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John hare

Illustrator and dad by the occasional burst of frenetic action resulting in a self-inflicted, second-place complex. Yup, that sounds right. Nowadays, I’ve tried to become more tortoiselike in my ways — always be moving forward, even if slowly.

So I guess my spirit animal is currently a hare that identifies as a tortoise.

Twitter handle: @JohnLHare Hometown: Parsons, Kansas Current neighborhood: Gladstone What I do: I use art, design and imagination to visually interpret ideas. In other words, I draw stuff.

Who is your hero? Elon Musk. Big dreams with action behind them.

What’s your addiction? Listening to podcasts.

What is your nemesis? The fold of my brain that says, “You suck, why bother, eff it.”

What’s your game? Tricking people into

thinking I’m a good listener despite not being able to shut down my inner dialogue enough to actually listen.

What’s your greatest struggle right now? Balancing work and home life. Working from home can make that quite tricky.

What’s your drink? Lots of coffee and lots of water. It’s part of my elaborate self-sabotaging procrastination scheme that assures I’ll have to get up to pee 20 times during any given work period.

My favorite toy as a child: Whatever toys my brother had.

My dating triumph/tragedy: I drew an ace

early and got married young. That qualifies as both, right?

are big and the rubs and sauces are awesome.

I highly recommend the “Slap Yo Mama” dry rub. Leo’s Pizza when I want some St. Louis– style pizza done right. Overall, my favorite place to go is Swagat Fine Indian Cuisine.

Eating their food literally makes me happy.

I’m talking goofy-grin, smiling-eyes happy.

I’m happy right now thinking about it.

What’s on your KC postcard? Looking south

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Where’s dinner? Wings Café, where the wings

only job requirement was to wear a top hat and carry a cane. I have no idea what that was all about.

across a busy City Market with the KC skyline in the background.

“In five years, I’ll be …” Plugged into the hive

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” We beat out Leavenworth to build

“I always laugh at …” Self-deprecating humor.

the first railroad bridge over the Missouri River. Oh, you mean recently?

“Kansas City screwed up when …” They got

rid of the cable cars! Not the electric streetcars like the ones from the mid-20th century.

True cable cars, like the trolleys of San Francisco. We had the third biggest network of cable cars in the country at one time. Sure, they were inefficient and dangerous, but it would’ve been thrilling to ride a cable car up that crazy looking Ninth Street incline (Google it) … unless it was one of those days the cable grip failed. That’s a bad day. Hmm, I’m realizing this would be a better answer for the above question. Nope … I’m sticking with it.

mind. Who knows. Hopefully not being a jerk.

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” Game of

Thrones, House of Cards, Louie. Right now, I’m binging on Master of None, the new Aziz Ansari series on Netflix. Occasionally, I’ve been known to binge on old Star Trek episodes, but it almost always means I’m slipping into a funk.

“I can’t stop listening to …” The awful cacophony of leaf blowers.

“My dream concert lineup is …” Opener would

“Kansas City needs …” To keep an open mind.

be Beck, middle would be Clutch, the main act would be a trio of Frank Black and the ghosts of Chopin and Charlie Parker. I have no idea what that would sound like, but I’m pretty sure it would be awesome. After-party would be the Devil Makes Three playing around a keg in somebody’s backyard.

“As a kid, I wanted to be …” A cartoonist, a

“I just read …” Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

writer, an astronaut, a pilot. Oh, yeah, there was a year I wanted to be a bachelor whose

So here’s this powerful wartime emperor of Rome writing to himself … basically jour-

My brush with fame: When I was a tween, I started drawing comic strips for my hometown paper. Suddenly, two girls I liked started calling me. That was a big deal at the time. naling … about what it means to be a good man and the daily struggles that go with that. Truly good stuff even if read in bitesize chunks.

What’s your hidden talent? Once a week, I spontaneously combust and rise from the debris as a new man. This is usually after my sister-in-law makes me nuclear-spicy Thai food.

What’s your guiltiest pleasure? Loudly and accurately singing along to most any Daryl Hall and John Oates song that might happen to be playing.

The best advice I ever got: The right thing to

do is often the hard thing to do.

Worst advice: A timeshare seems like a good idea!

My sidekick: My dog, Marcus. He was around

before we had kids, and he still kicks it like a puppy. Plus, his tail position is a remarkably accurate indicator of my mood. The whole family knows and exploits this.

What is your spirit animal? For most of my life, it’s been — appropriately — the hare from Aesop’s “The Tortoise and the Hare.” He’s known for stretches of laziness punctuated pitch.com

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My soapbox: We are tiny creatures sharing

the exposed crust of a small planet in an unfathomably large and hostile universe. We’re truly all in this together. Find folks you can have completely unfiltered, honest conversations with. Say “hi” to your neighbors even if they might not say “hi” back. Hold the door open for strangers. Use your hands to build something. Pick up that piece of trash on the playground. I know it’s not yours but what the hell. Leave places nicer than you find them. Resist the urge to be a cynic.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? No doubt it was for being late. I can’t

verify that because it’s pretty much automatic for me to walk in and apologize for being late. Like blinking, I do it without giving it any thought. Great, now I’m focusing on my blinking.

Who’s sorry now? I’m not falling for this one.

The moment I get cocky is the moment the shark jumps on the boat and eats me.

My recent triumph: Surviving an interview on live TV without inadvertently making a viral video.

Hare’s illustrations can be seen in the children’s book This Is Kansas City; see possumtrotkc.com.

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ast week at pitch.com, I wrote about how a developer of a hotel project in the Crossroads Arts District was looking for financial help from the Port Authority of Kansas City.

(Also see “Big TIF,” The Pitch, November 26, 2015.).

Jason Swords, affiliated with the business entity Main Lodging Parters LLC, which is developing the hotel, appeared before the Port Authority November 23 to see if the agency might lend a hand in making his 112-room, extended-stay hotel at 20th Street and Main a reality. It has already been a long slog for this project. Swords and City Hall fought to get a billboard off the little plot of underused land between Main and Walnut. Both thought it was an impediment to development. They ended up in court over the matter, which resulted in a settlement.

With that out of the way, I wrote, Swords had turned his attention to the Port Authority, seeking a special type of subsidy.

After that story appeared online, I got a call from Swords’ attorney. Roxsen Koch, a prolific development lawyer in Kansas City, didn’t mind the story itself. But she told me that she was concerned about the headline, which indicated that Swords needed $15 million worth of help. Describing a nuanced subject like tax incentives in a headline doesn’t always lend itself to clarity.

To be clear, Swords won’t end up with a suitcase full of cash if the Port Authority approves his request.

Here’s how Port Authority incentives work: The Port Authority can sell what are called Chapter 68 bonds to investors. When that happens, the Port Authority becomes the nominal owner of the property in question. Because the Port Authority is a public body, it’s exempt from taxes. So Swords’ hotel, or any project getting assistance from the Port Authority, won’t have to pay property or personal taxes for a period of time.

If Swords’ request is granted, he will make “lease payments” to the Port Authority — really just bond payments to investors. Once he pays off the bonds, the title to the property reverts to Swords, or whoever owns the hotel at that point. The benefit to Swords is that it’s less expensive for him to develop the property because property taxes aren’t part of his cost structure during the time the Port Authority is supporting the project.

The Port Authority’s commissioners last week voted to consider Swords’ proposal.

Swords is the latest developer to shop for assistance from the Port Authority, once a sleepy agency that collected rent payments from the

Hotel-development site at 20th Street and Main Isle of Capri and had responsibility for the Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. Historically, it has granted Chapter 68 bonds only very rarely.

Lately, however, it has become a go-to for developers all over Kansas City. It helped Populous relocate to the Country Club Plaza and greased the rails for a south Kansas City industrial warehouse.

Two factors make the Port Authority attractive to developers. One is that the agency does not have to meet the “but for” test to award financial assistance for private developments.

When developers seek tax-increment financing, for example, they must prove that conditions are such that a project wouldn’t happen “but for” the TIF financing.

Another is that developers going before the Port Authority don’t have their projects vetted by what’s called AdvanceKC. AdvanceKC is an initiative of Kansas City Mayor Sly James. As it relates to development projects, AdvanceKC is meant to look through development proposals and determine whether they need public assistance and, if so, which of the various types of incentives are appropriate for a given project.

Most of the city’s development agencies work within the AdvanceKC program, but the Port Authority does not, even though its commissioners are appointed by James.

AdvanceKC has gotten off the ground in fits and starts. Some projects go through AdvanceKC’s scoring program; others don’t.

Even projects that don’t rate highly through AdvanceKC’s vetting matrix (the muchdebated Shirley Helzberg/BNIM TIF scored “average”) seem to still get City Hall’s approval.

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MISJUDGED An eastern Jackson County court found it easy to blame a domestic-violence victim.

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n the spring of 2014, Christy DiMaggio lugged her file-cabinet suitcase to the law offices of William Quitmeier, in North Kansas City. She explained that, in the span of a year, she had gone from having full custody of her 5-year-old son to being allowed to see him for only a few hours once every two weeks with a court-ordered supervisor present in the room.

She felt that she wasn’t getting a fair shake from what she viewed as the clubby crowd of lawyers and judges who make their living in eastern Jackson County. So she’d come to Quitmeier, an eastern-Jackson outsider. The former mayor of Parkville (1991-2002), Quitmeier works mostly in North Kansas City.

