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What career would you choose in an alternate reality? I could have been a psychologist. I almost had all the college credits. I aced statistics! What was the last local restaurant you patronized? The Classic Cookie. I’m crazy about their chicken salad. Where do you drink? Currently, at the American Heartland Theatre bar. Actors drink free if you’re working there. Well, the first drink anyway.
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“Kansas City screwed up when it …” Failed to establish a leash-free dog park closer to my home.
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What’s your favorite charity? Children International. My daughter Julia and I have been sponsoring a girl named Suany in Honduras for about 11 years now.
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Finish this sentence: “Other than the Kauffman Center, Kansas City got it right when …” It committed to investing in its urban core. If the core dies, you rot from the inside.
“Kansas City needs …” To see me in the New Theatre’s upcoming production of Hairspray this summer! Shameless promo? Yeah, so what?
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Favorite day trip: Powell Gardens What is your most embarrassing dating moment? Oh, the ones where you find out they’re gay. I’ve had several of those. Interesting brush with the law? I was arrested for farming yards in high school. I’ve been clean ever since.
What TV show do you make sure you watch? Toddlers & Tiaras. Don’t ask. The reasons are deep and dark as a pit.
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town Times that reinvesting the money from KCIR’s sale in the suburb was a necessity. “When it seemed certain that the KCIR owners would be unable to develop a drag strip elsewhere, the Paynes decided to invest in Raytown,” the newspaper reported. “Because of tax consequences they needed to put money from the KCIR sale into good real estate investments.” While NP3 appears to have given up on building a new racetrack, former KCIR manager Todd Bridges hasn’t. Bridges is leading a
party of racers and investors called Race to the Future to find a new racing spot. “Johnson, Cass and Lafayette [counties] have all said, ‘Hey, we would like for it to come here,’ ” Bridges tells The Pitch. “We’re trying to find the best location and the best opportunity to get the thing pushed through the political side of things.” Bridges says the counties in talks with his group don’t want the locations under consideration revealed yet. Perhaps learning a lesson from the backlash against NP3’s handling of the KCIR sale, Bridges says Race to the Future is trying to attract as many investors as possible. “We’re taking a coalition approach,” Bridges says. “We all believe that the old days of a couple of people getting together and saying, ‘I’m going to build a racetrack,’ are [past].” Race to the Future’s volunteers are raising money by selling bricks jackhammered from KCIR’s starting line. But Bridges has no delusions about how soon racers will get to lay rubber on a new track. “Obviously, we’d like to try to figure out a way to be racing in 2013,” he says. “Every day that ticks by makes that more of a challenge. And I think it’s going to, somewhat, come down to the counties, cities, whatever and how much they can help.” — BEN PALOSAARI
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Station of the Cross GOD — BY WAY OF LEAWOOD’S CHURCH OF THE RESURRECTION — TAKES OVER A FAILED BAR’S SPACE. BY NANCY HULL RIGDON † PHOTOGRAPHY BY BROOKE VANDEVER
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ave you heard the one about the preacher who walked into a bar church?”
A glossy mailer asks the question — not the usual come-on from a church looking for new members. The promotion belongs to United Methodist Church of the Resurrection, and so does the bar church. Church of the Resurrection has arrived in downtown Kansas City and taken over a space that previously housed the cavernous nightspot Crosstown Station. A house of worship that looks more like an event space than a status quo church is no joke, though. Consider the ambitious trajectory that Church of the Resurrection has traced in its 22 years. Membership has ballooned from four people (meeting in a makeshift church in south Kansas City) to 18,000 members, counting its Leawood home base and three KC metro branches. And that’s not counting sermons delivered electronically to pews in Arkansas, Maryland and Texas, as well as anywhere with an Internet connection. In a city where “megachurch” has sometimes been a dirty word, Church of the Resurrection is becoming one of the nation’s most influential churches. The success paved the way for the church’s latest target: downtown Kansas City. Resurrection Downtown moved into 1522 McGee in late 2011, after the church bought the building for $1.4 million. The keys to building on this Christian dynasty are seemingly straightforward: Target the ripe market of people disenchanted with traditional church. Don’t push the product too hard at first. Zero in on bringing people together. Then, pull God out of the background to focus on, in the words of Resurrection Downtown’s slogan, “Building community, changing lives.” continued on page 8 pitch.com 5 - 1X1 ,, 2 20 0 102X pitch.com M O NATPHR IXLX–X
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esurrection Downtown’s soft-peddled approach worked on Kate O’Neill Rauber. Rauber was raised Catholic but strayed from the faith as she entered adulthood. She longed for a place to celebrate Christianity, but it had to be a church that wouldn’t force Scripture, wouldn’t tell her what she couldn’t do, wouldn’t tell her what she needed to do. She struggled to find such a place, a church whose message she actually believed. About 600 people (almost half of them are members) now attend the downtown branch’s services each weekend. Resurrection Downtown’s swelling ranks made the place a tough sell for Rauber when she first went there two years ago when it met in the Grand Avenue Temple. The church emphasizes smaller groups that mix religion with secular subjects like art. Everyday subjects — marriage is a big one — also drive these subsets. But at first, that didn’t sway Rauber, either. “I am not a stereotypical joiner,” she says. “I hate forced fun and forced teamwork.” But Rauber, who works in public relations, decided to start a church group for professional women. She had what she says were enlightening conversations about religion and she connected with people on other levels. It was a fulfilling experience that strengthened her faith — but it still didn’t convince her. Last year, she fainted in church and was rushed to the hospital. When she awoke, her husband was there. So were several members of her church group. “It wasn’t artificial,” she says. “It was genuine caring. Right then, I was sold. “All these churches will tell you that you can’t do this or that. Rez Downtown says you can,” she says, using members’ usual shorthand for the downtown branch’s name. Today, she’s active with the church. She doesn’t consider herself Methodist, but she says that’s OK with the Rez. The Rev. Adam Hamilton had people like Rauber in mind when he started Church of the Resurrection in 1990, at age 25. The church — referred to most often as COR (say core) in
Johnson County — set out to, as its website says and as its leaders tell you when you talk to them, “Build a Christian community where nonreligious and nominally religious people are becoming deeply committed Christians.” The journey to the Crossroads District began 10 years ago. At the time, Power & Light referred only to the electric utility, not an entertainment district. But downtown’s revitalization was coming, and Hamilton wanted his church to be a part
Hamilton’s knack for weaving Christianity into 21st-century issues helped. As a result, people didn’t just keep coming back for more but also encouraged their friends to go. The time to expand had arrived. The second church site, Resurrection West, opened in Olathe in 2006. The church then began scouting locations in downtown Kansas City and in Blue Springs. The expansion push coincided with the fall of another area megachurch.
of it. So he met with then-Mayor Kay Barnes as he considered building the church’s main campus downtown. Ultimately, headquarters ended up in Leawood, at 137th Street and Roe, despite resistance from suburbanites who didn’t want a million-square-foot religious supercenter in their backyards. The desire for a smaller-scale presence downtown remained, though. “The idea was, if downtown is going to experience renewal, it can’t occur through just new grocery stores and sports arenas,” says Hamilton, who serves as the head pastor at the Leawood site and oversees the other branches. “There have to be communities of faith, too.” At the time, the church had about 10,000 members. As is the case today, most of them were not regularly attending church when they made their first Church of the Resurrection visit. The accepting atmosphere enticed them, and
The Rev. Chrostek built his flock on coffee. Last year, Overland Park’s First Family shut its 118,000-square-foot campus. Amid a pile of debt several million dollars high, First Family’s pastor, Jerry Johnston, was making a lavish $400,000 a year, according to The Kansas City Star. The church’s payroll had been almost as kind to members of Johnston’s immediate family. With the cautionary tale of the First Family megachurch perhaps on his mind, Hamilton tends not to utter that m-word. His, he says, is not a megachurch but many small churches in one. “First Family had a unique set of issues that created the situation there,” he says. “Our situation is much different. We have processes and accountability structures put in place to protect our integrity.” Hamilton won’t get into specifics on Church
of the Resurrection’s payroll and budget. He says, “We try to live what we preach.” Hamilton’s plan to plant Church of the Resurrection’s seed in the urban core was simple: Convince 100 members of the Leawood church to sell their homes and move downtown. The message: The suburbs no longer need you; it’s time to breathe new life into the city. Southern Johnson Countians didn’t exactly line up to abandon their lush lawns and good schools. Just one couple sold their home and moved into an urban loft. Hamilton, who has written 13 books and travels the country as a speaker, was in Detroit when he met his downtown answer: the Rev. Scott Chrostek, who was youthful and engaging, and knew how to close a deal. Prior to entering the ministry, Chrostek had put his economics degree to work by making 300 phone calls a day managing mutual funds. “After 9/11, I was on the phone nonstop with people who were scared they were going to lose everything in the stock market,” he says. “I was telling them that the only thing that had changed was that they couldn’t control their money. I told them to focus on the things that mattered in life: their families, things that money didn’t affect. And then I realized that I was preaching these things that I myself didn’t do. I needed to make a change and begin filling my time with what mattered in life.” He turned toward ministry at Duke Divinity School. There, while camping out for Blue Devils basketball tickets, he met his wife, the Rev. Wendy Lyons Chrostek. After graduating in 2006, Scott Chrostek, with his wife, began working in a suburban Detroit church while preparing to lead a new downtown Detroit congregation. Amid setbacks to the opening of the new downtown Detroit church, Hamilton called. In summer 2009, the Chrosteks moved to downtown Kansas City to lead a church campus set to meet in the Grand Avenue Temple building. Congregation: nine. In search of more people, Scott Chrostek went on a coffee-shop tour, visiting 33 in 31 days, he says. (Recalling his caffeine walkabout, he says the Filling Station became his favorite.) He began with small talk.
