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Monkey Island’s owner on big game in Ohio, and another hunt comes to town.

Prey for Release ana Savorelli knows exotic animals. The owner of the nonprofit Monkey Island Rescue and Zoological Sanctuary keeps a variety of monkeys, ostriches, llamas and lemurs, and more than 20 venomous snakes on his 10-acre farm in Greenwood. Savorelli, whom The Pitch profiled in July, took particular interest in the story of the Ohio animal-sanctuary owner who released 56 exotic animals from cages and then committed suicide. Ohio authorities say they had little option but to kill the animals released from the property of 62-year-old Terry Thompson. “Public safety was my No. 1 concern,” Sheriff Matt Lutz told The Columbus Dispatch. “I gave the order that if the animals looked like they were going to get out, they were going down.” Forty-nine animals — 18 rare Bengal tigers, 17 lions, six black bears, three mountain lions, two grizzly bears, two wolves and a baboon — were shot and killed. Six animals — a grizzly bear, three leopards and two monkeys — were spared. Missing were a herpes-infected monkey, which authorities speculate may have been eaten by a big cat, and a wolf. Savorelli tells The Pitch that local authorities made the right call. “If you’ve got 40 of them and you’re dealing with them in the dark, and they [law enforcement] don’t know what they’re doing anyway, it was the lesser of two evils,” he says. “Your job was to protect the people, and the only way to protect them for sure was to kill everything in sight, unfortunately. It’s kind of a sad deal, but when push comes to shove, that’s what the protocol has always been for me. Human life has got to be prior to any kind of an animal life.” Savorelli says authorities likely didn’t have the equipment and chemicals needed to tranquilize and subdue the animals. “The chances of anybody having the tranquilizing equipment to dart an animal like that — like we keep literally in my desk, in my kitchen, in my bedroom ... we’ve got it everywhere — is so remote,” he says. “These guys were clueless,” Savorelli adds. “You’ve got a police officer; he doesn’t know anything about handling tigers and lions. And on top of that, you figure an hour and a half of daylight, and the daylight starts to go out on you. They’ve got the thing immobilized, but do they really? And what’s going to come up on you in the dark if everything else isn’t down?” Thompson’s wife reportedly had left her hus-

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band in the days prior to his suicide. Savorelli, like everyone else, wonders why Thompson doomed his animals as well as himself. “If you loved your animals and you turned them loose, you know they [the authorities] were going to have to kill them,” he says. “I think he was trying to get back at the system, and maybe at the wife.”

Chasting Call An Overland Park native is on a national hunt for virgins. Justine Liese, a University of Kansas grad, is looking for a virtuous few who are 18 and older for an upcoming reality series for ABC Family. Reality-TV production runs in Liese’s family. Her mother, Sharon Liese, created High School Conﬁdential, a documentary covering her daughter’s days at Blue Valley Northwest High School. Its eight installments ran on the cable network WE in 2008. Liese lives in Los Angeles, where she met casting director Christopher Catalano. His credits include Big Brother and Rock of Love With Bret Michaels. When Catalano got the

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call to find virgins, he asked Liese to join the search as an associate producer. “I am so happy to be working for him now and was very excited to be casting for this show,” Liese says. “I am given the chance to cast people all over the U.S., but I was especially excited to be pitching the people I know from the Midwest who are virgins.” Catalano adds: “The viewers are going to watch them go through this — being a virgin at 18 years and older. There’s only 20 percent in America that are. By the time that they’re 20 years of age, it goes down to 13 percent. They’re like a unicorn. You rarely see them.” The Pitch recently talked virgins with Catalano and Liese. Here’s an excerpt from that conversation: The Pitch: How do you verify that they’re virgins? Catalano: In all casting, you go with your gut. Liese: We ask them what they define as virginity. And they all give us different definitions of it. pitch.com

Catalano: And they’re also signing a document that says, “I am a virgin. If I’m not telling the truth, I can be sued.” If they’re not, then they’re going to be paying a lot of money. Born-again virgins don’t count? Catalano: No. Do you count them? Never. Catalano: Exactly. There are technical virgins, but again, it’s going to be case-by-case. You’re still looking for virgins? Catalano: We just started contacting virgins. ... It’ll be a Skype interview first, so that’s why we’re doing a national search. If they are then approved by the network, then we travel to their homes and do in-person interviews, and then from there, go to the network and hopefully finalize the cast for this. By February 2012, the cast will be finalized. It’ll be 12 virgins from across the U.S. with all different stories. It’s going to be six episodes, two virgins per episode, and they’re taping over a three- to three-and-a-half-month period. It gets tricky with what you actually consider virginity. Catalano: And to be honest, we’re definitely looking for engaged couples who are getting married in May or June 2012. They both don’t have to be, but one of them for sure. And we’re also looking for a comingout story. A young teen boy or girl coming out and trying to figure things out: Am I gay? Am I not gay? Those are two of the big stories we’re looking for. What’s your experience with finding virgins? Liese: Personally, not much. But growing up in the Midwest, it’s a little different than growing up in the big cities. So, I mean, I feel like I’ve been able to have connections to virgins since I grew up in a more low-key area. Catalano: What kind of experience do you have in finding virgins? Finding them? None. But I’ll try to help you. How can people get in touch with you if they want to take part? Liese: They can either e-mail us at liese.justine@gmail.com or they can call 310-860-9914. I do prefer that they call because then we can talk on the phone. Catalano: It’s for ABC Family. It’s going to be a good show. It’s not trashy. It’s not disgusting. It’s their very first reality show ever, and that’s a big deal for them because they’re jumping into the ring of fire, and they want to make sure it’s a positive thing like the rest of their shows. — JUSTIN K ENDALL Remember your first time at pitch.com/plog M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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his one time, he made me a cup of coffee, and I didn’t even need cream and sugar. It was that sweet. It’s the most torturous coffee known to man. It takes five minutes to make, and it’s too good. This is the legend of nano-coffee-roaster Oddly Correct and its owner, Gregory Kolsto. These are the tales told every Friday in the back corner of the BadSeed Farmers Market at 1819 McGee. Red and green Chinese lanterns illuminate a wooden bar, where a lampshade rests on a golden cherub and an empty Mr. Coffee machine sits like some forgotten punch line. Today the legend is late. It’s 4:45 p.m. — 45 minutes after the farmers market has started — when Kolsto joins his brother-in-law and coworker, Mike Schroeder. At 36, Kolsto is trim and compact, his shaved head offset by a thick brown beard, his eyes framed by round glasses. “I’m not the great and powerful Oz,” Kolsto says. “I’m more like the quaking doctor behind the curtain.” He flashes a wry smile, the look that typically punctuates his self-effacing jokes. He looks up and sees a man in his early 40s, wearing a green T-shirt. “I like your hair and I like your shirt,” Kolsto says, with a polite attentiveness that’s almost formal. He often pauses briefly before answer-

ing a question, his left eyebrow folding slightly inward toward his nose, signaling full attention. The man in green is sipping a $2 cup of coffee. He doesn’t leave the market without enthusiastically spending $12 on a 12-ounce bag of Oddly Correct beans. Kolsto then greets Robin Krause, owner of the two Filling Stations. “The first time I had Gregory’s coffee, it was so good, I threw up,” Krause says. This turns out not to be the exaggeration of personal mythology. Krause was at her McGee Trafficway coffeehouse early one morning in 2009 with the lights off and a four-cup French press filled with Oddly Correct’s Sumatra. By the time the lights were on and the place was open, she had drunk the entire amount in what she refers to as a “completely delicious accident.” “A lot of people want to sell me coffee, and I don’t listen to them,” Krause says. “But I listened to Gregory. Coffee has been like football teams in Kansas City. Coffee-shop owners don’t want to work together. It’s so competitive. But Gregory just wants to build a community.” Kolsto’s chances of accomplishing that mission improved last year when the J.M. Smucker Co. announced that it would close its downtown Folgers roasting plant in the summer of 2012. For more than 100 years, downtown

