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sites and technology systems. I get to work with some of the best businesses and nonprofits in KC.

What’s your addiction? Bar Method What’s your game? Mario Kart What’s your drink? Water, chai tea, wine,

Where’s dinner? It depends on the day and

the season. I have so many favorites all over Kansas City: Avenues Bistro, Lulu’s, Vietnam Café, Port Fonda, Local Pig, the Farmhouse, Nara, Los Tules, La Bodega, Westside Local, Chez Elle, Eggtc., Minsky’s, Westport Café, Garozzo’s, and then there’s a whole list of coffee shops and barbecue joints. I really could go on.

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What’s on your KC postcard? Some of the

iconic classics include the Plaza lights, Union Station and the KC skyline, and the view coming into downtown from the Broadway Bridge in the morning is pretty serene.

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” They got an IKEA. And when they

decided to drive the fusion of arts, culture and technology together. We are fortunate — the cost of living is affordable, there is a high quality of life here and, gosh darn it, we have barbecue!

“Kansas City screwed up when …” They didn’t build the baseball stadium downtown. And, recently, when they decided to let the parking lot in Westport be turned into a chain strip mall.

“Kansas City needs …” More professionals,

young and seasoned, to join in civic projects and community initiatives to help us continue to grow. We also need to train, hire and retain our talent. One of the tenants of KC is the people — we have some fine business and civic leaders, but they need support so we can continue to be seen as a bustling metropolitan city.

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vodka, espresso martini, margarita, sangria, Moscow Mule, Boulevard beer, Roasterie coffee. Not necessarily in that order.

What are the first two terminal points on your KC rail system? Crossroads for happy hour and

the River Market on the weekend for spices, flowers and honey.

“In five years, I’ll be …” Still thinking about the restaurants I left off this questionnaire.

“I always laugh at …” Animal memes.

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” Foodie shows — Top Chef, Chopped, No Reservations.

Or music videos on YouTube.

“I can’t stop listening to …” TED Talks.

“I just read …” Makers: The New Industrial Revolution by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine. Across my desk, I read a lot of blog content, e-books and Post-it Notes.

What’s your guiltiest pleasure? Pistachio

What is your nemesis? Those steel square construction covers on Broadway.

What’s your greatest struggle right now?

Deciding what to eat for dinner.

My dating triumph/tragedy: I just got married a few weeks ago to my best friend and business partner. We are still married and in business — triumph!

My brush with fame: One time, I mustered up a wave at Tim Meadows at the LAX airport, and I met Paul Rudd one winter while working at J. Crew on the Plaza. Sold him a shawl-collar pullover.

My soapbox: Put down your phone! We spend too much time with our necks looking down at a screen. It is important to disconnect and live offline and out loud.

gelato and Rum Chata cake from Avenues Bistro.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? An autocorrect fail.

The best advice I ever got: Get out of your own way. And something that I always remember, “Work to live, don’t live to work.”

Who’s sorry now? Still me.

Worst advice: To take a job that I really didn’t want because the money or title was there.

My sidekick: My husband. Our dogs.

My recent triumph: In the past year, I’ve been able to hire some amazing marketers, designers and developers, as well as partner with a variety of businesses and nonprofits to execute innovative projects and creative campaigns.

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Kansas Democrats are seeing red, but not for the reasons you’d expect.

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ansas Democrats, still smarting from a disappointing 2014 as they head into a crucial 2016 election cycle, are considering a rebrand.

Instead of referring to the statewide party as the staid Kansas Democratic Party, they may start calling themselves Red State Democrats.

That’s the idea promulgated by new KDP Chairman Larry Meeker, the former Lake Quivira mayor and banker who took over for Joan Wagnon in March. Meeker got the nod over former Kansas Rep. Dennis McKinney, a western Kansas Democrat who didn’t want the job.

“It’s a statement of predicament,” Meeker tells The Pitch. “We’d like to be blue or purple, but it’s a statement about our conservatism.

We’re fiscally conservative.”

Party leaders plan to discuss the rebranding idea this week, ahead of Demofest in Wichita, the second-largest confab of Kansas Democrats after Washington Days, which was held in Topeka in March.

Not everyone is thrilled with the idea.

“I don’t like it,” says Terese Johnson, the Sedgwick County Democratic Party chairwoman. She presumably knows something about what’s in a name — she prefers to go simply by “T.” “I think there are more effective ways of rebranding the Kansas Democrats.”

The Red State Democrats moniker is quietly seen by some party observers as another sign that Kansas donkeys are too eager to mule for already dominant Republicans. Kansas’ Democratic leadership has been criticized in the recent past for tepid stances on gay rights, Medicaid expansion and other issues.

Paul Davis, the Lawrence Democrat who served as the House minority leader until he lost last year’s gubernatorial race against Sam Brownback, was quoted in a July 24 Politico story complaining that the national Democratic Party has made business difficult in red states such as Kansas.

“The national Democratic Party’s brand makes it challenging for Democrats in red states oftentimes and I hope that going forward, the leaders at the national level will be mindful of that and they will understand that they can’t govern the country without Democrats being able to win races in red states,” Davis told the Beltway publication.

The story’s headline: “Red-state Democrats fret about leftward shift.”

The KDP’s bigger issues, however, are closer to home. As the off-year election summer winds down, the KDP has made only one candidate announcement. That was last week’s news that Lynn Rogers, a Wichita Pub-

lic Schools board member, would run against Kansas Sen. Michael O’Donnell.

Rogers had been a Republican until that announcement.

Democratic Party leaders tell The Pitch that other Democrats are mulling their 2016 prospects, but they won’t say who.

“The key to successful elections are good candidates,” Meeker says. “Some candidates

are lined up. Some are scratching their heads.

Some are coming to us and wanting to run for office.”

Only one Democrat has filed to run for office in Johnson County. That’s Michael Czerniewski, running for Senate District 21, currently held by Overland Park’s Greg Smith.

In May, the KDP announced its new executive director, Kerry Gooch. By nearly all

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accounts, Gooch is a rising star in the party.

But for a time, he was the only employee in the KDP’s Topeka office. Carlos Lugo, the KDP’s Hispanic-outreach and field director, left for a different job in Washington, D.C. Mollie Moravac, the KDP’s former finance director, also left for another job.

The KDP is lining up new employees, including Cheyenne Davis and Kyle Gardner, but the party remains unstable. The KDP still lacks a communications director, for instance. It fired Dakota Loomis last year for calling rural Kansas towns “crap holes,” a statement that continues to sting outstate Democrats who feel that the party establishment overlooks them.

Despite the changes, Gooch says he’s optimistic.

“One thing I’m realizing is, people are more fired up than ever,” he says. “They’re really angry at what’s going on in the state.”

That anger hasn’t translated to money — so far, anyway.

Federal Election Commission records show that the KDP has $37,000 in cash.

That’s a third of what the Kansas Republican Party has at the moment. (Compare that with the Democratic Party in Montana — a state roughly a third as populous as Kansas but more party-balanced in its Legislature — which has three times as much in the bank.)

And most of the donations in the KDP’s most recent fundraising report are $25 chip shots.

Meeker says some major Democratic donors are tapped out from the last election.

“From what I can tell from past history, we’re probably about where we would normally be in a year with new elections,” Meeker says. “I think we’re about where we should be. That said, I’m an old banker, and there’s never enough money.”

Money isn’t everything in politics. Cohesion matters, too. And Kansas Democrats don’t appear to be the most cohesive bunch these days.

Tom Burroughs, the House minority leader from Kansas City, Kansas, wrote a letter last month to the party caucus apologizing for the fractious nature of the previous legislative session. Burroughs, a far more reserved member of the leadership than Anthony Hensley, the sharp-elbowed Topeka schoolteacher who serves as the Democratic leader in the Senate, drew criticism during the last session for conceding ground to Republicans on various issues and not taking stronger positions on Democratic Party platforms. In his letter, he pledged to do better next session.

It’ll be easier for him to say he did better if he can call himself a Red State Democrat.

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Did the city really think its streetcars would arrive on schedule?

