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Matt Fulks Hometown: Overland Park
What I do (in 140 characters): Usually, I write
a bunch of words, delete the ones I don’t like, and hope the remaining ones make sense together. Sometimes they do.
cookies, cake and caramel pie. I tried giving them up for Lent. That lasted about three days.
What’s your game? Yahtzee! I grew up wanting to be a downhill skier, but because this area is relatively flat, that idea fizzled out. A couple of broadcasting friends got me hooked on hockey a few years ago, but I skate like a yak. And I’m a Clydesdale runner. (Does that count as a “game”?)
My brush with fame: For some reason, I’ve
a good thing.
been blessed to work on book projects with some great sports figures, including many of my childhood heroes. One of my career highlights, though, was taking batting practice against Royals legend and T-Bones coach Frank White at CommunityAmerica Ballpark last summer. I also shook hands on two occasions with Harry Connick Jr., so there’s that.
“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” I feel guilty if
My 140-character soapbox: Like every other
“I can’t stop listening to …” Music is important to my writing process. I usually pick one song and set the player on repeat for that whole day. As I approach deadline for my next book (a Chiefs book due out later this year from Triumph Books), each day I’m rotating the Avett Brothers, Beethoven, Elvis Presley, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Harry Connick Jr., John Denver, Led Zeppelin, MercyMe, Miles Davis, Mozart, Pearl Jam, and Rend Collective Experiment.
What was the last thing you had to apologize for? I have a bad habit of not answering my
Who’s sorry now? Probably the telemarketers who don’t expect me to answer.
“I just read …” A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis.
My recent triumph: Besides just making it
What’s your drink? Coffee, strong and black — and lots of it!
It’ll sound like a cliché, I’m sure, but the Truman Sports Complex, Worlds of Fun, Union Station, t a ine Onl .com Winstead’s on the Plaza, h pitc the Jazz Museum, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Man, that’s a huge postcard!
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Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” It built the Sprint Center, the Power
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“Kansas City screwed up when …” It “lost” our NBA franchise, the NCAA and the NAIA to other cities within about a 15-year period. Thankfully, the NAIA is back in the city, along with its men’s basketball tournament. I don’t think we’ll see the NBA again. “Kansas City needs …” Light rail that’s sup-
ported by both sides of State Line and actually goes to the suburbs. While we’re on my wish list, how about an NHL team, more bike lanes, and a full-time classical jazz radio station. Is that too much to ask?
“In five years, I’ll be …” Pushing 50. Yikes, that sounds like a big number!
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What’s your addiction? Baking and eating
What’s on your KC postcard?
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My sidekick: First and foremost, my best friend and wife, Libby. And then it’s our three kids, who range from elementary school to high school. Last, it’s our year-old Weimaraner, who’s named after Elvis (sort of) and goes seemingly everywhere with me — unless I’m picking up food.
Current neighborhood: “Old” Overland Park
Where’s dinner? If not at home, Chappell’s, Taco Via, Villa Capri, Dragon Inn or Hayward’s. For a splurge, Grünauer. (There’s a reason I’m a Clydesdale runner.)
Writer, broadcaster, T-Bones’
“I always laugh at …” Myself, which isn’t always
I watch too much TV at one time, but after book deadlines, I have been known to binge on Mad About You, Chicago Fire, Elementary, Sports Night, Twilight Zone and The Three Stooges.
The best advice I ever got: I had an uncle who
was a professor at my alma mater, Lipscomb University. He’s the one who encouraged me to try out for the school’s PA-announcer gig after my baseball career tragically was cut short due to a lack of ability. That one event has led me to where I am today. He used to tell me (and others), “Remember who you are and whose you are.”
Worst advice: “Hey, it’ll be fine to ride our bikes across the Broadway Bridge to the downtown airport.” Two flat tires and seven near-death experiences later …
city, Kansas City has its issues. But this is a great place to live, to work and to raise a family, regardless of your side of the state line. Embrace it!
phone, and there have been times when I haven’t answered it in an “emergency,” such as the time my uncle, who lives nearby, was stuck on his roof. So I’m apologizing somewhat regularly for missing phone calls.
to this space, I have an obsession with pens and pencils. They don’t have to be fancy, but because I write all of my notes and many early drafts longhand, I need a pen that’s comfortable and writes well. Knowing this, a friend who’s quite a woodworker, Curt Sparks, who happens to be the preacher at our church, offered to teach me how to carve (“turn”) a pen. About three weeks ago, I turned two in his shop. They’re two of my favorites. I’ve been carrying at least one of those ever since. Fulks’ book, 100 Things Royals Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, is out now.
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wo weeks ago, Reuters reported that AMG Services, the Overland Park–based online payday-loan behemoth, had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. The company, according to that report, is being investigated for violations that include wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering. That’s no great shock. AMG Services has become a textbook exemplar of the notoriously deceptive online-lending industry. This isn’t even the first instance of AMG running afoul of federal authorities; the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against AMG in 2012, accusing it of not disclosing the true costs of its loans and threatening borrowers during the collection process. What’s newsworthy about this latest development is that it’s a probe of a criminal nature. It means that some of the people who operate these online payday businesses might eventually go to jail. As The Pitch has reported, there are several individuals in Kansas City who operate or have operated such businesses — the KC metro is a national hub for the industry. So it’s not just bad news for Scott Tucker, the race-car-driving puppetmaster of AMG but also bad news for other people in town who have cribbed his business model. One local operation that’s ripe for federal scrutiny is LTS Management Services, which for the last decade has been extending and collecting short-term online payday loans in downtown Kansas City, at 908 Baltimore. (Other names associated with the company include Loan Shop Online; Evergreen Capital Partners; DMS Marketing; and, most recently, Glacier Management. For the purposes of this article, we’ll call it LTS.) Around mid-2013, the federal government implemented a coordinated effort known in the industry as Operation Choke Point. The Department of Justice sent subpoenas to banks and payment-processing firms that facilitate shady online loans, and the FDIC began auditing banks suspected of processing ACH payments from sketchy lenders. The move scared banks from doing business with companies like LTS and AMG. Banks and processors are essential to such companies’ methods of doing business — if they can’t electronically drop money into and (more importantly) out of borrowers’ accounts, they’re toast. Missouri Bank (currently a defendant, along with several other banks, in an Operation Choke Point–related class-action RICO suit brought by local law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson) was for many years LTS Management’s bank of preference. But it rather sensibly forfeited that revenue stream following the feds’ crackdown. Which meant that LTS
(and other entities in its line of business) needed to find processors unafraid of the government’s threats. For a time, according to several former LTS employees, that was a Canadian company called Kapcharge. But in October, Kapcharge, too, exited the business. Things got weirder at LTS after that. “I know for a while the owners had some bank off the coast of Africa, near Madagascar, processing the transactions,” says Zechariah Moses, a former employee in the collections department at LTS. “I remember a bunch of us were looking at Google Maps, trying to find it on the map. We were just like, ‘What is happening to this company?’ ” October is also when LTS started quietly but steadily shedding its staff. First to go were the loan reps — with no banks to process the loans, loan reps no longer had a product to sell. One loan rep, Savannaha Tyler, who was laid off in October, tells The Pitch that it was protocol in the lending department to lie to borrowers about where LTS was located, depending on which of the companies’ various shell names the lenders were representing. “So if they were borrowing from Loan Shop Online, we would tell them we were based in Delaware. Or if they were borrowing from Custom Payday [another LTS subsidiary], we were supposed to say we were based in the United Kingdom,” says Tyler, who worked for LTS in a variety of capacities for seven years. “There was a whole system to it we had to know. We were told that’s the way it was supposed to be done because Delaware or the U.K. is where those companies had
originally received their lending license. But we’re still being instructed, while we’re sitting in downtown Kansas City, to say we’re somewhere else. It just seemed shady.” In a prepared statement to The Pitch, LTS owners Del Kimball and Sam Furseth said, “Our collectors acted on behalf of companies that were domiciled in Delaware as well as companies located outside the of the country. Employees were instructed to advise that they were acting on behalf of the entity that originated the account when contacting a customer about a delinquent account.” In February, much of the collections department was let go, after months of attempting to collect from borrowers via checks and debit cards. Michelle Pinkerton, a former employee in the collections department, echoes Tyler’s claims about misleading borrowers as to LTS’ location. “It was the same in collections,” says Pinkerton, who worked for LTS from June until October 2013. “We would have accounts in certain states where we’d have to call them from a specific phone number.” The motive behind such misdirection is simple: The usury laws of many states prevent entities like LTS, whose loans often bear annual interest rates as high as 700 percent, from lending within their borders. That absurd figure is not the only objectionable thing about LTS’ loans, though. Moses, who has also worked at other online payday operations in town — including E-Finance (run by Josh Mitchem) and Geneva-Roth Ventures (run by Mark Curry) — explains exactly what is
908 Baltimore: one address, many area codes so misleading and predatory about the structure of these loan agreements. “You take out a loan, and they charge you $30 for every hundred you borrow,” Moses says. “So you take out $300 and you agree to pay back $390. First of all, that’s a lot of interest. But the real trickery is, if you haven’t paid it back in two weeks, then on the 15th day, they ding your account for $90. A normal person would see that on their checking account and assume the $90 was going to the $300 principal. That’s just logical thinking, to assume that these debits are going toward the principal. But they’re rolling that money over. So after five of those payments, when you assume the loan has been paid off, you look at your account and see that you still owe the original principal, plus you’ve been hit five times for $90. They got you for $450 already, and you haven’t paid a dime off the principal. “I’ve seen that go on for 20, 30, 40 weeks before the borrower realizes what happens,” he says. “He took out a loan for $300 and owes $4,000, $5,000. And, of course, nobody from [LTS] is attempting to contact him to let him know what’s going on. It’s crazy.” On May 9, there were yet more layoffs at 908 Baltimore. “LTS Management has ceased business operations,” Kimball and Furseth said in a statement. “And Glacier Management is in the process of winding down its business operations.”
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Can Russell Bucklew stay out of Missouri’s death chamber?
