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KENT BABB: THE EXIT INTERVIEW

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The Kansas City Star’s former Chiefs beat reporter recalls “Arrowhead Anxiety” as he leaves for Washington, D.C.

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he Kansas City Chiefs didn’t help Kent Babb pack, but the team’s general manager, Scott Pioli, probably popped a champagne cork at 1 Arrowhead Drive when he heard that Babb was moving. The Kansas City Star sports columnist and former Chiefs beat writer recently accepted a position as a sports-enterprise reporter with The Washington Post. He starts his new gig October 1.

In January, the 30-year-old journalist sent shock waves through the Chiefs’ front office when he exposed the team’s culture of secrecy and intimidation. His Star story, slugged “Arrowhead Anxiety,” made national headlines with its tales of micromanagement and sourced allegations of phone tapping.

The Pitch caught up with Babb last week as he prepared to take off for Washington, D.C. The Pitch: Who picked up the phone first, you or The Washington Post?

Babb: There was no phone-picking-up at all. I went to the Associated Press Sports Editors Association convention in late June.

I was talking to Matt Vita, the sports editor at The Washington Post.

I have family in the D.C. LOGT area and I talked about P E R O M INE A moving to the D.C. area ONL M / P L O G someday. That was on a P IT C H .C O Saturday. The following Monday, I got a call from him asking if I’d be interested in moving to D.C. sooner than later.

With the mystique of The Washington Post, it’s very hard not to listen. It was a chance meeting. [Star editor] Mike Fannin and I had met at the same convention six years earlier, and we just hit it off.

You’ve mentioned in other places that the Post job represents your dream job. What does the new gig entail?

It’s a four-person enterprise team of supremely talented writers. I’ll get to do a lot of things. The first things I’ll probably cover are the Nationals and the Orioles. They’re having the seasons of their lives out there.

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Look out, Dan Snyder — Babb’s coming.

I’d be pretty surprised if I’m not involved in that. I’ll do more football stuff, college and NFL. But I think it will be a lot about the time of year. It’s perfect for me. I like to spread my interests around.

What’s the standard assignment for a beat writer in the offseason?

My job is a little bit different. Most of the time when you’re a beat writer, and an NFL beat writer in particular, you just keep working the beat. You’re covering free agency and the draft and workouts and combines.

That was never really my thing. Mike Fannin tailored a cool job around my strengths. I’m not an especially strong beat writer. That’s not why I got into this.

What he sold me on was the chance to write takeouts in the offseason. Narrative journalism is why I got into this business. In my first year at the Star, literally the morning after the Chiefs had lost to the Jets, there was a text from Mike asking if I was ready to write some takeouts. And by the time the offseason was over, I was ready for the structure of the season again.

Were you given a reason when the sports desk moved you from reporter to columnist?

We needed a second columnist. We wanted to get back to where we had been with Jason [Whitlock] and Joe [Posnanski].

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I’m not comparing what we did or do to those two guys, but that’s where you want to be.

One of my editors approached me back in February and asked if I would be interested in being a columnist. I’m not an idiot, so the answer was “of course.” I’m a pretty opinionated guy on Twitter.

I was ready for a change, and it was a heck of a change. I loved the idea of it and the reality of it. One of the challenges in my job was that I had to be an expert in every sport and every team, and I’m not your huge, hardcore sports fan. I like to write. I like sports. I think Sam [Mellinger] really gets into the stats and games, where I’m more of a what’s-going-on-behind-thescenes guy. I care more about people. Sports fans dream of a weekend that’s nothing but sports. That’s never been my thing. I’m a huge college-football fan. I absolutely go crazy over college football. I’m a fish out of water here where college basketball is such a big deal.

How did you feel about the move at the time, and how do you feel now that you’ve had a few months with the position?

It gave me an idea of “do I want to be a columnist.” I’m 30, and I don’t know what I want to do long term. I think I’d like to be a long-form writer and write for magazines, websites and newspapers.

As for columns, I liked it.

If somebody offered me a column in the future, this wouldn’t stop me from considering that.

Did the move to columnist have an impact on your decision to accept a position elsewhere?

It was a promotion. It was a better job. I got bites from other publications from time to time, and if I was just a beat writer, I prob-

ably would have listened. Because I was a columnist, it would have taken something extraordinary. Being 30 and a major metro columnist is not that easy to give up. It would have taken something outstanding to leave this situation. I’m not sure that I’m not leaving a perfect job for me. This could be the job that was tailored for me. I think I’m making the right move.

Your last few columns, including the most recent piece on Pioli, haven’t held anything back. Are these things you’ve been thinking for a while but are just now getting to write?

This past week’s column on Pioli, there was nothing personal about that. I was just pulling out the claws after a particularly embarrassing Chiefs loss.

You saw a very different side of Todd Haley in “Arrowhead Anxiety.” Do you believe Haley was actually scared?

I always liked Todd. He’s one of the most regular guys that I’ve covered. And one of the most unfortunate things about the Todd Haley era is that nobody else really saw that. I think he is a lot like you and me — he’s just a regular guy to have a beer with. He’d laugh at the same things.

He just happened to be a football coach. Smart people can do anything they want to do. I don’t think he came out of the womb wanting to be a football coach, but he decided that was an avenue for success.

O ne of t he s adde s t things, and the reason he got fired, is that he had to be a robot. He had to be this bland, boring, completely colorless person during press conferences, and that wasn’t Todd Haley. I do think he went overboard last season trying to be himself. That beard and nasty hat were his way of saying, “I’m not your robot anymore.”

“I really wish I wasn’t getting out of the Chiefs’ hair.

I think they would have given me a lot of material this year.”

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There’s some level of revisionist thinking, but they kept talking about Pioli and Haley as this perfect marriage. These guys are enormously different people. It was funny for a while. There’s this fastidious, careful guy with his initials embroidered on his cuffs. And then the guy who, honest to God, had to borrow a necktie for his opening-day press conference.

I think Haley got some juice and got tired of being their puppet. A lot of luck led to the 2010 playoffs, and he misinterpreted it as some level of destiny. And he decided he wouldn’t follow the Chiefs’ insane rules.

Professionally, and for sure personally, I’ve never seen anybody spit in the face of a set of rules like that.

I remember I was stunned when he approached me in the public-relations office. It wasn’t in an interview setting. I was thinking like I have to think in my job. Seconds after he talked to me, I went straight back to my computer. I wrote the lead, basically what was in the paper. It was the craziest thing I’ve ever seen as a reporter. I’ll probably go the rest of my career and not have such a candid moment, a moment like that, especially with an NFL head coach. It exemplified just how far he’d been pushed, that rare moment of being completely naked.

On Twitter during games, you express plenty of real-time frustration. Has it been frustrating covering pro sports in Kansas City the past several years?

I have a lot of fun on Twitter. It’s a lot of joking. Twitter lets me channel the frustration of the Kansas City fan. I went to South Carolina. I’m a huge Gamecocks fan. It’s probably one of the more pathetic collegefootball programs in the universe. I always think they’re going to lose.

Kansas City is justifiably a very frustrated sports market. They want somebody to share that, explain why these crazy things happen and what can maybe fix it. They want people to understand. I’m not a Chiefs, Royals or Sporting fan. It’s not my job to be a fan or poke them with a stick.

But you also tend not to give in to hyperbole

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when making a guest appearance on sportsradio shows. Do you separate the Kent Babb of the Star and the Kent Babb who’s just watching the game?

When I’m on the radio, I make it very clear that I’m a representative of the Star and a reporter. Part of my personality has to be that the sky is not falling. One of the radio guys asked me basically to rip [Chiefs offensive coordinator] Brian Daboll after the fi rst game. It’s the guy’s fi rst year and fi rst regular-season game. I think he should get the benefit of the doubt for a little while.

I don’t respond to the reactionary side of journalism. If you fi re Ned Yost or Romeo Crennel in the paper, what happens if they turn it around? You only get one silver bullet. You only get one chance to fire each person in the paper. If you write it all the time and then you want to take it back, nobody will have any trust in you. You can’t unfi re the silver bullet. I thought about writing that [September 17] Pioli column for a while.

I was just waiting for the perfect moment.

Which story are you most proud of in your time at the Star?

The “Arrowhead Anxiety” piece is way up there for me. Even then, I had no idea it would have the reach and legs it has had. It’s unbelievable how many people have read that story and know what it’s about. “Arrowhead Anxiety” is my gold medalist from my time at the Star. I still feel unbelievably comfortable with the facts of that story. It was a really unique look into what amounts to a $1 billion private company.

I’m proud of a lot of stories, mostly the longer things that I’ve written. With Dave Bliss, the former Baylor coach, I felt like I really captured who he is. There was the story of Uche Okafor, a Nigerian soccer player, back in May. That was certainly not a story for everybody [Okafor’s family refused to accept his death as a suicide], but it was about so many different things and parts of life. It took me, like, a year to report that whole thing.

Are there stories that you wish you had more time to write or uncover while you were in Kansas City?

I really wish I wasn’t getting out of the Chiefs’ hair. I think they would have given me a lot of material this year. Scott Pioli is the gift that keeps on giving. He can’t not listen. He can’t not read. He can’t not care.

I’ve never covered anybody who cares more about what is written about him. Frank Martin is number two. The louder and more often you say you don’t care, the more a lie it is.

What will you miss most about Kansas City?

The food, Boulevard beer, my friends, my house — and not necessarily in that order.

I certainly won’t miss Sam Mellinger. I’m just kidding.

I’m a South Carolina guy who moved to Kansas City, of all places, and found myself at home. My wife and I wouldn’t have seen that happening. And now, I’m not even going to be able to visit nearly as much as I want to. Washington, D.C., certainly has all kinds of crazy, cool things, but this place has been too cool.

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He also would also testify against Omar Abdel-Rahman, the Sunni fundamentalist leader known as the Blind Sheikh. Moharam had been a U.S. citizen since 1981 but now had to enter witness protection, giving up his name and the life he had known in order to help the government.

Nineteen years later, in Kansas City, Moharam found himself on the other end of the government’s fight against extremism. In what was later called a misunderstanding, officials at the federal building responded to Moharam’s query by evacuating the area and summoning the Kansas City Police Department’s bomb squad to search his car. Initial news reports suggested that he had identified himself as a terrorist and had threatened to detonate an explosive device. He hadn’t.

