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Cop Left With Sour Taste former police officer in Sugar Creek who alleges that he was fired after he arrested a prominent business owner won’t be able to tell his story to a jury.

Jim Brooks filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city of Sugar Creek in 2008. Citing the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the city said the suit should be dismissed. The courts have sided with the city, rendering moot Brooks’ claim that he lost his job because he pulled over the wrong Honda Prelude one night.

Here’s the story he told in court papers: At 10:15 p.m. on March 25, 2008, Brooks was on patrol when he saw a 1998 Prelude run a red light at the intersection of Sterling and Kentucky avenues. Brooks suspected that the driver was drunk. He arrested her when she failed a field sobriety test.

The driver told Brooks she wanted to talk a lawyer. She also said she wanted to talk to the chief of police, telling Brooks she would “have [his] badge.” She refused a Breathalyzer test at the police station.

Brooks’ supervisor, Jonathan Fields, expressed alarm when he learned that the woman, who is unnamed in court papers, was in a holding cell. “Do you know who you have in there?” Fields asked, according to Brooks.

Brooks was told that the woman owned a wellknown business.

“Make it go away!” Brooks says Fields told him.

Brooks shredded the paperwork and, presumably, the driver was released.

The following day, Brooks was fired by Herb Soule, the chief of police.

In court papers, the city of Sugar Creek denied Brooks’ allegations, except the part about him losing his job. Brooks, who had worked for the department for less than a year, filed his suit in Jackson County. The city asked the court to dismiss the case.

Case law was on the city’s side. Cities in Missouri have sovereign immunity from actions they undertake in the course of performing the public’s business. The Missouri Supreme Court has determined that firing someone is a “government function.”

For Brooks, sovereign immunity was like a boulder he couldn’t push out of the way. His attorney, Rodney Ames, appealed the trial court’s decision to grant the city’s motion for summary judgment. Ames argued that sovereign

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The city’s lawyers argued that Brooks’ scenario was irrelevant, noting that “one of the reasons the Missouri legislature gave public entities immunity from suit was to protect them from expensive and costly litigation over the facts.”

The appeals court upheld the trial court’s decision. The judges seemed sympathetic to Brooks’ plight, however. The opinion, written

by Judge Gary D. Witt, says the facts, as Brooks presented them, were “outrageous.”

Brooks appears to be out of luck. The Missouri Supreme Court announced in late June that it wasn’t going to take his case.

— DAVID MARTIN

Straight Outta KC “We pretty much all left,” native son Chris Suellentrop writes in an essay posted last week at Grantland, the ESPN-sponsored treasure chest of sports and pop culture.

The “we” refers to smart and talented people such as Suellentrop, who works as an editor at the New York Times Magazine. The place “we” left is Kansas City — a wasteland, in Suellentrop’s view, for anyone who has ever tried to eke out an original thought.

Suellentrop puts himself in a category with Calvin Trillin and Paul Rudd as he strains to turn the Sprint Center into a giant metaphor.

For Suellentrop, the arena’s lack of a major tenant represents the latest demoralization for a sports town that hasn’t had an honest celebration since Joe Montana played for the Chiefs.

Cry (again) for the franchise-free Sprint Center.

Sports fans in Kansas City have lived through a couple of rough decades, to be sure.

Suellentrop doesn’t stop there, however. He goes on to call the Sprint Center a monument to self-deception, “the symbol of Kansas City’s aspirations to national relevance and its actual national irrelevance.”

As if angling to be the grand marshal in a persona non grata parade, Suellentrop lays on another insult to his hometown by characterizing it as a place that stifles and smothers the clever and the ambitious.

After college, Suellentrop writes, he took a job at The Olathe Daily News, “a suburban daily near my suburban hometown.” He came to see this as a mistake. “I didn’t know yet that if you want to do something reasonably creative for a living and get paid for it, pretty much the only way to do it in Kansas City anymore was to write for Hallmark cards.”

Sure, Chris. There’s no such place as the Crossroads Arts District. No working writers who live in Kansas City have ever picked up, say, a Guggenheim fellowship. No aspiring artists or journalists or novelists or actors have ever left Dallas or St. Louis or Minneapolis to pursue their dreams. And no such valuable thinkers have ever chosen to better their hometowns by sticking around without complaint.

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S I C K S TAT E KU Med ’s Allen Greiner has good medicine for a bad health-care system.

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ne recent Tuesday, a physician named K. Allen Greiner paid a house call. Greiner has known the patient for eight or 10 years, but the home visit was a first.

The two had met at a clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, where Greiner was working as a volunteer. The patient came in with an infection. He had recently been released from a state prison.

Greiner continues to see the patient at a clinic at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The patient has emphysema, and his health has declined to the point that he requires in-home nursing care. “He’s really smoked himself to death,” Greiner says.

His lungs shot, the patient likes to pretend that Greiner’s lack of expertise is what’s keeping him from getting well. It’s an absurd premise. Greiner is a professor and the associate chair for research in KU Med’s Department of Family Medicine.

He is a principal investigator on two projects that have received nearly $12 million in grants from the National Institutes of Health.

The titles and grants don’t mean anything to Greiner’s patient, who some days lets his physician have it for 15 minutes. The patient tells good stories — about the military, about prison, about urban life in KCK — which helps Greiner put up with the abuse. continued on page 8

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“Sometimes I just like talking to him,” Greiner says, “even though he’s just yelling and screaming and complaining.”

The home visit lasted 30 or 40 minutes.

Before he left, Greiner sprayed for roaches.

House calls are an infrequent but important part of Greiner’s work. Seeing the way his patients live, he says, helps him become a better caregiver and researcher.

Also, his patients seem to like it. “People appreciate that stuff, and doing it once doesn’t kill you,” Greiner says.

From the time he was a medical student, Greiner has been thinking about how to improve his profession. There’s room for it, to be sure. Health care accounts for about 18 percent of the U.S. economy. But the resources, vast as they are, deliver only mediocre results. Babies born in the Czech Republic and New Zealand, for instance, are more likely to reach their first birthdays than their American counterparts.

Greiner says it’s outrageous that U.S. health care consumes so much wealth when millions of people lack insurance.

“We’re wasting insane amounts of money on medicine and health care now, and we’re not providing anything to large chunks of our population,” he says. “And we’ve just chosen to do that.”

Greiner’s ideas for repairing the system make some of his colleagues gasp. Doctors, he says, make too much money. He would also like to change the way physicians interact with their patients. Is it unreasonable to ask family doctors to give out their e-mail addresses?

Greiner doesn’t think so. “I’ve been doing it for years,” he says.

Greiner’s admirers include Dr. Sharon Lee, the executive director of Southwest Boulevard Family Care. Greiner volunteered at the safetynet clinic when he was a medical student. His intelligence and compassion stood out even then, Lee says.

“He became the student that we sort of judged everybody else on,” she says. “He became the gold standard. It made it hard for others to compete.”

Greiner’s work has also caught the attention of business executives. Emil Peters, a senior director at the Cerner Corporation, a health-care information technology company, met Greiner through a mutual friend. They talked at lunch about ways to improve the health of underserved populations.

“If medicine and health care could be administered by guys like Allen Greiner,” Peters says, “we’d have no problems.”

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reiner hated medical school. “I was totally miserable,” he says. “I couldn’t stand it here.”

Greiner enrolled in medical school at KU after earning a degree in anthropology from Brown University in 1991. As a teenager in Topeka, he did not dream of becoming a doctor.

At Brown, he took courses in neuroscience that made a medical degree seem like something worth pursuing.

At first, Greiner resented the way his instructors made medical school feel like boot camp with a lot of Latin.

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memorize all these facts about biochemistry and physiology and anatomy, then you’re going to kill people,” he says. “You’re going to fuck up, and people will die, and it’s going to be your fault.”

In addition to his issues with the way he was being taught, he felt the profession was generally too cold and paternalistic. “Health care and medicine is very dehumanizing and, I think, has a lot of problems,” he says. Greiner set out to memorize the necessary facts and ace the necessary tests because he wanted to be able to change the system from within.

Greiner, who is 42, gravitated toward public health, a field that recognizes that there’s more to medicine than diagnoses and cures. With his anthropology background, he responded to the idea that culture, environment and behavior affect disease and health in important ways. He chose to do his residency in family medicine, seeing it as a logical place for someone with an interest in public health. Family docs, after all, are anthropologists of sorts, forming a picture of

Greiner has worked with registered nurse Jeanne Bennett (right) and others to make the Unified Government’s Public Health Center a highvolume, low-cost clinic.

“So they saw it as a conflict of interest to do less to people.”

Today, the system is biased in the opposite direction. Insured patients generally receive more care than they need. Physicians receive payment for the services they perform, not for keeping people well. The model rewards a doctor who, for example, orders tests on a mole that looks benign. “I might just say, ‘Well, let’s just cut it out and send it to the pathologist,’ ” Greiner says.

Greiner would like to see a system that puts more emphasis on prevention and helping people live better, healthier lives.

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“Most of what we do in medicine and health care is sick care.

We w a i t u n t i l p e o p l e g e t s i c k , a n d t h e n w e t r y t o d o h e r o i c t h i ngs to get them OK for a while.” their communities with every new patient who walks through the door.

At the time, family medicine was a popular specialty. By 1993, a majority of workers with employer-sponsored health insurance received some form of managed care. Family docs were seen as the quarterbacks in this system, which was designed to reduce unnecessary medical costs Alas, capitation — health maintenance organizations paying doctors a fixed sum to cover each patient in a practice — was rejected by the public.

