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On Instagram: bride.kc Hometown: The home of Arbor Day, aka Nebraska City, Nebraska Current neighborhood: Live, Prairie Village; play, Waldo; work and play, Crossroads What I do: I connect future bridal muses with

emerging, creative and independent designers in a laid-back and cozy lil’ studio.

What’s your addiction? Reformer Pilates (at Transform Barre & Pilates in Waldo) and finding crazy talented small makers on Etsy/ Instagram.

What’s your game? Lately, peekaboo. My What’s your drink? I’ve been really into pale ales lately. I do not discriminate. I like them all.

Where’s dinner? My go-to, District Pour House + Kitchen in Waldo. If I play my cards right, Novel in the West Side.

What’s on your KC postcard? A summer-night outdoor concert at Knuckleheads.

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” Kansas City gets so much right. You

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daughter is a huge fan.

My favorite toy as a child: It’s a tossup between my doll, T’amanda, and a basketball.

“In five years, I’ll be …” Continuing to do what

I love in the shop, and hopefully, if things go well, be able to branch out into other avenues.

What’s your guiltiest pleasure? Dancing like a with the band manager (or someone I interfool. It’s so bad, I’ve been asked if I’m serious, and yes, I am.

The best advice I ever got: Be yourself.

preted as the band manager; maybe he was just a poser like me) and I literally could have taken one step and been up the stairs and on the stage. Does that count?

won’t find better people, the support for local businesses and innovative ideas is on par, and did I mention the people?

Worst advice: We do it that way because that’s My dating triumph/tragedy: Triumph — asking for a Bud Light (don’t judge, times were “I always laugh at …” Anything and every- the way we’ve always done it.

“Kansas City screwed up when …” This has

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” The Today supportive future husband, Jason, and Har-

probably been said over and over. The stadiums weren’t moved downtown. The Royals/ Royals Parade/World Cup/Sporting/etc. has exposed the fan greatness and potential for KC. I’m not much for logistics, but to a blind eye, it seems like the stadiums downtown would just elevate the camaraderie and boost the economy even more.

“Kansas City needs …” The streetcar is a good

thing. Seriously, I can boost an ego real quick.

show, from beginning to end. I may or may not be obsessed. It’s a really good thing they don’t play the Hoda and Kathie Lee hour at 10 because I would be useless until 11 every single day.

low James, the first baby I wasn’t scared of … my free-spirited, independent lil’ 1-1/2-year-old.

What is your spirit animal? According to

“I can’t stop listening to …” The Church of Lazlo and all of their blarney.

spiritanimal.info (clearly a trusted source with the first spot on Google and that url), a butterfly.

“My dream concert lineup is …” Man, this

Who is your hero? I admire so many, but

start, but greater walkability and a citywide subway system. I wish I didn’t need a car and could still easily get around to all of the wonderful parts of KC. And mountains. And more lakes perfect for wakeboarding. And more breweries. You can never have enough breweries. But kudos to the newer brewery scene!

question has been stressing me out. Do I go with every one-hit wonder from the ’90s/early 2000s? (That concert could take awhile.) Or a resurrection concert with a few I wish I would have been able to appreciate and do an eclectic trio with Bob Marley, Frank Sinatra and Michael Jackson?

“As a kid, I wanted to be …” Just like Muggsy

“I just read …” Fifteen Animals, by Sandra

Bogues. Nothing sounded better than playing for the Charlotte Hornets. I was in serious denial that I was a female and totally not NBA material.

tough) and getting a cheap tab and a future

My sidekick: My other half and super- husband out of the deal.

Boynton. Life-changing.

entrepreneurs/small makers who have a defined brand/aesthetic and pave their own path.

What is your nemesis? Lately, my running

shoes

you don’t like something, change it. And … buy local, eat local and drink local as much as you can. There is so much talent in our city.

Support it.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? Not being able to pull my weight around

the house as much lately.

Who’s sorry now? My college professor who was unimpressed with my paper and rubric dedicated to following your dreams and career happiness.

My recent triumph: After the crazy long hours What’s your greatest struggle right now? Put- and the overanalyzing of way too many deting on my running shoes and actually running. Run yo self, running shoes.

My brush with fame: One time, I went backWhat’s your hidden talent? I have accents for stage and pretended to be with the band at a days. None of them are good, but I have them.

My soapbox: Do what makes you happy. If

Foo Fighters concert. I became best friends

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tails, seeing my ideas for Bride come to fruition. Walking through the door on my first day of appointments, careerwise nothing has ever felt better.

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Down Goes Downs

On the East Side, a historic building meets its demise, making way for a Family Dollar.

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or the past two years, the Historic Kansas City Foundation has included the Downs Building at 18th and Prospect on its annual list of 10 locally important structures in serious jeopardy of demolition or destruction.

The 2016 list won’t include the Downs Building. All that remains today of 1801 Prospect, the building named for prominent Kansas City black musician Chauncy Downs, is rubble waiting to be hauled away after three weeks of work by demolition crews.

Downs figured into KC’s music scene in the 1920s and again when he returned to town in the 1940s. Also an associate pastor at First Baptist Church in Kansas City, Kansas, he led the ensemble Chauncey Downs and His Rinky Dinks. Downs helped kickstart African-American musicians’ union Local 627, which helped cement Kansas City as a Prohibition-era jazz hotbed. Local 627 exists today as the Mutual Musicians Foundation.

The building named after Downs housed the Casa Loma Ballroom and was, for a time, a central place of Kansas City’s black political and social scene. But 20 years of abandonment put the Downs Building in the path of a wrecking ball. Its owner, Sheryl Vickers, who bought the structure in 2014, says it couldn’t be saved.

“Oh, my, it was falling-apart rotten,” she tells The Pitch. “The roof was all caved in. It was a sad situation.”

In its place will likely be a Family Dollar, a national chain of discount variety stores.