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“The point in the conversation when I would say I was a church pastor was always so polarizing. They would either think it was cool or they’d leave,” Chrostek says. “No matter what, it got people talking. Someone would leave and tell a friend or wife or husband, ‘I was at this coffee shop today, and this pastor came up to me … ’ ” The new church downtown, Chrostek would tell those he met, didn’t adhere to a stereotype. A church that transforms lives and communities, he told people over coffee. A place that’s not about conforming. It’s a philosophy that recalls Hamilton’s successful Leawood recipe. It’s a strategy that also includes collecting names, phone numbers and addresses at each service. First-timers usually received a prompt thank-you note from Chrostek in the mail. Those who attended were encouraged to invite a friend. Regular attendees were invited — the word asked was purposely avoided — to join. By summer 2010, the downtown church had reached 160 members and had outgrown its space. Next stop: the Scarritt Building, at Eighth Street and Walnut. Still, the church sought a place of its own. Last year, while frequenting Crosstown Station for its music, Scott Chrostek heard that the bar’s struggles were forcing it to close. He recognized it as a facility ideal for the 200 members then crowding the Scarritt’s ballroom. (As the church prepared to make a permanent home downtown, it also opened its other planned branch: Resurrection Blue Springs.) From the outside, Resurrection Downtown’s new home could still pass as a club. It sits just a block outside the Power & Light District, and its neighbors include a strip club, a tattoo parlor and a handful of bars. That’s the point: Hamilton and Chrostek want to reach the downtown set. Originally an auto dealership, the building has brick walls, concrete floors and a woodenbeamed ceiling. Crosstown’s drum lights and stage remain, though the bar is gone. Here to stay are wooden crosses on the stage, a cry room and a nursery, and a coffee bar that features a new blend from the Roasterie — the “Rez Downtown” blend, of course. During church services, 33-year-old Chrostek wears jeans and a microphone headset. A sevenpiece rock band jams onstage. Videos play on a pull-down screen. Attendees are encouraged to chat with one another. Everyone is asked to sit closer to the center of the rows, leaving the empty seats on the ends. The scene — a room where something like an unusually respectful cocktail party might be
about to break out — is in response to a question Church of the Resurrection’s leaders asked themselves: If you lived downtown, what would your ideal church look like? The answer continues to woo those who never thought church could be cool. There is, for one, the man who admitted one recent Sunday that he’d never enjoyed going to church but had come to play in the church band. He reported to his fellow musicians a powerful
the church’s holiday cheer. (Management at Totally Nude did not return The Pitch’s calls about the church.) Resurrection isn’t the only church downtown. The area includes congregations that have been in the area for decades. Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, in fact, has been downtown more than 175 years. In 1835, two years after French missionary Father Benedict Roux arrived in Kansas City to start a parish,
first trip: “There’s a spirit here. I can feel it. I want it. I want to go lay in it.”
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ot everyone saw the light when the Rez announced its intentions. “We were extremely scared when we heard that a church was going in,” says Jason Patch, manager of the church’s next-door neighbor, Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance. After Patch met with church representatives, though, he felt satisfied that no holy crusade would be coming to end drinking and dancing. And he saw the upside to the hours that a church keeps. “With Crosstown, we were always battling each other for parking on Friday and Saturday nights,” he says. “But the church — they aren’t there at night. We have so much parking now. So the church ended up being a great neighbor.” When Resurrection Downtown arrived in its new home, church members took poinsettia plants to each neighboring business — including Totally Nude Temptations, the strip club across the alley. A female member dropped off
the community built a log-cabin church at 11th Street and Broadway. With the help of 300 Irish laborers, ground broke on a permanent brick structure for Catholics in 1857. Upon completion, the church was the tallest building in the city; it sold tickets to climb its staircase and look down on the rest of the area. Today, the church with the gold dome has as its membership, according to the cathedral’s Rev. Monsignor Robert S. Gregory, about 400 families (a measurement the church prefers to members). “I had heard that they were coming down here. But honestly, I didn’t even know they were downtown,” Gregory says. In 2008, the Rev. A.J. Vanderhorst, who was fresh out of the seminary at the time, set out to fulfill a dream of starting a church in the Crossroads. Vanderhorst — whose passions, aside from Christianity, include writing, photography and indie music — gathered a few people in a loft apartment. They called themselves Crossroads Church. More artists and others living downtown turned out to be searching for the right fit
for their faith, so services moved into the larger Arts Incubator in 2009. When the Arts Incubator closed last year, the church began meeting at ArtsTech, a youth center. Like Resurrection Downtown, Crossroads Church appeals to a younger crowd, those looking for anything but a traditional church and those seeking a bit of fun with their religion. As the church’s website states, enshrining NCAA basketball is a core value. And Vanderhorst would like his congregation to increase beyond its current 45 members, but bulk mail and a coffee bar aren’t options. Still, he says he doesn’t view Resurrection Downtown as a competitor. “Downtown is growing. There are new people down here all the time. There is definitely room for multiple churches to grow downtown,” Vanderhorst says. To the common criticism that megachurches are all about money and power, Chrostek points to the church’s giving. He says Resurrection Downtown each week sends about 1,800 backpacks filled with food to students in the Kansas City, Missouri, School District. The church assists local agencies, such as the Rose Brooks domestic-violence shelter, and donations from all Church of the Resurrection sites build preschools in Africa. “Generosity begets generosity,” he says. “There is something about giving it away to receive it. There is power in numbers.” And those numbers are increasing. During a Resurrection Downtown Sundaymorning service, Dana Lantz sat beside Laura Tyler. Both were attending for the first time. The family of Lantz’s fiancé went to the Leawood Church of the Resurrection and encouraged the couple, in their mid-20s, to go to the downtown branch. Tyler and her husband, whose children are in college, had tried many churches through the years. “We’ve been looking for a community where the community enjoys serving the community,” Tyler says. “Not service where you do something for some individuals but you keep your distance from them.” “It seems like they want people to be here,” Lantz says. Tyler’s voice quavers with emotion as she reflects on the morning. “I enjoy seeing young people meeting God. I think that’s exciting,” she says. Both women plan to return. Both plan to spread the word about Rez Downtown. E-mail feedback@pitch.com
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The Bolshoi Ballet dances on the big screen.
