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he Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri, is like a chamber of commerce with the power of the purse. The agency receives funding from the city to administer tax-increment financing (TIF) and other incentive programs that make developers squeal with delight.

Competent, conscientious people work at the EDC. But every once in a while, the staff can be conniving. The most recent scheme involves an apparent attempt to use residency requirements to oust a troublemaker.

The EDC provides staff support to the TIF Commission and other city agencies. The TIF Commission itself is a complicated beast. It’s composed of 11 individuals, six appointed by the mayor and five representatives from the taxing jurisdictions affected by decisions to award tax-increment financing. (Among other things, TIF captures property taxes.)

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The bias charge is rooted in the fact that a portion of the EDC’s funding comes from the TIF plans that they are supposed to evaluate with clear eyes. The EDC’s lack of objectivity was evident in 2009, when the TIF Commission determined that a TIF district in midtown had outlived its original purpose. The EDC staff tried to override the decision by questioning the legality of the move. Joe Gonzales, an EDC employee and the TIF Commission’s chief administrator, was later reprimanded for not carrying out the wishes of the TIF Commission.

Gonzales is again waving law books in the air. He has told the members of the TIF Commission that they may lose their voting rights if they can’t prove they live in the city.

Residency is an issue for Kelvin Perry, who represents the Kansas City, Missouri, School District on the TIF Commission. Perry lives in Shawnee, according to a recent report in the Kansas City Business Journal. Crosby Kemper III, the CEO of the Kansas City Public Library, told the Business Journal that he thinks the residency notice was as an attempt to silence Perry.

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odd the spider monkey is about to embark on a five-month island vacation in landlocked Greenwood, Missouri. It’s June 9, more than a month later than Dana Savorelli, the owner of the nonprofit Monkey Island Rescue and Zoological Sanctuary, wanted to relocate Todd. The move to Monkey Island, the moat-surrounded land in what amounts to Savorelli’s front yard, was pushed back by bad weather and because the island’s other inhabitants, a flock of geese, were still sitting on their eggs.

Savorelli’s private, 10-acre farm contains animals that you won’t find anywhere else in Missouri except in a zoo: miniature donkeys, ostriches, llamas, lemurs and more than 20 venomous snakes. A day before Todd’s move, TV cameras captured Savorelli and friends dropping a cage containing alligators in the moat surrounding the island.

Because the island sits just 80 feet from South Harris Road, Todd’s antics will be visible from the road. Drivers will glimpse Todd climbing trees or scaling a 6-foot statue of a tyrannosaurus rex or swinging on the 64 feet of monkey bars that stretch the length of the island. Savorelli

has to transport Todd to the island, which is accessible only by boat. But first, he has to get Todd on the boat.

“Todd’s usually pretty laid-back,” Savorelli says. His bald head and beard glisten with sweat in the warm sun.

He wears a sleeveless gray T-shirt emblazoned with the name of his business, Midwest Tongs (the “world’s leader in snake handling equipment,” the shirt announces) and sweatpants. “He should remember what’s going on and come right out and just go with me.”

Savorelli is prepared for Todd to be less than laid-back.

He slips on a thick rubber glove that covers his arm in case Todd bites him.

“Hopefully, we don’t have to chokehold him or nothing,” he says. “If he gets stupid, self-preservation kicks in.”

Savorelli enters Todd’s cage, an 8-foot-tall structure with a tire swing, a toy ball, a plank and a tunnel. There are 13 cages for the nearly 50 primates on the farm. (The cages not facing Savorelli’s home are 16 feet high so that monkeys on either side of the building can share and see the other wildlife on the farm). Todd has lived on the farm for eight years and has spent the morning leisurely swinging from the cage’s bars.

“Come here, you crazy monkey,” Savorelli says. He cradles Todd in his arms and tries to keep the monkey calm as he holds him and walks down the gravel drive toward the boat. Assisting is a quiet blond woman named Suzanne Windsor, who wears a red Mizzou T-shirt and denim shorts. Perhaps spooked by the presence of a reporter, Todd tries to squirm out of Savorelli’s arms.

“He’s gotta understand who the fucking boss is,” Savorelli says, pinning the monkey to the ground as he explains that primates understand social hierarchies.

He addresses Todd again: “You’re going to have to mellow out.”

“Want the net?” Windsor asks. “Careful. Easy. Calm down, Todd.”

“About ready to stop fucking around?” Savorelli asks Todd, whose struggle has knotted his arms into a pretzel. Todd tries to choke Savorelli with his feet. “I got his fucking jaw. That’s where he’s going to hurt you. Once I got his head, I can keep him locked in place here. I’ll let him go, and he’ll be fine and walk off.”

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to the island. Once there, Todd hops off and moves calmly to the playground, just as Savorelli predicted. Todd climbs a tree as Savorelli and Windsor throw eggs that the geese have left behind into the water. (Savorelli doesn’t want his monkeys eating bad eggs.) Geese honk as their eggs splash and crack against downed tree branches in the water.

Back on the mainland, Savorelli checks himself for bites. “I don’t think he ever got me.

There’s one scratch there,” he says, showing off his arm.

Todd won’t be alone on the island. Two white-fronted capuchins named Katrina and E.T. will be joining him.

“The ones we’ve been putting out there have been going out there for years and years,” Savorelli says. “It’s just routine for them. They’ll live on that island until probably November.

Once we put ’em out there, they’re there until we bring them back in. We try to push that to the limits so they can have a bigger cage, so to speak. The water is the barrier, or the fence, that would normally keep them in.”

Katrina, a calm capuchin, is next to go.

Windsor picks up Katrina and sweet-talks her in a gentle, motherly voice. The monkey rides to the island on Windsor’s shoulders, a smoother trip than Todd’s.

The final monkey making the move is E.T..

Savorelli grabs the net and sneaks into E.T.’s cage. “E.T.’s a hell-raiser,” he says. “He’s a little bastard. I’ll probably net E.T. because he can be as good as he is bad.”

E.T. hides in a tunnel.

“He’s smarter than shit,” Savorelli says. “He’s the life of the party out there. He gets everything wound up and everybody pissed off.”

“E.T., come here, baby,” Windsor coos. “Come on, E.T..”

E.T. chatters while peering out of the tunnel.

“It’s OK. Come on, E.T.,” Windsor says.

“Come on, baby. Come on. I know. Come here, baby.”

E.T. finally lets his guard down and hops down. Savorelli sneaks up on him and nets him, compressing E.T.’s body in the mesh.

“Be a good boy,” Savorelli tells E.T. “He is

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wound up in that net so tight to keep him from hurting him or me. It doesn’t really bother him.

So it works out well.”

Windsor rows the boat to the island again, stopping near a tree stump in the water. Savorelli unwinds the net and lets E.T. loose on the stump.

The little monkey gives Savorelli a what-thefuck look but eventually climbs across a downed tree limb and jumps onto the island.

“That’s it,” Savorelli says as the boat docks.

The only other primates that might also move to the island are two gibbons, whose high-pitched whooping can be heard from anywhere in the sanctuary. Savorelli says he’s waiting to move them because the female is pregnant.

The five-month vacation on the island for Todd, Katrina and E.T. may be their last.

Savorelli says Monkey Island may be forced to close by winter.

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avorelli started Monkey Island after moving to his two-story farmhouse in 1996. He knew the house’s former owners, who had bred and sold monkeys. When they put it up for sale, Savorelli saw “the opportunity of a lifetime.”

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Above, Savorelli at work. Above-right, his refrigerator scrapbook at home.

Below-right and opposite, not everything at Monkey Island is a monkey.

“Never looked back,” he says of buying the house, where today he lives alone. “I love it out here.”

Savorelli had planned to continue breeding and selling monkeys. But he came to believe that he was just taking people’s money — he’d sell a monkey for $5,000 and end up getting the monkey back for free within a few years, when the owner would almost invariably return it.

In 1998, Savorelli built the island in a wooded and brushy area of his front lawn that never dried out.

“Now the monkeys can go out there, and it’s a cool place for them,” Savorelli says.

Savorelli once had a dispute over Monkey Island with a power-hungry Jackson County Animal Control officer in 2003, who claimed that Savorelli was harboring wild or exotic animals without permission from Jackson County Animal Control. But Savorelli didn’t need the county’s permission. He was (and is) governed

by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which issues dealer permits to keep animals such as those at Monkey Island. Savorelli won the fight against Jackson County Animal Control.

The USDA conducts surprise inspections to ensure that the Animal Welfare Act is being followed. (Do the animals have access to clean water? Are their cages the right size? Are they receiving proper veterinary care?) Savorelli passed his 2010 inspection.

The USDA doesn’t statistically track the number of private animal sanctuaries, which

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appear to be rare. “With the economy being what it is nowadays, it’s probably not so common to be a self-contained, self-sustained wildlife sanctuary, because it takes a lot of volunteers,” USDA spokesman Dave Sacks says. “It takes a lot of money to feed these animals. And if you’re not charging money for people to view these animals, it’s not contributing to your financial state of being.

They’re just being taken care of by you, which is certainly a noble effort.”

Part of Monkey Island’s mission is to take in abandoned or confiscated exotic animals in the Kansas City area.

“Animal control, you never know what they’ll bring,” Savorelli says. “We take in whatever. It’s all life to us, whether it’s mean or not mean.”

