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n Wednesday, September 10, U.S. Marshals, local law enforcement and a temporary receiver appointed by a federal judge arrived at the headquarters of CWB Services LLC, at 6700 Squibb, in Mission. Larry Cook, the temporary receiver, ordered all employees present to step away from their desks. Photos and video were taken of the premises. Employees submitted to indepth interviews and filled out questionnaires about their roles in the company. All items in the office that could contain information about the business — desktop computers, laptops, filing cabinets, phones — were seized. Tim Coppinger, whom investigators say owns CWB Services, was served papers informing him that the Federal Trade Commission had filed a civil lawsuit charging him with operating a payday-lending scheme. Every bank account on which Coppinger was a signatory — CWB Services accounts, other business accounts, his personal accounts, his family members’ accounts — was frozen. Around the same time, authorities changed the locks at 7301 Mission, the Prairie Village office from which, according to the FTC, Ted Rowland assisted Coppinger’s operation. All of Rowland’s assets were also frozen. And in Waldo, at 2 East Gregory Boulevard, the feds were unplugging computers and confiscating documents at the headquarters of the Hydra Group, a separate alleged payday-lending scheme, charged the same day by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau. Like Coppinger and Rowland, Hydra Group’s owners — whom the CFPB contends are Richard F. Moseley Sr., Richard F. Moseley Jr. and Christopher Randazzo — suddenly found their credit cards not functioning. Both lawsuits are civil, not criminal. None of the five Kansas City businessmen was arrested. But the actions sent a clear signal from the federal government to the notoriously shady online-lending industry, which has deep roots in Kansas City. The steps taken in both cases are unusually severe for a civil complaint. The FTC’s and the CFPB’s lawsuits were filed under seal in federal court the week prior to the raids. On September 9, U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple granted motions for ex parte temporary restraining orders in both complaints. He found good cause to believe that the defendants have engaged in, and were likely to continue to engage in, practices that violate several federal laws and acts and put U.S. consumers in harm’s way. Whipple also was convinced that giving advance notice to the defendants would allow them to transfer and conceal their assets. Moseley Sr., for example, had $10.6 million in bank accounts as of August 31. “Because of Defendants’ ties to Nevis
and New Zealand, Defendants are likely to move this money offshore upon notice of this action,” the CFPB’s attorneys wrote in the filing. Richard Cordray, head of the CFPB, explained Hydra Group’s foreign connections and intentionally complex structure in colorful terms. “Rarely is a company so appropriately named,” Cordray said in a joint FTC-CFPB announcement of the charges September 17. “Like the multi-headed serpent in Greek mythology, the Hydra Group is actually a conglomeration of about 20 businesses with various names. …Although their payday lending operations are based in Missouri, many of the companies are incorporated offshore in New Zealand and the Commonwealth of Saint Kitts and Nevis. Their maze of businesses and shell companies seems designed to evade effective law enforcement and includes names like SSM Group, Hydra Financial Limited, and Piggycash Online Holdings.” (Yes, really: Piggycash Online Holdings.) Both lawsuits charge that the companies deceived consumers about the cost of their loans. Instead of assessing a one-time finance fee for the loans (often $90 on a $300 loan — already an extraordinary rate), both defendants, the agencies say, made repeated withdrawals of $90 every two weeks from borrowers’ bank
accounts, without ever reducing the principal. Readers of The Pitch will be familiar with that particular scheme. As we’ve noted in several articles, many businessmen and investors in town have become millionaires using this predatory model. But there is a new twist in this round of charges. The feds allege that both CWB Services and the Hydra Group debited money from the accounts of people who had never requested loans. How does that happen? Most people who apply for online payday loans are unaware that the application site at which they’ve entered their personal information — bank account number, Social Security number, address — is not operated by the company that will lend them the money. These sites are instead “lead generators,” which then auction off their consumer data to the entities that do the lending. Both lawsuits allege that the various business entities controlled by Coppinger and Moseley Sr. bought from lead generators the data of customers who were shopping for loans but had not authorized the issuance of a loan. The suits contain dozens of sworn declarations from consumers who say they were confused to discover unsolicited deposits into their bank accounts from Coppinger and Moseley Sr.’s various business continued on page 6
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continued from page 5 entities. Those consumers have told investigators that they were then charged fees and interest on those unauthorized loans — and subsequently harassed by debt collectors. That aggressive practice is a possible explanation for how Coppinger’s companies made $18 million in an 11-month period in 2013, as the FTC’s analysis of CWB Services’ various bank accounts indicates. Hydra Group’s companies issued $97 million in loans and also profited roughly $18 million over a 15-month period, according to the CFPB. Where all this money went, and how it commingled with the personal interests of
a lot of evidence that all these companies were functioning as one common enterprise in terms of unlawful practices harming consumers.” Given the highly complex nature of the online payday-lending industry, the more evidence there is, the more blame can be shifted. “Look for everyone involved to point upstream,” is how one person with close ties to the local payday-lending industry has explained it to The Pitch — meaning that Coppinger and Moseley Sr. will likely argue that they didn’t know they were buying unauthorized leads from the lead generators. One of those lead generators, eData Solu-
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the owners of these companies, also makes for interesting reading. According to the lawsuits, Coppinger transferred $19,000 from a CWB Services account at Missouri Bank to Indian Hills Country Club in less than one year; spent $14,000 at various Las Vegas casinos, courtesy of a CWB Services account; and transferred $53,000 from a CWB Services account into another Missouri Bank account, for a company called DWTC Enterprises LLC. DWTC is described in account-opening documents as “a holding account for the purpose of gathering deposits and paying expenses relating to the ownership of a suite at the new soccer complex for the team Sporting KC.” Moseley Sr.’s attorney, John Aisenbrey, did not respond to a request for comment. Coppinger’s attorney, Pat McInerney, says, “At this point, Mr. Coppinger and his related entities dispute the allegations in the FTC complaint.” Phil Greenfield, Rowland’s attorney, says Rowland “denies all the charges leveled specifically at him and his companies.” Greenfield adds: “Mr. Rowland and his affiliated entities only provided the money that was loaned. Moreover, Mr. Rowland voluntarily — and unrelated to the allegations in this matter — ceased business operations months prior to the FTC bringing this suit. So there was no basis for the FTC to seek an injunction limiting Mr. Rowland’s business practices because he was not in business and had no intention of re-entering the business.” Christopher Koegel, of the FTC, tells The Pitch, “When we see evidence that a group of companies are commingling assets, have common ownership and have common officers, we allege what’s called a ‘common enterprise.’ That extends liability to everybody involved in the enterprise — monetary involvement, in particular. Here, Rowland was a signatory on related bank accounts and was an officer that helped incorporate these lending entities that represented themselves on loan agreements with consumers. We saw
tions, is mentioned in the FTC lawsuit as a source of those phony leads. As The Pitch noted in a previous article, eData Solutions was founded by Joel Tucker, brother of racecar driver and payday-lending pioneer Scott Tucker. Joel Tucker sold it to the Wyandotte Nation Indian tribe a few years ago, but it remains unclear how much control of the operations he gave up. The feds have acknowledged that Tucker is on their radar, a fact that probably does not bode well for him. The feds’ actions are also bad signs for the “loan portfolios” or “marketing companies” whose information or names turn up on the computers that the FTC or CFPB confiscated September 10. Sources say Coppinger’s operation did “back office” work for several local funds and entities that preferred the appearance of staying a few steps removed from predatory online lending. The FTC and the CFPB haven’t yet indicated how closely they intend to look at the investors who dumped money into these unsavory businesses and at the lawyers who assisted in drafting the loan agreements and setting up dubious offshore business filings. But it's clear that more will fall. There likely will be more federal lawsuits, and more finger-pointing and accusations and civil suits among the local payday players. These operations generated significant money for their operators and investors — money they'll fight to protect. It’s also money made on the backs of poor people. At their core, these enterprises are designed to drain the bank accounts of low-income American citizens. Maybe Ted Rowland didn’t ask enough questions about Tim Coppinger’s businesses. Maybe Tim Coppinger didn’t ask enough questions of his lead vendors. Maybe. But now the government has taken their things and is asking them questions. It’ll be interesting to hear their answers.
