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They were an ordinary family with an ordinary life until he brought her home. From the acclaimed director Lucky McKee and the twisted mind of Jack Ketchum comes the film that shocked Sundance. Own The Woman available January 24th on Blu-ray, DVD and digital download.
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Current neighborhood: Downtown Overland Park Who or what is your sidekick? My younger sister, Emily, and my English bulldog, Lucy. Emily lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma, which is my home away from home, so Lucy is my stand-in. If I could take her everywhere with me, I would! When I get ready to leave for work, she is sitting there by the front door wishing to come with me. What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Dog groomer. As much as I love bridal and designing wedding gowns, I would love to chill with my pup and other canines all day. What was the last local restaurant you patronized? Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop. It was my first time there, and I was definitely not disappointed. What’s your favorite charity? I have recently teamed up with the American Cancer Society to help out with its first ever Bark for Life. It will be a great event next spring that helps celebrate canines and the companionship they give to cancer patients and cancer survivors. It will also be a fundraising event that supports the mission of the American Cancer Society. Favorite place to spend your paycheck: Nordstrom, J. Crew and Land of Paws. I’ve got to make sure Lucy and I are always looking our best. Where do you like to take out-of-town guests? Oklahoma Joe’s — I definitely have to take visitors to my favorite Kansas City barbecue.
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“People might be surprised to know that I ...” Am a huge reptile nerd. I love lizards and snakes. I’ve always wanted an iguana named Elvis and for him to have his own room in my house. What TV show do you make sure you watch? Californication is one of the few reasons I have Showtime. I don’t think I’ve missed an episode since it started, and I love how every season ends in a way that you’re just not quite sure if there will be another season. take up a lot of space in my iTunes: The Beatles What movie do you watch at least once a year? The Wedding Singer has one of my favorite soundtracks, with a great selection of upbeat ’80s music. I will never stop laughing at this movie. Celebrity you’d like to ride the Mamba with at Worlds of Fun: I’m terrified of roller coasters, so I think Russell Brand would talk enough and make me laugh so I would forget how scared I was. What subscription do you value most? I love my Nylon magazine. I am so preppy. Flipping through my Nylon is my attempt to be cool and hipster. Last book you read: The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy. He is one of my favorite authors. I love The Lords of Discipline and Beach Music.
Finish the following: “Kansas City screwed up when it …” Lost the NCAA headquarters office. It’s too bad the revamping of downtown and the building of the College Basketball Experience and Sprint Center came eight years after the NCAA relocated to Indianapolis. I used to love that the headquarters was in Kansas City and then Johnson County of all places!
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Cheap Mexican heroin gets popular with the pill-popping suburban kids.
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Smack is Back he end of the line looks like this: a squat, brick building called Benilde Hall in an old neighborhood on East 23rd Street, where recovering dope fiends shuffle with the crooked gaits of much older men. They carry around plastic bags because that’s all they need for holding everything they own. A clean white room in the basement is festooned with 12-Step banners, and a dry-erase board has a single word written on it: accountability. When you think about where heroin users go to get clean, Benilde Hall is what you picture — a BY hoisting-up point for those M AT T clinging to the lowest rotted rung on society’s ladder, PEARCE where crooked arrows come to shoot straight. It hadn’t been like that over the past decade, at least not with heroin. The smoke hounds who have rolled through here had chosen other poisons, like crack. “Well, wait a minute,” Kent Jewell says over the phone. A stocky former heroin junkie — he says he was strung out in Florida and once got down to 120 pounds — Jewell runs the place now, helping others get clean. He starts looking at the numbers of the past few months, really looking. He just now
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notices that he has admitted 10 heroin users at Benilde since last summer, and there weren’t any in the first half of the year. (The place holds just 65 men.) “It’s come up,” he says of the number, sounding surprised.
And it is a surprise. Thanks to an influx of Mexican black tar hitting the streets, the Kansas City area is seeing a heroin resurgence, one that’s creeping past the Benilde perimeter. It’s no secret that drug use is up in the United States, especially among teens and college kids. Using pot holds less stigma. And there’s a lot less stigma with the abuse of prescription meds, which are easy to get and easy to take, making them popular with the Johnson County crowd. The pain med OxyContin provides pretty much the same opium high as heroin, and taking a pill is a lot less scary than sticking a needle in your arm. The cops say that’s exactly the problem. Heroin provides the same opium high as OxyContin but is way cheaper, and a surge in Mexican heroin manufacturing and trafficking has met the perfect gateway into a new crowd of addled suburbanites. “What we were seeing were very nontypical users,” says Deputy Tom Erickson of the Johnson County Sheriff’s Office. He recalls the threefold surge of heroin use that happened in the suburbs in 2009 and has now leveled off to twice the historical average. “High school kids who are getting good grades, athletes in school — they don’t fit the mold of what you think a heroin user would be, and it takes you by surprise because those are the people who should have a bright future.”
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The Sheriff’s Office saw 63 heroin cases in 2011 compared with 30 in 2008. “What we saw is that they would start out using the prescription opiates (such as OxyContin) and, either because they were harder to get or much more expensive, we’d see the transition from prescription opiates to using heroin,” Erickson says. It’s the same kind of high for the same kind of doping for way less money. On the Missouri side, the Kansas City Police Department reports that a gram of heroin goes for $100 to $150, and they say the amount they’ve seen on KC streets skyrocketed last year. “Fashion isn’t the only thing from the 1980s making a comeback in Kansas City,” the department noted in its autumn narcotics report. Heroin likely comes to Kansas City courtesy of the Sinaloa Cartel, which dominates the smack-trafficking game throughout the Midwest. It’s the largest and most sophisticated drug syndicate in not just Mexico but also the world. Federal officials think the black-tar varietal that the cartel produces there slips across the south Texas border and up Interstate 35 through KC on its way toward Minneapolis and the East Coast, where it’s slowly pushing out the shit of the Colombian cartels that used to run the show. It’s a particularly festering front of a global drug war that federal officials admit they have no chance of soon winning or even slowing. Mexican heroin production is up significantly, increasing by 600 percent between 2005 and 2009, according to recent U.S. Department of Justice estimates. St. Louis has reported huge increases in fatal overdoses since 2008. Officials there believe that at least 57 people died in nine months of heroin-related causes, leading to the biggest heroin bust in that city’s history: 53 arrests in an operation involving almost three dozen law-enforcement agencies. Those are much bigger numbers than anything we’ve had here. Yet, KCPD has reported at least three fatal heroin overdoses, and they weren’t typical users. “The arrests have gone from a drug used by older people — we’re talking people in their 50s and 60s, old-school dopers — to a crowd that’s a lot younger,” an undercover narcotics sergeant said in the KCPD quarterly report. “And they’re coming from all walks of life and all around the area, like Overland Park and Leawood.” The OxyContin-heroin bridge is a particularly dangerous one to cross because it’s easy to get started — who hasn’t taken a prescription med? — and hard to quit. Heroin addiction can be hell to escape, and users could be sharing HIV every time they share needles. Stacey Daniels-Young, director of Jackson County’s COMBAT anti-drug office, says last year’s data show that KC heroin junkies are starting detox but not finishing recovery treatment — probably just kicking the can down the road, in other words, which is typical for younger users. Kick the can far enough, and it lands at the end of the line: in the musty, pale-green office of Benilde Hall, where Jewell hears a rustle and points at someone who just walked in. “Grocery bag,” he whispers. The one thing you keep when you’ve lost it all.
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t has been more than an hour since a train left Union Station, but a crowd remains. About 100 people are gathered in front of the Kansas City Power & Light gallery. They give off the disjointed thrum of folks waiting for a train that has been too long coming. From De Soto, Kansas, and DeKalb County, Missouri, and parts farther away, they’ve driven in for the day, joining residents of Kansas City in the hope that their own artifact is the one picked from 40 objects being shot for America’s Lost Treasures, a new show that begins airing in April on the National Geographic channel. They sit and listen to instructions from the crew about the day’s schedule for the program, which provides a historical take on the Antiques Roadshow model. Of course, they also want the money — the owner of the chosen object wins $10,000, a prize handed out at a follow-up taping at the Kansas City Museum at Corinthian Hall three days after this second Wednesday in January.
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This is like the moment before forking over $5 to get into the swap meet, before the first Power Ball number is called, before getting all the way up the driveway to the estate sale. This moment is still full of promise — the promise that the object you’re holding in your hands could turn someone’s past into your future. The contestants have all been screened through National Geographic’s website, where each has submitted a description and a picture of his or her item and verified ownership of it. “There’s only so much you can get from a photograph,” production coordinator Alexis Schwerin explains as she stands outside the roped-off holding area in the side hall. “Today, we’re really seeing people’s personalities.” It’s only 10 a.m., but Schwerin has been at Union Station for close to four hours getting the crew of 15 set up on the lower level and making sure every contestant has filled out a digital release on an iPad. The treasure seekers and amateur genealogists sit on blue
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stools attached to portable folding tables on wheels, a layout reminiscent of a middle school cafeteria. Like any other production — reality or narrative — America’s Lost Treasures needs extras. The “movers,” as they’re called here, are told to mill around in the background to make the goings-on look more interesting. A few of them have brought their own items, and they sit in folding chairs, ready to watch the people waiting to be featured on this episode. One mover, an elderly woman, unintentionally makes a marionette with fiery red hair dance as she listens to a producer. Another, a man in a peachcolored sweatshirt, clutches a document tube tightly in his right hand. Among the contestants is a white-haired man in a plaid vest. “It’s amazing the stuff you keep. You just can’t quite throw it away,” he explains as he leans over an old wooden rail cart. One of the show’s appraisers asks him how he’s doing. “What more could I ever want? I’m so good I can hardly speak,” he answers.
