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School Daze n 2009, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District fired a principal who was eventually accused of embezzling more than $58,000 from a student activity fund. She is awaiting trial in Jackson County. You might think that suspicion of felony theft would prevent such a person from resurfacing at another school within the district. Think again. After being removed from her post at Lincoln College Prep, Jamia Dock was named the principal at the Afrikan Centered Education Collegium Campus, for the 2010-11 school year. Dock’s re-emergence at another KCMSD building was noted in a recent advisory report by Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich. Among other findings, the audit criticized the district for “inadequate” accounting controls that allowed Dock to allegedly steal from her students. According to the audit, the district learned from its bank in August 2009 that Lincoln Prep’s student activity fund had a negative balance. An “inappropriate alteration” on a deposit slip pointed the finger of suspicion at Dock. A forensic accountant identified $58,849 in sketchy-looking transactions. Dock was placed on leave in October 2009. The school board fired her two months later on the recommendation of former Superintendent John Covington. Charges were filed against Dock in March 2011. In the meantime, she had found another job in the education field — at one of the other high schools in the Kansas City, Missouri, district, no less. Though she works at a school within the district, Dock is not a district employee. The African-centered program at the former Southeast High School is sort of a hybrid between a traditional public school and a privately run charter school. The district contracts with Afrikan Centered Education Taskforce Inc., which controls the staffing and the curriculum. District officials and members of the task force have had an uneasy relationship at times. Ajamu Webster, the task-force chairman, opposed Covington’s “rightsizing” plan of school closings and has complained that the African-centered program gets shortchanged. In late August, parents of children enrolled at the school filed a lawsuit against the district. Dock is apparently still employed at the Afrikan Centered Education Collegium Cam-

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pus. The school’s website identiﬁes her as the “site administrator” for grades 9-12. In an interview with the AP, Schweich said his team was “a little perplexed” that an alleged embezzler wound up at another school within the district. Webster did not return the AP’s calls. A district spokeswoman did not comment other than to give Dock’s dates of employment. A story about Schweich’s audit — the district received an overall grade of “fair” — appeared on the front page of The Kansas City

Star last week. The story noted Dock’s alleged crime but did not mention her eventual reappearance on another campus. The African-centered program appeared in another section of Schweich’s audit that concerned potential conflicts of interest. The report criticized two former school board members for not reporting their ties to district contractors. One of the former board members, Marilyn Simmons, worked for Webster’s engineering company while she was on the board, a relationship The Pitch has noted. The audit says Simmons and the other former board member “failed to submit statements of interest as required prior to voting on the contracts.” (Cokethea Hill, the other former board member faulted for not being sensitive to the appearance of a conflict of interest, is employed by the Mid-America Regional Council, which administers Head Start funding in the area.) Simmons, who had also opposed the rightsizing plan, saw her influence wane during Covington’s tenure. She resigned from the board in June, citing weariness. “I don’t have the strength to go on,” she said. — DAVID MARTIN

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city’s reputation dies hard. Philadelphia still answers for the day in December 1968 when football fans there booed and threw snowballs at Santa Claus during his halftime appearance at an Eagles game. Cleveland is a place where the rivers spontaneously combust. Car stolen? Happens everywhere. But auto theft as it’s uniquely practiced in Newark, New Jersey, is the subject of a Spike Lee-produced feature ﬁlm. Independence celebrates its connection with Harry S. Truman, whose name and likeness are inescapable in Missouri’s fourth-largest city. Wild About Harry isn’t just a state of mind — it’s the name of a men’s shop on Independence Square. But Independence has an issue similar to Philadelphia’s rep for being cruel, even to the jolly. Years after Truman’s death, Independence became known for something else, something illicit. continued on page 8

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It’s been called a “methamphetamine capital of the United States.” Independence is hardly the only city to have had an unofﬁcial title bestowed upon it, but it continues to be associated with the production and the consumption of the drug known for causing teeth to rot and sheds to explode. The city’s designation as a meth capital, for instance, was noted by The New York Times last October. One imagines that a link to the Times story felt like a death notice when it circulated throughout Independence. The city’s status as a “hub for methamphetamine abuse” is also noted in the recent book Paradise Lust: Searching for the Garden of Eden. A young writer named Brook Wilensky-Lanford traveled to Independence while compiling research for her book, which chronicles various efforts to pinpoint the location of the Garden of Eden. (Joseph Smith, the founder of the Mormon Church, said Independence was the City of Zion.) In her description of the city, Wilensky-Lanford mentions meth before she mentions dear old Truman. Why is Independence known as a tweaker town? The most commonly cited culprit is an article that appeared in Rolling Stone in 1998. The story described Jackson County as the “methamphetamine capital of America,” noting the drug’s “particularly tight clamp” on Independence. At the time of the article, more clandestine meth labs were being shut down in Missouri than in any other state. And what was true in 1998 remains true today. Missouri was No. 1 in meth-lab busts in 2010, according to data collected by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. That Independence’s reputation for meth abuse is based in part on the diligence of law enforcement annoys the city’s chief of police, for one. The chief, Tom Dailey, complained at 8 the pitch 4 THE PITCH

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a City Council meeting earlier this year that “meth capital” was a misnomer. “It should be the meth-busting capital,” he said, according to a report in The Kansas City Star. But not even that appears to be true anymore. Just seven methamphetamine “incidents” in Jackson County were reported to the Missouri Highway Patrol in the ﬁrst half of 2011. Meth has not disappeared, of course. The majority of drug cases prosecuted by the U.S. Attorney’s Ofﬁce in western Missouri involve methamphetamine. What has changed is the source of the drug. When the feds make a big bust, the meth they seize is likely to have originated in Mexico.

the Truman home with images of drug busts and burned-out houses. The writer, Peter Wilkinson, described how meth was at one time a “West Coast phenomenon, a made-in-the-desert buzz supplied and distributed by biker gangs.” The recipe found its way to Missouri. Before long, the cookers in these parts could brag about the purity of their concoctions. Wilkinson crowned Michael Wayne Duncan the “meth king of Jackson County.” Duncan cooked in garages and out-of-the-way shacks. One of his rural labs blew up. A man died, and Duncan wound up in intensive care. Once the skin grafts took, Duncan resumed cooking