Most of the animals that end up at his front gate come from people who thought owning a monkey would be cute but then find that the realities of ownership — feeding expenses, the occasional bite — are less than adorable. Savorelli also receives alligators and reptiles confiscated in drug raids.

“I tell people that it’s like an old folks’ home,” Savorelli says of his enterprise. “They come here after they’re too hard to handle or whatever, and then we maintain their lives for the time that they get to live, however long that is. But that’s an expensive process.”

Derrick Jones, a field supervisor with Kansas City’s animal control division, counts Savorelli as an ally and calls Monkey Island “very valuable.” Jones recalls taking Savorelli about 10 alligators, three monkeys and several poisonous snakes, including a copperhead.

If Monkey Island hadn’t been an option, the gators likely would have been euthanized.

“Because he took them, we saved the alligators,” Jones says. “The monkeys, I’m not sure what we would have done with them. He has a long history of dealing with them. It’s probably the best place for them.”

Asked how many times Animal Control has taken exotic animals to Monkey Island, Jones replies, “More than we’d like.” He adds: “It’s a great thing he’s there helping out.”

Savorelli doesn’t get paid for the exotic animals he takes in. “We just try to be there as a service because we have the experience,” he says. “It’s like second nature to us to deal with them. I don’t mind helping them out. But there’s also only so much continued on page 10

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money to go around to feed these guys, especially when things are tough.”

Savorelli doesn’t keep track of the number of rescues he takes in a year. He clips newspaper articles documenting his rescue work and puts them on his refrigerator. The door is covered.

There’s a story about Savorelli saving a 12-foot, 50-pound Burmese python on Christmas Eve 2010. The python was on the verge of being euthanized after someone tried to decapitate it with a box cutter. Savorelli quickly found the snake a new home. There’s also a story about Suco, the chimpanzee who went on a mini rampage around Indiana Avenue between 77th and 78th streets last October. Savorelli baby-sat the chimp before it was transferred to the Kansas City Zoo. A three-toed sloth hangs in a cage in Savorelli’s pantry, and inside the garage attached to Savorelli’s home is a metal tub that used to house wayward alligators. Savorelli’s garage also holds cases full of snakes — anacondas, a carpet python, a boa constrictor and a Burmese python. Most impressive is the long wooden case containing an 18-foot, 250-pound Burmese python, which was given to Savorelli by a man who bought it (when it was just 8 feet long) for his grandchildren.

“My daughter got married a month ago, and the snake was in the actual wedding along with a dog and a horse,” Savorelli says.

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avorelli has a connection with his monkeys.

On a May afternoon, he greets each one as he might an old friend, and each greets him as one, too.

“Yes, I know you need a scratch on that belly,” he told a monkey waiting at the side of a cage. The monkey grunts as Savorelli scratches her belly. “Yeah, that’s a good girl right there,” he says. He feeds her some grass. “You’re a sweetheart.”

Savorelli points out two pigtailed macaques, named Nicholas and Abby. In October 2007, they were drugged and kidnapped from his farm.

Catherine Montes, a former Monkey Island volunteer, was charged with burglary and theft.

But Jackson County prosecutors dropped the charges, citing a problem with evidence (despite Savorelli having captured the theft on surveillance video). A third macaque, Melissa, was never found.

Lisa Shinkle, who hid the kidnapped macaques, was prosecuted in Buchanan County and served 20 days in jail after being convicted of receiving stolen property.

Savorelli makes it to the last cage in a row of seven. “Hi, Mr. Todd,” he says and shakes hands with the spider monkey who was reluctant to depart for the island.

Savorelli’s first love wasn’t monkeys but snakes, which he started collecting at age 12.

He says he learned to read by memorizing books about snakes. He was also a young entrepreneur, selling snakes to collectors. His best customer: serial killer Bob Berdella. Savorelli says his ex-wife later found a ledger that Savorelli had used to track his snake deals and discovered Berdella’s name in his book.

“Bob Berdella picked me up and took me to the house where he slaughtered those people, when I was 13 years old,” Savorelli recalls. “I

didn’t have anybody with me. Nobody knew where I went.” Berdella showed him the room in his home where he kept snakes, mice and rats.

“Bob would always pay what you asked,” Savorelli says. “Never talk you down a dime.

Never tried to hustle you. Never tried to trade you this or that. He always paid cash.”

In what might be the world’s most dangerous office, Savorelli conducts business for Midwest Tongs. He began designing snake-handling equipment in 1985. He bought designs, for what would become his tongs, from a friend of a friend.

On the triple-locked door to an office in a work shed behind his home, where he works and also keeps his venomous snakes, a sign reads: “Danger: Area protected by a crawling cobra.” Two walls of cases in his office contain more than 20 deadly snakes: cobras, vipers, mambas, rattlesnakes, taipans (the most dangerous in the world). Hanging on another wall of Savorelli’s office is a poster of him skydiving. In the last few weeks, he has been learning to race motorcycles. He talks about making turns at sharp angles at 120 mph. Savorelli refers to himself as a “managed risk taker.” Without risk, he says, life would be boring. It’s a philosophy that colors his approach to business.

Working in close proximity to the snakes lends Savorelli and Midwest Tongs credibility, he says. “I’m working with the most deadly snakes in the whole world, and the people that are buying from me are doing the same thing.”

A few days earlier, one of Savorelli’s three taipans chased him out of the room. Savorelli was feeding the snake a dead rat, but the snake focused on him.

“It mistook me for food,” Savorelli says.

“It came blasting out of the cage at me. I had to take a few steps back, get out of the way, pick up some snake tongs and put it back in the cage.”

Savorelli has never been bitten, but he keeps antivenom stocked in his refrigerator, which he opens to pull out a small vial.

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Savorelli in front of the island.

“This right here is the key to life if you’re bitten by a snake,” he says.

Savorelli wants to bring the key of life to developing nations. He’s a director with Animal Venom Research International, a nonprofit humanitarian organization working to bring antivenom first to Sri Lanka, the world’s capital of death by snake bite. Savorelli has contributed money to the project, though he says he initially was met with skepticism from people who believed he was just trying to sell his snake tongs.

“It has nothing to do with money,” Savorelli says. “It has to do with you have less than me in life; let me try to show you a better way.”

In two years, Sri Lanka will have the best antivenom in the world, Savorelli says.

AVRI executive director Roy Malleappah says it has taken four years to complete the project because of bureaucratic red tape.

“We’re on the verge,” he says. “Dana is the momentum behind the operation.”

But the survival of Monkey Island will require something more complicated than a dose of medicine.

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idwest Tongs has been a viable business, and Savorelli says it could still turn a significant profit. For years, sales of his snake-handling equipment have paid for the care of the animals in his sanctuary. What started with a $1,500 investment and the sale of equipment at $35 a unit has evolved into a line of tongs, hooks, snare poles and other specialty items.

“All of my profits in general go to taking care of these animals,” Savorelli says. “We don’t have any bank accounts that amount to anything. It’s all for what you believe in life. And this, to me, is the moral thing to do.

People think there’s something to it — ‘Oh, there’s a bunch of money somewhere.’ There isn’t. It’s real simple.”

But Savorelli says a bad business deal with a management company that he subcontracted to handle Midwest Tongs’ bookkeeping, manufacturing and shipping now threatens to end Midwest Tongs and Monkey Island. He won’t go into detail, but he says his sanctuary might be closed before the end of the year.

“Will Monkey Island be here six months from now?” Savorelli asks. “That’s definitely the question. I don’t know. We have nothing but private funding, which is ourselves.

There’s only so much to go around, and it seems like there are more and more of these animals coming out of the woodwork.”

Monkey Island is a nonprofit but it has accepted less than $1,000 in donations over its history, Savorelli says. Caring for more than 200 animals costs thousands of dollars a month. Just heating the concrete, bunkerlike building connected to the monkeys’ cages costs him as much as $1,700 a month in the winter. The monkeys alone can consume 40 to 60 pounds of bananas in one feeding. “We just spent $1,800 yesterday on some food for them,” Savorelli says.

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An ostrich that might need a new home. than $10,500 — and counting — in unpaid property taxes.

“It’s not huge money. It’s nothing that’s going to kill us,” Savorelli says. “But are they putting liens against the house? Sure they are, because they want to get their money out of it.

“I’m going to ride this as long as I can and feed these animals, no matter who has to sacrifice,” he continues. “If I miss these guys’ feedings for a week, they die. I’m not saying what I’m doing is right. What I’m saying is, what I’m doing is morally right. We want to pay the taxes even if we have to pay interest on them. And I can fix that part, but I can’t fix not feeding these guys.”

Savorelli isn’t sure what will happen to his monkeys, snakes and exotic animals if Monkey Island doesn’t survive. He fears that they’ll be sold on the secondary market.

“It’s something I try never to think about,” he says. “If our hands get tied as tight as they could be, we may not have a choice.”

He’s looking for a new investor for Midwest Tongs. He says he could pay the investor back with good interest in just three years.

“Getting a $250,000 loan or investment will allow the company to continue what it has done for years and to provide for the animals — in other words, [stay] self-sufficient,” Savorelli says. “There’s somebody out there in this world that can help us. But how do I get in touch with them? How do you go out and ask for money that people don’t have nowadays? I don’t know how you do that.”

Savorelli says he’s also looking for an attorney to pursue a case against the management company.