Kansas City has awakened to the smell of Folgers. But now, several area beverage companies are vying to remake KC’s coffee-town in their own scent. The two leading contenders are the Roasterie and Parisi Artisan Coffee. In July, the Roasterie announced a $5 million expansion, including an event space and café across from its roasting plant, at 1204 West 27th Street. Paris Brothers, which began roasting coffee under the Parisi name in 2006, opened the Parisi Café inside Union Station in August. And in September, 250 people boarded buses to participate in the ﬁrst Caffeine Crawl, a citywide tour of 11 coffee shops organized by Jason Burton, of beverage-marketing ﬁrm Lab 5702. “Kansas City is not just the Roasterie,” Burton says, “What we’re seeing in the coffee world is not even a new chapter but a whole new book of boutique nano-roasters.” Burton says the market is shifting dramatically, with independent roasters such as the Broadway Café (which made national headlines in 2008 for outlasting a Starbucks in Westport), Revocup (an Overland Park operation specializing in Ethiopian beans) and Oddly Correct pushing single-origin coffee. But it’s Kolsto’s approach more than his market share that has set him apart so far. In an industry where growth historically has come at pitch.com

a competitor’s expense, he’s selling a different idea: What if we all just sat down over a proper cup of coffee?

t’s easy to drive past Oddly Correct even when you’re looking for it. The coffee shop opened four months ago at 3934 Main. It sits in an empty bank of storefronts on Main Street, two doors down from the former home of B-Bop Comics. And it still has no sign, other than a piece of plywood — painted with the word coffee and an arrow — leaning on a wall outside the front door. Inside, a large wooden counter with a swinging gate in the center divides the space. The front of the store has seating for seven people, depending on whether you’re willing to sit on a tree stump. The back is dominated by the Portuguese-made cast-iron drum roaster, and behind it is a climbing wall, the only way to reach the shop’s bookshelves. It has taken the better part of a year for Kolsto to erase the purple carpet and pink walls from the building’s memory. The previous tenant was the payday-loan operation King of Kash. “The carpet was worn where everybody would stand to get their loans,” Kolsto says. “It was a harsh reality, never a good thing that you were going in there. continued on page 10

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We’re happy to try and redeem the space.” Patrons stand in the same spot now, under a row of original screen prints — one is of a robot holding a bird like a falconer, another an elephant playing a tuba — above wooden shelves on a wall where an American flag once was mounted. It’s Tuesday morning, production day at Oddly Correct, and Kolsto hopes to roast about 300 pounds — 12 minutes per 11-pound batch. Piles of brown-paper bags filled with roasted beans gradually stack up on the counter. Two men sit reading in mismatched chairs — one looks like a refugee captain’s chair from a seafood restaurant — studiously ignoring the morning rush hour on Main. On the other side of the shop, Schroeder measures a portion of beans to make a cup of coffee. He moved to Kansas City a month ago, leaving his job as a roaster for Brew Nerds in North Carolina in order to work with his brother-in-law. “Kansas City has more of a coffee culture than Winston-Salem,” he says. “There, they’d ask what was burning if we were roasting. Here, people are rediscovering that you can handcraft coffee.” Weighing the beans is the first of five steps in the method that Oddly Correct uses to pre-

pare its drip coffee. Hot water from a metal kettle is poured over medium-ground beans in a slow, circular fashion, to ensure that the grounds are equally exposed to liquid. The freshly ground beans are inside a brown-paper filter that has been carefully folded into a ceramic coffee dripper that resembles a ridged coffee cup with a small hole in the bottom. The dripper sits on an iron stand. A mug rests underneath, slowly filling with brewed coffee. The coffee at Oddly Correct isn’t convenient, and that’s the whole idea. Coffee takes labor to harvest, labor to ship, labor to roast. It matters when the beans are picked. It matters when it is sold and how it is stored. It matters how it is roasted and bagged. Schroeder and Kolsto are eager to share all of these steps with their customers, who comprise the final factor in a people-intensive beverage equation. The people only need a bit of guidance. But he’s no evangelist looking to purify your coffee soul. He and Schroeder are shamans in T-shirts, eager to guide each customer up the mountain —a mountain without a condiment bar. “You put butter on your mashed potatoes and salt on your fries. Who are we to tell you how to take your coffee?” Kolsto says. He won’t tell you, but he also doesn’t suggest an option besides black at Oddly Correct. The milk and

In his domain, Kolsto tries for a perfect cup. sugar are stowed under the counter with nothing to indicate their presence. Among the ﬁrst eight customers of the day, only a regular — a hairdresser from an adjacent shop on Westport Road — asks for cream and sugar, which he happily mixes for her. The rest are too busy watching the pour-over process to think to ask for milk. The time they take with each order gives Kolsto and Schroeder a minute to ask questions of their customers. Today, someone wonders aloud what was the last “real” action movie. Someone suggests Liam Neeson’s Taken, and the shop’s other coffee drinker puts down his iPad to excitedly interject. The pour-over method all but forces you to ﬁll the time with conversation. That, Kolsto says, is the soul of Oddly Correct. The coffee is the excuse to start talking, a perfect impetus for human interaction for a self-prescribed “extroverted introvert” such as Kolsto.

olsto grew up in Mokena, Illinois, a quaint city of just under 19,000 people 35 miles southwest of Chicago. A man wearing a Mohawk, ﬂannel shirt and combat boots gave him a passport to escape from suburbia.

“My first cup of coffee was my first taste of counterculture,” Kolsto says. “I had a strangely euphoric experience at a Starbucks in [nearby] Naperville. The guy who handed me my latte had rays of light coming out of his head.” He started working at Starbucks in 1995 and enrolled at Northern Illinois University to pursue a degree in art. The coffee job stuck, but art school didn’t. Kolsto took a job as an apprentice roaster at Digital Java, a Chicago coffee company that specialized in dark roasts. His life changed dramatically when Krispy Kreme purchased Digital Java in February 2001, less than a year after the doughnut juggernaut went public. Kolsto moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, to manage roasters at a new facility and he became the company’s coffee buyer. “Every country I went to was the most beautiful place I’d ever been,” he says. “I was bringing back 40,000 pounds of coffee at a time and getting my mind blown.” While his travels took him to coffee farms in Guatemala and Ethiopia, Krispy Kreme was beginning to struggle stateside because of overexpansion. In an increasingly corporate environment, Kolsto felt constrained. Sketching in his notebook and rock climbing in the hills of North Carolina helped pass the days between coffee-buying excursions. He had no reason to expect that he would be moving to Kansas City when he attended a conference of the Specialty Coffee Association of America in Charlotte in 2006. There, a Parisi representative invited him to tour the coffee company’s new roasting facility. After seeing what he calls the city’s “gem-y underbelly” of craft producers like Christopher Elbow, Kolsto accepted a position as a roaster for Parisi. “Kansas City is aggressively supportive of local proprietors, and that was attractive to me,” he says. Parisi had just begun to roast and bag its own coffee after decades of distributing specialty coffee for brands such as Lavazza. Over the past five years, Parisi has exploded: The company says it expects to roast just under a million pounds this year. Only blocks away from the Roasterie plant, Parisi hopes to fill the void left by Folgers. “Folgers spills more coffee than we roast in a year,” says Scott Presnell, continued on page 12

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aesthetic works for one simple reason: It’s a physical extension of Kolsto’s belief that everything should be designed to complement the coffee experience in some way. He wants to translate the beans of Costa Rica and Ethiopia for folks who have never had anything other than coffee from a can. He pulls up a picture on his iPhone. It’s a shot of the back panel of a Ronnoco Coffee delivery van. “It’s says ‘hand-crafted coffee.’ We’re going to have to change that,” Kolsto says pointing to the same words on his bags of beans. “Maybe we’ll just stick with the donkey and the [tag line] ‘Don’t half-ass your coffee.’ ”