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OF IN DE PE N DE N CE BE IN G Still, home chemists continue to toil over Pyrex dishes, producing meth in gram-sized batches. Any drug that gets people high and can be produced in a soda bottle will have a constituency. Last year, police in Kansas City found meth labs in a homeless camp and at an abandoned hospital.

he Rolling Stone article was titled “America’s Drug: Postcards From Tweakville.” To drive home the point that meth was ravaging the heartland, the editors interspersed photographs of the Santa-Cali-Gon Days festival and

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and selling. A prosecutor would later call him a “guru” with an “almost religious” following. Duncan eventually pleaded guilty in federal court to manufacturing meth. Sentenced to prison, he is eligible for release in 2014. Duncan didn’t introduce Jackson County to methamphetamine. If that distinction belongs to one man, it’s Willi Olsen, a Vietnam veteran who lost part of his stomach in battle. Olsen became a truck driver after the war. He lived in California and sold primarily to other long haulers before expanding his meth operation to Missouri. Wary of transporting the drug in false-bottom suitcases, he eventually

Independence is known for Harry Truman — and methamphetamine abuse. asked two cooks he knew to move from San Bernardino to Independence. One of Olsen’s cooks died of heart failure. (He was 25.) The other broke with Olsen and shared his cooking recipe with the locals. In addition to word of mouth, underground books like Secrets of Methamphetamine Manufacture disseminated the knowledge. Cheap and relatively easy to produce, the drug known as “redneck cocaine” found a particularly ardent following in Missouri. What was it that made this part of the country so receptive to the drug and its manufacture? Was it an outlaw sensibility? Cheap housing stock? Neighborliness? U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, then the Jackson County prosecutor, suggested to Rolling Stone that heartland meth cookers were as eager to share their recipes as members of a garden club. “In New York, no one would ever share,” she said. The Rolling Stone article painted a dramatic portrait. But it was actually not the first instance of Independence being labeled a meth capital. In 1997, The Christian Science Monitor published a story about meth’s hold on Independence. According to the Monitor’s piece, authorities busted 75 meth labs in 1996 — “the largest number per capita in the nation.” “In fact,” the article continued, “Guy Hargreaves, the unofficial ‘meth czar’ at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) in Washington, calls Independence the meth capital of the United States — and worries that it could be a sign of things to come.” So it wasn’t a rock magazine that first branded Independence with the scarlet M. It was a cop.

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and its surrounding communities were facing their demons. “Jackson County,” Wilkinson wrote in his 1998 article, “has become something of a model for its meth-eradication strategy.” The story noted that the county had an anti-drug sales-tax fund, “the first of its kind.” The fund, known as COMBAT, pays for drug investigations, prosecutions, jail cells and treatment. Initiated in 1989 and reauthorized by voters in 2009, the tax raised almost $19 million last year. One COMBAT program that has been emulated in other cities is Drug Court. The program gives nonviolent offenders the opportunity to pursue treatment in lieu of criminal prosecution. “Graduates” have their charges dismissed and even receive gift cards for gas or groceries. David Fry is the current Drug Court commissioner. His gray hair falls below his collar, and he speaks with a gentle voice, even when he’s calling out the names on his docket. On Tuesday afternoons, Fry monitors the progress of Drug Court participants in a beige-paneled room on the first floor of the county courthouse in Independence. Fry sits behind a bench that judges use to orient the potential jurors who arrive at the beginning of each week. Most of the case files that Fry opens on this day indicate compliance with the program. “Keep up the good work,” Fry tells one offender. But he has seen enough drug-test results to know when something is amiss. He softly questions one young man about the diluted state of his urine. “My faith in humanity is gone,” Fry says. “Not that I don’t love everybody. But my faith is gone.” Two men leave the courtroom in handcuffs. One had thrown a punch at his mother. The other, a middle-aged man with a ponytail and sunken cheeks, had tested positive for methamphetamine a sixth time. “You keep doing meth,” Fry matter-of-factly tells him. When court adjourns, Fry expresses sympathy for the jail-bound meth user, who was at

Michael W. Duncan was crowned the “meth king” of Jackson County. least disciplined enough to report for testing. To Fry, the string of positives is not deﬁance but a cry for help. Fry says that when a bed opens up, he will move the meth addict out of jail and into a facility better equipped to address his problem. “I’m not wearing him out with treatment yet,” he says.

liver “Glenn” Boyer has been the sheriff of Jefferson County, Missouri, since 1993. He has supervised the dismantling of hundreds of meth labs “Unfortunately, when you take down a lab, there’s three things you normally find,” Boyer tells The Pitch. “You find guns. You find kids. And you find dogs.” South of St. Louis, Jefferson County reports more meth-lab “incidents” — a catchall term that includes not just functioning labs but also glassware caches and dump sites — than any other county in Missouri. Boyer has 10 people working on nothing but labs. He had 15 dedicated meth cops before budget cuts took a toll. Still, even with a reduced force, Jefferson County reported 228 lab incidents in 2010, more than twice the next most meth-inundated county in Missouri. The raw numbers tell an incomplete story. Nick Reding, the St. Louis-based author of Methland, a book about meth’s grip on a small Iowa town, says the term “incident” has a variety of meanings. “The word is out now that lab incidents do not equal a lab producing large amounts of meth,” Reding says. “It can be anything, from a kid who makes a quarter ounce of it — that’s considered a ‘lab,’ according to the police.” In any case, Boyer would like to get out of the lab-busting business. He and other lawenforcement officials in his area support legislation that would require a prescription to obtain pseudoephedrine, a nasal decongestant used in popular cold and allergy medicines. Cookers use pseudoephedrine to make meth.