“We’re going to lose everything,” Savorelli says. “The house is going to go. It’s going to be a rapid domino effect. I’ll liquidate my life, everything I’ve done for 51 years.”

He isn’t optimistic that financial or legal assistance will come in time.

“I will push it to the very end,” Savorelli says. “My savings are their lives. If I’m alive, they’re going to be alive.”

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— JONATHAN BENDER

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A SALUTE TO INDULGENCE

Get out your dress whites, togas or whatever you use to honor the gods of drink and nourishment. Salute! A Festival of Wine and Food, an annual three-day benefit for the nonprofit Cottonwood Incorporated, is back in Lawrence today through Saturday.

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See salutewinefest.com for more information.

— JONATHAN BENDER

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MELON BALL

There are a few things you need to have with you when you see Gallagher perform. First, plastic trash bags. (Unless you sit in the back, there’s the chance that you’ll be hit with flying food, smashed by his Sledge-O-Matic.) Second, a state of reverence. (Gallagher doesn’t particularly appreciate it when his fans talk during his routine.) And last, it’s best if you remember to take an open mind. At a performance last October at Stanford’s Comedy Club in Kansas City, Kansas, the controversial comic claimed that every day in America is Halloween: “It’s all a lie. You got boat shoes, but you ain’t got a boat!”

Explore reversals and other questionable points of view at 8:30 p.m. at Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456) when Gallagher points out life’s subtle eccentricities.

“I judge everything. It’s my job to point out

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Gallagher messes up Knuckleheads on Friday.

stupidity,” he said at Stanford’s. Don’t say we didn’t warn you. Tickets cost $20. Get them at knuckleheadskc.com.

— BERRY ANDERSON [KIDS’ EVENT]

SQUIRMY AND SLIPPERY

Swimming and reading are two beloved summer activities. Introduce your little one (or someone else’s) to the joys of both at Bookworms and Waterbugs at the Lawrence Public Library. For the past three years, the library and the city’s Parks and Recreation Department have partnered for this multi-part event, which begins with a 30-minute summerthemed story and a pirate-song sing-along at the library. Afterward, participants can head to the Lawrence Outdoor Aquatic Center (727 Kentucky, 785-832-7990) for lessons in water and pool safety and a free swim session until 12:30. “The last pool day, we had about 300 people come,” says Kim Fletcher, youth services coordinator. “That’s why we tend to do the program outside. But if it is rainy and

gross, we have the stories and information about pool safety in our auditorium.” Parents or caregivers are asked to stay for the duration of the free event, recommended for ages 2 and older. Meet up on the west lawn of the library (707 Vermont) at 10:30 a.m. For more information, call 785-843-3833, extension 117.

— ABBIE STUTZER

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A former journalist and disc jockey, Don Cornelius created Soul Train in October 1971.

The syndicated music variety show featured black performers and spotlighted the latest dance and fashion trends. But as rap and hiphop rose to prominence in the 1980s, Cornelius missed the bandwagon, balking at the steamy, suggestive dance moves. Celebrate a time when a ride on the Soul Train was the “hippest trip in America.” DJs Lady Panther and Sike (Meghan Whelan and Phil Shafer, respectively) host Soul Train Dance Party, the second in a series of Soul Train tributes. This time around, the duo concentrates on the sounds of the ’80s. “I play all vinyl, so my picks are ones I’ve scoured record stores for: ‘Part-Time Lover’ by Stevie Wonder, Lisa Lisa and the Cult Jam, and anything from Grace Jones’ Nightclubbing,” Whelan says. “I also picked up some Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five and Kool Moe Dee.” Periodappropriate dress is rewarded with prizes for the most fresh and fly. The jams start to kick at 10 p.m. for this free, 21-and-older event at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634).

— BERRY ANDERSON

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If you’re lucky, your backyard has a grill and a smoker. If you’re really lucky, there’s a fire pit.

Even then, though, it won’t be as pimped out as the Back Yard at the Beaumont Club when the concert venue goes meatballs for the Westport Food Truck Festival from 3 p.m. to midnight (and Friday, July 8, from 5 p.m. to midnight).

The first annual event, sponsored by The Pitch and Boulevard Brewing Company, showcases some of the newest mobile eateries to get rolling in the city, including (but not limited to)

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We’re coy these days about our appreciation for melodrama. Today’s Snidely Whiplashes don’t twirl their mustaches or wear top hats.

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race of sexy robots — have the same heightened emotional peaks and exaggerated characterizations as any old-timey stage production. Dirty Work at the Crossroad, a play subtitled Tempted, Tried and True, was written by Bill Johnson in 1942, but it’s a pastiche of classic 19th-century melodrama, sweetly and unironically reassembled for a 20th-century audience. In a new production by KU Theatre at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts in Lawrence, 785-749-1972), the play once again pits the despicable Munro Murgatroyd against the pure Nellie Lovelace in a story of poisoning, wrongful imprisonment and seduction. Directed by Kip Niven, the show features Shannon Buhler, Taylor Geiman and Garrett Lawson. The show starts at 7:30 p.m.

The cost for tickets is $12; $10 for seniors, KU students and faculty; and $5 for students K-12.

Call 785-864-3982 — CHRIS PACKHAM [ PA RT I C I PAT O RY S P O RT S ]

RUNNING IN THE BUCK

Want to feel like you’re part of a super-secret society today? A super-secret naked society?

Sign up for the Heartland Naturists’ annual Sun Run, a clothes-free 5K run and walk through an undisclosed location in McLouth, Kansas. Once you sign up — $15 for non-

Nudity: Embrace it.

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From left: Carol Leighton, B.J. Allen and Zach Chaykin in Seven Against Thebes. members of the Heartland Naturists ($20 for nonmember couples and families) — you’re given the top-secret location. If you’re new to exercising and lounging in nature with a group of naked strangers, here are some pointers. Wear sunscreen. (Last year it was rainy, but you don’t want to bake your sensitive bits if it’s a scorcher.) Wear shoes and socks. Leave your camera in the car. (This is a big one. Naturists, the politically correct term for nudists, strive to make everybody comfortable, which is hard with creeps trying to snap shots for their spank banks.) And, finally, bring a dish to share for the post-run potluck. After sharing your nude form with everybody, you may as well share your mom’s recipe for creamy mustard potato salad. See cirrus.kcsky.net/SunRun2011.html for more information and to register. — BEN PALOSAARI

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It’s been just 2,478 years since the first production of Aeschylus’ Seven Against Thebes, part of a trilogy written about the legacy of Oedipus, King of Thebes, the original motherfucker. A work rich with dialogue but short on plot, it chronicles the strife between Oedipus’ two sons, Eteocles and Polynices, as their plan to rule Thebes in alternating years goes awry when Eteocles refuses to step down. Directed by Ernest L. Williams and scored by Mark Southerland and Beau Bledsoe, Gorilla Theatre’s production of the play ends its run at 7 p.m. on the south steps of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278). This is the 20th Greek play that Gorilla has produced over the past 21 years. “This year, we have a very large cast and we even have the help of Paul Mesner’s puppets,” says David Luby, Gorilla’s artistic director. (Other performances are at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, July 9, and Sunday, July 10.) Bring chairs or blankets for this free performance, at which donations are welcome. For more continued on page 16

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— BERRY ANDERSON

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The mission of sustainable-design nonprofit Eco Abet is to bring experienced architectural design to underserved groups: poverty- and disaster-relief agencies, schools and orphanages in developing countries, and the like. Among the group’s beneficiaries are St. Mary Kevin Orphanage in Uganda and the Nabolu Girl’s Center in Kenya. As a fundraiser, Eco Abet is holding a design charrette — a collaborative session in which designers and architects draft solutions to a set problem — from 11:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. A free public reception and exhibition begins at 5:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Design Center (1018 Baltimore, 816-421-5232). In-kind donations will be accepted — funds raised will pay for architecture and design internships at Eco Abet. For information, see ecoabet.org or facebook.com/ecoabet.

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ife rarely comes this neatly wrapped, and a column perhaps less often still, but this week features two terrific large-cast musicals with a lot in common: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (at the New Theatre Restaurant) and Charlie Smalls’ The Wiz (at the Coterie Theatre). Both are playfully BY imaginative reboots of wellG R AC E known originals, both familyfriendly and crowd-pleasing.

SUH Both boast Elvis characters and a broad general reach, as endlessly surprising and extensive lighting well as special interest to affinity groups (Jews, effects (Randy Winder), hilariously creative Christians, Mormons, African-Americans, chil- costumes (Mary Traylor) and the silliest possible props of biblical proportions (Paul Joseph dren, scarecrow advocates).

First things first: In the beginning was a dys- Barnett, thinking 40-ounce Starbucks cups).

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention Todd functional blended family fractured by parental DuBail’s Elvis-y Pharoah, favoritism, sibling rivalry and who kills an already weakan annoying little brother with Joseph and the Amazing ened house, as well as Jerry grandiose delusional disorder.

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Joseph is played by the passably Hebraic- cut loose and let their personalities play.

Toward the end of the performance, I saw looking hunk Nick Cosgrove, who does a great young, bright and oblivious. His voice is just that the audience’s applause and repeated gorgeous. And he’s one of those dancers who not only is an extraordinary mover but also looks like he’s having a blast.

