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KSHB’s Russ Ptacek lands his dream job — and it isn’t here.

Mr. Ptacek Goes to Washington year ago, a middle manager at KSHB Channel 41 was making reporter Russ Ptacek miserable. So Ptacek hired an agent to get himself out. The job offers didn’t come quickly, and the manager left KSHB. Meanwhile, Ptacek, Keith King and Ryan Kath molded themselves into Kansas City’s finest TV investigative team. But the agent eventually found an offer that Ptacek couldn’t refuse. By the time you read this, he’ll be in Washington, D.C., searching for tips as the leader of a newly formed investigative unit for WUSA, a CBS affiliate in the nation’s capital. “I’m sad to leave,” Ptacek says. “I never thought I’d say that.” The man this paper once dubbed “Best Bulldog” didn’t turn into a lame duck once he signed the WUSA contract. Ptacek’s investigation into exploding glass bakeware aired Friday, February 17. The following Monday, KSHB broadcast his six-month investigation into the disappearance of Belton teenager Kara Kopetsky. A cadaver dog hit on a scent in a home, and a feud erupted between secret sleuths and the Belton police. And on the day of his exit interview with The Pitch, Ptacek was breaking news that the General Services Administration would move employees out of the Bannister Federal Complex — the facility whose history of deadly toxicity Ptacek helped uncover. “It’s crazy,” Ptacek says. “It’s like there’s a magnet here that will not let go of me.” In a wide-ranging conversation, Ptacek talks of his unfinished business, where to get a good cheap suit, and his biggest fear about the move. The Pitch: Why are you leaving us, Russ? Ptacek: This kind of job is what I dreamed about 25 years ago, when I got into the business. And this is a station that doesn’t have an investigative unit, so I’m going to get to help create this investigative unit and help in the hiring decisions in creating a team. I see it as my golden opportunity to make my journalistic dreams come true. And I have the resources to do it for the first time in my life. Everywhere that I’ve ever been, I’ve had to work within a very tight budget. And WUSA is opening up the purse and investing a lot of money into a really incredible investigative unit. What business are you leaving unfinished here? Six months ago, I really thought I was going to find Kara Kopetsky before I left. And I actually feel guilty because I wanted to bring

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that family closure. And the Bannister situation, even with the development today, they’re not moving those people out for two more years. So those people are going to be there for two more years. And unfortunately, there is no test to prove that building is safe. All that exists are tests that prove no known safety issues today. We got a congressional debate, a hearing. We got the CDC to come in, the EPA to come in, all sorts of regulators to get off their asses, but still I’m troubled that there are no solid answers to what’s making all of those people sick and die. How many of those 40,000 Freedom of Information Act documents did you actually read? I can tell you that I touched them. But essentially, you’re glancing to see if there’s anything unusual. Boy, I don’t know — thousands, certainly I read thousands. And learning elements. I mean, I was a terrible student in science. It certainly was not my forte. I didn’t even know that there was such a thing as beryllium when I started this investigation. Have you mastered the periodic table? I am a reluctant master of the periodic table, but only in the elements that can kill people. What type of stories are you looking to tell when you get to D.C.? The tough thing is, right now is, I’ve developed so many sources, and today when someone has really something juicy, they think to call me. In Washington, I’ll be walking down the street, and no one will have any idea that I’m employed, let alone that I’m an investigative reporter. I’ll have no name recognition. It’ll be like starting from scratch. And so, people are not going to be giving me stories. So in the beginning, it’ll just

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be me following suspicions, filing Freedom of Information Act requests, going through public records and trying to find things that are unusual or suspect and trying to turn that into a story. While I’m waiting for that tipster to go, “Oh, I should call Russ Ptacek,” I’ll be looking for the types of problems that are systemic in every municipality and government across the country. But in this great big pool, I’m also going to have every politician from the entire nation to look at. So when I’m not looking at the school board, I’m going to be looking at Congress. And when I’m not looking at Congress, I’m going to be looking at the General Services Administration. One of the most frustrating things for me is, when I find something of national importance that affects people all across the country, this PR flack stands between me and the people who can take action. And I can’t just walk up to so-and-so and say, “Why is this happening?” In Washington, I’ll be walking up to those people and I’ll be saying, “Why is this happening?” Just this very day, the General Services Administration — this move is being managed by the Bannister death-list woman. So she’s still in charge. This is the same woman that paid $234,000 to hire a PR firm just to handle the toxin question. She’s still in charge. We found more than $20,000 in bonus money through our investigation. But her boss in Washington won’t talk to me. I can just walk right up to her and say, “Excuse me. Can you tell me why you’re managing taxpayer dollars like this?” Are you going to walk right up to her? pitch.com

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I’m under the impression that I will have a lot of autonomy. But everything I do will ultimately have to be approved by an editor or a manager. So I don’t know if I will be following up on Bannister when I get there. I hope so. In fact, I hope to take Bannister on a larger scope, because what’s happening out there in that secret nuclear bombmaking facility is happening all over the country in similar facilities. People are getting sick, and people are dying. ... So what I’ve learned there I can take and turn into a national story, and I can go up to the people at the National Nuclear Security Administration, and I can go up to the people in the General Services Administration, and the people in Congress and I can go, “Hey, I’m Russ Ptacek, and 9 wants to know: Why’d you do that?” I mean, I have access to the people who can change things all across the country, and that’s pretty exciting. What sold WUSA on you? They had a national search. I think that what I’ve accomplished at Bannister certainly influenced their decision. Watching a politician resign and get arrested and face charges with possible prison time got their attention. I think part of it was, I’m a speaker and I write for [news-industry nonprofit group] Investigative Reporters and Editors, so I’m recognized by my peers to a degree as having some skills under the investigative umbrella that are unique to me. And I think they liked those things that were unique to me. And one of those things is, I’m definitely not afraid to go up to someone and say, “9 wants to know: Why are you spending our government dollars like that? And why are you letting those people die?” Have you been practicing that in the mirror? I don’t want to say, “41 Action News.” I’m so afraid that I’m going to go up to someone, and the cameras are going to be rolling and it’s our only shot, and I’m going to go, “Russ Ptacek, 41 Action News. Why’d you do that?” I’m totally living a double life because I’m in conversations with them about the things that we’re working on for when I get there. Over the weekend, I was in Washington meeting with executives there and signing my contract and looking for an apartment, which I didn’t find. You’re not looking on Craigslist, are you? Oh, yes, I’m looking at Craigslist, but I’m not going alone. I always e-mail myself, “I’m going to XYZ address, and the person’s number was such and such,” thinking that the cops will be smart enough to check my e-mail if I turn up dead. It must be hard to leave. It is hard to leave because right now, stories

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are coming in like they’ve never come before. And I’ve developed all of these great sources and good friends. But, man, this job is literally the job I dreamed about when I looked like an 18-year-old but I was a 27-year-old at WIBW in Topeka, Kansas. As a young green reporter, I wanted to be the guy who is in a top-10 market and forming an investigative unit. What’s most satisfying about this line of reporting? The cool thing about this job is when you get someone justice, you actually feel like a hero. … I think it all kinda comes back to being a nerdy kid. When I see someone getting picked on, or an injustice, maybe I see that little me. And maybe now that I’m grown up and big and strong, it’s like, no, pick on someone your own size. How many restraining orders have you had against you in your career? I’ve had two or three, and both of them went away: [Former Clay County auditor] William Norris, and the other was a woman — who, gosh, 15 years ago had inherited a huge amount of money. And there was a question as to how she inherited the money from the guy. Clearly, she didn’t want to talk. Was this the best year of your career? I would say most rewarding two years of my career. In local newsrooms, are there a lot of gender politics? Does it matter if you’re gay or straight? It’s very interesting. I’ve been very active in

AIDS fundraising, and so many of the events that I’ve helped organize, helped sponsor, have been mostly gay events. That’s something I would have been incredibly concerned about 20 years ago. But I think the industry has really moved beyond that. I don’t hear people making queer jokes. I don’t see ... who’s the most heterosexual. It’s who is the most talented, which is great because 20 years ago, I was afraid of anything being out of the Ward Cleaver square box. It seems like out of all of the stations in town, KSHB seems to be the most welcoming. I don’t think we’re the most welcoming. No? No. I think it’s a coincidence. It isn’t like the station has a rainbow ﬂag. Scripps clearly has an anti-discrimination policy. As do most stations now. But I don’t think people go there because of that, and I don’t think hiring decisions are made because of that. In fact, in most cases, it’s something where a week later, a month later, two weeks later, we’re going, “Him, too?” Really? Oh, yeah. I think a lot of people do the math. And I don’t have any problem whatsoever with that math, and I haven’t had any problem with it in Kansas City. I do know colleagues that are gay at my station and other stations, and actually, to me, it’s a surprise every time I ﬁnd out. Where did you get your suits? [Laughs.] So the thing nobody knows about me is, I’m the cheapest guy in Kansas City. So

every suit that I have was either on clearance or came from a massive discounter. So the average price of my suit is $100. No shit? No kidding. Oh, yeah. The deal is, I never know when I’m going to be crawling under barbed wire. And so, I have to look nice on TV, but the reality is that I might be out in a pasture, ankle-high in dung. So I need clothing that, when it is damaged — and it will be — I won’t have to mourn. Or miss a car payment. So K&G, Burlington Coat Factory and the Internet are my stomping grounds. Literally, the guys at K&G know me by name — not from TV but because I’m a regular customer. Whenever they have the buy-one, get-two-free sale, I’m in there. Is it too late to keep you here? Yes, I signed the contract. How long is the contract for? It’s a three-year contract. No compete? Oh, God, yes. ... For the ﬁrst time in my life, I have an agent and an attorney. I haven’t even read the contract. So I hope it’s good. Money’s good? They made me a competitive offer that’s going to make it possible for me to afford to live in Washington, D.C. And in addition to the money, I’m getting to do the job that I’ve wanted to do all of my life.