“I reviewed the facts of her case, and I saw that she had tried to litigate the case herself, and I assumed that’s why she lost,” Quitmeier tells me. “Even so, I thought it was very unusual that the judge” — James A. Kanatzar — “would give her only supervised visits. She had no history of drugs or alcohol abuse, no history of neglect. Nothing. And the father had pled guilty to domestic-violence charges.

I just couldn’t see it.”

Quitmeier took the case. The deadline had passed for DiMaggio to appeal Kanatzar’s December 2013 ruling. But in April 2014, Zaroor was involved in a fight at a Lake of the Ozarks strip club called Gentlemen’s Quarters. One of the responding officers recognized Zaroor — he knew that Zaroor was on probation and was not permitted to drink alcohol. Zaroor

was given a breathalyzer test. He failed and was arrested, and he spent the night in jail.

Then, on August 24, 2014, Zaroor was involved in a vehicle collision at the Lake of the Ozarks. According to witnesses at the scene, Zaroor approached the driver of the other car, a woman, and began screaming in her face. When another man on the scene tried to intervene, Zaroor “placed his hands around [the man’s] throat in a choking manner,” according to both the female driver and the male witness. When police came to arrest Zaroor, he threatened to “have [the officer’s] badge” for violating his rights. He also yelled about the “police state” at the Lake of the Ozarks.

Nick, the child of Zaroor and DiMaggio, was in Zaroor’s vehicle at the time.

Based on these events, Quitmeier filed a motion to modify the custody arrangement.

“I assumed the judge would sign off on a substantial modification of custody,” Quitmeier says. “The guy just keeps getting arrested. At the very least, I assumed he [Kanatzar] would lift it to where Christy didn’t have to do supervised visits.”

Quitmeier was wrong.

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he general narrative of injustice that DiMaggio alleges is as follows: • DiMaggio was in an abusive relationship for four years, during which time her abuser,

Joseph Zaroor, was twice convicted of assaulting her.

• Hope House, a local domestic-violence shelter, referred DiMaggio to a Blue Springs lawyer named Michael Spiegel to represent her as she sought custody of her son with Zaroor, Nick.

• Shortly after she retained Spiegel as a lawyer in early January 2013, he began sending her intimate messages. They began a sexual relationship in February 2013.

• Four months later, DiMaggio broke off the sexual relationship with Spiegel. At that point, she says, she began to doubt Spiegel’s commitment to the case.

• Around this time, the guardian ad litem representing her son — Jennifer Oswald Brown, whom DiMaggio says Spiegel told her was a good friend (of his) when DiMaggio retained him — became unreceptive to DiMaggio’s concerns about her son and his father.

• DiMaggio eventually attempted to represent herself in the custody battle, despite her lack of a law degree or legal experience.

• Judge Kanatzar, who had previously worked with Spiegel in the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office, refused to admit evidence that would have helped DiMaggio at trial.

• Kanatzar then awarded sole legal and physical custody of Nick to Zaroor, despite Zaroor’s extensive and well-documented history of violent behavior.

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There are, of course, several other views of DiMaggio’s circumstances.

As Kelli Wulff, the lawyer who represented Zaroor in the custody battle, later put it in a response to a bar complaint that DiMaggio filed against her: “Since the [December 2013] entry of judgment, Ms. DiMaggio has filed complaints about her attorney, the Guardian ad Litem, myself and the Judge who entered the Judgment.”

In other words: Maybe the system isn’t what’s broken and out of control. Maybe what’s broken and out of control is Christy DiMaggio.

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ome of DiMaggio’s claims are verifiable.

Zaroor’s long history of domestic violence is a plain fact. As noted in the first part of this story (“Midjudged,” November 26), he has been convicted four times. On dozens of occasions, police have been summoned to domestic disturbances involving Zaroor with at least four women.

DiMaggio’s record is not spotless. She was once arrested for hitting Zaroor in the face, though Zaroor never filed charges. And in 2013, she pleaded guilty to criminal charges on a welfare-fraud case brought by the state of Missouri. She’s also currently a defendant in a civil suit for the same offense.

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On behalf of DiMaggio, attorney Lynne Bratcher filed a legal malpractice suit against Spiegel in March 2014. The suit was dismissed last month — without prejudice, meaning that it can be refiled, as DiMaggio intends to do — so that Missouri’s Office of Chief Disciplinary Counsel could review the bar complaint that DiMaggio has filed against Spiegel. (Presumably, DiMaggio has a better chance of winning the civil suit if the OCDC rules in DiMaggio’s favor on the complaint.)

Spiegel’s version of events, told by his attorney, Jim Morrow, in response to DiMaggio’s bar complaint, is much different.

“As the case progressed, Mr. Spiegel realized that Ms. DiMaggio was not being honest with him or the guardian ad litem about Mr. Zaroor. She had been fabricating stories about Mr. Zaroor and the case. She was also taking action on her own with regard to the minor child that was causing serious concerns with the guardian ad litem and damaging her case.

On multiple occasions, Mr. Spiegel informed DiMaggio to stop acting on her case, but she refused.”

Spiegel’s attorney goes on: “At times, she [DiMaggio] would tell him [Spiegel] that she and Zaroor had reached agreements on issues and he would start preparing paperwork based on said agreement. Ms. DiMaggio would also inform Mr. Spiegel that she and Mr.

An e-mail from Spiegel to his client, DiMaggio Zaroor were getting back together. When this did not work out for her, she filed multiple orders of protection against Mr. Zaroor. All were denied or not followed through with by Ms. DiMaggio. Additionally, Mr. Spiegel received several calls throughout the course of the case where Ms. DiMaggio would tell him to settle the case and to give Mr. Zaroor whatever he wanted to include sole custody. She would then call back and change her mind.”

DiMaggio says it’s true that, at one point, she told Spiegel that she didn’t want to continue the fight, and then changed her mind.

“I said, ‘Let him [Zaroor] have Nick. I can’t keep doing this. He’ll get arrested again, and I’ll get him back.’ But that was partly because I felt like Michael [Spiegel] wasn’t fighting for me anymore. Joe was being a bully and tormenting me at the custody exchanges. I was maxed out. I’m not proud of it. But I think anybody would have been after four years.”

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iMaggio and Zaroor’s toxic relationship makes it difficult to corroborate every claim they have made about each other. Each has accused the other of withholding parenting time in violation of court orders. Though he did not respond to a second, more specific line of questioning, Zaroor initially told The Pitch that for DiMaggio, the situation with their son has “never been about custody — it’s always about money.”

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DiMaggio says Zaroor’s strategy for avoiding legal repercussions for his behavior is to bribe and blackmail the women he abuses (including DiMaggio).

And DiMaggio made several strategic errors in the summer and fall of 2013, none of which endeared her to Jennifer Oswald Brown, the guardian ad litem on the custody case. It’s wellknown among family-law lawyers that if the GAL — a court-appointed advocate who is there to represent the best interests of the child — is not on your side, you’re in trouble. At some point, Brown apparently came to believe that DiMaggio was neither responsible nor trustworthy enough to be Nick’s primary custodian.

Brown did not respond to requests for comment. But her dim view of DiMaggio as a mother may have had to do with DiMaggio’s making frequent calls to Brown to detail the ways that she felt Zaroor was proving himself to be an unfit father (refusing to administer medication to Nick, insulting DiMaggio at the child exchanges, getting into trouble with the police with his new girlfriend).

“Nobody was paying attention to what Joe was doing — not Michael, not Jennifer,” DiMaggio says. “And that’s how Joe operates.

He creates these nightmare situations and then acts like you’re the crazy person. And from the outside, I can see how it looks like that sometimes. You lose your cool. But that’s exactly when I needed attorneys helping out for me and looking out for me. And Michael wasn’t there for me. And Jennifer wasn’t paying attention.”

There was also the matter of the swingers cruise.

Zaroor and DiMaggio, while together, were members of Lifestyle Lounge and a few other private online swingers clubs. So were many of their friends. In August 2013, DiMaggio was offered a free, two-week trip to Greece — a cruise for rich swingers, essentially — with a friend from Arizona. “It was a totally free vacation to Greece with a friend whose wife couldn’t go,” DiMaggio says. “It was not some kind of prostitute type of situation.”

At that point, the custody arrangement was one week on, one week off. DiMaggio says she suggested to Zaroor that he instead take the first two weeks of August, and she would take the last two weeks. He agreed, she says, and she left for two weeks.

A hearing on the temporary custody was set for August 28. Before DiMaggio left, Spiegel asked her where she was going. She refused to tell him.

“It was none of his business,” DiMaggio says. “He said it was because he needed to be able to tell the judge why I was leaving Nick with Joe for two weeks. But really he was asking because I had broken off our relationship, and he was jealous.”

When DiMaggio returned, she told Spiegel where she had been. At the August 28 temporary- custody hearing, Brown referenced the cruise as part of her recommendation for why DiMaggio should have only every-other-weekend visitation rights.

DiMaggio views this as Spiegel’s violating her

DiMaggio among the voluminous stacks of court records attorney-client privilege. “How else could she have known?” DiMaggio says.

At the August hearing, DiMaggio says, Spiegel intended to play the 911 calls from two occasions when Zaroor assaulted her.