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little less than a week later, Moharam, 58, walks into a Blue Springs Panera wearing a crisp, custom-made Derrick Thomas jersey, the football player’s name spelled in gold stitches across the front. The naturally entertaining and persuasive communicator teases the young women behind the register. “You’re beautiful today, each of you beautiful,” he says theatrically as he places his order. He gives his name as Mike.

“Mike today,” he says. Despite his impossible-to-miss display at the counter, despite a grin you can see from across the dining room, he says he doesn’t want to draw attention to himself. He has shaved off the goatee he had when he appeared on the news the previous week.

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when they worked together at a health-care fi rm. “I heard about what happened,” she whispers. “Are you OK? Is there anything I can do for you?”

On September 14, a small wave of bomb threats rippled across the nation, following the release of the anti-Islamic YouTube video that was sparking worldwide protest.

What turned out to be false reports spooked college students on campuses in Texas, Ohio and North Dakota. In Kansas City, the fear had a name and a face: Moharam’s. His name and a photo made it to the press not long after the Bolling evacuation.

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“You’re a fucking terrorist.”

Moharam murmurs back to Kelso that after the threat was over, a woman recognized him from the news and told him, “You’re a fucking terrorist.”

“It breaks my heart,” he says. He begins to cry, catching a shred of napkin in his glasses when he wipes away the tears dripping down his face.

“Oh, my God, Wahed,” Kelso says. “Can I hug you again?” She does before he can reply.

The two say goodbye, and Moharam says he needs to go, too. He has left his phone

Moharam: Trying to clean up his image. at home, and his wife has been calling all the time to check on him. “She’s worried somebody may try to hurt me,” he says.

They’re used to this. It’s just the latest pain in 19 years of secrecy and uncertainty.

He says he desperately loves this country.

Certainly he has suffered for it.

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hen Moharam tells his story, he tells it as a blur of misbehaving FBI handlers, indifferent U.S. Marshals Service bureaucrats, exes who blew his cover, and an endless string of jobs both good and odd.

Moharam had to give up his limo company when he vanished into witness protection. By his count, he has lived in 17 or 18 cities since 1993. He has lost count of the jobs. There was a stint as a car detailer and washer. He was a Little Caesar’s manager and regional manager. He has been a nurse’s aide.

He got to Kansas City, in 1997, and was handed a peculiar new identity. “They give me ‘Edgar Sanchez,’ and I don’t speak one Mexican word,” Moharam says. “And when I speak to anyone … they say, ‘What! You don’t have the Mexican accent.’ ” He didn’t exactly keep a low profi le. He appeared in a Kansas City Star story after opening an As Seen on TV store in Bannister Mall. And soon, he was known as the legendary Chiefs superfan “Helmet Man.” His cover finally melted for good in 2002, when an Independence Examiner article delved into his life and an ex-wife (Moharam’s current wife is his third) set up the website whoismyhusband.com. “Is he a foreign terrorist whom MY government has protected?” Shannon Sanchez wrote on the site. “That is a question I long to have the answer for.” Chronicling a tumultuous personal relationship, she also accused him of fudging facts and seeking attention. (Copyrighted under Who Is My Husband Enterprises, the site is now defunct.)

The Chiefs took notice. The team’s man-

agement wanted to move his season tickets, for the safety of the fans around him. He refused, believing that racism had motivated the request. The Chiefs voided his tickets.

Moharam took the team to court.

He showed up for the hearing in costume, but he didn’t get his tickets back. He was in debt. He converted to Christianity. In a 2003 feature that appeared in The Kansas City Star, in which Moharam was still facing problems with law enforcement and his exes, some of his associates said Moharam sometimes had an edgier side to his sunniness.

With a sly smile, he admits that there has been the occasional bout of “temper,” as when, he says, a police chief gave him a hard time. And his history shows that he hasn't been one to back down from trouble.

“A lot of his history sounds so far-fetched, like it should be a movie,” Kelso says. She’s now a chief nurse for Mobile Wound Solutions in Independence, and at a previous job, she employed Moharam as a nurse’s aide for another service in 2008. “But it’s the truth.

He’s very open about it, very transparent, so people don’t think he’s a terrorist or has these ties. He doesn’t have anything to hide.”

She says Moharam passed an extensive series of background investigations, including checks for abuse or neglect. “If any of those come up at all, you don’t work in long-term care,” she says. “He was genuinely a joy to work with and brought grace and love into his work.” Sometimes, she adds, he got down on his knees and prayed with the dying. (When

thrice-over, everywhere he goes. “I have a problem with Oak Grove cop, I have problem with Grain Valley cop, I have a problem with Independence cop, I have a problem with Blue Springs cop,” he says. “I’ve been treated like this for 19 years.”

But the FBI isn’t allowed to confirm who is on a terror watch list, which means there’s no easy way for Moharam to deny it, either.

He went to Bolling hoping to hear why his name was still flagged and what he had to do to clean it up. He didn’t expect the visit to end with a bomb robot wheeling up to his car in a show for news choppers.

Sitting in his living room, he hears his phone ring. It’s his wife, Debra Hurlburt, checking on him, just as he said she would.

“Hi, sweetheart,” he says. The phone’s volume is turned up — Moharam’s hearing is bad — and her half of the conversation spills into the room. “Honey, you aren’t telling him things you shouldn’t be telling him, are you?” she asks him, referring to the reporter in their home. “No, I just tell him the basic things,” Moharam replies. He puts her on speaker phone.

“The FBI needs to make it right,” Hurlburt says. “They need to make a public announcement, a public apology. They need to do more than that. They screwed up your reputation.

There are all kinds of people out there who would try to believe that rather than the truth. Everybody’s calling us and wondering, ‘Aren’t you a little scared? Aren’t you a little afraid?’ ”

“The FBI needs to make it right.

They need to make a public announcement, a public apology.

They need to do more than that.

They screwed up your reputation.”

Moharam goes to pray at the International House of Prayer, he says he always recites Isaiah 19:23, in which a highway unites Egypt with Assyria and the people of the Middle East pray together in peace.)

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oharam, who now lives in Grain Valley, isn’t in witness protection anymore, but the government still keeps an eye on him. This month, that was the problem — a problem he has had everywhere he has traveled, and with seemingly every law enforcement agent he has mentioned meeting.

The day before Moharam’s visit to the federal building, a routine traffic stop (he was pulled over for speeding) turned into a five-police-car nightmare. The officer who ran Moharam driver’s license saw that the speeder was on a terror watch list and called for backup.

This wasn’t news to Moharam. For two decades, he has been given the once-, twice-,

After Moharam’s latest misadventure, reporters staked out his house and asked his neighbors whether they worried that their neighbor was a terrorist. The “propaganda,” as Moharam calls it, has crippled his already struggling cleaning business, Xtreme Clean, since the bomb scare. He says he owes $54,000 in back child support, and he demonstrates the depths of his troubles by pulling out two payroll checks to himself that would bounce if he tried to cash them.

He says he just wants the harassment to end and to have his name back — to be known as the Moharam his friends know.

“Ask anybody,” he says. “Print in the paper, say, ‘If anybody have a bad thing to say about Wahed, call this number.’ I guarantee you, nobody will call.” He wipes away another tear, then smiles. “Well, except my exes. But that’s why the world calls them exes.”

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When VHS collectors Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live last month, they showed clips of a man throwing screwdrivers at a target, a woman in a very high-cut leotard doing breathing exercises, and an old instructional video for janitors at McDonald’s. Amusing!

Pickett and Prueher bring their Found Footage Fest to RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207) from 7 to 9 tonight. Tickets cost $10 for the all-ages show.

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The Keeler Women’s Center (2220 Central, Kansas City, Kansas, 913-906-8990) is about empowerment. One of its methods: education. The urban organization offers a range of classes and workshops on such topics as parenting and starting home-based businesses, for example, or job readiness and home ownership. (Among its other services are support groups.) Tonight, though, it’s all about appetite (and celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month): Cooking Great Mexican Dishes the Low Fat Way, from 9:30 to 11 a.m. Instructor Pat Callaghan previews the class with a few tips: “Use whole beans, less meat and lots of flavorful ingredients like cumin, cayenne and paprika instead of salt.” Register for the class (men are welcome) and find out about volunteer opportunities at mountosb.org; click on “ministries.”

THE BROCCOLI HORRIBLE

Hey, remember when Jeffrey Toobin referred to Solicitor General Donald Verrilli’s oral argument before the Supreme Court, in defense of the Affordable Care Act, as a “train wreck” and a “plane wreck”? Yikes. The New Yorker staff writer and CNN legal analyst took some hits for that — especially continued on page 14

e-mail about the oddball visual cornucopia.

The Pitch: What’s new about this year’s show?

Prueher: This is our most unsettling show to date. I think we just found a lot of videos this past year with a lot of weirdos in them.

There’s a woman who’s psychotically excited about craft sponging, a grown man in a patriotic Speedo dancing in front of elderly people, a woman massaging her pet opossum. And that’s not a euphemism — this woman is massaging an actual opossum! We’re also excited to be featuring found 16 mm films for the first time. Our friend Skip in North Carolina has what is perhaps the largest collection of educational films in the world — over 24,000 —

and he picked out three of his favorites to open up our show.

What’s the absolute craziest thing coming our way?

We came across a tape that we never could have dreamed existed. We met a guy after a show in Vancouver last year who told us that a local government office was getting rid of its entire VHS collection, so we went down there and rescued anything that looked interesting. The one that caught our eye was called “Hand Made Love,” a very mysterious title. We didn’t know what was on it. It turned out to be an instructional video for developmentally disabled men about how to masturbate. It is extraordinary.

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reddie Mercury undertook his last tour with Queen during the summer of 1986. In support of the album A Kind of Magic, Queen played for 80,000 fans in Budapest, making it the first Western rock band to play behind the Iron Curtain. And hala istennek, someone filmed it! Queen: Hungarian Rhapsody — Live From Budapest ’86 plays tonight only at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222). Tickets cost $12.50, and the show begins at 7. Watch the trailer at queenonline.com. pitch.com

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continued from page 13 after the high court upheld the act. Well, that’s TV Toobin. Book Toobin is smoother, but his judgments on the page — on display in his critical new book, The Oath — sting harder. In this follow-up to 2007’s satisfying The Nine, the writer goes behind the red curtains to see what has happened on the bench since President Obama took office, right up through June 28. (“Alito needed a haircut,” Toobin observes of that day.) Find out just what “the broccoli horrible” is when Toobin speaks tonight at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street). For tickets to the 7 p.m. event (the $28.95 hardcover comes with a pair), see rainydaybooks.com or call 913-384-3126.