“They thought doctors were getting money and then withholding care and then profiting more by withholding that care,” Greiner says.

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care is sick care,” he says. “We wait until people get sick, and then we try to do heroic things to get them OK for a while. And a lot of that, we’re only getting them OK for a short period of time, and their quality of life is going to suck.”

As Greiner sees it, the challenge is to deliver the best health to the largest number of people. To test for possible solutions, he’s going into areas where sickness and disease are most prevalent.

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t’s a Tuesday in May, and Greiner and a team of students and researchers are assembling at KU Med for a trip to an American Indian reservation.

Greiner is dressed in a blue button-down shirt and tan pants. The team members wear red T-shirts bearing the logo of the American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance, an effort supported by KU Med’s Department of Preventive Medicine. Equipment necessary to stage a health fair is being packed into the vehicles that will make the trip to the Ioway Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska reservation.

As the name implies, the reservation straddles the two states. Greiner sits in the back of a white van as it follows the Missouri River to White Cloud, which is 90 miles north of Kansas City, Kansas.

Last year, the National Institutes of Health awarded KU Med a $7.5 million grant to expand its work addressing the health disparities in American Indian communities. American Indians are more likely to die from tuberculosis, chronic liver disease, diabetes and pneumonia than members of other ethnic groups. Greiner and Christine Daley, an assistant professor of preventive medicine and public health, are the project’s principal investigators.

In White Cloud, the van passes a small casino before reaching the tribe’s community center. Greiner and his team spread their blood-pressure monitors and other devices on folding tables. The cholesterol testing station requires a team member who is willing to perform a moderately invasive procedure.

“Are you comfortable doing finger sticks, or would you rather not?” Angel Cully, a community outreach coordinator in the newly created Center for American Indian Community Health at KU Med, asks another member of the team.

At 3 p.m., Greiner takes a look around the room. “All right,” he says, “we just need people.”

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“passports” when they register. If they fill their passports with a stamp from each station, they are eligible for a raffle to win a Foreman grill and other prizes. The idea is to create an incentive for visiting all the stations. Greiner does not want the cigarette smokers to skip the lung test. “It works,” he says of the ploy.

“It really works.”

A woman with long brown hair reaches the station that tells fairgoers their body mass index. She seems apprehensive about putting her feet on the scale. “I probably already know what that test is going to tell me,” she says.

Greiner spends most of the afternoon at a table with an “ask the doc” sign taped to the edge. It’s his custom at health fairs. Earlier this year, he manned an “ask the doc” table in the basement of a church in Garden City, Kansas, which has a large Hispanic population.

Greiner is the principal investigator on another National Institutes of Health-funded project, one designed to improve cancer survival rates for American Indians and rural Latinos.

Greiner says he learned a lot in the church basement about the Latinos who live in western Kansas. “It was just great being able to sit there and talk to people all day long about the different doctors they’d been to, or the fact they couldn’t get to any doctor at all, or the fact they were going back to Mexico next month, and they’d totally run out of their medicine and didn’t know what to do,” he says.

Greiner hopes to improve the level of communication with the Latinos he meets in the course of his work. When he’s in his car, he listens to CDs that teach Spanish.

In White Cloud, Greiner’s “ask a doc” station is located near a table that offers colorectal-cancer screening kits.

American Indians do not, in fact, report higher rates of colorectal cancer. This is partly because they’re less likely to be screened for the disease.

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Greiner’s corner office in a new building at KU Med is a reflection of his involvement in two projects that have received $12 million in grants. At right, some of his books. the fact that American Indians have a shorter life expectancy that other populations in the United States. (Most cases of colorectal cancer are diagnosed in people ages 50 and older.)

In addition to higher rates of tuberculosis and alcoholism, American Indians are more likely to die in car crashes, commit suicide and be murdered.

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n the trip back from White Cloud, Greiner works on paperwork related to his duties as the chief medical officer for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County.

In this role, Greiner is more of a technical adviser than an administrator. He focuses on the medicine and allows Joe Connor, the director of the Public Health Department, to manage the operation Connor is grateful for Greiner’s expertise and his willingness to share it with the community. “He does way more than the minimum for us,” Connor says.

Greiner has worked with Connor’s staff to make the Public Health Center, a three-story concrete building attached to City Hall, into a doctor’s office that can function without a doctor being present. Greiner has designed protocols, for instance, that allow the clinic to treat sexually transmitted infections (STI) without his having seen anyone.

“No one leaves here without a scrip,” says Greg Stephenson, who heads the community health unit. “They leave here with medicine in their bellies or in their veins.”

Wyandotte County has the highest STI rate in Kansas — the Unified Government buys penicillin in bulk. The Public Health Center meets the high incident rate with an aggressive approach. If a woman comes to the clinic and is diagnosed with chlamydia,

her partner can obtain medicine without an exam. “He doesn’t even have to unzip,” Stephenson says.

Stephenson and others at the Public Health Center appreciate that Greiner treats them as peers. Nurses who suggest ways to improve the protocols receive e-mails from Greiner, signing off on the change. “He always listens to us,” says Jeanne Bennett, a nurse at the clinic. “And if it’s for the patient, he’s all for it.”

Empowered by Greiner, the Public Health Center performs a range of tests and provides a variety of services. Greiner and Bennett collaborated on protocols to encourage vaccination against the human papillomavirus (HPV). More than 5,000 patients who came through the STI clinic received vaccines for hepatitis A and hepatitis B. The clinic manages the prenatal care of pregnant women and inoculates international travelers against yellow fever and other infections..

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“We’re probably doing this for five cents on the dollar or less,” he says.

Working with the Unified Government allows Greiner to be a physician and public health official at the same time — the kind of doctor who can undertake the systemic changes that Greiner has wanted to make since he was in medical school.

“If we really want to say that what we care about is improving people’s health, it can’t just be doing procedures on people and tests on people in here,” he says, sitting in his office inside a new building at KU Med. “It needs to be bigger, broader and messing around at all those levels.”

Too often, Greiner says, doctors can’t see past whatever organ system is their specialty.

“We’re always reducing our level of focus, lower and lower,” he says.

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The review was negative. Greiner thought the book made doctors seem too heroic.

“Its wandering themes return most often to the triumphs of the medical profession and scientific technologies,” Greiner wrote. “This has the unfortunate effect of reducing three centuries of Missouri struggles with illness and disease to a formulated pat on the back for doctors, hospitals and researchers working in the last half of the 20th century.”

A better book, Greiner went on, would have featured more stories of “osteopathic medicine, of women and minorities and of rural citizens.”

Greiner continues to be suspicious of the power and authority vested in his profession.

Modern medicine, he says, is in many ways a story of accidents, greed and selfishness.

“I would argue we all need to make less money,” he says. “It’s a little ridiculous to pay teachers almost nothing and pay physicians insane amounts of money.”

Greiner believes that U.S. health-care costs could be cut in half if the right structures were

Vials at the Public Health Center in KCK. put in place. His ideal system would put a premium on the most effective forms of care.

It is relatively cheap, he notes, to treat high blood pressure and diabetes. Once the chronic illnesses were paid for, there would be plenty of money left to remove gallbladders and treat skin cancers. But experimental chemotherapy for people likely to die in six months? Greinercare can’t afford it.

Not surprisingly, primary care physicians and public health workers are playing significant roles in this more efficient system. Greiner would like it if family doctors had time — that is, got paid — to communicate with patients via e-mail.

Of course, doctors are not the only ones who would have to accept change. Insurance companies, drug and device makers, and consumers would all have to put “skin in the game,” as the saying goes.

“It just takes the willpower and everyone sort of feeling the pain of the change,” Greiner says.

A grown-up discussion about controlling costs and expanding care seems unlikely in the current political environment, though. Large segments of the population lead difficult lives and have terrible health, Greiner says. Yet state lawmakers act as if they have it made. Greiner was appalled when Missouri instituted drug testing for welfare recipients.

“Do we not realize that if you’re on welfare, your life really sucks already? And now we’re going to go after these people and see if they’re using drugs or not and yank their welfare benefits for three years? It’s amazing how we think,” he says.

Greiner is not retribution-minded. Rather, he’s drawn to people who lead complicated lives, like the ex-con who likes to complain. And he continues to fit patient care into his increasingly busy schedule. Some of his patients have been with him from the time he was a resident.

Greiner says he has a soft spot for the people of Kansas City, Kansas.

“To me, the worlds people live in there are interesting,” he says. “And I know that they need a lot of help.”

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Tickets cost $10 through the JCCC box office, 913-469-4445.

— CHRIS PACKHAM

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For those who aren’t obsessed with beer minutiae, a “firkin” might sound like a variation on “furries” (slang for people who dress up in animal costumes and hump each other).

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Pints will be $5, and the firkin will be tapped at 5 p.m.

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In the last 14 years, J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter novels have spawned a Florida theme park and an International Quidditch Association, but the most celebrated offshoot is the series of Harry Potter films. The eighth and final film, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, hits theaters on July 15. The Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library (4801 Main, 816-701-3481) is hosting a Harry Potter Movie Marathon today featuring the three preceding movies — Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 — followed by a screening of Part 2 at Cinemark on the Plaza at midnight. Potter freaks had best be speedy in purchasing tickets for the midnight showing because they’re sure to sell out faster than a fanatic fan can say “blast-ended skrewt.” The party starts at 4:30 p.m. and runs until 11:30. RSVP for the

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Jennifer Weiner is an accomplished Philadelphia-based novelist who has spoken out several times against the classifying of her works as “chick lit.” On the one hand, she recognizes that the label is sexist, dismissive and “comes with the built-in implication that what you’ve written is a piece of beach-trash fluff with as much heft and heart as a mouthful of pink cotton candy,” she says on her website, jenniferweiner.com. She also comments: “If slapping a lot of pink, a disembodied female form, naked legs and/or cheesecake on the cover guarantees that my book will get noticed and picked up, that’s about all I can ask for.” At 7 p.m. at Unity Temple (707 West 47th Street, 816-561-4466), Weiner will discuss her latest book, Then Came You, a tale that meshes the issues of motherhood, surrogacy, class and privilege. Tickets cost $26.99 plus tax and include a hardcover copy of the book. Purchase them at rainydaybooks.com/jenniferweiner.

