I would bring him narratives. First of all, Coffy was my mom. Coffy was a nurse who stood up to the bad guys in the hood. And that was my mom.

It was the Jim Crow time. Many times, the ambulances would not come to your AfricanAmerican neighborhood. You’d have a car crash, and they’d tow away the car while you’re sitting on the curb. I never saw an ambulance in our neighborhood. Ever. Most of us did not. I’d come home, and my mom was fixing somebody’s head or arm. If someone didn’t take you, you were going to die or go to someone’s house. That was in the late ’60s, early ’70s. You could cram in as many messages as you wanted. There was very little fantasy in those films. It was real.

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The only reason I took the [first] Jack Hill movie was because I needed tuition to go to film school. I had turned down [producer] Roger Corman. I read Stanislavski’s An Actor Prepares. I was so impressed with the book. It was just amazing. I was very much alone. No one really knew the level of preparation or dedication that I had. They kind of laughed at it and gawked. “Oh, women. They just have to put on a push-up bra, wear makeup and look cute.” No, that’s not what Stanislavski or Chekhov do. I followed the book in my heart.

And hopefully, as they’re saying, I made the work better, even though it was a wet T-shirt– in-prison movie. I made the work interesting, as if you were in a real prison. That’s why I’m talking with you about it 45 years later.

I tried to get a Western done about Mary

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Fields, the first black stagecoach driver for the mail route in Montana. Gary Cooper wrote an article in Ebony. She had a wonderful and substantial contribution to the West. I pitched it to my agents, and then I pitched it to the studios. Nobody would believe there was a black stagecoach driver, even with pictures.

“Blacks did not exist in the West.” So there you go. My mom’s from Wyoming.

You’re obviously proud of your ’70s work and Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown. Why are you so eager to do a Q&A for that film?

No children are allowed because there might be some profanity. [Laughs.] Because when we talk about the authenticity of Sam Jackson’s Ordell, I have some anecdotes that are going to make people laugh so hard, they are going to cry.

Why do you like the film so much?

It’s less action, more cerebral and crafty.

It’s grifting out the gangstas. Here’s this flight attendant who’s at the tail end of her career.

She can’t lose any more jobs or go to jail. She’s making $16,000 a year. She really has to win this game. She has to use her wits. She has to come up with a plan and have someone trust her and help her with this plan.

What was it like working with Tarantino?

Our takes were long because we didn’t have the budget to do a lot of takes and postproduction work, so we had to be relatively good. I don’t think Quentin would have hired me if I hadn’t done theater because it’s discipline. You don’t get Take 2.

With Michael Keaton … I remember thinking, “Oh, my God. He’s at Mach speed. He’s at warp 3!” I have to be so present with him and equal in mind, or you can’t do a scene with him. Sam Jackson as well. When you are so listening, which is part of your tools as an actor, you can’t be behind. You’ve got to know what you’re doing, or the scene will not work. I said, “Can I do this or am I going to walk away with my tail between my legs? I can’t embarrass Quentin. He has invested two years of his life to write this for me. I. Can’t. Fail. Him.” I had to push beyond what I ever thought was going to be given to me as an actor.

You were one of the leads in the Showtime series The L Word for six years. What did you take from that experience?

It was important for me to understand a community that I didn’t know, that had experienced such discrimination and such issues.

It really helped me to share it with people who were homophobic. I’ve had people write me letters and say because of me doing The L Word, they were able to accept people who were gay in their families. Even if it’s one person, I felt I did something.

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There are 10 participating venues: Blind Tiger, Chuy’s, Drunken Worm, El Patrón, Hotel Phillips, Kmacho’s, On the Border, Salty Iguana, Unforked, and the Well. That’s a lot of margaritas, so I decided to get a head start by visiting a couple of the spots to scout the competition. In both cases, I asked for my drinks to be made with the event’s tequila sponsor, Olmeca Altos tequila.

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Drunken Worm’s specialty-cocktails list is essentially just a big menu of margarita variations. I chose the Spicy Matador, featuring poblano pepper–infused Olmeca Altos Reposado tequila, mai tai mix and agave syrup. The menu said the drink would arrive in a margarita glass, but I received a massive pint glass filled with a fluorescent yellow liquid. No problem.

