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Current neighborhood Brull: Parkville McMillan: Midtown What I do Brull: I am a husband, father, serial entrepreneur, inventor, and FTC robot team coach.

McMillan: Raising two new biz kids — Make48 invent-a-thon and live streaming studio, Story Torch. Serving as president for Inventors Center of KC.

What’s your addiction?

Brull: Making things/inventing.

McMillan: Creating something or helping What’s your game?

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McMillan: Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.

The creators: McMillan (left) and Brull

“My dream concert lineup is …”

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McMillan: Steely Dan, U2 and the Rat Pack, and

Where’s dinner?

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an invite to the after-party at Frank’s.

Who (or what) is your nemesis?

Brull: Time.

McMillan: Father time, sneaky and relentless

“I just read …”

Brull: iWoz, the biography of Steve Wozniak.

McMillan: My Costco receipt. Yikes!

What’s your greatest struggle right now?

Brull: Managing time.

McMillan: Matching the right idea to the right

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What’s on your KC postcard?

Brull: Union Station at night with the cool lights.

McMillan: Panorama of packed Power & Light

crowd cheering madly. Caption: City of Fountains on Fire.

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …”

Brull: It brought Maker Faire to Kansas City.

McMillan: It renovated Union Station.

“Kansas City screwed up when …”

Brull: It tries to be like other cities.

McMillan: It shut down the KC Film Office in early 2000s. But look who’s back!

“As a kid, I wanted to be …”

Brull: An inventor.

McMillan: Funny.

“I always laugh at …”

Brull: King of the Hill McMillan: Caddyshack. I know. Still!

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …”

Brull: How It’s Made and Top Gear.

What’s your guiltiest pleasure?

Brull: Ice cream.

McMillan: Doughnuts. Dozen fresh Lamar’s,

like Peyton Manning. Oh, there’s another!

time to go big with limited means.

OMG.

My favorite toy as a child Brull: Go-Kart.

McMillan: Anything Star Wars.

The best advice I ever got Brull: If you can visualize it and believe it, then

My dating triumph/tragedy Brull: Triumph, my wife. Tragedy, pretty much

McMillan: Do good work, good by others

McMillan: Turning a horrific “take me home

Worst advice Brull: That will never work, so why try.

McMillan: You don’t need to take typing class.

My soapbox Brull: Everybody’s got at least one great idea

you can achieve it.

and have fun — that’s when great things can happen.

Take French.

My sidekick Brull: My son, Ted. McMillan: My wife, Liz. Who is your hero?

Brull: My dad.

McMillan: My late grandfather, the man by

which I measure.

all the rest.

early” first date into a two-year run with the same girl four years later.

inside of them. We just need to develop it.

McMillan: StoryTorch Studios — we’ll be streaming to the world weekly from KC.

My recent triumph Brull: I just received a patent this month.

McMillan: First Make48 last April. Thirteen

teams around the U.S. in Kansas City on a chance and rocked. So proud!

The Make48 conference is October 2–4 at Union Station. See make48.com for more details.

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his weekend, like thousands of movie theaters, Cinetopia at Overland Park’s Prairiefire development opens the new Ridley Scott film, The Martian, which stars Matt Damon. After an October 2 screening, though, comes a unique event: a questionand-answer session with Michael Shara, the curator of the American Museum of Natural History, at the museum next door to Cinetopia.

The talk with Shara blends the two components that most separate Prairiefire (at 135th Street and Nall) from other new, retaildominated suburban developments: science and movies. The Museum at Prairiefire opened in May 2014, surrounded by thousands of square feet of retail space, with a key attraction: The museum would host traveling exhibits from Shara’s pre-eminent New York institution. That aspect of Prairiefire gave it enough oomph to receive Kansas sales-taxrevenue (STAR) bonds, a powerful economicdevelopment inducement meant only for projects that state policymakers deem likely to draw regional or national visitors, not just locals.

Since Prairiefire’s opening, Fred Merrill Jr., a respected developer in Johnson County, says the museum has attracted 400,000 visitors, including schoolchildren, tourists

and corporate groups. That figure roughly matches the developer’s projections, and, with the museum itself having earned awards for its architectural distinction, Merrill is upbeat about Prairiefire’s future.

But signs of financial distress are beginning to peek from beneath the surface.

A recent disclosure by the city of Overland Park shows that the city drew money from a reserve fund to make an interest-only bond payment on the larger Prairiefire development.

Municipal bonds work like this: A city sells bonds to investors on behalf of a developer to obtain up-front cash, which helps get a project going. The investors who buy the bonds are repaid with interest over time by money that the project generates. Meanwhile, bond issuances also establish reserve funds, a sort of savings account that’s available in case revenue from a project is ever insufficient to make a full payment to investors. A draw on a reserve fund can indicate trouble.

In STAR-backed Prairiefire’s case, bondholders are supposed to be repaid by sales-tax proceeds generated by the project — proceeds that would otherwise go to Overland Park and Kansas. But on June 15, $122,226 of a $312,208 bond payment made to investors came from Prairiefire’s reserve fund.

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serve fund was tapped was because revenues didn’t meet projections when some early Prairiefire tenants didn’t work out. He adds that Cinetopia’s effort to muscle its way into a crowded local movie-theater scene hasn’t been easy. The Leawood-based international chain AMC Theatres, which dominates the KC market, has been under investigation by the Department of Justice. AMC (along with fellow exhibition behemoth Regal Entertainment Group) has drawn scrutiny for what’s known in the business as “movie clearance.”

The practice involves theater owners negotiating with movie studios and distributors for exclusive rights to show certain movies within an established radius. AMC disclosed the existence of the DOJ’s antitrust investigation, as well as one by Ohio’s attorney general, in a May filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. AMC said in the SEC filing that it was cooperating with regulators and did not believe it had violated any laws.

Merrill says AMC’s tactics have hurt Cinetopia’s performance, with other establishments within the Prairiefire development suffering the effects of limited trickle-down business from moviegoers. “So they [film studios] actually just split instead of everyone getting every film,” Merrill says. “I guess

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As Prairiefire goes, so its museum goes. that’s a weird practice. What it has done is, a lot of the blockbusters went to AMC 20 [in Leawood], and Cinetopia didn’t get them. So obviously that hurt sales.”

Ryan Noonan, a spokesman with AMC, tells The Pitch that the company has no further comment on the investigation and will not comment on Merrill’s remarks.

The museum itself is fighting to attain financial stability, too. It has obtained a $2.5 million loan with a third-party bank to fund operating costs. Merrill says this is to cover costs during times between traveling exhibits, when ticket sales slow down significantly.

“There’s six or seven weeks where there’s no revenue from ticket sales,” Merrill says. “That loan is supposed to bridge that gap.”

He predicts that the finances of the $28 million museum will stabilize in two to three years.

“The whole business plan for the museum is to be self-sustaining and generate dollars through ticket sales and special events and rentals of the space,” Merrill says. “That’s all supposed to be in place over the next two to three years.”

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The leader of the local tiny-house movement vanished two weeks ago. Who was he?

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oshua Farmer, the diligent and enthusiastic president of the Tiny House Collective Kansas City, sold a composting toilet for $200 to a fellow member of the collective Monday evening, September 14. Nobody has seen him since.

Farmer stopped returning messages from friends and posting to Facebook Tuesday.

He missed an interview with a local TV station Wednesday. That Friday, Farmer failed to show up for his shift at the LGBT communityresource organization LIKEME Lighthouse, where he was a volunteer.

Adding to the concern over Farmer’s silence was an uncharacteristically dark post that he made on his personal Facebook page September 13: “Bizarre time. Many years ago my family was involved in a tragedy. A double homicide. The perpetrator is being released very soon. Strange time. I don’t like it.”

In the comments section of that post, he went on to say the perpetrator was also a relative and added, “We spent years living in fear of this person, then the murders. It tore us up as a family.”

Wednesday, September 16, members of THCKC met and began calling local hospitals and anybody who might have a clue about Farmer’s whereabouts or what had happened to him. They filed a missing-persons report with the Kansas City Police Department Thursday. Other members of the collective’s Facebook group discussed pooling money to hire a private investigator to search for their friend and leader.

