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Running man Quinton Lucas looks like the most promising East Side candidate for City Council in two decades.

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Questionnaire

Matt Baysinger, ryan HenricH and Lucas tHoMpson

Take everything that is 8 or less and stop doing it. Do only 9s and 10s. And I’m much happier.

Thompson: My dad got me my first job at a restaurant when I was 14. He told me to never stop working. If there wasn’t any work, then I needed to either ask someone what needed to be done or find work to do. I’ve been working my butt off ever since.

Hometown Baysinger: Lawrence Henrich: Overland Park Thompson: Louisburg, Kansas Current neighborhood Baysinger: Barker neighborhood in Lawrence Henrich: Robandee South (I live on 40 acres

just east of the Grandview triangle.)

Thompson: Lawrence

Worst advice Baysinger: “Nice guys finish last.” If we aren’t

kind to people, I’m not sure whatever we are doing is really worth it.

Henrich: That I should finish my college degree.

Thompson: I was once told I could take a fivehour direct bus from Kep, Cambodia, to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We ended up riding in one bus and four minivans for 14 hours and then dropped on the wrong side of HCMC at 3 a.m. It made for a good memory, though.

What I do Baysinger: I’m a catalyst. I love to take 10-year plans and turn them into 10-month plans.

Henrich: I’m an ideas man who seeks to make those ideas into reality. I dream. I do.

Thompson: In the process of turning crazy business ideas into crazy businesses to help KC keep the “cool city” status it has gained in the past few years.

What’s your addiction?

Baysinger: Creation. I think we’re here to do

stuff, build stuff and create things.

Henrich: My Enduro. I can’t get enough of adventure motorcycling.

Thompson: Cheetos hot fries. My innards hate me for it.

What’s your game?

Baysinger: Indoor soccer, Settlers of Catan and Blokus

Henrich: Poker. Always brings the guys together for the best times. Oh, and skeeball.

Thompson: European board games

What’s your drink?

Baysinger: Cream soda — or any of the 1,300

soda varieties we carry at Mass Street Soda and KC Soda Co. Henrich: La Fin Du Monde Thompson: I’m on a Moscow Mule kick with the rest of the country.

Where’s dinner?

Baysinger: Jack Stack Barbecue. I am abso-

lutely obsessed with their cheesy corn.

Henrich: Il Lazzarone pizza or any sort of rooftop picnic.

Thompson: Thai Siam

What’s on your KC postcard?

Baysinger: The skyline. I think we have one

of the most beautiful cities in the country, especially coming from the north on 169.

Henrich: West Bottoms. I love the grittiness, and you’ll often find me tearing around there on my Enduro.

Thompson: Union Station. That place is beautiful and full of history.

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Owners of Breakout KC

My dating triumph/tragedy Baysinger: Somehow, I convinced my wife,

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …”

Baysinger: They revitalized downtown. In high

school, I was told to stay away from certain parts of the city. Now we’re opening businesses in the same general area instead.

Henrich: We started making huge strides in reinvesting in the infrastructure in the heart of the city. Big things are happening and will continue to happen.

Thompson: They revitalized downtown. It’s completely changed the city.

“Kansas City screwed up when …”

Baysinger: They drafted Todd Blackledge in-

stead of Dan Marino in the 1983 NFL draft.

Henrich: They didn’t move the ballpark into downtown or the West Bottoms (although I love the remodel at Kauffman).

Thompson: We got rid of the Zambezi Zinger at Worlds of Fun

“Kansas City needs …”

Baysinger: To host the Olympics. Seriously, it

would be awesome.

Henrich: Mountains.

Thompson: The Zambezi Zinger back. It’s in Colombia. We need to start a Kickstarter or something.

“I always laugh at …”

Baysinger: Just about anything my 19-monthold daughter does. She is just the best.

Henrich: Hot Rod. My name is Rod, and I like

to party.

From left: Baysinger, Henrich, Matt Besler, and Thompson

Thompson: Charlie on It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia. Mainly when he’s an oil tycoon.

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …”

Baysinger: Everything. Once I get hooked on

something, I can’t let it go until I am done with it.

Henrich: I rarely watch TV, but when I do it’s House of Cards.

Thompson: Law & Order. Any version.

Emily, to marry me. It’s probably the smartest thing I’ve ever done.

Henrich: Against all odds, I found my adventure buddy, and she is smoking-hot, too.

Thompson: I broke up with a really cute girl my freshman year of college because I was a dumb 18-year-old. It just didn’t feel right.

Ended up studying abroad with her again junior year in Italy and traveling with her, and became good friends. Started dating our senior year and got married a few years later.

My soapbox Baysinger: My generation really sucks at

live show I’ve seen in years, and their newest album is incredible.

Henrich: Needtobreathe.

Thompson: Hembree. A couple old friends from Lawrence who have always produced amazing tunes.

RSVPing to events. People, it’s not hard.

Make a a decision and do what you say you’re going to do!

Henrich: Do what you say you’re going to do! Be of your freaking word, and when you’re not, you better have the sincerest apology lined up.

Thompson: Kansas needs to fix its education issue. Cutting taxes and cutting funding to schools is not going to make Kansas a better state. It is hurting our kids’ futures.

“I just read …”

Baysinger: Scary Close by Donald Miller. His

My recent triumph Baysinger: We are pretty proud of everything

“I can’t stop listening to …”

Baysinger: Needtobreathe. They are the best

work is a great reminder that our experiences are only as important as the people we share them with.

Henrich: Zag. Thompson: City building codes. There are so many to follow, and there are so many things to make sure you’re in compliance.

The best advice I ever got Baysinger: Do everything with love.

Henrich: Rate everything on a scale of 1–10.

we’ve done with Breakout KC so far. The response has been tremendous, and we love seeing so many folks walk out with a smile and a shared story, whether they broke out in time or not.

Henrich: Getting the build-out for Breakout KC done. It was a bit of a roller coaster, but we’re still alive and now we’re open.

Thompson: Decided to open two businesses — Breakout KC and KC Soda Co. — within a month of each other.

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Running man Quinton Lucas looks like the most promising East Side candidate for City Council in two decades.

By Steve vockrodt ph otoS By SaBri na Stai reS

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ay 17 was a rare clear day during an un­ usually rainy month in Kansas City. At Kauffman Stadium that afternoon, legions of Royals fans filed out of the stadium buzzed on having just watched the home team dis­ mantle the New York Yankees, 6–0.

Just across Interstate 70, a different cele­ bration was taking place in a dimly lighted ballroom at the Adam’s Mark Hotel.

The 52 graduates of DeLaSalle Education Center’s 2015 class, cloaked in purple­and­ silver commencement robes, waited through a procession of speakers to receive their diplo­ mas. Mark Williamson, the charter school’s executive director, gave the kids a short pep talk, then introduced DeLaSalle board mem­ ber Quinton Lucas, the keynote speaker.

Lucas made an ideal graduation speaker: a self­made man who grew up in poverty on Kansas City’s East Side — a background fa­ miliar to some of DeLaSalle’s graduates. But Lucas spent much of his time at the podium telling not his own story but that of another man, Curtis Osborne, who went to Georgia’s death row for a 1990 double homicide.

A professor at Cornell University’s School of Law had suggested to Lucas, a student

at the New York school at the time, that he spend part of his 2008 summer helping pre­ pare Osborne’s appeal for clemency. Osborne had support from former President Jimmy Carter and others, in part because Osborne’s trial attorney had spurned a plea deal offered by a county prosecutor. The lawyer hadn’t told his client about the offer. But he did tell the opposing counsel, “That little nigger de­ serves the chair.”

When Lucas visited Osborne in a Georgia lockup, the inmate spent far more time talk­ ing about his daughter than he did about his case. The girl had never seen her father outside prison walls.

“I never knew my father,” Lucas told the graduates. He recalled to them that Osborne, in contrast, wrote to his daughter constantly.

“For her, it was someone who cared for her every single day.”

Lucas and the lawyers working on the case were unable to persuade authorities in Geor­ gia to spare Osborne’s life. He was executed on June 4, 2008. Lucas told the graduates that Osborne’s family later sent him a letter of thanks for his effort.

“We serve our community every day by

caring for the people next to us,” Lucas said toward the end of his address. This was his message for the teens.

Telling his own story, talking about how he broke a family’s cycle of poverty, doesn’t come as easily to Lucas. He doesn’t exactly strike a quiet demeanor but turns somewhat reticent at times when discussing his back­ ground. Raised, with his two sisters, by a single mother on a sub­median income, he earned a scholarship to the Barstow School as a third­grader, went to the prestigious Washington University in St. Louis, and then to Cornell for his law degree.

“I find those [stories] to be mildly insult­ ing and not that interesting,” Lucas told me after the graduation ceremony. People are asking him to recount his version of that story more often now, though, because he’s running for a seat on Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council.

There are easier ways to make a living than representing the 3rd District, the east­central node of Kansas City that’s best­known for its vacant properties and its lack of oppor­ tunity. Having had a well­paying job with a top law firm in Kansas City, Lucas knows this

firsthand. And he’s now on a tenure track at the University of Kansas School of Law. But if his pursuit of public office represents a fi­ nancial sacrifice, it also embodies the advice he gave to the DeLaSalle graduates. Lucas, regarded by political observers as one of the city’s top prospects for higher office in the coming years, says he means to serve his community — not least by ending a run of shaky 3rd District leadership.

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ucas’ main prior connection to City Hall was serving on the obscure Board of Zon­ ing Adjustment. Yet his path to victory in the June 23 general election is clear.

