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Bank Shots t was predictable that “End the Fed” signs would find their way to the Occupy Wall Street protest and its satellites. One day last week, at the Occupy Kansas City site near the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, a heavily pierced individual with a feather in his hair, who identified himself as Rocky, brandished a piece of cardboard that accused the Fed of treason. Among Rocky’s complaints was (I think) the obscure moment in rock history when Alice Cooper’s Billion Dollar Babies album was delayed at the printer because of concerns about the way currency was used in the artwork. Rocky wasn’t alone. I spoke with another demonstrator at Occupy Kansas City, a retiree, who called the Federal Reserve a “cartel” and spoke of “fiat” currency, which Congressman Ron Paul, the patron saint of the End the Fed movement, defines as “money that can be inflated or increased at the push of a button at the say-so of a powerful person or organization.” Occupy Wall Street is, at its heart, a rejection of the financialization of the U.S. economy. Much of the income inequality in this country can be attributed to the fact that the finance sector became so vast and destructive. Adair Turner, the chairman of the Financial Services Authority in Great Britain, has complained that much of what happens in the world’s
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ing. He sounded sympathetic to the cause. “Like everyone else, I’m dissatisfied with what the economy’s doing right now,” he said. “They blame, with some justification, the problems in the financial sector for getting us into this mess, and they’re dissatisfied with the policy response here in Washington. And at some level, I can’t blame them.” The Federal Reserve sets U.S. monetary policy with two goals in mind: Promote employment and keep inflation under control. It’s a delicate balance. Still, Charles Evans, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, thinks
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A report calls out the Kansas City, Missouri, School District’s teacher-absence problem.
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But this is just anecdotal evidence. How bad is the problem, exactly? And what can make it better? That’s not exactly clear. “We don’t always have answers behind why these absence rates behave the way they do,” Emily Cohen, district policy director for the NCTQ and the project director for the study, tells The Pitch. Cohen says the KCMSD didn’t keep some basic records on its teachers. “All districts struggle with it [recordkeeping],” she says. “Kansas City really struggled with it.” The study also had to throw out some of the district’s data, which showed teacher absences on Saturdays and Sundays. Does the district even know when its teachers are really away? It struggled to provide The Pitch with basic answers. The district’s director of human resources was unaware of the large Saturday and Sunday data flaws, and Anthony Moore, the assistant superintendent for human resources, initially challenged the study’s findings. “Those numbers — I don’t know where they got those numbers,” Moore says of the NCTQ’S 9.6-absences-per-year claim. He explains that he crunched a few numbers after The Pitch contacted the district to ask about the absences. “For the last three years, they [the district’s teachers] averaged less than a day a year per teacher.” Wait — one? Just one day? That’s a remarkable claim. Nonattendance rates of several other local and national schools reviewed by The Pitch revealed no rate nearly as low as that provided by Moore. The lowest teacher-absentee rate identified was Park Hill School District’s five days a year per teacher. Cohen expresses surprise at Moore’s calculation. “The likelihood that teachers there actually average one day a year and not almost 10 is impossible, based on the records we were provided,” Cohen says. She adds that she has never seen a number that low among schools she has studied. Mary Esselman, an assistant superintendent for professional development who works with the data, later confirmed to The Pitch that the NCTQ’s numbers were correct. School board President Airick Leonard West acknowledges that there have been problems with teacher absences and record-keeping. The board, he says, is moving to adopt new policies
based largely on the report’s recommendations. But it won’t happen overnight. “Unfortunately, you start to put this story together at a time when one superintendent who knew a lot about this leaves, and now we have a new one we need to get up to speed,” West tells The Pitch. Teachers’ decisions to call in sick are influenced by a number of factors other than illness. Is it Monday? Friday? Does the teacher hate his or her job? Do co-workers miss a lot of days? “When teachers transfer to a school with better attendance rates, their own attendance adjusts,” Cohen says. NCTQ researchers, flummoxed by district policies that seemed well-designed, advise in their report that administrators should work to improve the culture within each school. Absences in Kansas City, Missouri’s schools increase as teachers get older, the report finds, with tenured teachers taking more absences than their nontenured peers. At first glance, that doesn’t make sense. When a teacher retires, the district pays him or her for up to 175 unused sick days, at the rate of 75 percent of the teacher’s salary. That’s a good reason to show up. So why hasn’t the policy worked better? One theory, according to the study, is that experienced teachers toting more than 175 sick days simply choose against stockpiling further. Another possibility, suggested by Andrea Flinders, president of the Kansas City Federation of Teachers & School-Related Personnel (a teachers union), is that a few outliers with prolonged illnesses could be throwing off the numbers. The district’s Moore says the top third of the district’s teachers missed no days in 2009–10, while the bottom third missed between 12 and 57. The tweaks the administration could make, as suggested by researchers who have studied teacher nonattendance, seem simple: Keep better track of teacher absences and pay teachers at the end of the year for unused sick days rather than at the end of their careers. In a district facing disaccreditation, any relationship between teacher absences and student success matters. The Southwest teacher puts it starkly: “Hard work is the only thing that’s going to get them [students] out of their situation. They need a teacher to push them to do that, and they can’t do that when they’re not there.” E-mail feedback@pitch.com pitch.com
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Indulge in local culture.
A historic church is haunted.
You’re still invited to step inside.
