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Hometown: I grew up in Lee’s Summit, moved

to Chicago and Tampa, and am now back (with pride) in Kansas City.

Current neighborhood: I just moved from

Valentine to Manheim Park. I am in love with all of the culturally rich neighborhoods that are alive with beautiful old homes, big trees and diverse family life in KC.

What I do: My mission is to make yoga accessible and visible to the people of KC, aiming to include and embrace all backgrounds and income levels.

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What’s your addiction? Handstands. I like to

get upside down even in the least appropriate of places. It just feels so good! the game Monument Valley. I also find playing skee ball at Up-Down quite addicting, and I’m obsessed with luring friends and family into a game of Cards Against Humanity.

What’s your drink? Water, coffee, chai, kombucha, coconut water, cold-pressed juice, tequila on the rocks, vodka with pickle juice, Old Fashioneds, and all the yummy local craft brews.

Where’s dinner? I’m an herbivore, so I appreciate anywhere I can get a great plant-based meal. Füd, Lulu’s, Eden Alley, Blue Koi, Café Gratitude, KC Taco Company, Beer Kitchen and Nara are a few of my faves! My husband is an amazing cook, so home is always a great place for dinner.

Finish these sentences: “Kansas City got it right when …” They started to really embrace local.

Supporting local businesses has been such an awesome way to build hometown pride and to support our economy.

“Kansas City screwed up when …” Allowing, over many decades, for Troost to become a racial dividing line in this city.

“Kansas City needs …” Quality schools.

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Who is your hero? Anyone who embraces com-

“I can’t stop listening to …” Johnny Greenwood Is the Controller, a fantastic old-school reggae compilation; Clinton Fearon; Tame Impala; Of Montreal; David Bowie; Queen; and the Beatles.

Who is your nemesis? People who do not feel that it’s necessary to treat other beings and the world we live in with respect.

“My dream concert lineup is …” David Bowie and

Freddie Mercury, forever and ever.

“I just read …” Osho’s Yoga: the Science of the Soul and Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I like to keep a good balance by reading one book for spiritual growth and one for pleasure at the same time.

What’s your hidden talent? I’m a very proficient

sleeper. Some may say it’s a weakness, but I like to think of myself as the Michael Jordan of sleeping.

What’s your guiltiest pleasure? I’ll admit here to

all of Kansas City that I truly love all The Bachelor shows, unabashedly and without irony.

The best advice I ever got: Get out of your com-

passion for themselves and for others.

What’s your greatest struggle right now? Embracing nonattachment. There are so many wonderful things I want for myself, this community and this world. I constantly have to remind myself that it’s important to do the work without attachment to the outcome and that I’ll find contentment only when I embrace trust.

My dating triumph/tragedy: I’ve been married

for almost three years, so luckily my dating tragedies (and trust me, there are many) can stay where they belong … in the past!

My brush with fame: Over the years, I’ve met a good handful of famous/semi-famous people through various jobs. My personal favorite was Twiggy. She’s the sweetest!

“In five years, I’ll be …” Doing yoga on Mars! Five years ago, I couldn’t have imagined where I’d be right now. I’m gonna keep doing my thing, and I’m sure that whatever that leads to in five years is beyond my current imagination.

My sidekick: My sidekick is a sassy, grumpy, little fluff ball of a cat named Bowie. He’s my everything.

My soapbox: Yoga means “union,” and I want to help myself and others discover what that means and to experience what that feels like as a modern human on this Earth. We can take both personal and communal steps to break down unhelpful barriers and to live and work together with compassion, authenticity and respect. We have so much potential to tap into!

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” Mad Men, Game of Thrones, True Detective, Parks and

What is your spirit animal? Definitely a unicorn but with the sleeping habits of a cat. A catacorn.

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“As a kid, I wanted to be …” A mermaid. I still do!

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If a person who owns a million-dollar home files for personal bankruptcy, it seems only logical that he or she would be legally obliged to sell that home, find more modest accommodations, and use proceeds from the sale to repay creditors.

Not in Kansas.

The Sunflower State is one of seven in which the bankruptcy laws provide unlimited homestead exemptions. If you file for bankruptcy and have lived in Kansas for at least 40 months, you get to keep your house — no matter how expensive it is. Kansas: a great place to go belly up and keep your pool!

Matthew Kirk’s recent bankruptcy filing reveals just how much the state respects its citizens’ lifestyles. That is, it reveals how backward and abusable Kansas’ homestead exemption is.

Kirk, as The Pitch has reported, was one of the founders of ClickSpeed, a lead-generation company for online payday lenders. Kirk and his ClickSpeed co-founder, Herb Sih, sold loan applicants’ personal information to predatory lenders, many of whom have been prosecuted by various states and the federal government for illegal lending. (Kirk also coowned a payday-loan call center called Clear-

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Vox, and he was among the original owners of Centrinex, also a payday-loan call center.)

The online-payday-lending industry thrived in the shadows here for much of the past decade. Millions and millions of dollars were made by bulking up microloans to the welfare class with 700 percent interest rates and hidden fees. And those millions didn’t flow exclusively to the lenders. Also raking in the dough were people such as Kirk and Sih, whose businesses made the lenders’ work very easy.

In 2013, however, the feds caught on and began pressuring banks to stop processing transactions to and from shady online lenders. This gutted the industry and left many local millionaires overleveraged. Two years later, their bills are overdue, and lawsuits against them are flying. So bankruptcy filings are beginning to land.

After Kirk closed ClickSpeed in 2013, he leased office space in Leawood’s ritzy Park Place development and started what he billed as an “Internet marketing” company: Oceanus Digital. According to Kirk’s bankruptcy report — filed July 15, 2015 — Oceanus has operated at a loss since its inception. Kirk, who owns 100 percent of the company, owes nearly $300,000

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ClearVox, of which Kirk holds a 60 percent stake, is also operating at a loss. It has no significant assets declared on the bankruptcy filing, which also shows that the company has moved to downtown Kansas City — presumably to the offices of Think Big Partners, as The Pitch reported in June — where it employs three people. Flus Medios, a Panamanian company of which Kirk owns half, has debts in Panama and has always operated at a loss.

It ceased business operations in July. And four other companies that Kirk is involved with also have no value, according to the filing.

In addition to the Park Place debt, Kirk lists another $200,000 in debt to EHD Holdings, a former ClickSpeed landlord that has filed a lawsuit against Kirk in Johnson County. Other creditors named in the filing include Chase Bank and American Express (credit cards); Stinson Leonard Street LLP (legal bills); and member fees at a yacht club in Fort Myers, Florida.

In total, Kirk’s bankruptcy filing lists liabilities of $637,607.76.

This past March, Kirk sold his $1.5 million Overland Park home and purchased a new one worth $725,000. “The purchase price was a trade for his current residence plus approximately $765,000,” according to the filing. He also sold his Fort Myers condo for $315,000 and sold off $85,000 in stock in Union Broadcasting (owner of Sports Radio Station WHB 810).

Still, as denoted in the filing, Kirk’s exempt assets — the $725,000 house, a 2007 Lexus worth $16,500, various household items and a 401(k) — amount to $839,241.31. That’s more than $200,000 over his stated debt.

What kinds of laws allow a person to rack up more than $600,000 in debt, not pay it back, and continue to live in a house worth three-quarters of a million dollars? Not the kinds in effect for, say, student-loan borrowers, for whom bankruptcy is not an option, and who face liens on their homes if they default on their payments.

Kirk’s bankruptcy attorney declined to comment. Kirk could not be reached for comment. According to the bankruptcy filing, he has made $1,960 so far this year as an Uber driver. He has told the bankruptcy court that he hopes to eventually earn $6,000 a month working for the ride-share company.

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t long last, Kansas City’s perpetually floundering 18th & Vine District — which seemed to endure another setback when American Jazz Museum CEO Greg Carroll abruptly resigned in July, amid political turmoil — may be headed for something of a revival.

