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Blowback uspected drunken drivers in Kansas might want to cross their fingers or rub a lucky rabbit’s foot before taking a breath test to determine their blood-alcohol level. That’s because Kansas law-enforcement agencies use the Intoxilyzer 8000, a bloodalcohol testing device that’s gaining a reputation for being more of a slot machine than an accurate test of someone’s level of intoxication. The Intoxilyzer 8000 has been the source of headaches for officials and courts in several states, and it might be just a matter of time before the same issues hit Kansas. Here’s how the machine works: It collects a driver’s breath through a tube attached to the side of a large gray box. The device then shines infrared light, which alcohol absorbs, into the breath. The machine takes a reading of the light using a proprietary source code to calculate the blood-alcohol content, then prints a sort of receipt displaying the information. In Kansas, the Intoxilyzer 8000 is used in most counties, including Johnson, Wyandotte, Leavenworth and Douglas. However, 21 Kansas counties don’t use the machines. In Sumner County, County Attorney Evan Watson announced in January that he wouldn’t use the Intoxilyzer to prosecute DUI cases. Instead, that county would rely on blood tests. Watson didn’t respond to several interview requests from The Pitch, but he told news outlets in April that he’d seen the device fail, and it didn’t “instill [him] with confidence.” Kansas City lawyer Jay Norton says Watson’s approach is appropriate, given the Intoxilyzer’s history of inconsistent responses and its sensitivity to radio-frequency interference from electrical devices such as smartphones. “The concern isn’t for accurate and reliable science,” Norton says. “The concern is for winnable cases.” Officials nationwide have grown wary of trusting the Intoxilyzer. Earlier this year, a Florida investigation found thousands of breath tests with the Intoxilyzer 8000, dating back to 2006, that had produced inaccurate calculations. Forty percent of the Sunshine State’s 231 Intoxilyzer 8000 units were found to be faulty. Some of the machines registered as much as 12 liters of breath from suspected drunken drivers, despite human breath capacity topping out at 5 liters. “It’s saying that it’s getting 10, 15, 20 liters of breath from a human being, which is impossible. It’s fiction,” Norton says. “There’s

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something wrong with the software in the machine, the function of the machine.” In October, prosecutors in Manatee County, Florida, announced that they would throw out Intoxilyzer readings for about 100 DUI defendants and instead either use other evidence to prosecute the cases or drop the charges. In Ohio, a judge wrote a decision in June allowing defendants to challenge breath results. The judge noted a witness’s testimony that “the longer you blow, the higher your score” with the Intoxilyzer. Another Ohio judge has refused to allow evidence gathered by the Intoxilyzer in his courtroom until the state proves that the machines produce accurate results. The state of Kansas, however, is standing by the Intoxilyzer 8000. The Breath Alcohol Laboratory Program of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment oversees the state’s 251 Intoxilyzer 8000s. Breath Alcohol Supervisor Christine Houston says the devices are accurate, and when they need repair, the KDHE has procedures in place to rotate them out of service. Houston says she has worked with Intoxilyzer technology for 10 years and has no reason to doubt its effectiveness. The KDHE doesn’t see a county’s refusal to use the machines as a repudiation of the Intoxilyzer. “That’s their prerogative,” Houston says, “and I’m not going to tell them one way or another.” Houston says the KDHE never had the chance to convince Watson in Sumner County of the Intoxilyzer’s usefulness. “He also has never allowed me to be able

to demonstrate the instrumentation to him or been able to explain to him how the instrument works,” she says. “He has no idea how it even works, much less whether it works accurately and precisionally [sic].” Blood and urine tests are acceptable forms of testing, but Houston says the number of breath tests far outweigh the number of blood tests. “If there was some idea or philosophy that the instrumentation was false in some way, shape or form, you wouldn’t have the discrepancy that we have in the number of breath tests versus blood in the state,” she says. CMI Inc., the company that manufactures the Intoxilyzer, did not return requests for comment. And the company doesn’t appear to be helping its cause. Courts in multiple states have told CMI to release the Intoxilyzer source code so that defense attorneys can learn how the device calculates blood-alcohol content. The company has refused, saying it’s a trade secret. CMI is also in a bizarre standoff with Florida, where the company has been found in contempt for not releasing the code. In Kansas, no legal challenges to the Intoxilyzer 8000 have been mounted. But Norton says the troubled device’s future doesn’t look good. “I think that CMI is just doing the best that they can to outrun all of these boulders that are rolling at them and this machine right now,” he says. “I think that public opinion on this machine may eventually shift because there’s been so many problems, and they’re being pointed out more and more.” — BEN PALOSAARI Get intoxicated at pitch.com/plog pitch.com

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n a Friday morning in November, Gilbert McClure stands on the staircase leading to the dining room of Starker’s Restaurant. The silver-haired former cattle rancher is tall, and his hands still have the crackling strength that comes from roping steers for 40 years. He booms out a welcome to the two diners who have just entered, and for a moment, his son, former Starker’s owner John McClure, is back in the front of the house. Gilbert is there for the same reason that those two diners are — to see if a restaurant can go on living without a heartbeat. The life force behind Starker’s was extinguished when John McClure took his own life October 19. He was 35 years old. “Starker’s was John,” says Debbie Gold, executive chef at the American. “The menu is John, and the restaurant is a reflection of John and the force of his personality.” Inside the dining room, conversation is muted. The voices coming from two occupied tables overlooking Wyandotte Street are barely louder than the hum of the wine refrigerator and the hiss of the heating vents. The food is still McClure’s — inventive dishes such as heirloom green beans with fiery jalapeño and tempura-fried Shatto cheese curds. But there’s a void at 201 West 47th Street. “They can fill the post at Starker’s, but they can never fill his apron,” says longtime McClure friend Katie Van Luchene, executive editor of KC Magazine. continued on page 10

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The Book of John McClure reveled in talking to his guests. He would approach a table in his chef ’s whites, plate in hand, a crooked smile on his face. The plate was often a gift, some dish that a diner had never tried. The smile was because he knew the plate would come back clean. He would say: Try it. You might like it. “He was a giver. He loved to give pleasure to people, whether that was with wine, conversation or food,” says Dan Doty, his partner in Barrio, a taqueria that McClure was working on at the time of his death. His oversized personality and matching frame — at 6 feet 4 inches and close to 300 pounds, McClure was a big man — dominated his Plaza restaurant and made him a force on the Kansas City restaurant scene. Young and charismatic, he was a bridge between the established chefs of the city and a rising cadre of independent chef-owners. With the Cliff Bath Memorial Scholarship Fund, which he established in memory of the former owner of Starker’s, McClure also committed himself to the next generation of cooks. “He was the ringleader. He kept everyone together, eating at everyone’s bar. He was everywhere,” says Ryan Sciarra, the owner of Cellar Rat. His friendship with McClure began when they worked together at 40 Sardines. The news of McClure’s death broke on a late Wednesday afternoon in October. Those who knew him struggled to understand how the biggest cheerleader could have fallen silent at such an early age. Four days later, Gilbert and Marilyn McClure sat down with Mary Sanchez at The Kansas City Star and revealed a difficult truth: Their son committed suicide. Two weeks later, in the McClures’ Kansas City, Kansas, living room, they’re equally candid: “It was suicide,” Gilbert tells The Pitch. “We’re talking about it because if we can save even one life, it’s worth it.” They’ve encouraged his friends and family to try and focus on the John they knew, rather than attempting to pick apart the inexplicable. “We don’t want to know the why. We just knew he loved other people more than himself. And we know that John was loved,” Gilbert says. That love was on display Monday, October 24, when a line of 700 mourners, some waiting as long as three hours, arrived at RecordBar for an impromptu memorial. It

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hen he was little, he pushed his stool up to the counter,” Marilyn recalls. “He wanted to stir. He wanted to taste and smell. He just had a gift.” The youngest of three children, McClure was born and raised in Tescott, Kansas, a rural town a half-hour’s drive from Salina with around