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he joke used to be that if you wanted to get a decent bottle of wine in Missouri, you had to go to California.

Today, the joke may be on California, because the Show-Me State’s thriving vineyards come together for the Missouri Wine Festival in Excelsior Springs. The fifth annual event is being held on the back lawn of the historic Elms Resort & Spa (401 Regent, 816-630-5500) from noon to 9 p.m.

More than a dozen winemakers — including Stone Hill, St. James and Seven Springs — will be in attendance, letting you sample several varietals while you make your way through artist booths or listen to live music from the likes of Miss Major and Her Minor Mood Swings and the James Ward Band, among others. Stone Hill plans on bringing five vintages, including its Jacquesse Kick’n Red, which has berry notes.

Some people taste cranberry, while others will find hints of strawberry and raspberry.

“It’s just perfect for a hot summer day, like it usually is in the middle of July,” says Aimee Viehmann, special events coordinator for Stone Hill.

If you want to find out exactly what you’re tasting, just ask Stone Hill’s winemaker, Shaun Turnbull. He’ll be under the tent pouring samples of the 2010 Vignoles. (The previous year’s vintage won the Governor’s Cup.) “Missouri has made great strides in wine production,” Viehmann says. “People have really begun to start thinking about Missouri wines as top-notch, and that feeling is only going to grow.”

Tickets cost $20 ($25 at the gate). If you’re parched afterward, the Hall of Waters is open.

And if you don’t feel like driving back to Kansas City, the Elms has a package starting at $239 that includes a guest room, two tickets to the festival and dinner for two. For more information, see — JONATHAN BENDER visitesprings.com.

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The treelike thing that was recently added to the sculpture garden at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) is one of those things one can stare at for a long time.

The silvery “Ferment” by Roxy Paine juts 56 feet into the air, splintering off into numerous points. Up close, the surface varies between smooth and wrinkly, lines flowing, fragmenting and stopping. “The more you look, the more little entangled things there are to explore,” says Brad Cox, composer and co-director of the Owen/Cox Dance Group. For a performance commissioned by the Nelson-Atkins, Cox used interlocking rhythms and varied time signatures to create a piece of music with texture and multiple points of entry. Hear it performed live on the Nelson’s south lawn at 2 and 3 p.m. when six dancers, including Owen/Cox codirector and choreographer Jennifer Owen, contribute yet another layer to the experience.

The song-and-dance work “A Tree That Is a Tree Is Not a Tree” is part of the Nelson’s Family Festival: Ferment, from 1 to 4 p.m. The event is free.

For details, see nelson-atkins.org.

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BAD BOYZ

No two pop-culture figures better embody the opposing impulses of Apollonian rationality and Dionysian spontaneity than Bert and Ernie. The archetypal Bert-Ernie dichotomy is readily apparent in the antagonistic relationship between midcentury art critics Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg. Rosenberg favored “action painting” — wild, gestural work in which the canvas becomes an arena for the artist’s psyche. One might almost imagine Rosenberg splashing in the tubby and singing with abandon about his rubber duck. Greenberg, on the other hand, favored an artistic mode of detachment and rationality, the way Jackson Pollock’s drip technique distanced the artist from the canvas. Indeed, one pictures Greenberg reading a book titled Boring Stories and exclaiming, “Wow, these boring stories are really exciting!” The pair embodied the dualism that defined art’s Modern era. The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick, 816-753-5784) presents “The Battle of the ‘Bergs,’ ” a 2 p.m. lecture by Norman Kleeblatt, chief curator of the Jewish Museum in New York, in which he explains abstract expressionism through the approaches of these two critics. The event is free. For more information, see kemperart.org.

— CHRIS PACKHAM

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After last-minute rehearsals finish tonight for Starlight Theatre’s Cinderella, actor Seth Golay will dash over to a little “shack on stilts” at 13416 Holmes to start selling icy treats. Golay opened a snow-cone franchise, Tropical Sno, with his pitch.com

partner, Jason Kralicek (the managing director of the Unicorn Theatre) last April. It’s the most theatrical snow-cone stand in the metro: When the owners can’t be there, actresses Katie Karel Fay and Jessalyn Kinkaid take over, pouring flavored syrups — more than 40, including three new ones: huckleberry, cranberry and coffee — over finely shaved ice. Golay says he has never worked so hard or had such a good time.

“It’s fun when I hand someone a snow cone and they look at me and say, ‘Haven’t I seen you somewhere before?’ And then they remember which show they had seen me in.” Tropical Sno is open daily from 2 to 10 p.m.

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What fun is a cowtown without cows? For city kiddos who aren’t farm-savvy, the American Royal is hosting the Kids Agriculture Learning Fest (KALF), a festival celebrating agricultural education. Youngsters (and grown-ups, too) can check out an entire barnyard’s worth of animals, learn about milking cows and shearing sheep, and participate in the Royal Barnyard Battle — “a relay race that can involve roping, milking and/or carrying hay,” says Al Davis, manager of education at the American Royal. The cost is $5 for children and adults, and the event sign-in is between 9:30 and 10 a.m. at the American Royal Complex in the West Bottoms (1701 American Royal Court, 816-221-9800). Registration is required. For more information or to register, see americanroyal.com.

— ELKE MERMIS

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We’ve all got pride. To show it, some of us break out our best moves and dance. Those with that sense of pride most likely are found at Wilde’s Chateau 24 (2412 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-856-1514) every Wednesday for Pride Night. From 9 p.m. until 2 a.m., patrons dance, drink and party with other pride-filled comrades. The spacious, dark club is the perfect size to hold an ample dance party, and the bar’s cheesy yet fun Grecian-like statues, grapeshaped dangling lights, and tiny tables create the perfect setting for mingling. Plus, there are drink specials all night. Pride Night is an 18-and-older event. Cover costs $7 for patrons aged 18-20, or $5 for those 21 and older. See wildeschateau.com for more information.

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The Blitz KEEP CALM AND HARRY ON. ven people locked in a persistent vegetative state know that late in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the teenage wizard absorbs a lethal spell cast by evil Lord Voldemort. At that point in J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final Potter novel, the Boy Who Didn’t Die encounters his late mentor, Albus Dumbledore, who offers a warm and tidy explanation of various hows and whys. For maximum box office, Warner Bros. has divided its film adaptation of the book. In Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, Harry and Dumbledore speak their last in a Kubrickian, pearlescent limbo.

“Is this real?” Harry asks. “Or has this been happening inside my head?”

“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry,” Dumbledore answers. “But why on earth should that mean that it is not real?” Then Dumbledore sits down at a gleaming white Steinway and sings “Across the Universe.”

All right, not really. But you can totally picture it.

And that’s not a complaint. Four hours into director David Yates’ brooding, blood-matted finale (thinking of the two films as one helps balance the staring angst that slowed the tentbound Part 1), Dumbledore’s handy moral summation — Voldemort can’t love, so he can’t live; Harry had to be willing to die in order to know love — provides a valuable “oh, riiiiight” moment for the book-dumb moviegoer while cleansing the palate before the furious climax and the cuddly denouement.

Rowling’s saga, especially onscreen, isn’t so much rich as it is dense, all bloodlines and secrets and betrayals. Yet for all that brews in her cauldron of Pidgin-Arthurian names and reflexive storytelling — if Wikipedia didn’t exist, Harry Potter fans would have needed to invent it — what burbles over the top is simple: love and death. It’s an orphan’s story, with loss always in mind and a version of love that’s fraternal and gigglingly presexual. And in its child’s-eye view of shattered family and loyalty always under assault or repair, the shaggy whole of the thing is both critic-proof and honorably level. Rowling’s excruciating commitment to detail invites those dispirited by the finiteness of a mere seven books to resurrect characters themselves rather than live with their grief. Just reread.

The movie cycle works similarly but adds something unexpected and wholly apart from the books. From the entertaining but mechanical first two pictures (directed by Steven Spielberg acolyte Chris Columbus) to the dark and sometimes jolting last four, the theatrical Harry Potter aims for nothing less than English storytelling primacy. What started as a gently Anglophilic Hollywood cash cow has become a full-scale resurgence of British spectacle. No one is going to

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mistake TV-trained Yates for David Lean — the Lean you find here is more Brief Encounter than Lawrence of Arabia anyway: fugitive romance, life during wartime, tea with milk. Instead, with England, Scotland and Wales as locations and a visual-effects guru (Tim Burke) who doesn’t owe it all to George Lucas, Deathly Hallows Part 2 marches on Henry V territory.

No, this isn’t Shakespeare, but Yates’ and screenwriter Steve Kloves’ telling has its roots in Laurence Olivier’s wartime Henry V, with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry standing up to a fascist blitz with stiff upper lips and broken wands. (That Kloves is a Texan hardly matters.)

This valedictory Harry Potter also serves as a convincing rebuke to 2011’s box-office champs so far, the third Transformers installment and the fourth Pirates of the Caribbean movie — both vacant, both thoroughly American. At least Harry Potter was a fictional character before he was a toy or a theme park. Less persuasive is Part 2’s 3-D — given the film’s sepulchral palate, it’s like watching a drive-in movie through an old View-Master.