Two recognizable challengers, Crispin Rea and Virginia “Dee” Evans, dropped out of the race before the crowded April primary. One remaining opponent, Stephan Gordon, has run for Congress twice as a Republican against Karen McCarthy, losing by wide margins in 2000 and 2002. Those campaigns, Gordon has explained, make him an experienced politician (one who still identifies himself as a Republican) with theoretically advantageous connections. Indeed, he continued on page 8

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has named some key endorsements — though not all of them can be verified.

“I did not tell Steve I would endorse him,” says Forestine Beasley, who ran in the 3rd District at-large primary and whom Gordon has listed among his endorsers. “He’s been calling me asking me. I have not told him I would endorse him.”

A close inspection of the voting canvass, which shows voting results at the precinct level, illustrates a strong following for Lucas throughout Kansas City. In East Side wards, however, Lucas fights a perception of inauthenticity and an idea that he isn’t in touch with the 3rd District.

“I think he’s a newcomer to politics,” says Carol Gatlin, an opponent of Lucas’ in the primary election. “I’m not sure of his motives for running. We’ve never seen him in the community.”

Gordon adds, “I don’t think Quinton knows the issues in the 3rd District. Maybe it’s because he hasn’t been around that much.”

Lucas is 30 years old. Much of his adult life has been spent in colleges in St. Louis and New York. Since returning to Kansas City in 2009, he has picked up appointments to the Board of Zoning Adjustment and a spot on Mayor Sly James’ Charter Review Commission.

He has also drawn criticism for his connections to Kansas City’s political establishment, which some 3rd District voices blame for the ongoing neglect of their community. His campaign was initially shepherded by local political guru Pat Gray, who died in January. Since then, longtime powerbroker Steve Glorioso has advised Lucas. And the candidate has picked up conspicuous support from companies and institutions that traditionally wield major influence in Kansas City politics. His most recent campaign-finance report shows contributions at or near the maximum $2,625 from Burns & McDonnell, JE Dunn, Kansas City Southern, and the political action committees for the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Council. Other sizable contributions have come from law firms such as Lathrop & Gage and Polsinelli.

Missing from that report: any contributions from the 3rd District.

“Would I love to have more money from the 3rd District? Yes,” Lucas tells me. He adds that residents and businesses from the impoverished district lack the discretionary income to spend on political campaigns the way those in other districts do.

He rejects the idea that his high-profile contributors will influence him. “I think an ability to fundraise broadly insulates you from one organization being able to hold you to account,” Lucas says.

He also insists that he isn’t out of touch with the residents of the district that he seeks to represent. Lucas, who has lived in an apartment at 19th Street and the Paseo since returning to Kansas City in 2009, tells

a story to counter that notion. “There’s a lady in my building who said to me, ‘You wear a suit every day. What do you do?’ ” Lucas says. “I’m a lawyer. She says, ‘Why do you live here? That’s a terrible view.’”

He goes on: “Where you go to college, the way you sound, law school should not divorce you from who you are,” Lucas says. “I’m proud to be from Kansas City. I’m proud to be from East Kansas City.”

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ucas’ mother, Quincy Bennett Johnson, says her son grew up in two worlds.

One world was the Barstow School, where Lucas enrolled in 1992 after earning a scholarship. The private school, at 115th Street and State Line Road, abuts the tony Hallbrook neighborhood — a long way, geographically and demographically, from the nursing homes, motels, apartments and houses of the East Side. The scholarship covered 80 percent of Lucas’ tuition; Johnson paid for the rest. His classmates were predominantly white, and they arrived at school in late-model foreign cars. Lucas got to and from Barstow in his mom’s car, sometimes as early as 6 a.m. so that Johnson could make it back downtown for her job.

At soccer practice one afternoon during his first year at Barstow, Lucas spotted a car parked on the side of State Line Road, clearly not working. He looked closer. It was his mother’s 1984 Chevy Nova. It had broken down just as she readied to pick him up from practice.

“I’m like, ‘Damn, that’s embarrassing,’” Lucas recalls.

An unreliable vehicle is a recurring theme in Lucas’ recollections of his youth. There also was the 1979 Ford Thunderbird that caught fire in 1992, not long before that soccer practice.

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Johnson and her three children were returning to Kansas City after five years in Hutchinson, Kansas. She had followed a boyfriend there but was now bringing her family back to KC. The four moved frequently, and Johnson at times had difficulty making ends meet. She worked as an administrative assistant and later as a tax clerk, making about $26,000 to support her three children. (Today, she works at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in its graduate studies department.)

“He saw we were struggling,” Johnson says.

“One time we lived in a hotel, and it was horrible. Quinton would go in the bathroom to study.” Other times, Lucas says, he would ride his bicycle to the Lucile H. Bluford Library at 31st Street and Prospect, to take advantage of air conditioning on hot days.

“I’ve gotten to see the repo man a couple of times,” Lucas recalls of his youth. “My best meal for a lot of my life was my lunch at Barstow.”

Lucas takes his last name from Ricardo Lucas, an East Side activist who isn’t his biological father but is the father of Lucas’ older sister. Ricardo Lucas was in prison when Quinton Lucas was born, in August 1984 at Truman Medical Center. Lucas’ actual father is Thomas Wilson, whom Quinton has never met. He sees this circumstance as not uncommon among others growing up on the East Side, though Lucas was able to finish high school with three full-ride scholarship opportunities.

It’s his education, he says, that allowed him to overcome the obstacles that often keep East Side residents from leaving poverty behind.

“Access to a good education made a world of difference,” Lucas says. “When you have a small class size, in an environment where people don’t let you fall, the fall you can make when you have a good base isn’t that great.”

Lucas met the public at May 31’s Cook for Courage.

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ay 15, nearly everyone running for City Council turned into a transit activist.

That evening, the Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance hosted a forum at Union Station to quiz council aspirants about how they intended to improve Kansas City’s notoriously underdeveloped transportation system. About 100 people gathered, and, inevitably, the streetcar line was soon mentioned.

Lee Barnes, running for the 5th District, interrupted the room’s transit cheerleading to express his annoyance that the East Side has been blamed for last August’s defeat of a streetcar expansion at the polls.

“There was a City Council person who said the vote on the East Side was a no vote because people didn’t understand what they were voting for,” he says. “I took some offense to that because I think people on the East Side know what they were voting for. They were voting for a tax they didn’t necessarily see that they needed. If those of us looking to become City Council folks, if we want to get information to the people, to let them know exactly how they can benefit from whatever the issue is, we must do that. We must get the information out to them. We can’t talk like the citizens aren’t informed.”

Lucas lauded Barnes’ comment when it was his turn to speak. Improved communication is one of Lucas’ key issues; he’s far from alone in saying that City Hall does a poor job of conveying itself to voters.

“We spend a lot of time talking east and west and white or black or however you really see it,” Lucas began, “and I don’t think that’s necessarily the conversation we really want for

the city. Because these are solutions — whether it’s biking, whether it’s transit, whether it’s fixed rail or anything else — that we all need to be part of. If we have a whole part of a city that feels excluded, I’ll tell you what: We are going to continue to have the same problem that we have in Kansas City now that we’ve had as long as we’ve all been alive.”

Lucas’ campaign focuses heavily on what the candidate says is mistrust between taxpayers and City Hall, on a city government that he says isn’t always efficient. He says the regulatory structure at City Hall is off-putting to small businesses that can’t afford to hire well-connected lawyers to navigate the system. “For a lot of people, a trip to City Hall is a real pain,” Lucas says.

May 22, he spoke to a lunchtime crowd of mostly black seniors at the Palestine Senior Citizens Activity Center, at 33rd Street and Prospect, as they ate baked fish, macaroni and cheese, and green beans. Dominating local news that week was Kansas City’s plan to direct roughly $150 million in public money to a $300 million convention hotel, a facility that few on the East Side would use. One woman asked why the East Side remains slow to see investment. Borrowing from his work as a law professor, Lucas answered that, if elected, he planned to start an “office hours” concept: Residents could drop by and discuss issues directly with their representatives, to bridge understanding between City Hall and residents.

“We shouldn’t just have ideas that come from up on high,” Lucas said.

Beyond professorial office hours, Lucas’ goals for a first term strike a populist tone. He advocates for budgetary discipline, a city government that’s more responsive to residents, and a city government that gives as much attention to basic services as glitzy high-dollar projects.

These are the types of planks that first-time candidates often suggest but frequently forget upon assuming office. Whether Lucas breaks that pattern remains to be seen. But many political observers believe that Lucas is the man to disrupt the string of middling-to-bad representation from the 3rd District on the City Council.

They include Saundra McFadden Weaver, who survived a recall during the mid-aughts but eventually had to answer to a federal indictment for mortgage fraud during the latter years of her political career. It also includes Sharon Sanders-Brooks, who became a rare incumbent to lose her seat during her bid for re-election.

One has to go back to Charles Hazley to find a consistent, strong representative from the 3rd District. But even Hazley, who served from 1971 to 1991, had his troubles. He spent a brief stint in prison in 1988 for not filing a tax return.

But he was otherwise known as an advocate for the East Side. Many of his successors have been milquetoast representatives.

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uring his three years in law school at Cornell, Lucas secured the kind of experience

that would lead to a lucrative job working at an East Coast law firm, the destination of choice for many Ivy League law-school graduates. He spent one summer clerking for Kansas City firm Shook, Hardy & Bacon. The following summer, he worked for Boston’s WilmerHale, one of the country’s largest law firms. And in 2009, Lucas worked for Duane Benton, a judge on the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals.

It was Benton, Lucas says, who pointed his protégé homeward. As Lucas tells it, Benton said: “You could go back to D.C. and be among thousands toiling away, or you could go back to your hometown and make a difference.”

Back in KC, Lucas worked for Rouse Hendricks German May, a small but powerful downtown litigation firm. There, he inched into the world of local politics with his appointment to the Board of Zoning Adjustment and, later, to the Charter Review Commission.

