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MEGAN WESTENHAVER Hometown: Kearney, Missouri

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What local tradition do you take part in every year? My boyfriend and I love to go down to

Occupation: Preschool teacher

Westport with our friends and family for St. Patrick's Day celebrations.

Who or what is your sidekick? I am absolutely

never without a pad of paper and a pen. I take notes on practically everything because I am constantly learning new things from new people.

Person or thing you find really irritating at this moment: I find it truly aggravating when a

person feels that by getting all their information from one news source, they are fully informed. I try to encourage people to vary their sources in order to see several sides and then think through all available information in order to form a perspective of one’s own.

What was the last local restaurant you patronized? My boyfriend recently treated me to

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What’s your favorite charity? I enjoy giving my

time to organizations like the Liberty Restoration Project and others whose goals are to encourage people to become educated and take control of their own lives.

Favorite place to spend your paycheck: Aside from bills? I love searching out local artisans and their products, especially handmade jewelry and unique art pieces.

What local phenomenon do you think is overrated? To be honest, I have never

been a huge NASCAR fan, but my folks are, and I will admit that the tailgate atmosphere at the I-70 Speedway is incredi-

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What subscription — print, digital, etc. — do you value most? I recently started receiving a series of lectures on various topics through a company called LIFE: Living Intentionally for Excellence. Their information is very highcaliber and practical, and I have enjoyed not only listening and reading but also sharing it with others.

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Where do you drink? I haven’t found a “regular place” just yet, but I always have a lot of fun at the Well in Waldo, the Brick downtown, and Missie B’s is always fun! Really, anywhere I can find genuine smiles on friendly faces, and possibly a place to dance, is perfect.

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What movie do you watch at least once a year?

Current neighborhood: Edwardsville, Kansas

Papa Bob’s Bar-B-Que in Kansas City, Kansas, which has some of the most incredible food paired with exemplary service.

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ble. I may not love the main event, but I am always happy to spend time with my friends and family at a tailgate party.

Where do you like to take out-of-town guests?

It is always fantastic to take guests downtown, to the Westport neighborhoods, and over to the Crossroads Art District, especially for First Fridays.

“Kansas City screwed up when …” They brought in red-light cameras all over the city.

“Kansas City needs …” More community understanding of how City Council decisions and legislations affect the residents’ daily lives, and also how to have our voices heard in such matters.

“People might be surprised to know that I …”

Am very new to all these issues and have

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only just begun to educate myself on many of the things I am hoping to help others learn about. I am a teacher, professionally and by nature, and often fi nd that the best way to learn something is to have to teach it to someone else. It is an exciting time for me and for the Liberty Restoration Project.

“On my day off, I like to …” Spend time with my favorite people. I am very fortunate to know such a large number of truly quality individuals, and I absolutely love the time spent working with them on projects and relaxing together.

What TV show do you make sure you watch? Honestly, I don’t watch TV at all.

There are so many things going on in my life that when I do have downtime at home, I usually fill it with a phone call to a friend or catching up on my reading.

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Last book you read: Anthem by Ayn Rand. And

I am currently reading End the Fed by Ron Paul and We the Living by Ayn Rand.

Favorite day trip: I don’t usually get time for

even a day trip lately, but I used to love visiting the local wineries, and I can never resist a small-town antique store.

Describe a recent triumph: I was so proud to

be able to help in organizing this year’s Show Me Freedom Fest with the Liberty Restoration Project. Under Tracy Ward’s leadership, we were able to bring in guest speakers Tom Woods, Adam Kokesh, many other great speakers and politicians, and facilitate an entire day of education. It was amazing to see so many people coming together to get quality information.

For more information on the Liberty Restoration Project, see libertyrestorationproject.org.

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WHO KILLED JOE LOEHR?

Searching for answers in a homeless camp homicide

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oe Loehr was killed somewhere out here.

His killer has no name yet, and the scene of the crime has no address.

Beyond East Front Street where it crosses North Kansas Avenue, and across a levee that runs along the Missouri River, four deer bound through a clearing between two thickets. They are not the only ones who live here.

G O L subtle footpath runs P E MORINE AT Athrough the woods to ONL M / P L O G the east. Follow the trail, P IT C H .C O and it takes you past the remains of abandoned homeless camps that called this flood plain home. The path ends at a hidden encampment of two tents surrounded by a sea of trash, old bottles and discarded newspapers.

The man who lives here won’t give his name. There’s a warrant out for him, for possession, and he says he doesn’t want the cops’ attention, or to get kicked out. But he knew Loehr. It’s a Thursday morning in midSeptember, and he smells a little boozed up.

“He’s been around here for a while,” the man says of Loehr. “He used to fly.”

Fly? “Fly a sign to make his money,” he says, pantomiming holding one of those roadside brother-can-you-spare-a-buck signs. “I work,” he says. Odd jobs. He’s a little proud of that.

The man knows where Joe died but is afraid to lead a Pitch reporter there because the killer hasn’t been caught. But — aw, what the hell — he does anyway, crossing the clearing and heading back across to the opposite thicket. There’s another trail that starts just near the levee, and he points down to a clearing visible in the distance: “That’s where Joe died,” he says, and then points to the left.

“There’s his tent.”

Joe Wesley Loehr, 52, was born in Kansas City in 1960 and died here Saturday night, September 8. He was likely beaten to death, given the severe injuries to his face. Down that path lives the man who found him dead — the man police still suspect may have killed him.

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ike Gullett, 56, wears a hoodie and denim shorts, his legs wiry and tough. He calls this “Camp Hope.” It’s a good, tidy spread.

It’s less “drifter” than “free spirit.” There are two well-constructed huts and a tent, lawn chairs, a working radio. Pots and clotheslines hang from the trees. Seven people once lived here full time, he says. Now that Loehr is dead, Gullet is the only one who lives here, but regulars still wander in for a visit. Two men are hanging out with him on this Thursday.

One visitor, a man who calls himself Squirrel, is fi xing a bike. Another, Gregory Kump, a sunny 47-year-old alcoholic wearing an O’Reilly hat, is relieving a bottle of

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didn’t deserve that,” Kump says of the killing.

He then apologizes for his language.

Nice guy or not, Gullett says Loehr sometimes got into scuffles with a large black man with glasses named Money Mike. Gullett adds that two or three weeks ago, a nearby drifter named Gary, a regular around these parts, hit Loehr with a rock and then beat his right leg with a baseball bat for taking away his girlfriend, Christal, who also happened to be an ex-girlfriend of Gullett’s. The attack left Loehr with a limp. The three men at the camp speak of Gary with fear and suspect him in the killing, though they’ve also heard that he was out of town. But Squirrel says he’s never known a time when Gary wasn’t in town.

Kump, who has never met Gary, decides to take a Pitch reporter to Gary’s nearby camp and has to be dissuaded from taking a long piece of rebar with him as a weapon.

“We’ll walk down there and look in his eyes,” Kump says. “Then we’ll know if he did it.”

Homeless man Joe Loehr’s body was found near this camp.

McCormick’s whiskey of its contents. A blue tarp over Loehr's old tent, which is still standing, is visible through the trees from about 40 yards away. Loehr probably died here next to Gullett’s hut. “Even if I knew anything, I shouldn’t talk about it,” Gullett tells a Pitch reporter. The cops say he didn’t talk about it with them either, according to a brief about the killing in The Kansas City Star.

Then he talks about it.

“I think it happened right here,” Gullett says, pointing to the ground next to the door of his neatly kept sleeping hut, which is so well-built that there’s insulation on the ceiling and a waterproof skylight. “I was the cleanup man,” he says. “When the cops were finished, I had to clean up. From what I saw, it looked like it happened right here.”

At around 9:45 p.m. September 8, Gullett discovered his campmate dead, called the cops and waited for them at the top of the levee. When officers arrived, Gullett led them down to the camp. Detectives interrogated him and held him for 24 hours before releasing him, saying he remained a “person of interest” in the homicide.

“Of course I’m a suspect,” Gullett says, “but that’s pretty much automatic in an investigation.”

The cops haven’t been back to talk with him in the five days since.

“They know where to find me,” Gullett says.

Squirrel says the cops took him downtown for six hours, a day earlier, saying he knew something about the killing. He says he doesn’t and wasn’t around.

Gullett dodges a question about whether he was in the camp when the killing occurred. He says he can’t talk too much about the investigation.

Later, Gullett hangs his head and, with a little shame, admits that he was pretty drunk when he found Loehr’s body and can’t remember much. That’s why he says

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he “thinks” Loehr died by the hut. That’s where he cleaned up the blood.

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he three men at the camp on this September Thursday don’t know much about Loehr. They just say he was a nice guy. Loehr’s nearby campsite still bears all the signs of living — his pants still hang where they'd been left to dry in front of his tent.

Inside, his tent is well-lived-in, filled with shoes and winter gloves, teabags on a bedside table along with a bottle of KC Masterpiece Marinade, a Bible, a can of bug spray, and two big candles burned down to waxen shells. His bed is covered with boxes for Symbicort, an asthma drug, and a property receipt from an arrest May 15. Whatever the KCPD had taken him in for, he arrived at the station with pills, a lighter, a broken watch, a knife and $1.11 on him. A search of Missouri court records reveals nothing on Loehr except a string of landlord lawsuits and a long-ago DWI. “He was skinny, weighed about 100 pounds,” says Kump, the man in the O’Reilly cap. “He’d get drunk, fall over a tree. That’s about as bad as he would get.

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n the road to Gary’s camp, Kump takes the whiskey with him instead of the rebar, which might as well be a 5-foot piece of a potential felony. He gulps the McCormick’s from the bottle. He begins to stagger. He's not going to make it to Gary's camp.

“Oh, Lord, I’m in trouble,” Kump says. “I’m in a tight spot.” He asks a Pitch reporter about staying at Camp Hope. “What do you think I should do?” he says. “I’m not going back there.”