City, state and federal officials are working with Major League Baseball to develop a portion of Parade Park, immediately north of the 18th & Vine District, into a baseball-centric theme park of sorts. Kansas City leaders are trying to tie up loose financing ends to build what MLB calls an Urban Youth Academy in the park.

MLB’s Urban Youth Academy hosts free baseball and softball training year-round.

Kansas City’s academy, if plans come to fruition, would be the sixth such facility in the United States.

The first was built in Compton, California.

Since then, others have opened in Houston, New Orleans, Philadelphia and, most recently, Cincinnati.

The academy would be part of a larger project adjacent to 18th & Vine that would include four baseball diamonds designed for Little League Baseball play, as well as tennis courts in Parade Park.

Planned announcements have been in the works at various points this summer, though each has been postponed because financials haven’t added up to the $13.7 million that the project is expected to cost.

City sources indicate that the project has been about $6 million short of its goal. MLB and the Kansas City Royals are expected to contribute to the Urban Youth Academy.

The Missouri General Assembly set aside $2 million in its current budget for the project, and the city is expected to have some of its own skin in the game, as it often does with 18th & Vine.

Jermaine Reed, a 3rd District councilman, says he’s eager to see the 18th & Vine District — home to the American Jazz

For once, things are looking up for the beleaguered 18th & Vine District.

Museum and the adjoining Negro Leagues Baseball Museum — perform better than it has in the past. He tells The Pitch that backers of the idea are applying for $6 million in tax credits from the Missouri Development Finance Board. If successful, the tax credit could help close the funding gap.

The baseball project is part of a larger set of plans for the 18th & Vine District, which would include major public infrastructure improvements to the area. Reed and other city officials are tight-lipped about those plans, pending an announcement that could come later this month.

It appears that 18th & Vine’s face-lift has the support of Ollie Gates and U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver.

The timing of 18th & Vine’s potential progress is fortuitous. The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council last month approved, by a one-vote margin, a renewal plan for the East Crossroads. The plan looks to accelerate development in the

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East Crossroads, which is generally considered any portion of the Crossroads Arts District that’s east of Locust and west of U.S. Highway 71. The renewal plan would leverage local incentives and a combination of state and federal tax credits to encourage development.

While the East Crossroads plan is largely independent of what’s ahead for 18th & Vine, the two developments in tandem could finally make the baseball and jazz district more inviting.

Since the museums opened, almost 20 years ago, plans to further bolster the 18th & Vine area have generally not worked out.

But Reed, at least, seems to believe that better days are ahead for the district.

“This really goes to the larger revamping of 18th & Vine,” Reed says.

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hen I rolled into Yoga Patch at 6 a.m., the sky outside was still dark. A streetlamp cast a lonely circle of yellow light across the parking lot to help guide me inside the sixyear-old Waldo mainstay’s spacious new studio in the Arbor Vitae Yoga and Wellness Center (7235 Central), which also houses Floating KC, an aesthetician and a massage therapist.

Yoga Patch co-owner Maria Murphy greeted me as I entered. To her left, a large waterfall trickled down a mirrored backdrop, creating a soothing, spalike ambience that made me forget I’d failed to drink any coffee yet. Entering the place felt like getting a brain massage — exactly the effect Murphy intends.

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Yoga Patch relocated to Arbor Vitae last October after spending several months remodeling the old warehouse into a stylish, 13,000-square-foot studio that can accommodate more than 50 yoga classes each week — quite a change from the previous one-room space. Class offerings are varied but full of crowd-pleasers: prenatal yoga, kids classes, chair yoga, t’ai chi. That diversity has helped Yoga Patch fill a vital role in Kansas City’s growing yoga community.

“I think yoga should be for everyone,” Murphy said. “We’ve had great success with our classes for older adults and people in general who have issues with their bodies.

And kids love yoga. They don’t really know they’re doing it, but they love it. I also feel it’s really important to do pay-what-you-can classes.”

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Leduc, at Karma Tribe Yoga (top left), and Nella Yoga’s Petersen (left, at center, and above) That morning, Murphy led me to a room at the back of the studio, where several surprisingly bright-eyed persons sat cross-legged on their mats. For the next hour, I followed along with instructor Laura Kinney, who reminded the class that whatever we were doing was fabulous, even when our poses were fabulously imperfect.

Behind Kinney, two gnarled, 6-foot-tall cacti stood sentry at the east-facing windows.

As the morning progressed, I watched the sky slowly turn pink behind their spiky branches.

The scene felt so surreal that for a moment, I forgot I was in Kansas City.

My next stop was Nella Yoga (2100 Grand), another studio that’s working to build a yogacentric community. Founded by Shanell Petersen, who moved to Kansas City after falling in love with our town earlier this year,

the intimate, four-month-old studio offers relaxing yet challenging vinyasa flow classes.

A mother to five-month-old twin girls, Petersen quit her corporate job after giving birth to focus on doing something that, she says, “mattered to the community.” It’s the 9-to-5 world’s loss, for hers is the kind of calming presence that more offices could use.

The first time I attended one of her classes, she welcomed me with a hug and offered me a cup of chai tea. She told me that she’d recently started drinking the stuff as part of her 30-day sugar-free challenge. She asked me what I wanted to focus on in class, and I told her that I’d been struggling lately with arm balances.

“I always face-plant onto my mat,” I said.

“It’s super-awkward.”

She offered a very believable reassurance:

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“Don’t worry. I have lots of tricks for getting into those poses.”

As we began our practice, the sealike sound of our ujjayi breaths quickly filled the studio, serving as a complement to the traffic rushing down Grand and the birds chirping on a nearby wire. The studio’s location in the center of the city — right across from the Western Auto sign, to be exact — reminded me that yoga does not exist in a vacuum. Instead, it feels most powerful when it interacts with all of life’s complexities.

The impending arm balance interrupted my deep thoughts. Following Petersen’s instructions, I was able to suspend my body sideways on the backs of my arms for several seconds before I crumpled to the mat like a wet towel. Several whole seconds!

“I’ve never done that before,” I said, pretty damn pleased with myself.

The second time I stopped by, Petersen sat chatting with two students in the lobby.

She told me that she was doing the sugarfree challenge again — but now, a chalkboard listed the names of the people who had pledged to do it with her.

“This time, I don’t have to do it alone,” she said.

Just down the street, Karma Tribe Yoga (2001 Grand) was my final destination for the week. Officially opening September 14, the fledgling studio was that day operating on a limited schedule, including the donation-based weekly pop-up classes that have earned owner Lauren Leduc a large following of local yogis since she started this spring.

“We do yoga outdoors in unusual places, so it becomes very visible to the public,” Leduc said of the pop-up classes, which will continue through the fall and winter. “We’ve done city parks, wineries, the library rooftop downtown, the Kansas City Museum — basically anywhere I can gather people.”

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In addition to a fifth-floor studio space that offers a striking view of downtown, one thing that makes Karma Tribe different is that all of the classes are pay-what-you-can.

When I recently attended one of Leduc’s “core flow” classes, a jar by the entrance suggested a donation of 10 bucks.

“A lot of these people are teachers, social workers or students,” she said. “They’re in these positions where they’re contributing greatly to society and giving a lot, but they can’t afford a traditional yoga membership.”

That night, the packed room was filled mostly with women. Leduc asked how many of us “liked our bellies.” Only one person raised her hand. She reminded us to be grateful for our bodies “no matter what they look like,” then suggested that we view the burn in our muscles as love rather than punishment. That sounds reasonable, until you’re dripping with sweat while attempting to sit in an invisible chair.

As we moved through the challenging series, Leduc reminded us to breathe. Outside, the sun began to set, reflecting off the skyline in the distance. We inhaled and we exhaled.

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LISTINGS staged at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. (The photo on this page shows what you’ll see in Atkins Auditorium.) It’s in previews starting Friday, September 11, with opening night September 18. The show runs through October 4. See kcrep.org for dates, times and tickets.

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t seems ridiculous to walk into a runningshoe store and say you aren’t there to buy running shoes, but that’s exactly what I did the first time I visited Run 816 in Westport (304 Westport Road).