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We’ll bet that Giada De Laurentiis is one of your guilty pleasures. The Emmy-winning, 5-foot1-inch celebrity chef has spellbinding abilities that transcend her visually appealing dishes. Giada makes us want to pop her decadent Italian pastries into our FIND mouths, drop $15 on MANY MORE one of her can openers from Target, and cook hunks of pancetta withregard for our LDL LISTINGS out cholesterol. She keeps ONLINE AT us transfixed to the tube PITCH.COM while she whisks, stirs, zests and never loses that toothy smile. Damn, Giada, can we come over for panna cotta? Experience her magnetism at 8 p.m. at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921) when she speaks about her latest book, Weeknights With Giada — an autographed copy comes free with each $22 ticket sold. See midlandkc.com for information or to buy tickets. — BERRY ANDERSON
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Unless you’re familiar with L.A. stage productions or gay-club beats, you probably haven’t heard of Jason Dottley. It’s more likely you’ve heard of Dottley’s former partner: the playwright and director Del Shores (Sordid Lives and Daddy’s Dyin’: Who’s Got the Will?). They’re now divorcing. “Considering that he [Dottley] and Mr. Shores were known as one of Hollywood’s only legally married gay power couples, Jason is highly concerned about preserving the dignity of their union through their split, as how one ends a marriage is as much of an example to the public as how one lives within a marriage,” says James Simmons, Dottley’s press handler in an e-mail to The Pitch. We’re thinking all of this might be fodder for his one-man comedy show XXX: My First 30 Years (Get Your Mind Outta the Gutter) at the Westport Flea Market (817 Westport Road, 816-931-1986) beginning at 8 p.m. He’ll probably also talk about Hollywood, working with Rue McClanahan, and growing up gay in the South. Tickets cost $15. See nationofjason.com for more info about Dottley. — BERRY ANDERSON
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How often do you visit an art show? For the fiveweek run of The Speakeasy, curators Andrew Erdrich and Sean Starowitz have organized a series of genre-spanning events aimed at changing art audiences’ gallery-going habits and luring in visitors outside the typical art crowd. This weekend marks the first happenings in a long list of concerts, readings, discussions and workshops. From 6 to 10 p.m., Eric May’s E-Dogz, a Chicago-based food truck billed as a “mobile culinary community center” parks outside La Esquina (1000 West 25th Street, 816-221-5115) and serves (for $5) platters of Chicago- and Kansas City-style barbecue. From 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday, April 7, guest speakers ask questions of audience members at a kind of reverse panel discussion, Speakeasy Exchange — One: Creative Labor, also at La Esquina. Prepare to discuss creative labor without having to spend the fruits of your labor — admission is free. For more information about The Speakeasy and its schedule of events, see thespeak-easy.org. — THERESA BEMBNISTER [ART]
FIRST-FRIDAY HIT LIST
Certain exhibitions are best viewed during the energetic frenzy of First Friday.
“Buffalo in Bloom” by David Goodrich, at Leedy-Voulkos (see Friday).
Lampo Leong is on hand to explain the words in his Wild Cursive paintings — abstracted Chinese characters based on ancient designs. He is a distinguished professor of both art and science at the University of MissouriColumbia and is part of the multimedia Chinese Myths Cantata at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts later this month. Meet him tonight at MLB Designs (2020 Baltimore, #105).
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Windhorse Gallery (1717 Wyandotte, #200) shows off the talents of 32 tattoo artists from around the country, but don’t expect a bunch of two-dimensional framed photos of inked skin. They have manipulated and painted cast-resin forearms made by Adam Smith into remarkably engaging sculptures. Curator Mark Galloway here gives them the opportunity to demonstrate more than their knowledge of tattoo culture and history. Reach Beyond Death is one of Kansas City’s most cutting-edge shows in a long time. The Leedy-Voulkos Art Center (2012 Baltimore) is full of energy on First Fridays. In addition to continuing exhibitions from March, along with new work in the KCAI Undergrads Underground (Autumn Randell’s Parts), a new, full-scale exhibition by painter David Goodrich fills the main gallery. Goodrich is a master of transforming mythology from a variety of cultures — Greek, Egyptian, Christian, American Indian — into dramatic, boldly colored large canvases in a style reminiscent of Van Gogh’s brushwork. Ask him for any of the back stories to the works in Lucifer Rising; you’ll get a cultural history lesson. — TRACY ABELN
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KC, are we finally past the point when we give people shit for using a bike as their primary mode of transportation? If so, we’d better start embracing BikeWalkKC, the nonprofit that hopes to see the city’s commuting rates for walking and biking exceed the national average in the next 10 years. Explore this fit lifestyle when BikeWalkKC puts on the Dinner and Bikes Tour, a food and movie event with bicycling writer Elly Blue, bicycling documentarian Joe Biel and vegan chef Joshua Ploeg. “This crew brings an original twist to biking. They have a new show this year and are psyched to get us ‘geared up’ for Bike Week in May,” says BikeWalkKC event organizer Sarah Shipley. It starts at 6:30 p.m., with dinner beginning at 7, at EventPort (208 West 19th Street), and tickets cost $10 in advance or $15 at the door. For information, see bikewalkkc.org. — BERRY ANDERSON
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To the Farmers Almanac, April’s “Full Pink Moon” is in reference to the wild ground phlox that blooms early in the spring. Sara “Miss Conception” Glass sees the full moon as an opportunity. “It’s a time to really put intention into what you wish to manifest in your future,” the performance artist explains. From 6 to 10 p.m., she hosts a Full Moon Gathering, an informal get-together designed to cleanse psyches and reset spiritual clocks. “We discuss ideas that lean more toward metaphysical and spiritual concepts,” Glass says. Dress for the weather and bring your own food when you head to Emerald City (1316 East 42nd Street). For more information, search for Emerald City Full Moon Gathering on Facebook. — BERRY ANDERSON [FOOD & DRINK]
EASTER BRUNCH ROUNDUP
Unless the Easter bunny has dropped a few solid-gold eggs in your basket this morning, you may be a little wary of withdrawing the balance in your 401(k) to take the family out to brunch. If you do have the means, the costliest Easter brunch in town is offered by the Plaza’s Capital Grille (4740 Jefferson, 816-531-8345). For $46 per adult and $18 per child (kids under age 5 12 2 TTHHEE PPIITTCCHH
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Sometimes, we need coddling, a little extra attention to the handling of our drinks and enough space to rest our weary bodies. And we like how Mac’s Sports Pub (9617 West 87th Street, Overland Park, 913-341-2000) hooks us up on Mondays, with $1 well drinks; a VIP lounge with leather couches, a fireplace and a huge flat-screen TV; not to mention, a dedicated server for bringing Natty Light drafts, corn-dog nuggets and chilled Captain Morgan shots. Reserve the lounge up to a week in advance (dibs cost you $30). But that’s not even the best part of Mac’s. “We don’t run on bar time,” says bar manager Ryan Chesney. Mac’s is open today from 11 a.m. to 1:50 a.m. — BERRY ANDERSON
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One the best ways to stay up on big international stage productions is through Tivoli Cinemas’ Performing Arts Series. The Westport movie house (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222)
shows opera productions from Milan and London, theater from Washington, D.C.’s National Theatre and dance performances by the Royal Ballet of London and the Bolshoi. Based on The Hunchback of Notre Dame, the Bolshoi’s Esmeralda is centered on the Gypsy dancer and her four male suitors. “The company today, live on screen, looks not just skilled and stylish but also enthusiastic, robust, engaging,” writes New York Times arts columnist Alastair Macaulay in an October 2011 piece about Esmeralda on the big screen. The threehour ballet costs $15 for adults, $13 for seniors and $10 for UMKC students. For more information, see tivolikc.com. — BERRY ANDERSON
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Last summer in Interview magazine, film scribe Aaron Sorkin told New York Times media columnist David Carr: “I don’t want [a citizen journalist] any more than I want a citizen doctor.” Well, the fact is that citizen journalism is a reality, and its importance is growing. Bystanders, activists and enraged citizens with cellphone cameras, Twitter and blogs document the grisliest of events where professional journalists can’t go. No one is better qualified to talk about this than Andy Carvin. At the Dole Institute of Politics (2350 Petefish Drive, Lawrence, 785-864-4900), NPR’s chief social-media strategist and longtime organizer of crowd-sourced news aggregation talks about how citizen reporting and social media were used to disseminate news during the Arab Spring, and how they have formed our views and coverage of the protests and violence. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. For more information, see doleinstitute.org. — BEN PALOSAARI [NIGHTLIFE]