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Parisi’s director of marketing. “But the aroma of coffee downtown is something we’re going to miss. We hope people will just be willing to drive around the corner down I-35.” Roasting is a solitary exercise in precision. The beans must roast at specific temperatures and rest for exact amounts of time to ensure consistent flavor. Answering the extroverted side of his personality, Kolsto moved into sales so that he could talk about the product he’d had a hand in creating. And while selling to restaurant owners and chefs, he discovered that these interactions meant as much to him as the relationships he’d built with small growers when he worked for Krispy Kreme. He wondered what it would be like to serve as the sole bridge between producers and consumers. In April 2009, he left Parisi to find out. By the end of that year, several of his Parisi accounts had followed him. “We were sorry to see him leave,” Presnell says. “We appreciate it from the artistic side. He has a different focus in small-batch, microlot coffees, which is fantastic.” Kolsto didn’t want just artistry, though. He set about inventing his own corporate culture. “It was then that I decided that if I couldn’t find a company that I agreed with 100 percent in terms of ethics or beliefs, I would create one myself,” Kolsto says.

ddly Correct roasted its ﬁrst batches of coffee in a Raytown garage, where a friend let Kolsto store and run his 2.5-kilogram roaster, which had been purchased in the parking lot of a Wyoming gas station in late 2008. He began delivering to Ethos, a now-defunct coffeedelivery service in the Crossroads, and the Higher Grounds coffee shop in Grandview. Six months later, his operation had grown enough that he could spend $250 a month to rent a space behind Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club. In those days, it was just Kolsto and the pigeons out back. But that gave him time to begin to develop the look of Oddly Correct, using a letterpress machine to create the bags that featured his own art. “We didn’t have accoutrements like heat back then,” Kolsto says. “But all your favorite businesses start out of garages, basements and trunks of cars.” His ﬁrst big order — 200 pounds of coffee — took 20 hours to roast. Life then was marked

by “squares” — check boxes each signifying another 3 pounds that he had ﬁnished – and drawings on his shower curtain about the future of his business. The Filling Station began carrying his coffee (alongside the Broadway Roasting Co.’s espresso). Then the Brick, Aixois, Mud Pie, Succotash and the Soho Café signed up. The new orders meant a new space, a studio in the Crossroads that he shared with illustrator Jeremy Collins. Less than a year later, Kolsto needed more room. When he discovered that the former King of Kash location was available in his neighborhood, he decided to turn his shower-curtain drawings into reality.

n front of the chalkboard at his Main Street shop, Kolsto admits that he has no set business plan for Oddly Correct. “I’m on my way, and I know it has to do with coffee, art and people,” he says. “I’m not a longterm planner. I don’t know what the next thing is going to be. I just want to have fun doing it. I’m just going to geek out and get people excited.” His entrepreneurial spirit coexists with his desire to build a community. He lives less than a mile from his shop, so he’s never that far from his two kids, both of whom are younger than 4. Kolsto is running both a business and a cooperative; he doesn’t so much take on partners as draw in true believers. One of the latest examples sits in the glass-domed pastry case on the wooden counter: black-pepper-lime, coconut-curry and coriander-cherry shortbreads from Soho Café & Bakery. The ﬂavors were designed in discussions with Soho owner

Mike Schroeder and Kolsto at Oddly Correct’s letterpress. Jamie Friedrich, a former Parisi customer who now uses Oddly Correct beans in her shop. “If we just sent these out into the unknown, it would probably be too much for Kansas City,” Friedrich says. “But sending it into Gregory’s shop? It’s probably just right.” Each of the artifacts in the shop has its own tale that helps unlock the mystique of Oddly Correct. The bicycle tires on one exposed brick wall are spares, in case the delivery service breaks down. Kolsto or Schroeder makes as many as a dozen deliveries on Fridays to homes in adjacent midtown neighborhoods. The stands to hold the Clever dripper were built by local blacksmith George Rousis of Organic Iron Concepts. “You see the unfinished potential that’s there in the shop. It’s got room for growth and it’s kind of organic, and you don’t know exactly how it’s going to come out,” Rousis says. This is not the carefully planned unplannedlooking aesthetic of Chipotle. It is a raw space with exposed ducts and a single red-leather executive chair. (The latter is from Urban Mining Homewares across the street. Schroeder went over with a few cups of coffee and returned with the chair.) The business takes in art and artists like stray puppies. “Phase one was getting this open. Phase two was getting proper lighting. And when we get the cash, we’ll get an espresso machine,” Kolsto says. For plenty of business owners, this would be a disquietingly erratic approach. But the

n a recent Friday at BadSeed, Oddly Correct is serving Harrar, an Ethiopian coffee that Kolsto recommends black because of its “peanut-butter-and-jelly aroma and slightly fruity flavor.” Colleen Murbach, a regular, waits in a loose line by the wooden bar for a cup. “Gregory is the new kid on the block,” she says. “His process is totally different from anyone else. It’s usually so satisfying. I don’t need a second cup. It’s not just the coffee; it’s the experience.” After Murbach leaves, Kolsto is even more earnest than usual for a minute. “There is a dynamic beauty in what natural coffee can taste like when it’s fresh and served with as low a pretense as possible,” Kolsto says. He asks Schroeder to dip into the cigar box that doubles as Oddly Correct’s cash box, then ventures over to the adjacent booth to buy a bottle of Soda Vie strawberry-rhubarb-basil pop. It joins the evening’s other purchases: a disc of Green Dirt Farm cheese and a raffle ticket to benefit Académie Lafeyette. The smell of ground beans lures a middleaged couple, who are engaged by Kolsto before they even realize what’s happening. “When are you going to make a perfume out of coffee?” the woman asks. “I don’t know if they couldn’t synthesize it,” Kolsto says, his voice thoughtful. “But if you came to work for us for a day, that would get the job done.” She laughs, and he hands her a cup of the Harrar. She sips it slowly. “It’s not like anything I’ve ever tasted,” the woman says. “Exactly,” Kolsto replies. E-mail jonathan.bender@pitch.com

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Purveyor of fear Jeff Chitty is presenting his freak-filled film The Taking of Savannah tonight at KC CreepFest, a Westport Halloween festival that boasts the best of Midwest offerings in the independent horror genre. The film premieres at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222) at 9 p.m. Films also are being screened at the Westport CoffeeHouse Theatre (4010 Pennsylvania, 816-756-3222). For a full schedule of events, see kccreepfest.com. We spoke with Chitty about The Taking of Savannah, a locally made crime-survivalist action flick that won the Roger Corman Award for Best Grindhouse Film at the Fright Night Film Fest in Louisville last July. The Pitch: Tell us about the making of the film. Chitty: It is the story of Savannah Sondheim, a Paris Hilton-style “celebutante” who

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The cast of The Comedy of Asses (see Thursday). [HISTORY]

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The Civil War is characterized by the phrase “brother against brother,” although it was really more like “brother against brother against cholera.” In the absence of antibiotics, bacterial diseases and infected wounds were treated with the only medical procedure known to science: amputation. Funerals were regular events, like graduations and weddings, and the customs and rites were very different from the death-averse, post-Reconstruction world we live in today. Family Fun Night at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library (4801 Main) features “A Visit With a Civil War Undertaker,” during which kids can meet with an 1860s undertaker re-enactor and learn about old-timey mourning practices. Afterward, library staff helps children create Victorian-era Halloween crafts. It kicks off at 6:30 p.m. The cost is free. RSVP by calling 816-701-3481. For more information, see kclibrary.org/plaza. — CHRIS PACKHAM pitch.com