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amie Parker slowly flexes his gloved hands. His shoulders rise beneath a white practice jersey as he takes a single deep breath 6 yards behind the line of scrimmage. When his right foot shoots forward, it’s clear that Parker still has the blazing speed that made him a fourth-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2004. He hits the line as the ball is snapped to quarterback Nate Davis. Parker breaks to the middle. Two hungry defenders in black jerseys wait for him. A defensive back moves to wrap him up, but Parker spins to the outside. He loses his helmet but keeps his head up. Seconds later, Davis floats the football into Parker’s arms. The coaches blow the whistle after the catch, and Parker trots back to the end line to wait for the next drill. It’s just after 9:45 a.m. on a Tuesday in February, and this marks the first simulated play that the former Chief has run for the Kansas City Command, of the Arena Football League. It’s also Parker’s first play of 2012, a year that he hopes will take him back to the National Football League — his goal since the Oakland Raiders released him in August 2009. “It’s the right place and right time for me to come back to Kansas City and display my talents,” Parker says. “I really don’t think I got a chance to showcase everything I can do.” To get from downtown Kansas City to the KC Sports Lodge in Independence — the Command’s practice facility — you have to drive by Arrowhead Stadium on Interstate 70. Parker’s route has been less direct. After the Chiefs didn’t re-sign him following the 2007 season, Parker had stints in Denver, North Carolina, Seattle, Oakland, Las Vegas and Chicago. Inside the gym of the Sports Lodge, whistles beat time with pounding rock music, and a TV above a treadmill is tuned to an ESPN discussion about the upcoming NFL draft. The likely No. 1 overall pick on April 26 is Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck. Just two weeks ago, the rookie was throwing passes to Parker, trying to — as Luck told Sports Illustrated in February — “adjust to the speed of the NFL.” Luck’s other target was Parker’s younger brother, Tray Session, a speedy University of Nevada wide receiver with his own NFL ambitions. “I know he has the drive,” Parker says of his brother. “He knows what it takes. He just has to get in front of guys and be able to compete.” If anyone knows how true that is, it’s Parker.

he sound of two massive palms clapping grows louder near the end of the tiled walkway in the indoor practice facility. The claps are

punctuated with screams, grunts — and laughter. Thirty-five hopefuls are in training camp, each vying for one of the Command’s 24 roster spots. (The season opener against the defending champion Jacksonville Sharks is March 16.) Like many Arena Football League teams, the Command is a halfway house for athletes whose names hover in recent memory. There’s defensive back Rashad Barksdale, who played six games for the Chiefs in 2007. And collegefootball fans may recall Carl Gettis and Tommy Chavis from the University of Missouri, and Terrance Sweeney from Kansas State. The local focus stems from the constant reshuffling of the roster. All AFL contracts last for one year, with players receiving $400 a game (plus meals, lodging and a per diem on the road). “How can you do a bobblehead night when you need four months’ lead time?” asks playby-play announcer Nick McCabe, who also handles marketing duties for the Command. “Who’s going to be the bobblehead?” The Command averaged 3,838 fans per home game last year on its way to a 6-12 record — a far cry from its final season as the Brigade in 2008, when 12,828 fans regularly invaded the Sprint Center. Eager to build a local following in the Command’s second year, McCabe admits he is handicapped by the structure of contracts that come with league-exempt clauses. A player is free to leave at any time if he receives an offer from the NFL or the Canadian Football League. (If a player loses that pro berth and wants back into the AFL, the team he left retains firstrefusal rights.) The Command has already come close to losing Parker. Several CFL teams have reportedly expressed interest in the wideout, with a potential deal in the works as late as mid-February. “The AFL doesn’t want to be a feeder league,” McCabe says. “At the same time, we take pride that the guys we evaluate get picked up by the NFL. And nobody is going to turn down an NFL contract.” Four gleaming sets of aluminum bleachers sit

between two practice fields of artificial turf, each cordoned off by a wall of Plexiglas panels spanning the length of a football field. On one side, the defensive- and offensive-line players work on pass rushing. The AFL skews heavily toward passing. The Command ran 152 rushing plays as opposed to 420 pass attempts during the 2011 season. The defensive backs and wide receivers square up on the other half of the practice field. Eight years after he reported to River Falls, Wisconsin, for the start of Chiefs camp, Parker is back in a Kansas City uniform. He holds onto the white barrier on the far side of the field, standing between advertisements for an urgent-care clinic and a dog-training service. He swings his right leg up like a ballet dancer and stretches his hamstrings. O.J. Simpson, a rookie wide receiver trying to make the team, pinches the corners of his jersey with his thumb and forefinger and holds his number up after making a catch near the sidelines. Simpson, who played at Truman High School and Missouri Western State University, announces: “3-2 — remember that number.” He looks right at Jack Belcher. “Big Dog,” as Belcher is known to Command players and staff for his favored choice of T-shirts, is the only fan here for training camp. An oversized bald man with a single gold hoop gleaming in his left ear, Belcher is clad in a Kansas City Brigade jacket — the previous incarnation of the Command. That team lasted from 2006 to 2009, when the AFL suspended operations. When the AFL returned to Kansas City in 2011, the logo remained, though the name changed. Belcher will be the unofficial statistician for McCabe this year. As one of the three founding members of KC Flight Crew, the team’s fan club, he’ll be in the front row of the end zone for every home game at the Sprint Center. “It’s me and football,” Belcher says. “I don’t love anything else, and I love this

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game better than anything. Here the guys get more personal. You’ve got to be a people person to play in this league.” The defensive and offensive lines cross between the barriers. Several players banter with Belcher on their way to a touchdown drill. Defensive Backs Coach Terrance Quattlebaum lays out orange cones 10 yards apart. “This is the end zone. You’ve got three [downs],” Quattlebaum shouts, and then sends two short blasts through his whistle. Parker breaks inside again off the line. This time, he can’t separate. The ball thrown by backup quarterback Steven Gachette spins away on the turf, well out of Parker’s reach. It’s the fourth day of camp, the first with pads, and guys are scrapping to make the team. An offensive lineman whips a defender to the ground, taking personally an errant hand to the face mask. “This is what happens when you put the pads on,” a defensive lineman says. “The bullets start flying.” “Let them fly,” Belcher says, grinning. The wrestling match is broken up before it becomes a fight, and the drill resumes. Parker trots back to the end line and slaps hands with his fellow wide receivers. “I’m glad they signed Samie,” Belcher says. “He played here for us before with the Chiefs, and he’s fast and quick. If he can find the room to maneuver, he’ll be real good.”

peed has never been the issue with Parker. It’s likely the reason that he’s still playing football at age 30 (he turns 31 on March 25). That, and he’s ﬁnally in the same city as his 4-year-old daughter, who he hopes will be a regular at Command games. Parker was a sprinter on the track team at Long Beach Polytechnic High School. The aptly named Jackrabbits captured a Division 1 California title in 1998. Polytech is a pro sports factory that has sent more than 50 players to the NFL in the past 85 years. As a freshman, Parker ran routes against former NFL safety Omar Stoutmire. After graduating, Parker worked on technique with future NFL wide receivers DeSean Jackson and Terrence Austin. “I love seeing them in the NFL now, and I hope they might say, at the end of the day, that Samie was a guy who helped me when I was younger,” Parker says. “I don’t go around looking for them to acknowledge me. I just want to pass on my knowledge.” Two years after graduating high school (he redshirted a year), Parker hauled in nine catches for 162 yards and continued on page 8

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a touchdown in the University of Oregon’s 3816 undressing of Colorado in the Fiesta Bowl. At Oregon, he was also a three-time AllAmerican in track, clocking in with a top time of 10.18 in the 100-meter dash. Football had brought him close to his stepfather, Tracy Session. But in September 2003, Session was gunned down in his native Long Beach. He was 37. Parker, the oldest of five, had always found purpose in football. Now he was determined to make the NFL and set an example for his younger siblings. In his final game in a Ducks uniform, Parker was named most valuable player of the Sun Bowl for a 16-catch, 200-yard performance. Oregon lost 31-30 to the University of Minnesota. Parker graduated with school records for catches and receiving yards. His 4.36-second 40yard sprint made him the fastest wide receiver in the 2004 NFL draft. “The fastest player in college football needs more bulk,” wrote Charles Robinson in the Orlando Sentinel, ranking Parker as the 15th best wide-receiver prospect. The Chiefs had a history with Oregon speedsters. Hurdler J.J. Birden played five years for Kansas City between 1990 and 1994. A decade later, the Chiefs were coming off a 13-3 season and needed a defensive lineman and help at wide receiver. The Chiefs drafted Parker’s teammate, defensive tackle Junior Siavii, with the 36th pick overall. The franchise selected Parker with the 105th pick. (Twenty-one picks later, the team chose a brash defensive lineman out of Idaho State, Jared Allen.) Parker was seen as possibly the second coming of Birden. But he stumbled out of the blocks with the Chiefs. A hamstring injury in training camp robbed him of the speed that he’d always relied on for separation. Late in the 2004 season, Parker was given the chance to start against the Denver Broncos. In the 15th game of the year, Parker slipped behind the defense for a 35-yard touchdown. “I remember that first touchdown,” Parker says. “I usually can block out a lot of stuff while I’m on the field. But, man, Arrowhead was just going crazy.”