Local politicians would come through the law firm, too, and through the high-powered Stinson Leonard Street firm just a few floors above Rouse Hendricks’ 12th Street and Walnut offices, giving Lucas access to local policymakers.

If Lucas wins his council race, he will at least have to surrender his tenure track at the KU law school and reduce his hours — a move that could lessen his $115,000 annual salary by as much as 40 percent. His council salary could plug that gap, though a failed entry into politics could short-circuit his academic career.

But few among Kansas City’s political class see a short political career for Lucas. There’s already talk in some circles that Lucas is among the leading prospects for mayor in 2019, when James is termed out. (James is all but assured of a second term, running against the invisible Vincent Lee.) “I think every district has its ups and downs over the years,” says Polsinelli lawyer Pete Levi, former Kansas City Chamber president who counts himself among Lucas’ supporters. “I think Quinton would be a step forward for any district in the city of Kansas City.”

“So many of our politicians are in public office because they were unable to make it in the private sector,” says Brandon Boulware, a lawyer who worked with Lucas at Rouse Hendricks. “That’s not Quinton Lucas. Quinton is a guy who has thrived in the private sector and he is entering politics for all the right reasons.

He’s sacrificing to run for public office.”

Politics can attract people who crave power first and decide what to do with it later. Lucas doesn’t come across as someone who needs elected office. If he were to lose in June, he could resume a promising career in law and participate from the sidelines of the political scene with his pocketbook, as so many others in his field do.

“I could either be a part of the contributor class of Kansas City,” Lucas says, “or I could run.”

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hen a photographer’s tools include a hazmat suit and a respirator, you know he has something at stake. Avery Danziger’s hypnotic pictures document abandoned, sometimes dangerous buildings, such as the Harlem Valley/Wingdale State Hospital — where, during the mid-1950s, more than 5,000 mental-health patients lived amid 5,000 employees. “I am drawn to the incredibly paradoxical beauty as expressed in the transformation of man-made order into the chaos of decay,” he has written. And some noteworthy institutions are drawn to Danziger, whose images are in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, New York City’s Museum of Modern Art, and Sedalia’s Daum Museum of Contemporary Art. Friday, the photographer opens an exhibition titled Seeking Permanence, at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2004 Baltimore). The reception is from 7 to 9 p.m.

At Windhorse Tattoo and Gallery (1717 Wyandotte), some clients have put on new ink in tribute to earthquake-damaged Tibet, and the space’s resident artists have donated proceeds to relief efforts there. The next twomonth exhibition in Windhorse’s Easternappointed upstairs space opens from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday and includes works by Bryan Benkert, Amy Bug, Matthew Crim, Mark Galloway and Sarah Haire, in an exhibition titled Emergent Language: Artists’ Expressions of Sacred Geometry.

Synesthesia, the neurological condition that causes certain people to react to one sense’s stimulation by experiencing sensation via a different sense, fuels the art of Melissa

McCracken (who trained as a research psychologist). When she hears music, she sees colors. And she paints what she sees, resulting in the highly charged abstractions of Visual Opus: A Union of Color and Sound, now up at Hilliard Gallery (1820 McGee).

There’s a similar taste of sensual crosspollination — a meeting of visual art and poetry — at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (2012 Baltimore). There, Sonié Joi ThompsonRuffin, Sonia Sanchez and Glenn North come together for Sessions: synesthesiaroutesrhythmiccoulours, a new exhibition curated by Jacqueline Wood (opening First Friday). The show invites gallerygoers to print or pick up a small line drawing (lots of angled symmetrical shapes), color it in using a specific palette (including lime-green, red-orange, dark blue, and turquoise), then bring the results to a Saturday, June 6, poetry reception. That event starts at 2 p.m. and includes readings (at 4) by North, whose many accolades include a Charlotte Street Foundation Generative Performing Artist Award, and Sanchez, who has published 16 books and earned a Robert Frost Medal for distinguished lifetime service to U.S. poetry.

Front/Space (217 West 18th Street) is filled with small sculptures by Dana Harper, whose Auroral Confetti is inspired by coral-reef diatoms, cartoons, pollen and the galaxy, and is made of bits of clay, plastic, tinsel and glass.

Immerse yourself in this little ecosystem from 6 to 9 Friday evening.

Going bigger, there’s also “the great outdoors,” the rough theme of Main Street Gallery’s summer-starting exhibition. It includes works by Louanne Hein, Andrea Orr Clague,

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For indoor types, there’s also Ian Young’s third exhibition at Todd Weiner Gallery (115 West 18th Street), which at press time was all but sold out. In Game On!, Young presents six more large-scale canvases depicting classic arcade and board games — think Pong, Trivial Pursuit and Sorry — in his vibrant, hyper-sensational style. Whatever nostalgia you bring to these attractively detailed compositions makes them accessible, but when Young takes the time to provide subtle commentary on a society that indulges in something like Grand Theft Auto, his art also takes on an appealing relevance.

At the Belger Arts Center (2100 Walnut), a reception from 6 to 9 p.m. kicks off Pour: Function + Form. Get there at 6:30 to see an awards presentation by juror Linda Arbuckle, recognizing the local and national artists who submitted their utilitarian, innovative and

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by Maura Wright sculptural works to the show. Also starting Friday is a selection of paintings and threedimensional works from the vast Belger collection, which gallery assistant Mo Dickens has centered on a straightforward theme: people. The show traces the Belger holdings back to Pablo Picasso and includes pieces from the collection that have never been shown.

Over at Belger Crane Yard Studios (2011 Tracy), Red Star Studios presents Here & Now, its resident artists’ annual exhibition. See what Lea Griggs, Catie Miller and Jamie Bates Slone have accomplished during their residencies, and get insight about what technical explorations are being accomplished by Brice Dyer, Jana Evans and Maura Wright.

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with sharp lines, and it kind of all references architecture.”

Stiritz seems almost to blend in with her products: Her gray shirt, black pants and cream-colored apron are all splashed with clay residue, evidence of which also smudges her long brown braid of hair. She speaks quietly but directly — like a shy person who has learned how to be in charge.

There hasn’t been much time for such lessons: Convivial Production turned a year old in April, and Stiritz has seen the demand for her products swell within that period.

“My strategy has been to both hide and hustle at the same time,” she says with a small laugh. “The only advertising I’ve really done is on Instagram, and I think a lot of shops have found me that way. I sell on Etsy — that’s my one direct to consumers. It’s this weird balance of publishing my products but not overdoing it. I want to be able to balance and fill orders as they come in, but I also want to grow.”

To that end, she has just returned from a business trip to Haiti, where she visited the production facilities for GO Exchange, a division of Kansas City’s Global Orphan Project.

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he Convivial Production studio is quiet today, save for the classical NPR feed spilling from her iPhone in the corner. Chentell Stiritz, the founder, designer and chief maker behind the ceramics company, has invited me to tour the space in Rosedale.

It’s a sunny weekday morning, and Stiritz’s helpers — one part-time employee, several interns — aren’t here yet. The studio’s sliding garage door stands open, revealing her full collection: endless stacks of diamond-shaped serving dishes, planters, carved candleholders and vases in various stages of production.

You can tell how close to completion a given item is by its color. The dark-gray pieces are freshest; nearly two dozen geometric fruit bowls in that shade are laid out on two large tables to dry. The red-brown pieces have been fired once and await a glaze. Stiritz favors a bright, pristine white glaze — and the finished pieces gleam from their resting spots. Aside from the Kansas state flag hanging on one wall, the shop is a mix of these subtle, prewhite hues and Stiritz’s precise lines.

I see just one gray, clay-covered wheel for throwing, and it looks child-size. It’s hard to believe that the hundreds of creations in the space all came from that machine, especially considering that Stiritz has even more of her products stocked at about 10 stores in the Kansas City area — including West Elm on the Plaza, Future vintage store, and the Coveted Home — as well as five out-of-state shops and several other online retailers.

“That’s where the help comes in,” Stiritz tells me. She gestures to the tables. “This is West Elm’s next order, and it’s 40 fruit bowls.

There’s no way I can make 40 fruit bowls myself. I don’t even want to make them myself. And for a few pieces, we have molds, so there’s no throwing.”

Stiritz, a 24-year-old native of Hawaii, moved to Chicago to study ceramic arts in college before settling here a couple of years ago. Before she came to the Midwest, some of its industrial elements were a mystery to her.

“The architecture is much different, much more plantation-looking where I’m from,” she says. “I’d never seen a water tower before. The only bridge I’d seen was a wooden bridge.

Moving here, I was really fascinated by the structures. I think I pull a lot from that.

“The concept is conviviality, which is the joining of people to eat and drink,” Stiritz says of her business. “It’s about social vitality and people joining and dining with each other. What we’re doing is setting the scene for conviviality with the pieces that you dine off of and the decor that surrounds you. And the aesthetic within that is just a personal taste — I like everything to be clean,

care for orphaned and abandoned children around the world. GO Exchange, Stritiz tells me, is interested in developing a ceramics program with her help.

“They took me to their production facility and helped me see what their company looks like on the ground,” Stiritz says. “A lot of what they do is educational and making sure people are work-certified. They’re creating these great work environments in the midst of a struggling economic climate.”

She goes on: “When I was there, we went around and learned how different ceramics were made within that community, and we connected with local makers and talked about how to bring them on-board. Now that we’re

Stiritz gets her hands dirty. back, we’re just trying to figure out what’s next and how to move forward. The next few months could be a pretty changing time for the company.”

Conviviality was always about community, she says, but now, she can reach beyond the dining table.

“What’s on my mind now is how to invest in the global community,” Stiritz says.

“I think it’s been in me for a while and I just followed what seemed right. I’m glad it’s working out this way.”