Can’t wait until the next First Friday to experience new local artwork? The Lawrence ArtWalk satiates your art thirst. Douglas County artists set up their showcases in art spaces around Lawrence from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. today and from noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tami Clark, this year’s Lawrence ArtWalk Featured Artist Award recipient, creates mixed-media art, making “story boards” from acrylic, collage, plaster and found pieces. She can be found at MacKomics Studio (2211 Tennessee, 785-840-7940). Some other artists: Jewelry by Julia (19 West Ninth Street, 785-832-8693). In 2004, Julie Kingsbury opened this downtown Lawrence store. Julie crafts pieces from sterling silver, genuine gemstones, handmade Scrabble tiles and glass. More of her work can be seen at jewelrybyjulia.com. The studio of Kelsey Elise Pike (1946 Louisiana). Kelsey Pike’s craft is sustainable papermaking. Pike sells handmade papers, cards, books and prints, and demonstrates papermaking and printmaking techniques. See kelseyelisepike.com. The Watkins Community Museum of History (1047 Massachusetts, 816-841-4109). See works by the Kaw Valley Fiber Guild (fiberarts .org), a Lawrence artist collective that creates fiber and mixed-media (2-D and 3-D) pieces, and fine-art photography by Roger Spohn (rogerspohn.com) ArtWalk catalogs and maps are available at the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire, 785-843-2787) from now until the event. — A BBIE STUTZER [GARDENING]

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Providing on-site health care, clothing, showers, job placement and other services, the Neighbor2Neighbor rescue mission operates out of Revolution Church in Westport (500 West 40th Street, 816-931-1150). Run by those who are formerly or currently impoverished, Neighbor2Neighbor hands out food to about 150 people every day. This evening, the group teams up with students from the Kansas City Art Institute for Bowling with Neighbors, an art sale benefiting the organization in which original ceramic bowls, donated by the artists, are filled with soup and served and sold (priced from $25 to $35). Other art also is “available for purchase with all the proceeds going to Neighbor2Neighbor,” says artist and event organizer Roberto Lugo. Other activities include fall festival games and a discussion about poverty. The event goes from 5 to 7 p.m. For more information, see bowlingwithneighbors.wordpress.com. — JENNA JAKOWATZ [HISTORY]

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If you’d like to find out how two young men — the sons of Ukrainian immigrants — moved to Kansas City with a few bucks and became rich tycoons in less than 20 years, you’ll want to hear Brian Burnes and Steve Katz tell the history of brothers Isaac and Michael Katz. They

The end is here at Davey’s (see Monday). began with a little candy-and-tobacco shop, which they built into a wildly successful chain of drugstores that people still talk about today for the cut-rate prices and extraordinary variety. Most of the stores had pet departments, and Elvis Presley bought a monkey at the Memphis Katz store. The Katz chain was sold in the 1970s, but the memories linger on in a new book, The Kings of Cut-Rate, by Burnes and Katz. Hear them talk about it at 2 p.m. at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library (4801 Main, 816-701-3481). For more information or to RSVP, see kclibrary.org. — CHARLES FERRUZZA

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We can’t confirm whether the costumed employees at the Russell Stover store in Fairway (2814 Shawnee Mission Parkway, 913-945-2744) are passing out any Sugar Free Mint Patties or selections from the Net Carb line today, but we can say with confidence that the sugar, chocolate and marshmallow creme are flowing at the flagship store’s free Halloween candy giveaway. “This is a fun way for Russell Stover Candies to give back to the local community. Not only fun for ghouls and goblins of all ages, but just as fun for us to host,” says Chief Marketing Officer Mark Sesler. Last time we checked, it’s still a school day so borrow a toddler, put him or her in a furry costume and get there early. The sweets are free from from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. — BERRY ANDERSON [NIGHTLIFE]

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Have you heard about this business called “Jesus Ween”? Created by a Canadian pastor, it’s a faith-based alternative to Halloween that encourages participants to dress in white and hand out Bibles or small Christian gifts instead of candy. Pretty creepy, no? Steer clear of this phenomenon tonight at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-753-1909) when the bar hosts The End: An ApocalypseThemed Event. “I like that it can encompass everything from shambling zombie to the Road Warrior,” says organizer DJ Troy Hewitt, who claims that he’s been spinning at the midtown bar since 1998. Sounds of destruction will be

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— could be a cell in her boss’s compound. And get a load of Christine’s couch — it’s way longer than Isabelle’s, figuratively and literally. It’s a great aircraft carrier of a thing, and she clearly doesn’t deserve it. For this — for her casually greedy entitlement and her cruelty and her bigass décor — Christine will pay. But not before she punishes Isabelle for exhibiting the drive that Christine says she wants to instill in her protégée. Love Crime is the kind of movie that screams, “Be careful!” in every shot — the surveillance-camera-like angles from which we view Isabelle tap into a feral sexuality and the surveillance camera that actually catches her in an even less guarded moment. Director Alain Corneau’s last movie (he died in 2010) is an office horror picture, higher toned and furiously plotted so as to avoid comparison with American workplace camp like The Temp (that absurd 1993 multiplex contemporary of Glengarry’s). It’s better shot, edited and acted, too, but finally campy in its own subtitled way. Corneau and his gorgeous, flat characters aren’t warning us about anything worth worrying about. They’re begging us to warn them. Well into Margin Call, Will Emerson — the thorny underboss played by Paul Bettany, looking papery as usual and sounding like the Geico lizard with a mouthful of rich food — breaks down how he spends his $2 million salary. Outlining mortgage payments and savings numbers along with his outlay for hookers and liquor and restaurants, he sounds reasonable, even modest. Whether you make $5 an hour or can stake an IPO on your name, you adjust to your means, then live at their edge. If Christine had only sat Isabelle down and told her what kind of sofa could be bought in exchange for a lot of hours and a lot more pride, Love Crime would turn out differently. John Tuld, meet your successor. E-mail scott.wilson@pitch.com or call 816-218-6787 pitch.com

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ou’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls. The route to Mazatlan — the Northland restaurant, not the Mexican city of the same name — is a climb, too. The restaurant is on top of a bluff overlooking Interstate 29. Just remember to turn left at the BY McDonald’s and keep movCHARLES ing. You won’t be able to see the Valley of the Dolls from F E R R U Z Z A this pinnacle, but you’ll have a spectacular view of the new Hy-Vee, which has a pharmacy. Mazatlan is not the easiest venue to ﬁnd at ground level, which may be one of the reasons for the failure of the building’s previous tenants: two ill-fated PB&J concept restaurants I’ve given up trying to encourage Cathy and then, for several years, a branch of Ann and her kind to break pattern and try someLiberda’s Thai Place chain. But the owner of Mazatlan has done thing different at local Mexican restaurants. wonders in even more daunting locations in Most are unwilling. They like tacos, and tacos dreary strip centers. Jorge Castillo is probably are what they like. Carne asada sounds so better known for his popular but distinctly … foreign. I’m sympathetic to this resistance, but unglamorous Maria’s Mexican restaurants. There’s one in Platte City and another in what passes for tacos, burritos and enchilaAtchison. I ate once at the Maria’s in Platte das at too many places is, in a word, gloppy. City and have no reason to go back. Mazatlan Given a choice between foreign and gloppy, I prefer the former. And Mazatlan doesn’t deal has a similar menu, but it’s a different story. “Mazatlan has more seafood dishes,” one in glop. What Cathy would call “the usual of the managers explained to me. That makes stuff ” is very tasty here, and the best way to sense, with 64th Street and I-29 being closer sample much of it is indeed in a combo. In this case, the sampler plate to the West Coast than Platte called the Botanas Platter, City. The seafood in this inMazatlan a big ol’ pile of good stuff, stance is mostly camarones Botanas Platter ......$11.49 is the best bet. It’s a heap (shrimp), served chilled in a Shrimp of chicken-fajita nachos cocktail glass or stuffed with quesadilla ............. $10.49 topped with a large scoop jalapeño peppers, sheathed Carnitas...................$11.99 of guacamole (not extraorin bacon and grilled or Steak Tampiqueno ..........$12.99 dinary but not bad) and folded into a quesadilla. Taco combo ............... $8.49 a tangy pico de gallo. But My friend Cathy was Fried ice cream ......... $4.99 wait, there’s more: triangles mad for the shrimp quesaof chicken-fajita quesadillas dilla after the ﬁrst bite and and thumb-sized chicken took the dish away from her husband, Dan. “This is a case where the more taquitos. There’s also a small bowl of bland, exotic dish is better than the usual stuff,” she runny queso, but let’s not count that. This is explained. Like many of my friends, Cathy the kind of cheese sauce that has maybe 30 doesn’t get too adventurous when it comes minutes of life before congealing enough to to the cuisines of Mexico and Spain. Her use as a tire patch. The Botanas Platter makes a shareable eyes skipped over anything unfamiliar on the menu. She went straight for the combination meal if you order your own salad to go with it. But I’ve seen the dinner salad at Mazatlan, plates: tacos, burritos, enchiladas.