Vickers is also working to lease an adjacent parking lot to Kansas City Water Services, which wants to park its trucks there.

Historic preservationists aren’t happy.

“An historic black building goes down and nobody has anything to say,” says Anita Dixon, executive director of the Mutual Musicians Foundation and a member of the Historic Kansas City Foundation’s board of directors.

“There could have been something done” to save the building, Dixon adds.

Not so, according to Vickers. She tells The Pitch that it would have cost more than $800,000 to complete even a basic rehabilitation of the Downs Building.

Vickers, who works as a senior vice president with Overland Park real estate firm Merrill Companies, says she didn’t have an easy time with some of the preservationists who wanted to find a way to keep the Downs Building intact. “[They] could call and cuss me out just because I bought it and tried to do something good with it,” Vickers says. “Why didn’t anyone else buy it?”

Rehabbing an old building is a tough job on its own. Tougher still without a potential office tenant or a viable plan to convert it into apartments.

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“I’m a real estate broker here locally, and I looked into that building because it’s nice, once in a while, when a national Fortune 500 company wants to develop in an area where no one else will develop and there’s homeless guys building fires on the fire escape,” Vickers says.

Speaking of places no one else wants to develop, let’s turn our attention to the lonely, desolate moonscape that is the west Crossroads.

I kid, of course — the Crossroads, east or west, is a fantastic place. But it’s a place where the value of buildings, the cost of development and the burden of real estate taxes have been the vectors of a renewed debate over incentives for developers.

Central to that discussion is Shirley Helzberg’s decision to seek tax-increment financing for a building she bought 10 years ago, at 1640 Baltimore. TIF takes most of the future taxes that a redevelopment project would ordinarily generate and uses them to lessen the direct costs that a developer pays on a project.

In Helzberg’s case, 38 percent of her $13 million project at 1640 Baltimore (which is meant to become a not-too-far-into-thefuture headquarters for architecture firm BNIM) would come from TIF. The Baltimore proposal has sparked a new conversation about the priorities at City Hall and whether development incentives help or hurt other

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taxing jurisdictions, such as school districts, counties and library systems.

Helzberg used TIF to help build another of her Crossroads properties, the Vitagraph Building. She didn’t use TIF to build a $5.9 million parking garage that serves the Webster House, another of the philanthropist’s holdings in the neighborhood.

But she did this year appeal her tax bill on that garage.

Before it became a garage, the land at 17th and Wyandotte was home to the Orion Pictures Building, part of Kansas City’s Film Row District. At that time, Jackson County valued the building at $879,667.

After Helzberg tore down the Orion Pictures Building and put in its place a new, 180-spot parking garage, in 2014, county assessors took another look and decided the property was worth $3.96 million. At that value, it generated $126,010 in property taxes in 2014, $62,715 of which went to Kansas City Public Schools.

Records with the Jackson County Board of Equalization show that in July, Helzberg’s attorney submitted an appeal of the parking garage’s tax value, saying the garage was worth $1.17 million, not $3.96 million.

Jerry Riffel, Helzberg’s attorney, tells The Pitch that he believed the garage was “grossly overassessed” at nearly $4 million. He adds that the garage loses money “hand over fist.”

The Board of Equalization, which hears tax

Making way for a Dollar. appeals, compromised, knocking down the value of the Webster House garage to $2.26 million.

Of the BOE’s decision, Riffel says, “I wasn’t exhilarated, but I thought it was a fair compromise.”

That took the tax value down to $74,186. As a result, KCPS was entitled to $35,843 in taxes off the Webster House garage when Helzberg paid her property tax bill on December 21 — $26,872 less than what it got the year before.

At least that’s better than the $13,934 KCPS made in 2013, when the Orion Pictures Building still occupied the land.

On New Year’s Eve, a group of petitioners looking to repeal TIF for Helzberg’s project submitted enough valid signatures to either have the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council repeal the TIF or send it to voters for a decision.

Helzberg has said she will tear down the old warehouse building if the referendum kills her plans to refashion it into a new building for BNIM. It’s kind of funny to consider that on the East Side, buildings get torn down after decades of neglect. In the Crossroads, one might get torn down because its owner couldn’t get a public subsidy.

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Bellying — and kneeing and arching and toe-pointing — up to the barre.

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amiliar euphemisms take on different meanings at the Gym KC. Regulars at the fitness club’s three Kansas City locations know that the “booty call,” for instance, is a sequence of exercises designed to work the thighs and the glutes, and the “nooner” is an hourlong, boot camp–style class that will give you an excuse to eat a guilt-free cookie (or two) for lunch.

The latest addition to the schedule is “happy hour,” an apt name for a class that takes place at the bar. OK, not the bar you’re thinking of. In fact, this happy hour is pretty much the opposite of kicking back at your favorite watering hole until well whiskey and queso blanco seep from your pores.

Instead, this ballet-inspired workout makes you sweat. Using light weights, repetitive movements and a slackline in lieu of a traditional ballet barre, the class is designed to work every part of your body, according to Gym KC instructor Andee Hindery, who has a degree in dance and is completing barre teacher training at Power Life Yoga on the Plaza.

“The point is to have a good time while you’re working out — and also to work your muscles in the way that dancers do to get that type of physique,” she told me. “We’re not building bulk. We’re strengthening and leaning muscles using different combinations and types of movements.”

When I arrived at happy hour on a Tuesday

evening, the slackline was suspended between two large concrete posts in the center of the open floor at Gym KC’s Uptown location. I took my place on a yoga mat next to two other students. (At Gym KC, barre is classified as “small-group personal training,” meaning class sizes are limited so that everyone can receive individual attention.)

Petite and soft-spoken, with a wry sense of humor, Hindery was an engaging, unintimidating instructor. She demonstrated each

Hindery demonstrates moves: suppine barre balance (top) and seated arabesque attitude lifts. series of exercises, offering encouragement as we did plié squats and held planks. An experienced aerialist, Hindery made the exercise sequences look smooth and effortless.