NIGHT + DAY WEEK OF OCTOBER 13–19
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According to Conan the Barbarian, the best things in life are (1) crushing your enemies, (2) seeing them driven before you, and (3) hearing the lamentations of their women. Then there’s Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a psychological construct shaped like a pyramid, with self-actualization and FIND morality up on the top MANY MORE and huffing oxygen at the foundation. In between, there’s a bunch crap like friendship, LISTINGS of self-esteem and doing ONLINE AT sex to each other. So PITCH.COM complicated! Basically, according to the Lee’s Summit Department of Parks and Recreation, you need only three things in life, and they form the basis of today’s Health, Wealth and Leisure Expo, targeted at people over 50 who want to be healthier, wealthier and leisurelier. From 9 a.m. to noon at Harris Park Community Center (110 Southwest Blue Parkway, in Lee’s Summit, 816-969-1516), get a $25 flu shot; a free chair massage; refreshments; and information from more than 35 vendors, including chiropractic clinics, foot-care companies, hospitals and geriatric providers. For more information, see cityofls.net/parks.aspx or call 816-969-1580. — CHRIS PACKHAM
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If you’re concerned about the climate (particularly the Kansas River) but also a sucker for good climate control, the environment-minded but all-indoor Wild & Scenic Film Festival is the event for you. The traveling program of ecothemed shorts and features stops in Lawrence, with surfer-director Chris Malloy’s 90-minute ode to outdoor adventure, 180 Degrees South, playing alongside Scattered Flurries, Coast Is Clear, The Majestic Plastic Bag and Witness. Doors at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, 785-749-1972) open at 6:30 p.m., and the vision questing starts at 7. Admission to this benefit is one of those “suggested donation” things, so reach into that compost pile you call a hip
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are at 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, October 15, and 2 p.m. Sunday, October 16. For more information, see jccc.edu/performing-arts-series or call 913-469-3245. — BEN PALOSAARI
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There was a time when Peter Shaffer’s Equus was known for more than Daniel Radcliffe showing off his wand in a 2007 West End revival. The play tells the story of Alan Strang, a troubled teenager, and Martin Dysart, the psychiatrist who tries to treat him as well as understand how his parents’ opposing religious ideologies scarred him (and caused him to develop an oddly strong attraction to horses). Historically, the play has been revered for visually striking productions and unusual sets. Besides a story line with violence against animals, it also calls for actors dressed as horses and for nudity. At 7:30 p.m., see what director Jim Lane, chair of Johnson County Community College’s Theatre Department, has put together for this first of a series of free academic performances on the Bodker Black Box stage in Carlson Center (12345 College Boulevard, Overland Park, 913-469-3245). Seats are firstcome, first-served. Additional performances
When concert promoter Tim Sweeney discovered that the staff of Boulevard Drive-In (1051 Merriam Lane in Kansas City, Kansas, 913-2622414) had yet to plan any horror-movie events during the Halloween season, he contacted Brian Neal (grandson of Boulevard Drive-In owner Wes Neal) about the possibilities. And then what started as a simple movie marathon turned into a two-night carnival of lost souls titled, “It Came From the Drive-In ... Horror on the Boulevard.” On both nights, attendees are treated to the triple threat A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th and Army of Darkness. Also on the bill:a performance by the Haunted Creepys and a wide assortment of vendors and horror personalities, including Allan Kayser of cult hit Night of the Creeps; Stink-O-Rama’s Uncle Roy Hoskins; and the original Jason Voorhees, Ari Lehman (who on Saturday performs with his band, First Jason). For the nearly 10 hours of rock, revelry and repugnance, the
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cost is $20 per car — with no limit on the number of bodies inside. Gates open at 5 p.m. Friday and 4 p.m. Saturday. See boulevarddrivein.com for more information. — NICK SPACEK
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“Modern dance” is known for making use of the entire body to express strong emotions and abstract ideas, as opposed to relating a story or narrative theme. Modern dancers, eschewing the formality of classical ballet, embody a more free-form style, often performing barefooted and with props. Can’t picture it? See a good example when the Wylliams/Henry Contemporary Dance Company opens the professional dance season of the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire, in Lawrence, 785-843-2787) with a two-act performance consisting of both new works and a collaboration with Bill Shapiro of KCUR 89.3’s Cyprus Avenue. Titled Cyprus 2, the show features continued on page 12
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commentary by Shapiro alongside the music of Jerry Lee Lewis, Bob Dylan, Jackie Wilson, Leonard Cohen and others. Tickets cost $18 for adults and $12 for students and seniors. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. For more information, see lawrenceartscenter.org. — BERRY ANDERSON [ C U LT U R A L E V E N T ]
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Did you know that Quindaro is a Wyandot Indian word (that translates as “bundle of sticks” but is taken to mean “in union there is strength”)? Or that the Osage Trail once ran through the area that is now the intersection of 31st Street and Harrison? Native American contributions to the area’s cultural heritage came along way before barbecue and jazz. Celebrate them today at the Harvest Moon American Indian Festival, where organizers hope to “break Pow Wow stereotypes” and “introduce the arts community to contemporary Native performers” (according to their website). Hear music by flautist Bill Miller and singer Joane Shenandoah (both are Grammy-winners); Indigenous, a Nakota Nation rock group from South Dakota; and several other local artists. The festival runs from noon to 10 p.m. at the intersection of 31st Street and Troost and also features art, food and ceremonial dance. Proceeds benefit the White Buffalo Scholarship Fund and the Historic Osage Pergola Park Project. Tickets cost $15. For more information, see harvestmoonamericanindianfestival.com. — APRIL FLEMING AND CHRIS PACKHAM [ART]
EYES OF OUR STORM
Potential Wall Street riots got you feeling uncertain? This is normal. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) opens two exhibitions by 20th-century artists suggesting that the place of uncertainty between calm and chaos is America’s most natural and beautiful state. In To Make a World: George Ault and 1940s America, painter George Ault (1891-1948) saw beneath the surface of feel-good propaganda during World War II. Ault’s virginal landscapes are bleak but also welcoming reflections of American consciousness, isolated from conflict yet encaged in fear. The graphic chaos assembled by the African-American and modernist artist Romare Bearden (1911-1988) in Impressions & Improvisations: The Prints of Romare Bearden sharply cuts through the feigned peace 12 OH B EXRX–X 1 3 -X1,9,2 0 20 2 TTHHEE PPIITTCCHH MOOCNT T 0 1X1
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A half-century ago, there was an active gay life in Kansas City, but only if you knew where to go. There was the Colony nightclub on Troost, where the bartender could switch on a red light if he knew that police were getting ready to raid the place. Down the street, the “femme mimics” at the Jewel Box Lounge (including Rae Bourbon, later jailed for murder) didn’t lip-synch to records but really sang — and frequently sewed their own gowns. Kansas City’s gay history is the focus of today’s trolley tour, hosted by the Kansas City Museum and the Gay and Lesbian Archive of Mid-America (GLAMA). The tour leaves from Union Station at 1 p.m. Local actor and historian Ross Freese leads the one-hour expedition that travels to both familiar and lesser-known historical sites. Tickets cost $25. Make a reservation at kansascitymuseum.org/glama.html. — CHARLES FERRUZZA
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Multidisciplinary artist Judith G. Levy relies heavily on viewers’ “suspension of disbelief” when it comes to her work The Last Descendents. “It’s a tactic I employ to create video narratives, extensive family trees and family heirlooms that give me creative entry to address actual historical events such as war, racism, persecution, immigration and epidemics,” she says. Featuring three faux documentaries alongside the large-scale, multigenerational “family trees,” Levy interviews living “descendants” of Huckleberry Finn, Hansel and Gretel, and the Lone Ranger to further examine and re-imagine history. At 6 p.m. at the Paragraph Gallery (23 East 12th Street, 816-221-5115), the panel discussion “Was Huck Finn Black? A Conversation About Race, Identity and Culture” delves deeper into the notion of race and identity. For more information, see charlottestreet.org. — BERRY ANDERSON