“I need new gym shoes,” I told Nick Pigg, who co-owns the four-month-old boutique with his wife, Tracy. “But I hate running.”

I had hoped to find something foot-friendly and comfortable to replace my six-year-old hiking-turned-workout shoes, which have served me well but finally became exhausted after enduring thousands of jumping jacks, lunges and squats.

Nick was prepared for a customer like me, someone who exercises several times a week but has thus far refused to get onboard with the nonstop sweating, swearing and panting that running entails. He offered me a cup of iced coffee — the shop serves cold brew on tap from Waldo’s Second Best Coffee. Then he told me to have a seat and take off my shoes.

I did what he said but not before stopping to pet the Piggs’ two friendly shop dogs, who had melted into an adorable cuddle puddle on the couch. Everything about the cozy space, from the pups to the tidy racks of colorful

shoes at the back, felt welcoming and efficient — which makes sense because the Piggs know what they’re doing.

Before opening their shop in Westport, the couple owned a similar store in Illinois for six years. When these Kansas City natives returned home, they were surprised to find that most of the running specialty stores were in the suburbs. Midtown was wide-open.

“For us personally, it was important to be located in this area,” Nick told me. “Westport has changed a lot just since we were gone for a few years. I’m in my mid-30s, and I think it’s kind of grown up with people our age. Not that you can’t still go out and have as many beers as you want, but it’s also loaded with a lot of good shops and restaurants.”

Run 816 fits neatly among Westport’s boutiques, with a similar one-on-one approach to customer service. Nick sits down with you, measures your feet and the height of your arch, and captures video of you walking on a treadmill to determine where and how you put pressure on your feet and what’s going on with your gait.

Having compiled my data, Nick narrowed my shoe choices to four contenders: two

Going feetfirst into Run 816.

made by Asics and two by Altra. The latter is a small company in Utah whose founder, Golden Harper, began his quest for betterfitting shoes by cutting up and melting down other shoes in the back of his parents’ shop.

“He started altering other shoes, which probably isn’t legal,” Nick said, laughing. “But in five short years, they’ve become a serious player in running shops.”

After trying on each pair and pacing around the store, I settled on comfortable, eye-catching neon-orange Altras. Nick told me that a good pair of shoes can “make or break” whether someone loves running, and he would know. Nick and Tracy both run marathons, and Run 816 hosts group runs on Wednesdays and Sundays that start and end at the shop and meander through downtown, Brookside or Prairie Village.

Nick also does ultra-marathons — runs of more than 50 miles — but “nothing crazy,” he said. For the record, I definitely think he’s crazy.

“Of course, a guy who owns a running shop would say this, but shoes are seriously important,” Nick said. “That doesn’t necessarily mean the most expensive pair of shoes.

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An Altra (far left), Tracy and Nick Pigg in their store, and GUS Boutique (above) It means the pair that matches up right with someone’s foot. It’s important to pick a shoe based on how it feels.”

To round out the shop’s offerings, Tracy recently opened GUS Boutique in the back room of Run 816. The specialty area, a nice complement to Run 816, offers women’s clothing, jeans, purses and accessories to make a convenient and classy two-stop shop.

The best part: Items at both halves of this address are affordable.

“We want to make sure the customer is happy,” Nick said. “If you’re happy, that works out well for everybody. You’ll be comfortable in your shoe, and when you need something else, hopefully you’ll come back to us. That little bit of time you spend on somebody usually pays off.”

Chatting with Nick even convinced me to try taking my new shoes on a run. OK, probably just a jog around the block. But with the right shoes, you never know.

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t a time when helicopter parents continue to hover over their kids at college, playwright Sarah Ruhl’s The Oldest Boy has a refreshingly different flight plan. Beyond offering views of the parent-child relationship, the play, directed by Cynthia Levin at the Unicorn Theatre, takes a look at how we attach to — and detach from — one another and the world. It isn’t a deep meditation, but it’s an often amusing look at the human and spiritual connections we make.

At the center of the story is the quirky “Mother,” who is having a go at meditation when we meet her. As played by Katie Kalahurka, who impressed a year ago in Spinning Tree Theatre’s Ghost-Writer, she holds our attention better than she’s able to control her restless mind.

Shortly after Mother gives in to distraction, two Tibetan priests — a lama (Wai Yim) and a monk (Thomas Tong) — ring at her door.

Their visit has to do with her 3-year-old son.

How they’ve learned of the child isn’t exactly clear. And when Mother’s Tibetan-born husband returns home, his lack of surprise at the priests’ presence speaks either to his character’s Buddhist faith and knowledge of such occurrences or to the actor Vi Tran’s calmer stage presence. Where the script affords Kalahurka’s Mother bursts of emotion and an inquiring mind — animated by the actress’s focus, sensitivity and energy — Tran’s Father comes off as all reason and reserve.

Yim, whose lama is addressed with the honorific title of Rinpoche, is excellent as a religious teacher on a quest. He elegantly balances his character’s own wish — to find

his reincarnated teacher — with a respect and care for these parents of Tenzin, the child (depicted in the play by a puppet) he has come to investigate. The lama’s own desires lurk just behind his tranquil aura. And as the monk who assists him, a very good Tong brings humor and wonderment.

The student-teacher bond is as central here as that between spouses or between parent and child. And the lama isn’t the only one

The Oldest Boy Through September 20 at the UnicornTheatre, 3828 Main, 816-531-7529, unicorntheatre.org.

Free programs related to the play start at 6:30 p.m. Fridays; see the Unicorn’s website for details. searching. Mother, who gave up a career in academia after her own teacher died (the reasons for which we learn later), looks for answers as she considers giving her son up to a teacher in a monastery far away. The biblical story of God telling Abraham to sacrifice Isaac enters her mind. “Just joking!” she says of God’s command. But what of the request made of her? “Americans like to choose things,” she says. What will her choice be?

The Oldest Boy plays like the Dummies’ Guide to Buddhism, but it’s a pleasantly diverting look at the intersection of East and West in this family, and at the way bonds form and hold. In a skillfully orchestrated flashback sequence, we see the parents’ first meeting and wonder: Was it predestined?

The monks (Yim, left, and Tong) conduct a test with Tenzin (the puppet, aided by Espy and Meyer), while Kalahurka and Tran wait.

Alex Espy, who shadows the puppet (made

by Mike Horner, of Mesner Puppet Theater), voices the child’s lines and helps puppeteer Andi Meyer with its operation. On opening night, the puppet’s workings appeared awkward. For most of Act 1, my focus was on Espy and Meyer, not on what looked to be a ventriloquist’s alter ego. I couldn’t help recalling War Horse. Though an unfair comparison — that puppet’s construction had massive resources of people, time and materials — the puppeteer in that play quickly became a nonentity. Here, it was Act 2 before I could merge the effective Espy with the child he helps portray.

For those moments when a Tibetan language is spoken, subtitles are projected above the stage (design by David Kiehl), making for a fluid transition between tongues. Sarah White’s functional and stylish set incorporates Asian-inspired sliding panels for doors and walls, giving way in Act 2 to an open-air vista. And costumes by Ian R. Crawford beautifully reflect culture and place.

This first show of the Unicorn’s 42nd season may not delve very deeply into the nature of culture or make strong statements on the influence of faith, but the playwright’s musings and lines of inquiry were enough to arouse my interest — and instigate some temporal ponderings of my own.

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don’t know exactly how many Mexican restaurants are in Johnson County, but I’ll bet that if you took a burrito from each, you’d be able to spell out the word ENOUGH so big, you’d see it from space.

There are, I’m saying, plenty of places in the whitest part of the metro to eat Tex-Mex made for vanilla tastes: boring burritos, drab dips, tacos best priced by the pound. True, Overland Park’s Frida’s Contemporary Mexican Cuisine offers a varied and authenticseeming menu, but that’s a rare exception.

Out south, Mexican food is rarely ethnic food.

Now, however, comes a surprising new player out this way: Terra Mexican Cuisine, which opened this summer and isn’t very far from Frida’s. It’s neither as polished nor as imaginative as that place, but it’s more than good enough to root for its success.