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ethal injection has become such an uncertain method of execution that Russell Bucklew would rather burn to death. “I’m worried that it’s not going to work correctly and I’m going to end up choking to death,” Bucklew told The Pitch over the phone from prison. “I’m afraid that I’m going to be brain-dead or a vegetable by the time they’re done. That’s what I’m afraid of more than anything else. I’d rather them just pour gasoline on me and set me on fire, to be perfectly honest with you.” Bucklew was scheduled to die a minute after midnight on May 21, but a federal court intervened. Bucklew’s attorneys believe that a lethal injection would complicate his condition and prolong his death. They sued the Missouri Department of Corrections, a legal maneuver that convinced the courts to stall his execution. Because Missouri’s primary method of capital punishment has become so uncertain, Buklew’s attorneys wanted to videotape him being put to death. A video record, they said, would have supported a future legal claim had the execution not worked or resulted in a protracted, grisly death. The concerns aren’t unfounded. Oklahoma corrections officials bungled Clayton Lockett’s April 29 execution, leading to what was, by all accounts, a macabre ending to the 38-year-old’s life. That state also uses lethal injection. And, as in Missouri, the contents of the fatal dose are kept secret. Lockett was not a sympathetic character. He shot his 19-year-old victim and watched as another man buried her alive. Those who defend the death penalty argue that, even with the problems posed by state-conducted executions — particularly the problems intrinsic to lethal injection — the results remain kinder to the convicted than whatever a capital crime’s victims suffered. But that view ignores the constitutional mandate that punishments not be cruel or unusual — and Lockett’s death was very likely both. Oklahoma, a state where the governor and some legislators eroded the separation of power between elected lawmakers and the courts in order to proceed with Lockett’s execution, has been forced to hit the brakes on its execution machine. Missouri has indicated no post-Lockett hesitation. A federal appeals court, however, showed more restraint. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals halted Bucklew’s execution on Tuesday, six hours before it was supposed to happen. Bucklew’s attorneys beat long odds in the
Bucklew awaits his fate. courts to get at least a temporary reprieve for their client, convincing federal judges that Missouri officials hadn’t considered the possibility that Bucklew’s rare medical condition could lead to a prolonged and unconstitutional death. The appeals court found that Bucklew’s health concerns — he suffers from a birth defect that causes weakened blood vessels in his head and neck and could constrain his airways — were persuasive and that Missouri officials hadn’t contested them. The court was also unhappy that Missouri resisted attempts to get funding for a full medical examination of Bucklew’s condition. Bucklew’s crime was grim. In 1996, he shot Michael Sanders, a man he suspected of carrying on an affair with his ex-girlfriend. While Sanders bled out, Bucklew kidnapped his exgirlfriend and raped her. Bucklew characterizes his shooting of Sanders as a means of self-defense, a claim that doesn’t square with the facts. Sanders was armed, but Bucklew was breaking into Sanders’ mobile home. Regardless, Bucklew says he is remorseful for causing Sanders’ death. “I’m sorry for what happened,” Bucklew said on May 13. “Sorry doesn’t cut it. Should I be put to death for it? No. I’m not an ax murderer. There’s guys in the prison system here who did worse things than I did.” The Department of Corrections faces lawsuits from several press organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing against the state’s extreme secrecy regarding the source of its lethal-injection drugs, as well as violations of the state’s openrecords laws.
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Guided By Voices, the Granada
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Junior Brown, the Forty Fours, Knuckleheads The Fray, Starlight Theatre The Neighborhood, KC Live Block We Are Voices, Atlas, Akkilles, Riot Room Yonder Mountain String Band, Railroad Earth, Crossroads KC
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Captiva, Not a Planet, the Granada Epitaph Reunion Party, RecordBar Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Crossroads KC The Summit, When Particles Collide, Czar
CES Cru, Info Gates, Houston Zizza, Riot Room
sunday, July 6
Tuesday, July 1
Dark Star Orchestra, Crossroads KC
Wednesday, July 2
Boy & Bear, Jared & the Mill, Riot Room Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss, Starlight Theatre
Monday, July 7
Bad Suns, Riot Room
Tuesday, July 8
Michael Franti & Spearhead, Crossroads KC
The Antlers, Yellow Ostrich, Riot Room
Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, RecordBar
Listener, ’68, Homeless Gospel Choir, Czar
Jeremy Messersmith, Czar
Conor Oberst, Dawes, Crossroads KC
Wednesday, July 9
Xavier Rudd, the Bottleneck
Gavin DeGraw and Matt Nathanson, Mary Lambert, Crossroads KC
Thursday, July 3
Fly Golden Eagle, Czar
Jackson Browne, the Uptown Max, Czar Sarah McLachlan, Starlight Theatre 311, the Urge, Six Percent, Crossroads KC
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Troglodyte’s Summer Stench, Riot Room
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Kongos with Brick + Mortar, the Midland
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Tech N9ne, the Midland
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Zepparella, RecordBar
Thursday, July 10
Outlaws, Blackhawk, Knuckleheads Randy Rogers Band, KC Live Block continued on page 17
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Friday, July 11
Delbert McClinton, Joe King Carrasco, Knuckleheads
thurSday, July 17
Chase Rice, KC Live Block Man or Astro-Man?, Riot Room
Me Like Bees, Middle Twin, Riot Room
Old Crow Medicine Show, with Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Uptown
Saturday, July 12
Saturday, July 19
Trampled Under Foot, Knuckleheads
Steely Dan, Starlight Theatre
Sunday, July 13
Sunday, July 20
Glass Animals, Czar (sold out)
Glass Animals, Outsides, Riot Room (sold out)
Monday, July 14
The Pitch Music Showcase I, Riot Room
Panic at the Disco, Walk the Moon, Magic Man, Crossroads KC
The Family, RecordBar
Dub Thompson, Riot Room
Journey and Steve Miller Band, Starlight Theatre
Monday, July 21
Wild Cub, Grizfolk, Czar
Goblin, Hate Eternal, the Granada
tueSday, July 15
Paul McCartney, at Sprint Center
Cannibal Corpse, the Granada Lucero, Murder By Death, the Delta Saints, Crossroads KC Young & Sick, Riot Room American Slim, Czar
WedneSday, July 16
Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and Rick Springfield, Starlight Theatre Cloud Nothings, the Granada Paul McCartney, Sprint Center Saintseneca, Czar Bob Schneider, Dawn & Hawkes, Knuckleheads
Attic Wolves, Papers, Akkilles, Czar
tueSday, July 22
Gary Clark Jr., Crossroads KC Keef Mountain, Wicked Inquisition, Czar New Edition, the Midland
WedneSday, July 23
Hayes Carll, Knuckleheads Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Beat Junkies, Crossroads KC
thurSday, July 24
Red Velvet Crush, Dellacoma, Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hand, Riot Room
Friday, July 25
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Saturday, July 26
Saturday, auguSt 9
Fall Out Boy, Starlight Theatre
Chubby Carrier, Knuckleheads
U.S. Air Guitar National Finals, the Midland
Pat Metheny Unity Group, Bruce Hornsby, Crossroads KC
tueSday, auguSt 12
Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, VooDoo Lounge
Earth Wind & Fire, Starlight Theatre
Sunday, July 27
Miley Cyrus, Sprint Center
Eric Johnson, Knuckleheads
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Riot Room
OK Go, Riot Room
Uncle Lucius, Knuckleheads
WedneSday, auguSt 13
tueSday, July 29
Ted Nugent, the Midland Matthew Sweet, Knuckleheads Nick Waterhouse, Riot Room
WedneSday, July 30
Justin Timberlake, Sprint Center
thurSday, July 31
Guy Forsyth, Knuckleheads Justin Timberlake, Sprint Center Vans Warped Tour, featuring Less Than Jake and more, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
August
Ziggy Marley, Crossroads KC
thurSday, auguSt 14
Boston, Kansas, Starlight Theatre Rod Stewart and Santana, Sprint Center
Friday, auguSt 15
Bernard Allison, Knuckleheads
Saturday, auguSt 16
Chris Duarte, Knuckleheads Umphrey’s McGee, Crossroads KC
Sunday, auguSt 17
Miranda Lambert, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Monday, auguSt 18
Gipsy Kings, the Uptown
Friday, auguSt 1
tueSday, auguSt 19
Liverpool, Frontier Park
Katy Perry, Sprint Center
OneRepublic, Starlight Theatre
thurSday, auguSt 21
The Pitch Picnic, with Everclear, Soul Asylum, Eve 6, Spacehog, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater
Friday, auguSt 22
American Idol Live, the Midland
Nickel Creek, Sarah Jarosz, Uptown Theater
Reverend Horton Heat, the Bottleneck Strand of Oaks, Riot Room
Saturday, auguSt 2
Saturday, auguSt 23
Play Dead, Crossroads KC
ZZ Top and Jeff Beck, Starlight Theatre
Sunday, auguSt 3
Sunday, auguSt 24
thurSday, auguSt 7
Friday, auguSt 29
Hundredth, the Granada
B.J. Thomas, the Sara Morgan Trio, Knuckleheads
Yes, the Midland
Saturday, auguSt 30
Tori Amos, the Midland
Mötley Crüe, Alice Cooper, Sprint Center Chicago and REO Speedwagon, Starlight Theatre
Friday, auguSt 8
Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, with the Guilty Ones, Knuckleheads
The Rainmakers, Crossroads KC
Sleepy Kitty, Riot Room
Goo Goo Dolls, Daughtry, Starlight Theatre
Alabama, Starlight Theatre
The Grisly Hand, Knuckleheads Liquid Stranger, the Granada
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• 8 Contests • 4 Stages in Operation • Workshops • Arts & Crafts Fair
Advance Tickets on sale NOW!!! Walnut Valley Association, Inc. P. O. Box 245 Winfield, KS 67156 (620) 221-3250 hq@wvfest.com www.wvfest.com
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St. Dionysios Greek Festival
St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church, 8100 W. 95th St., Overland Park, stdionysios.com Through Sunday, June 8
Sugar Creek Slavic Festival
Mike Onka Memorial Building, 11520 E. Putnam, Sugar Creek, slavicfest.com Through Saturday, June 7
SATURDAY, JUNE 7
Children’s Day and National Trails Day
Missouri Town 1855, 8010 E. Park Rd., Lee’s Summit, jchs.org
Vaile Strawberry Festival
The Vaile Mansion, 1500 N. Liberty, Independence, vailemansion.org
Westport Beer Festival
s er m ar F & s l a v i t s e Fairs, F
In front of McCoy’s Public House, 4057 Pennsylvania, beerkc.com
Winesong 2014
Riverfest Park, 33440 W. 79th St., De Soto, winesongatriverfest.com
Wornall House Garden Tour
John Wornall House, 6115 Wornall, wornallhouse.org
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
27th Annual Dog-N-Jog
Country Club Plaza, intersection of Central and Ward Pkwy., hsgkc.org
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
Festival on the Trails
May
THURSDAY, MAY 22
New Belgium Clips Beer & Film Tour
Theis Park, Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd. and Oak, 7 p.m. newbelgium.com/events
FRIDAY, MAY 23
ConQuesT 45: Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention
Marriott Hotel, 200 W. 12th St., conquestkc.org Through Sunday, May 25
SATURDAY, MAY 24 Jiggle Jam
Crown Center, 2450 Grand, kcjigglejam.com Through Sunday, May 25
SUNDAY, MAY 25
Celebration at the Station
Union Station, Pershing and Main, kcsymphony.org
FRIDAY, MAY 30
Just for Her Expo
Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., justforherexpokc.com Through Sunday, June 1
Prairie Village Art Show
The Village Shopping center, 71st St. and Mission, prairievillageshops.com Through Sunday, June 1
SATURDAY, MAY 31 Crawl for Cancer
Power & Light District, 13th St. and Walnut, crawlforcancer.org/kansascity
Kansas City Heart Walk
Theis Park, Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd. and Oak, kcheartwalk.org
June SUNDAY, JUNE 1 KosherFest
Congregation Ohev Sholom, 5311 W. 75th St., Prairie Village, ohev-sholom.com/kosherfest-details
Juneteenth Parade and Celebration
Big 11 Lake, N. 11th St. between State Ave. and Washington Blvd., KCK, juneteenthkck.com
THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Old Shawnee Days
Kansas City Scottish Highland Games
FRIDAY, JUNE 6
SATURDAY, JUNE 14
Intersection of Third St. and Douglas, leessummitdowntowndays.com Through Sunday, June 8
Crown Center, 2450 Grand, crowncenter.com Through Sunday, June 15
Shawnee Town, 11600 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, oldshawneedays.org Through Sunday, June 8
Downtown Lee’s Summit Days
E.H. Young Park, 1001 N.W. Argosy Pkwy., Riverside, kcscottishgames.org Through Sunday, June 15
Crown Center Antique Festival
Pistons ’N’ Pin Ups Car Show
Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, cricketwirelessamp.com
Jazzoo
Kansas City International Dragon Boat Festival
Kansas City Zoo, 6800 Zoo Dr., jazzookc.org
Brush Creek on the Country Club Plaza, chinagardensociety-kc.org
Pooches on the Parkway
Wilbur Young Park, 1100 S.E. Adams Dairy Pkwy., Blue Springs, bluespringsgov.com
Festa Italiana
Zona Rosa, 8640 N. Dixson Ave., unicokc.org Through Sunday, June 1
Downtown Gardner, bound by Washington and Shawnee, and Elm and Center streets, festivalonthetrails.com Through Saturday, June 14
The WBFF Central U.S. Fitness Show 2014 The Midland, 1228 Main, midlandkc.com
Liberty Arts Squared
Historic Liberty Square, bound by Franklin and Kansas, and Water and Main streets, libertyartssquared.org Through Saturday, June 7
Paola Heartland Car Show
Park Square, downtown Paola, paolacarshow.com continued on page 23
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Kansas City LGBT Film Festival
INVITES YOU AND A GUEST TO A SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING!
Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, kcgayfilmfest.com Through Thursday, July 3
Friday, June 27
Great Lenexa BBQ Battle
Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park, 14915 W. 87th Pkwy., Lenexa, lenexa.com/parks/festivals_bbq.html Through Saturday, June 28
WaterFest
Excelsior Springs Downtown Historic District, intersection of Main and Spring streets, exspgschamber.com/waterfest.html Through Sunday, June 29
saTurday, June 28
Maker Faire: Kansas City
Union Station 30 W. Pershing Rd. makerfairekc.com Through Sunday, June 29
KC Nanobrew Festival
TUESDAY, MAY 27 - 7:30 PM
Liberty City Hall parking lot, 201 E. Kansas Ave., Liberty, kcnanobrews.com
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KC Renaissance Festival Stems, a Garden Soiree continued from page 21
Renditions Polish Pottery Festival
Intersection of Main and Short streets, Weston, renditionsweston.com
Sprint Family Fun Days: Ultimate Field Day Power & Light District, 14th St. between Grand and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com
Tonganoxie Days
Downtown Tonganoxie, Fourth Street, tonganoxiedays.com
Thursday, June 19
saTurday, June 21
Friday, June 20
Pinstripes Bowling, Bocce and Bistro, 6203 W. 135th St., Overland Park, bigslickkc.org
Big Slick Party and Auction
The Midland, 1228 Main, bigslickkc.org
Browne’s Irish Street Faire
Browne’s Irish Market, 3300 Pennsylvania, brownesmarket.com
Kansas City Real Ale Festival
3365 S.W. Fascination Dr., Lee’s Summit, tkcrealalefest.com
Downtown Parkville, south end of Main Street, parkvillemo.org Through Saturday, July 5
Thursday, July 3
Waldo Crawldo
Friday, July 4
sunday, June 22
Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK, bgc-gkc.org
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Parkville July Fourth Celebration
Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. U.S. Hwy. 50, Kingsville, powellgardens.org/booms Rain date, July 5
Fiesta Kansas City
2014 SportsFest
July Wednesday, July 2
Gregg/Klice Community Center, 1600 John “Buck” O’Neil Way, kcparks.org
Kauffman Stadium, 1 Royal Way, bigslickkc.org
2500 State Line Rd., West Bottoms, gaypridekc.org Through Sunday, June 22
South Park, 1141 Massachusetts, Lawrence, lawrenceks.org
Booms & Blooms Festival
75th St. and Wornall, Waldo, waldocrawldo.com
KC Gay Pride 2014
IN THEATERS MAY 30 www.AMillionWays.com
2014 Summer Fest
KC Parks Community Health & Safety Fair
Big Slick Celebrity Classic
Crown Center, 2450 Grand, fiestakansascity.com Through Sunday, June 22
THIS FILM HAS BEEN RATED R FOR STRONG CRUDE AND SEXUAL CONTENT, LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT, SOME VIOLENCE AND DRUG MATERIAL. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. 20 PASSES WILL BE DISTRIBUTED VIA A RANDOM DRAWING ON MONDAY, MAY 26. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY, MAY 25. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY! THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. SEATS ARE NOT GUARANTEED, ARE LIMITED TO THEATER CAPACITY AND ARE FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED. EVERYONE ENTERING THE THEATER MUST HAVE A PASS.
Big Slick Celebrity Bowl
UMB Big Bash
Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, umbbigbash.org
Overland Park Arboretum, 8909 W. 179th St., Overland Park, stemssoiree.org
Art of the Car Concours
Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick, artofthecarconcours.com
Jackson County’s Fourth of July Celebration Longview Lake, 11100 View High Dr.,
KC Riverfest
Berkley Riverfront Park, Missouri Riverfront between the Heart of America Bridge and the Bond Bridge, kcriverfest.com
Future Stages Festival
Lenexa Community Days Parade
Wednesday, June 25
Thursday, July 10
Downtown Lawrence, freestatefestival.org Through June 29
Savannah, Missouri, dawgdazeofsummerfestival.com Through Saturday, July 12 continued on page 25
Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org
Free State Festival
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Old Town Lenexa, corner of Santa Fe Trail Dr. and Pflumm, lenexa.com
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Kauffman Legacy Park
4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO 64110 (816) 759-7300 mdc.mo.gov/regions/kansas-city/discovery-center
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Salute! A Festival of Wine and Food
Lawrence, dgcountyfair.com Through Saturday, August 2
Friday, July 11
August Friday, auguSt 1
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Young Friends of Art Summer White Party
Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org
Sprint Family Fun Series: Beach Party
Power & Light District, 14th St. between Main and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com
Saturday, July 12 Art & Wine Stroll
6 p.m., Park Square, downtown Paola, paolatourism.org
tueSday, July 15 Cass County Fair
Pleasant Hill, pleasanthill.com Through Sunday, July 20
Saturday, July 19
Festival of Butterflies
VODKA
Sunday, auguSt 3
DOG PEOPLE
Boulevard of Dreams
Studio Dan Meiners, 2500 W. Pennway, boulevardofdreams.org Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. U.S. Highway 50, Kingsville, powellgardens.org Through Sunday, August 3, and August 8-10
Strawberry Swing Indie Craft Fair
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Alexander Majors Barn, 8201 State Line, strawberryswing.org
thurSday, auguSt 7 Missouri State Fair
Missouri State Fairgrounds, 2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia, mostatefair.com Through Sunday, August 17
Beer Pong for Babies
KC Live Block, Power & Light District, 13th St. and Grand, beerpongforbabies.com
Miami County Fair and Rodeo
401 E. Wallace Park Dr., Paola, miamicountykansasfair.com Through Saturday, July 26
Sunday, July 20
Kansas City’s Big Picnic
Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art Sculpture Garden and Theis Park, 47th St. and Oak
Wayne City Landing Days Festival
Roper Stadium, 131 S. Carlisle, Sugar Creek, C facebook.com/waynecitylandingdays Through Saturday, August 9 M
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U.S. Bank Great Midwest Balloon Fest
Saturday, auguSt 9
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Tails on the Trails Pet Festival Kansas City Summer Reptile Show
Overland Park International Trade Center, 6800 W. 115th St., coldbloodedexpos.com
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Kansas Speedway, 400 Speedway Blvd., KCK, MY midwestballoonfest.org Through Sunday, August 10 CY
Ad Astra Pool, 8265 Maurer, Lenexa, lenexa.com
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Sprint Family Fun Series: Ice Cream Social Platte County Fair
Platte County Fairgrounds, 400 First St., Platte City, plattecountyfair.com Through Saturday, July 26
tueSday, July 22
Wyandotte County Fair
Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, 13700 Polfer Rd., Bonner Springs, wycofair.com Through Saturday, July 26
Sunday, July 27
Cider Mill Century Bicycle Tour
Louisburg Cider Mill, 14730 Kansas 68, kansascyclist.com/events/ CiderMillCentury.html
Johnson County Fair
Johnson County Fairgrounds, 136 E. Washington, Gardner, jocokansasfair.com Through Saturday, August 2
WedneSday, July 30
Power & Light District, 14th St. between Main and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com
Blue Springs Glowing Night Ride
Wilber Young Park, 1100 S.E. Adams Dairy Pkwy., Blue Springs, bluespringsgov.com
Friday, auguSt 15
Ethnic Enrichment Festival
Swope Park, Meyer Blvd. and Swope Pkwy., eeckc.net Through Sunday, August 17
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Saturday, auguSt 16 Sly’s Rock the Block
Union Station, Pershing and Main, kcparks.org/event/slys-rock-the-block
thurSday, auguSt 21 Tiblow Days Festival
Downtown Bonner Springs, Second St. and Oak, bsedwchamber.org Through Saturday, August 23
VodkaForDogPeople.com 2014
Douglas County Fair
Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper,
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St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church
18TH ANNUAL VILLAGEFEST
Friday, July 4 • 7:30 am to 1:00 pm 7700 Mission Rd FREE, FAMILY, FUN www.prairievillagefest.com
JUNE 6-8, 2014
5TH ANNUAL PRAIRIE VILLAGE JAZZ FESTIVAL
8100 w. 95th St. Overland Park
Saturday, September 6 • 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm Harmon Park – 77th & Delmar KANSAS CITY’S “DESTINATION JAZZ FESTIVAL” www.prairievillagejazz.org
For More Info: 913.341.7373
stdionysios.org/festival
FREE SHUTTLE TO ALL THE SUMMER HOT SPOTS: UPTOWN THEATRE • THE MIDL AND • CROSSROADS KC
Introducing Kansas City’s Newest Hotel! Grand Opening May 22nd! Located in Westport, the 816 Hotel is KC’s only hotel dedicated to the past and present of the Paris of the Plains. The history of K.C. is rich and our hotel tells Kansas City’s story and offers a memorable experience. Rooms are quaintly decorated with archived photos of Kansas City’s history along with a top of the line bedding package.