But then some strange information came to light. It turned out that Joshua Farmer’s given name was not Joshua Farmer. It’s Kirk Loe. Jackson County records show that he changed his name in May of this year — around the time that local media began reporting on THCKC. In the petition, Farmer checked “yes” on a box asking whether he was a victim of child abuse. Explaining that choice on the form, he wrote, “My childhood abuser was incarcerated in 1987, he is scheduled for release in 2016. I would like to change my name to avoid his being able to find me.”

Farmer told people — and The Pitch — that he had come to Kansas City from upstate New York in 2012. A search on LinkedIn for Loe turned up a profile page with a grainy photo of a younger-looking Farmer. His listed jobs include working at an organic vegetable company and an espresso bar in the Albany area.

Farmer’s sister, Karlene Doupe, is a retired sheriff’s captain in Sacramento County, California. Reached by The Pitch, she said she hasn’t spoken to her brother in four years. “I have never known him [Kirk] as Josh or Joshua Farmer,” Doupe wrote in an e-mail. She added, “We have never had a family member(s) mur-

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dered, nor has Kirk ever testified in court regarding one. We are a concerned family regarding the well-being of Kirk’s obviously confused mental state and the people he has impacted.”

Megan Covert, treasurer of THCKC, now believes that an incident which occurred a week prior to Farmer’s vanishing may have precipitated his departure more than the supposed release of a former tormentor. Covert says Farmer recently inquired about being added as a signatory on the collective’s bank account. “Josh was really active with getting stuff done with the collective, and it’s never a good idea in any organization to have only one signatory for a bank account, so I filled out the paperwork, and we went to Missouri Bank to have him added,” she says.

Farmer, though, was denied by the bank and told that his name had been flagged. He seemed embarrassed, Covert says. “He told me that his ex-husband bought a condo in his name while he [Farmer] was supposedly in a yearlong diabetic coma,” she says. (Banks do not disclose such confidential information, but in his name-change petition, Farmer listed pending cases against him regarding a home foreclosure and a car repossession in 2009.)

“After that, he pretty much backed away from me and stopped responding to messages I sent him about upcoming meetings and events,” Covert says. “Then, a few days later, he was gone.”

Having spoken in the past few weeks to several people from various parts of Farmer’s life — former roommates, family, friends and other members of THCKC — Covert has

Farmer: a future in the shadows concluded that Farmer is “a con artist and a professional liar.” She adds, “Everybody got a different story from Josh.”

Jana Loflin recently bought a $6,000 trailer for a tiny house under the assumption that Farmer would assist her with its construction and local government compliance. “He really lit a fire and pushed me in the direction of this thing I’ve wanted to do for a long time,” Loflin says. “But now he’s MIA, and I’m not even sure if some of the things he told me about building it [a tiny house] are accurate.”

In a post to THCKC last Friday regarding the future of the nonprofit, Jeremy Luther (also The Pitch’s art director) wrote that, according to the detective and Farmer’s family members, “Joshua’s disappearance was in all likelihood intentional … [and] he is not and never has been threatened with any immediate danger, and that it could have been expected. It has been implied by the detective that this is not the first time something similar has happened. … We’ve become increasingly aware that while there’s no proof to imply a deceptive intention from the beginning, we as a group have been deceived.”

THCKC will live on in some capacity, though whether it remains a nonprofit or will continue with Farmer’s plans to establish a tiny-house village within city limits is up in the air. A discussion about what shape the collective will take, and who will step up to lead it, is ongoing at the group’s Facebook page.

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Artists Megan Mantia and Leone Anne Reeves — working together under the name Blanket Undercover — got to go to the 56th Venice Biennale, but the trip was no vacation. Funded by a Rocket Grant, the two embarked on a mission to document the art world’s premier contemporary exhibition for their landlocked hometown. The result is an ambitiously comprehensive re-creation called The Mini Vinnie Bini, and it opens its three-month installation Thursday, October 1 — like, everywhere. Among the brick-and-mortar spots on the Mini map is the mockup of Venice’s La Biennale Pavilion façade that’s now in front of Maker Village KC at 606 East 31st Street (seen here as a before-and-after).

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in or lose, the Kansas City Royals have had a heck of a year, and nothing brings a city together like a team in the throes of a pennant race. The players’ easy camaraderie and peculiar magic have extended beyond the ballpark, prompting strangers — waiting in line at the grocery store or playing neighboring slots at a casino — to high-five after Moose’s nine-run game or commiserate over Jeremy Guthrie’s rough outing.

Another way to make new friends: Don one of this year’s clever, locally produced Royals shirts. If last year made wearing royal blue cool again, this year has turned KC tees into a full-on fashion statement. Show your team spirit in preparation for a blue October.

Odds are, you’re familiar with Charlie Hustle’s signature shirt — you know, the one with a big, white “KC” on the front and a heart around it. Take your local love to the next level with the “Kegger at my mom’s house” tee, inspired by the time Paul Rudd invited everyone to his mom’s place after the Royals won the pennant.

As we head back into the postseason, even Royals players are rocking Charlie Hustle gear.

Second baseman Ben Zobrist stopped by the shop after the Royals clinched the division, so you know it’s legit.

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The best part of a Royals win is when catcher Salvador Perez soaks a postgame interviewee with a bucket of Gatorade — and it’s even better if good-natured broadcaster Joel Goldberg’s fancy suit gets splashed. Westportbased Normal Human has captured the moment perfectly on a gray-and-blue tee that depicts an anonymous player with a water bucket on his head and the words “Kansas City 2015.” Here’s hoping that the players get soaked with champagne — in addition to electrolytes — this fall.

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A new player on the scene, Bumpleft began making Royals tees during last year’s playoff run. Bumpleft’s primary design resonates because it’s one of the more clever combos we’ve seen, featuring a basic image of the Royals crown with a silhouette of the KC skyline along the top.

Strangely, the Royals’ official Central Division Championship shirts feature a similar image. Bumpleft owner Michael Martin says

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he watches every game live, so he saw the shirts at the same time that everyone else did. He isn’t concerned about the coincidence, though, especially because the New York Mets’ postseason shirts had a similar design.

“I didn’t take it as a negative at all,” Martin says. “On the very slim chance it had anything to do with me, it’s kinda cool that something I did influenced the sport I love so much.”

If the Royals win either the American League Championship Series or the World Series, Martin has some top-secret plans for limited-edition T-shirts and care packages.

His main goal is to keep making shirts for people like himself who “really fucking love baseball.”

“I’ve got some Denny Matthews stuff planned for next year,” Martin says. “He’s kind of the voice of my childhood. I’m also going to do something for Rex Hudler. I’ve loved this town for 30 years, and I’m glad there are so many people who are proud to be from Kansas City.”

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This pop-up retail and home-décor shop offers lots of local love, from a vintage-style

blue tee that simply reads “Hos Salvy Moose” to a classic baseball shirt with the words “Forever KC.” Want a little extra attention?

Go for the one that says “OMG Becky, look at that bunt.”

“The ‘Forever KC’ message captures the spirit of the Royals and the pride our city has supporting them on their amazing journey,” says Love Letters’ Amy Hunter. “The shirt also looks great on all women.”

Printed and designed right here in KC, Love Letters’ T-shirts are available at Restoration Emporium in the West Bottoms and Charm by RE in Martin City.

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With its simple designs (white block letters on bold, monochromatic tees), Midwest retailer Raygun has immortalized many of the Royals’ meme-worthy moments. We’ve got “Straight Outta Kauffman,” born of the team’s early season brawls with the Oakland A’s and Chicago White Sox; “That’s What Speed Do,” regarding Jarrod Dyson’s ability to run 21 mph; and the first lines to that Fetty Wap song that everyone in town has been singing all summer: “Hey, what’s up? Hello?”

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Everyone loves a good baseball brawl. One of KC’s most memorable incidents happened when George Brett lost his shit during 1983’s famous “Pine Tar Game.” Relive some baseball lore with Loyalty KC’s “No. 5 Loyalty” pine-tar shirt. Modeled after the iconic Chanel-fragrance logo, it pays homage to Brett being physically restrained from punching an umpire.