Why? “OK, you asked a question: ‘Why?’ Would you?”

Good point.

Kump falls down, coming to rest on a rock along the levee, and then falls sideways off the rock. He’s helped up, falls again, and then starts to fall asleep.

“What would you do if you were me?” Kump keeps asking. “What do I do?” He doesn’t want to go back to Camp Hope. He says he has an appointment at Truman Medical Center. He knows now he’s going to miss it.

Kump barely makes it back to Camp Hope, even with help. It’s 2 p.m., and he’s barely conscious. He sits and then lies down on the ground, on the dirt and the fallen leaves.

Gullett, a person of interest in a homicide, looks Kump over where he lies, a couple of feet from where he thinks he discovered Loehr’s mutilated body.

“Mike,” Kump says with the voice of a boy asking a question of his bigger brother right before bedtime. “Is it OK if I stay with you for a couple days, until I get sorted out? I got nowhere to go.”

“Yeah,” Gullett says, pausing for a moment. “I’d like to have somebody here to watch the camp.”

Rain begins to fall as Kump rests his body in the dirt. Moments later, he’s out.

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Dave Dalton just needed a place for his gear.

Now his Hammerspace is the maker movement’s local HQ.

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ordie Smith’s wings aren’t working.

He crosses his arms, lets a short pop of breath leak from his lips.

The four thin, black carbon rods that he has attached to a headless mannequin, via an elaborate thorax of gears and pulleys, are supposed to spin in figure eights. They make up the centerpiece of a woman-sized-wasp Halloween costume that Smith has been commissioned to build. To make wings out of the rods, Smith plans to cover them in rubberized fabric. But first they need to move.

“That’s the first law of robotics,” says Dave Dalton, a lanky man whose face at this moment is obscured by the mask portion of Smith’s incomplete costume. He sits on a stool nearby and reminds Smith of another axiom, one about demonstrating an invention: “Your robot will never work when you want to show someone what it does.”

Smith reddens and fidgets with the gears and the casings. After a small click, the robot wings spring to life. They gain speed over the next few seconds until they’re moving fast enough to shake the dummy’s torso.

“I saw something like this on the Internet,” Smith says. “But the wings only went up and down. This is the seventh version I’m working on. I think it’s going to work.”

“That’s what I love about kids like Jordie,” Dalton says. “They haven’t had their dreams crushed yet.”

If there’s a haven for locals like Smith right now, it’s Hammerspace, Dalton’s workshop at 440 East 63rd Street. The 6,500-squarefoot brick building, which previously housed an AT&T telecommunications center, is now a hacker space — a community-oriented work space where 90 members pay $40 per month (or $400 per year) to access power tools and lasers and share their knowledge. It’s where a 21-year-old movie usher can go if he wants to spend his afternoons building mechanized wasp wings.

According to hackerspaces.org, Hammerspace (named, Dalton says, for the “magical dimension from which small anime girls produce large and ridiculous weapons”) is one of 154 active hacker spaces in the United States, all of which have opened in the past five years. Each is part of the maker movement — the latest iteration of the do-it-yourself

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culture, centered on a belief in getting back to building and repairing objects.

It’s a rebellion against the notion that technology is disposable. Makers prize practical skill above blueprint innovation — they want to extend the lives of objects, bring them back to life, fi nd new uses for them.

That’s why, at Hammerspace, a 60-yearold woman is learning to rivet next to a 30-year-old man who has recently taken up embroidery.

Hacker workshops like Hammerspace are loosely organized within the nonprofit School Factory’s Space Federation program, which provides support and consulting on items such as insurance, permitting and liability. But the very nature of hacker spaces defies a clear organizational structure.

“Each space has its own personality,” says Willow Brugh, the co-founder of the Space Federation and director of the entrepreneurmentoring project Geeks Without Bounds.

“If we had homogeneous spaces, that would kill the movement.”

“There are more schools that don’t have resources than do,” Dalton says. “And there’s this next generation of creative individuals who don’t have the tools to express themselves. Hopefully places like this can provide something for them.” utside Hammerspace, there’s a can’tmiss-it red concrete hammer in the grass along 63rd Street. Behind a chain-link gate, Dalton’s black-and-white Ford Crown Victoria stands out among the pickup trucks in the parking lot. The Kansas vanity plate reads: ELWOOD. Wooden pallets are stacked near the front door, next to an antique milk can and an engine block. Everything is in a state of almost.

Squinting in the sunlight, Dalton holds open the front door and steps inside. The conversation tracks what his blue eyes fl it across. An aluminum owl has been fashioned from the empty soda cans that fill a refrigerator-sized box in the hallway. A

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“ We ’ ve b e e n t r y i n g t o g e t a r o o f o ve r t h e m e t a l s h o p fo r a ye a r a n d a h a l f, b u t we g o t t h i s t o g e t h e r i n j u s t t h r e e we e k s .”

Hammerspace is a work in progress.

Dalton doesn’t know yet what his year-old venture might become. But he knows that it’s already a de facto business incubator, housing Dalton’s own plantation-shutter business, Craig Berscheidt’s laser-cutting operation (Built to Spec), and another dozen potential ventures from the 2012 class of the e-Scholars Program at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. pitch.com

tabletop arcade game is in need of a new power source. A T-shirt-spewing Howitzer — the kind of air-pressurized, goody-fi ring contraption familiar from Royals games — has been retrofitted with an attached seat.

The upholstery pattern: camouflage.

“We used it to shoot off foam footballs and whatever else we could think to launch on the Fourth of July,” Dalton says.

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Smith (left) tweaks his wasp wings, while Dalton keeps an eye on a 3-D printer. the more day-to-day things that generate some revenue to fund Hammerspace’s fitful build-out. The construction schedule has so far been determined mainly by available materials — items donated by members — and cash on hand. To make money, there’s a concession stand that sells pizza, corn dogs, sodas and a sandwich called the Kevin Smith (a grilled homage to the lo-fi movie director: peanut butter, marshmallow and bacon on white bread). Dalton’s wife, Beck, runs the food side of the operation from the building’s modified kitchenette. She also sells reusable grocery bags that she makes from T-shirts.

Another 10 feet down the hall is the latest addition to Hammerspace, a shop with glass counters and metal racks where Dalton sells small electronic kits and filament for the half-dozen 3-D printers in various states of completion here.

The printers use that fi lament to render digital models as fully formed objects. In traditional manufacturing, raw materials must be machined down to create a product; 3-D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, lowers the cost of prototyping to the price of that filament. A digital design — made on software such as CAD — can take fast and inexpensive physical form at Hammerspace, generated, layer by layer, in plastic (Dalton’s most common filament) or metal or virtually any other material.

Printers like these run as much as $5 million, but Hammerspace’s whole 3-D fleet cost a fraction of this. One reason for this: one 3-D printer can produce the parts for another 3-D printer. Among the things 3-D printing has given us over the past year are a burrito (made on a grad student’s “BurritoBot”) and a prosthetic jaw. In a sign of just how widespread the technology is, Jay Leno uses it to build rare parts for his collection of classic cars.

The technology, which has been around for the past 30 years, is now regularly cited as the digital equivalent of the industrial revolution — and talked about as one way to reverse the trend of outsourced manufacturing. Wohlers Associates, a Coloradobased consulting fi rm, continued on page 10

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Hackers on the Make continued from page 9 estimates that the 3-D-printing business has doubled since 2007, becoming a $1.7 billion industry.

But additive manufacturing isn’t going to put a roof over Hammerspace’s metal shop.

“We’ve been trying to get a roof over the metal shop for a year and a half, but we got this together in just three weeks,” Dalton says.

Half of Hammerspace is made up of three rooms, each crammed with geek memorabilia, enough power tools to start a secondhand hardware store, and mismatched furniture of a certain college-apartment aesthetic. The room closest to the front door is for woodworking and molding.

“You don’t go out and buy a new machine because you want to make a new coffee table. You just go out and buy the coffee table,” Dalton says. “But if you have access to the guys that know how to make a coffee table, and it will just cost you a $10 sheet of plywood and an afternoon, that changes the equation.”

Dalton picks up a severed latex arm, an unintentional lesson in shop safety. It’s for

an upcoming class on how to build zombies.

(Members regularly host evening sessions on riveting, casting and coding.) He hopes to marshal an army of the rubber undead for Halloween, ready to jitter like extras in Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” video, their arms and legs made to shudder with PVC pipes and sprinkler parts.

“The idea is to make it purposefully lowtech, designed from things you might actually have around your house,” Dalton says.

In the nearby “big room,” Dalton puts on meetings and Thursday-night open houses.

Stools with duct-tape-covered seats ring a flock of raised wooden tables where electronic components are stashed like products in a Kmart clearance aisle. Three kinds of Mountain Dew are visible. A brown couch is positioned before a huge projection television that was the recent test screen for a homemade Etch A Sketch.

“This is like being in six vocational classes at once,” Dalton says. “There’s always somebody here to tell you what you’re doing wrong.”

He steps into another little cell, this one tucked between shelves of parts in the corner opposite the old TV. This is the kids’ room,

he says, a space-themed play area. It’s dominated by a shiny metal box with dozens of buttons, tubes and LED lights: the Quantum Encabulator, a blinking, beeping machine that he designed for this year’s Maker Faire at Union Station.

“This is a miniature version of my son’s spaceship room at home,” Dalton says.

“It’s the only finished room in the house,” Beck cracks, watching one of their two sons build a tower from LEGO bricks. The table saw that was in their driveway more often than not irked the couple’s Leawood neighbors.

It was Beck who suggested that perhaps the time had come for Dalton to find, in his drive to build, a place for his equipment besides the family home.

“I was just imagining a storage facility with outlets,” she says. “Maybe a man cave, a place where you could just close the door when everything was done.”

