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nside a Northland strip-mall storefront called the Vape Room, wearing a hat that says “Khali Vapors,” Robert Mathis — “Big Rob,” as he is known by some in the local vape community, which, yes, there is such a thing — brings a complex-looking electronic box to his lips, takes a giant pull off its mouthpiece, and expels turbocharged clouds of white, chemical-laden water vapor into the air. He does this every few minutes, blanketing the room with the hazy aroma of blue-raspberry cheesecake.

“I was a 27-year smoker, two packs a day,” Mathis says, sipping from a can of NOS Zero Charged Citrus energy drink. “I can’t tell you how many times I tried to quit. I went to the hospital eight times for pneumonia. Two years ago, I started vaping. Haven’t had so much as a common cold since. No more lung problems.

Nothing.”

Now the general manager of the Vape Room, Mathis was originally just a customer, working as a teacher at a local private school.

“I’d stop by and start talking to people and think I’d only been here a half-hour. Then I’d check my watch, and three hours had passed,” he says. “It just felt like everything clicked when I was here.” He quickly became a regular, and eventually quit his day job to take over management of the shop.

Mathis now speaks of vaping in nearreligious terms. It saved him from the scourge of cigarettes.

“This is not just a shop to us,” Mathis says.

“This is a place for people to gather — people who wanted to quit smoking for years but couldn’t do it, and hated themselves for it, and who are now united around vaping. Vaping is how they quit, and it’s nice to be around others who had the same experience. And it becomes a family thing at that point.”

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ust a few years ago, e-cigarettes existed in the popular consciousness as little sticks that vaguely resembled real cigarettes and went by brand names like Njoy and Blu. Most were disposable; some could be reloaded with nicotine cartridges. When exhaled, they emitted a modest, odorless cloud of vapor.

Those products — “cigalikes,” they’re sometimes called — still exist. But they don’t have much to do with the vape shops that now dot retail landscapes across Kansas City. In fact, because several cigalike companies are now owned by Big Tobacco companies, most vaping enthusiasts view cigalike companies with derision and suspicion. Vape purists use personal vaporizers, or “open-system” devices. These are the bulky, walkie-talkielike apparatuses that users such as Mathis fill with various flavors of juices containing various levels of nicotine. They can also be modified to suit one’s vaping preferences — to produce Hiroshima-like clouds of vapor, for example, or to alter the temperature and thereby improve the flavor profile of a certain type of juice.

Bert Brown, a founder of the Fountain City Vapor Club and the point man in Kansas City for BRAVE (Bi-state Regional Advocates for Vaping Education), explains: “A real vape shop, you can walk in and say, ‘I’m a two-packa-day Kool smoker,’ and the people working there know what to recommend to satisfy your cravings. They understand the difference between mediocre e-liquid and premium liquid. And they understand the hobbyist side of things — what ratio of PG [propylene glycol] or VG [vegetable glycerin] you’re looking for, do you like a hot vape or a cool vape, etc. And they’ll have a myriad of flavors and nicotine levels and combinations to choose from.”

Brown cites the Vape Room, Vapur (on North Oak Trafficway), Cigawatt (in Blue Springs) and Waldo Vapes among the local shops that meet this criteria.

In Overland Park, Kent Hill — a former manager of KC Vapes — is now making a living catering to vape hobbyists, though not through a brick-and-mortar shop. His brand, Twisted Messes, sells RDA (rebuildable dripping atomizer) “builds” — essentially, rejiggering the coils and wires inside vape devices in artistic ways that produce different flavors and maximize the amount of vapor exhaled.

About 91,000 people follow Hill’s Instagram account, and another 50,000 subscribe to his YouTube channel, to which he posts instructional videos that show people how to make their own coils. He’s been flown to two e-cigarette conventions this year, and now

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has his own line of nationally distributed e-cig juice, made by Olathe’s E-Pure Labs, called Twisted Drips.

“Basically, I used to smoke. Then I came across e-cigs and thought the technology was pretty neat,” Hill says. “I went back and forth between smoking cigarettes and e-cigs, and then, three years ago, quit smoking completely and started vaping. But I wished there was a way to get more vapor out. So I found a rebuildable atomizer and started researching coils.”

“People go crazy about his builds online,” Mathis says. “There’s a whole culture of people nationally, even internationally, who are following his videos and photos. And that interest — from people who are accessing it through YouTube and Vine and other places on the Internet — is helping grow the industry.”

The vaping portion of the e-cigarette industry is growing very quickly. A study this year by Wells Fargo forecast revenues of $3.5 billion for the e-cigarette industry in 2015. And for the first time, open-system vape revenues ($2.5 billion) are expected to surpass cigalike revenues ($1.5 billion). If you were wondering why, for example, two vape shops (Aqueous Vapor and 816 Vapor) opened on 39th Street West within a month of each other (and within a block of each other) this summer, there’s your answer. Vaping is big business. For now.

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Blow Toys continued from page 7 federal level, which has resulted in a preregulatory bonanza for the industry. Profit margins are high, in part because there’s little in the way of licensing or compliance costs.

Anybody with an Internet connection can figure out how to make e-liquid, or “juice.” (The four ingredients: PG, VG, nicotine and food flavoring.) There is no regulatory body ensuring that any e-liquid sold meets any kind of public health standard whatsoever. Though well-regarded local vape shops order e-liquid only from suppliers who say they perform independent studies on their products, several local shops are known to simply mix e-liquid in a back room. A 30ml bottle of juice — about a week’s worth of juice for a regular vaper — can be mixed for less than $2 and sold for $12 to $15.

Long-awaited regulation by the Food and Drug Administration was expected to arrive around April of this year, bringing with it abrupt, industry-wide change. But April came and went, and nothing from the FDA has come down this year.

Michael Felberbaum, media affairs director of the FDA, says the agency is “committed to moving forward expeditiously to finalize the rule.” Of the need for regulation, he adds: “In 2009, the FDA began detaining shipments of electronic cigarettes asserting that the products appeared to be adulterated, misbranded, or unapproved drug-device combinations under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FD&C Act).” The FDA also conducted testing, which revealed that some e-cigarette cartridges, Felberbaum says, had “significant variability in nicotine content and the presence of chemical constituents that raised concerns of toxicity.”

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their product as a drug. The FDA won. In 2014, the FDA proposed a rule to extend the FDA’s authority to lump e-cigarettes into its definition of “tobacco products” and regulate them the same way that other tobacco products are regulated. It sought input from the general public, which generated 135,000 comments for the agency to consider. The FDA is now reportedly in talks with e-cigarette and e-liquid companies, ostensibly trying to hammer out a way to preserve public health without killing off a rapidly growing industry.

Though it’s anyone’s guess when the rule will arrive, Felberbaum notes that, consistent with currently regulated tobacco products, under the proposed rule, newly deemed tobacco products would register with the FDA and submit product and ingredient listings, adhere to minimum age and identification restrictions to prevent sales to underage youth, include health warning labels, and market new tobacco products only after FDA review.

Among most vaping advocates, there is consensus that some form of federal regulation is necessary to keep the industry in line.

But there’s also widespread concern that the new rules will cripple the business by causing economic barriers to entry so prohibitive that only deep-pocketed corporations (and Big Tobacco) would be represented in the marketplace. Most of that concern relates to the part about FDA review.

“What will knock out every small and medium-sized business in this industry is if the FDA requires retroactive pre-market review for every e-cigarette product sold,” says Gregory Conley of the American Vaping Association, an advocacy group. “That’s a cost of $8 million to $10 million for each product — to go through toxicology tests, physiology tests, child psychology tests, adult psychology tests, literature reviews. Only the tobacco companies can afford that.”

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The e-cig industry party line is that e-cigs are not a gateway to smoking, as its detractors suggest, but a smoking-cessation tool.

Conley and other pro-vapers point to a recent e-cigarette study by Public Health England, an executive agency of the UK’s Department of Health (comparable to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in the United States), which found that e-cigarettes are 95 percent less harmful than traditional cigarettes and should be recommended to people who are trying to quit smoking. Domestically, though, no such study exists. And entrenched antismoking groups do not view e-cigarettes through the same rose-colored glasses as the vape community.

The American Cancer Society does not recommend e-cigarettes to help people quit smoking, and endorses only various nicotine sprays, gums and patches for smoking cessation.

“The makers of e-cigarettes say that the ingredients are ‘safe,’ but this only means the ingredients have been found to be safe to eat,” the ACS notes on it website. “Inhaling a substance is not the same as swallowing it. There are questions about how safe it is to inhale some substances in the e-cigarette vapor into the lungs. And e-cigarettes are not labeled with their ingredients, so the user doesn’t know what’s in them. The amounts of nicotine and other substances a person gets from each cartridge are also unclear.”

Erika Sward, vice president of advocacy for the American Lung Association, says, “We’re greatly troubled by what’s going on throughout the entire e-cigarette industry. Anytime in the last seven years, any e-cig company has been free to submit to the FDA a product that is a safe and effective way to help smokers quit.

To our knowledge nobody has. What they’re looking for is a sweetheart deal, a continuation of the Wild West that exists now where makers of e-cigarettes are not accountable to anyone. And that’s unacceptable.”

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ith no action from the feds, a growing patchwork of laws and ordinances is being pushed through at the state and municipal levels. Some are hospitable to the industry; others, not so much.

As a state, Missouri is pretty friendly to the vape crowd. You must be over 18 years old to buy e-cigarette products in the ShowMe State, and bottles of e-liquid are required to have childproof caps. In 2014, Missouri legislators proposed — and overrode Gov. Jay Nixon’s veto of — a bill that would prevent e-cigarettes from being defined as “tobacco products.” This distinction is key, because it exempts e-cigarettes from being taxed as tobacco products in Missouri.

Kansas, on the other hand, recently became the third state in the country to pass an e-cigarette tax. The tax was inserted into a budget bill — without a hearing, without passing either chamber, without any real discussion — on the 18th day of overtime in last

spring’s turbulent session. As of July 2016, every milliliter of e-liquid sold in Kansas will be taxed 20 cents. For regular vapers who buy a 30ml bottle of juice every five to seven days, that’s a $6 increase per week. “[Kansas state Sen.] Les Donovan carried the water for the tobacco companies for it,” says Spencer Duncan, a lobbyist for the Kansas Vape Association. “Legislators were facing a state shutdown — they were three weeks into overtime. Nobody really understood the e-cig tax, but nobody was going to fall on their sword at that point for a couple-million-dollar tax proposal that sounded OK on its face.”

