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t takes about 25 minutes to dig a hole in the sand large enough to accommodate a man who is 5 feet 6 inches tall. Richard Gibson knows this because he has shoveled out what is called in the Marine Corps a “Ranger grave.” The idea is that in lieu of barracks, you dig a hole until you can lie in it on your back, your nose beneath the ground, so that if a mortar explodes nearby, the shrapnel will explode overhead. The reality is that it’s better to be lucky than a good digger. It was March 2003 when Gibson’s unit, part of the 5th Battalion, 3rd Marine Regiment, rolled to a stop outside the ancient city of Samarra in Iraq. In the shadow of the structure that Marco Polo once thought was the Tower of Babel, Gibson began to dig. Sweat pooled inside his chemical-biological warfare suit, but it felt good to work his muscles after spending 12 hours behind the wheel of a Humvee. Marines aren’t trained to be idle. When everything stops, they’re like a spring coiled with tension. But he had ﬁnished the hole. “Those were the darkest times in Iraq. After I said my prayers,” Gibson says. “I said, ‘Let me wake up.’ I tried to ﬁnd a happy place.” Rather than dig himself apart, he turned to music. In a hole 9 inches deep, he mentally replayed Johan Jonatan “Jussi” Björling, his father’s favorite, singing “Nessun Dorma” (which translates from Italian into English as “None Shall Sleep”), an aria from the opera Turandot.

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t’s about an hour before the curtain rises for the very ﬁrst time at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. It’s September 16, and the Muriel Kauffman Theatre is packed, some having paid as much $1,000 a seat for the opportunity to be the ﬁrst inside the Moshe Safdie-designed building that was 16 years in the making. Gibson, 30, is walking around backstage, stretching his legs and his voice. Gray hair sneaks in at the temples of his jet-black hair; his brown eyes burn intensely. This is Gibson’s sixth season with the Lyric Opera, but the stage is suddenly a lot larger. He continued on page 8 pitch.com MOOCNT TO H B EXRX–X 6 - 1X2, , 220001 X 1 pitch.com

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catches a glimpse of Broadway legend Patti LuPone and sees a tall, thin ﬁgure who looks just like Tommy Tune sans his tap shoes. It is Tune, in town to christen the stage alongside LuPone and famed tenor Placido Domingo. “I’m trying to be cool, but it’s surreal,” Gibson will say later. “I just want to pull up a cot in back and sleep there.” Instead, he touches the dog tags under his pirate shirt — the Lyric Opera is performing selections from The Pirates of Penzance — and remembers that he is not just singing for himself. All too soon, the stage manager calls for places. “As a performer that is still struggling and working, you always wonder: What type of stage is too big for me?” Gibson says. He steps out from the wings to discover the answer.

now was on the ground when the Gibson family arrived in central Minnesota. The family of six had traveled more than 8,000 miles, emigrating from Grahamstown, South Africa, with just $8,000 to their name. It was two days before Christmas. Richard was 5 years old. Soon after their arrival, Richard’s father, Hugo, took a position at Cleveland Chiropractic College in Kansas City. He left the family in Minnesota while he taught and studied for the boards, which would allow him to practice in the United States. By Christmas the following year, Hugo was able to move everyone to Lee’s Summit. Growing up, Gibson seemed to be doing one of two things: singing or ﬁghting. The ﬁrst was by choice; the second was a result of the fact that he wasn’t one to compromise. “He was always an intense young man,” 82 tT hH eE pP iI tT cC h H

his mother, Judy, says. “I remember when he had friends over to our house. He made sure nobody took the Lord’s name in vain. He was a really passionate young man, and I guess that’s just carried over.” The youngest of four children, Gibson left South Africa at an early enough age that he didn’t speak with much of an accent. But bullies are never picky, their targets only having to be a little bit different. Gibson marks the passage of his childhood with dust-ups — and moments onstage. Miss Garnett was his music teacher when

ﬁght, but the bullying stopped. I didn’t ﬁght again until the Marine Corps.” Schoolyard tensions relieved, Gibson embraced singing. He was cast as a duck in a high school production of Pippin. He also spent hours in the basement with his father and the recordings of Björling, a celebrated tenor who had debuted at Carnegie Hall 60 years before. Gibson found himself in the very same spot as a member of the school choir. “The great doors opened, and there I am,” he says. “That’s why I had the dream of one day being an opera singer when I had no business doing that.”

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Real life was waiting outside the concert hall, and for Gibson, that meant a riﬂe and a gun. Since the age of 7, when he got a Special Forces T-shirt while on vacation in Cape Cod, he knew he would be a military man. He graduated from high school in 1999 and, 12 days later, he arrived at basic training at Camp Pendleton in Southern California. “The ﬁrst day I was there, one of the drill instructors asked if anybody could knock on the door like a man,” Gibson says. “I wanted

Gibson’s service in the Marines ended in 2003. to do a good job, so I knocked the hell out of that door.” He was made squad leader of his platoon. It’s a post you’re not meant to keep. The Marines knock you down before piecing you back together. Nobody ﬁgured out how to knock down Gibson, though. He was still squad leader when boot camp ended in August. After learning combat skills at the School of Infantry, Gibson continued his training in the Security Force Regiment, the counterterrorism unit of the Marine Corps. Six months after graduating high school, he was stationed in Bahrain, an island kingdom in the Persian Gulf.

ibson looks in the mirror, slipping a white T-shirt over his head. A tattoo on his chest peeks out from the V-neck. It’s a figure kneeling in prayer beneath a trio of mountains. The tattoo is a reminder of what it’s like to be 18 and a grunt. “I saw myself on a mountaintop, praying for forgiveness and the men lost in battle,” Gibson says. It’s a half-hour before the final dress rehearsal of Giacomo Puccini’s Turandot, the opera that Gibson recalled under the stars in Iraq. A cast of 122 tells the story of the Chinese princess who, not wishing to marry, subjects her would-be suitors to three riddles. They must answer them correctly or die. A mysterious prince rises to the challenge to win her hand. In the muted-gray dressing room on the sixth level of the Kauffman Center, tenor Trent Green pulls off a bright-green dress shirt as he warms up his voice. Green is 6 feet tall and cuts an elegant figure. “I can’t believe you let me go onstage with you guys,”

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Gibson tells Tom Garrison, a fellow bass and a 28-year veteran of the Lyric. Gibson heads to wardrobe for last-minute alterations to his peasant’s costume, navigating the halls in black canvas shoes. “Chinese people wore their hats straight on,” costume designer Mary Traylor tells him. “You don’t look Chinese.” Gibson gazes at the mirror. “I look like $15,” he says. “I’m probably the only guy the size of a Chinese guy in the cast.” Hat straightened, it’s back to the dressing room, where Gibson dons headphones and cranks his anthem, Stevie Ray Vaughan performing “Voodoo Chile” at Carnegie Hall. This is how he harnesses his adrenaline, by putting himself in the shoes of the greats.

hen the phone rang one day in 2003, Judy Gibson didn’t expect to hear the voice of her youngest child. But it was Richard, using a satellite phone that an MSNBC news crew had let him borrow. He was driving the news team in and out of Baghdad. Turn on your television, he told his mother. “There’s [reporter] Chip Reid, and then we hear ‘Amazing Grace,’ and I recognize Richard’s voice,” she says. “The camera pans across these huge, big black guys and then it comes to this tiny, little short white guy, and there we saw the passion that he had for the Marines and for singing,” Judy remembers. She and Hugo watched MSNBC for Reid’s reports from Iraq because wherever he was, Richard would be driving him. Gibson’s fellow Marines, meanwhile, tracked his movements a different way. “Every once in a while, you’d be walking through barracks and hearing a voice just booming off the walls,” says Francisco Quintero, a staff sergeant who served with Gibson in Iraq. “Sure enough, it was Richard, the voice.”

Gibson prepares before a performance. Quintero is today stationed at Camp Pendleton. He has just had what he hopes is the last surgery to remove a 3-inch shard of metal from his intestine. He’s eager for his twin daughters, who were born prematurely, to come home from the hospital. Delicate moments like these remind Quintero of his friendship with Gibson, whose counsel he sought when they were in Iraq. “Richard was always in control,” Quintero says. “He knew exactly what was going on around him. He was under pressure, but he didn’t show it.”