Instead, Dalton opened Hammerspace. verybody in my lineage got in trouble for taking toys apart when they were kids,” Dalton says. “It’s not enough to know

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Hammerspace members gather Thursday nights at a weekly open house to discuss and work on projects. that something works. We want to know why and how.”

One of his grandfathers, Lee Spruill, was an aeronautical engineer with TWA, overseeing the airline’s overhaul base in Kansas City. His version of retirement was to build a steam-powered car out of an old white Ford Pinto, its dual tailpipes roaring through sleepy St. Petersburg, Florida. (Theatricality also runs in the family.)

As a child actor, Dalton played Merlin in a Coterie Theatre production and ran through the Kansas City Renaissance Festival in Bonner Springs as a pickpocket attempting to steal coin purses from nobles. In high school, he produced jewelry in a shop class and he showed some of it to the fest’s blacksmith, who was impressed enough to invite the boy to apprentice.

“He told me his last apprentice had run off with the test-of-strength girl,” Dalton says.

Following his 1991 graduation from Shawnee Mission East High School, Dalton spent the next three years continued on page 12

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continued from page 10 a greeting from the kids’ room. on the festival circuit, learning to forge steel and make swords, knives and handles. breaker panel.) What he needed next was a “I found my crowd,” he says. “It is a place community. where handcrafted art is still celebrated and In the Cowtown Computer Congress, a rewarded and purchased at prices that are in- group dedicated to bringing together Kansas dicative of the level of physical labor that’s City–area technology enthusiasts, he found been put into it.” a tributary for the network he envisioned.

After a shop fire claimed his tools, though, At fi rst, CCCKC, which started in 2008, was Dalton got off the ride in his hometown. Looktruly underground, holding its early meeting for an employee discount to purchase ings — including classes on soldering and new tools, he stopped into Ranch Mart Ace coding within walls of exposed rock — in Hardware and handed a job application to the the caves at 3101 Mercier. This was Kansas woman behind the counter. His phone rang City’s fi rst hacker space. later that night.

Dalton, an early visitor to those subterra“Beck called and said there’s bad news and nean gatherings, proposed a change of venue good news,” Dalton recalls. “ ‘The bad news is, last year. Today, a CCCKC membership comes they’re not going to hire you. The good news with a pass to use Hammerspace. Hacking is is that there’s a consolation prize: You win a now aboveground. date with me.’ ” The two have been a couple Indicative of Hammerspace’s surfacing is for 18 years. its informal partnership with the e-Scholars Around the time he began dating Beck, Program within the Institute for EntrepreDalton enrolled in Johnson County Com- neurship and Innovation, at UMKC’s Henry munity College to study interior design. His W. Bloch School of Management. Tom Boozer, brother, Scott, had recently gone to work for the program’s associate director, visited a Valve, the Seattle videoThursday open house this game designer, and Dalton past April.

“I walked in and I thought that he’d take over “I walked in and I knew knew I was in his father’s interior-design I was in the right place,” business. Jim Dalton moved Boozer says. “We had been the right place. on, though, and Dalton looking for this for two years.

We had been eventually learned the planWe needed resources to help looking for this for tation-shutter trade from people execute a cool idea.” two years. another local businessman, In Hammerspace, Boozer We needed resources whose factory he took over saw the same ethos that in 2008. he had cultivated over his to help people Looking for a place to decade-long career as an inexecute a cool idea.” both anchor his shutter opdustrial designer. eration and store his growing “This is the kind of place arsenal of tools, Dalton settled on the disused where somebody who doesn’t necessarily telecom building in Brookside. Moving into have the skills in production can go and plug it required a one-man Maker Faire, though. into a community of people who do know that The place had been stripped of its valuable stuff and, more importantly, want to help copper wire, and the roof leaked. He patched people do that stuff,” he says. “It’s as much holes in the wall and, with help, routed a new about community as anything else.” air-conditioning system around the old one.

He was always aware of the property’s benefits — not least, a transformer capable n a Thursday in late August, Nick of a 1,200-amp output. (By comparison, Woods stands astride that antique milk the average house constructed within can on the Hammerspace grounds. It’s not the past 70 years probably has a 200-amp just a bit of farm kitsch. Until recently, it was

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what the members here used to smelt metal.

As the sun shines down on his buzz cut, the 30-year-old medical-equipment repair specialist adjusts a pair of glasses straight out of a 1965 NASA control room. Inside the milk can is a band of ceramic fi reproofi ng material and a cracked clay pot. “This was the foundry for aluminum before Dave got the new smelter,” he explains.

The new smelter arrived the previous week. Dalton had found one for sale online.

The resulting transaction was of a kind increasingly common here.

“A g uy came over and sold me the smelter,” Dalton says. “An hour later, I got a phone call, and he asked if he could give me back his money to buy a membership. I think Craigslist is my best membership tool.”

The aluminum comes from the pallets of empty soda cans, vessels for the hackers’ sugary fuel. The scrap will become figurines, ingots or whatever else members want to make from it. As Woods works, fellow maker Paul Leonard, 41, approaches, and the two reminisce about the first brass project in the homemade foundry.

“The first cat didn’t make it,” Leonard says.

“The brass was like cottage cheese. I think we just didn’t get the metal hot enough.”

Leonard learned to make jewelry at the University of Wisconsin–Green Bay nearly two decades ago. He had spent the better part of two months carving this mold, loosely based on five cats that share the house with Leonard and his wife, Jennifer.

“I don’t know why we didn’t use something else as a test run,” Woods says. “Still, it’s amazing how many things work the first time we try them.”

Trial and error is how things work at Hammerspace. Usually, there’s enough material on hand to make it through several errors.

“It’s the hacker aesthetic,” Dalton says. “We re-use something until there’s nothing left.”

Maybe the best illustration of how everything here comes together is the drinking fountain in the front hallway. It was dry when Dalton bought the building, the valve blocked by lime. A new valve would be costly and would need to be retooled to fit the fountain, an older model. The simple answer: Abandon the implement and bring bottled water. At Hammerspace, though, a problem like this is an opportunity.

Dalton brought an idea to Craig Berscheidt, a member and de facto shop teacher here: Substitute an electric valve. Oh, and hook it up to an old arcade game’s push button.

“This is how most projects start here,” Dalton says. “Somebody says something, then somebody one-ups them. Everyone makes these weird little enhancements.”

“And 15 minutes later, you have the best idea ever,” Berscheidt adds.

The two men opened the fountain’s guts and decided to add more than a valve. They rigged a series of peristaltic pumps (donated by a member eager to clear out his garage), to be powered by stepper motors. The motors, controlled by a test board that Berscheidt borrowed from another project, would regulate the flow through the valve.

“We just accumulate other people’s junk until it’s time to build,” Berscheidt says. “The crux of an idea is always in somebody’s basement.”

The fountain not only works now but also dispenses two flavors at the toggle of a switch.

One is Brawndo (water infused with drops of the energy-boost product MiO Energy Green Thunder) — a reference to the ubiquitous Gatorade-like sports drink that provides electrolytes to the citizens of the future in Mike Judge’s Idiocracy. The other fluid is what the Hammerspace natives call “toilet water”: standard municipal H2O. “Our UPS guy came in and asked if this was a new kind of drink,” Dalton says. “He looked at the two options and told us he didn’t want to drink toilet water. Then he picked Brawndo, went back for a second drink and told us it was pretty good. I’d call that a success.”

Pranking the delivery guy makes a good anecdote, but Dalton knows that Hammer-

space won’t succeed without serious and sustained interaction with nonhacking Kansas City.

“He sold his Volkswagen to fund the garage shop that built the computer that we walk around with in our pockets,” Dalton says of Apple founder Steve Jobs. “But what if he didn’t have that Volkswagen? Or if he lived in Brookside and didn’t have a garage to build in?” He sees his hacker space as a way for cashstrapped entrepreneurs to use sweat equity as they try to turn an idea into a physical object.

Boozer agrees with Dalton, and both men believe that the trend of outsourcing product development is likely to reverse itself in the near future. They aren’t alone. Last month, the White House announced that the federal government would contribute $30 million toward

the $70 million National Additive Manufacturing Innovation Institute in Youngstown, Ohio.

The new public-private partnership centers on using 3-D printing for large-scale manufacturing. It’s meant to be the first of 15 similar innovation centers around the country.

“For now, it’s cheaper to manufacture things in China. But in a decade, formerly outsourced products and manufacturing are going to come back onshore,” Boozer says.

As 3-D printing democratizes manufacturing, inventors can scale their products to demand. But for that to happen, Dalton still needs more people working the table saw.

“We’re not just a bunch of tools,” Dalton says. “We’re the crazy things we build.”

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How far do you think your wide-footed, hairytoed man friend is going to make it in a pair of your kitten heels? Far enough, perhaps, to consider playing a bigger role in violence prevention? That’s the goal of Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, the UMKC Women’s Center annual awareness event, a men’s march that aims to “stop rape, sexual assault and gender violence.” Women’s Center director Brenda Bethman says, “Walking in women’s shoes helps men better understand and appreciate women’s experiences and improve gender relationships.” Walk-up registration begins at 5:30 p.m. in the quad behind Flarsheim Hall (52nd Street and Rockhill Road), and fees are $15–$50 (pay less if you bring shoes to wear).

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RAW: Natural Born Artists, a nationwide independent arts organization, is all about diversity. “We bring together artists from all genres — film, photography, visual art, performing art, music, fashion, hair styling, and makeup artistry — for one collaborative showcase,” says the group’s Gabrielle Gray.

The result is a showcase, on the third Thursday of each month, at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665). This month’s theme: “Ensemble.” Gray says, “Our team here in Kansas City decided to book fashionheavy for this month, and we’ll be showcasing 12 fashion designers, five of which are accessories designers.” Tickets for the 8 p.m. show cost $10 in advance and $15 at the door; see rawartists.org/kansascity/ensemble.