Parker’s emergence allowed the Chiefs to let go of receiver Johnnie Morton after an injuryriddled season. In 2005, Parker hauled in 36 passes and three touchdowns, despite a knee injury that limited him to 11 games. “I’m cautiously optimistic and excited about Samie Parker,” then-General Manager Carl Peterson told The Kansas City Star before the 2006 draft. “Hopefully, good things are going to happen there.” Parker posted similar numbers in 2006: 41 catches and a touchdown. Peterson showed less confidence in Parker’s future in the 2007 draft, tabbing LSU’s Dwayne Bowe with the 23rd overall pick. The Chiefs’ offense had been retooled to focus on Larry Johnson. Quarterback Trent Green was traded to Miami in the offseason. With backups Damon Huard and Brodie Croyle under center in 2007, Parker took a step backward. He caught two touchdowns but only 24 passes in 16 games. He averaged the lowest yards per catch (12.4) of his career. The still young wide receiver became less a story of unrealized potential and more of misevaluated potential. “2005 and 2006 were productive years,” Parker says. “I think I should have been a little more vocal. But I also think I could have played multiple positions. Maybe I could have blocked for [Chiefs kick returner] Dante [Hall].” The Denver Broncos signed Parker in the 2008 offseason. Perhaps Denver’s front office was sick of seeing Parker on the opposite sideline (his 18 catches and two touchdowns were the most he had against any team). “This is a good situation for me because I’m going to be able to come in and compete for a job,” Parker told The Denver Post. However, he couldn’t emerge from a crowded corps of receivers that included Brandon Marshall, Brandon Stokley and Eddie Royal. He was released on August 25, 2008. The Carolina Panthers signed him a day later. “I want to showcase what I can do,” Parker told the Associated Press.” I just want to contribute to the team.” Two days after Parker suited up for a game against the Pittsburgh Steelers, he was cut. He signed with the Seahawks 10 days later. Parker had become a guy you bring to camp to challenge your players and fill out your roster — a name that appears in the transaction

roundups of sports sections. When Seattle released him after three days, he’d been on three rosters in 18 days. For the ﬁrst time since Pop Warner, Parker wasn’t on a football team.

arker returned home to California after his aborted season. There is no shortage of football players to train with in the Golden State. In the offseason, he caught passes from University of Southern California alums Matt Leinart and Matt Cassel, working to build trust with quarterbacks still in the league. “I had faith in myself,” Parker says. “I just had to be out there playing on Sundays every offseason to make sure I still have a shot.” He kept in shape by running on the beach and was signed by the Oakland Raiders on May 12, 2009. Parker made it through training camp before he was let go on August 26. The Tennessee Titans worked him out a week later, but he ended up signing with the Las Vegas Locomotives of the United Football League. “I always knew going into the game that Samie Parker was going to show up, compete and play his balls off,” says Tim Rattay, a teammate of Parker’s during the 2010 season in Las Vegas and wide receiver coach the following year. “If we needed a big play, he was going to be the guy who made it.” Parker played 11 games for the AFL’s Chicago Rush in 2010, catching 78 passes for 1,135 yards and 15 touchdowns (compiling fairly similar stats to his four-year career totals in the NFL). Thousand-yard receivers are in high demand in the AFL, and the Command has three of them with Parker, Bret Smith (the team’s leading receiver from the 2011 season) and Syvelle Newton. Parker has spent most of the morning engaging the younger receivers, explaining a blocking assignment on a “bubble screen” — a short pass in the ﬂat, where a receiver takes a step forward before reversing ﬁeld and moving toward the quarterback to catch a pass behind a theoretical wall of blockers — or congratulating them on a catch. Parker knows what it’s like to be Anthony Parks, a former Olathe East High School standout, who is hoping he can stick around longer than the two-day contract he signed in

Head coach Barto (above) is looking for big things from Parker. mid-February. Parker went through the same training-camp battles four years ago, attempting to learn playbooks between drills with names he just learned in the huddle. “Samie is going to be a huge benefit to the young guys on the roster,” says head coach Danton Barto. “He’s easygoing, one of those veterans that wants to help guys learn. I like that he’s talkative and easygoing until he steps on the field, and then he’s all business. Not everybody knows how to switch it on and off.” The Command practice ends just before 11 a.m. with a team recitation of the Lord’s Prayer. Parker, Smith and Newton stay on the field to run 15-yard corner routes. Balls keep sailing long. The timing isn’t there yet. “He can still run,” Barto says. Parker plants his left foot, leaves a defensive back flat-footed and bursts free toward the sideline. The ball arrives after he has made his break, but Parker adjusts backward and tucks it under the arm of his sweat-soaked gray undershirt. Parker can run, but can he catch on? That’s the question that Parker has to answer for himself. He wants to know if he’s good enough to still play in the league. The average NFL career is three and a half years. Parker had four. But he wants more. He figures he has two more years, and maybe one more shot at a training camp, before he stops playing and pursues coaching. Playing in a system where he might see 10 to 12 passes a game, Parker just wants to be seen — by his daughter, by scouts, and by his younger brother who continues to work on his own NFL dreams. Parker’s green eyes flash as he looks up from the metallic bench where he’s being interviewed, realizing he doesn’t see any of his teammates nearby. “I’ve got to go,” Parker says, scooping up his cleats and the white tape he just peeled off his wrists. “I don’t want to miss my ride. I didn’t drive here.” Then he does what he does best. He runs.

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Hickman. At 7:30 p.m. at downtown’s newest gay hang, Social (1118 McGee, 816-472-4900), a winner takes home the crown. (For a double dose of drag decency, see a free review of previous crown holders at Social at 8 p.m. Friday, March 2.) It isn’t easy. Contestants endure a rigorous series of judgments, including an evening-gown showdown, two talent competitions, and a personal interview in nondrag persona. Outgoing Miss Gay Kansas City Sophia Sirrah says the experience is a big deal. “Miss KC was a dream of mine, so the preparations were very stressful and costly,” Sirrah explains. Admission costs $10. — BERRY ANDERSON

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Thursday nights in 1970s Kansas City meant one thing: pro wrestling at Memorial Hall (600 North Seventh Street Trafficway, Kansas City, Kansas, 913-371-7560). FIND The historic arena is MANY MORE where “Handsome” Harley Race won his first NWA World ChamLISTINGS Heavyweight pionship, beating Dory ONLINE AT Funk Jr. on March 24, PITCH.COM 1973. Nearly 39 years after the king of wrestling won his 10 pounds of gold, the grapplers of TNA Impact Wrestling throw down inside Memorial Hall at 7:30 p.m. (doors open at 6:30). Will history repeat? Will the bad blood boil between former tag-team partners “The Cowboy” James Storm and TNA Champion Bobby Roode? Will former WWE star Jeff Hardy take a crazy dive? A ticket ($20–$50) gets you answers. Buy through impactwrestling.com or Ticketmaster at 800-745-3000 or ticketmaster.com. Bonus: $50 tickets entitle you to a 5:30 p.m. meet-and-greet with the wrestlers. — JUSTIN KENDALL

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FIRST-FRIDAY HIT LIST Todd Weiner Gallery (115 West 18th Street, 816-984-8538). There’s heat inside with sculptor Reilly Hoffman’s large, fire-carved metal alms bowls. His exhibition, Alms Matara, inaugurated the crisp space last month, but it’s worth a long second look. Serious gallerygoers want strong visual art on First Friday, not just a party, and Hoffman’s work obliges. His sculptures have power that resonates with the liquidity of their creation, and their spirit makes the gallery feel almost like an Eastern temple. City Arts Project (2015 Campbell, 816-820-4105). Over on the east side of the Crossroads (actually more like Hospital Hill), this space opens Construction in Structure, the first in a new launch by the Kansas City Art Institute to connect current students with wider opportunities for career development. Curated by a team of KCAI alums, this exhibition should

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be very strong. (It also helps make up for the now-closed KCAI Crossroads gallery.) Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (2012 Baltimore, 816-474-1919). Four undergrads are getting wider exposure tonight at the anchor spot that arguably started the whole Crossroads District a couple of decades ago. KCAI giant Jim Leedy wanted to give students a place to exhibit, and that tradition continues in the basement space, showing works by Emily Connell, Ben Harle, Hank Hafkemeyer and Will Preman. Upstairs at Leedy-Voulkos, the galleries include provocative work by Courtney Starrett in a show titled RubberMADE, along with two group exhibitions: the 2012 Annual Faculty Show (for the University of Kansas’ art department), and Vanguards and Visionaries. The latter spotlights a selection of KC’s art matriarchs and their younger successors: Philomene Bennett, Rita Blitt, Shea Gordon-Festoff, Janet Kuemmerlein, Jane Booth, Cheryl Toh, Karen McCoy and Jessica Kincaid. — TRACY ABELN [MUSIC]

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As “farm to table” has entered the language as a dining aspiration, so “pen to concert hall” is one way to describe what the local-centric

music group Octarium means to achieve. The eight-person vocal ensemble promotes its new music as fresh sounds produced in listeners’ backyards. The group has commissioned unaccompanied choral works from homegrown composers, and today composers and the group’s artistic director talk about “The State of Choral Music in an American Idol Age” to shed light on what they call the “art-local process.” The panel discussion begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400). Tomorrow, see Octarium’s Art Local Performance at 7:30 p.m. at Community Christian Church (4601 Main, 816-561-6531). Tickets cost $8.50–$13; see octarium.org or call 816-729-6516. — NANCY HULL R IGDON

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With a theme that would put a tear in the eye of the cattiest of queens, the 2012 Miss Gay Kansas City Pageant is back with “A Diamond Affair … 30 Years of Glamour, Enchantment and Prestige.” It’s one of the oldest femaleimpersonation contests in the country, says promoter and 1991 winner Jeff “Loreal”

There may not be many things that Lawrence has in common with New York City, but concern surrounding ever-higher vertical development has become one of them. Downtown Lawrence may soon see another high-rise hotel at the corner of Ninth Street and New Hampshire (now a vacant lot). It may not be a huge building by NYC standards, but to neighbors on surrounding blocks, the loss of sunlight, open space and privacy would be a blow. The Lawrence Percolator, an art gallery located between the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire) and Ninth Street, would be mere feet from the new structure. From 6 to 9 p.m., the center puts on a forum called “This Green Space: Reimagining 9th & New Hampshire.” Architects, planners, artists and community members share their ideas about how the lot could be transformed into a community green space, and their submissions remain on display from noon to 6 p.m. weekends through March 25. See lcava.org for more information. — APRIL FLEMING [SPORTS]

MILK RUN

Powdered milk sure doesn’t taste like Shatto, but in some parts of the world, taste can’t come first. In the rural Mufindi region of Tanzania, where HIV-infection rates reach 40 percent, powdered milk is one of the many tools used to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the virus. Unfortunately, one week’s supply of powdered milk can cost a family more than one month’s income. Among many on the ground tackling this problem are continued on page 12

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Jenny Peck and Geoff Knight, two KU graduates who have lived in Tanzania for the better part of a decade working with mothers, families and orphans affected by HIV. Join them for the Mufindi Orphans 5K run/walk benefit at 8:30 a.m. at the Kaw River levee in Lawrence (401 North Second Street, behind Johnny’s Tavern). Registration is available from 7:30 to 8:15 a.m. on the day of the race ($30). See sportkc.com for more information. — APRIL FLEMING

