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cultural and creative landscape and have made lasting contributions, and we think they stand with the award’s most enduring alumni. Each picks up a check for $750 — no strings attached. Artopia — the award and the party — is our way of saying thanks and encouraging winners (present and past) to keep surprising us. We’ll hand out the checks during the night of fashion, music, performance and food: Saturday, April 14, at the Screenland (1656 Washington). It starts at 7:30 p.m., and tickets cost $30 at the door; call 816-561-6061 for details.

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2011: David Gant, Gina Kaufmann, Sarah Nelsen, NewEar Contemporary Music Ensemble 2010: Barry Anderson, Latino Writers Collective, Dan Padavic and Tad Carpenter (Vahalla Studios), Heidi Van 2009: Pat Alexander, Ron Megee, Anne Austin Pearce, Carman Stalker

2008: Hector Casanova, Tom Deatherage, Steven Eubank, Ari Fish 2007: Daven Gee, Hadley Johnson, Jessalyn Kincaid, Jaimie Warren 2006: Andrea Flamini, Georgianna Londre, Peggy Noland, Sike Style

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DESIGN | Peter Warren

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PERFORMANCE | Owen/Cox Dance Group

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EDITOR | Scott Wilson ART DIRECTOR | Ashford Stamper

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regory Kolsto doesn’t make it easy. His coffee shop, Oddly Correct, is located on a grimy, chrysalis stretch of Main between Westport Road and 39th Street. The dark sign doesn’t exactly leap off the building. Parking can be tough, particularly during the place’s narrow business hours: 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. Inside, you’ll wait about five minutes for your cup, which is lovingly prepared using Kolsto’s pour-over method. Want cream or sugar? Screw up your courage and ask for it. It’s hardly the tightly planned stuff of MBA programs. But then, when was the last time a revolution shot out of a graduate-level management-theory course? And make no mistake: A revolutionary spirit is in the air at Oddly Correct. “What we wanted to do here was create a space that facilitates conversation and a culture, and then figure out how to engage with that, and how to make it more about people than it is about us,” Kolsto says. “We’re not trying to be offensively weird, but we also aren’t holding back our idea of what Oddly Correct can be. There’s a sense of liberty here. People have accepted our challenge of challenging them.” Raising the coffee status quo in Kansas City is Kolsto’s professed mission, and he’s working to achieve that via three avenues: by the cup, wholesale and mail order. You can now find Oddly Correct roasts at Nature’s Own, the Filling Station, Blue Bird Bistro, Aixois, Mud Pie, and Soho Bakery, among other places. (At Succotash, you can taste Oddly Correct espresso.) “Right now, the focus is on pursuing beauti-

ful coffees,” Kolsto says. “We call them ‘rock stars’ — these seasonal, limited coffees that are here for a few months and then gone.” Beyond that focus, he also dabbles in printmaking and design, which filters into the Oddly Correct concept. “We want to curate a coffee experience,” he says. “Offer these limited-edition type of coffees and pair them with art — numbered prints that we’ve created to go with it. That type of thing is what gets me excited and keeps me engaged.” If Kolsto is driven more by artistry and the desire for perfection than by economics, there’s also something restrained and prudent about Oddly Correct. “We’re not trying to be something we’re not,” he says. “We’re not going to shell out a bunch of cash for something we can’t afford just because we want to make it happen. Look around this place: Plywood is the new oak for us, you know? We feel like it reflects the texture and the simplicity with which we approach what we’re doing.” Not that he lacks ambition. With two new accounts in the works — one with Lil Freshie, a soon-to-open organic snow-cone and popsicle shop on the West Side, and one with Port Fonda — Oddly Correct is looking more and more like a fulcrum of Kansas City’s creative-services class. Kolsto is giving the city something it didn’t know it needed: really, really great coffee, and a space in which to savor it (and talk about savoring it). “We’re not ever going to be like a normal coffee shop, if there is such a thing,” Kolsto says. But why be normal when you can be Oddly Correct? a