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rant. The Freighthouse District mainstay (101 West 22nd Street, 816-283-3234) is once again promising two days and nights of traditional fare, including weisswurst and kartoffelsalat, a traditional 10-piece German brass band and the Euro-trash stylings of Nuthatch-47.

Expect 20 different beers on tap, including Oktoberfest seasonals by Spaten, Hofbräu, Mother’s and Boulevard. Blow the dust off your stein and squeeze into those lederhosen at 5 p.m. today and 4 p.m. tomorrow. Tickets cost $10 in advance and $15 at the gate; see grunauerkc.com and click on “Events.”

FALL BACK

Never mind that this year’s pumpkin crop seems sure to yield meager results. There are other things to remind you that it’s fall — hay and dead leaves, for instance. Get out of your dead yard to one of these fall events.

• Grand Festival of Chez les Canses at the Fort Osage Education Center (107 Osage, Sibley, 816-650-5737). See how colonial folks celebrated the season where the Kansa and Missouri rivers meet. That means sewing by hand, powder-horn smithing, log hewing, tanning and woodworking. It happens 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m. today and tomorrow, with tickets $3–$7. See jacksongov.org/fortosage for more information.

• Fall in the Park Festival at Leawood City Park (10601 Lee Boulevard, Leawood). Find hayrides, craft and food vendors, inflatables, pumpkin sand art and more, 5:30–10 p.m.

Admission is free. Rain date is Saturday, September 29. For more information, see leawood.org.

• Liberty Fall Festival in Downtown Liberty (corner of Franklin and Water streets, Liberty). There’s an actual parade, along with pedal-car races, carnival rides, a city auction and a 10k run. It’s open 11 a.m.–9 p.m. today and 9 a.m.–9 p.m. tomorrow, with carnival and tent booths open noon–4 p.m. Sunday.

Details at libertyfallfest.com.

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When Hallmark’s artists, graphic designers and copywriters aren’t thinking of clever cards for Valentine’s Day or Eid al-Fitr (the end of Ramadan), they’re often working on their own projects. They take that extracurricular work to market: Hallmarket, located at Hallmark Square at Crown Center (2501 McGee Trafficway). About 100 photographers, sculptors, designers and photo stylists display and sell their pieces 10 a.m.–5 p.m. It’s cash or check only, and admission is free.

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KC band Musical Blades has just begun a three-weekend stand at the Kansas City Renaissance Festival (633 North 130th Street, Bonner Springs, 913-721-2110). The piratethemed act claims to prefer working on its boat (called the Prickly Bitch) but sticks to dry land for these gigs. The Blades’ venue this time: the Dragon’s Breath stage in the Wildewood (performance times were not available at press time). Adult tickets cost $20 at the gate; buy them in advance for $17 at kcrenfest.com.

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We’ve seen the trailer for Jacob, the latest selection for Jill Sixx’s Slaughterhouse Movie Night at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300), so we can tell you it has all the things of which nightmares are made: an old woman with white eyeballs, a slow-witted man with superhuman strength and, of course, a dead little girl and lots of blood. Not enough? The bill tonight also includes Burn, a five-minute short. Sixx, who travels to Minneapolis next month as host of Shock-O-Rama’s Gorefest, says the “really intense” Burn is something she’s bringing back from another out-of-town gig, at HorrorHound Weekend in Indianapolis (a film festival hosted by Elvira). Doors at Czar open at 7 p.m., and the visuals begin at 8. Admission to the 18-and-older gore-o-rama is free.

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When The Kansas City Star’s Steve Paul asked former Pitch staffer Nadia Pflaum to contribute a story for an anthology he was working on — titled Kansas City Noir — he plugged it to her this way: “I’m thinking your Pitch career sloshing through the underbelly should have you primed to write a suitable piece of fiction.” Then he told her, “It ought to be fun.”

Pflaum’s first attempt at fiction writing produced “Charlie Parker’s Last Supper,” a short story about keeping barbecue honest. It’s naturally one of our favorites in the fine, entertaining book, which launches at 6:30 p.m. at the Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400). Admission is free. RSVP at kclibrary.org.

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by Culinary Institute of America–designated “certified wine professionals” Frank and Maria Bramwell. Their lessons are designed to help you master the basics of varietals, tasting technique, food pairings and wine regions.

It’s not a tasting class — save that for home when you’re alone — which keeps the class cost to an affordable $35. It run 6:30– 9 p.m. (and at the same time the following two Wednesdays) at Johnson County Community College, Room 232 of the Carlsen Center (12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park). Register at jccc.edu (click on “Community & Business”) or by calling 913-469-2323.

T H E AT E R The Motherf**ker With the Hat Unicorn Theatre (3828 Main, 816-531-7529, unicorntheatre.org).

Through September 30. A riveting “dialogue eruption” (see our review in the September 13 issue) that etches a bare-all portrait of criminals, addicts and wannabes.

Spring Awakening Coterie Theatre (Crown Center, 2450 Grand, 816-474-6552, coterietheatre .org). Through September 30. A Coterie At Night production of the Tony Award– winning Broadway musical that touches on sexual awareness, homosexuality and abuse. (See review, page 17.)

Pippin Kansas City Repertory Theatre (4949 Cherry, 816-235-2700, kcrep.org). Through October 7. The 1970s pop musical about a young prince, Pippin, searching for the meaning of life. (See review, page 17.)

Three Tall Women Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (3614 Main, 816-569-3226, metkc.org).

Through September 30. Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play depicting three generations of women.

Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll The Living Room (1818 McGee, 816-533-5857, thelivingroomkc.com).

Through October 7. Forrest Attaway plays 12 roles in Eric Bogosian’s one-man show about being male in the 1980s.

Making God Laugh American Heartland Theatre (Crown Center, 2450 Grand, 816-842-9999, ahtkc.com). Through October 21. A comedy about getting together with family and the magic that ensues.

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That’s not a complaint. Plays are revived, sometimes revitalized, made continually relevant (hello, Shakespeare). And if an entirely new audience or new generation is seeing it for the first time, it’s new to them.

The 1972 Broadway hit Pippin has been resuscitated to open Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s 2012–13 season. The show ran on Broadway for nearly five years and was nominated for 11 Tony Awards, winning five (including for Bob Fosse’s choreography). Many of its songs were covered by pop stars in the ’70s.

Even so, the musical (book by Roger O. Hirson, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz) for some reason hasn’t left a lasting impression on the public consciousness.

It isn’t set in a particular time or place, so the action could be anytime, anyplace. The Rep’s doesn’t have that certainty. He says he feels production, directed by Eric Rosen, lifts the “empty and vacant.” story from its pop mold with driving, electric “Everything he wanted wasn’t what he music and a high-tech set (by Jack Magaw) had,” Leading Player sings to the audience. composed of moving parts and see-through “Aren’t you glad you don’t feel like that?” screens and visible stage lights. Parts of Ha! We’re the knowing witnesses to the jourAct 1 come on like a rock show, with the lights ney as Pippin flits from one thing to another, (designed by Jason Lyons) often pulsing seeking fulfillment. (He doesn’t need a job.) over the audience as though luring moshers.

Leading Player orchestrates Pippin’s quest, Still-relevant lyrics strike a chord, and the from war to physical pleasure to politics — life steady music (performed live by Daniel Doss, lessons all, told in a tongue-in-cheek, if not a Brandon Draper and music director Curtis satiric enough, way.

Oberle) bursts forth from the stage. (The night The inexperienced but likable Pippin I attended — the final preview, September 20 visits his grandmother, Berthe (Mary Testa, — the woman to my right voiced her approval portraying a more 21st-century grandma — early and often, like a concertgoer.) an arresting mix of Paula Deen and Elaine As the play opens, Leading Player (the acStritch but saucier), who offers her advice in a complished Wallace Smith) appears in a kind funny and rousing rendition of “Simple Joys.” of pod, slowly emerging into light and com- Later in the show, we meet Catherine (Katie ing into view, in a sequence Gilchrist, in a sensitive perresembling an awakening, formance) and her young Pippin or birth. Leading Player is son, Theo (Utah Boggs, Through October 7, Kansas a narrator of sorts, though making his KC Rep debut).

City Repertory Theatre, he’s ingrained in the story “Wow,” my neighbor ut816-235-2700, kcrep.org of Pippin, a young man just tered after each song, imout of college, looking for pressed over and over by the Spring Awakening meaning in life. sharp music, clever lyrics, Through September 30, P ippi n (a c re du lou s flashing lights, and talented at the Coterie Theatre, Claybourne Elder, looking actor-singers. But I, like 2450 Grand, 816-474-6552, the part) sings about his Pippin, still wanted somecoterietheatre.org dreams, which have a way thing more. Act 2 almost “of sticking to the soul.” did the trick that night. Its He doesn’t want to spend his life on “com- shift in tone allows presentation and mesmonplace, ordinary pursuits.” He’s a kind sage to meld, delivering something more of golden boy, a prince — “pippin” means “a affecting than what has come before. Yet person or thing much admired” — the first even then, and for all the production’s overall son of a fictional Charlemagne called Charles razzle-dazzle, this Pippin found just a degree (the adroit John Hickok), who is married to of fulfillment. his second wife, Fastrada (a terrific Katie Kalahurka), a shopaholic, scheming wife.

Pippin’s younger, not-so-bright half-brother, pring Awakening, also emerging from anLewis (energetically and hilariously played by other era, holds parallels to young lives Sam Cordes), knows what he wants: to please today. The Coterie has begun its new season his mother and succeed his father. But Pippin with the 2006 musical (book and lyrics by

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Steven Sater, musical score by Duncan Sheik), which also earned 11 Tony Award nominations. It won eight, including Best Musical.

The show is based on an 1891 German play (by Frank Wedekind), and it reflects that time, that country, that way of life. The teens in this story have little outlet for exploring their ideas, thoughts or feelings, let alone their sexual curiosity. Certain books are not accessible, and some questions don’t get asked. Just sitting and watching Act 1, I could feel the straitjacket.

The adults have strict lines to walk, too — there was suffering to go around in that society — but the focus stays on the teenagers. (Youth suicide saw a big bump in 1880s Prussia.) The songs are stirring and touching, and the recentness of their composition brings some modernity as well as comic relief (“Totally Fucked”) to a tale about repression, burgeoning sexuality, abuse and suicide.