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continued from page 7 out. Doing squats while balancing on my toes and holding 5-pound weights at my sides, I was left with zero doubt regarding its efficacy.

Mastering the “forced arch” — ballet-speak for standing on your toes with your knees bent — is a huge part of barre.

I also enjoyed the novelty of the experience. As someone who has been exercising regularly for several years, I get bored easily, and I’m usually unable to conceal my disdain for repetitive nonsense like jogging. Barre provided a new challenge, and the variations on the exercises promise an exceptionally high threshold for boredom. At one point during class, all three students were lying facedown on top of the barre doing leg lifts.

I’m sure I looked ridiculous, but the beauty of Gym KC’s low-stakes environment allowed me not to care. (Full disclosure: I have sometimes substitute-taught non-barre classes for Gym KC.) “I’m an introvert, and I feel like the Gym KC attracts introverts,” Hindery said. “The likelihood of someone yelling at you to jump higher is pretty low. There’s also no one telling you to do this so your body looks better.

I’m tired of our workouts being co-opted for objectification.”

To broaden my perspec t ive, I a lso dropped by the neighborhood barre at Power Life, where Hindery does her training. The warm, welcoming studio, which opened in 2015, definitely attracts extro-

Hindery: relevé with arm weight verts — like, the kind of people who smile and chat about gratitude after their workout, their cheeks red and their faces dripping with sweat.

Power Life’s cardio barre class combines traditional moves like rows and biceps curls with yoga and high-intensity exercises designed to keep the heart rate up. The temperature in the studio hovers around 90 degrees, making it a pleasant respite on a cold day — and increasing the intensity of the workout that much more.

In both barre classes, I powered through when my brain suggested I stop. For me, that is the biggest benefit of working out with other people: I’d feel like a pussy skulking off to the locker room while everyone else was still holding chair pose. Hindery said she works hard to achieve the right level of difficulty in her class.

“I’m always worried that it will be too hard, but I also don’t want to create a class that’s a breeze,” she said. “It’s hard to find that balance. The first time I went to a barre class, as an athlete, I was like, No way. I can’t believe you’re asking me to do this. People are going to have that shock, but I also want them to come back. Then, once they do, it becomes addictive.”

An addictive happy hour — now that sounds about right.

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The charming home, body and health shop in Leawood’s Park Place immediately hijacked my senses with a clean, piney scent that welcomed me in from the cool winter air outside.

Walking into the space felt like entering a spa.

Unlike the seasonal products I regularly purchase on sale at Bath & Body Works and Target — candles manufactured to smell like pumpkin frosting or marshmallow fluff — the fragrances at Hand & Land are produced with all-natural essential oils. This creates pure, inviting fragrances that the shop’s owners, cousins Jessica Moler and Nicole Lobdell, love to show off.

While introducing me to the vast array of products, Moler let me sniff six roll-on botanical scents from the Brooklyn company Marble & Milkweed. I rubbed one on my wrists called “Moon Snail,” made with jasmine, mimosa, ylang ylang and roasted seashells — no joke.

The fragrance was complex and lightly floral, reminiscent of a summer day.

“They’re intimate perfumes,” Moler said.

“They don’t follow you around. They’re subtle and just enough for you and your loved ones to enjoy.”

Not so subtle that they’ll go completely unnoticed, though. At a recent craft fair, other vendors also pointed out that Moler and Lobdell smelled amazing. The compliment always comes as a surprise, Moler said, because these days they’re used to smelling good.

Before opening Hand & Land, Moler and Lobdell had each explored the world of natural beauty and cleaning products, primarily out of curiosity. For five years, Moler lived abroad, in Germany and Australia, where she taught and worked on an organic farm.

She told me that Australia, where her roommate made beeswax deodorant for herself, has long been ahead of the game. “Australia is the land of natural beauty,” Moler said.

“They’re pioneers of using plants.”

Lobdell, meanwhile, was working as a police forensic specialist when she started making her own organic cleaners in her spare time. The cousins, seven years apart in age, bonded while sharing recipes for various salves and deodorants — a hobby that eventually led to a full-fledged business plan.

Moler returned to Kansas City in 2014, and she and Lobdell opened Hand & Land last June. It’s still a new business, but the two women clearly have a solid grasp of their ecofriendly aesthetic, which Moler describes as “clean and feminine.” (The shop also offers plenty of products for men.) Locally made treasures peek through the stock, including Hammerpress prints, MADI underwear and preserves from Kansas City Canning Co. As I walked around the store, sniffing at everything I saw — candles, laundry detergent, whatever — I began to believe that Hand & Land could offer some solace amid the overwhelming barrage of mass-marketed products designed to offer quick fixes. The

skin-care lines here, for instance, position themselves as something deeper than just a means to buff away wrinkles and disguise imperfections. There’s more than a whiff of lifestyle improvement.

“It’s about the ritual of taking care of yourself,” Moler said. “It feels luxurious.”

As for their own favorite products, Moler told me that she can’t live without the spot serum from Meow Meow Tweet, a vegan skincare company based in the Hudson Valley.

Lobdell loves the rose-and-chamomile mini facial kit from Marble & Milkweed, which contains four products that read like a drink description on a fancy cocktail menu: scrub, tonic, grains and nectar.

Lobdell pointed out that the ingredients in that kit include little more than honey, rose and chamomile, so I had to ask whether I could, you know, eat it. (Let’s be honest: I licked my frosting-flavored Lip Smackers as a kid. You licked your frosting-flavored Lip Smackers.) Lobdell said I probably could — and that it might even taste good.

What makes the products safe is the quality of the ingredients. The Hand & Land website lists the “toxic ten” things to avoid in beauty and cleaning products, including silicone, parabens and phthalates — all commonly found in moisturizers and cosmetics.