It was the first time that Kanatzar would be hearing any evidence on the case. DiMaggio asked to leave the courtroom while the tape was played because she didn’t want to relive the trauma. When she returned, she learned that Spiegel could not get his laptop to play the audio. The judge never heard it.

Before the second day of the hearing, Spiegel privately accused DiMaggio of being dishonest on the stand, though she says he never specified what he was referring to (nor does Spiegel’s attorney specify in his response to DiMaggio’s bar complaint). Spiegel told her that he felt he had to withdraw from her case.

“He left her in the lurch,” Bratcher says.

“He does one day before the judge, and then he leaves her unrepresented for the rest of the trial.”

DiMaggio attempted to represent herself for the remainder of the hearing. It didn’t go well. Brown recommended that the temporary arrangement be modified so that DiMaggio would have only every-other-weekend visitation rights. Kanatzar agreed. A final hearing on the custody matter was scheduled for December.

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continued from page 7 met with a new lawyer, Scott Richart. He took a look at her case, she says (Richart declined to comment), and advised her that, because the GAL had clearly become unsympathetic to DiMaggio’s version of events, the best DiMaggio could probably hope for was to settle for every-other-weekend visitation rights.

He agreed to represent her in the settlement.

Shortly after this, Nick was returned to DiMaggio for a weekend with a cough and a rash on his face. She took him to his pediatrician. “It maybe wasn’t anything major, but he obviously needed some kind of medical attention,” DiMaggio says. The pediatrician told her to apply some ointment to Nick’s face.

The next day, she says, Nick had a 101degree fever and was balled up and crying.

She took him into the same pediatrician’s office but saw a different physician. This doctor recommended blood work and an X-ray at Children’s Mercy Hospital for what turned out to be a minor finger fracture. According to the medical records, Nick told the doctor, without DiMaggio in the room, that Zaroor had pricked his finger with “a shot” as punishment for being bad. The doctor then made a hotline call to Missouri Department of Social Services based on this.

At Children’s Mercy, while Nick was being seen, DiMaggio met privately with a hospital social worker, who gave her instructions on where and how to make a police report that would initiate a forensics interview over Zaroor’s possible abuse of Nick.

DiMaggio says she tried to contact Brown regarding all of this but heard nothing back.

On the day that DiMaggio was supposed to return Nick to Zaroor at the Lake of the Ozarks, she instead filed a police report there.

She didn’t give Nick back, in violation of the court order — a big no-no. Two days later, Brown filed an emergency motion in which she aggressively advocated that sole legal and physical custody be given to Zaroor until the December hearing. DiMaggio would be allowed to see Nick for two hours every other week, with a court-appointed supervisor present in the room.

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f you have read through the story this far, you have possibly concluded that Christy DiMaggio is a tornado who whirls drama around all who cross her path. You may have concluded that she has only herself to blame for having her son taken away.

But Barry Goldstein, a lawyer who has represented domestic-violence victims for 30 years and who speaks and holds judicial workshops on the topic of domestic violence’s role in custody issues, says it’s not uncommon for abused women to come across as unbalanced in custody battles.

“The context to all of this is the custody court system is broken,” he says. “For a variety of reasons, courts often err on the side of 8

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helping abusers and putting children at risk.”

He goes on: “The problem is, domestic violence became a national issue in the late 1970s.

At that time, there was no research available on the topic, and the courts had to develop their own practices to respond to it. And at the time, it was thought that domestic violence was the result of mental illness or substance abuse. So the courts turned to mental-health people for guidance. But they’re not experts on domestic violence — they’re experts on mental illness and substance abuse. The dynamics are completely different. So courts developed practices that are bad for those being abused. And now there’s substantial research that says we should change those practices.

But the courts have been slow to do that.”

A recent report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention argues that domestic violence should be considered an example of child abuse. It finds that children who are exposed to domestic abuse live shorter lives and suffer more illness and injuries throughout their lives.

A study known as the Saunders Report, commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice, finds that most judges, lawyers and evaluators in custody actions who have not had specific domestic-violence training more often side with abusers.

“For example, GALs,” Goldstein says.

“They’re generally trying to do the right thing, in my experience, but they usually don’t have the training. And so they often get manipulated by the abuser. And the abuser is usually the one who has control over the money in a relationship, so he’s the one with the means to pay the GAL. And so there’s a bias there, too.

[DiMaggio struggled to pay GAL fees to Brown.]

And so you have a mother who is emotional and angry, which is a normal reaction when you’ve been abused by somebody. But court professionals without the necessary training see that and think it’s something wrong with the mother, that she’s unstable, that she’s a bad

parent. And if she reports abuse, they think she’s behaving irrationally. And that’s how you end up with a harmful outcome for the child.”

Compound DiMaggio’s well-documented history of being abused by a domestic partner with her claim of an improper relationship with her attorney, and the signs that Goldstein is talking about show the path by which her son was taken away from her.

But that’s not how the folks in eastern Jackson County were looking at the situation in December 2013.

By the time the December hearing came around, DiMaggio had again decided to represent herself. She trusted no one, she says, especially not lawyers. (Richart was not interested in representing DiMaggio in anything beyond a settlement.) Two weeks before the hearing, Zaroor’s attorney, Kelli Wulff, opened a deposition in which DiMaggio was without counsel by asking how long DiMaggio

During the hearing, Brown and Wulff laid out convincing reasons why Zaroor should be given sole legal and physical custody. In the transcript, DiMaggio comes across as naive and, at times, belligerent. Despite a working knowledge of legal procedures (won by years of court dates with Zaroor), she is obviously unqualified to represent herself in a legal action.

Kanatzar refuses to admit certain evidence about Zaroor’s history of domestic violence and lectures her about speaking at moments when she is not allowed to speak.

In awarding Zaroor sole legal and physical custody, Kanatzar declared that DiMaggio had repeatedly and unjustifiably withheld Nick from Zaroor. In his written decision, he cites the Children’s Mercy incident as an example of DiMaggio lacking the ability to perform proper function as a mother: “Respondent subjected the child to examination by several medical providers until she found a provider who was

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“The context to all of this is the custody court system is broken. For a variety of reasons, courts often err on the side of helping abusers and putting children at risk.” had worked as a prostitute, presumably referring to her relationship with Spiegel. DiMaggio got up and left, which did not help her cause.

(DiMaggio subsequently filed a bar complaint against Wulff, which reached a Missouri Supreme Court disciplinary hearing before being denied.)

willing to make a report to the Jackson County Children’s Division.”

Kanatzar was unmoved by Zaroor’s history of domestic violence. In his decision, he writes: “…It is difficult for the Court to determine the credibility of the domestic violence testimony. Further the only substantiated

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Zaroor, as seen on his business’s website claim of domestic violence was Petitioner’s guilty plea in the state of Arizona, and it is unclear to the court whether or not this one incident establishes a pattern of domestic violence. … It is the intent of the legislature to avoid sole custody to perpetrators of domestic violence but the language does not preclude an award of sole legal and sole physical custody to that parent if the Court finds it is in the best interest of the child to do so. It is a balancing act and based on the evidence taken as a whole, despite his perpetration of domestic violence, the court finds that based on the behavior of [DiMaggio], it is in the best interest of the child to be placed in the sole legal and sole physical custody of [Zaroor].”

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hings might have ended there, had Zaroor’s scrapes with the law not continued.

In addition to the strip-club dustup and the road-rage episode cited at the top of this story, Zaroor also failed a drug test (testing positive for cocaine and ecstasy) in 2014. And he caused a disturbance at the Office of Probation & Parole in Eldon, Missouri, that required an employee to sound the building’s alarm bell.

A week after that incident, an Arizona court petitioned to revoke Zaroor’s probation, citing the road-rage arrest; the presence of guns in Zaroor’s home during a November 2013 visit

by Camden County police; refusing to sign a release on a hair-follicle test on October 6, 2014; testing positive for cocaine, amphetamines and marijuana on June 5, 2013; and the breathalyzer failure at the GQ strip club. Zaroor was arrested in Missouri and put on a bus back to Arizona, where he served several months in jail this year.

Prior to this, DiMaggio had hired a lawyer at the Lake of the Ozarks in 2014, seeking a modification of the custody agreement; she hoped to have her next custody hearing in Camden County instead of Jackson County because both Zaroor and Nick now lived in Camden

County and because Zaroor’s offenses had occurred in Camden County. But Kanatzar did not allow the case to be transferred out of his courtroom.

When Quitmeier, DiMaggio’s new attorney, got a motion to modify custody in front of Kanatzar after the road-rage incident, Kanatzar ruled again that DiMaggio deserved only supervised visits.

“Again, there’s no evidence that Christy neglected or abused the child,” Quitmeier says.

“And yet the judge still gave her supervised visitation. I was blown away by that.”

When Zaroor was in jail in Arizona earlier this year, though, DiMaggio was able to petition the court for custody of Nick.

“We filed an emergency petition,” Quitmeier says. “Joe’s in jail, the child is staying at the lake with the stepmom — the stepmom, whose kids, by the way, a Circuit Court judge in Camden County says Joe can’t even be in contact with. I mean, think about it. Joe can’t be around his own stepkids at the lake. And he’s only allowed supervised visitation with his child that lives in St. Louis. Meanwhile, he has sole custody of Nick? Because why?