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According to a 2004 article by Associated Press author Jeff Douglas, the Rev. Henry David Jardine led St. Mary’s Episcopal Church from 1879 through 1886, until he was accused of misusing parish funds, drug use, and immoral behavior with young church girls. After losing a libel suit against the editor of The Kansas City Times, Jardine went to St. Louis, had his priesthood revoked and was later found dead with a crucifix and a chloroform-soaked rag in his hands. An accident? He’s rumored to haunt St. Mary’s Episcopal Church (1307 Holmes), where his remains rest by the organ under the church’s high altar. Find out if you can hear Jardine knocking around during a haunted historic tour of the church with the Historic Kansas City Foundation. Running from 2 until 3:30 p.m., the tour is free and open to the public. For
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Those who braved the open house for the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts might tell you that the experience could have been more agreeable. The lines were prohibitively long, and there was rain. But they’ll also tell you that the Kauffman Center is something to behold. The glass-walled Brandmeyer Great Hall (the other name for the lobby) is larger than a football field, with Guggenheim-like circular walkways leading up to the balconies of Helzberg Hall and the Muriel Kauffman Theatre. If you skipped out on the grand opening, you haven’t missed your chance. The center offers free, small tours (of 15 or fewer people) on Mondays, Tuesdays and Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Reservations are required. Call 816-994-7200 or see kauffmancenter.org. — APRIL FLEMING
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Over at Linda Hall Library, the metro’s great nonprofit biosphere for eggheads and just-us-average-yolks, 2011 is the “Year of Innovation.” Well, there isn’t much of the calendar left, but the library’s fall lecture series has saved some of the best for last. At 7 p.m. in the Main Reading Room (5109 Cherry), Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Jane Smiley talks about her 2010 book, The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer. Even those who frequent the Hall stacks might ask: who? For Smiley, that’s the point. As she explained to Wired last year: “I was asked by an editor to consider writing something about an American inventor. I asked him if he knew who invented the computer. He said he didn’t. In that case, I told him, I should write a book about John Vincent Atanasoff.” But her subject was no Steve Jobs. “My take on Atanasoff,” Smiley told Wired, “is that he was a pain in the ass. I think he was the kind of person who is so directed and determined that you want to run the other direction after about two days.” To order free tickets to see Smiley (or to attend the remaining lectures: digital-camera inventor Steve Sasson on October 26, and Pandora Radio mastermind Nolan Gasser on November 2), register at lindahall.org or call 816-926-8772. — SCOTT WILSON 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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film Ground to a Halt LOWER YOUR EXPECTATIONS FOR VERA FARMIGA’S HIGHER GROUND. era Farmiga’s directorial debut, Higher Ground, is a tale of a very devout woman’s struggle with her faith in the midst of an evangelical community. Those who roll their eyes at the prospect of another cinematic swipe at religious folk should know that it’s surprisingly respectful and keeps the cheap shots to a miniBY mum. On the other hand, those who roll their eyes at BILGE the prospect of another disEBIRI ingenuous attempt to capitalize on the religious dollar should know that the film is mostly about the character’s disillusionment and reawakening. Really, whatever your expectations, tone them down a bit; the film should have been called Middle Ground. And that’s the problem. Corinne’s story begins in her childhood when she falls for longhaired, guitar-playing local golden god Ethan. (He’s played by Humpday’s Joshua
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accident. Upon discovering that their young baby is OK, they suddenly — really, quite suddenly — become extremely devout Christians.
Victims of Circumstance AN AMBITIOUS FILM ABOUT LIFE IN IRAN HAS POWER. robably henceforth known as The Iranian Lesbian Movie, Maryam Keshavarz’s uneven but occasionally mesmerizing film Circumstance isn’t really about sexuality. Rather, it’s about something harder to express: the confusion and uncertainty of youth, and the tragedy of its stifling. BY The film’s primary focus is on two affectionate, rebelBILGE lious teens, Atafeh (Nikohl EBIRI Boosheri) and Shireen (Sarah Kazemy), children of privilege living in Tehran. The latter’s parents appear to have died as a result of their anti-regime ways, while the former lives at home with her worldly, wealthy parents. (Mom is a doctor, and Dad appears to be some kind of music professor, though it’s also suggested at one point that he may have had a revolutionary past.) Atafeh and Shireen gradually become attracted to each other and find themselves drawn increasingly into the wild, frenzied, hidden nightlife of Tehran’s clandestine youth scene.
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Bedtime, the sequel: Nikohl Boosheri (left) and Sarah Kazemy.
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And away we go: The two join a somewhat cultish but kindly group of believers. Everybody smiles and speaks very softly. This being the late ’60s/early ’70s, they’re not even all that hung-up on sexual repression. (“Clitoral stimulation is part of God’s plan,” the men are taught.) Corinne occasionally likes to voice her views, and she’s occasionally told that women shouldn’t be so assertive. Sometimes she likes to show a bit of shoulder, and sometimes she’s told that she dresses a bit too loosely. Lather, rinse, repeat. The film was based on Caroline S. Briggs’ memoir, and this particular crisis of faith is clearly meant to be a low, quietly simmering one. But that results in rather inert drama at best. Without a compelling sense of the protagonist’s devotion, it’s hard to feel much for her eventual disenchantment. Corinne and Ethan’s initial plunge into religious dedication turns on a dime, and we never quite understand what faith provides them. The tone is mostly respectful, but the coming break with the church is a fait accompli for pretty much the entire movie: We’re just waiting for the other shoe to drop — even though we’ve never really been shown the shoes. The overall feeling we get from the film is not one of sadness, or even liberation, but rather a dull, arid pointlessness. ■ there’s no elegant dancing around subtext here. Circumstance is steeped in sensuous photography with forays into dreamlike, elliptical reveries and eroticism. But then it all starts to go horribly wrong as the film gives way to cloying predictability. The repression of the world around the characters is compelling enough, but Keshavarz feels the need to bring in an unnecessary villain: Atafeh’s brother, Mehran (Reza Sixo Safai), a former drug addict and, apparently, a wayward musical genius. (The family actually calls him “the prodigal son,” just to make sure we notice.) Now a holier-than-thou Islamic fundamentalist, Mehran has given up his libertine ways and become an informer for the notorious morality police, outfitting his family’s home with secret cameras and microphones. Mehran’s ability to insinuate and survey every aspect of Atafeh and Shireen’s lives is unreal, almost godlike — and one wonders if Keshavarz is reaching for metaphor here. But she confuses the issue. The film tries to suggest that Mehran’s growing malevolence is rooted in his love for, and rejection by, Shireen. (Snidely Whiplash was a scorned lover, too.) By the time Circumstance crawls to a conclusion, it feels hobbled and undone. An intriguing, otherworldly portrait of a youth culture living between the lines has been cheapened into the most familiar and clichéd of melodramas. ■ M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X
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But the same restless energy that he brings to the kitchen and to an interview with The Pitch may still take him elsewhere. “Someday it would be fun to go to a bigger city with a restaurant that has as good a reputation as the American,” Wesemann says. He has thought about Chicago and New York, where he might, he says, open “a place where you could have one or two savory courses and then five desserts.” The Pitch: What do you see as the latest trends in pastry? Wesemann: I like these modern cooking techniques — I won’t call them molecular gastronomy — that have been gaining popularity. It’s not just foams but techniques and additives that you can do a lot of very cool things
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with. It frustrates me when I talk to a chef, and they say, “I won’t use this because I just like cooking normal food. I don’t like to add things to my food.” There’s two problems I have with that. As soon as they say that, they’re saying they’ve learned all they’re going to learn. To say my craft has only come so far and I’m not going to take it any farther, I don’t think that’s good for you. Eventually, you’d get bored with the food. It’s also not good for the scene, but everything just stops. The food is going to stagnate. People have to grow. The second is that people use baking soda and gelatin and corn starch. If you make a muffin, you don’t want it to be dense and dry.