The title coat in the New Theatre’s splashy production is striped, but the music is a patchBeginners work of get-down genres: calypso and country Most love stories celebrate the intoxicating and klezmer. As songs go, the klezmer number fizz of first love or document the ugliness of “Those Canaan Days,” featuring Cathy Barnett relationship endings. And most family stories as Head Wife, is one of the catchiest of the show. wallow in unhappiness and dysfunction. But Barnett’s comic timing is impeccable, and she Beginners is about something rare: a look at makes even a minor role specific and detailed. the fragility of the first steps toward another Director Richard Carrothers has put the person, and at the painful, messy work of staywell-known Bible story into the Happy Maing family when family is imperfect. It is, in chine, given it a dozen quick cranks, and turned other words, that astonishing entity: a grownout A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the up story with real characters of real texture.

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standing ovations got so rambunctious, the performers had to fight to finish the show. If that’s any indication, you’ll have to fight to get tickets.

What better place for The Wiz than here in tornado country? The Coterie’s Jeff Church has assembled one of the most gifted casts of the year, and there isn’t a single weak spot. The talent is so deep that even the likes of Jennie Greenberry, who stands out in everything she does, is simply one of a very strong ensemble.

The petite Emily Shackelford is adorable as Dorothy — bright-eyed, determined and charming, with a singing voice to treasure. She does a wonderful job of leading this production on her journey. Her companions are every bit as lovely: Tosin Morohunfola shows a flair for physical comedy as the boneless Scarecrow, Christopher Barksdale is a sweet Cowardly Lion, and Brad Shaw is the heart of the production as the heart-lacking Tin Man. (The multifaceted Shaw also designed and made the amazing costumes, which are works of art unto themselves.)

It’s great to see Nedra Dixon, who was so good in the Unicorn’s Ruined, in multiple roles

All of this is made possible by Mike Mills’ fearless script and direction, and his perfect trio of actors: Ewan McGregor as Oliver, a recently orphaned artist trying to comprehend his parents’ deaths and legacies; Christopher Plummer as Hal, the father who astounded him upon his mother’s death by revealing his homosexuality; and Inglourious Basterds’ Mélanie Laurent as Anna, a rootless French actress with her own family darkness.

Laurent delivers, ever so deftly, one of the richest recent portraits of contemporary womanhood. As the dying father who, at life’s end, finally exults in his true identity,

From left: Emily Shackelford, Brad Shaw, Christopher Barksdale, Tosin Morohunfola

here, including Glinda. Enjoli Gavin is droll and sassy as good witch Addaperle and bad witch Evillene. And Damron Armstrong is enjoyably charismatic as the Elvis-y Wiz. Church has neither a big budget nor a big space, but he makes up for it with ingenious staging and visual effects (kudos to Ron Megee’s crow puppets), and he keeps the story brief enough and unscary enough for the youngest kids. The tornado and the narcotic poppies are freaky moments in the movie, and the flying monkeys remain the terrifying stuff of nightmares, but Church has transformed the cyclone and the flowers into fascinating dances (choreographed

by Vanessa Severo) and the monkeys into friendly dudes. Throughout, the spirit is game and generous, with the ensemble pouring everything into the audience. This Wiz transports us to wonderland and then gently returns us home.

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Christopher Plummer is unafraid to be vulnerable and selfish. There’s already awards talk for Plummer, but McGregor’s performance is the heart of this story about a man working to be true to himself.

Beginners is visually breathtaking, a collage of translucent vellum layers, with scenes and images out of chronological order but following emotional logic. Throughout, Oliver works on a project called The History of Sadness, which starts at the beginning of time. Beginners looks unblinkingly at the sadness that delineates life, yet leaves us — GRACE SUH with joy.

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his says volumes about the way geography is taught in the United States: I took five people with me — on different nights — to the Marrakech Café in Westport, and none of them knew exactly where Morocco was located. Two of them insisted that it was near India and BY Pakistan. One of my dining companions asked the restauCHARLES rant’s owner, Noure Kamal, if F E R R U Z Z A the country shared a border with France.

It does not, of course. Morocco is on the African continent, with coastlines facing both inspired great poets and several classic Amerithe Mediterranean and the Atlantic. France did can movies: Morocco with Marlene Dietrich, occupy the country from the end of the 19th Tangier with Maria Montez and Sabu, and century until the 1950s, and both it and Spain Casablanca. The Kamal brothers hired local influenced Morocco’s culinary culture. That’s artist Katie Carter to paint Byzantine-style evident by the kinds of dishes served at the murals in the dining room. And in a nod to eight-month-old Marrakech Café: gratin cas- Continental dining customs of another age, seroles and spicy sausages and an occasional they’ve set the tables with crisp linens and dinner special that Kamal (who runs the res- fresh roses in glass vases.

The most dramatic change to this storetaurant with his brother, Amine) wants Kansas Citians to love: a festive pastry called bastilla, front space — it was once Tivoli Video before becoming a series of failed restaurants a dish traditionally prepared with pigeons.

— has been in regard to the The locals here aren’t aromatic curse from the so keen on pigeon pie, so Marrakech Café shop next door. The fraKamal’s crusted creation Marrakech grance of acrid mothballs is made with chicken and sampler ................... $9.95 wafting from the Aladdin vegetables and baked with Beet salad ................. $4.95 Oriental Rug Gallery effeca generous sprinkling of cinMerguez tively drove customers away namon and sugar. But for the couscous ...............$12.95 from the previous tenant, American palate, it’s too Beef tajine ..............$14.95 Lamb shank ............$15.95 Taqueria Bautista. Noure sweet to enjoy as an entrée Baklava ..................... $4.95 Kamal has led a virtual jihad and not quite sweet enough against the stink, including for a dessert. different venting, air puriKamal is determined to show this town that Moroccan cuisine is fiers, and a proposed lease agreement to soon strongly influenced by Mediterranean cook- take over part of the carpet shop in order to ing traditions, but he doesn’t serve hummus build out a small retail space to sell Morocor pita or, God forbid, gyro sandwiches. Bread can gift items.

Now that I’ve dined in the Marrakech Café is an important component of his menu, but instead of the unleavened pita found in local a few times, I can report that there’s still a Arabic restaurants, Kamal offers baskets of pungent whiff of camphor at the entrance, khobz, a yeastier, puffier counterpart that’s but it’s easily forgotten once you’re actually perfect for soaking up the sauces in his fla- seated in the brown and gold dining room. vorful tajines. “I don’t serve rice with my I’d still request a table closer to the kitchen, tajines,” he says. “That’s not how we eat them where the aroma of cooking spices is much more alluring. in Morocco.”

And it’s those seductive spices — cilanAnd in the Marrakech Café, it’s easy to give in to the romance of a country that has tro, mint, garlic, cinnamon, cumin — that

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make this extraordinary cuisine so distinctive. Noure Kamal, who is both manager and chef, uses a delicate hand when seasoning his dishes, but you’ve never tasted beef quite as succulent and sensually seasoned as his fragrant tajine: slow-simmered for hours in saffron butter, onion, ginger, cinnamon and garlic with prunes and apricots. It’s one of the most satisfying beef dishes I’ve had in a long time. A traditional Moroccan stew, served in a domed clay pot, is prepared differently, depending on the meat. The chicken tajine here is simmered in saffron, olive oil, ginger and house-pickled lemon.

The soft, tart lemon adds a fresh note to another slow-simmered meat: a lamb shank that all but falls off the bone and into its bed of vivid yellow saffron rice. That was on the night I wisely saved my salad to eat with my meal rather than before it — the textures, colors and flavors of the two dishes complemented each other well. The salad was a heap of garnet-colored pickled beets, marinated in a simple cilantro-and-parsley vinaigrette, and topped with a dollop of caper mayonnaise.

Simplicity, Noure Kamal says, is the key to his cooking: “We use many spices and herbs, but nothing here is over the top.”

A salad of sliced cucumbers and chopped tomatoes is doused in a remarkably fresh dressing of olive oil, white-wine vinegar, salt and pepper, and a hint of cilantro. It was a soothing first act to a spicier dish: the house-made merguez, a plump lamb-andbeef sausage seasoned with cumin, parsley, garlic, cilantro, and a dash of chili pepper. On

that particular visit, I had it with a mound of couscous. It’s actually better with french fries — fried spuds are glorious in any culture.

I wish I had ordered up a mess of fries with the Marrakech sampler. This restaurant’s starter platter boasts small mounds of three excellent vegetarian creations and a couple of grilled-chicken skewers. The zaalouk is a variation on the tapenade theme: a pan-fried eggplant paste that’s deliciously garlicky. Another veg-friendly starter is a jumble of sliced carrots cooked up with Spanish paprika and cumin and doused in a spicy sharmoula sauce.

The Marrakech Café menu isn’t rich in meatless dishes, but there is a couscous creation with pretty but slightly mushy hunks of butternut squash, zucchini, cabbage, onion, carrots, turnip, and a whole lot of chickpeas.

I don’t pretend to be an authority on anything Moroccan (I’m one of those people who thought the 1969 Crosby, Stills and Nash song “Marrakech Express” was about, you know, a train), so I peppered Noure Kamal with questions, which he patiently answered. (If you ask Amine Kamal the same questions, you’ll get different answers. But because Noure actually cooks the food, I have more faith in his responses.) One example is the tradition of heavily sweetened coffee and tea. The Kamals bring out complimentary servings — in stylish gold and blue glasses — of sweet mint tea made with fresh tea leaves. “Don’t you ever serve unsweetened tea?” I asked him. He looked appalled by the very idea.