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The stripteasing musical, a smart yet softhearted exploration of beer-gut masculinity, doesn’t lack the raw materials to make a crowd-pleaser. Based on the popular 1997 British film of the same name, Terrence McNally’s stage adaptation loses some political thrust in its American translation, which centers on laborers in Buffalo, New York, rather than on the Thatcher-challenged U.K. steelworkers of the original. Still, McNally’s book coasts gracefully on a couple of universal themes: self-confidence and sex appeal.

Driving the show are unemployed (and seemingly unemployable) steelworkers Jerry Lukowski (Drew Starlin) and Dave Bukatinsky (Vincent Onofrio Monachino). Jerry lost his wife, Pam (Leah Swank-Miller), to divorce and is on the verge of losing his son, Nathan (Whittaker Hoar), if he can’t muster childsupport payments.

Dave has troubles of his own: He’s overweight and criminally insecure, and he hasn’t touched his wife, Georgie (Andrea BoswellBurns), in months.

In a fit of masculine ardor, Jerry convinces Dave to break into Giordano’s, a local strip joint, and confront Georgie and her friends on ladies’ night. But a chance meeting with one of the male strippers (a hairless, hilarious Tony Beasley) convinces the pair to change tack. Strippers make good money, after all.

And what women want, Jerry posits, are “real men,” not Chippendales. “Imagine what they’d pay to see you and me,” he says to Dave.

“Nothing,” Dave replies.

To compete, the men realize, they’ll have to offer something the Chippendales don’t: trouser snakes sans glitter thongs, “the full monty.”

Dave and Jerry set about recruiting a few other steel-mill casualties in a sort of extended training montage. Among them are Malcolm (Adam Henry), a suicidal loner who lives with his mother; Harold (Bob Paisley), former foreman and debt-riddled sophisticate; and Horse (Quincy Nile Kuykendall), an aging arthritic who sings about being a “Big Black Man” despite his apparently average appendage.

Starlin and Monachino anchor the cast with relaxed performances and strong chemistry.

Monachino bores deep into Dave’s bodyimage issues, achieving startling tenderness in a late-night attempt to Saran-wrap his jungle pouch. Starlin lends an easy comedic rhythm to reformed slacker Jerry, and blends especially well with Monachino during “Big-Ass Rock.” Some upper-register intonation issues taxed Starlin’s performance last Sunday; the restrained “Breeze on the Water” was a bet-

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Kuykendall is easily the strongest dancer among the men, thrusting and grinding with show-pony polish. Matthew Leonard earns big laughs as an uncoordinated auditioner, and Jakob Wozniak is especially energetic as the well-endowed Ethan.

Though The Full Monty focuses on male confidence issues, McNally and the MET are just as attentive to the women who inspire them. Stasha Case is deliciously clueless as Vicki, Harold’s pampered trophy wife. SwankMiller finds the necessary nuance in Pam, a nag in less capable hands. And Valerie BrackenDykes steals everything that isn’t nailed down as showbiz coach Jeanette, adopting the gait and pack-a-day bark of a much older woman.

The women also allow costume designer Erica Sword to brighten her palette. Sword’s costumes are the unmistakable design highlight, from the men’s rip-away ensembles to Jeanette’s outlandish color-block blouses and velvet vests.

The production as a whole, however, suffers from an uninspired set and uneven direction. Full-cast numbers such as “The Goods” show what artistic director Karen Paisley

Monty fails to arrest. can create when she’s focused on the prize: energy, spectacle and well-composed stage pictures. But playing areas are rarely defined, and Paisley too often stretches scenes, regardless of length or locale, across the full width of the stage. As a result, scene changes eat far too much time and momentum, despite a herculean effort from the crew.

An angle-less set further hinders the cast.

The program doesn’t credit a set designer, which may explain why the overall aesthetic suggests spring cleaning in the scene shop.

Budget constraints deserve consideration but are little excuse for leaving the stage floor and mismatched flats unpainted. (The former is especially frustrating because the scuffs and streaks muddy the also-uncredited lighting design.)

The MET long ago earned my vote for some of this city’s best casting. Paisley and her team have a knack for finding strong local talent able to infuse classic scripts with fresh vigor.

The Full Monty is no exception, full of spirited performers for whom you can’t help rooting.

But when distracting design choices undermine pro-caliber casts, it may be time to bring in some new technical blood — and to think about how to use the theater’s limited resources more imaginatively and effectively.

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ouldn’t it be something if your family accepted you for who you were rather than how they’d like you to be? Especially your siblings and your in-laws.

That ideal tolerance was the first thing I noticed about the characters — the family members — who inhabit the Living Room’s Love Song. Everyone seemed able to look beyond one another’s foibles, shortcomings and just plain absurdness, though there was plenty to go around.

In that same spirit, we engage quickly with the figures in John Kolvenbach’s 2008 play: Harry, Joan, Beane and Molly, each likable despite obvious quirks. Their spit-quick repartee, perfectly timed, streams by, and we grab hold, the characters’ personableness overshadowing their more unpleasant qualities.

The Living Room first performed this play in 2010, and this revival, soundly directed by Katie Gilchrist, includes three-fourths of its original cast. The actors appear comfortable, but not complacent, in their characters’ skins, delivering Kolvenbach’s crisp, vivid language and allowing us to see the play’s world through their eyes. And until it slows near the end, Love Song pops with vitality.

Beane (Bryan Moses) is alone and isolated inside his four walls, a box that seems at times to be closing in on him (depicted literally — scenic design by Ryan Zirngibl). How he thinks about boxes and the living things that might inhabit them emerges in a funny sequence at the start of the play, when his brother-inlaw, Harry (Rusty Sneary), attempts to give him a multiple-choice personality test — a “pretend-psychology quiz,” argues Joan (Shawnna Journagan), Beane’s sister.

Why Harry wants to administer this exam isn’t specifically stated, but it’s clear that Beane is off. “It could help him,” Harry implores.

“It’s diagnostic!” But Joan, who mostly lacks Beane’s sensitivity and empathy, is protecive of her brother. “Harry,” she warns, “if you yell at him, I will come over there and I will slap you.”

Then there’s Molly (Vanessa Davis), who shows up in Beane’s life unexpectedly, an apparent burglar. She notes Beane’s eccentricity, rendered obvious by the barren state of his home. “Who are you?” Molly asks him.

“Are you a monk? a musician?” It’s a question later posed to a waiter (in a cameo appearance by a guest actor). He clearly sings to an unfamiliar tune.

Watching Sneary and Journagan play off each other is one of the pleasures of this mostly humorous work. Sneary’s immersive performance is another. He subtly maneuvers between a wryly observant Harry — “You fired another intern? … an intern is a volunteer, prac-

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As is Harry and Joan’s “personal day,” which accentuates their idiosyncrasies and bond.

Journagan is both funny and touching in her portrayal of the split-persona Joan: a woundup adult but softer sister.

Moses, who has excelled as a director, can sometimes be stiff onstage, but he slips right into the oddball Beane: spacey, sweet and a little bit lost. When he meets his sister for lunch, we feel his newfound ravenous hunger — for more than food.

Even though we first meet Beane’s mysterious girlfriend, Molly, as she attempts to commit a crime, we’re intrigued. Davis imbues this cynical, shadowy, street-smart person with the right mix of verve and simpatico. We wonder just what she’s about.

We’re captivated by these contentious and singular people. Whatever form love takes here — familial, romantic — it is indeed what makes up this Song’s melody. Love influences Beane as well as Harry and Joan, who are confused by his behavior before they’re affected — or, perhaps, infected — by it. And this odd, imperfect family and its particular view of the world, in turn, touches us.

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The Pitch discussed the book with Offerman by phone as he sat inside his car outside his Los Angeles wood shop ahead of Thursday’s appearance at Unity Temple on the Plaza.

The Pitch: How did you go about selecting the 21 people that made it into this book?

Offerman: When we first cooked it up — my editor and I — we sat down, and I rattled off, like, a hundred names. It’s an intimidating list for anyone to come up with, naming the people who you love and who inspire you.

So then we began to whittle it down. We sort of picked out highlights. And she did a good job of putting limits. She would be like, “OK, let’s say you can have four people from the founding period.”

She actually whittled me down to 16, and I brutally fought her — sometimes with my actual fists — back up to 21 people. And I could easily start Volume 2 right now on the next 21. In order to make a packageable book and get it done in time, we had to set the limits that we did, and I made it out by the hair on my chin.

The book starts with our nation’s founder and ends with Conan O’Brien. You interview the living, but how did you get to know the others?

I had a research assistant who helped me collate material. With some of the figures that were historical, I would say to my research assistant: “OK, in these five biographies, find me any hunting chapters for Roosevelt or any foreign-relations chapters for Eleanor.” But it was a trap because I’d read those chapters and then I’d be like, “Well, now I have to go back and read this childhood chapter.”

So I ended up doing a great deal of reading, and then I’d have conversations with my editor, and she would record the conversations, and they would transcribe them. So I ended up with, like, four binders, 4-inches-thick each, as the research vault of what went into the book.

It seems that all of that information could get overwhelming, especially with the historical figures. It would have been easy to just regurgitate information that you’d read. But that’s not how it felt reading it.

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arly biographical portrait of any of these people. Instead, it was, What is it about these people that I think can be inspirational to my readership, or maybe what is it about these people’s lives that aren’t the highlights of the great biographies?

Every single one of the 21 chapters, I wish I could have written a hundred pages instead of 20. I felt that the most poignantly with Wendell Berry because I’m just so passionate about his work — like, “Argh! God, please don’t make me cut this!” But I understood very well that even with the cutting, we still yielded a 400-page book. So part of the idea of the book is to encourage people to then go find out about Wendell Berry’s writing for themselves, to go listen to all of Jeff Tweedy’s music, to go back and look at the incredible trajectory of Conan’s career and

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the tomfoolery and intelligent giggles that he’s brought to us.

