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“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” Anything.

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“I can’t stop listening to …” Waylon Jennings

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ing told it was a good idea to pour white powder into the teacher’s coffee (turning it into a solid), and leaving her a note saying she just activated the explosives. Apparently that is not allowed.

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munity Action Network and the Westside CAN Center. The power of this neighborhood and community-policing model on crime reduction, quality-of-life improvements, and basic human dignity is exceptional.

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DICK DAVIS (1ST DISTRICT)

One-line bio: former Mid-America Regional Council CEO, former Kansas City Area Transportation Authority general manager Electability: He barely escaped the primary and finished well behind Heather Hall, but he may be the favorite to pick up votes cast for primary candidates who didn’t make the cut.

If he gets elected: Davis would quite possibly chair the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, which would steer a likely

wants to tamp down City Hall spending while holding public safety harmless.

Donors: Missouri Sen. Ryan Silvey ($500), conspiracy theorist Jack Cashill ($200), Kansas City Public Library CEO Crosby Kemper III ($200), City Hall rabble-rousers Dan Coffey and John Murphy ($250 each) Base of support: Kansas City Police union (her husband is a KCMO officer), Clay County Republicans

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On taxes and wages, Hall tells The Pitch:

“High taxes and regulation discourage growth. The city can work with the private sector to research ways to help spur growth and keep wages appropriate for the standard of living.”

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SCOTT WAGNER (1ST DISTRICT AT-LARGE)

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pril 7, the Mission Hills City Council race drew more than 50 percent of the registered voters in that tiny community to the polls.

By contrast, only about 10 percent of registered voters showed up to Kansas City, Missouri, polls for the most recent council primary.

That’s a shameful electoral failure, especially because the stakes in local government have rarely been higher.

Kansas City has been slow to emerge from the morass of recession, but the past four years at City Hall have been relatively innovative. There is now, for instance, a five-year plan (something most cities do but that Kansas City has historically lacked), and leaders can point to a proper statistical analysis of the city’s performance.

Those are positive factors, but Kansas City remains burdened by an increasing tax and fee structure, and the local economy’s growth lags behind peer cities even as major decisions loom on basic services, infrastructure and transit.

So it’s time to elect some new voices. But how do you choose when the field seems packed and many of the candidates are unfamiliar?

The Pitch has set out to contribute information to your selection process by putting together this election guide to City Council candidates. (We figure that you know the mayor and know also that the race in which he’s running for re-election is a dud.)

And Friday, June 12, The Pitch is a partner in a free public forum, the Raucous Caucus, at Barney Allis Plaza. Every candidate has been invited to attend and to participate in an evening designed to be far less structured and scripted than your typical candidate event.

And, in theory, every voter can be there, too — be there to meet the candidates who show up, gauge for yourself their positions on the issues that matter to you, and challenge them face to face.

What follows is our primer to the candidates (in district order), edited and condensed for space. The full versions of each candidate’s questionnaire (edited for clarity) are at pitch.com.

Now you have no excuse not to get yourself to your polling place June 23. If Mission Hills voters can do it, what’s stopping you, Kansas City voter?

streetcar expansion (which Davis supports) and substantial contracts to water and sewer overhauls.

Political indignity: Davis was the lone vote against a $225,000 settlement to an aide of disgraced Councilman Michael Brooks (accused of choking that aide), saying he didn’t think the city should have been on the hook.

Legislative achievement: Davis has been a leading advocate of pension reform, a crippling line item on the city’s ledger. Also, he helped reshape Chouteau Parkway.

Donors: Lawyer Jim Polsinelli ($1,000), transit activist Kite Singleton ($250), Lathrop & Gage ($1,575), Heavy Construction Laborers’ Union ($500) Base of support: Davis is the establishment pick in this race, picking up endorsements from the likes of former Mayors Charles Wheeler and Richard Berkley, former Mayor Pro Tem Bill Skaggs and businessman Charles Garney.

About transit, Davis tells The Pitch: “I strongly support an orderly expansion of the

downtown starter line with the Main Street extension from Crown Center to the Plaza/ University Complex as the first step.”

HEATHER HALL (1ST DISTRICT)

One-line bio: tourism and marketing executive, Liberty Public Schools Parent Teacher Association member, and conservative activist Electability: Hall frightens Kansas City’s entrenched political establishment, which is lobbying hard for Davis’ re-election.

Political indignity: Hall was admonished by Commerce Bank executive Jonathan Kemper at a Citizen’s Association screening; he said she had offered vague answers to detailed questions about the city budget and infrastructure needs.

Big idea: Hall is ambivalent about renewing the earnings tax. She says the city needs to plan for a new revenue stream in case the earnings tax ever gets voted down. She also

One-line bio: marketing executive and first-term councilman who had to move out of the Historic Northeast due to council redistricting Electability: Wagner has been a popular representative for the 1st District and is considered a possible contender for Kansas City mayor in 2019.

Base of support: Northeast Kansas City; engineering, construction and architecture firms Donors: Real-estate broker Greg Patterson ($100), Dave Frantze ($500), BNIM ($250), Burns & McDonnell ($2,625) Strengths: Wagner is a thoughtful politician who can answer direct questions without canned speech. He also called bullshit on the American Royal’s posturing over Kemper Arena, saying the organization’s raison d’être no longer really exists.

Weaknesses: Political insiders say Wagner isn’t good at saying no when he needs to.

Big idea: About transit, Wagner says, “I hope our streetcar lines expand but not because we need to create a transportation alternative to buses or cars. Rather, they will only expand as a result of increasing density and the need to more easily link destinations.”

JEFF ROBERTS (1ST DISTRICT AT-LARGE)

One-line bio: No one knows. Roberts has run an invisible campaign, not showing up to forums, building zero online presence and not responding to requests for comment. He lists himself as a clerk for NFM. Nebraska Furniture Mart?

Electability: Slim to none. Few seem even to know what he looks like.

Donors: Himself ($100). That’s it.

Roberts hasn’t replied to The Pitch’s questions.

DAN FOWLER (2ND DISTRICT)

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Electability: Fowler is assured a term in office after retired pipe fitter Bill Super decided that he wasn’t up to running for office.

Trivia: Fowler represented current 2nd District Councilman Russ Johnson in Johnson’s divorce.

Donors: Construction magnates Steve and Terry Dunn ($500 each), real-estate lawyers Dave Frantze ($500) and Jerry Riffel ($250) Base of support: Fowler enjoys broad backing from Northland civic institutions, including Northland Neighborhoods and Forward Kansas City.

Big idea: Developing a high-tech industrial zone around KCI Fowler answers one of The Pitch’s questions, about the regional economy, this way:

“I believe that we need to address the borderwar issues and try to work cooperatively with all regional governments to attract business to the area, not just to part of it.”

TERESA LOAR (2nd diSTRicT AT-LARgE)

One-line bio: former Kansas City councilwoman, former North Kansas City school district board member, business development officer for various companies Electability: Loar won decisively in the primary.

Risk factors: Loar was accused of encouraging a female employee of Tetra Tech to hook up with politicians to help win contracts.

A lawsuit surrounding the accusations was settled.

Trivia: Current Kansas City Councilman Ed Ford was Loar’s attorney in the Tetra Tech lawsuit.

Sworn enemy: Jeff Roe. Loar and political operative Roe have locked horns since Loar unsuccessfully challenged Roe’s old boss Sam Graves for Congress. Roe’s firm temporarily worked with Loar’s opponent in this race, Jay Hodges.

Donors: Country Club Plaza owner Highwoods Properties ($2,625), mortgage mogul Jim Nutter ($250), Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders ($1,000), Kansas City Southern ($2,625) Strengths: During her prior term on the City Council from 1995 to 2003, she was in charge of the Aviation Committee when KCI underwent $200 million in renovations, imbuing her with knowledge about the airport, a subject that will resurface during the next election.

Loar tells The Pitch: "By offering abatements, we can require developers, as part of incentive packages, to build more affordable housing structures that meet the needs of the overall population, especially the middle and lower classes."