AMENITIES INCLUDE: Complimentary breakfast (including made-to-order omelets) • Free Cocktails nightly in lobby bar • KC’s fastest (and free) hotel Wi-Fi • Complimentary parking • Complimentary passes to Gold’s Gym (2 blocks east)
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Friday, august 22
Lawrence Busker Festival
Downtown Lawrence, between Seventh and 11th streets, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, lawrencebuskerfest.com Through Sunday, August 24
Parkville Days
English Landing Park, parkvillemo.org Through Sunday, August 24
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Roots Festival
Tuesday
saturday, august 23
Wednesday
Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., baconfestkc.com
Downtown Overland Park Farmers Market
Park Square, downtown Paola, rootsfestival.org Through Saturday, August 23
Bacon-Fest
thursday, august 28 Santa-Cali-Gon Days
Independence Square, Osage to Memorial Drive, between Truman and Walnut, santacaligon.com Through Monday, September 1
Friday, august 29 Kansas City Irish Fest
Crown Center, 2450 Grand, kcirishfest.com Through Sunday, August 31
saturday, august 30 KC Renaissance Festival
633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, kcrenfest.com Weekends through October 13, plus Labor Day and Columbus Day
Lawrence Farmers Market
4-6 p.m., 824 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market 7 a.m., Second St. and Douglas
6:30 a.m.-1 p.m., on Marty between 79th and 80th streets
Gladstone Farmers Market
2-6 p.m., Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect
Independence Farmers & Craft Market
5 a.m.-1 p.m., the corner of Truman and Main, Historic Independence Square, 210 W. Truman Rd.
Saturday
Brookside Farmers Market
8 a.m.-1 p.m., Border Star Montessori, 6321 Wornall, brooksidefarmersmarket.com
City Market
6 a.m.-3 p.m., 20 E. Fifth St.
DeSoto Farmers Market
8 a.m.-noon, St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1004 Rock Rd., De Soto
Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market 7 a.m.Saturday, Second St. and Douglas
Downtown Overland Park Farmers Market 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m., on Marty between 79th and 80th streets
SATURDAYS: 7am-noon WEDNESDAYS: 2-6pm
in the north parking lot of Gladstone HyVee at 7117 N. Prospect
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wild flower arrangements
Gladstone Farmers Market
7 a.m.-noon, Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect
Liberty Farmers Market
7 a.m.-noon, Feldmans Farm & Home, 1332 W. Kansas
Grand Court Farmers Market
10 a.m.-1 p.m., Grand Court Retirement Center, 501 W. 107th St.
Merriam Farmers Market
4-7 p.m., Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr.
Olathe Farmers Market
7:30 a.m., Black Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St. (Field 1)
Parkville Farmers Market
2-5 p.m., English Landing Park, First St. and Main
Waldo Farmers Market
3-7 p.m., Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 303 W. 79th St.
Thursday
Cottin’s Hardware Store
4-6:30 p.m., back parking lot of 1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence, cottinshardware.com/farmersmarket
Friday BadSeed
4-9 p.m., 1909 McGee
Independence Farmers & Craft Market
5 a.m.-1 p.m., the corner of Truman and Main, Historic Independence Square, 210 W. Truman Rd.
pasture raised chicken, eggs & pork
KC Organics and Natural Market 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Minor Park, Holmes at Red Bridge Road
home baked goods
Lawrence Farmers Market
8 a.m.-noon, 824 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Merriam Farmers Market
7 a.m.-1 p.m., Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr.
organic-practice vegetables
Olathe Farmers Market
7:30 a.m., Black Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St.
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Parkville Farmers Market
7 a.m.-noon, English Landing Park, First St. and Main
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Summer Camp for KIDS
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June 9-14 June 23-28 July 14-18 July 28-August 1
B Y A NGE L A L U T Z
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ummer has been slow coming to Kansas City, but make no mistake: The five-fi nger death punch of heat, humidity, boredom, sweat and sweat-barassment is upon us. Sure, you could get hammered on cold mojitos at noon, but going for a swim is an easier, cheaper and safer way to revel in the sluggishness of the season. So here’s our list of 10 public pools where you can barrel down a slide, go with the flow, or just eat a 3-foot Super Rope while working on your tan. Oh, and remember your sunscreen, people.
worth the wait. Once you’ve snagged a tube, seriously hang onto it.
ADVENTURE OASIS
LEAWOOD AQUATIC CENTER
This water park aims to please thrill seekers and slothful sunbathers alike with a 900foot lazy river, a 308-foot raft slide, and a full-service dining area.
This pool has five separate areas to appeal to all ages, including a zero-depth pool, a slide and an adults-only swim every hour. A season pass at Leawood Aquatic Center also gets you into five other Johnson County–area pools.
2100 S. Hub Dr., Independence ci.independence.mo.us/parksandrec/ advenoasis.aspx
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8801 Greenway Ln., Lenexa lenexa.com/parks/pools_indiantrails.html When you’re ready to work off that half-pint of cookies and cream you just devoured from the concession stand, Indian Trails has eight lanes for swimming laps. And a rock-climbing wall. And plenty of space for lounging. 10601 Lee Blvd., Leawood leawood.org/parks/aquaticcenter.aspx
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When the dome comes off this year-round pool in May, the fun really starts. The center has a 120-foot slide, a spray park and a separate pool for kids. Also: an area for competitive lap swimming. Loser buys nachos!
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Fiction
wave and a smallpox outbreak, and someone has killed Jenny Bonnet in a boardinghouse. Donoghue researched the case and has written a possible explanation of the crime. This one feels like a hit for fans of historical fiction and true crime.
Frog Music
By Emma Donoghue Raise your hand if you’re still creeped out by Room, Donoghue’s engrossing 2010 novel, in which a 5-year-old boy and his mother are held captive in a small shed. Her new book happens to be set in summer, and it’s based on a true story involving an unsolved murder. In the San Francisco of 1876, citizens are enduring a heat
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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour
By Joshua Ferris You can file this under Most Anticipated Novel. Ferris’ first book, the award-winning Then We Came to the End, is fueled by hilarious, slyly profound observations about what it’s like to work in a modern office. This latest story follows a man whose identity has been stolen on
By Chang-rae Lee Thanks to the immense popularity of The Hunger Games series, dystopian novels are still a big part of the young-adult genre, but Lee’s book reminds us that they aren’t just for teenagers. Lee sets his story in a future America that has labor camps filled with Chinese workers and a 1984-like totalitarian government. The book follows the journey of a young woman who abandons her colony and goes in search of the man she loves, an action that could start a revolt. Lee is known for his beautiful prose, and fans of literary fiction should love this.
Land of Love and Drowning
By Tiphanie Yanique An epic family saga set in the Virgin Islands? Yes, please. Yanique’s debut novel follows three generations of the Bradshaw clan. It has a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea, a dramatic rescue, love, loss, war, betrayal, and even some magic. It also tells the history of the islands as they transferred from Danish to American rule. I won’t be jetting off to the Caribbean this summer, but reading this may be the next best thing.
The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
By Gabrielle Zevin A.J. Fikry is the cranky owner of a small New England bookstore, and he’s having a rough time. His wife has died, his shop is almost bankrupt, and his rare collection of Poe poems has been stolen. His fortunes change when a precocious child turns up at his store, and he gets another chance at love with a fellow bibliophile. Zevin’s story is part mystery, part knowing tweak of lit culture and part romance. And if there’s a happy ending, you won’t hear me complain.
Nonfiction Little Failure: A Memoir
By Gary Shteyngart Humor! Pathos! Culture! Satire! Shteyngart’s memoir has it all. He was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1979, when he was 7. After being beaten by other kids, he changed his name from Igor to Gary and spent years trying to lose his thick Russian accent. His mother wanted him to become a lawyer or a Wall Street type, but he couldn’t do it, so she nicknamed him “little failure.” Shteyngart is actually a big success on the literary-fiction scene: His novels include the acclaimed Super Sad True Love Story. I hope this wonderful memoir brings more attention to his work.
tinue to get richer. Anyone who has chanted “We are the 99 percent” won’t be surprised by that news, but Piketty’s fluid collation of data and history has become the stuff of op-ed battles. It’s a book that’s going to get referenced a lot. If you want to rage like Karl Marx this summer, break out the Piketty.
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Capital in the Twenty-First Century
By Thomas Piketty Who wants to read a 700-page tome about wealth inequality? I do! I do! Also, everybody else: It is the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon and, at this writing, tops The New York Times nonfiction list. French economist Piketty created a huge historical database of income and wealth distribution from 20 countries, crunched the numbers and found that, indeed, the rich con-
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By Lewis Dartnell If you’re worried about the collapse of civilization, this is the book for you. If society crumbled from an asteroid collision, a flu pandemic or a zombie onslaught, the result basically would be the same: We might have to rebuild our technologies from scratch. Astrobiologist Dartnell here synthesizes humankind’s knowledge into 300 pages of instructions on agriculture, food preservation, medicine, transportation, communications and chemistry. Better skip the e-book and buy a print copy — maybe two.
Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America
By John Waters I love travelogues, but I doubt that I’ve read one quite like this. Cult film director Waters hitchhiked from Baltimore to San Francisco, carrying a sign that read “End of 70 West.” Mustachioed high jinks ensue. But instead of writing a typical travel journal, Waters here imagines a best-case scenario, then follows with a worst-case version and, finally, the real thing. If you like musical accompaniment, he also includes a playlist. I can’t wait to hear what happened to him in Kansas.
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SEPT. 19: Stop Making Sense
kids investigating mysterious happenings at a nearby construction site.
Tammy
Laid off and cheated on, a desperate woman (Melissa McCarthy) robs a fast-food joint, then goes on the lam with her hard-drinking grandma (Susan Sarandon — why not?). McCarthy co-writes with husband Ben Falcone, who also directs.
July 11 A Long Way Down (Limited)
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here was a time when tentpoles like SpiderMan, X-Men and Godzilla would dominate the hot summer months. But those blockbusters already premiered in May, taking in as much box office as possible, then getting the hell out of the way lest they be steamrolled by the juggernaut that is the Summer of Kelsey Grammer. The erstwhile Dr. Frasier Crane appears in both Transformers: Age of Extinction and The Expendables 3. Kansas City filmgoers, kneel before your new celluloid god.
May 30 Maleficent
Disney reboots Sleeping Beauty in live action, from the villain’s POV, with some origin story stirred into the cauldron and a shrewdly cast Angelina Jolie in the title role.
A Million Ways to Die in the West
Seth MacFarlane writes, directs, woos Charlize Theron, battles Liam Neeson and makes anachronistic jokes in a raunchy Western that he hopes will be this generation’s Blazing Saddles.
June 6
The Fault in Our Stars
The first unapologetic weepie of the summer, based on John Green’s acclaimed YA novel. Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort (no, really) fight cancer, find out about the world and fall in love.
Obvious Child
Everything happens to Donna (Saturday Night Live alumna Jenny Slate), an aspiring standup comic who in one fell swoop finds herself dumped, fired and pregnant, and must rise to meet the challenges of adulthood.
June 13 How to Train Your Dragon 2
Five years after uniting the Vikings and the dragons on their home island, Hiccup and Toothless find themselves at the center of a battle with Drago Bludvist, who controls his own army of enslaved dragons.
Edge of Tomorrow
Groundhog Day meets Source Code in this tale pitting futuristic soldiers against aliens over and over, until the soldiers finally get it right. Starring running Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise’s “intense” face, and Emily Blunt.
22 Jump Street
Undercover cops Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum graduate to college, where one hopes they’ll at least blend in better.
And So It Goes
Obnoxious real-estate agent Michael Douglas gets an assist from neighbor Diane Keaton when his granddaughter is suddenly left in his care. Rob Reiner directs. Your parents will love it.