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hen composer Brad Cox met dancer Jennifer Owen 11 years ago, their chemistry went beyond romantic attraction. They inspired and challenged each other on an artistic level. And so, the jazz-minded musician and the ballerina with directorial aspirations decided to collaborate on a short performance project. The collaboration was good, but the time wasn’t right for going into business together. They married shortly before Owen left for a yearlong stint with the Hong Kong Ballet. When she returned to the States, other opportunities outside Kansas City beckoned. Eventually, she was ready for the next step in her dance career. “I always wanted to choreograph,” Owen says. “And what better way to start an ensemble than with your composer-husband?” Now in its fifth season, the Owen/Cox Dance Group averages three big shows a year, plus a handful of smaller performances and guest appearances. The troupe features no full-time dancers — other than Owen — although performers are recruited from around the world. Outside the company, artistic directors Owen and Cox teach their respective art forms and engage in other performance projects — Cox founded the People’s Liberation Big Band of Greater Kansas City — but remain focused on growing their collaborative endeavor. When they produce together, Cox enjoys translating his often improvisational style to something that dancers can move around. “I love composing,” he says, “and it’s fun to have this other element that makes the process so much richer.” Sometimes the music comes first. Sometimes the dance does. Cox describes his wife’s choreographic style

as musical. Owen calls it contemporary, an organic outgrowth of the classical technique she had studied since childhood and practiced professionally for 13 years on international stages. Her evolution and the couple’s shared experimental vision are apparent at a rehearsal for their spring production. A few weeks before the premiere of the new piece “For the Beauty of the Earth” on the H&R Block City Stage, six dancers spring across a room, inside St. Teresa’s Academy, to otherworldly music that blends with bird calls, crickets and mechanicalsounding percussion. Cox usually leads the ensemble of musicians that accompanies Owen’s troupe of dancers. The collaboration often features other forms of locally generated creativity. For an original twist on the Nutcracker, Owen/Cox recruited 2007 Pitch MasterMind Peggy Noland and another creative Kansas City power couple, horn sculptor Mark Southerland and artist Peregrine Honig, to help outfit their dancers. Another collaborator, National Endowment for the Arts fellow Nate Fors, designed costumes, including inner-tube tutus, for a circus-music-driven Owen/Cox performance called “Bottom of the Big Top.” Owen and Cox say they feel lucky to be able to work with such a talented pool of creative minds. “This is a good place to start something new,” Owen says of Kansas City. Growing will mean taking their shows on the road. The group has appearances scheduled in Lawrence and St. Louis. “Ideally, as the group evolves, there will be more opportunities to tour,” Cox says. Luckily, the married muses can now do their artistic jet-setting together. a Owen, with Jayson Douglas (left) and Andrew Lamar

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lingerie, corsets and stockings for ladies of all sizes! Visit our store in Leawood or check out our website to become a Sazzy's Lingerie Home Party Independent Sales Consultant. Leawood, 913-991-8028, sazzys.com, sazzyslingeriehomeparties.com)

SCREENLAND THEATRE The Screenland Theatre is a singlescreen moviehouse, specializing in independents, cult classics and hard-to-fi nd fi lms. Screenland also serves as a unique site for corporate and private events in the theater commodating up to 500 people. See screenland.com for descriptions of current releases and pictures of the event space.

TALLGRASS BREWING COMPANY Recovering geologist Jeff Gill started Manhattan’s Tallgrass Brewing Company in 2007. He wanted to bring more fantastic beers to the Midwest. Five years later, Tallgrass is a leading innovator in the craft-beer industry, with such new ideas as 2010’s “Canifesto” (a “declaration of canned-craft-beer independence”) and today’s 8-Bit Pale Ale, a unique Galaxy-hop-rocketed pale ale close

capes, Michael utilizes an earthy color

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serves breakfast, lunch and dinner

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to the heart of retro gamers everywhere. The company’s quirky attitude and visionary beer brands are part of what makes the Midwest an exciting and vibrant place to live. Get a taste of what Tallgrass is all about at tallgrassbeer.com.

WHEAT STATE PIZZA Welcome! Prepare to be impressed! Wheat State Pizza in Kansas City is locally owned and operated. We serve the highest-quality gourmet pizza, calzones, appetizers and more. All of our dough is made fresh daily, with the finest ingredients, and baked to perfection. You'll love our selection of more than 50 toppings, sauces and cheeses! Open 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday. For menu and locations, see wheatstatepizza.com.

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