According to Moler, synthetic fragrances are the No. 1 offenders to avoid — they can cause skin irritation, headaches and even hormonal imbalances.

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Moler (left) and Lobdell in thier shop She added that a lot of “green washing” goes on in the industry, meaning that many products are not as natural as their manufacturers claim. She wants Hand & Land to be the kind of place where people feel confident knowing exactly what they’re putting on their bodies and in their environments.

“We want to assure our customers that we’ve done the research,” Moler said. “They can come here to find something healthy for themselves and their families.”

Moler is aware that revamping your entire beauty system at once is unrealistic, so she recommends making one small change at a time — for instance, buying an all-natural moisturizer the next time you run out or replacing your bathtub cleaner with one containing fewer chemicals.

It also couldn’t hurt to invest in some of those essential-oil perfumes, because we all need an excuse to stop and smell the roasted seashells.

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feel authentic down to the details — inescapably so. Lensed by Emmanuel Lubezki in lengthy, wide-angle shots that follow the characters through bloody Indian attacks, into freezing water and, at one point, over a cliff, The Revenant pulls you into its world.

You feel its chill around you, its wounds on your skin.

Some of the time, anyway.

Iñárritu stages his scenes with urgency and verve, but there is something conceptually amiss about the film. The director seems to think that the more we see of Glass’ suffering and the awesome inhospitability of the early American frontier, the more intense and grueling our viewing experience will be. But a little of this stuff goes a long way. By about the fifth time someone breathes or bleeds on the lens, you’re not averting your eyes but trying to stifle your laughter. The physicality of DiCaprio’s performance is certainly impressive, as is the technical effort that clearly went into the making of the film. But as a whole, the movie arcs toward tedium; we become less involved in Glass’ ordeal as he goes on.

That may also be because the film doesn’t give us much on the level of character or story to seize. Glass’ wanderings are loaded with flashbacks to his life among the Pawnee, but

Leo on the Oscar trail. such moments are shot and edited not to impart context but rather as vague, ethereal dream sequences. This turns out not to be the kind of thing at which Iñárritu excels. His direction lacks the imagination and specificity of Andrei Tarkovsky and Terrence Malick, two clear influences, whose dream visions come from very real, very personal places.

The Revenant’s most interesting figure might be its ostensible heavy, Tom Hardy’s gruff, greedy trapper, FitzGerald, whose experiences among Indians (his head is halfscalped) feed his paranoia, cowardice and racism. He’s a hateful little toad — the film makes sure to stack the deck high against him — but he also feels like the only character whose decisions, however wrong, are grounded in what’s happening around him.

It’s odd that a film so hellbent on brutal physical reality fails to bring its characters fully to life, yet, for all its flailing, The Revenant makes little impact. There’s a great movie struggling to crawl out from inside it, but, unlike the remarkable Hugh Glass, it’s still lost out there in the frozen wilderness.

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eonardo DiCaprio suffers mightily and nobly through Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s The Revenant. And make no mistake about it — it’s definitely the actor suffering up there.

Breathless Oscar-season reporting would have us believe that he really did many of the things we watch his character, wounded mountain man Hugh Glass, doing onscreen, from eating raw elk liver to bedding down naked inside a gutted horse. But the truth of such claims is beside the point. For better and for worse, there is relatively little artifice in The Revenant. Little is revealed about DiCaprio’s character, so we invest him with what we know of Leo himself; it’s a real movie-star performance. That is both The Revenant’s accomplishment and its curse.

The stranger-than-fiction survival story of Glass — a fur trapper who was horrifically mauled by a grizzly during an 1823 expedition up the Missouri River, left for dead, and then crawled and staggered for 200 miles back to civilization — has inspired numerous books and films over the years. Iñárritu’s is loosely based on Michael Punke’s 2002 liberties-taking novel, with which it shares a title, but its unflinching adherence to the visceral and the elemental outstrips what’s on the page. Here, the proceedings

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In Grain Valley, Filipino food and pressure-cooked chicken share a family table.

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alley Broasters may offer the most unusual culinary combination in the metro: broasted chicken (more on that in a minute) and Filipino cuisine. It’s also located in a strip shopping center in the hamlet of Grain Valley, 23 miles east of Kansas City — a place not known as a dining destination.

Is it worth hopping on U.S. Highway 40 to sample traditional dishes from the Philippines (lumpia, adobo chicken, lechon kawali and kare-kare) and chow down on a threepiece “snack box” of broasted chicken with a side of homemade macaroni and cheese?

Absolutely, yes.

Oh, right, I said I’d tell you just what the hell “broasted” means.

It’s a way to make fried chicken, centered on a high-pressure cooking method introduced by the Broaster Company of Beloit, Wisconsin, in 1954 — and it’s exceedingly difficult to find in local restaurants. That’s because the technique remains proprietary, requiring commercial stainless-steel pressure fryers and licenced breading mixes and

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Not as fried as it looks marinades. The pressure means that very little cooking oil is needed to end up with chicken that has a golden, crispy exterior and is noticeably juicier inside.

When Phillip and Norma Thayer first opened Valley Broasters 15 months ago, after gutting a former liquor store, their focus was on broasted chicken and home-style side dishes (macaroni and cheese, broasted potato wedges, beer-battered onion rings, fried okra, house-made chips). But then the owner of an Asian market in the same shopping center — who, like Norma Thayer, is a Philippines native — began nagging the Thayers to add a few Filipino dishes to the menu.

“It hadn’t been in our original plans at all,” Phillip Thayer says. “But it caught on — fast.

We added a few dishes last January, and last month we completely revamped the menu to add a greater selection of Filipino appetizers, entrees and desserts. We now have customers driving here from Olathe, Topeka, Tulsa

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and even Kismet, Kansas. It’s not easy to find Filipino food in the metro.”