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As a child, Scott McBride tagged along when his parents went antiquing. “While my parents would look for whatever struck their fancy, I would look for marbles,” McBride says. Fifty years later, McBride’s collection stands at 120,000 marbles strong. “I’m probably to the hoarder stage,” he says with a laugh. As president of the Kansas City Marble Collectors Club, he and others in the group share their marble allure with the “Marble Crazy” Marble Collectors Show. The free event at the Overland Park Holiday Inn (8787 Reeder, Overland Park, 913-888-8440) features games for children, 50 tables of marbles and marble-related items for sale, and help with marble identification. “If you have a little bag of marbles that your grandfather kept, and you wonder what they are, bring them down,” McBride says. The show runs from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information, see kcmarbleclub.com. Admission is free. — NANCY HULL RIGDON [MUSIC]

CHOICE CLASSICAL

Dead composers, recent Pulitzer Prize winners, first U.S. tours, young virtuosos, floppy conductor hair — pretty much everything great about classical and modern concert music gets spotlight time here this weekend. It helps if you can be in two places at once Friday night. That’s when the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance blows the Herman Miller chairs out the doors at OfficePort (208 West 19th Street) with a special 8 p.m. Crossroads preview of the program that it’s taking to New York’s (Le) Poisson Rouge next week. At press time, the program looked unmissable, with excerpts from Zhou Long’s opera Madame White Snake — which won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for music — among the highlights. Call 816-235-6222 for tickets. (See conservatory.umkc.edu for every impressive name and detail.) A few miles away the same night is a 7:30 p.m. conservatory faculty performance at White Recital Hall (4949 Cherry, 816-235-6222). It features Jane Carl on clarinet and Patricia Higdon at the piano, and if you like Bernstein and Gershwin but can’t stand parking in the Crossroads on First Friday, it’s another kind of unmissable. Friday through Sunday, wave your chamber pot in the air like you just don’t care, because it’s all about Tchaikovsky. At the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts (1601 Broadway, 816-994-7200), Christoph von Dohnányi conducts the Kansas City Symphony as 12 t h e p i t c h 2 THE PITCH

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Classical music (Friday through Sunday) it undertakes the Russian’s sixth symphony, the “Pathetique.” The program also includes Shnittke and Strauss. Find details, times and tickets at kcsymphony.org. Sunday is the local stop for the Tschaikowski St. Petersburg State Orchestra, now on its first American tour. Your ticket ($35-$45) gets you the Prelude and Liebestod from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Mozart’s fifth violin concerto (with Alexander Anisimov the featured player) and Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition.” The baton goes up at 2 p.m. at the Carlsen Center (inside Yardley Hall, on the Johnson County Community College campus, 12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park). Call 913-469-4445 or see jccc.edu for tickets. Done? Nope. There’s more conservatory action Sunday afternoon (again, you need a time machine or an atom splitter) when Grammywinning group eighth blackbird (they’re not into capitalizing) plays the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak). Here’s a fun game: Add your favorite first name to the surnames on the bill, which is yet another crazy-strong set: Lang, Mantovani, Akiho, Glass, Hartke. The concert is free, but you need a ticket; call 816-751-1278. See nelson-atkins.org. — SCOTT WILSON [FOOD & DRINK]

SUGAR RUSH

Before Mike Elder became one of America’s best-known cake designers (he is a three-time champion of TLC reality series The Ultimate CakeOff), he was an auto mechanic in Clinton, Missouri. Today Elder attempts to break a world record that combines cars and cakes: He’s creating the “fastest cake car” for the second (and final) day of KC CakeFest, a benefit for the Whole Person. The pastry party at the Kansas City Convention Center (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000) features cake-decorating classes, demonstrations, and two TV-style “live cake battles” featuring celebrity chefs. The Whole Person’s Christi Campos says in order to break the world record, Elder must drive a car covered with “at least 95 percent edible ingredients” at a speed of at least 10 mph. Elder is set to take his custom-cake mobile down Wyandotte Street at 1 p.m. Admission to the expo section of CakeFest is free, with individual tickets sold for the live challenges and other special events; see kccakefest.com for details. — CHARLES FERRUZZA

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IN YOUR FACE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE!

Newhouse was the first domestic-violence shelter in the city in 1971. According to development coordinator Emily Randall, Newhouse last year provided shelter to 647 women and children, answered 9,901 hot-line calls and served 1,000 women in Municipal Domestic Violence Court. Like all services, though, none of what Newhouse does is really free. Donations are good — especially used cellphones, high-efficiency laundry detergent and disposable diapers — but money is even better. Give it up in the spirit of your alma mater when Newhouse does its an[ M O N DAY 3. 5 ]

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just love to talk to people about tomatoes,” Brad Lucht says. The president of the Greater Kansas City Gardeners of America last year grew 48 varieties, each with its own purpose. Maybe it’s his enthusiasm for the fruit, or that he likes to wear a hat resembling a tomato top, but some people have taken to calling Lucht “Mr. Tomato Head.” He puts on the persona from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, March 5, at the Garden Center in Loose Park (5200 Pennsylvania, 816-784-5300) for a Q&A session called, naturally, Ask Mr. Tomato Head. To reserve a place at the free event, e-mail greaterkcgoa@gmail.com. As Lucht says, “It can get contagious when you’re around other gardeners,” so growers may also want to take note of some other local plant-themed events this week. Pat Riha Productions brings the Johnson County Home and Garden Show to the Overland Park Convention Center (6000 College Boulevard, 913-339-3000) from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday, March 2 through Saturday, March 3, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday, March 4. Tickets cost $10 (kids 12 and younger get in free). See patrihaproductions.com for more info. The Garden Center Association holds the first session of a three-week class, Edible Gardening, at the Garden Center in Loose Park from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, March 6. The cost is $30 (or $22 for members). Register at gardencenterassociation.org.— CRYSTAL K. WIEBE

nual Shelter Showdown Kick-Off at the Boulevard Brewing Co. (2501 Southwest Boulevard, 816-474-7095). A $25 ticket includes barbecue, all-you-can-drink wine and Boulevard beer, and participation in various “athletic” competitions guaranteed to incite Big 12 rivalries. The event goes from 6 to 8 p.m. Buy tickets at newhouseshelter.org. — BERRY ANDERSON

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Minor league sports teams are like children: They need a loving and supportive home during their formative years. Now in their third season, the Missouri Mavericks have found just that at the Independence Events Center (19100 East Valley View Parkway, Independence, 816-795-7577), and the franchise is maturing nicely. The team’s lifetime attendance has surpassed 500,000, and the venue has been soldout more than a dozen times this season. On the ice, the team has put together another solid season under coach Scott Hillman, whose star forward (Sebastien Thinel) became just the seventh player in Central Hockey League history to notch more than 700 points. Tonight, the Mavericks take on the division-leading Evansville Icemen. The third-place Mavs need all the points they can get to stay in the top four and head to the playoffs for the third straight year, because winning the President’s Cup would be the ultimate indicator that the Mavs are all grown-up. Tonight’s match begins at 7. (The match versus the fifth-place Rapid City Rush Friday, March 2, also starts at 7 p.m.) Buy tickets ($15–$35) at missourimavericks.com. — BEN PALOSAARI

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This year’s Greater Kansas City International Auto Show promises 500 new cars, trucks, SUVs, crossovers and minivans, but that’s not why you should go. For the first time at Bartle Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000), Jeep promises a 22,000-square-foot obstacle course, with a 14-foot-high, 35-degree-sloped Jeep Mountain and fallen-log simulations. No, you don’t get to drive — just ride — but still, holy vehicle-body articulation! The U.S. Army also reports for duty with its Special Operations Semi: an 18-wheeler that houses combat simulators. The show starts today at 5 p.m. and runs through Sunday, March 11. Admission costs $10 for adults and $5 for kids 8 to 12. See kansascityautoshow.com for more information. — MICAH GUTWEILER Night + Day listings are offered as a free service to Pitch readers and are subject to space restrictions. Submissions should be addressed to Night + Day Editor Berry Anderson by e-mail (calendar@pitch.com), fax (816-756-0502) or mail (The Pitch, 1701 Main, Kansas City, MO 64108). Please include zip code with address. Continuing items must be resubmitted monthly. No submissions are taken by telephone. Items must be received two weeks prior to each issue date. Search our complete listings guide online.

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hen I told a friend I was going to a play about climate change, his response was “ugh.” And I have to admit that I agreed: What a dispiriting topic — and what an undramatic one. I wondered how an issue so complicated and daunting could be made into theater — musical theater. BY Kansas City Repertory D E B O R A H Theatre and theater group the Civilians must have had these HIRSCH concerns in mind when producing The Great Immensity, which is premiering here. The show addresses most of the responses that global warming pro- From left, upstairs: Todd Cerveris, Meghan vokes in people: denial, fatigue, complacency, McGeary, Eddie Korbich; and downstairs: misconceptions, impatience, procrastination. Molly Carden and Rebecca Hart. And its mixture of information, story, video and ting a bit detailed or didactic, the dialogue music doesn’t lack humor or court boredom. Written and directed by Steve Cosson, or song lyrics shifted and surprised. Most founding artistic director of the Civilians, with of the show’s nine songs are clever, and all music and lyrics by Michael Friedman, the are well-performed (music direction and story begins with a Skype conversation between piano accompaniment by Daniel Doss). EsPolly (Rebecca Hart) and a ship spotter (Todd pecially memorable are “Martha, the Last Cerveris) who watches the movements of Pigeon” (performed by Cerveris, Korbich freighters around the world (including the and Domingues) and McGeary’s rendering Great Immensity, from China). The two of of “Charismatic Megafauna.” By the time Act 1 ended, I realized that my them have devised some sort of scheme prior to the upcoming Auckland Summit. When expectations for the show had been wrong. I’d Polly disappears, her twin sister, Phyllis (also been entertained and informed by a story that Hart), goes looking for her in the rainforest of was turning out to be compelling. And I was Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal (the curious to see what would happen next and how creation of which is told through video and the the mystery would ultimately resolve. company-sung “A Man, a Plan, a Canal”). Polly is But along came Act 2. The setting changes there to shoot video for some unknown project. to the Arctic port of Churchill, Canada, with There, Phyllis meets a small group of sci- Domingues, Korbich and McGeary now playentists (portrayed by Dan Domingues, Eddie ing new characters. They drew me in, as did Korbich and Meghan McGeary) conducting the problems and changes occurring in the research on the island. As Arctic. But eventually the plot Phyllis investigates why her sislost its way. The Great Immensity ter vanished, she learns about It’s an overwhelming topic, Through March 18, at the the scientists’ work and her sisglobal warming, but this show Kansas City Repertory ter’s environmental concerns. makes it both immediate and Theatre’s Copaken Stage, Meanwhile, scenes depict the accessible. (The play has been 13th Street and Walnut, 816-235-2700, kcrep.org weeks and days leading up to partly funded with a grant from Polly’s disappearance, when the National Science Foundashe was filming interviews tion.) It brings more awareness with Julie (Molly Carden), a very disillusioned to a controversial issue and is engaging in its teenage “Earth Ambassador” also on the island. imaginative rendering of the subject. The set is ﬂexibly modular (design by Mimi But its resolution, as it plays now, is antiLien), with the versatility to evoke ambience and climactic, not meeting the aspirations — or my vary the surroundings. Video is used in different changing expectations — of the enterprise. But ways (projection design by Jason Thompson) like Kyoto and subsequent agreements, though and also helps illustrate the scientists’ observa- ultimately disappointing, there’s hope that it’s tions and narratives. a work in progress. If this all sounds dry, this rainforest isn’t. Whenever I thought the show was getE-mail deborah.hirsch@pitch.com