Duncan continues: “It tells you something that R.J. Reynolds was the one pushing for this tax on e-cigarettes. They sell an e-cigarette product [VUSE], so why are they asking the Legislature to tax their product? Obviously they have an ulterior motive. And that’s that they’re losing money because they’re losing traditional smokers to vaping. Sure, they make a little money off their e-cig. But not nearly as much as they’re making selling cartons of

traditional cigarettes. They’re trying to make vaping more expensive, so it’s not cheaper to switch to vaping — so that people will just stick with traditional cigarettes.”

Duncan says he’s spoken with several legislators he believes will work in the 2016 session to modify the law before it takes effect next year. He also notes that the Kansas Department of Revenue has a long way to go before it can effectively enforce this tax.

“I can open a vape shop today in Kansas, and I’m not required to get a license, I’m not yet required to pay any special taxes, I’m not required to report any specific sales,” he says.

“How is the Department of Revenue going to make sure I’m paying them 20 cents per milliliter on juice sales if they don’t even know where the product is, where the store is? And as of today, they have no answers for any of this. They passed this thing in the middle of a budget crisis, with no direction for the people who are supposed to enforce it or the people who are supposed to abide by it.”

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Much of Brower’s clientele at Waldo Vapes comprises hobbyists and enthusiasts. this story was going to press, we noticed another one setting up — a second outpost of 816 Vapor, this one at the Uptown Shoppes, on Broadway north of 39th Street.

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of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, changed the definition of smoking to include e-cigarettes, effectively banning their use in public indoor places. Olathe did the same thing, but allowed e-cig use in vape stores.

Sampling is allowed in Overland Park vape stores, but unless you’re one of the three vape stores grandfathered in when the ordinance was passed, you have to be operating in a stand-alone building — no vape shops in strip malls there. Brown says that last restriction has stifled vaping in OP almost as much as an outright sales ban.

“The cost of renting a standalone building for retail is three times the cost of a spot in a strip mall,” he says. “These are small, momand-pop shops with one or two employees per shop. They can’t afford that extra cost.”

The Lee’s Summit City Council, on the other hand, recently voted not to consider a recommendation from the city’s health advisory board to ban e-cigs in bars, restaurants and public places. And Kansas City, Missouri, hasn’t made any real moves, either — hence the explosion of shops around midtown. As

hough the FDA will probably shut off the lights at backroom-batch vape shops, some will survive. Those that do are likely to be either larger, multilocation operations or boutiquelike shops with dedicated customer bases willing to pay higher prices for better products and smart service.

Aqueous Vapors falls in the former camp.

Founded in Columbia, Missouri, two years ago, it now boasts 17 stores and counting.

Kevin Osterberger, the chief operating officer of the company, tells The Pitch that 14 of those shops are owned by the company, and three by franchisees.

“There’s been much more interest in that [franchising] lately,” Osterberger says. “It’s a great way to financial independence for a store owner.”

He says Aqueous has never made juice inhouse. “That’s never been a model we wanted to incorporate,” he says. “Our shops carry 20 premium juices made by U.S. manufacturers in U.S. ISO 7 clean-room labs that we have toured ourselves.”

Though there’s no way to know exactly how hard the FDA’s hammer will come down on the industry, Osterberger says Aqueous has positioned itself to be ready for what he calls “sensible regulation.”

“Childproof caps, no sales to minors, manufacturers producing juice in a lab environment — those are all things we’re in favor of and already complying with,” he says. “That said, I think it’s a bad idea for the government to start targeting e-liquids as a source of tax revenue.”

One might view Waldo Vapes, at 7234 Wornall, as the Fervere to Aqueous’ Hostess

Bakery. Its owner, Jon Brower, actually used to work at Fervere — the West Side artisanal bakery that draws young urban professionals and assorted bread heads willing to stand in line for a great loaf.

Brower brings a bit of that sensibility to his shop, which he opened in June 2014. At Waldo Vapes, there are bar stools in front of the counter and a couch to one side, giving the place a loungelike vibe. Wooden mods that come with a lifetime warranty are available for $150 or more. Brower orders from premium suppliers who, as he puts it, “are basically the ones having conversations with the FDA about how the regulation will go.” He adds, “We want forward-looking suppliers manufacturing in the cleanest possible conditions, with lot numbers on bottles to track batches, lab tests, full transparency.”

A barrel mounted on the wall features a design with fonts you might recognize from a craft-cocktail menu. “That’s Five Pawns,” Brower says, motioning toward the barrel.

“They do a special-edition flavor that comes out once a year. Toasted almond, roasted coconut, Kentucky bourbon, finished in an oak cask for four weeks, then filtered and sent to the lab. It’s amazing. People try it and they’re like, ‘I never thought I’d taste all these things together.’ It’s not, you know, like what maybe some people think of when they think of vaping — like a tobacco taste with a bunch of peach flavoring mixed in. That’s not really what we’re about here.”

Though Waldo Vapes sells basic starter pens (EVODs, about $40 with a bottle of juice), much of its clientele is made up of hobbyists and enthusiasts. As a result, Brower says, labor is a bigger expense. “Knowledgeable employees cost more,” he says. “But the people who appreciate what we do really appreciate what we do.”

He also notes that nearly every flavor of juice Waldo Vapes carries comes with an option of zero nicotine. (Nicotine strength in juices varies — the low end is 3 mg per ml, and the high about 18 mg per ml.)

“Our first eight months in business, we sold zero bottles of no-nicotine juice,” Brower says.

“Now I’d say about 5 percent of the customers who come through are looking for it. People wean themselves down from high levels of nicotine to lower, and sometimes to none.

Which I think tells you that vaping really does work for quitting smoking.”

Brower says Waldo Vapes should be fine as long as the FDA doesn’t come in and “ban everything.” There’s concern the FDA will take away sweets flavors, arguing that their design targets children. “That would be bad for us,” he says.

“I mean, I get that not everybody wants to see and smell it [vaping]. I’m all for a ban in public places. There’s no need to blow it in people’s faces. I always tell people, ‘Don’t vape at a restaurant. Just step outside, man.’ ”

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Thursday | 10.29 | 3rd Street Asylum | 7-11 p.m., Third St. and Cedar, Bonner Springs, 3rdstreetasylum.com

Edge of Hell | 7:30 p.m., 1300 W. 12th St., edgeofhell.com

Fright Night | 6-8 p.m., Copley Quad, Park

Halloween bash and costume party | 9 p.m.,

Empire Room, 334 E. 31st St.

Halloween Haunt | 6 p.m.-midnight, Worlds of Fun, East Loop I-435, worldsoffun.com/haunt

Halloween Trolley Bar Crawl | 8 p.m. Waldo and Brookside, halloweentrolleykc.com

University, Parkville

Ivanhoe Trunk or Treat & Haunted House |

Halloween and Trick R Treat double feature | Cinder Block Brewery, 110 E. 18th Ave., North

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 7 p.m. Theatre

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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 7 p.m. Theatre for Young America, H&R Block City Stage Theater, Union Station, tya.org Macabre Cinema | 8 p.m., 1222 W. 12th St., macabrecinema.com

Science of the Macabre | 7 p.m. KU Natural

History Museum, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, naturalhistory.ku.edu

Screenland at the Symphony: Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, featuring Dorothy Papadakos, organ-

ist | 7 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

Friday | 10.30 | A Haunted Halloween by Phenomenal Kids Foundation | 7 p.m., 3016 Cherry The Beast | 7:30 p.m., 1401 W. 13th St. Buzz Halloweenie Roast with Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness, New Politics, the Griswolds and Lolo | 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

Costume Party | 7 p.m., Longview Mansion,

1200 S.W. Longview, Lee’s Summit

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

The Beast | 7:30 p.m., 1401 W. 13th St. Bohemian Cult Revival: Raising the Dead

| 10 p.m. The Buffalo Room, at Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd.

Howl-o-ween Bash | 7 p.m. Howl at the Moon, 1334 Grand, howlatthemoon.com

Independence Halloween Parade | 10 a.m.

Historic Independence Square, Independence

Boos, Barks & Badges Halloween Parade,

presented by Lee’s Summit Police and Fire departments | 10 a.m. Third St. and Main, downtown Lee’s Summit

Ivanhoe Trunk or Treat & Haunted House | 7-11 p.m. Masonic Temple, 8640 Holmes

Carnival of Chaos | 8 p.m. KC Live Block at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow | 7 p.m. Theatre for Young America, H&R Block City Stage Theater, Union Station, tya.org

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

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

Lyric Opera: Scary Fairy Tales, with Robert

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Spooky Skate | 11 a.m. Line Creek Community Center, 5940 N.W. Waukomis Dr.

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

Halloween Bash, with DJ Anjelah Rae and a costume contest | 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Tilted Kilt,

7-11 p.m. Masonic Temple, 8640 Holmes

for Young America, H&R Block City Stage Theater, Union Station, tya.org

Gibby Brand and Linda Ade Brand | 6:30 p.m. Plaza Library, 4801 Main, kclibrary.org

6 p.m. The Vapor House, 9500 E. 55th St.

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Fun, East Loop I-435, worldsoffun.com/haunt

Rocky Horror Picture Show | Screenland Armour, 408 Armour Rd., North Kansas City

Aiden Sinclair; fire performances; palm, spirit guide and tarot readings | 7 p.m. Belvoir Winery, 1325 Odd Fellows Rd., Liberty

Tricks and Treat Mystery Horror Marathon | Tapcade, 1701 McGee Wornall House Ghost Tours | 6:30-8:30 p.m.

John Wornall House and Museum, 6115 Wornall, wornallmajors.org 3rd Street Asylum | 7 p.m.-midnight, Third St. and Cedar, Bonner Springs, 3rdstreetasylum.com

Saturday | 10.31 | Bacchus Bash: 13 Years of Terror, with DJ

Architekt, bars, and costume contests, and benefiting the Love Fund for Children | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., bacchuskc.org

Halloween Massacreade: Cirque du Macabre, featuring horror burlesque; magician

Halloween Trolley Bar Crawl | $30-$40, Waldo and Brookside, halloweentrolleykc.com HallowSwing, a Prohibition costume ball, a

fundraiser for new jazz radio station KOJH 104.7 | 8 p.m.-5 a.m. Mutual Musicians Foundation, 1823 Highland, mutualmusiciansfoundation.org

Haunt | 6 p.m.-1 a.m., Worlds of Fun, 4545 Worlds

of Fun Ave.