One process called “shake and bake” requires little more than a handful of pills, a 2-liter soda bottle and some household chemicals. “The only reasonable thing to do is to make cold medicine available by prescription only,” Reding says. In 2006, Congress passed a law that moved pseudoephedrine products from the aisles to behind the pharmacy counters. Still, the drug is available without a prescription, and Boyer says that needs to change. Young people, he says, go into drugstores, buy a $5 package of pseudoephedrine and sell it to cooks for $40 or $50. “We’ve actually made drug dealers out of a college kid who just wants some beer money,” he says. Last year, Gov. Jay Nixon asked Missouri lawmakers to make pseudoephedrine a prescription drug. The pharmaceutical industry, however, wants to keep physicians out of the mix. In all but two states — Oregon and Mississippi — drug companies have been successful in keeping pseudoephedrine available without a prescription. Nixon’s proposal died in the state Senate. Boyer believes that drug companies are putting proﬁts ahead of public safety. “The pharmaceutical companies are getting rich through the legal sales of pseudoephedrine,” he says. “But they’re doing it with a conscience.”

f you ask him today, Don Reimal, the mayor of Independence, will tell you that the Rolling Stone article was a bunch of bull. “I don’t know how you describe it,” he says. “It’s just stupid.” Reimal says the magazine was careless when it identified Jackson County and, by extension, Independence as a “methamphetamine capital.” Echoing the chief ’s “methbusting capital” comment, he suggests the city was punished for its vigilance. “The more aggressive you are,” Reimal says, “the more people pay attention to what you’re doing.” He ticks off the names of other cities that have been dubbed “meth capitals” at one time or another: Philadelphia, Fresno, San

The “meth capital” tag has clung to Independence. Diego, Los Angeles, Fort Worth — it’s a long list. Of course, cities the size of Los Angeles can more easily absorb the slur. Reimal and others in Independence feel that Rolling Stone needs to make amends for suggesting that the community was choking on meth. “There have been some people that have tried to get the Rolling Stones to retract that statement when they made it,” Reimal says, sounding a little unsure about the distinction between the magazine and the band that recorded “Satisfaction.” Still, he acknowledges that there was a problem. He credits the citizens for being alert and reporting suspicious activity to the police. “The drug dealers thought they could move into Independence,” he says. “They found out very shortly that they couldn’t.” Alas, “meth capital” has proved to be a stubborn label. It has become shorthand, a caricature and even perhaps an explanation for one’s bad business decisions. The aforementioned 2010 New York Times story with an Independence dateline described the condition of the four houses where Truman once lived. One, of course, is the Victorian mansion on North Delaware Street that the National Park Service operates as a tourist attraction. Times reporter A.G. Sulzberger classiﬁed the other three as “decaying,” “unable to sell” and “foreboding.” A heating-and-cooling repairman named Charles Evans owns the “decaying” Truman home on South Crysler Avenue. The house is cut up into apartment units that Evans, who paid $79,500 for the house in 2004, has had trouble renting. Evans told Sulzberger that he regretted buying the house. He wasn’t about to blame himself for buying a ﬂimsy piece of property during a real-estate bubble, however. “Independence is the drug capital of the world,” he said. “It’s just real hard to get decent renters.” E-mail feedback@pitch.com

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816-510-6557) as part of Columbus Park’s Third Friday, Love Rust is oxidation’s exhibition: what happens when oxygen interacts with nearly everything around it, from living tissue to metal — apple skins browning, pennies greening, bike fenders rusting. Love Rust celebrates the loss of at least one electron in a chemical reaction, with works by Matt Crane, Alyssha Eve Csuk, Mary Fasone, Dan Frueh, John Marak, Charles Ray, Ann Reckling, George Rousis, Stretch, Erick Warner, Pete Warren and Dan Wayne. For details, see columbusparkart.com. — K ENT SZLAUDERBACH [FOOD]

ORIGINAL EATS

Beans, corn and squash are the “three sisters” of the indigenous American diet. When planted in close proximity, these crops use one another’s agricultural characteristics — the corn’s sheltering height, the beans’ soil-enhancing nitrogen, the squash’s weeddeterring vines — to thrive. Celebrate the

sisters and other native food traditions at the Haskell Indigenous Food Festival at Haskell Indian Nations University (the corner of Barker Street and Indian Avenue in Lawrence, 785-749-8404). Events tonight take place from 7 to 10 in Haskell Auditorium and include music and a presentation by actress and environmentalist Casey Camp-Horineck of the Ponca Nation. The fest begins at 1 p.m. Saturday at Stidham Union and includes workshops, a cooking contest and a community potluck. Admission is free. For a full description of events and updated schedule, search Haskell Indigenous Food Festival on Facebook. — BERRY ANDERSON

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abled. Many have little or no regular contact with the outside world, except for that daily knock on the door signaling the delivery of nutritious food. Pay tribute to these hidden denizens — half of the $20 ticket price benefits Meals on Wheels — at the Westend Stampede, when 10 of the neighborhood’s westerly hot spots, including Boozefish (1511 Westport Road), Bluestem (900 Westport Road) and Cupini’s (1809 Westport Road), serve up samples of house items and Boulevard beer. The exclusive food and drink specials go from noon to 8 p.m. For the local merchants taking part in the second-annual “food walk,” it represents an opportunity “for our community neighbors to see us not just as businesses but as their neighbors as well,” says Shawn Sherrill, co-owner of RecordBar. Tickets are available in advance online at therecordbar. com, or in person at RecordBar or Boozefish (cash only), or at all participating members of the Westend Merchants continued on page 14

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Kansas City is home to a swarm of spooky spaces, and Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street, 816-561-4466) generally doesn’t fall into this category. But the Mid America Freedom Band hopes to change that when the nonprofit gay and lesbian community ensemble lowers the lights and stirs spirits with its firstFIND ever Halloween concert. MANY MORE “The band is a diverse group of musicians with a wide range of says Skip LISTINGS experience,” Schrock, the artistic ONLINE AT director. He has conPITCH.COM jured a program that includes Broadway hits (Phantom of the Opera and Wicked); a smattering of classical music’s creepier moments (Saint-Saëns and Bach); and such crowd-pleasers as the jabbing, jittery score from Psycho, The Rocky Horror Picture Show’s “Time Warp” and Michael Jackson’s “Thriller.” Schrock says more surprises await, and he promises one more lure: “There’s candy, too.” The 7:30 p.m. concert is free, but sign up for advance tickets or make a donation at eepurl.com or mafbmusic.org/joomla/. — ELKE MERMIS