and you’re better off without its shredded iceberg lettuce and individual plastic packet of Kraft dressing. “You have a choice of three dressings,” the waiter offered. “Ranch, Thousand Island and blue cheese.” Not very southof-the-border, but in the Midwest, Thousand Island dressing used to be pretty exotic stuff. I ordered a steak that night, the very inexpensive 12-ounce T-bone “cooked to perfection” — or so the menu says. Perfection was irrelevant. It was such a cheap cut of beef that it made the nearby Golden Corral seem as appealing as the Golden Ox. On one of my visits to Mazatlan, I arrived alone. The dining room was nearly empty, but the pretty hostess directed me immediately to one of the worst tables in the place: a cramped deuce near the bar. I asked for a different table. My server that evening was a beautiful young waitress, a native of El Salvador. I asked her for a couple of her personal favorites, and she blushed. “The food is very good here,” she said, “but this isn’t anything like what we eat in El Salvador.” She sang high praise for the carnitas, however, so I ordered the dish, described on the menu as simmered “pork tips.” I was relieved to see something much more in keeping with traditional carnitas: pieces from a deliciously tender pork shoulder that tasted as if it had been simmered all day — slightly browned, fragrant with garlic and absolutely succulent. I couldn’t ﬁnish the meal because there was so much meat. pitch.com

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“Would you like dessert?” the server asked, bringing me a Styrofoam box. That night, I didn’t. But on a previous visit, I had tasted the pretty little flan and taken a bite of the softball-sized fried ice cream, which was as pointless and tasteless as any other fried ice cream in the city. “It tastes like it’s coated with oatmeal,” said Dan, who had never seen fried ice cream before. No, it wasn’t oatmeal — that might at least have been healthy — but crushed cereal or tortilla shells or God knows what. It’s an American innovation, and some people do love it. The other dessert option here is the cheesecake chimichanga: a little piece of New York-deli-style cheesecake, wrapped in a flour tortilla, fried and served pure Texas-style, dusted in cinnamon sugar and smothered in lots of chocolate sauce, caramel and crushed Oreos. After that kind of finale, I’d be in the Valley of the Dolls, all right — a sugar coma. Even with its miscalculations, though, Mazatlan is a tasteful, attractive place to eat unchallenging, sometimes very satisfying Mexican food. Sit on the patio before the cold really hits. On a clear day, you can see … well, not forever, but maybe Parkville. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com

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City’s Union Station. (The headquarters for the Harvey Co. was located there until the late 1930s.) In 1940, Joe Gilbert made an offer to lease the restaurant facility of the Municipal Airport. “The company running the restaurant paid the city $1 a year to lease the space,” Gilbert says. “But it kept losing money. Dad believed in the future of commercial aviation and found a partner to go in business with him.” The new airport restaurant that Gilbert created, the Four Winds, was an immediate hit. Ernest Hemingway reportedly wrote part of For Whom the Bell Tolls while sitting at a booth in the restaurant in 1949. Five years later, Bill Gilbert returned to Kansas City from a stint in the Army. “My mother begged me not to go into the restaurant business,” Gilbert says. “She told me I’d be working all the time, that I’d never see my family. But after three months working for my father, I was hooked.” Bill Gilbert didn’t actually go into partnership with his father until the 1960s, after Bill and Paul Robinson had opened their ﬁrst suburban restaurant in a brand-new shopping center, the Landing. Yes, this was when 63rd Street and Troost was considered suburban. Later, in keeping with the family tradition of taking over money-losing restaurants, Bill Gilbert and Paul Robinson negotiated with the J.C. Nichols Co. to purchase the failing Empire Room restaurant at 4749 Pennsylvania. After the success of the Plaza III Steakhouse, Gilbert says, “My father said he was lonely being out at the airport. He wanted to go into business with us.” Luck, Gilbert says, had a lot to do with the success of Gilbert/Robinson in the 1970s: “We were in the right place at the right time. The country was ready for new ideas in the restaurant business. It was nothing but luck.” Luck, yes, and an intuitive feel for the climate of the day. The late 1960s and early ’70s were the high points of the “sexual revolution.” Restaurateurs in New York and Chicago were combining dining rooms with singles bars. The swinging baby boomers loved the idea of a venue designed for their generation. Gilbert/Robinson created its own vision of this concept with the Houlihan’s restaurant chain. It happened almost by accident. When Bill Gilbert decided to expand Plaza III into the space being vacated, right next door, by men’s clothing store Tom Houlihan’s, he realized it was too much space for an expansion. Instead, the partners created a sexy, casual restaurant called Houlihan’s Old Place. “All during construction, we couldn’t come up with the right name,” Gilbert says, “and people kept referring to the space as Tom Houlihan’s place anyway, so we decided to call it that.” “I called Tom Houlihan and asked if we could call it Houlihan’s Old Place, and he was ﬁne with that. I told him that we would have a reserved table, only for him — and three guests — in the

middle of the dining room every day for the rest of his life. The table would have a brass plaque with his name on it. “He never set foot inside the door of the restaurant,” Gilbert says. “Maybe it made him mad.” Two decades later, Bill Gilbert was in a similar situation: The owners of a new Johnson County steakhouse asked his permission to call the restaurant J. Gilbert’s, in honor of his late father. But they never offered him his own table. E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com or call 816-218-6925

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Just Off Broadway Theatre, 3051 Penn Valley Drive | coterietheatre.org It’s 1950’s B-movie horror at its finest when Coterie At Night presents this world premiere written and directed by Ron Megee. Adults Beware! Teens Are Going to Rule the World! Oct 30th

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The KC CreepFest - Oct 28-29, 2011 with screenings at Tivoli Cinema & Westport Coffeehouse Theatre. Horror celebrity Tiffany Shepis & director Sean Tretta will host a screening of Frankenstein Syndrome Sat, Oct 29 @ 9:15pm at the Tivoli. Followed by Shepis as emcee of the Westport Costume Contest finals at Firefly. The event supports community organizations with a blood drive for Community Blood Center.

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At La Bella Winery Sponsored by Boulevard Brewing Company hallowsevewineharvest@gmail.com All day Saturday, October 29th-camping available. Kegs N Eggs Beer Breakfast kicks off at 8 AM. And activities all day for kids and grown ups. Disc golf putting contest, bobbin 4 apples, art workshops and demonstrations, wine tours, fishing ponds. Plenty of food and drink for all plus 12+ bands jamming out all day long. Tickets on sale now for $35. $40 at the gate. For more information email us.