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his is the sixth location shoot for America’s Lost Treasures, sandwiched between stops in Austin, Texas, and Philadelphia. Supervising producer Adam Flacks says, “It’s beautiful. This is exactly the kind of place we like because it’s got beautiful architecture and a lot of history.” Flacks’ credits include Ice Road Truckers and Swords. He pauses to speak into a Secret Service-style coiled earpiece, giving instructions. It’s 10:33 a.m., and the first cluster of people is headed to the lower level for the initial shoots of the day. Downstairs, people walk slowly through the station’s exhibits as crew members tinker with the lighting and the sound. On the main floor, the waiting continues. TV crews approach crowd management much as the airlines do. When a large group of people is facing an indeterminate waiting period, keeping them fed is a good strategy for keeping the peace. To that end, a table in the holding area has plenty of fruit and Frito-Lay products. Later, a production assistant will watch the crowd at lunch. His job is to make sure everyone gets a sandwich. The show’s participants receive further instructions: Don’t look into the camera, stand here, face this way. The show’s stars, Curt Doussett (host of the Discovery Channel’s Hazard Pay and sometime actor; he did an episode of Touched by an Angel) and Kinga Philipps (Current TV, Austin Powers in Goldmember), are taped as they walk beneath the giant American flag that hangs from the rafters. They feign casual conversation, the kind you might have while waiting on a train platform, and ignore the stares of the few early morning coffee drinkers in the Parisi Café. Flacks keeps one eye on his hosts and the other on the holding area. “This is our chance to dig deeper and pick one lost treasure from Kansas City,” he says. “It’s always one of my favorites when I don’t have a sense of whether something is valuable. We take it to the experts, and it could go either way.” It takes 22 minutes to get the first shot set up. When the crew is ready, empty coffee cups are
taken out of camera range, and someone says four words: “OK, we are rolling.” Doussett listens to a woman in a denim jacket. He’s telling her that the item before them is a railroad key. This bit of exposition is for the audience. “We’re here in Union Station. It’s one of the oldest and largest in the United States,” he says. “It’s kind of coming back to the museum. Think they can get you to leave it here?” The woman demurs, and the segment ends on an up note as Doussett expresses excitement about the piece. The cameras then zoom in for a series of shots known as “pickups,” in which Doussett or an artifact owner holds the object up for the lens to inspect. Flacks watches on a wireless monitor as snippets from other conversations echo through the hall.
A woman in a bedazzled jacket points to a clear plastic sleeve that she’s holding. Inside, there appears to be a strand of brown human hair. “We can touch that hair,” she says. “That’s the only part of another human being that is still there.”
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he reveals have started. People are learning whether their family’s heirlooms are worth inheriting. Those finished taping walk back into the hall at Union Station like teens returning home after blowing a driver’s-license test. The morning’s camaraderie has given way to uncertainty — not many objects are going to make it to National Geographic’s planned history-exhibit tour. “I guess I’m just like everybody else here, just trying out for it,” William Win says when asked why he has come to the taping.
William Win (left) poses with a penguin from Antarctica; host Kinga Philipps (above, at left) learns about a marionette. The Navy veteran sits with his arm around a stuffed penguin — not some county-fair stuffed toy but an actual Adélie penguin, about 2 feet tall, mounted to a plaster base. The penguin took its last breath in Antarctica, but he has been a resident of the Midwest for the past 54 years. His journey is only slightly less incredible than Win’s own. Win was the personal driver for Adm. Richard Byrd and Adm. George Dufek. From the base in Norfolk, Virginia, he sailed through the Panama Canal and on to New Zealand, where he caught a ride on the world’s biggest ice breaker in 1953. This was 25 years after Byrd’s famous exploration of the continent, and Win arrived on the ice-covered surface where temperatures fluctuated from 40 degrees Fahrenheit to 65 below — sometimes in one day. Win’s job during Operation Deep Freeze was to help establish the camp at Little America Five on the Ross Ice Shelf, in preparation for an international committee of scientists. He hauled freight from supply ships to the base in a Caterpillar D8 tractor, a bulldozer with 4-foot-wide treads and an insulated cab. “The way was staked with red flags,” he says. “And you didn’t want to stray because you would crash through the ice.” Win made two seven-and-a-half-mile round trips a day. Each took eight hours to complete. The bulldozer didn’t come equipped with brakes; there was no way to stop the two 20-footlong sleds attached to the cab. If he got off track, he had a steering clutch and a 35-ton winch to pull the machine out of jeopardy. In a land that is too cold for polar bears, Win became fascinated by a smaller species that watched his tracks slowly crunch through the snow. Emperor penguins (the 4-foot stars of March of the Penguins with a distinctive yellow ring around their necks) and Adélie penguins were surprisingly unfazed by the diesel-belching bulldozer. continued on page 8 pitch.com
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“They weren’t really scared of us,” he says. “I think they just thought of us as overgrown penguins.” Near the end of Win’s seven months in Antarctica, Dufek asked him if he had any special requests. Win took a weekend to ponder the question, and his answer remains a mystery to himself even today. “I wanted a penguin. I said I’d been down in Antarctica, and I’ve gotten used to them. Why did I want one? I don’t know. They just fascinated me. I’d been out of the service for six months when I came home one day to find a wooden box outside my door. I didn’t really think he could do it.” The penguin has accompanied him on dozens of trips to area schools and been with him for more than five decades, but Win isn’t especially sentimental about this remembrance of his time at the South Pole. “I never did give him a name,” he says. “I just call him the penguin.” Keil Heilman, a sandy-haired man with
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glasses, is sharing the table with Win’s family. He smiles as Win shares his tale of polar exploration. “This is living history, and we’re losing the stories of thousands of veterans like this every day,” he says. Heilman, 42, is a teacher. He works with middle and high school students in Shawnee, using what he calls his “classroom museum.” Over a 17-year career, Heilman has amassed what he estimates is a collection of 20,000 pieces. It began when his grandmother mailed him her own collection of Civil War artifacts. “It’s a different connection to history. I’m just a large, sweaty man who talks too fast, but you can’t help but see the past when you actually see these,” Heilman says, holding up a clay ball a little smaller than a grapefruit. It’s one of the 11 deactivated World War IIera ceramic hand grenades in his collection. Heilman explains that they were distributed in Japan to be used by Japanese citizens for either defense or ritual suicide. In a few hours, he’ll learn that they’re worth $200 to $400 each. But that’s not why he’s here. He made a promise to his grandmother nearly two decades ago that
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he would never sell the historical items that he uses for teaching. The sorting continues downstairs, where Kevin Hummer is resting both hands lightly on an etched silver platter and waiting for Philipps to enter the shot. The platter, standing upright on a wooden pedestal, begins to slide. Hummer’s grin fades as he grips it more securely. After the piece has been secured, Hummer tells the story of his find. It’s a tale that sounds oft-told and that has among its characters an older woman bringing the platter to a St. Joseph antique mall, intending to have it melted for scrap. “I knew then it was something unique because I’d never seen anything like it,” Hummer says. And this is a key component of nearly every discovery mythology. The owner, able to see something that others have clearly missed, has rescued or preserved a piece. Philipps leans in to hear more, and Hummer’s smile returns. It grows even wider when the appraiser assigns the item a value: $8,000. John Tunks was born and raised in the house where he still lives, about 10 miles out-
It was an on-camera lesson in history as contestants brought their family heirlooms to Union Station January 11. side Maysville, Missouri, a rural town with a population of 1,234, according to the 2010 census. A brooch rests in an open jewelry box before him. About the size of a clementine orange, the brooch is inlaid with swirls of diamonds. “Fifty-three mine-cut diamonds,” Tunks says. “And I believe this brooch belonged to Pearl Warner.” As in the mother of Harry, Albert, Sam and Jack, the brothers who formed the Hollywood studio Warner Bros. Tunks’ grandfather was Pearl Warner’s chauffeur, and his grandmother read daily correspondence and books to the Polish immigrant. In return for his grandparents’ service, Tunks believes, Warner gave them this piece from her personal jewelry collection. Tunks, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, says his interest in genealogy is part of his faith. The retired H&R Block employee is a devotee of the Midwest Genealogical Center in continued on page 10
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Independence. He opens a squared-off leather briefcase and takes out printed-off Wikipedia pages and newspaper articles with passages marked in ink and paper-clipped together. He punctuates the stories of his grandparents’ 1920s travels with Warner with black-andwhite photos inside a black photo album, its pages thinned with age. Even with all of his evidence splayed out on the table, Tunks feels that he is still missing an important part of the puzzle: proof that Warner owned this brooch. “If this does belong to the Warners, I’d just like to reconnect them with a piece of their family history,” he says. Kent Dicus, an accountant at Children’s Mercy Hospital, has brought a daguerreotype of his great-great-grandfather. Thomas Jefferson Dobyns not only was the portrait’s subject but also owned a chain of photography studios along the Mississippi River. Dicus’ research has taken him from Canal Street in New Orleans to New York City. But there’s only so much the Kansas City native has been able to uncover. Dobyns was 53 years old when the photo was taken and was less than five years from selling the Dobyns and Harrington studios and picking up a rifle in the name of the Confederacy. “I’ve seen these go for several thousands on eBay. I could never part with it. I would just like to know if he was well-known for his day, known beyond our family,” he says. Twenty feet from Dicus, an oblong wooden box sits atop a handcart. It’s a prairie organ, a portable pump organ that’s well over a century old. It likely traveled by steamship from Edinburgh, Scotland, to Warsaw, Missouri, where Lee Hydeman and her husband, Scott, purchased it at auction. The Kansas City nurse and bricklayer have spent the past decade shopping for pieces to take up residence alongside her grandmother’s 1925 baby grand piano. “We’re running out of room in our house,” pitch.com
Every object at the taping of America’s Lost Treasures told a story. Lee Hydeman admits. “But I love going to estate sales and seeing a person’s history, their life, told through what’s there.” It’s that curiosity and the potential for financial reward that have driven a slate of reality shows featuring people who hope to find lost treasures in suburbia. The word antique sounds stuffy, European, PBS-ready, so cable channels give their shows such names as Storage Wars and Auction Hunters. Programmers and cable executives are looking for their own treasures, hoping to tap into the streak of American individualism expressed by collectors. One generation’s Manifest Destiny ends up in another generation’s footlocker. The collectors at Union Station have brought their items to find out whether they’ve been wise to keep what others have sold or discarded. But whatever they hear today, they will have added something new to their story by the time this episode of America’s Lost Treasures airs, sometime in April. As contestants and movers continue to file downstairs late into the morning, they can’t help but see the raw feed of the taping displayed across three monitors. With a welltimed glimpse, someone might get a look at Doussett on the center screen, examining what might be a Dunlap Broadside, the name given to the copies of the Declaration of Independence produced by printer John Dunlap. “There’s only 26 known copies in the world, the last being discovered four years ago. Do you think this could be the 27th?” Doussett asks a man in a red sweater, as they stand to the side of a framed document. The man’s body language betrays some doubt. His back is locked tight, and he’s squeezing his hands together until the fingers whiten. “I think anything is possible,” he says. E-mail jonathan.bender@pitch.com M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X
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Look inside Woody’s head at the Plaza Library.
Kane and friends get Raw at the Sprint Center.
Dance a little two-step at Madrigall. .