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ex Hausmann wore a homemade panda costume and painted on the floor with water on a sponge-tipped brush during the opening night of his exhibition Universal Language. The suit, water bucket and brush now share space as the centerpiece to the photographs, paintings and sculptures that fill the center gallery inside Cara and Cabezas Contemporary. Hausmann, speaking by phone from his San Antonio studio, acknowledges just how goofy his performance that night was. “I’m in a stupid panda suit,” Hausmann says. “I don’t know who you are, you don’t know who I am, but we share this creative language.” BY The creative language he’s talking about is the social inTHERESA teraction taking place when BEMBN IST E R the artist shares the same space as the viewer. And for Rex Hausmann: “Universal Language” Hausmann, a big, gregarious guy, goofiness punctuates that language. Sheer silliness — a lator, who immediately discouraged him. In panda costume, say — might capture a viewer’s Chinese culture, the translator explained, it’s attention for the extra instant an artist wants, a disrespectful for young people to approach moment to pause and think (or at least wonder an elder. So instead of joining the other artists, Hausmann whipped out his sketchbook what’s going on). Hausmann says the panda is an alter ego. and began drawing them. A member of the A two-dimensional version of the cartoonlike group noticed Hausmann and asked to see his drawings. bear showed up in his draw“I showed him the book, ings one day, he says. The Universal Language: and he immediately lit up,” character, which Hausmann Works by Rex Hausmann Hausmann recalls. “He named “Bowser Wowser,” Through March 10 at Cara said, ‘Draw me.’ He handed was a welcome interruption and Cabezas Contemporary me his brush.” amid some serious stuff; 1714 Holmes Hausmann accepted the the artist was dealing with 816-332-6239 brush and began drawing on the end of a personal relacaraandcabezas.com the concrete, a Kodak motionship. Bowser Wowser ment captured by his travel pops up again and again throughout this exhibition, in Hausmann’s companions, a group of photographers from often autobiographical, hip-hop- and cartoon- Texas. Some of those photos are on display influenced paintings; journal-like sketches; in the gallery. That experience of art bridging gaps — snapshots and staged photographs. Hausmann believes in the power of art to between languages, between ages, between change lives. Even a short conversation with cultures — gives this exhibition its title. And him is likely to yield enthusiastically unironic Hausmann says his work, whether performancetalk about building bridges between people based or visual, is rooted in the desire to apply and cultures. He is no less willing to appear those lessons of exchange to the relationship earnest in his work — hence, his opening- between artist and audience. night water-painting performance, which re“This 60-year-old dude who has seen the created his own experience of art overcoming Cultural Revolution, he and I had an immediboundaries. ate friendship because of art,” Hausmann says. When traveling in Beijing last fall, Haus- “Not because of food, not because of politics mann saw a group of older men drawing on the — it was art. It was the creative act.” ground with water, practicing their calligraphy. “Can I do that?” Hausmann asked his transE-mail feedback@pitch.com

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film Separate Lives OSCAR WINNER A SEPARATION TURNS ORDINARY HUMAN INTERACTION INTO GRIPPING DRAMA. he first Iranian film to win an Academy Award — Best Foreign Language Film, in case you missed writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s stirring speech Sunday night — the domestic drama A Separation is a story of dilemmas BY within dilemmas, of moral, legal, cultural and religious STEVEN quandaries that only spawn HALE more quandaries. It will not spoil anything to tell you that A Separation begins and ends with questions for which no satisfying answers exist. In the opening scene, a couple faces an off-screen arbitrator as they argue about a possible divorce. Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to legally separate from her husband, Nader (Peyman Moadi), so that she may leave the country with their 11-year-old daughter, Termeh. (In a measure of the movie’s stakes, the girl is played by Sarina Farhadi, the director’s own daughter.) Nader refuses to leave, insisting that he must stay and care for his dementia-addled father. Neither seems to want the divorce. Nader wants his wife and daughter to stay in Iran, while Simin says that if Nader would leave with them, she would drop her claim. But without a divorce or her husband’s per-

Fact Check COLUMBIA’S TRUE/FALSE FILM FESTIVAL TURNS NINE THIS WEEKEND.

he streets of downtown Columbia, Missouri — the District, as the college town’s tourism agency would prefer that you call it — will teem with roving bodies this weekend, and not just with the usual blacked-out-drunk undergrads. The True/False Film Festival is celebrating its ninth year, and David Wilson (who co-founded the fest in 2004 with Paul Sturtz) is expecting the highBY est turnout to date. “Last year, total ticketed atD AV I D tendance was just over 30,000, H U D N A L L and I think we’ll go up by two or three thousand this year,” Wilson says. (Most passes are already sold out, but seats for individual shows are still available.) The documentary festival has expanded to accommodate the growing crowds and the event’s rising national presence. Two new venues have been added: the Picturehouse, a theater inside downtown’s United Methodist Church,

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mission — neither of which Nader will grant — Simin can’t leave the country with Termeh. After Simin moves out, Nader hires a woman named Razieh (Sareh Bayat) to help care for his father. Razieh, who is pregnant and brings her daughter to work with her, embodies the movie’s social arithmetic: Add just one person, and the opportunities for misunderstanding and clashing motivations multiply exponentially. That’s even before factoring in her husband, who is unemployed, deeply in debt, does not know she has taken such a job — and would not approve. Farhadi’s brilliantly constructed screen-

Leila Hatami and Peyman Moadi face impossible choices in A Separation.

and Jesse Auditorium, a 1,732-seat theater on the University of Missouri campus. The fest is screening 38 features (including this year’s Academy Award-winning Best Documentary Feature, Undefeated) and about 20 shorts multiple times Thursday through Sunday. “We considered more ﬁlms for screening this year — around 900,” Wilson says. “We’re trying to be both a fest that debuts great documentaries but also shows the best of other fests. There was a great crop out of Sundance this year, some of which we’ve included, but we’ve also found some cool European films that haven’t been shown in the U.S., if at all.” Panel discussions have become de rigueur at serious-minded arts festivals. But in partnership with the University of Missouri, the conference “Based on a True Story: The Intersection of Documentary Film and Journalism” appears to have a tremendous amount of potential, pairing as it does a documentary fest with one of the nation’s premier journalism schools. “The conference grew out of people we knew at the university who were fans of the fest, in the journalism school, who wanted to put together a more academic festival based around the fest,” Wilson says. “We’ve worked closely with them,

and they’ve found a lot of writers, journalists, critics and other guests to come talk and augment what we’re doing.” The conference’s discussions center on the role of documentary film and how it fits into the modern journalism-media landscape. Some of the panelists on hand: Betsy Sharkey, film critic for the Los Angeles Times; Andrea Meditch, executive producer of Man on Wire and Grizzly Man; and Nathan Rabin, head writer for The Onion’s A.V. Club and noted coiner of the phrase “manic pixie dream girl.” Also on hand, as always, are many of the films’ directors, who come ready to answer questions after their screenings. “I think that’s a big part of what makes True/False, is that it feels very much like this neat community project,” Wilson says. “It’s a very handmade fest, handcrafted, people making things in small numbers. The directors are there in person. It helps create these unique moments that I think people are really hungry for.” We asked Wilson to talk about a few of his favorite docs showing this year. How to Survive a Plague — “One of the Sundance films we liked. It’s a look at this activist organization that took on the AIDS crisis

play (also nominated for an Oscar) avoids cheap manipulation while turning the universal headaches of everyday living — marital problems, aging parents, household expenses — into mineﬁelds. I won’t compromise it by further summarizing the plot, except to say that soon we’re back in court, and the stakes are now life or death. And yet if the conﬂicts within A Separation seem inevitable, it’s not because these characters have been sucked helplessly into them.