“That’s not the way it’s done,” he said, “in Morocco.”

I’m guessing that two of the sweets on Kamal’s limited dessert menu, a wedge of commercially baked tiramisu and key lime pie (both from Restaurant Depot), aren’t how pastries are done in Morocco, but the locals like them. Far better is a slab of baklava, maybe the biggest piece of the flaky phylloand-nut confection served in Kansas City.

It’s buttery and honeyed, with a thick layer of chopped walnuts, pistachios and almonds, and it’s large enough for three people to share comfortably. It’s baked here in town, by a friend of the Kamals’, and it’s reputed to be delicious with mint tea.

I had my baklava without a hot beverage, though. There’s a limit to my tolerance for refined sugar in anything. “You don’t know what you’re missing,” said my friend Bob, happily spearing a forkful of baklava into a spritz of whipped cream — the kind that comes in an aerosol can — and taking a slug of the fragrant brewed tea. “This is the way you’re supposed to be eating baklava.”

Yes, I know: the way they do it at Marrakech.

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“Three feet inside the door and I was sold.

The energy was right somehow,” Kelly says.

She had to look past the shag carpeting and an entire wall of mirrored tiles — the ’70s decor that regulars today remember from their days before shipping off to Vietnam. Kelly purchased the castle in 2003, taking a year and two days to renovate the space, which opened as Renee Kelly’s at Caenen Castle on July 15, 2004. Back then, it was Kelly, a dishwasher and her mom.

She had envisioned a prix fixe menu and a series of nightly seatings, but she discovered that the rehabilitation of the stone structure meant she would be running a very different restaurant. Caenen Castle became a place for weddings and anniversaries.

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She adjusted her approach in the kitchen by going back to the basics that she learned from her mom — pairing ingredients by whether they were pleasing to her nose, and using her heightened sense of smell to adjust and tweak a dish. Over the course of six months, she lost 75 pounds and discovered that other people were struggling with their health because of issues with what they were eating.

“I looked at it like a blessing because as a chef, I can do more with food than as a regular person,” Kelly says.

Fat City: What are your culinary inspirations?

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with lemons or something else. … Going to the farm helps clear my head. When I see green beans that are just perfect and crisp, I think if they can be doing really well at that time, then if I eat those at that time of year, it will probably help me out. You don’t want things that are too heavy when it’s dark and rainy.

What’s your favorite ingredient?

Ginger. Mmm ... it creates heat on multiple levels. Everything needs ginger right now. Ginger and chocolate go great. I’ve been doing a lot lately using ginger with greens, kale and cabbage and mustard greens. Ginger complements them a little bit, hides some of the bitterness.

What’s your best recent food find?

I found a coriander paste down at the Chinese market downtown. Not a paste — relish. It’s awesome. It has coriander and garlic and salt and vinegar. It gives everything a fantastic flavor. The color was interesting — it was bright-green. It’s great on steak, pork, chicken.

It’s made me really happy, just a little dollop on top of a hot, sweet and sticky pork tenderloin.

What’s your favorite local ingredient?

We have some damn good blackberries.

When they’re in season, spot on. There’s a little gal over at the Overland Park Farmers Market. She grows them in northwest Kansas, and they’re juicy and sweet. It’s like they blister in your hands. It’s so fantastic. During blackberry season, I’d go to the market every day and eat handfuls.

What’s one food you love?

It used to be potatoes, but I’m allergic to them. Hemp butter — it goes well with everything, rice and beans. I’ll slather it on a burger instead of mayo. You can get it at Whole Foods or a health market. I miss the texture of potatoes, and hemp butter has a nice, creamy, comforting texture. I don’t eat meat very much any more, so I needed some additional calories. You put it in rice, and it has the creamiest texture ever, even better than risotto. You can flavor it however you want, and it has some fat, but it’s still really good for you. Kimchi is one of my new favorites. If you like sauerkraut, you’ll like kimchi. Sauerkraut juice, which is a treatment for candida, made me smell like an 80-year-old man.

What’s your guilty pleasure?

Really good bread with dark chocolate melted on top of it. I’ll make some challah, and

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the chocolate needs to be about 67 percent. You dip this fresh, hot bread into this just melted gooey chocolate. I’ll buy little pestles of chocolate. I prefer Colombian chocolate. And then I’ll just sit there and eat. If there’s some kind of Zinfandel hanging out, I’m not going to lie, it’s going to enter into the equation. It’s a dessert that’s not too sweet.

What’s always in your kitchen?

Root vegetables: rutabagas, parsnips and turnips. It’s because of their versatility. You can put them in stocks and sauces and you get this great caramelization. The stock smells good, and after eight hours, the vegetables taste awesome.

Where do you like to eat out?

I don’t get to go out very often. But one of my favorite places to go is Tannin. I love Brian Aaron. I like how he cooks. It’s extremely simple, good food. And he doesn’t balk at me when I give him my laundry list. Last time, he made me a truffle omelet with fresh herbs and goat cheese. Before that, I had a double-boned pork chop that was fantastic. I haven’t been to Pot Pie; I should probably go. At Room 39, anything I get there is good. Sometimes I will crave Thai food and then I go to Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop for some medium Drunken Noodles with chicken.

It’s so darn spicy, I love it. I’ll go to the Rieger for a good cocktail: a gin and tonic or a sour beer.

I’ll get a good glass of whiskey at Harry’s Bar and Tables. I think Stephanie Dumler is doing a great job at the Westside Local.

If you could steal one recipe off any menu in town, what would it be?

I would love Fervere’s olive bread. I’m sure I would have to have the oven to go with it.

Who’s got the best barbecue in town, and what are you ordering?

If I were to take anybody to go get barbecue, I’d go to Oklahoma Joe’s and get them burnt ends. I’d get them everything. Their slaw — I’m a big fan of the pulled-pork sandwich with vinegar slaw. I’d make it a whole entire smorgasbord. It’s about licking your fingers and possibly having sauce drip down your elbows and smelling like hickory or mesquite when you walk out.

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The tone is set in the opening scene, as an a cappella rendition of “Missouri Waltz” drifts in over a bleak rural backdrop. The eerie but gorgeous voice belongs to former journalist and teacher BY Marideth Sisco, a West Plains, Missouri, resident who conD AV I D tributed several songs to the H U D N A L L soundtrack. On Friday, she brings the Winter’s Bone Tour to Crosstown Station. We checked in with Sisco to ask about the film’s surprise success and what to expect from the show Friday.

of lullaby, and I told them, ‘First of all, it’s really racist.’ But they asked me to fix it, and so I made it more palatable to modern The Pitch: You ended up tastes and sent it over, and working as a kind of music Winter’s Bone Tour, they liked it. consultant on the film, right? with Marideth Sisco, When you first saw the Sisco: Yes, while I was Bo Brown, Van Colbert, film, did you feel like the filmworking on some of the songs, Dennis Crider, Tedi May makers portrayed life in the the filmmakers and I got to be and Linda Stoffel.

Ozarks accurately? friends, and they were interFriday, July 8, at I have to say, it really blew Crosstown Station. ested in better understandmy mind that this band of ing what Ozark music was people from New York, who and wasn’t. I’ve lived down here a long time and I’ve been singing since I had no connection to this place, could come was 3 years old, so I tried to help guide them down, listen to people, take in the culture, and along. What I did was more presented them with then make such an authentic film. They really choices and letting them decide. With “Missouri grasped the culture of family loyalties, not telling Waltz,” they asked me about using it as a kind things to strangers, self-reliance.

What is Ozark music, in your view?

It’s very close to Appalachian music, but it has different rhythms and uses, and different cultures have filtered into it. The Ozarks is full of settlements that came in on the back side of the frontier movement. Some people just said, ‘Whoa, this is as far as we want to go.’ And those cultures — Swiss, Austrian, Polish, German — have filtered into the music. The first songs my father learned were shadish dances, which are kind of like a polka but with a different rhythm.

Ozark rhythms largely aren’t as hard-driving as, say, a bluegrass rhythm.

What about lyrically and thematically?

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The Ozarks is rocks, and underneath the rocks there’s more rocks. It’s tough to scratch a living here, but people still do it. We’ve got the meth problem now, but before that it was marijuana, and before that it was moonshine. But somebody once said, ‘If you’re poor enough, all those things are called economic development.’ I think that idea, that things are more driven by need down here, also makes its way into the songs people sing.

Do you play regularly in West Plains?

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over at Rick Cochran’s house, and whoever shows up to play plays. It’s a really amorphous group. I met Tedi May, the bass player that’s coming out on tour with us, there.

Who else is coming with you on tour, and what will you be playing?

It’s six of us. Van Colbert plays banjo. Linda Stoffel sings high harmonies — she’s from West Virginia, our resident Appalachian singer. Bo Brown plays dobro and guitar. Tedi May plays upright bass. Dennis Crider plays rhythm guitar and does a local fingerpicking style that has a real Ozarks feel to it. And I sing. It’s a lot of old traditional material, plus some more contemporary things I’ve written with a songwriter. My stuff is in the old style but with a contemporary twist, not so much topical songs as songs about the land and the culture and the people down here. That’s the stuff I like the best.