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ibson’s service in the Marine Corps ended on June 1, 2003, one month after thenPresident George W. Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier and declared “mission accomplished.” Gibson drove back to Kansas City in a 1989 Chevy Corsica hatchback. The neighbors had tied yellow ribbons around the trees, and his mother threw him an impromptu homecoming party. “It was this state of euphoria,” Gibson says. “I was back and I had survived. But then, I thought, Oh, shit, what now?” He took a job as a server at Tuscany Manor, a restaurant in Lee’s Summit. He got engaged. But six months later, the wedding was off. “I pushed her away,” Gibson says. “I was angry. If I knew the monster I was going to become, I would have just left her alone.” A short time after the breakup, he was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. He didn’t want to ﬁght. So he ﬂew — to South Africa to track down the man who had taught his father to sing opera. As a young man in the early 1960s, Hugo Gibson worked in the insurance business, an odd career choice for someone who liked to ride motorcycles and continued on page 10 pitch.com MOOCNTTOHB EXRX–X 6 -X 1 2, , 220001X1 pitch.com

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raise hell. One day, a colleague invited him to attend a singing class with a voice teacher named Llewellyn Hansen. On a whim, he accepted, never expecting that the following day, he’d be singing in front of a piano. “I owe a great, great deal to singing,” Hugo says. “It offered me a way out from the kind of life I was living and opened up doors to me that would not have opened any other way.” Hansen helped Gibson ﬁnd his voice, a resonant bass that he would pass on to Richard. Before coming to America, Gibson sang with a chorus in Pretoria. The elder Gibson doesn’t regret his eventual decision to pursue a more traditional career. “Would I have been a successful singer in the long term? I must answer no. I think I would have been one of the operatic tragedies,” he says. But he knew what it meant to him to study with Hansen. So he wrote letters from his chiropractic office and sent Richard on a plane to track down the voice teacher. A week later, Richard was standing in front of a house in Johannesburg. Dogs stirred at his knock. “Are you Hugo Gibson’s son? I’ve been expecting you,” Hansen said.

our months and 62 voice lessons later, driven with a passion for singing, Gibson returned to Kansas City. He received a scholarship to attend the University of MissouriKansas City’s Conservatory of Music and Dance. It was there that he ﬁrst met Gustavo Halley, his current voice teacher. At age 71, Halley has a voice that still rumbles. He moves round his house in Waldo with the grace of a former athlete. Halley played baseball as a young man in Havana, Cuba,

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but it was his bass-baritone that allowed him to see Europe. The man known as “Papi” to his students saw a little bit of himself in Gibson, who was 26 when he began working with Halley. “There is a sort of parallel with him and me that I understand very well,” Halley says. “I was a jock, but I had this sensitive side that made me feel different to the other boys. The ones who were sensitive didn’t know anything about sports. I felt kind of left in between, and he is the same way.” Under Halley’s tutelage, Gibson won a part in the chorus for the Lyric Opera’s production of Aida. It was 2006. For the first time in his life, he was being paid to sing. “He’s someone you kind of notice,” says Evan Luskin, general director of the Lyric Opera. “He has a real theatrical side and he just knows how to handle himself onstage. He has a wonderful, wonderful deep voice, and given his background in the Marines, he knows how to march. He really looks the real thing.” Gibson still had a lot to learn about his own voice. He struggled in his performance-based courses at UMKC. The metronome chimed his failure in perfect tempo. “My anxiety came back, and I was straight back in Iraq. There, if I screwed up, people would die. It was very difficult to try and get out of that,” Gibson remembers. He lost his scholarship but not his resolve. Just over a year ago, Gibson left school and moved in with his older brother, Donald, also a former Marine. He sought out counseling whenever he felt himself withdrawing from the world around him. He kept working with Halley, who had retired from UMKC but continues to coach. “Richard is a perfectionist, and that’s a double-edged sword,” Halley says. “It means he works very hard, but it’s also difficult for

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him to be comfortable unless he knows something very well.” Life became more uncomfortable about a month ago for Gibson. Donald moved into a one-bedroom apartment, and Richard left his job as a bartender at Jardine’s. “I’m homeless and I’m jobless,” Gibson says. “But my dreams are coming true. I know it’s going to be OK.” Halley and his wife, Sarah, invited Gibson to move into their home. “When you sing about love and death and betrayal, you get very close,” Halley explains.

crowd of close to 400 people sits in the Muriel Kauffman Theatre. It’s a Thursday night. Family, friends and benefactors have been invited to watch the final dress rehearsal from the balcony. Halley is in the audience, hopeful that this production signals a new chapter for the opera and his student. “His voice is really coming up,” he says of Gibson. “He’s like a pitcher with two good pitches. He just needs to have command of another two or three before he goes to the majors.” And this is the majors. Turandot is the largest production in the 54-year history of the Lyric. The company has spent close to $175,000 on sets and costumes, which will be rented to the Austin Lyric Opera — a sign that other companies are taking notice of what is happening at the Kauffman Center. Luskin is also talking with the San Francisco Opera and the Washington National Opera about possible future collaborations. Luskin, for his part, hopes that Turandot will raise the Lyric’s profile. He sees more opportunities for singers like Gibson. “You never know who is going to be phenomenally talented. You just have to give them a chance,” he says. Three floors away, Gibson exhales in short,

Gibson with voice teacher Gustavo Halley (left) and onstage. quick breaths beneath the light bulbs that wrap around the dressing-room mirror. “I just want to connect with the audience,” he will say later of his preparation. “I want to figure out what they want and give it to them. This is a moment in history that we’re sharing, and nobody can take it from us.” The sound of instruments tuning quiets the crowd. The music swells from the orchestra pit, and applause masks the sound of 200 feet shuffling onto the stage. The blue curtain rises. Gibson stands on the stage. He stretches on the balls of his feet. His mouth opens wide, and he begins to sing. In the third act, tenor Arnold Rawls stands in the center of the stage and belts out “Nessun Dorma.” No one is sleeping. A short while later, the audience’s applause does not let up until Rawls and his fellow leads have taken three bows. Gibson lowers his head when it’s time for the chorus to be recognized. His feet move slowly through the confetti that fell during the finale. There is a bottleneck in the wings. Gibson uses the time to look out at the balcony, taking his hat off and running his hand through his hair. This is a moment that he doesn’t want to forget. “The memories don’t go away in the quiet moments of our life,” he says. “They are always there waiting when your head hits the pillow.” And this night, when his head hits the pillow, it is “Nessun Dorma” that he will hear. Eight years later, he’s not escaping. He’s running toward that dream. The Lyric Opera’s performances of Turandot on Friday, October 7, and Sunday, October 9, are sold-out. E-mail jonathan.bender@pitch.com

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KC’s oldest haunted house, the Edge of Hell in the West Bottoms, stands tall at 666 feet above sea level. For the past 27 years, one of its seasonal residents has been Rat Man (real name: Harry Lewetzow), who’s known for creeping out crowds by letting rodents crawl about his face and body. Rat Man aims to frighten audiences, and he says he generally doesn’t run into any problems doing just that, although it’s becoming increasingly difficult to rattle crowds used to professional-grade special effects. We FIND caught up with the MANY MORE man who allows rats in his mouth to ask about his creepy gig. The Pitch: What’s the LISTINGS hardest part of having ONLINE AT rats in your mouth? PITCH.COM Rat Man: When the rats scratch or fight. It happens even more on cold nights. Have you ever been bitten? Have there been any accidents? Yes. I tripped one time on the sidewalk and landed on my face. That mashed the rat in my front pocket. Next! What do you personally find scary? It’s hard to get scared when you’re down here all the time. When I’m in costume, I’m not scared of the snake (Medusa, the 26-foot, 350-pound reticulated python inside the Edge of Hell), but I know it just thinks I’m a 160-pound rat. Haunted houses the Edge of Hell and the Beast are now open Thursday through Sunday, and Macabre Cinema and the Chambers of Edgar Allan Poe are open Fridays and Saturdays through October 31. For information and to purchase tickets, see kcbeast.com. — JENNA JAKOWATZ