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bad traffic or you’ll have undertaken the challenge on purpose in order to look at (and maybe buy) some art. Oh, and the fair has food, music and booze. Yup, it’s time for the Plaza Art Fair (along Ward Parkway, Nichols Road, Broadway and Central) as well as the UNplaza Art Fair (on the grounds of the All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church, 4501 Walnut). Both set up shop all day today (10 a.m.–10 p.m. at the Plaza Art Fair and 10 a.m.–6 p.m. at the UNplaza Art Fair) and tomorrow (11 a.m.–5 p.m. at PAF and noon– 5 p.m. at UAF). Bring cash. For more information, see countryclubplaza.com (click on “events”) or peaceworkskc.org/unplaza.html.

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Unilever’s German line of low-fat food products, Du darfst, picked an odd tag line this year: “Fuck the diet!” For one thing, the phrase doesn’t translate well. (We think we’re hearing, “Eat as much as you can”).

And brands don’t usually win new customers by swearing at them. But from 1 to 4 p.m., we’re making “Fuck the diet!” our rallying cry at the Power & Light District’s Oktoberfest Brew Tour. Six locations on the block are offering 6-ounce sample pours (in souvenir glasses) of an Oktoberfest beer, plus a specially paired small plate and then a full pint of your favorite beer. Tickets cost $25 in advance or $30 day of the event. (See missiontix.com/ KCBrewTour.) Find a full list of beers, food and venues at powerandlightdistrict.com.

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Pablo Picasso — painter, sculptor, thinker, lover — never held much back.

See the tribute to his private life at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) today from noon to 5 p.m.

Bonjour, Picasso opened yesterday and is on exhibit through January 27, 2013, in the Bloch Building. Admission is free.

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To work behind the bar at Harry’s Bar and Tables in Westport (501 Westport Road, 816-561-3950), you gotta know about scotches, smokes and martinis. You also have to be ready to serve up a glass of sparkling wine and a cheese plate with enough flair to suggest that you’re handing off some classy business. That’s why we like Sonya Limberg, Harry’s Tuesday bartender, who’s also adept at mixing up some of the new selections on the bar’s cocktail list, such as a French 75, a mezcal margarita, and La Morena, which mixes Del Maguey Mezcal Vida, St. Germain and Campari with a top-off of Stiegl Radler Grapefruit. Make a Tuesday date with Sonya, 3 p.m.–3 a.m.

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Red wine and dark chocolate are said to have small amounts of consumable resveratrol, a chemical said to reduce the risks of inflammation and blood clotting. So your time at the monthly chocolate and wine tasting, put on by Garza’s Goodies at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300), is just good medicine. This evening, 6–8 p.m., four wine pours are paired with four of Garza’s handmade chocolates. One of the selections is an extra-dark blackberry truffle, but the others are still under wraps at press time. Get tickets ($10) at czarkc.com or Garza’s Goodies’ Facebook page.

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Tom Burgoon masters Illusions.

W E D N E S D AY | 9 . 2 6 | MAGIC HAT

Magician and KC native Tom Burgoon expects Masters of Illusion Live audiences to leave feeling dazzled and amazed.

“We’ll have daring escapes, E R beautiful dancers, exotic O M animals, mystery, music, comedy and grand illuT A INE sions,” he promises. The ONL .COM PITCH world-touring, 25-act production, he adds, is “not just a magic show but a theatrical experience.”

See Burgoon and the others at 8 p.m. at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921). Tickets cost $28–$68. He answered a few questions by phone last week.

Filter: How did you get started with magic?

Burgoon: I saw my first magician on The Ed Sullivan Show as a kid, and it just stuck.

I believe he was Fantasio, who wore short sleeves and worked with candles and canes.

Short sleeves have become my trademark.

I started out doing manipulation magic: balls, cards, etc. Then a friend told me about an open-mic night at a comedy club.

I wanted to try to diversify my magic, and the four tricks I did that night killed. After that I never went back to regular magic.

What is your act like?

My act is magic and funny stuff. If you’re not laughing, it’s not working for me.

Without tipping a bunch of stuff I do in the show, I do comedy — mad and fast, like a prop comic.

Do you use audience members?

Many of the performers in Masters of Illusion invite audience members to come onstage to assist and be a part of their illusions. For me, I get a kid and a woman up in the show to do two different bits. The volunteers are a comedy visual for the audience.

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So much for the Old Testament, Paul Thomas Anderson-style.

Writer-director Anderson’s The Master returns to the desert to unearth the New Testament. In an echo of Blood’s silver-mine prologue, two men carry shovels through a canyon to the mouth of a cave to dig up a secret strongbox. Gun-toting cult leader Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman) buried the trunk. Soul-sick alcoholic Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) has joined the man known to his followers as “the master” to help carry away its recovered contents: Dodd’s early writings. One is the story’s leper, the other its savior. Which is which? This short, almost wordless sequence, deep within The Master’s mesmerizing, jigsaw narrative, makes the answer no clearer.

That’s Anderson’s point — one of them, anyway. The archaeological detour is only the most overt MacGuffin in a garden bright with them.

But don’t let anyone tell you what The Master is about. More than any American movie since perhaps Blue Velvet (David Lynch survivor Laura Dern is here to help you remember), Anderson’s latest is about its own aboutness (or its lack of aboutness, no less determined a message), about the possibility that we’re talking about religion, cultdom, method acting, the movies themselves, family, marriage, sickness. In this alternately seductive and punishing movie, as in that metal footlocker, is the truth, a pack of lies, a blank page — Dodd’s, Anderson’s, Freddie’s, yours, take your pick.

What The Master isn’t about — not really — is Scientology. In the years following There Will Be Blood, word spread that Anderson’s next project would be a thinly fictionalized recounting of the secretive religion’s origins.

The Master instead wheels out a wholly manufactured story of a mid-20th-century America looking for answers. Dodd, at first oozing selfassurance and pacific mental clarity, says he has those answers.

Freddie may not want them, though. The two men’s interrogations of each other are what fire Anderson’s drama — and recall the promissory pandering of the director’s ostensible source material.

Recall that not so long ago, in the days before Scientology was a household word and Tom Cruise was channeling his wattage into Rebecca De Mornay rather than L. Ron Hubbard, there was Dianetics. Hubbard’s massmarket tome rounded up a dozen footlockers of post-Freudian junk science and fantastic conjecture, with the results advertised during UHF reruns and across the basic-cable spectrum as a series of answers to the modern problems staring down the average Gilligan’s Island-watching latchkey kid. “What part of the mind blocks happy relationships?” posed one such commercial before revealing: “Page 409.” Off to B. Dalton everybody went. But a lot of people apparently failed to reshelve the

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Every part of Freddie’s mind blocks happy relationships — along with most traffic short of animal need. It’s the animal mind that Dodd seeks to banish, though, and in the furious, volatile Freddie he sees a specimen ideal for testing his methods.

Freddie is no stranger to attempted rehabilitation. We meet him before his Navy discharge from World War II service, as his ideas for celebrating V-J Day spin away from his shipmates’ and doctors usher him through a series of psych tests. (How he got into a uniform or whether combat has somehow ruined him remains a mystery.) Returned to civilian life, he dedicates himself to slaking a thirst for chemicals — fuel, photo fix, Lysol — recombined (and masked with just enough citrus) into blinding moonshine.

The shots of Freddie preparing and guzzling these paint-peeling cocktails are viscerally nauseous to the point of near violence — alcoholism cinema now has its A Clockwork Orange.

Anderson uses Freddie to strafe a booming postwar department store, a migrant-worked California cabbage field and then, finally, Dodd’s almost Oneida-like hive. Signaling endless drunken threat, Phoenix coils his whole body into a fight-ready snarl, never letting Freddie’s posture unbend. He pushes his neck and shoulders forward, as though peering down a subway tunnel to see when he might rejoin the others — or if there’s time to get down on the tracks for an empty thrill.

It’s possible that everything we see him experience is brain-rotted hallucination. In the movie’s overwhelming close-ups (Anderson and cinematographer Mihai Malaimare Jr. build huge frames for their 65 mm camera but return again and again to faces), we see that he knows this better than we do.

Dodd, a vision of charisma powerful enough to be unaffected by the rotgut his new protégé makes for them, has delusions of his own.

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who hasn’t stopped at the self but gone ahead and invented everyone else while he’s at it.

(In a canny reflection of his creation’s selfmythology, Anderson has taken on his project’s marketing, making the film’s hey-that’s-notin-the-movie trailers and screening it outside its distributor’s supervision.) The story’s alpha male, though, is Dodd’s wife. Peggy is The Master’s most clear-eyed character, and she senses in Freddie an unexpected threat. Amy Adams, all cold-steel maternity in the part, isn’t onscreen enough, but Hoffman and Phoenix let us know that Peggy is always watching.

Hoffman matches Phoenix’s intensity but finds the contours of a different, more romantic madness. Mention has been made of the Brando scale of both men’s work, but the matter of which of these modern actors is supposed to be Marlon is another of Anderson’s riddles.

(For me, Hoffman here is the Brando of The Missouri Breaks, pushed up against Jack Nicholson at the onset of his Shining symptoms.)

But for all the staring and yelling and slamming and fighting (and for all the ways Jonny Greenwood’s score does these things, too, stabbing through the screen), the movie's visual ambition and photographic scale take it over, exerting an ironclad hypnosis. As Freddie and Dodd hold each other’s wretchedness up to the light and the movie’s temporal structure folds in on itself and back out again, its characters’ psychoses turn like the glass in a kaleidoscope.

And everything in Anderson’s frames is simultaneously as confined and as unbounded as that, too — as beautiful and dizzying.

It’s been a week since I’ve seen The Master, and though I remember the lines and hear the music when I think about it, what obsesses me are its sights, its Edward Hopper compositions and impossible close-ups and pointillist details. Maybe its teases and feints won’t work a second time, won’t be enough to anchor the pictures stuck in my mind. But I’m ready to try a little hair of the dog.