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Lawrence is one of the few places where you can safely say, “Ain’t no party like an apartmentcomplex party!” Case in point: Rock Out With Your Hawk Out party at the Hawks Pointe Apartments (1421 West Seventh Street, 785-841-5255), from 6 to 9 p.m. We’ve been assured that this isn’t just a cheesy meet-andgreet to lure potential leasing candidates. Hawks Pointe is bringing in DJ Skeet Skeet (he has worked with Katy Perry, guys), giving away free food and drinks and providing bus rides to Saints Pub + Patio (2329 Iowa, 785-856-2300). VIP status can be had by securing a fall 2012 lease, but the party is open to the public. Search for Rock Out With Your Hawk Out on Facebook to reserve free tickets. — BERRY ANDERSON 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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uperstruct’s construct is simple: The five artists in this show have assembled work about man-made environments. At times, though, the essay for the fourth exhibition at artist-run Plug Projects veers past simplicity toward unhelpful broadness: “The use of collage, layering of paint, and construction within BY a pre-existing space parallels THERESA the building methods found in the everyday urban environB E M B N IST E R ment.” That description could apply to almost any objectbased work. Superstruct is more focused than that, a collection of smart-looking and intelligently conceived art. Brady Haston’s paintings could be drawn from foggy memories of cityscapes. In “BGM,” the Tennessee artist renders the letters b, g and m in logolike typefaces — they’d pass fine on billboards or strip-mall signs — against a brushy, Easter-egg-colored background. In “Behind the City,” a stark silhouette of an industrial-looking structure stands against a field of pastel colors. Above: “Untitled” by Stephanie Snider; Haston’s paintings suggest a 21st-century analog right: “Spatium” by Juniper Tangpuz to the Impressionists’ quick perceptions of city life in paint. His works are even more spare Bottoms, Blesofsky discovered a photograph of a window of a building near the base of the 12th and reductive. Stairs feature prominently in Superstruct. Street Bridge following the flood of 1951. “The image was, for me, very haunting and Two of New York artist Stephanie Snider’s three collages include them. Another staircase appears surreal,” Blesofsky says. “A Wizard of Oz scene in her untitled mixed-media sculpture, which where all the furniture from an office had been resembles one of her collages expanded into picked up with the high water and floated to three dimensions. Here, a small wooden shelf the lowest point of the building.” Blesofsky has constructed pieces of furnisupports the staircase, a bird figurine, a paneled wall and two guitar-pick-shaped objects hanging ture inspired by those in the photograph — a from wires — a sculptural element reminiscent ladder, a table and chairs, drawers, a bed — out of Alexander Calder’s mobiles. If Haston’s work of vellum, tape and hot glue. The front window seems concerned with our memories and im- of the gallery frames the ghostlike forms of pressions of cityscapes, Snider’s seems rooted the furniture, just as in her found photograph. Tangpuz’s “Spatium” ocin the interior and the uncupies the narrow alley beconscious. Her groupings of Superstruct tween Plug and the adjacent architectural references prick Through May 5 at Plug building. The installation is a at rationality like Surrealism. Projects, 1613 Genessee, shrine, a mishmash of archiKristen Kindler’s “Salon 646-535-7584, tectural elements from differM II” finds more steps, a info@plugprojects.com ent cultures, and constructed circle of staircases and ladout of corrugated plastic and ders leading nowhere. The Virginia artist cuts out images from magazines inspired by abandoned objects that the artist and layers them on mylar to create delicately discovered in the alley. “I found a Pepsi can, the ones they manuraised collages. Your eyes travel up and down steps, rungs and balusters, but the cutouts never factured in the ’60s with the pull tab, that inspired me to make the onion dome of St. Basil’s find their way out of the loop. The site-specific work here is most engaging. Cathedral,” Tangpuz says. “The fan blade of Brooklyn artist Sonya Blesofsky and Kansas City the air-conditioning unit turned into the Laartist Juniper Tangpuz have found inspiration kota medicine wheel. The rubber snake I found in the building occupied by Plug Projects and turned into Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent.” Step onto the wooden platform and look the surrounding neighborhood. When researching the history of the West through the shrine’s window, and the detritus
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from the alley, mostly discarded alcohol bottles, is lined up on display. Tangpuz plans to recycle the plastic that he used for the exterior — and to leave the trash where he found it. “Before, people threw their empty bottles with no care,” he says. “But now, willing or not, they contribute an offering. When the show is over, it will return just as I found it.” But Tangpuz’s shrine to things left behind is affecting enough to stay with unsuspecting passers-by who encounter the work on their way down the sidewalk. E-mail feedback@pitch.com
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For the doc’s first half, the viewer feels like one of Jiro’s apprentices: held at arm’s length, not entirely trusted yet with the particulars. (An early duty consists of holding painfully hot towels; one associate describes cooking an egg dish 200 times before his exacting boss
pronounced it usable — at which point the associate burst into tears of relief.) Spectacular dishes come and go with little identification, and procedures are watched closely but not explained. What comes through strongly, though, is the chef’s insistence on mastery through repetition — the only way to produce the consistency that lifted Sukiyabashi Jiro to a threestar Michelin rating, which is unprecedented for a restaurant of its kind and scale. The chef, revered by followers as the world’s greatest, has spent a lifetime looking for the proper balance of taste and texture. And in the movie’s most striking sequence, held back until late in the film, he finally explains the simple beauty found in the harmony of fish and vinegared rice in proper proportion, while Gelb catalogs the briny treasures we’ve seen throughout the film in showroom-ready displays. I predict a lot of people are going to see and love Jiro Dreams of Sushi, but many of the conditions needed for Jiro’s triumphs are unavailable here: most critically, oceanic markets with canoe-sized tuna, bristling fluorescent shrimp and other delicacies straight from the sea. That’s what qualifies Jiro Dreams of Sushi as porn, I suppose. It sates your eyes, but leaves you aware that you’re getting a placeholder for the real thing. ■
melancholy doctor about a mysterious ailment endured by a woman he once knew. Nobody wants to be out here. In any other director’s hands, this might have been a recipe for tedium. But Ceylan, who is also an accomplished photographer, understands that texture and light matter. He weaves a sensuous, dreamlike web over the proceedings: Blinding spots of light pierce the impossibly black night air; giant stone faces are revealed by brief flashes of lightning; characters wander into the dark and seem almost
able to touch long-forgotten memories. We seem to be in a world where the living and the dead coexist. All this is made hauntingly explicit when the team briefly stops in a nearby village where, as a local official informs them, all the young people have left, and the main order of business is getting a new morgue and a place to prepare bodies for burial. But Ceylan refuses to end his film in this sweet, uncertain night. In fact, the final section of Anatolia takes place in almost blindingly harsh daylight, as the characters, having finally found the body, face mundane reality back at home the following morning. The doctor performs his autopsy, while the suspect, who has some secrets of his own, has to face the judgment of those closest to him. Now the director lets his previously immaculate compositions get crowded by figures intruding into the frame, and even some handheld camerawork; having drawn us into a dream world, he feels obligated to pull us back out. We are now in a concrete, unbearable land of consequence and judgment. It is in these scenes that the mesmerizing, mysterious Anatolia begins to gain a new kind of power. It becomes a film about how the realm of memory, dreams, regret and death never really leaves us, how it’s always hovering somewhere nearby, in a constant, unseen dialectic with the cold edges of the visible world. Ceylan will certainly continue to seek new stylistic paths, but for now, he has given us a staggering masterpiece. ■
SUSHI FEELS A BIT SOFT. avid Gelb’s documentary Jiro Dreams of Sushi qualifies as triple-X food porn, but not just in the most obvious way. When you call something “(blank) porn,” you’re of course referring to its desirability: Would’ya look at that (dress, auto, food item)? But you’re also saying something about its unavailability. Porn BY is all about the search for JIM something you aren’t getting. And in Jiro Dreams of Sushi, RIDLEY the object of desire is a Platonic ideal of sushi, the kind that makes travelers plan trips in anticipation. Palatable sushi is available anywhere, but I’ve never seen anything like the singleminded artistry on display in chef Jiro Ono’s Sukiyabashi Jiro, a 10-seat sushi bar tucked away in the drab locale of a Tokyo subway station. It serves nothing but sushi — no apps, no soups, nuthin’ — in perfectly formed bites: one to a gleaming black plate, adorned with only a swift brush stroke of sauce.