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Piper Lofts (117 West 20th Street, 816-421-8585): A 24-hour look at artist Marc Shank’s hometown of Liberal, Kansas, Welcome

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to Scurvyville is a collection of nine paintings that simulates a roving eye over the locale of Scurvyville, a fictional town of lovably bulging eyes, guts and asses. Saturday-morning grotesque, his storyboard characters are familyfriendly, soft-edged prostitutes and maniacs who scrape an existence from the dim perspectives of the cartoon village they inhabit. The exhibit opens tonight from 6 to 10 p.m. MRP Gallery (1816 McGee): Though equally titillating (and perhaps perverted), Candychrome, fetish photography by Dirk Hooper, is definitely not a Victoria’s Secret catalog. These alternative models are your co-workers, diner waitresses and checkout clerks in fantasies as dark and twisted as Kanye West’s, but egoless. Laid bare in photography of fetish and bondage, the sex is straightforward, and the fantasy practical. It opens from 7 to 10 p.m. City Arts Project (2015 Campbell, 816-820-4105): Curated by Matt Jacobs and David Rhoads, Twenty Something means more than crises of unemployment and immaturity. For eight local artists, whose works range

from delicate textile to beastly sculpture, Twenty Something displays the opposite: It takes professionals to organize and open this kind of exhibition. Be proud — this is KC’s next generation of high-profile artists. It opens from 6 to 9 p.m. — KENT SZLAUDERBACH

Tickets cost $20-$50. Due to the apparently Anglophobic content of his act, nobody under 18 will be admitted. For more information, see raoulsvelvetroom.com. — CHRIS PACKHAM

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What can we say about stand-up comic Doug Stanhope that hasn’t already been said, like, a million times? Well, we could say he’s a very sweet and endearing soul to whom puppies and children are naturally drawn. While pretty original, that would lack what the French call “le accuracy.” Onstage, Stanhope is reckless (kind of like a sociopathic kid who somehow got access to a backhoe). Past performances have addressed pedophilia, racism, antiSemitism, and also one particular anti-royalty routine that got him kicked out of the Leeds Festival in the U.K. Naturally, his media appearances have included Howard Stern, Louie and Comedy Central’s The Man Show. Catch his act at 7 p.m. at Raoul’s Velvet Room (7222 West 119th Street, Overland Park, 913-469-0466).

For foodies, celebrity chefs are the Dave Grohls and Katy Perrys of the culinary world. Anne Burrell’s new book, Cook Like a Rock Star, acknowledges this, making it look easy the way Angus Young makes playing a guitar solo look effortless. But you can learn some amazing kitchen techniques without committing to a decade of intense practice. As a matter of fact, Burrell’s book claims to be able to teach you how to cook “without a sweat,” and she brings practical kitchen experience and Culinary Institute of America training to bear (as well as an endorsement from Mario Batali). See her at work at noon today at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street, 816-561-4466). One admission to the continued on page 14

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Opposite of the gloomy, gothic trappings of Allhallow’s Eve, Día de los Muertes — or Day of the Dead — is characterized by neon sugar skulls and orange Mexican marigolds. Rooted in indigenous Mexican culture, the holiday is now celebrated in connection with the Catholic holidays of All Saints’ Day on November 1 and All Souls’ Day on November 2. From October 7 through November 12, the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery (919 West 17th Street, 816-221-2349) honors KC’s Latino community with an exhibit providing a closer look at ofrendas (colorful, handmade altars dedicated to dead loved ones)and other Día de los Muertes-inspired art created by local families and artists. The fiesta begins at 6 p.m. when the longest-running Day of the Dead festival in the city takes over 17th Street outside the gallery. Expect music, dancing, local food, a kid’s carnival (with face painting and games), and two highlights that aren’t to be missed: a jalapeño-eating contest and a fiery set from local bilingual indie-rock band Making Movies. For more information, see mattierhodes.org. — ELKE MERMIS [ F E S T I VA L ]

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Sometimes it’s easy to forget that there are things to do in Kansas City, Kansas, besides eating awesome Mexican food and visiting the Legends. For another family-friendly option, try Turner Days, a community festival sponsored by the Turner Recreation Commission. Events begin today with a 5k run/ walk benefiting the Livestrong Foundation in memory of Denise Hansen, a longtime TRC board member. The race is followed by a parade and what are perhaps the most anticipated events of the whole shebang: a mud volleyball tournament and an eating contest. Naturally, there also will be vendors, fair food (read: turkey legs and funnel cake) and carnival games, and a car show on Sunday. Admission is free, and events take place at Steineger Field behind Turner Middle School (1312 South 55th Street, Kansas City, Kansas). See turnerdays.com for more information. — APRIL FLEMING

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Autumn is definitely the creepiest season of the year, bringing a chilly, annual recurrence of an old strain of American Gothicism — one that gave us The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and all those scary short stories in that book Tales to Be Told in the Dark, which you ordered from the very spooky National Scholastic order form back in fourth grade. Speaking of children — in particular, the kind of children who are “of the corn”— this year’s crop is as high as an elephant’s eye, so it’s time to head 14 2 TtHhEe PpIiTtCcHh

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Show reverence on All Saints’ Day (see Saturday). to the KC Pumpkin Patch and Corn Maze (29755 West 191st Street, Gardner, 913-484-6251). From the air, this year’s maze is shaped like the logo of Kansas City’s most terrifying soccer team, Sporting KC. But from ground level, it’s a dense labyrinth of maize. Activities also include a roller slide, family pingpong, a paintball gallery and more. Admission to the maze costs $8 but is free for kids younger than 4. The pumpkin patch costs $10 with an additional charge for pumpkins. For times, events and information, see the not-at-all spooky kcpumpkinpatch.com — CHRIS PACKHAM [FILM]

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If a trip to Broadway is cost-prohibitive in this down economy, then a pilgrimage to London is completely out of the question. So Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222) brings the West End to Westport with three performances of the National Theatre of London, presented in high definition. The National Theatre Live series kicks off with Richard Bean’s comic hit One Man, Two Guvnors, in which hapless, hungry Francis Henshall, suffering his own economic downturn, finds himself in the employ of both a small-time hood and a fugitive murderer, whose meeting he must prevent. The farce unfolds at 2 p.m. today and again at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The series continues with Arnold Wesker’s The Kitchen (in November) and John Hodge’s Collaborators (in January). Regular adult admission costs $15 per show, but a $30 National Theatre Live season ticket admits you to all three. See tivolikc.com for details. — BRENT SHEPHERD

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Playwright Christopher Shinn was only 33 years old when Dying City became a Pulitzer Prize finalist for drama in 2008. Playing now at Fishtank Performance Studio, the play is about the relationship between a young female therapist and the twin brother of her husband, who was an Iraq War casualty. Director Trevor Belt has this to say about

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hat a bunch of assholes. (It’s OK to say assholes — we’re in a movie.) What a bunch of fucking asshole motherfuckers. (It’s OK — we’re in an R-rated movie.) What a bunch of … Democrats? (It’s OK — we’re in a George Clooney movie.) The Ides of March, in which Clooney stars as an impossibly fair-minded presidential candidate and directs an impossibly smart cast, posits an ugly primary race in some other year, run by Democrats of unrecognizable viciousness. BY It’s both love letter to liberal SCOTT politics and Dear John note to the compromised Obama adWILSON ministration. But those poles aren’t so far apart, so to set farleft idealism against the necessary crush of the electoral machine, Ides amps up the melodrama. Embarrassingly predictable melodrama. This is the rare political movie with a plot that’s too easy to follow. The fault seems to lie with the source material: Beau Willimon’s 2008 play, Farragut North, which the writer based partly on Howard Dean’s failed 2004 presidential campaign. Clooney plays Mike Morris, as idealistic a contender as the movies have rendered — which is to say, not someone a Democratic National Committee run by “an asshole,” as various characters refer to him, would have let get this far. Beyond that lapse, the script, credited to Clooney, Willimon and Grant Heslov, has its moments. The writers assign a few short, stagey scenes to everyone in the cast but Clooney, hoping that we’ll confuse the actor-director’s generosity for his character’s, doing a job the screenplay fails to accomplish. And, oh, that cast. The story’s fucking asshole motherfuckers are inhabited by Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei and Jeffrey Wright, none of whom end up doing very much except make you wish for more. But even the best of those finely acted moments halt the movie’s already scant momentum. We know it’s time for another little speech whenever an A-lister shows up. It all plays like sixth-season West Wing. Those speeches are invariably delivered to — and not by — Stephen Meyers, the 30-year-old campaign whiz kid at the story’s center. Ryan Gosling makes Meyers a brooding cipher, which works ﬁne when the point is attracting the intern played by Evan Rachel Wood, but it’s hard to buy him as a sought-after idea man. Giamatti, in top, droopy type here as the cynical chess master running the adversary’s campaign, is forced to