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alph Davis, Kansas City, Missouri’s Public Works deputy director, got a call from a Kansas City Business Journal reporter the first week of August. The writer was curious about the possibility that the streetcar’s projected opening date was in peril. The Cincinnati Business Courier had reported that the Ohio city’s streetcar order from a Spanish firm was running late, an indicator that Kansas City’s vehicles might not arrive on time, either.

“All I know is what the paper said, so I ents don’t put any stock in that,” Davis told the Business Journal.

How much stock should we put in what Davis says?

On that question, not a lot. The Kansas . to 5p.m. City Star took to the story a week later and ought to you by revealed that Davis had been dodging. The month before, the daily reported, he had traveled to New York — where streetcar contractor CAF is assembling Kansas City’s and Cincinnati’s vehicles — to learn what was taking so long.

I asked Davis if he could elaborate on the discrepancy between what he had told the Business Journal and what his travel records showed. Had he misspoken? Was it an errant lled India quote?

His answer was indeed elaborate.

“The quote you reference is a response to a question from the Business Journal that asked me to comment on a newspaper article out of Cincinnati that was referencing a report that was issued from the City of Cincinnati,” Davis says in an e-mail. “Since I had not seen the y, clothes, report issued by Cincinnati I didn't want to parade comment on that reporter’s interpretation. splay My quote was not in reference to our situation in Kansas City.” org Got all that?

It turns out that reporter's interpretation was accurate, that streetcar shipments were running late. It's something Kansas City knew as it threw block parties to celebrate the streetcar.

Intelligent people understand that major municipal capital projects usually encounter some type of delay. And CAF’s potentially failing to get its act together on schedule seems mostly to mean that testing the streetcar along the 2-mile Main Street route won’t be done in time for the line to be operational before the 2016 Big 12 college basketball tournament descends on the Sprint Center.

Big deal. Most of the Power & Light District was delayed well beyond the 2008 Big 12 tourney, without serious repercussions.

Such risk is the nature of ambitious projects.

If the streetcar opens less than half a year over schedule, transit supporters should count their lucky stars.

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Instead, Mayor Sly James and his administration held a party to celebrate the completion of a streetcar stop in late June, by which time a handful of boosters probably knew that the delay would soon be public knowledge.

Of course, city leaders are sensitive to streetcar problems. Since voters thwarted extensions to the downtown line last August, streetcar boosters have been banking on the idea that the line will be so popular downtown that the rest of the city will clamor for the rail to head their way. By that logic, though, the success or failure of the streetcar doesn’t depend on whether it can move Oklahoma Sooners fans up and down Main while a basketball game is happening three blocks off the line.

Members of the Streetcar Authority, which manages the downtown line, are satisfied that a $1,000-per-day fine, for each day that CAF delivers the streetcars beyond its June 10 deadline, is a suitable motivator for CAF to hustle.

By the time this story runs, those fines will have reached $47,000 — a pretty measly

sum stacked alongside CAF’s $18 million contract.

Kansas City must have known whom it was dealing with. In addition to its tardiness here and in Cincinnati, the company has disappointed city leaders in Houston; last year, it couldn’t deliver that city’s light-rail components on time. (Other factors further delayed Houston’s new system.)

“From where I am sitting right now, it feels like they [CAF] had not properly figured out what kind of plant facility they would need to meet the promises they made to us in that contract,” said Christof Spieler, a board member of Houston’s transit authority, according to a March 28, 2014, Houston Chronicle article.

“And we need to hold them to their promise, and they have to figure out how to get there.”

Ultimately, CAF took another eight months to deliver the first six of 39 cars that it had contracted with Houston to provide. And not until those half-dozen vehicles hit the street did CAF publicly comment on the delay. Between Davis and CAF, Kansas City’s streetcar watchers might be in for a quiet remainder of 2015.

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A bad Aviation Department contract leads to some Uber déjà vu.

uly 28, Mark VanLoh, director of Kansas City’s Aviation Department, executed an agreement that opened up Kansas City International Airport to the ride-sharing company Uber.

Uber has been operating lawfully in Kansas City since April, when, after months of contentious negotiations, the City Council finalized an ordinance that Uber deemed acceptable. In doing so, the council dropped the cost of various permitting fees and allowed Uber to conduct its own background checks on drivers, rather than charging Uber a fee for the city to conduct those background checks.

The accord was hailed — no pun intended — as a mature, tech-friendly, public-private compromise. But what actually occurred is that Uber came to Kansas City and ignored existing laws, demanded that the city change its laws to suit Uber’s business interests, refused to negotiate with the city, eventually made a few nominal concessions and then got more or less everything it wanted.

The big thing missing from the April deal was the airport. Now VanLoh has taken care of that for Uber.

Prior to July 28, Uber drivers could drop off passengers at KCI but not pick them up. The airport has its own safety guidelines and rules about staging lots — the areas where cabs park while waiting on fares. Under the new agreement, Uber pays the Aviation Department $3 per pickup and in exchange gets to use the airport’s staging lots.

Notably absent from the agreement is a clause contained in all local taxicab companies’ contracts with the Aviation Department. The clause requires all taxi drivers picking up at the airport to obtain airport IDs, a process that entails submitting fingerprints for a background check at a cost of $31 to the driver.

In other words, Uber drivers picking up passengers at KCI at this very moment have submitted to neither a city background check nor the enhanced fingerprint check required of taxi drivers.

The Aviation Department’s possibly illegal easing of security requirements for Uber drivers is especially baffling given the tide of recent stories about just how faulty Uber’s internal background checks have been so far.

The company looks only at the past seven years of a prospective driver’s records and does not require fingerprints — a laxity with such consequences as the following: • In Los Angeles, Uber drivers were recently ticketed for illegally picking up passengers at Los Angeles International Airport; others were subsequently found to have been convicted of child exploitation, DUI and manslaughter.

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• Dallas Uber driver Talal Ali Chammout, accused of sexually assaulting a passenger in July, was found to have served time in federal prison on a weapons conviction, having bought night-vision goggles, ballistic vests and body armor from a federal informant and inquired about purchasing rocket launchers and surface-to-air missiles. (Also, Dallas authorities say he didn’t have a valid driver’s license.)

• Miguel Moran Diaz, an Uber driver in Miami, was busted in April on federal charges of illegally possessing firearms. He told an FBI informant that he was an ISIS sympathizer who wanted to obtain weapons in order to become a sniper for the terrorist group.

It is unclear whether Uber drew up its own airport contract and VanLoh signed it without a thorough vetting or Uber demanded that the Aviation Department’s security clause be removed and VanLoh lay down. VanLoh’s office rerouted my questions for the Aviation Department to Chris Hernandez, spokesman for the city.

“We realized quickly after the contract was signed that it didn’t take into account some public-safety issues,” Hernandez says.

“I don’t want people to think we’re pulling back on tech. We want this agreement to work for TNCs [transportation-network companies, e.g., Uber, Lyft], taxis, airport travelers. It’s important to have security for the traveling public.”

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A cancellation notice is built into the contract: Either side can nullify it within 30 days. The city invoked this clause last week and asked Uber to add an amendment to the contract to require fingerprint background checks for its airport drivers. You will be shocked to learn that Uber objects to this amendment. (Uber did not respond to The Pitch’s request for comment.) So now the city is in the process of determining, as Hernandez puts it, “which level of background checks is best for transportation companies that serve the airport.”

Hernandez adds: “There’s an argument that not everybody working at the airport needs an enhanced level of background check. If you’re a limousine or livery driver, I think everybody agrees that you need a high level of background check because you’re permitted to leave your vehicle unattended and enter the airport. But with TNCs and taxis, do they need to undergo the full fingerprint check or just a Regulated Industries–level background check? So the discussion is about best practices moving forward.”

Bill George, head of Yellow Cab, the largest taxi company in the city, has been part of these ongoing talks and says he’s confident that the city will amend the airport agreement one way or the other.

“The city is aware that whatever they do with Uber will apply equally to all transportation providers, so doing away with background checks for Uber means doing away with background checks for all drivers at the airport,” George tells The Pitch. “I’m not a security expert, but that decision [to lessen security requirements for all airport drivers] seems somewhat suspect to me.”