Because Christy was overly concerned about the health of her child? Because she didn’t give Nick back to a man she believed was putting him in harm’s way? Come on.”

Kanatzar gave DiMaggio custody of Nick on a temporary basis while Zaroor was in jail. Nick stayed with DiMaggio from May until July. At one point, DiMaggio took Nick to the Rainforest Café at the Legends. But crossing the state line is a violation of the court order, and at the custody hearing after Zaroor was released, his attorney pointed to the Rainforest Café trip — there were photos on Facebook — as one of the reasons to return custody of Nick to Zaroor.

(Through a Jackson County spokesperson, Kanatzar declined to comment, citing Missouri’s Code of Judicial Conduct, which “generally prohibits judges from making public statements on evidence in pending or impending cases.”)

In his ruling, Kanatzar chastised DiMaggio for taking the child out of Missouri and for denying Nick access to a phone call from Zaroor from jail. But he lifted the supervision requirement for visits. DiMaggio is now allowed to have Nick for the entirety of every other weekend.

It’s a small victory. DiMaggio says she hopes that by coming forward, she will draw attention to the need for a national domesticviolence registry, much like the one that exists for sex offenders. She hopes to start a conversation about the victim-blaming tendencies that lurk within the family-law system of justice. And she hopes that other victims of domestic violence will come forward with their stories of injustice.

“I’m not playing the victim,” she says. “I don’t want that role anymore. I just want my son. And I want justice.”

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In other retail-leaning events, Front/Space (217 West 18th Street) closes out its year with a one-night-only Ten + One pop-up shop, featuring handmade quilts, printed linens, industrial lamps, sculptural candles and other creations by 11 artists (Lola Rat, Emily Harrison, Renee Zagorski, Bailey Glass, among them). It goes 6–9 p.m.

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Free Art Friday here started in 2013, inspired by the Flood the Streets with Art movement (a counterpunch to Black Friday mega-retail day), and the latest evidence of its ongoing statement happens First Friday at the 504 Gallery (504 East 18th Street). Organized by Ruthie Becker, this second annual FAFKC group show features 21 artists who have participated throughout 2015. Go by for music, refreshments and art to purchase (nothing’s really free, right?) or to find (except when it is), 5–10 p.m.

Belger Crane Yard Studios (2011 Tracy) is closing Peregrine Honig’s Suites December 19, making this your last First Friday to see it. Besides this multimedia installation — inspired by Honig’s mini sabbatical at the Hotel Phillips and also including works by Johanna Brooks and Jane Gotch — Belger Crane Yard continues Schema: A Journey Through Traditional Patterns and Imagery, by German-born ceramist Melanie Sherman. And you can still see the highly crafted wood sculptures by Christopher Kurtz. Both of these shows run through January 23. Plenty of products made

by Belger Crane Yard artists are for sale this weekend, starting with the 6–9 p.m. First Friday open house and continuing 10 a.m.– 4 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday.

Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2004 Baltimore) opened four solo exhibitions last month, and they remain up through December 23. Two of them inquire into female roles in contemporary culture: Kate Clement’s Fa | eint showcases the delicate, spun-glass crowns that she has been perfecting since their debut in a KCAI senior show in 2011; and Patty Carroll’s Anonymous Women Draped

Clockwise from top: end of semester at KCAI; “Black Flowers” by Patty Carroll, at Sherry Leedy; and “I Want More Air” by Dylan Mortimer, at Leedy-Voulkos comprises photographs of lone women hidden in the camouflage of domestic fabric patterns.

Rain Harris’ Fasciculum Florum, meanwhile, arranges intricate ceramic botanical forms in tableaux that reward a full 360-degree walk-around. Finally, Mary Ann Strandell’s lenticular prints, gathered in Parallax, are equally opulent and fluent in their own crosshistorical and -cultural vocabularies.

New at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (2012 Baltimore) are two solo shows by Kansas City powerhouses. Cure is a collection of signbased, glittering exclamations from Dylan Mortimer. He was born with cystic fibrosis, and this is his first showing of a body of work conveying his struggle with this degenerative disease. “Sometimes in the midst of the fight we find surprising things, beauty, joy, peace, hope and sometimes we find a cure,” he writes. “Sometimes we get a glimpse of what we can’t see. We can get a glimpse of what is real and true.” Cure opens with a

6–9 p.m. reception First Friday and runs through February 13. So does Gloria Baker Feinstein’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, which compiles new photographs made in the past couple of years in, among other places, Oregon, Minnesota, Louisiana and Uganda. She says that when she dreams at night, she’s photographing; she offers the images that she captures on camera as proof of her navigation of the world. “Like a hunter, my senses are fully engaged. I am looking. I am waiting.”

Beco Gallery (1922 Baltimore) opens Clarified Transparency and the Universal Framework, glass art by Alison Trent that appears almost claylike. The pieces are set in what she calls “interior spaces” or “personal spheres,” made from repurposed midcentury-modern furniture. The First Friday reception is 6–9 p.m., with regular weekday hours, 9 a.m.–5 p.m., through January 8.

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Over the winter months, the residents at Vulpes Bastille (1737 Locust) are, according to the latest dispatch from the artist studios, “taking over the gallery space” there and working together. RE/WORK is about process, with Ami Ayars, Justin Border, Lydia Bryan, Colin Joseph Burke, Caranne Camarena, Lynn Collins, Jason Comotto, Dustin Downey and Brandon Forrest Frederick, who deliberately step out of their individual studios in favor of a less insular experience within Vulpes’ mini community. Expect collaborations to emerge. Things get under way 6–9 p.m. First Friday; open hours follow January 1 and 15, and February 5 and 26 (the date of a 6 p.m. closing reception). Or beat cabin fever until the end of February by watching 24/7 GoPro livestream on the building’s exterior and via @re.work.kc.

Before you batten down for the season, though, see Robert Bingaman’s Until It’s All You See at Studios Inc. (1708 Campbell), which closes December 18. The capstone to Bingaman’s three-year residency, the exhibition centers on massive, floating forms that refer to in-ground swimming pools at night. The art here pushes the show’s literal vocabulary of luxury items to visual limits equaled

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Devon Carney, who joined the company as its artistic director in 2013, has choreographed the all-new show, marking a departure from the Todd Bolender moves familiar to KC audiences the past three decades.

Tchaikovsky’s score (played by the Kansas City Symphony, led by the ballet’s music director, Ramona Pansegrau) remains the same — mostly — as does the plot (a girl without nut allergies forms an instant attachment to a gift, experiences weirdly Ambien-like dreams), but the retooled design and staging promise to make even those elements feel different. Thrillingly different, Carney hopes, as he explains in an e-mail interview.

The Pitch: In staging an all-new production of a beloved theatrical event, what did you know from the outset — before the choreography, even — about what you would do with design and technical aspects?

Carney: I very much wanted a production that would be highly entertaining to our Kansas City audiences. I wanted the show to be full of exciting moments, with vibrant color and exceptional three-dimensionality within the sets and costumes. This lends itself to a more fully immersive experience for the audience. I also wanted to take advantage of our current technical capabilities in all aspects of the production that are available to us today in the 21st century.

It’s a fantastical story — how much does it benefit from what can be done today with sound and lighting and state-of-the-art equipment?

In terms of the lighting capabilities that we have now at our disposal, the use of LED technology has very much broadened the possibilities of a fuller spectrum of lighting within each and every unit that employs this technology. We are also using automated lights that can actually rotate and move to point in different directions for each light cue, thus offering a virtually limitless set of focal points per lighting unit. Having someone like Trad Burns at the helm of our lighting design for The Nutcracker has brought this and many other newer technologies to this production. I am also taking advantage of lower-weight materials in the construction of sets and costumes.

What do you think will surprise a traditionminded audience most in this new staging?

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The Nutcracker the Kansas City Ballet December 5–24 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcballet.org children and adults alike. How Clara is transported to the land of the sweets is a very beautiful experience to behold! Act 2 has several environmental elements that lend to the feel of the location of the divertissements and makes for a more whimsical, dreamlike world for Clara, whose adventure we are experiencing. There are also some portions of the original score that have been returned to the orchestration, which haven’t been heard in years past.

What will people find most familiar in it, besides the music?

The story of Clara and her adventure into a dreamlike world of the Land of the Sweets — based on the tale “The Nutcracker and the Mouse King,” written by E.T.A. Hoffmann — is still very much at the core of this production. Drosselmeier has a more appropriately substantial presence within the entire production now. Also, the location still begins in the general Victorian era, before we enter Clara’s dream-world adventures.

If there weren’t a Nutcracker, what underthe-radar piece in the canon — or what yetto-be-translated-to-ballet story — would you want to show a big audience at the holidays?

Wow! I can’t even imagine the holiday season without The Nutcracker! It has been a

Clockwise from top: Carney with Hannah Zucht, one of the production’s Claras; dancer Charles Martin gets fitted; Carney at work on Nutcracker with designers Trad Burns (lighting), Holly Hynes (costumes) and Alain Vaës (sets). part of my life in the dance world for 40 years, and it seems to me it will be around for quite a long time as a part of the holiday season.

In an altered reality where The Nutcracker did not exist, I guess there could be some very interesting works that could be created that might be a viable alternative as a holiday-type production. There are several currently existing holiday-type stories, such as the classic

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Flash-forward three months, and Goellner is still far from Brush Creek — and may not bring Mulberry & Mott back to the Plaza.