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Led by Caesar (Andy Serkis, the Olivier of motion capture), an army of highly evolved apes is pushed to the brink of war by the human survivors of a deadly virus (Gary Oldman, et al).
June 20 Jersey Boys
The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, based on the Broadway musical and directed by Clint Eastwood.
July 18 Jupiter Ascending
Guy Pearce tracks criminals through the Australian Outback, aided reluctantly by the wounded accomplice they abandoned (Robert Pattinson).
Andy and Lana Wachowski return with another mind-bending F/Xtravaganza, a new tale of destiny and interplanetary chess in which Mila Kunis is The One, Channing Tatum is her lupine protector, and Eddie Redmayne does a trilogy’s worth of overacting in the trailer alone.
Think Like a Man Too
Planes: Fire & Rescue
June 27
The Purge: Anarchy
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This documentary explores the art and life of Ralph Steadman, the mild-mannered, softspoken Brit whose distinct style and vivid, nightmarish illustrations became synonymous with the writings of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.
Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots co-star in this adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel about four suicidal people who form their own support group after converging on the same rooftop on New Year’s Eve.
The Rover
The cast of Think Like a Man (Won?) reunites for a Las Vegas wedding, though the bachelor and bachelorette parties appear to drive the plot, while Kevin Hart controls the volume.
Transformers: Age of Extinction
Bug fixes in Version 4.0 include an upgrade from Shia LaBeouf to Mark Wahlberg.
July 2 Deliver Us From Evil
Based on a true story — work with us here — a Bronx detective (Eric Bana) investigates a series of crimes whose persons of interest just happen to be demon-possessed.
Earth to Echo
Super 8 meets E.T. in this tale of a group of
Disney’s in-house Pixar knockoff did all right for itself, so naturally they’ve given it the franchise treatment by enlisting air racer Dusty Crophopper (voiced by Dane Cook) into the park service to fight forest fires. Swept up in this year’s purge are a father seeking to avenge his son’s death, a luckless couple experiencing car trouble, and any number of innocents abducted for the amusement of the rich. Expect more sequels; despair for the human condition.
July 25 Hercules
The question is not “Was Dwayne Johnson born to play Hercules?” (because yes, obviously) but rather “How will director Brett Ratner screw up this golden opportunity?” continued on page 42
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Sex Tape
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel spice things up and wring as much comedy as they can out of man vs. technology trope No. 23.
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Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-funded follow-up to Garden State is the story of a 30-something father trying to teach his kids about life, backed by the most earnest indie-rock soundtrack of the summer.
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Chadwick Boseman dons the cape of the Hardest Working Man in Show Business in this James Brown biopic directed by Tate Taylor (The Help) and co-starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.
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Into the Storm
Tornado porn, apparently without sharks.
Lucy
Drug mule Scarlett Johansson absorbs some of the junk she’s transporting and transforms into an omniscient superhuman badass of epic proportions.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Producer Michael Bay and his short attention span reboot the heroes on the half shell.
Off the Wall
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Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan circle each other in this will-they-or-won’t-they rom-com about two attractive young people who must deny their chemistry for 102 minutes.
August 13
Urban archaeologists explore catacombs beneath Paris, where they encounter their darkest fears and revisit the horrors of their past.
The Expendables 3
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New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. star as friends who attend a costume party as police officers, then let the power go to their heads.
The Giver
Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep anchor this adaptation about an idyllic utopian society in which one young man is chosen to experience “memories” of the real world.
Life After Beth
The Internet’s Own Boy
August 22
Night Moves
Boy (Dane DeHaan) loves girl (Aubrey Plaza). Girl dies. Girl rises from the dead. Boy loves zombie.
If I Stay
Chloë Grace Moretz stars as a young music student in love, caught between life and death after a highway accident claims her family.
The story of programming wunderkind, Reddit co-founder and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life after a two-year legal battle surrounding his arrest for downloading academic articles. Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard star as environmentalists who plot to demolish a dam in Oregon.
The One I Love Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Familiar faces and a few new hard-boiled citizens walk the mean streets in this sequel to Frank Miller’s noir-inspired graphic-novel adaptation, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez.
Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass are a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Ted Danson is their therapist. Expect the Duplass brothers’ brand of awkwardness that dwells in the chasm between comedy and drama.
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Inner-city karate kids square off against Beverly Hills karate kids.
August 29 Jessabelle
A young woman returns home to the bayou to recuperate from a terrible car accident, only to find herself haunted by the tormented spirits of the dead, including her late mother.
The Loft
Five friends share an apartment for their various affairs and infidelities, like you do. It’s a nifty arrangement until an unknown woman is found murdered there.
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Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler co-star in a romantic comedy that either blatantly skewers all the tropes and clichés of awful modern romantic comedies or indulges in them forthrightly and is itself an awful modern romantic comedy.
The Signal
A computer hacker lures three road-tripping college students to a mysterious desert location. After everything goes black, one of the students wakes to a living nightmare, presided over by Laurence Fishburne in a hazmat suit. At the outset of a second ice age, Earth’s remaining survivors live aboard a high-speed train, which becomes a self-contained society segregated by class.
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
Mike Myers directs this documentary about the ultimate Hollywood insider, a beloved talent manager who has guided the careers of an astounding who’s who of actors and musicians.
Filth
James McAvoy stars as a corrupt, hard-drinking Edinburgh police detective whose personal life and sanity begin to unravel as he competes for a promotion and works a high-profile murder investigation.
The Trip to Italy
The Grand Seduction
Venus in Fur
Doc Hollywood meets Local Hero in this tale of a down-at-heels Canadian harbor town that can secure a new factory if it can woo a doctor to hang his shingle there. It could be the feel-good socialized-medicine sleeper of the summer.
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By and Large, John Balistreri Red Star Studios at Belger Crane Yard Studios Through August 16
Inner and Outer Limits, Michael and Ian Young Todd Weiner Gallery Through July 26
Curator’s Talk: Travel the Roads of Arabia, Nelson-Atkins Museum
Don’t Go Back to Sleep, Stanya Kahn Grand Arts Through July 3
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By any name — even one as brand-heavy as Bank of America Celebration at the Station — the Kansas City Symphony’s annual, free, outdoor gig is just about as good as summer gets in this town: spirited music, the downtown skyline at sunset, huge fireworks. Just look at this photo of last year’s event. Barring a JP Morgan Chase Tornado or a Wells Fargo Downpour, expect the Texas Tenors, the U.S. Air Force Band of MidAmerica Brass Ensemble and other guests to make you feel good about being a Great Plains American. Michael Stern conducts; you’re in charge of your lawn chair. The music starts at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 25, at Union Station, Pershing Road and Main. See kcsymphony.org for details.
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ter and action. The film opens with medical he next time you’re bored in suburbia, just imagine a man in a bear suit pick- professionals camped out in vacant, newing his way across your lawn. Video artist construction homes, appliances encased in plastic, waiting for patients to arrive. They and Guggenheim fellow Stanya Kahn — wellparcel milk into small plastic bottles as if it known for populating familiar landscapes were medicine, shuffle tentatively to upbeat with bizarre figures — this time turns her lens funk, tipple Grey Goose and nap with their toward suburban Kansas City. And the bear eyes open. Some have wounds of their own, doesn’t necessarily augur good fortune. Kahn’s latest film, Don’t Go Back to Sleep, weeping bandages and septic scrubs. We never learn their origin. takes its title from a Rumi poem about a Kahn’s previous films, such as It’s Cool, threshold between two worlds, and the work’s I’m Good, blended humor and horror, an aespresentation at Grand Arts forces audiences thetic evident here as well. to straddle a similar divide. Despite its anxious underThe viewing room is done Don’t Go Back to Sleep current, Don’t Go Back to up McMansion-style, a senThrough July 3 at Grand Arts Sleep is frequently funny: sory cocoon that mirrors 1819 Grand, 816-421-6887, Doctors lose their gum in a the film’s suburban interigrandarts.com body cavity during a nearors. The smell of fresh paint slapstick operation or drone disorients us before Kahn’s on about walking beans to sounds and images can, an unresponsive patient with a severe head and we’ve trod in on carpeting so thick and wound, as the seemingly doomed person plush that our shoes sink as though drawn lolls in a bathtub. into quicksand. Even the seating disorients: But the absurdist elements are more ofWe watch from a luxurious white sectional ten disquieting than amusing. Kahn splices couch, a piece we’re about to watch actors the doctors’ scenes with long shots of a figuse onscreen. Kahn’s subjects linger on another kind of ure stalking the countryside in a snagglethreshold, the uneasy space between disas- toothed bear suit, scored with the kind of
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low-frequency purr we’re accustomed to hearing in horror films. The sound design is paramount to Sleep’s strange power. Kahn blends natural and artificial rhythms into a lush, unsettling soundscape. Doctors tramp through high prairie grasses to the martial report of a snare drum, laid over the hushing drone of cicadas. Original compositions by Kahn and Keith Wood dwell alongside “Amazing Grace” and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” sung with haunting grace by local musical-theater whiz Shelby Floyd. With the exception of Floyd, whose performance is as striking as ever, Kahn relies on untrained actors. A few speak selfconsciously, but their improvisations and conversations feel mostly authentic. Kahn’s camera frames iconic Kansas City landmarks as backdrops to an alien world. Exterior shots of homes are rare, and interiors seem to bleed together as the camera follows subjects through rooms and up winding staircases, only to jump-cut to the same figures in a new location. By stringing these shots together, Kahn builds a labyrinth of spatial impossibilities. The jagged cuts manipulate time along
Stills from Sleep with space. The camera often reframes actors in the middle of lines or speeches, a disorienting call to the constructed nature of the film and an editing move that builds a frenetic pace. In other sections, time seems to slow and stretch on indefinitely, as when a doctor paddles through a rooftop pool. One male doctor, to his companion’s annoyance, waxes philosophically on David Hume and the “hyper-real” color of a rosebush. Yet another investigates a wall of photographs inside, subjects posed and perfectly retouched: “They just don’t look real.” Nothing does. Kahn’s film seems equal parts fertile fantasy and critical evocation of the Freudian unheimlich — the quite literally unhomelike home. But the head trip is worth the ride. Kahn bewitches us by blurring boundaries between script and improvisation, between manipulated footage and realtime recording. Don’t Go Back to Sleep lets us dawdle at that threshold and dwell where we can feel both artificial and real, awake and dreaming.