300 people. McClure inherited his size and his work ethic from his father, but his destiny lay beyond the family’s cattle ranch. At 10 years old, he was glued to Yan Can Cook on PBS. Soon, he was learning how to make noodles, taught by the family’s Japanese next-door neighbor, Sanae. McClure began touching up his mother’s goulash with a bit of cayenne, and he was developing a knack for understanding why a dish worked — or didn’t. In 1986, he began competing at county fairs. His ﬁrst entry, an Italian cream cake, earned him reserve-grand-champion status and pulled in a winning bid of $125. He took home purple ribbons every year after that, competing in 4-H until he was 17. After graduating from Tescott High School, he surprised

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his parents by enlisting in the Navy on the day that his housing contract was due at the University of Kansas. “He was one of those people that, once he makes his mind up to do something, he does it,” Marilyn says. “And he was going in the Navy.” McClure’s goal was to test himself in a big kitchen. He believed that if he could cook aboard an aircraft carrier, a shorebound restaurant would be a piece of that Italian cream cake. He thrived on the grind of making food for a floating city of 5,000, and just 10 days after being discharged, he enrolled at the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. “John always seemed to have a goal or a mission for himself,” Gold says. “He was always fun to have in a kitchen because he brought an energy, and he could always rally the troops.” In 2001, he set two new goals: Move closer to home and get hired as a cook at the American. He did both. At 25, he was working for two of the most talented chefs in Kansas City: Gold and Michael Smith. Gold encouraged him to seek opportunities beyond the city, but she hoped that the hungry young chef would return. “I made a commitment to myself to find the best chefs in the country and work for them,” McClure told The Pitch in February of this year. He had set his sights on working for Frank Brigtsen, of Brigtsen’s Restaurant in New Orleans. He knew that he’d made the right decision when Brigtsen, after just six weeks, gave him two weeks’ paid vacation alongside the tenured staff. He wanted to know that McClure would be taken care of during one of the restaurant’s regular breaks. In his time at Brigtsen’s, McClure saw his boss take similar care of employees on and off the line. “John’s always said that the dishwasher is as important as he is because if the dishes aren’t clean, nobody could eat the food he prepared,” Marilyn recalls. The idea that a restaurant staff could be a family left an indelible impression on McClure, as did the flavors in that kitchen, which changed his cooking style. He was lured back to Kansas City to work as a sous chef at 40 Sardines, the Leawood restaurant run by Gold and Smith. In 2003, when he was 27, McClure cold-called Cliff Bath, the owner of Starker’s Restaurant, and told him that he was going to be his next chef. A year

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cClure was a happy eater and the kind of customer who helps provide the foundation for a neighborhood restaurant — a regular. He held court at J.J.’s on the Plaza, at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange in the Crossroads, and at Vietnam Café in Columbus Park. Fellow chefs and servers and diners knew McClure. His favorite dishes and drinks were delivered without his having to ask. “People would remember who he was, not just what he ate,” one friend says. To many, he was “Big Country,” a barrelchested Kansas farm boy with iron skillets for hands. “Growing up on a cattle ranch gave me a different view of food production,” McClure told The Pitch in February. “I know the hard work and sacrifice that goes into getting a steak on the plate.” At Starker’s, McClure showcased local farmers. A dinner spotlighting heirloom tomatoes evolved into an annual night centered on heirloom vegetables. “It was quintessentially John, bringing all kinds of people together to laugh and talk around tables filled with amazing food,” says Nicola Heskett, a writer who counted McClure as a close friend. Those conversations often spilled into the early hours of the morning — a fact that never stopped McClure from being the first inside the restaurant the next day. After a childhood spent wrestling ornery calves and his tour in the Navy, he simply ran on less sleep

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later, Bath called back to say that he’d just let his executive chef go. That was McClure’s cue. “I remember Cliff once told me that John reminded him of himself 30 years earlier, that he was like a Kansas tornado,” Gilbert says. Keeping the established Starker’s clientele happy while remaking the restaurant’s menu wasn’t easy. McClure drafted longtime Starker’s general manager Dean Smith to help oversee the wine list and redeﬁne the identity of a place that had been open since 1972. McClure purchased the restaurant in 2006. And although accolades from the James Beard Foundation and Wine Spectator magazine would come quickly, he had an entirely different agenda. “We found a journal about how he would run a restaurant if he ever owned one,” Marilyn says. “And one of things it said was that he wouldn’t do it for awards. He would to do it to make people happy.”

“ S TA R K E R ’ S WA S J O H N . T H E M E N U I S J O H N , A N D T H E R E S TA U R A N T I S A R E F L E C T I O N O F J O H N A N D T H E F O R C E O F H I S P E R S O N A L I T Y. ” — DEBBIE GOLD than everyone else. He also ran hotter, and he wasn’t afraid to share what he was thinking. “What you see is what you get,” Craig Adcock, the owner of Jude’s Rum Cakes, says. “One thing that I loved about him was that he was heartfelt. If he wanted to talk to you, he just wanted to talk to you.” His directness likely contributed to the fact that Starker’s may have been the only ﬁne-dining establishment in the city without a formal dress code. It mattered more to McClure that he had the chance to feed people. And though he kept a strong hand in his own kitchen, he often reached out to the very ﬁrst cook who taught him. “Our phone would ring, and there would the ID for Starker’s. It was John on the line, and he

wanted to pick Marilyn’s brain,” Gilbert says. His parents were his staff for the Starker’s booth that McClure ran at the Plaza Art Fair the past three years. Marilyn also baked for the restaurant sometimes. This year, she shrank her cinnamon rolls — the ones that lured McClure out of bed on Friday mornings as a teenager — down to amuse-bouche size for a Mother’s Day brunch. That impulse toward family, toward closeness, also fueled McClure’s charitable works. The Cliff Bath Memorial Scholarship Fund has raised more than $100,000 in four years to help students pursue secondary education in the restaurant and hospitality ﬁelds. And McClure donated his food, talent and personality to several other causes.

He was known for his annual crawfish boil, a Memorial Day weekend party that mushroomed in size to more than 500 people this year because of an open Facebook invitation. Westport Café and Bar co-owner and chef Aaron Confessori, who lived across the street from McClure’s West Plaza home, found himself recruited to run a satellite party. Far from lamenting the prospect of cooking 200 pounds of crawfish, McClure, Confessori recalls, was just excited about a backyard Mardi Gras. “He never lost that childlike enthusiasm, and I think that’s what separates the truly successful people. They can remain enthused and not be consumed by the day to day,” Confessori says. At last year’s crawfish boil, McClure also enlisted the help of fellow neighbor Dan Doty. Back in 2009, Doty had invited McClure, who was new to the block, over for a spaghetti dinner. The pair matched each other, meatball for meatball. “You eat until you’re miserable,” Doty says, “but you’re going to have a great time doing it.” After nearly a case of wine, as his guests left and the backyard fire they’d been sitting around began to dwindle, Doty was ready to call it a night. But McClure, with that crooked smile, asked if his host had anything else to burn. A pair of lacquered doors and an antique library table later, Doty and McClure had forged a permanent friendship. “He claimed me,” Doty says. “He was really good at putting people in a position where they think something was their idea.” The idea that McClure and Doty shared was Barrio, a taqueria concept that McClure had tested with pop-ups this year, most recently at the Twin City Tavern. In the spring, Doty agreed to partner with McClure and to run the place for the chef. Now he’s meeting with potential investors in the hopes of still launching the restaurant at 4141 Pennsylvania by the end of the year. “He gave me the confidence to do it,” Doty says. “And it’s still a really good idea. John and I were real similar. John just had a little bigger voice. I don’t know if I can match it, but I’ll try my best to fill it.”