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For crafters wanting a second opinion on a project or just a little company in creativity, opportunities abound when enthusiasts for the handmade throw a Craftsy Meetup Party (the global event is ocurring in 583 communities). The three gatherings taking place in this area are at the Spencer FIND Museum of Art (1301 MANY MORE Mississippi, Lawrence, 785-864-4710); St. Peter United Methodist LISTINGS Church, in the Fellowship Hall (3609 SouthONLINE AT west State Route 7, Blue PITCH.COM Springs, 816-229-9889); and the Yarn Shop and More (7212 West 80th Street, Overland Park, 913-649-9276). Although inspiration surely will flow in all three locations, the discussion stands to get a little deeper at the Spencer. The 20/21 Gallery currently features an exhibition called Conversation XII: Crafting Continuities. “We will have comfortable seating and tables in the galleries for people,” says the Spencer’s director of education, Kristina Walker, a knitter. “Coffee and doughnuts will be provided.” All Craftsy Meetup Parties begin at 5:30 p.m., and participants are encouraged to bring their own supplies. Attendance is free. RSVP for the Craftsy Meetup Party of your choice at meetup.com/craftsy. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE
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The pineal gland of a Chinese water dragon is located between its eyes, helping it thermoregulate its body as well as deflect threats from above. Like the coldblooded reptile they’re associated with, those born in the Year of the Dragon are said to be fiery, decisive and selfassured. Celebrate what the Chinese call the “Spring Festival” and the purging of ill fortune when the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) throws Chinese New Year Celebration 2012, from 5 to 9 p.m. Participate in family-friendly activities — ticketed and nonticketed — such as tea demonstrations
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in the Bloch Building, Chinese yo-yo shows, rickshaw rides, and photos with the Emperor and Empress. What better excuse to spend concentrated time looking for dragons in the museum’s newly updated Ancestors, Ritual, and the Tomb: the Ancient Chinese Art Galleries? Admission is free. For more information, see nelson-atkins.org. — BERRY ANDERSON [ART]
MICROCHIPS, AHOY!
Lawrence artist Yuri Zupancic has an art studio that can fit in a laptop bag. It’s easy to be mobile when most of your canvases aren’t canvases but tiny microchips, which Zupancic has been painting for the past seven years. It’s no simple medium, either. Zupancic’s tiny tools — including a paintbrush made from one of his eyelashes — are capable of creating equally tiny little masterworks. He describes his effort as “a great exercise in calmness and focus, since every stroke requires total stillness. And it’s a very portable medium, which makes it easy to create
and exhibit around the world.” Which he does. Zupancic recently returned from more than six months in Australia, and he’s about to leave for Germany to help curate an exhibition of William Burroughs’ work. Locally he’s exhibiting at Lost Art Gallery (845 Massachusetts, Lawrence) for Final Friday in a group show called Sweat/Sweet Shop. E-mail dotdotdotartspace@ gmail.com for more info. — APRIL FLEMING
Hooper “as an underling of Spielberg.” What isn’t in dispute is the appeal of the film, which continues to attract viewers 30 years on. For five bucks, see it the way it’s meant to be seen: on the big screen. It shows at 11 p.m. at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972). — NICK SPACEK
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The supposed “curse” around Tobe Hooper’s classic 1982 horror flick, Poltergeist, is based on the deaths of four members of the three-volume film’s cast: Heather O’Rourke (Carol Anne), Dominique Dunne (Dana), Julian Beck (Kane, Poltergeist II) and Will Sampson (Taylor, Poltergeist II). But for all the mystery and hoopla regarding this curse, those in the know insist that the real mystery of the film is whether Hooper or producer Steven Spielberg actually directed it. Devin Faraci’s Schlock Corridor column argued earlier this month that the evidence points overwhelmingly in favor of pitch.com
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Home equity continues to decline in this time of economic uncertainty, but the popularity of recreational vehicles remains stable, said University of Michigan economist Richard Curtin in the Winter 2011 issue of Roadsigns, an RV trade publication. That tidbit might not be enough for you to abandon your mortgage payments for the delights of the open road, but keep in mind that the price of luxury and convenience will be competitive at this week’s Progressive Insurance 2012 Mid-America RV Show at Bartle Hall (301 continued on page 14
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West 13th Street, 816-513-5000). Besides the 200-plus recreational vehicles spread out among the three halls of the convention center, the expo also features exhibits by Missouri State Parks and the Lake of the Ozarks Convention and Visitors Bureau. The show begins Thursday, January 26, and runs today from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. For a complete vendor list, hours of operation, admission coupon and links to the finer nuances of RV livin’, search “Mid-America RV Show” on Facebook or see midamericarvshow.com. — BERRY ANDERSON [FOOD]
SOUPER DUPER
Seinfeld’s “Soup Nazi” was inspired by actual soup vendor Al Yeganeh, who claimed — during a heated rant, which ended with the ejection of Jerry Seinfeld and his party from the soup stand in midtown Manhattan — that the show’s 1995 episode ruined his life. Fortunately, Kansas City’s own soup personality, Tim “the Soup Man” Hall, is much more congenial. The Louisiana native, with his deep Southern accent, wows with soups and stews. And his classes at the Culinary Center of Kansas City (7920 Santa Fe Drive, Overland Park, 913-341-4455) have become some of the most popular. With A Big Bowl of Love — Soups and Stews, a demonstration class, Hall offers participants tips and tastes of his hearty creations: Southwest chili, pasta fagioli and chicken stew. The class runs from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. and costs $55. Space is limited. Sign up at kcculinary. com or by calling the culinary center at 913-341-4455. — NANCY HULL RIGDON
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The Kansas City Public Library’s annual film series Searching the Psyche Through Cinema is now in its seventh year. So one wonders: How is it conceivable that it took this long to put writer-director Woody Allen on the couch, as it were? Also: How does that make you feel? Analyze our subject at 1:30 p.m., when 1989’s Crimes and Misdemeanors screens at the library’s Plaza Branch (4801 Main, 816-701-3481). Allen’s black comedy centers on a respected ophthalmologist (Oscar nominee Martin Landau) whose longtime mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife. The film’s moral underpinnings provide ample fodder for the post-screening discussion, facilitated by psychologist Claude Brunell and UMKC film studies professor Tom Poe. The series continues with Hannah and Her Sisters February 5 and Match Point February 19. Admission is free for all screenings, but reservations are required. Call the library or see kclibrary.org to RSVP. — BRENT SHEPHERD
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with the Rock. Live in front of the millions [dramatic pause] and millions of fans watching at home, Monday Night Raw broadcasts live from the Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000) on cable TV’s USA Network — just 24 hours after the Royal Rumble payper-view. Will the most electrifying man in entertainment arch his eyebrow, tilt his head back, flick his tongue and proclaim, “Finally, the Rock has come back to Kansas City”? Probably not. But Cena, his Fruity Pebblesendorsing nemesis, will be there to wrestle the demented Kane, who has been doing his best Emperor Palpatine act of late, trying to persuade Cena to “embrace the hate.” Also scheduled for action: straight-edge superstar C.M. Punk, St. Louis native Randy Orton, and returning rocker and dancer Chris Jericho. Cheap seats cost $15, but if you want to get close enough to feel the heat from Kane’s pyro, those seats will cost you $25-$60. Buy tickets at the box office or at sprintcenter. com. The show starts at 7:15 p.m. — JUSTIN K ENDALL
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Bryan “Perelli” Brooks is the CEO of KC’s Heat Advisory Records, a label responsible for such acts as Fleetwood Corleone (“The Black Superhero”) and MC-songwriter Kstylis. Brooks was also the cameraman for The Black Victor Newman, a seven-part hip-hop soap opera on YouTube. His latest venture into local pop culture casts him as host of 2 Step Tuesdays each week at Madrigall (1627 Oak, 816-472-4400). “Kansas City 2 step is unique. It’s unlike salsa, tap dance or anything else. It brings Kansas City back to the 1920s with the 18th and Vine spirit,” he explains. Join Brooks and two-step expert and teacher Freddy Sherman and DJ Smooth beginning at 9 p.m. for this R&B/hip-hop night, when the drinks are $2 before 10 p.m., the women get in free, and the vibe is friendly to beginning dancers. Mind the dress code while you are there: No T-shirts, but jeans are acceptable. Cover for men is $5 before 10 p.m. and $10 after. And it’s for ages 30 and older only, please. — BERRY ANDERSON
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In August 1961, a group of Americans stepped off a plane in Accra, Ghana, while singing the foreign country’s national anthem in Twi. These were the first volunteers in the Peace Corps, a program that President John F. Kennedy established, and in the more than 50 years since, volunteers have served in 139 countries. The mission remains the same: Promote world peace and friendship by living and working in developing nations. And in a tough economy, consider the program’s other benefits: student-loan deferral, health insurance, living stipend, graduate-school opportunities and 48 vacation days. Those interested in volunteering
Gabrielle Hamilton (see Wednesday). can attend today’s Peace Corps information session, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in Room 22 of the UMKC School of Education (615 East 52nd Street, 816-235-1000). A video presentation features volunteers who speak on the benefits of service and the application process. Metered parking is available between Holmes and Cherry. For more information, call 816-235-1636. — NANCY HULL RIGDON [CHEFS]
PRUNING JASPER’S
Gabrielle Hamilton, chef and owner of celebrated New York restaurant Prune, gave her 2011 memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter, a selfeffacing subtitle: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef. But there’s nothing reluctant about her prose or her food. Hamilton is pretty much badass across the board. BBB was one of last year’s most exhilarating books, and it has just come out in paperback. Hamilton is marking the occasion with a tour that includes her first trip to Kansas City. Rainy Day Books is marking the occasion right back by scheduling tonight’s event at Jasper’s Restaurant (1201 West 103rd Street, 816-941-6600), where Jasper Mirabile Jr. is preparing a four-course menu of Hamilton’s recipes. “I’m going to this whole slew of new cities and I’m totally excited, but I don’t really know the chefs,” she says. “It’s better than being under fluorescent light in a bookstore with a Sharpie.” The $50 admission includes dinner and a copy of the book. Call Jasper’s to reserve a place. The event begins at 6:30 p.m. Read more with Hamilton in Fat City (on page 22). — SCOTT WILSON Night + Day listings are offered as a free service to Pitch readers and are subject to space restrictions. Submissions should be addressed to Night + Day Editor Berry Anderson by e-mail (calendar@pitch.com), fax (816-756-0502) or mail (The Pitch, 1701 Main, Kansas City, MO 64108). Please include zip code with address. Continuing items must be resubmitted monthly. No submissions are taken by telephone. Items must be received two weeks prior to each issue date. Search our complete listings guide online.