Kansas City has indeed had mixed luck with Filipino restaurants over the years. In the 1990s, there was a short-lived place called the Manila Cafe, at 33rd and Gillham (it’s now a gay bar), and, more than a decade later, a Gladstone venue called La Filipina Cafe operated at 8002 North Oak Trafficway but closed several years ago. A proposed Filipino restaurant called the Pinoy Cafe was announced for midtown in 2012 but never opened.

“There’s not another Filipino restaurant within a 400-mile radius,” Phillip Thayer says.

Valley Broasters is a family affair, with Norma Thayer doing much of the cooking, assisted by her son, daughter and son-in-law.

There are only seven tables in the harshly illuminated dining area (most of the business here is take-out), but it’s a friendly environment where patrons order at a counter and meals are brought to the tables by members of the extended Thayer family.

Order enough food — say, broasted chicken and a couple of the Filipino entrees — and the feast is brought out on a woven platter lined with fresh banana leaves and garnished with pineapple, sliced tomatoes and lime wedges. No alcohol is served here, but that might change in the future; for now there’s a refrigerated case filled with bottled water and soft drinks.

A popular Filipino starter, lumpia (also known as fried Shanghai spring rolls), filled with minced pork, carrots, onion and cilantro, reflects the Chinese influence on the cuisine of the Philippines, which has roots in two very different culinary cultures: the Chinese traders who introduced soy, noodles and fried foods to the native population and, later, the Spanish, who occupied the islands for centuries and brought along their taste for stews, grilled meats and rich desserts.

At least one dish served here, crispy pata, is both Filipino and broasted: a braised pork knuckle fried in the pressure cooker until crispy, served with Norma Thayer’s chiliseasoned vinaigrette. Many of the dishes served on the Filipino menu are pork-based, but there’s also kare-kare, a fragrant stew of oxtail, bok choy and eggplant in a savory peanut sauce.

Valley Broasters is open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Monday through Saturday at 1434 Southwest Eagles Parkway, in Grain Valley.

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Torn Label celebrates a year of beer.

Thursday, January 7

Urban Chestnut tasting , at Mike’s Wine & Spirits (21 W. 63rd St.), 4-6 p.m.

Perennial Peach Berliner Weisse, Mother’s Squashed Porter and 4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout tappings, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway)

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All-day anniversary party, with 12 taps and the debut of Barrel-Aged Long Time Comin’ imperial stout, at Torn Label Brewing Co. (1708 Camp-

bell), noon-midnight.

Monday, January 11

Love Child beer school, at Barley’s Brewhaus (11924 W. 119th St., Overland Park), 6 p.m.

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Boulevard Chocolate Ale with Raspberry, Irish Ale and Early Riser coffee porter releases, in the Kansas City metro stores

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Patti Allen and Greg Kormanik’s Attitude goes from scraps to scratch.

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t takes a certain amount of chutzpah — call it attitude, if you prefer — to open a new breakfast-and-lunch restaurant in a midtown location that has had more incarnations than Lord Vishnu.

But Patti Allen and Greg Kormanik, the owners of Attitude — the still-unopened bruncheonette at 600 East 31st Street — say the name was inspired by their own strong personalities: Allen’s family heritage is Italian; Kormanik’s is Polish. They’re outspoken, headstrong and unreserved.

This is, after all, a couple who met at an estate sale several years ago. “I thought he was funny,” Allen says. “So I walked up and gave him my card.”

That card led to phone calls, dates, a relationship and a business partnership. Allen has operated a vintage shop, Bella Patina, in the West Bottoms for nearly five years. Kormanik is a good cook and a talented baker, so they installed a 40-seat café inside Bella Patina, Vintage Eats & Sweets, which proved popular but was open only during the shop’s hours: one weekend a month during First Friday shopping weekends.

The success of Vintage Eats & Sweets emboldened the couple to expand the business into a full-time café with real hours and a more substantial menu. In January, when all of the city permits are approved, Allen and Kormanik will operate Attitude six days a week — from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. — in a centuryold storefront at the corner of 31st Street and

Cherry. (Vintage Eats & Sweets, now called the Painted Rooster, has been sublet to new owners, while Allen’s sons currently operate Bella Patina.)

The original tile entrance to the building still spells out “Drugs,” although the twostory structure was the Wirthman Hill pharmacy for just a decade in the years prior to World War I. After that, it housed a men’s clothing store, a hat-cleaning shop, a flower shop and, for the second half of the 20th century, a tire supply store. (The billiard hall next door had a much longer, more stable tenure, lasting well into the 1960s.)

After signing the lease on the building earlier this year, Allen and Kormanik found a few relics in the basement that dated to the Wirthman Hill days, including dusty apothecary bottles and a rusty sign. They’ll be on display in the 35-seat dining room, which now boasts antique tables, a snazzy glass-andcrystal chandelier — “We were at an estate sale,” Kormanik says, “and opened a closet door, and there it was” — and original tile floors from 1911.

“When we started looking at locations,” Allen says, “my first priority was ambience.”

Instead of replastering the aging interior walls, which are mottled with a shade of institutional green paint that’s about a century old, the partners preserved them with a coat of polyurethane and decorated the surface with antique mirrors and silver-plated trays and platters.

Coming soon to this address: gravy.

The setting will be an eclectic but classy venue for Kormanik’s all-scratch menu: pancakes, French toast made from his housebaked cinnamon loaf, flaky biscuits with sausage gravy, and egg dishes. Daily lunch specials will include Allen’s lasagna recipe and the stuffed-cabbage casserole first created by Kormanik’s mother.

As experienced dealers in vintage merchandise, Allen and Kormanik knew that they wanted Attitude to look and feel like no other dining venue in the city. Stacked neatly on a table in the center of the dining room are towers of Shenango china — the sturdiest commercial restaurant china you could find in the last century — that will be the house pottery when Attitude opens.

“We were looking for this kind of china but a lot of it,” Allen says. “We were at a sale, and someone overheard us asking for it, and he told us to drive over to the church where he works. Someone had donated quite a bit to the church, and he sold the whole lot to us.”