“It is all about a moment that is engraved into any baseball fan’s mind,” says Loyalty KC’s Branden Hughes. “Pine tar: a smell you would never wear but a moment that is timeless in baseball history.”

If you’d rather revel in the glory of last week, Loyalty KC has printed some comfy, vintage-style “Division Champions” T-shirts.

“For the last 29 to 30 years, this team had been irrelevant, and so few people proudly wore their Royals gear,” Hughes says. “Kansas Citians could pull two or three Chiefs shirts from their closet at any time, yet a Royals shirt was typically nowhere to be found. That has all changed.”

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ead the mission statement of the Rocket Grant program, the longtime artistfunding mechanism fostered by the Spencer Museum of Art and the Charlotte Street Foundation, and you’ll be reminded that part of the design is to launch “innovative, publicoriented work in nontraditional spaces” in the KC area. Megan Mantia and Leone Anne Reeves, who have lately made art together under the name Blanket Undercover, have taken each of those descriptors very much to heart with a citywide re-creation of the 56th annual Venice Biennale, the Mini Vinnie Bini.

They went to the Biennale this past summer and have spent the time since then working out a geographically intensive simulation of what they saw in Italy. Working with three assistant artists and 40-some partner locations — venues as diverse as the Workhouse castle on Vine Street, the Gym KC and the Writers Place — they’ve assembled three months’ worth of free, family-friendly events and exhibitions, an art trip for anyone who wants to experience the big-deal Venice event without leaving the metro. The best way to keep up with events, venues and tours is to keep an eye on minivinniebini.com.

The Belger Crane Yard Gallery (2011 Tracy) opens two new exhibitions on first Friday: Orchard by Christopher Kurtz and Schema: A Journey Through Traditional Patterns and Imagery by Melanie Sherman.

Kurtz is a master woodworker with a finearts education; expect to see painstakingly crafted sculptures as well as contemporary clean-line furniture, all of it demonstrat-

ing a passion for visual impact as well as spot-on construction. Sherman is a ceramist from Germany who has taken recent inspiration from artist residencies in Hungary and China (ceramic-world capitals); her lavishly painted surfaces reflect a love for ornamentation and 18th-century European styles.

Another ceramist fresh from a residency — this one in Nanjing, China — is showing at Hilliard Gallery (1820 McGee). Ron Fondaw, based in St. Louis at Washington University, approaches his work through investigation of the elements of ceramics — heating, cooling, weathering — and drawing and painting on them as a way to reflect his nature-inspired thoughts. UnSeen Forces gathers recent works.

Blue Gallery (118 Southwest Boulevard) usually sneaks into First Friday with a Thursday artist’s talk. This time, the early event is a Thursday, October 1, reception (starting at 6 p.m.) with Kelly Porter speaking about her work at 7. Thirty percent of proceeds generated that evening will benefit the Rose Brooks Center, one of Kansas City’s domestic-violence shelters. Her solo exhibition is called Blankets + Brambles, and in it she presents large-scale paintings and works on paper that reveal the organic and emerging forms of the smallest pieces of life — abstract and beautiful renderings suggesting cellular growth in a way that conveys comfort.

Another abstract painter with a long history of work, Don Kottmann, is featured this month at Todd Weiner Gallery (115 West 18th Street).

Kottmann splits his time between Kansas City and Calgary, Alberta, where he teaches at the

Alberta College of Art and Design and was one of last December’s recipients of a $25,000 grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, a champion of gestural abstract painting.

Two figurative shows continue at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2004 Baltimore): Jeff Aeling: Landscapes, Figures, Flowers and Michiko Itatani: Cosmic Wanderlust II. Aeling’s landscapes are well-known, but in this show, he also includes the figures (women) he has painted for years but rarely shown. Itatani’s paintings depict created worlds presented in miniature. They implore you to lean in, the better to be absorbed into new, enchanting spaces.

And there’s even more strong painting elsewhere. New works by David Gant are at Main Street Gallery (1610 Main, with a reception 5–8 p.m. Saturday); solo shows by

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Clockwise from top left: Christopher Kurtz and “Singularity”; painting by David Gant; and “Performed Vibration” by Kelly Porter Russell Easterwood and Laura Nugent are at the Late Show (1600 Cherry); and Adolfo Marron III’s Flora Veil of the Mulberry Moth is at Garcia Squared Contemporary (115 West 18th Street, upstairs).

Of course, it’s also time for the Mattie Rhodes Art Center ’s Dia de los Muertos, the 17th annual exhibition and cultural festival. Ofrendas (altars) are on display inside the space (919 West 17th Street), open for a reception first Friday (6–10 p.m.) ahead of Saturday’s street festival (1–9 p.m.). Details at mattierhodes.org.

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That doesn’t really answer the “why” question central to Petit’s vocation, and here at the outset, a similar inquiry looms over Zemeckis’ latest (which arrives this week in IMAX and next week everywhere else). Why make a movie about this event when there’s already a perfectly good, Oscar-winning documentary about it called Man on Wire?

The answers to both lie in the film’s flashback structure. As Gordon-Levitt’s Petit narrates his life, we see his start as a unicycleriding street troubadour in Paris, doing magic tricks, stunts and other acts for money. An unexpected trip to a dentist’s office leads him to read a magazine article about the World Trade Center, then under construction. Voila!

Ze toothache, it iz cured! He imagines himself walking between the towers on a wire — an impossible dream but one that nevertheless begins to drive him.

Throughout, Zemeckis uses the over-thetop language of the CGI blockbuster — scenes morphing into one another, the camera fluidly jumping from closeup to wide angle in that heightened, Spielbergian way — and a more classically playful approach, with Petit’s garrulous, camera-facing narration suggesting Gigi or Pinocchio. Zemeckis’ approach to 3-D also feels like a combination of old and

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new. As a pioneer of the revamped technology, the director has probably forgotten more about 3-D than most other filmmakers know today, and he wields it magnificently. Rather than throw things at the camera (though he occasionally does that, too), he prefers to heighten chasmlike spaces and to play with turning foreground objects into background ones, and vice versa, as a way to draw us into the action. The whole movie is an immaculate diorama, an indulgence in artificiality: the accents, the playful use of color, the effectsfilled montages, the stagy re-creations of Paris and New York. At times, The Walk seems to be about its very artificiality.

But on to the title event: Petit spends years assembling his team members, and they begin to imagine and engineer all that must go into making the walk a reality. How, for example, to stretch an extremely heavy wire from the roof of one tower to the other — and how to then keep it stable against winds at that altitude. Oh, and how to do all of this without getting arrested. Here, the film takes on the style of a heist picture, even as it maintains its fourth-wall-breaking playfulness. As one might imagine, the 3-D is nauseatingly good during the high-wire scenes; reports of vomiting moviegoers at the film’s premiere were not apocryphal. If you’re prone to vertigo, you should proceed with caution.

Zemeckis would have us believe that Petit isn’t just a daredevil but a man who followed a creative, ennobling impulse. “If it works, this will be the artistic coup of the 20th century,” we’re told. The walk was an assertion of individuality and creativity over impersonality and technology, and many believe that it helped humanize the towers for a city that

17 had been skeptical of them. (One character actually comes out and says this, in just one example of The Walk’s endearingly on-thenose, old-fashioned dialogue.)

But Zemeckis’ film is another such assertion — partly an artistic apologia for the 3-D format but also a lament for a time when one could traipse through airport security with heavy rigging equipment and casually tell the agent that you were going to walk the sky between the World Trade Center’s towers. The events of 9/11 cast a shadow over The Walk, though they’re never mentioned.

Yet the very fact that out of this shadow has come a gentle film, devoid of villainy, evil or violence — a film about a man walking on air where one day unthinkable horrors would unfold — feels like a declaration of artistry and humanity.

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mily Blunt enters Sicario wary and tense, her head down. She’s playing an FBI agent named Kate Macer who has excellent reasons to feel anxious — even if she doesn’t yet know all of them. As the film’s opening scene plays out, Kate and her team of kidnapping specialists find not hostages in a nondescript Arizona house but dozens of corpses stuffed into walls.