E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6774

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Yourself and the Air, Perpetually Adapting Chicago’s Yourself and the Air has been a band for five years, during which time it has released four EPs of breezy, atmospheric (pun intended) guitar-driven rock. Unfortunately, each of those releases has been followed by a lineup change in the band. “It seems like every time we get a group of songs together and get ready to record, somebody takes off,” frontman Erick Crosby says from his home in Chicago.

The latest casualty was guitarist Nicholas Sinclair, who checked into rehab at a time when things were looking up for the band, following keyboardist Jeff Papendorf’s return after an absence of several years. “He [Sinclair] went a little overboard,” Crosby says. “It was a rough time. We nearly broke up. We weren’t sure how to handle it.”

Speaking of rough times: Yourself and the Air’s latest, Who’s Who in the Zoo, was recorded in Crosby’s parents’ foreclosed house. After Crosby’s parents moved out, the band was able to get the electricity reconnected and spent a month recording without the restrictions of studio time. The result is a more luxurious sound with laid-back tempos alongside the usual chiming guitars and shimmering melodies. There’s a gray pallor lingering over these bright songs that calls to mind the Northwestern indie-rock canon: Minus the Bear, Built to Spill, Modest Mouse.

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But Who’s Who wasn’t even meant to be released in the form it eventually was — the band saw the recordings as demos. When Sinclair went off to rehab, “We didn’t really know what to do with the songs, so we just gave the demo out to a couple of people,” Crosby says. Eventually the songs found their way to Lujo Records, which offered to put them out and pay for the recording. The band had been approached by labels in the past, but the overtures amounted to little more than a slap on the back and an invitation to send over material the next time they hit the studio. In May, Lujo Records released Who’s Who; since then, the band has been contorting itself to fit the new, full-bodied songs into its set.

“We’ve manipulated the songs so we could play them with three of us. It’s kind of overwhelming, which is cool, but we want to get to the point where we’re playing songs written for three guys,” Crosby says. “This stuff we’re writing now — it’s almost gone backwards. We’re making things a little simpler.”

The current iteration of Yourself and the Air has been working feverishly on songs, and Crosby is excited about recapturing the immediacy and energy of the band’s earlier albums.

“I think for some of it [Who’s Who], we were overthinking it,” Crosby says. “If I spend more than even two days writing a song, then I tend to feel like it probably shouldn’t be written.”

But recording the new songs may have to wait. The band is considering a move to — take a guess — Portland, Oregon, at the end of the summer. “I think we’ve all always felt pointed in that direction as far as our personalities,” he says. “We all go backpacking and enjoy the outdoors and the ocean. And all the bands we listened to when we were growing up came from that area. And whenever we visit, it seems a good place to be.”

A scrappy band — Crosby cops to snagging free continental breakfasts from hotels where the band didn’t stay, freshening up in pools and picking change out of mall fountains — Yourself and the Air is hoping that recent changes might be a springboard to something more sustainable.

“For so long, the band was just for fun, but now we’re getting to a point where it’s like, ‘What are we doing?’ ” Crosby says. “We’re taking things more seriously. We want to see if we can make this a career.”

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1. Blind Pilot Another dusty folk-pop band from Portland, Oregon? Well, yes, but Blind Pilot transcends the sensitive beardo set by writing smarter lyrics and better harmonies, and by being generally less riveted by flowers, orchards and their own melancholy. The sweetly harmonizing women in nostalgic folk trio Mountain Man open the evening and may very well upstage the headliners.

Wednesday, July 13, at the Bottleneck.

(737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483).

2. Ben Folds Now in his mid-40s, Ben Folds looks and sounds less like the punk who picked up Randy Newman’s torch and more like Newman himself. His output hasn’t been too terribly exciting since his 2001 solo record Rockin’ the Suburbs, but his set at City Market a few years back was a pleasant reminder that smart and sturdy songwriting has a tendency to age well.

Sunday, July 10, at Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 785-749-3434).

3. Rock ’n Roll Dream Concert Locally, 2011 has been all about tribute shows, what with Sonic Spectrum’s monthly series and Cody Wyoming’s productions of The Wall and Exile on Main Street. But if you desire more live Rolling Stones songs and don’t possess millions of dollars, your best bet is Satisfaction, the Stones tribute act headlining Saturday’s Rock ’n Roll Dream Concert

at Sandstone. Also on the bill: Revelation (Journey cover band), Hells Bells (AC/DC), and Silver Bullet (oh, you know).

Saturday, July 9, at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone (633 North 130th Street, Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400).

4. Making Movies, with Bachaco and Porcelain Gods Call it Latin rock or just plain rock — the local, bilingual quartet, Making Movies, has hooks, energy and a keen eye for the groove. Stick around for the after-party with Porcelain Gods, a live karaoke band featuring members of Sons of Great Dane, Auternus and Hot Dog Skeletons.

Tuesday, July 12, at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300).

5. Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones Dave Alvin played wild roots rock with the Blasters, ripped punk music with X and won a Grammy for Best Traditional Folk Album. These varied experiences leak into the California troubadour’s current sound. He stops by the Folly Theater in support of his latest, Eleven Eleven, an album of gritty, up-tempo, electric-guitar-driven blues rock. The show is part of KCUR 89.3 host Bill Shapiro’s Cyprus Avenue Live series, and Shapiro gives a pre-show talk at 7 p.m.

Saturday, July 9, at the Folly Theater (300 West 12th Street, 816-474-4444).

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Bury Your Dead, Evergreen Terrace, For the Fallen Dreams, In the Midst of Lions, Genosha: 6 p.m.

The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Ceschi, Louis Logic, Sephiroth: 9 p.m., $7. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

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

Matisyahu, the Wailers: Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Kyle Park, Phil Hamilton: 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Pat Travers, Shannon and the Rhythm Kings: 8 p.m., $20. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

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Better than Ezra: 8 p.m., free. KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand.

The Derailers: 10:30 p.m., $15. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Andy Frasco and the U.N.: Trouser Mouse, 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222.

Gallagher: 8:30 p.m., $20. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Gomez, Mike Doughty: Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

John D. Hale Band, County Road 5: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Julia Othmer: 6:30 & 9:30 p.m., $15. Jardine’s, 4536 Main, 816-561-6480.

311, Sublime with Rome: 6 p.m. Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400.

Winter’s Bone Tour — music from the film performed

by Marideth Sisco, Dennis Crider, Bo Brown, Van Colbert, Tedi May, Linda Stoffel: 8 p.m. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522.

Yourself and the Air: 10 p.m., cover at door. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

SAT U R DAY, J U LY 9 Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones: 8 p.m., $15-$60. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., 816-474-4444.

John Anderson with special guest Jon Dee Graham, the Fights Cocks: 9 p.m., $27.50. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

David Gray, Lisa O’Neill: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Lil Duval: 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

The Rock ’n Roll Dream Concert featuring tributes to the Rolling Stones (Satisfaction), AC/DC (Hells Bells), Bob Seger (Silver Bullet) and Journey (Revelation): 6 p.m., $17. Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400.

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M O N DAY, J U LY 1 1 Liturgy, Dope Body, Expo 70: 9 p.m., $8-$10. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Owl City, Mat Kearney, Unwed Sailor: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

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Broken Spoke, Radio Romantica: 9 p.m., $7. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Making Movies, Bachaco, plus late-night party with live karaoke band Porcelain Gods featuring members of Sons of Great Dane, Hot Dog Skeletons, Cattle Lack Order, Auternus: 9:30 p.m., cover at door. Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244.

W E D N E S DAY, J U LY 1 3 Blind Pilot, Mountain Man: 8 p.m., $13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Sons of Bill, Sarah and the Tall Boys: 8 p.m., $15. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

J Roddy Waltson and the Business, Minden, Mute the Idol: 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Ted Nugent: 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Chris Webby: 9 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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

Cinderella: Tue., July 19. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

Bart Crow Band, Matt Stell and the Crashers, Burford: Fri., July 15, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

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

DJ Shadow: Tue., July 19, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816MANY MORE 561-2560.

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

PITCH.COM Fleet Foxes: Mon., July 18. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

The Fordists, the Rackatees, Baby Boomers: Mon., July 18, 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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

Harvey Milk, Mansion, This Is My Condition: Wed., July 20. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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

Innerpartysystem: Sun., July 17, 8 p.m., $12. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

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

Maylene and the Sons of Disaster: Thu., July 14, 8 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

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

Media Blitz, Methhorse: Thu., July 14, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys: Sat., July 16.

Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

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.

Reel Big Fish, Streetlight Manifesto: Mon., July 18, 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

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

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

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

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

Whitewater Ramble, Honky Suckle, Whiskey Rich: Thu., July 14, 8 p.m., $8. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522.

Rob Zombie, As I Lay Dying, All That Remains, Escape the Fate, Hammerlord: Sat., July 16, 4 p.m., $9.89.

Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400.

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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.

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ROCK/POP/INDIE The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Bury Your Dead, Evergreen Terrace, For the Fallen Dreams, In the Midst of Lions, Genosha, 6 p.m.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. The Wind-Up Birds, Here to Stay, Radio Free TV. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Phil Wang, 8 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-1387. With Forte, Jimi Myers, Maybe Tomorrow, 10 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Ceschi, Louis Logic, Sephiroth, 9 p.m., $7.

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

The B’Dinas.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Phaze II, 10 p.m.

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

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

Pat Travers, Shannon and the Rhythm Kings, 8 p.m., $20; Shinetop Jr., Brandon Hudspeth, in the Retro Lounge, 8 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Salty Dawg.