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he Katz Drugstore building, where Westport Road meets Main Street, is beloved in some quarters simply for having survived so much of the last century. But it hasn’t made it this far into this one by being impressive. The paint remains faded, the tiling cracked, the clock tower in disrepair. For the 20 or so artists who rent studio space inside the long-defunct pharmacy, that’s part of the point — a bit of historic architecture given quiet new function as the traffic rolls thickly past. On a Friday evening in July, though, the space buzzes with several hundred people. They’ve come to this midtown corner for an open-studios exhibition and group show promoted through various social media — including that of the nearby Redeemer Fellowship, which owns the Katz Drugstore building. The eager crowd might have been teleported from a particularly busy First Friday in the Crossroads District. An hour before Drugstore Open Studios gets under way, Oddly Correct, the high-end-coffee sanctuary just across Westport Road, spills over with these artists and their appreciators, and their happy chatter echoes in the small room. Behind Oddly’s bar, passing out shots of espresso and crostini pieces smeared with thoughtfully curated spreads, is Sean Starowitz. Starowitz, despite the blue-, red- and yellow-striped apron he wears, isn’t a barista. But give him an hour to practice his pour-over style, and he could probably pass for one. The artist, who holds one of the spaces at the drugstore, has a knack for acquisition and application of practical skills. For one thing, he’s the rare Kansas City Art Institute alum
given to insisting that he considers himself a bread baker perhaps foremost. Along with the other artists renting studio space at Katz, including Gregory Kolsto (who also owns Oddly Correct), Starowitz helped organize tonight’s event. At the coffeehouse, with coffeehouse tasks to perform, Starowitz is at ease, greeting curious guests, nodding at people he knows, feeding everyone. Later, at Katz, Starowitz stands in the middle of the enormous space, surrounded by scene-hungry people shuffling from one exhibit to the next. “Can you believe all the people that are here?” he asks, smiling in genuine surprise at the night’s obvious success. “I thought maybe a few dozen people. This is crazy. Look at all these people!” Starowitz notices a few people milling around his own studio space and walks over to meet them. His walls are pinned with smudgy, thick-lined charcoal sketches, fine pencil drawings, photos from past projects and photocopied maps of Kansas City. A small table at the center is stacked with postcards and fliers for a few of Starowitz’s other endeavors: Fresh Bread, Bread KC, Lots of Love, the Talk Shop. Each requires a bit of explanation. He’s ready to accommodate. Unlike most other visual artists with studios at Katz, Starowitz hasn’t made the drawings and photos the focus of his work. They’re more like visual aids for what has become known in academic circles as socially engaged art, which puts the focus not on a product but on an outcome. It’s not art that ends up in galleries and museums — though Starowitz finds himself in those environments, too.
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Tonight, for the people now asking questions, he points to a pencil sketch that details a makeshift “storefront” for Fresh Bread, the pop-up bakery that Starowitz began last October. For three weekends that month, he erected a plastic-andcanvas structure, printed with a Wonder Bread-like pattern, in neighborhoods that he believed offered few options for fresh food. He sold loaves of fresh-baked bread to passers-by, charging prices that he’d calculated, thanks to research, to be economically fair. Starowitz baked the loaves at Farm to Market Bread Co. — where he has been the artist-in-residence and a bread baker since 2010 — and, for the debut of Fresh Bread, set up shop in front of the empty storefront at 3936 Main, between the midtown CVS and Oddly Correct. “When I introduce myself, I say I’m a bread baker first,” Starowitz tells me. “I say I’m a bread baker by trade and an artist as well. A lot of my projects focus on bread, like Fresh Bread and Bread KC. Bread is this inherent metaphor for me. I view bread and art as the same — it’s the same creative process, it’s the same engagement with the work, it’s this thing that people consume for nourishment. Culture is a protein, not a dessert, and I’m trying to make that the main course in my life and my practice.”
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hat empty storefront next to CVS,” Starowitz tells an audience on a warm Thursday night a couple of months later, “it’s a place where I can be a baker and an artist, but also a place where I can address the messed-up politics of the CVS being the highest-grossing continued on page 11 SEPTEMBER 25 -OCTOBER 1, 2014
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continued from page 9 grocery store in that neighborhood, despite there being a Thriftway down the street. “For three weekends I did a pop-up bakery, where I distributed over 400 loaves of bread, the price of which I adjusted to neighborhood income level,” he says. “Nothing was over $5.” Fresh Bread is one of the projects that led to Starowitz’s being named a 2014 Charlotte Street Fellow in March. (He got word of the honor on his 26th birthday.) Now, at an exhibition at Overland Park’s Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art that includes his art, he’s explaining the bread thing again. The bread begins to address a social issue that he wants to fix: vacancy. Kansas City, he says, lists more than 18,000 abandoned properties, from lots to storefronts. The greatest cause of this, he believes, is urban sprawl. The greatest victims are the surrounding communities. “This is not just an urban issue,” Starowitz says, standing in front of a slide of the deserted Great Mall at the Great Plains. “This is a suburban issue. What you’re seeing is a doughnut factor that’s happened in the city. Basically, according to the latest survey [the Mid-America Regional Council population forecast], 47,000 people and 27,000 jobs are expected to leave the urban floor by 2040. That’s not so good for Kansas City.” He goes on to talk about Bread KC, the organization that he has spearheaded since 2010, which has awarded more than $20,000 in micro-grants to local artists. Numbers like this mitigate any feelings in the room that Starowitz has come to scold. When he names that dollar figure, applause and a few whoops rise up in the Nerman’s auditorium.
senting alongside two accomplished visual artists — sculptor Garry Noland and painter Amy Kligman — and his own drawings and objects fill the gallery walls afforded him here (the same stark black-and-white charcoals from his studio, and a pile of bricks reclaimed from a Lots of Love site), these aren’t the bases of his award, and they don’t tell the whole story of his work. But whether his practice is considered art, by people who spend a lot of time determining that sort of thing, seems not to interest him much. A few weeks before this button-down night, he and I huddle over a table at Dave’s Stagecoach in Westport on a busy weeknight, and he pushes back at art-world semantics that would categorize him as a civic servant rather than a social artist. “My thing is, how do we create a sustainable structure for re-envisioning what the arts can be within a city, right?” Starowitz says. He doesn’t wait for an answer. “We have to reimagine what the role of the artist is, on a civic level, on a community level and on a neighborhood level. And how do we do that? I’m willing to ask those questions and take the risk and see if it’s feasible in Kansas City. I want to use the opportunities from Lots of Love and the drugstore to really reimagine the role of the artist on a civic level. With Lots of Love, we didn’t release an image until we had community input, and that was important.” Andrew Lyles, a KCAI classmate and longtime collaborator of Starowitz’s, puts his friend’s Nerman appearance and recent Charlotte Street nod in perspective. “Sean had a really good presentation in
“ I think KC has a lot of potential with where we are right now.” Later, Starowitz speaks of Lots of Love, another project that he heads. This one is a partnership with the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council to transform abandoned lots into functional public spaces. “We have been spending eight months in the neighborhood, getting ideas from the residents, thinking about how do we repurpose these vacant lots,” Starowitz tells the audience. “They can’t all just be parks. So we’ve talked to the people living there, and we’ve worked alongside the youth in the neighborhood to find out what they need. You have to meet people where they are at if you want to work with them.” At the Nerman, Starowitz paces the floor as he speaks. He’s nervous, he admits to his audience. He knows that his practice can confuse traditionalists, some of whom aren’t sure that Starowitz is, you know, an artist. On this Thursday night, Starowitz does seem like the odd man out. Though he’s pre-
the gallery,” Lyles says, referring to those sketches and salvaged bricks. “But I think it doesn’t hold up to him speaking in front of an audience and showing photos. His true talent is speaking and showing literally rather than visually. I think really that that sort of ‘studio artist’ doesn’t need to be shown by Sean. What he does as an artist — the Lots of Love and the Bread KC and getting people together — that’s what it comes down to. That’s where he’s made the biggest difference.”
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tell people Sean is a visionary, and it’s very refreshing because he’s young and, to a certain degree, he’s kind of fearless, which works for the work that we’re doing,” says Dina Newman, of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council. She recruited Starowitz in late 2013 to revive the Lots of Love project, which was conceived in 2011 by a previous KCAI class. “One of the things that I appreciate most
is that he always puts the residents front and center,” she tells me. “It’s not about him. We’re repurposing vacant lots as more than just a pretty site. We really want these lots to become dedicated space for safety and creative design, and to transform them to benefit the community’s health and wellness, and just putting a garden on a lot may not necessarily do that.” Lots of Love has so far committed to two spaces: the Meet and Greet Lot, located at 3700 Woodland and funded by Capitol Federal Savings Bank, and the Let’s Play Lot, to be located a block away and funded by Local Initiatives Support Corp. Construction began on the Meet and Greet Lot in July. While excavating the site, Starowitz found the brick foundation of the house that used to exist in the space. He has salvaged that masonry and plans to create a walkway with the pieces. On a torturously hot day, Starowitz leads me around the in-progress lot, pointing out where he plans to put a fire pit, a community mural and a fruit orchard. “I’m learning as I go,” he says. A rash from a brush with poison ivy dots his arms. “I don’t have it all figured out. I never knew how to tear up an asphalt driveway with a Bobcat before. That was fun.” “I can sleep at night knowing Sean’s got this project,” Newman says. “When you’re working in community, it can’t be about your agenda. Sean gets that. He gets it from day one.”
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reshman year, he was making and drawing and thinking a lot, and he had lots of ideas,” Lyles tells me, recalling his early acquaintance with Starowitz. “It couldn’t just be an object or a drawing or a painting. It had to be something that took up space, and it had to be with more than one person — it had to be a community.”
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Starowitz and Pruitt assemble D-Train dominoes at a June exhibit at Front/Space. When the two were sophomores at KCAI, Starowitz applied to the now-defunct Interdisciplinary Arts program at KCAI — an unconventional track that fused broad-spectrum creative media and encouraged students to think about their art outside studios or gallery walls. Bread KC owes something to those lessons, and it’s also traceable to a Chicago project called Sunday Soup, a similar microgrant funder with which it is affiliated. “Sean’s been interested in working with all sorts of groups of people in addition to the kind of folks who would be interested in alternative arts funding,” says Bryce Dwyer, a co-founder of inCUBATE — the organization that created Sunday Soup. The two met in Chicago in 2010, and it was clear to Dwyer then that his colleague’s practice wasn’t going to end up on a wall. “Although the model for Sunday Soup has spread to other cities internationally, the constituent for that project tends to be people, in whatever city, who are involved in arts professionally,” Dwyer tells me. “But some of the work that Sean has done, like Bread KC and beyond, shows that he’s especially interested in engaging with people who might not have personal experience with the art context yet, and that’s really interesting. There’s definitely a national platform for that.”