These turn out to be victims of a Mexican cartel, and before long, Kate has been summoned by her superior (Victor Garber) and introduced to Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), an alleged “consultant” who invites her to join

a special interagency task force designed to apprehend those responsible. Despite being given virtually no information, Kate accepts — a crucial choice revealing that Sicario isn’t really about the cartels or the drug war. Rather, it’s about the sneaky, underhanded ways that authority abuses power and about how difficult — how well-nigh impossible — it is for a person of conscience who witnesses said abuse to put a stop to it. Kate immediately distrusts Matt and likewise looks askance at a fellow named Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), who is terminally vague about his place in the operation. But her growing alarm doesn’t lead her to quit, just in case the trail really does lead to the bad guys.

Directed by Denis Villeneuve (Prisoners, Enemy) and shot by the Coen brothers’ regular DP, Roger Deakins, Sicario works first and foremost as an unrelenting tension generator.

Danger is omnipresent, and Blunt succeeds in making Kate simultaneously competent, tough and scared out of her wits. Villeneuve and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan reportedly fought the suits’ requests to change Kate into a man, and their decision to gradually squeeze her out of her own narrative, shifting the focus to Alejandro, is itself a boldly feminist statement, underlining the ways in which women (and minorities — Kate’s partner, significantly, is black) routinely and casually get ignored, used and discarded.

What seems to be missing — a climactic, crowd-pleasing scene in which Kate regains control or takes revenge — has been omitted very much intentionally.

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he Country Club Plaza was designed by architect Edward Buehler Delk to look like a neighborhood in old Seville, yet, in 92 years, there has never been a truly Spanish restaurant of note here. That oversight is among the reasons that Alan Gaylin, founder and CEO of Kansas City’s Bread and Butter Concepts, saw visions of paella in his head when he signed the lease on 4807 Jefferson.

Because the restaurant that has come of this vision — República — shares a corporate parent and part of a name with the Tex-Mexleaning Taco Republic, some early patrons have walked in propelled by a different mental picture.

“Yes, we’ve had people come in here and ask if we have tacos,” Gaylin says. “Not everyone understands that the culinary traditions of Latin America and Spain are quite distinct.”

That may be true, but many Kansas City diners have long been familiar with the notion of tapas: small plates to be eaten with wine or cocktails, often before a late dinner. República joins at least 10 metro venues selling some form of tapas, from the similarly Moorish La Bodega to Sama Zama’s Japanese-style small plates in Westport.

There was nothing Spanish-romantic, nothing even remotely European about the business that last served food here, Ingredient, and Gaylin has done wonders turning the space into a sophisticated, clubby room.

Still, his smartest move was to turn the food over to talented young chef Bradley Gilmore

— who also oversees Gram & Dun, Gaylin’s other Plaza restaurant — assisted by sous chef Rick Mullins. The two men’s styles mesh well in this restaurant’s exhibition kitchen. If only these fine chefs were actually preparing more of the food. But more about that in a minute.

Tapas are best as a communal experience — meaning plenty of options for plenty of people, and plenty of potential for jamming up a server. But the staff I encountered over four visits to República demonstrated a smart grasp of timing and delivery, along with a real conversance with this menu of some 12 cold small plates and 21 hot choices. It’s a good team that inspires good teamwork among the tablemates being served.

I was more than OK letting others in my party take my share of a couple of the caliente offerings that looked better than they tasted.

Lightly fried, crunchy squash fritters were very good naked and even better swathed in redpepper coulis or mustard aioli, but the version with spicy merguez sausage missed the mark.

And I might have enjoyed the jamón coca flatbread I tried one night if it hadn’t been soggy.

More teamwork is called for with the popular Caliente Rock (not a Univision program), along with a fair amount of concentration.

For the record, I’m not a fan of dishes that require you to do anything more than pick up a fork and lift food to the mouth. Interactive tasks (this includes fondue and shabu-shabu) rarely rise above novelty status, and if I have to cook my own food, I’d rather stay home.

República Zucchini croquettas.......................................... $9 Caliente Rock ...................................................$20 Gambas ...............................................................$16 Game-bird paella .............................................. $15 From the Market paella ................................... $12 Flan ...................................................................... $8

Clockwise from above: meat ready for cooking on the Caliente Rock, crunchy zucchini croquettas and albóndigas meatballs But I admit that I almost warmed to this idea, which centers on a shiny black river rock that has been heated to 500 degrees and added to a shiny pan with roasted seasonal vegetables and 5 ounces of sliced raw wagyu strip steak.

Patrons cook the meat themselves, using tiny wooden tongs, on the sizzling rock. It’s still not my idea of fun, but it has the virtue of ensuring that your table will be free of small children.

It’s one thing to ask you to cook your own meal. It’s another to have line cooks unable to properly execute the creations of a restaurant’s top-billed chefs. República suffers from this chain-of-command problem, which is made apparent by the dishes’ inconsistency. Gaylin, Gilmore and Mullins seem aware of this. There has already been a change in the kitchen staff, along with a serious menu tweak; gone are the whole grilled fish, the lamb shank (which will return on a future menu in the colder months) and the chicken-fried rabbit.

I’d like to say I’ve had visions of paella in my head since I first ate at República, which offers five preparations (two per day) of the saffron-informed rice dish, but my feelings are mixed. I’ve tasted — and loved — a couple of the less traditional choices here, both of them free of the traditional shellfish.

The game-bird version is generously blessed with moist pieces of quail and duck (so deca-

dent, it’s made for sharing). And the “From the Market” paella, made only with seasonal vegetables, was filling and good, expertly prepared with crisp snap peas, baby carrots, squash and heirloom tomatoes.

Among the tapas, most of the standbys here are excellent, including the pork albóndigas meatballs served with Green Dirt Farm cheese, and the sautéed shrimp that come half-drowned in garlic and chili oil (but served with plenty of excellent grilled bread).

Only four desserts are offered, including a smooth habanero and vanilla-bean flan (light on the peppers) and a chocolate-hazelnut torte sided with a dollop of creamy whitechocolate-peach mousse. I’d order either of those again.

When República is in top form, this newest entry into the Plaza restaurant scene is an exceptional experience. And even when it’s not, the place remains a step up from most of the nearby corporate chains. But Gilmore and Mullins must become more hands-on — or hire better talent behind the line.

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arbecue loyalists know that where there’s smoke, there’s fire. But at the American Royal’s annual barbecue competition, that smoke and fire didn’t always mean food for hungry attendees. The fragrance was intoxicating, but food-safety regulations made sampling that aromatic meat impossible.

This year, sampling is still off-limits, but visitors to the contest have, for the first time, an array of food options to choose from, including two local barbecue vendors.

“We’re really excited to bring that new element to the event,” says event manager Kim Palmer. ”We’ve had food trucks in the past, but on a very limited scale.”

Local food vendors participating include Zarda Bar-B-Q and former American Royal champ Todd Johns’ Plowboys BBQ, plus 10 food trucks offering an eclectic assort-

ment of snacks, handhelds and beverages.

Slated to be there: the Waffler, SnoFlower shaved ice, Jazzy B’s, Gary’s on the Go BBQ, Ahumado Taco Co., the Big Cheese, Lutfi’s Fried Fish, Booyah Asian and the Funnel Cake Truck (which will also sell cotton candy and fresh-squeezed lemonade).

There’s a symmetry to this year’s move of the American Royal barbecue competition — trademarked the World Series of Barbecue — to Arrowhead Stadium in the Truman Sports Complex, from Thursday, October 1, through Sunday, October 4. Over the past 36 years, this contest has evolved from simply smoking meats to something closer to a fiercely contested sporting event. And this year’s competition is beefier than ever with a new record for participants: 618 pitmaster teams from 39 states and three countries.

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Friday, OcTOber 2

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at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway), 5 p.m. Also, celebrate the 18th & Vine Jazz & Blues Festival with a keep-the-glass giveaway when you order Blue Room Pale Ale.

XVII and Barrel-Aged Old Stock, at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Midland Dr., Shawnee), 6 p.m.

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Northland Nightmare and bring-your-dogto-the-brewery day, at Big Rip Brewing Co. (216 E. Ninth Ave., North Kansas City), with $1 from every pint going to Great Plains SPCA.

