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n a midsummer afternoon, Sean Malto is working the counter at Escapist Skateboarding. The skinny, baby-faced 21-year-old has made a sale, but he’s having trouble completing it on the store’s computer. This isn’t his usual job. He’s covering for the Southwest Boulevard shop’s co-owner, Dan Askew. An unflustered Malto apologizes to the customer, who doesn’t seem to recognize him, even though Malto’s smiling face is plastered on the store’s windows. Escapist was Malto’s first sponsor, and the relationship is still strong after nearly a decade. Arguably Kansas City’s fastest-rising sports star, Malto has spent this year competing for six-figure prizes against the world’s top street skateboarders in Rob Dyrdek’s Street League DC Pro Tour. Last year, he finished fourth overall in Street League, winning $177,000. This year, though, he’s been snakebitten with injuries. A knee surgery in May kept him on the sidelines for the Seattle tour stop. He was back in action for a hometown crowd June 11-12 at the Sprint Center, finishing fourth. After the customer leaves, Malto pulls out his iPhone to show how he injured himself in July. He was shooting a skate video in Denver, and a move that was supposed to launch him off a loading dock on his board sent him crashing onto concrete, back first. The raw footage shows his head bouncing off the pavement like a basketball. Adrenaline, shock and fear propelled him off the slab, and he was on his feet in seconds. He says it’s his worst 8 2
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injury of the past couple of years. Daily trips to a chiropractor had Malto feeling good enough to give Street League’s Arizona tour stop a shot two weeks later. At that weekend’s tournament, he crashed while warming up. “Seriously, five minutes before the contest started, just one weird slam — not even that hard. But I think it was still weak down there. It just jammed everything,” Malto says. “I couldn’t really walk that well.” Malto was placed on a stretcher and taken to an emergency room. He understood that his season was almost certainly over. On this shopbound afternoon back in Kansas City, reviewing the footage and talking about his crashed-out summer, he knows that there’s only one way for him to skate in August 28’s Street League Championships in New Jersey. “I’m, like, a first alternate, so it’s kind of cool,” he says. “I hope nothing happens to anybody, but if it does, then I’m in.” Malto is planning to be in New Jersey to watch his friends skate. He’s a fan first. “For me, contests are a bonus,” he says. “They’re super cool. Street League is an amazing event. But this video part that I’m trying to put out with Girl is going to do way more than winning contests.” Girl Skateboard Co. and Etnies — his board and shoe sponsors, respectively — are sending him overseas after the championships. First, 10 days in Europe to shoot a skate video for Etnies. He returns continued on page 10
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to Kansas City long enough to celebrate his 22nd birthday September 9. Then he’s off again to Europe and China to get more tricks on the Girl video, alongside top skateboarders, including Guy Mariano. “They’re some of the greatest skateboarders ever,” Malto says. “Being in a video with them is pretty intimidating. You want to try to do the best you can because you know that the video is going to be all amazing skating.”
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alto reps Kansas City hard. He loves this place. His first shoe for Etnies was Royalsblue with the letters KC stitched on the back. He often appears in videos wearing a red No. 7 Matt Cassel Chiefs jersey. Malto and other members of the Escapist crew put their hometown love up front in a skate video that’s set to Irv da Phenom’s “Red and Yellow” and features the athletes skating at Arrowhead, the Liberty Memorial and other spots around the city. Malto’s decks tweak iconic local-business logos (Gates’ strutting aristocrat, the Boulevard sign), replacing the company names with Malto’s. Though he likes California, Malto hasn’t fled his hometown. His base remains the sixfigure, two-bedroom loft he shares with friend Joseph Lopez. “I can do everything I need to do here, so I do it,” Malto says. “I live in the River Market. I have a skate park that is absolutely perfect — everything that I’d want to skate — a mile and a half away from me. The skate shop is right here. All my friends. It’s actually good to skate here, too — lots of good spots around the city. This feels like home.” Malto was born in Havre de Grace, Maryland, into a military family. His father, Ben Malto, of Filipino descent, bounced among Army posts before settling in Fort Leavenworth when Malto was 8. It was a homecoming for Sean’s mom, Lynn, who grew up in Leavenworth. Malto is the youngest of four boys (Travis, 28; Justin, 27; Chris, 24). He often tagged along with Justin and Chris to skate parks, taking up skateboarding when he was 10. “Justin took him under his wing,” Lynn Malto says. “He was exposed to a lot of great skateboarders.” She remembers the day when her sons returned home and bragged that Sean had landed a big jump. Lynn explained to Sean that there was no jumping off garage roofs. “The three of them have no fear,” she says of her skateboarding sons. “I think that’s what makes Sean a really good skateboarder.” Escapist’s Askew had seen Malto skating at Pleasant Valley Skatepark and was impressed with his progress and his ability. He knew Malto was special, and he wanted him on the Escapist team. “He’s got something that other kids don’t,” Askew told Malto’s parents. Malto was riding for another team, but he soon cut ties with it to sign with Escapist. Malto was just 13 when Escapist started sending videos of his stunts to potential sponsors. DC Shoes called first. Girl Skateboard followed. “It’s almost like a tryout,” Malto says. “You just kind of show them what you’re doing.” Malto wasn’t going on trips yet. He also wasn’t getting paid. But the companies were giving him everything a teenager could want: shoes, skateboards, clothes. 10 t h e p i t c h 4 THE PITCH
Sean Malto in action and (top right) with Lil Wayne. There were bumps. At 14, Malto knocked out his front teeth while skating a dry pool at Gillham Park. The day was misty, and his no-fear attitude led him to try a jump. “I just wasn’t thinking,” he says. “I tried to get my hands up, but I wasn’t quick enough.” The crash was only two months after his braces had come off. Repairing the damage meant a root canal. “My parents were so bummed on me,” he says. After eight videos, DC Shoes finally sent a 15-year-old Malto on his first trip, and others rapidly followed. Soon skateboarding interfered with school, and school interfered with skating. Two weeks into the fall semester, Malto embarked on a two-week DC Shoes trip. Some classmates thought he’d moved away. With more trips on the horizon, Malto, his parents and even the school’s principal and counselors agreed that the dream was worth chasing. Lynn Malto says her son was a straightA student before he left school his sophomore year, and she says she and her son made a deal
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that he’d finish school if he started touring. But neither of them realized how much pressure skating would exert on Malto, how much time it would take. Today, he’s on the road six to eight months a year. “We miss him,” Lynn Malto says. “He’s gone a lot. But Sean’s always been independent and had a good head on his shoulders.” At Escapist one day this August, Askew and Malto joke about the press coverage he received during Street League’s Kansas City stop. Askew does his best TV voice: “High school dropout from Leavenworth, Sean Malto.” “That was rude,” Malto says. Askew goes on: “They were like, ‘His daily routine is waking up and calling some of his homies and seeing where they want to skate. But he’s not a bum. He’s getting paid.’ So all of his friends who aren’t getting paid are bums.” “It’d be nice to have a diploma,” Malto admits. “It’s still on the list but pretty far back. It’s one of those things: Am I going to be worried about it? Should I worry about it? Because I’m not.”