And no kidding about that poblano infusion. My first sip was all spice — but not in a bad way. In fact, the infusion offered some relief from the thick sweetness of the mai tai mix. The two flavors together made for an interesting push-and-pull profile, one that required some chips and salsa.

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Jessy’s margarita — named for some kind of conquering margarita warrior, I expect — came in a glass a little shorter than a pint, with a salted rim. It had a purplish hue to it, owed to the ounce or so of sangria it was topped with that gave the drink a marbled effect as it sank.

It also gave the margarita a certain elegance, and a sweeter, bubblegum-like taste. This would be a perfect partner for a day at the pool.

The Pitch’s Margarita Wars Friday, August 7, in the parking lot behind the Well, 7421 Broadway, tickets at pitch.com The cucumber margarita was frozen and served in a tall goblet rimmed with chile salt.

It was an enticing shade of green, with dark flecks studding the ice. I could get just a hint of the tequila, but I wasn’t disappointed by the flavor as I sipped: cool, refreshing cucum-

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Torn Label Bitter Summer cask tapping, at Green Room Burgers & Beer (4010 Pennsylvania), 5 p.m.

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Tallgrass tap takeover, with Bourbon Barrel Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat with Cinnamon, at 403 Club (614 Reynolds, KCK), 4–7 p.m.

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prime piece of Plaza property, 4807 Jefferson, reopened Tuesday as a polished, seductively lighted new restaurant from Alan Gaylin, the founder and CEO of rapidly expanding local restaurant operator Bread & Butter Concepts (BRGR, Urban Table, Taco Republic). The new venue, Republica (pronounced Repooblica), takes its culinary motivation from the Spanish concept of sobremesa, to leisurely gather around a table, not so much to eat as to relax and talk.

Gaylin says he chose the restaurant’s name as a play on his Mexican restaurant, Taco Republic. But don’t expect even a hint

Republica opens on the Country Club Plaza.

Republica’s chef Gilmore (above left) may have the right Spanish ingredients for the Country Club Plaza. of a tortilla chip floating out of chef Bradley Gilmore’s kitchen. This is classic Spanish cuisine in every way, from the wine list, which is dominated by Spanish vintages, to a menu with a broad selection of traditional tapas and no fewer than five variations of paella, including two — a vegetable creation and a mix of rice with pieces of game birds — that are free of seafood.

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cation, formerly occupied by a fast-casual Ingredient restaurant and, prior to that, a Meiners supermarket. There isn’t a lot of available parking on this side of the Plaza, but Gaylin is introducing valet service this week.

Gaylin and his team completely gutted the Ingredient space to allow Arizona-based architectural team Realm Architecture & Design to create a highly stylized interior that at night seems dark and clubby, with tufted navy-blue banquettes; dark, unclad tabletops; a shiny exhibition kitchen; and industrial-style front windows with rippled, chicken-wire glass. (Gaylin was impressed by this last feature in some of New York’s warehouse-district restaurants.) Gaylin says this was not his most expensive build-out, although it looks it; the costliest Bread & Butter project remains his other Plaza venture, Gram & Dun, which opened three years ago.

The Country Club Plaza district was built in the 1920s with a specifically Spanish architectural theme, but it has never offered a dining venue with exclusively Spanish cuisine. (When Plaza III opened in the 1960s, there were a few vaguely Spanish dishes.)

Republica serves 12 small cold plates and 19 hot choices, including one really hot selection. That would be the $19 Caliente Rock, in which a shiny black river rock, heated to 500 degrees Fahrenheit, is the centerpiece in a pan with roasted seasonal vegetables and 5 ounces of sliced raw wagyu strip steak that patrons cook themselves, using tiny wooden tongs, on the sizzling rock.

One can wash down the hot meat with one of three house-made sangrias (red, white and a seasonal selection, currently a summery strawberry-mint topped off with sparkling wine) or one of beverage director Scott Tipton’s visually sumptuous craft cocktails (“They all have a Spanish component of some kind,” he says) complementing the meatier, greasier tapas. Notably, there are albóndigas, those succulent pork meatballs, paired here with Green Dirt Farm cheese, and bomba rice croquettas fried in duck fat.

Gilmore will continue overseeing the kitchen at Gram & Dun (just around the corner), sharing Republica’s culinary duties with chef de cuisine Robert Cantu and sous chef Rick Mullins. The dining room here is spacious but not overwhelming (it seats 145 customers), and in true Spanish tradition, the kitchen stays open quite late, past midnight on most evenings.