CSBev garage sale, at Central States Beverage (14220 Wyandotte), 9 a.m.–5 p.m.

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Mike and Joe Pearce of the Slap’s BBQ team will compete in their first American Royal competition. They’ve earned a bid to the invitational as well as the open contest.

“It’s a real honor to get into the invitational,” Mike Pearce says. “There are over 400 teams competing in the open, but only 175 teams got into the invitational.

It’s exciting but intimidating. We really feel our reputation is on the line. This is the biggest, most important competition we’ve ever entered.”

Much of the competition in the invitational class — pitmasters who have received a bid after winning first-place honors in a state contest approved by the Kansas City Barbecue Society — takes place Saturday, October 3. Awards are handed out at 5 p.m.

The following day is the open compe-

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Boulevard Collaboration No. 5 Tropical Pale Ale release, at Barley’s Brewhaus (11924 W. 119th St., Overland Park), 5 p.m.

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Bottle share, with this month’s featured

style, Oktoberfest and pumpkin beers, at the Belfry (1532 Grand), 6:30 p.m. Bring a 750 ml bottle and pay $20 to participate.

Also on the menu: house-made pretzels,

tition, featuring competitors who pay an entrance fee. The categories being judged in the open are chicken, ribs, pork, brisket and sausage. The awards ceremony takes place at 4 p.m.

For patrons who simply want to watch the smoking and judging process, the gates to Arrowhead Stadium open at 8 a.m. The annual parade has also moved to the Truman Sports Complex and starts at 10 a.m.

Saturday.

“Parking is a great bonus for us this year,” Palmer says. “That was also a drawback to our old home. This year, parking at the stadium is $20, but we also welcome taxis, shuttles and other travel services. The American Royal is not offering shuttle service.”

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Barley’s Beer Drinking Society happy-hour sausagefest, at all Barley’s locations, 5 p.m.

Charleville tap takeover and Cards Against Humanity tournament, at Rock & Run Brewery (110 E. Kansas, Liberty), 6 p.m. Tournament starts at 9 p.m.

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Natalie GallaGher

I suggest agave, something earthy and strong to balance the hammer-blunt shrub.

Shaver pulls down bottles of Del Maguey Vida Mezcal and Tequila Ocho Plata. Jackson, who has joined our party, suggests a riff on a margarita, so Shaver combines the tequila, the mezcal and the shrub with lemon juice and Cointreau, shakes it over ice, and rims some coupe glasses with salt and crushed Thai chili peppers.

Jackson and Shaver name this the Inverted Sombrero — a coy reference to the shape of the coupe glass, they insist. The liquid is an almost iridescent sea-foam green, and the red-and-white salt around the rim sparkles like treasure. It’s a subtle margarita, with the mezcal tangible by scent more than by flavor.

The drink’s smoothness is unmolested by the delicate kick of chili spice at the end.

“That’s nice,” Jackson says, nodding as he tastes it. “I think this is a menu item.”

Shaver nods, too, and flips open that black notebook.

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eth Shaver is not from Kansas City. You can hear it in his voice, in the way the rounded vowels of his native Iowa draw themselves out, a memento of his years in South Dakota. Nor is the American Restaurant’s head bartender a longtime maker of craft cocktails, though that relative lack of experience isn’t something your senses tell you when he makes you a drink.

“I do feel like I sort of snuck into this job,” Shaver says. “The American is the polaropposite style of bartending than what I was used to — I came from higher-volume bars, so there was a lot more popping bottles of beer and making simple mixed drinks. The craft scene was completely unfamiliar to me, and I kind of just got thrown into the frying pan with no mentor. I did a lot of self-teaching.

I dove into books right away.”

He also got schooled. When 26-year-old Shaver took over the bar program from Paige Unger last November, the American sent him to several high-level bartending courses to help him prepare for the work.

I’d say he got straight A’s. Drinking at Shaver’s bar, I’ve been consistently impressed with his creations. The American’s cocktail menu is now entirely his own, and it’s laced with inventive pairings and uncommon ingredients. He keeps a black notebook with him on the job, full of recipes, ideas, and notes on guests. Shaver, Iowa modest, insists that his drinks owe much to the generosity of the kitchen; the restaurant beams the credit right back at him.

“Since he’s taken over the bar program, it’s given us — the restaurant as a whole — a chance to integrate the cocktail program into the bigger picture,” Ross Jackson, the American’s wine director, tells me. “He’s got good ideas and great instincts.”

Today, I’ve come to the American to tap into those instincts — as well as take advantage of the restaurant’s midafternoon stillness — and delve into some of Shaver’s practices.

He makes all his own syrups and shrubs, a discipline not unique to Shaver but one that benefits here from his restaurants’s unusually strong supply chain. I’m thinking, for instance, of his Azuleta syrup with violet crystals, and his kumquat shrub. Today, the idea is a chili-lime shrub, which doesn’t yet have a place on Shaver’s menu.

“Historically, a shrub is a drinking vinegar, dating back to colonial times,” Shaver tells me as he preps his ingredients. “Basically, it’s a macerated fruit or vegetable, soaked in vinegar and cut down with sugar to sweeten it and make it drinkable, used in addition to a spirit.”

In the American’s auxiliary kitchen, Shaver combines two cups of sugar, two cups of apple

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cider vinegar, six quartered limes, two tablespoons of crushed red pepper and four tablespoons of honey in a large plastic bag. This concoction will be vacuum-sealed and set over a hot-water bath for several hours. (If he were at home, Shaver says, he’d aim to get the same effect by simmering the mixture over low heat on a stovetop.) The heavy-looking bag eventually reduces enough to yield no more than 24 ounces of shrub.

Next: Campari ice cubes.

“Some of my guests are confused by how I freeze liquor,” Shaver says as he measures out the bright-red liqueur into a large ice tray, “but it’s really super-easy. It’s three-quarters of an ounce Campari to 2 ounces water. I love using these cubes in cocktails because as the ice melts, the booze transitions the flavor profile of the drink. It’s kind of a two-for-one.”

Shaver’s Campari cubes feature in his menu’s Manhattan Boulevard — a combination whiskey Manhattan and Boulevardier.

But today, based on our mutual affinity for the classic gin-and-Campari pairing, Shaver suggests building a Martinez over the cube and letting the drink melt its way toward Negroni-ness.

“A Martinez is traditionally made with

Shaver serves his country.

Inset: Marty’s Secret Old Tom Gin — which is just a little sweeter than, say, your London dry — sweet vermouth and Luxardo, which is a maraschino-cherry liqueur, with a couple dashes Angostura bitters,” Shaver reminds me as he stirs and strains. The mixture is a blazing sunset red when it goes over the cube into a double rocks glass. He flames an orange rind over the top — “to add some density, and a little layer of smoke and orange,” he says — and serves me.

He calls it Marty’s Secret, and it’s as seductive as a whispered confidence. The glinting red Martinez washes over the bright-pink Campari rock, the sweetness of the Old Tom and the thickness of the vermouth answering the Campari’s light bitterness. As the moments go by, the orange notes and the lingering Campari assert themselves further, a fine trick.

For the chili-lime experiment, Shaver has a bottle prepped already, and I take a taste. It’s sour like a Warhead, with just a hint of spice in back. He tells me that he has tried this shrub, unsuccessfully, with rum and Cachaça. In both cases, he says, the shrub was too potent and the spirits too sweet.

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Be/Non] has been trying to keep it interesting,” Rush says, “and to make sure people keep wanting to hang out when you’re doing it for free — because none of us have been making money on it — and for zero prestige.”

He laughs with Huff and Ruth at this, but he’s not really joking. “We don’t get asked to play good shows with big artists who come through. We do it, basically, for no payoff other than getting drunk and playing shows with people we like. So the challenge has just been, like, ‘What’s it all worth? Why?’” Rush has earned the right to get a little existential. He’s 38, and Be/Non has been his baby since he was 17. As the project’s sound has evolved, so has Rush’s take on it. (“Your drive to want to get out and not make money on tour and just play for nobody is a lot different at 38,” he says.) Up to this point, Be/Non has never really needed a “why” — and now that Rush is thinking about it, he’s glad to have Haymaker’s owner, Brenton Cook, on his side.