Will Amato, Noah Whitmore and Caroline Elizabeth Drage lead a good cast of teenage characters including Shelby Floyd, Shea Coffman and Kristen May Altoro. In multiple adult roles, Shelley Wyche and Hughston Walkinshaw give strong portrayals.

The show, a Coterie at Night production (for those aged 13 and older), is an appropriate pick for the 20th anniversary of the Coterie’s Dramatic Health Education Project, whose aim is to provide teenagers with health information, focusing on STD and HIV/ AIDS prevention. Before each performance, an eight-minute documentary (by Rebecca Basaure) is shown about the work of DHEP in the community. The musical that follows reminds us that abuse, fear and ignorance are still with us, and growing up still isn’t easy.

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Looper is a crafty action thriller and an exciting art film. aradoxes are the bread and butter of the time-travel scenario. You know the kind: Marty McFly accidentally gets his mom hot for him instead of Crispin Glover and starts slowly vanishing from a family photo. And when effect cuts in front of cause, trying to wrap your brain around the resulting logical contradictions can be enormous, disorienting fun.

Looper, the third film written and directed

by Rian Johnson, delivers plenty of that mental stimulation. But it also tackles another, arguably headier paradox, one that we all wonder about sometimes as we proceed on our relentlessly linear paths through time: How can one grow older and wiser, yet also learn nothing?

Wiser is the only possible direction for the film’s protagonist, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), though it’s uncertain at first whether he’ll have the chance to get much older.

In 2044, Joe works as a E R MO “looper,” killing people who have been bound and sent back in time T A INE ONL .COM from an even more disPITCH tant future (2074), one in which time travel exists but has been outlawed. In this future, the mob uses time travel for untraceable corpse disposal. As Joe admits, it’s not a job that attracts forwardthinking people. Even he knows that, sooner or later, he may be sent his future self to murder, thereby “closing the loop.”

Sure enough, one day Joe fi nds himself aiming his blunderbuss at his own middleaged mug, in the form of Bruce Willis. Older Joe escapes, intent on fi nding and killing the young boy who’ll grow up to become the underworld terror known as the Rainmaker.

Younger Joe takes refuge on a farm, where a flinty single mom (Emily Blunt) is raising a possible Rainmaker candidate (Pierce Gagnon). He must now wait for the opportunity to wipe out his destiny.

Achieving maximum pathos from this imaginative plot would have required shooting half the film now, then waiting 30 years to shoot the other half with the same actor.

Johnson instead has opted for something only slightly less practical: casting two actors who look nothing alike to play Joe at different ages. Light prosthetics (chiefly nose and lips) applied to Gordon-Levitt help suspend disbelief, but it’s really the younger actor’s performance that sells Looper. He pulls off an uncanny replication of Willis’ latter-day mannerisms, suggesting not the wiseacre of Moonlighting (which peaked when Willis was about Gordon-Levitt’s age) but a younger incarnation of the Willis we know today.

More crucially, though, Looper upends our expectations about the role a star like Willis should play in a mainstream action movie. To reveal more would be criminal.

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In many ways — all of them good — Looper is a movie with a split personality. Like its “hero,” its narrative is divided in two, with the hardcharging dystopian nightmare of its first half giving way to a more leisurely and idyllic (yet still tense) domestic drama. And while it’s uncommonly crafty and bold by Hollywood standards, it’s also uncommonly exciting and fun by brainy art-film standards. Johnson has an intuitive understanding of cinematic rhythm combined with a showman’s brash enthusiasm. His movies pop and weave and sizzle and amble, as the moment requires. He’s looking to wow you, but always in the service of characters and ideas, not just as sensation for its own sake. There’s a shot of Joe falling from a fire escape, following him down, that looks show-offy, until you register how the shot ends, where the movie then goes, and how that particular moment is depicted again from another character’s point of view (in an equally stunning inverse of the earlier shot). Looper is designed rather than assembled, and that alone makes it a welcome anomaly in today’s multiplex. That it also tells a memorable story and has something thought-provoking to say makes it indispensable.

All of that said, and with apologies to Johnson (who has, full disclosure, become a friend of mine over the past few years, though I was a fan of his earlier films, Brick and The Brothers Bloom, before we met), there’s an emotional reticence to his films that I find immensely frustrating. Here, he sets up a potentially devastating conclusion and then all but ducks it.

In recent interviews, Johnson has expressed a desire to follow Christopher Nolan’s example, making smart, challenging movies that are also big and ambitious. I’d like to see him do Nolan one better and make a film that leaves him feeling vulnerable and exposed. I know he can bruise us if he tries.

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Peanches Food & Wine • 900 West 39th Street, 816-709-1032 • Hours: 5–10 p.m. Tuesday–Saturday • Price: $$–$$$

any things can be said about Ray “Pete” Peterman, the chef-owner of the new Peanches Food & Wine on 39th Street. He’s hardworking but volatile, good-natured when he wants to be but a pistol when provoked. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and his definition of fool is subject to minute-by-minute finetuning — just ask the local food blogger he chased out of his dining room and down the street. He’s a loving husband and father, but if you get on his bad side — and I’ve been there — his grudge can have an almost religious zeal.

So let’s simply say, then, that Peterman has the soul of an artist. And no matter what kind of experience you may have had in his previous two restaurants (the Sour Octopus and S.O. Redux), no matter how you feel about his sometimes brusque manner, Peterman is one of this city’s finest chefs.

His latest project, Peanches (it’s named for his late mother’s pet pronunciation of peaches), may be his greatest challenge.

It’s a dinner-only bistro in E R O M a hard-to-see location in a funky strip center far enough from the estabT A INE ONL .COM lished restaurants of 39th H C PIT Street’s restaurant row to be rendered almost invisible.

(The best-known previous tenant was Pangea Café & Market, which closed four years ago.)

If you can’t picture that location, good luck fi nding Peanches. There’s no real signage, and the windows have been painted over.

Even after you’re inside the place, though, you might not know where you are. The interior is as dark as a tunnel.

The tables are covered with sheets of zinc, as at a Parisian bistro, and the décor combines original art (mostly by painter Richard Van Cleave, the husband of Café Sebastienne chef Jennifer Maloney) and illuminated beer signs.

“It doesn’t matter what the place looks like, as long as the food is wonderful,” one of my dining companions reminded me when we visited Peanches together. That friend was cookbook author and former restaurateur Lou Jane Temple, who should know — she once owned a restaurant on 39th Street, Café Lulu.

“The chicken-liver pâté is ethereal,” she told me that night.

She’s right about that, too. If you go to Peanches and order nothing but Peterman’s chicken liver “parfait” — a ridiculously rich combination of chicken livers, butter, cognac, Madeira and port, served with slices of the chef’s homemade bread — you can be assured of experiencing a first-rate luxury. I lost myself in its spell, happily forgetting about the entrée I’d ordered as I spread the silky pâté on one slice of yeasty bread after another.

That was the evening I’d gone for an early meal before a concert, arriving with just one intention: to taste Peterman’s “Missoura surf & turf” dinner. A few nights earlier, the dish had

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That night’s quartet of courses began with been listed on the menu as red-angus rib roast slices of mildly seasoned German sausage, with sautéed frog legs. But Peterman changes his menu a lot — sometimes every night — so neatly arranged on a bed of tart-sweet pickled when I got the dish, the beef was as described red cabbage and golden-brown, pan-sautéed (gorgeous, fork-tender, succulent), but the surf spaetzle. A hunk of pale-pink salmon arrived next, enthroned on a fluff y black-eyed-pea component had become white prawns, saupancake with a spoonful of the sweetest, téed scampi-style. Instead of the potato gramost tender collard greens. I could have tin promised by the previous menu, Peterman stopped there, but the main course was next: served this night’s plate with a fluffy mound of creamy turnip purée. A few bites and I all a perfectly prepared filet, given fuller voice with a green-peppercorn but wondered aloud: What’s sauce and served with a a frog leg? What’s a potato?

Peanches Food & Wine heap of hot, airy, roasted Since Peterman opened Chicken liver parfait .....$10 garlic mashers. (Dessert was Peanches two months ago, he Four-course prix fixe a warm flourless chocolate has had a singular intention dinner............................$28 torte topped with a cloud of of his own: to turn the place “Missoura” hazelnut-dusted Chantilly into a reservations-required, surf & turf ....................$34 cream — a splendid finale.) prix fixe-meal restaurant. It’s Roasted half-rack A few nights later, the only natural that the man of lamb ..........................$29 featured prix fixe started values reservations — he’s with a fat puck of crab cake, often working alone in that then moved on to a salmis of tiny kitchen. But for now, he’s continuing to serve both a four-course prix duck (almost a ragout, with slices of slowcooked duck breast tender enough to yield fixe dinner and eight individual choices (rangto your fingers) on an amazingly sweet purée ing from a country-style fried catfish, with corn of fresh parsnips. A roasted leg of lamb was grits and collard greens and pig-belly butter next, sided with polenta and turnips, with sauce, to a roasted half-rack of lamb).

Prix fi xe isn’t my thing, especially if I’m the chocolate torte again offered for dessert.

All of the dishes here — on both the prix dining alone, but the $28 spread here is one of the best dining deals in town. Sitting by fixe and a la carte menus — are prepared myself at the bar one night, I was served one with Missouri ingredients, and Peterman has made several pairings with Missouri wines. exceptional course after another. (And I surIt’s a no-corners-cut business model, yet prised myself with the increasing gusto that Peterman insists that he isn’t losing money on I applied to consuming each.)

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A cheese plate, done Peterman-style. his unabashedly luxurious prix fixe arrays. He could — maybe should — charge more. Even then, though, a diner would be a fool not to take advantage of it.

Ah, but Peterman really does dream of that reservations-only half of his plan.

Peanches seats just 45 people, a size prohibitive to walk-ins when a place becomes popular. But in this unforgiving location, which I have yet to see full, Peterman doesn’t encourage walk-in patrons.

“If I know what the reservations are, I can time everything so that our customers get the service and the kind of cuisine they deserve,” he says. “I hate to be pushy about it, but in a restaurant this small, patrons with reservations have to come first. I’ve pissed some people off. But that’s the way it is. I say that when someone makes a reservation, they’re making a commitment to us. And my commitment is to giving them the best meal I can.”

Peterman is an iconoclast, no question.

But there’s also no doubt that he honors that self-prescribed obligation, and Peanches is his best restaurant yet. So when he says he wants diners to do things his way, trust me, it’s really worth it.