“The Plaza is for sale, so its future is uncertain, at least for a small-business owner like me,” she tells me. “I want to wait and see what the new owners, whoever it is, will be doing with the property. In the meantime, I have a successful wholesale and online business.”

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In addition to introducing a few new colors and flavors of macarons — including a woodgrain version — another new item for sale at Goellner’s pop-up will be her own chocolate bars.

“I’m starting my own chocolate line,” she says. “I’m calling it Bokkie Sjokolade. It’s a tribute to my husband, who is South African, and our daughter. The Afrikaans word for ‘small child’ is bokkie, and the word for ‘chocolate’ is sjokolade.”

Goellner also plans to use the 73rd Street commissary kitchen for a series of cocktail classes in December and January, taught by Jared Murray, former bartender at Room 39 in Leawood. “We’ll have food, and Jared is a very entertaining teacher,” she says.

Goellner and her husband became friends with Murray when they were regular Room 39 customers.

“My first shop was out there in Mission Farms,” Goellner says. “So we started eating there, at the bar, every Wednesday night. And when Jared left Room 39 to focus on his day job as a contractor, we really missed him. So we encouraged him to come to our kitchen in Waldo to hang out and teach people how to make great cocktails.”

The next cocktail class is Thursday, December 10. It focuses on champagne and dessert. To register, call 913-216-4093.

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Grünauer’s bar manager has been at the restaurant since it opened, in 2010. It’s a position he took following a two-decade career in the corporate world (as a bartender at O’Dowd’s and M&S Grill and, later, as the national corporate trainer for McCormick & Schmick’s). It’s not that he’s stuck in his ways, exactly. It’s just that, after so long in the industry, he has gotten comfortable.

“I was really jazzed on the history of cocktails [when I first started bartending], and

Thursday, december 3

Tallgrass meet-the-brewer night, with owner Jeff Gill and brewmaster Brandon Hoag and a tasting of four Explorer Series beers, at Tapcade (1701 McGee), $18, 7–9 p.m.

Winterbock tapping and Toys for Tots drive, at Gordon Biersch (11652 Ash, Leawood).

Bring a toy and receive a GB beer.

4 Hands and Stone Sorry Not Sorry IPA, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Friday, december 4

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Beskow rattles some eggs. by virtue of just some luck with my job at McCormick’s, I got to work with some of the early guys [Ryan Maybee, Ryan Magarian] in the classic-cocktail revival,” Beskow says. “I got excited about it early on, and as that trend has evolved to being kind of over the top, I sort of started to sour on that a little bit. My philosophy has sort of settled down.”

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is in ensuring that his guests are at ease. His days of flair are over.

“I like cultivating regulars, growing a good bar atmosphere,” he says. “For me, these days, it’s about getting people what they want. It’s being respectful of their choices by helping them find things that they like. I try to steer away from the pedantic ‘I know better than you do’ thing with cocktails. It’s not my job to tell people what they want. It’s my job to listen and give it to them.”

Today, what I want is eggnog. Specifically, the spiked kind.

Eggnog is generally prepared in large batches, but Beskow has a plan. His new winter cocktail menu includes a drink called Starry Night, and it’s a twist on the time-tested flip — essentially, he tells me, a nog.

All the basic ingredients are accounted for: a whole egg, sugar, milk, booze — but Beskow has some alterations. He has created a brownsugar syrup; in lieu of the milk and heavy cream, he’s using Shatto half-and-half. The egg is from Ad Astra Farms, where Grünauer’s chef de cuisine, Matthias Seyfrid, raises freerange chickens. Instead of rum or brandy, Starry Night features Rainwater Madeira, a fortified Spanish wine that Beskow has just gotten in stock.

“It was my desire to use Matthias’ eggs, just because they’re the best eggs I’ve ever tasted,” Beskow says of the recipe. “Raw eggs in drinks are kind of weird to some people, but the more I read about it, a fully free-range, truly organic egg is about as safe as it gets. So I really wanted to use those eggs, and a flip is classic.”

Pirate, 5 Barrel and Myrcenary, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway), 6 p.m.

at Rock & Run & Brewery (110 E. Kansas, Liberty), 6–8 p.m.

Stone and 4 Hands collaboration Sorry Not Sorry IPA, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory

New Holland Dragon’s Milk Cellar Series tap takeover, with Dragon’s Milk, Dragon’s

Blvd.), 4–8 p.m.

New Belgium tasting, with Accumulation and seasonal Folly Packs, at Plaza Liquor (4500 Belleview), 4–7 p.m.

sunday, december 6

Flying Saucer Beerknurd Appreciation Party, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.).

Jolly Pumpkin tasting, at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City), noon–4 p.m.

monday, december 7

Crane Brewing Co. launch parties, TBD.

Tuesday, december 8

Boulevard beer dinner and tap takeover,

Milk with Raspberries, Dragon’s Milk with Chocolate and Coffee, Dragon’s Milk with Toasted Chilies, and Dragon’s Milk Triple Mashed, at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Midland Dr., Shawnee), 5 p.m.

Ugly holiday sweater contest, at Gordon Biersch (11652 Ash, Leawood).

Wednesday, december 9

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

Ska Modus Hoperandi can specialty-glass night, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.),

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While he talks, Beskow prepares the Starry Night, combining all the ingredients and shaking twice — once dry, and then again with ice (to avoid overly diluting the mixture, he says). He double strains the thick liquid, pale as a crescent moon, into a squat vintage glass.

(Beskow confesses an addiction to thrift-store glassware.) While my photographer holds this cocktail hostage and as Beskow makes a nonalcoholic version, I ask him to give me some background on the origins of the flip.

“As far as I know, it was a totally different drink at first [in the 1600s],” Beskow says.

“It was like a rum-and-beer thing, and it was served hot or warm. It was a sailor’s drink, and it evolved over time. By the time it got to the Jerry Thomas book [How to Mix Drinks: Or the Bon-Vivant’s Companion, 1862], it’s what it is now, which is what it’s been for over a hundred years — egg and milk and usually any base spirit, but usually all the ones you’d expect.”

“Flipping” was another term for “frothing,” Beskow says, referring to the fluffy layer of foam resting atop the drink. He serves the virgin flip in a martini glass — it’s all about perception, he tells me — and begins a third variation. For this last cocktail, he presents a bottle of Becherovka.

“This is a Czech digestif herbal liqueur,” he says. “I’m not sure what’s in it because it’s one of those proprietary, closely guarded secrets, but I get cloves and cinnamon. It almost tastes like chai tea. I’ve never put it in a nog, but I’m almost positive it’ll be delicious.”

As I sample the Becherovka, I find a few more notes — cardamom, white pepper, cassis. Beskow serves this Czech flip — the Starry Nacht — in a petite beer mug, shaving fresh nutmeg over the top as a garnish.

We line the three versions up to taste.

Beskow’s Starry Night is a reverie: The orange-zest garnish hits first, and the citrus lightens up what is usually a heavy drink.

Three Starry Nights The Rainwater Madeira has a warm, raisinfruit profile that helps balance out the cream.

The Becherovka makes for a markedly different profile in the second cocktail: The spices bang around and linger, almost bitter, in the aftertaste — it’s as though chai tea and custard had a three-way with a spice rack. The nonalcoholic flip is the thickest. Though delicious, I find it no match for its boozy siblings.

As Beskow greets his first proper bar guest of the day (I’ve appeared just as a weekday lunch is beginning), I consider his efforts. I know that the flip is a labor-intensive cocktail, and yet, as I glance at my watch, I realize that it has taken Beskow less than a half-hour to provide me with three versions. There is no mess behind his bar; all his tools have been washed along the way. We chatted easily as he measured liquid ounces, polished glassware, selected garnishes.

There is a subtle grace to the process. As much as I’ve enjoyed Beskow’s cocktails, I find myself more impressed with how my mood has changed for the better since I entered Grünauer. I could blame the alcohol, sure — but I’m more likely to give the bartender credit.

STARRY NIGHT

1 whole Ad Astra egg 1/2 ounce rich brown-sugar syrup 1-1/2 ounces Rainwater Madeira (or Becherovka liqueur) 2 ounces Shatto half-and-half Grated nutmeg and orange zest to taste Beskow: Combine all, dry shake, then wet shake. Double strain. Garnish with nutmeg and orange zest.

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COURTESY OF THE HEARTLAND MEN’S CHORUS

Tidings of Joy

Dustin Cates, Heartland Men’s Chorus artistic

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he Heartland Men’s Chorus has always aimed for what it refers to as a “nontraditional holiday tradition” at its annual December concert. As Kansas City’s premier gay men’s chorus, the group has plenty of room to fill that niche.

After the success of last year’s Kansas City Christmas, artistic director Dustin Cates wanted to solidify the annual program as a local tradition. To that end, he dug into the city’s history to create an ambience that reflected both the chorus and the city.

The Pitch spoke with Cates by phone about his role, the Heartland Men’s Chorus’ place in Kansas City, and establishing a new custom.

The Pitch: Tell me about how the Heartland Men’s Chorus embraces the “non-traditional” aspect of Christmas choral music.

Cates: For instance, we’re singing a series of songs from Benjamin Britten’s Ceremony of Carols in the first half, which is a pretty legitimate piece of choral music with harp accompaniment. And then, in the second half, we’re singing a parody of “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas” called “I Want a Lumbersexual for Christmas.”