Arturo and Maru De Luna’s restaurant was conceived as a partnership between the De Lunas and the owners of Frida’s. But Arturo De Luna decided to go a different direction,

taking over a space last occupied by a sandwich shop. The resulting venue looks and feels more like a suburban neighborhood hangout than it does a place with serious culinary aspirations, and indeed the focus in the early going was a bit scattered.

“When we opened, we only had a few tacos on the menu,” Arturo De Luna tells me. “But people coming in wanted tacos, so we added more and created a separate taco section.”

Those tacos are more sophisticated than you might expect in such an unassuming location. One, for instance, is centered on slowbraised pork confit, with a piquant salsa verde.

It’s delicious. So is a taco that combines crispy, twice-fried chicharrón with roasted shrimp and soothing guacamole in a soft flour tortilla.

You won’t find the usual ground-beef tacos here, I’m happy to report. Instead, you find succulent carne asada, which comes in a flour tortilla, a corn taco shell — or in a tortilla de queso, which is, yes, a taco shell molded from cheese. (It sounds Taco Bell but isn’t.)

There are no combination plates, no sizzling fajita platters, no chimichangas. They are not missed, especially not when you can order oven-roasted, tamarind-marinated pork ribs that all but fall off the bones. The glaze gives the meat a hint of sweetness, well accented by the colorful swaths of puréed beets,

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sweet potato and peas it arrives with, along with a lightly charred cobette of grilled corn.

In this heavily air-conditioned zip code, I suppose there’s no bad time to order a coldweather dish like the beef stew I tried here. I look forward to eating it again after autumn’s first freeze, and in the meantime, I’ll remember its enticingly seasoned but not fiery sauce of pasilla chile peppers, its generous portions of baby carrots and corn, and its sautéed green beans.

The best-selling dish at Terra so far is the enchiladas Suizas, a stylish spin on the staple dish that’s heavy on the dairy (Suiza, Spanish for Swiss, is a reference to the lavish use of cream and cheese in the preparation) and very, very tasty. The enchiladas, filled with chicken or a cheese-and-onion mixture, comes smothered in a tomatillo cream sauce.

Most of the entrées — and all the tacos — are served with a choice of side dish, my favorites being the vegetarian black beans and a delicately seasoned red-cabbage salad. All the sides, from spicy (grilled jalapeños and onions) to cooling (a fine cactus salad), complement chef Casey Sullivan’s main courses beautifully.

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The dessert menu includes sugar-dusted churros and a house-made cheesecake, but the standout dolce at Terra is Maru De Luna’s “pastel imposible”: a layer of moist chocolate cake topped with a thick, creamy layer of flan.

Terra’s menu contains an overabundance of the word “special,” suggesting a kitchen that is still learning its strengths. Some dishes are distinctive enough to live up to that label, though, and I’m hopeful that people will seek them out. The De Lunas have put their restaurant in an uninspired location, in the heart of a Kansas suburb swamped by more ordinary Tex Mex choices, but that doesn’t make Terra unworthy of discovery.

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atrick Ryan, the chef-owner of Westport’s popular Port Fonda, is headed back to college this fall. But not as a student.

Ryan, a graduate of Western State College (now Western State Colorado University) and the Western Culinary Institute (now Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts) in Oregon, is readying a second location of his threeyear-old restaurant in downtown Lawrence, a few minutes from the University of Kansas.

Slated to open by early October, the corner space at 900 New Hampshire is connected to the TownePlace Suites by Marriott.

When I stopped by last week, the still-unfinished dining room — designed by Kansas City’s Hufft Projects — looked vastly bigger than the Westport space. Ryan told me that his new restaurant is indeed 1,700 square feet larger than the original, but it will seat only 45 more people. (The one in Westport tops out at 100.) The bar was nearly completed, and the sleek Wood Stone oven had been installed in the exhibition kitchen. Ryan and his general manager, Jamie Davilo, were in the process of hiring the new staff.

The Westport restaurant’s dining room is notoriously noisy, which many of Ryan’s regulars say they love, but the Lawrence space will be a little gentler. “There are a lot of hard surfaces in here,” Ryan said, looking around the long, L-shaped room, “but the 20-foot ceilings in the dining room have been sprayed with a thick layer of a noise-absorbing material called Sonofoam. We can tell it’s working already. There’s no echo in the room.

“The Lawrence venue will not look like the one in Westport,” Ryan added. “The concrete floor will be stained a coppery shade, the lighting fixtures will be amber — made by

Heath Ceramics in Sausalito, California — and the tile work will be in shades of dulce de leche. This is not a duplicate of Port Fonda but very much its own Port Fonda.”

All the front windows of the restaurant will feature line drawings by KC tattoo artist Mikey Wheeler (including a likeness of KU basketball legend James Naismith), and the private Reserva room will seat as many as 48 for private parties. There will also be, sometime next year, a patio.

The Port Fonda on this rapidly changing stretch of New Hampshire is only one block off Lawrence’s busiest restaurant boulevard, and it offers an advantage to diners commut-

ing from KC — the largest free public-parking garage in the city is right across the street.

Three servers from the original restaurant will train the new staff, and bartender Nate Burian is moving full time to the new venture.

Ryan himself is making himself available to oversee catering and special events for a penthouse event space atop the adjoining hotel.

Since Ryan announced his Lawrence plan in January, he has been asked a particular question over and over: Why not Leawood?

“I get that a lot,” Ryan told me. “We considered a lot of different neighborhoods when I felt the timing was right for a second location. Some were too close to the original

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restaurant and canceled each other out. Some locations were charging ridiculous rents.”

Davilo jumped in: “The idea of Lawrence kept coming up and coming up in conversations. The restaurant scene in Lawrence is really growing. And it’s outgrowing Massachusetts Street.”

“It was absolutely the right decision,” Ryan said. “I don’t think another Port Fonda would work anywhere in Kansas City right now. Lawrence is absolutely right.”

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eah, I’m a shithead, and I can’t get anything I want, and I have no one, begins the transparently titled Wet Ones song “I’m a Shithead.” It’s one of nearly 20 tracks logged on the band’s SoundCloud page, among the equally volatile “Get Me Off,” “Thumbs Down Syndrome” and “I Live Life Reckless.”

“Most of our stuff is pretty autobiographical,” Kenneth Kupfer tells me between long pulls of his beer. “I can’t necessarily speak directly on that song because I didn’t write it, but I use music kind of as a way to vent frustrations and anger in a positive way. It’s just kind of what’s on our mind and what we’re thinking about. I would say that ‘I’m a Shithead’ is pretty autobiographical of Zach [Campbell, the song’s writer] and a number of us in the band, unfortunately.”

I’ll have to take Kupfer at his word. His bandmates — Campbell and Justin Baird, formerly of All Blood, and Derek Solsberg — haven’t yet made it to the interview and therefore can’t further illuminate their worldviews.

Campbell, I’m told, is probably still sleeping.

Solsberg has a job. Baird is on his way. On the rooftop patio of the Blind Tiger (where Kupfer and Campbell will both work shifts later this evening), Kupfer lights one Pall Mall Red after another, dropping the finished cigarettes into a Miller High Life bottle he has emptied.

Shitheads or not, the members of Wet Ones have been fairly productive — especially considering that the band is less than a year old.

(The songs on that SoundCloud page, Kupfer assures me, are the jagged tip of a big iceberg.)

Wet Ones formed almost immediately after All Blood’s public implosion last November, when a fight among band members broke out during a show at the Union.

“The dude that caused the wild breakup is not in Wet Ones, so I guess I’m not worried about either Zach or Justin attacking me onstage,” Kupfer says. “If they did, bring it on,” he adds dryly. “I can’t say I’ve never been attacked onstage before.”

Though Kupfer had never been in the same band as Campbell and Baird, each belonged to previous bands (Campbell in Mouthbreathers and Rooftop Vigilantes, Kupfer in Fag Cop and Wayne Pain & the Shit Stains) and frequently shared local bills. And as far as Kupfer and Baird are concerned, Wet Ones formed at exactly the right moment.