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Happier at Home, Rubin’s best-selling new memoir, follows up her 2009 hit, The Happiness Project. Rubin, who as a biographer has examined the lives of famous political figures, trains her studious eye on herself for the Happiness books and her happiness-project.com blog. The goal: to discover how small changes, greater consistency, and paying attention to science and the advice of her writing heroes might improve her life (and, of course, the lives of her readers). The Pitch called her to ask how it was going.

The Pitch: Between the books and your blog, you’ve become a go-to talking head on the subject of happiness. Do you feel pressure to be happy?

Rubin: I don’t, actually. I feel like I want to behave myself and do what I know would make me happier, which I often fail to do even though I know better. But I don’t feel any pressure to embody happiness myself.

Why do you think people are so eager to know more about becoming happy?

I think there are two things happening that are in the opposite direction from each other but that I think influence it. One is with the recession and everything. I think people feel a little anxious. That all makes you want to turn inward and do what you can in your own life and control what you can control.

On the other hand, if you take a broader view, really, for people in the United States, we live in a time of tremendous prosperity and security relative to just about anybody else in the whole history of the world. And I think when people basically do feel like they have running water and electricity and democratic government, then you have an opportunity to sort of think about higher things that you would want from your life.

Do you think a blog is becoming an essential aspect of marketing for authors in general?

Right now, as you know, there’s so much info in the world, so many books, so many articles to read, so many television shows, so many movies, so much music. It’s very noisy.

So how do you even know about a book to try it, to read it? I think being in the world of blogging helped me let people know that the book even existed. And then a certain number of people know the book exists and read it and like it, and then they start telling their friends. But until a certain number of people read it, you can’t get word of mouth because not enough people even know that it’s there. And that’s the fate of many, many, many good books. People just don’t know it’s there.

The blog is still 100 percent you?

I don’t take guest posts, ever. It’s all me all the time, which I love. Sometimes you just want to do it your way. And you don’t want to have someone edit or cut it or tell you what

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Rubin: still happy to do or change a headline. You just want to write what you want.

Do you think you would have written the second book if the first hadn’t accompanied the blog?

I kind of think so. I think one of the reasons I enjoy keeping the blog is the subject is so vast.

When I wrote my biography of [John F.] Kennedy [2005’s Forty Ways to Look at JFK], I felt like I had said what I had to say about Kennedy and I was at peace. With Happiness, I felt totally fascinated and still wanted to write about it and think about it. I hadn’t worn it out for myself.

It seems like a subject you can explore forever.

It’s almost like anything you become interested in works into it. I’m interested in pain: Oh, pain is related to happiness! I’m interested in the sense of smell: Oh, the sense of smell is related to happiness! Basically, just about anything has a role to play in happiness, so it’s very stretchy in that way.

In the new book, you mention experiencing a profound need to feel prepared in case of an emergency. What’s that about?

For me, it’s not emergency preparedness, like having water in the cupboard. It’s prepared like feeling that in my level of self-knowledge and self-management and self-command, I’m ready to face a big challenge. That I feel like I am grown-up. I guess I’m preoccupied with needing to feel grown-up, which is true because I don’t feel that grown-up.

That’s obviously something that a lot of people can relate to.

My father said he was 55 before he felt like he was really a grown-up.

Rubin speaks at 7 p.m. Thursday, September 20, at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street). Admission ($26) includes two tickets and a copy of Happier at Home; for tickets, see rainydaybooks.com/GretchenRubin.

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Marv’s Original Delicatessen • 11554 Ash, Leawood, 913-322-3354 • Hours: 11 a.m.–9 p.m. Monday–Friday, 7 a.m.–9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday • Price: $$–$$$

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ansas City needs a great deli. There hasn’t been a real deli in the city since Jim Holzmark closed the venerable New York Bakery & Delicatessen on Troost three years ago. (I’m snobby enough not to count the Texas-based Jason’s Deli chain, which has a couple of local outposts, as a legitimate delicatessen; it’s an upscale sandwich shop that serves no traditional deli fare, including matzo ball soup.)

Marv’s Original Delicatessen in Leawood is maybe the closest thing the metro has had to a classic Midwestern Jewish deli — in the grand tradiE R O M tion of Zweig’s in Chicago, Shapiro’s in Indianapolis, Kopperman’s in St. E AT N I L ON M O Louis — since the 1940s. .C H C PIT In the years before and after World War II, there were no fewer than 67 delicatessens in Kansas City, including the Milwaukee Deli, the Chicago Deli and the Cincinnati Deli. The New York Bakery & Delicatessen was the sole survivor from that era, but it had lost much of its allure by its 100th anniversary in 2004. Five years later, when the health department suspended its operations, the Holzmarks decided to call it a day. (It’s now an antique shop.)

Marv’s is named for Marvin Kerner, the late father of restaurateur Steve Kerner, who opened the restaurant two months ago in the former Café Roux space in the heart of shiny, upscale Park Place. It’s an odd location for a restaurant inspired by the kind of vintage deli operations found in more urban settings.

But the small venue — it seats fewer than 100 — may be an experiment for a future chain.

For that to happen, there are kinks that need to be sliced out.

Marv’s is not a flawed concept, but I saw a few of the same mistakes that the owners of the Florida-based TooJay’s Original Gourmet Deli made when they opened a short-lived Overland Park branch a decade ago: inconsistency in the kitchen; a staff of young, unpolished servers; and a menu heavy on classic (and, in some cases, nostalgic) dishes with barely a nod to contemporary tastes. A vegetarian won’t find much to nosh on at Marv’s.

There are potato pancakes — available as both a full order and a side dish — that should become a signature delicacy here. The first time I ordered the latkes, they were perfect: golden pucks of grated potato, onion, chives, and salt and pepper with a wonderfully crispy crust and a moist interior. Two nights later, I was served potato pancakes that bore no resemblance to the dish of the same name that I had tasted 48 hours before. These undercooked discs were chewy, fl avorless, excessively greasy and, worse, visually unattractive. There wasn’t enough sour cream or applesauce to mask the awful truth: These latkes were lousy.

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I’m still wondering how this restaurant’s I might have sent them back to the kitchen, but the teenage server — a polite rye bread, touted as twice-baked rye on the menu, could be served without a crust. high school senior — was easily thrown off Funny, huh? Like the bagels and buns served by rejection. We learned early in our dining here, the rye bread is baked at Bagelworks experience that for all his many admirable and is tasty enough when spread with the qualities, this boy could juggle only so many requests at once. The restaurant wasn’t busy house-made chopped liver (a little pasty: it needs some shmaltz) and is far superior to on either night I dined at Marv’s, so I can the other bread on the plate — fried bagel hardly imagine him handling a full stacrisps that were greasy enough for three oil tion. He’s also too young to bring liquor to changes at Jiff y Lube. a table. (Right now, Marv’s The plain — mercifully has a license to serve beer Marv’s Original u n f r ie d — whole b a gel only.) However, you can get Delicatessen served with my lox platter, a milkshake and a phosPotato pancakes ..................$6 “the Lox Box,” wasn’t any phate and a fresh-squeezed Chopped liver ....................... $7 more enticing. It did prolemonade. And a Coca-Cola Cup of matzo ball soup .......$4 vide a solid base for heap— a point of pride here at The Lox Box ..........................$11 ing plump smoked salmon, Mar v’s, if only because Uncle Robert’s Reuben .......$11 Open-faced beef brisket ...$10 cream cheese, sliced tomato one of the focal points in Chocolate cake..................... $5 and cucumbers. the dining room is a large While I’m nit-picking 20th-century Coke sign, a on the bread, the rye slices relic of some long-forgotten diner called the Deluxe Sandwich Shop. The holding together an otherwise perfect Reuben manager, Linelle, explained that an antique sandwich weren’t grilled. They were toasted.

The challah bread used for the open-faced dealer happened to be passing by the restaubrisket sandwich — outstanding, fork-tender rant and asked Marv’s owner if he wanted beef brisket, by the way — wasn’t the lightest to buy it. He did. version of this deli standard, either.

“And we do serve Coke products,” she said, I’ve heard a couple of people (including beaming. “It’s funny how it all worked out.” a caller on a local radio show) gripe about Life is funny, I guess.

Thickly stacked sandwiches, matzo ball soup and iced cupcakes are making deli seekers verklempt about Marv’s. the portions of meat on the sandwiches at Marv’s. I found the stacks of pastrami, corned beef and roast beef on the specialty sandwiches to be more than generous for the price.

Marv’s desserts are outsourced to the local Three Women and an Oven bakery, which does a fine job with a limited but rotating array of sweets, including a tart lemon bar and a deliciously fudgy chocolate layer cake. But Marv’s doesn’t do so well displaying the pretty pastries in its so-called “deli counter.”

The problem with an upstart deli like Marv’s is the illusion it gives of having been around for decades. That veneer can throw off customers expecting a polished operation. It’s going to take more than a vintage Coke sign to generate the confident air of a long-established delicatessen. Marv’s has real growing pains to overcome on its way to becoming the real deal.

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hef Boyardee mini ravioli, soy milk, Cascade hops: Market 3 (114 West Third Street) has everything a bachelor, a downtown lunchbreak shopper — or a homebrewer — could want. Tucked in a back corner of the River Market grocery is Grain to Glass, Jennifer Helber’s month-old supply shop for home beer makers.

“I’m focusing on new brewers,” Helber says. “I think there are a lot of beer geeks out there that might to learn how to make their own beers.”

Aspiring homebrewers would be wise Market 3’s beer corner to study under Helber — a beer judge and inside. An adjacent shelf has the homebrewing president of area homebrew association ZZ Hops. Helber was pursuing a graduate de- kits, packaged malts and a range of cleaning products. gree in microbiology at the University of “Ninety percent of homebrewing is cleanMissouri–Kansas City when Boulevard founder ing,” Woolsey says. “If you’re not buying John McDonald approached her teacher about fragrance-free cleaner, then that flavor can culturing yeast in 1989. A decade later, she was answering a newspaper advertisement to help end up in your beer.”