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Being on the leading edge of fashion is tough, especially here in the Midwest, where trends haul themselves slowly inland from the coasts and collapse, exhausted, in KC. By the time you’ve put FIND feather extensions MANY MORE in your hair here, they’ve switched to faux-fur keychains in Angeles. Oh, the LISTINGS Los pain of it all! But pain ONLINE AT makes us stronger, PITCH.COM which is why the boldest of tastemakers are at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) for Fashion Group International’s semiannual trend event, which showcases the looks exhibited at Fashion Week. Sip cocktails and socialize with fellow fashion folks beginning at 6 p.m. The presentation follows at 7. The cost to attend is $30 for non-FGI members and $20 for members, at the door or through FGI’s Paypal-enabled website. For more details, search “FGI Spring 2012 Trend Presentation” on Facebook. — NADIA PFLAUM

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In 1981, Clara Reyes, an immigrant from Mexico, founded Kansas City’s bilingual newspaper, Dos Mundos, in the basement of her Overland Park home. Today, its circulation is listed at 20,000, and it has recently expanded into the Topeka and Odessa, Texas, markets. Dos Mundos continues its mission to inform, stand up for, and highlight the local Hispanic population. Reyes says: “We are proud to give our community a voice.” Hear her talk with R. Crosby Kemper III during A Conversation With Clara Reyes, at the Kansas City Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400) at noon. A light buffet (courtesy of Truman Medical Center) is offered beforehand at 11:30 a.m. RSVP for this free Global Entrepreneurship Week event at kclibrary.org/rsvp/14797. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE

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The instruments of the band ArcAttack pretty much reinvent one of Nikola Tesla’s electrical experiments. The so-called “singing Tesla coil” premiered at South by Southwest in 2007, after which the five-man crew of musicians and inventors formed a touring band. The performances could be described as an experience akin to Tesla introducing alternating current at the 1893 World’s Fair while auditioning for America’s Got Talent. At JCCC’s Yardley Hall (12345 College, Overland Park, 913-469-4445), Tesla coils shoot 12-foot electrical arcs to an MC, who conducts them with MIDI controllers that his hands use to trigger enormous compression waves in the air. To the listener, it will sound like a screaming synthesizer. Behind him, DJs and guitarists help the glowing MC play erratic genre crossovers, covers of Black Sabbath and the Doctor Who theme, naturally. Tickets cost $18 for students and $22 for adults. The show begins at 8 p.m. — KENT SZLAUDERBACH [ARTS & CRAFTS]

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stitute. Their talent for making wildlife and rodents look cool on scarves and shirts prompted them to name their printing company Owl + Mouse Textile Designs. Tonight, the West Bottoms space (1229 Union, 816-651-9620) holds a co-op handmade holiday sale — for those of us who don’t want to say “Merry Christmas” with products made in China or Sri Lanka — featuring the works of several local artists. The event spreads seasonal cheer with light drinks and snacks, and price tags maxing out at $50. See examples of Youngblood and Llewellyn’s works at owlandmouse.tumblr.com. The sale runs from 5 to 10 p.m. — NANCY HULL RIGDON [MUSIC & FOOD]

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ow often will you be reminded that your father would like Easy Feet this year? How many times will you hear Wham’s “Last Christmas” play over the speakers at T.J.Maxx? How many laps must you swim to keep the peppermint bark and Almond Roca off your thighs? We don’t know, but it’s 37 more days until December 26, when you can stop counting and get back to your routine. In the meantime, give in to the holidays at these free, family-friendly events. The Power & Light District (14th Street and Grand). From 5 to 8 p.m. Friday, participating retail outlets and restaurants hold open houses and offer special happy-hour deals. At 6, the 2011 Holiday Windows on Main are revealed following a Santa Claus-hosted tree lighting at 5:30 in the district’s Living Room. See powerandlightdistrict.com for more information. Legends Outlets (near the intersection of Interstate 70 and Interstate 435 in Kansas City, Kansas, 913-788-3700). Beginning at 6 p.m. Saturday, Santa Claus ditches his sleigh for a helicopter and touches down on the north side of the shopping center (near Mema’s Bakery) for photo ops. In the center courtyard, area musicians perform holiday classics, and Santa and KSHB Channel 41 meteorologist Brett Anthony emcee the Legends’ lighting ceremony at 7. Scooter’s Coffeehouse has coffee and hot chocolate for $2. See legendsshopping.com for additional details and directions. Briarcliff Village (4151 North Mulberry Drive, off U.S. Highway 169, 816-595-5820). From 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, participate in face painting and free photos with Santa, and partake of holiday treats and a fireworks display over the Missouri River. Ronald McDonald flips the switch later in the evening to light up the businesses in the upscale shopping destination. For more information, see briarcliffvillagekc.com. — BERRY ANDERSON

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as planned. “A couple of years ago we played in Windsor, Canada, and the pot went off the cooker. It was a gumbo tsunami, but those Canadian guys just got out their snow shovels and pushed it off the stage. We just added more stuff, and it turned out fine,” Wharton says. See the Sauce Boss roll his swampy sounds and spicy soup together onstage at Knuckleheads (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456) at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $12 in advance or $15 at the door. See knuckleheadskc.com. — BERRY ANDERSON

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Clean out your closets for the less fortunate (Saturday). You can only ride the wave of a sex-tape scandal and a big ass for so long with absolutely no talent to back it up. She’s just a media whore, and I have no respect for that. Now go buy my albums. See wendyho.net. — BERRY ANDERSON [BENEFIT]

STAYING WARM

The KC nonprofit organization Care of Poor People Inc. began its winter-survival event 29 years ago, distributing free clothing and supplies to those in need from the basement of downtown’s Grand Avenue Methodist Temple. Today, there are more folks than ever needing the goods that COPP provides for winter. Help the organization stock up early at a clothing drive, fundraiser and blues show hosted by local musician Bill “Coyote Bill” Bartelt at the Hideout Bar & Grill (6948 North Oak Trafficway, Gladstone, 816-468-0550). “We’re collecting coats, blankets, hats, gloves and toys now so that they can be distributed at COPP’s wintersurvival event on November 25 and 26,” Bartelt says. From 3 to 9 p.m. today, after cleaning out your basements, closets and plastic bins for gently used items, hear the sounds of the Scott Moyer Band; Crosseyed Cat; and the Unlimited Blues Band, KC’s youth blues ensemble that will be reppin’ Cowtown at the International Blues Competition in February. Admission is free for this all-ages event. — BERRY ANDERSON

S U N D AY | 11.20

[HOME & GARDEN]

BELIEVE THE HYPE

Every year, it gets harder to disagree with realtor Christina Boveri on the merits of downtown living. Urban dwellers in Kansas City now have groceries; world-class performance venues; and art, bars and restaurants galore. And no yard to mow. Get an idea of what your dream front door might look like during the Downtown Homes Tour, an annual event organized by Boveri Realty Group. The route features 26 properties in seven downtown neighborhoods. And with the real-estate market remaining in a slump, condo prices start around $86,000. The free, self-guided tour runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For a list of viewable properties and participating restaurants, see movedowntownkc.com or call 816-333-4040. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE

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It’s good to know that in an age of technological miracles, such as iPhones and Shake Weights, the circus persists as a viable entertainment venue. Where else can you eat peanuts while watching European men in leotards fling themselves around at terrifying heights? If not for the circus, what would children run away to join? The 76th annual Ararat Shrine Circus is a tribute to the enduring form, eschewing such “artisanal” circuses as Cirque du Soleil in favor of ringmasters, clowns with baggy pants, tigers and acrobats. Opening Thursday, it ends today with performances at 1 and 5 p.m. at Municipal Auditorium (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000). Tickets cost $12-$17 through Ticketmaster or by calling 816-923-1210. For more information, see kcshrinecircus.com. — CHRIS PACKHAM

