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What’s your game? Baseball, and not just this year. I like dominoes, too.
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new year should be a new beginning. But 2014’s baggage weighs heavy as we try to push into 2015. So we’ve made a list — a special list, a wish list — of the people and organizations we’d love to leave in the past. It’s not that the inept, the perverse and the just plain mean don’t sometimes amuse us. And we aren’t saying we’ll never forgive certain corrupt or morally suspect people. It’s just that we’d rather they went away and let the healing begin. We know that most of them won’t oblige us, but we’re determined to start 2015 fresh anyway by saying our own goodbyes to these 2014 bums and bummers. Bishop RoBeRt Finn
If you work for a Catholic institution in northwest Missouri, you report to the highest-ranking U.S. Catholic official to be convicted in a sex-abuse scandal: Bishop Robert Finn. This is a man who, when presented with evidence that a priest in his diocese had a laptop containing hundreds of pornographic images of underage girls, elected to reassign the priest to a convent rather than report his criminal behavior to authorities. When the truth came out, Finn was found guilty of a misdemeanor for failing to report child abuse and was sentenced to two years’ probation. continued on page 6
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continued from page 5 It’s shocking enough that a man who shielded a pedophile from the law could be in charge of any organization. But for Finn to still be leading the Diocese of Kansas City–St. Joseph — an entity already stained by decades of sexual-abuse allegations, for which it has paid out millions of dollars in settlements to victims — is mind-boggling. And Finn is still doing terrible things. He fired Colleen Simon, a food-pantry coordinator at St. Francis Xavier Church, after a Kansas City Star story about Troost’s revitalization mentioned in passing that Simon is a lesbian. (Simon has since filed a lawsuit against Finn and the diocese.) There are indications that Finn may not last much longer at his post. The Vatican is reportedly conducting an internal investigation of Finn. Cardinal Sean O’Malley, a close aide to Pope Francis, appeared on 60 Minutes in November and declared that the Finn situation was something the Pope needed to “address urgently.” Meanwhile, our hands are hovering over our keyboards, waiting to type the word “former” in front of “Bishop Robert Finn” someday.
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It’s hard to polish your image while running a state agency that imprisons and kills people. It’s even harder when your department gets caught obfuscating fact after fact about how it executes prisoners. In 2014, Missouri Department of Corrections Director George Lombardi complained to lawmakers that the media was beating up on him and his staff for its execution protocol. But he should have expected scrutiny from the Fourth Estate after Missouri made a mess of its lethal-injection system while matching Texas for its number of executed inmates in 2014.
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That scrutiny yielded a number of embarrassing stories about Lombardi’s department, notably that one of his staffers drove to Oklahoma with a bag of cash (like a drug mule, except one getting paid by taxpayers to make drops) to make an off-the-books purchase of lethal-injection drugs from a shady pharmacy. Lombardi tried to shut off the news spigot by refusing open-records requests. Now, Lombardi and the DOC are being sued by a number of media outlets. That case will probably be decided in 2015 — meaning that the new year won’t be a great one for Lombardi, either.
Jay NixoN
It’s hard to imagine a lonelier politician than Jay Nixon, a two-term Democratic governor in a state that’s trending increasingly red. National media — which didn’t really know any better — touted Nixon as a hot item on various 2016 vice-presidential short lists. But those folks must not have bothered consulting Show-Me Democrats, who could have described the corrosive effects of Nixon’s me-first attitude toward politicking. Of course, Republicans don’t care for Nixon, either, and the party spent much of 2014 outmaneuvering the governor on pressing fiscal matters. That effort was helped along by Nixon’s lack of loyalty from the state’s Democrats, one of whom cast the decisive vote that delivered a GOP-inspired override of Kansas-style tax cuts (which Nixon vetoed). When Nixon wasn’t annoying members of the Missouri General Assembly, he was shooting himself in the foot. Nixon believed that hanging out in Joplin was a better use of his time than showing leadership in Ferguson, as that city endured riots in August after police officer Darren Wilson shot an unarmed black man there. Why did anyone think this guy could be White House material?
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There wasn’t a more winnable election for Democrats in GOP–dominated middle America than the 2014 Kansas gubernatorial race — unless the candidate was Paul Davis. Davis had nearly every advantage that an upstart Democrat could have wanted against Gov. Sam Brownback, whose self-inflicted wounds ranged from an FBI investigation zeroing in on one of his closest aides (for legislative payola) to missteps in the launch of his privatized Medicaid program (KanCare) to the steep income-tax cuts that blew up the state’s ledger. Davis managed to pick up precious few of these threads, and when he did challenge his opponent, he did so like a timid observer rather than like a convincing candidate. Take his meek counterproposal to Brownback’s tax cuts: Davis wanted to freeze the cuts at 2015 levels and then convene a task force to make recommendations on what step to take next. Uh … and? Hey, Davis, if you believed that the tax cuts constitute bad policy, you should have campaigned on getting rid of them. Davis sounded like a wounded dog throughout the campaign as Brownback’s staff dug up a lame, 16-year-old tale of the Lawrence lawyer being present at a strip-club during a drug raid. He couldn’t even come up with a loud-and-clear rebuttal to his opponent’s dubious attempt to link him to the Kansas Supreme Court’s overturning of the Carr brothers’ death sentences. Instead of whining about how unfair nasty politicking is, Davis should have fought back. His failure to come off like a decisive leader is a big reason that Kansas voters rubber-stamped Brownback for another four years.
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introduced an ordinance that would have added sexual orientation and gender identity to the classes protected by the suburb’s existing anti-discrimination law. In other words, the ordinance would have extended the same rights to LGBT residents as those enjoyed by all other residents. Simple, right? Wrong. Due to culture-war scaremongering from “family values” types, such as Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Dale Schowengerdt (who, at a May council meeting, warned that the ordinance could result in male-born transgendered people raping little girls in public restrooms), the effort devolved into a five-month parade of thinly veiled bigotry and borderline personality disorders — elected officials included. When it came time for the vote, Marek Gliniecki quoted from a church document about the intrinsic dignity of all people — and then voted against the ordinance. Mel Croston (who subsequently stepped down from the council) boasted of her many LGBT friends — and then voted against the ordinance. Michael Rhodes, who also voted in opposition, said: “This has brought out the worst in people and has divided our city.” Becky Fast, who behaved throughout as though the ordinance vote was some kind of vicious, unfair burden on her, did not even show up to vote; she later claimed that she had been in a car accident. As a result, the ordinance was defeated. When citizens demanded a full vote, with Fast present, the measure eventually passed. But by then, this motley group’s cowardice and dysfunction had been illuminated for all to see.