JAY HOdgES (2nd diSTRicT AT-LARgE)

One-line bio: former senior adviser to Kansas City Mayor Sly James Electability: By his own admission, Hodges lacks the name recognition that his opponent enjoys. It showed in the primary. Large business interests wary of Loar have tried to help him catch up.

Base of support: City Hall employees, Boulevard Brewing Co. workers, all manner of unions Donors: John McDonald, former owner of Boulevard ($500); Kansas City AFL-CIO ($2,625); Larry Jacob, Mayor James’ political consultant ($250) Relationship with James: Hodges is insistent that he won’t be the mayor’s yes-man on the council. Hodges was James’ point man on the idea for an extensive refashioning of KCI. Campaign tactic: Hodges has been persistent in unearthing unsavory moments from Loar’s past, which are many (including obscuring campaign contributions to then–mayoral candidate Brice Harris, which resulted in her indictment, as well as her husband having gotten a job with the city while she was on the council).

Likes: Krav Maga, tattoos Dislikes: Loar On the growing cost of living in Kansas City, Hodges tells The Pitch: “If you love higher

water bills, thank former council members.”

JERMAinE REEd (3Rd diSTRicT)

One-line bio: recent graduate from University of Missouri—Kansas City, youngest KCMO council member ever, Alvin Brooks protégé, Volvo driver Electability: The incumbent faced a crowded primary field but still emerged with 57 percent of the vote.

Base of support: Ollie Gates and his family, construction firms Donors: Real-estate developer Don Maxwell ($200), the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce ($1,575), Polsinelli ($1,000), J.E. Dunn executive Gordon Lansford ($150) Point of controversy: Reed was strongly criticized by East Side activists who felt that he didn’t stick up for his constituents when he cheer-led the construction of the police department’s East Patrol Campus. The project razed several homes in the Wendell-Phillips neighborhood, some by way of eminent domain.

Nice try: Reed wanted to increase Kansas City’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020.

He introduced an ordinance to that effect in March but hadn’t considered that a state law prohibits cities from doing that on their own.

What he has that his opponent doesn’t:

A hefty war chest. From the last reporting period, Reed had raised nearly $130,000. As an incumbent, Reed figures to have a leadership position on a committee if he wins a second term. As a current member of the Transportation and Infrastructure Commit-

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JAMEKiA KEndRiX (3Rd diSTRicT)

One-line bio: Kansas City Public Schools

activist, Oak Park neighborhood resident, mother of two Electability: Without wide financial help from typical establishment types, Kendrix is relying on grass-roots 3rd District support.

Base of support: KCPS followers Donors: KCPS board president Jon Hile ($100), Jennifer Wolfsie ($1,000), KCPS Advisory Committee, Greater Kansas City Women’s Political Caucus ($300) Thoughts on Troy Schulte: Kendrix criticized the KC city manager in a questionnaire for Freedom Inc., saying some of his decisions haven’t reflected the will of East Side residents. She cites the awarding of a contract to Intermedix to outsource ambulance billing.

Proud moment: Kendrix repudiated an insane idea proffered by the NRA in 2012 that suggested the schools needed more armed guards. “I think it’s ridiculous,” she told The Kansas City Star. “The answer to the issue with guns is not to give more people guns.

You actually make it worse.”

Surprise potential: Kendrix entered the council race with little background in City Hall matters, but she emerged as a solid and informed candidate at forums.

QUinTOn LUcAS (3Rd diSTRicT AT-LARgE)

One-line bio: Raised on Kansas City’s East Side, Lucas graduated from law school at Cornell, returned to Kansas City in 2009, worked for a law firm, and now is a professor at the University of Kansas School of Law.

Electability: Lucas dominated the primary election and enjoys broad support.

Base of support: business community, lawyers, unions, East Coast friends Donors: Burns & McDonnell CEO Greg Graves ($250), former YRC executive Bill Zollars ($1,000), Heavy Construction Laborers’ Union ($500), General Services Administration honcho Jason Klumb ($500).

First foray into politics: In 2006, while in St. Louis, he did door-to-door campaigning for Jeff Smith in support of his run for the Missouri Senate. Smith later resigned amid an investigation into violations of campaign finance laws.

Before he was famous: Lucas volunteered to mentor inmates at the state prison in Lansing, Kansas, an effort that helped lead to his hiring at the KU law school.

Criticisms: Lucas has received flack for being out of touch with his district, even though he has lived at 19th Street and the Paseo since 2009 and has dwelled largely on the East Side since third grade.

Strengths: Lucas brings a fresh perspective for a 3rd District candidate and may be about to wield clout in council chambers if elected, something the district often lacks.

Lucas answers The Pitch’s question about KC’s workforce: “The city can attract STEMqualified professionals [Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics], like all professionals, by continuing to address basic quality-of-life priorities in the city, such as public safety; parks-and-recreation investments; and policies that support modern planning and zoning, targeting walkability, efficient transit options in all parts of the city, and non-burdensome taxing schemes.”

STEPHAn gORdOn (3Rd diSTRicT AT-LARgE)

One-line bio: ordained minister, avid campaigner, car-rental employee Electability: Gordon faces a steep challenge against Lucas. His attendance at forums has been spotty, and his campaign hasn’t been terribly visible.

Base of support: If Gordon is campaigning hard anywhere, it’s among East Side neighborhood groups. Possibly among Republicans, too, the party he identifies with.

Donors: hotelier Kevin Pistilli ($2,435), MarkOne executive Joe Privitera ($2,000), Ollie Gates ($200) Political experience: Gordon doesn’t like being called a long shot, citing his background as a political candidate: He has run twice for Congress, losing to Karen McCarthy in 2000 and 2002. He was also unsuccessful in his 2004 run for the Missouri Senate.

Should be embarrassed by: Gordon claimed that he was endorsed by primary opponent Forestine Beasley, which Beasley denied.

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JOhN FIErrO (4Th DISTrIcT)

One-line bio: The only Hispanic candidate in the race, he runs the Mattie Rhodes Center in Kansas City and was once a Parks & Recreation Department board member.

Electability: Against a different candidate, Fierro might do well, but he faces long odds to make up a nearly 50-point gap from the primary election against Jolie Justus.

Base of support: Hispanic community, social organizations Donors: Carl DiCapo ($100), Northland lawyer Timothy Kristl ($100), Cordish Co. ($1,500), Ajamu Webster ($100) Once upon a time: Fierro angered dog lovers while he was chairman of the parks department, by nixing public comment about a proposed off-leash facility at Sunnyside Park.

More recently: Fierro served on a task force for KCI last year. He was among a steep majority that supported the one-terminal concept favored by City Hall.

Lawyers like Justus.

JOLIE JUSTUS (4Th DISTrIcT)

One-line bio: lawyer, termed-out Missouri senator and, as the first openly gay member of the Missouri General Assembly, an advocate for LGBT rights Electability: She picked up nearly 74 percent of the vote against John Fierro in the primary.

Base of support: lawyers, law firms, Burns & McDonnell employees Donors: Kansas City Southern executive Warren Erdman ($333), Polsinelli partner Lonnie Shalton ($250), Irv Belzer ($250), the Rev. John Wandless ($1,575), retired DST CEO Tom McDonnell ($500) Proud moment: She was a major force in passing the Missouri Nondiscrimination Act through the Missouri Senate during the 2014 session. MONA would ban discrimination based on gender and sexual orientation in employment and housing. The bill didn’t pass the House and thus didn’t become law, but getting it through the Senate was a big deal.

Strengths: Justus was a rare bright spot for the eroding Missouri Democratic Party during her time in Jefferson City, working with Republicans on key pieces of legislation.

Weaknesses: Justus has been criticized for going through the motions during this election cycle, treating the campaign as though it’s already over.

About the cost of living in Kansas City, Justus tells The Pitch: “There is no question that

progress and development in Kansas City has resulted in an increase in the cost of living for all Kansas Citians. Nonetheless, Kansas City remains significantly more affordable than many major cities across the country,

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On the streetcar, Fierro tells The Pitch:

“We should engage a citizens’ group to study our financial options before proposing to the general public the expansion of the streetcar route.”

JIM GLOVEr (4Th DISTrIcT aT-LarGE)

One-line bio: A lawyer and one-time urban planner seeking a fourth term on the City Council, he once ran for mayor but didn’t make it out of the primary.