Farhadi neither condemns nor pardons, and so we have trouble doing so ourselves. A Separation doesn’t abdicate the idea of identifiable right and wrong, but it does submit that when humans are involved — and not, say, comicbook heroes and villains — determining which is which is more challenging. In a country prone to absolutes — and Levitical punishments for those who stray — such a proposal might look like an act of defiance. (Indeed, just making a film in Iran is often a political act: See Jafar Panahi defy the terms of his six-year jail sentence and 20-year ban on film work in his self-shot documentary This Is Not a Film.) But while the stifling, dictatorial context in which the film exists is not ignored completely — Simin tells the magistrate that she doesn’t want her daughter to “grow up under these circumstances” — the entrenched patriarchy and class hierarchy affect the characters less conspicuously than Western viewers might expect. The actors give expertly constrained performances, each so firmly convinced of his or her character’s point of view that you wonder if the cast avoided reading anyone else’s lines. And Farhadi’s shot selection is often expressive enough to remove the need for subtitles. But A Separation stands out most for depicting so forcefully a dire human predicament: That each of us has the capacity for rational behavior and the propensity for irrational self-interest, but not the ability to judge for ourselves which is which. ■ E-mail feedback@pitch.com

before anyone really cared about it. A group of downtown New York artists and activists sort of transformed into amateur biologists. It’s a fascinating arc to look at, especially given current protest movements like Occupy — how you can start as protest and turn into a knowledgeable force for change.” Gypsy Davy — “The filmmaker is on a journey to connect with her father, who is this sort of classic scoundrel who ended up as a famous flamenco artist in Spain. A really personal, different kind of film.” 1/2 Revolution — “Another Sundance film. It’s in-the-street reportage of Tahrir Square by these Egyptian and Danish filmmakers who were there when hell broke loose. It’s this very immediate, long-form type of journalism that we don’t really see anymore outside of documentaries.” Only the Young — “We found some really young new American talent with Only the Young. The directors are only 24 or 25 or something. It’s about young Christian skateboarders in Southern California, and it has this really immersive feel that’s like a fiction film. But it’s great documentary storytelling, and they captured some astonishing footage.” ■

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café Raising the Bar FOR NOW, IT’S THE MENU BREWING AT MARTIN CITY BREWING COMPANY. Martin City Brewing Company 500 East 135th Street, 816-268-2222. Hours: 11 a.m.–10 p.m. Sunday–Thursday, 11 a.m.– 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Price: $–$$

had to see it to believe it. A friend of mine told me that she had been taken to a tiny saloon in Martin City where the wait for a table was an hour. “An hour?” I asked, shaking my head in disbelief. “Was the food worth waiting an hour to eat?” When I think of bar food, particularly smalltown bar food, I think of nachos and burgers and fries — satisfactory eats but hardly worth a 60-minute wait. But the nine-month-old Martin City BY Brewing Company — which does serve nachos, burgers CHARLES and fries — has an ambitious F E R R U Z Z A young chef. A veteran, at age 25, of several restaurants in the metro, Andrew Parker has already changed the menu at this 80-seat tavern three times. “It’s a seasonal menu,” Parker says. “We change with the seasons.” Parker’s moods play a role, too. A couple of weeks after a caller on KCUR 89.3’s Walt Bodine Show phoned in to rave about a Philly cheesesteak-style sandwich on Parker’s menu (called “The Marty”), Parker took it off the menu. “I replaced it with a meatball sandwich,” he says. “A great meatball sandwich. The Marty wasn’t great.” (I tasted the Marty before it was banished, and I agree. It didn’t live up to the radio rave.) So the place has a talented chef who actually gives a damn about his food. What the bar and grill doesn’t have — yet — is a brewery. “We’re hopeful it will be open by the end of this year,” co-owner Matt Moore says. “Make sure to underline hopeful.” Moore says the brewery will occupy a different building. The 100-year-old structure that houses the restaurant is already too small for the volume of business that Moore and partner Chancie Adams are doing. Who knew that Martin City (the hamlet was annexed by Kansas City in 1963) was so hungry for a Cheers-like bar and café? Moore did. For most of the 20th century, this building was the Martin City Pub. That saloon was owned and operated by Moore’s grandfather, R.C. Van Noy — creator of the iconic Jess & Jim’s Steakhouse and R.C.’s Restaurant & Lounge, the best-known restaurants in south Kansas City for decades.

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“The Pub served beer and cheeseburgers,” macaroni and cheese (side dish or full-sized), says Moore, who purchased the building a and the decent grilled cheese is made with couple of years ago. (Its last tenant had been a sourdough bread and layered with molten Chinese restaurant.) The plan for the brewery- provolone, white cheddar, smoked gouda and restaurant was always to serve upscale pub fare. gruyere. The nachos come laden with black What Moore and Adams didn’t expect was for beans and a blanket of melted cheddar. This the venue to become a popular family restau- restaurant’s logo is an old locomotive, which rant. On both of my visits to the restaurant, I might symbolize all the tooting taking place. The new menu, introduced last week, is a saw plenty of small children. But after 8 p.m., the customer base notice- collection of sandwiches and salads (including ably shifts to sports fans (there are monitors a fried-goat-cheese salad) but no actual entrées. “We have a daily entrée speeverywhere), regulars from cial,” Parker says. “That way, I the neighborhood (including can experiment with a differat least one regular “girls’ night Martin City Brewing Company ent entrée every day.” out” group) and guys whom Risotto balls ....................$8 Parker has been orderMoore calls “beer geeks.” The Side order ing more fresh fish for his Brewing Company may not mac and cheese .........$4 specials (it’s Lent, after all), have its own brew yet, but it Reuben sandwich ........ $10 including cod that he often boasts 18 beers on tap and 50 Side of sautéed sautés with a little salt and kinds of bottled beer. vegetables...................$2 drapes in a beurre blanc. But On my first visit to the Fried egg and the bread-and-butter dishes restaurant, my friends and I sage sandwich ............$7 “We Built This City” are the basic bar classics: a were sitting at a table in the burger ..........................$8 great burger; and a ﬁrst-rate upstairs dining room (much Reuben, made with chunks of less noisy than the lowertender, slow-roasted corned level bar area), and two raucous hoops fans were on stools, chugging beer beef, house-made sauerkraut and Parker’s own and watching a basketball game. One of the duo Thousand Island dressing. The brassy housegot so worked up that he let go a rip-roaring made ketchup has become so popular that fart. He turned around to see if anyone had Moore has arranged to bottle it and sell it to local stores. (I’d buy a bottle.) noticed the sonic boom. Instead of the expected fried staples (pep“Don’t look around,” hissed my friend per poppers, breaded mushrooms, mozzarella Martha. “Don’t embarrass him.” Embarrass him? I detected a distinct pride in sticks), Parker serves up arancini: golf-ball-sized his posture, as if this bar were not just a place spheres of breaded risotto balls with a center where everyone knows your name but also a of molten cheddar. You don’t often see this delicacy outside Italian restaurants, but Martin place where they know your ﬂatulence. And it’s easy to work up a little gas in this City Brewing Company does right by the recipe, joint. Some of the best things on the menu presenting it with a dollop of surprisingly freshare the cheesiest. There’s a truly outstanding tasting marinara.

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Vegetarians, no matter how much they love beer or sports, will have a tough time with this menu. The macaroni and cheese is veg-friendly, and so are the risotto balls, the Greek salad, the grilled-cheese sandwich, and the sautéed vegetables (an interesting and tasty mix of spinach, mushrooms, peppers and onion), but that’s about it. Oh, wait — there’s also a fried-egg sandwich, cooked with sage and garlic, topped with tomato and mozzarella, tucked between two slices of Roma sourdough and slathered with garlic aioli. It’s the least boring fried-egg sandwich in the metro, but the garlic quotient is so high that an entire tin of Altoids won’t chase off the aroma. I wanted to ask Parker if the egg was fried on the same grill as the burgers and the Italian sausage, but the vegetarian I was dining with operated on the “don’t ask, don’t tell” rule. “If I don’t know, it’s not true,” she said. (I’ll tell: “We clean the grill carefully after each sandwich is prepared so there’s no chance of meat tainting a nonmeat sandwich,” one of the managers explained later.) I sort of thought that this brewpub’s dessert list might include pastries made with beer or ale. A Boulevard Wheat bread pudding, maybe? “When the brewery opens, we will,” Moore says. “But we have hired a local lady to make our desserts, including small individual pies we call ‘cutie pies.’ ” Cutie pies? I’ll pass. The name alone gives me gas. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com

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In boozy Westport, the most extensive nonalcoholic selection is at Californos (4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878). The $3 Pink Panther is a ﬁne place to start: It’s just Sprite, cherry juice and orange juice. These and the drinks below won’t fool your liver — they aren’t supposed to — but a couple will impress your palate, and one might prolong your life. The drink: Berry-Peary Tini The place: Eden Alley (707 West 47th Street, 816-561-5415) What it tastes like: Eden’s tini thankfully lacks the tini-typical “Wait, did I just eat a bag

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espite his brutally honest and intensely personal lyrics, Cursive’s Tim Kasher remains a rather enigmatic, private person. But he’s adjusting well to what you might call rock-star status, emerging from his self-imposed cocoon to become comfortable in the role of frontman. “Over the years, I’ve grown from not really caring about doing live performance all that much to liking it,” Kasher says. “I kind of prefer writing, but I’ve been doing this for so long now BY that I’ve really grown to like KYLE performing as well. It’s great going out and having a night EUSTICE of celebrating this stuff. It means a lot more to the people at the show than it does to me. I guess that’s rubbed off on me as well, though.” Since forming Cursive in 1995, Kasher, bassist Matt Maginn and guitarist Ted Stevens have played an important role in placing Omaha and Saddle Creek Records on the musical map. I Am Gemini, out last month, is the band’s seventh studio album. True to form, it’s another concept album. But it’s more like a cousin of 2000’s breakout album, Domestica, than a follow-up to 2009’s Mama, I’m Swollen. And its title suggests a dichotomous theme. While it’s a story about two fictional people (estranged twins Cassius and Pollock), it also comes from the depths of Kasher’s conscience. “It’s pretty personal for me,” Kasher says. “Throughout the album, I kept reminding myself to write about it from some kind of familiar place. It sounds fictionalized but it really isn’t. I kind of enjoy that. It’s one of the perks of fiction. It definitely becomes its own story. At its root, it’s a personal thing, but I hope a lot of people can relate to the duality of it — like the voices in my head.” As a story, I Am Gemini is complete from start to finish. Kasher has always had a way of telling compelling tales, whether he’s purging his inner demons or, in this case, creating an opus revolving around two characters. The songwriting process this time around was a bit different, lending to its unified feel. “I collected quite a few songs before we kind of started out recording,” Kasher says. “I wrote the story before I wrote the lyrics, and I sorted out all the song titles on the album before I started the lyrics as well, so that I could write

it linearly. I wanted to make sure the story was as cohesive as possible. Most of our records are ideas or themes that get consorted and placed throughout the album. This one was much more of a speciﬁc trajectory of a story.” Whether critics appreciate the album, loyal Cursive fans should enjoy the raw nature of it. The addition of drummer Cully Symington and keyboardist Patrick Newbery to the longtime trio adds a fullness to Cursive’s sonically inventive sound; I Am Gemini is the heaviest album they’ve put out in years. “The fact that it’s more of a rock album is a decision we made as a group,” Kasher says. “I wanted it to be more dynamic.” Kasher is intent on continuing to make records, whether with Cursive or his other band, The Good Life, or as a solo artist. He hopes Saddle Creek will be able to keep up with changes in a crumbling music industry. “I think they have the marketing power,” Kasher says. “They’re still a prominent indie label. I think they are losing steam as much as the rest of the record industry is. There are

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only a few labels, like maybe Merge Records, that are still striking gold. That’s tough to do, and I empathize with them. I think it’s tough for labels and musicians to weather the storm. I think you have to ﬁgure out how to stay in the game. With each record, we just hope it will do all right and that we can do another one.”