Multiple instances in the last month alone prove that Uber’s in-house background checks — which the company refuses to share with municipalities — are insufficiently rigorous. Despite this, VanLoh signed a contract with Uber eliminating what he previously told taxi companies were TSArequired background checks for drivers at the airport. To rectify this situation, the city may end up eliminating checks at the airport — historically a target-rich environment for terrorists and criminal activity — for all taxi drivers.

Is there a way to view these events as other than the city’s leaders are allowing a private company to influence public policy at the expense of public safety? Does an administration so eager to build a new airport tomorrow really care so little about what happens at KCI today?

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a powerful Gin Game

’ve never had such a pleasant evening watching two people play cards.

As a tagline, that’s not likely to drive crowds to The Gin Game, the latest production

by Kansas City Actors Theatre. But when the players at the table are actors Marilyn Lynch and Victor Raider-Wexler, we could all do with a few more hands.

The script, a brisk two-hander, won D.L. Coburn the 1977 Pulitzer Prize. KCAT — led by director Dennis D. Hennessy — shows us why. The production is a lean, nuanced study of aging firebrands after their dueling pistols have been retired in favor of playing cards.

Coburn deals us in on Visitors Day at the Bentley home for the aged — which, for residents Weller Martin and Fonsia Dorsey, might as well be any other day. Both Weller and Fonsia have adult children who never visit, for reasons neither seems eager to explain.

And both have few friends at the retirement home. “Half of them are catatonic, for Christ’s sake,” Weller rages. “And sometimes the ones who do talk make you appreciate the ones who don’t.”

Their mutual hatred of whiners (and nurses cooing about “our medication”) make them fast friends. But when Weller, a serious gin player, convinces Fonsia to join him for a hand, the game becomes anything but friendly.

Fonsia swears that she doesn’t remember the rules or even how to shuffle the cards.

Yet she wins hand after hand, aggravating Weller past the point of decency. While Fonsia

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bitterly for it. Raider-Wexler’s turns from coquettish coaxing to blind rage are masterful, and the tactics he chooses to keep Fonsia playing grow more desperate and transparent as their relationship deepens.

Marilyn Lynch holds her own as the shrewd Fonsia, disarming Weller with a naïveté that starts to ring hollow. Fonsia is, in her own right, as stubborn as Weller, and Lynch’s performance is tinged with the right note of self-delusion. These aren’t likable characters, but in Lynch’s and Raider-Wexler’s hands, we like them anyway.

chatters innocently about her working years or a visiting church choir, Weller shushes her to deal another hand. To Weller, victory triumphs over company and social graces.

Victor Raider-Wexler is bullheaded and brilliant as Weller, making the sore loser more than a grumpy old man. His commitment to the game is unswerving, his failures felt more

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usical Theater Heritage abides by its name with Wouldn’t It Be Loverly, a show written by MTH founder George Harter that’s equal parts show and tell, similar to his radio series A Night on the Town, on public radio (heard locally on KANU 91.5).

Here, Harter digs into the background of legendary songwriting team Alan J. Lerner and Frederick Loewe, who crafted such Broadway hits as Brigadoon, My Fair Lady, Gigi and Camelot. Wouldn’t It Be Loverly acts as the radio program brought to the stage, history and anecdotes interspersed with well-known songs from those musicals.

It’s a well-crafted mix of teaching moments and musical numbers, if a little weighed down by 1942’s Brigadoon at the start. Eight singers — Patrick Beasley, Elizabeth Birger, Donna Dandino, Justin McCoy, Linnaia McKenzie, Andrew Schmidt, Sarah Sommerer and Ashley Wheat — capture the tunes on which the lyricist Lerner and the composer Loewe so famously collaborated. (Lerner, Harter tells us, placed the craft of songwriting somewhere between

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The Bentley sun porch, designed by Jim Misenheimer, is shabby but dignified, its French doors and delicate spindles coated in an appropriately dated green. Shane Rowse’s lights add to the atmosphere, and Roger Stoddard and Daniel Warneke deliver a serviceable, if unassertive, sound design.

The Gin Game is an odd little play, one that cheerfully flouts some dramatic conventions while indulging others to its detriment. At its best, it’s an engaging character study, giving talented actors fertile ground for exploration.

But Coburn seems to change the house rules in Act 2, escalating conflicts with a speed as surprising (and unbelievable) as Fonsia’s gin luck. A violent crescendo obscures something arguably more tragic — the failure of two bright, critical minds to look hard at their own choices. And while Coburn signals strongly (and vaguely) that something’s wrong with Weller, it’s the character’s self-imposed isolation — not his illness — that disturbs us most.

The play’s sharpest sleight of hand is swapping cards for its characters’ emotional battles. Only as the losses add up and the game becomes more heated do we fully understand what they’re playing for.

With The Gin Game, Hennessy and KCAT have given us a handsome, haunting look at what it means to find the right opponent at the wrong time.

E-mail feedback@pitch.com that of woodcarving and photography.)

Harter himself switches from narrator to actor, doing an admirable Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady’s “Why Can’t the English” and Maurice Chevalier in Gigi’s “I Remember It Well.”

We get a time-capsule picture of Paint Your Wagon — a show most politically incorrect, we learn, by today’s standards (and rarely performed because of it). Harter lends pertinent background to the featured songs (including trivia from the movie version) to underline his points.

The show’s most rousing moments belong to conductor and pianist Jeremy Watson, who leads Jeff Harshbarger on bass and Ron Ernst on drums. Watson takes a star turn himself at center stage, heading up Paint Your Wagon’s “I’m on My Way” and stealing the show with My Fair Lady’s “Get Me to the Church on Time.”

— Deborah Hirsch Wouldn’t It Be Loverly runs through August 30 at Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com.

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f we can agree that a restaurant which primarily serves grilled beef is a steakhouse, I’m telling you that the six-month-old Cleaver & Cork is a porkhouse.

In the Power & Light District space that initially held Maker’s Mark Bourbon House & Lounge, chef Alex Pope (of the Local Pig butcher shop, food truck and restaurant) has erected a porcine temple. Yes, there are steaks on the menu — the P&L means to please tourists, after all — and even one meatless offering, but pork hogs the lunch and dinner offerings.

Very, very good pork.

Consider the BLT here. Pope’s benediction of the saloon staple involves a crunchy fried green tomato, two thick slices of braised Local

Pig bacon, spicy arugula (perish the thought of iceberg) and a swipe of sweet-hot-pepper jelly. (The bread is Farm to Market.) I’ve eaten more unorthodox reboots of what’s really a simple sandwich, but I haven’t had one this delicious in a while.

Closer to heretical is Cleaver & Cork’s osso buco, which sets aside the traditional veal shanks in favor of pork that’s as tender, if not as meaty, as the usual dish. This doesn’t count as innovation — many local chefs now use pork because it’s cheaper than veal. But the preparation is artful, and the addition of roasted apples helps make up for a soupy polenta.

The menu here says a lot about the current dining moment. Cleaver & Cork is not

outrageously expensive, its dining room isn’t formal, and its service is attentive but erratic. (A waiter on one of my visits had the introductory spiel down so effectively that it came across as a performance, distancing and chilly.) It’s more refined than a typical steakhouse, including the long-forgotten KC restaurant Cork & Cleaver, which, on its sign, promised “beef and booze.” But our idea of refinement has changed: The sign outside Cleaver & Cork reads, “Fine food and hooch,” the hungry public having largely forgotten that hooch’s original coinage signaled cheap rotgut, not the trendy spirits that go into this place’s smart cocktails.

Alex Pope, billed here as culinary director, got a lot of media attention when this venue opened, leading more than a few people to believe that Cleaver & Cork is his restaurant.

It isn’t, but managing partner Eric Willey stresses that Pope’s involvement is ongoing.

“He comes in every week,” Willey says.

“He’s constantly refining dishes, discussing ideas and planning our brunch menu.”

(Cleaver & Cork’s Sunday-brunch program is set to start in October.)