Now Allen and Kormanik are just waiting for the opportunity to heap those plates with fried potatoes, fried eggs, buttered toast and slabs of lasagna.

“We’ve gotten this far,” Allen says. “Now we just want to open for business.”

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There are many sides to exOffice star Creed Bratton.

reed Bratton’s name didn’t change for his character on The Office. But the man behind the character has little in common with his television self. For example, he isn’t a psycho killer prone to delusions.

For those familiar with Bratton only from his role on the hit NBC show, one thing is true: He was the guitarist for the ’60s rock act the Grass Roots. But the character was more like a crazed funhouse-mirror version of the actor and musician. The real Bratton, 72, is sharp, and he’s on tour performing the stand-up comedy and music routine that he has perfected throughout the years.

Ahead of Bratton’s show Tuesday at the Jackpot Music Hall, The Pitch spoke with him by phone about his dual careers and how they’ve intersected.

The Pitch: How does one go from being part of a seminal ’60s band to becoming a character actor on one of the most highly rated TV shows of the aughts?

Bratton: I was a drama major, so I was always planning to be an actor. Then I went off to Europe, and I was planning on coming back to acting after getting some life experiences. I met these guys, and we traveled around Europe as [a rock band called] the Young Californians. While doing that, I met this guy, Warren [Entner]. After a couple of years, I came back to L.A., and Warren and I put together a band called the 13th Floor.

That became the Grass Roots, and I did that for four years.

When that was over, I was finally able to go back to acting, but I’ve always continued doing the music. I started out as a musician.

My family played music, my grandparents played music, and there was always music growing up. So, as it [The Office] was winding down, the last couple seasons, I started taking bookings again. That’s what I’ve been doing for the last two years — just touring around.

I think I might have to start doing acting again. My agents are getting nervous, like, “You’re doing this second childhood, just touring around like a youngster.” But it’s so much fun, you know? I love playing music — always have. I’m still doing the acting, though. I got three movies waiting to come out that are in post right now. Band of Robbers should be out soon, as well as Sound of Magic and another film, the name of which is escaping me right now. But I’m still working in both fields and won’t really give up one for the other.

I would imagine that, as your touring show involves both music and comedy, that’s kind of indicative of your enjoyment of both?

Well, yes. That’s just my strengths. I’m going to go to my strengths. I can act, and

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I’ve found that my timing is really good for comedy. It works well because of The Office.

People have always known me as a funny guy, anyway — that’s part of my MO. I just segue from one song, whether it be a Grass Roots song or something I wrote for The Office.

My hit isn’t “Live for Today” or “Midnight Confessions” — it’s “All the Faces” from the finale of The Office. That song went viral and is my bona fide single. It’s amazing.

The idea that you and your character share a name must make for some interesting assumptions from fans. How much of the real Creed Bratton is reflected in the character?

Yeah, that was weird, wasn’t it? I mean, Oscar and Angela and Phyllis got to use their first names, but I used my full name, and they talked to me like who I was, which was from the Grass Roots, which was unprecedented, actually. Can’t think of anybody else offhand, other than Jerry Seinfeld, who also played themselves.

All of that bizarre stuff, like the killing people, that’s all true. [Laughs.] No, none of that stuff is. I wrote the character as a guy who continued doing the rock-and-roll things, like drugs and the nefarious stuff. They [the writ-

This is really, really good timing. ers] just took it further, and I was a killer and I damaged the ecosystem and I was making up false IDs — every week would be something different. It was ridiculous, you know? I knew how to kill zombies or vampires or whatever.

Other than the current tour, what projects do you have on the horizon?

I have a show called Feather Peak that I created with a buddy of mine, Charles Canzoneri. I’m pitching that to networks. The concept behind it is that I’m a caregiver, and my family’s always been these caregivers.

They’re not there in a hospice sense but to help you in a spiritual sense, in order to pass on to the other side and to do it without fear and to help you to find out what’s keeping you here and fearful. I live up in the mountains, and my granddaughter comes to live with me, and they find out that she’s got “the gift.” She thinks she’s going to go back to New York City but then discovers that she’s able to help people.

It’s a comedy, of course, set in a small town, and that’s the premise of it, along with the idea that, at one time, my character had written a jingle for a talk show like Johnny Carson, where it plays all the time. So, I made a lot of money, so I don’t have to work.

At the end of every show, the character starts off this little song, and then you’ll be able to go online after the show’s ended and hear the whole song in its entirety. I’ve written songs, and I’ve been in the studio with

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my producer. I’ve already cut four songs for the project.

Where did the concept of tying Feather Peak into online content come from?

This step is like writing my songs. I don’t know where the songs come from. I walk by to do yoga or to make breakfast, and my guitar’s just screaming at me to pick it up, and I pick it up and the song pops out. I started on the three-page treatment for the show, and the characters just popped out. The muse gives it to you. I don’t sit down and say consciously that I’m going to write about this or write about that. I’m just writing, and it comes out.

Finally, what can folks expect from the live show?

Basically, what’ll happen is that I’ll furtively slip out from the shadows and run quickly to the microphone. I’ll sing a little tiny bit of a song — not a whole song, just a bit — and then I’ll run off the stage and judge the reaction of the audience. If they seem to be of a favorable ilk, then I’ll come back and finish the song. Same way with the comedy.

It’s only about a half-hour of material, but it takes a couple hours to deliver it, running back and forth as I do. I hope they’ll bear with me with this. [Laughs.]