Michael Brooks
Michael Brooks has what it takes to be remembered for a long time as the worst member of Kansas City’s City Council. Had Brooks finished his four years on the council without any high-profile embarrassment, he would have entered local history as just another unremarkable councilman, a man who occasionally showed up to meetings and spent most of his time there playing with his phone. Instead, the East Side pastor’s legacy includes sending photos of his penis to a woman other than his wife, getting extorted
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over it, making $15,000 earmarked for boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. disappear, and facing charges that he choked his legislative aide — all while taking taxpayer-financed trips to do who-knows-what in other cities. We aren’t sure what 5th District voters saw in Brooks, but now they’ll have to find someone new to represent them. Brooks delivered a woe-is-me resignation in December, citing none of these embarrassments as the cause of his departure.
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There’s no bigger walk of shame for disgraced local politicians than exiting the federal courthouse in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. They must hide behind the security checkpoint and cower from staked-out news reporters, wishing that the architects had thought to include some other way out of the building. (Thanks, architects.) Steve Dennis, the former mayor of Grandview, walked that walk on the morning of February 11, after cutting a deal with federal prosecutors to avoid trial over corruptionrelated charges. The man whom many considered an effective booster for the south Kansas City suburb apparently never expected to be caught setting up a phony charity in order to launder $35,000 for himself. Perhaps he knew that the Grandview-based International House of Prayer would be oddly complacent about his misusing its charitable donation. But it was the ex-mayor’s taste for greasy-spoon food that undid him. Dennis falsified city reimbursement forms for meals at Denny’s (claiming to have dined with Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders; he didn’t), sealing his fate. There’s no Grand Slam Breakfast in the federal prison in Florence, Colorado.
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What’s worse for a state-level politician than getting blasted all across the country for writing and introducing a stupid, hateful piece of legislation? Getting blasted for fronting said legislation for a lawmaker who dropped that hot potato on his lap. That’s destined to be the political legacy of Charles Macheers. He represents Shawnee in the Kansas House, but few people in Shawnee know much about him. Macheers owes his election to his
Republican affiliation in GOP-heavy western Johnson County and to the fact that his predecessor, Owen Donohoe, pulled out of a supposed re-election bid at the last minute, allowing Macheers to slide onto the ballot. Macheers leapt from anonymity to national headlines when he spoke in favor of a bill that would allow businesses to turn away gay customers. With a straight face, he described it as a measure to protect against discrimination — that is, discrimination against oppressed Christians in Kansas. After the bill was flayed by more levelheaded Kansas lawmakers, it was revealed that it wasn’t even Macheers’ idea. The thing had been bounced to him by Olathe House Republican Lance Kinzer, who had himself taken the draft language from a national religious group. Macheers took all the heat for someone else’s idea, so perhaps he believes himself to be a politician with conviction. And Shawnee voters re-elected the eager mouthpiece anyway.
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After eight years on the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council, Russ Johnson is finally out to pasture, capping a tenure that makes a great case for term limits. Johnson, who lived near Tiffany Springs Park in Platte County during a chunk of his term, was obsessed with starting the downtown streetcar project. When reporters asked just what a 2-mile downtown starter line, and later an expanded version, would accomplish, Johnson didn’t hear fair questions. He heard conspiracies against his pet project. When seemingly balanced news stories were written or aired about the streetcar, Johnson raged about injustices if the stories weren’t openly in favor of the idea. Having picked a bunch of fights while trying to be a streetcar ambassador, Johnson lost crucial support and couldn’t get the expansion line passed. Unbowed, he continues to whine about the excesses of an automobile culture and the city’s lack of density — two arguments that might sound more convincing from someone who hadn’t chosen to live in the farthest reaches of the city’s suburban sprawl. In a city beset by divisions real and perceived, Johnson makes the worst type of leader: an us-versus-them blowhard who can’t clearly articulate his position but rages against those who don’t agree with him. Given his support of rail transit, Johnson should know that Amtrak can take him back to his home state of Nebraska. One-way tickets from Kansas City to Omaha cost $128.
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Judge Bryan Round of the 16th Circuit Court of Jackson County loves cops. Of course, it’s always easier to love those who once wrote your paychecks, even if that means stepping over several ethical boundaries. In 2014, Round had a young man named Nicholas Rose in his courtroom on charges of imprudent driving. Rose had slammed into the back of a police cruiser while speeding down U.S. Highway 40 with other stunt-bike riders. That police car was occupied by Kansas City Police Department officer Donald Hubbard, who roughed up Rose and claimed that the biker had tried to strike him with his helmet. (Video evidence shows otherwise.) Round learned that Rose wanted to sue the KCPD for using excessive force. That information made Round so angry that he forgot he was a judge and had a flashback to when he was the KCPD’s
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On March 8, an employee of Nu Troost Tattoo (4101 Troost), who also lived in an apartment above the tattoo shop, discovered a fakelooking smoke detector. It was actually a hidden camera. A subsequent police search found 11 hidden cameras in the woman’s apartment — including four in the bathroom, one facing the shower and another facing the toilet. The cameras’ various wires led to the basement of the building, where they plugged into a desktop computer sending video feeds. The person allegedly responsible for this nightmarish invasion of privacy is Rodney Sanell. In addition to owning three Freaks Tattoo locations (two of which have since shut down), Sanell was the owner of Nu Troost Tattoo and the woman’s landlord. She told the cops that Sanell had sexually propositioned her several times in the past, and that he had installed the smoke detectors while she was out of town six months before. Sanell has not yet been convicted in the criminal case, but he’s the defendant in two lawsuits stemming from the discovery of the cameras. May we suggest a “SEX OFFENDER” forehead tattoo as part of the punishment if he’s found guilty?