Halloween on the Hill: Hollywood Horror block party | 8 p.m., $30/$45, Martini Corner,

The Running Dead 5k | 11 a.m., runningdead kc.com

3rd Street Asylum | 7 p.m.-midnight, Third St.

and Cedar, Bonner Springs, 3rdstreetasylum.com

Wornall House Ghost Tours | 6:308:30 p.m. John Wornall House and Museum, 6115 Wornall

Sunday | 11.1 | The Beast | 7:30 p.m., 1401 W. 13th St. Day of the Dead Festival, with storytelling, artist demonstrations, music and dance, and food | Noon-4 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org Edge of Hell | 7:30 p.m., 1300 W. 12th St. Macabre Cinema | 8 p.m., 1222 W. 12th St.,

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Telephonebooth harvests Andy Messerschmidt’s

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“Kefir Ingest” (left) and “Adoratories of the Subtribe”

n the center of a misty prairie stands a primate wrapped in a gilded shroud, a monolith, a talisman. A much smaller, unclothed primate climbs the larger beast — not a child reaching the shoulders of a parent but a lone animal attempting to transcend a hierarchy.

This, an image titled “Magic Jack,” reminds us where our human story begins, recalls the first time that a thinking creature attempted to raise itself to higher ground, to a position of power. It also fairly sums up the aims of Andy Messerschmidt’s Agroccult series, some 600 paintings made over the past 14 years. Like “Magic Jack,” the rest of Agroccult explores the archetypes and mythologies that pervade humankind’s occupation of, and relationship with, Earth.

Messerschmidt’s images at Telephonebooth are laid out in a grid, which gives you the strong feeling that you’re navigating thumbnails on the artist’s website. It’s an effect best dealt with on your own, having given yourself plenty of time in the gallery.

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10-inch-by-10-inch squares. As elements of mythology begin to reveal themselves in these works, themes emerge, and then themes within themes, notions stacked atop one another like faces in a totem pole.

A favorite shape of Messerschmidt’s is the central spire — a figure or a building or a primate — rising like a mountain in the middle of a painting to summon the primal memory of something central. Every 10 paintings or so, we see a shift in Messerschmidt’s way of communicating this idea, a hop from animal totems and human rituals — each piece layered with history — to sparse fields of color that contain no recognizable players in our lore. In some of these transitions, his thesis obscures itself, the sheer volume of his industry threatening to swamp his intent.

With so many opportunities for the images to express a guilt whose origins are linked to crimes against fellowship, the work remains unsentimental. The destruction of traditions and beliefs seems like a big target when dealing with our relationship to the land and its occupants, but the work celebrates more often than it laments.

Messerschmidt finds something transcendent in the passing of rituals and practices

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— the physical removal of fur to provide warmth for some other being, men passing around a bottle of booze, Santa tying a scarf onto a penguin. Throughout our culture and its roots, he sees beliefs and habits interwoven to form a comprehensive mythology.

Andy Messerschmidt: Agroccult Through November 24 at Telephonebooth Gallery, 3319 Troost, 816-582-0912, telephoneboothgallery.com

His powerful depictions of man and animal cloaked in old traditions are most harmonious among smudges of the artist’s own fingers. When we see Messerschmidt’s literal hand in the work, we see our own impact on Earth the same way: Hardly anything goes untouched. Every human society lays its mark on the land like a fingerprint; our rituals, from religion to retail, burn,

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build, sprout and decay. Our animals thrive and then disappear forever. Our worship of the land yields destruction, yet we are in love with the idea that we are rebuilding. Somewhere, a fire burns at night, an animal is killed, and tradition wakes again the next day in empty churches or in worn furs. The Agroccult paintings with the most consciousness of this push and pull, this fetishization of the Earth, are the series’ most arresting.

Our celebration of progress and technology, of buildings and objects, is a worship whose roots we can’t easily trace and that has eclipsed more organic-seeming traditions. Maybe that doesn’t matter. Maybe our traditions continue even without our individual participation because we are bound to rules we are equally bound to try to break.

We are responsible but we are conflicted. We are, in many ways, trying to reconcile and ask the land for forgiveness. So reminds Messerschmidt’s sometimes overwhelming Agroccult.

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The Brothers Size: family night at the Unicorn

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ensitive performances and fraternal sparring stamp the Unicorn Theatre’s The Brothers Size, a drama that masters heavy themes with a light hand.

The play, the first in Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Brother/Sister trilogy, follows three young men — each named for a different Yoruban orisha, or divinity — in the Louisiana bayou as they confront the binds of family and incarceration.

The action begins in earnest with the release from prison of Oshoosi Size (Donovan Woods) and Elegba (Teddy Trice). The cellmates had been locked up for two years.

Elder brother Ogun Size (Damron Russel Armstrong) rides Oshoosi hard, unimpressed by his brother’s idleness and relentless pleasure-seeking. Oshoosi, in turn, rags on Ogun for his grim-faced demeanor. “I’m the one who should be walking around like a stone,” he complains. “You act like you in jail.”

When Elegba offers Oshoosi a taste of real freedom — a car — competition for Oshoosi’s affections begins, with Elegba and Ogun representing the closeness of connections forged by, respectively, battle and blood.

Director Mykel Hill has staged the play in the round, making the closeness physical as well as emotional. On the Unicorn’s petite Jerome Stage, every chance look or sly smile feels significant. Scene changes are underscored by textured drumming, as the actors stomp, hum, strike wrenches together like chimes or beat on their own bodies.

As Ogun, Armstrong is iron personified: His crisp hiss and cold fury keep Oshoosi at a protective distance. As Elegba, Trice is every bit the trickster, mastering the good-natured purr of a friend whose gifts always come at a price.

But the show’s undeniable highlight is Woods, whose performance as Oshoosi seems driven by a heart three sizes too big for his frame. Woods bounds around the stage with acrobatic energy and precision and bewitches us with the cadence of a natural storyteller.

McCraney’s play isn’t short on monologues, but Woods’ vivid readings make even past events feel immediate and tense.

He also shows us Oshoosi’s real love for Ogun. In one of the play’s most chilling sequences, he screams for his big brother silently, his face a mask of grief and animal longing.

The connection among the three is authentic enough to make some of this play’s selfreferential elements feel jarring. McCraney’s script demands that actors read their stage directions aloud, from announcing entrances and exits to prefacing their speeches with such tags as “realizing” or “breathing hard” that they could just as easily, you know, act. Though the move inspires the occasional groan — we

get it: Art is artifice, and grad school is real — the words are also strangely poignant, often startling the brothers with the reactions that the text demands.

It’s a sensible choice for a script in which plot takes a backseat to the intricacies of speech. The Brothers Size is ultimately about how things are said or unsaid.

The Brothers Size Through November 8 at the Unicorn Theatre, Jerome Stage, 3828 Main, 816-531-7529, unicorntheatre.org

The design elements keep that focus intact.

Jamie Lindemann’s set is evocative and spare, fusing functional wooden crates with variegated metal panels. The crates are easily joined to suggest larger set pieces, benches and beds.

But the ingenuity is in their metal sides. A corrugated section resembles a highway guard rail but trembles like a thunder sheet when struck. A perforated section looks like a cage and scrapes like a guiro. The set offers actors a playground for rhythm and imagination.

Shannon Smith-Regnier’s costumes are another delight, connecting characters with both their orisha counterparts (Elegba broadcasts in his requisite red and black for much of the play) and the drearier realities of the bayou. Which means: grease-stained coveralls for Ogun, baggy jorts and Timberlands for Oshoosi. Alex Perry’s lights and gobos blanket the stage in chubby lines, simultaneously

Armstrong (left) and Woods: something to chew on evoking West African art and the long shadows of prison bars.

It bears mentioning that The Brothers Size, a play about family, is not a family play. At intermission, I overheard a couple of audience members balk at the preponderance of four-letter barbs and racial slurs. I’ll cop to not noticing, or much caring, about the language: The brothers sling profanity with near tenderness, making the words feel less like curses than like fraternal ribbing.

That’s the trick of McCraney’s play. Struggles are endured with disarming gentleness, and ugliness is masked with song. Throughout, the brothers confront big specters and grinding social ills: the “criminal until proven docile” treatment of black men, the spiritual loneliness of incarceration, the challenges of life after parole. But for all its real-world aches and pains, The Brothers Size ends with a balm.

Haunted by impending loss — and sparked by the bittersweet joy that precedes it — the Sizes belt Otis Redding’s “Try a Little Tenderness,” drumming and dancing without inhibition in a duet of love and levity. The scene is electric, the song as close as we come to a thesis in a play about those who tread lightly in a violent world.

McCraney and the Unicorn have rejected the tidy corners of the well-made play for something freer. The Brothers Size has its own rhythm, to which it isn’t hard to dance.

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ike a dry run a year ahead of what’s either going to be the most furious modern U.S. presidential election or the most boring, Our Brand Is Crisis arrives to teach us about democracy and its primary currency: highly weaponized campaigning. Tonally, it’s a mess — part M*A*S*H (the movie, not the TV show), with American practical jokers at madcap war with each other in a foreign country where the volatility is in fact deadly, part Hoosiers-style

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have a friend whose father’s daunting intellect is fundamental to the older man’s decidedly ascetic approach to certain of life’s comforts. Take him to dinner somewhere with an even modestly ambitious menu, and he’s likely to remark later, if you ask him how he liked the food, that it was good, sure, “but it was no Whopper.” This he will tell you with neither irony nor ingratitude, which makes it easier to acknowledge a truth that approaches profundity: Appetite and good judgment will always favor extraordinary sashimi over a Burger King Whaler, but the Whopper versus most things simply isn’t a fair fight.

The “it’s no Whopper” benchmark is easily adapted to other vital matters, with the understanding that most such spectrum comparisons won’t be any more fair. For instance, even with Cate Blanchett at full throttle (if not full strength), Truth — writer-director James Vanderbilt’s melodrama recounting Rathergate — is no Whopper. The Whopper in this case being Michael Mann’s The Insider (1999), which scolds the profit-minded, scaredy-cat CBS News of a slightly earlier moment and remains a deep, corrosive entertainment.

Truth, with its Lifetime-movie beats and its spikes of hysteria and its Dermot Mulroney, is no Whopper. It’s more like the last Arby’s five-for-$5, left in a sack in an old hatchback.