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earch too hard for meaning in Garry Noland’s work at City Arts Project and you’ll miss the point. Viewing Noland’s abstractions is, first and foremost, a pleasure. His pieces command a visceral reaction that’s basic but all too rare: It’s hard to stop looking at them. Of the 14 works in Made and Connected, the most immediately dominant are the tapestrylike wall hangings. It takes a moment, as you walk toward them, to see that they’re assembled from adhesive tape — countless pieces of it, overlapping BY countless times. Look closer T H E R E S A and the intricacies come into focus: richly textured surfaces B E M B N I ST E R with layered and complex patterns. With a hardware store’s worth of duct tape, Noland tests just how much the eye can take in. If that sounds cacophonous, it’s actually closer to a symphony. The harmony that Noland achieves is most apparent in “Ticket,” a piece from 2011 that’s roughly 9 feet by 8 feet. Strips of tape, in what look like a dozen colors, move from the straight right edge toward the center, undulating like an overgrown amoeba. The form is bordered on the other side by a psychedelic pattern in yellow and gray. Waiting in the middle are bits and pieces of Noland’s studio floor, the sticky side of the tape having grid, make Noland’s thought process more pulled up wood, dirt and rubbish. Approach- apparent than his tape tapestries do. Here ing this top-to-bottom coating of detritus he has limited his options by playing with from the left edge is a shiny-tape arc of fang- a single form. The panels take up a lot of space, but they also can’t like zigzags. There are ophelp being overshadowed positions here: bright and Made and Connected: by the tapestries. understated colors, glossy New Work If “Cripples” feels like and matte surfaces, hardby Garry Noland a series of tests leading up edged and organic-seeming Through February 18 to the tapestries, six small forms, even the debris or its at City Arts Project collages in the exhibition lack. But it’s the tension in 2012 Campbell, 816-863-8411 suggest that he has had the these contrasts that keeps answers all along. They are you riveted. tidy little exercises in posi“Cripples,” a series of Studios Inc: 2011 tive and negative space extape panels in which Noland Through March 1 ecuted in wood-grain vinyl explores variations of a sinat Studios Inc. on vellum. In “Hard Tail,” gle form, hangs on the larg1708 Campbell, from 2011, rectangles of est wall in the gallery. (Well, 816-994-7134, thestudiosinc.org dark-colored material appart of “Cripples” does — it’s pear adjacent to similarly a work in progress, begun in shaped cutouts in the larger, 2009, and some of it is also now at the Nerman Museum of Contempo- lighter square occupying the bulk of the comrary Art.) Within each panel is a shape re- position. Noland creates a simple visual probsembling an upside-down box with an open lem — then elegantly solves it. And his solutions seem to materialize in flap (picture a blocky uppercase letter P). The 132 panels at City Arts, arranged in a front of you. With his selection of material, his
Above: Garry Noland’s “Cripples” 2010–12, at City Arts Project
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use of shape and grid, and the shifting scale of these works, Noland lays out two years of decisions made in the studio and finds where they connect. Just looking at the results is its own singular thrill.
Keeping Company In years past, the Corporate Collector Program of the Studios Inc. made things simple. In exchange for cash, businesses could pick up a neatly bundled mini collection of art. Each of the nonprofit’s resident artists was included in the deal. In turn, the art-hungry companies that stepped up got a commitment from the Studios Inc. that word of their corporate largesse would be duly spread. Director and participating artist Colby K. Smith explains that this year, as in 2010, things are a little different. Rather than an upfor-grabs preassembled corporate collection, this exhibition is a showcase of the sprawling East Crossroads building’s 13 artists. Executives need not limit themselves to what’s on the gallery walls, as long as something by each artist ends up in the shopping cart. pitch.com
The 14 works assembled for Studios Inc: 2011 don’t do much more than simply advertise the investment opportunity. It’s smart business but not very inspired curation. Not that the most likely buyers want a lot of challenge. The repeating clips of screaming mouths in Barry Anderson’s “Deep Down Trauma Hounds” video installation, for example, may not go over well with someone dealing with the fallout of the financial crisis. But Smith’s pleasant abstraction “Break Wave Under Sky #3” would look at home in a beige hallway. No office manager worth his or her salary would condone Diana Heise’s “Breath – Take.” The artist asks visitors to write what helps them “breathe easier” on green Post-it Notes and affix them to the silhouette of a tree she created on the gallery wall using soil and seeds. (Well, maybe an allergist’s office would approve.) Profit-obsessed CEOs with a guilty conscience may have a use for a do-it-yourself halo in their corner offices. Stand underneath Dylan Mortimer’s “Halo #2,” and the bulbs on the suspended dome-shaped contraption light up. A close look at the sculpture reveals exposed screws and electrical tape, wires attached with staples, and a dust- and fingerprint-coated surface. Maybe Mortimer is subverting the promise of redemption implied by the angelic symbol. Maybe not. Either way, sometimes buying art for corporate walls means going with the devil you know. E-mail feedback@pitch.com M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X
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posited by writer Christopher Hampton and director David Cronenberg (adapting Hampton’s 2002 play, The Talking Cure) knows a thing or two about obsession. It’s a bitch. Fassbender’s Jung is in thrall to three people. He still professes a chaste, clean, child-giving love for his wife, Emma (Sarah Gadon, a fine Alfred Hitchcock ice blonde), who’s also the family money. He carries a professional torch for Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen, so constantly with cigar, you worry that he’s going to contract Freud’s mouth cancer right in front of
Mortensen (right) passes the Cronenberg man-torch to Fassbender.
you), a stern father figure. And he’s in doomed heat for Sabina Spielrein, the real-life patient turned sadomasochistic lover turned colleague played here by Keira Knightley with furious jaw and furiouser Russian accent. It takes a little while for Mind to stop feeling like a Merchant-Ivory film, mainly because cinematographer Peter Suschitzky aggressively sun-dapples so much of it. If it weren’t for the
full-bodied howls that force Sabina’s admission to Jung’s asylum as the movie opens, we could be watching the run-up to a croquet tournament. Her convulsions turn out to be seismic, involuntary orgasms, but Jung doesn’t get turned on until Vincent Cassel (the movie’s vivid high point) turns up as Otto Gross, the ultimate id enabler. Gross instructs Jung to indulge, and indulge Jung does. Freud doesn’t approve, and the fissure that opens between teacher and pupil — and between Jung and Sabina after she is remade (Vertigostyle) as a brilliant scholar by her former analyst — powers the drama. Rejected by Jung, Sabina threatens to take up with Freud, and Jung weeps into her lap. But the movie loses some of its gravity after Fassbender’s pleasedon’t-revenge-fuck-my-friend breakdown. What started as an electric suite of duets wobbles to the finish line as a loose triangle. The father of psychoanalysis doesn’t really want to spank Sabina, and everybody pretty much says the safe word and goes home with a respectable partner. Even as their points dull, Cronenberg and Hampton leave marks that bleed after the credits roll. The talking here doesn’t cure much, especially obsessive, destructive desire. And therein lies the fascination with method and movie. ■
with Cronenberg at the 2011 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: How did you come to this project? Cronenberg: In retrospect, I had always wanted to do something about Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis. … What I saw in [screenwriter] Christopher Hampton’s play [The Talking Cure, first staged in 2002] was this fantastic structure that beautifully distilled the essence of the era and the psychoanalytic movement into, primarily, five characters. And that got me very excited. How did you adjust the play and contributing texts to arrive at the film? My feeling with the play was that it was very neutral. Certainly I approached it that way. For
me, making the movie was a process of resurrection. I really wanted these people to come back to life. I wanted to hear them and feel them and smell them. I wanted to resurrect that era because it was so fascinating and really a crucial one: Vienna was the seat of the AustroHungarian empire that lasted 700 years. They had an 80-year-old emperor who they felt would live forever. They felt that man was evolving beautifully from animal to angel, that reason would conquer all, that everyone would know their place in society. But it was on the eve of the First World War, which blew all of that to pieces, that whole idea of European super-civilization. Some have said that this film is atypical of your body of work.