Electability: For every dollar that Katheryn Shields raises, Glover has raised about six.

Glover has been criticized for being a lazy campaigner but he always seems to win when it counts.

Base of support: Hyde Park residents, development lawyers, construction firms, Costco shoppers, Union Station executives Donors: Arthur Benson ($750), Shirley Helzberg ($500), J.E. Dunn ($2,600), Block Real Estate Services ($2,625), construction executive Jim Kissick ($2,000), real-estate law firm White Goss ($2,625) If he’s elected: Glover’s campaign war chest, heavy with donations from development concerns, seems to suggest that he’s in line to become chairman of the Planning, Zoning & Economic Development Committee. He’s vice chairman of that committee now, which is where development projects first surface before going to the full council.

His election would make him one of the most powerful people in Kansas City.

Proud moment: During his first tour of duty, Glover shepherded the Costco and Home Depot development at Linwood and Main. Years later, Glover still never misses an opportunity to bring up the Glover Plan in conversation.

Should be embarrassed by: Glover was

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part of a sloppy plan to condemn a Section 8 apartment along Armour Boulevard in close proximity to pricey Hyde Park houses. That idea died in the face of withering criticism, and Glover has received flack from the black community for his part in the plan.

Glover tells The Pitch, about the streetcar:

“Supporters of the streetcar in City Hall and from the private sector must do a better job explaining those benefits to citizens in the neighborhoods who would be served by expansion lines.”

KaThErYN ShIELDS (4Th DISTrIcT aT-LarGE)

One-line bio: The controversial former Jackson County executive wants to complete a political comeback with an election to the City Council.

Electability: Shields’ name recognition propelled her to a respectable primary result against Glover, but it won’t be easy to beat such a well-funded incumbent.

Base of support: old-line Kansas City political movers and shakers, unions Donors: Citizens Association’s Dan Cofran ($107), former Congressman Alan Wheat ($1,000), retired Jackson County Judge Ann Mesle ($200) Political indignity: When Shields was last involved in politics, it was a 2007 run for mayor. Her campaign started the day after she was indicted for mortgage fraud. It was a bullshit indictment, and she was eventually acquitted. Meanwhile, the feds, in their zeal to convict a high-profile candidate, let the actual criminals in that case walk.

Political legacy: Shields for a time was a force in Jackson County politics and figured to be Kansas City’s mayor at some point. But the second half of her tenure as Jackson County executive was marred by questionable contracts under her watch. Shields kept quiet for years and has resurfaced in this election as an amiable candidate, with a seemingly fresh perspective.

Shields addresses the growing cost of living in Kansas City in a response to one of The Pitch’s questions: “One way of mitigating

rising rental rates is to insist that any taxincentivized developments include mixedincome units, as has been the case in San Diego and elsewhere. The failure of the city to require the Armour Boulevard developers to do so has had the undesirable effect of concentrating and isolating low-income housing and creating unnecessary problems.

aLISSIa caNaDY (5Th DISTrIcT)

One-line bio: an assistant Jackson County prosecutor making her first run for political office Electability: Canady was in a virtual tie with Ken Bacchus as the top-two vote-getters in the primary election. This may be one of the closer competitions among council races in Kansas City this year.

Base of support: Kansas City police, unions, Chamber of Commerce, lawyers Donors: Pete Levi of Polsinelli ($200), Burns & McDonnell ($1,575), former Judge Jon Gray ($139), Jim Nutter ($500) Trivia: Canady was in the pages of the Star in 1991, in a story describing how former NBA player Clarence “Foots” Walker once convinced her to go to weekend reading classes, transforming her C’s at Bingham Middle School into B’s.

Why she’s running: Canady works as the community justice coordinator for the Jackson County prosecutor’s office, giving her a look at how neglected housing, basic services and unemployment lead to crime.

Achievement: Worked on the Kansas City No Violence Alliance, a crime-fighting program credited with reducing the homicide rate last year.

Big idea: Wants to reignite Kansas City’s moribund housing program to spark home ownership in the inner city.

On transportation, Canady tells The Pitch:

“I like the idea of a regional transportation authority to plan and collaboratively seek funding to pay for improved transportation access to connect residents to work. Any additional investment in rail transportation must serve a broader purpose.”

KEN BacchUS (5Th DISTrIcT)

One-line bio: He has 30 years of community involvement to his name, including a stint on the City Council from 1991 to 1999, a short stint as a Jackson County legislator, as well as an appointment to the Tax Increment Financing Commission for ages, and leader for a time of a city housing agency.

Base of support: Bacchus has entrenched support in the 5th District, including from Freedom Inc., Terry Riley and an array of East Side ministers.

Donors: political operative John Carnes ($500), the retired Rev. Sam Mann ($100), Clinton Adams ($100), Freedom Inc. executive Gayle Holliday ($275), real-estate guru David Block ($200) Alternate history: Bacchus lost a close election to Michael Brooks in 2011. Brooks would later resign in disgrace.

Should be embarrassed by: One of his fundraiser hosts is Breman Anderson, the former president of the Hickman Mills school district who, by all accounts, did a terrible job of running the school board during his term.

Bacchus tells The Pitch: “Going forward, any plans for a streetcar extension should … include: a comprehensive public transportation plan based upon the needs of Kansas City and how it may integrate and support a regional public transportation system.”

LEE BarNES (5Th DISTrIcT aT-LarGE)

One-line bio: Former Kansas City Public Schools board member, current Planned

11 Industrial Expansion Authority chairman, founding member of the National Society of Black Engineers at Kansas State University Electability: Barnes is a heavy favorite against the lesser-known Dennis Anthony.

Base of support: Freedom Inc., development lawyers, construction firms Donors: Bill George, local Yellow Cab owner ($1,000); Mike Burke, development lawyer ($150); Mike Sanders ($750); Kelvin Simmons ($250) Political history: Barnes served one term on the KCPS board, during which the board fired then-Superintendent Benjamin Demps.

Barnes was accused by Dennis Bonner, a former Missouri representative from Independence, of patronage when Linwood Tauheed was hired as an assistant to the KCPS superintendent at a salary of $90,000. Both were members of Black United Front. Barnes was cleared of wrongdoing.

Annoyances: Barnes spoke up at a transit forum in May about the ongoing narrative that East Side voters rejected the streetcar because they didn’t understand it. Barnes said that East Side voters did know what they voted on, but didn’t like what they saw.

Campaign tactic: Barnes cleared a strong competitor from the race when he challenged Teresa Garza Ruiz’s residency. Barnes took her to court. Shortly afterward, she withdrew from the race.

Barnes tells The Pitch: “The EDC must do a better job of promoting Kansas City to potential companies. We must also make sure that our regulatory agencies are not an obstacle to business growth.”

DENNIS ANTHONY (5TH DISTrIcT AT-lArgE)

One-line bio: Political newcomer, retired codes enforcer, served in the Navy for 28 years, generally nice guy Electability: Anthony lacks name recognition but has been a hard campaigner.

Base of support: unclear Donors: Anthony has raised $853, most of it from himself and his wife. Neighborhood activist Carol Winterowd donated $100.

Walks the walk: Anthony has plenty of ideas about education, as do many candidates. But Anthony worked a year as a substitute teacher to learn firsthand about education issues.

Sells himself short: On his campaign page that solicits donations, he says the maximum donation for his race is $2,500. It’s actually $2,625.

Big idea: Anthony wants KCMO schoolchildren to have a healthy breakfast before school. Also has said that two at-large council members should receive appointments to the Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners.

Anthony tells The Pitch: “In spite of what we hear, IT jobs are not everything. Who will be the plumber, or the man who drives the trash truck?”

KEVIN McMANUS (6TH DISTrIcT)

One-line bio: Young lawyer and Missouri legislator gets elected to another term in Jefferson City but quickly turns his attention to a bid for the KC City Council.

Electability: McManus grabbed nearly 70 percent of the vote in the primary against Terrence Nash and Henry Klein.

Base of support: McManus is well-supported in Brookside, south Kansas City and among Kansas City’s civic elite.