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ohn Couture walks through the door of the Waldo coffeehouse One More Cup, taking a break from gathering neighborhood signatures for Bier Station. His new tavern and bottle shop, at 120 East Gregory, is slated to open in December.

“Nice T-shirt,” says Stacy Neff, the coffee shop’s co-owner, from behind the counter.

“It’s the first one,” Couture says, glancing down at his shirt, which shows the company’s logo: a cartoon beer glass at the end of railroad tracks. After a minute spent staring at the menu, he asks for a recommendation. Neff suggests an iced root-beer chai.

“I like all beer — root beer, beer,” Couture says. “Let’s do it.”

Those last three words have been coming out of Couture’s mouth a lot this year. It’s the phrase he used back in March, when he told his friend Dan Kiefer, an investor and consultant, that he had decided to move forward with a concept they had talked about since a tour of European pubs in 2006.

“We were both beer geeks about to have babies, and our wives let us go on a beer tour,” Couture says. “The beer bars there were a lot more elegant and refined but still had a homey atmosphere. It was the blend of a coffee shop and a pub.”

And Couture, 40, knew exactly where he wanted to sell beer by the glass and by the six-pack — in the former Mezzaluna and Carly Sue’s Family Diner space. An avid homebrewer, he has spent most of his life living and working in Brookside (he was a neighborhood mainstay at the departed SRO Video), an area that has embraced the craft-beer movement.

“Kansas City has a burgeoning craft-beer scene,” Couture says. “I hope this will be a destination spot, not only for people in the city but craft-beer tourists.”

He spent the spring and summer researching existing bar-bottle shops, on the advice of Jill Green, his business coach, assigned by the Kauffman Foundation’s Urban Entrepreneur Partnership. Couture interviewed owners in Eugene, Oregon; Portland, Oregon; and Decatur, Georgia.

“The regulated industries in Portland called it [the Beermongers] the most benign liquorlicense holders they know,” Couture says of one business he studied. “People really do go there to enjoy beer.”

To make his concept viable in KC, Couture hired Polsinelli Shughart to help lobby the City Council to change tavern licensing. The law required 80 percent of liquor sold by an establishment to be drunk on the premises. The new ordinance, approved in August, allows 40 percent of sales to be taken off-site. (KC liquorlicense applicants must still secure written consent from a majority of the property owners within a certain radius of their business, an errand Couture was still working on last week.)

When the ordinance passed, Couture left

Haute Couture: The owner models his new design. his job as a video producer for Proffer Productions and began working on Bier Station full time. The renovations under way at the corner of Rockhill and Gregory include the installation of 20 taps behind a concrete bar.

(Boulevard is helping install the tap system.)

The green-tile backsplash signals Bier Station’s transit theme, meant to evoke Merianplatz in Munich, Germany — the gateway to Oktoberfest. In what was the dining room at Carly Sue’s, you’ll see tables made from reclaimed wood and bourbon barrels, and a bank of refrigerators stocked with bottled beer.

“People can help themselves to bottles, bring them up to the bar to drink, or take it home with them,” Couture says. “Our goal is to flip the way that beer establishments traditionally interact with customers. As a beer geek, I’ve always wanted to have more of a say.”

So he plans to set two taps at Bier Station according to Facebook demand, allowing the public to choose from his distributor’s list. The democratic atmosphere extends upstairs, with a beer garden outfitted with four 10-foot-long picnic tables beneath hanging patio lights. A set of garage doors means that the space can be used year-round.

Bier Station won’t be without food. Among the light dishes designed to complement all that beer: several flavors of custom Farm to Market pretzels, desserts from Three Women and an Oven and McLain’s Bakery, and meatand-cheese plates.

“We want to create the feeling that you’re in an old-school Kansas City beer garden,” Couture says. Which means a selection of bigbrand beers — Miller, Coors, Bud — to go with popular crafts such as Boulevard and Schlafly and Sierra Nevada. After all, the European pubs he wants to emulate are about the drinkers first, and Couture knows that KC drinkers like high-profile national brands, too.

“We want to have an entirely beer-geek staff that is friendly,” Couture says. “We want beer enthusiasts, not beer snobs.”

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ntil this past spring, Nick Lowe hadn’t released a music video in 18 years. Then “Sensitive Man” landed on the Internet, starring alternative comedians Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) and Marc Maron (host of the WTF podcast).

The video also featured cameos from Robyn Hitchcock and Wilco, with whom Lowe — the 63-year-old British pub-rock and new-wave icon who has gracefully evolved into a more elegant, Brill Building type of songwriter — recently toured. The cultural relevance of everyone involved seemed to indicate that Lowe’s career might be on the brink of a verdant third act, one where a younger generation acquaints itself with such albums as Jesus of Cool or even his pretty 2011 album, The Old Magic.

Lowe stops in at Knuckleheads Thursday for a solo performance, along with Eleni Mandell. We caught up with the charming Brit last week while he was on a tour stop in Albany, New York.

The Pitch: You’ve been on Comedy Bang Bang and WTF, which are these kinds of niche comedy podcasts. Are you a fan of alternative comedy, or is that just a new part of the media landscape you cover in promoting a new record?

Lowe: I have absolutely no idea, really.

I know quite a lot of people in that line of work, comedians, seem to like what I do. But I truly don’t have any idea why or how I’m on of this book about paranoia and unpleasantthose shows. Are they even shows? I don’t ness. But it’s fantastic. And since finishing that, really even know what they are.

I got another of his that I have with me on the Yeah, they’re like these radio shows that road right now. But I haven’t started it yet. people listen to on their computers.

How exacting of a writer are you? I feel like Oh, yes, I think I know the sort of thing your lyrics tend to be very concise and efficient.

— my manager is really up on that stuff. I’m Do you agonize over every single line and make all for it. It’s always good fun, but yeah, I’m sure it’s perfect, or am I imagining that? no expert on any of that.

No, I don’t think you are imagining it. I I do feel like a lot of your songs have some huthink I do. I take a lot of care over my songs. But mor to them, though. Who are some people you I try to make it so it sounds like I haven’t taken think are funny? any trouble over it at all. I suppose that’s the Well, I’m kind of old-school, really. The trick that I’ve gotten from reading the authors comedians I like are British comedians. If it I really like. They all seem to comes to American [comedibe able to write effortlessly, ans], I like Jack Benny and Nick Lowe, so you can’t really see the people like that. Chris Rock, with Eleni Mandell craft. It’s almost like they’re I like him, although I haven’t Thursday, September 27, having a conversation. And seen his act for some time. at Knuckleheads Saloon that can mean choosing one For all I know, he’s retired word, the exact right word, and moved to Phoenix, into to convey a lot of informaa condo. But yes, I wish I tion. At the same time, you don’t want to be could drop some hip names, but I’m more too precious, like it’s some sort of literary exold-school when it comes to all that.

There’s this lovely song on your latest, The ercise. It’s got to sound bluesy. But I must say I Old Magic, called “I Read a Lot.” What are you do like to stick in a decent word every so often, if I can find an opportunity to put a really great reading lately? I promise this is the last question word in that you don’t hear in pop music. As I will ask about things you like.

The last book I read that really knocked me long as it sounds swinging and natural, and out was Alone in Berlin, by a guy called Hans not just a thing where it’s about “Look what a clever boy I am.”

Fallada. He’s a German writer, and he wrote That’s all part of the craft of songwriting, I it just after the war, but it’s just been kind of rediscovered. It’s an incredible book about liv- think. It’s amazing, you know, when you think of the era of American songwriting that I’m ing in Berlin under the Nazis during the war. It’s most interested in, the golden era of Amerinot really a war book, more about working-class can songwriting, Cole Porter, Rodgers and people in Berlin and how deeply unpleasant it was to be in Germany during the war. It’s kind Hart, Johnny Mercer, these songs from the

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Lowe reads a lot. ’30s and ’40s — they were extremely sophisticated songs, considering they were writing for “Everymen,” so to speak. It’s very sophisticated language. I don’t know if people were just cleverer back then or what. But anyway, yes, I think every so often, you can use a $20 word, and it will fit right in, and people will like it.

Can you think of a song where you did that, where you feel like you nailed it?

Well, modesty forbids me from blowing my own trumpet. [Laughs.] Sometimes these things can be really simple, but I think the song you were kind enough to mention earlier, “I Read a Lot.” I think that’s one that doesn’t have much fat on it. The lyric is very straightforward and poignant without being, as we say in the U.K., “wet.”

What does it mean to say “wet”?

Oh, sort of soppy or a bit sissy. Or precious.

Too precious. But I think [“I Read a Lot”] sounds grown-up, solid.

Is there a noticeable change in what your audiences look like since you toured with Wilco last year?

Definitely. I’ve been sort of working on this for a while, trying to attract a younger audience without being embarrassing, without trying to pretend I’m down with the kids or something. And I’ve been working on it rather hard, really. And when I toured with Wilco, it was a really good experiment to see if I was getting somewhere. And it really did work.

Local songwriter Ben Moats’ father grew up in a small town in Nebraska, laid railroad ties for Union Pacific, served in Vietnam. He returned from the war, worked his way up the ladder at UP and retired a few years ago.

“It’s not that he’s led some super-rare type of life,” says Moats, an English instructor at UMKC. “But I’d always wanted to do a concept album of some kind, and one day I got to thinking about how I know a lot about my dad, and he’s had these interesting experiences. So I started writing songs that are about my interpretation of his life, based on things he’s told me.”

The result is Moats’ Fathers & Sons (EP), seven acoustic ballads akin to the heavyeyed work of Iron and Wine, Mark Kozelek and Nick Drake. This is bedtime music — fingerpicked guitars and light drums, with Moats’ quavering, mournful vocals out front leading the way. On the opening track, “John Wayne,” Moats sings, Don’t call me a child, I’m John Wayne. It’s a pretty melody and a solid lyric, though Moats’ voice is so honey-thick, it took me about 15 spins to figure out what he was saying. (“It’s about childhood innocence in a different time period,” Moats says of the song.)

“In the Night” edges closer, though not too terribly close, to something more pop, like a Pete Yorn B-side circa 2001.

This EP is a prelude to an LP. “On the full-length, there’ll be a point where it transitions and becomes more about my life,” Moats says. Has his father heard it? What does he think about an album about his life?

“It’s strange, you know, I’ve never seen or heard him sing, but I’ve always thought that any music ability I have comes from him,” Moats says. “I think he actually could sing if he wanted to. He did tell me earlier this year — I went on a little minitour through Oklahoma City, Nashville, some other cities, and he said he’d rather be walking point in Vietnam than do what I’m doing, playing music in front of strangers.”