So you find an additive that causes a chemical reaction to make sure the muffin isn’t dry. There’s no difference between that and using a seaweed derivative instead of gelatin. For some reason, chefs are OK with gelatin. Maybe it’s because it’s what they were taught. I’m always excited when a chef gets it. Chef Debbie [Gold] really makes her food interesting. She says if food is going this way, I can grow. And chef Alex [Pope] — I used to work with him, and we just talk about what different additives might do for a dish. If you keep learning new techniques, then people will want to keep coming back to see what you do next. What would you ban from the pastry world? I’m so sick of cupcakes. It’s not even funny. It’s just ridiculous. I’ll get excited that a bakery has opened and then see that it’s a cupcake shop. I understand. Cupcakes can be done well. My main problem is that every time I eat one, I feel sick afterward. There’s no balance. There’s this much cake and this much frosting [holds hands significantly wider apart after frosting]. They’re always way too sweet, and you get frosting up your nose. As a pastry chef, you can do more. We can do things other than cupcakes. Do you watch TV shows about pastry chefs? I don’t get cable, but I did audition for Top Chef: Just Desserts. I thought it could be fun, a way to get my name out there. I watch them, and they make me mad because of all of the drama. Still, I thought the challenges could be fun. You don’t get that in a restaurant, where you’ve got to make something in a hailstorm. Besides your own place, where do you like to eat out? I really like You Say Tomato. I like going there for brunch. They have a breakfast casserole like my mom used to make. Every Christmas, she made it. They make a galette with potatoes. Those are really good, and the pie is great. It’s really cool, independently owned, and it’s right near where I live. Everyone there is nice, and the food is always comforting. I like the bar at Bluestem. If I don’t feel like a full dinner, I can sit there and try Megan’s [Garrelts] desserts. Pot Pie is good, too. It’s simple food, done well. What are your culinary inspirations? I like to take the flavors that I liked as a child and make them more adult, whether that’s in the presentation or in adding something else. I get inspiration from music, movies and video games. There’s one cookie for the petit fours — I call them sugar bombs. If you’ve ever played Fallout 3, the special items you get are called sugar bombs. This cookie has four kinds of sugar. I’m a big nerd, and nobody at the American knows where it comes from. What’s one book that every chef should read? One book I got recently is Ideas in Food: Great Recipes and Why continued on page 18
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he Kansas City, Missouri, School District crept back into the headlines this autumn, following the abrupt resignation of its superintendent, John Covington, and the state of Missouri’s announcement that it intends to strip the district of its accreditation, effective January 1. But the sorry state of the city’s public schools is hardly news. The district has been BY the great shame of our city for decades. It’s why, in 1999, D AV I D Jerry McEvoy raised $1 milH U D N A L L lion, renovated a fire-damaged space above St. Louis Church at 60th Street and Swope Parkway, and founded We settled in the waiting area, a room with the Upper Room. McEvoy had conducted meetings in the rectangular tables, a bookshelf, and posters of community with heads of households — almost Duke Ellington and Dave Brubeck on the walls. all single mothers — seeking to determine how It was empty and quiet. The schools were just a nonprofit could best serve the area. Literacy letting out, and the kids wouldn’t start arriving was the most common response; their children for their lessons for another hour or so. Richter, simply weren’t learning how to read at school. who was wearing black, rubbery gloves with So the Upper Room took the form of a free open fingertips, sat at the desk at the head of summer academic camp, with an emphasis the room. He removed and folded his wireon reading skills. It served 90 students at the frame glasses and held them in the air near his St. Louis Church location its first year. This shoulder as he spoke. “I played piano for 15 years with Jimmy Hampast summer, 2,500 students participated at ilton, who was Duke Ellingvarious church sites along ton’s featured clarinet player the Swope corridor. Over Music Matters: for 26 years,” Richter said. “He time, it has added afterA Benefit for the Children was a mentor of mine, and he school classes during the of the Upper Room’s was also a teacher. He’s the school year and gradually Music Program. one who put that bug in me: incorporated arts educaFriday, October 14, at the If you’re not playing, then you tion. It would not be diffiChurch of the Resurrection. ought to be teaching.” cult to make the argument Richter has a gig at Sulthat the Upper Room is educating its inner-city students more ef- livan’s on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday ficiently, and more comprehensively, than nights, but otherwise he is fully devoted to the school. In addition to scheduling and supervisthe school district. Its music program, the Eddie Baker School of ing operations, he conducts around 40 private, Music, operates on the second floor of Covenant 30-minute lessons a week and, on Saturday Presbyterian Church, directly across the street mornings, trains a student ensemble. When from St. Louis Church. A couple of Mondays I could restrain my curiosity no longer and ago, the school’s supervisor, a musician named finally asked him about the gloves he was wearGreg Richter, showed me around. He pointed ing, he said they provide relief for his hands, out rooms where he and the staff give private which tend to ache after playing, on average, lessons, and he opened up supply closets filled about six hours of music a day. The instructors Richter hires tend to be muto the top with used guitars, saxophones and drum accessories, which the school purchases sicians he knows from playing around town or to lend to its students. “Right now, we’ve only musicians recommended by the saxophonist got about 90 instruments on hand,” he told me. Bobby Watson, assistant director of jazz studies “About 210 of the 300 students who did the at the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance. music camp this summer stuck with the pro- “You have to possess a certain temperament for gram, and we teach as many of them through teaching, and Bobby really understands that and can identify people who have it,” he said. the school year as we can.”