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speak to Gosling like a desperate man trying to pick up a hot prospect at last call. “You make it look easy,” Giamatti says, though Meyers has yet to make anything look easy — or hard. (Leonardo DiCaprio, one of the ﬁlm’s producers, would have made a more kinetic foil for Clooney, but he seems uninterested these days in starring roles that don’t require period costumes, Boston accents or both.) If a loner adhering to a strict internal code sounds like a familiar Gosling part, it’s because Meyers could be the nameless wheelman the actor played in last month’s Drive. Like that oddly motivated character, Meyers gets his gyroscope wobbled by a woman. This time, it’s Wood, at her most hungry and least stable. Even John Edwards would know better than to get in bed with this woman. Didn’t Gosling see Mildred Pierce? Didn’t Clooney? As though still atoning for his whiny but well-reviewed turn in Blue Valentine, in which he borrowed Nicolas Cage’s Peggy Sue Got Married voice to play a far more aggressive version of Cage’s striving loser, Gosling dims his wattage lower even than he did in Drive. But his economy of expression fails to convey crucial information, and so does that undercooked script. Events that provide crucial motivation to Meyers occur off-screen. The aim may be to keep us wondering about Morris, but the movie gives up on moral ambiguity well before the credits roll. Photographed (by Phedon Papamichael) in spring drizzle and harsh junior-suite light, the movie looks more believable than it sounds. And the one scene that allows Hoffman and Giamatti to leer at each other in full Spy-vs.Spy mode is almost enough to forgive some of the story’s sins. But Ides is a lame duck. ■

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fter I took my friend Liz to dinner at Urban Table in Prairie Village, she told me that she wanted to open her own restaurant. “It’s going to be north of Independence Avenue,” she said. “I’m going to call it Suburban Table and serve casseroles and Sara Lee desserts with Cool Whip.” I thought it was a great idea, but she was just trying to make an ironic point. “No dining experience can be called urban if it’s plunked down in one of BY the metro’s oldest and whitest CHARLES suburbs,” she said. Alan Gaylin, one of the F E R R U Z Z A owners of Urban Table, chuck- orders right. I haven’t had that problem myled when I asked him if any of self, but it’s inevitable at restaurants where his patrons had similarly questioned its name one must order at a counter. Full table service and location. “I just tell people that Kansas City here has so far been available only during the is growing so fast,” he told me last week. “Prairie dinner hours — an unfortunate practice, given that the servers at breakfast and lunch deliver Village is practically the inner city.” Go ahead and laugh at that one, but remem- food, refill beverages and attend to guests with ber that a century ago, 31st Street and Broad- as much skill as exhibited during the dinner way was considered a suburb. Prairie Village shift. Why not let them take the orders all day? Of course, no one else I know seems to mind may not be an urban environment, but Gaylin’s two-month-old restaurant definitely draws an ordering at a counter, leaving me in the minority urbane crowd. I’ve eaten five meals there, and on the subject. But listen: There really is something stressful about standing it has been busy every time. in line, perusing the options Breakfast, lunch and dinner Urban Table on the boards hanging over each draw an interesting Bruschetta (four) ......... $13 the cashiers’ heads (and there mix of diners: stockbrokers, Beef chili .........................$6 are more than a few options), housewives, college students, Pork chop ..................... $18 only to feel rushed when it’s tattooed skateboarders, young Pork-schnitzel your turn. When people are couples with fussy toddlers, sammie ...................... $10 waiting behind you, as they women lunching in groups. French toast....................$7 usually are at this busy place, “This is my book club,” Cheddar-bacon biscuits .........................$7 the pressure is high to order a friend of mine announced Bear claw ........................$2 something — anything! — and when I ran into her there one not hold up the line. At a place night. She introduced me to that offers many fine, grownfive of her dining companions. “We pretend to talk about books and then up dishes, it’s disappointing to have to behave as though you’re choosing between a Big Mac we all come here for a mimosa.” Like BRGR, the first operation of Gaylin and and a Quarter Pounder. The food makes up for this annoyance and company’s Bread & Butter Concepts, Urban Table is designed to be a casual space for sophis- for others more petty. Gaylin made a shrewd ticated tastes. Both of the Prairie Village restau- move hiring the talented Brad Gilmore to overrants were immediate successes, suggesting that see a menu that offers breakfast every day until the company’s formula might work anywhere 4 p.m. and a completely different, but overlapping, lunch selection from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. in the metro — even an actual urban setting. Not that this prototype bistro doesn’t have The dinner menu offers yet a third array, and its a few kinks and eccentricities left to resolve. food is served late — very late, for the suburbs. When I first dined at Urban Table, the dinA running joke among three of my friends is the Urban Table cashier who, despite obvious ner menu changed every day, an ambition that affability, has never once gotten any of their proved hard to sustain. Two weeks ago, Gilmore

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and Gaylin decided to offer a more standardized set of choices each night. Now there’s always a pork chop on the menu, along with scallops, chicken, steak and a pasta dish. “The presentations might be different,” Gilmore says, “but the big changes will now be seasonal.” Though the pasta dish on each of my visits usually included meat, the kitchen crew is happy to prepare a meat-free version. My vegetarian friend Alex prefers the bruschetta, and she’s not alone. “It’s our best-selling dinner item,” Gaylin says. Of the nine toppings available atop the yeasty slice of Kansas City Bread Company ciabatta, six are vegetarian-friendly, including a lovely combination of creamy brie, fresh pear slices and a dash of truffle oil. Equally memorable: a fluffy goat cheese with slices of golden beets and slivered almonds. No matter how fine the bruschetta, though, man — this man, anyway — does not live by bread alone. Certainly not when there’s a grilled pork chop available that’s juicy and perfectly cooked. The chop I enjoyed one night came with a bubbling potato gratin, layered with nutty gruyere cheese — the dish was worth raving about. It’s hard to say no to that pork, even to order Urban Table’s superlative Wagyu sirloin (outrageously inexpensive) with gorgonzola-whipped spuds. Another night, I was tempted to dine, bistro-style, on nothing more than the charcuterie plate. Among its sliced meats was a delicious La Quercia prosciutto, and the cheeses, bread, olive oil and orange marmalade were perfectly matched. But the temperature outside had made an autumnal dip, and I craved chili. Gilmore’s lusty, meaty chili pitch.com pitch.com