The Carol Burnett chapter also kind of rocked my world with that bit about the Equal Rights Amendment of 1923, which never passed. I felt kind of sick for a second.

That’s also part of the impetus for the book, is that so much of our country has grown so comfortable with all of our luxuries that we’ve forgotten about the work that still needs to be done. When I looked it up, I felt the same nausea. Like, what? This thing is a hundred years old!

And my first inkling came, as you may have read, in that Laurie Anderson song [“Little Red Dress”] where she says, in 1989, that for every dollar a man makes, a woman makes 63 cents. And it was just insane. Why are we not burning down buildings? That’s absolutely untenable. And so part of the impetus for the book was just to remind us all that, hey, there’s still some fixing to do, everybody. Like, I know you’re all having fun on Facebook, but maybe we pay attention for a little longer.

Gumption is your second book, and it’s very different from the first. How did you figure out the path to being the writer that you are, and what do we get to read from you next?

I wish I had a concise answer for you, but I’m a very lucky person. I follow my gut, and it’s kept me out of the world of vanity and the sort of chasing of popular culture. I always knew if my work was going to be legitimate, it wasn’t going to come from trying to be cute or trying to make the most money or get the highest ratings. Instead, my role was to hang back by the woodshed and report on my observations from that vantage. And I still am just tickled pink and just kind of astonished that anyone gives a shit to read something that I would write. It tickles me pink. [Giggles.] I’m thrilled to pieces.

As far as what will come next, actually, probably first up is gonna be a coffee-table book about the wood shop and sort of a combination woodworking book for everybody — including some prose pieces and some candy-gorgeous photography. Beyond that, I don’t know. If this book does well, I wouldn’t mind thinking about doing another go-round. And also, eventually, when I feel ready to build my first guitar, I think I’m going to document that whole process and write a book about that.

But I don’t know. I’m a lucky kid. I’m getting nice acting jobs. Among my other good fortunes is included the one in which I don’t have to sit around and wonder, “Oh, no, what am I gonna do next?”

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on Umsted’s sales pitch is irresistible: “Want to try a whole-grain cookie that actually tastes good?”

Stopping in my tracks, all but dropping a greenhouse-grown tomato, I accepted a sample of a white-chocolate macadamia-nut cookie. The wholesome treat came straight from the kitchen at Yummylicious Cookie Co., the baking company that Umsted started with his wife, Amber, in 2008.

Instead of white flour and refined sugar, Yummylicious cookies are made with a wholegrain base and a brown sugar that’s sticky with molasses. The exact recipe remains a secret, but as Umsted makes the rounds at area farmers markets and festivals, it’s becoming public knowledge that these cookies are delicious.

They’re sweet, soft and chewy, and unlike many “healthy” treats, they don’t taste like cardboard.

“It took my wife 15 years to get the recipe right,” Umsted told me.

To learn more about these years-in-themaking cookies, I met Umsted a couple of weeks later at the Roasterie in Brookside. He arrived bearing gluten-free pancake mix for me to take home, as well as several varieties of cookies, including one featuring caramel, semisweet-chocolate chunks and the Roasterie’s Super Tuscan Espresso blend.

Confident yet unassuming, Umsted spoke gently and smiled easily. Lounging at a corner table in the café, he launched into the story of his company’s beginnings, explaining that Amber started making whole-grain cookies in search of the perfect post-workout snack in the late 1990s. In the pre-Google, pre-food-blog era, she developed the recipe through trial and error, employing her husband and their son, Brandon, now 25, as taste testers.

“We had a lot of bad-tasting cookies in the house,” Umsted said, laughing.

Slowly, it all came together — so slowly that

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Dean and Deluca became the first area store to carry Yummylicious cookies, six years ago. Since then, a lot has changed for the Umsteds. They’ve adopted their two adorable daughters, Gabby and Mikayla, now 5 and 2.

They’ve spent several months living in Africa.

And most recently, after a brief hiatus from the company, Umsted quit his corporate job to focus solely on Yummylicious.

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For starters, transparency, education and community are important to Umsted. He aims to build trust with his customers by using high-quality regionally grown ingredients, such as flour and oats from Heartland Mills, in Marienthal, Kansas. Instead of riding the hype surrounding “whole” foods and gluten sensitivity, Umsted wants to raise awareness and let people make their own decisions — though he thinks his cookies speak for themselves. He even gives them to his daughters as snacks in lieu of Doritos or Twinkies.

“If you eat one in the morning, you’re good until noon,” he said. “It provides timereleased energy. It’s not the same crash as, say, doughnuts from Krispy Kreme.”

Yummylicious shares a kitchen with Smallcakes, a Cupcakery in Shawnee, but the Umsteds hope to have their own location soon. As the company grows — they hired their first part-time employee this spring — Umsted said he wants to hire single mothers and other people who need a decent wage to “help them get out of poverty.”

In the meantime, Yummylicious can be found every weekend at farmers markets.

When people try one of the cookies for the first time, “99 percent of them love it,” Umsted said. And some really can’t get enough.

Earlier this spring, a woman bought Umsted’s entire supply of snickerdoodle cookies at the Overland Park farmers market.

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feel like I’m kind of a boring interview,” Heidi Lynne Gluck tells me with a short laugh.

She’s sitting across from me, in a comfortablelooking armchair in the living room of her Lawrence home. The fading sunlight illuminates her face as she reaches for her beer.

She’s not really the self-deprecating type.

Her comment seems driven more by a sharpeyed self-awareness. Gluck is 35 and not interested in playing the ingenue — something she makes abundantly clear on The Only Girl in the Room, her first EP. She has a 9-year-old kid — a cutie named Ollie, who’s at his grandmother’s this evening — and works a handful of jobs.

In conversation and on record, she conveys a hard-earned wisdom set against unrelenting self-consciousness.

The five songs on The Only Girl in the Room, released in April on Lawrence’s Lotuspool Records — neatly convey their author. On the title track, Gluck details her experiences of being all alone and with everyone, the woman who is just one of the boys who the boys want to use. Her languid delivery over an uplifting, jangly piano melody implies that the isolation is at least partly her own idea.

That song recalls a different era of Gluck’s life. Before motherhood, before her marriage and divorce, before she was a solo artist, Gluck was part of the Indianapolis music scene. She moved there in 2000 from Grand Forks, North Dakota — where she had attended college — and formed a band, the Pieces, with Vess Ruhtenberg, who later played bass with the Lemonheads.

“I was just living the artist’s life,” Gluck says. “We would go to the studio — the guys in the band owned one that was all analog, with tons of vintage gear — and they just kind of schooled me, and we just messed around.

I was just a dumb kid.”

She laughs drily as she recalls her 21-yearold self, hanging out in studios and rambling through tours. For a time, Gluck was also part of Juliana Hatfield’s early aughts band Some Girls.

“Now that I think about it, we just spent so much time playing,” she says. “I don’t have the luxury of doing that anymore.”

In 2005, a pregnant Gluck — who was born and raised in Manitoba, Canada — moved to Winnipeg with her then-fiancé, KC rocker Josh Berwanger (the Anniversary, Josh Berwanger Band). In 2006, shortly after becoming parents, the two relocated once more.

“We moved back here on the condition that we lived in Lawrence,” Gluck says.

“Josh’s family is from Leawood, and I knew that I could feel at home here as a musician.

I needed a place that was easy to be a mom and to be creative.”

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“There was a lot of change around that period,” Gluck says. “I got laid off, got divorced, broke my leg — I was basically crippled for nine months. But it was actually kind of a reset on my life. Things started happening again.”

In 2011, after her leg had properly healed, Gluck began picking up regular gigs as a session musician at studios in Indianapolis and Bloomington, Indiana. This included a spot working on an album by Margot & the Nuclear So and So’s, 2012’s Rot Gut, Domestic. It was during that weeklong session that Gluck met singer-songwriter Kenny Childers.

“Kenny and I struck a songwriting relationship after that,” Gluck says. “I just sort of blossomed again. Even though I went back to Lawrence, we spent hours writing together on the Internet, sharing lyrics and trading ideas.

I think we have 50 or 60 songs now that we just haven’t gotten out, partly because we don’t live in the same city and partly because we don’t have the money.”

The Only Girl in the Room is a sliver of the mass of songs that Gluck has accumulated.

It was recorded in this living room, which is also where Gluck holds practices with her full band. She gestures around to the three guitars, various amps and an upright piano, and mentions that she had plenty of borrowed gear and help on the album, too.

Though the process sounds fairly DIY, the EP itself is a model of cohesion, with each song a different shade of folk pop and the

whole thing filled with polished hooks and subtle twang. The production is just spare enough to let Gluck’s voice and sharp lyrics really shine. She has a Jenny Lewis-like talent for wry observations and clever metaphors, and they unfold in striking verses, as on the chilling, vulnerable “Target Practice.”

The Only Girl in the Room is one of this year’s finest local releases so far, a deeply honest, understated debut. Its only disappointment is its brevity, though if her plans hold together, a remedy is on the way. Girl is, she says, the first of a four-part series; the second EP should arrive late this summer or early in the fall.

“It’s been hard for me the last 10 years, having songs and knowing that I want to do something with them and not being able to do it, or even finish,” Gluck says. “It’s not even since I’ve been a mom. I’ve always been like that. I’ve been in other bands, and someone else was always driving the project. It was an incredible process for me to finish and not depend on somebody else, especially some guy who thinks he knows how to turn the knob better than you do.”

Gluck smiles. For all of that, she says, there have been no missed steps in her music career.