Some of Pope’s dishes are already perfect. A “lasagna” of layered sliced zucchini and oyster mushrooms, baked en casserole with house-made ricotta and a delectably fresh marinara, is the one meatless choice on this carnivore-courting menu, but it’s an omnivore’s delight. The mushrooms lend

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the dish an almost meaty heft, and a flavor to fairly rival the finest of the flesh here. And I hope that there’s no fine-tuning of Pope’s picnic-style pork shoulder, slow-cooked to pure succulence, swathed in a glossy bourbon barbecue sauce and sided with braised red cabbage and cornbread. It’s the best Sunday supper I’ve ever eaten on a Thursday night.

Almost as comforting is a dish that has been a staple of Pope’s repertoire for years: his Local Pig sausage soup. It’s a fragrant and hearty concoction of mildly seasoned sausage, potatoes and mushrooms tucked under a slice of baguette blanketed with melted cheese.

Given that the previous tenant was a more traditional steakhouse (one that wasn’t very good and thusly failed), Cleaver & Cork’s team must feel compelled to think outside the box in a neighborhood not known for originality. But if some of Pope’s creations earn high points for ingenuity, plenty of others are built for mass appeal. That’s fine. I’d almost always chalk up demerits to those who get unnecessarily creative with roast chicken or smoked rib-eye.

Those dishes should be simple comforts, as they are here.

On the other hand, a smoked vanilla crème brûlée suggests that Pope may be overdoing the whole wood thing. And a dish of fried brownies I sampled looked like meatballs lolling in milk-chocolate sauce — a visual miscue but as tasty as you’d expect a fried dessert to be.

I prefer Cleaver & Cork’s icebox pie, a successful resuscitation of a 1940s home-kitchen favorite. The night I tried it, I found the creamy center and the salty pretzel crust divine. The pie came smothered in a thick glaze of fresh peaches and was delicately drizzled with jalapeño syrup, a hint of peppery heat that precisely complemented the sweet, supple fruit.

Cleaver & Cork is a definite step up in class for the Power & Light District (though Willey’s confession — or boast? — that the restaurant has become something of a hot spot for weekend bachelorette parties gives one pause) and an even bigger step forward in food quality. It’s an ideal marriage of pork and Pope, and even the piggiest P&L holdout has good reason to come witness it.

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eer nerds say they want festivals loaded with rare beers, short lines and generous pours. The third annual Arts & Crafts Beer Festival, Friday and Saturday at Screenland Armour, promises all three.

With a list loaded with high-ABV beers, Screenland owners Adam Roberts and Brent Miller have opted to spread their event over two days.

“We’re doing about 110 or 115 different individual beers that you’ll be able to sample, so about 50 each day,” Roberts says. “At any fest, you wait in such long lines that you end up only sampling 15 or 20 beers because you’re only trying to get the rare stuff. And when you have 100 rare, exclusive or aged beers, really, you have to decide what to do. This is probably where people probably won’t want a full pour or they’ll dump beers out because there are so many to sample.”

Among the bottles and kegs that the two men have unearthed this time: 2012 Deschutes the Stoic, 2013 Jolly Pumpkin Bam Biére, 2014 4 Hands Madagascar and Downfall, 2014 Perennial Abraxas, and about 115 other barrel-aged and rare beers.

“You look at the list and it’s, what am I not excited about?” Roberts says. “What do I not want to try?

“Last year, the sour explosion was really starting to happen and become mainstream, and it is totally mainstream now,” he adds. “It’s kind of leveled out, though. Everyone wants the super-fresh IPA. Everyone wants a superduper sour beer. Everyone wants a 12 percent barrel-aged stout. And that’s pretty much what our beer list is — those three things.”

Along with the rare beers are collaboration brews that Roberts and Miller have worked on with breweries, including 4 Hands Dank Ass Saison.

“We’ve been big fans of those guys, and when they wanted to work with us, it was cool,” Roberts says. The original idea was to collaborate on an IPA, but they settled on a dry-hopped saison. “It’s different — it’s light,” Roberts says. “They don’t have a ton in their history, and it’s like an IPA, so we’ll dry-hop the hell out of it. Make it super-dank and really hoppy in aroma, but it’ll drink light like a nice summer saison. So we’re hoping that turns out really well.”

Also, 4 Hands is sending a firkin of Resurrected IPA with tart cherries.

“I’m pretty excited about that,” Roberts says. “It should turn out funky and weird.”

Add the Screenland operators’ collaboration with Rock & Run Brewery — Peanut Butter Stout, with extra peanut butter and raspberries — and a pilot beer from Cinder Block Brewery, and there will be plenty of festival exclusives.

“It’s kind of a peanut-butter-and-jelly con-

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cept,” Roberts says of the Rock & Run collaboration. “I think it’ll get a little funky because we did that a couple of months ago. So it might be a little weird. It’s a beer that we all thought was aging better and better, but who knows what happened. You do a firkin, and it’s either going to be incredible or just a trainwreck of an experiment.”

If that didn’t sell you, Roberts offers this pitch.

“We’re a two-day, indoor beer fest that only focuses on aged, rare and exclusive beers,” Roberts says. “There are no long lines. There’s a lot of good local music. We premiere a bunch of independent films. We have a bunch of local artists with merchandise and vendors that you can buy stuff from. And it’s cheaper than a lot of the other festivals’ VIP or whatever. … If you give me 10 seconds, I can give you a quick rundown of why you should be there.”

The festival starts Friday with a sampling from 6 to 10:30 p.m., films throughout the night and three bands (Deco Auto, Onward Crispin Glover and New Riddim).

Roberts (left) and Miller drink up.

The festival resumes Saturday afternoon with a VIP screening of Crafting a Nation, followed by a Q&A panel featuring 4 Hands’ owner Kevin Lemp, cellarman Alex Leonard and mid-Missouri market manager Heath Manson, as well as Cinder Block brewer Andrew Hicks, North Kansas City Beverage Co.’s Brian Duff, Central States Beverage Co.’s Jordan Millam, Major Brands’ Donnie Matthews and possibly a homebrewer. (I’m moderating again this year.)

“We’ll have a brewer, the owner and then a rep, so we’ll be able to get all aspects of what that company is going through and the growth,” Roberts says of 4 Hands. “To see their growth is mind-blowing.”

While people are drinking those beers, they can slip into the short-film festival, peruse the craft tables or catch a showing of People Places Things (starring Flight of the Conchords’ Jemaine Clement as a single father trying to piece his life together after walking in on

17 his partner cheating on him), Being Evel (a warts-and-all documentary on the life of Evel Knievel) and Digging for Fire (director Joe Swanberg’s latest film about a house sitter turned wannabe detective).

Or they can catch sets from Electric Lungs, Rev Gusto, Hillary Watts Riot and Kodascope.

And a portion of the proceeds from the festival goes to KC Pet Project.

“We wanted to change it up completely and do one charity,” Roberts says. “They’re going to have a couple of tables for auction items and stuff, like we did last year, which is cool, a bunch of beer merchandise and whatnot.”

Roberts anticipates a sellout before the day of the festival. Two-day tickets cost $65.

Single-day tickets cost $35.

“It’s definitely become more of a two-day festival now,” Roberts says. “People go to a lot of beer fests, and there’s a lot of complaining about what’s there and what’s not there or the long lines or rain or ridiculous heat and stuff.

That’s kind of the nature of Kansas City. And us being one of the only indoor festivals and with the small amount of people that we allow in, there are no lines. It’s not just another beer fest.”

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creams, at the Foundry (424 Westport Rd.), $2.50 a scoop, 6 p.m.

and quality manager Courtney Pierson, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Putts with PBR: a putt-putt benefit for Harvesters, at Westport Ale House (4128

Tallgrass tap night, with Wooden Rooster

Ales for ALS with Uinta Brewing, featuring Hop Nosh IPA, Birthday Suit sour ale, Labyrinth Black Ale and Red IPL, at Barley's Brewhaus (11924 W. 119th St., Overland Park), 6 p.m. A portion of the proceeds from these beer sales go to ALS research.

Lagunitas steal-the-glass night, with Mozango Fusion XXXI and Wilco Tango Foxtrot, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway), 6 p.m.