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You have to admire Tom Valenti for one thing: It takes balls to keep returning to the
scene of your biggest failure and continuing to promise that you will make things right. Valenti — the owner of 26 acres of prime real estate in Mission, where Roe Avenue hooks up with Shawnee Mission Parkway — has spent nine years making visits to Mission City Hall, singing and dancing his claims about all he will accomplish at the former Mission Mall site. See if you can recall these tunes: a giant aquarium, an office building, a hotel, a luxury apartment complex, a college campus extension, a retail center. His latest song about his Gateway project is pretty dull: He now says the best that Mission can hope to have on his land is a plain old Wal-Mart. That’s the same hulking entity jettisoned by the public and its elected representatives in 2004 because there’s already one less than a mile away, in Roeland Park. (And because, you know, it’s Wal-Mart.) Though Valenti has made a habit of coming back to Mission with increasingly smaller configurations of his project and acting like no one would care, Mission’s city leaders appear to be growing tired of his crap. A Mission council committee recommended slapping a $600,000 annual assessment on the property either to get Valenti to act or to recoup some of the $12 million in stormwater improvements that the city made. If the city wants its money back, it may have to stand in line. Valenti is being sued by a local engineering firm that claims it performed $405,000 worth of work but never got paid.
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Its Framily Plan, featuring an Andrew Dice Clay–voiced talking hamster as its spokes rodent, was met with confusion and ulti mately scrapped. And Sprint, which has lost money every year since 2007, bled 270,000 subscribers in just the third fiscal quarter. (T-Mobile, on the other hand, reported rapid subscriber growth in 2014.) These failures are bad news, not just for the telecom company but also for the Kansas City metro, where Sprint has long been one of the largest private employers. The com pany’s Overland Park campus, designed to accommodate 15,000 employees, houses just 6,000 Sprint workers today, and 1,400 local jobs were cut in 2014. Out of a sense of civic pride, many folks in town have stuck with Sprint through the years, despite its lousy customer service (which has improved) and its slow, spotty network (which hasn’t). At a certain point, that goodwill dries up — and if Sprint can’t right itself, that moment may arrive soon.
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The American Royal spent 2014 demanding $30 million from Kansas City taxpayers, plus an annual operating subsidy of $1 million for 25 years, so it could tear down Kemper Arena (which the city owns) and replace it with a smaller structure better suited to the American Royal’s interests. To which many Kansas City taxpayers responded: What the fuck is the American Royal? That barbecue
thing? Why does the barbecue thing need $55 million? The Royal once put on successful live stock and horse shows, rodeos and country music concerts — a slate of events that the general public was interested in attending. Today, it’s a shadow of its former self. The World Series of Barbecue is what the Royal is now bestknown for, but it’s held just one weekend a year in the parking lots outside Kemper Arena. The rest of its events cater to wealthy equestrian types who can afford to pay trainers to ride their $60,000 horses in Saddlebred competitions. Well, fine — times change. But for reasons possibly related to unexamined privilege, the Royal, its representatives and its law yers believe that their horsey club — which they do not market, which has experienced a staggering drop in attendance over the past two decades, and which already enjoys a sweetheart lease deal with the city — is something the rest of us should subsidize. In their attempts to push their plan through the City Council, they have acted like bullies, threatening to relocate the Royal to another city (cool, go for it!) and to sue a developer that proposed an alternative to tearing down Kemper Arena. All the while, they’ve held themselves out as “civic leaders.” Maybe it’s time for them to look for a different city to try to lead.
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Martin Cail opens an exhibition of his ink paintings (including the untitled work shown in detail on this page) January 2 at Todd Weiner Gallery. More information, and the rest of our First Friday Hit List, on page 13.
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5 p.m. Tuesday–Friday, and noon–5 p.m. Saturday.) Among the few Crossroads galleries that confirmed their January 2 hours with The Pitch by press time are Vulpes Bastille (1737 Locust), with works by Mark Allen, Lydia Bryan, Caranne Camarena, Dustin Downey, Brandon Forrest Frederick, Ezra Lee Michaels and Jennifer Lynn Williams, in a show called No. 2. Jones Gallery (1717 Walnut) opens a group show called Thou Mayest Art, including works by Olga Hotujac and Ryan Wilks. And the Late Show (1600 Cherry) has two exhibits: Countenance, by Emma Jennings, and new works by Dana Swedo Bernal. MLB Designs (2020 Baltimore) likewise puts up two solo exhibitions. Comprehending Time, by John Marak, includes art that he says is “inspired by urban and natural environments” and uses concrete, steel, plaster and enamel to craft surfaces that echo time’s march. And there are new works by eco-artist Lyndsey Helling, whose creations are several cuts above the shabby-edged things that artists who use found or discarded materials too frequently throw together. Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut) is also open First Friday, continuing Word Play and Expanding the Perimeter, which center on works from the Belger collection that feature — you guessed it — text and, less obviously, large-scale works. There’s also Sean Erwin’s Object, Self, with its porcelains of surreal faces and themes. Over at the Belger’s Crane Yard Studios (2011 Tracy) are two other don’t-
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miss exhbitions. Merge showcases works by Belger employees, and Sacred Spaces enlightens you with Asheer Akram’s take on gateways to religious experiences and their trappings. Leedy-Voulkos Arts Center (2012 Baltimore) continues KC: America’s Creative Crossroads — A National Lifestyle Campaign by the Kansas City Area Development Council, which features engaging black-and-white portrait photography by Cameron Gee. The space also opens a part-two version of Travis Pratt’s The Joplin Paintings, with sound made in collaboration with Chris McFall; and Quotes From Underground, intricate pen-and-ink drawings by Justin Baldwin. (Leedy-Voulkos is also conducting an online-only auction of works from the estate of David Goodrich, a painter who exhibited at the gallery regularly and who died last July in a heat-related accident in the Utah desert. Goodrich’s works for sale are on view through January 31, and bidding closes January 12.) Finally, a solo show by Martin Cail opens at Todd Weiner Gallery (115 West 18th Street). Cail is a colorist with a master’s degree in sculpture from Ohio State and a very active and professional presence on social media. His collected image bank is inspiring, and his previews of these new abstract — and colorful, fluid and well-composed — works are compelling. The ink works are manifestations of chaos turned order, of the artist allowing a process to come to fruition without getting in the way of the results.