Truth adapts former CBS News producer Mary Mapes’ memoir of the episode that ended Dan Rather’s long tenure as that network’s anchor (and scotched her own TV career), Truth and Duty: The Press, the President, and the Privilege of Power. (It’s hard for me to type that title without mentally hearing Sylvester J. Pussycat pronounce it.) Told mostly in flashback as Mapes prepares to tell a very lopsided

panel her side of the story, the movie strolls ankle-deep through a media embarrassment and its aftermath: In the last days of the 2004 presidential campaign, Mapes and her handpicked investigative team get their hands on evidence that President George W. Bush was derelict, maybe even AWOL, while sitting out the Vietnam War as a Texas Air National Guard pilot. Given that the incumbent’s opponent was combat veteran John Kerry, and that Kerry’s service record had been called into question by the smear campaign that came to be known as Swiftboating, such evidence would be explosive. But was it real? After Rather anchored Mapes’ report, which centered on photocopied memos from the early 1970s, the sourcing fell apart, the network apologized and sacrifices were offered up.

It’s gripping raw material, but Vanderbilt — whose screenplay for the 2007 movie Zodiac is absolutely a Whopper — fails to refine it.

He’s a first-time director, and it shows. Did he unscrew all the overhead light bulbs himself before the climactic boardroom showdown that he stages, so that the midday encounter looks like a vampire caucus? Instead of a searching cross-examination of America’s newsroom habits, he has essentially made a two-hour movie of the moment in The Insider when Christopher Plummer’s Mike Wallace tells Al Pacino’s Lowell Bergman, “I don’t plan to spend the end of my days wandering in the wilderness of National Public Radio.”

What he has left out is any sense of what was on the line besides a few jobs — Mapes’ and Rather’s chief among them. Yes, the reporters take turns intoning sagacious predictions about how much louder the echo chamber is going to get — about how much of the news

Blanchett isn’t enough for Truth. is by now about the news itself. But for long stretches, Truth lets you forget what matters more about Mapes and Rather’s story: That our “Mission Accomplished” president, the hawk who sent troops into the Middle East on phony evidence, was almost certainly a draft dodger, and that his two presidential campaigns were among the most ruthless and disciplined of the pre-Citizens United era.

Instead, Truth wastes time on the online invective against Mapes, recalling the American moment when Web trolling began in earnest.

Oooh, someone calls Mapes a “witch.” (Mary, stick around a few years past the credits and meet Reddit.) Vanderbilt’s approach allows Blanchett to alternate hardened-careerwoman moves with fragile, wine-and-Xanax mommy gestures. It’s a weirdly rigid, facile performance — one with the power to fool you because Blanchett is working opposite B-listers such as Topher Grace (who unfortunately delivers one effectively written diatribe like mid-period Michael J. Fox attempting opera).

She’s best, predictably, in her scenes with Robert Redford, who is fine as Rather — familiarly folksy, though with an unfamiliar interest in minibar whiskey and the occasional third drink at a cocktail party. Contrasting her high-beams dudgeon, his is a quiet nonperformance, closer to a cameo. The actor is here mostly to sub easy cultural equivalence for narrative care: We would all miss Rather a lot more if he’d been Redford the whole time, and we’d certainly have been outraged that it was the Sundance Kid (or, you know, Bob Woodward), not Gunga Dan, who got railroaded.

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What’s the present-day equivalent of a chop suey joint? It looks a little like Spices Asian Restaurant, a tidy little spot that opened this past summer in North Kansas City. I mean this in a strictly positive sense.

The menu features a handful of authenticfake Chinese classics — General Tso’s chicken, cashew chicken, wonton soup — that one still occasionally craves. But the emphasis is heavier on Thai and Vietnamese flavors, making this the latest localization of a panAsian practice begun in KC at Bo Lings and, to a lesser degree, at Red Snapper.

It’s an appealing approach, and I’ve long been a fan of this restaurant’s owners, Jessi and David Chouang, who have operated one

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Spices gets meaty with (clockwise from above) Thai sausage, pho with beef and meatballs, and Asian BBQ baby back ribs� of Johnson County’s oldest Thai restaurants, Bangkok Pavilion, since 1991. Spices has its glitches — the service can veer into Monty Python territory at moments — but the food is mostly very good. This kitchen can prepare both a satisfying Vietnamese pho and the more complicated tom yum, a fragrant and restorative Thai soup seasoned with lemongrass and kaffir lime leaves.

I’ve enjoyed more intensely flavored broths elsewhere, but the savory soups at Spices hold their own as complete meals, hearty and abundant with sliced beef in the pho (there’s only one version here) and, in the tom yum, crustaceans galore: shrimp, crabmeat and mussels, with squid also present.

I have friends who still insist that they love chop suey, and some who consider certain foreign cuisines “too weird.” Here’s a place I can comfortably meet those friends and push them to try, say, a roasted-duck soup or a spicy phad grapow. On one of my visits to Spices, I brought along one such wary eater, and even he was seduced by the Chouangs’ assemblage of dishes. He favored those that had a certain Midwestern resonance: slices of grilled pork sausage, smartly seasoned with ginger and

sage, for instance, or the succulent baby back ribs, thickly glazed with a glossy chili-andgarlic sauce. Adventurous my friend is not, yet he had unwittingly gone on a little trip — and enjoyed himself.

Even Huck Finn would get all hot and bothered by the Chouangs’ version of deep-fried catfish, which comes drizzled with a “three taste” sauce meant to convey sweetness, spice and a hint of sour. I detected mostly the sugary part of the concoction, but there was fire — I didn’t feel like I was eating fried fish with syrup.

With its lack of meatless options, Spices is slightly out of step with other multicultural restaurants. Diners longing for something more flavorful than fried rice or spring rolls are mostly out of luck, though a lone vegetarian entrée — centered on three kinds of mushrooms sautéed with garlic and scallions (with or without tofu) — works fine.

The prices are reasonable. An ample slab of beautifully grilled salmon, under an evanescent crust of sesame and soy, costs $11 and comes with a heap of white rice and broccoli.

(Jessi Chouang pushes the white rice here: “It absorbs the sauce and tastes better,” she says.)

There was, on my last visit to Spices, a supple-

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Asian restaurants of any vintage have been slow to pick up on the dessert trend that Americans have embraced since the Pilgrims baked their first berry cobbler. But the Chouangs are particularly proud of a very traditional Thai delicacy: a mound of sticky rice sided with fresh mango and smothered in a clotted coconut milk cream. It’s, you know, sweet and sticky. Very sticky. Eating it made me long for the simplicity of the one Chinese food that Americans will always demand: fortune cookies.

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Greg Bland drafts his Stockyards Brewing Co. team, including a familiar brewmaster.

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reg Bland has found the first brewmaster for his Stockyards Brewing Co. The brewery — slated to open later this year in the iconic former Golden Ox restaurant space in the West Bottoms — has tapped Micah Weichert, of Gordon Biersch, to help launch Stockyards. A mutual friend put the two men together.

“I’ve been talking to Micah for a few months to feel him out and see if he was interested in coming over 100 percent and being our head brewer,” Bland says. “He’s just really happy with Gordon Biersch.… So he’s able to come in on a contract basis as basically a brewery consultant for us.”

“I’m really comfortable at Gordon Biersch,” Weichert says. “They take really good care of me. I’m not in a hurry to leave there.”

“He thought I was an idiot for starting a brewery,” Bland says of Weichert.

“I have a lot of people approach me about consulting,” Weichert says. “A lot of times, they don’t want a consultant. They just want tips.”

And for those who do approach him, Weichert says he has a string of questions he asks prospective brewery owners, to gauge how ready they are to join the industry.

“Typically, those people just don’t know what to expect or what they’re getting into,” Weichert says. “And Greg pretty much had all the right answers to all of the questions.

He goes on: “One of the things that caught me with Greg is, he’s a homebrewer. I said, ‘So you don’t want to be the brewer?’ And he said, ‘I do homebrewing, but I’m not going to pretend that I’m a brewer.’ I was like, ‘That’s a really good answer.’ More people should probably take that approach.”

Weichert lends Stockyards much-needed brewing experience, having logged stints at 75th Street Brewery, 23rd Street Brewery in Lawrence, Brugge Brasserie in Indianapolis, and Waimea Brewing Co. in Hawaii.

“He’s going to help us get the brewhouse set up and make sure it’s running efficiently, make sure that the beers that we’re producing are the right beers for this brewhouse, the right beers for us,” Bland says. “He’s going to help us write our recipes. He’s going to help prepare our contracts for hops and for all of the vendors for ingredients. So it’s going to be great for us to get going with such a talented brewer right from the beginning. Just having his help to train whomever we bring in beside him and me as well to be able to run the brewhouse is going to be awesome.”

And that’s the plan: Bland will hire an upand-coming brewer to learn from Weichert.

“I think we’ll work together to get somebody hired who is fully capable,” Weichert says. “And then I’ll stay on probably as miscellaneous consulting. At some point, I might

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From left: Kerzner, Gargano, Bland and Weichert prep Stockyards.

Big Rip Pennywise Sweet Tater Ale tapping, at Big Rip (216 E. Ninth Ave., North

Thursday, OcTOber 29

Kansas City), noon–6 p.m.

Schlafly the Eleventh Floor Berliner Weisse tapping, at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Mid-

Halloween-themed firkin of House Brew and Halloween movies, at the Torn Label

Founders KBS release at Barley’s Brew-

World Series watch party, at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City). Parties continue November 3 and 4, if necessary.

2014 Avery Pump(ky)n, at Flying Saucer

Odell tap takeover, with Dr. Acular, Pina Agria and Barrel Thief, at Barley’s Brewhaus

land Dr., Shawnee), 5 p.m. This is the first IBEX series beer released in the market and the only keg in Kansas.

haus (5031 W. 135th St., Leawood), 5 p.m.

(101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

taproom (1708 Campbell).

(16649 Midland Dr., Shawnee), 4:30 p.m.

Tallgrass tasting, at Buckley’s Wine Market (8661 W. 135th St., Overland Park), 5–7 p.m.

saTurday, OcTOber 31

Founders Brewing Co. Most Intense Happy Hour, at Onelife Fitness (1261 Main),

ing Saucer (101 E. 13th St.).

6–8 p.m.

Boulevard Deep Dive and Odell Piña Agria, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway).