Malto doesn’t have to worry about it. He no longer needs to send videos to sponsors, hoping he’ll catch their eye. Four Star covers his clothing. Etnies takes care of his footwear. (He’s on his third shoe.) He rides Girl skateboards with Spitfire wheels and Thunder trucks. Gatorade is his drink of choice, and there’s always plenty. And, of course, he gets love from Escapist. “I’m comfortable,” Malto says. Two years ago, he bought a house in Leavenworth, a split-level to share with his mother. (His parents divorced when he was 16.) But he was sleeping on Joseph Lopez’s floor five days a week, so it was time to buy his own place in KC. Malto’s loft is a throwback to the glory days of MTV’s Cribs. The bar and the tables and the rest of the furniture are showroom-new and indicate the decorating guidance he had from the wife of his friend and pro skateboarder Mikey Taylor. Skate videos loop constantly on the giant flatscreen — except when he’s playing Call of Duty. Skateboard decks hang on a wall, not far from a life-size continued on page 12
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poster of Chiefs safety Eric Berry that’s visible from the outside at night if he leaves the lights on. A signed Berry jersey hangs on a wall near his kitchen. The inscription reads: “Best of luck. I hope you join the team.” Not the Chiefs. Adidas. “It’s kind of a shame that it didn’t work out,” Malto says. “But I did get a signed jersey out of it.” A photo on his refrigerator, taken when he received the Arizona Street League’s 24/7 Award given by his fellow skaters, shows Malto smiling and holding stacks of money. “I love where I’m at now, and I want to keep it here for as long as I can,” Malto says. “So I’m going to go skate and do everything I need to do to keep this going for as long as possible.”
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il Wayne wanted to skate. His people called Malto a few nights before the rapper’s August 22 Sprint Center show. He wanted to schedule a session at the California Skateparks-designed East Bottoms indoor skate park that Malto owns with Askew and a few buddies. (Twenty-eight people pay $100 a month to skate there.) Weezy had taken up skateboarding on his latest tour — and been spotted with the resulting bandage on his head. The skate session was set for 3 a.m., and Malto was told that he could invite four friends. Four tour buses rolled up the gravel drive leading to the skate park. A big bodyguard climbed down from one of them and scoped out the place in silence. Bars cover the windows of the converted warehouse, and rusty barbed wire lines the outside of the garage doors, overlooking train tracks. Lil Wayne’s people told Malto that he’d brought too many people. His friends would
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have to wait in the lobby while Lil Wayne got a feel for the room. “It was super, super awkward for the first hour,” Malto says. “I guess Lil Wayne’s selfconscious about it. So there’s three people in the whole park, skating around. He’s kind of wobbly, rolling around, looking at things for 45 minutes, and no one’s saying a word.” Lil Wayne found his legs, and the others were allowed in. “It was pretty awesome for an hour and a half,” Malto says. “It’s funny getting cheers from Lil Wayne or cheering Lil Wayne on. It’s funny watching someone skate with that much diamonds in his mouth. His diamonds were insane.” Lil Wayne cameos in an upcoming Malto video. As Malto flies down a rail, the camera cuts to Weezy. “My man!” he shouts. “When am I ever going to have to deal with something like that again?” Malto says. “I didn’t think I was going to have to deal with it before. It was cool.” It’s another hot August afternoon as Malto tells the story. Malto and Lopez are skating. They pop off the concrete and grind against rails and ledges. Sweat soaks Malto’s red-and-yellow Escapist T-shirt, but he makes every gravitybending move look effortless. The August 28 championship is days away. He’s still an alternate and says he’s looking forward to seeing his friends skate, but his voice gives away his disappointment. After their practice, Malto and Lopez hit Grand Slam Liquors at Sixth Street and Grand. Malto grabs a bottle of Gatorade from the cooler, and his iPhone rings. He takes the call. “Fuck, yeah!” he screams. Tommy Sandoval has rolled his ankle and is out of the Street League Championships. Malto is in.
“It sucks that he’s out because I’m friends with him,” Malto says. “But at the same time, I want to skate. And you get paid to show up.” For one day of skating, he’ll collect $10,000. The championship winner will pick up the biggest purse ever awarded in a skateboarding competition: $200,000. “I’m so hyped,” he says. “I wanted it so bad. I wanted to support my friends. I love my friends. But I also want to skate with my friends. Everybody wants to do what they love to do.”
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yjah Huston has owned the 2011 Street League tour. The 16-year-old with long, ropelike dreadlocks has won all three tour stops — and $150,000 in prize money for each. He’s the defending champion — he won the 2010 tour and raked in $800,000 in total contest earnings. If beating the champ requires a killer instinct, Malto may not be the one to do it. “I’m really happy for him,” Malto says of Huston. “Everyone’s happy for him. He’s definitely really good at skating those contests. He’s consistent, and the contest is based off of consistency, so it’s been really good for him.” Hurricane Irene, bearing down on the Northeast, has nearly forced organizers to cancel the event, at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. Instead, they rush to move it up a day. The hurricane hasn’t kept fans away, though. Malto’s mother and girlfriend are in the stands the afternoon of Saturday, August 27. So is Askew. The Street League course features giant concrete ledges, long metal hand rails and, of course, a giant set of stairs. It’s a three-round competition with two eliminations in each of the first two rounds. The final six battle it out in a best-of-seven-tricks final round. Malto survives to the last round, leading the pack with 36.9 points. He’s wearing Chiefs
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colors: a red T-shirt with “Escapist” and “KC” in yellow letters. His six consecutive tricks have made him the day’s most consistent skateboarder, but it’s tight. Scruffy-looking Californian Chris Cole, whose bandaged hand might be broken, is right behind Malto, with 35.9 points. And Huston is still dangerous with 27.8 points. Each is seven tricks from being champion. Cole and Huston keep chasing big tricks and bigger rewards down the stretch. Malto sticks with moves calculated to rack up points on the scoreboard. Cole grabs a 9.2 and a 7.4 by spinning and grinding down the rails and ledges, raising the pressure on Malto. He steps up with a nollie nose grind down a ledge: 7.6. Huston also takes risks, popping off the stairs and spinning toward the long yellow rail, landing his board on it. With amazing balance, he grinds down to score an 8.5 and stay alive. Malto, calm and focused, hits another nollie nose grind down the ledge for 8 points and a hold on the lead. Huston thumbs his nose at gravity again, flipping his board and landing it on the rail, then sliding down and rolling off for 9.4 points. Now he’s in second place. Cole’s risks backfire, and he has to bail, but Malto stays steady. An overcrook grind down the center rail is good for 7.3 points, pushing his total to 72.1. Huston answers with more highlight-reel moves, flipping and landing on his board off the big bank of stairs for 8.2 points. Cole, back from the dead, hits a huge 360flip 50-50 for a 9.6, the day’s best move. With one trick left to go, he’s in second place again with 71 points. Malto, unfazed, nails a frontside crook and