“The Spaniards prefer to eat late,” Gaylin says.

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Indy Fest is back — and Ray Price plans to keep it that way.

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he entrance to Indyground Entertainment is prominently labeled but easy to miss.

Located on a small strip at the intersection of 39th Street and Broadway, it’s a black door that bears the hip-hop label’s insignia and is smushed between Grimm Tattoo and the awning for the consignment clothing shop Loop KC. Beyond the door is a show-posterlined hall leading to a large, bright room with a plush white-leather couch, two desks piled with papers and CDs, and a whiteboard full of color-coded names and schedules.

This is the third place that Ray Price’s Indyground Entertainment has made its headquarters since becoming official in 2007. At the moment, his label roster counts five artists besides himself (Price performs as rapper Steddy P): Dom Chronicles, Brett Gretzky, Farout, J Bomb and DJ Mahf. Last year, he launched a management branch that cares for four artists. And on Saturday, August 8, Price is bringing back one of Indyground’s boldest initiatives: Indy Fest.

“We started Indy Fest in 2010, with two nights at RecordBar,” Price tells me. “The second and last Indy Fest we had was in 2011.

After that, in 2012, we got this call from a guy in Lake of the Ozarks who wanted to do a hip-hop fest called Do the Dam Thing, with a $25,000 budget — our headliner was Brother Ali, and we had Blueprint and artists from all over Missouri. And we did it and we lost on it.”

There’s something a little metaphorical about the cast that Price wears on one of his legs and the crutches in view. (These are owed, he says, to a recent basketball injury.)

But Price relates his account of 2012’s setback with the same no-regrets charisma he brings to every other topic. He makes a perfectly convincing — if transparently realistic — mogul.

“I did the deal correctly, and we protected ourselves, but it was a learning experience,” he says.

An experience, Price adds, that prepared him for the third iteration of Indy Fest, with its biggest and most impressive lineup to date.

Mac Lethal headlines on Saturday, and the 30 other names on the bill mix strong local talent — including Gee Watts, Akai Najir, Pistol Pete, Approach, Nicolette Paige, Second Hand King, Sean Anonymous and Barrel Maker — and appealing regional acts such as Saba (Chicago), Ecid (Minneapolis), Both (Omaha) and Derill Pounds (Oshkosh, Wisconsin). There’s even a “Beats N Bars” rap-battle stage, presented by the Loop KC (in which, naturally, Price is also a partner).

“With this fest, Steddy [Price] approached me in the planning process,” Tim Gutschenritter, co-owner of the Riot Room, tells me.

“He wanted to team up and really combine efforts to make it something serious. I think

it’s amazing for the local music community because it’s rooted in Kansas City talent and Midwestern talent. This lineup really represents what’s going on in independent hip-hop culture right now.”

Now that Indy Fest is back, Price says, he intends to grow it every year. “We’re curating the biggest hip-hop festival that Kansas City has right now,” he says. “Hopefully, we can brand Indy Fest, and it can grow and stay here, much like a Soundset.”

He goes on: “I think there’s a big demand here. I’ve worked with Middle of the Map Fest a lot — I’ve had Indyground stages at Middle of the Map — but they’re so band-centric that they can’t keep it a level playing field for the hip-hop. And, you know, hip-hop is a big influence on popular culture these days. We have a good [hip-hop] show happening every other night of the week in Kansas City, and it didn’t used to be like that.”

In a few weeks, Price and his partners will move the Loop KC down the street to take over the former Bangarang shop space. There’s more room there, more visibility and — best of all, Price says — it faces the Riot Room.

“A lot of this is happening by the seat of my pants,” Price says with a laugh. “But I think

Saturday, August 8, at the Riot Room, indyfestkc.com

Price gives us a different kind of independence day. it would be cool to have it [the new Loop KC space] be another location for Indy Fest, so you could just walk across the street.”

There’s a chance, he adds, that he could uproot the Indyground Entertainment offices for a fourth time and move the headquarters right above the Riot Room. As Price talks about the growth of Indyground Entertainment and the second coming of Indy Fest, he does so with a sense of pride — not just in his own work, but in the talent he’s putting in front of a local audience.