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

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Shaun Duval, free.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. DJ Clockwerk, 10 p.m.

The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Ladies’ night featuring DJ Sun-Up Jones.

JAZZ Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Mark Lowrey, 5:30 p.m.

WORLD Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Sons of Brasil, 8:30 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Kyle Park, Phil Hamilton, 8 p.m.

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

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

Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em, 7 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. Shane Mauss.

Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Trivia.

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

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

ELECTRO Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Blasian! Electro Dance Party, 10 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Bike Night Open Jam. Freddy T’s: 2111 E. Crossroads Ln., Olathe, 913-7803900. Open mic.

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Crossroads KC at Grinders: 417 E. 18th St., 816-4725454. Matisyahu, the Wailers.

F R I DAY 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Maps for Travelers, Mute the Idol, Airfield.

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

The Zeros.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Stereo Synthesis, Montia, Burn Sand Burn, Branded Fate, Surface MANY MORE Damage.

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

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 ONLINE AT S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, PITCH.COM 816-525-1871. Nervous Rex. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595.

Nicky G. KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Better Than Ezra, 8 p.m., free.

Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Naked Jake, 8:30 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Riptide, 6 p.m.; Thee Water MoccaSins, Spirit of the Stairs, 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Yourself and the Air, 10 p.m., cover at door.

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

Bernard Allison.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-1387. The Will Nots, Devil Television, Louisiana Street Band, 10 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Andy Frasco and the U.N.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. John D. Hale Band, County Road 5, 7 p.m.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Dumptruck Butterlips.

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

Jesse Harris & the Gypsy Sparrows.

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

The Derailers, 10:30 p.m., $15.

DJ Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. Dropout Boogie downstairs.

Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mosaic Fridays: hosted by Joe Perez featuring DJ Spinstyles and DJ Mike Scott.

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

HIP-HOP The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Dem Kansas Boys featuring the Fam, Chase Compton, 7:30 p.m.

JAZZ Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Julia Othmer, 6:30 & 9:30 p.m., $15.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Cold Sweat.

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

Don Bliss and Rod Fleeman.

WORLD Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. KCRUF: TUGG, Jabberock outside, 9 p.m.

A LT E R N AT I V E Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone: 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400. 311, Sublime with Rome, 6 p.m.

Crossroads KC at Grinders: 417 E. 18th St., 816-4725454. Gomez, Mike Doughty.

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SONGWRITER FORUM EVERY THURSDAY 7PM MAPS FOR TRAVELORS MUTE THE IDOL • AIRFIELD SUPER SOUL SATURDAY W/ DJ LADY PANTHER & DJ SIKE FREE SHOW

WED 7/13 THE ATLANTIC • THE ATTIC PARTY • Le GRAND O GIANT MAN • HIDDEN PICTURES FRI 7/15 DAVID GEORGE BAND SAT 7/16

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FRI 7/29 WRONG KATO TRI • THIRD SEVEN • YAM

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Boomer’s Bar & Grill: 7932 N. Oak Trfy., 816-4367245. Dart tournament, 8 p.m.

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

Bullfrog’s: 320 S.W. Blue Pkwy., Lee’s Summit, 816347-9393. Croakie.

Fathead & Braindeads Saloon: 514 Main, Grandview, 816-761-6060. Ladies’ night, DJ. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Shane Mauss.

KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Downtown Is Happy, 4 p.m.

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

Gallagher, 8:30 p.m., $20.

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

SINGER-SONGWRITER Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Songwriter Series with Mindy Edlin in the cafe, 6 p.m.

VARIET Y The Back Yard at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-931-2224. Westport Food Truck Festival, 5 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. King Dong Variety Hour, Reducto Absurdum, the Jenny Mules, 10 p.m.

S AT U R DAY 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070.

The Zeros.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Colony Collapse, Spirit Is the Spirit.

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

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

O’Dowd’s Little Dublin: 8600 N.W. Prairie View Rd. The Stolen Winnebagos.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Everyday/Everynight, Blue Bird, the Garrett Nordstrom Situation, 9 p.m., $7.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Ex-Fag Cop.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Ashes to Immortality, Leaf.

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

John Anderson with special guest Jon Dee Graham, the Fights Cocks, 9 p.m., $27.50.

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

Truckstop Honeymoon.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Shane Mauss.

The Midland: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Lil Duval, 8 p.m.

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VARIET Y The Back Yard at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-931-2224. Westport Food Truck Festival, 3 p.m.

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

Original Flavor: Hermon Mehari, Les Izmore, Reach, Dominique Saunders, Anthony Saunder, Brad Williams, Lee Langston, Ryan Lee, DJ Attix, Lee Langston, 9 p.m.

The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8421390. Astrokitty Comics presents: the Level Grind 2.0.

S U N DAY 1 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Crossroads KC at Grinders: 417 E. 18th St., 816-4725454. Ben Folds, Kenton Chen, 7 p.m., $30-$76.50.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Torn the Fuck Apart, the Stolen Winnebagos, 1 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The New Familiars.

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

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Reventones, Mr. Marco’s V7, 7 p.m.

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Café Roux: 11554 Ash, Leawood, 913-400-3478. Billy Ebeling.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Soltri, 7 p.m.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Midtown Quartet.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Lonnie Ray Band.

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

Folly Theater: 300 W. 12th St., 816-474-4444. Dave Alvin and the Guilty Ones, 8 p.m., $15-$60.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Gas House Gorillas.

The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. DJ Candlepants.

77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-7427727. DJ Andrew Northern.

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The Conspiracy Room at the Uptown Theater: 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Nit Grit, EZ Brothers, BBox, and more, 9 p.m.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown trivia and karaoke, $6.

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night.

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

Karaoke, 10 p.m.

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

Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Free pool, 3 p.m.

JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307.

Karaoke with the Mad Man DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m.

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

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

Beats, Burgers & Birds, 8 p.m.

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The Landing: 1189 W. Kansas St., 816-792-5230, 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.

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

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

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

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

M O N DAY 1 1 ROCK/POP/INDIE Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. David Ramirez.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Zig Zag Shirley.

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

Uptown Theater: 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Owl City, Mat Kearney, Unwed Sailor.

DJ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Monday Munch ’n Move with the Beatdown Fantastic featuring Brandon Graves, Anthony Case, DJ David Kelly, Von Hansen, 7 p.m.

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DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Fred P. Ottâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: 4770 J.C. Nichols Pkwy., 816-753-2878.

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Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

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Missie Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday, 10 p.m.

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

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Open mic.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit, 6 p.m., free.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Open Mic with Marilyn Wood, 7-10 p.m.

The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Mudstomp Monday, 9 p.m.

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Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Transients, 9 p.m.

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Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mark Montgomery.

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

Intentions: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-6526510. DJ dance party, 9 p.m.

Raoulâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Jazzy Jess.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. BeneďŹ t for Joplin with Famous Seamus and the Travelbongs, Not a Planet, Cody Ross, early dinner show. Food and cash donations accepted, 6 p.m., $5.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Outlaw Roulette with Cody Wyoming and Paul Andrews, 7 p.m.; Broken Spoke, Radio Romantica, 9 p.m., $7.

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The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Dark Times with Jay Maus.

Johnnyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tavern: 13410 W. 62nd Terr., Shawnee, 913962-5777. Bingo Boogie Night, 9 p.m.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

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

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

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

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic open mic with Tyler Gregory, $2.

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

Stanfordâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open-mic night.

RAP The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Axe Murder Boyz, F.L.O.W.S., Wicked Wayz, Deranged, Hyper Sniper, 6:30 p.m.

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Tiki Tuesdays featuring DJ Fat Sal, 8 p.m., free.

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RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.; J-Roddy Waltson and the Business, Minden, Mute the Idol, 9:30 p.m.

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Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Sons of Bill, Sarah and the Tall Boys, 8 p.m., $15.

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Fathead & Braindeads Saloon: 514 Main, Grandview, 816-761-6060. Bike night.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

Karaoke With Debby Z. Intentions: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-6526510. Wine and Women Wednesday.

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savage love Go Play Outside Dear Dan: Three months ago, I met a woman whom I’m really into physically, emotionally and mentally. She’s someone I could see myself with. Problem is, when we started having sex, she insisted on a condom for birth control. I haven’t worn one in probably eight or nine years. (I’m 33.)

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This happened many times DAN over the first couple of months.

S AVA G E She went on the pill a couple of weeks ago to deal with the issue, but now I’ve got a mental issue going on and still go limp once we start having sex (it’s all I think about as soon as I get inside her). I feel like it’s not a physical problem, and it’s at the point of ruining this relationship.

Futile Limp-Ass Cock Is Dreadful Dear FLACID: Before I get to your question, I wanna mention the amazing thing that happened two weekends ago while I was in New York: the 8 p.m. performance of The Book of Mormon at the Eugene O’Neill Theater during Pride weekend. The brilliant new musical about well-intentioned Mormons on a mission exceeds the hype. It’s the funniest, dirtiest, smartest thing this show queen has ever seen on Broadway.

Yeah, yeah, something else happened in New York, too: A bill legalizing same-sex marriage was approved by the state Legislature and signed

by Gov. Andrew Cuomo. Being in New York for the marriage-equality victory was great, but The Book of Mormon — holy shit!