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Malto relaxes at home with his roommate’s dog, London. locks it in so perfectly, before flipping out at the end for a 7.7. “It is Sean Malto’s event to lose,” an announcer says. Huston hits another big 270, flipping the board and sliding down the middle rail. The 9.0 isn’t enough. The championship is now down to Malto and Cole, and Malto hugs and high-fives the man standing between him and $200,000. He cheers for Cole as his competitor takes off for his final trick — one that he fails to make. Malto wins. To get to this moment, which he greets with a look of disbelief, Malto has strung together 13 consecutive tricks without bailing. Rob Dyrdek, the skateboard champion behind the Street League tour, asks Malto in an interview afterward if he was nervous. “Yeah, the whole contest,” Malto says. He turns humble again. “Cole kept going, and I just wanted to nip at his heels, and it somehow worked out, even though these guys are the best.” Today, he’s the best, with the $200,000 oversized novelty check (handed over by three Monster Energy Drink cheerleaders), the Nixon watch (“Iced out!” Dyrdek says), the championship ring and the trophy to prove it. The victory party doesn’t last long. On Monday, Malto boards a plane for Europe to do that shoot for Etnies. More travel and then more travel after that. He’ll try to keep it going as long as he can. Whatever happens, however long it lasts, Malto will come home to Kansas City. E-mail justin.kendall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6778
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This year, the Kansas City Public Library’s Big Read focuses on Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, the classic 1876 novel about a boy FIND growing up alongside MANY MORE the Mississippi River. Through the end of October, the library the book front LISTINGS keeps and center with disONLINE AT cussion groups, lecPITCH.COM tures and storytelling events. Not coincidentally, on October 14, Tom Sawyer: A Ballet in Three Acts makes its world premiere at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. Tony Award-winning composer Maury Yeston, who wrote the score, and KC Ballet Artistic Director William Whitener discuss the new work at the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3407). A reception begins at 6 p.m., and the presentation commences at 6:30. Both are free. To RSVP, call 816-701-3407 or see kclibrary.org. — BERRY ANDERSON
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Jazz: the most vital cultural expression of the 20th-century African-American experience? Or a fun excuse to drink boxed wine in a suburban park? Jazz: It’s just all over the goddamn map. Woody Allen’s clarinet noodlings count, and the middle-aged women holding lighters aloft as Kenny G hits the high notes of “Havana” won’t abide your protests otherwise. It’s on the lists of “Things French People Like” and “Things in Garrison Keillor’s Wax Cylinder Collection.” If you’d like to hunt for the grand unification theory of jazz, you can start at the free Prairie Village Jazz Festival, from 2 to 10 p.m. at Harmon Park (77th Street and Mission, at the Prairie Village Municipal Campus). The lineup includes local favorites Shay Estes & Trio ALL, the People’s Liberation Big Band, Shawnee Mission East’s Jazz Ensemble and others. In honor of the historical connection between Prohibition and jazz music, alcohol is not permitted. Neither are pets, coolers and food. For more information, see prairievillagejazz.org. — CHRIS PACKHAM
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Yes, the great Missouri River really is a muddy sumbitch — one that too often serves as a trash receptacle. Help stave off the effects of pollution at this year’s Big Muddy Clean Sweep, at Berkley Riverfront Park (Lydia Avenue and Front Street). Volunteers should arrive for registration at 8:30 a.m. in sturdy, closed-toed shoes and long pants. The cleanup runs from 9 a.m. until noon. Volunteers will be sent to various sites along the Missouri River to commence with the dirty work and will go home with a free T-shirt, trash bags, lunch and a reusable water bottle. (Additional help may be needed after lunch to haul and sort trash). For more information, see riverrelief.org or call 816-812-5166. — ABBIE STUTZER
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Head to the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665) and to the parking lot of the Uptown Shoppes (Broadway and Valentine) for today’s free Green Fest, from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. Dabble in the Recycle Shop; pick up some produce and goods at the farmers market; or listen to live music by Kasey Rausch, the Bad Decisions, Eco Elvis (he says he’s there to “get us shook up about the environment”) and others. Should you feel like getting in deep, sit in on a variety of lectures and demonstrations from alternative nutritionists, sustainability activists and raw-food advocates. Food vendors include Füd, G’s Jamaican Cuisine and Café Seed. For more information, see uptowntheater.com or call Maureen Veto-Slater at 816-753-8665. — APRIL FLEMING
Vegetarian grill fare (see Saturday). memory of the 343 members of the New York City Fire Department who were among the 9/11 casualties. The First Annual Kansas City 9/11 Memorial Stair Climb takes place at Town Pavilion (1111 Main, 816-474-5117). First responders from both sides of the state line begin ascending the stairs of the high-rise shortly after 9 a.m. Each local firefighter will carry an ID card of a lost FDNY firefighter. “It’s going to be a pretty emotional day,” says Dave Bova, the 29-year-old Lawrence firefighter who organized the event. Festivities include a bagpipe honor guard and firetrucks on display. Proceeds from a raffle and any donations benefit the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation. For more information, see kansascitystairclimb.com. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE
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Jim Birdsall as Mark Rothko in Red (see Wednesday). Margy Stewart talks about “Kansas Memoirs of the Great Depression” at the Shawnee Town Speakers Series at Shawnee Town Museum’s Town Hall (11600 Johnson Drive, 913-248-2360). “They’re self-sufficiency narratives, about kids growing up when there’s no income coming in,” Stewart says. “They’re about how to make do, how to survive and how to have a good time when doing it.” Sound familiar? The narratives come from three books, One Time on the Upper McDowell, by Helen Poole Tonish; Addie of the Flint Hills: A Prairie Child During the Depression, by Adaline Sorace (as told to Deborah Sorace Prutzman); and The Schepp Family Chronicles, by Frances Scheppe Ruh. The stories are all set in Kansas, and Stewart’s talk connects them with older, better-known works such as Little House on the Prairie. The 7 p.m. lecture is free. For more information, see shawneetown.org. — CHRIS PACKHAM
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Among the seven productions in the Unicorn Theatre’s 2011-12 season are two Tony Award winners and two Tony nominees, two musicals and one world premiere. First up is Red, which examines idiosyncratic American abstract painter Mark Rothko at a time of key personal and professional upheaval. It’s one of the Tony Award winners (Best Play of 2010), and it previews at 7:30 p.m. The play runs Tuesday through Sunday, through October 2. For more information, see unicorntheatre.org. — 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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t’s important for a restaurant to have personality. Raytown’s Blue Yuu, however, may be the only venue in the metro with a little too much personality. I happen to like the eccentricities of the place, but it’s not for every taste. And for Raytown, the Blue Yuu is borderline outrageous — not BY just a restaurant but dinner theater. CHARLES The Blue Yuu would be F E R R U Z Z A considerably less interesting without general manager Chris Taylor. The man looks like a wrestler in a too-tight kimono, and he seems to juggle many hopes up; this isn’t a delicacy you can order off roles in the dining room, including waiter and, Blue Yuu’s sushi menu. “It’s really expensive,” for better or worse, self-appointed entertainer. Taylor says. “We couldn’t afford to serve it here.” The most expensive sushi roll on the current Not unlike the vinegary kim chee served here, a little Taylor goes a long way. He can be abrasive menu is a “real lobster roll.” Rosemary Yu says and endearing at the same time, and the stories it’s made with the real thing, though it tastes he tells of adventures at a raucous Raytown sa- like a genteel tearoom lobster salad wrapped in loon — accompanied, he says, by a certain TV rice and a sheath of nori. The rest of the sushi weathercaster — aren’t what you hear repeated selection is pretty standard. I sampled a tempura at Bo Lings or P.F. Chang’s. If that’s what it takes asparagus version when I dined with a vegetarto set this unassuming Asian bistro apart from all ian friend. She thought it tasted a little fishy. Sushi is just one component of Jimmy Yu’s the Chinese buffets in Raytown, so be it. The owners of the Blue Yuu are chef Jimmy elaborate menu. It’s sort of a greatest-hits Yu and his wife, Rosemary, who previously oper- compilation drawing on Asian culture’s Top ated the Dragon Dynasty restaurant in Leawood. 