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tarowitz’s newest enterprise also draws some inspiration from the Windy City. It’s called Talk Shop, and he bills it as a temporary experimental cultural center. The yearlong initiative recalls Chicago’s Mess Hall, which ran from 2003 to 2013 and featured eclectic, ambitious programming: poetry readings, public meetings, lectures. There was never a cover charge, and because of continued on page 12
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continued from page 11 a peculiar rent agreement, the collective of artists running it never needed to turn it into a nonprofit. Starowitz stumbled into a similar serendipity with the empty storefront at 3936 Main, the site of Starowitz’s Fresh Bread events that is also owned by Redeemer. The space was originally an entrance to Morton Hall, which Redeemer gained ownership of in 2008. “That space has been designated for church use,” property manager Joshua Murray says. “The square footage there is exempted from property taxes currently, and so when Sean brought us the idea of doing the Talk Shop, that was one of the conditions present — that the space wouldn’t be used for profit, and nothing could be sold within it.” “It’s been a big dream of mine to do a storefront space for a long time,” Starowitz says. “There’s no commerce. It’s just this thing where if people know about it, they can use it. For me, it’s that model of having an opendoor policy. Why does art have to be this 6–9, 12–5, Saturday–Sunday experience? That’s the beauty of the Talk Shop — a lot of that space gets used Friday and Saturday nights, so for us, we take those nights off. But Sunday through Thursday, it’s free rein.” For the Talk Shop, that means open-ended public programming: lectures by visiting artists or social practitioners, art installations, roundtable discussions, monthly discussions of topics such as the concept of a “third space” (the place, Starowitz explains, that isn’t home or work but allows you to find balance). The deal with Redeemer took a few months to iron out and was made official in May. “The Talk Shop is in the same vein as Lots of Love and Bread KC,” Lyles says. “All that work is connected. We were specifically talking about spaces, and the Talk Shop kind of happened because Sean had his studio space at the Katz, and he met a few other artists
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there. He sort of framed it as a mini Bread [KC] without the grants, where you’re hanging out and meeting people and having meaningful discussions.” Among the first talkers will be Alex Elmestad, a St. Louis artist and museum programmer who collaborated with Starowitz on Bread for Work, a three-day event inspired by Bread KC. Also lined up is Christina Kim, an eco-fashion designer and artist who lives in Los Angeles. Kim plans to implement a largescale, community-oriented art installation; it will be her first U.S. work outside L.A. and New York City. “I think it’s important that small spaces can be sort of laboratories,” Dwyer says. “You can try doing things in a space that’s temporary that you couldn’t do if you worked at a local nonprofit gallery that’s been around for 20 years that has stakeholders and all these expectations. It’s important that people have
Room for lots of talk elite dinner party to talk social practice and relational aesthetics (and fundraising). Over a meal at a picnic table in the backyard, Starowitz and Lyles are meeting with the Johnson County Library’s John Helling and a mediaproduction teacher at Blue Valley North High School named Charlie Huette, who are among the core Talk Shop team. (Not present are graphic designer Taylor Pruitt, and fashion and storefront designer Lauren Tweedie.) “I think we can take visual aesthetics, architecture and design and blend them together here,” Starowitz adds. “I don’t just want to do yoga and an art space — that’s just not interesting anymore.” Helling and Huette nod and take notes as Starowitz continues. “We need to think about elevating the visual experience,” he says. “I think we can be at the level of ‘This is what
“It’s been a big dream of mine to do a storefront space for a long time. There’s no commerce. It’s just this thing where if people know about it, they can use it.”
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think sometimes, if you look at social practice and relational aesthetics, it just looks like a lot of different people having dinner parties, and it can look really exclusive and not that interesting,” Starowitz says. It’s a warm evening in late June, and he is at Lyles’ West Side home for a not especially
social engagement looks like for Kansas City’s standards,’ but also in a national conversation of socially engaged artwork and practices. And I think we can be the first ones to do it here in a storefront space. That would be pretty bitchin’.” Dinner wraps up, and I ask Helling, Huette and Lyles, “How did you get interested in the idea of the Talk Shop?” There’s a pause, and Starowitz emits an awkward laugh as three fingers point to him.
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always try to build a project where if you take me out of the equation, the project still happens,” Starowitz tells me. On this night, later in the summer, he has just returned from a trip to L.A. He’d planned the trip around presenting a project and interactive game called The D-Train: A Dialogue Lab at the Santa Monica Museum of Art. After that, he would hang out with opera director, 2014 Polar Music Prize winner and mentor Peter Sellars, and with organic-food pioneer and restaurateur Alice Waters, owner of Berkeley, California’s Chez Panisse. (He would also end up meeting Christina Kim.) He’d also been invited to participate in that city’s first edition of Brutally Early Club — for which people are invited to a 6:30 a.m. creative meeting that, ideally, pumps them up for the rest of the day. The curator, HansUlrich Obrist, founded the first such group in London, in 2006, and meeting him was reason enough for Starowitz to say yes. His role was to bake bread for the 20 or so attendees expected at architect Fritz Haeg’s home, the day’s meeting site. Starowitz spent a sleepless night in a kitchen, and in the morning, more than 70 people showed up. Starowitz delivered an impromptu presentation on the intersection of bread, art and his practice in Kansas City. “I fucking marathoned it,” he says. He laughs and says he’s feeling a little jet-lagged. He seems, at this moment, to want to disappear from the equation. “I was gone, and Lots of Love functioned without me, which was the greatest thing,” Starowitz says, “knowing that I’m not necessary.” Later, Starowitz goes back to Talk Shop: “Charlie, Andrew, John, Taylor, Lauren — these people are far more interesting than me, and they don’t know that. The beauty of what I’ve been able to do in Kansas City, with Bread KC and Lots of Love and with any of my projects, is that I surround myself with some of the most interesting people in this town. That’s the best part about it. I don’t need to do anything.” When I call to ask Lyles exactly how Starowitz presented the Talk Shop to him, I can almost hear him shrug through the receiver. “One day, he sent a few of us an e-mail and met with all of us,” Lyles says, “and basically he said, ‘I can’t do this without you guys.’ And we were like, ‘OK.’” On Sunday, August 18, the Talk Shop Indiegogo campaign started its monthlong run with a $10,000 goal — funds earmarked to pay monthly utilities and cover the costs for guest speakers and artists. The amount raised came to $4,215. That’s enough, Starowitz says, to get the Talk Shop going. He plans a soft opening in late October. The rest of the money will come, he says, from small fundraisers held along the way.
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“What personally interests me in this project is that I don’t actually know what’s going to happen,” Huette tells me in the final days of the online drive. “The whole thing just breathes opportunity, and Sean’s a very good connector. He’s very good at bringing people together, and I think, for any kind of civic thing to happen anyplace, you have to be able to do that. When I look at Bread KC and Lots of Love and now this project, I think that, as a connector, Sean’s role in Kansas City arts is invaluable.”
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tarowitz’s busy West Coast itinerary was only the latest set of invitations in a fastmoving career that has steadily expanded his circle of friends — and his sphere of influence. In November 2013, the Columbus Museum of Art asked him to work with its Art Lab and Project Pivot to develop youth-program initiatives. In February, Starowitz traveled to Madison, Indiana, to curate a four-day interactive installation and exhibition called The Dialogue Lab: Impossible Madison with 225 high school and college students. And in the spring, the Oklahoma Visual Arts Coalition asked him to curate the Momentum Tulsa 2014 exhibition, featuring three artists whose focus is on social engagement. That show opens October 3. John Friend, co-owner of the Farm to Market Bread Co., has watched Starowitz’s national profile rise. The bakery’s artist-inresidence position was created for Starowitz, he says, to give the KCAI graduate some “leeway” to work on projects and to travel. “We’re just impressed with him being invited all around the country,” Friend says. “His projects often have a charitable side to them, with giving back to the community and a local focus, but what he is doing locally is being picked up around the country, and people are asking him to help them with projects in their local neighborhoods. We’re proud of that for him.” “Sean is directly building things in communities with his work,” Huette says. “He walks in and does work and then he walks away, and he leaves something behind that does something for the community.” But more and more, the question comes up:
TRANSFORMED BARBER & COSMETOLOGY ACADEMY Starowitz at the June Bread KC event at Maker Village When will Starowitz leave behind this particular community? Erin Olm-Shipman, the former executive director of Bread KC, moved to California this year, but she doesn’t expect Starowitz to leave here anytime soon. “Maybe it was like a perfect storm of other things going on in this city, and him getting this undergrad degree here and already having that intimate relationship with that group of artists that came out of that program and that year,” she says. “It seems like every time I hear about someone doing something really awesome from the Art Institute, nine times out of 10, they’re a product of that specific [Interdisciplinary Arts] program. And also, the city is on the verge of this major revitalization, and people are more open to the types of ideas Sean has. Sean can just make you feel like all of your ideas are great … and before you know it, you’re really excited about this new collaboration he’s proposing.” And for all of the connections Starowitz can claim, here and elsewhere, his primary collaborator right now might just be the city itself. “I think KC has a lot of potential with where we are right now,” he says. “And if people can just see what we can accomplish when we lock arms and tear down this sort of country-club mentality of exclusivity and try to make something greater than ourselves, and that comes from within a local community rather than outsourcing it to places like Chicago or New York or L.A., it can be organic and interesting. “Gregory Kolsto has a great quote about how Kansas City just happens to people, and I think that’s a great philosophy to have. I like being here and feeling the need to contribute and trying to make a difference in my community.”