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he glass-walled venue at 500 West 75th Street had the look of success when it was called Remedy. But it lacked most of the other elements crucial to a good restaurant and, after opening with a bang two years ago, it fizzled slowly into irrelevance. Now, though, two dining veterans have given this address a very promising new start. Andy Lock and Domhnall Molloy worked for the McCormick & Schmick’s chain before they opened the Summit Grill in Lee’s Summit a couple of years back. Their approach — unfussy meals, a first-rate happyhour menu, congenial service — was right for Summit’s original neighborhood. And it’s equally at home in e r Waldo, which doesn’t lack o M saloons but has made the new Summit a hit. I’ve e at dined here four times so n i l On m far, and I’m looking forpitch.co ward to going back. I don’t say that very often. There are flaws, mind you, and I want to get them out of the way. When the boxy, 1,500-square-foot dining room is packed, the sound level is roughly that of a political rally. For some in Waldo, that’s bound to be charming. I ran into a local restaurateur during one of my visits. He was sitting at a
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big table with a group of friends. “I can only hear about every other word,” he told me, “but that might be a good thing.” I sympathize, but I don’t really need that kind of ambience before 9 p.m. That night, though, I may not have been at my most attentive anyway. Chef Domhnall’s food is not cutting-edge cuisine, but it can be distractingly tasty. Even creations that I didn’t think I’d like — pot-roast nachos? — were unexpectedly satisfying. (About those nachos: They’re really open-faced tostadas — big, fat tortilla chips heaped with one of the signature dishes here, fork-tender pot roast, along with cheddar and jack cheeses, peppers and chipotle cream.) Molloy offers his pot roast (which he braises in mirepoix and beef stock for hours, then simmers in gravy until it’s truly sumptuous) as a dinner entrée, with fromscratch mashers and sautéed green beans, or on fluffy little buns as happy-hour sliders. However you order the meat, the results are delectable. The beef, terrific Angus or prime, is a mainstay on this menu, which slightly condenses that of the Lee’s Summit kitchen. (The kitchen in the Waldo location is about half the size.) The place isn’t really for vegetarians. Even the grilled cheese here — Molloy calls
it his “hangover sandwich” — adds braised beef to its five cheeses. In fact, Summit is kind of a no-meat-left-behind place: Trimmings from the menu’s beef tenderloin go into the delicious street tacos (so far, the top-selling starter on the menu), where they get a boost from crumbles of salty Cotija cheese, onions, fresh cilantro and that zingy chipotle cream. Those tacos are good enough to sell big any time of the day, but they’re a bargain during happy hour, when a small order is just five bucks. The pot-roast sliders go for $4 then, as does an order of sloppy, meaty chicken wings. Come right after work, and you can assemble a fine meal for two for less than $20. The costliest dishes at Summit are its steaks (a Black Angus fillet and a rib-eye hover at about $30 each). But this Summit Grill, as at the Lee’s Summit location, doesn’t shake up the pocketbook too badly, and the portions are seriously generous. I wound up taking home most of my prime-rib dip. (Molloy roasts a rib every day just for this sandwich, which comes stuffed in a hearty Farm to Market hoagie roll; prime-rib dinners are offered on Friday and Saturday only.) And it was worth making room in my refrigerator. It’s superlative even hours later. No, Summit Grill isn’t marshaling the
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Street tacos at Summit sell well. culinary firepower that Remedy boasted in its early days, when chef Max Watson was running the kitchen. But Lock and Molloy know what Waldo really wants: a good burger, an excellent French onion soup, and crunchy fish and chips. These are the standards with which Houlihan’s Old Place revolutionized the bar-and-grill business four decades ago. Today, Molloy does them all better. His desserts score, too. They’re all made in-house, including a decadent, gooey butter cake; a satiny crème brûlée; and a guiltinducing Oreo ice-cream pie. At first glance, I had dismissed that last notion as something better offered at Chuck E. Cheese, but it went nicely with a cup of coffee and the echoes of various Waldo conversations. Sophisticated the Summit Grill is not. Fine. I’ll take friendly and accessible, and I’ll especially take a neighborhood joint with a likable menu and servers who know what the hell they’re doing. By those standards, the Summit Grill & Bar is already at the top of its game. I pronounce this location cured.
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All right, you mugs
Sipping my way through a local hot-chocolate tour.
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t’s no coincidence that winter is the prime season for indulging in sweets. Shorter days, impenetrable gray skies, arctic temperatures — these things make me want to bury myself until March in a Snuggie made of chocolate. Ah, but I’d walk into a snowstorm for a truly great mug of hot chocolate. To try the cocoa served at these six local staples, I didn’t have to brave a whiteout, but I was still glad for help with taking the edge off December’s cold.
Thursday, January 1 Goose Island Bourbon County Stout tapping, at Bier Station (120 East Gregory Boulevard), noon.
New Year’s Day four-course beer brunch, featuring Founders Breakfast Stout, Bell’s Oarsman, 4 Hands Smoked Pigasus and Rogue Hazelnut Brown with food pairings, at the Foundry (424 Westport Road), 816960-0688 for reservations, $40, noon.
Christopher elbow ArtisAnAl ChoColAtes (1819 McGee)
Like all of Christopher Elbow’s flavors, the ginger in the liquid chocolate here is true to nature. Good thing, too: The chocolatecaramel combo is so sweet that it would be overwhelming without the ginger’s slight tang. If you prefer something else, Elbow has enough flavors available to ensure a week’s worth of drinking without a repeat. My other go-tos are the coconut curry, which combines coconut milk and curry powder, and the passion fruit. But the real star of the hot-chocolate show at Elbow is the marshmallow, a confection here that’s denser and sweeter than the typical store-bought variety, and the three that floated atop my cocoa were white, fluffy cubes of pure magic. The last one got stuck to the bottom of my cup when I finished my drink, leaving me no choice but to scoop it out with my fingers, not caring that I had completely covered my hand with chocolate.