“We basically wrote a record right away,” Kupfer says. “A few of the songs on that SoundCloud page are songs that we’d done in our other bands, but maybe we didn’t feel that the band pulled it off in the same way, so we kind of tweaked it or changed it with the new musicians. We had a bunch of ideas and stuff ready to go.”

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And a follow-up to that debut is already in the works.

“We already have our next record basically completed,” Kupfer says. “But we don’t want our first release to be a box set. We want to trickle it out so people can get the most out of it, instead of boring everybody by putting out 12 records or something. We just don’t want to dump a bunch of stuff right away.”

Whatever the Wet Ones may be, the band is definitely not boring. Its songs present as enigmatic, foul-tempered outbursts less concerned with melodic precision — not to say there isn’t any — than capturing whatever particular sentiment is driving the bandmates at the moment. These are raucous, snarling punk jams, and they’re not graceful. But in the right scenario, they work like a drug. Listen to Wet Ones, and your brain’s pleasure centers will sync up. Your skin will itch, and your blood will run hot. You’ll want to scream things, too.

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a couple of dozen or so other people. It’s that live energy that keeps veterans such as Kupfer, Campbell and Baird feeling like the band life still has its shine.

“It’s our favorite activity, to get drunk and fuck around on FourTrack [an audio recording app for bands],” Kupfer tells me. “We enjoy making music together. It’s what we do to have fun.”

Baird, who has arrived with a Heineken in hand, gazes at me from behind rose-tinted sunglasses. “We want to avoid the issue of being bored as fuck.”

One way the bandmates fight tedium: trading instruments. Except for Solsberg, who holds down the bass, the members switch among keys, guitar, drums and lead vocals, depending on the song and its author. There’s no organized process for any of it; Kupfer suggests that it all comes down to elementary chemistry.

“Forming a band with someone, it’s like dating them in a way because you’re signing up for a relationship,” he says. “You’re spending a lot of time with them. You’re creating stuff — your riffs or whatever. You’re letting other people use that. You’re sharing it, and it’s kind of a personal thing. Sometimes, there’s that thing where you come together and you jam and it doesn’t work, and you go to the bar and play Hoop Fever instead. Other times, you jam and you’re like, ‘Whoa, that sounds fucking awesome, and we just brought that into the universe. Let’s do that again next week.’”

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Normally, you would see the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra performing within the elegant confines of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts — though you might not find them accompanied by tap dancers there. Saturday’s Prairie Village Jazz Festival pairs today’s premier Kansas City big band, led by music director Clint Ashlock, with tapping brothers Lonnie and Ronnie McFadden for a finale that oozes fun. (Lonnie McFadden taps across the piano bar at the Phoenix nearly every Friday. Together with his brother, the duo has toured with the Count Basie Orchestra.) Also on the schedule: singer Angela Hagenbach, drummer Matt Kane with his Kansas City Generations Sextet (an ensemble of some of the best young jazz musicians in KC), trumpeter Stan Kessler and Horacescope (playing the music of jazz great Horace Silver), bassist Tyrone Clark & True Dig with singer Lisa Henry, and vibraphonist Peter Schlamb with his quartet.

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ill Sundahl has his hands on a lot of turntables, figuratively speaking. That’s not surprising, given his position as the special events and volunteer coordinator for community-radio station KKFI 90.1. But what cranks his heart up to 45 rpm is the Crossroads Music Festival, the annual event that he dreamed up in 2004 and has organized since.

This year, CMF spreads out over seven venues: Green Lady Lounge, two stages at the Living Room Theatre, the Brick, the Tank Room, Mod Gallery and East Crossroads Main Stage (at 19th Street and Grand). Ahead of the Saturday event, I talked with Sundahl about CMF’s growth.

The Pitch: This is the 11th annual Crossroads Music Fest. How has it changed over the years?

Sundahl: It started behind where the Crossroads KC is now — back then it wasn't even called Grinders Sculpture Park. I talked to Stretch [Jeff Rumaner, Grinders co-owner] one day and was like, “I want to put a show on in your yard.” So he built a little stage, and day of the show they were cutting down trees to make way for bands loading in. I think the first year, we had something like eight bands. We did it there for three or four years, and then Sculpture Park became Crossroads KC. It got to where we were closing down the street, 24

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Crossroads Music Festival Saturday, September 12, see cmfkc.com for schedule. and we moved the main stage to Crosstown Station [until it closed in 2011]. By then, it was becoming several venues. Now, we’re up to seven stages and 35 bands. This year, our main stage is at a new location: 19th and Grand.

We’re building our own venue in the lot.

With so many other locally focused music festivals in Kansas City, what makes CMF important?

I think it’s important because we strive to offer people a real cross section of what’s going on every year. There are 35 bands this year, and only five have played the festival before.

We’re always trying to find newer bands — not necessarily younger bands, though that’s how it happens. We try to design it so that if you just go to one local music event a year, you can come to this one and still get a really good selection.

How have you seen the local music scene evolve as you’ve been organizing CMF?

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Early on, there were a lot more repeat artists playing the festival. I feel like we’re able to have such a variety now because the scene has grown so much. There are more venues these days, and there’s more support from the community to go see Kansas City music. I think that’s the key. I think people care about the artists here — there’s an understanding that if a band works really hard and practices in their basement and no one comes to see them play, they’re going to become discouraged, and no one wants that. So I think there’s a lot of support for KC music. I always wish there was more, but the reality is that it’s never been better.

Another aspect is that I’ve seen a lot more bands being professional now than in the past.

I’m not trying to dog on anyone, necessarily, but I think the level of professionalism is people realizing that bands like Making Movies or Radkey or Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear, they’re going out and making a name for themselves, and they started in Kansas City. In the past, there’s always been some bands that essentially have to leave to make money because even though Kansas City does support its own, it’s not enough to make a living. So people are seeing those bands now, the ones that are going around the world and making it. They’re seeing how tight they are and how professional they are, and it’s translating into higher quality on a lower budget from local musicians.

Tell me a little about the planning process for CMF. How long does this take to put together?

[Laughs.] As soon as we get off the phone, I’m writing grants and hitting up sponsors for next year. It never stops. I wish it was the only thing I did because it’s become a passion, obviously. I love it and I love this town. And I wish I could focus on it constantly. Thankfully, I do have a great job that allows me to focus on events, and I’ll start focusing on next year’s fest immediately.

As far as booking, I usually start late spring.

And marketing and promotion start around then, too.

What do you personally get out of it?

I think it’s that I get to enjoy my life. I get to connect to people. I’ve always enjoyed making things happen and making something out of nothing, so Crossroads Music Fest and all of the shows and events with KKFI are just harebrained schemes until you work really hard for them.

For me, the payoff always comes at the events themselves, when you’re living life and enjoying the moment, and you’re seeing that a thousand other people are enjoying the exact same thing. Even though I’m working the events, I always take the moment to enjoy some of my favorite bands. And that’s it for

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I’m not the only one who likes to let art move them and get swept up.

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Thursday, September 10 Best Board Practices seminar KKFI Studios (3901 Main)

Thursday’s Best Board Practices is put on by the Kansas City Volunteer Lawyers & Accountants for the Arts (KCVLAA), which hosts educational sessions for artists around Kansas City. The seminar focuses on the responsibilities of nonprofit board members, so if you’re in charge of a nonprofit — or you’d like to be — don’t miss this session. It costs $12 for non-KCVLAA members, free to KCVLAA members.

Friday, September 11 Kelley Hunt, with Julian Davis

JCCC’s Polsky Theatre (12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park) Blues singer Kelley Hunt is touring in support of her exquisite The Beautiful Bones.

Unable to perform at CMF, Hunt was still interested in helping support KKFI with a benefit concert. Friday at the Polsky Theatre at Johnson County Community College, she plays with her full band.

Julian Davis, 15-year-old Kansas State Flatpicking Champion, opens the show.

Tickets cost $20, $35 or $40.