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Mike Herrera, a Watson recommendation who has taught sax, flute and clarinet at the school for nearly three years, says, “One thing I learned from Bobby is that a great teacher can teach one thing 20 different ways. It’s about finding what works best for each individual student.” Mirna Kawar, who teaches piano and is wrapping up a master’s degree in music therapy, agrees. “It can be challenging to sustain the kids’ attention. Many of them have ADHD or similar issues. So I try to learn what they’re interested in and give them little rewards. If they like hip-hop, I’ll add a hip-hop rhythm to the keyboard to get them more motivated.” Demand for the program exceeds resources. There is a waiting list, which puts the instructors in the desirable — and, in Kansas City’s urban core, extraordinarily rare — position of teaching eager students. “The pressure is kind of on the kids if they want to stay in the program, because we can only afford to tutor the ones who do well academically and who really practice at their instruments,” Richter said. “If they’re not performing, we can find someone else to fill their slot.” Richter’s first student of the day was soon to be dropped off at St. Louis Church, so we walked across Swope Parkway to meet him. “Some of the kids are old enough to come over by themselves, but some we have to kind of escort,” he said. “We teach anywhere between the ages of about 7 and 17. You know, in Missouri public schools, the kids don’t get to take horn classes until middle school. And when they’re that old, they’re not as willing to sound bad. So it’s better in third or fourth grade, when they’re still amused by the sound of the instrument, and they don’t get pitch.com
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embarrassed when they can’t make it sound right. They’re more willing to learn it.” We corralled a skinny, smiling, hyperactive 8-year-old boy and started back. “Don’t tell me you haven’t been practicing,” Richter said to him, in a fake stern tone. We spotted McEvoy, the executive director, crossing the boulevard, and he walked with us to the waiting area. “These churches really just open up their doors to us,” McEvoy told me, noting that the Upper Room typically pays utility costs to the churches in exchange for the space to hold the programs. “They’re happy to have us. We hire from the community. We have a new GED program for single moms. It works out well all around. With music — learning music goes beyond learning instruments. It’s applying your mind to something to accomplish something, to improve.” The Eddie Baker School of Music — named after the Kansas City jazz musician who died in 2005 after founding the Charlie Parker Foundation, an organization that was similarly dedicated to providing free music education to children who couldn’t afford it — pays its teachers and keeps the lights on through grants, private and corporate donations, and government funding. On Saturday, the Upper Room is hosting a benefit for the school, across town in Leawood at the Church of the Resurrection, to draw attention to the organization and raise money. Lonnie McFadden, Marilyn Maye, and the Palestine Gospel Singers will perform, as will Watson, who will take the stage with Richter’s Saturday-morning ensemble class. They’ll perform a song that Richter wrote: “The West Indian Marching Song.” “They’re really thrilled that they get to play with Bobby,” Richter said. By 4 p.m., the school was gradually sparking to life. Teachers carrying instrument cases made their way into studios. A young boy wearing navy slacks, a white short-sleeve shirt, a yellow tie and bright-white Nikes sat coloring, waiting for his lesson. Down the hall, an unsteady clarinet navigated scales. A gentle cacophony was swelling. Richter’s studio door was half-open. “Here, how about let’s play this thing this way, and then once we learn that, I can show you how to play that other stuff you were talking about,” he said. “You ready? OK. One, two …” E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com
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above him. A man who sometimes plays washboard in Gregory’s band had invited him in different areas of the city, until the sunrise, to come along for a brief Civil War tour, and with different groups,” he says. “You certainly a re-enactment of the 1864 Battle of Platts- learn the ins and outs of the city.” burg was in progress. Gregory was mocking Gregory’s neo-hobo aesthetic includes a death. “You can just choose when you’re broad knife, which he carries. But his jolly selfdead,” Gregory says, shooting pool in down- awareness counterbalances his anachronistic town Lawrence. “And I figured, you can’t go aura — both his personality and his recording wrong with sitting by fires and shooting black doggedly strive for a kind of timelessness. The powder all day, right?” songs are full of insecurity, heartbreak and The experience gave him the name of his invisible people, and not romanced with selfrecently released third album: Before the Black importance or drunken revelry. “I have a true Powder Strikes. The nostalgia passion for each and every of Civil War re-enacting also song,” he says. “Every time Tyler Gregory, with nicely jibes with the 23-yearI sing one of these tunes, I Benyaro, Tinhorn Molly old’s busker persona. He has get drawn back to that cerand the Blackbird Revue. the voice of a middle-aged tain time.” Friday, October 14, at Czar. bluesman and the beard of Gregory is not a total a mountain man, and he’s loner; he’s had several difknown for playing acoustic ferent backing bands, and Spindrift, with Dead Meadow guitar on downtown Lawthe new album features and the Black Angels. rence sidewalks. But Gregory washboard, mandolin and Saturday, October 15, is no panhandler. He’s more upright bass. Johnny Kay, of at the Bottleneck. of a self-employed traveling Adam Lee & the Dead Horse salesman who just happens Sound Company, helped him to be peddling music. He’s master Before the Black Powconstantly writing, booking, promoting. His der Strikes. “Everything today is effects, so it’s Internet profile is well-manicured. His e-mail hard to re-create these kinds of songs in the and voice mail are appended with booking studio,” Gregory says. That’s a pretty vague information. statement for a modern musician — which, of “Every day for the last week and a half, I’ve course, Gregory is not. Still, there’s no end in had shows,” he says. “I make my own merch. sight. Of his chosen profession, he says, “You I’m a businessman. It pays the bills.” can be doing this stuff in your 80s,” something Gregory’s entire body of work, up to now, he seems to expect to do. has been an unglamorous journey — at least — K ENT SZLAUDERBACH the way he tells it. After hearing a Woody Guthrie album of his father’s, he quit playing in his Wamego, Kansas, high school metal Spindrift Sets Up Camp band. “I feel that both metal and roots music for a Night in Lawrence have a sense of passion from the live performance, but it was the storytelling aspect of ince surfacing in the early ’90s, Spinfolk and roots music that really grabbed me drift has pioneered a genre of psycheoff-guard,” he says. “Maybe every five years, delic spaghetti-western sci-fi music: wailing I’ll go back and forth, folk to metal. As long whistles, rolling bass lines and campfire meloas I’m playing, I’m happy.” dies. What began as experimental music has Gregory considers Before the Black Powder evolved into a mixed-media effort, partially Strikes his first legitimate album, though he owing to the fact that the band moved to Los has two prior informal releases under his Angeles from Delaware — Spindrift’s latest belt. The title track is based on living on the album, Classic Soundtracks, Vol. 1, contains streets of Lawrence. “I found myself dwelling scores created for nine continued on page 24