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studies at the University of MassachusettsAmherst, is considered an authority on memorial architecture. (He also was the only Jew on the committee selecting the design for the Berlin Holocaust Memorial.) His book, At Memory’s Edge: After-Images of the Holocaust in Contemporary Art and Architecture, argues (among other things) that architecture itself is a kind of unfolding narrative. At 1:30 p.m., he gives a free lecture called “Stages of Memory in Berlin and New York after 9/11” at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library (4801 Main, 816-701-3481). For more information and to RSVP, see kclibrary.org. — CHRIS PACKHAM

Anderson, Dale Carter and Steve-O ) who are teaming up with local interior experts to unveil their celebrity-designer rooms. Stage presentations take place all weekend on such topics as floral design, winterization, and how to avoid skeevy contractors. The expo runs from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $8 for adults and $7 for seniors. For a schedule and more information, see kchomedesignandremodelingexpo.com. — BERRY ANDERSON

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Most likely, your home, condo or townhouse could use one or more of the following: new windows, mudjacking, gutter repair, a security system, or better bathroom lighting for more precise nose-hair removal. Fortunately, it’s time for the annual Kansas City Home Design and Remodeling Expo. More than 300 exhibitors are on hand at Bartle Hall (301 West 13th Street) to guide you through the process of purchasing all the things that will help make your crib more livable. Adding to the inspiration are local media personalities (Johnny Rowlands, Keith King, Amy

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The eight-acre quadrant once occupied by the World Trade Center has been transformed into a memorial site, with waterfalls and reflecting pools incorporated into the empty foundations. The names of all persons who died on September 11, 2001, are inscribed in bronze panels surrounding the pools. The memorial requires no explanation; the site itself suggests the entire narrative. James Young, professor of English and Judaic

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Despite vetted questions and canned oneliners, presidential debates usually provide defining moments for national candidates. For instance, we now understand Rick Perry to be a bit sub-neurotypical. Most everyone knows the key takeaway points from past presidential debates, dating back to LincolnDouglas: We have to solve slavery! In the Kennedy-Nixon debate: You want a hankie for your sweat? In more recent history, the Mondale-Reagan debate: “There you go again.” Dukakis-Bush: Dukakis hearts Willie Horton, or something. At 7 p.m., the awesome journalist Jim Lehrer reads from his latest book, Tension City: Inside the Presidential Debates, From Kennedy-Nixon to ObamaMcCain, at Unity Temple on the Plaza (707 West 47th Street, 816-561-4466). As a veteran of 11 presidential debates, Lehrer gives the moderator’s perspective on these headto-head political matchups and tells insider stories. Admission costs $26, which includes the book and two tickets. For more information, see rainydaybooks.com. — CHRIS PACKHAM 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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t’s hard for me to walk into the brick building at 320 Southwest Boulevard without remembering at least one of its former lives. Of course, there was Shiraz and, before that, a short-lived theater company. The latter had a little stage in the back room and a very big saloon out front. The idea was that the sale of liquor in the bar would somehow pay for the theater productions in the back room. It didn’t. But this was long before the neighborhood north of Union Station was called the Crossroads District and became populated with art galleries, restaurants and loft apartments. Back then, a stage such as the one at 320 Southwest remain the ideal conditions for consuming one. While cooking with New Orleans chef Boulevard could have a play Juanita Dilbert, however, Merker did learn to set in a steam room with the BY entire cast dressed in nothing make the best bread pudding I’ve ever tasted CHARLES in Kansas City. It’s a moist and buttery crebut towels. So it was pure déjà vu, see- ation swimming in a bourbon-caramel sauce. F E R R U Z Z A ing members of a local bur- I’d rather have that for breakfast than any beiglesque troupe looking over net. Besides, the ones here are rolled in so much this space, which now has an expensive sound powdered sugar that after one bite, I looked like system and a projection screen. The technol- Al Pacino at the end of Scarface. What I was jonesing for at that same breakogy was installed to lure business meetings and conferences. But what the hell, bring on fast wasn’t coke but coffee. After a couple of sips from the mug set in front of me, I was jolted, but the strippers. The restaurant that now operates here, Nica’s I wasn’t happy about it. What in God’s name was 320, has a theatrical connection of its own. Chef in this brew? It had a distinct flavor, and it wasn’t and co-owner Bryan Merker has given the place the taste of coffee. “We infuse our coffee with a peppercorn his wife’s stage name. As a young actress in Los blend that has some cinnamon,” Merker later Angeles, Monica Merker went by Nica. Bryan Merker first tried out the act — I mean explained. “It’s a little aggressive.” A little aggressive? What I tried was the Nancy the name — at his first location, Nica’s Café in Grace of morning blends. Overland Park. Merker and At 8:30 a.m. on a Saturday, I business partner Phil Dunn Nica’s 320 want my coffee to taste like ran a small café and coffeeHuevos rancheros ... $10.95 coffee. In fact, any hour, any house for a year before their Uptown Benny .........$14.25 day, I want my coffee to taste dream location became availSlip & Slide .............$11.95 nothing like peppercorn and able. Two months ago, they Roast chicken .........$24.50 cinnamon. I pushed my cup opened at 320 Southwest Center-cut filet ............. $32 away — aggressively. Boulevard, and it’s a very amMacaroni and cheese ............. $8.95 That wasn’t the only time bitious concept: a restaurant Bread pudding Juanita ...$6 that Nica’s had erred in the that serves breakfast, lunch “first taste of the day” departand dinner — and beignets. ment. A co-worker I went to Merker’s career has taken him to several impressive culinary locations, in- breakfast with here one morning cringed after cluding San Francisco and New Orleans, where trying his orange juice. “There’s an odd taste he mastered the art of the fried fritter known as to this,” he said. “I can’t quite place it.” After a beignet (offered here as both a breakfast pastry a server brought out a different glass of juice, and a dessert). Everyone I know raves about I asked co-owner Dunn to taste the first glass. Merker’s squares of fried yeasty dough, but I’ve He took a sip and announced, “Green onions.” Well, you know how green onions just sort only ever tasted one beignet I liked. I was in New Orleans and seriously hung over, and those of sneak into things. They’re a welcome asset to