Buy a Lagunitas beer and get the glass (while supplies last).

Most intense happy hour, with Mother's and

Broadway), 3–5 p.m.

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

Four-course beer brunch, with Mikkeller

Brunch Weasel, Evil Twin Joey Pepper, 75th Street Dante's Dream and Double Vanilla Porter, at 75th Street Brewery (520 W. 75th St.), $35, noon.

Kansas State Fiddling & Picking Championship, with Free State beer, at South Park

(11th St. and Massachusetts, Lawrence), noon.

a one-hour workout, at Onelife Fitness (1261 Main), 6–8 p.m.

Tuesday, augusT 25

Geeks Who Drink trivia and $2 draws, at 75th

(16590 W. 135th St., Olathe), 5 p.m.

Street Brewery (520 W. 75th St.), 8 p.m.

Friday, augusT 21

Arts and Crafts Beer Festival, at Screenland

Armour (408 Armour Rd., North Kansas City), $35, 5:30 p.m.

Tallgrass tasting, with Halcyon Wheat and

Wooden Rooster, at Gomer's Midtown (3838 Broadway)

Tasting at Brookside Wine & Spirits (600 E. 63rd St.), 5–7 p.m.

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Arts and Crafts Beer Festival, at Screenland

Armour (408 Armour Rd., North Kansas City), $35–$45, 2 p.m.

Bacon-Fest, featuring Amerisports beers, at Ameristar Casino (3200 N. Ameristar Dr.), $50–$100, 1–5 p.m.

Station to Station Berliner Weisse release party, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.),

11 a.m.–midnight

sunday, augusT 23

Back-to-school beer ice cream social, with five different homemade beer-infused ice

Founders KBS flight night, at the Other Place Odell Oktoberfest and Pineapple Agria tappings, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.),

4–7 p.m.

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New Belgium glass night, with supervising

brewer Tamar Banner, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

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

Paint Nite, at Big Rip Brewing Co. (216 E. Ninth Ave., North Kansas City), $45, 7 p.m.

Blue Moon paint the glass night, at Swirl Wine Bar & Shoppe (6006 N.W. 63rd Terr.), 6:30 p.m.

Dog day with Tito's Vodka, on the patio of Char Bar (4050 Pennsylvania), 5 p.m.-close.

Bring your dog and play yard games, with proceeds going to KC Pet Project.

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une 28, the day after his band played Arrowhead Stadium, Rolling Stones drum­ mer Charlie Watts spent more than three hours touring the American Jazz Museum.

A fan since his teen years, he has long col­ lected Charlie Parker memorabilia (a Christ­ mas card that the jazzman once sent his wife, for instance), and he paused to regard Parker’s plastic saxophone, one of the museum’s most prized holdings. Watts recalled aloud when the old Grafton was last up for auction: Sep­ tember 1994, when the museum won it for $144,500.

Charlie “Bird” Parker drove jazz into a modern era, liberating the music and influ­ encing generations of musicians across mul­ tiple genres. Yet, despite the statue in the 18th and Vine District — Bird’s head, rendered at an overpowering scale — Kansas City has often ignored its most important musical son. His New York home has long since been renovated and declared a National Historic Landmark.

His home in Kansas City, at 1516 Olive, was torn down by the city in the 1980s to make way for a new industrial building.

Since 1993, New York has celebrated Parker with an annual festival spanning two city parks. KC’s fractured jazz community didn’t pull together an equivalent effort until last year — an event successful enough to replicate this month.

Kansas City’s second Charlie Parker Cele­ bration starts August 20, honoring Bird with 10 days of shows across 15 venues, accompa­ nied by panel discussions and music­student boot camps. Author Chuck Haddix, who pub­ lished a Parker biography in 2013, reprises his bus tour of Kansas City sites associated with Parker (an event that sold out last year). The festival culminates with a 21­sax salute at Parker’s gravesite in Lincoln Cemetery August 29 — what would have been the man’s 95th birthday — followed by a free “chicken feed” (Bird loved chicken) at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center.

Trumpeter Clay Jenkins, who has toured with the Stan Kenton and Count Basie or­ chestras and plays in the renowned Clayton­ Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, is this year’s artist in residence, slated to sit in with local groups throughout the event. Among the highlights: Jenkins with saxophonist Steve Lambert at the Broadway Kansas City August 22, with the Foundation 627 Big Band at Green Lady Lounge August 23, with trumpeter Hermon Mehari at the Majestic August 26, with trom­ bonist Ryan Heinlein and the Kansas City Bone Company at Westport Coffee House August 27, and with bassist Bob Bowman at the Blue Room August 29.

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will be on display at the American Jazz Mu­ seum. These objects include arrangements of some of Parker’s best­known compositions, such as “Bird Feathers” and “Klactoveedseds­ tene,” and programs from his shows. Celebra­ tion co­chairman Brian Johnston, who also serves on the museum board, describes Saks as “the premier collector of Charlie Parker in the world” and adds that his collection of playbills, contracts, records and autograph sheets, among many other pieces, has been donated to the University of Missouri–Kansas City’s Marr Sound Archives (where Haddix is sound archivist) and LaBudde Special Collec­ tions, at the school’s Miller Nichols Library.

Shawnee Mission South graduate Paul Lovelace, a New York resident for the past 20 years, returns to town for the festival to begin preliminary filming of a proposed doc­ umentary on Parker. Lovelace, whose résumé includes a film about music journalist Robert Christgau, envisions a project that follows contemporary musicians, in order to show, he says, “not just Charlie Parker’s history but where his legacy has led.”

A CD illustrative of just that legacy, by KC jazz musicians young and less young, was recorded to herald this year’s celebration, but it’s not yet ready for release. To Bird With Love brought into the studio trumpeters Hermon Mehari and Stan Kessler, saxophonists Charles

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Perkins and Rich Wheeler, trombonist Ryan Heinlein, pianist Eddie Moore, bassists Bill McKemy and Karl McComas­Reichl, drummer Matt Leifer, and vibraphonist (and former jazz museum CEO) Greg Carroll. Johnston ex­ plained that the album was delayed “because we have to get approvals and rights on some of the music.” He adds: “We tried like heck to get it done for the celebration but tabled it.”

One factor that may have complicated the project: Carroll’s ouster as the museum’s leader. (He also is Johnston’s co­chairman on this year’s Parker event.) Museum board members are unified in saying Carroll re­ signed (and joined, as well, in saying almost nothing else about his departure). Last week, the museum named former Sprint executive Ralph Reid as interim CEO. A search firm has been hired to help identify a replacement.

Kansas City’s Charlie Parker Celebration grew out of the group KC Jazz ALIVE — the last word an acronym for “Awareness, Listening,

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Above: A 21-sax salute at Parker’s gravesite, in Lincoln Cemetery, last year on his birthday, August 29; left: some of the museum’s Parker treasures.

Ideas, Voice and Exposure” — a collaboration established in 2013 among most of the metro’s numerous jazz organizations. President Jon McGraw, who also represents UMKC Jazz Friends, says, “The major jazz groups have a responsibility to build the jazz scene in Kansas City.”

The celebration was one of KC Jazz ALIVE’s first ideas. Johnston recalls, “Within five minutes, we said we want to do a Charlie Parker celebration in 2014.” The initial plan, McGraw says, was a simple “let’s try it.” A thematic umbrella was opened over already scheduled club dates, with educational events, the bus tour and the graveside salute added.

The American Jazz Museum played a key role from the start. “Greg [Carroll] said the museum wants to do this, too,” McGraw says.

“Their mission is to support jazz, and this took it to another level.” For the 2014 event, “the American Jazz Museum was a strong financial supporter.” This time, McGraw says, “funding is diversified.”

To that end, organizers brought the area’s jazz-club owners together early in the planning. As museum board chairman C.S. “Trey” Runnion explains, “It’s essential that all of the players have an equal seat.” It was the first time that most had been in the same room with all their peers. They discussed common issues, compared their different business philosophies, and talked about ways that they might help one another. And they started planning the 2015 celebration in earnest.