Next to the fridge, Grain to Glass stocks kits develop Boulevard’s quality-assurance lab. from Brewer’s Best, which has recipes for the She spent the next nine years tasting Boulevard’s beer daily to ensure that each style had major styles, from porter to pale ale. Helber has also developed her own ingredient kits, such the desired flavor characteristics.

“I’ve got the science knowledge and the as the White House Honey Porter, which uses chocolate malt and Oak Grove Honey from Oak beer knowledge,” Helber says. “I’m just looking to incorporate both of those into the business.” Grove, Missouri. For about $100, an aspiring homebrewer could leave with the ingredients The shop is small, which is part of Helber’s and equipment for a 5-gallon batch. plan. She’s still refining her concept, which she “If somebody comes in and asks for somedevised three years ago and developed while attending the Kauffman FastTrac program. thing and we don’t have it, it’s on the next truck here,” Woolsey says The store has two partas he leads a quick tour of time employees, Jonathan the store.

Matthews (a member of the “The first time Helber initially imagined local homebrewing club KC you brew inside, I the downtown location as a Bier Meisters) and Bobby draw for Northland customWoolsey (a ZZ Hops memalmost guarantee ers, but she has found that ber). Woolsey, who has baryour spouse will most of the would-be brewtended at Joe’s Crab Shack ers arriving at the shop work and Night Shades in Blue kick you out downtown or have stopped Springs, sits behind the foldof your house.” in after a City Market event. ing table that doubles as the “I’m hoping I can grow desk and counter for Grain to Glass, an open copy of Draft the business into something Magazine next to a class sign-up sheet, loose bigger: my own space that would have homegrains in a paper soup cup from the market, and brewing supplies and a bottle shop,” Helber a bag of chocolate malt. A poster with a guide says. “We’d sell commercial beers and teach to yeast hangs where another shop might have people how to make their own.” a pastoral nature view.

The latter happens this fall, as a class “The first time you brew inside,” Woolsey through UMKC’s Communiversity extension says, “I almost guarantee your spouse will kick program. Helber’s Homebrewing for Beginyou out of your house. You’ll be finishing in ners meets at Market 3 from 6 to 8 p.m. on the driveway. It’s smelly. You smell grain and Sunday, October 14, and Sunday, October hops, and that smell sticks around your house 28. There’s a second set of classes over two for a day or two.”

Sundays in November. Both cover the basics At Grain to Glass, the hops are kept in a of brewing, fermenting and bottling, and white refrigerator, alongside liquid yeast (in- cost $34. (See ecommerce.umkc.edu/commu cluding Brettanomyces, the strain that’s active for details.) during the bottle-conditioning of Boulevard’s “People might have equipment, but they Saison-Brett) stored in plastic containers that are intimidated about getting stared because resemble oversized test tubes. The grains are in they haven’t seen it done,” Helber says. “This sealed plastic bags on metal shelves above keg is the way to overcome that little blockage to dispensers such as the jockey box, a retrofitted getting started.”

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(He ran for local office a few times, but typical dad finally got his due. of his success in politics, his name was misThe Pitch: Do you think it might have been spelled on one ballot.) He stopped recording, better for your father because he wasn’t in the but he never stopped practicing guitar. limelight until relatively recently? He obviously Meanwhile, his two albums became a took care of himself. phenomenon in South Africa. Young, apartEva Rodriguez: That was a concern. At the heid-protesting Afrikaners found an antidiscovery in the ’90s, he was around 50 at establishment message in the time. Can he still play?

Rodriguez’s forgotten discs.

Can he still perform? Yeah, Rodriguez At the time, the repressive there’s nothing wrong with Friday, September 21, at government didn’t just ban him. He said once that he the Roots N Blues N BBQ music it didn’t like; censors wouldn’t have been able to Festival, downtown Columbia ran razor blades across the handle it so well in those vinyl to make offending days because when you’re tracks unplayable. That only encouraged deyounger, you maybe get a little overwhelmed fiant music fans. Eventually, those Rodriguez by the attention or the money or all the things albums went platinum in South Africa. that go along with it. He’s wiser, for sure. He In the United States, Sussex went out of doesn’t let it get to him. I wish we would have business a few years after Coming from Reality had something then, but he doesn’t think fell short, so Rodriguez had no idea about his about what could have been. unexpected following. But in 1997, his daughRodriguez’s best-known song, “Sugar Man,” ter Eva, a soldier based at Fort Riley, discovered does such a good job of capturing both the hora website put together by South African fans rors and occasional pleasures of drug abuse. curious about his fate. Many of his fans asRodriguez says it’s a descriptive song; it’s sumed that he was dead. not a prescriptive song. Rodriguez has never Fast-forward to 2012, to a Rodriguez who is done drugs. A lot of people assume he’s this still putting that assumption to rest — who may addict rock star. We know drug addicts in our at last make it big in his home country. Swedish lives. That might be what he was doing, dedirector Malik Bendjelloul has made a prize- scribing it. I know it was not from personal winning documentary about the musician and experience because I’ve asked him that questhe odd trajectory of his albums. tion myself.

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nated with South Africans, particularly in the anti-apartheid movement?

I don’t think they were happy with their situation. Music is related to everything in our lives. We each have a soundtrack. There was a war going on [Vietnam]. I’m a soldier. I related to a lot of the soldiers’ stories because I’ve been to war. I had my own soundtrack when I was in Iraq and Kuwait. It comforts you. South Africa was limited and restricted. It’s small. Everyone knows everyone else. It just spread.

How does he feel about playing for domestic audiences since the film?

To me, he’s not swayed by any excitement or depression. He’s just working. He’s aware of the time, and he feels this is a great opportunity.

Malik has really done a nice job with the film. We’re all really happy with how it turned out. We didn’t know what he was going to do at the time, and he has so much footage. We weren’t sure what it would be like, especially since he was from Sweden. Once we saw it, we could see where he was going with it and suggested that he take it to Sundance, which was the way it was meant to be. People have clapped and cried and jumped and screamed.

It’s hard for me to see how someone not knowing him would view it because I’ve had a part in it. I had a copy, and I showed it to people who were close to me and to see how the response would be, and they were crying.

Is your dad thinking about making another album? It would be tough to match the first two.

That’s always the thing with people that make albums. I have the first copy of just about everybody, but I don’t really get the second, third, fourth or fifth. There’s different reasons he’s not recording now. He’s on the road. He’s never had the finances. It costs money to go into a studio. He has boxes of writings. He’s got songs. He’s even got some down. My sister took him to record some.

He wants to do it in a way that the first two were done, with good production and instruments. He’s holding out to have something like that again.

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o there is a new private club downtown, at the corner of 10th Street and Broadway, in the basement below the event space Club 1000. It’s called Garment House and it’s open only 10 hours a week: from 8:30 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. Friday and Saturday. Membership is free, but the cover every night is $40 ($35 for women). Once you’re inside, it’s an open bar. Grey Goose, Boulevard, Patrón, whatever, all night long. All you have to do is tip the bartenders.

I must confess to perverse motives behind my initial desire to write about Garment House. To become a member, you submit personal information, including a photo, through the club’s website (garmenthousekc.com).

A sick part of me was hoping that my application MORE for membership would be denied due to my stupid, horrible face. In T A INE retaliation, I could then ONL .COM PITCH mount some small, sad act of defiance against Garment House: picketing, a stakeout, a sneak-in.

But when I met last week with the bar’s co-owner, Jonas Barrish, he told me that more than 1,000 people have applied for membership and only about 20 have been denied. “The people who are getting declined are — we’re trying to attract a hip, creative crowd here,” Barrish said. “You know, if somebody uploads a photo, and they’re wearing an Affl iction shirt ... basically, we’re just trying to keep total douche bags out of here, for lack of a better word.”

Barrish, who’s in his mid-30s, is a real-estate broker in town, but for eight years he lived in Los Angeles, where he worked in the nightclub business. “I’d been looking for a way to get back into the bar business in a management or ownership role, but just on the weekends so it wouldn’t interfere with my real-estate business during the week,” he said. Barrish’s

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cousin owns the building at 1000 Broadway, What $40 worth of downtown privacy and the basement wasn’t being used. looks like.

“We wanted to do something that paid Barrish said about 200 people showed homage to the golden era of Kansas City’s garment industry,” Barrish said. (Garment up for Garment House’s opening over Labor House is located in the city’s old Garment Dis- Day weekend. But business was slow Saturday, with only a handful of tables occupied. trict.) “And we wanted to try a membership“This thing is word-of-mouth, and we’re based concept. Obviously, Manifesto is also a basement-speakeasy sort of thing, and I like not advertising, so it’s going to take a little them a lot. But we wanted to try something time to grow, and we expected that from the beginning,” Barrish said. a little bigger.”

We still had a pretty excellent time. The All of that squares with what I observed staff is friendly and outgoing, and apart from Saturday, after I descended the stairs, parted me and my unsightly friends, the patrons — the drapes, and walked into the bar. Near members — were all attractive, young prothe entrance, a greeter with an iPad sat at fessional types. No d-bags. a coat-check-like counter, And hoo doggie, it is a blast verified my crew — memordering drinks without bers can bring up to three “We wanted to do something any thought to the tab. guests — and collected our that paid homage to the Things I drank in the three money. (Barrish is mulling hours I was at Garment over reducing the entry fee, golden era of Kansas City’s House: an Old Overholt but he hasn’t yet made a garment industry. old-fashioned; a Pimm’s firm decision on a new Cup; three Heinekens; a price.) Votive holders filled And we wanted to try glass of scotch; a root-beerwith wooden buttons sat flavored shot that the baratop the dozen or so high a membership-based tender surprised our table tables placed across the concept.” w ith a nd which tasted room. Vintage sewing malike it had Jägermeister in chines decorated shelves it; and an indeterminate, behind the bar. There is a VIP-looking area near the back of the room, completely unnecessary shot we took on the way out. with sleek, black-leather couches. The overNo regrets. (Well, actually, technically, riding ambience is that of a lounge: dark and the next day I did regret drinking so much. classy, with conversation-level music.