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the ClAssiC Cookie (409 West Gregory)
The hot chocolates at Classic Cookie and You Say Tomato, a couple of places on many Kansas Citians’ lists of favorite lunch destinations, come closer than any other restaurants’ to what my mom served me when I was a kid. I’m talking about plain old chocolate and warm milk, that most comfortingly simple combination. What makes the mugs at these places especially worthwhile, though, is the atmosphere of each establishment. As at many places in Waldo, entering the Classic Cookie feels like stepping back in time to a quintessential business — in this case, a neighborhood bakery. Have one of the friendly servers grab you a blueberry muffin or chocolate-chocolate-chip cookie while you’re there. The hot chocolate at You Say Tomato, on the other hand, is best enjoyed while sitting in one of the café’s mismatched chairs and staring through one of the perpetually foggy front windows, dreaming of warmer days. 16
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Stillwater Night Vision tapping , at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m. Toccalmatto Salty Angel, Deschutes Hop Trip and Lagunitas Brown Shugga’ tapping, at Waldo Pizza’s taproom (7433 Broadway)
Monday, January 5 Torn Label launch party, at Bier Station (120
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Drinking chocolate at Christopher Elbow
Panache’s hot chocolate came with a warning from the cashier the day I ordered a cup: “It’s not as dark as you think,” he said. I should have warned him instead because my first sip of the hot, rich beverage prompted me to exclaim, “Holy shit, that’s good.” This attracted some attention from the people around me, but they would have said the same thing if they had only thought to ask for this drink. With a smooth texture that’s never too sweet, this dark chocolate dares you to risk a scalded throat by chugging it. When I finished, I wanted another cup. The drink is proof that, after 35 years in the business, these chocolatiers know what they’re doing. And the central Plaza location makes Panache an ideal spot to take a break from shopping and enjoy the holiday lights as they come on at dusk.
But on the day I visited the shop, the chocolate dispenser seemed to be malfunctioning. “You should probably play that ‘Eye of the Tiger’ song while you’re doing that,” one of the cashiers remarked as another repeatedly pressed the chocolate pump in vain. What resulted was a semisweet cup of disappointing steamed whole milk. I might have finished it if someone had in fact cranked up the Survivor song.
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I’ve been enjoying Russell Stover’s chocolates since I was a kid, so I expected the candy conglomerate’s hot chocolate to be as sweet as the boxes of truffles I look forward to guiltily scarfing every Valentine’s Day. The drink’s ingredients — dark-chocolate syrup, cocoa powder and whole milk (the counter here doesn’t speak nonfat) — sound simple and promising.
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It’s the official launch week for Torn Label Brewing Co., and five days of events start Monday at Bier Station. Rafi Chaudry and brewer Travis Moore will be there at 6 p.m. with five beers on tap. Events run through Friday, January 9, including a tap takeover Thursday at Thou Mayest and an endingweek party Friday at Rock & Run Brewery in Liberty. “We’re obviously pretty thrilled about all of this,” Chaudry tells The Pitch.
Tuesday, January 6 Summit Brewing tasting, at Rimann Liquors
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Torn Label four-course beer dinner, at Local
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For an antidote, I ordered the chili-spiced hot chocolate at André’s, a smooth, rich drink with a distinctive but not overpowering spice that bites the back of your throat in a way that just makes you want more. It was delicious even with skim milk and with no whipped cream. Going nonfat made me feel good enough to inquire about an item in the pastry case that had caught my eye. It looked like a little chocolate mountain, and I learned that it was a buttercream cookie, with chocolate and buttercream frosting whipped together on top. I took one home for later but ended up eating it in the car. ’Tis the season.
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The Pedaljets performing at The Pitch Music Showcase at Knuckleheads Saloon in July.
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haven’t changed my New Year’s resolutions much over the past eight years or so. Each January 1, I basically recycle the same feeble goals. It isn’t that I lack the instinct for follow-through or the very best intentions. But anymore, it’s the ritual itself that counts. Achieving my goals is not as important as recognizing that I have goals. (I think I read that in a fortune cookie once.) In the spirit of renewal — and to find out if musicians are more, or less, goal-oriented than I am — I asked our 2014 Pitch Music Award winners to share their New Year’s resolutions. Most of them answered the call, taking me up on my note that their submissions could be earnest or mocking, good for taping to the refrigerator or burning in an intimate ceremony. Good luck in 2015, you guys.
Katy Guillen & the Girls (Emerging Act)
• Get back into the studio. • Collaborate more with other musicians. • Finally launch our YouTube cooking show. We love food! • More travels! • Get our side project off the ground: Steph & the Dudes. 18
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(Album of the Year for What’s in Between) • Learn more about fencing, boat racing, nanorobotics and dolphins. • Don’t write songs with mandolin, dobro, fiddle, banjo or anything that remotely sounds like Mumford & Sons. This is achievable. We’ve done something like this before. • Eat food that makes us faster and drink beverages that make us more charming. People will call us “those charming Pedaljets.” • Secretly project our holographic images onto other artists’ performances. “Look, the Pedaljets are now doing a duet with Justin Bieber, dancing with Iggy Azalea, jamming with the Kronos Quartet, twerking with Miley Cyrus, giving Bob Dylan a noogie!” Besides, can you really sue a hologram? • Start our own talk-radio show and focus on the growing menace posed by the U.S. Merits System Protection Board, the National Geospatial–Intelligence Agency and, of course, the state of Nebraska. • Compete to win the following awards: Norwegian Football Association Gold Watch, the Pilka Nozna Plebiscite, the Sporty Larocca Golden Shad, Grandmaster of Chess, Miss Universe, and the Nobel Peace Prize (for making long-lasting peace with Nebraska).
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• Buy matching penny loafers and join the Whiffenpoofs. • In the wake of the record industry’s crashing and burning, we resolve to look into exciting alternative ways to release our music. Matt likes the analog feel of 8-track. Rob is pretty excited about the minidisc. • Base an album on fake Facebook friends and e-mail phishing scams. There will be songs about surefire weight-loss methods, 10 facts about knee arthritis, how to make $5,000 per month while working at home, and how to meet all the people out there searching for us. The first song on the album is “This Aphrodisiac Ingredient Will Shock You.” Sample lyrics: I saw this 30-minute video and shit myself! • Spend all of next summer at Cool Crest, near the cashier’s booth.