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he Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s 2003 breakout film, Distant, had him pegged by many as a master of Jarmuschian deadpan, a static chronicler of the drolly pathetic lives of lonely, submerged characters. But subsequent films have revealed the director to be more of a seeker, both BY in form and content, delving into intensely intimate relaBILGE tionship dramas and neoclasEBIRI sical family tragedies. All along the way, however, he has flirted with abstraction —occasional glimpses of his characters’ dreams and mysterious stylistic flourishes that reveal a fondness for inhabiting that middle ground between the real and the otherworldly. With his latest, Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, Ceylan plunges headlong into a world that is decidedly unlike any we’ve seen. It’s a film that initially seems to be set entirely in the realm of the abstract — a place of dreams, memories, myth, and a solemn coating of uncertain guilt. The first couple of hours of Anatolia feel like a police procedural as imagined by Andrei 16
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served with grilled meats and another brassier sauce that’s a thick blend of peppers, onion, garlic, cilantro, oregano and white wine. The soft white-corn cakes, arepas, are terrific for diners seeking gluten-free alternatives. They’re filling enough that two easily add up to a satisfying meal, and there are meat, seafood and vegetarian options. The roasted-pork version is outrageously good, and a shredded-chicken version, with avocado, may be the classiest spin on a chicken-salad sandwich I’ve tried. (There’s a slightly different version of this chicken mixture, served on a crusty baguette, called “the Queen.”) Garcia’s Cubano, a welcome holdover from Café Venezuela, is a smart version of a classic, with sumptuous, tender, slow-roasted pork (and ham, Swiss cheese, pickles and all-American yellow mustard) pressed between slices of baguette. On one of my visits, a friend invented a salad for himself by ordering a couple of Garcia’s excellent house-made crab cakes and sliding them over the fresh avocado salad, dousing the whole thing with the addictive citrus vinaigrette, a tart and sweet dressing of fresh lime and orange juices, roasted chipotle, cilantro and honey. It’s a combination worth putting on the menu. The appetizers are also superb — you haven’t lived until you’ve dipped a hot, pastrywrapped ham-and-cheese stick into a bowl of herb-rich chimichurri. I felt almost too full to tackle one of the generous dinner entrées, but our server persuaded me to sample one of Garcia’s innovations. The dish — his version of hash — is made with roasted pork and hunks of cooked yuca root, bits of spicy
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chorizo, green and red peppers, and onion. Like traditional hash, it’s a hearty mix of the meaty and starchy that’s maybe better as a morning meal (with an egg) than a dinner. That evening’s fish special was a flaky fillet of mahi mahi tucked in a thick blanket of chunky sofrito cream sauce with squash, peppers, mushrooms and onions. It was visually impressive but almost overwhelmingly heavy. As in the miracle of loaves and fishes, the mahi mahi seemed to expand after each bite, so that even after everyone at the table sampled it, the portion seemed never to get smaller. The steaks include a luscious, Peruvianinspired stir-fry of tender sirloin, sautéed with onions and peppers in a yellow hotpepper paste called aji, which is more subtle than searing. There are spicier dishes here, though, and they demand a cooling finale. Garcia’s eggy, caramel-rich flan is a winner, but the cinnamon-dusted, densely rich tres leches cake is, hands down, the showstopper. You can’t enjoy a glass of port with the desserts yet, but Garcia whips up one hell of a café con leche. It was at this deeply satisfied point in the meal that I finally asked Garcia how, after so many years, he remembered me. “You always eat with such gusto,” he said. True! And Garcia’s restaurant meets my appetite with equal verve. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com
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— his name for the regular stops he makes in the Crossroads District. He identifies regulars by their drinks, making a white mocha, drip coffee and Southern-style latte (he adds sugar to the milk and then steams it) before they’ve even reached the window. New customers get Jurgens-sized advice. “The Panama is sweet and fat, like your uncle,” he advises one woman as she decides which bag of coffee to buy. “This is probably the best coffee cake you’ve ever tasted,” Jurgens tells a man in a green polo shirt. “You’re a peach,” says a woman in a green sweater as she collects her white mocha. With only 10 minutes left on the stop, his black Android phone continues to ring with orders. Gold Sacagawea dollars — the vending machines at nearby Farmers Insurance kick them out as change — pile up in his cash box. Each sale is recorded on a green diner ticket. His wife, Melanie, the accountant and website manager for E.F. Hobbs, enters the totals into QuickBooks each night. Jurgens is fighting with a broken water pump this morning, but his mood is upbeat as he shuffles between a purple refrigerator and the woodgrain counter that holds a grinder, an
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espresso machine and a Häagen-Dazs blender. “Running this coffee truck is a bit like gold mining,” he says. “You just have to keep it going.” Moments before he drives away, Jurgens takes a sip of drip coffee — one of the 50 daily ounces that he drinks. “Coffee is America’s drug of choice, and I’m getting high on my own supply,” he jokes. He’s headed for the next neighborhood, with the hope that he can hook everyone there on what he’s selling. From 6 to 11 p.m. Friday, April 6, his plan is to target the swarm of First Friday gallerygoers — CoffeeCakeKC parks in the Truck Stop in the Crossroads (21st Street and Wyandotte) that night. Jurgens came to Kansas City in 1993 as an Air Force veteran looking for a job. He had applied to be a cop in Las Vegas but wasn’t accepted to that city’s police academy. With family in Missouri, he ended up at Sprint, a company where a former avionics technician could catch on as an engineer. He took a buyout just two weeks shy of his 14th anniversary with the telecommunications company. The first coffee he roasted at home was in a
pan on a grill, the beans dancing as they cracked open with heat. “I was watching the science unfold in front of me and I was hooked,” he says. His next experiment employed a modified popcorn popper fused with a convection oven; he could air-roast a half-pound of coffee at a time. He graduated to an electric roaster that produced 4 pounds at once. (He had gone to the former Crossroads restaurant JP Wine Bar to look at espresso cups that had been advertised for sale, and he left with the roaster instead.) After the November 2008 car crash, he turned to Craigslist to replace the lost roaster. After a crash-free car trip to California the next year, E.F. Hobbs — shorthand for “extreme f-ing hobbyist” — was born in June 2009. Jurgens initially focused on roasting, signing up three clients: Centerpoint; the Hy-Vee at 87th Street and Pflumm, in Lenexa; and Homer’s Coffee House, in Overland Park. He buys green coffee from importer Zephyr Coffee and has it shipped from New Orleans to the Paris Brothers warehouse downtown. Monday is roasting day, when Jurgens estimates that he finishes about 100 pounds a week in a rented space behind a plumbing plant in Lenexa. He has room enough there, he says, eventually to do about 2,000 pounds a week — the 18-kilo roaster from California can produce 100 pounds an hour. When a friend of a friend introduced him in 2010 to Renee Kloeblen, the cake creator behind Ms. Nene’s Takes the Cake Bakery, Jurgens saw a new route to reach customers: a food truck. CoffeeCakeKC was licensed in December 2010. A year later, when Kloeblen decided to step back from her business, Jurgens partnered with 3 Women and an Oven. The Overland Park bakery began serving his coffee in March. He sees the success of start-ups like Oddly Correct and the established presence of the Roasterie and Parisi not as competitors but as benchmarks for his own goals. “Kansas City is blessed with phenomenal coffee,” Jurgens says. “It gives us something to shoot for.” E-mail jonathan.bender@pitch.com
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not a lot of amped-up, pure animalistic rock and roll going on out at the bars. “It’s a lot of keyboards and weirdo dissonant minor chords,” he continues, “and not a lot of three chords and the truth. I’m not seeing enough explosions-in-a-room type of shows. That’s what we wanted to create with the Center of the City shows — one big eightband-long explosion.” “I really like the concept of five or six straight hours of solid, kicking-your-ass punk rock,” Warriner adds. “We’re hoping that it’s the kind of show where people turn up because of the event, as opposed to coming to see one specific band and burning out. Those are always my favorite shows to go to.” So far, both Alexander and Warriner say the planning has been smooth, and the response has been enthusiastic. “One of the guys in my band stopped in at Broadway Café the other day and asked to put up a flier,” Warriner says. “I guess the guy working there took one look at it, walked over, tore down the Middle of the Map flier, and put up the Center of the City flier.” Entrance for the fest (which is 21-andpitch.com
he Standard Theatre, later known as the Century Theater and then Shubert’s Missouri, before settling into its name as the Folly Theater, opened in downtown Kansas City in 1900. In its early days, the building — the oldest theater in the city — hosted tawdry burlesque and vaudeville shows. In the late ’60s, you could catch a skinflick in the joint. The Folly still stages worthy events — Bill Shapiro’s Cyprus Avenue Live series comes to mind — but the verve and edge of the place have largely eroded with the passage of time. This is the part where we tell you about a group of enthusiastic upstarts who seek to save the Folly from irrelevance and introduce it to a new generation. But that would be only half true. Because while Jeremy Lillig, Annie Cherry, Damian Blake and Alex Espy — the core group behind the New Century Follies — are youngish, creative types, their show is fundamentally inspired by the vaudeville aesthetics of the Folly’s heyday: burlesque, juggling, comedy and big-band music. “Jeremy has worked a lot with the Folly, and he thought it made sense to revitalize vaudeville at an old vaudeville house,” says Brad Cox, of the People’s Liberation Big Band. “He approached us with the idea of playing the role of the house band, so we’ll be doing some of our own material as pre-show music, plus some music in between performances, and then also backing up a few of the burlesque numbers. We’ve played the Folly before a couple of times — it’s a great hall for a band like us, with lots of horns.” The show, emceed by Daisy Buckët and Phil Hooser, features performances from Cherry, Blake (a nationally regarded Chaplin impersonator), Voler Aerial Acrobatics, and 15 or so other acts. “We’ll have a garter-cutting ceremony at 9 p.m., and then the show starts at 9:30 p.m.,” says Espy, the associate artistic director and associate producer. “It’ll be a constant rotation of sketches, burlesque acts, live singing, musicians, aerial acts. We’re hoping to get a good crowd and turn it into a monthly event.” What is the New Century Follies’ position on alcohol? “Full bar,” Espy says. “Full bar.” — DAVID HUDNALL E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6774 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X