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It’s that night of year again when all your high school homies are back in town and ready to get plowed before the real talk goes down with the family tomorrow. Show them how we do it around here at one of these classic local bars. Coach’s (414 West 103 rd Street, 816-941-2286). From 3 to 7 p.m., get two-for-one deals on wells, calls and glasses of house wine. Beginning at 7, all micro and import drafts and bottles are $1 off. The south KC favorite also has a late-night happy hour from midnight to close with wells and 22-ounce domestic drafts for $2. Gilhouly’s (1721 West 39th Street, 816-561-2899). Down at the corner of 39th and Bell, find $3 domestic bottles and wells from 3 to 6 p.m. and free popcorn all night. Patrick’s Bar & No Grill (8251 Wornall, 816-444-3707). From open until close, domestic bottles are $2.75 and 12-ounce domestic draws are $1.50 at this bar in the same strip mall as Cash America Pawn. The Peanut (5000 Main, 816-753-9499). Domestic bottles are $3, and domestic pitchers cost $6.50 from 4 to 7 p.m. at this south-of-thePlaza staple. — BERRY ANDERSON

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On a comeback tour after recovering from an eating disorder, 19-year-old Demi Lovato has matured since her days on Barney & Friends and has put forth her third studio release, Unbroken, an album of brazen ballads and freak dance music. Her performances on this tour have been affirming but unpredictable, and the Lovatics — the name for her throngs of fans — totally relate. A recent optimistic New York Times concert review noted that she was prone to interrupt songs to make gushing public service announcements to the girls in her audience who, she can tell from experience, think themselves to be extremely unpretty or somehow not pretty enough. Demetria Devonne Lovato is coming to the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921) to tell you that you are, in fact, beyond pretty

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It’s tough to admit that committed adults in loving relationships harbor misconceptions and misinformation about doing sex to each other. Reasons include cursory sex education supplemented by vaguely remembered images from the hairy 1970s version of The Joy of Sex, along with misinformation transmitted among children in the schoolyard. To meet these continuing-education needs, the Sexuality Education Committee of Ecumenical Campus Ministries offers a free series (ending December 5) called “The Real Person’s Guide to Human Sexuality,” an informative discussion of topics including “Jealousy: It’s Not You, It’s Me,” “Intimacy” and tonight’s “Open Relationships and Polyamory” panel. The 8 p.m. meeting at ECM (1204 Oread, in Lawrence, 785-843-4933) challenges the idea that open relationships or those relationships with multiple partners are unmanageable or invalid. Panelists talk about their experiences and take questions from the audience. For more information, see ecmku.org/rpg. — CHRIS PACKHAM

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ily Tomlin regrets not being able to save her childhood home in Detroit. “My neighborhood was pretty much destroyed after the 1967 riots. I always kind of hoped that if I ever got famous, that apartment building might be saved because I grew up there,” Tomlin, now 72, says. “But it was torn down.” The Tomlin family — headed by her father, Guy, a factory worker, and her mother, Lillie Mae, a nurse’s aide — lived on the second ﬂoor of the building. It was there that she and her younger brother, Richard, began acting out to BY make each other laugh. Lily Edith Ann Ernestine Tomlin CHARLES “We would take the hose from our mother’s vacuum ters, it’s hard to add new ones, so I’m always F E R R U Z Z A and lower it out the window. adding new ideas instead,” she says. Tomlin and her band of personalities apIt was the same color as the building’s walls. We would wait for one of pear at the Kauffman Center for the Perthe bullies in our school to walk by, and then forming Arts Sunday. “Now tell me, so I don’t we’d talk into the hose, saying stuff like ‘Get get this wrong,” she says, “when I come out out of here or we’re going to kick your ass.’ onstage, am I in Kansas or Missouri?” The kid couldn’t see the hose, so he’d stand “Missouri,” I tell her, warning her not there and wonder where the voice was com- to make the mistake that Bernadette Peters ing from while we were upstairs laughing made at the Music Hall in the 1990s. She came our heads off.” out of the wings to rousing applause and enIt was that same type of mischief that thusiastically announced, “Hello, Kansas!” later inspired one of her The auditorium fell silent. most famous characters, the Some even booed. Lily Tomlin. precocious 5-year-old Edith “Oh, God,” Tomlin says, “I 7 p.m. Sunday, Ann on the wildly popudon’t want to do that!” November 20, lar, late-’60s TV comedy Her Kansas City perforat the Kauffman Center Laugh-In. Another characmance, she says, “will be a for the Performing Arts, ter, the Tasteful Lady, was a compilation of everything, 1601 Broadway, creation from Tomlin’s days from new material to bits 816-994-7222. as a student at Wayne State from the characters that peoUniversity. ple really seem to love.” She “I was in a variety revue and I offered to adds: “I’m using a lot of video in my shows be this character, a parody of all of the rich now. It’s very satirical stuff that mostly makes society matrons I had observed in Grosse fun of me. Pointe,” she says. “It was a huge success, “My characters like to comment on curand suddenly, I was performing it all over. rent issues. Ernestine, for example, has had That gave me the courage to drop out of col- a lot of jobs since her days at AT&T. She’s lege and move to New York to go into show worked for United Health, done a few combusiness.” mercials for WebX. I’ve updated her look a After stints as a waitress, Tomlin began bit with a snazzier wardrobe and updated getting nightclub gigs as a stand-up comic. hairstyle. Same lady, but she looks fabulous! Instead of rattling off jokes like her contem- She likes to be where she can get media atporary Joan Rivers, Tomlin created char- tention, you know, to express her opinions acters — Judith Beasley, Susie Sorority and on things. How about a broadcast from the telephone operator Ernestine — who made Occupy Kansas City site?” wry observations about the world around A brilliant idea, if it hasn’t been torn down. them. They’ve all been part of Tomlin’s stage persona for decades. E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com “I have such a great repertoire of characor call 816-218-6925

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by either blowtorches or mosquitoes. The only thing Ledgard needs is a human guinea pig. When his daughter succumbs to tragedy, he finds the perfect subject for his torturous research — at which point, we probably shouldn’t say more. Structurally, The Skin I Live In is one of Almodóvar’s most ambitious films. It contains flashbacks from two characters’ perspectives, as well as flashbacks within flashbacks; half of the film takes place in the past, with the first and last sections occurring in the present. The first time I saw the movie, I thought Almodóvar had overreached his abilities as a storyteller, indulging his love of melodramatic convolution at the expense of emotional connection to the outré material.

But it’s apparent, on subsequent viewings, that Almodóvar intends something far trickier than a series of lurid gotchas. As in earlier films, such as Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! and Talk to Her, Almodóvar wants viewers to side unwittingly with characters and behavior they’d consider deviant in real life. And toward that end, he’s careful to fill in any potential plot holes. Even a seemingly insignificant detail, such as housekeeper Marilia (Marisa Paredes) emptying a pill into a glass of orange juice, seems important. This doesn’t mean that all of Almodóvar’s provocations work. A subplot involving the

doctor’s tiger-costumed brother serves only as noxious tawdriness. But for the most part, The Skin I Live In upends a viewer’s expectations and sympathies in purposefully upsetting ways, pulling trapdoors under our certainties about gender and sexuality. With Almodóvar eschewing his typical garish palette for icier hues in camera movements that probe like surgical tools, the film is obsessive and chilly, as are its performances — especially Banderas, whose charisma is used here like a predator’s lollipop. You want sympathetic characters? Go see The Help. Instead, what Almodóvar offers is a purposefully deranged entertainment with a plethora of slyly deployed film allusions. The most obvious reference point is Georges Franju’s Eyes Without a Face, whose skinpeeling surgery scenes still carry a grisly charge. But the omnipresence of video monitors recalls another fi lm from roughly the same period: Fritz Lang’s The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse. Almodóvar puts a sensual touch even to the cold medium of video. At one point, he goes so far as to have Ledgard lick a monitor. As cold as he often seems, Ledgard doesn’t settle for mere voyeurism. He eventually desires some sort of real relationships with the women he watches. Some observers have called The Skin I Live In phobic, or frivolously indifferent, in its handling of sexual identity. But in this polymorphous shocker, Almodóvar has crafted one of his most berserk and bewitching fables about the fluidity of gender and the unpredictability of desire. At the start of the film, Ledgard may be a mad scientist, but he seems like an ordinary heterosexual man. At its end, he may not have departed from his desire to sleep with women, but his director doesn’t find him any less queer. ■

sex. Anna and Jacob share something different, something beyond. Their love is idyllic. Their love is the uniting of soul mates on a plane ungreased by human effluvia. Their love is total horseshit. They bond over a mutual, deeply unlikely affection for Paul Simon’s 25-year-old Graceland. He wants to build furniture for a living. He makes her a chair and burns the movie’s title under its seat. When her student visa runs out, they pledge their love, and he gives her a bracelet engraved Patience. She decides to overstay. He protests for five seconds before agreeing to trade two months of snuggling for a viable adult relationship. But first, the good times. A montage shows Anna and Jacob’s lost-summer bed-in: overhead shots of the pair in repose, together and separately, she always clothed, he in shirts and not in shirts and sometimes — daringly — in sleeveless shirts. The editing suggests not blissful coupling but sleepwalking. Ripping up a visa isn’t tragic fate, you see — it’s just dumb.