Friday, OcTOber 30

Big Rip Halloween party, at the brewery (216 E. Ninth Ave., North Kansas City).

The Black Pour with 2011 Big Eddy Imperial Stout, 2013 Black Xantus, Mikkeller Black, Evil Twin From Amager with Lover, at FlyTorn Label Brewing Co. Halloween costume contest, movie marathon and release party for Day for Night black IPA, at the brewery (1708 Campbell), noon.

Avery demon night, with Mephistopheles, Samael’s, and the Beast, at Barley’s Brew-

haus (11924 W. 119th St., Overland Park), 5 p.m.

21 New Belgium family bicycles costume bike ride and cruiser giveaway at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory), 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m.

Sunday, novEmbEr 1

Deschutes dark and delectable beer dinner with chef Justin Voldan, at Flying

Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 6 p.m.

Dia de Los Muertos, with drink specials and T-shirt prizes for best Grateful Dead look, at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City), noon–4 p.m.

monday, novEmbEr 2

Meet Tallgrass owner Jeff Gill and brewmaster Brandon Hoag with Explorer Series beers, at Tapcade (1701 McGee), $18, 7 p.m.

Evil Twin 2013-15 Imperial Biscotti Break and Biscotti Break Natale, at Flying Saucer

(101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

TuESday, novEmbEr 3

Santa Fe Brewing Cards Against Humanity tournament, at the Burger Stand at the

Casbah (803 Massachusetts, Lawrence), 6 p.m.

Bell’s 2012 and 2014 Expedition Stout tapping , at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th

St.), 7 p.m.

Tallgrass tap takeover at the Bar (6101 Johnson Dr., Mission).

WEdnESday, novEmbEr 4

New Holland Dragon’s Milk , Coffee Dragon’s Milk, Raspberry Dragon’s Milk and Dragon’s Milk with Toasted Chiles,

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

Out now: Torn Label Oscar German Pilsner. even invest in it. That all kinda depends on the future of Mankind Brewing.”

Mankind remains a long-simmering project for Weichert — one that’s been on the back burner since he started at Gordon Biersch two and a half years ago. “It’s very much on the horizon still,” he says.

Bland and Weichert are still discussing which beers Stockyards will launch with.

“We’re still pushing really hard for the black IPA,” Bland says. “Then we talked about using some cool, dark roasted malts from Ireland that he’s been getting used to using lately and really wants to try. I’m Irish, and I like Irish stouts. This black IPA is basically a stout. It’s been hopped like an IPA. I want it to be really roasty, really malty.”

Stockyards should launch with five beers, although Weichert says they’re formulating recipes for 15 to 20 beers to fill out Stockyards’ brew calendar for the first few months.

“The strength of his ability to brew a tremendous lager is definitely going to play a role

in what we serve,” Bland says. “And I really, really like a good Czech Pilsner and Bohemianstyle or even Mexican-style lager. He’s just got such a great experience with that and can really craft those beers to be really drinkable and still produce a lot of flavor. We’re excited to bring his ideas and his experience with running basically a lager house to come with us and try it on our equipment and get new beers going.”

“I think we’ll do a little bit of everything,” Weichert says. “We haven’t talked about sours yet, but there are some plans for getting some barrels in there, doing some crazy one-off sour beers and a little bit of everything.”

Bland has also hired his former college roommate, Ray Kerzner, to handle the accounting and finance work of the brewery.

“A little over a year ago, he called me and said, ‘I’m making this happen, and I need someone to help me,’ ” Kerzner says. “I said, ‘OK. I need about six months to try to convince myself not to do this. I come from an accounting background — very conservative — you have to think of the different avenues. In six months, I tried to think of every reason not to do this, and it came down to: I have to do this.

In the middle of August, I left my job. Now I’m full time at Stockyards.”

Also onboard is Brendan Gargano, who will lead the brewery’s creative direction. Gargano, who designed logos for Bland’s homebrews, is building Stockyards’ website and creating logos and artwork for labels. Gargano says Bland encouraged him to quit his job at the collegiate apparel company in Parkville where he’d worked the past three and a half years. On the last day of September, Gargano did just that and joined Stockyards full time.

“Stockyards Brewing can’t exist without this building,” Gargano says of the Golden Ox. “It wouldn’t be the same. It’s just as important to kind of keep the spirit of the Golden Ox alive and kind of restore a lot of that stuff. That’s why a lot of stuff is being kept or repurposed or just kind of changed a little bit to make it a little more modern, clean twist on all of that.

You’ll still be able to walk into that space and it’ll still feel like the Golden Ox.” The brewing equipment has arrived. Applications have been submitted. Construction and inspections are ongoing. And digging for an addition to the building for a cellaring room is slated to begin this week. So when will Stockyards’ doors open?

“We’re going to push really, really hard to have something to see, something to visit by Thanksgiving.”

And Stockyards beer — that could be a Christmas treat.

“Hopefully we’ll be open in time and making our own beer in time for people to book their holiday parties,” Bland says.

But they’re staying realistic.

“In a perfect world, we can hit that mark,” Weichert says. “But it’s not a perfect world, and it never is for opening a brewery.”

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Ashleigh Luna’s Bake Shop opens inside Pryde's Kitchen.

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shleigh Luna had an epiphany after graduating from the University of Central Missouri three years ago. She remembered that her first love — dating back to her childhood Easy-Bake Oven as a child — had been to have her hands in the dough. So, after college, the broadcast-media major followed a different track, attending culinary school — the Denver campus of the prestigious Johnson & Wales — and completing an accelerated program.

Six weeks ago, the 25-year-old opened Ashleigh’s Bake Shop in the former Upper Crust space on the ground floor of Pryde’s Kitchen at 115 Westport Road. Luna had been a retail clerk at Pryde’s until the tiny bakery space became available. Louise Meyers, the owner of Pryde’s, says she fielded a few inquiries about the space, but Luna was in the right place at the right time — with the right idea.

“She has a culinary degree,” Meyers says, “and enthusiasm and talent. I wanted to give her new business a chance.”

Like the previous tenant (Upper Crust, whose owners, Jan Knobel and Elaine Van Buskirk, are now concentrating on their larger Overland Park location), Luna plans to focus on pie and other complementary baked goods.

“I'm not going to do cakes here,” says Luna, who operates the pie shop with her father, Charles Luna, a retired Grain Valley vitamin-store owner. “We’ve already been getting a lot of customer requests that we’re considering, like quiche and pizza. My father makes excellent pizza.”

Ashleigh Luna — her last name, which is Welsh, was originally Loony, and was changed by relatives a few generations ago — says she’s excited about owning her own business.

“It happened a lot faster than I thought it would,” she says.

She also isn’t intimidated by the upcoming busy pie season, Thanksgiving and Christmas.

“We're more than ready for it,” Luna says.

“I worked at Pryde’s for two years before opening the Bake Shop, so I know what kind of volume that Upper Crust was doing during the holidays. We’re already planning our holiday pie offerings: apple and pecan and pumpkin, of course. and chocolate-pecan, pecan-cranberry and Dutch apple. And if we get requests for it, mince pie.”

Luna’s best-selling pies are apple, cherry and coconut cream (which is one of the creamiest, most delectable versions of this old-school favorite in town), each in featherlight crusts made with fresh butter, as well as brown-butter banana bars and assorted tarts.

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Luna and her pie ated display case from Upper Crust, which threw in, gratis, a 1950s-era General Electric refrigerator.

“It works great,” Charles Luna says.

Ashleigh Luna’s fiancé, Jim Lower — a graduate student at the UMKC Conservatory of Music — installed a new awning and new light fixtures.

The kitchen area isn’t much bigger than a restaurant walk-in freezer, but the Lunas have figured out the right choreography to work in the space together.

“It helps that he’s not just my business partner — he’s my father,” Luna says. “He's also a great baker. When I was growing up in Grain Valley, there wasn’t a traditional bakery in town, so either my mom or my dad made my birthday cakes.”

Ashleigh’s Bake Shop is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Thursday through Saturday. Luna is already taking orders for holiday pies at 816-598-3283.

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The Cave Girls share a sisterhood.

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obin Campbell had always dreamed of being in a band like the Cave Girls. She was the lead singer for the Last Call Girls, a job she’d done for three years and had enjoyed.

But what she really had in mind was something different.

“I always wanted to be in an all-girl band,” she says, sitting at the head of her dining room table. “My band before was a mostly girl band, and it just — there was one guy.” She glances at the male photographer I’ve brought for our interview. “I don’t mind — I’m not a crazy feminist type of person or something — but with females, there’s not the communication breakdown that there sometimes is between women and men. In marriages, they say the most important thing to do is communicate, and it’s hard to communicate with the opposite sex sometimes. There’s a uniformity with us.” Another pause, then a grin. “And I’ve always thought that girl bands were awesome.”

At this point, Campbell’s 12-year-old daughter, Cady, abandons the television in the living room and approaches our group. She taps her mother on the shoulder, and Campbell shakes her head, a warning in her eyes.

“I just needed to correct her on the definition of feminism,” Cady announces, her voice clear, her tone recalling a young Hermione Granger. Campbell covers her eyes with a hand, and I motion for the girl to go on.

“I’m really sorry,” she says, though her contrition presents as delight when all eyes turn toward her. “A feminist is somebody that wants equality for both sexes. Not someone that wants women to be overpowered and stuff. That’s something else.”

“Thank you, Cady,” says Sara, the Cave Girls’ drummer and, with Campbell, the band’s co-founder. She laughs and adds, “Thank you for the clarification.”

Sara prefers not to reveal her last name — she has asked me to call her Stone Age Sara.

She has a sensitive day job, she explains. I observe her toned drummer’s arms and sharp eyes and agree to oblige her.

“I remember meeting Sara because I was waiting on her at Harry’s Country Club,” Campbell says, “and then she was waiting on me at Jazz. That was how we knew each other — same circles. And I was always like, ‘What is it about that girl? She seems so nice and cool.’ ” It took five years for Campbell to discover Sara’s skills as a drummer, when the Last Call Girls and Sara’s then-band shared a bill at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club in 2009.

Collaboration wasn’t such a big jump from there, and in 2013, bassist Lizz Weiler came onboard.

All three women are in their 30s, and the Cave Girls is not the only creative outlet for any

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From left: Sara, Campbell and Weiler come into the light. of them. Weiler also plays in Lawrence rock band Vedettes; Campbell heads up the Trainwreck Trio with her husband. Sara’s schedule seems the most demanding: She has an additional weekend job as a hair stylist at the Calico Beard, and she plays in three other bands with her husband: the Heavy Figs, the New Lost Souls and the Mad Kings.