40: Vietnamese spring rolls (really good), crab Rangoon, Korean bibimbap Rosemary Yu says that when bowls, phad Thai, pineapple their rent in Leawood continfried rice (Chinese, by way of ued to climb, she and Jimmy Blue Yuu Asian Restaurant Thai) and pho bowls. There’s looked for less expensive Vietnamese cheesecake on the dessert quarters. Needless to say, they spring rolls .............. $4.50 menu — “Factory Cheese found a deal in Raytown. Sizzling black-pepper Cake,” which I take to mean When I saw the building at beef ......................... $9.95 that it comes frozen from 9700 East 63rd Street, the disMango chicken ......... $8.95 the Cheesecake Factory or tinctive pitched roof made me Vegetable Dolsot has rolled off the Ford line in wonder if the place was origiBibimbap................. $9.95 Sizzling lamb ...........$12.95 Claycomo. nally built to house a certain Hunan-style There are plenty of pancake house. Taylor says dried pot................ $10.95 Chinese-American standards, several culinary tenants have Lobster roll ..............$13.95 too, like the house specialty been in the spot, including a that Taylor convinced me to hamburger joint, but its past order. “Everyone loves our lives are made irrelevant by mango chicken,” he insisted on my first visit. what awaits inside. Bawdy is the word that sidled to mind when I Though Raytown may adore it, I’d never order was first confronted with the wild array of beads, the dish again. The sautéed chicken and thick paper lanterns, bamboo blinds and paper flow- slices of fresh mango were tasty enough, but the ers. Naturally there’s a giant, jade-colored Bud- cornstarch-based sauce was as sugary as a ramedha — made of shiny plastic. At that moment, the kin of melted lemon drops, and as bad an idea. The meals that the menu calls “sizzling” music swimming out of the restaurant’s speakers more than made up for my disappointment. was George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue.” The restaurant’s name, Rosemary Yu says, I’ve tasted both the pepper-beef version — with comes from an exotic fish. But don’t get your surprisingly tender meat — and an extraordi-
nary marinated lamb. Both did indeed arrive on white-hot metal platters. The night I dined with David and Diane, we also shared a deftly seasoned, moderately intense Thai chicken with red curry. The green curry, Rosemary Yu told us, is the fiercely hot one. That night, we were the only customers in the dining room. A steady stream of patrons came in to pick up phoned-in orders, and we began to envy them. Our lonely table made us a captive audience for the Chris Taylor show. “Too much information,” Diane whispered after some of the manager’s more personal revelations. Somewhere on cable, very high up the dial, a reality show awaits him. (On TV, though, the viewer could change channels or turn it off.) The dining room was slightly busier a couple of nights later, when I returned with Bob, Rhiannon and vegetarian Crystal. The Vietnamese spring rolls are usually made with shrimp, but Jimmy Yu prepares them to order. He created a version with only carrot slivers, cellophane noodles and fresh cilantro for Crystal. We wanted to order the starter called China Moon, but then Taylor answered the “what’s in it” question with a typical wisecrack: “So a Chinese guy bends over …” “The Don Rickles of Raytown,” Bob said, dipping a spring roll into a sweet chili sauce as we all agreed never to order the China Moon. We decided instead on the pan-fried pork dumplings, also made to order. (They were delicious but they arrived that night after we had finished our dinners and were waiting to pay the bill.) Ah, but before ordering that night’s dinner, we had other decisions to make. “Did you see that there’s a fajita chicken on the menu?” Bob asked. He was tempted to order it but settled on the classic Chinese-American specialty of sweet-and-sour chicken, a dish that here none-
Hot pots and cool pours regulate Blue Yuu’s climate.
too-healthfully combined thickly battered fried chicken in a thick, neon-red sauce. Recalling the mango chicken, this sauce tasted as if it had been flavored with cherry cola. The Chinese dried pot, another showpiece in the Blue Yuu’s theater of high temperature, is a metal pot filled with a fragrant and bubbling broth, celery, carrots, zucchini as well as shrimp, beef and chicken. “That’s the Hunan version,” Taylor explained. The Szechuan pot, he advised, is spicier. For her meatless entrée, the bibimbap, Crystal watched as Taylor — in that same ill-fitting kimono — theatrically mixed up ingredients in a dangerously hot stone bowl. All of it — rice, a raw egg, spinach, zucchini, carrots, black mushrooms, baby bok choy — cooks in the bowl, like a steamed casserole, one that provides its own offbeat satisfaction. “We have tropical slushies,” Taylor said, hoping to tempt us with something sweet. “We have mango, peach, honeydew …” But the menu had already provided unexpected sweetness, so we passed on them. We also opted to forgo the Factory Cheese Cake and the egg custard. Taylor’s rejection was evident as he took my credit card and went up to the big plastic Buddha. He handed a bag of carryout boxes to a couple of young women before returning with my receipt. “I went to high school with those girls,” he confided. “They hate me.” “Do you think he was serious?” Crystal whispered after he stepped away. “Or was that part of his act?” Yuu got me. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com
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atasha Goellner walks around the counter, hand extended, her blond hair pulled back, a smile on her face. It’s shortly after 8:40 a.m., and she’s smiling because she slept in today. Her weekdays usually start somewhere around 4 a.m. Goellner is the pastry chef and co-owner (with her mother, Vicki Goellner) of Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott (10573 Mission, in Leawood). Her longBY sleeved black T-shirt and J O N AT H A N Crocs stand out amid the colorful desserts that fill the pasBENDER try cases of her Mission Farms bakery. Rectangular blocks of pink and white marshmallows rest above chocolate tarts and croissants filled with goat cheese. “I don’t want everything to be brown,” Goellner explains. “You walk into a French pastry shop, and it’s always so brown. I wanted it to be beautiful.” Goellner was on track to be an artist when she graduated from Notre Dame de Sion in Kansas City. She was accepted into the Kansas City Art Institute and envisioned a career in photography. But she didn’t get far enough to declare a major; she discovered that her business sense conflicted with the ethos of her fellow students. “Even though I work in a coffee shop now,” she says with a smile, alluding to the coffee sold in her store, “I didn’t want to work in a coffee shop and be a barista and sell paintings.” Goellner loved her art history courses, though, and shifted her academic interest toward archaeology. In order to do that, she left the Art Institute and enrolled in the University of Kansas. Over Christmas break in 2002, her brother Nick (who is now a chef at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange) gave her a book that changed her career path permanently: Margaret Braun’s Cakewalk. “Right then, I knew I was going to make wedding cakes, and within two weeks of reading that book, I’d found a school in New York and enrolled,” Goellner says. The school was the French Culinary Institute, which she graduated from in October 2004. Goellner hadn’t grown up baking, though, and she felt the challenge right away. “It was in a real kitchen, like going to work. And so, imagine you’re going to work every day and getting yelled at,” Goellner says. “But I can be yelled at. It’s OK.” When she returned to Kansas City, she decided to launch her own business: Natasha Goellner Wedding Cakes. Its first kitchen was in the underground commercial space SubTropolis, where she would arrive before the sun rose and leave after dark. She found that one can stay cheery for only so long driving into a dark cave. So Goellner enlisted the aid of her family to open
Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott on 39th Street. Her mother joined her in the kitchen, and her father, who owns a construction business, helped build out the space. The bakery opened in 2005 with a heater that was on the fritz, a concrete floor that seeped oil from its previous incarnation as a body shop, and an open kitchen that let Natasha talk to customers while cooking. As her wedding-cake business grew and the bakery earned a reputation for its cookies, she began to consider other, newer spaces. On Christmas Eve 2007, she signed a lease to move to Mission Farms. The shop opened the following year, with an emphasis on its colorful array of macarons, the classic French sandwich cookies typically filled with jam or buttercream. In addition to pastries, Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott sells ice cream and seasonal jams, and has a monthly dessert club. Over the past few years, Goellner has defined the shop’s identity and taken a stand about what the shop will and won’t sell. Gone are the vanilla cupcakes. “I didn’t go to culinary school to sell cupcakes,” Goellner says. “I know people get angry when I say we don’t have them, but it’s not what I wanted to do. I want to give them something they’ve never had.” As part of that mission, she’s taking her macarons to the Plaza, with a pop-up shop for the holidays. The new location will open October 1 at 4745 Central (in the former visitors’ information center, across from the Zoom toy store) and sell through January 15. The 500-square-foot space won’t have a kitchen but will be stocked with pastries and will sell drip coffee. “We’re now known for doing different desserts, and I feel like we’re more established,” Goellner says. “I’ve wanted to be on the Plaza for a long time, and I’m excited to see if this can be a permanent shop.” Fat City: What are your pastry inspirations? Natasha Goellner: It’s all about cartoons. I was completely obsessed with Dumbo’s Circus, the television show on the Disney Channel. It was puppets, people in costumes. In one episode, they got lost and ended up in Dessert Land —
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that’s a place I’d like to go. … The pastry things in cartoons are bigger than life — they’re a dream come true. I want to have these amazing colors. I don’t want a big brown tart of gloppiness. What’s your favorite ingredient? Pistachios. I don’t realize how much I use them. I also have a thing for orange blossom and rose water. This summer, I’ve really gotten into plums. I use pistachios all year round. I feel like they’re the perfect nut. They go with berries and pretty much any fruit. They’re pale-green and pretty. … To me, something with pistachios looks like it’s going to taste good. What’s your favorite local ingredient? Blueberries. That’s pretty much it, although we’ve had really good strawberries this year. What’s a food you hate? Raisins. I hate everything about them. I hate the way they look. I hate the way they taste. I hate the way they feel. I hate the way they smell. I know if my food has been anywhere near raisins, and I won’t eat it. People think they can sneak golden raisins in my food, but I can smell it. Occasionally, we’ll do a raisin-cinnamon oatmeal cookie, but I won’t make it. I just think raisins are disgusting. What’s your guilty pleasure? Krispy Kreme has the perfect blueberry cake doughnut. I always get two because I can never just have one. I don’t want chocolate for Valentine’s Day or roses. I just want doughnuts. And no matter how many you put in front of me, I’m not getting up until they’re all gone. What’s always in your kitchen at home? Pasta and some sort of cheese, any kind of cheese. I usually have dark beer. Right now the Leinenkugel Summer Shandy is on tap. I always have pineapple or plums and eggs. A pastry chef is only as good as … Their meringue or their buttercream. Every pastry chef should know how to make meringue or buttercream. Get frosted at pitch.com/fatcity pitch.com
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he late 1970s and early ’80s marked a fertile time for music in Los Angeles. English and New York punk inspired a West Coast response that was characterized less by a sound than by a boundary-pushing attitude. Acts such as Black Flag, X, the Go-Go’s, the Dickies and the Blasters may have set the template, BY but only Los Lobos, a LatinCHRIS inflected East Los Angeles quintet, has remained active PA R K E R and musically relevant for the entire three decades since. “X and the Blasters and some of our best friends were at the top of that food chain, so when Los Lobos got good, we had lots of opportunities to play with our heroes,” Steve Berlin, Los Lobos’ saxophonist, tells The Pitch. “We got to see firsthand how hard those bands worked. They challenged themselves to be better all the time. That work ethic and sense that you don’t skate, you push it all the time — that really amplified our evolution and defined a career for us.” The idea of punk then hadn’t yet been codified and commodified. It was just a loose term Steve Berlin (second from right) and that covered a variety of underground sounds, his fellow Angelenos. about as descriptive as “rock.” This offered a To say it came as a surprise is an underwide-open space that embraced everything and allowed Los Lobos to forge its vibrant statement. The band thought the movie was blend of Tex-Mex, Latin roots, blues, cowpunk destined to go direct to video. When Los Lobos and heartland rock. (Many would simply call recorded the track, the film still didn’t have it Americana, though much of the inspiration its lead actor. The filmmakers even asked the band members if they had any Hispanic friends came from south of the border.) “That wide-openness helped us define our who could sing and potentially take the part. music. We didn’t have to put any limitations “We thought, ‘This isn’t going anywhere,’ ” on ourselves or the music. We were free to Berlin says. If Los Lobos had been another kind of band, go anywhere we wanted,” Berlin continues. “Learning early that those rules were there it might have processed its success differently and released an album to to be broken made our world capitalize on it. Instead, it and our lives richer. That’s Los Lobos, released an album of Spanishprobably the largest thing with Making Movies. sung Tejano mariachi songs, we took away from that era.” Friday, September 9, at 1988’s La Pistola y El Corazón. A member of the BlastKnuckleheads Saloon. “That was sort of clearing the ers at the time, Berlin coair as to how the world perproduced Los Lobos’ 1983 EP ceived Los Lobos and what …And a Time to Dance with T Bone Burnett; he then joined Los Lobos for we were. We didn’t want to be known as the its Burnett-produced major-label debut, How La Bamba party band,” Berlin says. Commercial success ably dodged, Los LoWill the Wolf Survive?, which climbed into the Billboard top 50. But it was the band’s 1987 hit bos released nine more studio albums over cover of “La Bamba,” for the Ritchie Valens the next 22 years. Tin Can Trust, which was biopic of the same name, that briefly made Los released in 2010, was the first time since 1992’s Kiko that the members recorded live Lobos ubiquitous. 24
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in a studio as an ensemble rather than cutting tracks individually at guitarist César Rosas’ home studio. Recording in the heart of East L.A. was a sort of homecoming for much of the band and also a kind of wake-up call to the level of economic stress so many others were laboring under. “It’s much like when we did Kiko, which was done literally in the ghetto,” Berlin says. “We had to step across homeless families to get into that place. For real. This one wasn’t quite as devastating as that. At the same time, it was certainly troubling, and there is no way you could see that and deal with it every day and not have it inform the music on some level. Going back and seeing that old neighborhood — it really hasn’t changed that much. Everything is really exactly where it was. It’s just everybody is poorer.” The plight of the poor isn’t new ground for Los Lobos, though; 2006’s critically lauded The Town and the City traced the trials of immigrants in America across 13 tracks of adventurous roots music. That record was preceded by a tour in which the band played Kiko in its entirety. Early next year, a live CD and DVD from that tour will be released, and Berlin says he’s hopeful that the supporting tour will inform what the band does next. pitch.com
“In a weird way, playing those songs again is as inspiring as anything that we do,” he says. “So maybe something cool will come from it again.”