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KC Jazz Vespers returns Sunday to the First Baptist Church of Kansas City for a new, free monthly series, beginning with the Roger Wilder Quartet. Wilder is an anchor of the Kansas City jazz scene and one of the area’s most versatile and powerfully inventive musicians — he drives the piano in Sons of Brasil, delightfully vamps on keyboards for the People’s Liberation Big Band, and backs singer Angela Hagenbach. (He also hosts The Jazz Geek on KKFI 90.1 and teaches at UMKC.) Joining Wilder are David Chael, whose sharp and supple solos make him one of the stars of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra’s sax section, and young titans Seth Lee on bass and Sam Wisman on drums.

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Coyote Union

Arkansas’ Coyote Union joins the legions of bands somewhat lazily choosing a wildlife name. Though their decision is regrettable, let’s try not to hold it against them. Coyote Union’s music arrives like a warm slice of Americana to nurse our chilly, post-holiday January blues.

The band has a knack for storytelling and a talent for comfortable, worn-in melodies — something we expect plenty of when Coyote Union releases its debut album this spring. Get a taste of what’s to come Saturday.

Saturday, January 9, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence 785-749-3434)

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Psych rock and funk happily marry on Who, Not What, the debut album from Wichita’s Animal Parade. The release has a heaviness, a sort of tetchy energy that seems to fester between guitar riffs and rolls — the perfect antidote for your case of the Mondays.

Monday, January 11, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

G-eazy

In 2014, Bay Area rapper G-Eazy (born Gerald Gillum) — who comes off as a cross between A$AP Rocky and Drake — garnered everyone’s attention with his breakthrough album, These Things Happen. In December, Gillum released his anticipated follow-up, When It’s Dark Out. You can expect plenty of cuts from it, including the swag-packed hit “Me, Myself & I,” when he

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Sunday, January 10, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

G-Eazy wants to hear you. stops at the Midland Tuesday with A$AP Ferg, Marc E. Bassy and Nef the Pharaoh.

Tuesday, January 12, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

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In May, the Outer Vibe released Full Circle, and it’s a damn shame that the album hasn’t seen wider distribution or radio play. It’s chockablock full of the sounds that usually guarantee moderate success on the indie charts: noodling guitar riffs; tongue-incheek, though perfectly executed, nods to ’70s-era disco; bombastic rock chords. Full Circle’s only fault, perhaps, is its desire to host so many different sounds at once. On record, this can come across as chaotic; live, we have a feeling it’ll be explosive. Various Blonde opens.

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MUSEUM SHOWS AND EVENTS

NIGHTLIFE DJ G Train | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8 p.m. Tapcade, 1701 McGee

Olde World Christmas | Noon-4:15 p.m.

Saturdays and Sundays through January, Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center, 720 N. Fourth St., KCK

Friday | 1.8 |

THEATER SHOWS AND EVENTS

PERFORMING ARTS

Dates and times vary.

Kansas City Symphony Classical Series, featuring Elgar & Vaughan WIlliams | 8 p.m. Kauff-

Dixie’s Tupperware Party | Starting Tues-

LITERARY EVENTS

Visions of Right, presented by the Ad As-

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Free State Story Slam | 7 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Josh Wolf | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

The Overland Park Boat Show | Noon-10 p.m.

Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, overlandparkboatshow.com

SPORTS & REC

Ice skating | 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Crown Center Ice Terrace,

2425 Grand

Good Time Season 3: A Comedy Event for the People | 7 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

John Henton | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Josh Wolf | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W.

119th St., Overland Park

UMKC vs. Seattle men’s basketball | 7:05 p.m.

The Overland Park Boat Show | 3-9 p.m. Overland

Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, overlandparkboatshow.com

The Real College Debt Crisis: How Student Borrowing Threatens Financial Well-Being and Erodes the American Dream, featuring KU profes-

sors William Elliott III and Melinda Lewis | 6:30 p.m.

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

Frank Werth & the Vibrations, Bobby Simkins |

Conflicts, the Author and the Illustrator, Sedlec Ossuary, Damp | 7 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers

DJ Mike Scott | The Well, 7421 Broadway

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

Wonderfuzz | 10 p.m. Kelly’s Westport Inn, 500 West-

port Rd.

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Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band |

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Dan Bliss & Rod Fleeman | 7 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

Cowboy Mouth, Snot Rockets | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Stone Cutters Union, British Invasion | 4:30 p.m.

The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

Waka Flocka Flame, Staxx, DJ A1, Jooby Truth | 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Chess Club, A Cold Trip Nowhere, Four Arm Shiver, 88er | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Max Berry | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

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Sons of Brasil, Gray Matter | 5 p.m. The Blue Room,

Ice skating | 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Crown Center Ice Terrace,

Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St. MUSIC

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Matt Stansberry & the Romance, Hotstop | 8:30

SPORTS & REC COMEDY

Run 2 Cover | 9 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr.,

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Inglourious Basterds | 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main, drafthouse.com/kansas-city.

day, Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

Tyler Gregory, Jessica Paige | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence Katy Guillen & the Girls | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside

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

Lawrence

Flashback Fridays with DJ Gar | Local Tap, 7300

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Crosseyed Cat | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

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Jailhouse Jamboree | PBR Big Sky Bar, 111 E. 13th St.

Brett Jackson Quartet | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

The Haymakers | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Poetry Blast | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Mr. Mojo Risin’: A Celebration of the Doors |

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Art Exhibits And EvEnts Dark Days, Bright Nights: Contemporary Paintings From Finland | Kemper Museum

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

Faces of Change | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

Flowers to Frost: Four Seasons in East Asian Art | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

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

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

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

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Concussion screening and panel discussion with medical experts and athletes | 6:45 p.m. AMC Studio 28, 12075 S. Strang Line Rd., Olathe, $8 adults, $5 kids. RSVP at biaksconcussion.eventbrite.com.

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Robert Zakanitch: Ephemeral Beauty | Ner-

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The overland Park Boat show | 10 a.m.-9 p.m.

Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, overlandparkboatshow.com

man Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org

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CommUniTy eVenTs

Jayrock 11, a benefit for JayDoc Free Clinic featuring Hembree, the Magnetics, and the Timbers | 7:30 p.m.

Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, jayrockconcert.org

Chinese new year Celebration Gala | 3 p.m. Olathe Northwest High School, 21300 College Blvd., Olathe

PerforminG ArTs

UmKC vs. CsU-Bakersfield men’s basketball |

6:05 p.m. Municipal Auditorium, 301 W. 13th St. mUsiC

The Bon Ton soul Accordion Band | 6 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Bumparusa 5 with G. Jones and Lumberjvck | 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence Brody Buster Band, Tim Whitmer & KC express | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. Brody Buster Band | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

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Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation | 1:30 p.m.

Rochester

Library, Plaza Branch, 4801 Main, kclibrary.org

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

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

Coyote Union, Kansas City Hustle | 9 p.m. The

In Football We Trust | 11 a.m. Kansas City Public

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matt Hopper Trio Cd release, oJT | 6 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

spenkel Korp Presents | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar,

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ice skating | 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Crown Center Ice Terrace,

Janet the Planet, Temp Tats, HmPH | 10 p.m.

Josh Wolf | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

missouri Comets vs. Chicago mustangs | 7:35 p.m. Silverstein Eye Centers Arena, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

money for nothin’ | 10 p.m. Kelly’s, 500 Westport Rd.

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Why did it turn you on when the sex worker took a call during your session? Turn-ons are subjective and mysterious. People who are curious about their turn-ons have to start with “this turns me on” and work backward from there. To figure out why a particular fabric/ adornment/attitude/scenario arouses us, we use the only tools available to us — guesswork and self-serving rationalizations — to invent a backstory that makes some logical sense, and then we apply it to something (kinks, turn-ons, orgasms) that really defies logic.

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Now and again, though, I really like a quickie, a good old-fashioned “wham, bam, thank you, ma’am!” The only ladies I’ve found willing to engage in those cock-centric acts are sex workers.

I’m OK with that, too. But the last time I paid for it, with a woman I had patronized before, I was just about to slip my cock in doggy-style when her phone rang. It was in reach, and she picked it up! I hesitated, but she didn’t pull away and, in fact, pushed back a bit while she answered. I figured this was what I came for, so I proceeded.

Her cavalier attitude toward being fucked from behind while having a trivial phone conversation wound up being a huge turn-on for me. By the time she finished her 20-second call, I was finished as well. I hadn’t come that quickly since I was a teen. She laughed that she should take calls more often. What kind of beast am I that I really enjoyed such utter indifference? Does this reveal some dark secret deep in my psyche? How can that mesh with my otherwise feminist views?

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hired) — being subtly humiliated and mildly degraded by that woman — taps a vein of eroticized self-hatred that makes you come quickly and come hard. And while that’s wonderful for you, it isn’t proof that you’re a feminist.

Dear Dan: I’m a 29-year-old gay trans man. On female hormones, I took a long time to come and usually wouldn’t come at all. I always enjoyed sex; I just wasn’t focused on coming. My partners would or wouldn’t, depending on their preferences. Since starting testosterone a few years ago, I come quickly and easily. (Sometimes too quickly and easily.) My problem is that after I come, like most men, I’m done with sex. And the stronger the orgasm, the truer this is. Awhile ago, after a really fun time, I woke to find that I’d accidentally fallen asleep and left my longtime hookup buddy to fend for himself. Other times, I’m just tired and/or turned off. I definitely don’t want anyone inside me (it hurts), and while I’ve tried mustering enthusiasm for blowjobs, hand jobs, etc., my attempts come across as pretty tepid. So in the context of both ongoing relationships and hookups, what’s the etiquette? I’ve found myself just avoiding things that’ll push me to come because I don’t want to be rude. I’ve always enjoyed sex without orgasms, so this doesn’t bother me mostly. But once in a while, I’d like to come. How can I do this and still take care of the other guy?

Not Good at Sexy Abbreviations Dear NGASA: With words: “If it’s not a prob-

lem, I’d rather come after you do — my refractory period kicks in hard when I come and, like other men, I briefly lose interest in sex.

On top of that, I’m a terrible actor. So let’s make you come first or let’s try to come at the same time, OK?”

Dear Dan: My wife and I are bisexual — we’re a man and a woman — and we’ve been tiptoeing

Dear MWAHJ: The phenomenon you describe

has been noted by sex researchers and couples counselors. Dr. Margie Nichols, a psychologist and sex therapist, told The New York Times that she frequently urges the nonkinky couples she sees to emulate kinky couples. “Kinky couples plan sex,” Nichols told Amy Sohn, “and simmer for days in advance.”

Many couples in the planning stages of a threesome do a lot more than simmer: Like you and the wife, they find themselves having hot twosomes in anticipation of the impending (and hopefully hot) threesome. I think “presome” is a wonderful term to describe that kind of sex — I’m officially endorsing your proposed neologism — but I don’t think it works as well for four-way swaps, group sex, BDSM play parties, etc., because it obviously rhymes with/riffs on “threesome.” But it’s an excellent term to describe your situation.

To describe the sex you’ll have in the wake of your first successful threesome, I would propose the term “postsome.”

Dear Dan: I thought your advice to SCRAPE, the guy whose penis was suffering due to his girlfriend’s shaved-but-stubbly labia, was spot-on, except in regard to waxing. As a former professional waxer and a woman with very coarse pubic hair, I hope you don’t mind if I correct you: Waxed hair does not grow back as prickly as shaved hair. The hair follicle tapers from its root. When shaved, it is cut straight across at its thickest point. The hair, as it grows, continues to grow from there. When waxed, the hair is removed at its root, and a new hair will grow intact, with the softer taper. I cannot shave without extreme discomfort during regrowth (like needles in my undies!). SCRAPE’s girlfriend’s postwax stubble may still be uncomfortable for him, but it will be an improvement. Honestly, I’d be amazed if she’s not currently in more pain than he is!

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