“Don’t get me wrong — it just gets harder to block time away to do music in between mom-ing and day jobs and other people’s music,” she says. “It’s been hard. And it’s hard to just keep it going. But obviously, the quality of your craft improves as you age. And this EP, you know, it might not be a high-quality recording, but I got what I wanted out of it.”

Gluck: far from boring Heidi Lynne Gluck Friday, June 5, at the Replay Lounge Sunday, June 7, at the Riot Room

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Saturday, the Blue Room lineup is bent heavily toward progressive, young groups — a far cry from the normal fare found at the usually staid venue. Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle is well-known to Kansas City jazz fans for original compositions marked by intelligence and wit. The Phantastics — helmed by singer Leigh Gibbs and rapper Kemet Coleman, who performs as thePhantom* — may be best described as the wild party child of funk and hip-hop.

And Oklahoma’s Adam & Kizzie bring a contemporary groove to the beautiful, melodic vocals of gospel-laced soul. This may not be the sort of music generally associated with the historic 18th & Vine, but at the heart of each of these groups is improvisation — the lifeblood of jazz.

— Larry Kopitnik Eddie Moore and the Outer Circle, the Phantastics, and Adam & Kizzie, 8:30 p.m.

Saturday, June 6, at the Blue Room (1600 East 18th Street, 816-474-6262), $10 cover.

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ast year around this time, Taryn Miller — the Lawrence singer-songwriter who performs as Your Friend — was riding high.

She had been signed to the respected Chicago record label Domino, was earning attention from her rereleased EP Jekyll/Hyde, and had booked a slew of national tour dates that included a run with buzz-heavy Australian artist Courtney Barnett.

The momentum was bound to slow eventually, though, and camp Miller has sounded pretty quiet in recent months. But there’s no need for alarm, Miller tells me, because she has been toiling lately on a brand-new full-length. I called her up to get an update ahead of her fullband headlining slot at this year’s Crossroads Summer Block Party Friday, June 5.

The Pitch: You signed to Domino over a year ago. How has being on that label affected your career?

Miller: Oh, man. I feel really lucky and fortunate because they’ve been so patient. It’s just been such a growing process. I’ve learned so much and I’ve worked so hard in so many ways, and I didn’t expect to, and I think I felt really motivated and inspired by that. I have my moments where I get overwhelmed or feel pressure, but the good outweighs the bad almost always. It’s been quite a ride, how I’ve had to adapt and take certain responsibilities that I haven’t had before.

Can you be specific about some of those new responsibilities and changes?

I have a new sense of preparedness. When you’re working in tandem with a company and there’s a bunch of other people that are all involved in this thing, you have to be thinking ahead at all times. You have to consider the timing of things: when the new record will come out, when do we go on tour, that kind of thing. I’ve had to go from planning a show a weekend ahead to planning my life four or five months in advance, and that’s kind of crazy.

Like, I decide if I should stay in this apartment.

I have to figure out how to pay taxes for this LLC [as a musician], and I never expected to have to consider those things, especially at my age. It’s been rewarding, taking initiative like that in my life.

Another thing is that I took a break from drinking, and it’s been five months, going on six. It’s a different beast, playing shows stonecold sober and being alone in your own head.

Socializing is different for me now. Before, you know, it’s easy to have a drink with someone, and now there’s no buffer — it’s just me.

I don’t go out as much at all, honestly. I catch shows every once in a while, but after the show is over, I head home. It’s one of those things where I’m going for the music specifically.

And performing, you know, I’m completely coherent through the entire show. I wake up

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Your Friend With My Brothers & Sisters, Yeomon, the Phantastics, Ghastly Menace, Organized Crimes, Illphonics, and Monta at Odds Friday, June 5, at the Crossroads Summer Block Party, 19th Street and Wyandotte feeling good in the morning, and I think that’s really great.

I think it would have been easy, when you signed to Domino, to say, “Well, moving to New York or wherever would make the most career sense.” What is it about Lawrence that works for you?

I mean, as far as relocating, my nest is built here. My band members are here. The people that really inspire me or support me are all here. I feel like I’m just now getting to a place where I like the layout of my apartment. I’m building this safe, grounded zone for myself where I don’t have to worry about it when we tour, and I know I can come back and work at the places that I love — I’ve still got two jobs — and be around people that I love.

Like last night, I spent all night at the studio with my friend Ross [Williams] of No Cave, and we were just playing and talking, and it’s so special to me to have those connections. I’m very inspired by the musicians in this town, and I think their support is really essential. It feels nice to have a community and a family that is championing you.

Your debut EP, Jekyll/Hyde, was rereleased on Domino last February. You mentioned that

Miller: ready to rock the block you were working on a new record. What can you tell me about it?

It won’t be out for a while, but it’s almost done. I’m getting back final mixes, and I’m stoked. I can see the end of it coming — it’s going to come soon. We went into the studio at the end of March, beginning of April. We finished tracking on my birthday, actually, which is kind of funny. I turned 24 in New York and finished tracking a record — a little poetic, maybe.

Getting to work with [producer] Nicolas Vernhes [the War on Drugs, Deerhunter] was incredible. He’s become a favorite person of mine. There were days where he and I were in the studio alone for, like, 12 hours near the end. He was invested in making it something that he was really proud of, too, and there’s a lot of that. He allowed me the space to veer off in ways that I’ve wanted to, and I feel like I’m getting to make the record that I want to make.

It’s so nice to have people believe in your ability and help you achieve what you wanted to do.

But it’s just the beginning, I feel, of a new thing. It’ll be the first full-length, which I’ve never done, and that alone was a challenge because it was the first one. I had to feel good about the songs and what it was gonna become as a whole because you’re tying in so many more tracks and ideas, and making it cohesive has been interesting.

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Before you hem and haw about the Avett Brothers jumping on that Americana-revival bandwagon, take a moment to appreciate that banjoist Scott Avett and guitarist Seth Avett have been working with this sound since their 2000 debut. That’s a decade and a half of commitment to the genre, and the brothers know what they’re doing. They have not reinvented themselves as a Coldplay ripoff (lookin’ at you, Mumford & Sons) or vanished into irrelevance, instead cultivating a steadfast fan following.

Thursday at Starlight, maybe you’ll get a taste of the new material they’re working on.

Thursday, June 4, Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, 816-363-7827)

The first lady of rockabilly, Wanda Jackson, stops at Knuckleheads this weekend. Anyone who had planned to see her with fellow country legend Loretta Lynn at the Uptown in November — Jackson canceled due to illness — should be pleased with the new arrangement. Opening for Jackson is Toronto’s 24th Street Wailers, a young group that has claimed its stake of rockabilly territory. The band’s latest album, Where Evil Grows, sounds like the kind of spirited music that would have caused outrage at a 1950s school dance. Friday, be prepared to revel in sweet saxophone notes, gutsy blues guitar and the indomitable force that is Jackson.

Friday, June 5, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

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Ben Harper could sing lullabies in a crowded shelter during a raging hurricane and folks would probably emerge afterward saying, “That was kind of nice.” The 45-year-old singersongwriter has a naturally soothing voice. That was apparent on last year’s Childhood Home, which guest-starred his mother, Ellen, on songwriting credits and vocals and won him his third Grammy, this time for Best Blues Album.

Harper’s mom won’t be on tour with him this summer, but he has reunited with his longtime backing band, the Innocent Criminals,

for this stretch of dates. Don’t miss him Friday at Crossroads KC. Friday, June 5, Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 785-749-3434)

Whitey Morgan and the 78’s

Whitey Morgan’s voice is full of grit and snarl.

Its sound would be hard to love if it were put to any music other than his own, a raucous brand of honky-tonk. It’s a shame that, despite a decade on the road, Morgan and his band, the 78’s, have not managed to break through the way his contemporaries have. His latest album, Sonic Ranch, isn’t likely to change that status. The album is crowded with more classic-country covers than originals but it’s still an exceptional turn from a talented artist who deserves more attention than he gets.

Saturday, June 6, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Radkey, the Offspring, Bully, the Sluts

There are two reasons for you to jump on the chance to see Radkey this weekend at the KC Live Block. First, the St. Joseph trio — brothers Isaiah, Solomon and Dee Radke — are rarely around to perform shows on their home turf since they’ve been touring nationally and internationally. Second, their live set will melt

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Sunday, June 7, KC Live Block, Power & Light District (14th Street and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com)

Randy Newman with the KC Symphony

Randy Newman is one of the most lovable music men on the planet. It’s gotta be that unmistakable, Muppet-like voice paired with his bespectacled, grinning, piano-playing self. He just seems so happy, you know? Even the singer and composer’s arsenal of sad-sack songs makes him as lovable as a big teddy bear.

Wednesday at the Kauffman Center, test the theory for yourself when Newman appears with the Kansas City Symphony for an evening of hits. This should thrill Pixar and Disney fans, or anyone who was a kid — or had one — when Toy Story made “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” a hit.

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Hairspray | New Theatre Restaurant, 9229 Foster, Overland Park, newtheatre.com

Hold Up on Dead Man’s Creek | KC Mystery Train, Bonefish Grill, 6334 N Lucerne , kcmysterytrain.com Jesus Christ Superstar | Musical Theater Heritage, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

Judy Barbra Liza | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com Love Song and On an Average Day | The Living Room, 1818 McGee, thelivingroomkc.com

Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom | Fishtank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte

Tribes | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org

Thursday | 6.4 |

Man and Superman, presented by National Theatre Live | Noon, Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

True West | Fridays and Saturdays, Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, libertyhall.net

L i t e r a r y/ S p o k e n W o r d

royals vs. indians | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium nick offerman discusses his book Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom With America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers | 7 p.m. Unity Temple on

the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., rainydaybooks.com

F00d & drink

dominque | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Charles Fleischer | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Room, 4048 Broadway

muSiC

Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Cheerleader | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

1205 E. 85th St.

old Shawnee days | 6-10 p.m. Shawnee Town 1929, 11501 W. 57th St., Shawnee, oldshawneedays.org

The Pitch Summer Guide Golf outing | Noon5 p.m., $100 per person, Minor Park, Holmes at Red Bridge Rd., xorbia.com/e/thepitch/golf

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moreland & arbuckle | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads

Screamin J & His rebel yell We tornados, margo may, (the) medicine theory | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Lester “duck” Warner | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

Foundry, 424 Westport Rd.

open-mic night | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

Friday | 6.5 |

niGHtLiFe

dJ G train | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

kevin Frazee trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809

in the Garage with dJ Christian LaBeau | 10 p.m.