The Highﬂying Bill Goffrier

he Embarrassment, a group of Wichita smart alecks who tasted underground fame playing twitchy post-punk in the early 1980s, is correctly remembered as one of Kansas’ musical treasures. Many fans of the band followed vocalist and guitarist Bill Goffrier on to Big Dipper, the acclaimed, nervy guitar-pop act that he slid into in 1985 after moving to Boston. (For those who didn’t, the remastered, three-CD Big Dipper anthology Supercluster, released by Merge Records in 2008, is a good place to start.) pitch.com

Cursive lines up album number seven.

Less is known about Saucer, a Goffrier-led trio that played around Boston for about a year following Big Dipper’s breakup in 1992. But now, the cult of Goffrier has six new tracks to greedily binge upon, due to the release in late 2011 of The Saucer Years. “It didn’t occur to me to release the Saucer tracks until I discussed with the other members of Big Dipper just how we would handle releasing a new Big Dipper album,” Goffrier says. “We aren’t signed to any label currently, and we were considering doing it all ourselves in 2012. I had already been compiling and editing the Saucer tracks in Wichita with my friend Tom Page. So I offered to be the guinea pig and release a DIY EP.” Saucer was made up of three-quarters of the ﬁnal Big Dipper lineup: Goffrier, bassist John Styklunas, and drummer Woody Giessmann (who played with both the Embarrassment and the recently reunited Del Fuegos). Naturally, The Saucer Years reﬂects continued on page 26 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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some of Big Dipper’s REM-style sensibilities — acoustic guitars run like a current beneath the more prominent electric guitars, imbuing the album with a warm jangle. But 1992 was a transitional time in rock, and there are also traces of the looming tilt of grunge on The Saucer Years — one foot in the ’80s indierock underground, one toeing the raging waters in Seattle. Or maybe those cranked-up numbers are more of a throwback to the Embos’ jagged punk sound? It could go either way. Some of the lyrics ﬁrmly situate us in the early 1990s, though. The next president-elect/Is politically erect, Goffrier sings on “The Next President,” a welcome reminder that everybody already knew Clinton was a hornball before they elected him. After two decades, it’s easy to forget little details like that, just as it’s easy to forget about short-lived bands that wrote a handful of smart pop songs and then quickly faded away. Good thing we’ve got the Internet, and guys like Bill Goffrier willing to share old demos. — DAVID HUDNALL E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6774

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Drake My deﬁant position that Drake’s whiny rapsinging was a passing hip-hop fad to be ignored was dealt a crushing blow last year upon the release of his undeniably compelling second album, Take Care. I still don’t like the lazy timbre of his voice or all the complaint raps about the trappings of fame. But his capacity for thoughtful self-examination is rare (and brave) in the rap game, and only the most stubborn of grouches could deny the lush bliss of the album’s arrangements and production. Thursday, March 1, at Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

Blind Pilot This Portland, Oregon, act seems to turn up on area bills at a quarterly rate, but in our postMumford & Sons age, the living is good for melodic folk-pop groups. Blind Pilot’s most recent album, 2011’s We Are the Tide, upped the band’s production-value setting from dusty to grand, a move that appears to be elevating its proﬁle among more casual music fans. Saturday, March 3, at the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

The Head and the Heart The template for Blind Pilot’s new harmonydriven, big-and-rich folk sound exists quite successfully in the songs of its Paciﬁc Northwest neighbor the Head and the Heart. Sub Pop has

made a killing on the Seattle act’s debut, whose sounds I’ve heard emanating from more than a few Brookside Mom Utility Vehicles. Sunday, March 4, at the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

Chali 2na If there was a breakout star from late-’90s, early-’00s hip-hop crew Jurassic 5, it was probably Charles Stewart, aka Chali 2na, whose booming baritone was the liquid glue of the group’s good-natured raps. He’s on the verge of releasing a ﬁve-part EP called Against the Current, the follow-up to his unfortunately titled debut, Fish Outta Water. Tuesday, March 6, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Puscifer In addition to his roles as frontman of Tool and A Perfect Circle (as well as his vintner duties — his wine company, Merkin, is named after a 15th-century pubic wig), Maynard James Keenan has been keeping it weird lately with yet another side project, the industrial alt-rock act Puscifer. It’s all very cowboy-ish and theatrical and winking and bawdy, and I do not for a second claim to understand any of it. Tuesday, March 6, at the Music Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000)

Helen Gillet New Orleans cellist Helen Gillet takes an improvisational, avant-garde approach to her instrument, augmenting its classical sounds with vocals and electronic loops. She performs twice while in town, both at approachable neighborhood venues. Saturday, March 3, at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634) and Tuesday, March 6, at Birdies (116 West 18th Street, 816-842-2473)

Punch Brothers Their dates supporting Paul Simon, on his tour last fall, seem to be paying off for the Punch Brothers: Just this month, they’ve appeared on The Tonight Show and as a spotlighted act in Vanity Fair. The ﬁve-piece — mandolin, banjo, acoustic guitar, violin, stand-up bass — performs plucky bluegrass-folk songs with a crisp, precise zeal. Saturday, March 3, at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

White Mystery For the broke MC5 fans among us: a free show at Davey’s featuring White Mystery. The Chicagobased, ginger-haired, bro-sis duo bang out familiar but dynamic ’60s garage rock. Monday, March 5, at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-753-1909)

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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, MARCH 1 Michael Colyar: 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Drake: 8 p.m., $39.75–$79.75. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. 500 Miles to Memphis, Loaded Goat, Silver Maggies: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Nick Moss & the Flip Tops: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Josh Turner: a beneﬁt for Kansas City’s Medicine Cabinet 6 p.m., $30–$125. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. VNV Nation, Straftanz: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

FRIDAY, MARCH 2 Wade Bowen: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Michael Colyar: 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Cursive, Ume, Virgin Islands: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Dirtfoot, Ben Miller Band, David Mayfield: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Shockwave: Bassex with Ton!c, DJ Moses, Half Dead Bear: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. The Ultimate Doo-Wop Show: the Contours, Sylvester Potts, Jimmy Clanton, the Marcels, the Edsels, Paul & Paula, the Volumes, the Eldorados, Blue Suede Orchestra: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Yacht: 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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MONDAY, MARCH 5 Katie Herzig, Sara Swenson: RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. White Mystery: 8:30 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

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Mark Lowrey Presents: 8 p.m., $3. Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Puscifer, Carina Round: 8 p.m., $28, $38. Municipal Auditorium/Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St., 816-513-5000.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 Bronze Radio Return, the Brew: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Chieftains: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, 816-994-7200. Fred Eaglesmith, the Ginn Sisters: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Mike Stud, That Kid Ty, Matt Easton: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

UPCOMING Trace Adkins: Fri., March 9. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan, Lauren Alaina: Sat., March 17. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Andrew Bird, Eugene Mirman: Fri., March 23. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Chicago Afrobeat Project: Fri., March 9, 8 p.m., $9. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Cloud Nothings, Mr. Dream, O, Giant Man: Mon., March 12, 8 p.m., $10. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Communion, Ben Howard, the Staves, Nathaniel Rateliff, Bear’s Den: Wed., March 21. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Corrosion of Conformity, Torche, Valient Thorr, A Storm of Light: Fri., March 9, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Dayglow: World’s largest paint party Sat., March 31. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. The Elders 10th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Hoolie: Sat., March 17. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. EMA: Wed., March 21. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour: Wed., March 28, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Jim Gaffigan: Thu., March 22, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Galactic: Thu., March 15. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Jane’s Addiction: Fri., March 16. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Kid Congo and the Pink Monkey Birds: Sat., March 10. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Lisa Lampanelli: Sat., March 24. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Stoney LaRue, the 44s: Thu., March 15. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Madonna: Tue., Oct. 30. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Mansions on the Moon: Wed., March 21. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Mindless Self Indulgence, Hyro Da Hero, Ventana: Wed., March 21. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Needtobreathe, Ben Rector: Sun., March 11. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Radiohead: Sun., March 11. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Reptar, Tangent Arc: Thu., March 8. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Paul Thorn and Ruthie Foster: Wed., March 28. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Ron White: Sat., March 10, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Whitechapel, Miss May I, After the Burial, the Plot in You, Structures: Fri., March 16, 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Whitehorse: Fri., March 9. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Yonder Mountain String Band: Thu., March 29. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Young the Giant, Grouplove: Fri., March 30. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Youth Lagoon: Mon., March 12. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company, Granny Tweed. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, 8 p.m.

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HIP-HOP Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Indyground presents Farout and Jbomb are Brett Gretzky with Atilla, Dallas, hosted by Steddy P, 10 p.m.

ACOUSTIC Sidecar at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Sidecar Acoustic Nights with Bent Left, Marc Shipley.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Julie Turner, Tommy Ruskin Quartet, 7 p.m. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Customer Quartet, 7 p.m.

WORLD The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Live Reggae with AZ-ONE.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Ladies’ Night. Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m. Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with the Star Blues Band. McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. All In Thursdays. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Ladies’ Night.

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EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m. Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Blues Jam hosted by RocknRick’s Boogie Leggin’ Blues Band, 7 p.m. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Open Jam with JD Summers featuring Jeremy Butcher and the Bail Jumpers. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Open Mic, Low Dough Beer Night, 8 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Bluegrass Jam hosted by Konza Swamp Band.