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love my Mom and Dad, but I can’t wait ’til the baby boomers are dead. Nothing good came from their generation. Folkicide is an apt name for what Booth is doing. It’s like he’s attempting to exterminate folk music by playing it in the most offensive, bastardized way imaginable. Folkicide is like Woody Guthrie in the midst of an exorcism. It’s disturbing, room-clearing music — the work of a sociopath. I promptly arranged a meeting. Two guys with tattoos obscuring their necks were smoking cigarettes on the Twin City Tavern patio, but Booth wasn’t one of them. Nor was he the old, leather-faced man sitting at the bar frowning at his bourbon. Booth, it turns out, was the 40-ish man — collared shirt, square jaw, brown hair, easy smile — sitting at a table by the door. Socially well-adjusted. Burnie Booth, exterminator Outgoing, even. The type of man whose coworkers would probably be surprised to learn album, Ultimate Decimation Blues. “Figuring that he sings songs about people slitting their out how to do a solo thing has been a procwrists while masturbating or ripping people’s ess. I’ve really had to teach myself things,” he says. “I’ve learned what I can do with my hearts out with ice-cream scoops. “I’m happy being alive,” Booth says. “I have a voice. One day, I was just like, ‘Oh, there’s my wonderful wife, a house. But life can be kind of diaphragm.’ And playing an acoustic guitar has shitty sometimes. And there are a lot of things really opened up some avenues. My philosophy out there that are wretched. The concept be- is, I still play it like an electric guitar and try to hind Folkicide was to totally delve into all that. wring every sound out of it that I can. I really And you end up finding your way into some like to attack it.” “He’s maliciously holding up a mirror to nasty stuff that way. I admit that there’s nothing subtle about it, which might be one of my society,” says Rod Peal, who has invited Booth weaknesses. I’m more like a sledgehammer. I to play at his music-leaning vintage shop, Halwish I could be more like a scalpel sometimes. cyon Diversified Trading. “It’s punk lyrics that I wish I could do what I do without punching are so abrasive, but he has a deceptively charmyou in the face and screaming about how hor- ing delivery.” Folkicide lyrics tend to attack established rible things are. But I can’t.” Booth grew up in Spring Hill, Kansas, about ideologies and belief systems. Booth’s own 10 miles south of Olathe. In high school in the philosophies are harder to pin down, though mid- to late ’80s, he was in a band called Big nihilism comes to mind. “When you stare at the Toe, which was a part of the hardcore scene human condition, it seems like this big ridicucentered on the Outhouse, outside Lawrence. lous, rolling mistake that has no meaning, and In 1991, he moved to Seattle and played for four that ebbs and flows and comes and goes and, I years in a band called the Moogs (“short, Velvet mean … disaster’s coming, you know?” He takes a sip of Budweiser and gathers Underground-type pop songs”), working days in pest control. He eventually married and, in his thoughts. “Everything in the world right 1999, moved back to Kansas City with his wife. now seems very flimsy. It seems like it could “I figured I would leave Seattle and come break at any second. Western civilization reback here and stop doing music,” Booth says. ally seems to be coming to an end. It’s running “Just be a little more together, get a career going. its course. It’s consuming itself. That’s what But I ended up jumping from job to job. It didn’t helped me write a lot of songs. And now the decline really seems like it’s work out so hot.” picking up speed. So I kind After ignoring his guiFolkicide Recording of like that my songs are comtar for a couple of years, Release Recital. ing out when things are really he found himself picking it Friday, September 9, starting to get weird. I’m not back up. He formed a band, at RecordBar. saying I’m creating something Charge Droplets: Booth brand-new with Folkicide, on guitar and vocals, Marc but I like to think I’m really Tweed on drums (Craig Comstock, of This Is My Condition, would later hacking at something that’s bloated and huge replace Tweed, and Chubby Smith joined on and omnipresent.” For those interested in getting in touch with bass). Ultimately, though, Booth decided that the best way for him to engage with music was their inner pessimist, Folkicide performs Friday at RecordBar to celebrate the release of Devoto do it alone, and Folkicide was born. “For me, it’s all about the lyrics, but Charge tional Hymns From the Church of the Darwinian Droplets was this big, fuzzy, grungy, hideous Snuff Film. Booth is calling it a “recital.” “People tend to stand around at my shows thing. It was great, but the lyrics got lost beneath,” he says. “And when the band kind of and not know what to do. They laugh, someended, I didn’t want those songs to die. I felt like times uncomfortably. But, I mean, I’m not I was starting to write some really interesting fucking around. I’m totally serious,” he says, songs. So I bought a crappy acoustic guitar and laughing, shaking his head, gazing out into some middle distance. —DAVID HUDNALL started seeing what I could do with it.” Booth’s transformation into Folkicide has been ongoing since 2007, but it wasn’t until E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com last year that he got around to releasing a real or call 816-218-6774 2
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SEPTEMBER 7 Buddy Holly Show SEPTEMBER 8 Butch Hancock (of the Flatlanders) 7pm
SEPTEMBER 8 Eilen Jewel 9pm SEPTEMBER 9 Los Lobos w/ Making Movies SEPTEMBER 10 Walter Trout, Ana Popovic & Anthony Gomes SEPTEMBER 13 Robert Earl Keen w/Eddie Delahunt SEPTEMBER 14 Smokin Joe Kubek & B’Nois King SEPTEMBER 15 Brandon & Shinetop SEPTEMBER 16 Jason Isbell SEPTEMBER 17 Corey Stevens SEPTEMBER 21 Miss Major SEPTEMBER 22 Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen SEPTEMBER 23 Jason D Williams SEPTEMBER 24 Mary Bridget Davies SEPTEMBER 24 Amy LaVere/Retro Room SEPTEMBER 27 Cowboy Mouth SEPTEMBER 29 Elizabeth Cook SEPTEMBER 30 Savoy Brown OCTOBER 13 Buddy Guy
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1. Bon Iver, with Kathleen Edwards Critics seem to love it, but I’m sensing that the self-titled sophomore album from Bon Iver (aka Justin Vernon), released earlier this summer, isn’t such a huge hit with the more casual fans who were drawn in by Vernon’s soulful, wintry guy-and-a-guitar debut record, For Emma, Forever Ago. That’s understandable, given the new release’s fewer hooks and stranger instrumentation — most notably, a synthy undercurrent that calls to mind the 1980s work of guys like Steve Winwood and Bruce Hornsby. But Vernon’s trademark choirboy falsetto has remained intact, as has his gift for pulling surprising beauty out of gray spaces. Friday, September 9, at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)
2. Crossroads Music Fest A reliably fun party, Bill Sundahl’s Crossroads Music Fest this year features DJs and 25 bands at six downtown venues: Crosstown Station, Press Bar, Mercy Seat Alley, Czar, Kansas City Café and the Brick. The bill is heavy on Americana-ish acts — Sundahl’s band the Columns, Dollar Fox, Rural Grit All-Stars — but also includes some hard rock (Cherokee Rock Rifle), indie rock (Capybara) and reggae (the New Riddim). I’m most excited to see former It’s Over frontman Jamie Searle’s new project, My Brothers & Sisters, which reportedly contains something like 20 members, including a horn
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section and a string quartet. See the music-fest website for the full schedule. Saturday, September 10 (at various venues, cmfkc.com)
3. Sherwood Center Blues and Bar-B-Q Benefit This weekend, the Blues and Bar-B-Q Benefit for Sherwood Center enters its 21st year at B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ. Blues fanatic (and B.B.’s owner) Lindsay Shannon is still hosting the event. Raising money for the Sherwood Center, a nonprofit serving children and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities, remains the primary objective. The variables are the blues acts that perform. This year, the bill includes, among others, Scotty Boy Daniel Blues Band and Bobby Smith Blues Band on Friday, and Trampled Under Foot and Four Fried Chickens and a Coke on Saturday. See bbslawnsidebbq.com for the full schedule. Friday, September 9, and Saturday, September 10, at B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ (1205 East 85th Street, 816-822-7427)
4. IndyFest 2 Steddy P and the IndyGround crew got in on the festival action last year when they held the inaugural IndyFest at RecordBar. This year, the party has moved to the Riot Room, but the theme
— hip-hop and urban art — is the same. The fest is featuring local rappers, including Approach and Greg Enemy, as well as importing out-oftowners (Imperfekt from Iowa, Dusty Wallets and Nato Caliph from St. Louis). Also on the bill is Humans, a sax-driven, non-hip-hop instrumental act I caught recently and enjoyed. See indyground.com for the full schedule. Saturday, September 10, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)