— fragrant with onion, garlic and smoky bacon, with chopped tomatoes, sour cream and jalapeño peppers next to its little cast-iron pot – is a singular version of the dish, something to be dreamed of even in hot weather. Even the dishes I wasn’t especially eager to try were good. The pork-schnitzel sandwich that I tried one night — I’m sorry, I can’t bring myself to call a sandwich a “sammie,” as this menu does, without taking a Valium — I liked, not least due to the terrific, caraway-braised cabbage that topped it. Ordering it, I passed up the Paris-inspired Croque-Monsieur sam … sam … sammie, avoiding in the process the cloying it’s-a-small-world sensibility that its presence implies. In all of my visits, I sampled only one dish that failed me: a fish special that was too fishy and not nearly special enough. My favorite meal served at Urban Table remains breakfast, though. My complaints about how it’s ordered notwithstanding, none of the food I tried from the morning menu disappointed me. Not that I’ve sampled everything. “Have you had the mini waffles yet?” asked one of my co-workers. I told her that I can’t order anything “mini” before noon. And why should I when there’s a flaky, delicately glazed bear claw to be had? It’s big enough to share with a friend, preferably one who has already filled up on the airy and outstanding brioche French toast. But there’s no sharing the cheddar-bacon biscuits. There are just two in an order, and though the flaky creations are of ample size and come smothered in creamy, ground-chicken gravy (our server insisted it was pork, but nope), at that early hour, what’s mine is mine. Served in a small cast-iron skillet, the dish packs an unexpected punch: Gilmore tosses a pinch of red-pepper flakes into the gravy. Even plain toast is elevated here: ninegrain bread or ciabatta, served with butter or apricot preserves. If the latter has, to my tongue, the alarming consistency of Gerber’s baby food, it can be forgotten with a sip of the smooth and brisk coffee. Urban Table’s java comes from Intelligentsia, the Chicago company that has become a mainstay on the lists of coffee elitists around the country. You don’t have to be a snob to know how good this brew is, though. Unlike so much of what people have learned to tolerate, this coffee is blessedly far from bitter. At any hour, even early in the day, the main dining room here is insufferably noisy. The best refuge is the enclosed sidewalk porch around the restaurant’s perimeter. One can actually have a quiet, intimate conversation that way. And on a sunny Sunday morning, that’s a joy, no matter what part of town you’re dining in. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X T H E P I T C H 1 O C T O B E R 6 - 1 2 , 2 0 1 1 t h e p i t c h 19

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ansas City may someday recall the 2005 employee buyouts at Sprint as a key event in local culinary development. Venus Van Horn, a 20-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, was one of the workers trimmed from the rolls there. “It was 55 hours a week of sitting in a cubicle. I hated it. I wasn’t making people smile.” (Working there with Van Horn was Craig Adcock, who left the company and formed Belly Up BBQ and Jude’s Rum Cakes.) To make what she calls her “midlife transition,” she took classes and obtained a license from the United States Personal Chef Association. She was working at a trade show when Succotash owner Beth Barden came to talk to her about a potential client. Van Horn mentioned to Barden that being a personal chef wasn’t fulfilling. Barden needed an operations manager for the new restaurant that she’d opened in the Dutch Hill neighborhood. Van Horn lacked experience, but the women agreed that she was right for what turned out to be a tough job. She recalls: “My feet hurt. My back hurt. I lost 40 pounds. My bank account was bad. And I thought, Oh, my God, this is where I want to be.” She started as the catering manager but ended up spending most of her time on the line alongside chef Ceasar Reyes, with whom she bonded. “We had the same ideas about food, and we both dreamed of owning a restaurant,” Van Horn says. They began looking at restaurant properties the way young couples dream of buying their first home. But it was a truck in the alley behind Christopher Elbow’s chocolate shop that ultimately had the right price tag. For $900, the two started Magical Meatball Tour. Van Horn had noticed that meatballs were trending on both coasts, and the duo hit upon a quirky carnival theme for their rolling kitchen. A campaign on micro-lending site Kickstarter raised $10,190 in April. Friends pitched in, helping rewire and paint the truck. Their meatball barker, Mat “Slimm” Adkins, provides his services for free because he’s attempting to overcome a fear of public speaking. Van Horn and Reyes finally got their license from the city last month; she answered our questions last week. The Pitch: What’s your favorite ingredient? Van Horn: It’s seasonal. Right now, I’m into pumpkin, especially in ravioli. My sage has gone crazy in my herb garden, so we’ve been frying sage. It’s like chips — it’s so good. What was your best recent food find? Recently, I’ve become very fond of pomegranate molasses. You can purchase it in grocery stores, but it’s easy to make your own. I’ve been playing with it a lot lately. It’s great in both sweet and savory dishes. I hope to have a pomegranate meatball on our winter menu.

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What’s your favorite local ingredient? It’s Zim’s Hot Sauce. We use it in our “bleu balls.” It’s not just a hot sauce. It was created for chefs to use and incorporate in dishes. It’s a little bit smoky, a little bit spicy. What’s one food you hate? I had a really bad experience with some very chewy octopus recently. After about 20 minutes of chewing, it was not going to go away. So right now, I’m scared off it. What’s one food you love? I’m a beef eater. Give me a good steak, very bloody, and I’ll eat it for breakfast, lunch and dinner. I like butter on it. I crave steak like people crave chocolate. If I haven’t had a piece of steak in a week, I feel like a crazed vampire. I have low iron, so I need Guinness and steak. What’s always in your kitchen? Cream. I always have cream. I will go through the large container of cream in two or three days. I use it in my coffee and just about every dish I make. It adds a little something, probably fat. Whether I’m making a simple béchamel sauce for our pumpkin-sage balls or our queso, I’ll use cream. Besides your own place, where do you like to eat out? The food truck that I love is Indios Carbonsitos. I know much work goes into that food, and I love his pulled pork and brisket. What do you think is next for food trucks in the city? When we were talking to the city inspector, he said they’re getting new food trucks every week. The market is going to get oversaturated. People think it’s an easy moneymaker, but it’s not. I’m excited about the competition because I think that the cream will rise to the top. I say bring it on. Is it a challenge to overcome the perception of food trucks as roach coaches? The health department is really aware of food trucks. I think inspections were harder in the truck than in brick-and-mortar restaurants. You have to have a commissary, so it’s the same regulations, if not more strict, than a restaurant. It’s kind of neat because the bar is set so low that when people get a good product, they tell their friends. Now that you’re licensed, will you be hitting certain neighborhoods? I tell people to check our Facebook and Twitter. We’ve been very blessed in that the truck has sold itself. We’ve been really busy with private events. That’s pretty much what’s kept us rolling. —JONATHAN BENDER Read Van Horn’s ﬁve food-truck rules at pitch.com/fatcity

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Queen of the Underground LAURIE ANDERSON KICKS OFF THE KAUFFMAN CENTER’S VANGUARD SERIES.

inger, author, violinist, performance artist, visual artist, electronic-music pioneer, Lou Reed wife: Laurie Anderson’s artworld bona ﬁdes are unassailable. Who better to help launch the Kauffman Center for the Performing BY Arts’ Vanguard Series than someone who has spent her D AV I D career crisscrossing all the H U D N A L L genres that a proper arts center holds dear? On Sunday, Anderson performs Transitory Life, a retrospective show that draws from her entire body of work. The Pitch spoke to Anderson, on a tour stop in Boston, to see what to expect. The Pitch: Transitory Life is a retrospective of your work, but a lot of the art you’ve produced over the years is sort of famously hard to deﬁne. Can you give a sense of what we can expect? Multimedia? Spoken-word stuff? Anderson: I’ve been describing it as a kind of of the more emotional aspects of the show. The mental movie. There’s a lot of stories, adventure- performance kind of stretches out. I improvise type stories, that come from moments in my some things. It’s set up in terms of software, writing career. Like a story about trying to go to so it’s not linear, and that allows an incredible the North Pole. And there’s a story about when amount of freedom. There’s lots of characters, lots of ideas about how we move through time. I worked at McDonald’s. It’s this sort of weird wind that blows, and you Why did you work at McDonald’s? follow it around. At the time, I was frusI know you like to tinker trated. When you’re an artist, around and invent new elecyou do work, develop a style, Laurie Anderson. Sunday, October 9, at tronic-music instruments. and then you’re judged by that Kauffman Center for the Have you been working on any style. But I think of myself as Performing Arts. new toys lately? an experimental artist, and I guess the closest thing I don’t like having a type of would be — I’d been getting style. I like putting myself in experiences where I don’t know what to do. burned out on circuitry and software, so I did this show opening of my paintings, which I’d So I went to work at a McDonald’s for a while. Do you view Transitory Life as being especially never done before. It was a lot of clay and mud and iron. Big, messy, funky materials. And I political? There’s some politics. It’s hard to tell stories ended up making a violin out of the ashes of these days without politics coming into it some- my dog, which had just died. Like a functioning violin? how. And politicians, you know, they’re basically No, no, you can’t play it. It’s just sculpted from doing what I’m doing. They’re telling you about the world as they see it and telling you what they mud. But it was very physical. Dog’s ashes aren’t like people’s ashes. There are chunks of bone and think it should be. hair in dog’s ashes. I didn’t expect that. When What else besides the stories? There’s some altered voices, lots of proces- I added water to it, it almost felt like she was sors, some violin solos that are more or less short there, alive again, you know? I thought, “Am I stand-alone things. It’s kind of like movie music doing the right thing here?” To what extent do you think humor plays into — the music is rhythmically a counterpoint to the stories. As the narrator, I try to be the straight your work? I guess I think most things are funny, even man, but the violin can really cry, so that’s one 22