Donors: Jim Nutter ($250), lawyer George Wolf ($100), Polsinelli ($1,000), J.E. Dunn ($1,500), outgoing Councilman John Sharp ($100) Thankless task: When Jason Kander became Missouri secretary of state, McManus more or less became the Missouri Democrats’ standard-bearer for ethics reform. Earlier this year, he tried to introduce limits to Missouri’s notoriously uncapped campaign contributions. The measure failed to get the attention of now-disgraced Missouri House Speaker John Diehl.

McManus tells The Pitch: “We need folks on the council who will be stewards of our tax dollars and ensure that revenues are spent wisely for their intended purpose.”

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One-line bio: Wonky neighborhood activist

and accountant, sick of City Hall shenanigans, mounts a second run for public office.

Electability: Nash is a long shot to beat McManus.

Base of support: south Kansas City neighborhood groups Donors: himself ($4,067) Likes: Troy Schulte, state control of the police department, KCI the way it is now Dislikes: community-improvement districts, the streetcar, plans to pay for the water and sewer overhaul entirely on the backs of ratepayers Known for: Nash was a chief opponent of the sales tax for the Truman Sports Complex.

He and his crew were partly successful. A tax passed to renovate the stadiums for the Chiefs and the Royals, but the pie-in-the-sky idea of a rolling roof died at the polls.

On luring talented workers to KC, Nash tells The Pitch: “With the new Cerner and

Burns & McDonnell projects in south Kansas City, the demand for STEM workers will never be greater. I’m sure Cerner and Burns & McDonnell have a strategy to fill the new positions. Although we would like to believe that most new employees will live in Kansas City, many will live in other local communities because of their quality schools and neighborhoods.”

For a look at the ballot, see MySidewalk.com's Election Center at mysidewalk.com. See Pitch .com for complete candidate questionnaires.

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The photo on this page shows all of the KC millennials who voted in the February primary. OK, not really — but the turnout was embarrassingly low. So from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, ahead of the June 23 City Council election, The Pitch, LiveKC and MySidewalk are putting on a free candidates’ forum at Barney Allis Plaza. (June 5’s LiveKC party is pictured above.) This is your chance to walk up to someone who wants to represent you and ask … anything. Or just treat it like a party where you’re expected to eavesdrop purposefully. Don’t know what to talk about? See page 7 or pitch.com.

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ily Tomlin’s voice is unmistakable, even over the phone. When I called the comedy legend at her California home, she answered in the slightly nasal voice that made Ernestine, her telephone-operator character from the late-1960s TV series Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In, so delightfully obnoxious.

But the 75-year-old actress is anything but obnoxious in real life. She is frank, goodhumored and unafraid to laugh at herself — something, she admits, that often gets her into trouble, even now. Ahead of Tomlin’s Saturday show at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, we chatted with her about her Netflix series, her first starring role in a film and more.

The Pitch: I’d like to start with your recent Netflix series, Grace and Frankie. I’d like to ask you about your fun part, but I feel like I need to start with the whole pay–disparity thing between you and Jane Fonda, who have leading roles, and Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston — Tomlin: Here’s the thing. As I recall, when I made that comment, I was trying to make fun of Jane and me, you know, by saying [pause] — we definitely get paid more than they do.

Here’s what I recall was my first statement to them, and then they leaped on it, they thought it was some kind of conflict.

The guy said something like, “What’s it like to have your own series?” Or some inflated kind of thing, and I said, “Well, when I heard the guys were being paid the same as us, I wasn’t as impressed with our salary.”

Oh, yeah. There are petitions and everything.

It’s all over the Internet.

Yeah, I’m afraid to even speak now.

[Laughs.] I was joking around.

Well, it’s a relief that that’s not true. Anyway, so, Grace and Frankie has been renewed for a second season, and it’s so great because you and Fonda have such a fantastic on-screen chemistry. What it’s like to work with her and how has your relationship grown as you’ve been on the series?

Well, we’ve always liked each other, so we just kind of have fun. And having the opportunity to work with each other day after day and as supposedly conflicting personalities — that’s how it’s written — well, I’m supposed to be the free and open and tolerant one, supposedly. [Laughs.] And Jane is supposed to be more uptight and controlling and all that stuff. We just have fun with it. It’s like coming down and finding the bottles in the garbage can in the wrong way. I can’t explain it. We just lucked out, that we have good chemistry. A lot of times, you think you have good chemistry with another actor, and you do in real life, but it doesn’t show on the screen.

You recently starred in Grandma, which isn’t released yet but has received great press so far.

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This is actually your first starring role in a film, after nearly five decades in the business. What was it like to finally have a starring role?

[Filmmaker] Paul Weitz had written it with me in mind, and he just brought it to me. We had done Admission [2013] together. So it was just a gift. I mean, I didn’t expect to have any kind of a starring role at this point in my life.

So it was a gift from Paul, really. Whatever it was he saw, he had a story idea that he felt suited me just fine.

In terms of film and roles, I’m usually just looking for a vehicle. And I just care about what the vehicle says. And so the fact that this story was driven by my character — I don’t expect it [a story like this] to come along again. It was a very low budget. We shot it in 19 days. And everyone that came on-board was wonderful — Marcia Gay Harden and Sam Elliott and Judy Greer. They were all first-rate.

We didn’t know it was going to turn out as well as it did. Everyone making a movie, I think, kind of expects it to fail, but they make it because they love the script, usually.

The show at the Kauffman Center is being billed as “an evening of classic Lily Tomlin,” with some of your most well-known characters. This is a show that you’ve been putting on for a while.

How has it changed over the years?

Ever since I got well-known, I’ve been doing some kind of a show or another. It was my partner Jane [Wagner]’s idea to call it “classic.” And it’s been billed as classic for a long time, and it changes and meanders and might become something else. This is just keep-

Lily tomlin Saturday, June 13, at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts

ing my hand in. I get bids to play in different places, and depending on what else I’m doing, I might have 30 or 40 or 50 or 60 dates a year.

It changes. I might do 20 dates next year, I’m not sure. We’ll schedule that after Grace and Frankie goes on hiatus. These dates were booked the year before, and I’m just finishing them out before we start the show. It doesn’t seem like such a load. I guess I’ve been doing it for so many years that I don’t think of it as that big a load.

I feel like you’ve been in this business for so long, and you haven’t stopped working. I think it would have been really easy to just retire and go live on an island or whatever. What is it that keeps you out there, keeps you creating?

Well, it really has been an extra-busy year.

There’s been a lot of stuff going on, and I had the series hit and then there’s the movie and it’s doing well right now in terms of publicity — it won’t open until August, and at that point I’ll start the series again. It’s all fun and games. [Pause.] Did you want me to impart some heavy wisdom or knowledge?

No, not if you don’t feel up to it.

[Laughs.] Well, I don’t know that I have any to impart.

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The cast, anchored by Patrick Lewallen as a misunderstood Judas and Christin Byrdsong as an Axl Rose-y Jesus, is very, very good. As Mary Magadelene, Stefanie Wienecke raises hairs and expectations in the haunting opening bars of “I Don’t Know How to Love Him.” As Caiaphas, Nathan Whitson deploys a rich bass of operatic resonance, making you fear for the theater’s structural integrity. Jeff Berger is an impish King Herod, and Christin Byrdsong’s falsetto ascends in heavenly fashion.

The pit orchestra maintains the gospel groove, led by conductor Jeremy Watson on piano. And while the staging is simplified to throw the vocals into sharper focus,

Byrdsong delivers as Jesus.

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the production design has the quality of a full-scale production. Shane Rowse’s lights pulse in time with the music, suggesting a proper rock show, and Crawford’s choreography buoys an already-energetic cast. John Hileman and John Story’s sound design is its own impressive feat of engineering, balancing more than 20 cast members and musicians with deceptive ease.

But the show’s real superstar is stage manager Robin Harman, who totes a prompt book as heavy as a cross. Her timing at Sunday’s show was immaculate, and the whole show borders on the miraculous.

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“It’s really more of a dessert,” Marco Rabello tells me when I ask him about the Brazilian brigadeiro. “It’s almost too rich to be a candy.”