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• Record a new album. • Do a motorcycle tour. Can someone carry our instruments? • Not eat fast food. • Have Luke take his shirt off more. • Finish script for Ferris Bueller’s Day Off sequel.
radKey (Live Act)
• Obtain at least one of those giant city keys that grants you full access. • Solve a cold case. • Have what she’s having. • Lead a horse to water. • Put out killer full-length album.
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(Rock/Pop Act, now dissolved) My resolution this next year is to remember what the last seven years have brought me and be thankful every day. I strive to be the best husband, boss, friend, musician and person I can be. I also want to write and record a percussion record and give out some tracks to my many talented friends and see what happens! Also, yoga. — Beau Bruns My resolution this year is to stay close friends with my bandmates, even though we won’t see each other quite as regularly. To try and continue getting better at identifying and pursuing the parts of life and music that are fulfilling and make me happy. Ideally, I’d like to put a Bonzo Madrid record out this spring and continue working on new music. I’m a jeweler by trade, and I want to continued on page 20
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continued from page 18 be close to ready for my test to become certified as a master jeweler (real title, and I will ask all of my friends to refer to me as Master Jeweler Charles after that). Finally, I’d like to save money for a trip to Scotland. — C.J. Calhoun
read. I have become distracted by so much in recent years that I haven’t been catching up on one of my first loves. More Garvey, less garbage reality TV. • Release an album. Worked on a lot of music in 2014 that no one heard. Hopefully, people get to hear it in 2015.
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• Unplug and shake dat ass. • Resolve to listen to each other more and become larger than the sum of our parts! • Increase our community activism. • Eliminate the neocolonial, imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist patriarchy in AmeriKKKa and worldwide. Shut down the system.
• Record a new demo, “The Journey Begins,” with our new lineup. It’s a song about moving into a new chapter of life, which is very symbolic for us as a group. • Begin the recording process for our second full-length album. • Get out and play as many shows as we can. We have a new member [bassist Brad Scott], rejuvenated energy and a more evolved sound that we’re ready to share with Kansas City and beyond. • Most important, we just want to continue to enjoy making music together, for the fun and the love of it.
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samantHa fisH (Folk Solo Act)
• Headline and sell out Knuckleheads outdoors in the summertime. I love that place, and it’s always been a goal of mine. • Release and tour on my new record in the springtime. Set a new sales record and beat our previous Billboard position. • Find better heels to jump in. • I want to get into some new collaborations. Basically get out of my comfort zone more often.
trogloDyte (Metal Act)
• Finish new masks. Current masks smell like a dirty workboat floating in pickle juice. • Finish new album, Troglodyte III: Return to Boggy Creek, for early 2015 release. • Track down a copy of the John Schneider film Cocaine Wars. • Stop drinking … before noon. • Work on becoming a better Bigfoot deathmetal band. • Tour more, lose less money than Pomplamoose.
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• Stop being such a fat piece of fat shit. Why can’t seaweed snacks and seltzer water be as tempting as gas-station cheese-filled wieners and beer? • Write a song that doesn’t suck. Hopefully, we’ll write a whole album of songs that don’t suck, but just one will be way over the national average. • Don’t fall into the “artistic integrity” trap. After getting a bit of local acclaim, a lot of bands decide to get lost way up their own asses and forget that their mission is to entertain drunk people, not to get into a “legitimacy” cockfight with other musicians. • Magic-up enough money to finish recording our current album and press it on 500 vinyl records, so we can each have one record for posterity. • Figure out what to do with the other 498 vinyl copies of our album.
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(Jazz Ensemble) • Continue our collaboration series. (Lauren Krum, Julia Haile, Jorge Arana and Katy Guillen are all planning on working with us.) • Travel a little more. • Defend our jazz championship (aka our Pitch Music Award). • Rearrange some old tunes and write some new ones for a Project H big band. • Find people who want to hear a Project H big band. • Convince those people to come watch us play. • Start writing another album, we suppose.
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One-Man Band Stand
If you’ve caught a performance by A.J. Gaither, with his homemade cigar-box guitars, or by one-man band Brody Buster, you know that these men possess a strange and wonderful super power. They, along with artists Cooper CW Ayon and Lou Shields, are bionic-transformer types, Iron Men: individual human beings one moment, full-blown orchestra the next. It’s hard to say what would motivate someone to take on such an immense project (madness? lack of friends?), but we’re impressed anytime we see Gaither strapped barefoot to his kickdrum or Buster wringing tears out of his harmonica. Saturday night at Westport Saloon, all four of these maniacs will make you stomp, shake, hoot and holler. Saturday, January 3, Westport Saloon (4112 Pennsylvania, 816-960-4560)
The Sharrows, Nicholas St. James
Madison, Wisconsin’s the Sharrows have taken to calling their music “farm rock,” which may be more of a reflection on the band’s surroundings than its sound. Even so, the Sharrows’ Days of Yore doesn’t have much in the way of crunchy country flavors. The album title does reference the band’s throwback sound, but it’s not the one you’re thinking of: “Yours and Mine” could have been ripped from the Allman Brothers catalog, and “Echo” could easily translate into an old-school punk song
Bradley and Gretchen Bergstrand — the husband-and-wife, guitarist-and-drummer duo known as Coed Pageant — probably want you to think that they’re super-folky. On their latest album, Drag, Bradley’s whiny, nasally voice nearly croons about life in California (before the couple moved to Flagstaff, Arizona, so Gretchen could pursue graduate studies). Don’t be fooled: Coed Pageant is no back-porch folk act. Sonically, the Bergstrands have a lot more in common with the Starting Line and Mates of State. Abrasive, melodramatic lyrics are halfshouted and then coated in sweet garagepop melodies. It sounds early aughts, but perhaps a little retrospection is appropriate at this time of year. Friday, January 2, El Torreon (3101 Gillham Plaza, 417-619-2563)
Extend your holiday with Me Like Bees. if the band was brave enough for sludgy guitar riffs. This is not music for a tractor ride or the church social. This is music for a different kind of good time, one you’ll doubtlessly get to enjoy Wednesday at the Replay. Lawrence singer-songwriter Nicholas St. James opens. Wednesday, January 7, Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676)
Me Like Bees, Westerners, the Electric Lungs
If you’ve recovered enough by Friday from your New Year’s Eve celebration, RecordBar has a whole slate of local rock to ruin you again. The Electric Lungs deliver searing punk-rock jams, but the band also isn’t shy about showing off its folk influences. Lawrence garage-pop band Westerners recently signed to local label the Record Machine; if this group isn’t on your radar yet, it should be. Me Like Bees, one of the area’s most promising young rock bands, headlines. If you haven’t experienced Me Like Bees’ Arcade Fire–like joy or the warm, radioready voice of lead singer Luke Sheafer, you’re not just missing out but also doing everything wrong. Get it right on Friday. Friday, January 2, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
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It’s been too long since we’ve had the chance to hear trumpeter Hermon Mehari and saxophonist Andy McGhie together. As they weave through bop standards and original compositions, you can hear the push and pull of complemetary ideas, like brothers finishing each other’s sentences. And they’re just two of a five-piece ensemble — composed of some of Kansas City’s next-generation jazz greats — jamming on a special night. Friday, Mehari and McGhie reunite with pianist Andrew Ouellette, bassist Karl McComas-Reichl and drummer Ryan Lee for Take Five Coffee + Bar’s fifth-anniversary celebration. Free admission — plus cake and Champagne — are just the sprinkles on this delicious evening.