Movie romances motivate their participants with two options: escalation or retreat. Doremus (Ben York Jones co-wrote the screenplay) leans toward the latter while dimly suggesting that immigration policy is this couple’s enemy. But the more these clerks and judges deny Anna re-entry into the United States — thus doing the couple a favor — the more Doremus resolves to build their “love.” The only option for making his sketch almost feature-length: marriage. Meanwhile, there’s ﬁnally some consummation — with others. Jacob’s only onscreen sex is with Jennifer Lawrence and her mascara (who together play a convenience named Sam), in a scene that’s crosscut with Anna’s London shag with equally doomed Simon (Charlie Bewley). Jacob drops a Bill Pullman on poor Sam twice, but Simon fares worse, getting cock-blocked by that bracelet. “Patience” snaps during his and Anna’s assignation, but the spell isn’t broken. No, that’s the signal for Jacob and Anna to give it one more try. Does it matter that Anna and Jacob are both

pretty insufferable? Like Crazy doesn’t do much for “I love you,” but it serves as a fine reminder of three more dangerous words: I and miss and you. Whenever Anna and Jacob reach escape velocity from their fatally stupid relationship, one of them unilaterally deploys that nebulous, weaponized phrase. Like Crazy fills out a trilogy of recent frustrations begun by (500) Days of Summer and continued by Blue Valentine. Like Summer, Doremus’ movie mistakes winsomeness for enduring appeal, then punishes its characters for showing rare symptoms of actual thought. And like Blue Valentine, Like Crazy means to derive power from its actors’ improvisations. Yelchin and Jones don’t work nearly as hard as Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams — mostly for better — but they have something similar in mind. In all three movies, what’s obvious to everyone but the characters is that they’re unfit for companionship. This is what happens when the thing that two people have isn’t crazy love but a harebrained like. — SCOTT WILSON

n a key scene in The Skin I Live In, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) enters his house and, through a monitor resembling a pane of one-way glass, starts to ogle the body of Vera (Elena Anaya). He’s fully clothed; she’s nude. He can see her, but she can’t see him. On the surface, this appears to be a textbook example of male voyeurism and objectiBY fication of women — a perv STEVE serving as the audience’s peeping Tom surrogate. ERICKSON C o m i n g f r o m Pe d r o Almodóvar, one of the world’s most famous openly gay directors, it’s a surprise. And there are more to come, such as when we learn that Vera isn’t actually naked. She’s wearing a body suit — an indication that Ledgard and Vera’s relationship isn’t what it initially seems. And neither is The Skin I Live In, which combines the kinkiness of Almodóvar’s early work with the elegant style of his more recent films before striking off into transgressive new territory. After his wife’s death in a car crash, Ledgard has been interested less in his plasticsurgery franchise than in creating a new skin substitute to replace burned flesh. After 12 years of research, he has created a real product: soft as genuine skin yet impermeable

OUT THIS WEEK Like Crazy Like Crazy dares you not to like its adorable, fumbling, emotional characters. I’ll take that dare. Curly-haired naif Jacob (Anton Yelchin, a total doodlebug) is a teacher’s assistant in some kind of new-media survey at a Southern California college where bright-eyed waif Anna (Felicity Jones, even cuter) is an exchange student from England. The movie opens on Anna delivering an overstewed treatise to the class on the state of journalism — the last time director and co-writer Drake Doremus allows her to be memorably articulate. With graduation approaching, crushed-out Anna slips a two-page stalkertation under the wiper blade of Jacob’s car. He dials. She answers. And so, like a couple of Precious Moments ﬁgurines that have come horrifyingly to life, Anna and Jacob turn a giggling start-stop conversation over tea into an affair. No, affair isn’t the right word. That implies

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just in time to turn back the clock one hour as daylight saving time expired. He had been up all night. I had watched the only movie I know of that makes pancakes a subplot — the 1934 version of Imitation of Life, which was hot stuff for its day — and retired early to dream about good syrup. I set the alarm to give me enough time to drive to Westport (which I knew would be loaded with intoxicated revelers) and ﬁnd a parking spot close to the restaurant. Parking is at a premium in Westport after midnight, especially when there’s an extra wee hour built into the party.

version. The latter looked gorgeous but were a little too sweet, as if they had been made with Duncan Hines cake mix. Both stacks were spongy and absorbent, engineered perhaps to soak up Westport booze and late-night disappointment. We both preferred the multigrain, but neither of us came close to ﬁnishing a twocake stack. The search for alternatives was on.

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Just one other table was occupied in the cavernous (and harshly lighted) room at 2 a.m. A nerdy couple was having an intimate conversation about typefaces. I dislike ordering at a counter any time of day, but it was particularly annoying at this hour, when a little friendly service might have been comforting. But there I stood, bleary-eyed, debating between the sweet-cream pancakes and the multigrain variety. Scott chose the multigrain, which turned out to be denser and drier than the sweet-cream pitch.com

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There’s a good story behind the subtly sweet pancake recipe at the beloved Cascone’s Grill. Nearly 40 years ago, back in its original Fifth Street location, founder Sam Cascone was mixing up some custard when he was called out of the kitchen to talk to a vendor. “When he got back, he forgot what he had been making,” says his son Frank, who now runs the diner with his brother, George. “Someone said the kitchen needed pancake batter, so Dad made pancake batter out of the custard. And that’s how we’ve made pancakes ever since.” The pancakes at Cascone’s, delectably light and ﬂuffy, were best eaten immediately — they seemed to get heavier and doughier as they cooled. Ask for butter to dodge the blob of shiny margarine that otherwise dressed each stack. pitch.com

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The whitewashed brick walls in the front room of the City Diner are covered with signatures of the masters of the pancake universe: the men and women who have accomplished the feat of eating two of this restaurant’s oversized pancakes. The honorees include Daniel “Chim Chim” Jewett, Andy “I’m Just Getting Started” Duckett and Coleman “The Iron Stomach” Reed. The cakes here were beautiful-looking but a bit doughy. They tended to be pretty hefty, too. When I asked the waitress if they were always so thick, she answered, “Sometimes worse.” Less adventurous diners can order a smaller version, which still drapes over the sides of a dinner plate. They come with Land O’Lakes margarine.

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There’s a platter-sized number that requires a cookie sheet to ﬂip. She’s a taskmaster when it comes to her hotcakes, instructing the nearest server to deliver them as soon as they come off the grill. Even the restaurant’s new host — a dead ringer for Peter Tork of the Monkees, that ’60s band that gave us “Tapioca Tundra” and “Apples, Peaches, Bananas and Pears” — has been known to pinch run a plate.

still on the fence about the place. The dishes that the kitchen executes well — breakfasts in particular — are done very well. The blue-plate specials are another story. Still, Mama’s has the most congenial vibe among midtown diners. If you don’t mind a malty, vanilla-intense griddle cake, the pretty golden pancakes at this recently reopened diner were exceptionally good. I liked that Mama’s still served its maple-ﬂavored syrup (it tasted like Log Cabin) in miniature clear-plastic pitchers. The cakes were served piping hot, allowing the butter — the real thing — to melt evenly.