Sean Hunt, who performs as Approach, says that pride is well-founded. “It’s awesome that Ray and Indyground have always stuck their necks out, like, ‘This is what we do, and this is what we want to showcase,’” he tells me. “I think anytime you take an aspect of the music scene that kind of gets overlooked within any city, and you put together some of the best and brightest folks around — people who might not be getting the attention they deserve — it’s bound to make an impact.”

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Last year, Peter Schlamb released Tinks, an album of high-energy, original compositions built on electric vibraphone.

It’s a phenomenal record, with tracks that stretch the definition of jazz into a mesmerizing modern funk. Schlamb’s concise arrangements twist and explode with delight. Friday night, he brings his Electric Tinks band to the staid 1940s charm of the Green Lady Lounge. With Schlamb on vibes, Hermon Mehari on trumpet, Matt Villinger on keyboards, Karl McComasReichl on bass and Pat Adams on drums, this collection of exceptional young talent fuses its own 21st-century music vocabulary with traditional jazz elements.

— Larry Kopitnik Electric Tinks, 8:30 p.m. Friday, August 7, at the Green Lady Lounge (1809 Grand, 816-215-2954), no cover.

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ince 2003, Jeffrey Stolz and Wallace Cochran have made music together as Drakkar Sauna, an oddball folk act specializing in songs with fantastical, sometimes extraterrestrial plots. The band’s most recent album, 2009’s 20009 — pronounced twothousand-ousand-nine — is hard evidence of the duo’s weird ways. And though it has been six long years since Stolz and Cochran put out new Drakkar Sauna material, it has been easy to take for granted Drakkar Sauna’s ready supply of bizarre charm Things have changed.

Amid rumors of a new album, Drakkar Sauna has instead announced that it’s all over. Cochran is relocating to the Hawaiian island of Maui in the fall, and so, Stolz tells me, Drakkar Sauna must cease.

Not without a farewell blowout, however.

Friday, August 7, Stolz and Cochran reunite onstage one final time, joined by a host of area musicians: Wayne Gottstine (Split Lip Rayfield), Paul Schmidt (40 Watt Dreams, Midday Ramblers), Evan Herd and Tanner Spreer (Psychic Heat), Ryan Johnson (Floyd the Barber), Sam Goodell (Hearts of Darkness) and Kelly Hangauer (the Hips, Fourth of July).

Ahead of the show, I chatted with Stolz about the end of the Drakkar Sauna era.

The Pitch: Drakkar Sauna is throwing in the towel after 12 years? What gives?

Stolz: We just recorded a new album, the first album in six years, and we were planning a show at the [Lawrence] Arts Center in October for an album release. But Wallace is up and moving to Maui — his wife got a job — and it was kind of quick news for them, too, and they’re leaving a couple of days after the show.

So this is a forced retirement?

Kind of, yeah.

Tell me about the new album. How close is it to completion, and what’s going to happen to it now that Wallace isn’t going to be here for its release?

It’s currently unnamed. We finished recording it, and we’re still mixing it and putting final touches on it. We won’t be releasing it August 7 — I’m not sure when we’ll be able to release it. We don’t know quite yet what we’re going to be doing with it. All of our fulllength albums were on Marriage Records, out of Portland [Oregon], and it’s changed ownership, and I’m not sure how active it is right now, so we’re probably going to be seeing if anyone is interested in the album.

That might take a little time.

We hadn’t really been anticipating touring on the new record anyway, just because we had so much going on with our careers and whatnot, so I don’t know. We probably would have done a lot more regional shows

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[if Wallace had stayed], but as it looks now, it’s still in the planning stages. I may need to play some shows with a cardboard cutout or possibly a hologram.

Let’s talk about the farewell show. You’ve got a lot of special guests on the bill. How is that going to look?

They will all be kind of sitting in on various songs with us, and it’ll just be Drakkar Sauna songs. We’ll have guests coming and going for certain tunes, so we hope to do a range. We’ve got some old stuff we’ll do, some stuff with just Wallace and I, and we’ll add folks as we go on. It should be just a raucous noise fest.

I get that you haven’t been especially active in Drakkar Sauna for the past six years, but with Wallace moving so far away, that definitely has an edge of finality to it. How are you feeling about that?

I’d say it’s 50-50 elation and dread. Just not having Wallace around to scream at me and tell me what to do, that’ll make me feel better. Dread because I need Wallace around to scream at me and tell me what to do in order to be productive.