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Located at the Midland Railway | Baldwin City, KS | midland-ry.org Halloween is just around the corner, and the spookiest place to be is at the Midland Railway Night Trains of Terror! Tickets available online. October 21, 22, 28 and 29th 6:30, 8, and 10pm each night!

The John Wornall House Museum | 6115 Wornall Rd | KCMO 816-444-1858 | wornallhouse.org Take a candlelight tour through this 1858 Civil War hospital and hear all about our haunting. Or stay late into the night with a group of real ghost hunters and do a real paranormal investigation. Visit us online for more information.

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hat constitutes a mixtape in 2011? Good question. Usually, it’s a collection of MP3s bundled together and given away as a free download by rappers on the Web. But occasionally it’s a burned CD that some guy outside the Bulldog is trying to peddle for $5. Sometimes a mixtape features original music by the artist, similar in nature to a traditional album. Sometimes it’s a rapper spitBY ting his own verses over the D AV I D beats of popular songs — Lil Wayne brain-dumping all H U D N A L L over a Black Eyed Peas track, for example. Call Greg Enemy an early adopter. Since he was 10 years old, the 23-year-old KC rapper has been making rap mixtapes that aren’t so different from what’s currently in vogue. “I had an older cousin, who later passed away, but she would play Crucial Conflict or Bone Thugs, and we would sit and listen to the songs on tape and write down the lyrics,” Enemy says. “That’s actually kind of how I subconsciously learned how to write songs. I learned how to split songs into verses and choruses that way. “But, yeah, for birthdays or holidays, my parents would only buy me singles, never the whole albums,” he continues. “So I’d just have the one Missy Elliott song or whatever. But that ended up being cool because with singles, you get the explicit version, the radioedit version, and the instrumental version. And we had a karaoke machine at our house, so I’d play the instrumental version and rap over it with the karaoke machine. And eventually I started rapping my own lyrics over those beats and making these little bootleg mixtapes myself.” Enemy is essentially still doing this. Xtra Small, his latest release — a follow-up to his 2008 solo debut, The Greg Enemy EP — finds him rapping over beats both familiar (TLC’s “Creep”) and obscure (he digs electronic sounds from the Brainfeeder label). “I was wanting to explore some sounds I wouldn’t be able to make myself,” he says. “A lot of the beats [on Xtra Small] are from strictly instrumental or experimental producers who haven’t had anybody rap over them before. Or at least nobody I’ve heard. And I’d been absorbing those sounds for about a year or so, trying to get a feel for how to fit in the

pocket of some of those beats, which can be really hard because the beats are so bizarre.” He cracked the code with “Muggsy Bogues,” a track referencing the Charlotte Hornets point guard who was famously short — a quality that Enemy shares. It’s a breezy beat, punctured with fat synths and tight snares, and Enemy’s smooth, rumbling baritone lopes along with it, weaving in and out when it feels right. Guess they style’s more of a slam dunk/My shit was more like a ﬁnger roll, he drawls. “That beat is from an early Samiyam project, and when I heard it, I knew exactly how I wanted to rap over it,” Enemy says. “And then after I ﬁnished ‘Muggsy Bogues,’ I was like, ‘OK, I want to try and do this on another 12 or so songs, make a full mixtape of it.’ And that’s where the challenge came in. Because soon it was like, ‘Whoa, this is way harder than I thought it was going to be.’ ” Credit to Enemy, then, because Xtra Small’s woozy swagger feels loose and organic. Lucid, too, as a result of his vaguely professorial rapping style. Enemy pronounces most of his words in full and at a leisurely pace. Sometimes you can hear the sticky, slow-motion sound of his lips parting as he gears up to drop another 16. Enemy’s lyrics add to the pedantic vibe. The dude has eclectic tastes, and he seems to relish dropping high-art names (James Baldwin, Sal-

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vador Dali) and broader cultural references (Tap-dance on your grave like I’m Gregory Hines/Cool down the pace like you Gregory Isaacs, goes “Saint Gregory the Great”). The pioneering bebop percussionist Max Roach, who gets a shout-out on “Muggsy Bogues,” is a favorite of Enemy’s. “He’d be fully dressed up in a three-piece suit when he played, and he would just straight up not break a sweat,” Enemy says. “It’s incredible. He’d keep his face so straight, just totally in the zone, not even ﬂinching. That’s kind of how I’m trying to play it with what I’m doing.”

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housands of talented rock bands in this country aren’t getting their proper due. But it seemed almost bizarre how under-recognized the War on Drugs was until this year. The Philadelphia group’s 2008 Secretly Canadian debut, Wagonwheel Blues, was a high-flying road trip through American heartland rock. On the follow-up, 2010’s Future Weather EP, the band adorned its Dylan-Springsteen-Petty-inﬂected jams with increasingly cloudy layers. But it took Slave Ambient, released this summer, for the War on Drugs to ﬁnally break through. The record is a winning balance of swirling, turbulent pitch.com

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haze and tight, tough songwriting — artful and cohesive enough for the critics, melodic and accessible enough for casual fans. The group played to a modest Riot Room audience earlier this year; expect a crowd on Tuesday at the Jackpot Music Hall. The Pitch recently spoke with frontman Adam Granduciel as the band navigated the Blue Ridge Mountains en route to a show in North Carolina. The Pitch: I saw you guys in New York a few years back, and it was just three of you up there with a lot of backing tracks. Is it the same setup these days? Granduciel: It’s four of us now. We don’t do so much backing tracks, but for the songs where there’s a drum machine on the record, we’ll use one. I think it can add a certain something to certain songs. But they’re never programmed to where they lock us in or anything. It’s more like it adds what percussion would add — like a hi-hat or a shaker. But, yeah, we’re definitely done with the days of having all the backing tracks behind us. Those were also the days when I was playing with a blown-out ampliﬁer that I never thought was loud enough. A year later, somebody was like, “You know, all four speakers are completely blown.” How much do you continued on page 30 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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think about vocals? The Dylan comparisons are kind of obvious, but are there other vocalists you’re inspired by? I always loved Roy Orbison’s voice. And, you know, I grew up singing along to classic rock radio in my car. I guess, over the years, after playing a lot of guitar and learning to record and stuff, I eventually just got to the point where I’ve figured out the way to sing that makes me feel the most honest and natural. But, yeah, definitely Dylan is a guy who I went through an intense phase with. When I was 20, 21, me and my friends would just sit around and talk about Dylan all day — the inflection of his voice, when certain words were spoken or when they were sang. Is there a lame Dylan era you’re into? Like the Christian phase, maybe? I mean, I really like Street Legal. I tried listening to Knocked Out Loaded the other day, but I just can’t get into that. What about the Lanois-produced records? I feel like I hear some Daniel Lanois in the War on Drugs’ sound. Yeah, I think Oh Mercy is fucking great. Lanois is kind of an interesting guy to me. He’s sort of — I have this feeling that people sort of make fun of him behind his back? You know, he’s this super-musical guy. He does the whole recording control-room thing where everybody’s in the same room. It just seems like he’s one of those guys who gets really, really into the music he’s producing, which is also probably why he’s kind of legendarily hard to work with. But, yeah, Time Out of Mind, too, that’s one of my favorite Dylan records. The production is beautiful, the guitar tones are great — Lanois played a lot of those guitar parts, too, and it’s some really inspired playing. Or like, with U2, The Joshua Tree — that’s a majorly beautiful album. Those early records he did with them are great. How are the crowds on the tour so far? I imagine you got a nice bump from that Pitchfork “Best New Music” a few months back. Yeah, once that review came out, the shows started to get pretty packed. But that’s