Kim Parker, Charlie Parker’s daughter, traveled to Kansas City last summer for an unrelated ceremony, unveiling a medallion honoring Parker that’s embedded in the museum sidewalk. She then stayed for the first celebration. This year she could have attended New York’s Charlie Parker Jazz Festival, which overlaps some with KC’s. She served on that event’s board for six years.

Instead, she’s returning here. In the past, she says, “I was aware of various groups and

factions who wanted to guard their memories.” But in 2014, she was “astonished by how everyone came together.”

Not quite everyone, though.

The Mutual Musicians Foundation, one of the city’s signature jazz institutions, is participating in neither KC Jazz ALIVE nor the celebration. The foundation was the black musicians’ union hall until 1970, when Kansas City’s black and white unions merged.

Today it stands as a National Historic Landmark, one of three in the area (the Liberty Memorial and the Harry S. Truman home in Independence are the other two), and its jam sessions, still lasting until 5 a.m. on weekend nights, remain a living embodiment of local jazz lore. Anita Dixon, the foundation’s vice president, did not answer The Pitch’s interview requests for this story.

And one of the area’s most revered jazz venues, Take Five Coffee + Bar, in Overland Park, a coffee shop built around a 26-foot stage, closed last week, citing irreconcilable differences with its Corbin Park landlord.

Two of the Parker celebration shows had been booked at Take Five.

Still, this year’s event is shaping up to be a major draw — and its planners mean to keep growing it. Without revealing details, McGraw says the celebration is on a five-year expansion plan.

Sixty years after Charlie Parker died at age 34, the place where he spent half his years, on his way to changing music worldwide, is finally recognizing its son. Bird’s hometown is ready for him again.

Larry Kopitnik edits Jam Magazine and publishes kcjazzlark.com.

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J

ordan Carr and Justin Betterton sit across from me, side by side on the couch at Carr’s apartment, though Carr frequently gets up to change a record. At the moment, it’s Gang of Four’s Solid Gold.

We are supposed to be conducting an interview about lead singer Carr and guitarist Betterton’s hardcore band, Dark Ages, on the eve of a release gig for its second album, but the conversation meanders. In part this is because the two men have been friends for more than a decade. But largely it is because they’re less eager to talk about the fact that Dark Ages, which also includes Jason Shrout on drums and the Bloodbirds’ Mike Tuley on bass, is about to disband. It’s a subject on which neither Carr nor Betterton wants to dwell.

Dark Ages’ Vapor came out on Sorry State Records back in May, but the release show is finally just taking place Saturday. It’s the band’s first performance in nearly a year.

It’s also its last, capping an eight-year run.

Betterton and Carr don’t see the gap between gigs as the reason for Dark Ages’ demise so much as an indicator.

“Everybody in the band has so many things going on that are really pressing,” Betterton tells me. “There’s no room left to do it and really be a functional band. No matter how much we liked to do it, trying to get four people that are working on a hundred different things in line to agree ‘we’re going to do this at this time’ became untenable.”

In addition to a day job, Betterton hosts the weekly KCDIY Radio, KKFI 90.1’s Mondaynight punk show. Carr runs Oddities Prints, located right below his apartment, on the first floor of the Crossroads building that he owns with his wife, Danni Parelman. There wasn’t much here when the couple bought the space two years ago. In fact, there was only kind of a roof and no utilities.

“These rooms did not exist. This floor did not exist,” Betterton says, gesturing around the space where we’re sitting. “It was like a pile of bricks — a shitty pile of bricks. … It was seriously just this gutted shell that was just falling apart.”

That, Carr thinks, is among the reasons that Dark Ages has run out of time.

“It’s all-consuming to do that,” he says of rehabbing the building. “I just didn’t have the time it took to make a band super-great — especially Dark Ages, of all bands. When I’m exhausted, it’s hard to think about shit and scream — especially about shit that is very, very, very important and personal — when I’m just mentally somewhere else.”

Carr isn’t kidding about the intensity that Dark Ages requires of him. The evidence is hammered throughout Vapor. Listening to

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that record is like climbing aboard a rocket car on rails and letting it propel you full speed, without any control of where it takes you.

But even within those 17 minutes, there’s the audio equivalent of white space, in which the songs take a second to breathe. Halfway through Vapor, in “Mr. Sun,” there’s a moment when all sound drops out except for a succinct rat-tat-tat on the snare. It’s just a six-count, but then there’s a key change — all within a 45-second song. Here, and throughout Vapor, Dark Ages manages a fine line between controlled anticipation and catastrophic noise.

“When it comes to a point in the song where the natural progression would be ‘do this,’ we’re always like, ‘Let’s not do that,’” Carr says. “If it feels right doing a part five times, we’re only going to do it three. If it seems like it should go longer, we’re going to do it shorter. If it seems right here it should go insane, we’re going to kick it in the other direction. It’s about making it interesting and not being predictable.”

Vapor is exactly the sort of record that both Carr and Betterton like: a 12-inch 45 RPM record with 10 songs — in and out, like a good set. But the most apt summation of what Vapor means to the band comes not during our interview but via a message from Betterton the next morning.

The songs on Vapor, Betterton says, sound

Betterton (left) and Carr fade to black. dark and disturbing because they reflect the circumstances surrounding his life at the time that he was writing them. In a six-month period, Betterton lost four members of his family, including his brother and the grandmother who had helped raise him.

“I was trying to find a way to write songs that sounded like my life, that sounded true to what was going on,” Betterton writes in an e-mail. “Some people want to engage in mythmaking, and some want to underplay and shrug off the real guts, as if the work made itself. I’m more interested in truth. And that’s the truth of this LP. After all of that – Jordan was building a building, my family kept dying – none of us seemed to have enough left to give the band what it deserved.”

So “Horizon,” the closing song on Vapor, isn’t the sound of something falling apart; it’s the sound of something being dismantled.

And its repeated mentions of control recall the opening of Dark Ages’ 2011 debut, Can America Survive?, and its declarations of change — almost as if the band has come full circle in the course of two full-lengths. What started as four musicians with endless possibilities ends with Dark Ages reaching for control and trying — very hard — to find peace. In a way, Betterton says, Vapor serves as the perfect bookend. Carr agrees.

“You don’t ever plan the end of a band,” Carr says, “but there always is an end to a band. … It’s a different time for all of us, and I’d just rather say that and have that be how it is.”

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on a Game of Thrones-style throne.) While the record doesn’t hold any instant-classic material — much of Grohl’s songwriting on it is mired in cliché — no one should mind when a stadium-shaking live show arrives because of it.

Friday, August 21, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

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The Bridge 90.9’s Spirit of KC Fest

Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear

It seems so long ago since we first discovered Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear singing acoustic folk songs in a tiny Independence coffee shop. Fast-forward, and the motherand-son duo that was largely unknown even to locals is the metro’s breakout story of the year. It’s no surprise that Ward’s earthshattering voice and Ruth’s fine guitar playing have garnered them international acclaim (and a contract with New York label Glassnote Records). Fresh off a European tour and a set at Bonnaroo in support of their debut Skeleton Key, the two perform their first major local headlining concert Thursday night at the Midland. Don’t miss it.

Thursday, August 20, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

Chicago with Earth, Wind and Fire

Chicago returns Friday to Starlight, a year removed from its concert there with REO Speedwagon. This time, the legendary 1960s rock band brings along ’70s funk outfit Earth, Wind and Fire. Each band boasts a mighty live ensemble, complete with a three-

Foo Fighters rock on. member horn section — making it easier to swallow that neither act has all its original members. Plus, at 64, Earth, Wind and Fire lead singer Philip Bailey still commands a pristine set of pipes. Chicago lead singer and bassist Jason Scheff can give him a run for his money. Sometimes a little nostalgia is perfectly fine.