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if they’re sad or grotesque. And I trust laughter because it’s physical; you can’t fake it easily. It plays a big part in what I do. In some ways, I will sometimes think of myself as a stand-up comedian up there. What kind of stuff are you working on lately? I’m writing a string quartet, ﬁnishing my book, making paintings, designing a video installation. I’m a workaholic. The book is a collection of stories, some of which I do in Transitory Life. With stories, I do them to be spoken, not written. I work things out by saying them. I always want it to be like a conversation. I want to be able to really hear the backtracking and the pauses of a normal conversation. I don’t think in terms of paragraphs and punctuation. So I have to make some adjustments for the book. Are you aware that the venue where you’ll be performing here is brand-new? Yes, and it’s pretty amazing, right? Everyone is talking about it. I can’t wait to see it. E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6774.

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o casual fans and observers, Andrew Jackson Jihad is known as a folk-punk act with sharply funny lyrics. But singer and guitarist pitch.com

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Sean Bonnette ﬁnds this description distasteful. He has been working to correct it. On the acoustic duo’s 2005 debut, Candy Cigarettes and Cap Guns, there is a song called “Cigarette.” The lyrics go: Smoking makes you cool/And smoking makes you rule/So just light up a smoke and you’ll never go broke/And you’ll be the most popular kid in school/But only if you smoke Parliament. Another song, “I Love You,” goes: I like telling dirty jokes/And I like smoking crystal meth/But darling I love you/And I like laughing at retards/And I like throwing rocks at dogs/But darling I love you. The record contains many other cynical and outrageous statements that aim to shock listeners into laughter. And it succeeds. But Bonnette didn’t like the lines that he felt were being drawn around Andrew Jackson Jihad afterward. “I was sick of being called ‘hilarious’ all the time,” Bonnette says. “I was like, ‘You don’t understand. These songs are complete exaggerations, but they’re serious songs.’ ” “But looking back on those songs now, they weren’t serious songs,” he continues. “I think now when I write a new song, I feel like I’ve become a lot more articulate about how I’m expressing myself. Listening to my ﬁrst attempts, I made the entire songs jokes.” Each album since — continued on page 24 M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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right up to this year’s Knife Man — has drifted away from the overt silliness of the debut. There are still shocking lyrical elements, but they are deployed as tools to express more real, more personal ideas. The humor is dark, uncomfortable, blunt: There’s a bad man in everyone/No matter who you are/There’s a rapist and a Nazi/ Living in our tiny hearts. The lyrical content of the songs are a stark contrast to the duo’s music, which has an upbeat, campﬁre-sing-along feel. (The dissonance between the different tones creates what Bonnette calls “sad in the key of happy.”) But the band also bristles at the folk-punk label with which it is often tagged. As a result, Knife Man is a bit of a departure musically. After six years of primarily touring and recording as an acoustic folk band, Bonnette and his bandmate, Ben Gallaty, have incorporated roots rock, blues, country, and hints of indie-rock into Knife Man. There are very few straightforward folk songs. “There wasn’t too much thought that went into it other than our growing resentment of being pigeonholed as a folk-punk band,” Bonnette says of the new record. “That’s always something we’ve been told. We stopped agreeing with it after a while.” They also sought to approach the recording process differently. Rather than bring several already-written songs into the studio, they treated their songs as blueprints and collaborated with several musician friends to form the structures of the songs while in the studio. “We got to experiment a lot,” Bonnette says. “We got to change a lot of songs from how they sounded originally and turn them into something completely different. That’s always been a big dream of mine, to go into the studio with a skeleton of a song and then fucking tweak it.” Andrew Jackson Jihad is currently in the midst of a U.S. and Canadian tour, opening for English singer-songwriter Frank Turner. For now, and for their Kansas City show at RecordBar, they’re performing in their traditional two-piece style, but that might change in the future. “We’re hoping to do a live band tour and realize those songs as they were played on the record,” Bonnette says. That they’re performing as a duo on this tour should be no disappointment to those in atten24 OH B EXRX–X 6 - 1X2, , 220001 X 1 2 TtHhEe PpI iTtCcHh MOOCNT T

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dance. Andrew Jackson Jihad shows reflect an enthusiastic fanbase — audiences arrive fired up and ready to sing along. “I think the people that really, really like our band find something special in how direct the lyrics are,” Bonnette says. The band seems pleased with its newfound aesthetic variety and hopes to continue making unusual, unexpected albums. “We’d like to be like Ween but with less camp,” Bonnette says. “They do whatever they want.” —A ARON CARNES

Explosions in the Sky’s Adjusted Antennae

xplosions in the Sky’s self-described “cathartic mini-symphonies” are built from a brave vision. Rather than appoint a frontman to lead the group, all four members carry equal weight in the creation of their intricate, experimental music. The Austin-based group, composed of guitarists Munaf Rayani and Mark Smith, bassist Michael James and drummer Chris Hrasky, just released its sixth studio album, Take Care, Take Care, Take Care, which debuted at No. 16 on the Billboard 200. Hrasky took a break from a sound check the other day to talk to The Pitch about Austin, accusations of being unpatriotic, and doing the music for Friday Night Lights. The Pitch: What led you to become an allinstrumental band? Hrasky: When we ﬁrst started playing together, which was in spring of 1999, at the time we were listening to a lot of Mogwai and Dirty Three. They were pretty big inﬂuences on us at the time. Here are two bands that are really able to make evocative music, rock music essentially without vocals. We were pretty intrigued by that. Also, we kind of liked the idea that there wasn’t sort of the main guy that was dictating the direction of the songs, band or music. It seemed to be a way to make it more of a full collaboration between the four of us. It’s worked out really well. It’s been frustrating but also ultimately made us want to do it. What’s been frustrating? Working on music where there isn’t sort of the main guy controlling the situation is tough. We are all different people with differ-

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ent opinions and different tastes trying to all Explosions in the Sky: fierce competitors. make something we feel strongly about. That’s always going to be a frustration for us, but it Sky is fireworks on the Fourth of July. That is works in the end. We come up with stuff that directly where the name came from. You can’t we all really love. That can make the whole get more patriotic than that. We’re hoping it doesn’t become something. Most people’s reacwriting process stressful, though, I suppose. Is it hard to translate the studio material to tions were, This isn’t a news story. This is just ridiculous. This is just a band playing a show. a live setting? You’ve done music for television shows and It’s pretty natural for us. With the stuff on the new record, it’s been a little more of movies. Is it weird having executives with so a weird transition just because there’s a lot much control over the process? How was your more going on (more layers, samples and all experience? We had a great experience. We did all the sorts of crazy stuff ), so we had to figure out music for Friday Night Lights, how to pull that off live. All so we were in the studio for the other records are sort of six weeks exploring. We Andrew Jackson Jihad, just us setting up in a room with Over It, Into It thought it was going to be and playing. They’re more and Frank Turner. the kind of thing where there traditional studio records. Thursday, October 6, were producers breathing As the drummer, do you at RecordBar. down our necks and telling feel that your role is even more us, This is right, this is wrong, important because you’re an but it really wasn’t like that at instrumental band? Explosions in the Sky, with Wye Oak. all. The director would come It’s a lot more of an interWednesday, October 12, in every once in a while and esting role, rather than just at the Uptown Theater. sort of talk about what felt keeping the rhythm. It’s much right and what didn’t. That more a musical instrument, was fine. He’s the director. It’s if that makes any sense. The drums are as important as the other pieces. It’s his project. We’re essentially working for him. something that we all kind of talk to each other We didn’t have people coming in and telling us about. I will talk about ideas for the guitar and what to do. We were left alone, which was kind vice versa. They will tell me how the drums of amazing. I think that had a lot to do with the should come in. We all recognize the impor- music supervisor of the movie. He really liked tance of each part. our stuff, and he had a lot of clout at the time So it’s kind of like you are all equals, es- because he had just done the music for Lost sentially? in Translation. And that blew up, so he could Yes, very much so. kind of use that to talk to the executives. Like Considering that the 10th anniversary of the he could be the hip, cool guy. And it worked. 9/11 attacks just passed, do you think all of those What can Kansas City expect from your silly rumors about you being linked to the at- live show? tacks will resurface? [The band had coincidentally We just try to put as much as we can into it. released an album called Those Who Tell the Nothing is worse than paying for a band that Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell the Truth Shall looks like they’re just cashing a check or are Live, a few weeks before the 9/11 attacks. The bored. I hate that so much. It’s like, You get to go album art included a plane and a liner note that play music for a job. Work a little harder, buddy. read, “This plane will crash tomorrow.” Contro- [Laughs.] We play as hard as we can. The four versy and conspiracy theories ensued.] of us try to get lost in the music, and hopefully We played in Boise on September 11. There the audience gets engaged. This is what we do was already something stupid there, a sign up at for a living, and we realize how lucky we are. the theater. There was a new story about it on This is not a normal situation for most people. the Internet. You see stuff like that and you’re It’s a pretty great job to have. —KYLE EUSTICE like, “Why is this person writing this article? This is so dumb.” First of all, Explosions in the E-mail feedback@pitch.com