Rabello is a reliable source when it comes to describing these sweet, decadent spheres — he’s a São Paolo native, after all. And he’s an expert at where to find them: for one, at the City Market shop and café Taste of Brazil Market (25 East Third Street), the business he co-owns with Cristian Maciel.

Here, a brigadeiro looks like something that could beat up a pingpong ball: a dense handful of chocolate concealing a creamy, buttery, full-flavored core. You imagine that it would be scandalous to eat one in a single sitting, though it’s tempting to try.

A more bite-size version of the confection, also made by a Kansas Citian born in Brazil, has recently come on the scene. Marcella Ibarguren’s company, Brigabon, offers its relatively demure bonbons at Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott (320 Ward Parkway, on the Plaza) and at the coffee shop Oddly Correct (3940 Main).

“They’re very sweet and very rich,” Ibarguren tells me. “I felt a smaller, bite-size version was more suitable to the very delicate taste of the sweets.” (It is indeed a very rich, very sweet bite.)

“Size is a personal preference,” says Brazilian–born Otavio Silva, husband of Kansas City Star food editor Jill Silva. “Typically they are made in small sizes. Some bakers even put coconut in a so–called ‘brigadeiro cake.’

But the real brigadeiro has only condensed milk, cocoa powder and butter, served in small sizes.”

The brigadeiro may be enjoying a novel moment locally, but it’s far from an obscure creation. It’s among Brazil’s most iconic sweets, Rabello explains. “It’s the dessert you simply have to serve at events like birthday parties or weddings. There’s a sense of nostalgia about the brigadeiro. We all grew up making them and eating them. You can’t have a celebration without them.”

Sources tend to agree that the candy entered the popular consciousness in Brazil after World War II, having been invented when sugar and milk were in short supply. Condensed milk was readily available, though, so home cooks and bakers used that and butter to make a caramel, blending it with chocolate or cocoa. (“There’s also a secret ingredient that I can’t tell you about,” Rabello says.) The resulting paste could then be rolled into balls and covered with, say, sprinkles.

A more colorful variation on the creation story holds that the brigadeiro pays homage to an actual Brazilian brigadier, Eduardo Gomes, a presidential candidate in 1945 who was noted for his good looks.

“That’s the story I’ve always heard,” Ibarguren says. “Eduardo Gomes was so handsome that the ladies who campaigned for him started making these sweets and passing them out to voters.”

His slogan: “Vote for the most handsome and single brigadier.” He lost. Stomachs gained.

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Brigadeiro: rich, sweet and decadent Passing out the candies to make new patrons is still the order of the day, even in Kansas City. Rabello recently placed some 200 complimentary tiny versions of his brigadeiro into new hands at the City Market, and he says local interest in the sweet is increasing every month.

“We’re trying to educate the public about the dessert,” he says. “Some people don’t like them or think they’re too sweet. Some people love them. But we’re trying.”

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Santa Fe Brewing tasting, at Grinders Stone-

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Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Oskar Blues three-course ramen beer dinner, at Happy Gillis (549 Gillis).

Friday, June 12

Green Flash happy hour, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 4–7 p.m.

Summit tap takeover, at Green Room Burgers and Beer (4010 Pennsylvania), 5 p.m.

New Belgium and Uinta tasting, at Brookside Wine & Spirits (600 E. 63rd St.), 5–7 p.m.

Nebraska Brewing trivia, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Saturday, June 13

Westport Summer Beer Fest, with 45 brew-

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Worlds of Fun All American Barbeque & Brew Festival, at the amusement park (4545

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Boulevard Brewer’s Table, at Flying Saucer $3 year-round pints, $10 year-round growler fills, at Cinder Block Brewery (110 E. 18th

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LSD, Prairie Eliza5beth, Sierra Nevada Narwhal 2014, Founders KBS and Perennial Hopfentea, at Westport Ale House (4128 Broadway), 6 p.m.

Breckenridge tap takeover, at BD’s Taproom (19750 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence), 6–8 p.m.

Boulevard vintage vertical dinner, feat u r i n g S a i s on Bret t 201 2-15 , L ove Child Nos. 1-5 and more, at the Collection Event Space (1532 Grand), $80, 6:30 p.m.

KC Bier Co. four-course beer dinner, with Maibock, Dunkelweizen, Der Bauer and Oaked Dunkel, at Rye (10551 Mission, Leawood), $70 plus tax and gratuity, 913642-5800 for reservations, 6:30 p.m.

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Martin City tap takeover, at Rock & Run

Founders KBS brunch, at Grinders Stonewall (10240 Pflumm, Lenexa), 10 a.m.

Foos beer-float social, at Bier Station (120 E.

Gregory Blvd.), noon.

Beer dinner, with Webster House chef Matt

Arnold and featuring Torn Label, Martin City, KC Bier Co., Cinder Block and Boulevard, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), with guest speaker Stephen Beaumont, author of The World Atlas of Beer, 6 p.m.

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2014, Jolly Pumpkin iO saison, Martin City Big Boy, Petrus Aged Pale and Boulevard Love Child No. 5, at Westport Ale House (4128 Broadway), 6 p.m.

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KC Bier Co. Father’s Day glass night, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m.

Two Brothers Wobble IPA glass giveaway and Jenga night, at Tapcade (1701 McGee).

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Theory,” for one, offers a chilling social commentary, and the brooding “Feed the Carnivores” wags a finger at those who fail to work for what they want.

“With this release, it’s like supplying people with information they wouldn’t normally take from me just talking to them,” Harper tells me. “I have a lot of friends that aren’t necessarily living their lives as well as they could be, and if I was just to give them advice straightforward, they probably wouldn’t listen to me. But if I put it in a catchy song and put it in a story that they can relate to, they might take something from that.”

Harper shrugs and laughs. He leans his tall, thin frame against one of the record bins.

Then again, he says, he’s not trying to cast himself as anyone’s guru.

“Sometimes I just like to supply myself with good vibes,” he says. “It’s mostly just a mood thing. It sounds cheesy and simple, but this record is probably the most honest thing I’ve ever done.”

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ulian Harper seems a little reserved when we meet for drinks on a weeknight at Harry’s Bar and Tables in Westport, but there’s a good reason. He’s late, and he’s late because he first went to the wrong Harry’s, the one in the City Market. If one can sidle sheepishly, that’s how he approaches the bar to order a Hendrick’s and tonic. We move to the patio, and what at first looked like residual embarrassment turns to obvious fatigue. Harper, who performs as rapper Quantum Supply, explains that he hasn’t slept for about 26 hours.

He has a good reason for that, too, he says: He logs endless hours at the recording studio — Harper uses Industry Soundz, in Blue Springs — and schedules most of the sessions for the early hours of the morning, straight after a work shift tending bar or serving. It’s a grind, he admits, but he says the payoff is worth it.

His latest release, Capital Vice, bears him out. It’s a far cry from Harper’s previous two recordings — last summer’s Euphobia and the digital EP #pizza4breakfast — projects filled with robust, hype-heavy party raps.

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message. Harper knows.

“I’ve written this project different than the way I’ve ever written anything before,” he says. “I’ve just been doing this for a while, but I didn’t want to start spreading the message I wanted to spread to people who weren’t listening. I wanted to build up that base, kind of get people on my team. And now I can put out the music that I want to put out.”

The kind of music Harper is interested in making can still shake a house party, but there’s a different energy on Capital Vice. The album is guided by smooth, shiny jazz beats and effervescent synths, and Harper’s lyrics have taken on a sharper focus, with a positive bent. “I Feel Fine” is a feel-good album opener, and the celebratory “Funky Fresh” goes it one better.

“Most of the time, when people ask what kind of music I make, I’m just like, ‘I’m a laidback kind of guy and I make party songs,’” Harper says with a laugh. “But I kind of want to be a socially conscious party rapper. There was a lot of ’90s hip-hop like that, with killer party songs that had good messages in it: the Pharcyde and Del the Funky Homosapien. I want to make music that comes from that place.”

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Harper: an endless supply of good vibes Harper pauses, and we both listen to Westport get rowdier in the alley that leads from Harry’s down to Buzzard Beach. Harper cocks his head and then speaks again.