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here was a man standing on a yellow milk crate at the corner of 13th Street and Grand last Friday night. It was about 7:30 p.m. Groups of people swarmed past the man, many of them en route to the Sprint Center, where Joel Osteen was scheduled to speak.

“Joel Osteen is not the gospel of hope,” the man said to passers-by, his words crackling out of a wireless collar microphone. “Joel Osteen preaches comfort in this world. Joel Osteen is the gospel of despair.” He had dull, light-brown skin and a vacant, symmetrical face, and he was dressed blandly, in a gray cotton zip-up and jeans. His generic appearance, electronic voice and doom-speak added up to something vaguely cyborglike. I walked around behind him, half-expecting to see red goo and wires poking out the back of his skull.

“You, young man, are you living a life of faith and repentance?” he asked a guy in a backward baseball cap waiting for the light to change. The guy smirked at his buddies. “We’re just going to the bars,” he replied.

A homeless-looking man, drunk or crazy or both, approached the man, pointed his finger close to his face and said, “You’re the devil!”

“I am not the devil,” the man said matterof-factly and turned away, unbothered. He waved both his arms high and wide, as though he were parting the drapes on some blissful morning, and said more things about faith and repentance. I got bored and walked across the street, where about a thousand people were waiting to file in to see Osteen.

Osteen is pastor of Lakewood Church, the most mega megachurch in the United States.

More than 40,000 people attend his Sunday services, which are held in the old Compaq Center, where the Houston Rockets used to play. Globally, via telecasts, 7 million people tune in every week. Osteen is part televangelist, part motivational speaker — a churchier version of the man sent by corporate to inspire the ranks with team-building exercises.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, Osteen, 49, is not, as far as I can tell, exceedingly deranged. In fact, extreme Christians, like the milk-crate cyborg, view Osteen’s version of Christianity as insufficiently fundamentalist.

He prefers positive vibes to hellfire; he welcomes non-Christians, even gays (though he still believes homosexuality is a sin). His success is a direct result of this inclusivity, which is actually kind of encouraging.

I was curious enough about Osteen to walk up and buy the cheapest ticket, $17 (expensed to The Pitch), for “A Night of Hope,” as Osteen is calling his touring preachathon. But lo, as I pulled out my wallet at the counter, an angel appeared beside me, in the form of a man with a gray goatee. “Wait, don’t buy that,” he said, and handed me a computer printout of a ticket.

“It’s all yours. I got it for free from a friend,” he said. A most blessed turn of events! Already, the Lord was looking out for me.

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the foolish, and I expected an audience of fat, knuckle-dragging idiots gulping Mountain Dew from 64-ounce. plastic cups and grousing about Obamacare. I expected people with their hands raised in the air, feeling the spirit.

What I experienced was quieter and more dignified. The people listened closely, but their eyes lacked the manic glint of true believers.

A woman in my row, early 20s, was wearing an outfit straight off the Anthropologie racks.

The crowd was diverse in the way a suburban movie theater is diverse on a Friday night. But “A Night of Hope” is not like going to the movies. A hillbilly freak show of hate speech would have at least been amusing; “A Night of Hope” was, while morally defensible, also deeply, profoundly — devastatingly — boring.

Osteen is slick, but he doesn’t look slick. He has a goofy, toothy smile and wavy black hair that flows a little too far down the back of his neck — a corporate mullet. He would almost be too creepy-looking to be the most popular pastor in America were it not for his Texas accent, which suffuses his words with a warm, down-to-earth, Clintonian charm. When he tells a joke or makes an exactingly timed selfdeprecating remark, it is impossible not to like him, at least a little bit.

“A Night of Hope” is a family tour, with Osteen’s mother; his wife, Victoria; their son, Jonathan, 17; and their daughter, Alexandra, 13. The kids came out early on and performed a praise song. Alexandra sang (kind of), and Jonathan stood beside her, wearing khakis and a slick vest, rocking out on a Stratocaster. In the darkened corner of a stage, a much larger band did the heavy musical lifting. Above, a massive screen projected mundane images of everyday kindness. Song lyrics — God is with us, God is on our side, He will make a way — ran along the bottom of the screen like at a karaoke night.

Osteen spent 10 minutes working the local angle, giving handpicked area pastors a minute to spout platitudes onstage. We watched a video about poor kids in the Dominican Republic and Africa. White donation buckets were passed around. I ventured out onto the concourse. “I guess you guys probably aren’t

Waiting for the power and the light. serving beer?” I asked the concession person, who shook her head sternly. Doughnut sales at the pop-up QuikTrip appeared robust. I did a lap and returned to my seat.

The theme of the entire evening was a variation on the old chestnut that everything happens for a reason. God has a plan for you. Your shitty life? There’s a reason that it’s so shitty.

You just can’t see it yet. The neighbor’s kid who got run over by a bus? That’s just a part of his journey, and passing over into heaven is just the next part of that journey. Osteen spoke to modern plights: health problems, financial difficulties, legal issues. Watery piano notes trickled along in the background.

“This is the year you are released from your debts, your worry, your fears, everything troubling you,” he said, and everyone nodded.

You cannot argue with a statement like this, not really, which is the genius of motivational speaking. Osteen and his wife told a story about how, when they were a young couple, a tax attorney had screwed up their returns.

It was a financial setback. They ended up hiring a new tax attorney. He straightened them out, got them back on track. Years later, that second lawyer was instrumental in Osteen’s expanding his church. So, you see, if there hadn’t been that initial hardship, which looked like bad luck at the time, Osteen wouldn’t be prosperity-preaching on Hakeem Olajuwon’s old basketball court today. Case closed. God exists. All bad things are actually good things in disguise. Keep on eating shit every day. At some point, your life won’t suck anymore.

At 10 p.m. on the dot, following a different, 25-minute story rehashing this same idea but with different metaphors, the Osteens bid us goodnight. Outside, the cyborg preacher was gone, and the temperature had dropped. A Bon Jovi song was blaring from McFadden’s, and I was so desperate for anything resembling fun, I almost walked up to the door. But then I figured, Why not suffer just a little longer?

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T H U R S D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 7 David Liebe Hart, Drop a Grand, Electric Needle Room: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Nick Lowe, Eleni Mandell: 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Nightwish, Kamelot: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Slash, and more: Sold out. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

White Mystery, the Conquerors: Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Fall for a Pit

Pit bulls get a bad rap, and a new local group, M.O.S.H. (Money for Organizations Saving Helpless) PIT, is working to raise funds for rescue groups with pit bulls and pit-bull mixes in their care. The fi rst benefit is Saturday at Riot Room, where M.O.S.H. PIT has assembled a rock-oriented lineup of KC acts to coax precious charitable dollars from your wallets and purses. On hand: the Lucky Graves, Red Kate, Knife Crime, Hipshot Killer, Medicine Theory, and the Bad Ideas. Rumors of an appearance by the Miami rapper Pitbull continue to swirl but at press time could not be confirmed.

Saturday, September 29, at Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Chick Corea and Gary Burton, with the Harlem String Quartet

Over the last 40 years, jazz pianist Chick Corea and vibraphonist Gary Burton (inventor of the Burton Grip, where you play the vibraphone with four mallets instead of two, like you’ve got chopsticks in your hands) have collaborated on seven records together. Their latest, Hot House, is a collection of 1940s–60s standards, covering material by Thelonious Monk, the Beatles and Antonio Carlos Jobim, among others.

Backing the pair at this show — kicking off this season’s Jammin’ at the Gem Series at 18th and Vine — is the Harlem String Quartet, which ought to add some extra beauty and drama to the proceedings.

Saturday, September 29, at the Gem Theater (1615 East 18th Street, 816-474-6262)

Sonic Spectrum Tribute to the Doors

That the Doors were a terrible, embarrassing band, led by a drunk asshole masquerading as a tortured poet, isn’t a reason not to attend this tribute show. I’m being serious! I say this because the local acts that organizer Robert Moore has gathered for it — Monta At Odds, Cherokee Rock Rifle, London Transit — are all solidly strange, and I have faith that they will transcend the garbage material they have to work with.

Sunday, September 30, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

F R I D AY, S E P T E M B E R 2 8 John Caparulo: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Bucky Covington: 9:30 p.m. American Royal Rodeo, Hale Arena, 1701 American Royal Ct., 816-513-4000.

Nellie McKay: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500.

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R. Stevie Moore

A wave of semi-forgotten, idiosyncratic songwriters — guys like Simon Joyner, Daniel Johnston and Roky Erickson — have been resurrected in recent years as a younger generation has found its way to their work. The cult of R. Stevie Moore has expanded in a similar fashion, due to his influence on such artists as John Maus, MGMT and Ariel Pink. Moore is a lo-fi songwriter with a dreamy, avant-garde take on traditional pop music. Good luck keeping up with his output — the man has released, by some estimates, more than 400 homemade tapes and CD-Rs. Monday, October 1, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Saint Vitus

The last time I was in New York, I ended up at a metal bar called Saint Vitus. It was dark and cavernous and red and loud, and generally resembled what I think about when I think about hell. It was awesome! And it was very obviously named after the doom-metal act Saint Vitus. The L.A. band, formed in the late 1970s, is currently thundering through the United States, hulking out terrifying droptuned riffs and scaring the fuck out of everybody who crosses its path.

Tuesday, October 2, at the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

Ben Folds Five

Ben Folds Five does its best imitation of itself. the central question surrounding The Sound of the Life of the Mind, the first Ben Folds Five record in 13 years, and the trio’s accompanying reunion tour. Folds’ first solo record, Rockin’ the Suburbs, was a strong outing, but most everything after has fallen flat. (The material prior to his work in Ben Folds Five was mostly bright, piano-pop fun — “punk rock for sissies,” as Folds once described it.) I always liked BFF’s murky, ragtag rhythm section — Darren Jessee on drums, Robert Sledge on bass — so I’m thinking that they’re reason enough to buy the ticket.

Friday, September 28, at Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, 816-363-7827)

Guided By Voices

To be a Robert Pollard fan is both thrilling and exhausting, and I long ago gave up on keeping up with the Guided By Voices frontman’s solo albums and GBV-related activity. I do know a few current facts about GBV. Pollard has reassembled members from the mid-’90s lineup and is touring with them. The band has released two albums already this year, with another to come in November. The music still loiters around the intersection between classic rock and weirdo, lo-fi indie. And there is no reason to believe that this show will be anything but a complete blast.