The cast — that British, British cast — has always been what elevated the material past its sometimes muddled metaphors and jumbled mythological syntax. Since 2001’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the joke has been that peopling the Potterverse with the U.K.’s most recognizable faces has allowed Ralph Fiennes, Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Helena Bonham Carter and the peerless Alan Rickman (among others) to buy summer homes.

But none of the troupe has phoned in a performance, and the veterans have escorted Daniel Radcliffe (as Harry), Rupert Grint (Ron Weasley) and Emma Watson (Hermione Granger) from the window overlooking awkward adolescence to the red carpet of earned stardom. That alone is more magic than most franchises offer. And if the eight Harry Potter pictures haven’t changed cinema, they’ve done a more honest job than most of delivering movies to an audience eager for story.

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ot a lot of restaurants in Kansas City are true survivors. The Savoy Grill, which celebrates its 108th birthday this year, is the only local fancy dining room to have lasted a century. The other old-timers on the list — the downtown locations of Town Topic, Hayes Hamburgers, Kitty’s Café, Cascone’s Grill — are mostly diners of a certain age (at least 50 years old).

BY Diners evolved from 19thCHARLES century lunch wagons, which were often dirty and disrepF E R R U Z Z A utable. At the peak of their popularity, diners resembled Given the forced intimacy of the pretty the railroad dining cars that had come to be revered as the essence of American cleanliness dining room’s layout — it seats 97 people at and efficiency. That’s why so many vintage close tables and in tight little booths that lack diners and dinettes — including Hayes Ham- much in the way of partitioning — the alcohol burgers — were designed with plenty of shiny may be a bad idea. During my first visit to the stainless steel and polished surfaces. In a small two-month-old diner, a mouthy acquaintance space, that reflective brightness registers as stopped by my table to gossip and deliver the cleanliness. Besides cheap prices, convenient inexplicable announcement that a certain location and the familiarity of home-style local chef was “hung like a horse.” The entire dishes, that tidy unpretentiousness is one of room went dead-quiet in embarrassment until my friend Bob leaned over and whispered, the secrets to the urban diner’s longevity.

Over the years, though, diners have ridden “And how would you know?” Another dining companion, Debbie, hid her a decidedly not-so-unpreface behind the single-sheet tentious wave of nostalgia 119th Street Diner menu. “I usually adore that toward the upscale. PutReuben sandwich ..... $8.95 kind of vulgar gossip,” she ting more sophisticated fare Top sirloin, said later, “but not when a (and sometimes liquor) in a 6-ounce .................$13.95 grandmother and a toddler chrome-plated postcard of Pork chop ................ $16.99 are at the next table.” blue-plate dining isn’t always Grilled salmon .........$15.49 OK, so a diner — any diner a successful gambit. Case in Philly cheesesteak ... $7.95 — isn’t the place to reveal point: the thoroughly unlikaIrish Benedict ........... $8.49 Chocolate a secret. Anyone who has ble Fran’s Classic Diner in cream pie ................ $5.95 ever eaten at Town Topic the Power & Light District. at 2 a.m., when the weepy Now, after three different and the intoxicated and the restaurant concepts (an illfated diner and two sushi joints) bombed in romantically thwarted are just a pass-thethe pretentiously named Shops at Avignon, salt away from one another, knows that. But businessmen Doug Price and Scott Buescher there are other rules of etiquette that need and chef Pat Legler are gambling that a snaz- to be followed at 119th Street Diner. Washzier version of the Depression-era diner is ing last night’s special off the blackboard, for one thing. Debbie had her heart set on the the answer.

Of course, they’re hedging the bet a bit — shrimp scampi listed on the day-old board. and bucking historic verisimilitude — by serv- The manager came over to apologize for the ing liquor. The place may be in the heart of mistake, but an hour later, when we left, the Nazarene country, but suburbanites like some dish was still written on the board.

During four visits, that was the only meal at stiff sauce with their deep-fried shrimp — and I don’t mean cocktail sauce. For the more sober which the service was clueless, and even then set, there are milkshakes, malts, soda and iced the food was good. That’s really the selling tea (unsweetened as well as the teeth-jarringly point of this diner. What 119th Street Diner needs now is a staff of veteran hash-house sugary stuff Southerners prefer).

waitresses, the kind who can juggle a full station in their sleep. But this is Johnson County, so the restaurant is, like so many others, staffed with pretty young people. Some are savvy, but others seem to be auditioning for a reality show that will never come.

Then again, maybe there is a camera hidden in the place. (That might explain the “horse” comment and its Candid Camera reaction.)

With its Barbie pinks and lime greens and daffodil yellows, the dining room gives off a showy quality. And one of the first things I noticed was quiet: no clanking dishes tossed into bus tubs, no yelling at the kitchen crew.

“We’re going for an upscale version of an old-fashioned diner,” explains Legler, who insists on making almost everything — from mashed potatoes to the lard-free biscuits — from scratch, and who puts smoked salmon in his BLT. And almost everything I’ve tasted in this boldly colored joint is damn tasty. I splurged, sort of, on an inexpensive 6-ounce top sirloin, and it was tender and delicious and in good company with a fine baked potato and creamy mac and cheese (made with — vegetarians, take note — bits of baked ham).

The bone-in pork chop is one of the best deals on the menu: moist and flavorful and blanketed with a delectable dried-cherry reduction. A hunk of grilled salmon is also surprisingly fine, pink and moist inside a lightly crispy exterior, sided with deliciously al dente vegetables. The fried fish bursts from a feathery-light batter, and the fried shoestring potatoes with it are terrific.

The Reuben sandwich isn’t a diner classic.

It’s no cheeseburger or patty melt (both of which are served here), and Legler says he sells more Philly cheesesteak sandwiches (made with Cheez Whiz, as in the City of

Not typical diner fare: the Philly cheeesteak with sweet-potato fries (above left) and the white-chocolate cheesecake.

Brotherly Love). But Legler’s Reuben, with house-made Thousand Island and housecured kraut, lives up to his bragging. It’s definitely the best spin on this sandwich on the Kansas side of the metro.

The omelets (with that smoked salmon a popular add-on) aren’t cheap, but they’re memorably big (and, as at any good diner, available all day, along with the rest of the breakfast offerings). I can’t say enough good things about the eggs Benedict here, but I’ve learned to stick with the real McCoy rather than go all adventurous with, say, the “Irish Benedict,” made with mushy corned-beef hash and enough hash-browned potatoes to end a famine.

Most of the downtown diners serve Kansasbaked Golden Boy pies. The desserts at 119th Street Diner, which change frequently, are prepared by Russian-born Irina Yefremov, whose chocolate cream pie (baked in a flaky, buttery pastry) and banana cream pie (heavy on the bananas, very light on the custard) are extraordinary. They’re not cheap, but the ganache-covered white-chocolate cheesecake takes the Cheesecake Factory to school.

So 119th Street Diner passes diner muster on the food and location fronts, even if its prices reflect Legler’s ambition, and it’s not even close to being a 24-hour operation. It’s no threat to Town Topic, but there’s reason to hope that it makes this part of the metro safe for diners for a good long time.

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Old Dirty Bastard BILLY BEALE PRESERVES THE BLUES IN MIDTOWN.

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f you’ve spent time haunting Broadway corridor dives like the News Room and Fitz’s Blarney Stone, there’s a good chance you’ve run across Billy Beale playing a gig. The 58-year-old has pierced ears and a white pompadour that he tends to cover up with a fedora. He favors a loosely buttoned shirt with a pack of Lucky Strikes in the chest pocket. Among the decorative ink stains that blanket his body are the words HARD TIME, BY tattooed across his knuckles.

But Beale is reluctant to B E R RY publicly discuss just how A N D E R S O N much hard time he’s done and what offenses might have landed him in the clink. For him, the real story is the blues. He refers to himself as a “blues preservationist,” having watched the local scene evolve over the past 40-odd years.

“The beginning for me was Club Mardi Gras at 19th and Highland,” Beale recalls on a late Monday afternoon at Broadway Café.

“The smoke is so thick in there, you can cut it with a knife. The booze is runnin’ like a river. Everybody’s drinkin’ and dancin’, and it’s like the heat of the moment — everybody in the bar is gyrating, filled with the blues.

It’s religious.”

In conversation, Beale’s memories and ruminations flow from his nicotine-coated throat like classic blues lyrics. He’s nostalgic in tone, evocative in phrasing and highly

unverifiable in facts. Here’s his description of his childhood, north of the river in Kansas City. “When I was 11 years old, my mom sent me down to old One Wing’s, who was this old black man that raised chickens and yardbirds.

He’d lost about this much of his arm in a corn picker, and he had an old military telescoping cup that he would put on his arm with a slide welded to the end of it, and he’s the one who taught me how to play the slide.”

Beale continues: “Mom sent me to One Wing’s for a bucket of brown eggs, and as I was coming back, the Reddington boys come off of the creek and said there were some hobos camped out about three-quarters of a mile away, and they had guitars and were

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singing. I took my wagon up there. A lot of the early music I heard was from vagabonds, homeless people that lived on the river and by the tracks. I wanted to play like them. I ended up tradin’ mama’s eggs for this old guitar. I got a willow because I lost the eggs, and the guitar wasn’t even playable, but my dad saw my desire, and he got me my first guitar, which I still have today.”