“I’ll be honest,” he says. “If it was up to me, I would sing, but I can’t really sing that well.

I do, a little, on track three [‘Have a Toast’], but hip-hop wouldn’t be my first choice as a musician. I would be making some kind of electronic, psychedelic, ’70s synth music.

I’ve got a few swirls of that on Capital Vice, but not as much as I’d like.”

Curious now about Harper’s tastes, I ask him to walk with me to Mills Record Co. When we arrive, Harper goes straight for the electronica records, eagerly leafing through the Flying Lotus collection.

“I love this,” Harper says. “Especially after writing a bunch of stuff, recording all night, I can’t listen to stuff with words. I just need cloudy electronica in the background.”

But he doesn’t want to diminish what he has done with Capital Vice, which is every inch the record he wanted to make, he says — a “grown-up” Quantum Supply. “Big Bang

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West 18th Street Fashion show a soundtrack.

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Natalie GallaGher

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he focus of the annual West 18th Street Fashion Show is, as always, the designs spotlighted on the runway. But a dramatic soundtrack elevates those designs.

This year, the musicians in the backdrop are fully prepared for the frills and the drama that come with high fashion. New Orleansbased cellist and improviser Helen Gillet returns to the show for the second time, and she’s joined by Oklahoma jazz pioneers the Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey and saxophonist Mark Southerland, who is also the show’s co-executive producer.

Ahead of Saturday’s West 18th Street Fashion Show, The Pitch called Gillet and Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey co-founder Brian Haas to get their perspective on this nontraditional gig.

The Pitch: You each perform strong, very modern, jazz-oriented music. How are you planning to make your music fit the West 18th Street Fashion Show?

Gillet: I played the West 18th Street Fashion show a few years ago, so I’ve had a taste of making my music fit the runway. But I will say that this year is going to be very exciting because I’m going to be collaborating with other musicians and adapt some of my songs with them. I’m sure I’m going to be having fun improving, collaborating and feeding off the energy of the designers and models. It’s going to be the more, the merrier.

My music, much like Brian Haas and Mark Southerland, we’re used to operating on charts with musical compositions that are preconceived but have a lot of flexibility and room for improv. And my music is similar. I use a pedal to loop layers and come in and out of different timings. There’s a lot of room to add more layers, more tension, to stretch a part out, adding a change of color to a certain time and feeding off the cue of the runway.

So there’s a lot of flexibility there.

Haas: What Jacob Fred does is really, really malleable as it is. We play a lot of really traditional jazz festivals and rock clubs, and it’s really over the map. Some cities, it’s a really conservative, more traditional jazz thing.

Some cities, we only play rock clubs. So we’re really open to instruction, you know? And Southerland is going to be playing with us the entire time, and we just did four shows with him during Jazz Fest in New Orleans, so we’re all synced up with the concept [of the fashion show]. And, you know, he played in Jacob Fred for about two years. But really, we just have to let Mark boss us around, and he’s really good at that.

The star of the night is not necessarily the music in this case. What does not being center stage mean for you, and how do you take the focus — the fashion — and match that with music?

Gillet: I’m an improviser and a classical

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musician trained on a master’s degree in classical performance, and you learn, as a classical musician, that the supportive role — sitting in an orchestra — is when you’re reading a part of the whole puzzle. And then, when I branched out into jazz, I learned how to improvise freely and really listen, because you have to listen to everyone else onstage with you. It involves a lot of taking the forefront of a solo and being aggressive, but also a lot of it — most of it — is supporting and listening and creating music that makes sense with everything else that is going on around you. And I just translate that to other disciplines as well.

Haas: I think it’s going to be a lot like playing for dancers, and in some ways, that kind of goes back to playing for punk clubs and rock clubs, and that goes to keeping your eye on the audience and watch if they’re dancing or what they’re doing. And if they’re dancing, you need to keep them dancing.

And when it comes to the models and the actual garments and the fashion itself, you know, what Jacob Fred does is really reactive and empathetic, and it’s really exciting for us to be able to play for someone else’s concept, and play at or toward someone else’s concept, because what we do is so improvised. I imagine that what we play is gonna be very reflective of the outfits that are coming out onstage.

What are you most looking forward to about the event?

Gillet: Every June, I long for the fashion show. I’ve really fallen in love with that whole energy. I love how the street gets transformed and all of a sudden it’s a platform, literally, for

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey: runway rhythms Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Helen Gillet, Mark Southerland West 18th Street Fashion Show Saturday, June 13, in the Crossroads (18th Street between Baltimore and Wyandotte).

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beautiful art. And I’m just looking forward to discovering and supporting these designers and their art. I’m in true awe of human beings who can design fashion and make it come to life.

And, of course, I also really love playing music with Mark Southerland, and I’m really looking forward to collaborating on tunes that I’ve never played before. And musically, the challenge of taking my very established solo show and sort of turning it on an angle, you know, it always opens up new ideas for me as an artist to do that.

Haas: I’ve been keeping up with it for years via Peregrine’s [Honig, creative director] Instagram and Facebook and Twitter, and it just seems like an incredible spectacle. And Kansas City has become such an incredibly progressive Midwestern town with its own identity, its own theme. And we’re just looking forward to getting to play with Helen and Southerland, who are both two of my heroes.

And it’s fun to be able to come in and serve someone else’s concept for a change instead of pushing our own.

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Lucinda Williams was last through the area in November, when she stopped at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall in support of the magnificent Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. She gave a moving performance, with her brittle voice on full display — proof that the Grammy Award winner just keeps getting better. Thursday at Crossroads KC, don’t miss your chance to hear the 62-year-old blues-rock legend.

Thursday, June 11, Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 E. 18th St., 785-749-3434)

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After you’ve done your Sunday brunching and your day drinking and your napping, get to the Melvins’ show at the Bottleneck. Don’t expect a quiet set: This grunge-metal act hasn’t been chill since emerging in Washington state in 1983. The band is on tour now in support of last year’s Hold It In. Le Butcherettes open the

D'Angelo gets mystical at the Midland. show and are worth the ticket price alone. For nearly a decade, the Mexican trio has delivered an energetic package of dark pop-punk driven by lead singer Teri Gender Bender’s politically charged lyrics.

Sunday, June 14, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, 785-841-5483)

D’Angelo

Oh, how we have longed for D’Angelo to return to our ready arms. Now, the R&B singersongwriter is back with Black Messiah, 14 years after the release of the iconic Voodoo. For a moment, let’s put aside the negativity attached to D’Angelo’s name in that decade-plus — struggles with alcohol and drugs, stints in rehab, arrests — and just appreciate Black Messiah for its brilliance. These songs teem with soul. The energy here is every bit as sexy as Voodoo, but

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PorchFestKC debuted last year in the West Plaza neighborhood to mixed responses from residents. That the event is returning may mean that at least a few people were won over. Essentially, PorchFest turns a few local porches into stages for a day, with nearly 100 local and out-of-town musicians ready to play to anyone who’s interested in listening. Plenty of familiar names are on this year’s bill — the always entertaining folk act KC Bear Fighters; jazz singer Megan Birdsall’s rootsy side project, MBird; country singer-songwriter Sara Morgan — and a host of new acts, too. And it’s not just music: Local food and drink vendors also are on-site, offering their wares to keep you hydrated and full.

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Thursday | 6.11 |

The Birds | Through Sunday, Late Night Theatre, Missie B’s, 805 W. 39th St.

Performing Arts

Camelot | Through Sunday, Starlight Theatre,

shostakovich and stravinsky, the KC symphony’s free happy-hour concert | 6 p.m. Kauff-

4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

man Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

The Full Monty | Through Saturday, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre, 3614 Main, metkc.org

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

mandy Levy reads and signs her book Calorie Accounting | 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble–Zona Rosa, 8625

N.W. Prairie View Rd., calorieaccounting.com

Jesus Christ Superstar | Musical Theater Heritage, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, musicaltheaterheritage.com

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some type of stereo, mime game, neo romantics | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Man and Superman , presented by National Theatre

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Live | 6:30 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania

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Bass Hertz official takeover | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

erik griffin | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

d’Angelo and the vanguard, meg mac | 8 p.m.