Merker’s fabulous huevos rancheros, a delectably spicy and cheesy egg dish served open-faced on Roma focaccia bread. I’d happily return for that dish or Merker’s “Uptown Benny,” which tops flaky biscuits with fine andouille sausage, fried eggs and a red-chili cheese sauce. If the breakfast dishes — at least the ones I ordered — lean south of the border, the lunch and dinner menu is a United Nations of culinary possibilities. A diner doesn’t merely order an entrée from the laminated menu but builds it. The servers do an admirable job of explaining the mix-and-match sensibility of the menu; one of the waiters, Michael, has actually turned the process into a monologue. When he paused, I wasn’t sure whether to order or applaud. Let’s say you’re toying with the idea of ordering a crepe or pan-fried noodles or a filet. That’s merely the first step. The real decision making comes in choosing a “preparation.” Do you want that steak served Thai style? Italiano? Cajun? Caribbean? There are eight internationally inspired possibilities, and they all sound pretty tasty. The problem is making the right choice. The night I dined with Marilyn, Jackie and Bob, they each carried on as if they were being asked to choose the right curtain on Let’s Make a Deal. “It’s an exercise,” said the easily flustered Jackie, who finally settled on a roast chicken served Margarita-style, with fresh basil, artichoke hearts, roasted garlic and sun-dried tomatoes. Good call: It was excellent. But I was foolhardy in letting Michael lure me into adding artichoke hearts and candied jalapeños to my order of the house specialty: macaroni and cheese. I spent most of the meal fishing them out of the bowl. Options abound for adding additional ingredients — from pepperoni to pesto — to the mac and cheese or the

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delicious Yukon-gold mashed potatoes, but both dishes really shine without any add-ons. Merker’s mac and cheese is rich and creamy, blanketed in a sumptuously rich sauce made with smoked provolone, mozzarella, romano, asiago, parmesan — and Velveeta. A good, properly grilled steak doesn’t really require a “preparation,” so I went with what I ﬁgured would be the least fussy: again, the Margarita option. Happily, Merker knows his beef, and the center-cut ﬁlet was very good. One of my favorite dinners at Nica’s required no decision making. Instead of choosing a mix-and-match entrée, I ordered the mac and cheese and my favorite starter on the menu, a trio of sliders. (Like many of the other dishes, this one has been saddled with a regrettably cutesy name, Slip & Slide.) One small sandwich is Korean-style barbecued pulled pork, another Thai-spiced chicken, and the third jerk steak. My friends at that dinner were underwhelmed by their more costly dinners, but they perked up at dessert: a kind of deconstructed ice-cream sandwich with house-made green-tea ice cream tucked between chocolate wafers. It looks showy but tastes uncomplicated, and it was just right that evening. My advice to Merker and Dunn would be to offer a little more of Merker’s culinary showmanship and less of the tiresome in-depth explanations of the “concept.” The best plays, after all, require the least exposition. Nica’s 320 is rich in talent, but the menu should speak for itself. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com

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risotto and scallops. Then Café Europa became available. “It was a chance to go in a different direction,” he says. “We wanted to do creative things but also make sure we kept the things around that people expected.” He took over at Europa in 2007. After a round of renovations, it reopened in September 2008. “I like to think that I look at everything we’ve done before, take bits and pieces and figure out how we can keep getting better,” he says. The Pitch: Is it a challenge to balance the restaurant with the demands of an in-house bake shop? Feldmiller: We only really struggle with space. I’m the only place on the entire block that doesn’t have a basement. We don’t have the room to store the stuff to do high production, so we get deliveries two or three times a week. I used to make my own corned beef, but we just don’t have the space for a bucket of brine and a place to age it. We want to be able to do so much ourselves, but we can’t do everything ourselves. What’s your favorite ingredient? Probably chives. I like chives in everything. They give a little bit of green and color. A lot of my dishes tend to be one color. Chives can make it pop a little. In spring, you run the risk of everything being green, and in summer there are all these yellow dishes. Chives won’t affect the flavor too much — they’re very versatile. What’s your best recent food find? Port Fonda. The chilaquiles there are really good. I’ve always liked chilaquiles. It’s a good, nice breakfast anytime. What’s your favorite local ingredient? I really like local beets. Thane Palmberg has some great baby beets. When the season’s right, local tomatoes are good, too. I could have beets in anything. I always have a beet salad. You can never have too many. If you do, you just pickle them. I’m never saying to myself, “How am I

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going to use 50 bunches of beets in the next four days?” What’s one food you hate? Green peppers. … I can do a red or a yellow, but there’s something about the green ones. What’s one food you love? I like cabbage an awful lot. I like all varieties. Brussels sprouts — they’re just fantastic. If I could open a German restaurant, I totally would. Emile’s on the Plaza — that was the greatest restaurant in town. I miss it. I wish I could just go back there and get the German burger. What’s your guilty pleasure? I kinda like Supertramp’s Breakfast in America. Foodwise, it’s a box potato. I like the au gratin. I don’t eat them that often, but they’re always coming up with new stuff to put in those boxes. It’s amazing that somebody has that job to ﬁnd new powdered ingredients. What’s always in your kitchen? Lemons. I’m more of an acid guy, so you can pretty much put lemons in anything. Even if I’m making a simple sauce, if I squeeze in a little lemon, it just wakes everything up. More often than not, if I’m tasting something, I think it needs a little lemon. It’s the way my palate functions. I like that brightness. If you could steal one recipe in town off any menu, which one would you steal? I wish I had a grill so I could make the chicken at El Pollo Rey. I would deﬁnitely steal that. A chef is only as good as … If I was really a cynic, I’d say as good as his last meal. But I think a chef is only as good as the people he works with. Without Clay [Butler] and Anna [Morrow] — she makes the best pastries in town — I couldn’t do anything. You surround yourself with good people. That’s the key. Breakfast in America at pitch.com/fatcity pitch.com

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Funny People DANCEY DUO CHROMEO IS STILL LAUGHING ITS FUCKING ASS OFF.