Succotash Size: CD-sized Swedish style or plate-sized Thickness: New York magazine Density: Airy and light Color: Yellow and brown marbling Syrup: Mrs. Butterworth’s Price: $7 for a short stack

Beth Barden, chef-owner of the Dutch Hill bruncheonette Succotash, is proud of her two newest pancakes: a deliciously light gluten-free version (made with xanthan gum and sorghum paste) and a vegan version (made with soy milk and seasoned with a touch of fennel and cinnamon). She sells more of the traditional buttermilk pancakes, but my favorite here are the buttery, crepelike Swedish-style cakes, which are folded around a ﬁlling of red lingonberries. If size matters to you, Barden makes ’em big, too.

By the time I finished my meal at Succotash, I was beached on the flapjack tundra. I had set out to find Kansas City’s single most perfect pancake. But after 72 hours of griddle gorging, I could see that the project was bigger than my appetite, waistline and sanity could handle on deadline. (I now need a sabbatical from pancakes so I can reintroduce the rest of the food groups — spicy, crunchy, greasy, meaty, healthy — to my diet.) So this list isn’t definitive and is open to suggestions from Pitch readers, who I’m sure have their own candidates for the finest pancake in the metro. And while you readers are working on that challenge, here’s another one for restaurant owners: How about some real maple syrup on your tables? After all the corn syrup I swallowed, I’d settle for a modest corkage fee if I could bring my own flask of the real thing. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com

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he golden crust shows the hint of fingerprints, and the warm oatmeal pie is something from a prairie kitchen. This is your grandmother’s pie, made by someone her granddaughter’s age. Rachel Lora Simmons, the 25-year-old owner of Petticoat Pies, moved into a space in the kitchen of River Market restaurant the Farmhouse in September. Since then, downtown eaters BY have been discovering that a J O N AT H A N new generation has a lot to say about one of the more traBENDER ditional comfort foods. Simmons graduated from Rhodes College in 2008 with an English degree. Faced with a stagnant job market, she worked at a preschool and as a nanny. At the time, she was living with her parents in Leawood. To feel that she was contributing to the household, she began baking again, as she had with her mother when she was a child. Simmons considered graduate school, then made some grad-level calculations about her new avocation. “I like to do research,” Simmons says, “so I sat down and made a spreadsheet of where you could get pie in Kansas City. It was not a very long spreadsheet.” She began renting space at the Culinary Incubator in the Independence Ennovation Center and taking her pies to the Westport Plaza Farmers Market. “Pie is really about community,” she says. “And that’s what I loved about the farmers market. You saw the same people each week, who wanted to know exactly what you were doing.” She got her ﬁrst big order in August: 300 mini pies for the Food Now event in the West Bottoms. There, she gave a slice to Michael Foust, chef and owner of the Farmhouse. He invited her to use some of his kitchen space as a production shop for her pies, which he added to his dessert menu. “It’s a great place to learn, and we share a lot of the same food philosophies,” Simmons says. “Plus, I walk in the kitchen, and they’re butchering a pig, or it’s 9 a.m. and I’m having oysters for breakfast because they have oysters.” Simmons hopes to open a brick-and-mortar retail space of her own next year. She envisions a place where the check would arrive in a used book, and the herbs for her pies would be picked from a rooftop garden. She talked pie shop with The Pitch last week. The Pitch: Where did the name Petticoat Pies come from? Simmons: It’s two parts. The ﬁrst is Petticoat Lane, down in the Garment District. I have three

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serious passions: fashion, food and literature. I think all of those are a form of storytelling. When I think about having a shop one day, I think about a boutique on Petticoat Lane. I love the history of Kansas City. My parents met at Woolf Brothers downtown. I’d love to see more businesses pop up there. There’s also this element from the women in my family. They’re strong, Kansas pioneer women, hardworking German farm girls. The Christmas cookies are a family tradition. My mom used to take my sister and I out of school to make them. And they’d let us out for a half-day because they knew they’d get cookies later. But when we complained, my mom would remind us of my great-grandmother. She would be doing everything on wood-burning stoves. She didn’t have heat or Christmas music in the background. It’s an old recipe. Everything is done by hand. And so as a female business owner, I have this perspective about how far we’ve come. If my great-grandmother started a bakery, it would probably be in her husband’s name. They were a lot stronger than I am. They weren’t in the kitchen. They were out plowing the ﬁelds. That’s where the petticoat comes from, because I’m not wearing a corset. What are your culinary inspirations? It’s usually what is fresh. It’s what is in season, and colors. My motto is “as good for you as pie can be.” Your food should be colorful, full

of nutrients. These things taste good — why not put them in a pie? Some days I’ll go to the market and just walk around. If it looks good and smells good, I’ll give it a shot. It’s a pretty organic process. It also goes back to research. I’m always reading cookbooks, magazines and blogs, and then playing around based off that. If I see something in a lasagna, I think: Why couldn’t you do that as a pie? An eggplant lasagna could be made into some kind of quiche or pie. I talk to farmers and ask them what’s good right now and what problems they’re facing. It was a bad year for berries — the heat dries them up. This winter, it’ll be about comfort and things that I’ve preserved. I’m thinking about a Mexicanhot-chocolate pie, something spicy with a little bit of rum to kind of get some heat. What’s your favorite local ingredient? I just made persimmon pie. I got some from Prairie Birthday Farm a couple of weeks ago. Persimmons tend to be kind of bitter. They taste like they’ve already been spiced on the tree. But these were incredible. I made a couple of pies for the Farmhouse. The processing was endless. I only got enough to make three pies. It was like pumpkin pie, just a bit of ﬁve-spice powder, milk and eggs. I didn’t want to add anything more. The taste was incredible. What’s one book that every chef should read? I started with Martha Stewart’s Pies & Tarts. She grew up with a garden, and her catering company was based on that. It’s a part of who she is, and she’s out on her farm all the time. She’s very detail-oriented — like, she’ll braid the crust all the way around. I know I’m not going to do that. My aesthetic is more rustic, more of a free-form pie. I like being able to see everything inside. She’s passionate about what she does, and my business is everything I love. Is there a limit on the amount of pie you can eat? I don’t eat as much pie as people probably expect. But I can eat an entire pie by myself. I love potpie. A barbecued-pork potpie is a soup, a stew and a pastry. It can’t get better than that. Unlimited pie at pitch.com/fatcity

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wo female singer-songwriters — a relatively rare local breed — have resurfaced this autumn with new records. Both favor the acoustic guitar. Both have pretty faces. Both are in possession of alliterative names. But they represent divergent paths for the modern woman musician. Margo May, who advanced to the Hollywood round in the 2009 season of American Idol, recently moved back to Kansas City after a stint in Portland, Oregon, where she wrote the material on her latest, Space/ Face. At Broadway Café on a BY recent Thursday, May wore a leather jacket and yellow D AV I D tights and spoke with a kind H U D N A L L of nervous cheer. She admitted bashfully that she is 24 years old, but it was unclear whether she considered this a young or old age. May has been playing music for nearly 10 years, influenced early on by such performers as Alanis Morissette and Jewel and, later, by emo music. “I was a part of this whole emo-screamo She’s getting closer. May’s debut, Summerof, scene in high school,” May said. “There’d be these house shows in people’s basements and contained occasionally intolerable levels of stuff. I was usually the only girl who ever played folksy adorableness, but she has dialed back those shows. But that emo phase is what got me the Juno a little on Space/Face. May’s lyrics are simple and direct — girl misses boy or wants started writing music.” Folk songs, though, are essentially what boy or wants old boy back — but also relatable. May now writes. She’s an admirer of folk cul- Her words aren’t exactly Keats — It feels like we ture but also of punk and popular cultures. just met at a party/On your front porch/Or your (Her experiences in Portland seem to have favorite bar — but they convey something real, honest and modern. They soured her on the fetishrepresent the brain voice of isms of folk revivalism; she a woman in her early 20s. Acderisively used the phrase Sara Swenson and the Pearl Snaps, with Howard curacy goes a long way with “train-hopping songs” a numIceberg and the Titanics. this sort of thing. ber of times while describing Saturday, November 19, May collaborated on the folk scene in the Pacific at the Brick. Space/Face with a friend, Northwest.) One of her aims Kyle Klipowicz, who served appears to be to bridge some in a kind of producer role and of the gaps between these Margo May, Space/Face, added reverb and some elecdisparate traditions. available as a free download at margomay.com. tronic undertones to May’s “I get pushed into being sound. The results are fashcalled a folk artist, which is ionable — reverb and dark fine,” she said. “Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez — those are artists that have really synths being the “put a bird on it” of indie music inspired me. But when you think of them, or — but play only sometimes to May’s strengths. Dylan or somebody, you think of them having Harsh electronic waves flood “Would You Be My so much passion. Folk was a whole movement. Angel,” wiping May to the remote edges of the But that’s not really what folk music is like today, track. Why is she hiding back there? “Rock n Roll Baby,” the finest song on Space/ to me. With punk music and rock music, there’s more energy and passion. That’s what I try to Face, offers a glimpse of May’s streamlined talents. Her cool vocals mingle with an airy, electric have in my songs.”