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At Haw Contemporary, textile artist Debra Smith has opened an exhibition titled Shifting Territory. The Pitch stopped by her studio last week, and she answered questions about how this new collection differs from her past work. See Art, page 19.
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n her new solo exhibition at Haw Contemporary, Shifting Territory, textile artist Debra Smith steps into terra incognita. Employing bold, gestural lines and the large-scale sensibilities of a painter, she engages with the visual tropes of drawing and painting, and the fabrics she uses — vintage kimonos and men’s suit lining (striped in a faint gray that suggests pencil graphite) — lend historical dimension to her airy iterations. The Pitch visited Smith’s Crossroads studio following the opening at Haw. It’s a cavernous space made cozy with clutter: bolts of fabric, ironing tables three-deep, walls coated with half-pieced works in progress. Smith speaks without hesitation or pretension, halting her rapid-fire rapport only to fly across the room and yank pieces from the wall for illustration, heaping them onto the table like Gatsby’s silk shirts. The Pitch: Where did the title Shifting Territory come from? Smith: The title has a lot of meanings for me: returning to KC after 10 years in New York; moving on from a residency in Roswell, New Mexico; moving away from weaving scarves to making artwork on a larger scale. And subletting this studio — I wouldn’t have been able to make the work that I made in the show without it. As soon as I got in this space and got to pin things up and get away from them, I realized I couldn’t see half of what I was doing in my studio at home. Everything had always been right in my face, and when I got far away from it, I was like, “Oh, this is interesting.” It was a gift to be able to have that distance, to work so not only could it read up close but far away. Is that what led to some of the larger-scale pieces at Haw? I came to a conclusion that I needed to make some bigger work to sort of shake the bush and get some people to pay more attention. Working in textiles, it can be so dismissed, and I recognized a lot of people weren’t really looking. I knew that if I made the work larger, that it would stop them for two seconds, and they would maybe look. It wasn’t a guarantee of any kind. So it’s a way of asserting yourself? I think so. I started showing at the Julie Saul Gallery — it’s primarily a photography gallery — and I got really incredible feedback from that show. I feel like textiles may be taken a little more seriously sometimes if they’re taken out of their usual context. I’ve always felt like I’m dancing more in the world of painting and drawing. But it’s something I’m still trying to figure out. I’m a weaver, a third-generation weaver — my mother and grandmother were both weavers — and I always joke that I’m a Gemini, so it’s
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for years, weaving scarves for them out of the in me to be pulled in two different directions. scrap kimono fabric that they generated. That Do you work from drawings? started my relationship with it. A lot of the It’s very rare. A lot of what I do is extremely creams and the acid reds I use in my work are intuitive. None of the work in this show has from antique Japanese kimono linings. They’re been premeditated. It’s all sort of pieced, and the shapes twist and turn together. I have to too sheer to use for garments, so they would throw them away, and I would collect them like leave the room a lot and come back and turn crazy. It’s become the main body in my work. it and walk away again. It was an incredible gift to be exposed I did a commission once where I started out by drawing three gestural lines, and when I sat to those fabrics. There’s a quality to old kimono fabric that down to try and sew a lot of people can’t it, I realized I couldn’t Shifting Territory see. There’s just this cut a gestural line Through October 18 at Haw Contemporary, vibration to the faband sew a gestural 1600 Liberty, 816-842-5877, ric itself because of its line the way I could hawcontemporary.com history. To me, it’s not draw it. I can’t make about the person who an abstract drawing and work toward it. I can have gestural move- wore it, necessarily, but the humanity that ments when I sew, but they can’t be premedi- went into making it. A lot of the stuff made now is slicker — you can sense a machine doing it. tated. They need to be more organic. Is there a place for contemporary fabrics in You’ve worked with color before, but the pieces your work? on display at Haw are largely black and cream. I’ve been trying to figure out a life for this My original intention was that the first room was going to be black and white, and really weird, green rayon with a sort of woodthe second was going to be color. But when I grain pattern. It’s either really hideous or kind started working, it didn’t come out that way. of amazing. There’s something really fascinating about it — the hand quality is just sleazy. There was enough going on already, and I The fabric I usually work with is silk — vinrealized I wasn’t done exploring it. I wanted tage silk. It’s not something I can find anyto play more with form and shapes. where. It’s a precious commodity. But this What drew you to kimono fabrics? I worked for [Asian-goods retailer] Asiatica stuff, this weird, tacky, crazy stuff, I feel like I
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started at Hamburger Mary’s but isn’t coming to the new restaurant.) The fact that heterosexual patrons embraced Kansas City’s first Hamburger Mary’s (the original restaurant opened in San Francisco in 1972) wasn’t a complete surprise to Edmondson and Christensen. “We knew there would be a mixed clientele from visiting some of the locations in other cities,” Edmondson says. “What we didn’t expect was what a large percentage of our patrons would be heterosexual. Our typical ratio, for the dining clientele, is 80 percent straight and 20 percent gay.” That’s most obvious on Sundays, during the drag brunch hosted by Daisy Buckët. “Daisy asks the people in the dining room to raise their hands if they’re gay, raise their hands if they’re straight,” Edmondson says. “It’s almost always a primarily straight crowd.” Hamburger Mary’s International, the franchise system (with offices in Chicago and West Hollywood), describes the restaurant concept as the original operation did: “an open-air bar & grill for open-minded people.” The question is whether 37th Street and Broadway is as open-minded as the artsy Crossroads. It should be — this stretch of midtown has been home to LGBT bars since the 1960s. “That’s one of the reasons we like this neighborhood,” Edmondson says. “It does have a long history of being a hub for Kan-
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Edmondson (left) and Christensen hope that Mary's merriment begins next month. sas City’s LGBT community, and we’d like to bring back some of that energy. This neighborhood has come a long way in a decade.” Edmondson says ECCO Holdings has more in store than just the Hamburger Mary’s move. “We have a plan to open a gay sports bar across the street,” he says. “And maybe some other concepts.” The new Hamburger Mary’s will be configured differently from the one in the Crossroads. “Everything — bar and dining area — will be in one room,” Edmondson says. “But there will be two levels of dining and one large bar that span the size of the building. The new place won’t be quite so overboard in style. We’ll have a little of the old kitschiness, but we’re really going for a more sophisticated look.” Instead of a second-floor deck, a popular gathering place on First Fridays in the Crossroads, the Hamburger Mary’s on Broadway will have an enclosed, street-level patio that could, depending on permits, be open before winter. One thing not changing is the menu, which remains mostly burgers, salads and traditional comfort foods. “People like having a choice of cuisines to choose from in the metro,” Edmondson says. “Italian, Thai, Chinese, gay.”
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hen a remedy won’t cure an ailing bar and grill, it’s time to try a different cure. That’s the story with Remedy Food + Drink, the sunny, glass-walled venue at 500 West 75th Street, in Waldo. The former Kennedy’s Bar & Grill got a significant makeover in 2012, transforming into Remedy. It developed a sophisticated new menu and hired name-brand chef Max Watson, formerly of the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange. (Watson left after a year, and his successors didn’t last, either.) Last week, two former McCormick & Schmick’s veterans — manager Andy Lock and chef Domhnall Molloy — signed a lease on the property. In 2013, Lock and Molloy turned the failing Rumor’s Steakhouse, in Lee’s Summit into the Summit Grill & Bar. They hope to do the same with Remedy, reopening in mid-October as the Summit Grill & Bar Kansas City, a smaller version of the Lee’s Summit restaurant, after an interior makeover. The second Summit restaurant plans to serve a similar menu of hand-cut steaks, seafood, pork chops and pot roast. Molloy, who lives in Waldo, will oversee the 75th Street restaurant, while Lock handles day-to-day operations in Lee’s Summit. Another saloon restaurant getting a shot of adrenaline is Bridger’s Bottle Shop, the fivemonth-old beer emporium and sandwich lab in the former America’s Pub space at 510 Westport Road. Celebrity butcher Alex Pope joined forces with Bottle Shop founders Phil Theis, Aaron Beatty and Eric Flanagan to install, in the center of the beer shop, Preservation Market, a fast-casual restaurant serving sandwiches, salads, a charcuterie plate and daily specials. Last week, Pope and his staff took over the management of the entire operation, promoting Adam Northcraft to general manager and making plans to expand the menu, reduce beer prices and offer table service. A few blocks away, restaurateur Maija Diethelm-Floyd closed her 13-year-old Boozefish Wine Bar, at 1511 Westport Road, as she continued negotiating with a buyer for the bistro. Diethelm-Floyd says she and her husband will be living in Aix-en-Provence, in France, by the end of the year. Another Westport business, Keith Buchanan’s cozy Teahouse & Coffeepot, at 4309 Jefferson, closed after four years and after serving its last Drunken Rum Raisin scone. Other notable closings over the summer: Open Fire Wood Burning Pizza (3951 Broadway), Ubuntu Café (4327 Troost), Kansas Town (1403 West 39th Street), and Nica’s Lagniappe Cajun Kitchen (320 Southwest Boulevard). The landlords of those buildings require a very simple cure: new tenants. — C.F.
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Iris and Cuvée Saint-Gilloise and releasing bottles of Classic Gueuze, Cuvée SaintGilloise, Fou’ Foune, Iris, Kriek, Lou Pepe Gueuze, Mamouche, Rosé de Gambrinus, Saint Lamvinus) at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m.