Jerry Frederick, Fritz Hutchinson and major matt | 7 p.m. Coda, 1744 Broadway

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kC Symphony: Daphnis and Chloé | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org Comedy

diamond empire | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Grand

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Cracker | 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester Crosseyed Cat | 7:30 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

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12th St. and Wyandotte, livekc.org

perForminG artS

Cam, marianne michaels | 7 p.m. Kanza Hall, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

hospitalhillrun.com

Leisure Sports League | 5 p.m. Barney Allis Plaza,

mondo disco with ray velasquez | 10 p.m. The

king Chip, Loogey, dom Chronicles, FSp, La France, myke Bogan, tre redeau | 8 p.m. The Riot

Natural History Museum, Free State Brewing Co. and Hank Charcuterie | 7 p.m., $30, South Park, 1141 Massachusetts, Lawrence, biodiversity.ku.edu/events

expoS

the Hospital Hill run Health & Fitness expo | 3-7 p.m. Crown Center Exhibit Hall, 2323 McGee,

Honeyhoney | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hamp-

shire, Lawrence

Summer Sirens: the science of cicadas, an adventurous eating event, sponsored by the KU

Comedy

Grand marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

karaoke | 9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

dominque | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. Charles Fleischer | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park expoS

the Hospital Hill run Health & Fitness expo |

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F e s t i va l s

Downtown Days streets alive | Noon-10p.m.Down-

sun day

6.7

town Lee’s Summit, Third St. and Main, downtownls.org

Kansas City PrideFest 2015 | 6 p.m.-midnight,

Berkley Riverfront Park, Missouri River between the Heart of America and Paseo bridges, at N. Lydia and E. Front, gaypridekc.org

h Up wit mith Hinde

Old shawnee Days | 6-10 p.m. Shawnee Town 1929, 11501 W. 57th St., Shawnee, oldshawneedays.org

Art Exhibits & EvEnts all Of(f) the lights: a night tour with Tank at Grand arts | 7 p.m. Thursday, 1819 Grand,

grandarts.com

Camelot | Starting Tuesday, 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org American Soldier | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

sugar Creek slavic Festival | Mike Onka Memorial Building, 11520 E. Putnam, Independence, slavicfest.com

Animalia: 19th- and 20th-Century European Prints and Drawings | Nelson-Atkins

sPOrts & reC

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Hospital Hill UMKC school of Medicine 5k |

7 p.m. Crown Center, 2450 Grand

exhibition On screen: Rembrandt, From the national Gallery london and rihksmuseum amsterdam | 7 p.m. Thursday, Tivoli

royals vs. rangers | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

Ultimate Blue Corner Battles | 6:30 p.m., $30-$100, VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, voodookc.com

Make Your Mark | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Owen/Cox Dance Group: ludus tonalis | 2 p.m. White Recital Hall, UMKC, 4949 Cherry, owencoxdance.org

COMMUnity events

the Business of Cannabis seminar | 8 a.m. Valentine Room at the Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, themjba.com the Crossroads summer Block Party | Noonmidnight, 19th St. and Wyandotte

Oil Boom | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Paula saunders, BMW | 5:30 p.m. The Blue Room,

1600 E. 18th St.

the Phillistines | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

MUsiC

laura rain and the Caesars | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside

Kansas City Parrot Fest | 11 a.m.-11:45 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand, powerandlightdistrict.com Kansas City PrideFest 2015 | Noon-11 p.m. Berkley Riverfront Park, Missouri River between the Heart of America and Paseo bridges, at N. Lydia Ave. and E. Front St., gaypridekc.org

Meet Me at the Museum tour | 2-3 p.m.

Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces | Nelson-Atkins

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Place (Series) + Lines In My Eyes , Constructive Interference , exhibits by Bill

Jacobson and Stuart Allen | Haw Contemporary, 1600 Liberty

admiral of the red, Drew Black and the Dirty electric, atomic 50s | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ram-

BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Old shawnee Days | 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Shawnee Town 1929, 11501 W. 57th St., Shawnee, oldshawneedays.org

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

the Boat Drunks | KC Live Stage at the Power & Light

slim Cessna’s auto Club, the Pale Blue Dots, Bad Wheels, shawn sweeney & Friends | 8 p.m.

strawberry Festival | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. Vaile Mansion, 1500 N. Liberty, Independence, vailemansion.org

What Am I Looking At? group exhibition | 6-9 p.m. Fridays, Kiosk Gallery, 916 E. Fifth St.

sugar Creek slavic Festival | Mike Onka Memorial

What You Might Have Missed , works by

blers Club, 3402 Main

District, 14th St. and Grand

Boogaloo 7, electric tinks, tim Whitmer Quartet | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Saturday | 6.6 |

Building, 11520 E. Putnam, Independence, slavicfest.com

PerFOrMinG arts

Danny Cox | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Band, the Bel-Airs, Junior Watson | 5 p.m. Oak Grove Park, N.E. 76th St. and N.E. Troost

Ben Harper and the innocent Criminals | 7 p.m.

KC symphony: Daphnis and Chloé | 8 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

Daniel Bennett Group | Noon-1:30 p.m. Leavenworth

Wanda Jackson’s rock-and-roll Prom | 8 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Connor leimer, the Wing Dings, tall tales | 7 p.m.

The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Center, 2450 Grand

World War I and the Rise of Modernism | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

royals vs. rangers | 1:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

COMMUnity events

COMeDy

sporting KC vs. seattle sounders | 7:30 p.m.

Children’s Day & national trails Day | 9 a.m.4:30 p.m. Missouri Town 1855, 8010 E. Park Rd. (in Fleming Park), Lee’s Summit, jacksongov.org

Dominque | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK

Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

sHOPPinG

City Market summer Book sale | City Market,

Hack Kansas City at national Day of Civic Hacking | 10 a.m.-8 p.m. UMKC School of Law, 500 E.

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COMMUnity BeneFits

FilM

Downtown Days streets alive | 10 a.m.10 p.m. Downtown Lee’s Summit, Third St. and Main, downtownls.org

spike trafficking Charity volleyball tournament, sponsored by the One by One Project | 2 p.m.

national lampoon’s Vacation | 1:30 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Charles Fleischer | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Jlove Band | 9 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. rob leichter, Gia Claire, tristan Joseph newell, tina Dybal, Joe nunnink | 10 p.m. RecordBar,

Hospital Hill half-marathon and 10k | 7 a.m. Crown

Public Library, 417 Spruce, leavenworthpubliclibrary.org

Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

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David Ford | Plug Projects, 1613 Genessee, plugprojects.com

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Gladstone Bluesfest, featuring Coyote Bill Boogie

1020 Westport Rd.

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America |

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20 E. Fifth St.

Volleyball Beach, 13105 Holmes, onebyoneproject.org

52nd St., kcdigitaldrive.org

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jazzoo

F00d & drink

1929, 11501 W. 57th St., Shawnee, oldshawneedays.org

Midwest Tea Fest | 10 a.m.-4 p.m. National World

War I Museum at Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

cOMMuniTy BEnEFiTS

Tour de cure Wheels to Weston, benefiting the American Diabetes Association | 6 a.m.-4 p.m. English Landing Park, First St. and Main, diabetes.org/kctour

Second Annual Get ripped Brew Fest | 1-5 p.m.,

$30/$35, Big Rip Brewing Co., 216 E.Ninth Ave., North Kansas City, bigripbrewing.com

cOMMuniTy EVEnTS MuSic

Alien Files: researching immigrant Ancestors at the national Archives, featuring National Archives’ Elizabeth Burnes | 2 p.m. Central Library, 14

Blackbird revue, dolls on Fire | The Brick, 1727 McGee

W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Jimmy Buffett, Huey Lewis & the news | 7 p.m.

friday

Sprint Center, 1407 Grand

6.5

devilsex | 6 p.m. Aftershock, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

St., Overland Park

Gladstone Bluesfest, featuring Jaisson Taylor &

Brandon Hudspeth, the Confessors: a tribute to Lee McBee, Brandon Santini Band, Kelley Hunt, Jimmy D. Lane | 5 p.m. Oak Grove Park, N.E. 76th St. and N.E. Troost

Grand Villanova, John keck, Brooklyn rye, kalo | 8:30 p.m. Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main

52nd St., kcdigitaldrive.org

th out wi Hang l s. a m i n these a

kansas city zoo

diles Mavis Group | 10 p.m. Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th

Hack kansas city at national day of civic Hacking | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. UMKC School of Law, 500 E.