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independent films. The Pitch recently spoke with Kirpatrick Thomas (guitar, vocals) about his background in filmmaking and producing, his love of Sergio Leone, and what projects and inspirations the band is currently into. The Pitch: Spindrift has relocated and been through some lineup changes. How have those things affected the way you make music and the band’s overall sound? Thomas: In 2001, when I first moved to Los Angeles, the Southwest was a big influence as far as being exposed to some of the different bands that were playing out here. We toured a bit with Brian Jonestown Massacre, and we all started exploring the desert and were influenced by that. It was definitely an eye-opening experience and an influence on the music. Has film always influenced your writing process and production? The initial birth of that was the interest I had in the spaghetti-western genre, which was Sergio Leone and Italian Westerns that came out in the ’60s. We did The Legend of God’s Gun, which was the previous movie and album we did before Classic Soundtracks. And after doing that, we got to work with many other directors who had heard about us, and we started working with them and doing films for them. So beyond that, it just started multiplying into more and more work, so we decided to just do full-on movie scores and make an album that’s kind of a musical résumé for us. Are there any directors you’d like to work with or genre films you’d really like to work on? Definitely. We’re kind of more into independent films these days. Of course, we excel in writing [music for] Westerns or action films, and we also have a very psychedelic
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This Saturday-night show is a showcase of sorts for the Record Machine: All three acts on the bill are attached to the local indierock label. As Motorboater, Dan Eaton presides over a laptop blasting fuzzy electronic dance music. Soft Reeds’ Soft Reeds Are Bastards, a rock record with shades of Bowie and Bolan, was one of the finest local releases of 2010. The band’s next release is a split 7-inch with the melodic pop act Minden, midtown’s latest crush. Saturday, October 15, at the Brick (1727 McGee, 816-421-1634)
It’s been about two and a half years since highbrow Brooklyn folk act Grizzly Bear broke into the indie mainstream with Veckatimest. In the meantime, Chris Taylor, who plays bass and participates in the group’s stunning choral harmonies, has been working on a side project called CANT. The songs share some of Grizzly Bear’s churchy ambience while cautiously embracing a little Joy Division synth here, a slight touch of R&B there. Friday, October 14, at the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, in Lawrence, 785-841-5483)
A lanky ginger from California, Brett Dennen vacillates between standard-issue sensitive folk tunes and upbeat pop numbers. Both test well with TV audiences, who have heard his songs on such shows as Grey’s Anatomy and House. His star is still on the rise, but he seems to be inspiring Hansonlike hyper devotion among female fans, which means we’ll probably be hearing his name more and more moving forward. Folk-pop opener Blind Pilot has been gigging its ass off in 2011 — by my count, this is its third stop in the area this year. Friday, October 14, at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560)
2. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, with Twin Sister Spreading false hope to thousands of bands with embarrassing names, the Pains of Being Pure at Heart emerged to great acclaim in 2009 with a sound that hearkened back to the noisy jangle of ’80s underground indie pop. On this year’s follow-up, Belong, the Pains have skipped ahead a decade. The choruses are bigger and glossed over with a distorted fuzz that recalls Siamese Dream-era Smashing Pumpkins. If the trend continues, we should expect an early ’00s dance-punk throwback from the band sometime around 2013. Opening act Twin Sister plays dreamy dance-pop quietly propelled by singer Andrea Estella’s airy vocals. Comparisons to Beach House are not without merit. Thursday, October 13, at the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, in Lawrence, 785-841-5483)
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4. Buddy Guy, with Quinn Sullivan Traditional blues — the kind you hear night in, night out at blues clubs across the country — is, at least from a songwriting perspective, boring. Too often it’s the same old chord progressions, same vocal melodies, same solos crammed into the middle of the song. It has become so narrow and tiresome that it’s easy to forget about those who have made it special. Up near the top of that list is Buddy Guy, whose explosive, dissonant approach to playing the electric guitar elevated the genre and paved the way for musicians like Jimi Hendrix. Guy won’t be around forever, but he’s still ripping it up at the age of 75. Thursday, October 13, at Knuckleheads (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)
6. Roger Daltrey performs the Who’s Tommy No Keith Moon, no John Entwistle — fine. They’re dead. But why no Pete Townshend on this Tommy tour? “It’s great to see Roger performing Tommy with his band in 2011. I will be there in spirit. Roger has my complete and most loving support,” Townshend said, in a pretty unsatisfying issued statement. His absence is a bummer, and that his younger brother, Simon, is filling in on guitar only marginally eases the disappointment. Still, Daltrey doing Tommy in its entirety, and then coming back to play assorted Who hits, is nothing to sneeze at. I’ll take it. Friday, October 14, at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)
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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, OCT. 1 3 David Hasselhoff on Acid, At the Left Hand of God, the Pass Times, 33rd Degree: RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Buddy Guy, Quinn Sullivan: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. (Hed) P.E., Slaine, In the Shadow, High Rise Robots, Wicked Wayz: 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour, Stephen Bennett: 7 p.m., $26.50. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-843-2787. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Sister: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.
FRIDAY, OCT. 1 4 Benyaro, Tinhorn Molly, Tyler Gregory, the Blackbird Revue: Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. CANT, Mirror Mirror, Blood Orange: 7 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Roger Daltrey performs the Who’s Tommy: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Brett Dennen, Blind Pilot: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Bill Gaither: 7 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence. Rob Schneider: 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816759-5233. Daryle Singletary, Kelly Willis, Bruce Robison, Robbie Fulks, Tater and friends: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
SATURDAY, OCT. 15 The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Spindrift: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Bill Gaither: 1 & 7 p.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence. Ghoul, Troglodyte, Hellevate: Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. The Makaha Sons: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Right Between the Ears: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Rob Schneider: 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Soft Reeds, Minden, Deadringers: 8 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634.
SUNDAY, OCT. 16 Chimaira, Impending Doom, Rise to Remain, Revocation, Canvas: 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Chip Tha Ripper, XV, Antimosity: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Mike Farris and the Roseland Rhythm Revue: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Rob Schneider: 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.
MONDAY, OCT. 17 Death Angel, Vanlade, At Your Throat, the Sybil: 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Devil Doll: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Dax Riggs, Whiskey Breath: Czar, 1531 Grand, 816221-2244. St. Olaf Orchestra: 7 p.m. Blue Valley West High School Performing Arts Center, 16200 Antioch Rd., Overland Park.
TUESDAY, OCT. 1 8 Celtic Thunder: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.