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streetside Big Whoop LATHROP & GAGE OPENS ITS DOORS TO LOCAL ART FREAKS FOR A NIGHT. or nine months after graduating from college, I worked as a nonsalaried data-entry employee at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, the juggernaut law firm at 25th Street and Grand. Shook’s business — defending Big Tobacco, Big Pharma and other comically villainous corporations — is pure evil, but I was always struck by how friendly everyBY one there was. It was terrifying, when you really thought D AV I D about it, how we all smiled and H U D N A L L chatted and drank coffee, and then returned to our collective task of making really rich people even richer and less accountable for their actions. That perverse juxtaposition was on my mind Friday night, March 30, as I entered the opulent, corporate-art-lined lobby at Lathrop & Gage, just a couple of blocks down Grand from Shook. Up the elevator, on the 22nd floor, the similarly high-powered law firm was hosting the second annual “Telebration” gala for Whoop De Doo. A fancy corporate firm opening its doors to a feral circus of Kansas City weirdos? Yes, that interested me. What is Whoop De Doo, exactly? I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that its creators, Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche, don’t know exactly what it is. But that seems to be part of the fun. I’d call it a sort of Tim and Eric for children — a kid-friendly, faux-public-access television show that is staged as a live event. What is a “telebration”? How about I just tell you some things that happened, and you can draw your own conclusions. I arrived around an hour late, at 8 p.m., to a crowd of maybe 200 people. The food was mostly gone, and the line for booze — Charles Shaw red wine, McCoy’s beer and a pink vodkabased concoction called Hot Tub Water — was about 20-people deep. The greeter was wearing a pointy blue sorcerer’s hat with gold stars on it. Two women inside the same yellow, Slip-nSlide-like dress walked past. Everywhere you looked: grotesque makeup. On my second trip to the bar, I asked for two glasses of wine. I pointed vaguely at the crowd, as though saying, This other glass isn’t for me; it’s for my friend. Then I slinked off to a window in the corner and poured one glass into the other. It almost spilled over. I slurped at the rim and looked out at the sun setting in the west. “You can see Lenexa from up here,” somebody said. “Rosedale, at least,” somebody else said. In the restroom, I happened upon four men dressed in tightfitting drag, huddled around the sink, arranging themselves in front of the mirror. I was wearing a shirt I bought at a J. Crew outlet 24
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store in Bonner Springs. I felt like the squarest square in the world. It was time for the show. The audience was herded into a conference room, which had been rigged to look like a TV studio. We sat crosslegged on the floor. A smattering of kids sat up near the front. Goofy, oversized TV cameras flanked the stage area. In the corner, about 10 colorfully dressed people were sitting up on a two-tiered platform. They pretended to field calls from donors, on phones that appeared to be made from white cardboard. A telebration, I began to infer, is what happens when art freaks try to run a PBS-style fundraiser. Warren, dressed as a popcorn box, and Roche, wearing wolfman makeup and a blue blanket, emceed the first portion of the show. They introduced a reputedly famous performer named Orrin B. Sanger, who thundered onto the stage wearing tight blue polyester pants, a brown vest, a ’70s-style button-up, and a dreadlike Afro. He paced around and spoke of his old soul songs from back in the day. “No, no, I’m not going to sing that song for you guys,” he’d say. Then he would wait for the crowd to plead with him to sing the song, at which point he would sing it enthusiastically. In real life, Orrin B. Sanger is Jabulani Leffall, who, as host of KCUR’s Central Standard, sometimes comes off a little clumsy on-air. As a fake R&B singer, though, he was a natural. The evening also included performances from an Israeli dance group and a group called the Midwest Cloggers. There was much jumping and dancing. My favorite character of the evening was the Wet Clown, who held smudged cue cards for the hosts. “Wet Clown, the cards are all wet. I can’t read ’em,” Warren said, and the Wet Clown frowned. Later, a contest was held in which
children threw spitballs at the Wet Clown. The Wet Clown’s hair was a dull-purple mop head on one side and a dull green mop head on the other. How the Wet Clown got wet in the first place was not revealed. At some point, hosting duties shifted to beloved KC actor Ron Megee, who came out dressed as Cher. In addition to being a hilarious and talented performer, Megee also displayed a knack for coercing audience members to part with their money. The donation box was a silver trash can with a foot pedal. “Why do you like Whoop De Doo?” Megee asked, leaning down to a little girl in the front row. She stood up and tilted the microphone toward her. “Because it’s weird,” she said, and the crowd roared. E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-274-6774 pitch.com
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Middle of the Map Fest More than 80 acts perform on 10 Westport stages this weekend, when Middle of the Map Fest returns for its second year. Below, see some suggestions for your itinerary.
Thursday, April 5 The dream of the ’90s is alive as the fest kicks off with a slew of reunion shows from former scene heroes at RecordBar. The acts tilt heavy: Cher UK (7:45 p.m.), the Esoteric (8:45 p.m.), Season to Risk (9:45 p.m.) and Molly McGuire (11 p.m.). RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
Elsewhere, Brooklyn’s the Loom brings its upbeat, rustic, occasionally French-horn-augmented folk to the Union (10:45 p.m.). Fellow NYC act Hooray for Earth, whose hooky synthpop situates it in the vicinity of the first MGMT album, headlines the Riot Room (11:30 p.m.). The Union of Westport (421 Westport Road) The Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)
Friday, April 6 Begin the evening with sprawling, percussive punk jams from Ad Astra Arkestra at the Beaumont Club (7 p.m.). Stick around for indie rock from AAA’s Record Machine labelmates Capybara (7:45 p.m.) and Cowboy Indian Bear (8:45 p.m.). The Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560)
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evening. One of the more compelling acts affiliated with the local label is Fullbloods (9:15 p.m.), a tight quartet that mixes surfrock and pop influences. Westport Coffee House (4010 Pennsylvania, 816-756-3222)
Perhaps the most impressive “get” by Middle of the Map is the back-from-the-dead Boston post-punk band Mission of Burma, which headlines at RecordBar (11:30 p.m.). RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
Austin’s White Denim is equal parts Phish, Black Keys and knotty indie rock. The band plays at the Riot Room at midnight.
Clockwise from left: Fucked Up, Acid Mothers Temple, Hooray for Earth and White Denim
If there’s an act that best embodies the tastes of Middle of the Map curator the Record Machine, it’s probably hazy, synth-driven Neon Indian, whose bleeps and bloops fill the Beaumont Club starting at 9:30 p.m. Following Neon Indian at the Beaumont is Fun (10:30 p.m.), whose supercheesy rock anthem “We Are Young” spent much of March atop the Billboard Hot 100. Be prepared for some young’uns at that one. The Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560)
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Close out the night at the Union with electronic shoegaze soundscapes from Detroit’s Deastro (1:30 a.m.). The Union of Westport (421 Westport Road)
Saturday, April 7 A sampling of locals holds it down in the afternoon at RecordBar. See smooth pop from Minden (1 p.m.), gauzy lady-emo from La Guerre (2 p.m.), and indie pop from Sam Billen and the Billions (3:45 p.m.). The moody chamber-folk act Olympic Size (7 p.m.) has been on hiatus on account of member Billy Smith’s recent move to New York but reunites for the fest. Stick around RecordBar until midnight to check out El Ten Eleven’s lush, instrumental indie rock. RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
One of the best-received LPs of 2011 was Fucked Up’s heavy, melodic, Zen Arcade-like concept album David Comes to Life. The Toronto punks’ 11:45 p.m. show at the Riot Room is a good bet for being the highlight of the fest. The Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179) If you haven’t already taken enough drugs to be hallucinating, stop in at the Union on your way out of Westport. Alternately manic and slow-burning, the music of Japanese psychdrone outfit Acid Mothers Temple (1:30 a.m.) delivers on its name. The Union of Westport (421 Westport Road)
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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, APRIL 5 Cloverton: Ottawa Municipal Auditorium, 301 S. Hickory, Ottawa, 785-242-8810. DJ Secret Mosic, Making Movies Social Club: 8 p.m. The Gusto Lounge, 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Casey Donahew Band, Phil Hamilton: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Hooray for Earth, Jaenki, Quiet Corral, Hospital Ships: 8:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Molly McGuire, Season to Risk, the Esoteric, Cher UK, Schwervon: 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Old Canes, American Catastrophe, the Loom, Christopher Paul Stelling: 10 p.m. The Union of Westport, 421 Westport Rd.