I had even put a live band together, when I only had, like, six songs. You sent those songs to blogs. You must have chosen well. I sent them to Ryan Catbird and Fluxblog. Those were really the two, but it was a bunch of blogs I liked. Fluxblog I’d always read. What I didn’t know was that Matt Perpetua (of Fluxblog) wrote for Pitchfork, so that was how that ended up on Pitchfork. I remember thinking at the time, “I’m not gonna send this to Pitchfork” because I wanted to keep it on a certain level. I kind of freaked out when I saw it on Pitchfork. I was like, “Damn, this is Unknown Mortal Orchestra out of control!” My nerves were really shot Is Probably Only a One-Thirdover that. Accurate Name Your music has also been widely downeb hype moves at light speed these days, loaded on secret torrent sites and blogs elsebut Unknown Mortal Orchestra might where on the Internet. Did you have that in be the only band on the planet that has expe- mind when you were recording the album? Yeah, I guess, but the thing with torrents rienced literal overnight success. Last year, Ruban Nielson, a founding is, you just don’t know how many copies member of noisy New Zealand pop pro- are out there. I wish you could somehow vocateurs the Mint Chicks, quit that band quantify how many times it was downloaded and settled in a yurt in Portland, Oregon. — how many copies of the album are out One night, he recorded a psych-pop song, there. We have to go with how many have posted it on Bandcamp, and sent it to a few been bought. That’s going to be a much lower of his favorite blogs. The next day, it was number than the amount of copies that are actually out there. I still picked up and reposted by prefer people to have the several influential music The War on Drugs, cover and the artwork and outlets. Within a week, the with Purling Hiss and buy it on vinyl. But, yeah, I record-label bidding wars Cartern Tanton. knew that people were gowere under way. (Fat PosTuesday, November 1, ing to download it once it sum won.) UMO has been at Jackpot Music Hall. was out there because I do grinding ever since. that myself. The band is at RecordUnknown Mortal Is there a difference beBar Sunday, and Nielson Orchestra, with tween writing songs in your recently spoke with The BeardKCrazy, Minden previous band and essentially Pitch from a tour stop at and Gauntlet Hair. being the band yourself ? Bojangles’ Famous Chicken Sunday, October 30, Yeah. I mean, I started at RecordBar. ’n Biscuits in Richmond, my first band in high school, Virginia. and it was kind of a band of The Pitch: What are your brothers. My brother was in the band. I had thoughts on all the hype? Nielson: The speed that everything hap- a bunch of ideas, but whether or not my ideas pens is ridiculous. The first band I was in, we were heard was really up to the other guys in played house shows for a year before anyone the band. When I didn’t have to do that anygot in touch about a record. With this band, more, it felt good — actually being able to put I had record labels making me offers before an idea down without having to argue first. awesome because it makes everyone play a lot better. When we know the shows are going to be well-attended, we definitely take it more seriously and try to be professional about it. And we’ve been playing longer sets, too, which has been great. In Europe we were sometimes going for two hours. Lately, we’ve been playing an hour and 30 minutes, an hour and 45 minutes, just burning through every song we have, playing everything we’ve got. — DAVID HUDNALL

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That was part of the thing that really wore me out. Like, when I had an idea, I’d think this is a really good idea, but then I’d have to ﬁght tooth and nail to get it on a record. Everything took 10 times as much energy as it should have. With the Mint Chicks, there was a lot of tension and friction in the music. Yeah. I mean, that’s what made it good in some ways, but it was getting to a point where it was more friction and less creativity. Is UMO better in contrast to that? It’s different. I’m in a different country. I think the Mint Chicks were really important to New Zealand at the time. How is Portland different? One of the main things is getting away from everything I grew up with. Just being in the U.S. is important. Portland’s an inspiring place. There are a lot of musicians and creative people. It’s crazy — lots of artists doing what they want to do. It’s kind of self-indulgent. Are you being self-indulgent? I don’t know. I just like space — mental and physical space. I can ﬁnd it here. [Recording the album], I would pace around the room for a couple hours, kind of forming the ideas in my head without putting them down. You know, waiting for the ideas to be real. Not as rushed as the hype culture might make it seem. I guess the speed of everything is working against all of that stuff. I try to justify being overhyped by being on the road. I think I’m just trying to do that for myself, to feel like I’m earning it. My other friends are in bands that just aren’t out here working as hard, so no one can say that it’s not deserved. At the end of the day, you need to be working. And the speed of the Internet doesn’t have to dictate everything involved in the music. — KENT SZLAUDERBACH E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6774

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The past few years have proved to be a test of faith for Hold Steady devotees. Mustachioed keyboardist Franz Nicolay peaced out in less than amicable fashion. Frontman Craig Finn announced a solo album. Guitarist Tad Kubler appeared in the latest round of press photos, minus about 75 pounds. Can the greatest bar band in the world hang on? Or will life on the road and the members’ advancing ages ultimately do them in? I say they’ll bounce back, and this non-headlining gig at the Midland — far from ideal circumstances for Hold Steady appreciation — will still totally rock. But those are the words of a zealot. I’d follow Finn and Co. into the ﬁery depths of hell. Thursday, October 27, at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

2. Diverse Tribute to Michael Jackson Diverse presented a Michael Jackson tribute this past April, and it went over well enough that band leader Hermon Mehari and crew decided to have another jazzy go at ol’ MJ’s back catalog. This performance — which will also feature Reach and members of the Good Foot and Hearts of Darkness — includes career-spanning songs of Jackson’s, a number

of which were not performed the ﬁrst time around. Given the approaching holiday, it seems safe to expect some extra emphasis on Thriller. Friday, October 28, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

3. The Bo-Keys, with Cyndi Lauper The Bo-Keys deliver on the insinuation of their name, making the kinds of old-school sounds that ﬁt nicely between the Bar-Kays and Booker T. and the MGs in the soul section of your collection. But what’s especially likable about the group is that it’s not just a big Memphis R&B throwback; about half of the members are actually veteran Stax and Hi Records session players. More so than contemporary revival acts like Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, the Bo-Keys really sound like an undiscovered ’60s soul act — and, in a way, they are. Monday, October 31, at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

4. They Might Be Giants, with Gold Motel They Might Be Giants has spent the past half-decade making children’s music, so fans naturally rejoiced earlier this year when the

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two Johns (Flansburgh and Linnell) released Join Us, an album ostensibly for grown-ups that has been hailed as a return to the group’s geek-rock roots. If the past 30 years (seriously — look it up) are the model, we should expect cheeky melodies, nerdy lyrics and oddball instruments played in service of a wide variety of genres. I’m also hearing that there are sock puppets involved these days. Wednesday, November 2, at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560)

5. Reba It’s just Reba now, you guys. McEntire, her surname? That’s a thing of the past. Forget about it. From now on, you call her Reba. You know, like that show, Reba? It was on the WB? And then the CW for its last season? Uh, helloooooo? Anyway, she’s here to close out the three-night American Royal Rodeo at the Sprint Center. (Lynyrd Skynyrd is there Friday.) Buckin’ broncos, cattle ropers, country music, an opportunity for people who live in the suburbs to wear cowboy hats and boots: This show’s got it all. Saturday, October 29, at Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

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96.5 the Buzz Halloweenie Roast: Social Distortion, the Hold Steady, Viva Brother, the Architects: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Bearfoot: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816483-1456. The Dean’s List, On Cue: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. American Royal Rodeo featuring Pat Green: 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Ozric Tentacles: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816442-8179.

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FRIDAY, OCT. 28 American Royal Rodeo featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Diverse Tribute to Michael Jackson: RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Four Year Strong, Gallows, Title Fight, the Swellers, Sharks: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Quixotic Fusion, March Fourth Marching Band: 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

SATURDAY, OCT. 29 Mayday Parade, the In Crowd, You Me at Six, There for Tomorrow, the Make: 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. American Royal Rodeo featuring Reba: 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Thrice, La Dispute, Moving Mountains, O’Brother: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Ultimate Fakebook presents: Revenge of the Nerds Halloween Ball with the ACBs, Podstar, Touchdown: 5 p.m., $13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Christopher West with Mike Mangione and the Union: 7 p.m. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500.