OK, FLACID, if your dick goes limp, stop putting it inside her. Just for now. Have oral sex, masturbate together and have imaginative, nonpenetrative sex while paying careful attention to her vulva, clit, orgasms, etc. A few dozen successful, low-stress sexual encounters with your girlfriend should help break the association your dick has made.

Dear Dan: Yay, we won gay marriage in New York. I’m so happy, I could cry. But not tears of joy. I support gay marriage. I’m a lesbian. I’ve been with my partner for 10 years. We live together. We suffer through each other’s families, and we’re treated as a married couple for all intents and purposes by everyone in our lives.

I’ve made passionate speeches to friends and family members about the importance of gay marriage. So in 30 days, we can get married in New York. Everyone will expect us to. But I don’t want to. I’m happy in my relationship, but I don’t want to be married. I think part of the strength of our relationship comes from being together because we want to. How do I tell my partner and everyone else that I love her with all my heart but don’t want to marry her — or anyone else — ever?

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Dear DOMA: Same-sex marriage is legal in New York, not compulsory. But instead of telling your partner that you don’t want to marry her, or anyone else, ever, tell her you need time.

There’s no rush to commit to committing or to commit to never committing. And you might want to ask your girlfriend how she feels. If she hasn’t been dropping hints or proposing, it’s possible that she feels as conflicted or ambivalent about marriage as you do.

Dear Dan: I’ve just ended a four-year relationship with a great man who didn’t lay his kink cards on the table until too late. He’s your typical straight guy with a she-male fetish. Apparently, the dom pegging I provided wasn’t enough because I found a secret e-mail account where he was soliciting she-male escorts. I’m more pissed that he didn’t tell me he wanted to explore real cock and didn’t give me the opportunity to make his fantasy fit into our life together. I can’t tell if any of these escorts ever met with him, and he is mortified that I know about his darkest cock-fetish secret.

As a GGG girlfriend who would honor just about any fantasy, is this secret search for a stranger the betrayal I think it is? I get it that our play isn’t the same as the real thing, but isn’t cheating cheating?

Willing But Not Enough Dear WBNE: The snooping-is-wrong absolutists will shit themselves if “snooping is wrong” doesn’t appear somewhere in this response, but no long-term relationship is snoop-free.

Your ex’s secret search is the betrayal that you think it is. Cheating is cheating, and the kind of cheating your ex was engaged in or contemplating amounts to a Very Serious Betrayal. He put you at risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection*, assuming he saw a sex worker, or he was thinking about putting you at risk, assuming he was about to. But he had a GGG girlfriend and could’ve negotiated a deal that allowed him to explore this without betraying you or putting you at risk. But he was deeply ashamed and terrified of losing you. And now, because of the lying and sneaking around, he has lost you. Unless you can find it in your heart to forgive him.

His kink cards are on the table now. You know his deepest, darkest sexual fantasies, and he knows you know. If his kink is something you would’ve signed off on, perhaps you could take him back on the condition that he go about finding things, sucking things, getting fucked by things** very differently from now on. *I’m not saying a man who visits a sex worker is going to get a sexually transmitted infection; a good sex worker is typically thoughtful about sexual safety. But outside sexual contact involves risk for the insider back at home, and it should be disclosed and discussed in advance. **I’m not calling MTF sex workers “things.”

I’m calling their things things.

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$350-$800

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MO-Westport $850 816-531-2555 4228 Wyoming, 2 Bedroom Duplex, Attached Garage, Appliances, Storage

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.

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$500/month

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3943 Roanoke and 3821 Central Call for details

902 E. 39th St.

1BR $425

524 Maple

1BR $375

1505 Little Ave.

1BR $395

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4925 Walnut

2 Bedroom House, Central Air, Appliances, Basement

2 BR $695

4918 Grand

ONE MONTH FREE!

2 BR $625

1500 W. 47th

ONE MONTH FREE!

1 BR $515

Central Air, Appliances, Carpet, Onsite Laundry, Balcony

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MO - 90TH-SOUTH KC $725 816-254-7200 Cozy 3 bedroom house, appliances including dishwasher, family room, central a/c www.rs-kc.com KCN2U

3105 Peery

2BR $450

701 E 40th

ALL UTILITIES PAID! Central air, Appliances, Laundry, Storage

2 BR $595

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4451 Tracy

1BR $395

4230 Wyoming

2 BR $895

MO - WALK TO NELSON-ATKINS $975 913-962-6683 Charming 3 bed/2 bath house, hardwood floors, basement, appliances, W/D, pets OK! rs-kc.com KCN2O

Montclair

MO - DOWNTOWN 816-421-4343 One-of-a-kind spaces in a variety of historic fully restored buildings throughout Downtown, Crossroads, Westside, and West Bottoms. Commercial, residential, office, loft, art studios, and live/work spaces.

1: A Collection of Early Century Apartments with Architectural 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

2BR 2.5BA $775

2 BR $625

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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

Wornall Heights

Central air, Appliances, Carpet, Storage, On-site Laundry

365 Commercial for Rent

MO-WESTPORT $500 816-561-4230 Monterrey 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.

(816)561.RENT www.northterracepm.com

5811 Maple ALL UTILITIES PAID! ONE MONTH FREE!

MO-PLAZA, WEST $530 AND UP 816-531-2205 West Plaza location, Studios, 1 & 2 Bedrooms. ONE MONTH FREE ON STUDIOS & 1 br's. Move in By 08/31 & You can WIN AN IPAD!

Waldo Plaza - 215 W. 77th St. $99 Deposit. 1 & 2 br, large walk-in closets, C/A, laundry in building, well lit grounds, water & trash paid.

MANAGEMENT COMPANY www.sederson.com (816) 531-2555

2BR $450

MO-WESTPORT $850 816-753-1923 724 W. 46th St., 2+ BR, 2 story home available today. Call Krugh Realty, LLC today to set up your appointment to view this property. www.krugh.net - KRUGH REALTY, LLC

816-363-8018

SEDERSON

Monday–Friday 9–5 or by appt.

1317 E 45th St

MO-NORTHLAND $525/UP 816-454-5830 MOVE IN SPECIAL- $100 DEPOSIT on 1 & 2 bedroom apts.

Large 1,2 & 3 bedroom Apts & Townhomes, Fireplace, Washer/Dryer Hookups, Storage Space, Pool.

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2BR $575

MO-WEST PLAZA $975 816-537-6029 4531 Wyoming. 2 br, 1 ba house/duplex hdwd flrs, appl.inc, 2 car gar, bsmt, deck, 1 yr lease. No pets. Credit/Ref Check. Appt only.

1 MONTH FREE!!!

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1620 E. Linwood

MO - 85TH-WALDO $850 913-962-6683 Opulent 2 bedroom house, hardwood floors, garage, fenced yard, kitchen appliances, washer/dryer rs-kc.com KCN2V

$400-$450 816-472-1866 Now renting 502-520 Maple Blvd. LLC Colonial 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) 777-6965 San Diego Branch Office is (619) 956-6033.

MO-WALDO

Downtown Area

North Terrace Property Management

Charming apt w/ balcony, HW floors, updated kitchen

MO - WESTPORT/PLAZA $625 913-962-6683 Charming 2 bedroom house, living room, basement, appliances, pets OK, no app fee; rs-kc.com KCN2P

$400-$850 816-753-5576 CALL TODAY! Rent Studios, 1 & 2 Bedroom Apartments & 3 Bedroom HOMES. Grubb & Ellis ı The Winbury Group, EHO

816-363-8018

KS - ROELAND PARK $850 913-962-6683 Exquisite 2 bed/1.5 bath house, finished basement, hardwood floors, garage, appliances, pets OK! rs-kc.com KCN20

MO - 63RD-BROOKSIDE $1250 913-962-6683 3 bed house, living room, basement, garage, fenced yard, appliances, pets welcome! rs-kc.com KCN2T

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

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-NE KC

STARTING AT $560 No Application Fee!

KS - NEAR KU MED $630 913-962-6683 Cozy with 2 bedrooms, basement, hardwood floors, garage, dining room, appliances, and more! rs-kc.com KCN2Q

MO - 39TH-WESTPORT $725 816-254-7200 Spacious with 3 bedrooms, hardwood floors, some utilities paid, pets OK! $725 www.rs-kc.com KCN2R

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

Quiet, Comfortable 1 & 2 bedrooms in SUPER neighborhood!

KS - 62ND-MISSION $895 913-962-6683 Spacious 3 bedroom house, garage, welcoming living room, fenced yard, appliances, pets OK! rs-kc.com KCN21

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

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

Pets OK. www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM

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Over 1300sf in grand old building. Central heat/air Close to UMKC, between Paseo and Troost Convenient location in NE! HW floors, quiet location.

Great deal!

Close to UMKC and Plaza, just West of the Paseo, Tons of space for the $ 2BR $550

ONE MONTH FREE!

Hardwood floors, Central air, New paint, Laundry hook up, Appliances, Garage

3701 Baltimore Large 1st floor apt close to Westport

See pictures at www.northterracepm.com

CALL US TODAY TO SCHEDULE AN APPOINTMENT

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

367 Office Space for Rent MO-MIDTOWN $300-$1200 816-960-4712 3535 Broadway. 2nd Floor High End Private Offices Fully Equipped Kitchen, Conference Area. 39th & Southwest Traffic Way Large 5,000+/- Sqft Flexible Space.

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