“I don’t know how many times I’ve said I wish I had three extra days in the week, just so I could cook,” Sara says. “But I think that you have to decide to not pursue some things that you want to pursue in order to make time for your music. Obviously a roof over your head and food in your stomach and families and loved ones, those are priorities. But a lot of time, I get home from work, spin right back around and go to band practice.

“For me, I have to give up some of my home life, but that sacrifice is worth it to me,” she continues. “I just love these women. Playing with them means a lot to me. When we get together, our guards are completely down, and we don’t have to worry about proving anything. We’re really happy when we play together, because when we do get to just be the Cave Girls, those are moments that I think that nobody in this band takes for granted.”

Downstairs, in a tight room in Campbell’s basement, is where the band meets weekly and hammers out the meaty garage rock songs destined for the first Cave Girls album. It’s about half-finished, they tell me — and they

are eager to get it done and release it, because they have new material they’d like to refine.

Kansas City should be eager, too. Even in Campbell’s cramped practice room, the Cave Girls go at it like they’re getting paid.

Sara beams from behind her kit, holding back laughter as she locks eyes with Campbell, who belts out — in her grainy, snarling voice — the tongue-in-cheek lyrics to “Sun Fresh” (a tune about the ups and downs of midtown grocery shopping). Weiler, who gives off nervous energy in conversation, appears wholly zen as she curls into the deep bass lines.

“Sun Fresh” is a catchy new tune and a goof — not all of them are like that — but even so, Campbell’s guitar rips through the center of it.

She wraps the room in fuzzy reverb. I would worry for the neighbors if it didn’t sound so good. The Cave Girls play with an unselfconscious joy, as if this were their natural state.

Back upstairs, Campbell takes a moment to glance around her home. She has scented candles and incense burning, and Cady’s art covers the walls. Books and craft projects are in stacks.

“In my childhood imagination, I assumed I would make money doing this, which is a funny thing nowadays to think about,” she says. “There’s good gigs that come along, and you get a little bit of extra money, but it’s never anything you can depend on. To me, that’s been a sacrifice along the way, but it’s also an opportunity not to be solely motivated by money. For me, this band is a liberating thing.”

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Ric Averill brings Edgar Allan Poe back to life for Halloween.

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alloween, fast approaching, is that time of year when the American master of the macabre Edgar Allan Poe is most fondly recalled. Getting in on the season this year is Lawrence playwright Ric Averill, whose newest piece — an opera called Midnight Visit to the Grave of Poe: A Grotesque Arabesque — bows this weekend.

Midnight Visit takes inspiration from Poe’s life and work, as well as an intriguing urban legend about a woman who leaves three red roses and a bottle of cognac on Poe’s grave each year.

It wraps elements of dance, musical theater, poetry and opera into one mysterious, spooky package. I called Averill and asked him to break down this production ahead of its showings at the Lawrence Arts Center.

The Pitch: I know you’ve been doing plays for a long while, but have you done an opera before?

Averill: I was commissioned to write an opera for the Kennedy Center in 2001, based on The Emperor’s New Clothes. It was a five-person opera for youth, an introduction-to-opera piece.

Very fun. I started out as a composer. That was what I went to KU for, originally, but went back and got my master’s degree in theater.

What led to Midnight Visit to the Grave of Poe: A Grotesque Arabesque?

When I was working on The Emperor’s New Clothes, KU put it up as a workshop and performed it for the Kennedy Center people, in order to show them that the piece would work.

A companion piece to it was Gianni Schicchi, that wonderful Puccini comic opera. The actor that was portraying Gianni Schicchi was this beautiful, tall, Poe-looking guy. I approached him that day and said, “I want to write a oneman opera about Poe,” and he said, “Sure!” And I never saw him again.

I started writing it right away and realized you can’t have Poe without the women. The more I got immersed in Poe and the more I learned, the more he fascinated me, as an artist.

Like, his mother was a child actress who died at the age of about 23. Poe was about 3 when she died, and he was there by her side. He has all of these stories of funereal women, and there’s this dark side of him, and there’s this addictive side with alcohol.

There’s the psychological aspects — like, “What makes this guy tick?” — and, combined with that, there’s the story that, up until a few years ago, on the anniversary of his [Poe’s] birth, a visitor dressed in formal clothes would come to the grave of Poe and put down three red roses and a bottle of cognac. I combined that ritual with some of Poe’s stories and some small details from his life and created this libretto.

Which Poe works do you include?

Two of the stories are very familiar to people: “The Tell-Tale Heart” and “The Masque of the Red Death.” And the play concludes with

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Midnight Visit to the Grave of Poe: A Grotesque Arabesque Thursday, October 29–Saturday, October 31, at the Lawrence Arts Center, in Lawrence, lawrenceartscenter.org “Annabel Lee,” which I think is one of Poe’s best poems. The play opens with a song that his actress mother made famous, called “Nobody Coming to Marry Me.” There’s also these two lesser-known stories about funereal women — women who die young is a theme of Poe’s — who come back from the grave to haunt the husband in different ways.

One of the stories is “Morella,” which is really Twilight Zone, and the other story is called “Eleonora,” and it’s one of Poe’s few pieces that has a small sense of redemption. The ghost comes back and tells the guy, “Go ahead, love the new woman. It’s OK. Love conquers all.” Poe wrote that after his wife died and he was trying to find a new one to support him. [Laughs.]

For a work that requires such deep immersion, what do you do to get the performers on the same page before a performance?

We’ve been having candlelight rituals before each rehearsal. Thirteen people die. We did a body count after we started working on the show, and in the course of these stories, there are 13 deaths.

It seems like this is going to be much more than a standard opera, encompassing quite a few other forms.

I worked with some visual artists who created these scenic background works for me, digitally, and it soon became a very collaborative piece. A lot of the early work on this was with Eric Mardis of Split Lip Rayfield, who was

Poe: “No pestilence had even been so fatal or so hideous.” our original guitarist on this. There’s three modern dancers, and they’re choreographed

by Gary Abbott, who co-founded Deeply Rooted, up in Chicago, and is currently an assistant professor at UMKC. I really like to think of it like we’re staging a performance like Diaghilev did with Stravinsky, Nijinsky and Chagall, where all of these artists got together and put their art onstage at the same time. Wagner called it “Gesamtkunstwerk,” or “total opera,” where every art form is onstage at the same time.

You’re being immersed, experiencing the life of Poe through his works.

What was the process like?

I started on it in 2001. It was one of the longest times of my life I’ve spent developing a work, and most of it was done in collaboration with other people. I worked it in San Diego at the Theatre of the World Festival, and then in Kearney, Nebraska, of all places. I took a modern dance company with me up to Kearney.

They have a performing arts center, and we did a weeklong workshop and performed it there.

So is it something like a rock opera?

I wouldn’t call it a rock opera. If you call it a rock opera, people go into it expecting tunes.

There’s some spoken word in it — “The Tell-Tale Heart” is mostly spoken — but there’s music throughout. It’s my neo-romantic music scored for guitar and bass, percussion, Steinway piano, toy piano, synthesizer and cello, and then these three amazing singers. It’s a combination of musical theater and opera. It’s very immersive.

You can look at it as going to a modern dance piece about Poe that happens to have words and singing and digital scenery, or you can say

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If you want to get an early start to Halloween debauchery, kick things off at MiniBar. Starting at 4 p.m., wild punk-rockers Wet Ones deliver their gnarly tunes with a sizable side of candy; weirdo hip-funk duo Bacon Shoe follows, and electronic noise masters Sie Lieben Maschinen sends you off into the night in time for trick-or-treating. Blind Tiger is catering, so all you have to do is show up (in costume, of course).

Macabre KC

8 p.m., Knuckleheads Garage $20 advance, 18 and older The small army that is My Brothers & Sisters — at last count, there were more than a dozen members — is hosting its own dance party at the Garage at Knuckleheads Saloon. The band is calling this a “multi-sensory experience” — projections amplify the live music, and the audience plays an interactive role. Singers Jessica Paige and Stephonne Singleton, folkpop duo Calvin Arsenia, opera singer Sarah Tannehill Anderson and dancer Christian Robinson round out the show, which benefits KKFI and Midwest Music Foundation.

Halloween Bash with Acid King 8 p.m., Riot Room $10, 21 and older

Who better to celebrate the gloom and doom of Halloween with than heavy-metal freaks?

Enter San Francisco band Acid King, purveyors of fine Satanic-inspired noise since 1993.

The band has just released Middle of Nowhere, Centre of Everywhere, its first album in a decade. Local heavy rock act Hyborian opens, along with 34 (featuring members of At the Left Hand of God and David Hasselhoff on Acid) and Keef Mountain.

— Natalie Gallagher

you’re going to see this beautiful digital scenery in front of which there are actors moving. It’s really been fun to see the project come together.

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& FREEDOM FOR ALL “The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law”

MASS RALLY AND MARCH

NOVEMBER 10 In the last two years, low wage workers have stood up with faith, labor, community, and elected allies; raised KC’s minimum wage and breathed life into our state motto: “Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.” With brown, white, and black Americans unified in action, we’ve advanced our vision: No one who works should live in poverty, bear racism’s brutality, and that all working people deserve union rights and a voice in our government. And on 11/10/15, KC will Stand Up again. Join your voice with ours as our numbers combine to ensure $15 and Freedom for all!

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Alexander is a formidable counterpart to the storm that bassist Derek Tucker and drummer Aaron Thomas kick up. Alexander’s voice comes on like tornado: wild and destructive, leaving a mass of shaken souls behind. Celebrate the storm — and Steam — with the band at Knuckleheads. The Lauren Anderson Band opens.

Friday, October 30, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

Need A Drink?

Painted Palms

Telekinesis

Prof is here to party.

If you consider yourself too grown-up for the usual Halloween debauchery, fret not: RecordBar has a theme-free night of entertainment awaiting you. Seattle electro-pop act Telekinesis — the stage name of Michael Benjamin Lerner — stops there Saturday night in support of his recent album, Ad Infinitum.