Friday, September 28, at the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

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Eric Church: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

The Fab Four: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Wanda Jackson, Daniel Romano: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Ringo Deathstar, JabberJosh, Bloodbirds: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Gerald Trimble’s World, Celtic Music Sessions: All Saints Episcopal Church, 9201 Wornall, 816-363-2450.

M O N D AY, O C T O B E R 1 Florence + the Machine, the Maccabees: Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827.

T U E S D AY, O C T O B E R 2 Ralphie May: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

W E D N E S D AY, O C T O B E R 3 Ingrid Michaelson, Sugar, the Hi-Lows: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Tremonti, Man the Mighty, For the Broken: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

FUTURECAST OCTOBER FRIDAY 5 Owl City: The Beaumont Club Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros: Crossroads KC at Grinders SATURDAY 6 Kansas, Kings, That 1 Guy: Uptown Theater TUESDAY 9 Stars: The Bottleneck, Lawrence FRIDAY 12 Ott., the All Seeing I, Clandestine: The Granada, Lawrence SATURDAY 13 Norah Jones: The Midland WEDNESDAY 17 Die Antwoord: Liberty Hall, Lawrence SATURDAY 20 Deftones: Harrah’s Casino, North Kansas City SATURDAY 27 Red Hot Chili Peppers: Sprint Center TUESDAY 30 Madonna: Sprint Center WEDNESDAY 31 EOTO, NMEZEE: The Granada, Lawrence

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Goomba Rave, with Team Bear Club.

Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. DJ Beatbroker.

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

DJ Lazer on the patio, 10 p.m.

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

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.

The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Skeeball League Night.

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

ELECTRO The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Crizzly, SKrause.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS 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.

The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Open mic, Low Dough Beer Night, 8 p.m.

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

Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Westside All-Star 10th Anniversary Jam.

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

SINGER-SONGWRITER Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Songbirds Circle.

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

“Dealta” Dance Party.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Reach, Project H, DJ Joc Max, hosted by Reggie B, 9 p.m.

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

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The All-Star Rock Bar: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

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

MORE Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-5691747. Claire and the Crowded Stage, Genessee, Ashley Jones.

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N I L N O M The Inwords, the Silver Maggies, PITCH.CO Post Paradise.

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

KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 13th St. and Grand. Perpetual Change.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Jeff Bergen’s Elvis Show, 7 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Actors & Actresses, Stephen Paul Smoker, Box the Compass, 9 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Schwervon, the Conquerors, the Lucky, Folkicide.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. The Sons of Brasil.

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

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

WORLD The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Live Reggae with AZ-ONE.

COMEDY Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Maronzio Vance.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Ladies’ Night.

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

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

Club Rain: 8015 Troost, 816-361-2900. Ciroc Star Thursdays, Ladies’ Night, $7 Ciroc drink specials, free Ciroc samples 9-10:30 p.m., hosted by Big Rich and Her Majesty, 9 p.m., free.

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.

Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-561-2444. “You Sing It” Live Band Karaoke.

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.

JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m.

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

Michael’s Lakewood Pub: N. 291 Hwy. and Lakewood Blvd., Lee’s Summit, 816-350-7300. DJ Pure, beer pong, pitcher specials, 9 p.m.

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.

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The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Phantastics, EarPhunk.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Beans & Cornbread.

Dynamite Saloon: 721 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8562739. Pat Nichols.

Firefly Lounge: 4118 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. Kyle Elliott and Voodoo Soul Live.

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

Smokin’ Joe Kubek and B’Nois King, and more, 8:30 p.m.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot.

Llywelyn’s Pub: 6995 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-4020333. Crosseyed Cat. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Driving Wheel, 10 p.m.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation, 4:30 p.m.

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

Josh Vowell Band, 8 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Janet the Planet, Parts of Speech, Ambulants, 10 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. The Rain Dogs.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Barnyard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. The Devil Whale, Meatpop, Outlaw Jake and the Chain Gang.

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

Gloriana.

DJ Club Monaco: 334 E. 31st St., 816-753-5990. DJ Soap.

Hotel: 1300 Grand, 816-226-3232. Rockwell Fridays with Salvatore Palazzolo featuring the Jukebox Heroes (DJ Mike Scott and Spinstyles).

Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mosaic Friday hosted by Luke Rich, with DJ Allen Michael.

The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ E. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

DJ Proof on the patio.

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

Strikerz Entertainment Center: 18900 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence, 816-313-5166. DJ night.

Z Strike: 1370 Grand, 816-471-2316. Fabowlous Fridays with DJ Nuveau, 9 p.m.

HIP-HOP Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Soul Providers Present.

The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Johnny Quest.

ACOUSTIC Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. Dan Brockert.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Lee Langston and the Prototype, Esquire Band.

Chaz on the Plaza: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-802-2152. Max Groove Trio, 7 p.m.

The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Bram Wijnands, 7 p.m.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. J.Love, 9 p.m.

The Raphael Hotel: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-756-3800. Strings on the Green with Paul Roberts Trio, 5-9 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Stan Kessler Trio featuring Joe Cartwright and Gerald Spaits.

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

Jerry Hahn.

EVERY WEDNESDAY Lonnie Ray Blues Band EVERY THURSDAY Live Reggae with AZ One

WORLD Blvd. Nights: 2805 Southwest Blvd., 816-931-6900. Good Fridays: International Party Experience, 10 p.m.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th

The Good Foot - 10pm SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 29th Groove Agency - 10pm

AMERICANA Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Eddie Delahunt, 6 p.m.

NIGHTLY SPECIALS

BLUEGRASS

FOOD AND DRINK

PATIO & DECK BANQUET & PRIVATE PARTY FACILITY

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

Truckstop Honeymoon, Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy.

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

Now open 7 days a week with drink specials nightly: WEDNESDAY:

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BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Club Rain: 8015 Troost, 816-361-2900. Happy hour, 5 p.m.

ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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

JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Debbioke, 9:30 p.m.

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

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Free pool, happy hour, 4-6 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.

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

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Salsa night; Filipino Karaoke, hosted by Sundae Domingo Halog Jr. and open to persons of all nationalities, 7 p.m., $5.

M E TA L / P U N K The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Evalyn Awake (CD rerelease), Showbaby, Troy, Ghost in the Machine, Fivefold, Dirt.

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

Soul Rebel with DJ Stiga.

R O C K A B I L LY RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar, Mission, 913-2627300. The Rumblejetts.

VA R I E T Y Uptown Theater: 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Battle for Freaker’s Ball.

S AT U R D AY 2 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE The All-Star Rock Bar: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

Under the Covers.

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

Chaz on the Plaza: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-802-2152. Cavern Club.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-3459717. Shedding Watts, Kingo Bole.

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

The Bad Ideas, Dead Deer, Fuss, Five Star Disaster.

Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913962-5253. Live music.

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

The Clique.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Heroes & Villians, Believers, Spirit Is the Spirit, 9 p.m.

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

Stephen Paul Smoker, Pacific Pride, 10 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Driving Wheel, Band 13, Pharaoh Tarot’s Snake Oil. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Michael Charles.

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

Kris Lager Band.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Groove Agency.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Billy Ebeling & the Late For Dinner Band, 9 p.m.

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

Samantha Fish, 8 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Zoe Muth and the Lost High Rollers, Living Room session, 8:30 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Buttermilk Boys, Kasey Rausch, Nicolette Paige.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. The Paperclips.

DJ Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Furious Palace.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Ana Sia, Morris.

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Samurai Saturdays.

The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ Chris.

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

The Warm Up with Wolfgod on the patio, 6 p.m.

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

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. JWB. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Bram Wijnands, 7 p.m.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Tim Whitmer & the KC Express, 4:30 p.m.

Piropos Grille: 4141 N. Mulberry Dr., North Kansas City, 816-7413600. Candace Evans.

The Raphael Hotel: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-756-3800. Strings on the Green with Kokopelli Players.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913948-5550. Rob Foster & Dudes.

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

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

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Found Footage Festival, 6 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Avalon Ultra Lounge: 5505 N.E. Antioch, 816-452-CLUB. Upscale Saturdays with DJ Smiley, no cover for ladies until 10:30 p.m., $2 drink specials, 9 p.m., $10.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo, 5 p.m.; Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 9 p.m.

Hotel: 1300 Grand, 816-226-3232. Hotel Saturdays.

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

The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke with KJ David, 9:30 p.m.

Johnny’s Tavern: 6765 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-451-4542.

Trivia Bingo, 9 p.m.

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Free pool, happy hour, 1-4 p.m.

Power & Light District: 14th Street and Main, 816-842-1045.

American Royal Parade Post-Party.

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

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

Westport Coffee House: 4010 Pennsylvania, 816-756-3222.

The Kick Comedy Theatre: the Kick-Off Improv Comedy Show, 8-9:30 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Live karaoke with Separated at Birth.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Show Stopper Karaoke, 12:30 a.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.

Free pool.

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

Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913-5419255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.

Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. Moire (CD release).

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Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Jolly Brothers Band, Camp Harlow, 9 p.m.

VA R I E T Y Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. MCs Unite to Fight Leukemia.

ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Taking Back Mondays.

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The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Blue Monday Trio.

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ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Buxton, Mr. History.

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

The Brickyard Tavern: 1001 S. Weaver, Olathe, 913-780-0266.

Crosseyed Cat open blues jam, 3-7 p.m.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Open Blues Jam with Brody Buster.

DJ The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Retox Sundays, 8 p.m.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Bad Music Sundays with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m.

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

Sunday Funday with DJ G Train on the patio, 10 p.m.

JAZZ The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Rich Hill, 11 a.m.; Mark Lowrey Jazz Trio open jam session, 5 p.m.

CLASSICAL Chaz on the Plaza: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-802-2152. Les Mengel Duo, 5-9 p.m.

COMEDY The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Found Footage Festival.

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

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

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Paul Shields.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke.

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night, beer pong, TV trivia, shot dice.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Taproom Poetry Series.

The Fox and Hound: 10428 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-6491700. Poker, 7 & 10 p.m.

Frank James Saloon: 10919 N.W. Hwy. 45, Parkville, 816-5050800. Karaoke, 6-10 p.m.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913217-7665. Double Deuce Poker League, 4 p.m.; Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913962-5253. Free pool, 3 p.m.

JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m.

our one year anniversary of

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m.

Groove Station: 9916 Holmes, 816-942-1000. KC Blues Jam with Crosseyed Cat, 2-6 p.m.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 7 p.m.