guitar, building to a sweet chorus that calls to mind early Camera Obscura. It’s not too cute, not too trendy — just a nice, sad little pop song. We could use more of those around here. Sara Swenson, who is older than May, didn’t start writing music until her late 20s. “I was buying a guitar at a store, and one of the guys there encouraged me to try writing some songs and to go to this songwriters’ night,” Swenson recently told me. “I don’t think I ever would have thought of that otherwise, to write my own songs. But I started doing it, and it turned out to be something I love.” Partly because of this late start, and partly because she quickly identiﬁed her target demographic, Swenson draws from a less diverse pool of inﬂuences. She subsists largely on a steady diet of Lilith Fair acts. (To discuss her music without mentioning Sarah McLachlan’s name would be critically dishonest.) Swenson’s safe, inoffensive approach is not without its advantages. She was a natural pick for a local Lilith Fair representative when the tour came through last year, and her earthy, mournful songs are well-suited to melodramatic television. (Her song “Time to Go” was used in an episode of ABC’s Private Practice earlier this year.) On Never Left My Mind, her latest EP with pitch.com

Face, face: Sara Swenson (left) and Margo May

her band, the Pearl Snaps, Swenson has picked up the pace a bit, adding more instrumentation and a couple of zippier roots numbers to the mix. The title track has the brisk, soaring quality of some of Beth Orton’s more energetic songs. “Windows and Doors” is a playful, upbeat jaunt. “I must say, a few of my bandmates have turned me into a bit of a Tom Petty fan lately,” Swenson confessed, in a tone implying that she viewed her new afﬁnity as rebellious. Not every girl goes through a screamo phase.

A Very Hearers Thanksgiving

his Thanksgiving Eve, 10 middle-aged men will crowd onto the stage of the Brick and play a set together for the ﬁrst time in two years. Half of the Hearers, as they are known, live in or around Kansas City; the other half live in Washington, California and Iowa. This holiday gig has become something of a tradition, a chance to get everybody back in town, in the same room at the same time, to play some music. The show — the Hearers perform at the Replay the Friday after Thanksgiving as well — is also a continued on page 26 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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celebration of In Dreamlife, the terrific art-folk record that the group released earlier this year. Welch: We’ve actually been able to squeeze About a week ago, I stopped by Midwestern in some tours, relatively quick ones. We’ve Musical Co. to talk with core band members done a seven-day West Coast tour, a kind of David Moore and Darren Welch. Moore records I-35 tour. We did South by Southwest. We get the band’s albums at his home in Merriam. (He together when we can. But, you know, it’s not calls the studio Merriam Shoals.) Welch, one of — it’s more like a brotherhood type of thing. the Hearers’ founders and primary songwrit- Nobody’s crunching numbers. It’s more like a ers, co-owns Midwestern Musical Co. (Marc bunch of dudes going on a camping trip. Tweed, an artist living in Seattle, is the other Do you all ride in the same van if you tour? co-founder, and he is also showing and selling Moore: Yeah, we just pile in. There are a few original drawings at the Brick.) guys who can’t tour. But, yeah, eight people in a I arrived after hours and expected a quiet 15-passenger van. chat in the guitar shop. I was instead met with a Welch: And the equipment cube in the back room bustling with musicians. “They’re rehears- is, like, dense. There’s only one way to fit it all ing for Alejandro’s show tonight. This was kind together. It’s like a Rubik’s cube. of unplanned,” Moore said. I scanned the room That’s awesome. for Alejandro Escovedo and found him adjustMoore: Everyone in the band genuinely loves ing a microphone. The Cody Wyoming Deal, a each other, which is nice. Finding people you nearly Hearers-sized outfit, was set to play a few can play with is one thing, but finding people weekend shows in town as the Texas singer- you really like and also like to play with is much songwriter’s backing band. Moore and Welch led more rare. me to an adjacent space, where we talked about Welch: Especially with so many people in the Wednesday’s show and Hearers lore. mix, too. You know, there’s always an asshole, The Pitch: There are now 10 members of the even in four- or five-person bands. So this is really good. Hearers? How did that happen? Will you record anything new while everyone’s Welch: Marc [Tweed] and I used to play in loud rock bands in Lawrence, back in 1994. in town? And I was going through this anxiety thing Welch: Not this time because the new album where I didn’t want to play onstage. I wanted is so recent. But, yeah, we always try to shove to take it to the studio instead. We were friends in recording time whenever anybody’s back in with David [Moore], and he Kansas City. If somebody’s in said, “Why don’t I bring from out of town, they’re usuThe Hearers. over my four-track and we ally enlisted to be at David’s Wednesday, November 23, can record?” So it was a trio at some point in the trip, and at the Brick. thing for a while. But then we’ll have a plan ready in adwe wanted to bring some vance for what song they’re guest musicians in, and those going to lay down. guest musicians just ended up becoming part I imagine there are some advantages to of the whole ensemble. Around 2000 to 2001, making live shows scarce. I think the Hearers were an eight-piece. And Welch: Yeah, the fact that we only play, we were having so much fun, we decided to like, once a year, people do tend to come out make another album with all those players, and for us. If we were playing once every month then we ended up bringing a few more guys in. or two, like most Kansas City bands, I’m sure Who’s the most recent addition? we wouldn’t get the turnout we usually get Welch: Mike Walker. He’s been around for at the Brick. It’s cool, though, to have been about five years or so. I had this one song where doing something for 16 years now, and every I was just positive that there was nothing other year it seems like a few more people hear than a trombone that could work for this par- about us, a few more people show up to see ticular solo. So we tracked Mike down, and he us. It’s been a gradual growth of a pretty solid came over and pulled it off, amazingly — he’s a fanbase. It feels good to know people like our hell of an arranger — and he dug the vibe and music enough to support us. — DAVID HUDNALL has stuck around ever since. Because everybody in the band is so spread out, are these Thanksgiving shows typically the E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com only show of the year? or call 816-218-6774 26

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A California kind of Renaissance man — musician, actor, surfer, talk-show host — Chris Isaak has maintained a steady, if slightly sub-radar presence for 25 years now. (“Wicked Game” was on the charts in 1991, son.) You’d think a handsome guy with a pompadour and a retrohip aesthetic wouldn’t be built to last, but Isaak has an effortless, almost magical timelessness about him. His suave, crooning country-rock is reminiscent of the songs of Roy Orbison — to whom Isaak pays tribute, along with other Sun Studio recording artists Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley and Carl Perkins, on his latest, Beyond the Sun. If you can’t make it out for this one, Isaak is in Salina the following evening, which actually sounds like a pretty fun road trip. Friday, November 18, at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)