FRIDAY, APRIL 6 Baby Teardrops, Everyday/Everynight, the Fullbloods, the Empty Spaces, the Caves, Oriole Post: 7 p.m. Westport Coffee House, 4010 Pennsylvania, 816-756-3222. Beats Antique, Random Rab: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. The Beautiful Bodies, Unicycle Loves You, the ACBs, Saintseneca, Ghosty: 8:30 p.m. The Gusto Lounge, 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Big Smith (final show), JP Soars: Trouser Mouse, 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222. Miles Bonny, D/Will & Les Izmore, Diverse Trio, Gee Watts, Louiz Rip, the Conquerors, Mask & Glove: 10 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Deastro, Max Justus, Golden Curls, Beacon, Team Bear Club, Phantasmagoria: 9:30 p.m. The Union of Westport, 421 Westport Rd.. Shaun Duvall, the Latenight Callers, Apples for Archers, Sons of Great Dane: 8:30 p.m. Firefly Lounge, 4118 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. Grisly Hand, Dollar Fox, Sara Swenson and the Pearl Snaps: 10 p.m. McCoy’s Public House, 4057 Pennsylvania, 816-960-0866. Leo Kottke: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Lady Antebellum: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Mission of Burma, the Life and Times, Thee Water MoccaSins, Soft Reeds, Minus Story, Deadringers: 6:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Murder by Death, Mates of State, Cowboy Indian Bear, Capybara, Ad Astra Arkestra: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Kenny Neal and Carolyn Wonderland, Sarah & the Tall Boys: 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. White Denim, Spirit is the Spirit, Believers, Telegraph Canyon, Owen, Altos: 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.
SATURDAY, APRIL 7 Acid Mothers Temple, Phantom Family Halo, Broncho, Mr. Gnome, Mansion, Brent Tactic, the Devil: 9 p.m. The Union of Westport, 421 Westport Rd.. Blackbird Revue, Sleepy Kitty, Beau Jennings and the Tigers: 10 p.m. McCoy’s Public House, 4057 Pennsylvania, 816-960-0866. Body2Body with DJ Sheppa, Cherokee Rock Rifle, Waiting for Signal, In the Grove, the Slowdown: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Roger Creager: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
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SUNDAY, APRIL 8 Borgore: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Super Black Market, Dirt Nap, Baby Teardrops, Drop a Grand: RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.
MONDAY, APRIL 9 Adema, In the Shadow, Suicide Theory, Sky Seems Red: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Eve 6, Greek Fire, Namesake, Grenadina: 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.
TUESDAY, APRIL 10 Needmore, Vanity Theft: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Timeflies: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 1 Abandon Kansas, We Are Voices, Bear & Company, Now Now Sleepyhead: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Chris Duarte Group, Scott Leeper: Trouser Mouse, 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222.
UPCOMING Aziz Ansari: Thu., May 10, 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Bassnectar, VibeSquaD: sold out Thu., April 12, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Best Coast, Jeff the Brotherhood: Sun., May 27. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8421390. MANY MORE Bible of the Devil: Wed., May 9, 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816442-8179. Bowling for Soup, Patent Pending, Fresh Man: ONLINE AT Wed., April 18. The Granada, PITCH.COM 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Buckethead, That 1 Guy, Wolff & Tuba: Fri., April 20. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band: Sat., April 21. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. The Bunny the Bear: Tue., May 8. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Buzz Beach Ball featuring Foster the People, Sublime with Rome, the Shins, Flogging Molly, Metric, the Kooks, the Joy Formidable, the Dirty Heads, Kimbra, the Antlers: Sat., June 2, 3:30 p.m. Livestrong Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, Kansas City, Kan., 913-912-7525.
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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Lee Langston, 7 p.m. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. BCR Band. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Brad Vickers & the Vestapolitans. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Blues Jam.
DJ Avalon Ultra Lounge: 5505 N.E. Antioch, 816-452-CLUB. Thorough Thursdays with DJ Double U, Phat Boi. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Goomba Rave, with Team Bear Club. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Clockwerk, 10 p.m.
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ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Bluegrass Jam hosted by Loaded Goat. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Matt Stell & the Crashers.
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Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Vi Tran & Katy Gilchrist’s Jam Session. 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. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.
VARIET Y The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. DJ Secret Musik, Making Movies, 8 p.m.
B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. A Muddy Celebration with Lil Slim Blues Band. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Samantha Fish Blues Band. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. The Pete Carroll Group. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Cold Sweat. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Meatpop, Dumptruck Butterlips, Deadman Flats, 9 p.m. MANY MORE KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Noe Palma, 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483ONLINE AT 1456. The Hobart Family, PITCH.COM 8:30 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. New Savages, Root & Stem, Yam.
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DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. DJ vs. Drums with Kimbarely Legal, Dylan Bassett, and Sean B. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. First Friday with Barbaric Merits, FSTZ, 10 p.m. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mosaic Fridays hosted by Joe Perez with DJ Mike Scott. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Naylor. Valentine Room at the Uptown Theater: 3700 Broadway, Ste. 300. Crush Mode.
HIP-HOP Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Royce Diamond.
JAZZ Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913403-8571. Rob Scheps, Frank Basile, with the Ron Carlson Trio. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Steve Lambert Trio.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-322-1000. Karaoke with Jim Bob, 9 p.m. The Dubliner: 170 E. 14th St., 816-268-4700. Grand opening. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ladies’ Night, Low Dough lady specials, 10 p.m. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Debbioke, 9:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m., free; Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Power & Light District: 14th Street and Main, 816-8421045. Downtown Is Happy, 4 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816421-4201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.
REGGAE Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Checkered Beat.
R O C K A B I L LY Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. First Friday with Jason Vivone and the Billybats.
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Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. The Crumpletons, 7 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, Vehicle Blues, Kevin Greenspon. Uptown Theater: 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Spring Music Fest. The Well: 7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700. The Patrick Lentz Band.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.; A Muddy Celebration with the Scotty Boy Daniel Blues Band, Shinetop Jr., 9 p.m. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Dream Wolf, the Ned Ludd Band, the Lucky Graves. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Kyle Elliott and Voodoo Soul. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Brother Bagman. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Samantha Fish.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Betse Ellis, Olassa, Fire in the Churchyard. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Seashell Radio, Switchhitter, Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys, the Bad Ideas, Beautiful View. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. County Road 5. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Cadillac Flambe, 9 p.m.
DJ Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Furious Palace. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Soulclap with Josh Powers. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Samurai Saturdays. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager.
HIP-HOP Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Skeptics.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Rob Scheps, Frank Basile Quintet. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Heather Thornton Band. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Kerry Strayer Trio.
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. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Tom Segura, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Laff Mobb.
FOLK Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Buttermilk Boys.
REGGAE Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Soul Rebel and the Beast, 10 p.m.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Ruth and Madisen Ward.
S U N DAY 8 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. A Muddy Celebration with Levee Town, 3 p.m.; Lee McBee and the Confessors, 6 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Shades of Jade. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Second Sunday FUNdays: Gina and Chloe McFadden, 3 p.m.
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Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Coyote Bill.
DJ Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Sunday Funday with DJ G Train. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Tiger and Woods with Brent Tactic, Mike Dileo, Johan, LC, Secret Musik, Scott Kaiser, Jeffrey B, Bill Pile, 8 p.m.
ACOUSTIC Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. Phil and Gary, 9 p.m.
JAZZ The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Mark Lowrey Jazz Trio open jam session, 5 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. It’s Karaoke Time!. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.
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, 6 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, Wednesdays, 6 p.m.; Sundays, 7 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. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Jazz Jam with Nick Rowland and Sansabelt.
VARIET Y Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. Local Music Sunday, DJ Dropout Boogie, 8 p.m.