Friday, August 21, Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, Swope Park, 816-363-7827)

Foo Fighters

Dave Grohl’s mission seems to be keeping rock and roll alive. The Foo Fighters frontman has claimed that rock is in danger, and his work to keep on rockin’ continues Friday when the band stops at the Sprint Center. Not even a broken leg, which Grohl suffered in June after falling from a stage in Sweden, can deter this tireless rock star from his tour commitments, promoting 2014’s Sonic Highways, the album that followed HBO’s documentary series of the same name about the band. (Grohl has been performing in a purple cast, perched

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The only thing better than a Saturday night of locally sourced live music is a robust fiveband lineup featuring some of Kansas City’s most talented acts. Saturday at Crossroads KC, the Bridge presents a one-night festival called Spirit of KC, with the heavy blues of Samantha Fish and the sweet country harmonies of the Grisly Hand. The Latenight Callers bring their sultry pop to the stage, and She’s a Keeper gets you ready to dance.

Local blues-rock troubadour Brody Buster is also on deck. Get in the spirit and show some KC pride.

Saturday, August 22, Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 785-749-3434)

Danielle Nicole

We’ve been anticipating the debut album from blues babe Danielle Schnebelen — formerly of the sibling-run band Trampled Under Foot — for months. Schnebelen, who performs as Danielle Nicole, was on course to release her self-titled solo work this month, but we’re told that the release date is pushed back until at least the late fall. But if you miss this local woman’s generous voice, or if you’re dying to hear the funky, time-bending bass lines for which Schnebelen is known, fret not. Saturday at Knuckleheads, Schebelen keeps her scheduled album-release date and bills it instead as an exclusive preview party. You’ll hear all the new songs — you’ll just have to wait a little bit longer to buy the CD. Saturday, August 22, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

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

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

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Sandman the Hypnotist | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy

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

Old School | by Harvey Williams, KC Melting-

pot Theatre, Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central, kcmeltingpot.com

expo

West Side Story | Spinning Tree Theatre, at the Arts Asylum, 1000 E. Ninth St., spinningtreetheatre.com

missouri State Fair | Missouri State Fairgrounds,

2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia, mostatefair.com

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Royal opera House’s William Tell | 6 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com SpoRTS & ReC

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Amarillo Thundercats | 7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

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Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Cody Johnson | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

dJ G Train | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

2015 ethnic enrichment Festival | 6-10 p.m. Swope Park, Meyer Blvd. and Swope Pkwy., eeckc.net

Casting Crowns, i Am They | 7:30 p.m. Missouri

dJ Tulipana | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Farewell Angelina, Gracie Schram | 6 p.m. Kanza

Room, 4048 Broadway

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

Fifth Harmony, Bea miller, Natalie la Rose and Common Kings | Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway Great peacock, Atlas, mat Shoare, Katie Canfield | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway matt Hopper Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809

Grand

JpZ & RTB, pimpzilla, uucommon Nasa, Skech 185, Alv diesel | 6 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway mime Game, Vehicles, Kodascope | 9:30 p.m.

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Shades of Jade | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

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

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Can’t Stop the Serenity, a screening of Joss Whedon’s Serenity and Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, benefiting Equality Now | 6:30 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, libertyhall.net

Alabama, michael Ray | 7:30 p.m. Missouri State Fairgrounds, 2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia

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

Friday movie party | 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse,

Aplsoz, linear Symmetry | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck,

off the Wall film series: Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure | 8:45 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14

Bongotini | 7 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Cristela Alonzo | 7:30 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

F00d & dRiNK

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

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

Arts and Crafts Beer Festival | 5:30 p.m. Screenland Armour Theater, 408 Armour Rd., North Kansas City, artsandcraftskc.com

The Jayhawk Jump off | Jackpot Music Hall, 943

Massachusetts, Lawrence

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

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

Friday | 8.21 | Comedy

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

1400 Main

W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Snuff/dope with mark Southerland | 8 p.m. The

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5:30 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK

Greg Trooper | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

uncle Sam Wants you: missouri, the First World War and the making of the modern America, with MIT history professor Christopher

Film

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

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Tom Trashmouth Baker Band | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s

Rd., unionstation.org

Capozzola | 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

Woo G. Ray’s urban Trivia, Norman dexter’s Comedy Showcase | Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

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

Overland Park, between 79th and 80th streets, west of Metcalf, downtownop.org

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

Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

MUseUM exhibiTs & evenTs

local life Third Fridays | 5-9 p.m. Downtown

dJ White Shadow, Spinstyles | 10 p.m. The Riot

The Sisters Sweet, Tyler Gregory, Nicholas St. James | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

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

Chiefs vs. Seahawks | 7 p.m. Arrowhead Stadium, 1 Arrowhead Dr.

muSiC

State Fairgrounds, 2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia

Wouldn’t It Be Loverly? The Best of Lerner & Loewe | Musical Theater Heritage at Crown

Boys of Summer Tour 2015 | 3:30 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Chicago, earth Wind & Fire | 7:30 p.m. Starlight

Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Joplin Blasters |

missouri State Fair | Missouri State Fairgrounds,

737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia, mostatefair.com

Filthy 13 | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Folk This, Gary Cloud, Scott Stuewe, the Accidentals, Filthy 13 | 7:30 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers

Club, 3402 Main

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Switch | 8 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Grand Villanova | 9 p.m. The Kill Devil Club, 61 E.

That dragon, young Bull, Godzillionaire, maps for Travelers | 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mas-

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Noah Guthrie, Gabe dixon, Allison Rose Williams, Jessica paige | 6 p.m. The Riot Room,

Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats, lonnie mcFadden | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

iamdynamite, the missing letters, Beta State | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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Josh Vowell Band | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

Just Spin - Sounds of the World | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

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

lady Antebellum, Hunter Hayes, Sam Hunt |

dJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway The Fuzzy Buddies | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

The Roman Holiday, marasmus, Sedlec ossuary, Gravelord | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Rainer & Grimm, Sound Syndicate | 9 p.m. The

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

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

Sunu | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

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

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Alfred Packer Memorial String Band, Paull & Jeans | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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

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Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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

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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

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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

Crypticon Kansas City | Friday-Sunday, Howard Johnson Plaza Kansas City Hotel and Conference Center, 1601

Universal Ave.. crypticonkansascity.com

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

KC organics and Natural market | 8 a.m.Soul preservers featuring dropout Boogie |

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

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13th St. and Highland

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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

Art unleashed, benefiting the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City | 7 p.m., $45, Ritz-Charles, 9000 W. 137th St., Overland Park, artunleashedkc.org

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.

CommuNiTy eVeNTS

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

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

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

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

Wednesday, 5142 Paseo

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peRFoRmiNG ARTS

A Prairie Home Companion | 7:30 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

SeC Block party | Noon, KC Live Block at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

Comedy

corner of Second and Douglas, Lee’s Summit

Film

Cristela Alonzo | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

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

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

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

Todd lamanske | 4 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Life After Death From Above 1979 | 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

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

Wednesday, Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr., Merriam

Stand and Deliver, part of the library’s latinos in Cinema series | 1:30 p.m. Kansas City Central

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

Library, 14 W. 10th St.

F00d & dRiNK expoS

Kansas City Aviation expo & Air Show, featuring

the Blue Angels, the U.S. Army Golden Knights Parachute Team, Sean Tucker, Mike Goulian, Jacquie B., Trojan Phylers and others | Downtown Airport, 601 Brasilia Ave., kcairshow.com

missouri State Fair | Missouri State Fairgrounds,

Arts and Crafts Beer Festival | 2 p.m. Screenland Armour Theater, 408 Armour Rd., North Kansas City, artsandcraftskc.com Bacon-Fest | 2-5 p.m. Ameristar Casino Hotel, 3200

N. Ameristar Dr., baconfestkc.com

4103 S. Fourth St., Leavenworth, buffalobillfestival.com

2015 ethnic enrichment Festival | Noon-10 p.m.

Swope Park, Meyer Blvd. and Swope Pkwy., eeckc.net

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

The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

Sporting KC away game | 6:30 p.m. Alamo Draft-

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

yoga in the park | 9 a.m. City Market Park, Third St.

deja Vu 2015, featuring tributes to the Beatles, Journey, the Police and Foreigner | Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

house, 1400 Main

and Main, thecitymarket.org

Brody Buster Band, mark lowrey Trio | 4:30 p.m.

dead mockingbirds, lazy, the leisure Boys |

SpoRTS & ReC muSiC

Kansas City T-Bones vs. Joplin Blasters |

Buffalo Bill days | 11 a.m.-9:30 p.m. Ray Miller Park,

ReStore, 303 W. 79th St.