It’s no surprise, then, that Beale’s heroes are the kind of traditional bluesmen who might have made some egg trades of their own: Hound Dog Taylor, Elmore James, Elvin Bishop. He’s developed his own sig-

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nature sound using his “nasty ass slide”: a 1949 hollow-body Kay with a P-90 pickup that he plays with a 50-caliber machine-gun shell casing on his finger. (He also plays a 1953 Silvertone lap steel with a traditional Stevens brass slide.) Beale’s blues is the kind that roared from the old midtown speakeasies that now house the gritty bars he plays.

“He’s like a living piece of local history,” says Jason “Digg” Walstrom, a former bartender at Fitz’s Blarney Stone who used to book Beale. “People love watching him. It’s his age, his story and his charisma. And his guitar skills are through the roof. That’s all he has, his guitar, and he makes it work. He lives simple, and I really respect that.”

Beale’s old-school style has attracted a number of local musicians, such as Matt Alvarez (also known as “Mati Mat”), for whom he has taken on a sort of mentor role, and cowpunk act Them Damned Young Livers, who recently recruited Beale to play slide guitar on their upcoming album.

“We recorded the whole album before deciding that we wanted him to play on it, and then he came in and played every song with us as though we had written it with him,” says Livers frontman Jody Hendrix. “His contribution was really just him being a good accompaniment. He knows that less is more sometimes.”

Beale also recently recorded his 12th album, produced by Hendrix. It’s finished, but Beale doesn’t have enough money to press and distribute it. He’s been playing more shows, everywhere from Platte County to Warrensburg, to raise money. And he has found himself in some peculiar situations as a result. A Lee’s Summit-based nonprofit recently hosted a benefit featuring an open bar, an all-you-caneat barbecue, and a “special appearance by KC blues legend Billy continued on page 26

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Beale.” Though he’s glad to raise money for “underdogs,” Beale admits to feeling out of his element at the wineries and art galleries that now sometimes want him to perform.

“I scare some of them old people to death.

Some of them look at my old tattooed, scarredup body, and they hear my songs about blood, guts, gore and prison, and they just don’t know what to think,” he says. “I live in a world that yuppies don’t know exist: ‘Who’s knockin’ at my door? Is my electricity going to be on?’ ” The way William Beale Woods tells the story, he’s just a simple man with simple pleasures — a man who wants only to play the blues. “I don’t want to be a star or climb that ladder. But if I could just go the rest of my life and play the juke joints and have a place to live and a pack of Lucky Strikes, then I’ll be all right,” he says, and then he winks.

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Most KC head-nod rap hovers around 90 beats per minute. The production on The Fountain of Youth, the just-released album from the rapper who bills himself as thePhantom*, bucks that trend.

“I figured if I could blend dance with rap, I could be onto something fresh,” Kemet Coleman (the man behind the mask) tells The Pitch. “I think what I’m doing at 117-130 BPM is avant-garde in Kansas City.”

To Coleman, electronic music calls to mind science-fiction-inspired visions of the future, where meals come in pill form, kids skate on hoverboards and everything is made out of aluminum. The Matrix is his favorite movie of all time, and its drum-and-bass soundtrack encouraged him to venture deeper into the electronic crates. “I explored house music and realized that electronic music, hip-hop culture and rap are all from the same root,” he says. “That realization destroyed a boundary.”

But toppling that boundary presented new challenges. “It’s hard to rap at danceable tempos,” Coleman says. “It’s hard to keep your lyrics smart. You have less syllable space to work with. But my overarching goal is to bring people together and make people move. People don’t really want to think, they want to feel.

So I try to keep my music intellectual without slapping you upside the head with a textbook.”

Given its vitality and high energy levels, it’s somewhat surprising that The Fountain of Youth sprung from a dark period in Coleman’s life. Last year, Coleman was feeling frustrated, broke and creatively stifled by the rap hustle — and then his father suffered a stroke. (He’s now recovering nicely.) Faced with the realization that one day, most of us find ourselves swapping roles with our parents, becoming their caretakers, Coleman hit an “abysmal low.” He announced his retirement from hiphop to focus on what was then “the only positive thing in my professional life”: his work with Mayor Sly James’ election campaign.

It turned out to be time well spent, and after James was elected, Coleman re-evaluated his hasty retirement decision. “Just when it seemed like I had wasted 10 years of my life doing music, I had an epiphany,” he says. “I 2

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realized that I couldn’t quit what I was born to do. My father’s condition put it all in perspective. He hasn’t always been so supportive of my music, but he definitely urged me to find what I loved and do it.”

So Coleman went back to the lab and started work on The Fountain of Youth. “I’m 24 now, and I feel as though I’m losing my youth, believe it or not,” he says. “I wanted this album to embody the idea of the experiences of one’s teens and 20s, whether that be love, confusion, carelessness, drunkenness, seduction, whatever.” He also assembled a live, 10-piece band of dexterous musicians, the Phantastics, who can shift from funk to rap to rock to jazz. And he enlisted the help of a manager: Kyle James, son of the mayor.

Coleman now cautiously mentions “preliminary discussions” with “some labels.” “If they give us an offer we can’t refuse, the Phantom and the Phantastics team will be signed and touring regionally and then nationally,” he says. “In the future, I see myself more as a ringleader than as a rapper. I plan on having fire, lasers and smoke at every show.”

The new album’s fountain of youth theme inspired Daniel Bartle (aka Lucid, another KC rapper) to illustrate an album cover for Coleman featuring a conquistador who, on his search for the fountain, stumbles upon a glistening-wet mermaid with an Afro. The image has sparked strong reactions from Coleman’s friends. Some have complained that it’s degrading to women. Some have said that it looks like a man discovering “prey,” mistaking the light shining off the mermaid as a net.

Coleman is enjoying the discussions from the sidelines of Facebook. “Isn’t art supposed to evoke some sort of emotion?” he asks, though he knows full well the answer.

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1. Free Energy, with Fall Down Running and Delicate Steve If bands like Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy and T. Rex caught wind of what Free Energy was up to, they might start lawyering up. With its fat ’70s power-chord crunches, thumping bass lines, sing-along choruses, and twin guitar solos, this Philly crew is unsubtle in its affinity for classic rock. But those who have exhausted every minuscule detail on Jailbreak will find plenty to love in the revivalism. The big, ambitious songs are written for arenas — though for now the Riot Room will have to do.

Tuesday, July 19, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179).

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2. Fleet Foxes, with Alela Diane and Wild Divine Three years is a long gap between the acclaimed debut and the unveiling of the sophomore effort, and it carries with it the risk of unrealistic expectations. But the guys in Fleet Foxes are pros, and we now know that they took their sweet-ass time on their follow-up because they knew they had excellent songs and they wanted to give the album a distinct identity. Mission accomplished: Helplessness Blues adds a fleeting, dreamlike backdrop to the band’s rich, harmony-driven folk. It’s a

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Monday, July 18, at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665).

3. DJ Shadow DJ Shadow supposedly has one of the largest personal record collections in the known universe (60,000, according to Wikipedia).

He puts it to brilliant use constructing sample-heavy songs that straddle the line between hip-hop and trip-hop. His 1996 debut, Endtroducing, blazed the trail for the pastiche dance parties that Gregg Gillis has popularized with Girl Talk in recent years.

But Shadow has dug through way more crates than Gillis, and his freakish knowledge is evident in his sets.

Tuesday, July 19, at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560).

4. Cinderella, with Hammerlord and the Dead Girls Part of the first wave of hair-metal bands, Cinderella never attained quite the mainstream success of contemporaries Poison

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and Motley Crue. That might be due to the fact that its blues-driven hard rock wasn’t so tied to the more glam gimmicks of the era, a quality that now gives the band a relatively dignified air. Also, to the band’s credit: It still boasts four original members, including frontman Tom Keifer. Fittingly, metal act Hammerlord and classic-rock devotees the Dead Girls embody the opposing characteristics of Cinderella’s sound.

Tuesday, July 19, at Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 785-749-3434).

5. New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys Their heydays are now so distant, it’s easy to forget that New Kids on the Block and Backstreet Boys were of different boy-band eras.

Oh, well. Just lump them together, update their outfits, and send them out on a tour with a hacky name while they can still hit the high notes and choreographed marks.

Everybody wins.

Saturday, July 16, at Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000).

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THIS WEEK T H U R S DAY, J U LY 1 4 Maylene and the Sons of Disaster, Thunder Eagle, Leonard Skinner: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Media Blitz, Methhorse: 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Whitewater Ramble, Honky Suckle, Whiskey Rich: 8 p.m., $8. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522.

F R I DAY, J U LY 1 5 Bart Crow Band, Matt Stell and the Crashers, Burford: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Charlie Robison, Justa Billy and the Bullhaulers: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

SAT U R DAY, J U LY 1 6 Jolie Holland, Sallie Fored and the Outside: 6 p.m., $12. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys: 8 p.m., $30.50$90.50. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Rob Zombie, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, Escape the Fate, Hammerlord: 4 p.m., $9.89. Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400.

S U N DAY, J U LY 17 Innerpartysystem: 8 p.m., $12. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

M O N DAY, J U LY 1 8 Black Francis, Frank Black: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Fleet Foxes, Alela Diane, Wild Divine: 7 p.m., $27.

Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Fordists, the Rackatees, Baby Boomers: 9 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto: 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Suicide Silence, Unearth, All Shall Perish, Red Fang: 6:30 p.m., $16 advance, $18 door. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Yes, STYX: 7 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827.