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pike Nguyen’s seven-week-old midtown restaurant, iPho Tower, might become like New York City’s elegant French-Vietnamese Le Colonial when it grows up. Right now, it’s more like something out of the film Saigon Electric: flashy and wildly colored, tuned to a soundtrack that veers from Rosemary Clooney to gospel to sultry house music, depending on the time of day. The shifting personalities on view at iPho Tower, which gets progressively louder and more seductive the later the hour, is one reason that this off beat venue is already an appealing place to order food after midnight. Chubby’s, just up the street, has never seemed more boring. The midtown faithful will recall that this address used to house Chubby’s, back in the 1980s. Following a rainbow coalition of wellintentioned but short-lived restaurants that attempted such unlikely flavors as Pakistani food and Caribbean cuisine, Nguyen has taken the space and spent a small fortune gutting it. The long, narrow storefront looks, for the first time in ages, stylish — at least if your idea of style runs to the theatrical. There’s barely an inch of space that hasn’t been given a self-consciously eye-catching detail: paper lanterns here, a gilded Buddha there. The idea, says Vietnamese-born Nguyen, is for patrons to walk in and feel right away that they’ve left Kansas City. It’s a fine ambition, and he has executed it with some success. Pass through these portals, and you set aside this grimy stretch of midtown, in favor of … well, where are we? e r o M This might be Paris, if Paris were very small and lacked building at ine Onl .com codes. There’s a 3-foot h c pit wire structure — I’d call it Eiffel Tower–ish — on the bar, next to a laughing-Buddha statue. The two together suggest the supposed Gallic influence on a kitchen that makes excellent traditional Vietnamese dishes (steaming pho bowls, banh mi sandwiches) and a few “fusion” creations. The latter nod halfheartedly toward the French sensibilities that dominated cultural life in Vietnam’s larger cities from 1887 to 1954. Some of the dishes listed under the heading “Vietnamese/French Fusion” are tasty but not foolproof. The “fusion beef stew” has a silky sauce flavored with star anise and cloves, but you have to check with the servers before you commit. If the kitchen has just made a pot of the stuff, the beef is likely to be tough; if it has been simmering for a couple of hours, it’s nirvana.
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come on a true French baguette, though the bread is close enough to the real thing for me. Among these, I like the “house special,” with its slices of grilled pork, beef and VietnamA simple slab of salmon comes perfectly ese meatloaf tucked into the bread’s crusty grilled and lightly glazed with the same sweet depths. That may sound like a lot of meat, sauce, a strawberry-and-ginger concoction, but the sandwiches I tried were a little thin that Nguyen serves with his steamed dumplings. It tastes like neither strawberry nor on fillings. Fortunately, that’s not the case with most ginger; instead, it’s a vaguely fruity, garlicky of the other offerings on iPho Tower’s menu. stir-fry sauce, likable but indistinct. Still, Nguyen needs to either raise his prices That sums up iPho Tower in its infancy or grit his teeth and add a little more meat to — the place is more signifiers than identhe otherwise first-rate “shaken beef” dish, tity. There are, for instance, no fewer than a tender beef-and-onion three versions of the ambercombination in a dark, spicy colored, fish-based dipping iPho Tower sauce. The costliest dish on sauce called nuoc mam. A Grilled pork roll ��������������$6�95 the menu, a peppery grilled slightly sweet variation Sweet-potato and rib-eye, is a magnificently arrives with the divinely shrimp fritters �������������$6�95 seasoned hunk of meat and crunchy, fried shrimp rolls Fried tofu�������������������������$6�95 a properly hefty portion. It and the lightly breaded Banh mi sandwich ���������$5�95 might be the best steak to fritters of sweet potato and Pho bowl ��������������������������$8�95 Fusion beef stew�����������$12�95 hit this stretch of Broadway shrimp (a little skimpy on since the original Colony the crustaceans); there’s Steakhouse decamped from also a “regular” portion here in the 1960s. meant to be poured over the rice plates and The appetizer selection is the longest list on the vermicelli dishes. And if you ask for it, your server will bring out a third nuoc mam, the menu — understandable for a restaurant that does a brisk witching-hour business. The this one punched up with chili flakes. It’s a concert-going crowd at the Uptown Theater, little tart at first bite, then punishingly hot across the street, has already discovered the all the way down the gullet. place, and I think Westport drinkers will, Oh, but it’s a fine hurt. I especially like that too. The fried wings here — not breaded but third sauce with one of the seven banh mi crispy enough — come in a bittersweet tamasandwiches served here. True to this restaurant’s hodgepodge approach, though, none rind glaze, and the plump, grilled pork roll
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is almost satisfying enough to make a meal. The squares of fried tofu are pillowy-light under an almost invisible crust, and the pretty little baked pork buns, stuffed with a savory pork barbecue, are delicious. The Vietnamese crepes, more of those “fusion” creations, slips smartly seasoned grilled pork and shrimp inside a crispy flapjack, colored yellow from turmeric. Trust me, it’s just the ticket at 1 a.m. Another crepe — a soft, sweet one — is for now the sole dessert offering at iPho Tower. It’s a disturbingly neon-green affair, filled with coconut-flavored cream cheese and strawberry purée. “Where’s the crème brûlée?” I asked Nguyen. “Where are the éclairs?” “We will have crème brûlée,” Nguyen said. “We’re experimenting with other desserts right now. Everything takes time, you know.” Right now, Nguyen is juggling the Broadway iPho Tower and the construction of a second location, soon to open in the space formerly occupied by his Pho Hoa restaurant on Independence Avenue. (It will serve the same menu as the midtown venue.) “When I get the Independence Avenue restaurant open,” Nguyen told me, “my focus will be completely on my menu. We’ll have more desserts — French-style desserts.” Merci beaucoup.
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is just Pimm’s No. 1 and lemonade. The other Pimm’s Cup elements came later.” Affäre’s Pandora stream is set to a Paul Simon station, and Almeida lightly sings along to Elton John’s “Your Song” as she shakes a mixture and strains it into a dainty coupe glass. She garnishes the drink with a lemon peel and puts it in front of me. It’s a rich, deep amber, and Almeida darkens it further by topping the drink with a teaspoon of port. I’m used to Pimm’s in the summer, but the cocktail Almeida has prepared reminds me of fall leaves and misty mornings. A l meida has aga i n read my m i nd. “Pimm’s does make for a great fruit-based summer drink,” she says. “It’s called a fruitcup liqueur, so there’s a lot of strawberries and oranges. But it’s summery without being light. There’s some heaviness to it.” I take a sip and find the heaviness, but not in a thick, syrupy way suggested by the drink’s dark color. I taste something similar to a lighter version of an Old Fashioned. The rye tamps down the sweetness, and rather than adding simple syrup or other sugars, Almeida has opted for orange bitters and port, the better to bring out the fruit notes already in Pimm’s. Almeida’s clairvoyance has paid off: I’m surprised and pleased. “There’s so much in Pimm’s itself,” Almeida explains as she pours me a straight
Almeida knows what you want before you do. taste. “It’s very compacted, and there’s a lot of room to pull other flavors out of it. You can get sweetness. You can get dry. You can get fruit. Sometimes you can get bitterness.” Even on its own, the Pimm’s No. 1 offers an unexpected buoyancy, an airiness, like a liquid that has been laced with pollen rather than thickened with honey. I sip and she goes on: “It’s like wine that way — you can taste a million different things in it. I like hearing what other people think it tastes like, and I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with it.”
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$10 at Affäre, or play along at home: 1-1/2 oz. Pimm’s No. 1 1 oz. Old Overholt rye whiskey 1/2 oz. lemon juice 3 dashes orange bitters Almeida says: “Shake all those ingredients with ice, then strain into a coupe glass. Garnish with a lemon peel. Float one bar spoon of port if you like — I used Taylor Fladgate Late Bottled Vintage 2009.”
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Pilates instructor Hale is stretching her culinary talents in a new endeavor. deli cases stocked with grab-and-go entrées, salads, soups, vegetables and side dishes. She expects to open the retail part of the business by mid-June. Hale’s new spot, a long brick structure dating back to the late 1930s, was home for 22 years to Waldo Pets. But long before that, during the Depression, it was a friedchicken-and-beer joint (where you could also get Mel-O-Froz ice cream), owned by Mary Ballman, who kept expanding the building so that, by the 1940s, it was a swinging jazz club called Mary’s Place. Ballman’s menu focused on the booze, but she also sold $1.85 fried-chicken dinners, fried-ham-andcheese sandwiches and the occasional salad. Hale’s Can I Have a Bite sandwiches won’t be much like Ballman’s. “We’ll have hot lunches available every day that we’re open,” she says. “I’m talking with different local bread makers about using their specialty loaves, so that I can have a grilled cheese of the day made with the bread of the day.” Hale’s storefront takes up one small part of the deceptively large building, which has been subdivided by its current owner. (A new tattoo parlor is at the far southern end.) For now, she’s adamant that it won’t be a restaurant, or even a carryout place with eat-in dining. “It’s not zoned for that anyway,” Hale says. “Have you seen the parking situation? My customers will mostly be running in, picking up their food and leaving.” Can I Have a Bite, for which Hale is designing seasonal menus, will be catering and selling packaged meals out of the venue before the retail shop officially opens next month. Hale plans to be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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ody Hendrix has always had big goals when it comes to music — for Festival, with two stages and 27 acts, including the legendary Billy Joe Shaver as headliner. his own, yes, but also for other artists’, and where he might be able “We want the Westport Roots Festival to be successful and the to take it. He remembers booking his first music festival, in Liberty, when he was 14 years old, to help raise money for a mission trip his first of many,” Hendrix says. “We want people to be as excited about friends were making. Since then, Hendrix has seen a few more sum- Westport Roots Festival as they are about Farmageddon or Muddy mers, and along the way, he has had multiple stints as the booker or Roots — and that’s ambitious.” Eddie Crane handles publicity and marketing at Little Class Records talent organizer for local venues and organizations. Now he controls the calendar at the Westport Saloon. But his main squeeze is Little and attests to the label’s commitment to bringing real artists to the front of the lines. Class Records, the roots label he founded in 2010. “Jody, Matt [Dennis, Little Class co-founder] and “I want to leave a footprint in musical history that Westport Roots I are drawn to music that is real, not fabricated,” depicts what is happening and the good stuff going Festival Crane says. “You can plop these bands on any street on here,” Hendrix says. “The genre that we’re workSaturday, May 24, at the corner in the world, and they will be relatable. I love ing with has always struggled, not just in our city Westport Saloon the way a ripping banjo sounds, and I want everyone but in a lot of the cities I’ve been to. I want rockabilly else to be as happy as I am when I hear it.” and hillbilly music to be recognized and for people To coincide with the festival, Little Class Records is releasing four to know about it. I want to take a huge snapshot for the world to see.” albums Saturday: two from local and familiar names — Cadillac Flambe Part of getting recognized means, for Hendrix, displaying some of the local and regional talent that has found a home on and Billy Beale — and two from excellent regional acts. They’re reviewed here, in case you need further encouragement to witness the Little Class Records. So on Saturday, Little Class Records and the talent live at the Westport Roots Festival. Westport Saloon are putting on the first-ever Westport Roots
S P I N CyC le our MontHly loCalreCord-store top Five The Top Five Local Releases You Need to Hear 1. We Will Fall by the Big Iron (self-released): Out May 31, but we have a copy. Let’s just say all other punk bands in KC squat to pee. 2. Jekyll/Hyde by Your Friend (Domino reissue): Quiet and strong, gorgeous and incisive. Welcome to Taryn Miller’s world. 3. Shy Boys by Shy Boys (High Dive): Layered and dense, it will swoon you to delirium and rock your ass off live. 4. Milk EP by Bummer (self-released): Only on Bandcamp for now, but the tape is coming. This band is heavy, dark and primitive, and will take you back to the 1990s in the best of ways. 5. Demo by Faultfinder (self-released): Feelgood hits for the summer — on quaaludes. — Compiled by Judy Mills and Christian LaBeau Mills Record Co. 314 Westport Road millsrecordcompany.com
Old AmericAn lAw Cadillac Flambe
Since forming in 2003, Cadillac Flambe has touted the inf luence of Mississippi Delta blues on its sound. On the band’s latest full-length, the necessary cogs and parts are still there — gutwrenching slide-guitar reels, window-rattling rhythms, and both Kris and Havilah Bruders’ earthquake vocals — but these new songs are faster and angrier than anything Cadillac Flambe has put out before. The record opens with the furious “Shakin’ Baby,” a speedball jam that dares you to dance or die trying, and the pace only increases from there. “Bullets” is positively hellish; by the end of the song, Havilah Bruders will have you convinced that she is summoning demons from the netherworld. The only respite from all this energy comes with album closer “Goin’ Home,” on which Kris Bruders assures you, with his deep voice, that you are indeed going home. 54
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W.T. Newton has a hell of a voice. One moment, he’s growling into the microphone with a metal show’s worth of ferocity and menace (“I Don’t Need No Dead Man”), and the next, he serenades you with a westernswing tale of woe (“Hell and High Water”). On most of this record, though, Newton turns up the growling and hollering a nd dow nplays his crooner side. The Carbondale, Illinois, group makes the most of Newton’s splintery chops, filling the record with just enough lap steel, fiddle and harmonica to build a solid soapbox for some popular themes: namely, the devil and death. Some songs border on murder-ballad territory — a style that the County Graves could probably master easily — but for the most part, this Devil keeps to simpler stories. Newton and company tell them just fine.