Ha Ha Tonka Ha Ha Tonka rose from Springﬁeld, Missouri’s Ozark muck, but Kansas City has seemingly been something of a second home for the band. Drummer Lennon Bone’s startup label, Sharp County Records, and most of the acts on it, are based in or around Kansas City. And Ha Ha Tonka plays to sizable crowds

around town on a regular basis. The band’s latest, Death of a Decade, out on Bloodshot Records, is a collection of roots-rock with a pop sheen — the aural equivalent of a brandnew Ford F-150. Tommy and the High Pilots, also playing, share with Ha Ha Tonka an afﬁnity for Mellencampisms but drive a little faster, like the Gaslight Anthem but without all the tattoos. Wednesday, November 23, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Root and Stem Among the more exciting Americana acts in a city full of Americana acts is Root and Stem. A few weeks ago, the spirited folk-rock band celebrated the release of its ﬁrst full-length, Ruby, at the Brick. Now it’s playing a fundraiser for K-ROO, UMKC’s student-run radio station. Also on the bill is Fullbloods, a band that plays mostly straightforward rock music with a crisp, zippy jangle. Thursday, November 17, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

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SATURDAY, NOV. 19 Bobby Broom and the Deep Blue Organ Trio: The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Get the Led Out: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. The Greencards: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Demetri Martin: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Royal Bangs, Bear Hands: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Sara Swenson and the Pearl Snaps, Howard Iceberg and the Titanics: 7 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Tech N9ne, Krizz Kaliko and more: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

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Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Valency. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Nace Brothers, the Sauce Boss, Sarah and the Tall Boys, 8 p.m.

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The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Mingle: Morri$, Bear Club. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd. Get Dancey.

ACOUSTIC

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Sobriquet CD release, Louisiana Street Band, Panda Circus, 10 p.m.

Fitz’s Blarney Stone: 3801 Broadway, 816-753-4949. Ben Hoppes.

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JAZZ

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Jimmie Bratcher, 7 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. The Lonnie Ray Blues Jam. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Rod Fleeman and Dan Bliss.

1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. David Basse, 7 p.m.; Miguel DeLeon, 10 p.m. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Darcus Gates. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. On the Fly. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Grand Marquis. Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-6495420. Jerry Hahn.

DJ The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Clockwerk.

HIP-HOP

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Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Underground Premiere.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. White Ghost Shivers, Kansas City Bear Fighters, Olassa.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Chris Hazelton. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Gerald Spaits Quartet featuring Charles Perkins. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park. Customer Quartet, 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Extreme Midget Wrestling Federation. The Buzz Coffee and Bar: 12056 W. 135th St, Overland Park. ABCs of Improv Comedy Show, 9 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with the Star Blues Band. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Lisa Landry, 7:30 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs, 816-229-9229. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Skeeter’s: 6505 Nieman Rd., Merriam, 913-912-1191. TakeOver Thursdays With Mysunderstood, 8 p.m.

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. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

VARIET Y Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Slasher Kings, horror movies.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. The Outlaw Junkies. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. The Dirt Kings, Supermassive Black Holes, Cadillac Flambe. Wil Jenny’s Tables and Tap: 6700 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-897-1114. Phil Vandel.

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. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs, 816-229-9229. Happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park. BongoTini, 7 p.m.

R O C K A B I L LY Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Rumblejetts, the Blue Boot Heelers.

VARIET Y Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Blue Baby, Nolan Rhyne, and more. St. Regis Parish: 8941 James A. Reed Rd. The Burnt Ends, the Paperclips, A Dead Giveaway, 6 p.m.

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Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Order Number Eleven, Drek, Adam Evolving, Cronus. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. The Dead Girls, Major Games, Chris Tolle and the Early Reﬂections, MANY MORE Magentlemen. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-3634070. The Zeros. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Nuthatch-47, ONLINE AT Vehicle, Promise Makers. PITCH.COM Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-2212244. Sleep Agents, Modern Arsonists, Voice Beyond the Door, 10 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. The Brannock Device, Mr. Marco’s V7, Wyco Lowriders, 10:30 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Nervous Rex. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Allied Saints.

The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. The Family Band Massacre CD release, Koktopus, Malakai, Vanlade, the Slasher Kings, 6 p.m. The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. O Giant Man, People Watching, Now Now Sleepyhead. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Joey Skidmore Band, Jah Wheel, Amanda Cole Smith. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. New Franklin Panthers, Mr. Marco’s V7, the Scriveners, 10 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Cosmopolitics, 10 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Red Kate. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Marasmus, Night Creation, the Soiled Doves, Bleeding the Heavens.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Mary Bridget Davies.

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Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. The Kinetiks, Fire Dog.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy, 10 p.m.; Show Stopper Karaoke, 12:30 a.m.

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OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Steve Gerard and the National Debonaires, 9 p.m. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Mike Borgia, Emily Frost, Travelers Guild, 6 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m.

Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free.

DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Gold Label Soul. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Xclusive. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Body2Body with DJ Sheppa, 10 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. DJ Manik.

JAZZ R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Barclay Martin. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Ron Carlson Trio featuring Mike Miller.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mountain Sprout, 7 p.m. Wil Jenny’s Tables and Tap: 6700 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-897-1114. Travis Marvin.

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M O N DAY 21 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Minues Ned, Brother Bagman.

DJ Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Stranger Than Friction: DJ Byron Orphrus and Thee Soverign.

HIP-HOP Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-5251871. Sir Adams, Bayou Boss, Newsense, Gee Watts.

JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Jazz Disciples.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES

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.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Open Mic Night. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

R O C K A B I L LY RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Rumblejetts, 6 p.m., free.

SINGER-SONGWRITER RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Eryn Woods, Ian Cooke, 9 p.m.

W E D N E S DAY 2 3 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Sacriﬁce Isaac, Waiting for Signal, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. John Paul’s Flying Circus. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Lost Wax. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Lonnie Ray Blues Band. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Brother Bagman.

Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Karaoke. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Lisa Landry, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Karaoke with Nanci Pants; Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Texas Hold ’em, 7:30 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs, 816-229-9229. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5; Karaoke Party with Baby Brie, 10 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open jam with Billy Ebeling and Duane Goldston, 1 p.m. Tommy Farha’s: 8019 Wornall, 816-444-0990. Tommy’s Jam with Dave Cordill and friends.

The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Open Mic Night. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Grand Jam hosted by Supermassive Black Holes, 9 p.m.

VARIET Y

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Band Scramble. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Deucifer of Soul Servers, Steddy P, Sulai, Vertigone, Atilla, DJ G Train and Approach, 9 p.m.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Opera Supper, 6-9 p.m.

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Monophonics, Kelly Finnigan. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Bluz Benderz.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Bowinero, Broken Mast, Ruthless Antarctic Empire, Ani Mal Donado. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Drew6. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Transients, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL

Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. TuRae, 8 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Rock-and-Roll Comedy Show. 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.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m.

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation.

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

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS

Kansas City Central Library: 14 W. 10th St., 816-701-3400. Elizabeth Suh Lane and the Bach Aria Soloists, 7:30 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES

HIP-HOP The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Mad Marlon, Chance Morris, Wonderwoman, Jade, Blazze Dotte Boi, GFC, Rico Ricardo, Tapewerm, Young Stak$, Ricky Skarfo, Ghetto Ghost, DynastyKc, Rip Ruger.

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Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service-industry night, 10 p.m.

JAZZ

ACOUSTIC

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Alternative Jazz Series with Tatsuya Nakatani, 7 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. JCCC Faculty Jazz Ensemble.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. John Johnson Acoustic Showcase.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES

Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Horacescope.

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.

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DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free.

ACOUSTIC The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Acoustic with Drew Freeland.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Horace Washington. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Dave Stephens. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brian Ruskin Trio.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913384-5646. Quietly Violent, Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders.

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Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 7 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m.

VARIET Y Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Indie Hit Makers, 6 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Hillbilly for Harvesters: Miss Major & Her Minor Mood Swings, Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders, Adam Lee, Truckstop Honeymoon, Tinhorn Molly. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Cover Wars.

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