Sunday, September 13 White Noise: Embracing the Spirit Belvoir Winery (1325 Odd Fellows Road, Liberty)

This one-day event was designed by KKFI DJ Maria Vasquez Boyd with writers, photographers and fine artists in mind, though anyone is welcome. Participants at the retreat will learn about the history of the property, sample wines, wander the grounds, and be entertained by singer-songwriter Heather Thornton at a reception. Tickets cost $15.

For more information on these events, or to purchase tickets, see kkfi.org.

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nd escape Ratatat good time. Ratatat’s Mike Stroud and Evan Mast are two t art move electro-rock peas in the same nerdy pod. The duo’s latest release, Magnifique, comes five years after its excellent — if slightly overwrought — LP4. This time around, the guys h.com have simplified their cause. Gone are the excessive instruments that cluttered previous releases. Magnifique relies on squealing addition electric guitars, bone-rattling reverb and g on the sugar-coated synths. Aside from the delightful surprise of a slide guitar here and there (see “Drift”), Magnifique doesn’t get too crazy, and the restraint makes for one of Ratatat’s most intriguing ventures yet. In a live setting, Ratatat doesn’t go easy on visual effects.

Thursday at the Uptown, prepare to get down. es is put Thursday, September 10, Uptown Theater Lawyers (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665) CVLAA), ons for e semilities of Albert Hammond Jr., Prinze George you’re in It’s interesting that the first single off Albert ike to be Hammond Jr.’s latest album, Momentary Mass $12 for ters, is a track called “Losing Touch.” In that KCVLAA song, Hammond resigns himself — over rolling, enigmatic riffs — to the fact that he’s just losing touch, among other sad real-life revelations. In fact, Momentary Masters suggests just the opposite about Hammond’s trajectory.

The Strokes guitarist seems determined with d Park) this album — his third solo record — to continue pushing his songwriting abilities, and g in supthe result is a collection of his most personal ul Bones. songs to date. Though there are a few sonic was still missteps — Momentary Masters is far from a KFI with masterpiece — overall it’s still an enjoyable pop e Polsky experience. Sunday at the Bottleneck, get to munity know the sensitive side of this Stroke. Bonus: ll band.

Maryland synth-pop trio Prinze George, led as State by the megawatt voice of Naomi Almquist, he show. opens. Don’t be late.

Sunday, September 13, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)

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the soulful R&B stylings of Boyz II Men or the long-awaited comeback of Dunkaroos. Diet Cig reminds you that while the general population was being beaten over the head with the Titanic soundtrack, there was a definitive ’90s culture of pop-punk subversion — and it was glorious. On the group’s debut EP, Over Easy, Luciano belts out lyrics bemoaning everything from the difficulties of love to the almost-adult moment of moving into a first apartment, and she does it over Bowman’s disjointed, antsy rhythm. This band is already garnering Internet buzz. Monday at RecordBar, see what the noise is about.

Monday, September 14, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Hozier

Andrew Hozier-Byrne — the Irish singer-songwriter known simply as Hozier — skyrocketed to the top of the charts with the hit single “Take Me to Church,” off last year’s self-titled album.

If you don’t remember that swelling anthem, you must have been underground or dead for all of 2014. Hozier was in the area in February, when he played a sold-out show at Liberty Hall.

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Monday, September 14, Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, 816-363-7827)

Second Hand King

Before the Bomb Drops, the latest album from local rapper Joe Stanziola — who performs as Second Hand King — had some infectiously positive moments, not unlike the optimism of Brother Ali. Saturday on the Riot Room patio, Stanziola releases the B-sides to that album, and he’s bringing in a slew of talent to bolster the bill. Fellow KC rappers Pistol Pete, Quantum Supply and KB (leader of BluntRap) are on deck, as well as St. Louis’ J Bomb and Iowa hip-hop trio Prettygirlhatemachine.

Saturday, September 12, the Riot Room Patio (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

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Performing Arts

At Home at the Zoo | Kansas City Actors Theatre | City Stage at Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., kcactors.org

A Night on the Town, featuring Ben Gulley |

8-9:30 p.m. Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

Black Bewitched | Late Night Theatre, Missie B’s, 805 W 39th St.

Cirque eloize iD | 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

The Oldest Boy | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

take 6 & the manhattan transfer | 7:30 p.m. Kauff-

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Arts midwest Conference | Kansas City Convention

Center, 301 W. 13th St.

fourth Annual midwest melee, at Paris of the Plains | 6 p.m. at the Guild, 1621 Locust, popfestkc.com

fidlar, Dune rats | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

KC improv festival | 7 & 10 p.m. Kick Comedy Theater,

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

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

Hampshire, Lawrence

1809 Grand

Donnie miller | 10 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St.,

sprintcenter.com

Overland Park

7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

4010 Pennsylvania, kcimprovfestival.com

Arts midwest Conference | Kansas City Convention

Center, 301 W. 13th St.

Kansas state fair | Kansas State Fairgrounds, 2000

natural Child, Pujol, Wet ones, gymshorts, Casey Jack | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

N. Poplar, Hutchinson, kansasstatefair.com

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Wine tasting on the terrace | 6-8 p.m., $25, Overland Park Arboretum, 8909 W. 179th St., Overland Park, opabg.org sPorts & reC

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Lives in Fabric: Textiles of the Wornall/ Majors House Museums | 1-4 p.m. Saturday-

Sunday, 8201 State Line, wornallmajors.org

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American royal Quarter Horse show | 8 a.m.-

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A Night on the Town, featuring Ben Gulley | 8-9:30 p.m. Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

7 p.m. American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

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

Community events

ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Pre­ sents legends | 7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand,

Theatre, at the Atkins Auditorium, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, kcrep.org

Andy gross | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

10 p.m. Downtown Olathe, intersection of Park and Cherry, johnsoncountyoldsettlers.com

Sunday in the Park With George | KC Repetory

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Johnson County old settlers festival | Noon-

Schoolhouse Rock Live | Olathe Civic Theatre, 500 E. Loula, Olathe, olathetheatre.org

fiesta Hispana 2015 | 5-11 p.m. Barney Allis Plaza,

12th St. and Wyandotte

independence fire & ice BBQ competition |

5:30 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

54th Annual Annunciation greek fest |

6-10 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 12001 Wornall, greekfoodfest.org

Johnson County old settlers festival | 10 a.m.-

11 p.m. Downtown Olathe, intersection of Park and Cherry, johnsoncountyoldsettlers.com

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American royal Quarter Horse show | 7 a.m.7:30 p.m. American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com musiC

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Johnny Boyd, victor & Penny & the loose Change orchestra | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Buckwheat Zydeco | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon,

2715 Rochester

matt easton x Academy, matt maratea, Addy Astra | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Cirque eloize iD | 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

Classics uncorked: made in America | 7 p.m.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org ComeDy

for your ears only vinyl & Audio sale, benefiting

Audio-Reader | 6-9 p.m. Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper, Lawrence, reader.ku.edu

ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Pre ­ sents legends | 7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, sprintcenter.com

Dan Cummins | 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Chad Abernathy | 5 p.m. Hotel Phillips, 106 W. 12th St. Dancefestopia | 1 p.m. Berkley Riverfront Park,

Missouri River between the Heart of America and Paseo bridges, at N. Lydia and E. Front, dancefestopia.com

Doghouse Daddies | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

1205 E. 85th St.

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

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10 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 12001 Wornall, greekfoodfest.org

Johnson County Old Settlers Festival | 9 a.m.-

11 p.m. Downtown Olathe, intersection of Park and Cherry, johnsoncountyoldsettlers.com

Kansas City Renaissance Festival | 10 a.m.-7 p.m., 628 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs, kcrenfest.com

Library in the Park | 10 a.m.-3:45 p.m. Big Eleven Lake, N. 11th St, and State Ave., KCK

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Flanagan’s Right Hook, Loaded Goat | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Heritage Blues Orchestra with Danielle Nicole & Shinetop Jr. | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway Flirt Friday | 9 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 River-

Outlaw Days | 9 a.m.-10 p.m., Richmond Historic Town Square, at the corner of Main and Thornton, Richmond

boat Dr., North Kansas City

Girl 2 Girl Social | 6 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611

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Art Westport | 5-9 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Saturday, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Westport Rd. and Pennsylvania, artwestport.net

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Kansas State Fair | Kansas State Fairgrounds, 2000 N. Poplar, Hutchinson, kansasstatefair.com

Lenexa Spinach Festival | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park, 87th St. and Lackman Rd., Lenexa, lenexa.