5. Radkey, with Ponyboy Radkey is made up of three brothers from St. Joseph, Missouri (ages 18, 16 and 14), about whom I’m not going to make a Hanson joke. Their energetic blend of punk and classic rock earned them an invitation to perform a few weeks back at the Afro-Punk Festival in Brooklyn — an event that ultimately was canceled due to a fake hurricane. Ponyboy, a scuzzy Lawrence two-piece, decorates its noisy garage rock with aggressive and occasionally disturbing lyrics. The band’s most recent release is a demo called Little Dick Demo, which contains the songs “Bro Is the New Word for Faggot” and “God Hates Your Feelings.” I’m not entirely sure what the serious-to-humorous ratio is with these guys, and I think I prefer it that way. Monday, September 12, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, SEPT. 8 Enabler, Diabolic Possession, Neldoreth, Meatshank, the Tards: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Eilen Jewell, Larkin Poe: 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Sunny Ledfurd, Jesse Harris and the Gypsy Sparrows: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The Legendary Butch Hancock: 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Cory Phillips and Groove Orchestra, Tony Lucca: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 9 Blink-182, My Chemical Romance: Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400. Bon Iver, Kathleen Edwards: Sold out, 7 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Tim Kasher, Aficionado, Fourth of July: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Los Lobos, Making Movies: 9 p.m., Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Nero: 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454. Keller Williams: 8 p.m. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 Brandon Jenkins, the Scott Ford Band, Jesse Harris and the Gypsy Sparrows, Shootin’ Blanks: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 1 1 Kevin Devine, the Features: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 1 3 A Hawk and a Hacksaw, Jorge Arana Trio: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Robert Earl Keen: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Peachcake, Bowinero: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trouble and Bass Tour: Udachi, Deathface, Samo Sound Boy, the Captain, HoodNasty, Marcobiotics: 8 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 1 4 Born Gold (formerly Gobble Gobble), Himalayan Adventure League: 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Bright Light Social Hour, Cadillac Flambe: 9 p.m. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. Deleted Scenes, the Paperclips: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Molotov, Making Movies: 8 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Smokin’ Joe Kubek, Bnois King: 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
UPCOMING Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet for My Valentine, Escape the Fate, Sevendust, Black Tide, Art of Dying, the Black Cloud Collective: Sat., Sept. 24, 2 p.m. Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400. The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Spindrift: Sat., Oct. 15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.
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Blue October: Fri., Sept. 30, 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454. CANT: Fri., Oct. 14. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Chimaira, Impending Doom, Rise to Remain, Revocation, Canvas: Sun., Oct. 16, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Roger Daltrey performs the Who’s Tommy: Fri., Oct. 14. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. The Dodos, the Luyas: Sun., Sept. 25. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Steve Earle, the Dukes and Duchess, Allison Moorer: Wed., Sept. 21, 6 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Electric Six, Kitten, Drop a Grand: Sun., Sept. 25, 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Explosions in the Sky, Wye Oak: Thu., Oct. 13. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. The Fab Four: Fri., Oct. 7, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Falling in Reverse, For All Those Sleeping, Eyes Set to Kill: Mon., Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Lupe Fiasco, Tinie Tempah: Thu., Oct. 6, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Foo Fighters, Rise Against, Mariachi el Bronx: Fri., Sept. 16. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. The Fruit Bats, Vetiver, Fairchildren: Tue., Sept. 20, 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Human League, Men Without Hats: Fri., Sept. 16, MANY MORE 6:30 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-7538665. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Robby Vee and Sky Smeed: Fri., Sept. 16, 8:30 ONLINE AT p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, PITCH.COM 2715 Rochester, 816-4831456. Journey, Foreigner: Wed., Sept. 28. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827. Alison Krauss and Union Station, Jerry Douglas: Sold out. Thu., Sept. 15. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Little Big Town: Sat., Oct. 8. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Kathleen Madigan: Fri., Sept. 16. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Pat Metheny: Thu., Sept. 29, 8 p.m., $24, $98. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Chrissy Murderbot, Machine Drum: Fri., Sept. 16, 9 p.m., $8 advance, $10 door. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Mutemath: Sun., Oct. 2. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Opeth, Katatonia: Thu., Oct. 6. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Thu., Oct. 13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Pierced Arrows, Don’t, the Spook Lights: Sun., Oct. 16, 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, Balance & Composure, Such Gold: Sat., Oct. 1, 10 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald: Fri., Oct. 7, 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827. St. Vincent: Fri., Oct. 7. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Corey Stevens: Sat., Sept. 17, 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. STS9: Sat., Oct. 1. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Labretta Suede and the Motel 6, the Spook Lights, Them Damned Young Livers: Fri., Sept. 16, 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Jackson Taylor and the Sinners, County Road 5, Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders: Fri., Sept. 23, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Unwritten Law, the Ataris, Le Grand, Hipshot Killer: Thu., Sept. 29. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Gleny Rae Virus and Her Tamworth Playboys: Wed., Oct. 12. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Wild Flag: Wed., Oct. 5, 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.
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nightlife T H U R S DAY 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Crosstown Station: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. Monta at Odds, Parts of Speech, Max Justus, 8 p.m. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. Gov’t Cheez.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Supermassive Black Holes; Grand Marquis. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Levee Town.
DJ Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. DJ Billy Smith upstairs; DJ Ben Grimes at Gusto. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mike Scott and Spinstyles. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Kirby. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Clockwerk, 10 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Ladies’ Night featuring DJ Sun-Up Jones.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Horacescope, 7 p.m.
WORLD The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. AZ-ONE, 9:30 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m. Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 8 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em, 7 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with MC Ashley. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Jo Koy, Thu., Sept. 8, 7:30 p.m. KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Pool League, Ladies’ Night. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Knuckle Vanilli Night, lip-synching and air guitar in the Retro Lounge. McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. All In Thursdays. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Garden to Glass, booze infused with local ingredients. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 9 p.m.
EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jayson Kayne., 9 p.m.
ELECTRO Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Blasian! Electro Dance Party, 10 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Bike Night Open Jam. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.
METAL Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Melting Point of Bronze, Ask an Adult, Digester.
SINGER-SONGWRITER The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. KC Songwriter Forum.
F R I DAY 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Syn City Cowboys, Isaac James, Inlike, Dirt, Dirtfedd, Restraint, Mad Libby. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. The Rehabaneros. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Nervous Rex. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595. Nicky G. KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. The Transients. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. The Slow Death.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Sherwood Center Benefit, 6 p.m. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Sonic Sutra. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Cold Sweat. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. The Rent. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Doghouse Daddies.