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1. The Wilders, with Howard Iceberg and the Grisly Hand If you live in Kansas City and like Americana music, this bill shouldn’t need an introduction. But if you’re one of those people who sits around and listens to Gram Parsons and Trace and never goes to shows, Friday would be a ﬁne evening to acquaint yourself with some worthy local country-rock bands who actually still exist. For the rest of us, it’s a chance to see the Wilders, who don’t play around here so much anymore. Friday, October 7, at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club (3402 Main, 816-753-1909)

2. St. Vincent Annie Clark, aka St. Vincent, is batting roughly a thousand — each of the three records she has released since 2006 has been embraced more warmly than the last. The Tulsa native wins points for being a dynamic female guitarist in a male-dominated scene and for the artfully disjointed structures of her orchestral songs, in which jagged edges swerve wildly around her delicate voice. You never feel like you’re on steady ground with St. Vincent, even though you actually are, which is what is so impressive. Friday, October 7, at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, in Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

3. Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald Looks like these two old pros really hit it off during 2010’s Dukes of September Rhythm Revue tour, which featured Scaggs, McDonald and Donald Fagen performing R&B hits from the 1950s and ’60s. No Fagen this time — he’s busy touring with Steely Dan — but there’s enough blue-eyed ’70s soul on this bill to make it worth your while. It’ll be a nice ﬁnale to the Starlight season. And if it’s a little chilly, a Scaggs cover of Teddy Pendergrass’ “Love TKO” ought to warm you up real nice. Friday, October 7, at Starlight Theater (4600 Starlight Road, in Swope Park, 816-363-7827)

4. Odd Future A tremendous amount of ink this year has been spilled — or, maybe more accurately, bandwidthconsumed — in the name of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA, or Odd Future for short). The Los Angeles rap collective is young, talented, black and angry — a lightning rod for social theory and moral outrage. The language is arguably more sociopathic, shocking and hateful than anything that has come before it (lots of rape, lots of murder), but the rapping is undeniably alive, like NWA in the ’80s. Tuesday, October 11, at The Granada (1020 Massachusetts, 785-842-1390)

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5. Kelley Hunt, with Trampled Under Foot Blues and soul singer — and Kansas City native — Kelley Hunt released a new record, Gravity Loves You, earlier this year. She’ll be at Knuckleheads to perform some of those songs solo on Sunday as part of a beneﬁt for the Head Start program in Wyandotte County. Joining Hunt is Trampled Under Foot, a young blues trio that has been playing to increasingly packed houses. Sunday, October 9, at Knuckleheads (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

6. Rhythm & Ribs Jazz & Blues Festival After canceling due to insufﬁcient funding in 2009, the Rhythm & Ribs Festival resurfaced at the American Jazz Museum in 2010. The all-day event returns to 18th and Vine this year and features Christian McBride & Inside Straight, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nominee War, among other regional and national jazz and blues acts. Also on hand: plates and plates of delicious, fatty barbecue. Tickets cost $18 until the day of the event, when they’re $25. Saturday, October 8, at the American Jazz Museum (1616 East 18th Street, 816-474-8463)

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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, OCT. 6 Nobunny, the Lepers, Up the Academy: 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. MC Chris: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Might Could, From the West, Faster Than Hell: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Opeth, Katatonia: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Tom Russell: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

FRIDAY, OCT. 7 Wade Bowen, the Scott Ford Band, Burford: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. The Damnwells, Harper Blynn, Carley Tanchon: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Fab Four: 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816283-9900. Minus the Bear: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald: 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827. St. Vincent: Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. The Wilders, Howard Iceberg, the Grisly Hand: 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816753-1909.

SATURDAY, OCT. 8 DJ Politik, DJ Mike Scott: Mosaic Lounge, 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Future Rock, Inflect, Basshoven: 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Little Big Town: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ben Rector, Graham Colton: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Rhythm & Ribs Jazz & Blues Festival: 11 a.m. American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Rob Riggle: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Skeletonwitch, Wrath and Ruin CD release, Cast Pattern: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Taking Back Sunday: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

SUNDAY, OCT. 9 Kelly Hunt, Trampled Under Foot: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Melt Banana, Gangi, Scammers: 8 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Portugal the Man, Alberta Cross: 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Red, Brian “Head” Welch, Icon for Hire, Echoes the Fall: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

MONDAY, OCT. 10 Falling in Reverse, For All Those Sleeping, Eyes Set to Kill: 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

TUESDAY, OCT. 1 1 Chuck Dukowski 6, Shrine, Droid Motor: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Neon Indian, Com Truise, Purity Ring: 8 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Odd Future: 8:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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WEDNESDAY, OCT. 1 2 Explosions in the Sky: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. The Morning After Girls, the Black Box Revelation, In the Grove: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Gleny Rae Virus and Her Tamworth Playboys: Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. That 1 Guy, POGO: 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

UPCOMING American Royal Rodeo featuring Pat Green: Thu., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. American Royal Rodeo featuring Reba: Sat., Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Angelspit, Razorwire Halo, the God Project, Story May Vary, Ab5surdum: Wed., Oct. 26, 6:30 p.m. Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Spindrift: Sat., Oct. 15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Perish, Cannabis Corpse: Wed., Oct. 26. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Cant, Mirror Mirror, Blood Orange: Fri., Oct. 14, 7 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Chimaira, Impending Doom, Rise to Remain, Revocation, Canvas: Sun., Oct. 16, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Roger Daltrey performs the Who’s Tommy: Fri., Oct. 14. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Deadmau5: Mon., Oct. 24. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Brett Dennen, Blind Pilot: Fri., Oct. 14, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Explosions in the Sky, Wye Oak: Thu., Oct. 13. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, MANY MORE 816-753-8665. Vicente Fernandez: Sat., Oct. 22. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Freaker’s Ball: Fri., Oct. 21. Independence Events ONLINE AT Center, 19100 E. Valley View PITCH.COM Pkwy., Independence. David Hasselhoff on Acid, At the Left Hand of God, the Pass Times, 33rd Degree: Thu., Oct. 13. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Mayday Parade, the In Crowd, You Me at Six, There for Tomorrow, the Make: Sat., Oct. 29, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Andy McKee, Antoine Dufour, Stephen Bennett: Thu., Oct. 13, 7 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-843-2787. 96.5 the Buzz Halloweenie Roast: Social Distortion, the Hold Steady, Viva Brother, the Architects: Thu., Oct. 27. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Twin Sister: Thu., Oct. 13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Pierced Arrows, Don’t, the Spook Lights: Sun., Oct. 16, 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. The Pretty Reckless, Beautiful Bodies, the Atlantic: Thu., Oct. 20. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Quixotic Fusion, March Fourth Marching Band: Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Right Between the Ears: Sat., Oct. 15. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Rubblebucket with Brothers Green and Sister Sparrow: Wed., Oct. 19, 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. St. Olaf Orchestra: Mon., Oct. 17, 7 p.m. Blue Valley West High School Performing Arts Center, 16200 Antioch Rd., Overland Park. Straight No Chaser: Sun., Oct. 23, 2 & 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Trentemoller: Wed., Oct. 19. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

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T H U R S DAY 6 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Killing in the Name: a Rage Against the Machine Tribute, Decadent Nation. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Radio Romantica, Sissy Spaceship. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. Gov’t Cheez.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Samantha Fish Blues Band. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Levee Town, Gray Matter, 7 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Kyle Elliott.