SUNDAY, OCT. 30 Mike Doughty and His Band Fantastic, Moon Hooch: 8 p.m., $15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. LIGHTS, Rubik: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Gauntlet Hair, Minden, BeardKCrazy: 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Warbringer, Lazarus A.D., Landmine Marathon, Diamond Plate, Vanlade, Meat Shank: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

MONDAY, OCT. 31 EOTO: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Haulin’ Oats, Stiff Middle Fingers, Americruiser: 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Cyndi Lauper, the Bo-Keys: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

TUESDAY, NOV. 1 The Toasters, Six Percent, the New Riddim, Two Stories: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The War On Drugs, Purling Hiss, Cartern Tanton: 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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Mindless Behavior, Diggy, the New Boyz, Jacob Latimore, Hamilton Park, the OMG Girlz: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Skrillex: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Skrillex after-party: Dillon Francis, AlvinRisk, Skrause: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. They Might Be Giants, Gold Motel: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. The Wombats, the Postelles, the Static Jacks: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

UPCOMING Bella Gaia: Kenji Williams: Thu., Nov. 3. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Big Smith, Brothers Green: Sat., Dec. 17, 8 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. The Blind Boys of Alabama, Sara and Sean Watkins: Sat., Nov. 12. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Anthony Bourdain: Fri., Dec. 16. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. 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. Brandi Carlile: Mon., Dec. 5. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816561-2560. ONLINE AT Dance Gavin Dance, IsetPITCH.COM myfriendsonfire, A Loss for Words, Our Last Night, We are the Ocean, the Bunny the Bear: Wed., Dec. 7. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Jakob Dylan: Sun., Nov. 13. The Indie on Main, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Global Dub Festival: Sat., Nov. 5. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Guns N’ Roses: Sat., Nov. 12. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Gym Class Heroes, the Dirty Heads: Sun., Nov. 6. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Neil Hamburger: Sat., Nov. 5, 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Hum: Fri., Nov. 4. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816753-5207. Demi Lovato: Tue., Nov. 22. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Mastodon, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Red Fang: Mon., Nov. 14. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Merry Kissmas: Fri., Dec. 16, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Peter Murphy, She Wants Revenge, Hussie Club: Sun., Nov. 27. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Mushroomhead, Psychostick, Motograter, Blue Felix, Ventana, Tenafly: Sun., Nov. 6, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. New Found Glory, Set Your Goals, the Wonder Years, Man Overboard, This Time Next Year: Wed., Nov. 9. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Fri., Nov. 18. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. John Prine: Fri., Dec. 2, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Paul Simon: Tue., Nov. 8. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Rick Springfield: Sat., Dec. 3, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko, and more: Sat., Nov. 19. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Tesla: Fri., Nov. 4. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Thee Oh Sees, Total Control, the Spook Lights, Mouthbreathers: Fri., Nov. 25. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Buddy Valastro: The Cake Boss: Mon., Nov. 7. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. The Wham City Comedy tour with Dan Deacon: Wed., Nov. 9. Paragraph Gallery, 23 E. 12th St., 816-221-5115. Lucinda Williams: Fri., Nov. 11, 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Zechs Marquise: Wed., Dec. 7. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

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ROCK/POP/INDIE Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Savor the Sun, Yes, Inferno. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. The Phantastics, the Will Nots. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Latenight Callers, Voodoo Organist. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. L5, Lantern, Living Ghost. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Halloweenie Roast after-party: Heroes + Villains, the Photo Atlas, 11:45 p.m., free.

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JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Mark Lowrey and drums. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Miguel Mambo DeLeon, Carte-Blanc. Great Day Cafe: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park. Customer Quartet, 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m. Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Jukebox Jones, free credits. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with the Star Blues Band. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m. McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. All In Thursdays. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Ladies’ Night. Skeeter’s: 6505 Nieman Rd., Merriam, 913-912-1191. Jump-Off.

EASY LISTENING Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Beach Nuts. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Bob Reeder.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS 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.

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VARIET Y The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. KC Songwriter Forum, 7-9 p.m. Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. Rehearsal dinner and drinks.

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F R I DAY 2 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Four Year Strong, Gallows, Title Fight, the Swellers, Sharks. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8421390. Quiet Corral, Cowboy Indian Bear, Delta Saints. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Bleached, Mouthbreathers, CVLTS. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. The Naughty Band. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Halloween Party: Submytion, Isaac James, costume contest at midnight. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Point of Impact, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Humans record release with Scratch Track, David Hasselhoff on Acid, Brainbow, 9 p.m.; Fiend Club on the patio, 11:45 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Bobby Simkins Elvis Tribute, 7:30 p.m.; Late Night Rendezvous, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Mouth. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Stephan Oran, Heather Thornton, 6 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Beans and Cornbread. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Beneﬁt for Jim O’Neal: Jim Suhler & Monkey Beat, Kenny Neal, Levee Town, 7:30 p.m.; The Elvis Show with Jeff Bergen, 7 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Rock Paper Scissors. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Cadillac Flambe, Eric Sommer, People Depot on the patio.

DJ Buddha: 8741 N.W. Prairie View Rd. Fusion Friday: DJ Nuveau. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Afrobeat with Kim Legal. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. DJ Morri$ on the patio.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Everette DeVan Trio with David Basse. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. The Mason Brothers Quintet, 8:30 p.m. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Kathleen Holeman Quartet. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Stan Kessler with the Ron Carlson Trio. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Grand Marquis.

AMERICANA Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Big Smith, King Harvest.

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S AT U R DAY 2 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Switch. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. The Zeros. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Toe Jam. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. JJ Gang, Eric Sommer, 6 p.m.; Haunted Creepys, Pornhuskers, Radkey, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Hollerween: the Spook Lights, the Boxknifes, Dry Bonnet. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Them Damned Young Livers, the Uncouth, the Blue Boot Heelers, the Fall Down Drunks, Crybaby Ranch on the patio, 8 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. SUNU, DJ Proof. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. Billy Ebeling. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m.

DJ 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Andrew Northern, 9 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Halloween pre-party: Knock Knock Wubba Wubba. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Xclusive. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. DJ Cruz on the patio.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Wayne Goins. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Tim Whitmer and KC Express, 4:30 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Passport.

WORLD Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Pope of Dope, Hearts of Darkness.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Haunted House Party, free. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

FOLK Great Day Cafe: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park. The Ukesters, noon.

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JAZZ Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Battle of the Swing Bands: David Basse vs. Grand Marquis, 6 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Dan Bliss.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTION/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Free pool. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3. 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 Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Samhain Harvest Festival: Mental BreakDown, Hyper Sniper, and more, 6 p.m.

M O N DAY 31 ROCK/POP/INDIE Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. The God Project, Night Creation, Evil Kuntz, Stonehaven. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Club is Open, Deep Six. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Starship Troopers. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Molly Picture Club, Parts of Speech, Everyday/Everynight.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Good Foot, 9 p.m.

DJ The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. DJ Savy, DJ Ray-Ban, costume contest.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Diverse Trio. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Clint Ashlock’s New Jazz Order, 7 p.m.

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VARIET Y Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Rock Cove, Rodney Brannigan, 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Rock and Roll Halloween Party: Lucky Tubb and the Modern Day Troubadours, the Honeybees, Johnny Barber and the Living Deads, 8 p.m. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. BCR Yearly Jam and Costume Party. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Party Monster VI featuring DJ Spider.

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Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open jam with Billy Ebeling and Duane Goldston, 1 p.m.

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