Research | Beginning at the Roasterie’s Bean Factory, 1201 W. 27th St., and ending at Gail’s Harley Davidson, in Grandview, rideagainstlupus.org

2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia, mostatefair.com F e S T i VA l S

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

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

land Park

parkville 5k/10k River Run | 7 a.m., $20-$30, English

david Basse | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E.

Landing Park, First St. and Main, parkvillechamber.com

Ride Against lupus, with former Chiefs wide receiver eddie Kennison and the Roasterie’s danny o’Neill, benefiting the Alliance for Lupus

Aces & eights | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-

18th St.

dylan Bishop Band | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

dreadnought, david Hasselhoff on Acid, After Nations | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway The Fray, Andy Grammer | 7:30 p.m. Missouri State Fairgrounds, 2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia

david George & a Crooked mile, Carswell & Hope, Kristie Stremel | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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Brian dunkleman | 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

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Stan Kessler’s Charlie parker Celebration | 8 p.m. Hotel Phillips, 106 W. 12th St.

Kansas City Aviation expo & Air Show, featuring

missouri State Fair | Missouri State Fairgrounds, 2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia, mostatefair.com

danielle Nicole Band, Grand marquis | 7 p.m.

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Kansas City, 3601 Broadway

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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Film Church: Tootsie | 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence

The Sexy Accident, Blackbird Revue | 6 p.m.

Royal opera House’s William Tell | 12:15 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

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The Silver maggies, the dynamite defense, the Heavy Figs | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main Spirit of KC Fest, featuring Samantha Fish, the Rainmakers, the Grisly Hand, the Latenight Callers, She’s a Keeper, Brody Buster Band | 5 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St. Split lip Rayfield, the Ants, Julian davis | 8 p.m.

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Adam Schlozman’s earth Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady

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Van & Sean: Simply love Tour 2015 | 7 p.m. Uptown

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longview Horse park Association’s 32nd Anniversary Benefit Horse Show | 6 p.m. Longview Horse Park, 12600 Raytown Rd.

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Have Gun Will Travel, Garrett Klahn, modern day Fitzgerald, dead Ven | 8 p.m. The Riot Room,

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

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Nerd Night | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

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

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Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

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The Boyfriend experience

Dear CRASH: Your boyfriend should ask him-

self — order him to ask himself — which is the likelier scenario: that his girlfriend scatters condoms around the house because she’s cheating on him or that his girlfriend, like almost all sexually active adults who have used condoms for birth control, disease prevention, and sex-toy safety, has a few loose condoms rattling around her living space?

That your boyfriend can’t accept your perfectly reasonable explanation for that one stray condom has me wondering if the recent talk about buying a house and having kids might be the actual issue. Is he looking for an excuse to dump you, and the stray condom is a convenient casus belli? Or is he really that jealous and insecure? If he doesn’t want to buy a house and have kids, then you obviously shouldn’t buy a house or have kids with him. But the same goes if he’s really this jealous and insecure. You don’t want to be saddled with a partner who sees evidence of infidelity where none exists because life is a parade of incidents and ephemera — an easily misinterpreted text message from a male co-worker, a stray pair of underpants left behind by a boyfriend who predates him, a cute waiter/barista/personal trainer who catches your eye — that could potentially set him off.

Everyone is entitled to moments of insecurity, of course, but you don’t want to be with a man who melts down over nothing.

Dear Dan: My boyfriend of six months tied

me up for the first time a month ago. He didn’t know what he was doing, and I didn’t get turned on because it hurt. I got him two sessions with a professional bondage top as a gift.

I was the “model,” and I was very turned on as the instructor walked my boyfriend through safe bondage techniques and positions. The

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D a n S ava ge and had to get up in seven hours and do it all over again. I suggest that you get your boyfriend a Fleshlight for those moments when you can’t be his human masturbatory aid, and stop feeling guilty about having sex “only” four or five times per week.

Dear Dan: I’m a woman in a straight relationship. I woke up this morning, and my BF wasn’t in bed with me. He felt ill in the middle of the night and went to sleep in the spare room — where he found a condom in its wrapper behind the nightstand. Now my BF thinks I’m cheating on him. I haven’t cheated on him and have no desire to. I have an IUD, and we are monogamous, so we don’t use condoms. But I used to keep condoms around to use on an old sex toy that I liked but was allergic to. That toy is longgone (I found out it was made of terrible materials and disposed of it), but I kept the condoms in case I met someone. That someone ended up being him, but by the time we met, I had an IUD. I explained all this to him, but he doesn’t believe me. We’ve lived together for two years and were just talking about buying a house and having kids.

Condom Resurfaces and Shatters Happiness

By

Dear Dan: I’m a bed wetter and super-

embarrassed about it. My boyfriend knows, and I know that he doesn’t mean to hurt me, but he makes jokes about it. He even once saw me wet myself and made a joke. I know that I should say something, but I’m afraid to.

Wants Emotional Tenderness

guy was attractive but not as attractive as my boyfriend. At one point, I shuddered, and my boyfriend is convinced that I had an orgasm.

He says I cheated right in front of him, and now he wants to dump me. What do I do?

Helplessly Explaining My Predicament Dear HEMP: Call that attractive instructor and tell him that you’re single now, so you’ll be coming to that second session alone.

Dear Dan: My boyfriend of three years and I

have an ongoing problem. His libido is much higher than mine, and at one point, I wasn’t making enough of an effort to meet him in the middle. But now we have great sex on average four or five times per week, and I initiate about a third of that. (If it were completely up to him, we’d probably have sex one or two times a day.) This past week, I’ve been working crazy shifts for a work event — 14-hour days with a 1.5-hour commute each way. I told him that I very likely would not have the energy to have sex. But when I got home the other day, knowing that I had to get up and leave again in less than seven hours, he initiated sex and I refused.

I was too tired. He got very upset. Whenever I say no, he seems to automatically categorize my refusal as evidence of laziness or selfishness.

I’m not sure what to do at this point. I really want to make this work.

Working Hard and Tired Dear WHAT: Your boyfriend is inconsiderate

— in the most literal sense of the word. He has failed to take into consideration that sex five times a week is a lot of sex, objectively speaking, particularly in a long-term relationship.

And your boyfriend failed — utterly failed — to take into consideration your current crushing workload when he attempted to initiate sex after you had worked/commuted for 17 hours

Dear WET: There are only two reasons that your boyfriend would be making jokes about your bed-wetting problem. He’s trying to be nice (he mistakenly believes that these jokes put you at ease; he’s trying to make you feel less self-conscious, not more; he wants to make the bed-wetting seem like no big deal, i.e., something you two can laugh off together). Or he’s a giant asshole (he knows that you’re sensitive about it and makes these jokes anyway because he’s an asshole; he makes jokes expressly to demean you because he’s an asshole; he’s intentionally shredding your self-esteem so that [1] you’ll think that no one else would ever want you and [2] you’ll settle for this guy even though he’s an asshole).

There’s just one way to figure out whether he’s a nice doofus who’s accidentally hurting you or a giant asshole who actually does mean to hurt you: Use your words. Tell him that the jokes hurt your feelings — no smile, no ambiguity, no gloss — and then see what happens. If he knocks it off, he was a nice doofus and the relationship may be salvageable. If he keeps it up, if the jokes don’t stop, he’s a giant asshole and he actually does mean to hurt you and the relationship isn’t worth salvaging. (Please bear this in mind: An asshole might claim to be a nice doofus — he’ll tell you that he was just trying to make you feel better about the bed-wetting thing with humor — but if the jokes don’t stop, he’s not a nice doofus. He’s a giant asshole.)

The reason that you’re afraid to say something is that you don’t want to lose him. But you need to flip that on its head: If your boyfriend is a giant asshole — even if he’s just a medium asshole — you should be in a big fucking hurry to lose him. Say something.

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