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

Sunday Salvation with Booty Bass, 10 p.m., $3.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free.

R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777.

Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m.

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Barnyard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Mudstomp Mondays.

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October 3 6-8pm Hors’ d’oeuvres & door prizes will be given away throughout the night.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cinemaphonic, 10 p.m.

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

DJ Big Brother, Dark Drag, 9 p.m.

JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.

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

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS The All-Star Rock Bar: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

Monday Mancave: sports, drink and food specials.

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

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-322MORE 1000. S.I.N., half-price appetizers. shot and beer specials, 7 p.m.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300.

GS IN T Slaughter Movie House: Jacob, LIS E AT N I L 7 p.m.

ON M Green Room Burgers & Beer: PITCH.CO 4010 Pennsylvania, Ste. D, 816-2167682. Geeks Who Drink Pub Quiz, 8 p.m.

The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Service Industry Night.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Maryoke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m.

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

Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

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

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

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

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

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

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Snazzy Cheap-Ass Drinks, all night.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.

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FOLK The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Delta Rae.

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REGGAE Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Synrgy, the Taste Bud G-Spots.

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Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. The Henry Clay People, Elkheart.

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

The Anomalys, Teenanger, the Soupcans, 10 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.

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

The Wanton Looks, the Cave Girls, Wick & the Tricks, 10 p.m.

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

Trampled Under Foot.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Magic Beans, Voodoo Lounge Gypsies, 9 p.m.

Slow Ride Roadhouse: 1350 N. Third St., Lawrence, 785-7492727. Lonnie Ray Blues Band.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company, Calamity Cubes.

DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 9 p.m.

The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. The Dropout Boogie, 10 p.m., free.

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ACOUSTIC Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. The Magnificent 7s .

JAZZ

Finnigan’s Hall: 503 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City, 816-2213466. Abel Ramirez Big Band, 6 p.m.

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

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m.

Polsky Theatre: 12345 College Blvd. (at JCCC), Lenexa, 913469-4445. Book of Gaia, 9:30 a.m. & noon, free.

TICKETS VIP: $30 Adv. GA: $15 Adv., $20 Door To buy go to kkfi.org or call (816) 994-7869

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Coda Pursuit Team Trivia with Teague Hayes, 7 p.m.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. MJ Knight’s “Dinner Is a Drag” show, 8 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. It’s Karaoke Time!

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Critter’s Tye Dye Tuesday.

MiniBar: 3810 Broadway. Sonic Spectrum Trivia: the Bizarre, Pop Culture and Travel, 7 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.

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

Replay Horror Picture Show on the patio.

The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-236-6211. Karaoke.

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

Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Sherlock’s Underground Coffeehouse & Pub: 858 State Route 291, Liberty, 816-429-5262. Round Robin Card Tournaments.

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

Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Tango night.

The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Beer Pong, team registration starts at 9:30 p.m., tournament starts at 10 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. DiCarlo’s Mustard Seed Mexican-Americana Restaurant & Bar: 15015 E. U.S. Hwy. 40, 816-373-4240. Blues, country and classic rock hosted by Rick Eidson and friends.

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

Dave Hays Band Open Jam. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

M E TA L / P U N K Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Shot Heard Around the World, My Brother, the Vulture, Khaldera.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Dr. Orphyus Project, Tycho Brahe, the Soiled Doves, Backstabber.

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The All-Star Rock Bar: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

Scott Ford Songwriter Showcase, 7 p.m.

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL

Iceberg, Kasey Rausch, Jason Vivone & the Billy Bats, Heebie Jeebies, Euphoria String Band, Bob & Diana Suckiel, KC Ukesters, Tony Ladesich, Ernie Henderson, Kevin Hiatt, Tommy Donoho, Barry Lee with Ron Roberts, Ted Samsel and Last Free Exit

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Gospel Lounge with Carl Butler, 7:30 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Hudspeth and Shinetop.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. The Devil Makes Three, John Fullbright.

DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Sonic Spectrum with DJ Robert Moore, 10 p.m.

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

The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Random Play Wednesday.

HIP-HOP The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Astronautalis, Second Hand King.

ACOUSTIC Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. Live acoustic.

JAZZ B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. New Vintage Big Band; New Vintage Big Band.

Chaz on the Plaza: 325 Ward Pkwy., 816-802-2152. Max Groove Trio, 6 p.m.

AMERICANA Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. TJ’s Hindu Cowboy Gospel Piano.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS The All-Star Rock Bar: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660.

Karaoke.

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Liquid Lounge drink specials.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Political debate watch party.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-3459717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m.

403 Club: 403 N. Fifth St., 913-499-8392. Pinball tournament, Cash prize for winner, 8:30 p.m., $5 entry fee.

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Dear Dan: I’m a female in a relationship with a male. My boyfriend recently told me that he bought a set of butt plugs for himself. He said he’s happy to use them alone if I’m not interested. I don’t mind the idea of him using them when we are together, and I would also be more than willing to peg him if he wanted me to, but I hesitate to tell him. I’m worried this will lead to him suggesting that we play in my anal territory, and I am really uncomfortable with this idea. I have IBS; my lower digestive tract and I don’t get on well. I do not trust my body enough to feel comfortable trying that, and I don’t think I could look my boyfriend in the eye again if he put a finger up my butt and something terrible happened.

I know when it comes to guys wanting anal sex, your stand is that he should take it first if he wants to give it. So if I am unwilling to take it in return, do I forfeit any right to do my boyfriend with a strap-on?

about the Folsom Street Fair, the annual gay leather/fetish/BDSM street fair in San Francisco. Do you think it is still a socially relevant display? Or do you think that in this time when we are fi ghting for civil rights and equality that it does more harm than good?

Street Fair remains socially relevant — and highly so — to folks in the leather/fetish/ BDSM scene in San Francisco. It’s also relevant to anyone who believes in freedom of sexual expression. (For an idea of what Folsom looks like, and to see the scale of the thing, search for “Folsom Street Fair” on YouTube.)

And it’s important to emphasize that the Folsom Street Fair, which took place last weekend, isn’t exclusively gay. Thousands of straight kinksters attend every year. About the only difference between the straight attendees and the queer ones is that no one claims that the kinky straight people at Folsom make all heterosexuals everywhere look like sex-crazed sadomasochists.

(For the record: Sex-crazed sadomasochists are my favorite kind of sadomasochists.)

Straight people, of course, aren’t fighting for their fundamental civil rights. Kinky straights can marry in all 50 states, after all, and no one is pledging to kick kinky straights out of the armed forces or to write anti-kinky-straight bigotry into the U.S. Constitution. So maybe it’s not the same — maybe it’s not as politically risky — when straight people come out in bondage gear, leather chaps and pony masks. But straight people are a big part of Folsom, too.

But you didn’t ask about kinky straight people. You wondered if the Folsom Street Fair was harming the struggle for LGBT equality.

The Folsom Street Fair has taken place on a Sunday in September in San Francisco every year since 1984. Pride parades have been taking place on a Sunday in June in cities all over the country since the early 1970s.

And every year, we hear from concerned trolls about the damage that’s supposedly being done to the LGBT rights movement by all those drag queens, go-go boys, dykes, and leather guys at Pride or Folsom or International Mr. Leather.

But everyone acknowledges — even our enemies — that the gay rights movement has made extraordinary strides in the 43 years since the Stonewall Riots in New York City.

We’re not all the way there yet. We have yet to secure our full civil equality. But the pace of progress has been unprecedented in the history of social-justice movements. The women’s suff rage movement, for example, was launched in the United Sates in 1848.

It took more than 70 years to pass the 19th Amendment, which extended the vote to women. In 1969, at the time of the Stonewall

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Riots, gay sex was illegal in 49 states. Gay sex is now legal in every U.S. state, gay marriage is legal in six states and our nation’s capital (and in all of Canada), and gays, lesbians and bisexuals can serve openly in the military.

(The armed forces still discriminate against trans people.) And we’ve made this progress despite fierce opposition from the religious right, a deadly plague that wiped out a generation of gay men, and — gasp — all those leather guys at Folsom and the go-go boys and drag queens at Pride.

We couldn’t have come so far so fast if Folsom or pride parades were harming our movement. And I would argue that leather guys, dykes on bikes, go-go boys and drag queens have actually helped our movement.

They demonstrate to all people that our movement isn’t just about the freedom to be gay or straight. Our movement is about the freedom to be whatever kind of straight, gay, lesbian, bi or trans person you want to be. And freedom, as Dick Cheney famously said, means freedom for everyone — from pantsuit-wearing POS sellouts like Mary Cheney and Chris Barron to kinky straight people and hot gay boys in harnesses.

I don’t think it’s a coincidence that cities with big pride parades and events like Folsom are more tolerant and more accepting of sexual minorities than cities that don’t have big gay parades and fetish street fairs. If an event like Folsom were actually counterproductive, you would expect San Francisco to be less tolerant and less likely to back equal rights for sexual minorities, not more likely.

And finally, any attempt to shut down the Folsom Street Fair — or to ban drag queens, go-go boys, dykes on bikes or leather guys from pride parades — would be so poisonously divisive that it would do more harm to our movement than a thousand Folsom Street Fairs ever could.

Dear IBS: Turnabout is fair play, and reciprocity is important, yes, but a person can have a legit physical limitation that makes certain sorts of reciprocal turnabouting impossible.

Such is the case with you and your butt. You have a perfectly good reason to avoid being on the receiving end of anal play, and I can’t imagine that your boyfriend — who is obviously interested in his end receiving regardless of whether yours does — is going to object to your offer to plug him or peg his ass even if he isn’t allowed to plug, peg or fuck yours.

Dear Dan: Yes, Dan, there are still plenty of

straight guys out there who are put off by women who go “too fast,” and oral sex on the first date is typically perceived as too fast. It’s part of a misogynist mind-set, IMHO, that says women who are too sexually assertive are not “relationship material.” Or maybe it’s some ancient male fear of the insatiable nympho who will drain his male power by overwhelming him sexually. Or, more generously, maybe these men think going too fast just speaks to poor judgment (although straight men rarely apply that logic to themselves). Whatever the cause, I’ve experienced it myself, and I found the solution to be to date more sex-positive feminist men who take responsibility for their half of the pacing. I’ve found that feminist men actually appreciate women who are sexually assertive while many nonfeminist men are happy to accept the attentions of sexually assertive women while at the same time harboring contempt for us.

The Happy Whore Dear THW: Thanks for sharing.

Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/music.

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