WEDNESDAY, OCT. 19 Australian Pink Floyd: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Gringo Star: 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Charlie Parr, Tyler Gregory: 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Stoney LaRue and the Arsenal, Logan Mize: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Rubblebucket with Brothers Green and Sister Sparrow: 8 p.m., $8. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Trentemoller: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Jimmie Vaughan, Lou Ann Barton and the Tilt-a-Whirl Band: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
UPCOMING American Royal Rodeo featuring Pat Green: Thu., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. American Royal Rodeo featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd: Fri., Oct. 28. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. American Royal Rodeo featuring Reba: Sat., Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Angelspit, Razorwire Halo, the God Project, Story May Vary, Ab5surdum: Wed., Oct. 26, 6:30 p.m., $10. Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. The Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Perish, Cannabis Corpse: Wed., Oct. 26. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Brothers Green, Reggie B and the Solution hosted by Mic Brass of Heet Mob, Da Hymnlayas: Fri., Nov. 4, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, MANY MORE 4050 Pennsylvania, 816561-2560. Deadmau5: Mon., Oct. 24. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Mike Doughty and His ONLINE AT Band Fantastic: Sun., Oct. PITCH.COM 30, 8 p.m., $15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Vicente Fernandez: Sat., Oct. 22. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Freaker’s Ball: Fri., Oct. 21. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence. Neil Hamburger: Sat., Nov. 5, 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Haulin’ Oats, Stiff Middle Fingers, Americruiser: Mon., Oct. 31, 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Hum: Fri., Nov. 4. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816753-5207. Cyndi Lauper: the Halloween She Bop: Mon., Oct. 31. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Mayday Parade, the In Crowd, You Me at Six, There for Tomorrow, the Make: Sat., Oct. 29, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Mindless Behavior, Diggy, the New Boyz, Jacob Latimore, Hamilton Park, the OMG Girlz: Wed., Nov. 2. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. 96.5 the Buzz Halloweenie Roast: Social Distortion, the Hold Steady, Viva Brother, the Architects: Thu., Oct. 27. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. The Pretty Reckless, Beautiful Bodies, the Atlantic: Thu., Oct. 20. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Quixotic Fusion, March Fourth Marching Band: Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Straight No Chaser: Sun., Oct. 23, 2 & 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ultimate Fakebook presents: Revenge of the Nerds Halloween Ball: Sat., Oct. 29, 5 p.m., $13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The War on Drugs, Purling Hiss, Cartern Tanton: Tue., Nov. 1, 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Nude Sunrise, South Bitch Diet: Sat., Oct. 22, 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.
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B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. John Paul’s Flying Circus. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Landon’s Bag of Blues. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Terry Quiett.
Buddha: 8741 N.W. Prairie View Rd. DJ Nuveau. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Flirt Fridays with DJ David Cruz, DJ Josh El Bravo.
R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Gleny Rae Virus & Her Tamworth Playboys. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Larry and His Flask, Lionize, Deen-o & the Eskimo Bros, Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company, 8 p.m.
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JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Diverse. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Joe Athon CD release, 8 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with the Star Blues Band. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Trivia. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5.
EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Phil Callier open jam with Biography. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.
VARIET Y The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Storytelling with Gina K; KC Songwriter Forum, 7-9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785832-1085. KJHK 90.7 presents the Farmer’s Ball PreParty with the Will Nots, Hospital Ships, Nezbeat, 9 p.m. PBR Big Sky Bar: 111 E. 13th Street. Jacked Up concert series. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Served!: Breakdance Extravaganza with DJ Clockwerk, DJ Just, 9 p.m.
F R I DAY 1 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Across the Earth, Steady States, the Electric Lungs. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Retroactive. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Distordeon.
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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Studebaker John and the Hawks. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling & The Late For Dinner Band. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Fuzz Nasty. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. 51% Blues Band.
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The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Groove Agency. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. People Depot, 6 p.m.; David George Band, Vi Tran Band, Vehicles, the Empty Spaces, 9 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Capybara album release, Believers, Parts of Speech, 9 p.m.; Mr. History, Troubadour Dali, 11:45 p.m.
HIP-HOP The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. B Double E, John Paterini, DJ G Train.
JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Killer Strayhorn. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. David Basse, 8:30 p.m. Café Augusta: 12122 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913859-9556. The Stan Kessler Duo with Danny Embrey. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816MANY MORE 561-6480. Dave Stephens presents Autumn in KC, 7:30 & 10 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, Barry ONLINE AT Springer, Tommy Ruskin, PITCH.COM 7 p.m. Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-649-5420. Jerry Hahn, 6 p.m.
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WORLD Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. The Dub Kings.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders. RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar, Mission, 913262-7300. Noe Palma.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Trivia Riot, 7 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. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.
PUNK Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Mouthbreathers, Der Todesking, 10 p.m.
VARIET Y Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. AJ Young, Chris Phillips, Austin Reed. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. KJHK’s Farmer’s Ball Prelims, 7 p.m.
S AT U R DAY 1 5 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Rattle and Hum. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. The New Lost Souls. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. The Schwag. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jesus Krueger Melon Camp. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. No Cash Value Band, 9 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. A Night of Sweet Relief: Fullbloods, Goldenboy, Janet the Planet, 9 p.m.
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Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Yuppies, Dry Bonnet, High Diving Ponies. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Hotel Brotherhood, Death Black Flowers, Ben Cissner on the patio, 6 p.m.; Maps for Travelers, Seven Mile Drive, Aren’t We all Dead, Snake Eater, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Kris Lager Band, Cadillac Flambe. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Knock Kneed Sally. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Garrett Nordstrom Situation. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Das Furbender, the F Holes. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Michael Burks. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Jah Wheel. RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar, Mission, 913262-7300. Paul Cormaci, the Delta Dogs. 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. Lance Lopez.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Howard Iceberg and the Titanics, 3 p.m. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Phantoms of the Opry.
DJ 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Andrew Northern, 9 p.m. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Xclusive. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. DJ G Train, Approach on the patio, 10 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. DJ CEO.
JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Ken Lovern’s OJT. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mike Smith & Kings of Sax, 9 p.m. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Ted Howe, 8:30 p.m. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Ida McBeth, 7 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Monique Danielle, 4:30 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. River Cow Orchestra.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bullfrog’s: 320 S.W. Blue Pkwy., Lee’s Summit, 816347-9393. Washer tournament, 1-5 p.m. ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m.; ComedyCity After Dark, 10 p.m. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Early comedy dinner show with Martin Plant.
EASY LISTENING Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Promise Makers, 7 p.m.; Brent Copeland and the ACP Band, 9 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Eddie Delahunt.
VARIET Y Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. KJHK’s Farmer’s Ball Finals, 9 p.m.
S U N DAY 1 6 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Pierced Arrows, Don’t, the Spook Lights, Up the Academy, the Baby Boomers, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors, 6 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Dan Bliss.
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DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke. 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. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.
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.
VARIET Y VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Club Wars Championship Battle for Freaker’s Ball, 6 p.m.
M O N DAY 17 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Caleb Hawley, the Clementines. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Satanized, U.S.Americans.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Aakash Mittal Quartet, 7 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m.
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Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Coda Pursuit Team Trivia with Teague Hayes, 7 p.m. Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Trivia Extravaganza. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. xTreme Music Bingo. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke.
EASY LISTENING Finnigan’s Hall: 503 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City, 816-221-3466. Abel Ramirez Big Band, 6 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 The Conspiracy Room at the Uptown Theater: 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Club Bellywood. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Slaughterhouse Opera, the Okay Thrill, 9 p.m.
W E D N E S DAY 1 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Mickey Finn Band, 9 p.m.
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JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Texas Hold ’em, 7:30 p.m. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 10 p.m. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Rico and DJ Sweeny: Service industry night.