It’s a spirited, shimmering release worthy of multiple listens, particularly if you have a thing for analog synths and moody electronic beats. Seattle rock band Say Hi opens, along with Kansas City’s Yes You Are. Saturday, October 31, RecordBar (1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207)

waiting for. Slinking, atmospheric beats make King’s songs sound edgy and futuristic (“No Animals”) or like funky throwbacks (“Sleepwalker”). This album is less of a comeback and more of a rebirth for the buzzing R&B artist. And while the production is smart, the best part about The Switch is King’s unmistakable voice — a sultry, powerful instrument that can belt as fiercely as Emeli Sandé, given the chance. Don’t miss this R&B royal in the making.

Thursday, October 29, Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Emily King

The Old No. 5s

In June, Emily King released The Switch, the highly anticipated follow-up to her Grammy Award-nominated 2007 album, East Side Story. While King’s 2011 EP, Seven, helped tide us over, The Switch is what we’ve been

Friday, local roots trio the Old No. 5s release a new album, Steam. It showcases what the band has been perfecting since its 2011 debut — fast and furious blues riffs aimed at filling up a dance floor. Guitarist and lead singer Brock

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It was easy to fall in love with Painted Palms after the San Francisco electro-psych duo’s 2013 debut album, Forever, which was a sort of nostalgic buoyancy: It highlighted the best parts of ’60s psychedelia and added a few updated twists. The record sounded good heating up a dark-basement dance party or providing a driving-with-the-windows-down summer soundtrack. September’s Horizons should still appeal to Painted Palms’ fans of two years ago, though it’s certainly geared more toward the basement-dancing crowd. Its 10 tracks take inspiration from the ’80s, with punching synths and tetchy beats. The duo seems a lot less settled this time around, which is not to say the quality of their music has decreased.

Prepare to get down Monday at the Tank Room.

Monday, November 2, Tank Room (1813 Grand, 816-214-6403)

Prof

Last week, lauded Minneapolis rapper (and notorious wild child) Prof released his Rhymesayers debut record, Liability. It’s a beefy, 16-song monolith that announces Prof’s talents to anyone who’s willing to listen — and probably a few people who would rather not.

On Liability, he snarls and spits out his lyrics with enviable speed and dexterity. The undeniable talent and singular voice of Rhymesayers’ newest — and most volatile — family member shines through lines of almighty bravado and party-chasing. Bonus: Tech N9ne guest-starred on Liability’s “Ghost,” so here’s hoping for an appearance by the mogul Monday night.

Monday, November 2, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)

Pick of the Week

Dance Pants

Locally Sourced

Synth City

Sing It, Sister

A Cure for the Blues

No Costumes Needed

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KANSAS CITY SYMPHONY POPS SERIES: MUSIC OF THE BEATLES

Dates and times vary.

COMEDY

Red Grant | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Blueprints to Freedom | Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Copaken Stage, 13th St. and Walnut, kcrep.org

Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

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

Massachusetts, Lawrence

Our Brother’s Caper, presented by KC Mystery

Train | See kcmysterytrain.com for schedule and locations.

Elliott Threatt & Dave Kious | 8 p.m. Stanford’s

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

The Brothers Size | The Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Chainsaw: The Musical | Through Saturday, the Living Room, 1818 McGee, thelivingroomkc.com

Mission Underpants: Superhero Costume Party, benefiting reStart, Happy Bottoms, Operation

Breakthrough, Spofford, Bliars Foster Socks and other charities | 6:30 p.m., $50, Arts Asylum, 1000 E. Ninth St., missionunderpants.org

Scream | 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main MUSIC

Nate Allen, Ven Smith, Cox John, Clayton Smith, Seafoam Galaxy, the Great Swamps | 5:30 p.m.

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FILM

THEATER SHOWS & EVENTS

All you ne ed is love.

Kansas City Symphony Pops Series: Music of the Beatles | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing

Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

All My Friends, Hembree as Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Something & the Whatevers |

Mr. Mojo Risin’ | 9 p.m. Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St.,

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

Overland Park

Alexis Barclay and Clay Hughes | 7 p.m. The

The Nace Brothers | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon,

Friday | 10.30 |

Tin Pan Alley | Through Thursday, Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com

The Turn of the Screw | Through Sunday, Spinning Tree Theatre, at Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central, spinningtreetheatre.com Vincent in Brixton | Through Sunday, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, metkc.org

You Can’t Take It With You | New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park, newtheatre.com

PERFORMING ARTS Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

2715 Rochester

blers Club, 3402 Main

Bar, 111 E. 13th St.

6 Degrees West, Cash Creek | 7 p.m. PBR Big Sky

Bach Collegium Japan | 8 p.m. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, jccc.edu/ performing-arts-series

Jason Boland and the Stragglers, Tanner Dirks | 8 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Tall Heights, A.J. Moore, Mobs | 9:30 p.m. Record-

Kansas City Symphony Pops Series: Music of the Beatles | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Perform-

The Biggus Brothers | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ram-

Bar, 1020 Westport Rd.

BongoTini | 7-9 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence

Grand Marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Brett Jackson Quartet, Karl McComas Reichl Trio | Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand KC Latin Jazz All Stars | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

NIGHTLIFE

Brick Birthday Bingo | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Pianist Daniela Liebman | 7 p.m. Folly Theater, 300

W. 12th St., follytheater.org

A Centenary of Australian War Art | National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org A Wild Science Lecture: The Evolution of the Horse-Human Relationship Through Time, featuring Sandra Olsen | 7 p.m. KU Natural History Museum, 1345 Jayhawk Blvd., Lawrence, naturalhistory.ku.edu

L I T E R A R Y/ S P O K E N W O R D

Carter Cruise, Spinstyles | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Dark Heartland | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway DJ G Train | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Emily King, the Buhs, Runwithit, Missouri Loves Company | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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

Jon McLaughlin, Tess Henley | 8 p.m. The Bottle-

Mondo Disco with Ray Velasquez | 10 p.m. The

neck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

ing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

MUSEUM EXHIBITS & EVENTS

Days of Our Lives: 50-Year Book-Signing Tour, featuring Suzanne Rogers, Eric Martsolf, Kate Mansi, Greg Vaughan, James Reynolds, Billy Flynn and Patsy Pease | 6:30 p.m., $34.99, Barnes and Noble - Oak Park Mall, 11323 W. 95th St., Overland Park, days50.com COMEDY

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

Red Grant | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. Elliott Threatt & Dave Kious | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Merica Records Phenomenon | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts

Bar, 3611 Broadway

FILM

The Crow | 10 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main MUSIC

All My Friends, Unknown Pleasures, the Wide Stripes: Tributes to LCD Soundsystem, Joy Division and the White Stripes | 9 p.m. RecordBar,

1020 Westport Rd.

Lauren Anderson Project, Lonnie McFadden |

4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

Jeff Bergen’s Elvis show | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads

Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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The Old No. 5s CD-release show with Lauren Anderson | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715

Vincent in Brixton

Rochester

Autumn Twilight, Dwelling Among Mountains | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Michael Pagan 4tet, BMW | 5 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Final Friday Art Walk | Massachusetts be-

tween Seventh and 11th streets, Lawrence, finalfridayslawrence.wordpress.com

E. 85th St.

Final Friday Lawrence Art Party | 5:30-

Urge Overkill | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Rod Peterson | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205

9:30 p.m. Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St., Lawrence

Young Jesus, Not Like Igor | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge,

946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, lawrenceartscenter.org

NIGHTLIFE

Boogie Knights | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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

Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

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

Intimate Riot : Peregrine Honig’s viewerfriendly interpretation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Marco Maggi: Drawing Attention | Through

Sunday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick

B o B Pa i s l e y

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

105.1 Jack FM Retro Halloween Bash, featuring Synchronicity, Found a Job, the Stolen Winnebagos | 8 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

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Philip Haas: The Four Seasons |

Images from the Wild: Surviving Man David Chancellor | Kansas City Central

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Emmet Gowin: Photographs | Nelson-Atkins

Vincent in Brixton | Through Sunday, at Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, metkc.org, review at pitch.com; pictured above: Seth Jones and Shelley Wyche

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Soul Preservers All Stars | 9 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union

Saturday | 10.31 |

Joel Bonner and the Boot Stompers, Narkalark | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Heavy Petty: a Tribute to the music of Tom Petty | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Bruiser Queen, Dean Monkey & the Dropouts, the People’s Punk Band | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge,

High Rise Robots. Counterfeit. E the Hustler, In the Shadow, 6 Strings & a Mic | 9 p.m. Davey’s

The Buzz Halloweenie Roast, featuring Andrew

Load Point Pull, Swill | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240

946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Pandemonium V, Mayhem, Antiserum | 9 p.m.

Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

PERFORMING ARTS

Kansas City Symphony Pops Series: Music of the Beatles | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org COMEDY

Waterplaces: 100 Works on Paper by Lynn Benson | Kansas City Design Center, 1018 Baltimore, kcdesigncenter.org/events/ lynnbenson

McMahon in the Wilderness, New Politics, the Griswolds, Lolo | 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

Crystal Baller, Vinyard, Brooklyn Rye, Something and the whatevers | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Black Crack Revue: Space Alien Love-In | 8:30 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Black Tiger Sex Machine, Dabin | 7 p.m. The

Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Broadway

Grand Marquis | 9 p.m. The Kill Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.

Merriam Dr., Merriam

Mark Lowrey Trio, Tim Whitmer Quartet | Green

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

Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Lucha Raptor | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Manic Focus, Artifakts | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737

Elliott Threatt & Dave Kious | 7:45 p.m. Stanford’s

New Hampshire, Lawrence

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

Night Creation, Damned by the Pope | 11 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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farmers markets City market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-

niles Garden | 4-6 p.m. Monday, Clymer Center,

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

107th Street | 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Saturday, Grand

Friday night market | 4-9 p.m. The BadSeed,

overland park | 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturday,

3 p.m. Sunday, 20 E. Fifth St.

1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence

1909 McGee

Gladstone | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-6 p.m.

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Juan of the Dead | 1:30 p.m. Kansas City Plaza Library, 4801 Main, kclibrary.org

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

Freakers Ball 2015, featuring Pop Evil. All That

Dirt Farm, 19915 Mount Bethel Rd., Weston SporTS & reC

kansas vs. oklahoma football | Memorial Stadium, 11th St. and Maine, Lawrence

Zombie Frenzy 5k | 1 p.m. Stocksdale Park, 901 S. La Frenz, Liberty

muSiC

Acid king, Hyborian, 34, keef mountain | 7 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Act of defiance, Allegaeon | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

After nations, riala, Temp Tats, drag me to Safe Harbour | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Court Retirement Center, 501 W. 107th St.