M O N DAY 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. John Gold, Good Morning Grizzly, the Future Kings, 7 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Blue Monday Trio. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.
DJ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cinemaphonic with DJ Stevie Cruz, DJ Cyan Meeks, 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Liquid Lounge DJs.
JAZZ 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 Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday on the main floor, 10 p.m., free. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5; Karaoke with Baby Brie, 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. KC Mutual UFO Network, 6:30 p.m., free, low-cost donation; Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.
T U E S DAY 1 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mile High Club. 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. Club Wars. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Intelligence, Sneaky Creeps, the Conquerors, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. 1950DA, Cherokee Rock Rifle. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Transients, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Shinetop Jr. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Gospel Lounge with Carl Butler, 7:30 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Lonnie Ray Blues Band, 9 p.m.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816753-1909. Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company, JP Harris and the Tough Choices, Mercer and Johnson, 10 p.m.
DJ Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Live DJ, midnight. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Pure.
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B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mark Montgomery. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Miss Major and Her Minor Mood Swings, 7 p.m.
Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. Live acoustic. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Bill Kleoppel Acoustic Showcase.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Duffy McGee, the Bonas Brothers.
DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m. Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. DJ night.
JAZZ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Mark Lowery, 8 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Coda Pursuit Team Trivia with Teague Hayes, 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Critter’s Tye Dye Tuesday. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Karaoke, 9 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Beer Pong, team registration starts at 9:30 p.m., tournament starts at 10 p.m.
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 Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. TeleTuesday open country jam hosted by Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders. 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.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Scott Ford Songwriter Showcase, 7 p.m.
VARIET Y Madrigall: 1627 Oak, 816-472-4400. 2 Step Tuesday, featuring KC Elite 2 Steppers and Grown & Sexy Sliders.
W E D N E S DAY 1 1 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Trust Nothing, Lifecurse, Conflict, My Brother, the Vulture. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Goldenboy, Martin Bush, Appropriate Grammar, 9 p.m.; Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Dirty Ghosts, Black on Black.
JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mike Runyon and Doc Proctor. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. A La Mode, 7 p.m. 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 Girlie Show with Daisy Bucket, Loretta Martin, Tajma Stetson, Christa Collins, 8 p.m., $5. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 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. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. The Kick Comedy, 7:30 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Bingo night. 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. Ladies’ Night. Outabounds Sports Bar & Grill: 3601 Broadway, 816214-8732. Karaoke with DJ Chad, 9 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 8 p.m. Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-8561514. Pride Night, 8 p.m.
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. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, $2. 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, 816833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30 p.m.
R O C K A B I L LY Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Three Bad Jacks and St. Dallas & the Sinners, $10 cover.
VARIET Y Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Indie Hit Makers, 6 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Amy Farrand’s Weirdo Wednesday Social Club, 7 p.m., no cover.
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Dear Dan: I agree with almost everything you say, but I have one complaint: You have made several comments over the years bashing meth users! I know, meth has a bad reputation. But people used to say smoking pot caused insanity! Being a meth addict isn’t good, but occasional use never hurt anyone. I do it maybe five times a year, and unlike what you see in anti-meth ads, I’m not crazy, I don’t have holes in my skin, and I’m not a junkie. I’m a straight-A female student from a wealthy suburban family. You know when I really like meth? Around finals, so that I have lots of extra time to study. Stop bashing meth! Occasional Meth User
Dear Dan: I have an awesome relationship with an awesome guy. He loves me and takes care of me. I’m GGG, and he’s vanilla. I draw the line only at poop, animals and children. But he has never asked me for anything other than vanilla sex. Which is why I don’t know what to do. I went downstairs BY late the other night, and he was sitting on the couch masturbatDAN ing while stroking the cat, which S AVA G E was sitting on his chest. The cat was sitting ON him, WHILE he was yanking himself. I don’t know if he saw me. I went right back upstairs and went to bed. In the morning, he acted like nothing happened. Now I don’t know what to do. Confront him? Get him help? Get rid of the cat? Can’t Analyze This Dear CAT: Pets want to be petted, and some pets are pushy about getting their pet on. Bearing that in mind, I want you to pick the two likeliest scenarios out of these four options: A. Your boyfriend is attracted to your cat. B. Your awesome boyfriend — unlike so many other boyfriends — is capable of doing two things at once. C. Your boyfriend fantasizes about fucking the Almond Roca out of your cat’s ass. D. Your awesome boyfriend needed to rub one out, and he was considerate enough to slip out of bed and go downstairs — so as not to wake you (he’s awesome like that) — and there he was, lying back on the couch, concentrating on the task at hand, when the cat jumped up on his chest. Now, you were there, and I wasn’t, so you’re in a much better position to judge. But I think B and D are the likeliest scenarios: Your boyfriend was having a wank when the cat jumped on him, for a few moments he divided his attentions between stroking the cat and stroking himself— those moments you were unlucky enough to witness—and at some point he pushed the cat off his chest and turned back to the task at hand. But, again, you were there; I wasn’t. So did it look like your boyfriend was masturbating about the cat, with the cat or at the cat? Or did it look like your boyfriend was masturbating in the immediate vicinity of the cat? These are questions that only you can answer. And here’s a question only your boyfriend can answer, and I think you should put it to him: “I came down the other night, and you were beating off with the cat sitting on your chest. What was that about?” And here’s the answer you’re likely to get: “I was jerking it, and the cat jumped up on me, and I petted her for a minute mid-wank — but I didn’t want to lose my hard-on and have to start all over, so the part of my brain that regulates higher boner function instructed my right hand pitch.com
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to go into erection-maintenance mode. But I wasn’t perving on the cat, honey, I swear.” Your awesome boyfriend will say that even if he was perving on the cat. But if he has the decency and good sense to lie to you about it, you should have the decency and good sense to pretend to believe him. Dear Dan: I’m a 25-year-old straight male who’s into big-dick porn. I’m not into the dicks per se. It’s the domination and dirty-talk aspects of bigdick porn that turn me on, i.e., hearing a woman say things like “That’s huge!” “Stop!” “You’re too big for me!” I’m not too bad off down there, but I want more. Significantly more. Do you have any recommendations on enlargement techniques? Pumps, pills, whatever? I have a partner who is sub and very GGG. I would really like to be able to play these fantasies out, but I know nothing of the feasibility. An Enlarging Problem Dear AEP: There’s nothing you can do to make your dick bigger. Pills only waste your money, and pumps only bruise your dick. (Yes, a pump can make your dick look a little bigger, temporarily, but your temporarily bigger dick will also be a whole lot softer, and what’s the use of that?) Your only options for safely exploring your bigdick fantasies are strap-ons (“Not Just for Dykes Anymore”) and “cock extenders,” (hollow dildos that a guy can wear on his dick). You’ll find a nice selection of cock extenders here: tinyurl. com/cockextend. Finally, I trust that you stop when your girlfriend — or any woman — says, “Stop!” unless you and your partner have previously agreed to a safe word that (1) isn’t “stop” but means “stop” and (2) allows her to scream, “Stop!” to her heart’s content.
Dear OMU: Your pot analogy is a big fail: Different drugs have different risks, to say nothing of different chemical compositions and psychotropic effects. Anti-drug crusaders overstating the dangers of marijuana to advance their anti-hippie, pro-incarceration or blatantly racist political agenda doesn’t prove that meth is safe. Meth, unlike pot, is highly addictive. While there’s no such thing as a fatal dose of pot, there is such a thing as a fatal dose of meth. And while abusing pot — pot can be abused — makes a person lethargic and lardy, abusing meth makes a person crazy and dead. But why should you take my word about meth, college girl? What do I know about meth? “Most meth addicts started out feeling like meth was the perfect fix to a ‘problem’ like needing extra time to study,” says gay porn star Trenton Ducati. “I started out using meth ‘occasionally,’ too. Pretty much all meth users start out that way. And it’s not novel to think your life is in control and you’ve got it all together. Everybody who gets addicted to meth thinks that.” Trenton says people who use meth, even occasionally, are the worst judges of whether they have a meth problem. “Meth wound up taking me places that I’m sure OMU doesn’t want to go,” Trenton says. “There is just no way to use meth safely. Even if she isn’t willing to listen to those who’ve come before her (and it sounds like she’s not), she could at least refrain from promoting a drug that has ruined so many lives.” Maybe you didn’t learn the word “sophistry” when cramming for the SATs, but you might want to look it up. It’s never too late to expand the vocabulary or to put down the meth pipe.
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