ave 1 and P-Thugg, the two halves making up the goofy, sexy, synth-heavy whole of Chromeo, bring their traveling dance party to the Midland Thursday. In anticipation of that sweaty, joyous occasion, The Pitch recently chatted up Dave 1. The Pitch: What’s the live show like? Dave 1: It’s just the two of us, most of the time. Sometimes we have our backup singers that look like — you know that Robert Palmer video, “Simply Irresistible”? You know, slickedback hair and tight ﬁtting … Like, no pants on? No, just like a really tight skirt. Anyways. But yeah, it’s just P [P-Thugg] and I, and there’s a bunch of instruments around us, and he’s got a dozen syntheBY sizers, and I’ve got my guitar and my bass and all that. It’s NADIA like a big dance-party, singPFLAUM along, hand-clap kind of vibe. At least, that’s what I hope. Is there an act you don’t like being categorized with, when music journalists describe you? Nah. Someone you don’t like being compared with? Nah. Yeah, but it’s a cool exercise to describe How do you stay on the right side of LMFAO? I knew from the beginning that that’s what it. In our case, it’s a cross. You got a little bit was implied in your question. [Laughs.] I think of Daft Punk and you got a little bit of Hall & [exhaling heavily] … I think that’s kind of self- Oates and you got a little bit of Rick James and explanatory. On a credibility side, the accolades you got a little Phil Collins and a little, I don’t that we have speak for themselves, but at the know, Phoenix. And you mix it all into a pot same time, on an iTunes, Top Ten side, LMFAO’s and throw in some Larry David and you throw success at what they do speaks for itself. The in some R. Kelly and you multiply it by who music’s different. Our stuff is really synth-based, we are, and you’ll get to Chromeo somehow. I like that. And you guys got to play with and it’s grounded in more of a Hall & Oates tradition. They do what they do. It works for them. I Daryl Hall. What was that like? Is it good to meet your idols? happen to know those dudes. Yeah. Sometimes no. I’m They’ve got a pretty deep always reluctant because, you knowledge of music. I think Chromeo, with Mayer Hawthorne & the County, know, obviously you like them they’re doing this because and Breakbot. for their work, not for who they know it’s going to work Thursday, October 20, they are. At the same time, we for them and it’s successful. at the Midland. couldn’t pass up the opportuI’m not knocking them at all, nity, and it was really an honor but I don’t see how anybody for him to acknowledge us. I who’s ever listened to our music carefully or seen our videos could confuse the don’t know if we met Prince, if we would click two. Who else could you compare us to? I guess the same way. And I don’t even know if I want in terms of live performances and the venues we to meet Prince, other than to say, Thank you, play at, Cut Copy — they’re a good parallel. They and shake his hand. With Daryl, we actually do the same touring circuit we do. But again, our really clicked, and there was a cool connection. He really understood where we came from and music’s really different. That is what gets annoying about music he also related to us as people. People tend to say that you have this sound journalism. “These guys sound like these guys.” 26

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of the ’80s, and you hit at a period when everyone was getting nostalgic for the ’80s. It’s not even true, because when we started making Chromeo, when we put out our ﬁrst album, I mean, the people who were making a big impact in the sort of, like, the “cool” dance scene were people like Fischerspooner, who were referencing a sound from the ’80s that was totally different than us. We came with the forgotten sound of the ’80s, the non-trendy sound of the ’80s, the sound of the ’80s that people were making fun of. The Phil Collins and Rick James. Not New Order. Our shit was never Joy Division or Depeche Mode. That was never us. Not taking anything away from those acts, but they were always cool, whereas the stuff that we championed was really looked down upon. And we saw it with Hall & Oates. When we started citing them when our first album came out, people used to make fun of us. They were just like, Oh yeah, the guys with the mullets and the mustaches. And now, Hall & Oates is a Pitchfork band. And I think we — I think the relentlessness and the consistency of our career had something to do with rehabilitating the black ’80s musical heritage or the funk ’80s musical heritage. And there’s a long way to go. There’s still so much of that to dig into. pitch.com

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Yeah, because everybody likes Prince, and Rick James kind of got a bit of a shine when Chappelle’s Show incorporated him, but there’s so much more to Rick James than the leather pants and the cocaine tales. You know, he’s actually a lyrical genius and artist and virtuoso. But again, you can’t control how people perceive things. We do our music as honestly as we can and hope that people keep appreciating it.

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he Pitch’s Best of Kansas City issue — which hit stands and MacBooks last week — is like a bus: Another one will be along in about a year. That’s too long to wait to recognize a few things that, on second thought, should have made last week’s annual blowout. Here are a few.

BEST MUSIC TREND THAT COULD HAVE BEEN LAME Tribute Shows

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thing that happened every other weekend or so in Kansas City. Hermon Mehari and Diverse honored Miles Davis on his birthday, while Diverse, Les Izmore and Reach reinterpreted A Tribe Called Quest’s The Low End Theory at the Blue Room. Cody Wyoming assembled folks from all across the scene to stage tributes to the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main St. and Pink Floyd’s The Wall at Crosstown Station. Robert Moore got rolling on his Sonic Spectrum Tribute Series at RecordBar, where once a month local bands play the songs of their heroes (some so far: Tom Waits, the Beach Boys, AC/DC). To a pessimist, the abundance of all these shows could be seen as a sign of stagnant creativity or a return to the years when cover bands ruled the scene. But we’re not pessimists, and we look forward to the escapism these shows offer.

BEST HARDWORKING MUSICIAN Andrew Connor

In this town, you’ve got to gig your ass off — and be damn good at what you do — to be able to pay the rent just by playing music. Perhaps even more admirable, though, is what Andrew Connor does: Gigs his ass off by playing with a ton of very fine bands and keeping his nine-to-fiver at Musician’s Friend. Showing an intuitive understanding of what bands are aiming to achieve, he shows up for his supporting roles and plays his parts expertly. With avant-folk act Mary Fortune, that means a calm, steady bass. As rhythm guitarist, he adds nuanced flourishes to the ACBs’ pop jams. And Ghosty, the band that Connor has led for more than a decade now, keeps his talents as a writer of complex songs on full display. “Team Up Again,” a track that Ghosty released last year while more or less on hiatus, is one of the finest songs to drift out of Kansas City in years, and the material that the band has been playing lately as a three-piece shows no sign of diminishment. It’s a hectic schedule, yet Connor reflects an easygoing, just-in-it-for-the-love-of-the-art persona. Respect is due.