I don’t really think about my other movies at all, frankly. I don’t think about whether this fits in with anything or whether I’ve done it or not, once I get excited about it. My hinge into this universe is — as I think Freud did — to believe in the absolute reality of the human body. To me, that is our reality. And Freud was insisting on it at a time when people were trying to deny that. Abstract ideas were everything, and Freud was talking about penises and vaginas and excrement and anuses and things that no one wanted to talk about or even acknowledge the existence of, and he was saying a lot of those things have huge repercussions in our adult life and in our society. — JASONSHAWHAN
COMING TO CONSCIOUSNESS PROVES A DANGEROUS METHOD. couple of handsome, slick-haired Europeans are giving moviegoers mustache rides back to the early 20th century. One doesn’t speak and never goes anywhere without his faithful dog. The other talks too much but still earns the canine loyalty BY of a follower. Both toil in films SCOTT that can’t quite maintain the thrilling sparks thrown off at WILSON the start. The silent man is George Valentin, Jean Dujardin’s eyebrow-cocking title character in The Artist. The chatterbox — the reluctant-cocksman version of psychiatrist Carl Jung played by Michael Fassbender in A Dangerous Method — might be professionally curious about Valentin, but even he might cry foul at The Artist’s clumsy co-opting of Bernard Herrmann’s Vertigo score. Because the Jung
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here’s still no one else quite like David Cronenberg: mordantly funny, deeply intelligent, defiantly Canadian and unapologetically intellectual. The director’s fourdecades body of work has spanned genres and provoked endless debate. His latest, A Dangerous Method, detailing the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in the early years of psychoanalysis, opens this week in Kansas City. The Pitch spoke
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suggestions and deliver a mercifully brief version of the Seasons 52 spiel (the menu changes frequently with creative daily specials and rotating dishes and blah blah blah). He was polished and charming. Seasons 52 is a restaurant that requires polish and charm. The tasteful dining rooms give the impression that this isn’t just a fancy restaurant but an expensive one. The lighting is low and sexy, the music subtle, the ambience as gracious as any of the Plaza’s most upscale venues (the Raphael Hotel’s Chaz on the Plaza, for example). But the prices are surprisingly reasonable, not modest but very fair. I’ve paid far more for much less satisfaction in Kansas City. I don’t know how much creative freedom chef Garey Hiles has in his kitchen — this is a corporate restaurant — but I’ve enjoyed almost every dish I’ve tasted here, including a vegetable plate (which can be ordered as either an entrée or a first course) that I applaud for its cleverness: a beautifully composed arrangement of warm and cool delicacies, including an amber roasted Bosc pear, deliciously smoky cubes of ponzu-glazed grilled tofu, butternut squash, and a dollop of tabbouleh sprinkled with almonds and cranberries. The vegetarian in our party shared this with us before taking on a fine, filling bowl of ravioli pillows stuffed with goat cheese, sweet basil and roasted garlic. The cedar-plank-roasted salmon is offered in two incarnations: a farm-raised hunk from Chile or, for a $6 surcharge, a wild-caught organic version. We tasted the latter, which was particularly delicious. (But I’m always a sucker for a Dijon marinade.) The grilled, caramelized sea scallops were divine — not the most generous portion but ample enough to satisfy the most size-conscious member of my party. It came with fresh asparagus and pearl pasta with tomatoes and mushrooms. pitch.com
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I was happy that night with my dinner: small but sumptuously tender slices of roasted pork tenderloin perched on a mound of soft polenta dappled with crimini mushrooms. I nearly convinced myself that I could eat smaller, healthier portions like this every night, but then decided that I couldn’t. The Seasons 52 dessert concept is brilliant. I’m one of those people who just wants a bite of something sweet after a good meal. I don’t need a big slab of chocolate-cream pie to feel complete. (No, wait — sometimes I do.) The little shot glasses offered as finales at Seasons 52 are filled with a variety of pretty layered concoctions: some with a creamy mousse or soft cheesecake, perhaps with bits of carrot cake, or — in the case of the Rocky Road version — miniature marshmallows. They go fast, but they’re effective (and less than 275 calories) at staving off an aggressive sweet tooth. We tasted the mocha macchiato, the raspberry-cheesecake creation, the chocolatepeanut-butter mousse, and a couple of others before putting down our spoons and declaring ourselves comfortably full. Later that night — at about 3 a.m. — I woke up longing for another couple of those shotglass desserts. I drifted back to sleep, dreaming of meals packing more — many more — than 475 calories. I’m thrilled that Seasons 52 is on the Plaza, offering something besides the buttery grilled steaks at Ruth’s Chris Steak House or the hefty bowls of pasta at Brio Tuscan Grille. But could I really become a regular here? Maybe next season. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com
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f you’ve had a beer in the Kansas City area in the past 20 years, Keith Thompson probably had something to do with it. In the beginning, his part meant making sure your glass was clean. “I was a hydro-ceramic engineer,” Thompson says of his first job: dishwasher at the Free State Brewery in Lawrence. “But it was just about getting in the door, because the response to the brewery opening was crazy.” Free State’s 1989 opening really was monumental. It was the first post-Prohibition brewery in Kansas, and it paved the way for the resurgence of craft beer in the area. When Thompson started BY working there, he was a junior J O N AT H A N at the University of Kansas. He spent his off hours talking BENDER to the brewers, attempting to wheedle his way into the brewhouse, and experimenting with homebrewing. His first batch, which he hoped would be super-hoppy, came out, he says, “tasting like green tea.” The nuances of brewing appealed to the environmental-science and biology major. “It was a perfect match,” he says. “I thought: This is what I’m going to do and, to my parents’ chagrin, pursue as a career.” On this January day, as Thompson recalls this decision, he’s sitting a few feet from his own brewhouse. For almost 15 years, he has been the brewer at Westport mainstay McCoy’s Public House. His feet are clad in rubber wading boots, and the floor is slick from being hosed down. The life of a brewer is not that different from that of a dishwasher — both require a fanatical commitment to cleanliness. A year after 75th Street Brewery opened, in 1993, Thompson was hired as a server there, waiting tables as he waited for an opening in the brewhouse. When the time came, his work as an assistant consisted largely of washing kegs and cleaning out lines. It paid $5 an hour and was backbreaking work in a humid basement — and he loved it. As he began to understand how the ingredients worked together, Thompson was tasked with filtering and conditioning the beer. In 1994, he helped open a Barley’s Brewhaus outpost in downtown Topeka. He spent the next year shuttling back and forth between Lawrence and Topeka, learning what it took to start a brewery from scratch. When he returned to Kansas City, big changes were afoot in the local beer scene. KC Hopps, the parent company of 75th Street and
Barley’s, had acquired the space at 4057 Pennsylvania, previously occupied by the Westport Brewing Co. McCoy’s opened in 1997, with Thompson as the brewer. He wanted to push the palates of drinkers with the opening lineup, which included Hog Pound Brown Ale, Landing Light Lager, Newcomb’s I.P.A., and the restaurant’s house-made root beer. “I.P.A. was seen as too aggressive a style for this neighborhood,” he says. “But it’s been our No. 1 seller to date.” The success of his early brews allowed him to experiment, answering the market craze for Zima with a Ginger Shandy, now made with fresh ginger peeled by brewer Tobias Case and then run through a Jack LaLanne juicer. That same spirit drives a new collection of coffee beers (made by running the beer through whole espresso beans and cold-pressed coffee), thanks to a new partnership with Brian Phillips, head roaster at Broadway Roasting Co. The craft-beer movement has flourished over the past decade, but Thompson is disappointed that more local breweries haven’t yet found a footing in Kansas City. Still, he sees the glass as half-full for those willing to take the leap. “If you have the passion and the dollar bills, go for it,” he says. “This town is so thirsty for it.” The Pitch: What are your brewing inspirations? Thompson: I always have my favorite beer discoveries of the year. A couple of years ago, it was Bell’s Hopslam. I was amazed by it — the freshness of the hops and the balance. I had this great opportunity to talk to [Bell Brewery’s production manager] John Mallett when we were hosting a cask of Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. He’s the right-hand man to [Bell’s founder Larry Bell]. It was out of some of our conversation that the [Calypso] DPA [now on tap at McCoy’s] came about. I always use the same malt and local honey from Santa Fe Honey. We use the same yeast. The only thing that changes is the hops. It’s a great way to grow as a brewer, where you’re just
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changing one thing and seeing what’s happening. With the Calypso hops, you get these hints of tropical fruit. The hop bitterness is still there, though. The aroma seems kind of sweet, but it’s drier in the finish. If you like hops, you’ll absolutely like this beer. Last year, I had a chance to go to Bear Republic and try their Double Rocket. I was blown away by that beer. That’s why I came home and brewed the first Double Red that McCoy’s has ever produced. The great thing was that they [Bear Republic] were willing to sell me a growler. They just told me it would be $60, and I seriously thought about it. Do you have a favorite style of beer? It’s always been pilsner. The only recent change is that I shifted from Budweiser Budvar or Czechvar in the States to Zatec. It’s this bright beer from the Czech Republic that they have in half-liter bottles at Gomer’s and Red X. What’s one book that every brewer should read? Charlie Papazian’s The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. It’s got everything you need for an intro to homebrewing. What’s always in your beer fridge? PBR, oftentimes a potpourri of friends’ homebrews and, right now, a couple sours. Mikkeller Breakfast Stout. Haandbryggeriet — it’s from a Norwegian brewer, one of their smoked variety. And some New Glarus. I always beg somebody who is heading to Wisconsin to bring me a little bit back. What won’t you drink? I’m not real hot on the sour movement. That’s probably where there are sours sitting in the back of my fridge. We’re working on some sour projects here, but I’m not a big fan of lambics, and I don’t accept the new “black I.P.A.” It just doesn’t mean anything to me. It’s just an overhopped Russian imperial stout. Wearing brew boots at pitch.com/fatcity pitch.com
n January, local conversation about food devolved into hurling parsnips at one another on Facebook over whether KC is fit for vegetarians. So it’s a relief that February begins with an appearance by Gabrielle Hamilton. The New York chef owns the restaurant Prune and has an MFA in fiction writing BY from the University of Michigan. That combinaSCOTT tion means that her powWILSON erful 2011 memoir, Blood, Bones & Butter, evokes her parents’ food-intensive parties with enough visceral force to make a hardcore vegan suck the marrow out of a lamb shank. Her book is now out in paperback, and at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, February 1, she makes a tour stop at Jasper’s Restaurant (1201 West 103rd Street, 816-941-6600). A $50 ticket to the Rainy Day Books event includes a fourcourse dinner made by chef Jasper Mirabile Jr. and modeled on Hamilton’s recipes. Specifically: minestrone with grilled-cheese sandwiches, “Mother-in-Law’s Eggplant Parmigiano Casserole,” Prune’s chicken thighs and braised fennel, and mascarpone ice cream with salted-caramel croutons. Hamilton spoke with The Pitch recently by phone. The Pitch: I drank too much coffee this morning and just ate something from the vending machine just to add something to my stomach. What’s your most recent food regret? Hamilton: I was on a train platform coming back from upstate New York. Starvation had me eating out of a vending machine. I got chips — Doritos or something. Except by mistake I got the baked version, and I was like, I’ll kill you. If I’m going to eat Doritos, I want fucking Doritos. I had four different bags of crap, and I laid them out on my train tray, and I took a picture and sent it to a writer from The New York Times who had interviewed me. The people I’m meeting tend to be more obsessed with food than I am, more fetishistic. We [Hamilton has two sons] stop at McDonald’s. I’m preoccupied by the entire life experience, the social contract. Food happens to be where I spend my day. In a scene in the book, a conference where being a woman chef is under discussion, you write about what goes through your mind when someone asks, “Is it OK to cry?” One of your thoughts is, “Genuine power makes you gentle.” How long did it take for your power to make you gentle? M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X
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I feel like I’ve only just gotten there 20 minutes ago, and I’m 46, and I’ve been doing this a long time. In the arenas in your life where you’re most self-possessed, those are the ones where you’re easily gentle but powerful. And in the areas where you’re more amateur, new or selfconscious, the older you get, the less amateur you become. Concurrent with that evolution or development of self, it’s also a truth that the longer you’re alive and the more arenas you put yourself into — parenting or whatever — you grow a larger surface area. And that’s a potential for much more points of contact with humanity. And with that increased exposure comes increased chance for friction and anger. Where do you still feel an amateur or vulnerable to that friction? I eat a lot of food, cook a lot of food. I’m surrounded by food. But a magazine couldn’t send me to Japan to write an article about tofu. I don’t know shit about how tofu is prepared — the science or the technical ins and outs. And it’s very new for me to be — whatever this 15 minutes is that we’re doing right now. I’ve not been public. I’m the cook of a restaurant. I do a little writing. I gotta take care now because people write shit down I say. And I go out in the world a great deal more frequently. People on airplanes recognize me. You’ve said in interviews that your sons haven’t yet developed sophisticated palates. What are you doing to educate them? I’ve actually just completely abandoned the whole project, and I don’t give a shit about it, and it’s a waste of time and energy. If they have calories in their bodies, that’s enough. Those calories tend to be beige and white. The pasta is very good, and I use very good butter. It’s not that I don’t care. They’ll come to food when they need to, but I can’t be one of the current style of obsessive mothers who need their kids to eat gourmet food on their way to chess club or trumpet lessons, which is pretty New York, prevalent here in a certain class. I don’t feel as embarrassed now. I’m not at all judgmental about what people eat or their kitchens. The only thing I do find sort of heartbreaking is when people don’t have a sense of their own health and nutrition. I don’t care at all if you’re drinking Coca-Cola, but I do feel sad when I see someone eating heavily processed “health” food — the Wishbone salad dressing with a third fewer calories because they think it’s good for their health. Yet the abundance of food magazines and blogs and TV programming suggests that people know a lot about food. I feel not only exhausted but dirty and demeaned by the end of an hour watching some food television or flipping through a food magazine. I feel like I’ve eaten at McDonald’s — it’s quantity, not quality. It’s so funny — I got a TV recently for the first time, and since I’ve been on the book tour, I’ve also been watching food television for the first time. And I didn’t understand what was happening to me. I’d return from trips, and three days later I’d feel this unnameable depression. Like, what’s wrong? What’s wrong with my industry, my people? But going back to work cures you? Yes. You get right back in your little utopia of your own creation.