Amore Chocolate Pizza Company: 4821 W. 117th St., Leawood, 913-327-1400. Electric Needle Room CD release, 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Ghosts of Guyana, the Sour Babies, the Ants. Michael’s Lakewood Pub: N. 291 Hwy. and Lakewood Blvd., Lee’s Summit, 816-350-7300. Sun King. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Radio Romantica, Books of Bokonon, 6 p.m.; Chapter24, Long Shadows, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Modern Arsonists, Now Now Sleepyhead, Jorge Arana Trio, 8 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Josh Vowell and the Rumble. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. The Real Nasty. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. The Bobby Smith Blues Band. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Cold Sweat. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Samantha Fish, Brody Buster, 8 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot. Ophelia’s: 201 N. Main, Independence, 816-461-4525. Mama Ray, 8 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation, 9 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Levee Town.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. County Road 5. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Midcoast Takeover with Sara Swenson, Quiet Corral, Blackbird Revue.

DJ Aura: 3832 Main. Nathan Scott, Jeffrey B. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. First Friday with Barbaric Merits, FSTZ, 10 p.m. The Quaff Bar & Grill: 1010 Broadway, 816-842-4745. DJ Julie.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Indigo Hour, 5:30 p.m.; Lori Tucker, Everette DeVan Quartet, 8:30 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Billy Ebeling. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Ron Carlson Trio with Kathleen Holeman, 7 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. The Stan Kessler Trio.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. First Friday, art by Carol Zastoupil. Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-322-1000. Karaoke with Jim Bob, 9 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m., free; MANY MORE Ab Fab Fridays on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. ONLINE AT Retro Downtown Drinks & PITCH.COM Dance: 1518 McGee, 816421-4201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m. Shark Bar: 1340 Grand, 816-442-8140. Ladies’ Appreciation Night. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Dynamite Saloon: 721 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785856-2739. Pat Nichols, free. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. D.C. Bellamy. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Tommy Taylor and the Uptown Allstars. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Trampled Under Foot, Lenny Mink & the Lost and Found. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. The Good Sam Club. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Rick Bacus and Monique Danielle, 4:30 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Harvesting Jane.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Dan Bliss.

JAZZ RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Jeff Harshbarger presents People’s Liberation Big Band, 7 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Marbin.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m.; Show Stopper Karaoke, 12:30 a.m. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m.

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Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. King of the Tramps, South Sea Island of Magic. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Betse Ellis, Ike Sheldon, and Nate Gawron of the Wilders. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Cadillac Flambe, 9 p.m. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Adam Lee.

Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free. R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777. Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m.

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Aura: 3832 Main. M6 annual Black Party. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Saturday Soulclap with Josh Powers. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager. The Quaff Bar & Grill: 1010 Broadway, 816-842-4745. DJ Julie. The Well: 7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700. DJ Overpour.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.

DJ Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. One Eye Jacks with DJs Ilya & Troy, 10 p.m.

JAZZ

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Deborah Brown, 8:30 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Heather Thornton Band. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Diverse Trio.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Tim Doherty’s 9plus1 Big Band.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke with KJ David, 9:30 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 1-4 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 10 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.

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RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Dia Frampton with special guests, 6 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Grand Jam hosted by Supermassive Black Holes.

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The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Bad Girls Go to Hell, Moire, No Cause/No Cure, Dark Matter.

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VARIET Y The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Gorilla Finals with Until the World’s End, the G Experience, Bound to Happen, and more, 4 p.m. Grandview Elk’s Lodge: 13600 Arrington Rd., Grandview. Concert to Help Cure Diabetes, call 816-3591024 for more information, 4 p.m.-1 a.m., free. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. oh!mr., Bear Club, Sneakhype present Marty Turns 47!? IV featuring Stik Figa, D/ Will, Les Izmore, Motorboater, Atilla, Stik Figa will celebrate his new release, Choosy Moms Choose Stik EP, giveaways, etc., 9 p.m., $5.

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Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. 2Twnety2, the Mighty Regis. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Travelers Guild. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Drew6. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Radiation City, Samantha Clemons, 9 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Rex Hobart’s Honky Tonk Supper Club, 6 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Oak Creek Band.

DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. The Dropout Boogie, 10 p.m., free.

ACOUSTIC The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Jacque Garoutte.

JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rick Bacus and Monique Danielle.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Buttwiser’s Bash with DJ Double D, 10 p.m., free. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke.

EASY LISTENING Finnigan’s Hall: 503 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City, 816-221-3466. Abel Ramirez Big Band, 7:30 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

W E D N E S DAY 7 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. The Brian Ruskin Quartet, 7 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Shinetop Jr.

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JAZZ B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. New Vintage Big Band. Sullivan’s Steakhouse & Saloon: 4501 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-345-0800. Candace Evans Duo, 6 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. The Girlies with Daisy Bouquet, Loretta Martin, Tajma Stetson, Christa Collins, 8 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Karaoke, Ladies’ Night. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Devin Henderson’s Mind Madness. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-5251871. Club Jerry’s, reverse happy hour, 9 p.m.-12 a.m. Power & Light District: 14th St. and Main, 816-8421045. Miller Lite Basketball Fan Fest. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Pop Culture Trivia.

EASY LISTENING Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Colby & Mole.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 7 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 6 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m. Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816-833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30-11 p.m.

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savage love Rules of EnGGGagement Dear Dan: I had a threesome with my husband and another woman because I’m GGG and that’s always been a fantasy of his. I laid out my ground rules, and they were violated. (I said I was uncomfortable with his P in her V, and I ended up watching them fuck.) I didn’t stop it at the time because I didn’t want to ruin it for him. It’s been some time, and my heart is still broken. I was completely down with every other aspect of the threesome, but I feel like a line was crossed. Heartbroken Dear H: Please hand this column to your husband. My response is for him. You are one stupid motherfucker. Here’s how: Your wife agreed to have a threesome on one condition: no penis-in-vagina intercourse with the other woman. That’s a fairly comBY mon ground rule for first-time threesomes, and you agreed to DAN honor that ground rule. S AVA G E Maybe you thought your wife’s ground rule was arbitrary. But it mattered to your GGG wife. When you went ahead and stuck your penis in the other woman’s vagina, that threesome suddenly became a nonconsensual sexual experience for your wife. And now she feels violated. Because you violated her. Adding to her feelings of violation, she felt obligated to play along and pretend she was fine with it because she didn’t want to ruin the experience for you and probably didn’t want to make your third feel uncomfortable — a third who didn’t know about the ground rule or knew about it and didn’t give a shit (which makes her a malicious motherfucker). As a result, your wife may feel complicit in her own violation. Talk about mind-fucks! Here’s how you’re stupid: If you had demonstrated that you could be trusted, if you had cheerfully observed the ground rules, this threesome would likely have been the first in a whole series of sexual adventures. Your wife might have trusted you with more during a future threesome and given you enthusiastic consent. To others out there with partners who have agreed to have a threesome: Sometimes, a nervous wife/husband/boyfriend/ girlfriend sets ground rules for an inaugural threesome that seem arbitrary because they are. When your partner declares a particular kiss/toy/orifice out of bounds, he or she isn’t just holding something back because it’s special. They’re also measuring your ability to respect their boundaries, which sends a message: “I may be messing around with someone else, but I love you, and your emotional and sexual needs still come first.” And then ground rules tend to become less restrictive. 36

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That’s not gonna happen now because you couldn’t honor your wife’s ground rules during your ﬁrst — and most likely last — threesome. If you ever hope to have another threesome, or to realize some other sexual fantasy, or if your wife has a sexual fantasy that she would like to realize (one that you might enjoy helping her realize), you’ll need to offer her a plausible explanation and an abject apology. Dear Dan: I’m in love. But my boyfriend of more than a year is really into the fantasy of an MFF threesome. I’m GGG, but I’m one of those rare types who was sexually abused by an adult woman when I was a young girl. He knows this. And he knows that since I realized I was attracted to other women, I’ve felt like a guilty pervert. Thanks to copious amounts of alcohol, I’ve gotten about as far with another girl as a stereotypical college student, but the abuse still haunts me. (And, yes, I go to therapy when I can afford it.) If I may never be capable of fulfilling his fantasy by bringing another chick into our bed, am I an asshole for wanting to remain in an LTR with this guy? I don’t know if he gets how hard an MFF could actually be for me. I have no idea how to broach this subject. Should I set him free? Whatever Your Intern Can Come Up With Dear WYICCUW: First, I’m so sorry about the sexual abuse you suffered. But I would urge you to prioritize therapy over, say, a third and fourth round of drinks. Less money going to booze and more going to therapy may lead to more — and happier and easier-to-recall — bisexual experiences. Just tell the boyfriend that, due to your history, an MFF threesome isn’t something you would be able to do for or with him anytime soon. If going without that is a price of admission he’s willing to pay to be with you, do him the honor of letting him pay it. Dear Dan: I’m a straight woman who enjoys gay porn and writes slash ﬁction. Seeing my husband make love to another man is my biggest fantasy, but he insists it will never happen. He agreed to an MMF threesome, but only if he didn’t have to do anything with the other man. I found a guy in a city we’re visiting in three weeks. My husband doesn’t know this guy is bisexual and into him. (He has seen pictures of my husband.) I’m hoping that my husband will feel “inspired” once “things” are under way. She Lusts After Sexy Homos Dear SLASH: Do not spring a bisexual-andinto-him third on your husband. Do not violate your husband’s ground rules. Do not be a stupid motherfucker.

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Practice emphasizing DWI defense. Experienced, knowledgeable attorney will take the time to listen and inform. Free initial phone consultation.

SUNNY MASSAGE - 2500 W. 6th St. Lawrence, KS 66049. Walk-in or by appointment 785.865.1311

America's Best Selling E-Cig/Free Trials 307 S 7 Hwy Blue Springs Ward Pky Ctr 14300 E 40 Hwy Indep Flea Mart D6

Mon-Sat 10-8 Sun 12-5

Includes Tobacco Tubes & Machine Rental

AFFORDABLE

816-587-4LAW(4529)

DWI, SOLICITATION, TRAFFIC DEFENSE, INTERNET-BASED CRIMES816-221-5900

1038 W 103rd St. KCMO 816.941.4100

BANKRUPTCY • FAMILY LAW • TRAFFIC • DWI DEFENSE