Above/Below: Tenements by Thomas Luna | Kiosk Gallery, 916 E. Fifth Street,

SHOPPING

The Handmade & vintage Chick Event, with more than 90 vendors, live music, food and drink | 10 a.m.-8 p.m.

Park Place, 117th St. and Nall, Leawood, chickevents.com

4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Adam Cvijanovic: American Montage |

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick

Gallery Conversations Drop-in Tour | 1 p.m.

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

emmet Gowin: Photographs | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

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

Marco Maggi: Drawing Attention | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Pedal to the Metal | The National Mu-

seum of Toys and Miniatures, 5234 Oak, toyandminiaturemuseum.org

Second Friday Troost Art Hop | 6-10 p.m.

Vibe Tribe Studio, 5504 Troost, troostarthop.com

World War I and the rise of Modernism | COMMuNITY BENEFITS

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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Kelley Hunt with Julian Davis: presented by KKFI 90.1 | 7:30 p.m. Polsky

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Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Lunadaz | 8 p.m. RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack, 5835 Lamar,

A Night on the Town , featuring Ben Gulley |

8-9:30 p.m. Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

Cirque Eloize iD | 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com Dance in the Park, featuring Kansas City dance companies | 6:30 p.m. Roanoke Park, 38th St. and Roanoke

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Dominique Sanders, Tim Whitmer | 5:30 p.m.

Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

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

NIGHTLIFE

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Mean Girls | 1:30 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Dippin’ Dogs Swim Party | 10 a.m., 12 p.m. & 2 p.m.,

$10 per dog, Springs Aquatics Center, 9400 N. Congress kcparks.org

F00D & DRINK

For Your Ears Only vinyl & Audio Sale, bene-

10 a.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

fiting Audio-Reader | 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper, Lawrence, reader.ku.edu

Dan Cummins | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

Health Fair, plus kids activities | 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Argen-

Andy Gross | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

The Merc Co+op Grand Reveal, with live music, free samples, kids activities, alpacas and planting seeds | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. The Merc Co+op, 901 Iowa, Lawrence, themerc.coop

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

7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

KC Improv Festival | 7 & 10 p.m. Kick Comedy Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania, kcimprovfestival.com Romie Lee, Shelah Erickson, DJ Hairston, Kenny Biggs, Maeret Lemons | 9:30 p.m. Record-

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Independence uncorked Wine Festival | 1-6 p.m., $25, Bingham-Waggoner Estate, 313 W. Pacific, Independence, independenceuncorked.com

Taste of Blue Springs | 4-8 p.m. Blue Springs High School, 2000 N.W. Ashton Dr., Blue Springs, tasteofbluesprings.info SPORTS & REC

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Legends | 11 a.m., 3 & 7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand Sprint Family Fun Days: Super Heroes & Princesses | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Power & Light District, 14th St. and Walnut

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Independence Fire & Ice BBQ competition |

American Royal Quarter Horse Show | 7 a.m.6 p.m. American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

29 town Shareholders of KCK | 8:15 a.m. JFK Community Center, 1310 N. 10th St., KCK, dashkck.com

Olathe Medical Center Women’s Triathlon and Duathlon | 8 a.m., $60/$70, Kill Creek Park, 11670 Homestead Ln., Olathe

The Stroke Walk | 8-11:30 a.m., $20, Theis Park, 47th St. and Oak, americanstroke.org

DJ Candlepants | The Eighth Street Taproom, 801

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway Meta hi-Fi | 10 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Sunday | 9.13 | PERFORMiNG ARTS

Yoga in the Park | 9 a.m. a.m. City Market Park,

Cirque Eloize iD | 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

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Dierks Bentley, Kip Moore, Maddie & Tae, Caanan Smith | Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633

Taproom Poetry Series, featuring Hadara Bar-

Third St. and Main

N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

Nadav, Amish Trivedi and Satarah Wheeler | 5 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Crossroads Music Fest, featuring Spirit Is the Spirit,

Light Music, Westerners, Jessica Paige, the Free Years, Max Justus, Julian Davis, Ruddy Swain | 6 p.m. The Living Room, 1818 McGee

COMEDY

Andy Gross | 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Crossroads Music Fest, featuring the Philistines, Janet the Planet, Freight Train Rabbit Killer, Riala, 3 Son Gree, Dark Satellites, Mod Professor, VJDN8 | 6 p.m. Mod Gallery, 1809 McGee, cmfkc.com

Jay Leno | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org

Crossroads Music Fest, featuring My Brothers &

Kansas State Fair | Kansas State Fairgrounds, 2000

Sisters, Lauren Anderson, the Phantastics, Slow Motion Commotion, Pink Royal, Connor Leimer | 6 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand, cmfkc.com

Dancefestopia | Noon, Berkley Riverfront Park,

Missouri River between the Heart of America and Paseo bridges, at N. Lydia and E. Front, dancefestopia.com

Evan Epperson and the Aviators | 9 p.m. Frank’s

North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence

KC Blues, Brews and BBQ Festival, benefiting

ExPO

N. Poplar, Hutchinson, kansasstatefair.com

Fiesta hispana 2015 | Noon-10 p.m. Barney Allis

Plaza, 12th St. and Wyandotte

54th Annual Annunciation Greek Fest | Noon6 p.m. Greek Orthodox Church of the Annunciation, 12001 Wornall, greekfoodfest.org Kansas City Pagan Pride Day, harvest Festival and Craft Faire | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Merriam Marketplace,

Magic Beans, Gekko | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

628 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs, kcrenfest.com

Kansas City Renaissance Festival | 10 a.m.-7 p.m.,

ShOPPiNG roads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

Prairie Village Jazz Festival | 2:30 p.m. Harmon

Park, 7700 Mission, Prairie Village

The handmade & Vintage Chick Event, with more than 90 vendors, live music, food and drink |

11 a.m.-4 p.m., Park Place, 117th St. and Nall, Leawood, chickevents.com

Lonnie Ray Blues Band | Jazz, 1859 Village West

COMMuNiTY EVENTS

Schwervon, the Cave Girls | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge,

Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Presents Legends | 1 & 5 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand,

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Plaza 10k, benefiting KidsTLC | 7:30 a.m. Country

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SPORTS & REC

American Royal Quarter horse Show | 7 a.m.-

6 p.m. American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

Beth Bombara, the Ovaries-Eez | 5 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Blue Monday poetry and open mic | 8-10 p.m.

Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway ExPO

Chrono, Metaphysics Audio, FSTZ, Sigrah, John E. Wink | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Dancefestopia | Noon, Berkley Riverfront Park, Missouri River between the Heart of America and Paseo bridges, at N. Lydia and E. Front, dancefestopia.com

Kansas State Fair | Kansas State Fairgrounds, 2000 N. Poplar, Hutchinson, kansasstatefair.com FiLM

Adventures in Babysitting with Keith Coogan |

Electric Citizen, the Oldfield Victory, Bad Wheels, inner Altar | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048

Broadway

Albert hammond Jr., Prinze George | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

7:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

Alleluia! The Devil’s Carnival | 7 p.m. Screenland Armour Theater, 408 Armour Rd., North Kansas City MuSiC

Justin hayward, Mike Dawes | 7 p.m. Uptown

Theater, 3700 Broadway

B Vibe | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand Diet Cig | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Davy Knowles, Chris Meck & the Guilty Birds |

7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

halestorm | 8:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

ian McFeron | 4 p.m. The Dubliner, 170 E 14th St.