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n 1991, Evan Dando of the Lemonheads traveled to Australia to write what would become It’s a Shame About Ray. The album, a guitar-pop classic, made a permanent impact on the alternative-rock scene. Since then, the group has been through the ringer: endless lineup changes, drug addiction and an extended hiatus. Dando is currently the group’s only original member, BY and this winter he and the KYLE Lemonheads (now featuring former Bad Brains drummer EUSTICE Chuck Treece and former Taking Back Sunday bassist Fred Mascherino) are playing It’s a Shame About Ray in its entirety as part of their tour. The Pitch spoke recently with Dando about what he reads on tour, who Ray is and, uh, Creed. The Pitch: Why are you doing the It’s a Shame About Ray tour? Dando: It’s an angle to get people to come out. People know they are going to hear some of their old favorite songs. It’s just something to do until I get my new record out. Are you talking about Hotel Sessions [a lo-fi 1993 Lemonheads recording, set to be released February 7]? No, not at all. That’s just something to sell on tour while getting the new record together. I thought it was really cool and just put it out. It was recorded onto a Walkman. It’s just for fans, only a $5 affair. It’s not bad; I like it. You can hear the waves, the cars and the birds in the background. What kind of place were you in when you wrote Ray? I wrote it in Australia. I went down there in August of 1991. This was before the whole alternative-rock explosion had really happened. Then I went back in October, and, wow, it was all going on. I stayed there for six weeks and met these people that would become a big part of my life: Nic Dalton, Tom Morgan and Allison Galloway. The songs are about people down there, like all of the songs, pretty much. Was Ray a fictional character based on someone you knew? It was from a newspaper. It was this coolsounding phrase at the end of a newspaper article. It ended with, “It’s a shame about Ray.” If you look at my Facebook page, it’s on there somewhere. It’s about this kid who was getting kicked out of all these schools, and it was pretty scandalous. He was just a real fuckup. He was homeless and had a lot of problems with drugs. 24
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Ironic. We latched onto the phrase and started saying it all the time. Finally, I had to get the music ready, and we wrote it in about 20 minutes, like the way all good songs are written. Why do you think this album connected so well with audiences? It’s the most popular one. People remember it. Sometimes kids come out to hear it for the first time, and you get both. It’s definitely a good album and holds up. It’s not so bad to play it every night. Did you think Ray would stand the test of time like it has? No, not really. I’m just grateful it came together. It was a truthful time in my life. I was 23 or 24 and writing a lot. What advice would you give to the younger kids starting out in the music business? Man, things are pretty different now. Go out and do some tours rather than practice all the time. Practice in front of people, I think. That’s the advice I would give. That’s how you forge a sound: by playing in front of people. Anyway, that’s what works for me. Do you get any time on tour to read any good books? Yep, I read. It’s harder on tour than when I’m just sitting around doing nothing. A friend of mine once said I might be using books. [Laughs.] Maybe I am. Right now, I’m reading The Count of Monte Cristo — I love that one. I read Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace. I read Les Miserables — that one is really good. Those are my most recent ones. I try to read all of
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the old ones that everyone’s supposed to read, like all the Faulkner, Keats, Eliot and Tolstoy. I’ve reread To Kill a Mockingbird recently. In that area, even rereading a little print is good if you’re in a melancholy way. It can cheer you up. I reread Lord of the Flies and On the Road. I like to go back to the best. Have you seen the original Lord of the Flies movie? That’s amazing. That’s the best movie that reminds me of a book. That’s the best of all time. It’s a really special one. The color one was really bad, though. I’m glad they didn’t remake To Kill a Mockingbird. That would be sinful. You’re playing in Kansas at the Granada. I like Lawrence. I think I’ve been to the Bottleneck. I think William Burroughs lived there. [Pause.] Hold on a second. I’m actually signing an autograph for a restaurant. It’s ridiculous. Do you get recognized a lot? No, not really. Oh, I have to do another one. OK, I can talk. How do you like playing with Fred Mascherino and Chuck Treece? I heard you had never met them before this tour. We had one rehearsal, and we’re having a lot of fun now. We’re just getting into it. It’s coming together really well. I interviewed Dave Pirner of Soul Asylum awhile ago, and when I said I didn’t think he was in a grunge band, he thanked me. What was your opinion of the whole grunge thing? [Laughs.] I love Dave. Everyone just thought that was a ridiculous thing. I don’t know anyone pitch.com
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that was actually into that concept. It was just marketing. That’s how everything was — rock and roll, punk, all the names. But grunge was particularly silly. What do you think of mainstream music today? It’s all that talent-show stuff. I’m not into the whole Star Search or American Idol thing. It doesn’t go toward songwriting; it goes toward Whitney Houston songs and shit. There are a lot of really original bands out there, too. There’s more space for bands. Music seems healthy to me, actually. In another interview, you mentioned your distaste for Creed. I hate to be negative, but that one, I don’t like them. Why do you call yourself Creed?
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reestyle battles are not just forums for rappers to hop onstage and lyrically humiliate one another, although that is certainly part of the fun. They’re also, perhaps, the truest test of an MC’s abilities. The battle forces its participants to rely on their naked skills. Can you shape a hot diss on the spot? Can you spit that diss inside a quick, creative meter? Can you avoid the flow of the old battle standard, “Rapper’s Delight”? And can you win over the crowd? continued on page 26
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Take a favorite diss from last year’s local freestyle and DJ battle, Versus, courtesy of Abnorm in his battle with Dutch Newman: I don’t even give a fuck, you know the way I’m spittin/He lookin’ like the real life version of Homer Simpson/You mad as fuck, cause you a ho/Got you Homer Simpson, and I’m leaving with the dough. Game, set, match. Versus celebrates its fifth anniversary this year. Aiming to avoid fading into memory like the ill-fated Scribble Jam, organizers Stacy “Reach” Smith, Clarence “Vertigone” Draper, Raymond “Sephiroth” Hardy and Dylan “Trystyl” Day see 2012 as the KC battle’s biggest year yet. As such, they’re raising the stakes and hosting two events. The first, VS-Mini, goes down this weekend at the Riot Room. “We have our eyes set on establishing Versus as the premier battle platform in the Midwest region,” Reach explains. “We didn’t want to leave fans of the franchise high and dry, though, so we kept our January date and opted to make it an appetizer for Versus 5.” This VS-Mini hors d’oeuvre, hosted by Reach and Sephiroth, boasts an eight-man invitationonly MC battle, as well as a four-man “ButtonPush Beat Battle.” The ButtonPush battle is a five-round, six-minutes-apiece effort. The first three rounds are “free” — a producer can play whatever he or she wants. The fourth round is a remix challenge, in which the producer uses a popular a cappella verse provided by Versus organizers two weeks prior to the competition. The last round is like the fourth, except that the producer must use a sample instead of an a cappella verse. (Reach calls a 2010 performance by dubstep DJ Barbaric Merits as “maybe the most dominant performance in ButtonPush history.”) The MC battle pits the eight contestants against one another, one on one, until one person remains. In evaluating MCs, Reach explains that judges look at “the value of an MC’s verse, how the audience reacts to the MC, linguistic creativity, and smoothness. Success at Versus requires improvisation, adaptation and calculation.” For some MCs, Versus has become a means to make a name for themselves. For others, it’s an opportunity to see what’s happening in the scene. It’s a little bit of both for veteran Sean “Approach” Hunt, whose 2010 Versus appearance was so hotly contested, it’s considered one of the event’s most memorable. “I came up in the battle scene in the late ’90s, early ’00s, and there was a lot more danger involved in those days,” he explains. ”You had to be wise; if you said the wrong thing to the wrong person, you might get your tail whupped.” What makes Versus (planned for summer) and VS-Mini different, compared with other battles, is both its size and its steadfastness in keeping the MC battle truly freestyle. The MCs for this year’s battle are to be kept secret until the battle itself. If MCs know their potential competitors, they’re able to prepare. This mystery lends an air of excitement for the audience. Trystyl clarifies the distinction. “There are MC battles happening everywhere. There are whole leagues dedicated to it, but most of those battles are written, memorized, and you already know who your opponent will be. Versus makes it more difficult.” — APRIL FLEMING E-mail feedback@pitch.com 26
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Ryan Adams Fortifying his reputation as a world-class prima donna, Ryan Adams rambled, dawdled and ultimately cut short his most recent Kansas City show, at the Uptown in 2009. He has since split from his backing band, the Cardinals, and is touring solo this winter behind his latest, Ashes and Fire. Critics have hailed it as a return to form for Adams. But, to me, it doesn’t sound too terribly different from any of the other gentle folk-rock records he has churned out over the past decade: lots of filler and one or two beautiful songs. Waiting outside while you find your keys, like bags of trash in the blackening snow, he sings on single “Lucky Now.” I know he’s a jackass, but damn, it’s hard to hate on a line like that. Wednesday, February 1, at the Music Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000)
Old 97’s, with Caitlin Rose Alt-country fans seeking an alternative to crybaby Adams might consider hopping on K-10 to see Old 97’s playing a rather intimate gig at the Bottleneck. (They played a much larger stage, KC Crossroads, last summer.) Unlike
Adams, Rhett Miller and his band offer a reliable, sweaty, high-energy rock show. Opener Caitlin Rose, a 24-year-old from Nashville, sings country-tinged pop with a Patsy Cline twang. Wednesday, February 1, at the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)
Sonic Spectrum Tribute to Talking Heads Geek chic reigns supreme at the January edition of Robert Moore’s monthly cover series. Slated to sing songs about buildings and food: glam-pop group Soft Reeds; dark new-wave acts Molly Picture Club and In Back of a Black Car; and the Wilders’ Betse Ellis, performing with Dead Voices. Sunday, January 29, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
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lier this month with a debut studio album of clubby electronica, Wonderland. True to form, the record boasts no shortage of boldfaced guests, including Rivers Cuomo, Travis Barker, Kid Cudi and LMFAO. Supporting Aoki on this tour is Datsik, an emerging figure in the emerging world of dubstep. Tuesday, January 31, at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)
Anthrax, with Testament and Death Angel Thrash-metal pioneer Anthrax resurfaced last year with a new studio album, Worship Music, its first since 1990 to feature goldenage vocalist Joey Belladonna. That might not be news in your world, but there were enough dudes with hair past their shoulder blades and patches on their denim jackets to debut that sucker at No. 12 on Billboard. Metal ain’t dead, son — far from it. Thursday, January 26, at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)
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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, JAN. 26 Anthrax, Testament, Death Angel: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Finesse Mitchell: 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.