BEST BOOKING The Riot Room

Not a tremendous amount changed in 2007, when the Hurricane closed and the Riot Room rose from its mentholated ashes. The address carried on as a scuzzy dive, where up-and-coming local acts could cut their teeth. Prominent national acts rarely stopped by. But this past year, something interesting happened: Ascendant young indie bands started popping up on the Riot Room calendar. Thank Electric City, the venue’s in-house booking company that has brought us, over the past six months,Toro Y Moi, Titus Andronicus, Del the Funky Homosapien, Cults, the War on Drugs and Asobi Seksu. There’s still the whiff of yesteryear (or its trash) if you tilt your head the wrong way, and it’s still impossible to get a drink at the circular bar on a busy night. But let’s not get picky about ambience when bands that used to skip KC on the drive between Lawrence and Columbia have started stopping at the Riot Room.

BEST KC ANTHEM “For the MO” The Popper, featuring Tech N9ne and Ron Ron

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leased over the summer. “For the MO” featured verses by two other wordsmiths with mass appeal: Tech N9ne and Ron Ron. The reaction? The city loved the Popper’s anthem right back, earning him the rarest of honors: airtime on local radio stations (KPRS 103.3, speciﬁcally) during the summer’s most blistering days. Popper shot a video for the song at his former high school, Lincoln Preparatory Academy, casting himself as a security guard, Tech as the principal and Ron Ron as substitute teacher Mr. Know-It-All. He even nabbed Bobb’e J. Thompson, the KCborn actor from the cast of Tyler Perry’s House of Payne, to play a mischievous student. KCTV Channel 5 reporter Lisa Benson smelled controversy. Should a Kansas City, Missouri, school building be the backdrop for a song full of profanity and graphic imagery? She was answered not with outcry but with a hearty hell yeah. Face it: The song is for the MO, and the MO abides.

BEST UNDERGROUND VENUE THAT IS LITERALLY UNDERGROUND The Overlook, in Lawrence

Lawrence punk house the Overlook follows in the footsteps of many other storied house venues over the past decade. Like the Pink House, the Pirate House, the Haunted Kitchen and Pizza Party before it, it provides a place for bands to play outside the usual rock-club rotation. But unlike most of its predecessors, the Overlook has figured out a way to prevent noise complaints. Using the insulating properties of a windowless basement, the kids living in the house are able to muffle the inevitable roar of a punk band playing in the acoustical equivalent of a concrete echo chamber. Standing outside the closed storm doors leading underground from the house’s back porch, you can’t tell if the music playing downstairs was a thrash band from Liechtenstein or a ska-punk act from Brooklyn. And despite the propensity for bands whose sonic output can best be summed up as “frighteningly in-your-face,” the guys who live in the house are some of the friendliest music fans in town. You’ll make five new friends every time you see a show, and discover a band you won’t believe you’ve never heard.

BEST ALBUM Howard Iceberg and the Titanics, Welcome Aboard

In late May, Howard Iceberg dropped off seven CDs at The Pitch HQ. These were not duplicate copies: The album, Welcome Aboard, took up all seven discs, which contained, in all, 105 songs that the 64-year-old musician had written in the seven years since scaling back his work as an immigration lawyer. It’s a sprawling treasure trove of country tearjerkers, midtempo rockers and folk ditties — one man’s charming interpretation of the American popular-music canon. Somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 local musicians are featured on Welcome Aboard, and almost all of them turned up at Crosstown Station one Sunday night in June for “Raising the Titanics: An Evening With the Music of Howard Iceberg.” In doing so, the release of a very special album was transformed into one of the most memorable evenings of the year and a celebration of the local music community. — DAVID HUDNALL, NICK SPACEK, NADIA PFLAUM E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com or call 816-218-6774 pitch.com

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1. Das Racist, with Danny Brown and Despot

3. Deadmau5, with Excision, Feed Me and Le Castle Vania

I rode hard for Das Racist in 2010. The smartass Brooklyn rappers released two free mixtapes (Shut Up, Dude and Sit Down, Man) that were so densely clever, I still haven’t uncovered all the jokes and references, even after bumping it in my car for months and months on end. (Sample: These rappers wack like the movie Wackness/ They saccharine, but they not Equal.) Unfortunately, every single person I talked to who saw them on tour earlier this year reported a terrible experience: too drunk, sloppy rapping, no respect for the crowd. But Das Racist is young, and that was their ﬁrst tour, so maybe this time around they’ll have their act together. Saturday, October 22, at The Granada (1020 Massachusetts, 785-842-1390)

Joel Zimmerman, a geeky Canadian gamer who wears an oversized, oversized mouse head onstage, has emerged in recent years as one of the hottest names in electronic music. Deadmau5, as he’s known, augments his house-beat buildups with a world-class live spectacle. The massive stage rig that he hauls from city to city, as well as his laser-light multimedia show, approaches the Daft Punk pyramid in terms of futuristic grandiosity. Monday, October 24, at the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

2. Vicente Fernandez A sort of Mexican Frank Sinatra, Vicente Fernandez has the outsized appearance of a cartoon character. The mustachioed ranchera crooner wears the finest of charro suits, gigantic embroidered sombreros, and a pistol strapped to the studded holster on his belt. It’s all very Three Amigos. But Fernandez is the real deal, an old-school traditionalist singer who has knocked out more than 50 albums in his lifetime. At 71, he isn’t touring so much anymore, so this one qualiﬁes as a special occasion. Saturday, October 22, at Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

4. Helmet, with Season to Risk and Waiting for Signal The Page Hamilton Experience is perhaps a more accurate name for Helmet at this point. Apart from the frontman, there isn’t a single member remaining of the original quartet, and the band’s past few albums have hardly made a blip on the radar of anyone but the most dedicated fans. But you know they’re going to play “In the Meantime” and “Unsung.” And hearing those songs in the intimate conﬁnes of the Riot Room should bring out the 16-year-old you who saw Helmet’s epilepsy-inducing videos on MTV and lost his goddamn mind. With Season to Risk and Waiting for Signal opening, it might be a chance to see an opener outshine the headliner. Tuesday, October 25, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