7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday, between 79th and 80th streets, west of Metcalf

Wednesday, Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect, Gladstone

parkville | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Wednes-

ivanhoe | 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nutter Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center, 3700 Woodland

raytown | 2-7 p.m. Thursday, 1-8 p.m. Saturday, 6210 Raytown Rd., Raytown

kC organics and natural market | 8 a.m.-

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

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

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

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

Telekinesis, Say Hi, Yes You Are | 9:30 p.m.

day, English Landing Park, First St. and Main

Troostwood Youth Garden & market |

3-8 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 1-6 p.m.

Wednesday, 5142 Paseo

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

CommuniTY eVenTS

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Wick and the Tricks, the Bad ideas, the Jukebox romantics, Bottle Breakers | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

day of the dead Festival and Altar installation, with music by Son de Madera, Los Musicos Mariachis, El Trio Aztlan and El Grupo Folklorico Atotonilco | Noon-4 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

Remains, Red Sun Rising, We Came as Romans, Devour the Day | 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

The Zeros | 10 p.m. Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St.,

Gnarly davidson, major Games, Young Bull, Baiowolf | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts,

niGHTliFe

earthwalk 2015, presented by Bridging The Gap | 1 p.m. Shawnee Mission Park, 7710 Renner Rd., Shawnee, kcearthwalk.org

Lawrence

Atlantic express motown Halloween party |

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lady d with Wes Blackman and round midnight featuring darryl Terrell | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room,

dJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

levee Town, Tim Whitmer & kC express |

electrosexual presents night of the Basic Bitches | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Overland Park

F00d & drink

kC Ale Trail beer pairing dinner | 4 p.m., $75, Green

13th St. and Highland

9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

1600 E. 18th St.

4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

mayday parade, real Friends, This Wild life, As it is | 6 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts,

Halloween Costume party with Sunu | Jazzhaus,

926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Lawrence

Halloween Heroes & Villains | 10 p.m. Kanza Hall,

mistress of reality, Strictly Alice, looks That kill: Tributes to Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper and motley Crue | 8 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino,

Saturday night Sock Hop with dJs Superwolf and daddy T | 9 p.m. The Ship, 1217 Union

7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

my Brothers & Sisters Halloween Show | 9 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Sunday | 11.1 |

Hamlet, featuring Benedict Cumberbatch, presented

by National Theatre Live | 1 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com SporTS & reC

Chiefs vs. lions | 8:30 a.m. Arrowhead Stadium Chiefs vs. lions in london watch party | 6 a.m.

McFadden’s Sports Saloon, 1330 Grand

kansas Half marathon and 5k | 7:30 a.m. Watson Park, 601 Kentucky, Lawrence, kansashalfmarathon.com pumpkin Smash 5k | 9 a.m. Waterfall Park at

Bass Pro Shop, 4501 S. Bass Pro Dr., Independence, enter2run.com

ComedY muSiC

Ask an Adult, Godzillionaire, ponyboy | Jackpot

Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

The philistines, Haunted Creepys, dJ Thundercutz | The Brick, 1727 McGee

red Grant | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Cowgirls Train Set, Sugar Britches, Arthur & the neanderthals | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

Lounge, 1809 Grand

Sons of Brasil, organ Jazz Trio | Green Lady

elliott Threatt & dave kious | 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Hampshire, Lawrence

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kataklysm, Belphegor, nefirum | 7:30 p.m. The

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

The people’s liberation Big Band | 8 p.m. Record-

Bar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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Prof, Nacho, Approach & the Boogaloo Odyssey, DJ fundo | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Rural grit happy hour | 6-9 p.m. The Brick, 1727

McGee

small Black, Painted Palms | 7:30 p.m. The Tank

Room, 1813 Grand

Brother John’s Motivational R&B/soul showcase | 7-9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Billy ebeling | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Jonny two Bags | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048

Broadway

lyric lab: Music Open Mic | 9-11:30 p.m. Uptown

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Nightlife

David Mayfield & sean Mcconnell | 8 p.m.

geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8 p.m. Green Room

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Karaoke sammitch | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946

1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Burgers & Beer, 4010 Pennsylvania

Massachusetts, Lawrence

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

timeflies, Kalin and Myles | 7 p.m. The Granada,

Wayland | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

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sonic spectrum Music trivia | 7 p.m. RecordBar,

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Tuesday | 11.3 |

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geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8 p.m. Hi Dive Lounge, 1411 W. 39th St.

cOMeDY

comedy open-mic night | 8 p.m. The Tank Room,

1813 Grand

the People’s liberation Big Band | 8 p.m. at RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., see Jazz Beat, page 23.

Backglass girls’ Pinball league | 7 p.m.-midnight,

403 Club, 614 Reynolds

cameron esposito | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

Westport Rd.

geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz | 8 p.m. The Cashew,

2000 Grand

Wednesday | 11.4 | l i t e R A R Y/ s P O K e N W O R D

627 Big Band | 8:30-11:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Nightlife

Dropout Boogie | Westport Flea Market, 817 West-

port Rd.

tiny Dots: A Documentary About lA Dispute | 6:30 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Monday | 11.2 | Music

A la Mode | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

Alex g, spencer Radcliffe | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar,

Make Me laugh | 8 p.m. The All-Star Rock Bar, 7210

1020 Westport Rd.

N.E. 43rd St.

Blue Monday Jam with seth lee | 7 p.m. The Blue

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

the Mob and the Politician, a live recording of Gangland Wire Crime Stories, a true crime podcast featuring Terence O’Malley | 6 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway, ganglandwire.com

ecid, farout, eyenine, clark Rooseveltte, el shupacabra | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

filM

Pound slam with Poetic underground | 9-11 p.m.

Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

elephant Wrecking Ball, sri Yantra, the house of gray | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Jamey Johnson | 8 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700

Broadway

Karl Mccomas-Reichl trio | 8:30 p.m. Green Lady

Raising Arizona quote-along | 7 p.m. Alamo Draft-

house, 1400 Main

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Battle Royale | 7 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

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The level of distrust does strike me as toxic, but seeing as your husband cheated, and not for the first time, your distrust is understandable. What I don’t understand is your desire to see your husband sent to prison. You don’t want honesty (he doesn’t seem capable of that), you don’t want to “work through your problems” (your marriage is over), you just want your soon-to-be ex-husband to rot in jail.

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woman. My husband and I have two children. I have been with my husband for 12 years, married for six. Three years after we were married, we found out that he was HIV-positive. We had both had multiple tests throughout our relationship because of physicals and the process we went through to get pregnant. Both of us were negative then, but only I am now. Needless to say, he was infected as a result of his cheating.

We worked through that and remained married. Recently, I saw a message from a woman saying, “Call me or I am calling your wife.” I identified myself, and she and I spoke briefly. I asked her how long they were having a relationship, and she told me since January. I did not mention his status. I confronted him, and he claims that she is a crazy stalker. He says there was a brief flirtation, but then she became clingy and “crazy,” and he did not know how to tell me without compromising our relationship. He blocked her calls and e-mails. He is undetectable, and we use condoms. He has never tried to not use a condom when we have had sex. In the state where we live, a positive person who does not inform a person of their status before having sex faces up to five years in prison. I have brought this to his attention. He is sticking to his story that he did not have sex with her. I do not believe him. We met with a therapist last week, only for a placement consultation. We did not mention his status. This is my biggest issue: I don’t think we can work through our problems without honesty. I need him to come clean and admit to me — and our therapist — that he had sex with this woman. If he does, I believe the therapist will be legally obligated to report his behavior to the police. I am preparing myself for divorce, something he doesn’t know, and while I do not want to have him arrested, I feel we need the therapy in order to respectfully co-parent — and lying to a therapist or omitting the full truth seems crazy.

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But because you don’t want to call the police yourself — you don’t want your fingerprints on this — you want to con your husband (with my help!) into telling “the full truth” to a therapist who will have to call the police.

“STATUS really does appear to be plotting her revenge here,” Staley said. “Divorce, checking her state’s HIV criminalization laws, drawing her husband into making a confession that could land him in prison.”

And the instrument of your revenge —laws that require HIV-positive people to disclose to their sex partners — is unjust and unworkable.

“I stand with every public-health organization, including UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, in abhorring HIV criminalization laws like the one STATUS cites,” Staley said. “We already have laws on the books that can adequately deal with someone who knowingly and intentionally transmits HIV to someone else. Adding additional laws around HIV disclosure, especially when no transmission occurs, ends up causing more harm than good. Stigma rises. Fewer people disclose.

Jilted partners use the laws to lash out.”

That’s exactly what you sound like: a jilted partner who hopes to use an unjust law to lash out. And while you have cause to be angry (serial adulterers suck), you don’t have grounds to destroy your husband’s life. And you can’t rationalize your plot based on the “danger” your husband presented to the other woman. Your husband is taking his meds and has an undetectable viral load. That means he’s effectively noninfectious. So even if he didn’t use condoms with this woman — and you don’t know for sure if he was fucking her (and he’d be a fool to admit to you that he was) — he didn’t put her at risk of acquiring HIV. “There’s a great organization called SERO (seroproject.com) fighting these laws,” Staley said. “Their website is filled with frighten-

Dear Dan: My boyfriend of two years and I broke up because I found out that he was having sexual relations with anonymous men he contacted through Craigslist. My ex will not admit to being bisexual. He claims that he has these urges only when he smokes marijuana. But through our computer history, I caught him watching gay porn at times when I knew he had not smoked marijuana. I check CL periodically, and he is still posting ads regularly, even though he denies this and insists that he has the situation under control. Disturbingly, he is also dating women.

I think this is dangerous because there is such a strong chance that he will give these women an STD, such as AIDS, and destroy both of their lives. I am the only person in his life who knows his secret, so I feel some sort of responsibility. I am very emotionally troubled by this knowledge and I don’t feel right about ignoring this.

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You could, however, speak to your ex as a friend — a creepy friend who cyberstalks him, but still a friend. You could urge him to accept that even if he isn’t bi, he needs to own up to not being entirely straight, either.

If he’s going to engage in risky sex practices with men — and you don’t know that he’s doing that (he could be using condoms correctly and consistently) — he should talk to his doctor about getting on PrEP, aka pre-exposure prophylaxis, aka Truvada. Then, having said your piece, you can butt the fuck out his life with a clear conscience.

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