FRIDAY, JAN. 27 El Valiente, the Atlantic: 9 p.m., free. FOKL Center, 556 Central. The Lemonheads: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Finesse Mitchell: 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Mike Zito: 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
SATURDAY, JAN. 28 Anthony B., Zamunda, Delly Ranx: 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Simone Dinnerstein: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Finesse Mitchell: 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. The Randy Rogers Band, Kip Moore, Sam Sliva & the Good, Travis Marvin: 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. JD Souther: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
SUNDAY, JAN. 29 Mimosa: 9 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Finesse Mitchell: 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. A Tribute to Talking Heads featuring Soft Reeds, Molly Picture Club, In Back of a Black Car, Dead Voices with Betse Ellis: 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Victor & Penny featuring Rick Willoughby: 6 p.m. The Brick, 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634.
MONDAY, JAN. 30 Marijuana Deathsquads, Swanson: Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.
TUESDAY, JAN. 31 Steve Aoki, Datsik: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Rebekah Jean, Kurt Vee, Izzy Lee: 8 p.m., $7. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.
WEDNESDAY, FEB. 1 Ryan Adams: Municipal Auditorium/Music Hall, 301 W. 13th St. (in the Convention Center Complex), 816-513-5000. Hail! Hornet, Zoroaster, and Slow Southern Steel (a film): 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Old 97’s, Caitlin Rose: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.
UPCOMING A Valentine From Bach: Bach Festival with pianist Konstantin Lifschitz, Tue., Feb. 14, 8 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, 816-994-7200. Jared Blake: Thu., Feb. 2, 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Children of Bodom, Eluveitie, Revocation, Threat Signal: Mon., Feb. 6. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.
Chippendales: Fri., Feb. 3. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Connectorville: Caspa, ill-esha, Antiserum, MattyG, Spankalicious, two stages of regional DJs and producers: Fri., Feb. 3. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Diggy, Jacob Latimore, Jawan Harris, TK ’n Cash, OMG Girlz: Sun., Feb. 12. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Dr. Dog: Thu., Feb. 2, 8:30 p.m., $15. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. D.R.U.G.S., Hit the Lights, Like Moths to Flames, Sparks the Rescue: Sun., Feb. 19. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Jeff Dunham: Controlled Chaos: Thu., Feb. 2. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Elephant Revival: Wed., Feb. 22. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Estelle: Mon., Feb. 6, 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Every Avenue: Thu., Feb. 23. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Excision, Liquid Stranger, Lucky Date: Mon., Feb. 20. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Falling in Reverse, Oh Sleeper, Skip the Foreplay: Sun., Feb. 5. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Craig Finn: Sat., Feb. 11, 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Fresh Beat Band: Fri., Feb. 24, 5 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Hate Eternal, Goatwhore, Fallujah, Troglodyte, Gornography: Wed., Feb. 29, 6:30 p.m., $14. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. In Flames, Trivium, Veil of Maya, Kyng: Sat., Feb. 11. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Junius, O’Brother: Sun., Feb. 26, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Mat Kearney: Tue., Feb. 7. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. LoCash Cowboys, Burford, Lucas Cook: Fri., Feb. 17. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Stephen Lynch: Fri., Feb. 17. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Middle Class Rut, the Lonely Forest, the Chain Gang of 1974, O Giant Man: Fri., Feb. 10. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Moe: Sun., Feb. 12. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Mutemath: Thu., Feb. 16. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Other Lives: Mon., Feb. 6. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Psychostick, Ventana, As Summer Dies, Circus of Dead Squirrels, In the Shadow, High Rise Robots: Wed., Feb. 15, 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Punch Brothers: Sat., March 3. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Railroad Earth: Wed., Feb. 8. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Reverend Horton Heat, Larry and His Flask, the Goddamn Gallows: Sat., Feb. 25. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Right Between the Ears: Sat., Feb. 11. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Rusko, Nmzee: Wed., Feb. 29. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. SOJA, the Movement, Kids These Days: Thu., Feb. 23. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. George Strait, Martina McBride: Sat., Feb. 25. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Supersuckers, the Spittin’ Cobras: Wed., Feb. 8. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Symphony X, Iced Earth, Warbringer: Sun., Feb. 26. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Tomorrows Bad Seeds, Pacific Dub: Wed., Feb. 15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Josh Turner: Thu., March 1, 6 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Jimmy Webb, Bob Walkenhorst, Jeff Porter: Fri., Feb. 10. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. William Elliott Whitmore, Drakkar Sauna, Horse Weapons, Me for Radness: Fri., Feb. 10, 8:30 p.m., $10 advance, $12 door. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Zola Jesus, Talk Normal: Fri., Feb. 24. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.
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The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Miguel “Mambo” DeLeon and Carte Blanc, 7 p.m. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913-642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m.; Customer Quartet, 7 p.m. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Live jazz, 6 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m. Sunset Grill: 14577 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-6811722. Tony Antonucci, 7:30 p.m. West Chase Grille: 11942 Roe, Leawood, 913-6635400. Stan Kessler with Mistura Fina.
WORLD The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Live Reggae with AZ-ONE.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Ladies’ Night. 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. Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. “You Sing it” Live Band Karaoke. 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. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Trivia. Johnny’s Tavern: 13410 W. 62nd Terr., Shawnee, 913962-5777. Live Trivia, 9 p.m.
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77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Mike Watts. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. The Goomba Rave, with Team Bear Club. Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. DJ Beatbroker. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Service Industry Night. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Clockwerk, 10 p.m.
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Johnny’s Tavern: 8262 Mission, Prairie Village, 913901-0322. Boogie Bingo, 8 p.m. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m. Madrigall: 1627 Oak, 816-472-4400. TakeOver Thursdays. McFadden’s Sports Saloon: 1330 Grand, 816-4711330. All In Thursdays. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Karaoke on the main floor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Ladies’ Night. Social Bar: 1118 McGee, 816-472-4900. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 9 p.m.
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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Lost Wax. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. JC the New King of Funk. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Soul Vibe. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Platinum Express. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Reggie B & the Solution, Approach & the Boogaloo Odyssey, 9 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Big Three with John Paul Drum. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. JLove Band.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Mountain Sprout, the Ragbirds. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Voice of Reason.
R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Sky Smeed. Wil Jenny’s Tables and Tap: 6700 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-897-1114. County Road 5.
DJ 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Malaka. Club Monaco: 334 E. 31st St., 816-753-5990. DJ Soap. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Gruv: Fourth Fridays with Mike Dileo, Trevor Shaw, 10 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. DJ night. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mosaic Fridays: hosted by Joe Perez featuring DJ Mike Scott. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Road to Connectorville pre-party with Unlimited Gravity, Doombox, Sick Nifty, David Fields. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Naylor.
HIP-HOP The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Club Wars: Ultimate Hip-Hop Artist.
ACOUSTIC Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. Dan Brockert. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Eddie Delahunt.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Joe Cartwright with Jorge Nila, 8:30 p.m.; Indigo Hour, 5:30 p.m. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Rich Hill, 8 p.m. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. David Basse, Retro lounge, 10 p.m. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Ron Carlson Trio with Mike Miller, 7 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Rich Hill, 5 p.m. Bram Wijnands, Barry Springer, Tommy Ruskin Jazz Club, 7 p.m. Oread Hotel: 1200 Oread, Lawrence. John Lomas and Bill Crahan, in the All Seasons Den, 7 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Lonnie McFadden, 4:30 p.m. Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-6495420. Jerry Hahn.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Karaoke, DJ, drink specials. ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ladies’ Night, Low Dough lady specials., 10 p.m. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Debbioke, 9:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m., free; Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Power & Light District: 13th Street and Main, 816-8421045. Downtown Is Happy. Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816421-4201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m. Shark Bar: 1340 Grand, 816-442-8140. One Night in Blacklight. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m. Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-8561514. Dance Party.
FOLK Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. The Smile High Club.
METAL The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Metal Wars, 9 p.m.
S AT U R DAY 2 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Busted Saints, Nicolette Paige, 10 p.m.
Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Striving for Cairo, the Elephant Riders, 8:30 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Live music. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Sellout. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. KC Groove Therapy. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, 5 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Joey Skidmore Band. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The String and Return, the Pedaljets, American Catastrophe, Deco Auto; School of Rock’s Dark Side of the Rainbow, Students perform Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon to Wizard of Oz visuals, 6 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Deadringers, Across the Earth.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. The Dirt Kings, Dead Ven, Jerry Dowell Band, 9 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. The Brock Alexander Band. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Lonesome Hank & the Heartaches. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Belairs, 10:30 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Janet Jameson. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Four Fried Chickens and a Coke.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Mountain Sprout, Grass Crack, Cowgirl’s Train Set. The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Grisly Hand, Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company, the Blue Boot Heelers, 9 p.m. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. M. Monoceros. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Art Bentley. Sunset Grill: 14577 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-6811722. Noe Palma. Wil Jenny’s Tables and Tap: 6700 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-897-1114. The John Joiner Band.
DJ Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Furious Palace. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. DJ Jochen. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Bump n’ Hustle. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. DJ White Shadow. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Samurai Saturdays. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. VS Mini Show, MC/DJ/Beats battle. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager.
HIP-HOP The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Dolewite, 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Skeptics, Stik Figa, J. Crill, Joe Cool, 9 p.m.
ACOUSTIC Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brendan MacNaughton.
JAZZ The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Matt Otto with Shay Estes, 8:30 p.m. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Live jazz, 6 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Joe DeFio, 5 p.m.; Bram Wijnands, Barry Springer, Tommy Ruskin Jazz Club, 7 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. MU vs. Texas, 12:30 p.m.; KU vs. Iowa State, 1 p.m. The Cashew: 2000 Grand, 816-221-5858. KU vs. Iowa State, 1 p.m.
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ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Charity Bingo, 5 p.m.; Maryoke, 9 p.m. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke with KJ David, 9:30 p.m. Johnny’s Tavern: 6765 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-4514542. Trivia Bingo, 9 p.m. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. KSU basketball, 6 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 1-4 p.m. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Live karaoke with Separated at Birth.
EASY LISTENING Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. The Ukesters, 7 p.m.
S U N DAY 2 9 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Shades of Jade. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Dan Bliss.
DJ Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Sunday Funday with DJ G Train, 10 p.m.