Love Song and On an Average Day | The Living Room, 1818 McGee, thelivingroomkc.com

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James, community leaders and local elected officials, and a screening of the documentary Spent: Looking for Change | 10 a.m.-noon. Gem Theater, 1601 E. 18th St.

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

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Tribes | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org True West | Friday and Saturday, Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, libertyhall.net A Year With Frog and Toad | Starting Tuesday, the Coterie Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, thecoterie.org

Sarah Guillen, Loretta Ortiz, Catalina Reyes, and Fatma Konyalioglu | 6:30 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org f e s t i vA L s

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James rose’s Beatles tribute | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2

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America | 7 p.m. Star Pavilion at Ameristar Casino, West 18th street fashion show Kickoff event,

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De Lux, Various Blonde | 11 p.m. The Riot Room,

4048 Broadway

Everette DeVan and Friends | 8 p.m. Take Five

Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

Glue Chords, Rat Sandwich, Chess Club, Lonesome Houndogs | 6 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943

Massachusetts, Lawrence

Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity |

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

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

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Katy Guillen and the Girls | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Philip Haas: The Four Seasons | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Lee Langston, the Truth | 5:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St.

The Mavericks, Delbert McClinton | 6:30 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Johnson County Art Fair | 10 a.m.-7 p.m.

Saturday and Sunday, Rosana Square, 119th Street and Metcalf, Overland Park

Merlin, Doris, Brokenmast | 8 p.m. Californos,

Make Your Mark | Kemper Museum of Contem-

No Cave, Tree Machines, Via Luna | 10 p.m. Replay

Piranesi: Imaginative Spaces | Through Sunday, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Nick Schnebelen Band | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410

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

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porary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Sunu, Wrong Kata Trio, DJ Proof | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Saturday | 6.13 |

John Velghe & the Prodigal Sons, Squids KC, Silver Maggies | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

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

Central Standard men’s ensemble, GQ women’s quartet, and OC Times men’s quartet | 7 p.m.

Westport Rd.

Lawrence

Tim Whitmer, Dominique Sanders, Boogaloo 7 | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand Charles Williams Trio | 8:30 p.m. Broadway Jazz

Club, 3601 Broadway

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Boombox Cartel, DJ 2Live Cruz | 9 p.m. The Riot

Room, 4048 Broadway

A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America |

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Greek Festival of St. Dionysios | 11 a.m.-10 p.m.

St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church, 8100 W. 95th St., Overland Park, stdionysios.org

A Little Bit Wicked, presented by the Heartland Men’s Chorus | 8 p.m. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., hmckc.org

Kansas City Scottish Highland Games & Celtic Festival | 9 a.m.-8 p.m. E.H. Young Park Riverfront

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Polish Pottery Festival | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Renditions, 522 Main, Weston, renditionsweston.com

World War I and the Rise of Modernism |

SPORTS & REC

3-11 p.m. Browne’s Irish Market, 3300 Pennsylvania, brownesirishmarket.com

2015 Hear Now: the Audio Fiction & Arts Festival | 9:15 a.m. Cinemark Palace at the Plaza, 500

Nichols Rd., hearnowfestival.org for additional locations and presentations

Colin Kane | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club,

Flirt Friday | 9 p.m. VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Lily Tomlin | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the

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

7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org

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

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

Park, 1001 Argosy Pkwy., kcscottishgames.org

COMEDY

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

Broadway

City Market Busker Festival | 9 a.m.-1 p.m. City

Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts, 4747 Flora, centralstandard.net

Erik Griffin | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and

Girl 2 Girl Social | 6 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611

Second Friday Troost Art Hop | 6-10 p.m.

Vibe Tribe Studio, 5504 Troost, troostarthop.com

F E S T i VA L S

Market, 20 E. Fifth St., thecitymarket.org

Cirque Du Risque | 10 p.m. The Kill Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.

Jacobson and Stuart Allen | Haw Contemporary, 1600 Liberty

Lucinda Williams, Buick 6 | 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

National Marina Day, featuring boat rides, fishing seminars, contests and more | 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Lake Jacomo Marina, 7401 W. Park Rd., Blue Springs

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Flag Day | 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Fort Osage Education Center, 107 Osage, Sibley, jacksongov.org/fortosage

UFC 188: Velasquez vs. Werdum | 9 p.m. Cinemark Merriam, 5500 Antioch in Merriam, and Regal 18 Cinemas at AmeriStar Casino, 3200 N. Ameristar Dr.

Moving Day 2015- A Walk for Parkinson’s Disease | 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Liberty Memorial, 100

Yoga in the Park | 9 a.m. City Market Park, Third

2015 KC Haiti Symposium: “Navigating the Legal System in Haiti” | 9 a.m.-noon, Rockhurst

Street and Main, thecitymarket.org

W. 26th St., movingdaykansascity.org

University, 1100 Rockhurst Rd.

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Mixing the Medicine with DJ G Train | 10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Soul Preservers featuring Elliott Oliver | 9 p.m.

The Ship, 1217 Union Ave.

Just for Her Event, with more than 300 vendors featuring fashion, beauty products, accessories, home decor and more | 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park

F00D & DRiNK

Crown Center Antique Festival | 9 a.m.-6 p.m.

Crown Center, 2450 Grand

COMMUNiTY EVENTS FA S H i O N & S T Y L E

Young Friends of Art Second Friday Happy Hour | 6-8 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Crafts & Drafts Brunch | Noon, RecordBar, 1020

Westport Rd.

15th Annual West 18th Street Fashion Show | 8 p.m., 18th Street between Wyandotte and Baltimore

Browne’s irish Street Faire , featuring the

Elders, Eddie Delahunt, Chance the Arm and more |

Waldo Crawldo Pub Crawl, including 75th Street Brewery, Lew’s, Johnny Kaw’s, the Well, KC Smokehouse Pub, Waldo Pizza Taproom, Walsh’s, Tommy’s,

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Westport Summer Beer Festival | 5-9 p.m. Mc-

Coy’s Public House, 4057 Pennsylvania

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

Gridiron Glory: the Best of the Pro Football Hall of Fame | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing

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Cherry, lindahall.org

The clementines | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S.

can Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., americanjazzmuseum.org

Hwy. 7, Blue Springs

Montez coleman | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600

Take Five Tour | 6 p.m. Tuesday, Ameri-

E. 18th St.

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

El Rey-Tones, the conquerors, the Shy Boys, Phantom Head | 9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Fire cannot Kill a Gamemaster: A Game of Thrones quiz | 2:30 p.m. Charlie Hooper’s, 12 W.

Fast Johnny Ricker | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

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Gazzo, Half Dead Bear, Moody J, Wamp | 9 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Molly Hammer Quartet, Organ Jazz Trio | 6 p.m.

Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Man cub, Jared Bond and the Tornadoes, Mime Game | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown, 3402 Main Mark Lowrey Trio | 8:30 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club,

3601 Broadway

PERFORMiNG ARTS

A Little Bit Wicked, presented by the Heartland Men’s Chorus | 45 p.m. Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., hmckc.org

PorchFestKc 2015, a celebration of music and community | Noon-5 p.m. (rain date Sunday), West Plaza neighborhood, from 44th to 48th streets, between Wyoming and Mercier, porchfestkc.com

The 20th Annual union Hill Garden Tour |

11 a.m.-4 p.m. Union Hill, between 29th and 31st streets, from Main to Gillham Road (beginning at 31st Street and Grand), uchskc.org/shop

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Erik Griffin | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner

Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Animal Spirit | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachu-

Open-mic night, presented by KCstandup.com | 7 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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The Mavericks, Mike Zito | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Just for Her Event, more than 300 vendors featuring

Bill McKemy Quintet | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

fashion, beauty products, accessories, home decor and more | 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park

Missouri chainsaw Grassacre, featuring Split

F E S T i VA L S

Lip Rayfield, Mountain Sprout, Horseshoes and Hand Grenades, Strung Like a Horse, Cowgirls Train Set, Loaded Goat, the Souveneers, Cutty Rye | 11 a.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.

Greek Festival of St. Dionysios | 11 a.m.-8 p.m.