Home Brew NigHt at CiNder BloCk Sour Beer week (CaNtilloN)
Live Home Brew Night with pilot brewer Andrew Hicks and release of Black IPA at Cinder Block Brewery (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City), 5–9 p.m.
firkiN tappiNg of tallgraSS etHoS
Firkin tapping of Tallgrass Ethos (dry-
CSBev CaNvitatioNal miNi-golf
sunday, sepTember 28
Stone tap takeover at 75th Street Brewery (520 West 75th Street), 4:30–9:30 p.m.
Screenland Armour presents Baseketball at
Sour Beer Week featuring Perennial (tapping Savant Blanc, Gose-a-Rita, and Peach Berliner Weisse) at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m.
oktoBerfeSt at grüNauer
Central States Beverage Canvitational minigolf at Mission Bowl (5399 Martway, Mis-
sion), 4 p.m.
Three firkins (Whiskey Brown Maple American Oak, Porter Pumpkin, Porter Pumpkin Whiskey) and glassware for first 20 people at Cinder Block Brewery (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City), 5:30 p.m.
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Oktoberfest at Grünauer (101 West 22nd
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Tappings of Goose Island Lolita, Odell Friek, and Tilquin Oude Gueuze at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 11 a.m.
oktoBerfeSt at kC Bier Co.
KC Beer Fest, featuring more than 45 breweries and 200 beers, at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street). The sold-out VIP session starts at 2 p.m. General admission goes from 3 to 6 p.m.
BaseketBall at CiNder BloCk
Tappings of Evil Twin Justin Blabaer, Goose Island Matilda Lambicus, and 4 Hands Cuvée Ange at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m.
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Oktoberfest at KC Bier Co. (310 West 79th Street), 11 a.m.–10 p.m. At noon, a tapping of a wooden barrel of Festbier by City Councilman Scott Taylor, followed by a 3 p.m. masskrugstemmen (stein-holding competition) and a 6 p.m. lederhosen and dirndl competition. Selling hats, with the proceeds going to Habitat for Humanity. Selling souvenir steins for $12. Also noon–9 p.m. Sunday, September 28.
hopped with orange peel) at Barley’s Brewhaus (11924 West 119th Street, Overland Park), 4 p.m.
Friday, sepTember 26
tHree firkiNS at CiNder BloCk
in whiskey barrels, and a secret barrel tapping at the brewery (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City), 6 p.m.
Cider-pressing day at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift), 10 a.m.–2 p.m. Cinder Block Brewery (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City). Games at 4:30 p.m., movie at 7 p.m.
monday, sepTember 29
North Coast Brewing Co. tap takeover at Barley’s Brewhaus (11924 West 119th Street, Overland Park)
Tuesday, sepTember 30
Screenland Armour and Rock & Run Brewery release a collaboration brew (Peanut Butter Solution , a vanilla peanut butter stout) along with a showing of Back to the Future at the brewery (110 East Kansas, Liberty), 7 p.m. North Coast tap takeover at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Midland Drive, Shawnee), 5 p.m.
Wednesday, ocTober 1
Shocktober, featuring Tallgrass beer, a pumpkin-carving contest at 7 p.m., and a free showing of Night of the Living Dead at 8 p.m. at Screenland Armour (408 Armour Road, North Kansas City). Brewery night (buy the beer, collect the glass) featuring Abita at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m.
Empyrean night at all three Barley’s locations. Build-your-own-firkin contest. The winning beer style will be tapped October 29, 5–8 p.m. North Coast tap takeover at Barley’s Brewhaus (5031 West 135th Street, Leawood), 5 p.m.
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hen people attempt to sum up the There’s something for everyone on Oso. music of the Jorge Arana Trio, they he talks, giving him an air of eagerness that wind up making a whole record store’s worth cuts through the relaxed setting. It would of comparisons. Reviewers have found the seem that conflict and chaos are things that trio analogous to the Mars Volta, Bauhaus and John Zorn. There’s probably a little bit of Deer- Enyart, Nash and 30-year-old Jorge Arana hoof in there, too. And the band’s latest EP, (the band’s namesake, guitarist and keyJuly’s Oso, floats without allegiance from surf board player) aim to achieve, even in their schedules. On this day, despite the early to experimental jazz to prog, making a sound afternoon, the three men are a little on the that’s hard to envision, let alone describe. You groggy side, and the dining room is kept might as well try to explain the significance rather dark, with one dim light throwing of your strangest recurring dream. shadows around the walls. This is likely beSeated around the dining-room table of cause the band members have had little sleep drummer Josh Enyart’s Kansas City, Kansas, home, the three musicians address this con- since arriving back to KC earlier, at around 4 a.m., from a regional summer tour. fusion with a group shrug. When they talk about this brief run, “Everyone hears something different in though, they perk up. The tour was good it,” Enyart, 33, says, smiling good-naturedly. for them, they agree. “On this tour, we had a Yes, the comparisons lot of people talk about The Jorge Arana Trio remain constant and Miles Davis and Tony Saturday, September 27, at FOKL never quite right. But Williams. A lot of the the point is less that time, when people talk people interpret this about what they receive out of our music, it’s something I’ve never music exactly than that they simply enjoy it. “Usually by the end of the first song, even heard of.” there’s a pretty good reaction,” Enyart says of Enyart shares a laugh with 26-year-old bassist Jason Nash. “I’m working on being the trio’s live experience. “They’re like, ‘Wait, that was pretty badass.’ And I tell people to able to describe it in less than 30 seconds,” Nash says. “At first, I would just start to trail look at our music like storytelling through instrumentation. It’s designed to inspire your off and not be able to do it, but anymore I just imagination.” tell people it’s fast and chaotic.” There’s no shortage of imagination on Oso. Nash leans forward on his elbows when
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The EP isn’t quite 12 minutes, but that brief running time offers a bounty of sounds. Opening track “Foredoom” bursts open like a piñata filled with rotten candy, screeching at you before fading into the less jarring jazz grooves of “Kallisto.” But those friendly waves, too, are soon overthrown by some mean riffs. “Old Bamboo” moves along with handclaps that seem to function outside the rhythm of the song. And closing track “Banished to Siberia” sweats out any last resistance you may have, with smoky guitar notes and a psychedelic vibe. (There’s some weird, zombielike humming in there, too, where the chorus would usually go.) “There’s a little bit of everything in there,” Arana says of the set. “Musically, we’re trying to make something new and fresh. For a lot of people, it’s pretty odd stuff. It’s a little wild.” As the three musicians relax deeper into their chairs and keep talking, they seem genuinely glad to be home — ready, they say, to share more of their odd stories. The Jorge Arana Trio’s music may be wild, but it’s not impossible to find a connection to it. And 12 minutes suddenly seems like not nearly enough.
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n his first two albums, Perfume Genius people that I think are going to be listening. — the stage name of Seattle artist Mike That can be kind of paralyzing, and I thought I might need to change the way I wrote iniHadreas — focused on creating songs that were tially. It works for me, though, to tell my own delicate, almost elegiac. The music on 2010’s Learning and 2012’s Put Your Back N 2 It were secrets, and being that personal [with my sad and solemn, like mournful diary entries. music] ended up reaching more people, in a way. I was trying to write for other people In fact, Hadreas didn’t expect anyone beyond friends to hear Learning, and he was writing when I started this album, but it lost heart for no one but himself when it came to Put and impact, and I wasn’t thinking about what I needed to say. Your Back N 2 It. Yes, Too Bright came after you scrapped that Too Bright, released Tuesday, is a different material for a different album. When the songs story. For the first time, Hadreas considered a that are on Too Bright started to come to you, broader audience, and the result is an album as harrowing as it is beautiful. It directly ad- how did you know they were different? I think it’s riskiness. When I’m uncomfortdresses, among other things, Hadreas’ views able or nervous to share [songs], I feel that they on homophobia as an out gay man. (Take might be important. Most of the things I’ve a look at the video for “Queen,” shot and done that have been worthwhile, I’ve been produced by Kansas City’s Cody Critcheloe scared to do but I’ve of Ssion.) followed through Ahead of Hadreas’ Perfume Genius anyway. I could just Monday-night show Monday, September 29, at the Riot Room tell when my heart at the Riot Room, The is in it, not just my Pitch dialed him up at brain making a nice his home. The Pitch: Writing personal songs is one song. When it feels dramatic or spiritual, when thing. Sharing them with the world and per- I feel brave about it — that’s [what is] on this album. A lot of the music I scrapped was nice or forming them live is another. What has it taken pleasant, but it didn’t particularly feel brave. for you to become comfortable playing your It felt like you could play that music when you music live? Hadreas: I don’t know if I ever am comfort- were shopping or something. “Queen” isolates this misguided notion of able, but it feels important to share, I suppose. I’ve always written music as a therapy “gay panic.” Was there a particular event that inspired that song, or were you just generally to start with, even the first couple albums. frustrated by that false notion? I’m glad people were moved the way they I think if I went off and wrote a song every were, but I wasn’t thinking I was going to be time someone said something to me, I’d have sharing with more than my immediate friend too many songs. I kind of combined it all. In groups. That’s changed now. I’m writing from some ways, it’s a dead-serious song, and I a personal place still, but I’m also writing for
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Hadreas opens his wounds. actually am angry and wagging my finger a little bit [at homophobia]. But also, there’s a playfulness to it, and by magnifying it, I think there’s a sense of humor to it. I like how those two things can kind of bounce off each other. I needed that song for me. I can walk with my head down a little bit sometimes on the street, and I needed that. But as much as I needed that, I knew that other people needed it, too. People have written me letters and stuff over the past few years, and I knew that it would be helpful. I wanted to make something that wasn’t victim-y or defensive. I wanted it to be empowering, like a weapon. I wanted to make something explicit — not just about the edges of this issue. I wanted it to be very gay. [Laughs.] I wish I would have heard something like that when I was younger. Do you ever feel that tackling these heavy themes in your music will somehow diminish the art of what you’re doing? I think about it all the time. I knew that when I was writing and recording [this record] that that’s what was going to happen, honestly. I make talking points before interviews sometimes. But it’s a weird thing to negotiate. It’s important for me to talk about these things, but in a weird way, you don’t want it to be a big deal, either. It’s just who I am. I want to make these songs, and there would be some gay shit in there no matter what because I’m a gay person. But at the same time, it’s intentional because I know it’s going to be heard.