JAZZ Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Live jazz, 6 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Craig Smith, 11 a.m.; Joe DeFio, 6 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Passport.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Rebekah Jean.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke, $5. Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night, beer pong, TV trivia, shot dice. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. The Fox and Hound: 10428 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-649-1700. Poker, 7 & 10 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Double Deuce Poker League, 4 p.m.; Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Free pool, 3 p.m. 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. Sindustry Sundays, 8 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m.; Show Stopper Karaoke, 12:30 a.m. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Free pool. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam. 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.
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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 Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. Local Music Sunday, DJ Dropout Boogie, 8 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Cover Wars.
M O N DAY 3 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. This Will Destroy You, Amen Dunes, John Lamonica, 9 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Sewer Rats, Cloud Dog, 1,000,000 Light Years, 9:30 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.
DJ The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Cinemaphonic with DJ Stevie Cruz, DJ Cyan Meeks, 11:30 p.m., free.
JAZZ Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Live jazz, 6 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Craig Smith, 6 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Magic Mondays with Jason Dean. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Industry night. 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. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday on the main floor, 10 p.m., free. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; MANY MORE happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-2216272. Brodioke, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic ONLINE AT Spectrum Music Trivia, PITCH.COM 7 p.m., $5. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913-268-4006. Pool tournament, 7:30 p.m. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Rico and DJ Sweeny: Service industry night. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.
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OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Grand Jam hosted by Supermassive Black Holes, 9 p.m.
PUNK The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Slut River, Dry Bonnet, Fag Cop.
VARIET Y Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Music Showcase.
T U E S DAY 31 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Travelers Guild. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Drew6.
RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Rock Paper Scissors, 6 p.m.; Appropriate Grammar, Tareltone, Zoo Animals, Yam, 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot.
DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service-industry night, 10 p.m. Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. DJ night.
JAZZ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Mark Lowrey Presents, 8 p.m. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Max Groove. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. Live jazz, 6 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m.
DANCE Madrigall: 1627 Oak, 816-472-4400. 2 Step Tuesday, featuring KC Elite 2 Steppers and Grown & Sexy Sliders.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Horror Remix. The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Bingo with Alicia Solo; Scrabble Club, 7 p.m. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Coda Pursuit Team Trivia with Teague Hayes, 7 p.m. The Drop: 409 E. 31st St., 816-756-3767. Brodioke, 9:30 p.m. Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m. Johnny’s Tavern: 13410 W. 62nd Terr., Shawnee, 913962-5777. Bingo Boogie Nights, 9 p.m. Johnny’s Tavern: 11316 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-851-5165. Texas Hold ’em. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Buttwiser’s Bash with DJ Double D, 10 p.m., free. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-4038571. KSU basketball, 8 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Critter’s Tye Dye Tuesday. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Gayme Night upstairs, in-house tournament, Wii and NTN Trivia, 7:30-10 p.m.; karaoke on the main floor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.
METAL The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Ask an Adult, For All Mankind, Bella Muerte, Gunpowder Secrets, the Faded Age.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Scott Ford Songwriter Showcase, 7 p.m.
W E D N E S DAY 1 ROCK/POP/INDIE 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. Drew6, 6 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sneaky Creeps, Cock Douglas, Cupcake, 9 p.m.; Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Next to Kin, Burning Tide, Adam Evolving, 8 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Mike Dillon, Malachy Papers, Yojimbo. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Billy Ebeling. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Gospel Lounge with Carl Butler, 7:30 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Nace Brothers, 6 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Shinetop Jr.
DJ Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Live DJ, midnight. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Pure.
HIP-HOP The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Monster and thePhantom*.
ACOUSTIC Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. Live acoustic.
JAZZ B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. New Vintage Big Band. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913642-9090. Greg Tugman, 11 a.m.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Angels Rock Bar: 1323 Walnut, 816-896-3943. Wednesdays Reloaded: Service Industry Night. Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. The Cashew: 2000 Grand, 816-221-5858. KU vs. Oklahoma. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m. 403 Club: 403 N. Fifth St., 913-499-8392. Pinball Tournament, 8:30 p.m., $5 entry fee. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Karaoke with DJ/VJ Hambone, Ladies’ Night. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. John Heffron, 7:30 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Karaoke, 9:30 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Karaoke. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Club Jerry’s, reverse happy hour. Johnny’s Tavern: 6765 W. 119th St., Leawood, 913-4514542. Texas Hold ’em. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with the Queen, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Dirty Game Show, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Ladies’ Night. Outabounds Sports Bar & Grill: 3601 Broadway, 816214-8732. Karaoke with DJ Chad, 9 p.m. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Ladies’ Night with DJ Thorny, 6 p.m. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Pop Culture Trivia. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 8 p.m. Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-8561514. Pride Night, 8 p.m.
EASY LISTENING Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Colby & Mole.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 7 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam. 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. Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816-833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30 p.m.
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savage love Dirty Secrets Dear Dan: Have boyfriend. Several months. Love sex. First time we 69, I notice he has a little turtlehead sticking out. You get me? Second time, he has bits of toilet paper stuck in that area. How do I address this without giving him a permanently flaccid penis? I love this man to pieces. Mired in the Mud Dear MITM: Got you. Wish didn’t. But did. If you don’t have the nerve to speak up when someone is grinding shitbuds and dingleberries in the vicinity of your nostrils, I’m not sure there’s anything I can say that’s gonna help. But yes, you address it — immediately. When someone allows you BY to place your face in the general vicinity of a dirty asscrack, DAN you say something along the S AVA G E lines of “What the fuck, dude, go take a dump and jump in the shower!” Say it without hesitation and concern for his feelings, and as you leap out of bed and reach for your shirt, pants, car keys and phone. Even if he’s never able to get another erection with you, he’ll know to spot-check for cleanliness before he crawls on top of anyone else. Dear Dan: I’m a 23-year-old gay guy. I’ve been talking to a nice guy who may become my first boyfriend. Problem is, I’m a virgin. It’s not that big a deal to me, but he made an aside about virginity (unprompted by me) during one of our chats: “No, I’m not a virgin. That’s nothing that you should worry about with me.” Should I have told him? What if I tell him during sex? Thank you for what you do. I found the courage to come out because of you. Ready and Willing Dear RAW: If you found the courage to come out to family and friends about being gay (which you did yourself, but thanks for the compliment), you can come out to this boy about being a virgin. Don’t tell him during sex or in a way that makes it seem like a character flaw, a cancer diagnosis or a request for an open marriage six years after you began an adulterous affair with a congressional staffer. There’s nothing wrong with you. Initiate a casual, low-stakes, gettingto-know-you makeout session (when you can’t transition to full-on, no-holes-barred gay sex). Relax, kiss the boy, be chill. Then pause and inform him that you’re not very sexually experienced, that you’ve never been with anyone. Reassure him that you’re not a duckling — you’re not going to imprint on the first dick you see — but that you wanted him to know. Dear Dan: How are you supposed to react to the discovery that your youngest brother has a “femdom” relationship with his wife? I stumbled over my brother’s “anonymous” sex blog. It goes into 34
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detail about the “domestic discipline” she subjects him to: humiliation, spanking, “ruined orgasms,” cuckolding. There are no names, and their faces are blurred out, but I recognize their living room, their bedroom, the necklace my sister-in-law wears, my brother’s chin and hair. If I recognized them, other family members might. What do I say? Biggest Big Bro Dear BBB: Besides “Hey, bro, I’m kinky, too!”? (You “stumbled over” your brother’s kinky sex blog?) If you can’t bring yourself to say that, you say nothing and trust that more-distant, lesskinky family members are unlikely to “stumble over” your brother’s anonymous femdom blog anytime soon. If they do, they’re probably not familiar enough with their home, jewelry, chins, etc., to recognize him. Dear Dan: Congrats. It looks like you’ve got your first high-profile “monogamish” public figure: Newt Gingrich. You must be so proud. Savage Can’t Understand Monogamy Dear SCUM: Newt Gingrich, brave defender of traditional marriage, had been fucking Callista, his devoutly Catholic mistress, for six years when he asked his second wife to agree to an open marriage. Newt’s second wife wouldn’t agree, according to Newt’s second wife, which is how she became Newt’s second ex-wife and the devoutly Catholic Callista became Newt’s third wife. That’s not monogamish. That’s CPOSish. Newt, like Arnold before him, didn’t succeed at nonmonogamy; he failed at monogamy. The Gingrich campaign has presented the story as a redemption narrative: Newt is a better man today, thanks to Callista; he’s better suited to be president, thanks to Callista; and he’s better prepared to defend traditional marriage, thanks to Callista. She’s been described as a “devout Catholic” in every profile written about her. So it seems fair to ask if Callista knew in advance that Newt was proposing an open marriage to his then-wife and approved of the arrangement. Would the devout Catholic still be Newt’s mistress today if the second Mrs. Gingrich had agreed to remain in the marriage that Newt had already opened? Questioning Callista about the open marriage proposal — what did the mistress know and when did she know it? — seems like an entirely legit line of inquiry. Callista Gingrich, like her vile husband, doesn’t believe that gays and lesbians should be equal under the law because she believes that homosexuality is a sin and that homosexuals should remain celibate. Well, the Catholic Church considers adultery, divorce and birth control sinful, too. Someone in the liberal media really ought to ask Callista to explain why her faith should place limits on my sexual expression but not her own. Have a question for Dan Savage? E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net
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MO-DOWNTOWN $610+ 816-471-2751 The Courthouse Lofts on Grand Boulevard offers the finest in affordable apartment living in a truly urban setting. A complete historic rehabilitation of the 1939 former Federal Courthouse creates 176 new apartment lofts in the heart of downtown KC. Heated underground parking - In-unit laundry and premium finishes - Affordable downtown living from $610/month **Income restrictions apply. Please call for details. MO-GILLHAM PARK $495/MO 816-785-2875 RARE opportunity 1 unit vacancy. Beautiful Loft style Apartment on Gillham Park great views completely New everything. Exposed brick, marble floors, exposed ceilings (3rd floor units), hardwood floors, claw foot or jacuzzi tubs its all here right on Gillham Park with great sunset views. Completely new and updated with new Refrigerator, stove, Central air, furnace, garbage disposal, microwave/hood, maple cabinets and tons more. As low as $495/mo w/ lease. Big 1 bdrms in a great part of town. Onsite mgmt. Call Wes at 816-785-2875 or Dave at 913-244-4892 MO-KANSAS CITY STARTING AT $395 816-231-2874 Stonewall Court apartments-2500 Independence Ave. Central air, secure entry, on site laundry, on bus line, close to shopping. Nice apartments, Sec 8 welcome. $100 Deposit Office hours M-F 8-5 MO-KCAI $450 (816)756-2380 4130 Warwick. 1 bedroom apartment. www.KNAACKPROPERTIES.COM
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