FiLM

Mike Leigh’s The Pirates of Penzance, presented by the English National Opera | 1 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

Jazzoo 2015: under the canopy | 7:30 p.m., $175, the Kansas City Zoological Park, 6800 Zoo Dr., jazzookc.org

Michael Shults, Organ Jazz Trio | 6 p.m. Green

Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

SPOrTS & rEc

royals vs. rangers | 1:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Sunday | 6.7 |

MuSic PErFOrMinG ArTS

The Helio Sequence | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

kodascope, Anna cole and the Other Lovers |

8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Eddie Moore | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St. Whitey Morgan | 7 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Old 97s, the delta Saints, Honeyhoney | 7 p.m.

niGHTLiFE

dJ christian LaBeau | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

kc Symphony: daphnis and chloé | 2 p.m. Kauff-

man Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

The dreaming, razorwire Halo | 7 p.m. Aftershock,

Joints & Jams with Johnny Quest | 10 p.m. Replay

dominque | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

kc cabaret variety show | 9:30 p.m. Uptown Arts

norm Macdonald | 6:30 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, voodookc.com

Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

Bar, 3611 Broadway

Que Pasa, Wet Ones, Witch Jail | 10 p.m. MiniBar,

Magic 107.3 Saturday Groove Party | 7 p.m. Voo-

3810 Broadway

Doo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Shannon & the rhythm kings | 9 p.m. B.B.’s

rally to riches with dJ Mike Scott | 9 p.m. Hotel

Nightclub, 1300 Grand

Foundation 627 Big Band | 8:30 p.m.-midnight.

Lawrence Battle of the Bands | 4 p.m. The

Lost dog Street Band, Tyler Gregory | 5 p.m.

F E S T i VA L S

Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

1205 E. 85th St.

5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

cOMEdy

dJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

The confessors | 6-9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

downtown days Streets Alive | 11a.m.-4p.m.Down-

town Lee’s Summit, Third St. and Main, downtownls.org

kansas city PrideFest 2015 | Noon-6 p.m. Berkley

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

The Offspring | KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

Riverfront Park, between the Heart of America and Paseo bridges, N. Lydia Ave. and E. Front St., gaypridekc.org

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MUSEUM ExhibitS & EvEntS Dinosaurs: Ancient Fossils, New Discoveries | Museum at Prairiefire, 5801 W. 135th St., Overland Park, museumatpf.org

Ingenious Objects: geometric puzzles by Stewart Coffin | Linda Hall Library, 5109

Cherry, lindahall.org

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Lewis and Clark: Great Journey West | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org

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Take Five Tour | 6 p.m. Thursday, American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., americanjazzmuseum.org continued from page 29 The Prettiots, Modern Day Fitzgerald, Heidi Lynne Gluck | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Thee Devotion, Dynamite Defense, the Quivers | 8 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. NiGHTLiFe

DJ Chadilac, DJ HoodNasty | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

The Avett Brothers, old Crow Medicine Show | 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

Sunday Solace | 3 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Monday | 6.8 |

CoMMuNiTy eVeNTS

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Science on Tap: Cicadas | 7:30 p.m. Free State Brewing Co., 636 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Chappo, young, empires, the Slowdown, is Paris Burning | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

MuSiC

Mae, All Get out, Mike Mains & the Branches | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

PerForMiNG ArTS

Blue Monday poetry and open mic | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

CoMeDy

open-mic night, by KCstandup.com and featuring Kenny DeForest | 7 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Flogging Molly | Crossroads KC, 417 E. 18th St.

Rochester

Tony James, She Lin | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown,

Broadway

3402 Main

elle Carpenter | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania Dead Winter Carpenters | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence,

electric Six, White reaper, the Hillary Watts riot | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Tyree Johnson | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St. Quintron & Miss Pussycat, Nots | 9:30 p.m.

Molly Gene one Whoaman Band, Jeff Shepherd, rachel Kate, Nicholas St. James | 10 p.m.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Mother Mother | 8 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Pat recob & Jimmie Meade | 7 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

yojimbo | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire,

Wednesday | 6.10 |

Tuesday | 6.9 |

randy Newman with the KC Symphony | 8 p.m.

Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org1 Broadway.

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Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Shinetop Jr. | 7 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside, 1205 E. 85th St. Tinderbox Circus Sideshow, Friend of the Faceless | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. NiGHTLiFe

PerForMiNG ArTS

1813 Grand

Eighth St.

Lawrence

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

CoMeDy

Hermon Mehari Trio | 6 p.m. The Majestic, 931

Brian ruskin Band | 7 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W.

MuSiC

B Vibe | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

March Fourth | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715

Heavy Buffalo, Lazy, Witch Jail, Mr and Mrs. | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

The Pump and Dump: A Parentally incorrect Comedy Show and Night out for once | 7:30 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Girlz of Westport | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

The Hump with Vinyl Posse | 10 p.m. MiniBar,

3810 Broadway

Lip Sync Battle | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

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Dear FACTS: I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that mistreatment, neglect and stress didn’t extinguish your wife’s libido. (You weren’t shitty to your wife, right?

You were helping with the kids, right?) I’m also going to assume that you made a goodfaith effort to address the sexless state of your marriage before you began self-medicating with all those beautiful women. (You sought counseling and got medical checkups, right?)

And I’m going to allow for the possibility that your wife may have married you under false pretenses, i.e., she wasn’t into sex or you or both, but she wanted marriage and kids and figured you would do. (I’m going to allow for that because that shit happens.)

These favorable assumptions — of the kind typically extended to persons seeking advice in a format like this — don’t exonerate you of all responsibility for cheating on your wife. But if they’re accurate, they do put your cheating in a particular guilt-mitigating context.

And that’s what you need to do when you answer that question about why your marriage ended: Put your cheating in context. Most people intuitively understand that wedding vows aren’t sexual suicide pacts and they’re capable of feeling sympathy for those who find themselves in sexless marriages. But instead of emphasizing the context in which you cheated — the emotional dynamics of your marriage, those long sexless years — you’re emphasizing the breakdick pace at which you cheated and the quality of the pussy you landed.

“I cheated! A lot! With 20 beautiful women!”

D a n S ava ge

together all of the time, and I feel more miserable in my marriage because I can’t help comparing the two men in my life. Do you have any advice for keeping from mentally going to “happily ever after” when you are trying to stay balanced in marriage-saving-affair land?

Dear Dan: I’m a 35-year-old divorced man. I’ve been on plenty of dates since my marriage ended, but I invariably get asked this question on or before date No. 2: “Why did you get divorced?” This is where everything goes to shit. I’m honest: “We got divorced because I cheated on my wife. A lot.”

This usually catches my date off-guard because I’m “not the kind of guy I’d have thought could do that.” But I can hardly get past date No. 2 after this because this information is “too much to handle.” Sometimes my dates will admit to having cheated, too. Not even other cheaters are interested in seeing me again. I was a good husband and father for seven years. But after four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. Crying myself to sleep every night took its toll, and I self-medicated with casual sex with attractive women. Two years and 20 women later, I got caught. I don’t hide the facts; I own my mistakes.

I’ve grown and learned from my mistakes. But it’s hard for most women to see past “cheater.”

In my mind, anything less than complete honesty would validate the belief that I’m still a lying cheat. But complete honesty is kicking my ass and ruining potential relationships.

Forthright About Cheating, Then Silence

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Secret Affair Necessary Escape Dear SANE: An affair doesn’t come bundled with the same crap that a marriage does, so your time with Happy Affair Man isn’t burdened by mental and/or physical health crises, just as it’s not roughed up by ever-festering conflicts about money or chores or kids or all of the above. So let’s say you left Depressed Husband Man for Happy Affair Man, and he left his wife for you. How long would it be before you and Second Husband Man were facing down some similar crap or brand-new crap? Probably not long. You might be happier, but you won’t be happily-ever-after happier because no one ever is. The subject is moot, of course, if you’re not in a position to end your marriage and Happy Affair Man isn’t, either. is one telling of the truth, but it’s not the most flattering telling of the truth (for you) or the most comforting telling of the truth (for your date). Saying, “I cheated with 20 women, all of them babes. I banged the living shit out of each and every one of them!” makes you sound more boastful than remorseful. Try saying something like this: “After four sexless years of marriage, I strayed. It was the wrong thing to do, but I was desperate. The cheating ended my marriage, which obviously needed to end, but it’s not something I ever want to do again.”

Omit the detail about the number of women you cheated with while emphasizing your determination to avoid making the same mistake in your next committed relationship. Tell your date that you are looking for a strong sexual connection (and other things) with someone you can communicate with about sex (and other things). Because you’re not a cheater — not anymore.

Dear Dan: I’m a 36-year-old heterosexual female

who has been reading you for the better part of 20 years. That’s why when my formerly lovely husband descended into a hellish depression that turned our 10-year marriage into a loveless, sexless, miserable thing that I didn’t recognize, I knew what I had to do. I couldn’t get out for various financial, personal and practical reasons, so I began an emotionally fulfilling, sanity-saving affair with a married man in the same situation.

My emotional and sexual needs are getting met for the first time in years. The problem is that when we are together, my mind goes to how much I wish we could both chuck our marriages and be

Dear Dan: I have been in a gay relationship for almost six years, and we are getting married in September. We are both predominantly tops, so we’ve been having threesomes for the majority of the time we’ve been together. About eight months ago, we had a threesome with someone who has since become a good friend. I have developed a strong bond with our third. My fiancé is not an overly affectionate person, and while I’ve had issues with that in the past and overlooked it, these past months have shown me how much I long for physical affection. My fiancé is threatened by the two of us showing affection. I reassure him as best I can, but nothing I say makes him feel less threatened by my wanting to have alone time with our third. I do not want to give up the bond I have with our third, and I have zero intention of leaving my fiancé. If we could help him get more comfortable, it could be a perfect situation for everyone, with all of our needs being met.

Sincerely Perplexed Lad in Triad Dear SPLIT: Seeing as your third sounds like

a better match for you than your fiancé in several important ways — bottom to your top, more physically affectionate — I’m wondering why you wouldn’t want to dump the fiancé to run off with your third. Your fiancé is probably wondering the same thing. Unless your fiancé is willing to enter into a polyamorous triad, you’ll probably have to pick one or the other. And seeing as how you employ “we” in your last sentence — in reference to you and the third, not you and the fiancé — it sounds like you’ve already made your choice.

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