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. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Lonnie Ray Blues Band. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Brody Buster Band, Super Massive Black Holes.
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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Open Mic.
OPERA Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Opera Supper, 6-9 p.m.
VARIET Y Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913652-6510. Interactive Improv Dinner Theatre, 8 p.m.
T U E S DAY 1 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Travelers Guild. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Milagres, Clock People, the Luddites, 8 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot.
DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service-industry night, 10 p.m.
ACOUSTIC RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Troy Meiss, Jason Beers, Raz Outabia, 6 p.m.
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1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Clint Ashlock’s New Order Jazz Big Band. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Stan Kessler with the Steve Gray Quintet featuring Shannon Lipps, 7 p.m.
Cowtown Mallroom: 3101 Gillham Plz., 816-714-9696. The Crybaby Ranch, 3 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. MAW, the Kansas City Bear Fighters, 6 p.m.
Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Calamity Cubes, Whiskey Breath, Goddamn Gallows.
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The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. PipeDream with DJ Rhyn, VJ Dirty Joe, 10 p.m.
JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Eddie Charles Jam. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Rich Hill, 6 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. The Brian Ruskin Quartet.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Devin Henderson’s Mind Madness, 7:30 p.m. Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. Melodramatic Karaoke, 8 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Rock-and-Roll Comedy Show. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Ladies’ Night with DJ Thorny, 6 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 8 p.m.
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OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, 10 p.m., $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, 816-833-5021. Open Jam, 7:30-11 p.m.
SINGER-SONGWRITER RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Kim Richey, Barclay Martin, 9 p.m.
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college would be the place to come out, but college hasn’t changed anything. I’m still unable to admit my sexuality to my friends, teammates, classmates and hallmates. I’ve thought about joining the LGBT organizations, but those guys are too “out” for me. I just don’t think being gay is anyone else’s business unless I want them to know. The hardest part is seeing other freshmen go out to parties, hook up and date when I don’t have the opportunity to do so. I’ve resorted to going on Craigslist, but my encounters have been weird. Closeted Undergrad
Dear CU: You’re not required to disclose who you’re going out with or their gender, but keeping your sexual orientation a secret indefinitely will ultimately warp your psyche and your life. What would the straight guys on your team have to do to hide their straightness from you? They BY could never mention their girlfriends, go out on dates or DAN hook up with someone they S AVA G E met at a party. They would have to hide their porn and not check out girls in public. They could never get engaged or married or have kids. They might have secretive and shame-driven sexual encounters with other closeted heterosexuals they met online or in places where closeted straight people gathered to have anonymous sex, but finding love would be difficult. Once you come out, you don’t have to hang out with gay people you don’t click with, and you don’t have to be gay the way, say, LGBT groupers on your campus are gay. Gay men who are out at your age (18?) tend to be a bit gayer than the average gay dude — they’re out in part because they can’t be in. It’s hard to date in the closet, and sites like CL and Grindr aren’t going to deliver the kind of connections you want. Not because all the guys on CL or Grindr are weird but because you’re trying to have a life and keep it secret, and that tends to attract weirdos without lives. You can remain in the closet, but you won’t have much of a life in there. And when you realize that, you’ll come out — first to a friend or two, then to your family, then to everyone. And once you’re all the way out, you’ll find that the “too out” guys aren’t the only gay guys out there. Just some of the best. I know it’s hard. But you can do it. All it takes is opening your mouth and saying the words. Dear Dan: Last night, I was blowing a male friend. When I glanced up, I saw that he was texting someone. I didn’t say anything and finished the job, but I was offended. Another friend
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says I should’ve mentioned it because he might have been taking a picture. At the very least, what he did was rude. Any insight? When Blowing Blows Dear WBB: He was taking pictures or making a video and may have been e-mailing pics/vids to his buddies in real time — don’t be an idiot. You should’ve snatched that camera from his hand and stuffed it so far up his ass that you could’ve sent yourself a picture of the roof of his mouth. Please cut this out and tape it to the mirror in your bathroom: Any girl who’s uninhibited enough to blow a “friend” has to be uninhibited enough to blow up at that friend if she spots him taking sex pictures without her consent. Dear Dan: I’m a straight male, age 26. I’ve been with my girlfriend for seven years. We’re lucky in that we have a group of friends who are into having sex with us. What is the proper etiquette for condom use between my girlfriend and me when others are present? We don’t use condoms when we’re alone, so we haven’t been using them when we’re in front of others. They’re using them, and I use them if I have intercourse with another girl, so the risk for the two of us seems minimal. Is there anything we should be concerned about? Group-Sex Rookie Dear GSR: If you and your girlfriend have been tested and you’re “fluid bonded” (ugh, that term!) and you’re not having sex in front of strangers at a swingers club or party where someone might misinterpret your condom-free sex as a license to initiate condom-free sex with randoms to whom they are not fluid-bonded, then I don’t see why you and your girlfriend should have to use condoms with each other. As long as you’re careful about using a condom when you need one and you’re both willing to assume the higher risks of acquiring one of the STIs that can be passed through skin-to-skin contact, knock yourselves out. Dear Dan: This is in response to Messed-Up Junk. I’m a transman, so a 2-inch “micropenis” actually sounds pretty damn good! I wanted to say this to MUJ: Don’t let your junk stop you from hopping in bed with whomever you damn well please. I know lots of guys with junk like yours who get plenty of action from lots of fine ladies — and gents. As long as your junk gives you sexual pleasure and you’re willing to pleasure your partner, there’s much fun to be had. Yes, having a body that’s different can be terrifying. Be honest and up-front, but don’t let your head and your fear get in the way of hot sex. Pumped-Up Junk Dear PUJ: Thanks for sharing. Have a question for Dan Savage? E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net
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MO-GILLHAM PARK $495/MO 816-785-2875 RARE opportunity 1 unit vacancy. Beautiful Loft style Apartment on Gillham Park great views completely New everything. Exposed brick, marble floors, exposed ceilings (3rd floor units), hardwood floors, claw foot or jacuzzi tubs its all here right on Gillham Park with great sunset views. Completely new and updated with new Refrigerator, stove, Central air, furnace, garbage disposal, microwave / hood, maple cabinets and tons more. As low as $495 per month with lease. Big 1 bedrooms in a great part of town. Onsite management. Call Wes at 816-785-2875 or Dave at 913-244-4892 MO-KANSAS CITY STARTING AT $395 816-231-2874 Stonewall Court apartments-2500 Independence Ave. Central air, secure entry, on site laundry, on bus line, close to shopping. Nice apartments, Sec 8 welcome. $100 Deposit Office hours M-F 8-5 MO-KCAI $595 (816)756-2380 3966 Warwick spacious 2 BR Carpeted, Heat Paid, Near KCAI. 2 BR $595 www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM
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