I already have a side project called the Hips that I hope will continue on, slowly but surely.

And I’ve been talking to some people about starting something else up. I’d like to get back to playing drums for a band, and I recently got a Farfisa organ that I’d like to play in a more electric outfit.

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had two more questions for Stolz — what he learned from his 12-year stint in Drakkar Sauna and what he’d miss about the band — and he opted to respond via e-mail with lists.

To wit, things I learned during my time with Drakkar Sauna: • Never sleep on a couch covered in greasesoaked rags.

• Five harmophones are as many harmophones as a man needs.

• Charlie Louvin will offer you his handkerchief in a light drizzle.

• Random drunkards in a Memphis bar do, in fact, care about college basketball.

• Songs don’t necessarily need to have more than one chord.

• One of the best things to eat in Nashville is something called “hot chicken.”

• People competing in a dart tournament do not pay attention to live music, no matter how close in proximity.

• Sometimes the only dynamic you can offer as a two-piece is to have the tambourine shoe come in one verse later.

• Quieter acoustic bands should never follow loud rock bands. That’s what is referred to as a “sonic letdown.”

Cochran (left) and Stolz bow out.

Drakkar Sauna Friday, August 7, at the Lawrence Arts Center, in Lawrence

• You can never charge too much to play at a wedding.

Things I will miss: • The celestial blend of the harmophone’s slightly flat notes with the slightly sharp notes of Wallace’s singing.

• The holes in Wallace’s guitars.

• Figuring out harmonies to be sung at top volume.

• Sound men’s reactions to hearing that we use a condenser mic onstage.

• Our condenser mic that allows us to hear the audience’s conversations louder than they can hear our music.

• The rich conversation of our audience.

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the 43-year-old is now a tween icon, thanks to Frozen, don’t expect an entirely G-rated show; Menzel’s live performances are dotted with colorful repartee and humor. Still, this show should offer you the chance to hear Menzel’s powerful pipes in real time — something that both show-tune nerds and Disney kids can appreciate.

Wednesday, August 12, Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827)

Trombone Shorty

Shania Twain

Friday night's Sprint Center show may be your last opportunity to see Shania Twain in concert. The ’90s country superstar and singer of the megahit “Man! I Feel Like a Woman” has declared that her Rock This Country tour — her first in 11 years — is her last, as she slides into retirement at 49 years old. But Twain isn’t really retiring. Though she doesn’t intend to perform live once this tour wraps, she's working on an album of new material, her first since 2002’s Up! (if you’re not counting last year’s Still the One: Live From Vegas compilation). So listen to that voice inside you that desperately wants to belt out lyrics to “That Don’t Impress Me Much” and pay tribute to the original country-pop crossover queen by getting thee to her concert.

Friday, August 7, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

Charli XCX, Bleachers

You will definitely remember Charlotte Aitchison — better known as Charli XCX — from last year’s summer smash “Fancy,” if not

Twain says goodbye. her fantastic full-length Sucker. The English singer-songwriter is co-headlining at the Uptown Saturday night. Don’t worry: Iggy Azalea, Aitchison’s “Fancy” duet partner, will not be there. Instead, Jack Antonoff’s Bleachers makes up the other half of the bill. Antonoff is a master of high-fructose pop anthems, as evidenced by his band’s debut Strange Desire. He’s also a fine match for Aitchison’s irreverent, bad-girl antics.

Saturday, August 8, Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)

Idina Menzel

So you’re not going to make it to a Broadway show for Idina Menzel. There’s a consolation prize: The Grammy Award-winning singer and actress — famous for, among other things, her rendition of “Let It Go” from Disney’s Frozen — stops in town with a tour that highlights her better-known numbers (audience members can expect the epic “Take Me or Leave Me” from Rent) and some choice covers. Though

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Troy Andrews, the 29-year-old trombone player who performs as Trombone Shorty with his band, is in town for a free show at the KC Live Block. If you haven’t yet immersed yourself in Andrews’ brand of music, in which New Orleans jazz and funk meet the Delta blues, you’re missing out on so much joy. In 2013, Andrews released Say That to Say This — an album so full of sultry beats and brassy riffs, you’d have a hard time keeping still. You won’t have to Friday, when Trombone Shorty gives us a soundtrack worth coming out for.