“With Brenton, he’s kind of rekindled the idea that somebody could potentially give a shit and that it might mean something to somebody,” Rush says. “That guy is a savior to Be/Non in so many ways. I never thought we’d get to do this again [record an album].

It’s been such a great thing for us.”

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s experimental space-rock masterminds go, Brodie Rush is a pretty down-to-earth guy. The man, whose weirdo art ideas and prog leanings have flavored the act Be/Non since its 1994 inception, turns out to be a nice borderline-innocuous fellow.

When I meet him at his midtown home, he’s in domestic mode: His kid is parked on the living-room couch, wrapped up in a TV show, and Rush is busy calming his overexcited dogs. He offers a wide smile, his eyes warm behind prominent square frames. His hair sticks up on all sides, as though he has been absently pulling at it all day, and he presents more as comic-book nerd in suburban repose than as imposing musical madman.

As we walk down to his basement, joined by keyboardist John Huff and bassist Ben Ruth, Rush happily advises me to watch out for the litter of newborn kittens sharing the space.

Rush doesn’t mean not to be crazy anymore. It’s just that his personal brand of insanity has translated lately into a sort of perverted perfectionism. The band is preparing to release a new album, Mystic Sunrise/ Sunset Magic, on Haymaker Records (the cassette version is out next month, the vinyl in early 2016), the first new Be/Non material since 2009’s A Mountain of Yeses. Rush and his comrades have been working on it over most of that gap — allowing, the members explain, for plenty of fussiness.

Ruth and Rush estimate that for each of the 12 tracks making the final cut on Mystic Sunrise/Sunset Magic, there were anywhere from 50 to 100 versions of each that came before.

“The creative process for this particular record started after we were kind of done playing the last shows of A Mountain of Yeses,” Ruth says. He’s perched on a stool in the cluttered practice room. “We just started by recording ideas — they weren’t necessarily supposed to be songs. And then Brodie would sit down here and figure out how those things would go together. And we just kept coming back to the tracks. This album was like pulling from a million different things and sounds and discovering what was going to stick and stay.”

Rush adds, “We just felt like, you can have a completed song, and it sounds good from start to finish — everyone plays what you decided to play and everyone had some special moments — but it’s just not right. It doesn’t have quite the right feel. So rewriting and rearranging that tune, letting it change into something else, throwing it out, coming back to it — we wanted to let ourselves do all of that.”

It wasn’t until Huff — an on-and-off member of Be/Non since the late ’90s — rejoined the band (for the fourth time) in January 2014 that Mystic Sunrise/Sunset Magic fell into place.

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J a z z B e at “When John came back to help us wrap this up, it almost seemed like we had been writing the songs with him in mind,” Ruth says. “He was like this missing piece that sort of tied everything together. It just clicked right in.”

KC Psych Fest With Be/Non, Jorge Arana Trio, Wet Socks, Merlin, the Philistines, Crushed Out and more Friday, October 2, and Saturday, October 3, at RecordBar Throughout our conversation, Huff has been absent-mindedly plugging away at a twolayer keyboard station. The room occasionally fills with his eerie, extraterrestrial notes — the same kind that stud Mystic Sunrise/Sunset Magic. He has known Rush as long as Be/Non has been calling itself a band. This guy, Huff tells me, is his favorite collaborator.

“We’re like psychic twins, kind of,” Huff tells me. With his thick beard, low-slung man bun and black leather vest, he looks maybe two Kool-Aid pitchers away from being a cult leader. “In ’94 or something, I was in this

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From left: Ruth, Rush and Huff find the formula. stupid fuckin’ band with these hippie dudes, and we’d get fucked up and play music. Brodie came over one day and hooked up all these Casios and delay pedal effects, and I was just like, ‘What the fuck?’ That was the first time I’d ever seen him play, and my brain was fried ever since.”

Brain frying counts among Rush’s specialties. The music he ends up creating from this spot, at his squeaky desk chair at a computer station flanked with high speakers, is meant to be transportive. Mystic Sunrise/ Sunset Magic, he tells me, was supposed to be a meditational record, kind of. Despite the time it has taken and that original intention (however tongue-in-cheek Rush may be), it’s not a rabbit-hole concept album, some impenetrable prog-rock fortress. Think of Mystic Sunrise/Sunset Magic instead as a starlight drive down a smooth, abandoned country highway to a loosely paneled psychedelic shack from which Rush’s voice peeks out. It’s a trippy 45 minutes but not for a moment dull.

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— Larry Kopitnik Tim Whitmer and the Consort Band with Lori Tucker, 7 p.m. Wednesday, October 7, at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street, 816-444-6262), $7 admission.

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Flesh & Gold is not without certain Grisly Hand hallmarks: the warm whine of Mike Stover’s steel guitar, the delicate strings of Ben Summers’ mandolin, co-lead singer Lauren Krum’s sublime twang. But it also breaks new ground. “Regrets on Parting” is a slow jam lent extra soul by a horn section. “Brand New Bruise” finds sultriness in its sizzling blues.

All told, the album is the mark of a band that, six years in, is still discovering its strengths.

Flesh & Gold is the first half of a double LP, due out next spring. Ahead of Saturday’s CD-release show at Knuckleheads Saloon, I chatted with Krum and Fitzner about the new sounds.

The Pitch: So Flesh & Gold is the first of two parts. Tell me about the decision to split the releases.

Fitzner: I think part of it is because we wrote and recorded so many songs.… It felt like it was too long to release everything all at once and do it that way. It felt good to separate the nine songs as one piece. We feel like it stands alone. The second half almost works like companion songs.

Krum: I think, too, we really relished the opportunity to put out two releases in a timely manner because we can take a long time to get stuff out — Country Singles came out two years ago, and it took us a long time. With this, it was really a natural selection of songs.

You’ve said that, with this album, you want Grisly Hand to be considered a rock band, and you want to put some distance between the Americana and country genres you’ve been in.

Why is that important to you?

Fitzner: I think this is the first record where I was writing a lot of the songs, and kind of looking around and realizing how much talent is in this band. I was really wanting to keep that in mind. When we did Country Singles, you know, the songs were already there — that’s how they came out, that’s how they sounded.

And with this record, I guess I was trying to push our sound a little farther. I was no longer afraid to try weird shit with these guys who are so talented, and they were so responsive to everything that I brought to the table. I feel like we were trying weirder stuff, musically, from my brain, and it ended up really shining on the record.

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Krum: And speaking for myself, I’m definitely the person that was very newly in love with country music [when we started Grisly Hand], and I almost had to go through this process of realizing that, while there’s parts of it [country] that I adore, it’s not necessarily the most uniting or welcoming genre. Like, you don’t hear people saying, “I like every kind of music but rock!” And I didn’t want to not include anyone in what we were doing, you know? I felt like we could invite more people to the table by calling ourselves a rock band and letting people suss out what that means for themselves.

But you guys have a strong fanbase already.

Are you worried about how they’ll feel about the distinction?

Krum: I mean, it’s more about wanting to open up doors than wanting to shut them. And I don’t think anyone who’s seen us and liked us is going to feel alienated. It’s not like we’re doing something crazy. These new songs are meant to sound familiar — they’re going to be like a familiar, warm, comfortable sweater that you can throw on and get cozy with. And I feel like if you like a band, that’s part of the fun — to go along with them and give them a little leeway to grow. And, really, at the end of the day, you can call us a bluegrass band, whatever — I don’t care as long as you listen and like us.

What were some of the challenges you encountered in writing the material for this new album?

Fitzner: One of the challenges was practical. “Regrets on Parting” is kind of an R&B

Old hands, new moves song, and we wanted to play it like an R&B song, but we really weren’t good at that. The song never really sounds in my head like it sounds when the whole band is playing that — it’s not bad, just different. So we woodshedded that for a couple years. We were practicing that from before Country Singles. “Brand New Bruise” was like that, too. With some of those things, it’s like you just need to keep kneading the dough.

It’s not that important to us to have things perfectly cohesive, just to have a sense of where we are. I think there’s little melodies in this [Flesh & Gold], and there’s other stuff that’s years old, and these little pieces have made their way into a song and come back up to the top for us.