That’s one of the great things about Heartland Men’s Chorus: We really do try to do it all, and we try to do it all with as much excellence as we can. I think that this concert, in particular, is a really great example of that because our first half is a little more serious, legitimate choral music — if you like to call it that — and the second half is a little bit more irreverent, kind of fun, Hamburger Mary’s-style.

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an organization seems like a really grand plan.

The original concept started because I had to put a season together, like, five minutes after they hired me [in 2014], and I was trying to come up with something for the holiday.

Every year, the chorus would come up with a different slant on it. One year, they did Holiday Glee and did holiday music from the television show, and I think the last one before I got there was Baby, It’s Cold Outside, which was music about the weather and being cold. In general, it was always this blend of classics and zany, campy stuff. For a lot of our subscribers and supporters, it’s how they kick off the holiday season.

As I was thinking about what I would do the next year, I realized that Kansas City Christmas was probably the highest-selling holiday show they’d had in the history of the organization.

We based a lot of the concert off Kansas City composers, and it explored what it was like to be in Kansas City during the holidays. I just thought that civic pride is at an all-time high.

Last year’s holiday concert was a huge success, and given that they [the Kansas City Ballet and the Kansas City Symphony] do The Nutcracker and the Messiah year after year, there’s no reason that Heartland Men’s Chorus can’t brand their holiday concert.

I get the feeling that there’s always a delicate balance between giving people what they expect to hear and challenging yourself as an artist.

How do you challenge yourself and the audience while maintaining that balance?

As an artist, there are certain sorts of traditional, standard, familiar pieces that you are drawn to because they’re a part of your

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The Heartland Men’s Chorus stands together. experience or your heritage as a musician.

The other side of the coin as an artist is that you really love to try and reinvent some of those ideas to make them new and relevant and interesting to all audiences — some that have heard the given piece before, some that have maybe never heard it before.

The Benjamin Britten piece is a great example. It’s not originally written for men’s chorus. The arrangement we’re singing was originally written for treble voices — so, a women’s chorus. That’s sort of a new take on it — that we’re, as a men’s chorus, singing it an octave down.

What were you doing prior to becoming the Heartland Men’s Chorus artistic director?

Kansas City Christmas Heartland Men’s Chorus December 4–6 at the Folly Theater, tickets at 816-474-4444 or hmckc.org I spent 11 years teaching high school choir.

I taught high school because I felt like I was really in there making a difference in those kids’ lives. As an openly gay guy with a husband and a kid, teaching in southern Johnson County — I mean, that’s a statement that I felt needed to be made.

As a lifelong Kansas Citian, I was always aware of Heartland Men’s Chorus, and I loved their brand of classics and really great choral singing but also that they could blow your mind with some campy, crazy, really fun

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songs. But I wasn’t really aware of the community advocacy that happened. Both internally, for the guys — I mean, some of those guys are 50 years old and divorced their wives, and their kids won’t speak to them. The only family they have is Heartland Men’s Chorus.

On the other side of the coin is the advocacy the chorus does in the city for LGBT issues, which is huge. That part of the organization I wasn’t aware of before I had the opportunity to guest conduct.

The job posting came up, and I thought, “This is a full-time job? This is cool!” In addition to that, it allows me this free time to be a really great dad, whereas before that, I was spending the entire day and entire night sometimes as a high school choral director for the musical or contest or something like that.

I just say to the guys, “We just fell in love, and I can’t quit you guys. You decided to keep me.” It fell into place, and it feels good. I was putting together the playbill for the show, and I never thought, five years ago, that I would be putting in the credits of something I was doing “Lumbersexual No. 1” and “Lumbersexual No. 2,” but this is what I do now!

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If you’ve ever seen the TV sitcom The Nanny, you know Ann Hampton Callaway’s voice — she sang the theme song. As an actress, she starred in Broadway’s Swing! She sang in Washington, D.C., for Bill Clinton and in Moscow for Mikhail Gorbachev. Her compositions have been performed by Barbra Streisand, Patti LuPone and Carole King. Her own discography includes three albums that have gone platinum. Tuesday night, Callaway’s smooth and powerfully soulful voice, a style that melds jazz with cabaret dynamism, joins the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra for its annual Christmas celebration at the Kauffman Center’s Helzberg Hall. This show traditionally is the orchestra’s most popular.

With a talent like Callaway’s onstage, this year should be no exception.

— Larry Kopitnik Ann Hampton Callaway with the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra, 7 p.m. Tuesday, December 8, at the Kauffman Center (1601 Broadway, 816-994-7222); tickets start at $20.

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recognize some of the folks for whom he has written songs: the Dixie Chicks, George Strait, Vince Gill and Patty Loveless. Lauderdale is a legend in his own right, even if he’s more of an industry man’s man. All the more reason for you to carve out time to catch him Saturday at Knuckleheads. Local folk duo Ruddy Swain — composed of the Grisly Hand’s Lauren Krum and Dead Voices’ David Regnier — opens.

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Thursday, December 3, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)

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Nikki Lane wants to bring outlaw country back. In fact, with her latest full-length, All or Nothin’, she makes a strong argument that it never went away. The western swing of the saucy “Sleep With a Stranger” would make Hank Williams proud, and Dolly Parton would certainly endorse the reasonable demands that Lane makes on “Good Man.” The Nashville artist was last in KC a year ago, when she opened for Loretta Lynn at the Uptown Theater. If you saw her then, you’ll know that she’s well worth a weeknight at the Granada.

Tuesday, December 8, the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

Isbell returns. ship since the ’70s, and they have a handful of ageless hits to show for it. Admit it: Few things are better balms for a broken heart than blasting “Alone” and belting the chorus into a hairbrush (with a glass of wine affixed to your other hand, of course). The Wilson sisters have a particular soft spot for Led Zeppelin covers — for which Ann Wilson’s voice is amazingly suited. Friday at the Midland, prepare to reel in the years.

Friday, December 4, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

Jim Lauderdale

More than 30 years — and more than 20 studio albums — into his career, Grammy Awardwinning Nashville artist Jim Lauderdale shows no signs of slowing down. If you’re not familiar with his work, perhaps you’ll

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In February, Alabama singer-songwriter (and former member of Drive-By Truckers) Jason Isbell wowed a packed and warm audience at the Uptown. Wednesday, Isbell makes a return visit to the same venue — and into our waiting arms. Isbell’s newest tour is in support of July’s Something More Than Free, the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed 2013 album, Southeastern. Something More is light in all the places that Southeastern isn’t, showcasing Isbell’s sunnier disposition — while his songwriting chops remain as sharp as ever.

Nashville country singer-songwriter Rayland Baxter opens.

Wednesday, December 9, Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)

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THEATER SHOWS & EVENTS

Earl & Them | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Dates and times vary.

Kevin Frazee Trio, Broadway Jazz Orchestra | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Betty White Christmas | Missie B’s, 805 W.

39th St., facebook.com/Late-Night-Theatre

Grand Marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

Buyer & Cellar | Starting Wednesday, Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

Haunting Skies. Perfect Pursuit, Lioness, Divided We Stand | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Dirty Dancing | Starting Tuesday, Music Hall,

Lawrence

Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play | Unicorn

Rochester

A Night on the Town | Through Saturday,

Jabee, Kadesh Flow, Clark Rooseveltte, Godson, SG, J Lee of Heet Mob, DJ Rockwell | 8 p.m. The

301 W. 13th St., theaterleague.com

Honeycutters | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715

Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

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The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail | Metro-

politan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, metkc.org

On Shoulders Now | Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Central, kcmeltingpot.com Reduced Shakespeare Company: The Ultimate Christmas Show (Abridged) | 8 p.m. Saturday, Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, jccc.edu/performingarts-series

Staged readings of work by female playwrights | 8 p.m. Friday, Potluck Productions,

Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Coleman House Opening | The 9-foot-tall

dollhouse opens for the season, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Saturday, National Museum of Toys and Miniatures, 5235 Oak, toyandminiaturemuseum.org

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

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Jay Nordlinger discusses his book Children of Monsters: An Inquiry Into the Sons and Daughters of Dictators | 6:30 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

5 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Westport Rd.

HOLIDAY EVENTS A Charlie Brown Christmas | The Coterie

Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

A Christmas Carol | Kansas City Repertory

Theatre, UMKC campus, 4949 Cherry, kcrep.org

Christmas in the Park | 5:30-10 p.m. Longview Lake Campground, 10711 W. Scherer

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

Massachusetts, Lawrence

April Macie | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W.

119th St., Overland Park

Ice skating | 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Crown Center Ice Terrace, 2425 Grand

Christmas in Song | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com

Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org

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

Cody Canada & the Departed, Strangetowne | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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

So You Think You Can Dance? | 8 p.m. The Mid-

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

Holiday Lights on Farmstead Lane | 5-10 p.m.