Friday, August 7, KC Live Block (13th Street and Grand, powerandlightdistrict.com)

The Far West

Everyone’s the next Monroe, everyone’s the next James Dean, Lee Briante drawls in “On the Road,” the first track off Any Day Now, the most recent release from his Los Angeles band, the Far West. At first glance, it’s an Americana album not unlike those that followed in the wake of Dawes’ breakthrough a few years ago. But over the course of Any Day Now, just as in “On the Road,” Briante’s voice is coiled with a sliver of irony. His references to Marilyn Monroe and James Dean intentionally place the record in the past, and the dusty western rhythm and rattlesnake cymbals are far from modern, but there’s something fresh about this band. Hear for yourself Tuesday at Davey’s Uptown.

Wednesday, August 12, Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-753-1909)

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Songs of Summer

Free Show

Are You Ready for the Country?

Diva in the House

Dance Pants

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Comedy

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

Massachusetts, Lawrence

Cabaret | Through Sunday, Home Grown Theatre Co., at Morning Glory Antiques, 313 Westport Rd.

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

Gilda: a Tribute to the Beloved Comedienne Gilda Radner, featuring Helena K. Cosentino |

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

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SporTS & reC

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Joplin Blasters |

Fishtank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte, brownpapertickets.com

The Gin Game | Starting Wednesday, KC Actors Theatre, at H&R Block City Stage Theater, 30 W. Pershing Rd., kcactors.org

7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

Into the Woods | Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, culturehouse.com

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readings by actors of short plays by local female playwrights | 8 p.m. Friday, Uptown

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

The All-Togethers, Betse and Clarke | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Shrek | Through Saturday, Theatre in the Park, 7710 Renner, Shawnee, theatreinthepark.org

dan Andriano in the emergency room, Jeff rosenstock | 8:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Broadway Jazz orchestra | 7 p.m. The Broadway Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

C.J. Thy Glorious | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mas-

sachusetts, Lawrence

Crosseyed Cat | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205

E. 85th St.

Kevin Frazee Trio, Todd Strait | 5:30 p.m. Green

Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Godzillionaire, paper Buffalo, Father orson |

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

MUSeUM exhibiTS & evenTS operation: ink, featuring tattoo historian Anna Friedman, Whispering Danny of Whispering Danny Exile Tattoos, and the Rieger’s Ryan Maybee | 5:30-7:30 p.m. National World War I Museum at the Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

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

in the Garage with dJ Christian LaBeau | 10 p.m.

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

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

mondo disco with ray Velasquez | 10 p.m. The Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

Friday | 8.7 |

Hear Kitty Kitty | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

ripple Green | The Roxy, 7230 W 75th St., Overland Park

Bob Schneider | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Tvrnt | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

SporTS & reC

Comedy

mid-Coast improv Showcase | 10 p.m. Uptown

Rd., unionstation.org

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Joplin Blasters |

7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

royals vs. White Sox | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium ultimate Blue Corner Battles | 6:30 p.m. VooDoo,

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

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

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

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

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The Atlas moth, Sisters of, Vattnet Viskar, Now Now Sleepyhead, World record | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Clint Black | 7 p.m. Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr.

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The uglys, uberficker, Bastards, Walter Kronkite | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Kansas City Comic Con, featuring Sean Astin, Pam

Lester “duck” Warner | 7 p.m. The Blue Room,

Grier, Manu Bennett, Adrian Paul, Nalini Krishan and others | 1-7 p.m. Bartle Hall, 301 W. 13th St., kansascitycomiccon.com

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Bummer, Shy Boys, the Fog | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge,

946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Joe Cartwright, Just a Taste a Jazz | 5:30 p.m.

The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

danny Cox | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Good Time Charley, the Garage Kings | 8 p.m.

Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

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

Hipshot Killer, Typesetter, the Howl | 8 p.m.

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

JLove Band, Lonnie mcFadden | 9 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

The Kessler embrey Conspiracy | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park John Kizilarmut Trio | 7 p.m. The Broadway Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

doug macLeod | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

mime Game, pamona, Hazing, deadeye, Blet, Tread Lightly, Vaetta | 7 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

eddie moore and the outer Circle, Janet the planet | 9 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania my Six Gun Heart | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

25 New Baboons, Small Waves, Squids KC |

socialheart’s date auction

9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Summer Jam KC, with Adrian Marcel & Young Dolph | 8 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St. SUNU, Wyatt West and the Urbanites | 9 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Telegraph Canyon, Little Spoon, Couples Counseling | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts,

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The Maeret Show | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611

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gary Owen | 7 & 9:15 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Lawrence

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

Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue | 7 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

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Shania Twain | 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

Kansas City Comic Con, with Sean Astin, Pam Grier, and others | 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Bartle Hall, 301 W. 13th St.

Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats, Brock Alexander | 9 p.m. Coda, 1744 Broadway

Kansas City Reptile & Exotic Animal Show |

10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abdallah Shrine Center, 5300 Metcalf, Merriam, reptiday.com/kansascity.html

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

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Socialheart’s Date Auction, benefiting Ronald McDonald House of Kansas City | 6 p.m. Liberty Memorial,

NighTLifE

100 W. 26th St., social-heart.org

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway DJ 2 Live Cruz | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway Elephante, Bobby Bohn, Amanda | 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Reggae fridays | 9 p.m. Awaze, 3415 Main

Sandbar Block Party, with live music and a beer garden | 5 p.m. The Sandbar, 17 E. Eighth St., Lawrence

Soul Preservers, featuring fat Sal | 9 p.m. The

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

Wendy ho | 10 p.m. Missie B’s, 805 W 39th St.

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

Dust Bowl Jamboree: live music and vintage cars | 10 a.m.-9 p.m. E.H. Young Park Riverfront Park, 1001 Argosy Pkwy.

Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

ShOPPiNg

KC Cactus & Succulent Society’s 37th Annual Show and Sale | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Loose Park Garden

Center, 5200 Pennsylvania, kccactus.com

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Blondes vs. Brunettes, a benefit for the Alzheimer’s

Association - Heart of America Chapter | 5 p.m. Rockhurst High School, 9301 State Line Rd., bvbkc.org Community events

sprint family fun Days: ice Cream social | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Power & Light District, 14th St. and Walnut film

My Family/Mi Familia | 1:30 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Hot Club of Kansas City, tim Whitmer & KC express | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

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scott Hrabko & the rabbits, the Wickham Boys | 6:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. indy fest 2015, with Mac Lethal, Saba, Indyground, Gee Watts, Approach, Ecid, Barrel Maker, Pistol Pete, Akai Najir, Second Hand Kind, Nicolette Paige, Marty Notes, Sir Adams, Zach Mufasa | Noon, the Riot Room, 4048 Broadway ernest James Zydeco | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

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Jazz Disciples with lisa Henry and sterling Grey | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

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Kansas City t-Bones vs. fargo-moorhead redhawks | 7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

the latenight Callers, Chris meck & the Guilty Birds, fullbloods | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Mas-

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high times Dear Dan: Does a person who acts loving only when high on weed really love you? My live-in boyfriend of three years acts sweet, loving and caring when he’s high, but when the weed runs out, he’s mean, angry, hurtful and horrible to be around. I’ve asked him when he’s stoned to still act like a loving person when the weed runs out, but that never happens. He just dismisses that he’s mean and hurtful, and he blames me for why he’s angry. I’m so confused! Without weed, he’s intolerable. Should I just make sure he’s always well-stocked with his drug? He’s a relatively functional stoner, even though, technically, it’s not allowed at his job. I’ve told all my friends that he’s no longer the mean asshole he was when I wanted to leave him (but didn’t), and now I’ve convinced everyone that he transformed back into the amazing catch I always knew he was. So basically, in order to save face over not leaving him (and now I can’t for financial reasons), I burned the bridges.

Tensions Highlight Concerns That Relationships Aren’t Perfect Dear THCTRAP: Someone who can be nice

only when he’s high isn’t someone you should be fucking, living with, or starting a grow-op on your roof for. He’s someone you should be dumping, dumping and dumping.

And to be clear: Your boyfriend’s problem isn’t weed. Your boyfriend’s problem is asshole.

And the fact that you’re covering for him — the fact that you can’t go to your friends for help because you worked so hard to convince them that he’s not an asshole — is a very, very bad sign. If being with someone isolates you from the support of your friends, that’s not someone you should be with.

Does he love you? Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t. But even if he does, do you want to be loved by someone who treats you like shit when he isn’t fucked up? No, you don’t.

My advice: DTMFA. But let’s get a second opinion, shall we?