DJ Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mosaic Fridays: hosted by Joe Perez featuring DJ Spinstyles and DJ Mike Scott. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Ashton Martin. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Naylor. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Hoodwerk, DJ Just, 10 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Flirt Fridays: DJ Nelson Torres, DJ Josh El Bravo.
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JAZZ Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Marilyn Wood, 8-11 p.m. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Shay Estes and Mark Lowrey Trio, 6 p.m.; Barclay Martin, 10:30 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Lonnie McFadden, 4:30 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. SUNU, 6 p.m.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Club 906: 906 W. Liberty Dr., Liberty. Garry Lincoln, 9 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m. ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Jo MANY MORE Koy, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Johnny’s Tavern: 13410 W. 62nd Terr., Shawnee, 913962-5777. DJ with videos. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early ONLINE AT Girlie Show, 8 p.m., free; PITCH.COM Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.
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FOLK The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Tree, Lydia Christine Crigger.
L ATIN The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Son Venezuela. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Pararo.
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The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Crossroads Music Fest: New Riddim, Sons of Great Dane, the Safes, Dollar Fox, Rural Grit All-Stars. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Art Westport: Hillary Watts Riot, Rich Hill, Chad Abernathy, Mindy Edlin, 11 a.m. Crosstown Station: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. Crossroads Music Festival 2011, 5 p.m. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Crossroads Music Fest: Sex Police, the Grisly Hand, Capybara and the Columns. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Indy Fest 2, 6 p.m., $7.
VARIET Y Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Art Westport: Jah Lion and DJ Richmo, Rich Hill, A la Mode, 5 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The ACBs, Janet the Planet, Andrew Ashby, 9 p.m.
S AT U R DAY 1 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Patrick Lentz. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Groove Therapy. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Drunkard’s Dream with Joy Zimmerman, 6 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. New Inhabitants CD release, Katlyn Conroy.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Sherwood Center Benefit, 6 p.m. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Chicago Afrobeat Project, Fuzz Nasty. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Lonnie Ray Band. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Brothers Green. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, 5 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Troy Allen and Friends Blues Jam. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Samantha Fish.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Cadillac Flambe, 9 p.m.
DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. DJ Candlepants. Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. DJ Rico at Gusto. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ C-Mac. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Low Dive, 2-5 p.m. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager. 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-7427727. DJ Andrew Northern. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Brent Tactic.
JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Midtown Quartet.
DANCE The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Salsa Night: DJ Jalapeno, 10 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Jo Koy, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Second Sunday FUNdays: Gina and Chloe McFadden, 3 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Bluz Benderz.
DJ Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m.
JAZZ Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Clint Ashlock Quartet.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke. Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night. 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. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Mike Baldwin and friends, 7 p.m. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with the Mad Man DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m. KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Open-mic night. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Free pool. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913-268-4006. Free pool all day with purchase; dart tournament, 3 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.
EASY LISTENING The Landing: 1189 W. Kansas St., Liberty. Scooter Sundays featuring the Bob Harvey Band on the patio.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS 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.
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Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Mouthbreathers, the Spook Lights, Dry Bonnet.
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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.
DJ Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. DJ Robert Moore, 10 p.m., free. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ at the main bar.
JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Karaoke with Kelly Bleachmaxx, 10:30 p.m., free. Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Trivia, 8 p.m. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em, 7 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. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st MANY MORE St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Texas Hold ’em, 7:30 p.m. KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Free pool; Texas Hold ’em, 7 & ONLINE AT 10 p.m. PITCH.COM RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Table Magic with Keith Leff of Magicreations, 6 p.m.; Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.
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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot, $4. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mark Montgomery.
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Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m. Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. Ken Jankowski at Gusto. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Meesh. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. College Night featuring DJ Stevie Cruz.
JAZZ Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. D.J. Sweeney.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Music bingo with DJ Danny Collins. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Karaoke. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595. Rooftop karaoke. 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. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Karaoke, Bike Night, 9 p.m. Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m.
EASY LISTENING Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Chris Tady, 7 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS 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.
VARIET Y Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. A Fight for Fame. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Classic Cocktail Night featuring DJ Fat Sal, 8 p.m.
W E D N E S DAY 1 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. 90 Minutes, 9 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Shinetop Jr. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Dan Bliss. 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. Lonnie Ray Blues Band, 9:30 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Voodoo Soul.
DJ Gusto Lounge: 3810 Broadway, 816-974-8786. DJ Rico at Gusto. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ B.o.B. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Word Up Wednesdays with DJ HoodNasty, 11 p.m. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Pure.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Whiskey Wednesday. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Devin Henderson’s Mind Madness, 7:30 p.m. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Bottled Beer Night. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Ladies’ Night with DJ Thorny, 6 p.m. Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence. Pride Night.
EASY LISTENING Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Colby & Mole.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Open-mic night. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-1387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, all players, bands and singers welcome, 10 p.m., $2. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Hump Day Jam. Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816-833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30-11 p.m.
R O C K A B I L LY The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Them Damned Young Livers, Confused Little Girl, the Swamp Sitters, Mad Libby, 9 p.m.
VARIET Y The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Aireoke. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Amy Farrand’s Weirdo Wednesday Social Club, 7 p.m., no cover. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Extreme Midget Wrestling Federation.
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You’re a narcissist (perhaps with cause) with a sadistic streak. You’re the satyr, not the faun. Own it. Dear Dan: I’m 26, bi, female, and my idea of a successful long-term relationship lands somewhere between monogamish (awesome word!) and completely non-monogamous. Basically, I want a primary partner but I enjoy me some women, and a threesome sounds like a great birthday present. I’ve tried telling potential partners about my kinks on the first date. At first, they’re all into it, but eventually the men all change their minds about wanting that type of relationship. What am I doing wrong? Apparently NOT Every Man’s Dream Dear ANEMD: You’re 26 years old and you’re still single.Where do I send flowers? You might wanna think of your romantic history this way: Every man you’ve been with so far either hasn’t wanted the type of relationship you’re offering or hasn’t wanted you. That doesn’t mean there aren’t men out there who do want the type of relationship you’re offering and/or you, only that you haven’t met one yet. Keep calm, carry on, and push that kink conversation back to the third date. Dear Dan: I’m a 27-year-old straight guy. This girl I work with is everything I want in a partner. We’ve been flirting at work and on Facebook, and it’s getting to the point where one of us has to make a move. But she’s already got a boyfriend. I’ve been the guy who gets cheated on, and I won’t do that to someone else. Also, I’ve recently been promoted, and I’m now her immediate superior. She’s a shit employee: lazy, rude to customers, and last week I had to call her on a really basic mistake. Despite these complications, I want to make a move on her. How do I get around these issues? Frustrated in Sydney Dear FIS: My suspicious nature has me wondering if she saw your promotion coming, and the flirting was, and still is, an insurance policy. You’re not going to fire her because you want to fuck her, and once you fuck her, you won’t be able to fire her because she’ll be able to accuse you of sexual harassment. See how that works? My advice: Go to your boss and tell him that a little innocent coequal-coworker-to-coequalcoworker flirtation has been queered by your promotion, and it would be a sensitive situation even if the other employee was a good worker. But she’s a shit worker, and if she doesn’t shape up, someone is going to have to fire her. And that someone can’t be you. Ask your boss to place this girl under someone else, and after this girl’s new immediate supervisor fires her, you’ll quickly find out if she was ever really interested in being “placed” under you at all. Have a question for Dan Savage? E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net
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