The Delta Saints, the Roseline | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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

days and Sundays, Strawberry Hill Museum and Cultural Center, 720 N. Fourth St., KCK

The Santaland Diaries | Kansas City Repertory

Heartland Men’s Chorus: Kansas City Christmas | 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 4 p.m. Sunday,

E. 85th St.

Noon Friday and Monday, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

Classic Holiday Movie Series: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation | Starting Friday,

Dan Bliss & Rod Fleeman | 7 p.m. The Phoenix,

302 W. Eighth St.

Kansas City Symphony: TubaChristmas |

Santa Express | Starting Saturday, the National Agricultural Center and Hall of Fame, 630 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs, AgHallofFame.com

Thursday, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org

Festival of Trees | 10 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Monday, MUSIC

Kansas City Ballet: The Nutcracker | Starting Saturday, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcballet.org

Classic Holiday Movie Series: Elf | Through

Tuesday, Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday; through December 3, at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, libertyhall.net

land, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Pink Royal, Rachel Mallin & the Wild Type, the Author & the Illustrator | 9:45 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

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

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Kansas City Symphony: Handel’s Messiah, featuring the Kansas City Symphony Chorus and the Independence Messiah Choir | 7 p.m.

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A Centenary of Australian War Art | Through

Sunday, National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

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Dirty Dancing | Starting Tuesday, at the Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St., theaterleague.com

Phantoms of KC book release, Racism in KC |

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Musical Theater Heritage at Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

Monday-Thursday, Sunday; 5-11 p.m. FridaySaturday, Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead, 13800 Switzer Rd., Overland Park, drfarmstead.org

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Theatre, Copaken Stage, 13th St. and Walnut

Songs of Good Cheer: a community sing-along benefiting the Heart of America Alzheimer’s Association | 7 p.m. Friday, $20, Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., songsofgoodcheer-kc.org Sugar Plum Fairy Children’s Ball | 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, Sheraton Crown Center, 2345 McGee, kcballet.org

A Swinging Kansas City Christmas, featuring Ann Hampton Calloway | 7 p.m. Tuesday, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, tickets.kauffmancenter.org

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Reduced ShakeSpeaRe company

American Epics: Thomas Hart Benton and Hollywood | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

Autumn Twilight, Dwelling Among Mountains | Through Sunday, Kemper Museum

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

Barkley Holiday Shop, with handmade gifts, art and drinks | 6-9 p.m. Friday, Wheat Photography, 1803 Wyandotte The Center Is a Moving Target: If You Lived (T)Here | Fridays and Saturdays, Kemper at the Crossroads, 33 W. 19th St.

Dark Days, Bright Nights: Contemporary Paintings From Finland | Kemper Museum of

Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

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| 6 p.m. Thursday, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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

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

Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick

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

Intimate Riot : Peregrine Honig’s viewer-

friendly interpretation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Robert Zakanitch: Ephemeral Beauty | Ner-

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April Macie | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

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Maria the Mexican’s Christmas Party | 7 p.m.

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the Architects, Big iron, the Rackatees | 9:45 p.m.

Bill Poss and the Useful tools, Sky Smeed, old fangled | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts,

Blue 88 | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Walking oceans, the Sluts, Hyborian | 8 p.m. The

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Kansas City Symphony: Handel’s Messiah, featuring the Kansas City Symphony Chorus and the independence Messiah Choir | 8 p.m.

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Annie-Mae Allure’s Holiday Honeys Unwrapped, featuring Red Hot Annie, Claira Bell, Redd Skyy, Jewcy James, Cher D. Blame and Nada Von Darling | 8 p.m. The All-Star Rock Bar, 7210 N.E. 43rd St.

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in the Garage with Rory Cameron | 10 p.m. MiniBar,

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Andrzej Zielinski: Open Sourced | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park

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Bob Bowman trio, electric tinks | 5:30 p.m. Green

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Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Warship emerald, Cauldron Point, Crystal Baller, Mime Game | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Brother Bagman, Martian face, the Mongrels (eP release), Supermassive Black Holes |

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Danny Cox | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Grand Marquis | 9 p.m. The Kill Devil Club, 61 E.

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Bass Hertz official takeover, featuring Sayer, Aplsoz, Strapback and more | 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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DJ P, Nmezee | 11 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Havok | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Metal Burlesque Show ii, featuring Egypt Rose,

Heart, part of the 2015 Susan G. Komen Rock the Ribbon celebration | 6 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, komenkansascity.org

Ship, 1217 Union

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Kansas City symphony: Handel’s Messiah, featuring the Kansas City symphony Chorus and the independence messiah Choir | 8 p.m.

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Allen Fieldhouse, 1651 Naismith Dr., Lawrence

Arnez J | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. Bridget everett | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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missouri Comets vs. milwaukee Wave | 7:35 p.m.

Silverstein Eye Centers Arena, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

April macie | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

ultimate Blue Corner Battles | 7 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

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Ashes to immortality, Bayley Kate & the running late, signal ridge | 8:30 p.m. The Granada,

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Jazz brunch with the Cynthia van Roden Trio |

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

Kill Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.

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

The People’s Liberation Big Band | 8 p.m. RecordBar,

Karl McComas-Reichl Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady

Mark Montgomery | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

The Queers, Drop a Grand, the Cave Girls | 8 p.m.

The Moth & the Flame, yes you Are, the Slowdown | 9:45 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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1001 Arabian Nights: Belly Dance and Beyond | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Dropout Boogie | Westport Flea Market, 817 West-

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Sunday | 12.6 | COMEDy

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Dear Dan: I’m a straight female in my mid 20s.

I’ve been dating a wonderful guy for two years, but I recently found something that has put me on edge. Before we met, he was in a relationship with a terrible, alcoholic and mentally unstable woman. They got pregnant early in the relationship and stayed together for about five years. We met a year after they broke up. I felt like I’d come to terms with the ugliness of his past, with his trying to stay in a bad relationship for the sake of his child and the rest of it. But recently, thanks to the vastness of the Internet, I came across a suggestive photo of my boyfriend with his ex’s sister. I asked him about it, and he admitted to sleeping with her while he was with his ex. He says it was during a particularly bad period, he was very drunk, she made the first move, etc., but I’m just so grossed out. Cheating is one thing, but fucking your girlfriend’s sister? And it’s not like this was a 19-year-old’s mistake; he was near 30 and the father of a child. He also fudged a little about whether it was just one time or a few times. I feel like now I’m questioning his integrity. This is something that I wouldn’t have thought him capable of doing. What do I do?

All Twisted Up Dear ATU: What do you do? You ask yourself if

you believe your boyfriend when he says fucking his then-girlfriend’s sister was a mistake, one he deeply regrets and one he never intends to repeat. If you can’t be romantically involved with someone capable of doing such a terrible sister-fucking thing, the question is a rhetorical one. You’ll have to end the relationship regardless of the answer. But if you could stay with someone capable of doing such a terrible sister-fucking thing, and if you believe your boyfriend when he says it was a mistake, one he regrets and one that won’t happen again, then you stay in the relationship.

And when your find yourself feeling squicked out by the knowledge that your boyfriend fucked around on his previous girlfriend with her own sister, you remind yourself that good and decent people sometimes do shitty, indecent, sister-fucking-ish things — and then you pause to consider all the shitty and/or indecent things you’ve done in your life — some, most or all of which your boyfriend presumably remains blissfully unaware.

It’s too bad that a suggestive/incriminating photo is rattling around out there in the vastness of the Internet, but I’m curious about how exactly you “came across” it in the first place. If you went looking for dirt — if you were snooping — you found it. Congrats. I’m not against snooping in all instances. People often find out shit they have both a right and an urgent need to know: The BF/GF/NBF*/fiancé/spouse is cheating in a way that puts you at risk, is running up ruinous debts, is hiding a secret

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Dear Dan: How bad is chlamydia? My gynecologist left me a voice mail, and I’m absolutely terrified. A quick Google search told me that it can cause infertility if left untreated — what it didn’t tell me is how long left untreated before it causes infertility. I told my boyfriend of 10 months, and he seems very sane about it. But I’m terrified that he’ll leave me. HELP! Seriously Terrified Damsel

second family, is attending Donald Trump rallies, etc. But just as often, we find out shit we didn’t need to know — something in the BF/GF/NBF’s past, something he or she regrets and will never do again (do you even have a sister?) — and can never not know.

You learned that your boyfriend did something pretty fucked up. Whether you decide to stay or go, remember that you snoop at your own risk — sorry, remember that you explore “the vastness of the Internet” at your own risk. * Nonbinary friend.

Dear Dan: I’m a 37-year-old straight male in a

relationship with a slightly older woman. I have a GGG girlfriend, and I’m completely GGG — until we talk about having a MMF threesome.

We have great sex and have experimented together. We tried playing with a couple to give her the “two-dick experience” she wanted, but the other man was of “average” size, and she was not into it. I’m of average stature, and she made such a fuss of having someone extra-large join in that it threw my hang-up about my size into overdrive. It has paralyzed me sexually. I’m afraid she’ll leave me or run off looking to fulfill her need on her own.

Average Nerdy Guy Shunning Threesomes Dear ANGST: If leaving you is the only way this woman can ever experience an above-average cock again, then she might leave you. And your insecurities may create an incentive for her to leave you or cheat on you if sitting on an above-average cock now and then is important to her. But if she can have you and all the good times and the great GGG sex you two have together — if she can continue to enjoy your cock and the things it and you can do for her along with the occasional ride on an above-average cock — then you’ve created a massive incentive for her to stay.

Dear STD: Some time has passed between your letter arriving and my response appearing in print — so here’s hoping that you called your gynecologist back and got the download and the treatment you needed.