“It’s not unusual for people to complain that they feel a little cranky when they run out of weed,” said Dan Skye, editor in chief of High Times magazine. “I know a lot of people who prefer to be high all the time — but if his personality is that different when he runs out of weed, this woman’s boyfriend has problems other than not being high.”

There are people out there who selfmedicate with pot — in good ways, not bad.

“I know many people who have dumped their pharmaceuticals for pot,” Skye said, “because pot is a better substance for easing their pain and anxiety. There are no side effects, it’s good at easing pain, and it even eases some severe medical conditions. There are people out there who are high all the time, and they are perfectly functional, responsible human

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D a n S ava ge hopes (she’ll fuck me someday!). Invite someone else, go alone, or blow whatever money you would’ve spent on this pretty girl on a pretty local sex worker instead.

Dear Dan: I’m a man who is married to a woman.

beings. We are hardwired as humans to hook up with this plant, and some people hook up with this plant in profound ways. It makes them feel better, it makes them more compassionate and more creative — it makes them better human beings.”

But Skye doesn’t think that your boyfriend is one of those people.

“If this guy is such a prick when he’s not high, I’d get rid of him,” Skye said. “Putting your girlfriend in a position where she feels like she has to become your dealer — that she has to supply you with pot — is not acceptable.”

Dear Dan: She turned me into the pretty girl’s fat little friend years ago and then ran off to sunnier places. Now she’s back. She has tried to rekindle a relationship, but she expects me to be like I was years back. I’m treating myself to a weekend away and thought about treating her, too, in the hopes that things go to the next level. I guess I’m hoping that she’ll give if she gets. Am I an idiot?

Good Guy Problems Dear GGP: So you’re one of those good guys I’ve heard so much about, huh? One of those good guys who thinks that all his female friends are secret sex workers — i.e., girls who will give once they get? If that’s how good guys feel about their female friends, I’d hate to hear a bad guy’s inner monologue.

Don’t spend your “good guy” money on this girl because she’s not going to fuck you. If she didn’t want to fuck you after she paid Dr. Moreau to turn you into her fat little friend, she doesn’t want to fuck you now. The odds of her wanting to take things “to the next level” once you get her alone for the weekend are worse than the odds of “President Rick Santorum.”

My advice: Don’t invite this woman to go away with you under false pretenses (it’s a friendly trip!) so long as you’re nursing false

In our 12-year relationship, our sex life hasn’t ever been really active, but after being married, my wife’s sex drive decreased noticeably. She had promised that things would improve once we tied the knot. She explained that her upbringing was conservative and she felt guilty about having sex before marriage. But marriage didn’t help.

We’ve gone to couples’ therapy, only to abandon it because she doesn’t feel any progress, and our pantry has barely used natural remedies for low libido. Our library has workout DVDs collecting dust after she said she felt too fat to be attractive.

Currently, she can last having sex for nearly half an hour before feeling exhausted and stopping, regardless of my reaching orgasm or not. On the other hand, we enjoy each other’s company and we’ve got each other’s backs whenever things are rough, so I can’t say she’s uninterested in me.

I can’t remember the last time I had fulfilling sex. Whenever I bring it up, she breaks down, saying she’s not enough for me. My need for sex is killing me.

Unsexed Grumpy Husband Dear UGH: Maybe your wife’s religious upbringing ruined sex for her and her for sex.

Maybe your wife is one of those low-to-nolibido women whom sex therapists and counselors whisper about: a woman with no desire for sex, a woman whose marriage is hanging by a thread, a woman who sincerely wants to save her marriage, but nothing seems to help, her marriage collapses and she winds up divorced. And three months after the divorce, the woman who was weeping to her therapist about the possibility that she might be asexual?

She wants to fuck every cute bartender, personal trainer and waiter she sees. Turns out, she wanted sex all along. She just didn’t want it with her husband or she didn’t want it with only her husband, and her newfound freedom to fuck other people — freedom that might have saved her marriage — reawakened her libido.

Maybe your wife is asexual.

Here are your nondivorce options: (1) You can get sex elsewhere without her OK, aka “cheating”; (2) you can ask your wife for permission to get sex elsewhere, aka “not cheating”; (3) you can resign yourself to a sexless marriage, aka “cheating inevitably.”

P.S. Never once has a conflict over too little sex in a long-term relationship been solved by a marriage ceremony.

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