T U E S DAY, J U LY 1 9 Cinderella, Hammerlord, the Dead Girls: 7 p.m., Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

DJ Shadow: 7 p.m., $24. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Free Energy, Fall Down Running, Delicate Steve: 8 p.m., The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 2 0 Harvey Milk, Mansion, This is My Condition: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

UPCOMING American Idol Live: Tue., Aug. 2. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Clint Black: Fri., Aug. 5. Crown Center Square, 2450 Grand.

Blitzen Trapper: Fri., July 22, 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

John Butler Trio, Mama Kin: Tue., Aug. 9. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Mark Curry, Damon Williams: Fri., July 22, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

The Ettes, Heavy Cream, Hans Condor: Sat., Aug. 13.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

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Five for Fighting: Fri., Aug. 12, 8 p.m., $5. Crown Center Square, 2450 Grand.

Bela Fleck & the Original Flecktones, Bruce Hornsby & the Noisemakers: Fri., July 22. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Billy Gardell: Fri., July 22. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Heavy Pets, Supermassive Black Holes: Thu., July 21.

Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522.

Hinder: Sun., July 31. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816283-9900.

Ice Age, Dark Ages, Mouthbreathers: Wed., Aug. 3, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

JaneDear Girls: Thu., July 21, 7 p.m., free. KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand.

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PITCH.COM Kottonmouth Kings, D Loc, the Dirtball, Johnny Richter, Kingspade, DJ Bobby B: Sat., Aug. 13, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Jonny Lang, J.J. Grey & Mofro: Wed., Aug. 10. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement, Lloyd: Tue., Aug. 23. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Mayview: Fri., July 29, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Brian McKnight: Fri., Aug. 12, 8 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Morning Teleportation: Sun., July 31. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

My Gold Mask: Fri., July 22. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Norma Jean, Sleeping Giant, the Chariot, War of Ages, Close Your Eyes, Texas in July, the Breather, the Great Commission, As Hell Retreats, Sovereign Strength: Tue., July 26, 3:30 p.m., The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

O.A.R., SOJA: Wed., July 27. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Old 97’s, Cowboy Mouth, Those Darlins: Thu., July 21.

Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Katy Perry: Wed., Aug. 17. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Rasputina, the Wilderness of Manitoba: Fri., July 22, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Return to Forever IV with Zappa Plays Zappa featuring Dweezil: Fri., Aug. 26. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

RX Bandits, Maps & Atlases, Zechs Marquise: Sat., July 23. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Sade, John Legend: Tue., July 26, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Scattered Trees: Sat., July 23. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Snoop Dogg: Tue., July 26. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Steely Dan: Thu., Aug. 25, 7:30 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827.

Theory of a Deadman, Black Stone Cherry, Adelitas Way, Emphatic: Fri., Aug. 12. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

True Widow: Fri., Aug. 19. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Keith Urban: Fri., Aug. 19. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Waka Flocka Flame: Sun., July 24, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

What Dwells Within, Ashes for Amanda, For All Mankind: Sun., July 24. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Whitesnake: Tue., Aug. 9. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Yonder Mountain String Band: Wed., Aug. 17. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

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nightlife T H U R S DAY 1 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Early Dinner Show with Josh Ehrmann, Timbre, For the Birds, 6 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Depth and the Whisper, Honeywagen, 9 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Dr. Octor.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

John Paul’s Flying Circus.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Grand Marquis.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Lonnie Ray Blues Jam. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Sarah and the Tall Boys.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Menage of Twang with the Broken Spoke.

KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Randy Rogers and Reckless Kelly, 7 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Mo Lottery presents the 2011 King of the Roots Battle of the Bands, 7 p.m.

DJ Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mike Scott and Spinstyles.

JAZZ Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Rich Berry.

Jess and Jim’s Steak House: 517 E. 135th St., 816941-9499. Stan Kessler with the Tim Brewer Quartet, 6:30 p.m.

Ninth and Massachusetts: Ninth and Massachusetts, Lawrence. Billy Ebeling, weather permitting, 12-1 p.m.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Solo with Mark Montgomery, 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

Bike Night with MC Ashley.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Paul Mooney.

KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Pool league, ladies’ night.

McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. All-In Thursdays, $15 all-in cup and 1/2 off appetizers, 6-9 p.m., beer pong, 9 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5.

Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Foosball tournament, 8 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Bike Night Open Jam. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Lonnie Ray Blues Jam, 9 p.m.

PUNK The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Number 9 Hard, Hot and Ugly, H.D.C.C., Sissy Spaceship, Silent Habit, Northern Aggression, Boys Beware, Bloody Knives.

F R I DAY 1 5 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The Noise FM, the Photo Atlas, Quiet Corral, 8 p.m.

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The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. O Giant Man, Hidden Pictures, David George Band, 10 p.m.

The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070.

The Magnetics.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986.

9th Street Incline Band.

Crosstown Station: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. The Latenight Callers, Vi Tran Band, Depth of Field, 8 p.m.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. The M80s.

Intentions: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-6526510. The Stolen Winnebagos.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Parachute Adams.

KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Gavin DeGraw.

Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant: 170 E. 14th St., 816-994-9700. Wonderland, 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Hospital Ships, Brother Gruesome, Legs Dead and Well, 10 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Sidewise, Black Oxygen, Among the Flood, InLike.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

Sarah and the Tall Boys.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-2212244. Funk Donuts with DJ MAKossa and friends, MANY MORE 10 p.m.

Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474.

Ernest James.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, ONLINE AT 785-832-1085. Brody Buster PITCH.COM Band, Supermassive Black Holes, the Shallows.

Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Valency, 10:30 p.m.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brian Ruskin Trio.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Sonic Sutra.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Eric Taylor, BeJae Fleming in the Retro Lounge.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Bob Harvey.

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DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Mingle with Team Bear Club, 10 p.m.

Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Ashton Martin.

JAZZ Benton’s Steak & Chop House: Westin Crown Center, 1 Pershing Rd., 816-391-4460. Live music, 6:30 p.m.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Big Three with John Paul Drum.

M&S Grill: 4646 J.C. Nichols Pkwy., 816-531-7799. Live jazz.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Lonnie McFadden, 4:30 p.m.

R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777.

Grand Marquis.

Vinyl Renaissance & Audio: 1415 W. 39th St., 816-7560014. Greg Meise Trio, 7 p.m.

WORLD Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. KCRUF: New Riddim, Rico.

Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Sons of Brasil, 6 & 8 p.m.

O’Dowd’s Little Dublin: 8600 N.W. Prairie View Rd., 816-268-6333. Soca Jukebox.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Blue Riddim Band, 7 & 10 p.m.

DANCE The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8421390. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun Dance Party, 9 p.m.

The Midland: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Global Dance Festival.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Angels Rock Bar: 1323 Walnut, 816-896-3943. Heaven and Hell, part three: 1 cup, 1 price, 2 venues, 3-hour open bar, 8 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.

Fathead & Braindeads Saloon: 514 Main, Grandview, 816-761-6060. Ladies’ night, DJ. McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-471-1330.

Back 9 Bash featuring Dirty Arnies, Par 3 John Dalys.

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Tengo Sed Cantina: 1323 Walnut, 816-686-7842.

Heaven and Hell, part three, 1 cup, 1 price, 2 venues, 3-hour open bar, 8 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Eddie Delahunt, 6 p.m.

VARIET Y Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Club Wars: Battle for Freakers Ball with Invictus, Axiom, Drek, Daybreak, 7 p.m.

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Club Wars: Battle for Freakers Ball with Another Dimension, Restraint, Everyday Chaos, Ten Thousand One, 3 Quarters Coma, Come Ascendancy, 8 p.m.

S AT U R DAY 1 6 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. The Scriveners, the Rackatees, Get Jonny, 9 p.m.

The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070.

The Shanks.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Missing Kaufmann, SuperCell.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. The Dead Girls, Pocket Genius, Little Brazil, 10 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. The ReHabaneros.

Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Naked Jake.

Press: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. The Runaway Sons, Hipshot Killer, the Uncouth, Bullet Proof, 9 p.m.

Raglan Road Irish Pub and Restaurant: 170 E. 14th St., 816-994-9700. Members Only, ’80s night, 10 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Lucky Diaz Family Band, Doo Dad Mike, 12:30 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. The Redwood Plan, Melting Point of Bronze, Japanese Game Show.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Cherokee Rock Rifle, the Slowdown, Waiting for Signal, Sons of Great Dane patio show; Chasing Avalanche, Johnny Rook, Motherstar.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

Lil’ Slim, 9 p.m.

Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Tekila, 6 p.m.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Atlantic Express, Hillbilly Casino.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Delta Dogs.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Lonesome Hank and the Heartaches, 9 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Bluz Benderz.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Roots Rhythm Soul Saturdays: Katy and Go-Go, early matinee show.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. County Road 5.

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Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Free pool with purchase, 11 a.m.-6 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Open Jam with Billy Ebeling and Duane Goldston, 1 p.m.

VARIET Y The Farm: 28706 S. State Route 7, Garden City. Candy Coburn Band, Bransen Ireland Band, Adam Dean and Chrome, Western Automatic, 1-9 p.m., $14.50 children, $39.50 adults.

S U N DAY 17 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. GreyMarket, the Stolen Winnebagos.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. JabberJosh, Animal Lover; Hidden Pictures, 6 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

Lee McBee & the Confessors, $4.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry.

JAZZ Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Roger Wilder Quartet, 6 p.m.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brian Ruskin, 3 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown trivia and karaoke, 7 p.m., $6.

Fathead & Braindeads Saloon: 514 Main, Grandview, 816-761-6060. Cheap Bastard Night.

The Fox and Hound: 10428 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913649-1700. Show Me the Money Poker, 7 & 10 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Paul Mooney.