DJ Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. DJ Big Brother. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mike Scott and Spinstyles. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Clockwerk, 10 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Ladies’ Night featuring DJ Sun-Up Jones.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Everette DeVan Trio. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Sons of Brasil, 8 p.m.

CLASSICAL Old Mission United Methodist Church: 5519 State Park Road, Mission. Simple Gifts with Guitarist Douglas Niedt, 7 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Frank Turner, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Into It Over It, 9 p.m.

DANCE Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785832-1085. BLASIAN! Electro dance party, 10:30 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m. Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with the Star Blues Band. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Tom Wilson, 7:30 p.m. Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. Eight-minute dating and DJ KITTY. 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. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 9 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Lonnie Ray Blues Jam.

METAL The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Opeth, Katatonia.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. KC Songwriter Forum, 7-9 p.m. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Music Roulette with Deerwolfanimalbear, 9 p.m., $3.

F R I DAY 7 ROCK/POP/INDIE Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Minden, Spirit Is the Spirit, 10 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. First Friday with Jason Vivone and the Billybats. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Funk Syndicate. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Louisiana Street Band. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. Samantha Fish, 9 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Floozies, Evil Bastards. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Nace Brothers

DJ Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Furious Palace. Club Monaco: 334 East 31st St., 816-753-5990. DJ Soap. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Xclusive. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. The Beat Down with DJ MAKossa and Leonard Dstroy, 10 p.m.

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JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Peter Schlamb Quintet. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. The James Ward Band, 8 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Big Three with John Paul Drum. La Esquina: 1000 W. 25th St., 816-221-5115. Jeff Davis, Sir Threadeus Mongus CD release, 8 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, 6 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Cornmeal, Dirtfoot, John Gamache. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Tyler Gregory CD-release show with Lance Fahy, the Bus Co. RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar, Mission, 913262-7300. Beam & Eads.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m. ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Karaoke. MANY MORE Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-5612444. Dueling pianos: Matt Kschinka, Hannah Kendle, Brian Babcock. Improv Comedy Club and ONLINE AT Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. PITCH.COM 87th St., 816-759-5233. Tom Wilson, 7:30 & 9:45 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. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

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S AT U R DAY 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Syn City Cowboys, Barrel Bright, Cimino, Admiral Grey, 7:30 p.m. Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Cherry Bomb. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Love Tusk, 9 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Majestics Rhythm Revue. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. The M80s. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. The Radio Flyers. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Groove Agency, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Waiting for Signal, Redtail Hawks, the Garret Nordstrom Situation, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Ebony Tusks, Motorboater, Ivory Hooves.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Four Fried Chickens and a Coke, 9 p.m.; Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Funk Syndicate. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Too Slim and the Taildraggers, 9 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, 5 p.m. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. Blues Trip Band. RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar, Mission, 913262-7300. Joe Athon. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Clint Martinez, the Clementines.

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DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Putt-Putt Pub Crawl, 1 p.m., $60 for team of four. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Low Dive: a Day-Drinking Experience hosted by Shaun Duval, 2-5 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

ELECTRONICA The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. Body2Body: One Year Moombah Anniversary Party, 9:30 p.m.

FOLK Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Buttermilk Boys.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-4831456. Open jam with Billy Ebeling and Duane Goldston, 1 p.m. Marriott Hotel: 200 W. 12th St., 816-421-6800. 12th Street Jump, broadcast live on KCUR 89.3, 11:30 p.m., free.

PUNK Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Circle of Trust, Hammerlock, El Canero.

VARIET Y Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Alacartoona outdoor show.

S U N DAY 9 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Soltri CD release in the Ballroom, 5-7 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry.

JAZZ Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Heather Thornton.

WORLD Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Alaturka, 8 p.m.

AMERICANA Cowtown Mallroom: 3101 Gillham Plz., 816-714-9696. American Catastrophe, 3 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. The Fox and Hound: 10428 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913649-1700. Show Me the Money Poker, 7 & 10 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Free pool, 3 p.m. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595. Rooftop karaoke. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m.

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1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Peter Schlamb. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Midtown Quartet.

Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free. R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777. Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Jazz Jam with Nick Rowland and Sansabelt.

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KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Lo-Key, 7 p.m.

M O N DAY 1 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Spineshank, Clandestine, Restraint, Sicadis, In the Shadow, Dressed for a Funeral, 7 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Pop Pistol, Ricky Pete Dupree, Tyler Gregory, 10 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Not in the Face.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.

DJ Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Liquid Lounge.

JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m.; karaoke with Kelly Bleachmaxx, 10:30 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. The Landing: 1189 W. Kansas St., Liberty. Texas Hold ’em, 6:30 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5. 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.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Matt Hopper, 7 p.m. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Open Mic.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Finnigan’s Hall: 503 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City, 816-221-3466. Abel Ramirez Big Band, 6 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. John Johnson 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.

W E D N E S DAY 1 2 ROCK/POP/INDIE RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mike Runyon and Doc Proctor. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Jason Eady, 8:30 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Bluz Benderz.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Vagabond Swing.

DJ Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Live DJ, midnight. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Pure.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Eddie Charles Jam.

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Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mark Mandeville & Old Constitution with Matt Fox, 10 p.m.

T U E S DAY 1 1 ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Vagabond Swing, Jorge Arana Trio. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mile High Club. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Transients, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Mark Montgomery.

DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service-industry night, 10 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. College Night featuring DJ Stevie Cruz.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Clint Ashlock’s New Order Jazz Big Band.

AMERICANA The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Ryan Montbleau Band, Aunt Martha, 8 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES 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. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Karaoke. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. xTreme Music Bingo. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Buttwiser’s Bash with DJ Double D, 10 p.m., free. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke. Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m. 403 Club: 403 North 5th St. Pinball Tournament, 8:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Improv-abilities, 7:30 p.m. Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. MelodramatMANY MORE ic Karaoke, 8 p.m.-midnight. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Rock and Roll Comedy Show. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th ONLINE AT St., 816-561-0625. Dirty PITCH.COM Dorothy on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Texas Hold’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 8 p.m.

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5130 Entertainment Jobs Talking on the job again? Are you friendly, flirty, and love to talk? Then come work for a long-standing national entertainment company that offers the highest starting pay in the industry! Hourly base pay rate of $9 - $10 with opportunity for bonuses. Dont be misled by deceptive ads and empty promises. Get paid by the hour, not by the minute or call. No trolling, no dispatch. There are day and evening shifts available for both P/T & F/T positions. www.blvdent.com (800)211-3152 5167 Restaurant / Hotel / Club Jobs BECOME A BARTENDER! Up to $300 a day. No exp. necessary. Training Courses Available. 1-800-965-6520 x 270. HOTELHILTON PRESIDENT IS NOW HIRING - Drum Room Server - Lounge Supervisor - Banquet Server - Overnight Valet - AM Busser Other openings available, call our Job Hotline. 816-303-1696 Pre-screen interviews: Mon, Tues, Wed, Friday 8.30am-Noon & 1-3 pm The Hilton President Kansas City 1329 Baltimore SOUS CHEF The American Restaurant is seeking a FT Sous Chef to asst the Exec Chef with day to day ops of this Fine Dining restaurant ensuring that food quality is consistently maintained and is of the highest quality. Ideal candidate must have 2 yrs min kitchen mgmt & fine dining exp. Must have passion for service and fine dining. Please send resume to: Debbie Gold, American Restaurant, 200 E 25th Street, Suite 400 Kansas City, Missouri, 64108 or email to: dgold2@hallmark.com

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