Grisly Hand has been together for six years.

What has sustained your interest in this group of people throughout the years?

Fitzner: A few members have changed over the years, but me, Lauren and Ben [Summers] pretty much started the band, and I just feel like we still have something to give as friends together in this group. I think once we feel like maybe we don’t have something, we’ll stop — we’re all in other bands, too — but we all feel like we have something to do and say as Grisly Hand. That’s why it doesn’t feel old yet.

Krum: Also, this is the longest relationship of my life, outside of my cat.

Fitzner: I feel like we’re so fortunate. People keep telling us we’re doing a good job, and so that’s encouraging — I’ve been in other bands that are terrible, and we lasted for years because some guy one time was like, “Well, you’re pretty good.”

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Ghost

Even non-Catholics can mostly agree that Pope Francis is killing it right now, so it feels a little more wrong than usual to delight in Swedish metal band Ghost — led by popeparodying Papa Emeritus III. But we have a feeling that even Pope Francis would find some humor in Emeritus’ cultish order of Nameless Ghouls (his bandmates) and their preference for skeletal, vaguely Day of the Dead face paint. The band’s latest album, Meliora, stays true to Ghost’s gloomy, satanic themes. It’s black metal with schtick, striking a balance between sharp-eyed mockery and malicious riffs. Worship or thrash — perhaps both — Monday at Liberty Hall.

Monday, October 5, Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

Of Monsters and Men

The latest album from Icelandic electro-pop group Of Monsters and Men, Beneath the Skin, is a sprawling, elegant set that evokes the ethereal splendor of the band’s native country. You can practically feel the wind whipping through the fjords on “Crystals” and “Hunger.” Nanna Bryndís Hilmarsdóttir’s singing rises and falls around lush electric guitar chords and progressive drumbeats. But Beneath the Skin feels desolate, too, in ways that the band’s 2011 debut, My Head Is an Animal, did not. Four years later, Of Monsters and Men is a little darker, a little more bruised; the most successful songs on this new album are the ones that turn introspective (“Organs” and “I of the Storm”).

One theme remains: the band’s fascination with man-versus-wild-beast scenarios. It’s hard to tell which side wins. Maybe we’ll find out Friday.

Friday, October 2, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

Kristin Chenoweth

You likely know Kristin Chenoweth for her role as Glinda in the musical Wicked; from her Tony Award-winning performance in You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown; or perhaps from the television series Pushing Daisies,

You needn’t fear Of Monsters and Men. for which she won an Emmy. Or, you know, from any one of the dozens of other TV, film or Broadway shows in which she has starred or appeared. But Saturday, you have the opportunity to get familiar with another side of the multitalented Chenoweth when she performs at Helzberg Hall with the Kansas City Symphony. Bonus: A portion of the proceeds from this concert benefit local youth arts program, Kansas City Young Audiences.

Have fun, do good, be entertained: not a bad way to spend a Saturday night.

Saturday, October 3, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (1601 Broadway, 816-994-7222)

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Jr. Jr.

Formerly Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., the Detroit duo Joshua Epstein and Daniel Zott announced that they had changed their band’s name to Jr. Jr. in July, for obvious reasons (the constant confusion caused by being named after a race-car driver with an identical name). The name change is accompanied by a new, self-titled album — JR JR — released last week on Warner Bros. Records (the first major-label release for the band). Longtime fans of the six-year-old act needn’t worry: The duo’s dedication to explosive, dance-floorready electro pop remains intact. Prepare to boogie Friday at the Bottleneck.

Friday, October 2, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)

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Sing It, Sister

Say Your Prayers

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Fun for a Cause

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Performing Arts

Black Violin | 7:30 p.m. Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr., Lawrence, lied.ku.edu

Our Brother’s Caper, presented by KC Mystery

Train | Scottish Rite Temple, 1330 E. Linwood Blvd., kcmysterytrain.com

exhibition of Latin Dances from the Americas | 7 p.m. The Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania, Lawrence,

Chainsaw: The Musical | Starting Wednesday, the Living Room, 1818 McGee, thelivingroomkc.com

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ComeDy

Die, Mommie, Die! | House of DeVille, at Musical

Theater Heritage Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

Harpoon’s good time | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

ralphie may | 7 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

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tony rock | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

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michael Winslow | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

Follow the smoke …

7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

gladfest 35 | 6-8 p.m., 70th St. and N. Holmes, Gladstone, gladstonechamber.com

director-producer Aimee Larrabee and KU oncologists | 7:30 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

Majors House, 8201 State Line, wornallmajors.org sPorts & reC

ConCACAf men’s olympic Qualifying Championship | 5:30 & 8 p.m. Sporting Park, 1 Sporting

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Avan Lava, norrit | 7 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Wicked | Starting Wednesday, Kauffman Cen-

ter for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, theaterleague.com

American royal World series of Barbecue | Arrowhead Stadium, 1 Arrowhead Dr.,americanroyal.com

museum exhiBiTs & evenTs Josh Hoyer & soul Colossal | 9:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

ivan & Alyosha, Pioneer | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar,

1020 Westport Rd.

Papadosio, mouth | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

remanon, Hyperbor, After nations, Dirigible squared | Jackpot, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Dark satellites, Vedettes | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

midcoast improv showcase | 8 p.m. MiniBar,

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

tony rock | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

All Hail to Hale: The Woodruff Family Collection opening reception | 6-9 p.m. Saturday,

ComeDy

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

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

gladfest 35 | 5-10 p.m., 70th St. and N. Holmes, Gladstone, gladstonechamber.com

Compañia flamenca José Porcel | 7 p.m. Folly

kansas City Juggling festival | 5 p.m.-

Theater, 300 W. 12th St., follytheater.org

5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcopera.org

Lincoln Durham | 7:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon,

A night at the Cotton Club, featuring the Kansas

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Sunday, 8201 State Line, wornallmajors.org

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the Beast | 7:30 p.m., 1401 W. 13th St.

2 a.m. Rockhurst High School, 9301 State Line, kansascityjugglingclub.com

edge of Hell | 7:30 p.m., 1300 W. 12th St.

Dia de los muertos exhibit and street festival | 6-10 p.m. Mattie Rhodes Art Center, 919 W. 17th St.,

East Loop I-435, worldsoffun.com/haunt

kansas City Lyric opera: Don Giovanni |

kevin frazee trio, Broadway Jazz orchestra |

American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St.

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Performing Arts

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

E. 85th St.

theatre Hike | 2 p.m. Sunday, Black Hoof Park,

10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com

fooD & Drink

Border Wars: Beer & BBQ | 6 p.m., $45, Alexander

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

Tin Pan Alley | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. lance duffin

Patient: A Surgeon’s Journey, plus Q&A with

Sunday in the Park With George | KC Reper-

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The Miracle Worker | The Coterie Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

Halloween Haunt | 6 p.m.-midnight, Worlds of Fun,

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macabre Cinema | 8 p.m., 1222 W. 12th St.

shawnee oktoberfest | 5:30-10 p.m. Shawnee Civic Center, 13817 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, shawneegermanclub.org

3rd street Asylum | 8-11 p.m., corner of Third St. and Cedar, Bonner Springs

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Ultimate Blue corner Battles | 6:30 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

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

4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

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Gallery conversations Drop-in tour | 1 p.m.

After Nations, Doris, Drag Me to Safe Harbour, remanon | 9 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick

Breaking Benjamin | 6:30 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

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

Gina chavez and Jon Dee Graham | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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

Kelley Hunt, the Blue Boot Heelers, Strahan & the Good Neighbors | 8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112

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Joey cool, Loogey, Dutch Newman, Stylez, DJ Alv Diesel, DJ Mahf | 7p.m.RiotRoom,4048Broadway Jr. Jr., Hippo campus | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737

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Jauz, Aryay, Nmezee, DJ Bobby Bohn, proper Grammar, Acer Vantes | 9 p.m. The Granada, 1020

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Marco Maggi: Drawing Attention | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick

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Suspended Animation: Gary Pycior | 6 p.m. Fridays, Kiosk Gallery, 916 E. Fifth St.