Rural Grit happy hour | 6 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee

627 Big Band | 8:30-11:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge,

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Tech N9ne, Stevie Stone, CES Cru | 7 p.m. KC Live

Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8 p.m. Green Room Burgers & Beer, 4010 Pennsylvania

Tribal Seeds, the Expanders, Arise Roots | 7 p.m.

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

1809 Grand

Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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farmers markets Briarcliff | 3-6 p.m. Thursday, Briarcliff Village, 4175 N. Mulberry Dr.

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

City Market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.3 p.m. Sunday, 20 E. Fifth St.

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Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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2220 Central, KCK

Citizen Cope | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417

E. 18th St.

John kizilarmut Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Lyric Lab: Music Open Mic | 9-11:30 p.m. Uptown

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Writers place poetry Series | 7 p.m. Johnson County

Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th St., Overland Park, writersplace.org

ivanhoe | 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nutter Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center, 3700 Woodland kCk | 7:30 a.m. Tuesday, Keeler Women’s Center,

rick Bacus Trio | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

kC Organics and natural Market | 8 a.m.-

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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

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

rosedale | 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Sunday, 4020 Rain-

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

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

Lee’s Summit | 7 a.m. Saturday and Wednesday, corner of Second and Douglas, Lee’s Summit

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

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

Troostwood youth garden & Market |

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Cottin’s hardware Store | 4-6:30 p.m. Thursday,

hozier, with nate Burns | 7:30 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

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

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

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

ReStore, 303 W. 79th St.

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Open-mic night | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

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geeks Who drink pub Quiz | 8 p.m. Hi Dive Lounge,

1411 W. 39th St.

Jazz poetry Jam | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

daryl Shawn, Ben hoppes, Ben & Mike | 7 p.m.

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Wednesday | 9.16 |

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Everyman, presented by National Theatre Live |

Coda, 1744 Broadway

1:30 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

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Jeff austin Band | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Brendan Macnaughton | Jazz, 1859 Village West

elegant knock with dJ approach | 10 p.m. Replay

Open-Mic Showcase | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

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Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

dustin ybarra | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328

One More Time: a Tribute to daft punk | 6:30 p.m.

The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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girlz of Westport | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Penn-

Organ Jazz Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

rowdy Shadehouse, Mindgalaxy, gekko | 7 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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S ava g e L o v e

legal bind Dear Dan: Is it legal for a man to procure the

services of a dominatrix? In the kind of session I have in mind, there’s no nudity or sexual activity or contact involved. There’s not even any whipping or flogging or caning or hardcore BDSM stuff. I just want to see what it would be like to be bound and gagged. That’s it. So is it against the law to pay a woman to tie me up?

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likely to be arrested for procuring the services of a Dominatrix,” said Mistress Justine Cross, a pro-Domme based in Los Angeles. “What BIND desires sounds totally legal and safe — he just needs to find a Domme who is reputable (check out her website, read her reviews) and knows what she is doing in the realm of bondage. That said, I’m not a cop or a lawyer.”

Cross is, however, a business owner. She runs two dungeons in Los Angeles — and she consulted with a criminal-defense lawyer before going into the professional domination business. “He assured me that what I do is A-OK,” Cross said. “And even though he had practiced for many years, he had never defended, nor did he know any other lawyer who had ever defended, a professional Domme. Since Dommes rarely find themselves in trouble for their work, it stands to reason that BIND, a future client, will be in the clear as well.”

With the feds going after websites like Rentboy and myRedBook (sites that make sex work safer), and with the never-ending puritanical, punitive crusade to “rescue” adult sex workers from consensual, nonexploitative sex work (by arresting them and giving them criminal records), how is it that professional Dominants and their clients aren’t routinely harassed by law-enforcement authorities?

“We don’t offer sex or nudity in our professional BDSM work,” Cross said, “and this keeps us out of the ‘criminalized’ categories of sex work. However, every state has different laws. NYC and L.A. both have large professional BDSM communities, but I can’t say every state or city welcomes or tolerates this type of sex work. In some places, the scene is more ‘underground,’ mostly because people still have a hard time understanding that some people just want to get tied up and not get a hand job, too.” Follow Mistress Justine Cross on Twitter @Justineplays.

Dear Dan: I’m a good-looking, fit, younger guy living in Southern California. I’m getting older, though, and have never been in love or had any kind of serious relationship. I’m straight, but in the past five years, I discovered that sexuality is gray, not black or white. I learned this when

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I accidentally dove into the world of trans. I go on Craigslist and other sites and find local trans girls to engage with in sexual activity. It’s hard to describe why I’m into it, but I just am — maybe it satisfies a sexual side of me that women don’t?

Regardless, I’ve felt like this is an issue getting in the way of my quest to find a great woman and start a family, which I’d like to do in the next few years. I’m caught between thinking my sexual addiction is hindering my advancement toward a family life and enjoying the rush and sexual gratitude I’m inundated with when I meet up with trans girls. Is it something I definitely need to put an end to, or has it become a part of me that I can’t deny and hide?

Rocks and Hard Places Dear RAHP: Trans women are women, and

some of them are great. (And some of them, like some of everybody, are not so great.) You could date a trans woman, you could marry a trans woman, and you could have kids with a trans woman (through adoption or surrogacy).

The only thing that stands between you and being with the kind of person you’re most attracted to (a trans woman) and having the other stuff you want out of life (marriage, kids, family life) is you.

Dear Dan: Penis puppetry came up on an episode of Difficult People. I don’t want to Google it, but I’m curious about how it works. I don’t want to see pictures. Could you explain it?

Delicately Interested Person Dear DIP: I couldn’t tell you, but Billy Eich-

ner, one of the stars of Difficult People, could.

“Puppetry of the Penis is a show that tours all over the world, where men use their penis and testicles as puppets, twisting them into all kinds of shapes and characters,” Eichner said. “Not sure what about the name Puppetry of the Penis threw you off.”

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D a n S ava ge Dear Dan: I’m a straight man, age 33. I was in a mutually unsatisfying relationship with a woman in my 20s. I told her not long after we got together that I didn’t want to eat her pussy because I didn’t like her smell. I’d eaten other vulvas before and loved them. She wasn’t a week-between-showers kind of woman, and she was rightly hurt. Years later, I started listening to you and got religion. (And since she didn’t want to hear from me, I made my apologies by treating the women I date now better.) Since then, I’ve loved the smell of every woman’s pussy I’ve been fortunate enough to stick my nose in. But the question haunts me: How could I have handled that situation instead? How would I handle it again? What’s a sex-positive way to tell a pussy-having person their smell turns you off? As someone who feels imbalanced in a sexual relationship if I’m not eating my partner’s pussy, should I just quietly end things and say nothing? Seems like there’s a middle way. I first thought of your advice for smelly dicks — tell him to take a shower — but for Americans, the smell of a vulva is tied up as much in hygiene as misogyny. I’m not sure how to approach this.

Wondering How I Fill Females in Now Graciously Dear WHIFFING: Telling someone with a pussy

that their genitals smell funky is more complicated and fraught, as you’re already aware, than telling the same thing to someone with a dick. The culture has been telling women — and, yes, that tiny percentage of men who have pussies — that their genitals are unclean and stinky since basically forever. But there are legitimate medical issues that can make someone’s junk smell funky (and just not pussy-style junk), and sometimes we need the people who can actually get their noses into our crotches to give us a heads-up. A bad vaginal odor can be a sign of bacterial vaginosis or even cancer.

Here’s how you approach it: You ask yourself if you’re the problem — think they smell bad? You’re the problem — and then you ask yourself if sexual chemistry is the problem.

(Don’t like this person’s particular smell and taste? Keep your mouth shut about their smell and taste and end the relationship.) If you think it might actually be a medical issue, you say something like this: “Please don’t take this the wrong way, but your vagina and labia smell funky. That’s not an easy thing to hear, I know, and it’s not an easy thing to say.

I know the misogynistic zap the culture puts on women’s heads about this, but I’m worried that it might be a medical issue, and I’d rather risk your anger than your health.”

Have a question for Dan Savage?

E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net

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