John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595.

Rooftop karaoke.

Power & Light Grill: 417 E. 13th St., 816-283-3434.

Beats, Burgers & Birds, 8 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Ladies’ night.

EASY LISTENING J. Murphy’s Irish Pub and Grille: 22730 Midland Dr., Shawnee, 913-825-3880. Earl Baker, 7 p.m.

The Landing: 1189 W. Kansas St., Liberty. Scooter Sundays featuring the Bob Harvey Band on the patio.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3.

KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Open-mic night.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Open jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free.

VARIET Y Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Sunday Solace, 2 p.m.

The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8421390. Battle of the Bands Semifinals: Kanrocksas.

M O N DAY 1 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Dead Voices, Daikaiju, Vor Onus, 9 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. The Stolen Winnebagos.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Appropriate Grammar, Jackraasch, Future Kings.

Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Goods.

DJ Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. DJ Robert Moore downstairs, 10 p.m., free.

JAZZ Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Victor & Penny.

Intentions: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-6526510. Live jazz, 5 p.m.

Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Jackie Allen with Tom Larson and Hans Strom.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards, Mike Pagan, 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Karaoke with Nanci Pants.

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Trivia, 8 p.m.

Fred P. Ott’s: 4770 J.C. Nichols Pkwy., 816-753-2878.

Karaoke, 10 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, MANY MORE 785-749-1387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Free pool.

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R O C K A B I L LY Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

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VARIET Y Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913384-5646. Battle of the Bands Semifinals: Kanrocksas.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Knife Crime, New Lost Souls, Porcelain Gods, 9:30 p.m.

W E D N E S DAY 2 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Slimm Spins Cheap Thrills featuring Tiny Horse.

The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Benefit for Joplin: Absolute Darkness, Johnny Booth, Digester, Vagus.

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Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Thunder Power, With Forte, Katlyn Conroy, 10 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Billy Youngblood, Clientele, Brandon Bouges, Lordd Virgil, the Strive, Honest Cowboy.

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Shinetop Jr. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Funk-Trek, Jahration.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Brian Ruskin Quartet, 7 p.m.

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Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. CVLTS, Radio People, Palmetto Moon Electric Group.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427.

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Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Beach Nuts.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Billy Ebeling.

DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m.

Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Jazzy Jess.

JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rick Bacus & Monique Danielle.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bullfrog’s: 320 S.W. Blue Pkwy., Lee’s Summit, 816347-9393. Extreme bingo.

Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

Music bingo with DJ Danny Collins.

John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595.

Rooftop karaoke.

The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Cornhole - (bags) league, 7 p.m.

The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Tuesday Pool League, $10 entrance fee.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070.

Open mic with Brody Buster, 8 p.m.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Free-form, freefor-all open-mic night with Teague Hayes, 8 p.m.

The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Mudstomp Monday on a Tuesday.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open-mic night.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Boulder Acoustic Society, Miss Major and Her Minor Mood Swings, 7:30 p.m.

JAZZ Chaz on the Plaza: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-756-3800.

Max Groove Trio, 6 p.m.

Dan’s Longbranch Steakhouse: 9095 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-642-9555. Samantha Fish, 9 p.m.

Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Steve Gray Trio with Shannon Lipps.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Rich Berry.

Oak Room: 401 Ward Pkwy., 816-303-2945. D.J. Sweeney, 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Poker Night.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m.

McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. Working Women’s Wednesday, 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816421-4201. Karaoke.

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Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m.

Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816-4214201. Open mic for rappers, singers, poets, comedians, musicians, featuring DJ Hylanda and a live band, 8 p.m.

VARIET Y Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Brandon McPherson Foundation Annual Event featuring Chris Porter, dinner available, 7 p.m., $25.

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savage love Charged Up Dear Dan: I’m a 20-year-old straight male. I was recently back home for a family event while my younger brother, age 14, was away. My iPad died, and my mother told me to look in the kitchen drawers for a charger. I couldn’t find one there, so she told me to check my brother’s bedside table.

With a little digging, I found a charger. I also found a few pictures of gay porn and a couple of pictures of male celebrities with their shirts off that had been clipped from magazines.

It isn’t the gay porn I have a problem with. I found a picBY ture of our father in his swim trunks, and another one of a DAN fully naked man with a cutout S AVA G E photo of my father’s face glued over the original model’s face.

I was freaked out. I put everything back where I had found it, including the charger.

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Dear CAS: While your brother appears to have an inappropriate and, it’s hoped, fleeting sexual obsession with your father, can you picture a scenario in which your brother’s desires could be consummated?

Unless something is going on back home, your brother isn’t a danger to your father, nor is your father a danger to your brother. Saying something to your brother will poison your relationship with him; saying something to your father will kill his relationship with his son.

And destroying either relationship over what is most likely a temporary obsession seems a bit extreme.

I would advise you to stuff this one way down the ol’ memory hole if the pictures weren’t in a place where Mom and Dad might find ’em. So memorize this and say it to your brother ASAP: “Hey, kiddo, Mom told me to look in your nightstand drawer for an iPad power cord. I found one, along with what looked like gay porn. I didn’t peruse your porn collection too closely because I wanted to respect your privacy. But you need to get that stuff out of the house before Mom or Dad finds it. It’s cool with me if you’re gay, and I love you and it makes no difference, but leaving porn around is not how you want to come out to Mom and Dad, OK?” Then tell him that the Internet is for porn, and he can access all the porn he likes safely and discreetly on his iPad.

is extremely wealthy or your husband is a gerontophile. Sadly, neither makes this situation any less humiliating for you. But no one who hears what your husband has done is going to think there’s something wrong with you.

Dear Dan: I’m a 43-year-old mother of three, married for almost 20 years. Three years and one child in, my husband confessed that he had a penchant for being a BDSM sub. My reaction was, “OK, I’ll try it, but if you want to explore that with pro doms, be my guest.” Which he did.

Fast-forward a dozen years. I’m going bonkers because my husband is impotent. And don’t tell me ED can be fixed because in our case it couldn’t. And don’t tell me there are alternatives (oral, manual, toys) because all of those are just not the same for me. So my husband gives me his “blessing” to take a lover. I didn’t have to ask!

I just needed to be miserable and depressed for a dozen years!

Now I have two lovers: One lives far away, and I see him a few times a year; the other is local. They are both married to spouses who don’t know. Like me, neither of my lovers is interested in divorce. But I’m not happy with the integrity of these situations. I know that what I’m doing is considered despicable by many people, though I’m probably a marriage-saving device for both of these women. (I’m not trying to steal their husbands, and I’m not a financial burden on either of them.) I would love to find someone in an honest open relationship. How do I set up a situation with more integrity when the world isn’t really ready for people like me?

Normal Soccer Mom From Afar

Dear Dan: I would like to know why my husband is divorcing me to marry an 87-year-old woman.

Extremely Humiliated

The answer NSMFA seeks is obvious: There are hard-up single men, married men in honest open relationships, men in the organized swinging movement, and she should fuck some of them.

But I’m including her letter for all the smug monogamists sending me angry letters in the wake of Mark Oppenheimer’s recent feature about monogamy and its discontents in The New York Times Magazine (“Married, With Infidelities,” June 30, 2011).

Here’s what I think is interesting about NSMFA’s letter: Everyone involved is perceived to be in a monogamous relationship.

The two duped wives may actually believe themselves to be in monogamous relationships. But not one of these three couples — not one of the six “traditionally married” straight people — is in a monogamous relationship.

Just something to keep in mind, monogamists, before you write to tell me about your deep, meaningful monogamous relationship, how your parents never cheated on each other, how none of your married friends would cheat on their spouses, etc.

You just never know, do you?

Dear EH: Only your husband knows the real reason, but if I were to guess: Either this woman

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Amy & Jeff 1-800-471-8978 Expenses Paid 5605 Musicians Avail / Wanted

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5525 Legal Services

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DRIVERSExperienced Drivers needed to drive limos, vans, town cars etc. Must be 25+, have flexbile schedule & clean driving record.

816-728-7717 5130 Entertainment Jobs

liner 5150 Medical / Dental / Health Jobs Anatomic Pathologist with fellowship training in Oncologic Pathology and Cytopathology sought by University Pathology Association in Wyandotte County, KS. CVs to Suzanne Scott 3901 Rainbow Blvd., MS3045, Kansas City, KS 66160.

5167 Restaurant / Hotel / Club Jobs

BECOME A BARTENDER! Up to $300 a day. No exp. necessary.

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Great Place to Work Westport Location Chair rental for Stylist PT $75/Week. FT $100 First 2 weeks free rent.

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MO-WESTPOR $215,000 816-806-7653 Triplex 3821 Wyoming, $215,000. Monthly gross rents $2200 2 units 2BR/1BA, 1 unit 1BR/1BA, offstreet parking, security entrance. BRKS Real Estate Co., Jim Kraus Broker/Owner 816-806-7653.

38th St.-WESTPORT AREA $375-$450 816-531-6428 Studio & 1 br apt avail. Prvt parking. Walk-in closets (in 1bd), Balcony, central AC & heat, w/w carpet, w/d acces.

5210 Homes For Sale ALL AREAS ALL PRICES 913-381-6789 www.kcmlslistings.com Western Auto Loft, 1bed 1bathHardwoods, granite, garden unitWith large patio, 150sWont last long!!!Sharon Sigman 913-381-6789 5245 Real Estate Services Credit keeping you from finding the home of your dreams? WE CAN HELP! 816.421.8001 kccreditservices.com

MO-MIDTOWN $475 816-561-8080 Cozy loft apartment in Valentine above Browne's Irish Market & Deli. Heat & Water Paid. Porch. $475 816-561-8080 MO-WESTPORT $650 510-761-5801 2br Vintage Walk up with courtyard Oasis/balcony. Big flat w/high ceilings, wood floors, balcony, @ 38th and Main.