“We’re not a club, and we never will be,” But still, no regrets.) I will be returning to Garment House — I dig the vibe, I like the Barrish told me. “There’s no dance floor. But we do want to bring in some DJs and create people, and I’m impressed with the concept and the execution. Whether this business a signature music vibe for the place. I’d like model can withstand the kind of reckless to just play old-school Ella Fitzgerald and drinking to which people like me are prone Billie Holiday. But unfortunately, that music puts people to sleep. So we’re still working is the money — or, more accurately, the $40 question. on it. Right now, I’m envisioning something where we mix current downtempo beats with Ella-style songs.”

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T H U R S D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 0 Dragonette, the Knocks: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Gigamesh, Brent Tactic, Bill Pile, JT Quick, DJ C-Mac, KCDC, DJ Jochen: The Gusto Lounge, 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786.

Hatebreed, Whitechapel, All Shall Perish: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

F R I D AY, S E P T E M B E R 21 Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Starhaven Rounders, Down in Flames: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, the God Project, Razorwire Halo: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Kevin Nealon: 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.

The Royal Southern Brotherhood: 8:30 p.m.

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

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Midwestern Audio CD-Release Party

Midwest Music Foundation, the local-musicscene-supporting nonprofit, has recently put together Midwestern Audio Volume 1, a doubleCD compilation that includes songs from more than 40 local acts. This show celebrates the release with sets from five of the bands featured on it. The lineup is nice and diverse: ambient emo from Everyday/Everynight, cheeky indiepop from Antennas Up, hip-hop from Reach, spaced-out psych grooves from Gemini Revolution, and jumpin’ blues from Grand Marquis.

Sunday, September 23, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Sex Slaves, with Pizza Party Massacre

Here is what I know about Sex Slaves. The band is from New York and sounds like a shitty version of Mötley Crüe. One of the guys in the group is named Del Cheetah. Another guy is named J Bomb. The third is named eric13. They sing about getting excessively wasted and having lots of sex and other cliché rock-and-roll things. And I am not sure whether any of their raunchiness is serious or tongue-in-cheek. In other words, I hate basically everything about this band, but I am still recommending this show for two reasons: (1) Because it might be so terrible and disgusting that it actually ends up being entertaining, and (2) because I like opener Pizza Party Massacre, which just won a Pitch Music Award for Best Punk Act. Saturday, September 22, at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-753-1909)

Moon Duo, with Umberto

Wooden Shjips, a heavy stoner-rock act out of San Francisco, released one of my favorite records of 2011, West. The band marries powerful, repetitive classic-rock riffs with spaced-out ambience, connecting the dots between Ozzy Osbourne and the Velvet Underground. Moon Duo, a side project of guitarist and singer Erik “Ripley” Johnson, embraces the same aesthetic: lots of dense, two-chord burners; wild guitar solos; and big, fat layers of fuzz. I’m sure Johnson views Moon Duo as distinctly different from Wooden Shjips, but I can hardly tell the difference. Which is great: If you count Moon Duo’s Mazes, Wooden Shjips put out two excellent records in 2011. (Circles, Moon Duo’s latest, is out in October.) Opening: horrorsoundtrack electronica from the local Umberto.

Wednesday, September 26, at the Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676)

Empty Spaces, with Shy Boys

This Friday-night Brick show provides an opportunity to get to know two new-ish, solid local pop bands, both trios. The Empty Spaces, as I wrote in a review of their EP last week, play a charming, spunky kind of surf-rock. Shy Boys, made up of former members of the Abracadabras and current members of the ACBs, favor quiet, pretty harmonies, like the Zombies with a little more modern rock in them.

Friday, September 21, at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634)

Marco Benevento, with Mike Dillon

There are something like 20 guests on Marco Benevento’s latest album, TigerFace. Among them are members of Phish, Ween, Tortoise and Antibalas. That tells you a little about Benevento, whose colorful, improvisational, piano-based compositions stretch so wide and cover so much sonic ground that the idea of genre seems quaint. Very quietly, whether with the Benevento/Russo Duo or his various solo projects, Benevento has been evolving into one of the most vital figures in jazz or rock or postjazz or post-rock or, if you ask me, all of music.

Tuesday, September 25, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Pearl and the Beard

Pearl and the Beard’s calling card is a mix of stomping bluegrass and Tin Pan Alley tunes performed with such instruments as accordions and cellos and glockenspiels. This is not an especially remarkable aesthetic in 2012, and between its sound and its appearance (the members wear thick glasses and fashionable old-timey clothes), the group violates my zero-tolerance policy regarding grotesque quirkiness. But the New York trio’s playful, engaging performances are undeniable. It’s been awhile since I’ve seen an audience feasting so voraciously out of a band’s palms as the crowd at Pearl and the Beard’s closing-night performance at this year’s True/False Film Fest.

Thursday, September 20, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Dread Zeppelin, Popa Chubby: 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

The Jealous Sound: Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300.

Kevin Nealon: 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.

Bo Phillips Band: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

S U N D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 3 Awolnation, Imagine Dragons, Zeale: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Firewater, the Late Night Callers, Brandon Phillips: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

M O N D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 4 Stephen Marley, 77 Jefferson, DJ Stiga: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

T U E S D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 5 The Expendables, Iration: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

The Head and the Heart, Blitzen Trapper, Bryan John Appleby: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Mount Eerie, Hungry Cloud Darkening: Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-843-2787.

W E D N E S D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 6 Glen Hansard: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

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

Masters of Illusion: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Mono, Chris Brokaw, Gemini Revolution: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

The Rocketz, the Silver Shine: Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646.

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

Love Garden Sound System on the patio, 10 p.m.

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The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Dan Thomas and Voyage, 5 p.m.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Paul Shinn.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Damon Parker Southern Piano.

Star Bar at Pachamama’s: 800 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-0990. Floyd the Barber with Tommy Johnson, 8:30 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913948-5550. The New KC Seven with Kerry Strayer.

AMERICANA Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Monzie Leo & the Big Sky, James Rose.

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COMEDY Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Comedy show.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Craig Peters and friends.

Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Judy Tenuta.

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Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Hot Caution Thursdays, 10 p.m.

Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-3900363. Texas Hold ’em.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Mac’s Place: 580 S. Fourth St., Edwardsville. Karaoke.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Karaoke on the main floor, 10 p.m.

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; free pool, happy hour, 4-6 p.m.

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

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900.

Ladies’ Night.

Sherlock’s Underground Coffeehouse & Pub: 858 State Route 291, Liberty, 816-429-5262. Karaoke, ladies’ night specials.

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Uptown Heat, 10:30 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Trivia.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Open Mic with Chris Tady.

Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Blues Jam hosted by RocknRick’s Boogie Leggin’ Blues Band, 7 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666.

Justin Andrew Murray Open Jam.

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REGGAE Afrobeat: 9922 Holmes, 816-943-6333. Reggae Rockers, 10 p.m.

VA R I E T Y The All-Star Rock Bar: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

Family Night with Jason Dean the Magician, 9 p.m.

F R I D AY 21 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. Eye Empire, Sidewise, Second Signal.

Bar 12: 1613 Swift, North Kansas City, 816-221-5255. Caprice Classic.

Barnyard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Sick/Sea, Rev Gusto.

Dynamite Saloon: 721 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-856-2739. The MORE Naked White Boys.

The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. My S G IN Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, the God LIST E AT N Project, Razorwire Halo.

I ONL M Gusto Coffee Bistro: 3390 S.W. PITCH.CO Fascination Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-7671100. Euphorics.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Sobriquet, Oils.

KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 13th St. and Grand. Free Band Radio.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Magnetics, 10 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Sexy Accident, Crush, the Lucky, Harrisonics, 9 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Carswell & Hope, Danny McGaw, 6 p.m. ; Colleen Green, Plateaus, Black on Black, 10 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Waiting For Signal, Medicine Theory, Monarchs of Speed, the Atlantic.

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Bobby Simkins, 7:30 p.m.; Battle for Freaker’s Ball, 9:30 p.m.

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

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

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. The Heavy Figs, the Ned Ludd Band, the Lucky Graves.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Stone Cutters Union.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Brody Buster Band.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. The Outlaw Junkies.

Frank James Saloon: 10919 N.W. Hwy. 45, Parkville, 816-5050800. Kasey Rausch.

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

MiniBar: 3810 Broadway. Soulnice.

The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ E. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. DJ Kimbarely Legal on the patio, 10 p.m.

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

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Delfeayo Marsalis and Lady D, 5 p.m.

The Kill Devil Club: 31 E. 14th St., 816-877-8312. Mark Lowrey and His Seven-Piece Band, 5 p.m.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Rich Hill, 5 p.m.; the Stan Kessler Trio, 7 p.m.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Lonnie McFadden, 4:30 p.m.; Dan Doran Band, 9 p.m.

The Raphael Hotel: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-756-3800. Strings on the Green with Matt Hopper Trio, 5 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913948-5550. Crosscurrent.

Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-649-5420.

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BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913322-1000. Karaoke with Jim Bob, 9 p.m.

J. Murphy’s Irish Pub and Grille: 22730 Midland Dr., Shawnee, 913-825-3880. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816-4214201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.

Shark Bar: 1340 Grand, 816-442-8140. Night at the Museum Party.

Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m.

Tengo Sed Cantina: 1323 Walnut, 816-686-7842. Down to Foam Weekend.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Rags Boheme, A Kansas City Bellydance Soirée, a bellydance dinner show featuring local and national dancers, 6-9 p.m., $5 cover.