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Springfield, Missouri’s Clawhammer seems bent on confusing people. Named for a difficult style of banjo picking, in which the player forms a claw and picks downward (group banjoist Jason Childress sometimes does it this way), Clawhammer offers songs here that take the old-time hillbilly genre and unravel it, thread by thread. Things start innocently enough with “Set Me Free,” a washboard-heavy jaunt, but the song ends with an ominous, distorted mass of electronic crashes. “Love Sick” follows, and Chelsea Childress’ chilling, siren alto glides like a lullaby during a nightmare. “Run Rabbit Run” brings back the washboard chink, but by the end of the first verse, there’s also an electrified web of synths and effects pedals. None of these things should work together, but Clawhammer so carefully stitches up its sounds that you’re compelled to keep listening, trying to decipher the mystery.
Beale w rote Hard Time ’s 11 songs during a three-year stint in prison, and the influence of that environment is audible. Some songs get rhythmic jangles from the rattle of heavy chains. It’s not that hard to figure out just how I got here, on this long, hard road that I’ve been on, Beale sings on “Long Hard Road,” his voice plaintive and rusty. And on the heartbreaking “Chains,” he attests to a truth that he has come to know from the inside: One night the devil come to me, and he whispers in my ear/“Billy Beale, I’ll never take you down, ’cause you’re in hell right here.” If the theme is delivered with a heavy hand, the album remains a poignant, graceful collection from an unlikely source.
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1. No Magic by No Magic (Whatever Forever): Long-running backing player emerges with a sophisticated approach to folk songs. Textures on the recording outstrip your expectations for someone’s first release. 2. Malaise Forever by Say My Name (Foreign Domestic): Cut and paste, rinse and repeat. Avant-garde ideas applied to pop music on a bedroom tip. 3. Shy Boys by Shy Boys (High Dive): All these songs stick to your ribs, with a really nice sauce poured all over. If we’ve been playing this record, you can still see the sauce on our face. 4. Total Oils USA/June Igloo by Oils/CS Luxem (Whatever Forever): The songwriters are different on the A+B, but the vibes are pretty much the same on each side of the tape: Positive! 5. First Midnight by Brooke Tuley (selfreleased): Post-Bloodbirds late-nightburner vibes. First, Brooke makes a record. Next, she makes a baby! — Compiled by Kelly Corcoran Love Garden Sounds 822 Massachusetts, Lawrence lovegardensounds.com
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ance music is not about getting on a desert island and being by yourself. It’s a fun thing you enjoy with friends.” For Sonny Moore, the 26-year-old producer who records as Skrillex, that’s how simple dubstep success is. In a few short years, since 2010’s My Name Is Skrillex, Moore has ascended to the uppermost reaches of his genre, transcending dubstep and pushing the boundaries of electronic music. And he hasn’t forgotten the part about dancing with friends, as his latest release, Recess — the first full-length of his career — proves. It’s a varied set that mixes elements from previous decades to achieve a robust sound that’s dancier than ever. Ahead of Saturday’s Skrillex show at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, we called the artist at his Los Angeles home. The Pitch: You released Recess in March on the Alien Ride app. Why an app? Moore: All my releases, including Scary Monsters and Bangarang, have never actually had any marketing prior to release. It’s always been dropped the day of. Essentially, I was going to do that with Recess again, but the idea behind Alien Ride, before it was even a video because they liked my tunes and they liked game, was that I wanted to make an app just how I produced my music. I never saw that in the band world. It just blew me away, how to leak my record. That was the whole purpose in the first place. I think it’s cool when records much camaraderie there was behind the scenes. I’ve always been a fan of doing muleak. Most record labels obviously don’t like sic because it’s fun. It’s about keeping my ear that, but I thought it was a cool way to release it. Nobody knew when it was coming or what to the ground and continuing to support the things that inspire you. was coming. The idea was to download this So when I started the label, I had these free app [Alien Ride] and have a video game dudes, Zedd and Porter Robinson, who I found and a countdown timer on it. It started the on the Internet. We were touring together and countdown three days out and had a folder playing together, so I ended up producing their that said, “Secret Folder.” music, which is awesome. It’s actually a dream So I think a lot of people speculated it of mine to have my own label, not only for was something, and it spread itself. We had things I can release but so that I can have a 200,000 people download the app in the first week. It was just word-of-mouth. We started it close team for my releases and create an environment and a vibe that is in places like the Skrillex Reddifferent than the industry. dit forums, some fan pages Skrillex It’s about creating your own — I gave it to some people. It Saturday, May 24, industry. didn’t have any marketing at Cricket Wireless How do you see new talent outside of that, and it was Amphitheater contributing to or creating kind of a fun, organic way that that industry? wasn’t overhyping my record, The new kids that are that let people figure it out for making beats are naturals. I’m so excited and themselves. amazed to see all these new collectives and You have a compound in L.A. that houses record labels popping up on the independent OWSLA, your label, your production studios tip, and how quickly the bigger artists will hear and space for younger artists to come in and something and support it. And that’s why I produce. What led to that setup? Since late 2009 or 2010, when I got my went into this business. I didn’t expect to make any money on record sales, which naturally start, electronic music started to have a place happened anyway. I think a lot of kids aren’t over here in the States. My success was due really in it for the record sales. They just want to people like Benga or Deadmau5 or Neuro. to play and tour. These are artists who were really cool, that Also, the market just moved. Rather than took notice of me, and were shouting me out 56
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trying to force people to sell records, dance music creates something that you can’t get from a record: a live atmosphere, the show and the event. That’s where I think the business and money side of it is, and where people get their inspiration for making tunes and making people dance. With that said, you don’t necessarily need a mainstream platform if you’re not really there to sell a million records. It’s easy for kids to put a SoundCloud and get noticed — if they’re good and if it’s quality. I think the fans are now inclined to discover stuff themselves. Like, back when MTV was only showing music videos and you could actually discover music. I think the Internet is like that. You can get lost in YouTube or SoundCloud and just find stuff for yourself. What do you think the next level is for electronic music? I think more and more people are seeing that there’s more to it than an EDM scene. The things that tie together myself, Warpaint and A$AP Rocky are the same, and that sort of speaks for itself. There is this magic that happens behind the scenes that brings artists together who are young and creative and who have the same vibe and similar style, even if the music is different. With music in general, even if you are playing in a band or not, everyone is using the electronic platform to treat music — no matter what genre it is — which I think is really exciting.
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Saxophonist Tivon Pennicott was still in college when he joined jazz guitar master Kenny Burrell’s group. Since then, he has toured with the superstar jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding. This emerging artist brings his contemporary sax sound from New York to KC this weekend to play with the Dominique Sanders Trio. Sanders’ bass solos stand out as complex yet lyrical, grabbing your attention then drawing you in. Sanders leads Andrew Ouellette on keyboards and John Kizilarmut on drums, while Tivon Pennicott joins them Thursday at the Blue Room and Friday at Take Five. — Larry Kopitnik Dominique Sanders Trio with Tivon Pennicott, 7–11 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the Blue Room (1600 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463), no cover; 8–10 p.m. Friday, May 23, at Take Five Coffee + Bar (5336 W. 151st St., Leawood, 913-948-5550), $10 cover.
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28: The Late Night Callers, Vi Tran Band & Hilary Watts Riot 29: Cody Jinks w/ Scott Ford 30: Jeff Bergen’s Elvis Show 30: Joe Ely w/ Lucette 31: Spring Dance w/ Grand Marquis, Starhaven Rounders, New Riddum, My Brothers & Sisters 31: The Belairs - Gospel Lounge
Metronomy
On the buoyant “Love Letters,” the title track of Metronomy’s latest album, the British fourpiece exuberantly announces, over a persistent and punchy drumbeat, the intention to, you know, keep on writing love letters. It’s a promise that permeates the rest of the record, as frontman Joseph Mount’s lyrics improve, and he seems to find all kinds of lovers and friends to sing to. It’s a catchy 40 minutes or so, the sort of easily likable stuff that summers are supposed to be made of. Maybe you’ll make a new pen pal on Friday at the Granada. Friday, May 23, the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)
Trans AM
It’s always remarkable when a band manages to stay together over decades, despite never having shot into the stratosphere of arena rock, à la the Eagles or Styx or any number of platinum-selling acts rolling this way sometime this summer. One such act: Trans AM, a band that has been together since 1990 and released plenty of albums without noteworthy sales and also without noteworthy defections. Its original three members are still together, and Wednesday at the RecordBar, they bring all the Krautrock goodness they can summon. This band was using electronic beats and synths long before popular radio made
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Any run-of-the-mill cynic can guess why Riff Raff’s album Neon Icon has been delayed since its expected release date, back in January. But we won’t dwell on the hype behind the debut of Houston’s most outrageous rapper. Instead, let’s just welcome this brazen, splashy character — birth name Horst Simco — into our arms for the first time since his explosive and steamy performance at the Riot Room in December. Our own hometown hero Tech N9ne was present for that memorable gig. Who knows what, or who, Mr. Simco may bring to the stage this time. Thursday, May 22, Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)
Metronomy it cool, and they may yet be at it in another couple of decades. Wednesday, May 28, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
Jabee
In December, Oklahoma City MC Jabee released his latest full-length, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. It’s a weighty set that blends classic R&B, fuming drumbeats and smoking-gun horns. On “To Whom It May Concern,” that lyric becomes a mantra of denial. Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts, he forces out, Trying to keep it real, as usual, and nothing works. Whatever he might say, Jabee is making it work right now. Monday, May 26, Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300)
The Pharmacy
I’ve never much liked the term “stoner rock,” but when it comes to the Seattle band the Pharmacy, the bong fits. On the band’s latest, Stoned and Alone, lead singer and guitarist Scott Yoder revels in garage-fuzzy sounds and leisurely,
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ambling choruses. The whole thing gets a fairy dusting of ever-so-slightly off-key notes and jingles. If the Pharmacy didn’t make this album while its members were high (yeah, right), it has definitely made a soundtrack for getting high. No matter what your state, though, the record makes a perfectly dreamy ride. Saturday, May 24, Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts, 785-749-7676)
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Two Cow Garage
Although Two Cow Garage technically calls Columbus, Ohio, its home, the band has carved out a second nest in Kansas City — and it’s not hard to understand why. Singer Micah Schnabel’s voice is oddly irresistible; he sounds jagged and ruined, like an exmetalhead who screamed too loudly in his youth and is still ingesting a pack of cigarettes a day. And those imperfections only add to his appeal. The rest of the band pushes just as hard as Schnabel, and you aren’t likely to leave this show without a fine sheen of sweat and a satisfied smile. Monday, May 26, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)
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Thursday | 5.22 |
TASTE OF KC
COMEDY
John Henton | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
The Recess Players Improv Showcase | 10 p.m.
Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
TOURNAMENT Win VIP tickets to Rockfest
COMMUNITY EVENTS
Leavenworth County Fairgrounds, 405 W. Fourth St., shrinerodeo.com
Mixed Breed Mixer | 5-7 p.m. Lawrence Humane
THURSDAY, MAY 22 • 7PM
Society, 1805 E. 19th St., Lawrence, lawrencehumane.org
THIN ICE
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FRIDAY, MAY 23
COVER WARS BLUE CANOE VIVID AMNESIA SWEDEN
SATURDAY, MAY 24
INTERNATIONAL SUNDAY NIGHTS
Public Library, West Wyandotte Branch, 1737 N. 82nd St., KCK, kckpl.org
New Belgium’s Clips Beer and Film Tour | 7 p.m. Theis Park, 47th St. and Oak
Rye Whiskey and Donuts | 7 p.m. Genessee Royale
Bistro, 1531 Genessee
T-Bones vs. Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks |
7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, tbonesbaseball.com MUSIC
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John Paul’s Flying Circus | B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,
Roxi Copland | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
Jason Eady & Courtney Patton: A Living Room Session | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester Millage Gilbert Big Blues Band | 7 p.m. Danny’s
Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.
Grand Marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Hot Caution | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Brett Jackson Quartet | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
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The Music of Bob Dylan: A Birthday Tribute Show | 7 p.m., $10. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
First Lady? by De De DeVille | Fish-
Kat Niles Band | 9 p.m. PBR Big Sky Bar, 111 E. 13th St. Riff Raff | 8 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts,
tank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte, fishtanktheater.blogspot.com
Flowers in the Wardrobe | For audiences 16 and older, Arts Asylum, 1000 E. Ninth St.
Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show | Kauffman
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Dr. Dilznik, Last Rekrute, Str8jakett, Shadow, Dutch Newman, Silo, DJ Hylander | 9 p.m. The
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Jon Schieszer | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK
Dominique Sanders featuring Tivon Pennicott | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.
Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, theaterleague.org
Drew Six | 8 p.m. Fuel, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park
A Little Night Music | Spinning Tree Theatre,
Testökra, Rat Bastard, This Is My Condition | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Bram Wijnands Swingtet | 6 p.m. The Majestic,
931 Broadway
Off Center Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, spinningtreetheatre.com
Musical of Musicals | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com
NIGHTLIFE
Mystery Train: Funeral for Brother John | The Golden Ox, 1600 Genessee, kcmysterytrain.com
Feel Good with GadaBeats, Thumpur, Will Funk and Sehorn | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New
COMEDY
Mondo Beat with DJ Martin Bush | 10 p.m. Replay
John Henton | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
Hampshire, Lawrence
Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Friday | 5.23 |
Jon Schieszer | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK
L I T E R A R Y/ S P O K E N W O R D
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Priscilla Howe and Joyce Slater | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
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Bad prom 5k: A fundraiser for FOX 4 Love Fund for Children | Arrowhead Stadium
NHrA Kansas Nationals | 11:30 a.m. Heartland Park Topeka, 7530 S. Topeka Blvd., Topeka, hpt.com
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Sporting Kc vs. toronto Fc | 7:30 p.m. Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK
Sextonic plates, the lucky, NowHere | 10 p.m.
Steddy p & DJ Mahf, Stik Figa & D/Will, Dom chronicles, prettygirlhatemachine, All Natty |
Joe Bussell & Fred trease: The Petri Dish |
under the influence, Soca Jukebox, Maria the Mexican | 7 p.m. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino,
| Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org
10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City
Westport roots Festival preparty, featuring
7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, tbonesbaseball.com coMMuNity eveNtS
NiGHtliFe
Abdallah Shrine rodeo and Demo Derby | 7 p.m.
twist & Shout with DJs Madeline & Wilson |
Leavenworth County Fairgrounds, 405 W. Fourth St., shrinerodeo.com
Conversation — Marking 20 Years | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org
Edgar Degas Pastels | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
dy/nas/ty • Ebony G. Patterson | Nerman 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
Saturday | 5.24 |
FilM perForMiNG ArtS
Footloose | 8:45 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org
6-9 p.m. Friday, Kiosk Gallery, 3951 Broadway
Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper
Tommy Donoho, Cowtown Playboys, the Naughty Pines, Trashcan Bandits, Phantoms of the Opry, Starhaven Rounders | 6 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
t-Bones vs. Fargo-Moorhead redHawks |
Art Exhibits & EvEnts
RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
National tap Dance Day with Billie Mahoney | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
MuSic
Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org
In the Looking Glass: Recent Daguerreotype Acquisitions | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
Living With the Spirits: Decorating Homes in Traditional China | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
coMeDy
Adrenaline Mob, thrust, the Guild, civil Symphony | 6 p.m. Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam
Baseline Bums, Deadtooth, Weakteeth, Four Arm Shiver | 8 p.m. Black & Gold Tavern, 3740
Broadway
John Henton | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
Jon Schieszer | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK
M(i) (A)cro: a contemporary drawing exhibition | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
expoS
Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea
the B’Dinas, Dolls on Fire, the clementines |
FRIDAY, MAY 23RD 6PM WESTPORT ROOTS PRE-PARTY!!
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The Brick, 1727 McGee
tony Bennett | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway
12th St., www.conquestkc.org
Boogaloo 7 | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Main, mwbfkc.net
casey & cora ep-release show with Histories, Max Justus, the Family Bed, collin rausch | 7:30 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
the collective featuring Brother John | 8:30 p.m. Danny’s Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.
This American Life | Fridays and Saturdays, Kemper East, 200 E. 44th St. MuSic
Kc Jiggle Jam | 9 a.m. Crown Center Square, 2450
cowboy indian Bear, Max Justus, Nite | 10 p.m.
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Gay Science, the puritans | 8 p.m. Black & Gold
eddie Moore and the outer circle | 8:30 p.m. The
Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.
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The Stench of Rotting Flowers | La Esquina,
1000 W. 25th St.
running with Bonnie and clyde: the red crown Symposium and road tour | 9 a.m. Improv Comedy
1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence
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Abdallah Shrine rodeo and Demo Derby | 7 p.m. Leavenworth County Fairgrounds, 405 W. Fourth St., shrinerodeo.com
4525 Oak
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Metronomy, cloud control | 8 p.m. The Granada,
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The Starr Miniature Collection: Masterworks in Miniature | Nelson-Atkins Museum,
Grand, kcjigglejam.com
7:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
lonnie ray | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.
Sun-Sat: 8p-3a westportsaloon.com
Midwest Brony Fest | Marriott on the Plaza, 4445
| Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
Geographer, pioneer, orthon Anderthon |
9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main
816.960.2444 4112 Pennsylvania Ave
conQuest 45 — Science Fiction & Fantasy convention | 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Marriott Hotel, 200 W.
royal Southern Brotherhood, the Danielle Nicole Band | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
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Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
NHrA Kansas Nationals | 10:45 a.m. Heartland Park Topeka, 7530 S. Topeka Blvd., Topeka, hpt.com
t-Bones vs. Fargo-Moorhead redHawks | 7:05 p.m. Community America Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, tbonesbaseball.com
otis clay, rick estrin & the Nightcats | 8:30 p.m.
Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
Tavern, 3740 Broadway
Get Busy living, 88er | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737
New Hampshire, Lawrence
Jazz Disciples | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E.
18th St.
Kearney Blues Festival, featuring Samantha Fish,
Katy Guillen & the Girls, Brandon Miller Band, South
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Side Souls | 5 p.m. Kearney Amphitheater at Jesse James Park, 3001 N. Missouri 33, Kearney
The Motown Collective | Mestizo, 5270 W. 116th
Pl., Leawood
Now Now Sleepyhead, Rose & Louise, Famous Mammoth | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Organ Jazz Trio | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
MUSEUM EXHIBITS & EVENTS Citizen Soldiers on the Prairie | Johnson
County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, jocomuseum.org
Cowtown: History of the Kansas City Stockyards | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org
The Pedaljets, the Safes, Matt Shoare | The
The Discovery of King Tut | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org/tut
The Pharmacy, Mr. and the Mrs. | 10 p.m. Replay
The Kansas City Canvas: Thomas Hart Benton and Beyond | Kansas City Museum,
Brick, 1727 McGee
Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
3218 Gladstone Blvd.
Skrillex, Dillon Francis, What So Not, Milo and Otis | 6 p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th
The Land Divided, the World United: Building the Panama Canal | Linda Hall Library,
The Beat Pirates > Books of Bokonon | 3-6 p.m. Gaslight Gardens, 317 N. Second St., Lawrence
Landmark Reborn: The Restoration of the Liberty Memorial, featuring architect Susan
St., Bonner Springs
Westport Roots Festival | Noon, Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
Tim Whitmer & KC Express | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.
5109 Cherry
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Monday | 5.26 | memorial day Ceremony | 10 a.m. Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St.
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Jon Schieszer | 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867
Village West Pkwy., KCK
royals vs. Astros | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium
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Lounge, 1809 Grand
midwest Bronyfest | Marriott on the Plaza, 4445
1616 E. 18th St.
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Celebration at the Station | 5 p.m. Union Station,
Jayson Kayne | 8 p.m. Fuel, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-
KC Jiggle Jam | 10 a.m. Crown Center Square, 2450
rambler’s Songwriter roundup with Gary Cloud | 7 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402
30 W. Pershing Rd.
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Jabee, Stik Figa, Les paul, $taxx | 9 p.m. Czar,
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Bob Bowman & roger Wilder | 10 p.m. Green Lady
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mark Lowrey Trio jazz jam | 6 p.m. The Majestic
Restaurant, 931 Broadway
Lee mcBee and the Confessors | 6-9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
dJ Boogie industry dance party | Jackpot Music
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pop-up dinner with Chris mullins and mickey priolo | 6 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand Who Gives a Karaoke | 10 p.m. The Riot Room,
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el Barrio Band | 7 p.m. Danny’s Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.
Josh Berwanger Band | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946
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