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Hermon Mehari Quintet, 8 p.m. Friday, January 2, at Take Five Coffee + Bar (6601 West 135th Street, 913-948-5550), free admission.
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Art Exhibits & EvEnts Across the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-68 | Nelson-Atkins
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John Ferry: Disintegration | Through Saturday, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, lawrenceartscenter.org
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Saturday, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence
millage Gilbert Big Blues Band | 7 p.m. Danny’s
meet me at the museum tour | 2-3 p.m.
Crosseyed Cat | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205
Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.
Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.
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Grand marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Candy Lee | 10 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
mark Lowrey trio | 6 p.m. The Majestic, 931 Broadway
Shear Madness | Through January 18, at New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park, newtheatre.com. Pictured above, from left: Richard Karn, Cathy Barnett and Dodie Brown.
Peter schlamb trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
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Boogaloo 7 | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand Cold sweat | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Danny Cox | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
Painting a Peace of America , plein air– style paintings by R. Gregory Summers | Kansas City Artists Coalition, 201 Wyandotte, kansascityartistscoalition.org The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth + Sky |
nick schnebelen trio | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715
Rochester
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Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu
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| Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org
Jason vivone and the Billy Bats | 9 p.m. Coda,
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Disco Dick | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland
Deep with DJ ray velasquez | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
MUsEUM Exhibits & EvEnts Cowtown: History of the Kansas City Stockyards | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th
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rick Gibson Band — ozark Anthology Experience | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire,
DJ 2 Live Cruz | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
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Lancelot, sheppa | 8 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
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Chess with Death: improv showcase, sillyman tv Live | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
molly Hammer Quartet | 6-9 p.m. Green Lady
soul Preservers featuring Fat sal | 8 p.m. The
Jeff richards | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park
Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids | Museum at PrairieFire, 5801 W.
indigo Hour with Gray matter | 5:30 p.m. The Blue
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JLove Band | 9 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. me Like Bees, Westerners, Electric Lungs | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
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Magic 107.3 Saturday groove Party | 7 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., NKC
MissConception | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611
Broadway
1001 Arabian Nights: Bellydance and Beyond |
Old No. 5s Living Room Session | 9 p.m. Knuckle-
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7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Sunday | 1.4 | COMeDy
Alex Thomas | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
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James Ward Band | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600
E. 18th St.
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DJ e | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway
The Western, presented by the Western Nursery and Landscape Association | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Crown Center Exhibit Hall, 2323 McGee, wnla.org SHOPPiNg
DJ Thundercutz | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
good Ju Ju | 11 a.m.-4 p.m., 1420 W. 13th Terr.
Joints & Jams with Johnny Quest | 10 p.m. Replay
Urban Mining Vintage | Noon-5 p.m., 3924 Walnut
Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
SPORTS & ReC
KC Cabaret variety show | 9:30 p.m. Uptown Arts
Bar, 3611 Broadway
UNLV vs. KU men’s basketball | 12:30 p.m. Allen Fieldhouse, 1651 Naismith Dr., Lawrence
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TheaTer Dates and times vary. Mystery on the Ornament Express | KC
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The Western, presented by the Western Nursery and Landscape Association | 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Crown Center Exhibit Hall, 2323 McGee, wnla.org hoMe & GaRDeN
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: the Musical | The Coterie Theatre, Crown Center,
2450 Grand, thecoterie.org
Shear Madness | The New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park, newtheatre.com
plant propagation with Greater Kansas city Gardeners of america, with Jesse Nelson of Family
Tree Nursery | 6-7:30 p.m. Loose Park Garden Center, 5200 Pennsylvania Music
farmers markeTs Badseed | 4-8 p.m. Friday, 1909 McGee
Brother John’s Motivational R&B/soul showcase | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway Karl Mccomas-Reichl Trio | 8-11 p.m. Green Lady
city Market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-
Lounge, 1809 Grand
Grand court Farmers Market | 10 a.m.-1 p.m.
Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
3 p.m. Sunday, 20 E. Fifth St.
Saturday, Grand Court Retirement Center, 501 W. 107th St.
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open Mic with Brody Buster | 7-11 p.m. Westport
Rural Grit happy hour | 6 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee
Waldo Jazz collective | 7-10 p.m. The Piano Room,
8410 Wornall
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crowncenter.com
The ice at park place | 117th St. and Nall,
Geeks Who Drink pub Quiz | 8 p.m. Green Room
Burgers & Beer, 4010 Pennsylvania
Leawood, parkplaceleawood.com
Karaoke | 10:30 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee
library plaza skate Rink | 707 Vermont,
Karaoke sammitch | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
The Rink at Burlington creek | 6109 N.W. 63rd Terr., therinkatburlingtoncreek.com
open Mic | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire,
Lawrence, lawrenceks.org
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paint Nite | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
The confessors | 6-9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,
punk Mondays with andrew perry | 10 p.m.
Foundation 627 Big Band | 8 p.m. Green Lady
Rebel Rebel with DJ Ray Velasquez | 10 p.m.