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titles alone tell the tale: “Never Gonna Love Again,” “Heart of Steel,” “Sleeping Alone.” Still, it’s not just a heavy-handed pity party. The production is sweeping and cinematic, the drumbeats blood-warming, the synths lush. Wear your heart on your sleeve at Saturday’s show, but don’t give up on letting someone have it someday, either. Saturday, September 27, Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)
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The three women who make up the Carper Family are not related by blood. But bassist Melissa “Daddy” Carper, fiddler Beth “Mama” Chrisman and guitarist Jenn “Little Sister” Miori do share something visceral: a deep love of old-fashioned acoustic tunes. Together, the musicians produce vocal harmonies so pure and natural, you’d think they were triplets who started singing together in the womb. The Carper Family has achieved substantial renown in its hometown of Austin, where the band is considered a local treasure for a sound deeper than mere country or bluegrass. The music is old-timey, but the lyrics are sharp and the live shows anything but boring. Thursday, September 25, Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-753-1909)
Mike Watt & Il Sogno del Marinaio
Since 2009, bassist Mike Watt — legendary founder of Minutemen, Firehose and Dos; fillin bassist for the reformed Stooges; veteran of Ciccone Youth — has devoted himself to a project that at first sounds odd. With Italian guitarist Stefano Pilia and drummer Andrea Belfi, he
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has designed what he calls a “power trio” in Il Sogno del Marinaio (Italian for “Song of the Sailor”). On the band’s latest album, August’s Canto Secondo, the three artists do indeed explore a particular power. Songs wind along like spider veins, one apocalyptic prog jam intertwined with the next, with Pilia sometimes manipulating his guitar strings with a violin bow. Yet Canto Secondo also pays homage to elements of Watt’s starry past — in particular, his Minutemen days — so if you needed another excuse to see this show, that’s it. Get there early: Lawrence act Gnarly Davidson opens. Friday, September 26, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)
Lykke Li
Lykke Li’s new full-length is a singularly heartbreaking experience. Written in the wake of a devastating breakup — the dissolution of the relationship for which the then-26-year-old singer-songwriter relocated from her native Sweden to Los Angeles — the songs on I Never Learn drop like petals off a dying flower. The
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Saturday at Knuckleheads, community-radio station KKFI 90.1 celebrates the 15th anniversary of its Blues Kitchen program with a hefty lineup. Mary Bridget Davies is a dead ringer for Janis Joplin — she has toured with Big Brother and the Holding Company — and whether she’s reviving “Piece of My Heart” or performing an original, you can expect the goosebumps to come in waves. Junebug and the Porch Lights deliver the sort of easy-listening backyard blues that anyone can appreciate, and local trio Katy Guillen and the Girls never fails to inspire dancing. Four Fried Chickens and a Coke headlines because, you know, who else? Saturday, September 27, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)
Fly Moon Royalty
When Seattle’s Adra Boo and Mike Illvester first began making music together, they didn’t really have a plan. Their collaboration as Fly Moon Royalty was inspired by a mutual love for old-school hip-hop and funk more than by a drive to reach the masses. Four years later, that lack of focus has worked out just fine. Boo and Illvester’s latest EP, Unfinished Business, boasts a collection of songs showcasing that multitude of influences. Boo’s voice is a robust instrument, perfectly suited to the throwback soul and funky rhythms that Illvester favors. Illvester goes from beats to mic on his share of tracks, too, where he lays down spry, energetic raps. Hear it all on Sunday at the Riot Room. Sunday, September 28, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)
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Thursday | 9.25 |
Chris Thile and edgar Meyer
arT exhibiTs & evenTs A Cast of Blues: a celebration of mississippi’s rich musical heritage | Mid-America Arts
Comedy
Alliance, 2018 Baltimore, maaa.org/kcexhibitions
Joke Fighter II: Turbo Championship edition Hyper Fighting | 10 p.m. Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massa-
chusetts, Lawrence
Across the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-68 | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org
dustin Kaufman’s Variety Show | 9 p.m. Uptown
Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Brush Creek Art Walk art opening reception | 5-7:30 p.m. Friday, Bruce Watkins
moore Stories with Patrick moore | The Buffalo
Cultural Heritage Center, 3700 Blue Pkwy., brushcreekartwalk.org
Room at the Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd.
Steve Trevino | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
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Robin Williams Remembered | 7-9 p.m. Uptown
Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
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Bike night | 6-9 p.m. Worth Harley-Davidson North, 6609 N. Oak Tfwy. FIlm
national Theatre’s Medea | 1 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com universal Film Festival | 5-9 p.m. Cinemark Palace
at the Plaza, 500 Nichols Rd., universalfilmfestival.com F00d & dRInK
Second Annual Catfish Fry, benefiting Friends of
Chris Thile and edgar meyer | 7 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org
evan Holm & the domestic Cold Waters, Zack mufasa, northcoast, Kinky Fingers | 7 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
millage Gilbert Big Blues Band | 7 p.m. Danny’s
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mike Shannon Charitable Golf Scramble, benefit-
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Goatwhore, Bleed the Victim | 11 p.m. The Riot
Grand marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Grupo Aztlan | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St. Brett Jackson Quartet | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge,
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Final Friday Art Walk | Downtown Lawrence, Massachusetts between Seventh and 11th streets Final Friday lawrence Art Party | 5:309:30 p.m. Friday, Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St., Lawrence Adam Finkelston: Manifestations | Kiosk
Gallery, 3951 Broadway
Tim Forcade, Teresa Paschke and erin Hall
| Kansas City Artists Coalition, 201 Wyandotte, kansascityartistscoalition.org
derrin: World Folk music | 6-10 p.m. Broadway Jazz
Club, 3601 Broadway
the Kaw | 6-10 p.m. Abe and Jake’s Landing, 8 E. Sixth St., Lawrence
American Royal Invitational youth Rodeo | Hale Arena, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com
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Bow Tie Fly | 10 p.m. Qudos Cigar & Cognac Bar, 1116
Grand
mondo Beat with dJ martin Bush | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Teenage Heart Sound System with Johnny 2Tone and dJ 810 | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
Friday | 9.26 |
Great Plains — America’s Lingering Wild, photography by Michael Forsberg | The Box Gallery, 1000 Walnut
Hallmarket: A Hallmark Art Fair | 10 a.m.5 p.m., Crown Center, 2501 McGee. facebook .com/hallmarket Inner Minds/Outer Limits: Collage and Graphite on Newsprint and Panel by Len Davis | Starting Friday, Thornhill Gallery, Avila University, 11901 Wornall, avila.edu/thornhill
PeRFoRmInG ARTS
Brentano Quartet with Juho Pohjonen, piano | 8 p.m. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., follytheater.org new dance Partners, featuring Wylliams/Henry Contemporary dance, owen/Cox dance Group and the Kansas City Ballet | 8 p.m. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park
Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition | Through Saturday, H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. Jason Pollen: Unfurled — 30 Years in Kansas City | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.
R u HR — H&R Block Artspace’s 15th Anniversary Celebration | 6-10 p.m. Friday,
Juego estándar with miguel “mambo” deleon |
Comedy
Kansas City Art Institute, 16 E. 43rd St., kcai.edu
The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence
mark lowrey Trio | 6 p.m. The Majestic, 931 Broadway
Steve Trevino | 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
BongoTini | 7-9 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence
margo may, Bear Face, Sara morgan | 9 p.m.
Russell Wrankle: New Works | Starting Friday, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence
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The Carper Family | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers
The Quebe Sisters with old Salt union | 8 p.m.
Hampshire, Lawrence
Blackberry Smoke, Statesboro Revue | 8 p.m.
Club, 3402 Main
Steven Cooper | 6 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Crossroads Song Swap | The Tank Room, 1813 Grand 30
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RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
The Stevens, oils, Kool 100s | 10 p.m. MiniBar,
3810 Broadway
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Reach Out and Read-Kansas City | 5-8 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., reachoutandreadkc.org
last Poet Standing | 7:30 p.m. Kultured Chameleon KC Street Art Gallery, 1739 Oak
David Vertacnik: Local Flavor | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence SPoRTS & ReC
American Royal Invitational youth Rodeo | Hale Arena, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com continued on page 32
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Cheek to Cheek: The Songs of Fred Astaire
| Starting Friday, Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com
Hair | The Barn Players, 6219 Martway, Mission,
thebarnplayers.org
F00d & dRiNK
Grünauer oktoberfest | 4 p.m. Grünauer, 101 W. 22nd St., grunauerkc.com
MuSiC
Hamlet | Kansas City Actors Theatre, at H&R
Block City Stage in Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., kcactors.org
American Revival, the invisible World | 10 p.m.