Transmissions/Signals: New Work by Warren Rosser and James Woodfill | UMKC

World War I and the Rise of Modernism |

New Hampshire, Lawrence

Kansas | 7:30 p.m. Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr., Lawrence, lied.ku.edu Kc psych Fest ,with Merlin, the Philistines, Crushed Out, and more | 6 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Wet Socks, Gigantic, Wides, Father orson |

Uptown Mandolin Quartet | 7:30 p.m. Lawrence

tim Whitmer Quartet, electric tinks, Boogaloo 7 | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

L i t e r A r y/ S p o K e N W o r D

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

heads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

DJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

of Monsters and Men, Highasakite | 8 p.m. The

Soul preservers featuring Fat Sal | 9 p.m. The

Midland, 1228 Main

Lucas oswald, ivory Black, rae Fitzgerald |

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

please please Me, real Adults | 6 p.m. Replay

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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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Kristen chenoweth with the Kansas city Symphony | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

the comedy Get Down, featuring Cedric the Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy | 8 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

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KC Cabaret variety show | 9:30 p.m. Uptown Arts

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Magic 107.3 saturday Groove Party | 7 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Harvest Moon Festival | Noon-10 p.m., 31st St. and

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Conservatory Wind symphony | 7 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway

Kansas City Juggling Festival | Rockhurst High School, 9301 State Line, kansascityjugglingclub.com

Kansas City lyric opera: Don Giovanni | 2 p.m.

Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway

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

Tesla Quartet | 2 p.m. Lied Center of Kansas, 1600 Stewart Dr., Lawrence

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American Royal Parade | 10-11:30 a.m. Arrowhead Stadium, 1 Arrowhead Dr., americanroyal.com

Greater Kansas City out of the Darkness Walk | 10 a.m. Berkley Riverfront Park, N. Lydia Ave. and E. Front St., afsp.donordrive.com

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ConCACAF Men’s olympic Qualifying Championship | 5:30 & 8 p.m. Sporting Park, 1 Sporting

KC Psych Fest, featuring Slim Twig, Van Allen Belt, Wet Socks, Be/Non, Jorge Arana Trio, El Condor | 6 p.m.

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Craft, with vendors, food pavilion, whiskey and wine seminars and tastings, food trucks and local bands | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Crown Center, 2450 Grand, crafteventkc.com

Curling open House, hosted by the Kansas City Curling Club | 4 p.m. Line Creek Community Center, 5940 N.W. Waukomis Dr., kccurling.com

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Trapper, Desir Decir, Heavy Figs | 9 p.m. MiniBar,

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Weston Applefest | 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Downtown Weston, 300 Main, westonmo.com

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DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway Joints & Jams with Johnny Quest | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Kansas City Adult Prom | 7 p.m. Valentine Room at the Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

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Too Many Intrigues Dear TMI: Are you an asshole? That can’t be ruled out, but I can’t make a determination with the limited data you’ve provided. One asshole move — and cheating on Mr. Two Months was definitely an asshole move — does not an asshole make. We know this because while everyone is guilty of the occasional asshole move, not everyone is an asshole. Assholes are made when asshole moves come one right after the other, and an ever-thickening layer of asshole moves hardens into total assholery.

Anyway, while you might not have had a conversation with the guy you’re currently dating/cheating on about exclusivity, you wouldn’t feel guilty about what/who you did if you didn’t think Mr. Two Months was operating under the assumption that you two were exclusive. So the cheating was an asshole move, and your rationalization, as you seem to be aware, is a pile of self-serving bullshit that’s equal parts transparent and unnecessary. Because as much as you like hanging out with Mr. Two Months, the sex hasn’t been good for you and, you haven’t been good to him. Don’t negotiate a nonmonogamous agreement. End it.

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I resolved that in the relationship I’m currently in — nine months and counting — I would keep it casual, which resulted in it turning into an open mono/poly relationship, meaning I’m poly and she’s monogamous. She’s great, cute and intelligent, and there’s nothing destructive or dishonest about our relationship. I just find myself not wanting to talk to her every day, and the weekly Skype calls feel like a chore. We have a great time when we visit each other, but I only

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amazing, is that enough? Am I giving up on an aspect of my sexuality if I stay with him, or am I just looking for excuses to fuck other people?

Dear Dan: I’ve been dating this guy for almost

two months. It has been pretty good, except the sex isn’t really the best. I have this other male friend who has had a crush on me. Long story short: My friend made a move on me the other night. I told him I couldn’t, and he knew why, but to be honest, I was insanely turned on by his forwardness. He apologized, but a week later, we hung out, and I told him that it really intrigued me, and we ended up having crazy cool sex — satisfying in all the ways the guy I’m dating isn’t. I haven’t told the guy I’m seeing about this and I don’t plan to. But I feel guilty.

I keep rationalizing that we have never had a talk about exclusivity, and I therefore have no obligation to him. I want to keep fucking my friend, but I also enjoy dating this other guy.

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Likes It All Rough Dear LIAR: A loving and supportive partner,

feel like catching up when I see her in person. Is this the price I have to pay to keep her happy?

Not an Asshole Dear NAA: I’ve read that young people don’t make phone calls anymore — talking on the phone is for olds (full disclosure: We olds hardly speak to each other on the phone anymore, either) — so I’m surprised that your young-and-mono GF wants to hear your young-and-poly voice on a daily basis. I think you should propose a young-and-fun compromise: texting instead of phoning during the week and a Skype/masturbation session on the weekend.

Dear Dan: I’m a straight 28-year-old female, in a relationship with my boyfriend for two years. We live together, and on the weekends, we care for his kid. We are very much in love and have a supportive, happy relationship.

I’ve always had a hard time being monogamous. In every relationship, I tend to get a wandering eye around the two-year mark.

Recently, I went by myself to see a friend’s band and ended up meeting a man I had an insane chemistry with. We spent the whole evening together and wound up making out before I literally ran away. The next day, stone-cold sober, I called him, drove to his house, and we fucked like crazy. It was animalistic and intense, and I felt like a fucking porn star. It was awesome. My boyfriend and I have sex that I truly enjoy, and I usually get off, but he struggles to be dominant, rough or talk dirty, which are things I really get off on. He says he’s too self-conscious to be dominant in bed. This stranger did all the things I wish my boyfriend would do. To test the waters, I casually mentioned an arrangement where we could sleep with other people, and he said he wasn’t into it. If I’m happy in my relationship, and the sex we have is consistently good, sometimes

a happy relationship and good sex that occasionally tips into the amazing column — yeah, most people would tell you that’s not only enough but it’s a better relationship than the one they’re currently in, recently left or ever hope to find. But the fact that most people would like to trade places with you isn’t relevant because what you have with your boyfriend isn’t enough for you. You want love, happiness, stability and the freedom to fuck other guys — and you would want that freedom even if your boyfriend was capable of dominating you in the sack just the way you like.

Seeing as you know this about yourself — seeing as you know that monogamy isn’t for you (see: the wandering eye at 24 months, the fucking that other guy at his place) — making a monogamous commitment that you know you can’t keep is an asshole move. So here’s what you’re gonna do: Tell your lovely, loving boyfriend that nonmonogamy is a non-negotiable.

You are willing, of course, to negotiate with him about the form that your open relationship might take, but you must make it clear to him that a closed relationship is a recipe for disaster — because sooner or later, you will cheat on him.

If he fights on that point, if he tells you that he’s sure you’re capable of being monogamous, then you can tell him that by “sooner or later,” you meant “last week, with this dude I met in a bar.”

Dear Dan: I think your answer to BFF last week

missed an essential piece of information. She refers to herself as engaging in “drunken” threesomes and hookups. I think she needs to examine her own behavior, not that of her roommate and FWB, and the fact that her relationships seem to be fueled by the effects of her alcohol consumption. I’m guessing that her letter was fuzzy for a reason. It was probably written in a drunken haze. Nothing you say will get through to her unless you address her use of alcohol.

Alcohol Not the Solution Dear ANTS: Full disclosure: I was drinking when I wrote my response to BFF. So just as it’s possible that alcohol played a role in the drama BFF described, it’s possible I neglected to point that fact out because I was a little drunky myself.

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