St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church, 8100 W. 95th St., Overland Park, stdionysios.org

North Fork, Rolling Foliage, the crumpletons | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Kansas city Scottish Highland Games & celtic Festival | 9 a.m.-5 p.m. E.H. Young Park Riverfront

Park, 1001 Argosy Pkwy., kcscottishgames.org

Drew Six and the Soul Plains Drifters, Grace Maher & the Wayward Sons | 7 p.m. Kanza Hall,

7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

The Texas Tenors | 7:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats, Laura Lisbeth | 10 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

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Dog-N-Jog: 2-mile run, 1-mile run or 1-mile walk | 7 a.m. Country Club Plaza, Central Ave. and Ward Pkwy.

Jakubi, Parlour Tricks, the Greeting committee | 7 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand Jazz brunch with Michael Mcclintock, Shay Estes and Andrew Ouellette | 10 a.m. Take Five

Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

Bayley Kate & the Running Late, Nicholas St. James | 5 p.m. Replay, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence Jeremy Loops, Matt Jennings, connor Leimer | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence The Melvins, Le Butcherettes | 8 p.m. The Bottle-

Daturday Night Live starring Approach | 10 p.m.

DJ candlepants | The Eighth Street Taproom, 801

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RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Bass Bungalow, featuring DJ DN8, Brooks Brown,

The Big Gay Picnic | 3-8 p.m. Penn Valley Park,

White Girl DJ set | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Mas-

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Kiernan McMullan, John Keck, Jessica Paige, Ryan Langlois | 8 p.m. The Tank Room, 1813 Grand Dave Rizer | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1600 E. 18th St. Tears for Fears, carina Round | 7 p.m. Uptown

Type (A) Alert, the Perfect Pursuit, conquering Tides | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Azoic Realm, Recycled Pfunk | The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Pershing Rd. and Main

Kry Wolf | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Mewithoutyou, Foxing, Lithuania | 8 p.m. The

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

cOMMuNiTy EVENTS

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Freakabout, Dying Breed, cadaver Dogs | 7 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Theater, 3700 Broadway

NiGHTLiFE Crown Center, 2450 Grand

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

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crown center Antique Festival | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Philip Wakefield Trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge,

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We Will rock you: the Queen Sing-along |

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harpoon Comedy | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Jurassic World, opens Friday; review at pitch.com

open-mic night | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. FiLm

Prairie Logic, 1271 Main (sixth floor green space), downtownkc.org

The Living Dream: One Hundred Years of Rocky Mountain National Park | 6:30 p.m. Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main

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

Bloomsday Celebration, featuring a showing of Ulysses Around the World, musician Eddie Delahunt and a theatrical performance of Bloomsday Dublin | 10 a.m.-10 p.m., Irish Museum and Cultural Center, Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., irishcenterkc.org Writers place poetry Series , showcasing the work of local poets | 7 p.m. Johnson County Central Resource Library, 9875 W. 87th St., Overland Park, writersplace.org

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big reveal and lovely Vanity Fair cover! But I’m having a crisis of conscience. On the one hand, I support a person’s right to be whoever the heck they want to be. You want to wear women’s clothing and use makeup and style your hair? You look fabulous! You want to carry a pillow around with an anime character on it and get married to it, like a guy in Korea did? Congrats! You want to collect creepy lifelike dolls and push them around in a stroller, like a woman on Staten Island does?

Great! But I’m confused where we draw the line.

When a thin person believes they’re “fat” and then dangerously restricts their food intake, we can have that person committed. Most doctors won’t amputate your arm simply because you feel you were meant to be an amputee. But when a man decides that he should be a woman (or vice versa), we will surgically remove healthy body parts to suit that particular desire. Of course, we modify/enhance/surgically alter other body parts all the time. I guess I’m confused. Could you shine some light on this for me? I want to be less conflicted about sex-reassignment surgery.

No Surgery for Me Dear NSFM: Gender identity is not an affecta-

tion or an eccentricity or plain ol’ batshittery.

Gender identity goes to the core of who we are and how we wish to be — how we fundamentally need to be — perceived by others. Take it away, Human Rights Campaign: “The term ‘gender identity,’ distinct from the term ‘sexual orientation,’ refers to a person’s innate, deeply felt psychological identification as a man, woman or some other gender, which may or may not correspond to the sex assigned to them at birth…. Transitioning is the process some transgender people go through to begin living as the gender with which they identify, rather than the sex assigned to them at birth. This may or may not include hormone therapy, sex-reassignment surgery, and other medical procedures.”

Unlike people who have healthy limbs amputated (which some doctors will do, if only to prevent people with “body integrity identity disorder” from amputating their own limbs) or thin people starving themselves to death because they think they’re fat, transgender people who embrace their gender identities and take steps toward transitioning are almost always happier and healthier as a result. That said, transitioning is not a panacea. Just as coming out of the closet isn’t the end of a gay person’s struggles or troubles, transitioning — which may or may not involve surgery and/or hormones — won’t protect a trans person from discrimination or violence, or resolve other personal or mental-health issues that may exist.

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dealing with the fallout. This relationship really affected me negatively. On the one hand, she was the first person I was ever really intimate with.

And when I say intimate, I mean pretty much everything you can think of — from holding hands to kissing to intercourse to kinky sex. I identify very strongly as a submissive man, but she coerced me to be way more dominant than I actually am, among other shitty things she did to me. This has made me even more desirous of expressing myself submissively in bed because I never really got to be who I actually am. How can I explore my submissive desires in a place that doesn’t really have much in the way of BDSMrelated meetups, munches, clubs, etc.? How do I meet a Dominant who is respectful and kind?

I may need more time away from relationships to recover and get my life in order, but being a submissive is more on the forefront of my mind.

Seeking a Dominant Dear SAD: If you don’t live someplace with individual wants or needs to change or even remove some part(s) of their body to be who they are or to be happy or healthy, I’m sure you would agree that they should have that right. Again, not all trans people get surgery, top or bottom, and many trans people change everything else (they take hormones, they get top surgery) but opt to stick with the genitals they were born with. (The ones they were born with tend to work better than the ones that can currently be constructed for them.) But unless you’re trans yourself, currently sleeping with a trans person or about to sleep with a trans person, it’s really none of your business what any individual trans person elects to change.

For me, it boils down to letting people be who they are and do what they want. Sometimes people do things for what can seem like silly and/or mystifying reasons (marry pillows, grow beards, vote Republican), while sometimes people — sometimes even the same people — do things for very sound and serious reasons (come out, alter their bodies, vote Democrat). Unless someone else’s choices impact you in a real, immediate and material way — unless someone wants to marry your pillow or wants to surgically alter your body or wants to persecute you politically or economically — there’s no conflict for you to resolve.

Accept that you won’t always understand all of the choices that other people make about their sexualities or gender identities — or their partners or hobbies or whatevers — and try to strike the right balance between minding your own business and embracing/celebrating the infinite diversity of the human experience.

Dear Dan: I’m a 23-year-old man. I left an abu-

sive relationship a year ago, and I’m in therapy

kinky clubs and social organizations — no classes, no munches, no dungeons — you have three options.

1. Look for kinky people in your area on kinky dating sites. Mention that you’re looking for kinky friends, too, not just dates or lovers, because a kinky friend could invite you to a private party in your area.

2. Date women you’ve met on nonkinky sites or in nonkinky venues and roll out your kinks in good time. I’ve been to lots of kink events, and I’ve met two kinds of people there: people who were always kinky and people who fell in love with someone kinky and then fell in love with kink. You know from personal experience that being coerced into playing a certain role is no fun — it can even tip over into abuse — so your mission is to find one of those women who loves being Dominant but won’t realize it until she falls in love with a submissive guy.

3. Move someplace that has kinky clubs, social organizations, and BDSM-related events and play parties.

Dear Dan: Your advice to FACTS, the guy who cheated on his wife, was spot-on as usual. He should not tell a woman on a first date about the number of women he cheated on his ex-wife with before his divorce. You might also let him know to not mention the “crying myself to sleep every night” bit, either. But then, I am just a middleaged gay man — so what do I know?

Just Saying Dear JS: Middle-aged gay men — what do we know about anything?

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