Hands on a Hardbody | Unicorn Theatre, 3828
Jeff Bergen’s Elvis show | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads
Lost in Yonkers | Metropolitan Ensemble The-
Black Cobra, lo-Pan, Gnarly davidson | 10 p.m.
Magical Murdery Tour | KC Mystery Train,
Bob Bowman with Todd Strait & Roger Wilder |
Our Town | KC Repertory Theatre, 4949 Cherry,
Caprice Classic | 8:30 p.m. Murray’s Tables & Tap,
Rosa Parks and the Montgomery Bus Boycott | The Coterie Theatre, at Crown Center, 2450
dr. John & the Nite Trippers, honey island Swamp Band, Blue orleans | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC
Main, unicorntheatre.org
atre, 3614 Main, 816-569-3226, metkc.org
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kcrep.org
Grand, thecoterie.org
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
| Kansas City Actors Theatre, at H&R Block City Stage Theater in Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., kcactors.org
Trouser Mouse, 410 S. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs
Saloon, 2715 Rochester
Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 5336 W. 151st St., Leawood
12921 State Line
at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.
Millage Gilbert | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205
E. 85th St.
Gooding, Famous Mammoth | Czar, 1531 Grand
continued from page 30 Calf Scramble and Show | Hale Arena, 1701 Ameri-
Googolplexia, Folkicide, Blondie Brunetti, dubb Nubb, Paper Ceilings | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020
KC Yoga Festival | 7-10 p.m. Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W. 13th St., kansascityyogafestival.com
hardship letters, dead voices, Micro Twangdaddies, the Sharrows dinner show | 10 p.m.
can Royal Ct., americanroyal.com
ProRodeo | 7 p.m. Hale Arena, 1701 American Royal
Westport Rd.
Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
Ct., americanroyal.com
Rich hill | 4:30 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway
Sporting KC vs. New England | 7 p.m. Sporting
Jazz disciples with lisa henry | 8:30 p.m. The
2014 Ali Kemp Educational Foundation Golf Tournament | 9 a.m. Adams Pointe Golf Club, 1601
limp Bizkit | 8 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand
Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK
R.D. Mize Rd., Blue Springs, takedefense.org
Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.
lonnie Ray | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.
ShoPPiNG
The Matchsellers, old Fangled | 6 p.m. Replay Mid-America Begonia Society & heart of America Gesneriad Society Annual Show & Sale |
1-4 p.m. Loose Park Garden Center, 5200 Pennsylvania
Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Stephanie Moore | 7 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway
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Knife and Pork: a round-table discussion of sustainable pork production | 6:30 p.m. H&R Block
Artspace at KCAI, 16 E. 43rd St.
organ Jazz Trio, with James isaac, Soul Rev, Molly hammer | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
The Piano Guys | 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main Preservation hall Jazz Band | 6:30 p.m. VooDoo
Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City
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r U Hr — H&r Block Artspace’s 15th-Anniversary Celebration | 6-10 p.m. Friday, Kansas City Art
Institute, 16 E. 43rd St., kcai.edu, tickets $25
Punk-a-Billy Prom with the Cowtown Playboys, the 58 Delrays, Degeneration, the Uncouth | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main
Kansas City Horn Club Jazz fest | 8:30 a.m.5:30 p.m. James C. Olson Performing Arts Center, 4949 Cherry, kchornclub.org
Scarlet Town | 7:30 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania
La Traviata | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Per-
Peter Schlamb Quartet | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 5336 W. 151st St., Leawood
Spice 1 | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
forming Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcopera.org
New Dance Partners, featuring Wylliams/ Henry Contemporary Dance, owen/Cox Dance Group and the Kansas City Ballet | 8 p.m. Yardley
Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park
Trio E with Clarke Wyatt, George Marich & Johnny Hamil, Helen Gillet | The Brick, 1727 McGee 12th Planet | The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts,
CoMEDy
Norm Dexter Comedy Showcase | 10-11:45 p.m.
Lawrence
Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Dale Watson with the Cactus Blossoms |
Drunken Personal History | 10 p.m. Kick Comedy
Mike Watt, Gnarly Davidson | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck,
recess Players improv Showcase | 7-9 p.m.
8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania
Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
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Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.
DJ D.Tek | 10 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania
Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964 | Wyandotte County Historical Society
& Museum, 631 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs
DJ lektrik, Audiomattic, Half Dead Bear | 11 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
DJ Sike | MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
Saturday | 9.27 | PErforMiNG ArTS
Violinist Shmuel Ashkenasi | 7:30 p.m. Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, 8700 N.W. River Park Dr., Parkville. park.edu/icm
Cowtown: History of the Kansas City Stockyards | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th
9/24
St., kclibrary.org
The Land Divided, the World United: Building the Panama Canal | Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry
Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids | Museum at PrairieFire, 5801 W. 135th St., Overland Park, museumatpf.org
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continued from page 33 Steve Trevino | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club
The old Crows with Bill organ | The Brick, 1727
interpol
McGee
and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
organ Jazz Trio | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
ExpoS
Repticon Kansas City Reptile & Exotic Animal Expo | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abdallah Shrine Center, 5300
RetroActive | The BrewTop Pub & Patio, 6601 W. 135th St., Ste. A1, Overland Park
F E S T i vA l S
Robot Monkey Madman, Squids KC, the lucky, Clayton Brown | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
Metcalf, Merriam
Kansas City Renaissance Festival | 10 a.m.-7 p.m.,
Thee Devotion, the Mad Kings, Scott Hrabko Dinner Show with Tommy Donoho | 6:30 p.m.
628 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs, kcrenfest.com
Coda, 1744 Broadway
lawson Roberts Butterfly Festival | 10 a.m.-
y m o n da
9.29
2 p.m. Mr. & Mrs. F.L. Schlagle Library, 4051 West Dr.,KCK, kckpl.org
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oktoberfest | 4-10 p.m. St. John the Evangelist Church, 1234 Kentucky, Lawrence
Raytown Arts and Music Festival | 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Raytown City Hall, 10000 E. 59th St., raytown.mo.us
Slovenefest | 5-10 p.m. Holy Family School Grounds,
513 Ohio, KCK
Weston Tobacco Festival | 4-8 p.m. Weston Burley
House, 357 Main, Weston, westontobacco.com
Wild West Days | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Mahaffie Stage-
coach Stop and Farm, 1100 Kansas City Rd., Olathe, mahaffie.org
interpol, Rey pila | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Jason vivone & The Billy Bats | 8 p.m. The Kill
project Walk Kansas City’s Charity Wiffleball Tournament | 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., $250/team, Com-
The Bryant Carter Band | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse,
302 W. Eighth St.
munityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, projectwalk-kansascity.org
Universal Film Festival | 2-7 p.m. Cinemark Palace
at the Plaza, 500 Nichols Rd., universalfilmfestival.com
Flying Saucer presents the Sixth Annual KC Beer Fest | 9 a.m. KC Live Block at the Power & Light
NHl Hockey: Dallas Stars vs. St. louis Blues |
District, 14th St. and Grand
proRodeo | 2 & 7 p.m. Hale Arena, 1701 American Royal
22nd St., grunauerkc.com
grünauer oktoberfest | 2 p.m. Grünauer, 101 W.
Knife & pork: a sustainable craft butchery festival
Shamrock FC: onslaught | 7:30 p.m. Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr., ameristar.com
with tastings, craft beer and live entertainment | 1-8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, knifeandpork.co
SHoppiNg
MUSiC
Mid-America Begonia Society & Heart of America gesneriad Society Annual Show & Sale | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Loose Park Garden Center, 5200
Adriel’s Tragedy | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam
Pennsylvania
Club, 3601 Broadway
Broadway
KU Football vs. Texas | Memorial Stadium, 11th and
Ct., americanroyal.com
Cynthia van Roden Quartet | 7 p.m. Broadway Jazz
Osage, 105 Osage, Sibley, jacksongov.org
F00D & DRiNK
7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand
8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.
410 S. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs
Dr., Merriam
Bar, 14816 E. U.S. Hwy. 40, Independence
The Disappointments | The BrewTop Pub and Patio,
8614 N. Boardwalk Ave.
Double vision: a tribute to Foreigner | 8 p.m.
Coffee + Bar, 5336 W. 151st St., Leawood
The Zeros | Fuel, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park NigHTliFE
Dirty Stomp | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachu-
setts, Lawrence
DJ Mike Scott | Hotel Nightclub, 1300 Grand
VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City
Klever, Spinstyles, DJ Trace Beats | 8 p.m. The
The grisly Hand | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers
pumpkin Smash, hosted by the DeLaSalle Education Center Junior Board | 5:30-10 p.m. Brookside Park, 56th St. and Brookside Blvd., 21 and older only
Club, 3402 Main
Wayne Hancock, Katy guillen and the girls, the Culprits, Twenty Thousand Strongmen | 9 p.m.
Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
The Fab Four — The Ultimate Tribute | 8 p.m. The
Midland, 1228 Main
Stan Kessler | 8 p.m. 12 Baltimore, 106 W. 12th St. KKFi’s 15th-anniversary Blues Kitchen show
grisha Alexiev & Diana Herold | 8 p.m. Take Five
Tim Whitmer & KC Express | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix,
Dark From Day one, Arya, Aluna, Restraint, Red velvet Crush, 5:40 | 7 p.m. The Scene KC Rock
SpoRTS & REC
Maine, Lawrence
Truckstop Honeymoon, American Revival |
California voodoo | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048
grand Festival of Chez les Canses | 9 a.m. Fort
FilM
KC Yoga Festival | 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Kansas City Convention Center, 301 W. 13th St., kansascityyogafestival.com
Trampled by Turtles | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grind-
ers, 417 E. 18th St.
with Mary Bridget Davies, Katy Guillen & the Girls, Four Fried Chickens and a Coke, and Junebug & the Porch Lights | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
DJ Rico | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway DJ Thundercutz | 8 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
Sunday | 9.28 | pERFoRMiNg ARTS
KC Rep Block party | 9:30 a.m.-8 p.m. Spencer Theater, UMKC Campus, 4949 Cherry, kcrep.org CoMEDY
CoMMUNiTY EvENTS
American Royal parade: A Star Spangled Salute | 9:45 a.m. Grand Blvd. from Pershing Rd. to Truman
Rd., americanroyal.com
Cars in the park Car Show, benefiting Special Olympics of Johnson County Parks & Rec | 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Shawnee Mission Park, 7710 Renner Rd., Shawnee, carsinthepark.org
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American Jazz Museum birthday celebration with Charles Williams | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room,
1616 E. 18th St.
Arson City, Ashes of Tyranny | 7 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam
The Ataris (acoustic), Dead ven, Brent Windler | 7 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
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lazy, CS luxem, Arc Flash | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence levee Town | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St. lonesome Hank | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Eddie Moore & the outer Circle | 6-9 p.m. Green
Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Steve Trevino | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. ExpoS
Repticon Kansas City Reptile & Exotic Animal Expo | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Abdallah Shrine Center, 5300 Metcalf, Merriam
farmers markets Badseed | 4-9 p.m. Friday, 1909 McGee
THURSDAYS...
independence Farmers & Craft Market |
Briarcliff village Farmers Market | 3-7 p.m. Thursday, parking lot, 4175 N. Mulberry Dr.
5 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesday and Saturday, the corner of Truman and Main, Historic Independence Square, 210 W. Truman Rd.
Brookside Farmers Market | 8 a.m.-1 p.m.
ivanhoe Farmers Market | 5-7 p.m. Friday, Nutter
City Market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-
KC organics and natural Market | 8 a.m.12:30 p.m. Saturday, Minor Park, Holmes at Red Bridge Road
Saturday, Border Star Montessori, 6321 Wornall
3 p.m. Sunday, 20 E. Fifth St.
Cottin’s Hardware store | 4-6:30 p.m. Thursday, back parking lot of 1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Desoto Farmers Market | 8 a.m.-noon Saturday,
lawrence Farmers Market | 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, 4-6 p.m. Tuesday, 824 New Hampshire liberty Farmers Market | 7 a.m.-noon Wednes-
Downtown lee’s summit Farmers Market |
Merriam Farmers Market | 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Satur-
Downtown overland Park Farmers Market
olathe Farmers Market | 7:30 a.m. Saturday
| 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, 6:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Wednesdays, 7950 Marty
day, Feldmans Farm & Home, 1332 W. Kansas
day, 4-7 p.m. Wednesday, Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr.
and Wednesday, Black Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St. (Field 1)
SCREENLAND ARMOUR Parkville Farmers Market | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-5 p.m. Wednesday, English Landing Park, &First St. and Main CINDER BLOCK BREWERY Grand Court Farmers Market | 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Waldo Farmers Market | 3-7 p.m. Wednesday, PRESENTS Saturday, Grand Court Retirement Center, 501 Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 303 W. 79th St.
Gladstone Farmers Market | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-6 p.m. Wednesday, Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect
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F e s t i va l s
Kansas City Renaissance Festival | 10 a.m.-7 p.m., 628 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs, kcrenfest.com
slow Food KC’s annual Fall Harvest Dinner |
5:30-8 p.m. Somerset Ridge Winery, 29725 Somerset Rd., Paola MusiC
Kansas City Pagan Pride Day and Craft Faire | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr., Merriam, kcppd.com
eric Benet | 6 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand
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Making a Move Dear Dan: I’m a 28-year-old pan-curious married
guy from the Midwest about to move to San Francisco. I’ve been with my wife for 10 years (married four), and we’ve started to explore being monogamish. I’m also re-exploring my bi attractions. I’ve been thinking a lot about the opportunities for reinvention that our cross-country move might provide. My wife is GGG and fully supportive, but I still feel apprehensive about getting back out there. I’d like to believe that I’m not a complete fool at being charming when it comes to dating, but after 10 years of monogamy, I’m worried that my sex knowledge is the sex that works for my wife and me. And there’s the fact that I’m very new to guys, with just one short-term M/M relationship and one terrible hookup under my belt. Any tips for bolstering one’s confidence and making new sexual encounters as fun and unawkward as possible? Is there a resource for dating, hookups, culture? I know the basics of safe-sex practices, but I know little of clubs, kink parties, Growlr/Tinder, etc. I want to slut it up in SF, but I don’t know where to start.
Newbie (New Bi?) Slut Dear NNBS: “My first piece of advice for any-
one opening up their relationship is to take things slow,” said Polly Superstar, co-founder and hostess of Kinky Salon, a pansexual, pankink, pan-everything party/space/institution in San Francisco. “Why jump off a cliff when you can take the stairs? However supportive his wife is of his new adventures, it’s likely to bring up some unexpected emotions, so just take it one step at a time, communicate clearly and be patient with each other.” While your feelings and your wife’s feelings are paramount — you are each other’s primary partners, in poly parlance — the other people you hook up with have limbic systems of their own. Too many people stroll into their first sex club or kink party expecting to find a roomful of human Fleshlights at their disposal and are shocked to find a roomful of other human beings with desires, preferences and limits. So taking it one step at a time, communicating clearly and being patient are for anyone you play with, even if you never see them again. As for messing around with men … “After 10 years of monogamy with a woman, it’s not surprising he’s apprehensive about having sex with men,” Superstar said. “That’s totally normal! But I don’t believe that sexual confidence with new partners is the key to great hookups. There are a gazillion books out there teaching people techniques for selfconfidence, but most of them just teach you how to be an asshole. He should just be himself and be real. Accepting that new sexual encounters can be awkward is the first step in making them less so.” Pretending you aren’t feeling awkward 38
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when you are makes you seem more awkward. So practice saying, “I’m new at this, I’m a little nervous and I’m feeling a little awkward.” Good people — people you might want to mess around with — will make an effort to put you at ease. Shitty people — people you wouldn’t want to mess around with — will do you the favor of wandering off. Whether you explore with men or with women, Superstar recommends sex parties. “There’s no commitment,” Superstar said. “You can meet someone, make out, fool around for a bit, and if you’re not feeling it, you can go do something else. Obviously I would recommend my event, Kinky Salon, for a newbie bi guy. We are queer-friendly and a great place to meet people. He could even bring his wife along. It’s a lot safer and more community-driven than the anonymity of a bathhouse, and there are more opportunities to flirt, make out and socialize, which are nice baby steps to take.” Superstar is the author of the new memoir Polly: Sex Culture Revolutionary.
Dear Dan: You are coming to Minneapolis next weekend to host your HUMP! porn festival. I have tickets. Would it be possible for me to drink your piss before or after a screening?
Pervert Into Savage Sauce Dear PISS: That wouldn’t be possible, as I have no plans to urinate while I’m in Minneapolis. Dear Dan: My wife and I are in an open re-
lationship. It started because my wife found flirtatious text messages I sent to a co-worker. She confronted me calmly and said she knew our sexual relationship hadn’t been great. She
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wasn’t that interested in sex because she’d gained about 50 pounds. I was still attracted to her, but I was rejected half the time. The other half, we had good sex, but nothing new or interesting. She said she was willing to try an open relationship. I offered other solutions (porn and toys), but she said she just didn’t have the libido for it. We talked it to death before deciding we should move into (open) uncharted waters. I had a yearlong relationship with my co-worker that ended when my wife and I moved. During that time, my wife never had a sexual experience with anyone else, but she started losing weight, and we started having better and more frequent sex. Now I’m not looking for anything on the side. But she has embarked on sexual relationships with several people, including threesomes with her best friend and best friend’s husband, a neighbor and a co-worker. I know I sound like an asshole, but I’m insanely jealous. I feel like she’s getting to know our new city by sleeping with everyone in the neighborhood. Four partners in two months seems crazy to me. Do I deal with this by ending our agreement to share information about outside partners? Or do I tell her I don’t want an open relationship anymore, which seems like a dick move considering my past long-term relationship and the newness of her explorations?
Other People Excluded Now Dear OPEN: It sounds like you and the wife had different ideas about what your open relationship would look like. What you were doing with your former co-worker sounds like poly-style openness — you had an ongoing emotional and sexual relationship — while what your wife is doing sounds more like fuck-whoever-youwant openness. It seems that what really bothers you about your wife’s explorations — “sleeping with everyone in the neighborhood” — is the potential for gossip. Not everyone in an open relationship is comfortable being out about it; some people who aren’t sexually monogamous nevertheless wish to be socially monogamous, i.e., perceived to be monogamous because they fear being judged or even discriminated against. Or perhaps the issue is this: If people know your wife is sleeping around but don’t know about the open relationship, you may look like a foolish and fooled husband. Those are legitimate concerns, and your wife needs to take your feelings into consideration, and you two need to reopen negotiations. The best compromise may be for your wife to dial it back — fewer partners, more discretion — while simultaneously shifting to a DADT arrangement or, as you put it, ending your agreement to share info about your outside partners. Have a question for Dan Savage? E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net
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