Quickly: Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI). Men and women are equally at risk, and it can be contracted through vaginal, anal or oral intercourse. Your Google search was accurate: Left untreated, chlamydia can cause infertility in women. But you’re not going to leave it untreated, right?

Fortunately, chlamydia is easily cured. Unfortunately, most people who have chlamydia aren’t aware that they’re infected, as most infected people have no symptoms. That’s why it’s extremely important for all sexually active people — adults and adolescents — to get regular STI screenings.

Is your reproductive system already harmed? You’ll have to discuss that with your gynecologist, who is in a far better position than I am to have a look inside you. As for your boyfriend: He needs to get tested and treated, too, and if his last STI screening was more than a year ago, it’s possible that he infected you and not the other way around. If your boyfriend leaves you over this — if he blames you for something he may be responsible for — then he’s not someone you want in your life or in your twat.

Dear Dan: My younger brother outed me to our parents, our siblings and our only living grandparent. I’m a straight woman and into bondage and kinky swinging — nothing outrageous. And I tried to keep this aspect of my sexuality (and my marriage) hidden. Things are fine now: Mom and Dad are mad at my brother, not me, and my siblings (save the fundamentalist) are over it. But I wanted to share my grandmother’s reaction: She called to tell me that my late grandfather liked to be tied up and spanked, too, and that their marriage (47 years!) was more fun for it.

Kink Isn’t New, Kiddo Dear KINK: That’s wonderful — and so true!

Thanks for sharing.

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We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

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REAL ESTATE

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Homes for Sale

ALL AREAS ALL PRICES 913-488-8300 www.FORMLS.com Short SalesForeclosures-Condos Townhomes-Single Family Homes.

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T R A E H r u o hang y

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Insurance

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AUTO INSURANCE STARTING @ $40

RE/MAX STATELINE Sharon Sigman

Auto & SR22, Renters, Homeowners, Motorcycle, Business

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MO & KS

DeMasters Ins. LLC

HOUSE • LOFT• APARTMENT • ROOM• DUPLEX

816-531-1000 KCinsurance.com

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BUY, SELL, TRADE, MARKETPLACE

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Miscellaneous

Organic E-liquid

Experience the only USDA Certifi ed 100% Organic & Vegan E-liquid in 8 naturally fl avored options and 4 nicotine levels.

Available in KC exclusively at our stores Main Street Tobacco @ 4307 Main Street (43rd & Main) 816-531-4441 AND KC Smoke & Vape @ 1605 Westport Road (Just East of Stateline) 816-931-4434.

WANTS TO purchase minerals and other oil & gas interests. Send details P.O. Box 13557, Denver, Co 80201

6000

AUTO/WHEELS/BOAT

6008 Recreational Vehicles 2002 TOYOTA 4Runner SR5, Clear title, 92k mi, Automatic, Color White. $3000. Text me (412) 206-1391. The SUV is in excellent condition!

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HOUSING/RENTALS

1102 Apartments for Rent PUBLISHER’S NOTICE: All real estate advertised herein is subject to Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it illegal to adverise, “any preferences, limitation, or discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin, or intention to make any such preference, limitation, or dicriminaton.

We will not knowing accept any advertising for real estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings advertised are available on a equal opportunity basis.

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Classifieds

KS-KCKS | $475-$575 913-299-9748 HEAT & WATER PAID...

NO GAS BILL!KCK25 ACRE SETTING. 63rd & ANN, 5 minutes West of I-635 & I-70 One bedroom $475; Two bedroom $575. No pets please. You CANNOT BEAT this value! Don’t miss out on this limited-time offer!

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Freebirds is Hiring at our Kansas City and Overland Park Locations!!

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Roommates

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Trade/Vocational

THE OCEAN Corp. 10840 Rockley Road Houston, Texas 77099. Train for a New Career. *Underwater Welder. *Commercial Diver. *NDT Weld Inspector. Job Placement Assistance. Financial Aid available for those who qualify. 800-3210298.

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Auto & SR22, Renters, Homeowners, Motorcycle, Business

MO & KS DeMasters Ins. LLC 816-531-1000 KCinsurance.com DUI-TRAFFIC-SPEEDING! Kansas & Missouri Reasonable rates!

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EROTIC CITY

Newly Remodeled Showroom Featuring FULL LINE of: Detox & Whizz Kits, Vapes, Glass & Sex Toys 8401 E Truman Rd, KC, MO 816-252-3370 9am-Midnight 7 days per week

foldingcartstore.com Because you can’t carry it all.

Legal CBD

Cannabidiol is still legal in MO & is in stock now! Available in oral, edible, & e-liquid options. 500mg starting at just $30.00!

Available at

Main Street Tobacco @ 4307 Main Street (43rd & Main) 816-531-4441 AND KC Smoke & Vape @ 1605 Westport Road (Just East of Stateline) 816-931-4434.

Scared? Anxious? Confused?

Help Is Here!

DWI, Solicitation, Traffic,

Internet Crimes, Hit & Run, Power & Light Violations.

816-221-5900 - www.The-Law.com David Lurie Attorney

NEED SHOES? loafers.com

$99 DIVORCE $99

A-1 Motel 816-765-6300 Capital Inn 816-765-4331

KS/MO. Injuries, workers comp, criminal, divorce, DUI, traffic, and more. Low fees, Call Greg Bangs.

Simple, Uncontested + Filing Fee. Don Davis.

816-531-1330

NEED SHOES? loafers.com

with friends

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Available in KC exclusively at our stores Main Street Tobacco @ 4307 Main Street (43rd & Main) 816-531-4441 AND KC Smoke & Vape @ 1605 Westport Road (Just East of Stateline) 816-931-4434.

Attorney since 1976: 913-345-4100, KS/MO. Injuries, workers comp, criminal, divorce, DUI, traffic, and more. Low fees, Call Greg Bangs.

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AUTO INSURANCE STARTING @ $40

Auto & SR22, Renters, Homeowners, Motorcycle, Business

MO & KS DeMasters Ins. LLC 816-531-1000 KCinsurance.com

Scared? Anxious? Confused?

Help Is Here!

DWI, Solicitation, Traffic,

Internet Crimes, Hit & Run, Power & Light Violations.

Coca-Cola Christmas Gift Auction 1216 SW Throop, Topeka, KS 66604 785-554-0828

816-221-5900 - www.The-Law.com David Lurie Attorney

Attorney since 1976: 913-345-4100,

KS/MO. Injuries, workers comp, criminal, divorce, DUI, traffic, and more. Low fees, WWW.EQUIP-BID.COM Call Greg Bangs.

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6101 E. 87th St./Hillcrest Rd. HBO, Phone, Banquet Hall $39.99 Day/ $169 Week/ $499 Month + Tax

EROTIC CITY

913-742-0022

6101 E. 87th St./Hillcrest Rd. HBO, Phone, Banquet Hall $39.99 Day/ $169 Week/ $499 Month + Tax

HOTEL ROOMS

Newly Remodeled Showroom Featuring FULL LINE of: Detox & Whizz Kits, Vapes, Glass & Sex Toys 8401 E Truman Rd, KC, MO 816-252-3370 9am-Midnight 7 days per week

lifestylesofkc.com

HOTEL ROOMS

CASH FOR CARS

Attorney since 1976: 913-345-4100,

Pool, Hot Tub, Dance Area w/pole. Live DJ. Pool Table.

Basketball Court, Vollyball etc..Check out our NEW site

A-1 Motel 816-765-6300 Capital Inn 816-765-4331

Available in KC exclusively at our stores Main Street Tobacco @ 4307 Main Street (43rd & Main) 816-531-4441 AND KC Smoke & Vape @ 1605 Westport Road (Just East of Stateline) 816-931-4434.

Running or Not! Cash Paid Now! (913) 271-9406

INDULGE In Your Wildest Fantasies!

Catering to all lifestles!

House Parties Every Fri. & Sat. Night

99.7% Toxin Free w/n an hour We can help you pass Coopers 3617 Broadway, KCMO 816.931.7222

Organic E-liquid Experience the only USDA Certified 100% Organic & Vegan E-liquid in 8 naturally flavored options and 4 nicotine levels.

pitch.com

Legal CBD

Cannabidiol is still legal in MO & is in stock now! Available in oral, edible, & e-liquid options. 500mg starting at just $30.00!

Available at

Main Street Tobacco @ 4307 Main Street (43rd & Main) 816-531-4441 AND KC Smoke & Vape @ 1605 Westport Road (Just East of Stateline) 816-931-4434.

CASH FOR CARS Running or Not! Cash Paid Now! (913) 271-9406

$99 DIVORCE $99

Simple, Uncontested + Filing Fee. Don Davis.

816-531-1330

EROTIC CITY

Newly Remodeled Showroom Featuring FULL LINE of: Detox & Whizz Kits, Vapes, Glass & Sex Toys 8401 E Truman Rd, KC, MO 816-252-3370 9am-Midnight 7 days per week

NEED SHOES? loafers.com

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DUI-TRAFFIC-SPEEDING! Kansas & Missouri Reasonable rates!

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Catering to all lifestles!

House Parties Every Fri. & Sat. Night

Pool, Hot Tub, Dance Area w/pole. Live DJ. Pool Table.

Basketball Court, Vollyball etc..Check out our NEW site

lifestylesofkc.com

913-742-0022

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