The Gothic cowboy Review, with Eric Mardis,
sonic spectrum Music Trivia | 7 p.m. RecordBar,
1205 E. 85th St.
Lounge, 1809 Grand
Jeff Schrader, Outlaw Jake with Mandolin Dan, Hugh Campbell, Jeff Jackson, and Melvin Litton | 7 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence NiGhTliFe
church of Bass | 8 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
Vandals, 3740 Broadway
MiniBar, 3810 Broadway
1020 Westport Rd.
Trivia with Matt larson | 8 p.m. Bulldog, 1715
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carl Butler’s gospel Lounge | 7:30 p.m. Knuckle-
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Brody Buster | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-
1809 Grand
Brendan MacNaughton | Jazz, 1859 Village West
land Park
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Hermon Mehari Trio | 6 p.m. The Majestic, 931 Broadway
Lyric Lab: Music Open Mic | 9-11:30 p.m. Uptown
Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Mikey Needleman | Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park
Hermon Mehari Trio | 6 p.m. The Majestic, 931 Broadway
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Tap Room Trivia | 8 p.m. Waldo Pizza, 7433
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Broadway
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Dear MSS: I’m pro maintenance sex.Sometimes I sex my husband when I’m not feeling it; sometimes he sexes me when he’s not feeling it. We take care of each other. But maintenance sex is not the same as enthusiastic sex. The person asking for maintenance sex shouldn’t expect mind-blowing, toe-curling, sheet-shredding sex. Maintenance sex is mellow, low-impact and low-stress, and requires minimal effort, and it’s likely to be nonpenetrative sex — and gratitude is the only appropriate response. Another important note: Being pro maintenance sex doesn’t obligate a person to have sex whenever his or her partner wants it. Proponents and practitioners of maintenance sex still get to say no. There’s a difference between indulging your partner when you’re not feeling it and forcing yourself to have sex (or being guilted/pressured/forced) when you’re too exhausted, too sick or too angry. Sometimes you go into sex “not wanting or needing it” and then you start to enjoy it, too . Those are the times when mellow, low-impact, low-stress maintenance sex turns into mindblowing, toe-curling, sheet-shredding sex. I would hate to think of how much great sex I would’ve missed if my feminist principles didn’t allow for maintenance sex. Dear Dan: I’ve recently discovered that I’m a panty sniffer. But because I’m a gay man, maybe I’m a briefs breather? Whatever. The smell gets me hard and gets me off. I discovered this when a fuck buddy left his shorts behind, and for the next few days, I jerked off sniffing his shorts. That brings me to the young millennial techie guys at my work. They’re fucking slobs, and they’re always leaving their underwear and socks on the floor of the company’s gym. The janitor picks them up and puts them in a lostpitch.com
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Dear Dan: Vanilla straight guy here. As a fellow
Washingtonian, I feel proud to live in a state that was among the first to legalize marriage equality by a popular majority vote of the people. I avidly follow the NFL and eat fried bologna sandwiches and do lots of other manly things. However, I’ve always loved musical theater. Whenever I go to New York, I have to see at least two or three big shows. Is it socially acceptable for me to goodnaturedly say, “I’m totally gay for musical theater”? Or is it a slur that I shouldn’t say, no matter how playful or well-intended?
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and-found bin. I started checking the bin, and nothing was being removed. No one ever claimed their shorts. So I started taking a pair every now and then. At home, I fantasize about who they belong to, and when I’m done with them, I toss them. First question: Am I stealing? I assume the guys aren’t missing them because they’ve been in the bin for a week or more, and I haven’t seen notes or anything in the locker room about lost underwear. And more important question: Have I become one of those perverted panty sniffers from those old Chester the Molester comics?
Singleton Now Inhaling Funky Funk Dear SNIFF: First answer: technically, yes. But
a case could be made that you’re reusing and recycling. Second answer: Chester the Molester was a comic strip about a guy, Chester, “who was interested in sexually molesting women and prepubescent girls,” says Wikipedia. This vile comic strip, which ran in Hustler, made child rape look like harmless and hilarious fun. Dwaine Tinsley, the creator of the strip, wound up going to prison for molesting his daughter — I’m guessing she would argue that child rape was neither harmless nor hilarious. Because you’re not interested in prepubescent boys, I don’t think you’re a pervert in the Chester the Molester mold. But your actions have a whiff of the nonconsensual about them — your co-workers would most likely object to how you’re reusing and recycling their abandoned underpants — and you should probably knock it off. There are plenty of guys selling their used underwear and jocks online, from college athletes to porn stars, and if you
Dear TCJ: When someone says, “That’s so gay,” but means “That’s so stupid,” they’re being homophobic. But a straight guy who says he’s gay for musicals isn’t saying he’s stupid for them. He’s saying, “I love something that many gay men are passionate about — and I’m not talking about cock.” Not all gay men are passionate about musical theater, just as not all straight men are into football. But a man with a passion for musical theater is likelier to be gay; if not, he’ll at least be comfortable around gay people. I’ve heard gay guys who avidly follow the NFL describe themselves as straight for football. Likewise, a man with a passion for football is likelier to be straight. Your saying, “I’m gay for musical theater,” or a gay guy’s saying, “I’m straight for football,” amounts to a humorous acknowledgment that the majority of people interested in musicals or football are gay or straight, respectively. In neither case is it an insult or a put-down. And if some gay men take offense, you don’t have to pay attention to those people — they’re just gay for taking offense. Dear Dan: I’m a vegetarian who’s married to a
meat eater, and I thought the compromise you suggested to a vegetarian about how to make it work with a meat eater — “The meat eater agrees to keep a meat-free home; the vegetarian agrees to keep a Morrissey-free home” — wasn’t that helpful. But you were probably kidding, right? Here’s the correct answer: The meat eater agrees to allow the vegetarian to be vegetarian (no pressure to eat meat, using vegetable stock when cooking at home); the vegetarian agrees to allow the meat eater to eat meat (no bitching about meat in the fridge or on their plate). Thanks for the otherwise great column!
Very Enthusiastically GGG Dear VEGGG: Thanks for sharing. Have a question for Dan Savage? e-mail him at mail@savagelove.net
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