S AT U R D AY 2 2 ROCK/POP/INDIE Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Drew Black and Dirty Electric, the Lucky.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. The Jealous Sound.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Radkey, Doubleplus, Get Jonny, Scruffy & the Janitors.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

The Radio Flyers.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, 5 p.m.; The Magnetics, 10 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sounding the Deep, Planté, 6 p.m.; Molly Picture Club, London Transit, La Resistance, 9 p.m.

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

UUVVWWZ, Bloodbirds, Mars Lights, 10 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

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ing between your girlfriend and her ex isn’t really fair. Your girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend refused to go down on her. Not only does your girlfriend go down on you but also she’s getting you off. Her blow jobs may not wrap up the way you’d like — with her swallowing your come — but you are getting blow jobs.

Sorry, but where you see a double standard on the girlfriend’s part, I see only whining on yours. Swallowing is extra credit.

It’s not a course requirement. I say this as someone who gives and receives blow jobs: If someone sucks your dick until you come, you got your damn blow job. What a blower does with the blowee’s come after the blowjob is over — spit, swallow, spread it on toast — is the blower’s call to make.

And your girlfriend may have a good reason for not swallowing your come. Semen contains prostaglandins — “a group of lipid compounds that are derived enzymatically from fatty acids and have important functions in the animal body,” says Wiki — and some people experience explosive diarrhea shortly after ingesting the prostaglandins in semen. It’s possible that your girlfriend isn’t swallowing because she doesn’t want to have to run to the bathroom two minutes later and take a noisy shit while her new boyfriend listens in the next room.

Or, hey, maybe your girlfriend just doesn’t like the way semen tastes. Or maybe she has had boyfriends in the past who “lost control” and shoved their dicks down her

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Dear BLOW: Generally, I believe a person should do what she likes—and if you like giving head, give head. And if getting head scares a boy off, well, he was the wrong boy for you. (I’m having a hard time picturing a guy who wouldn’t want to date a woman who enjoys giving head—are there many guys like that out there?) But there’s a simple way to fi nd out if the guys you’re meeting make date/dump distinctions between girls who blow ’em right away and girls who make ’em wait: Stop sucking guys off on the fi rst date and see if they stick around longer.

problem is twofold: My girlfriend doesn’t like come in her mouth, and she feels that dogg ystyle is objectifying to women. Therefore, we don’t do either. She says she wants to get more comfortable and try these things, but they never seem to happen. And when I bring them up, it turns into a touchy discussion. These are No. 1 and No. 2, respectively, on my list of favorite things to do in the bedroom, and I’m not OK with not doing them indefinitely. The sex is otherwise great, but I do think there’s a double standard at work here. She had an ex who refused to go down on her. When I said, “He needed to man up and take one for the team, even if he didn’t like it,” she readily agreed with me. So why can’t she “take one for the team” and swallow my come? I would feel bad if she were doing something she wasn’t comfortable with, but it disappoints me when she takes my dick out of her mouth and points it at my stomach when I start to come. I think she has a double standard.

P.S. We’ve been dating only about three months, so I understand there is plenty of time for her to get more comfortable. I love being with her, I can’t get enough of her, and I can see this becoming a lifelong relationship. But I don’t want to have to miss out on my bedroom favorites for the rest of my life.

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throat as they came. Or maybe swallowing turns her off for the same reason that doggystyle does, that is, she sees it as objectifying and/or degrading. And maybe if you’re patient, your girlfriend will come around and your No. 1 and No. 2 favorite sex things will enter into regular rotation.

Of course, it’s possible that your girlfriend is lying to you. People have been known to make vague and insincere promises about all the blow jobs, three-ways and kinks they’ll get into once they “feel more comfortable” with a new partner. Your girlfriend, like so many other girlfriends and boyfriends before her, may be trying to run out the clock. She may hope that by the time you realize she’s never going to do your bedroom favorites, you’ll be too emotionally invested in the relationship to dump her.

Dear Dan: I’m a female in my mid-20s who loves to give head. The problem is, I think I’m giving head too soon and guys don’t see me as relationship material. I’ve been in only one relationship that was longer than a casual hookup, and that particular ex was a shecomes-first/worship-the-pussy kinda guy. (I didn’t get to touch his dick until we were about a month in!) Most of the straight girls I hang out with believe that a guy needs to earn getting his dick sucked. My gay friends don’t see the problem. My straight guy friends chuckle and say “depends” when I ask if I’m blowing a guy too soon. I really enjoy sucking dick, so once I’m horny, it’s so hard to resist the impulse. How soon is too soon? Do you think that I would actually benefit by stopping this pattern?

Blowing Losers or What?

response to Wanted Toys Too, the aunt who wanted to buy her niece a dildo. I was once a teenage girl whose older cousin tried to “help me out” this way, and I was mortified. WTT wants to get her niece a sex toy, she said, because WTT experimented with a plastic banana when she was a girl because she didn’t want “a penis to be the first thing of substance put in [her] vagina.” Guess what? That is exactly what I wanted, so I had no need for a dildo, and I had access to plenty of good sex advice! Advice that I asked for! This aunt is projecting her crap on her niece! She should back off and mind her own business.

MYOB About Sex Dear Dan: You goofed in your reply to WTT. Instead of getting information from sex-shop owners, why didn’t you get information from a mental health expert? We’re talking about a 14-year-old who is emotionally fragile as she struggles through the years of defining self and understanding her own sexuality!

Here’s what you should’ve told WTT: “Back off. See a therapist. Get a boyfriend. Get a hobby. MYOB, Auntie.”

EE, LMSW In fairness to WTT, MYOBAS and EELMSW, WTT had her niece’s mother’s permission to get her daughter a sex toy. My mother encouraged her kids to talk with one of her sisters about any sexual issues we weren’t comfortable discussing with our parents, so … it’s possible that WTT’s niece has expressed an interest in a sex toy of her very own. It’s also possible that (1) WTT’s niece hasn’t expressed an interest in a sex toy and would be mortified by the offer, and (2) my response to WTT was colored by my own relationship with my sex-question-answering aunt. With the benefit of 20/20 hindsight, to say nothing of a fi le full of angry e-mails, I’ll amend my advice to WTT with this: If your niece hasn’t asked for help, info, or a sex toy, better to MYOB. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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Research Subjects Do you have ASTHMA? Physicians at the Asthma Clinical Research Center at Truman Medical Center Hospital Hill are currently recruiting for studies for Astma Patients.

• You must be at least 18 years old.

• On asthma medications and your asthma is controlled.

• All study related care is provided at no cost for those who take part.

• Financial compensation for participation is available.

This Asthma Center is one of 18 prestigious Centers of Excellence funded by the American Lung Association.

Please call 816-404-5503 for screening and to learn more about this research study.

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IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF JACKSON COUNTY, MISSOURI AT KANSAS CITY IN THE MATTER OF: KANSAS CITY DOWNTOWN STREETCAR TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT

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TAKE NOTICE that by Order of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri, Hon. Charles E. Atwell, Presiding, an election by mail-in ballot has been called for the purpose of considering the questions of imposing a one percent sales tax and levying certain special assessments in that area specifically described in the Amended Petition in this proceeding on file in the office of the Court Administrator of the Circuit Court of Jackson County, Missouri and located generally (but the specific legal description controls) in those areas of Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri commonly referred to as River Market, the Downtown Loop, Crossroads and Crown Center/Union Station, for the purpose of funding the development of the following transportation project: the design, construction, ownership and/or operation of a downtown fixed rail streetcar line, and all elements thereof, including without limitation a maintenance facility, operating within the boundaries of, or serving and benefiting, the District.

FEATURED PROPERTY :

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$599

In order to vote in this mail-in election, you must • Reside within the boundary of the District • Apply for a ballot • Be a registered voter at the time you apply for a ballot • Provide proof of voter registration at the time you apply for a ballot as discussed below • Return the application for a ballot no later than 5:00 p.m. on October 2, 2012 Applications for a ballot are available as follows: • Download from http://www.16thcircuit.org/streetcar (internet access required), or • Pick up at the Jackson County Courthouse, 415 East 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106, Third Floor, Room 303, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays You will not receive a ballot unless • you submit a valid application in accordance with the instructions on the application, and • your application is received by the Circuit Court Administrator’s office before 5:00 p.m. on October 2, 2012 Ballots will be mailed on October 30, 2012, only to those who have timely and validly applied for a ballot. Ballots will be due for return no later than 5 p.m. on December 11, 2012 in accordance with instructions on the ballot.

You must include proof of voter registration from the election authority when returning the application.

IMPORTANT: You must be a registered voter residing within the boundary of the Transportation Development District in order to submit an application for a ballot. A map of the boundary of the District may be obtained at the Jackson County Courthouse, 415 East 12th Street, Kansas City, Missouri 64106, Third Floor, Room 303, between the hours of 8:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except legal holidays, or view the map online at http://www.16thcircuit.org/streetcar. Contact the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners at (816) 842-4820 if you wish to register to vote. Proof of voter registration includes a copy of the applicant’s official Voter ID card, or a written statement from the Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners confirming voter registration status of the applicant, or go to www.kceb.org to print proof of registration using the “Check Your Voter Status” box. Voter registration will be confirmed prior to mailing of ballots.

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FEATURED IN DWELL MAGAZINE! Ideal location in the heart of the Rivermarket featuring; 2 HEATED garage spaces, Jenn air stainless steel appliances, high-gloss concrete flooring, private covered patio, open concept perfect for entertaining, aesthetic fixtures & upgrades, TAX ABATED.

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Residential, commercial, & new construction clients in KC and surrounding areas. Damage inspection, leak repair, total roof replacement. Your overall satisfaction is our highest priority! Call 913-620-0063. 5% discount on roof replacement for senior citizens. Visit us at http://abetterroofingcompanyofkc.yolasite.com

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