On-site laundry, community courtyard, positive neighbors. 950 sq. ft w/coded entries. We have a sweet 2bdr option waiting for you! Sarah @ 510-761-58011

5305 Roommates

Retired, Very established mature man seeks Roommate/Friend to occupy Nice North Kansas City Home. Must be Drug/Alcohol/Gambling free. Female preferred. Would like to find someone who may share like interest. Please Call @ 816-507-4911

KS-KANSAS CITY $450+ 816-716-5054 2715 W 42nd Ave - 1/2 off 1st mo2 bed $550 heat paid -2 bed duplex $450Windsor and Company MO-MIDTOWN $595 816-531-2555 701 E. 40th, ALL UTILITIES PAID, 2 Bedrooms, Central Air, Appliances, Storage, Laundry.

5307 Rooms For Rent KS-North of KU Med $250/MONTH 913-488-9434 Great Midtown location-General Contractor seeks responsible roomate to share 2 bedroom Home with possible option to employee general laborer to help with successful business (Company Car, Salary + Commission, Gas card, Cell phone + Bonus) a 35K-100K Year. Female preferred but will consider any option. call today.

!"#$%&'(()*#+,")-."/ 1-Bdrms starting at $395 central air, secure entry, on site laundry, on bus line, close to shopping, nice apts, Sections 8 welcome $100 Deposit (816) 231-2874 M-F 8-5 office hours

The Hamilton

Studio & 1 BRS starting at $565 Minutes from Downtown KC, Westport & Area Colleges

KS-KCKS $425-$525 913-299-9748 HEAT & WATER PAID... NO GAS BILL!KCK-25 ACRE SETTING WITH POOL 63rd & ANN, 5 minutes West of I-635 & I-70 One bedroom $425; Two bedroom $525. No pets please. You CANNOT BEAT this value! Don't miss out on this limited-time offer! Call NOW! MUCH NICER THAN THE PRICE!

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KS-SHAWNEE $650 816-254-7200 Cute and cozy 2 bedroom house, living room, newer carpet, basement, garage, appliances, pets welcome! rs-kc.com KCOHQ

MO-WESTPORT/PLAZA $500/month 816-561-9528 Winter Special- Large 2 Bedroom, Central Heat, Balcony, Private Parking, Garbage disposal.3943 Roanoke and 3821 Central Call for details KS-KU MED $455-$560 913-236-8038 ASK ABOUT OUR SPECIALS!!6 month lease available, Spacious studios, 1Bedroom & 2Bedrooms close to KU, Westport & Plaza. Laundry, off street parking, pool, water & trash paid. Please visit www.kc-apartments.comWashita Club Apartments manager@kc-apartments.com KS-OLATHE $735/MONTH 913-481-5967 1 bedroom Apartment located at West 138th & Pflumn.

Ground Level. Patio View of pond. pets ok. Dog park on property.Washer/Dryer hook-ups, New carpet & paint.

Ceiling fans.Available August 1st. Call Now! KS-OVERLAND PARK $695 816-531-2555 9509 W. 78th. 2 bedroom, 1.5 bath duplex. Attached garage, central air, appliances, loft.

MO-ART INSTITUTE 816-753-1923 Apartment homes for rent. Call us today for our latest listings and to set up an appointment to view our properties!www.krugh.net - KRUGH REALTY, LLC MO-DOWNTOWN $555+ 816-471-2751 The Courthouse Lofts on Grand Boulevard offers the finest in affordable apartment living in a truly urban setting. A complete historic rehabilitation of the 1939 former Federal Courthouse creates 176 new apartment lofts in the heart of downtown KC.&bull; Heated underground parking&bull; In-unit laundry and premium finishes&bull; Affordable downtown living from $555/month**Income restrictions apply. Please call for details.

MO-GILLHAM PARK $495/MONTH 816-785-2875 RARE opportunity 1 unit vacancy. Beautiful Loft style Apartment on Gillham Park great views completely New everything. Exposed brick, marble floors, exposed ceilings (3rd floor units), hardwood floors, claw foot or jacuzzi tubs its all here right on Gillham Park with great sunset views. Completely new and updated with new Refrigerator, stove, Central air, furnace, garbage disposal, microwave / hood, maple cabinets and tons more. As low as $495 per month with lease. Big 1 bedrooms in a great part of town. Onsite management. Call Wes at 816-785-2875 or Dave at 913-244-4892 MO-KANSAS CITY STARTING AT $395 816-231-2874Stonewall Court apartments-2500 Independence Ave. Central air, secure entry, on site laundry, on bus line, close to shopping. Nice apartments, Sec 8 welcome. $100 DepositOffice hours M-F 8-5 MO-KCAI $395-$425 (816)756-2380 3966 Warwick spacious 1 BR Carpeted, Heat Paid, Near KCAI. 2 BR $595 www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM

MO-KCAI $675 (816)756-2380 4125 Walnut Large 3 bedroom, large balcony, hardwood througout.

KS-47th and State$950 913-962-6683 2 bedroom house plus 2 car garage, charming terrace, fenced yard, appliances, washer/dryer, pets welcome! rs-kc.com KCOHF

MO-MIDTOWN $425-$525 (816)756-2380 712 E. Linwood. 1 and 2 bedrooms. Carpet.

New renovation. Walking distance to Costco, Home Depot, Martini Corner. Pets ok 1 month rent free! www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM

MO-MIDTOWN $575 (816)756-2380 4021 Harrison Newly renovated 2 BR. C/A Carpet/Hdwood.

Pets OK.

www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM MO-MIDTOWN $595 (816)756-2380 4011 Warwick. Large 2 Bedroom. C/A, Carpet, balcony, www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM

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MO-WESTPORT $350-$800 816-474-4APT PARKSIDE PROPERTIES/'parksid/ n.1: A Collection of Early Century Apartments withArchitectural Quality. 2: Local Owner Management, Focused on Restoration.3a: Roanoke/Valentine and Art Gallery area. 3b: Studios & 1-3br's. 3c: $350 to $800/mo. 4: 816-474-4000

Stylish Apartments in Historic Midtown Building StudioS, 1&2 BedroomS • All utilities included • Off Street Parking • Laundry Facilities 816-531-3111 • Huge Windows 1111 W. 39th St. • High Ceilings KCMO

MO-WESTPORT $500-$700 816-753-1923 44th & Pennsylvania, 1 & 2 Bedrooms, private balcony, walking distance to Plaza & Westport, and so much more. Call Krugh Realty, LLC today to set up your appointment to see this unit.www.krugh.net - KRUGH REALTY, LLC

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MO-WESTPORT $500 816-561-4230Monterrey Apts., 4630 Wornall Rd, 1BR, no smoking bldg, no pets, and water paid. Call Krugh Realty, LLC today to see this unit. KRUGH REALTY, LLC.

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BRING THIS AD IN FOR $20 UTILITIES $110/WEEK OFF YOUR $100/DEPOSIT* Month to Month Rent FIRST 2 Laundry facilities - on-site PAID! WEEKS * Restrictions apply Call (816) 221-1721 -Se Habla Espanol ALL

MO-WESTPORT/KUMED $695 816-531-3111 3942 Roanoke~ ground floor Duplex. 1 BR, lrg rooms, lots of closets. Off street parking, front porch. No pets please.

5320 Houses For Rent

MO-MIDTOWN $415-$700/MONTH 913-940-2047 Newly Renovated Studios,1 & 2 Bedrooms in convenient Midtown Location. Off Street Parking.

MO-MIDTOWN $395 (816)756-2380 4045 Walnut. Large 1 Bedrooms.

Hardwood, laundry. www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM

MO-MIDTOWN $525 816-716-5054 On the Park. 4201 Kenwood 2 bd ALL ELC/Cent AC /HDWD FLR /Windsor and Company 816-716-5054 MO-MIDTOWN 1/2 off 1st Mo -$425 816-716-5054 3734 Warwick ALL ELC / remodeled / laundry

Windsor and Company 816-716-5054

MO-DOWNTOWN $900 (816)813-7999 5 bedroom, 2 bathroom home for rent. Fully carpeted, all appliances included, central air/heat. Pets OK Call Chris for a showing.

5317 Apartments For Rent

KS-75th and Nall$950 816-254-7200 Oversized 3 bed/1.5 bath house, charming hardwood floors, garage with opener, fenced yard, appliances, rent-to-own, pets OK! rs-kc.com KCOHM

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2BR 2.5BA $775

9702 Wornall larger 2 level townhouse, cov’d pkng, gas FP, deck!

902 E. 39th St.

1BR $425

524 Maple

1BR $375

1505 Little Ave.

1BR $395

1620 E. Linwood

2BR $575

1317 E 45th St

2BR $450

Charming apt w/ balcony, HW floors, updated kitchen

STARTING AT $560 No Application Fee!

Cute 1BR with off-st. parking, central air, balcony

816-363-8018

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3105 Peery

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MO-NE KC $400-$450 816-472-1866 Now renting 502-520 Maple Blvd. LLCColonial Court Apartments w/ air conditioners. Super move in special 1/2 off 1st month rent & $200 Deposit, On the 6th month you will received a incentive of /12 month off. with a 6 months rental contract. For more details call Kelly James Onsite Manager (816)472-1866 Home (816) 777-6965San Diego Branch Office is (619) 956-6033.

4451 Tracy

1BR $395

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