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5. Matt Pond PA, with Rocky Votolato Before hearing his latest EP, Spring Fools, it’d been three or four years since I’d last checked in with Matt Pond PA. Not a lot appears to have changed. The Brooklyn-via-Philadelphia singer-songwriter is still writing jangly, easygoing pop-rock songs that are occasionally lovely and occasionally a little short on ambition. At his most vanilla, Pond edges dangerously close to Dawson’s Creek soundtrack territory, but there’s usually enough hooks to keep a pop dork like me satisﬁed. Saturday, October 22, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

6. Kevin Seconds, with Bent Left and Dead Ven Kevin Seconds is better known for his work fronting 7 Seconds, the long-running Reno hardcore act, than he is for the solo albums he has released for Asian Man Records. More popular, too — his last solo stop in the area drew only a handful of people to the Replay Lounge patio. But his declamatory vocal style is just as suited to his solo, contemplative acoustic numbers as it is to mile-a-minute punk ragers. Openers Bent Left and Dead Ven bridge the gap from punk to folk-punk nicely. Saturday, October 22, at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300)

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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, OCT. 20 Chromeo, Mayer Hawthorne and the County, Breakbot: 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Here Come the Mummies: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Pretty Reckless, Beautiful Bodies, the Atlantic: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

FRIDAY, OCT. 21 Bone Crusher: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Freaker’s Ball: Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence. JD Souther in the Retro Lounge: Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Phil Vassar: 7 p.m. KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand. Vibesquad: 8:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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Das Racist, Danny Brown, Despot: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. The Dead Kenny G’s, BeardKCrazy: The Brick, 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Vicente Fernandez: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816283-7300. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet: Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Matt Pond PA, Rocky Votolato: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Kevin Seconds, Bent Left, Dead Ven: Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Nude Sunrise, South Bitch Diet: 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

SUNDAY, OCT. 23 Straight No Chaser: 2 & 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

MONDAY, OCT. 24 Deadmau5, Excision, Feed Me, Le Castle Vania: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Mr. Gnome, Appropriate Grammar, Sunrise Revolt: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Barbara Rosene: 7 p.m. Jardine’s, 4536 Main, 816561-6480.

TUESDAY, OCT. 25 Helmet, Season to Risk, Waiting for Signal: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

WEDNESDAY, OCT. 26 Angelspit, Razorwire Halo, the God Project, Story May Vary, Ab5surdum: 6:30 p.m., $10. Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. The Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Perish, Cannabis Corpse: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Cavalera Conspiracy, OTEP, Earth Crisis, Moire, At the Left Hand of God: 6 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Orgone, Lubriphonic: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Ume, Fierce Bad Rabbit, Radiation City: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

UPCOMING American Royal Rodeo featuring Pat Green: Thu., Oct. 27, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

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American Royal Rodeo featuring Lynyrd Skynyrd: Fri., Oct. 28. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. American Royal Rodeo featuring Reba: Sat., Oct. 29, 7:30 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Brothers Green, Reggie B and the Solution hosted by Mic Brass of Heet Mob, Da Hymnlayas: Fri., Nov. 4, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Mike Doughty and His Band Fantastic: Sun., Oct. 30, 8 p.m., $15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The Fling, Yukon Blonde: Sat., Dec. 3, 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Global Dub Festival. Sat., Nov. 5. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Guns N’ Roses: Sat., Nov. 12. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Gym Class Heroes, the Dirty Heads: Sun., Nov. 6. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Neil Hamburger: Sat., Nov. 5, 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Har Mar Superstar, Swanson, Joan Benet: Mon., Nov. 14. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Haulin’ Oats, Stiff Middle Fingers, Americruiser: Mon., Oct. 31, 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Hum: Fri., Nov. 4. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816753-5207. Cyndi Lauper, the Bo-Keys: Mon., Oct. 31. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. MANY MORE Demi Lovato: Tue., Nov. 22. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Mastodon, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Red Fang: Mon., Nov. 14. The BeauONLINE AT mont Club, 4050 PennsylPITCH.COM vania, 816-561-2560. Mayday Parade, the In Crowd, You Me at Six, There for Tomorrow, the Make: Sat., Oct. 29, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Mindless Behavior, Diggy, the New Boyz, Jacob Latimore, Hamilton Park, the OMG Girlz: Wed., Nov. 2. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Peter Murphy, She Wants Revenge, Hussie Club: Sun., Nov. 27. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Mushroomhead, Psychostick, Motograter, Blue Felix, Ventana, Tenafly: Sun., Nov. 6, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. 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. Shaquille O’Neal Presents: All Star Comedy Jam: Fri., Nov. 18. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. John Prine: Fri., Dec. 2, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Quixotic Fusion, March Fourth Marching Band: Fri., Oct. 28, 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Paul Simon: Tue., Nov. 8. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Rick Springfield: Sat., Dec. 3, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Tesla: Fri., Nov. 4. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Thee Oh Sees, Total Control, the Spook Lights, Mouthbreathers: Fri., Nov. 25. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Ultimate Fakebook presents: Revenge of the Nerds Halloween Ball: Sat., Oct. 29, 5 p.m., $13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Buddy Valastro: the Cake Boss: Mon., Nov. 7. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. The War On Drugs, Purling Hiss, Cartern Tanton: Tue., Nov. 1, 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Wham City Comedy Tour with Dan Deacon: Wed., Nov. 9. Paragraph Gallery, 23 E.12th St., 816-221-5115. Lucinda Williams: Fri., Nov. 11, 7 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

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nightlife T H U R S DAY 2 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Solid Gold Easy, 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. The Filthy, Carbon Choir. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. The Transients. The Midland: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Chromeo, Mayer Hawthorne and the County, Breakbot, 8 p.m. O’Dowd’s: 8600 N.W. Prairie View Rd., 816-268-6333. Danny McGaw, 9 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Slowdown, Jealousy Mountain, Hume, 9 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Actors & Actresses, In Aeona, Molly Picture Club, 8 p.m. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. Gov’t Cheez.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. David Basse. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Samantha Fish Blues Band. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. The Brody Buster Band, Trampled Under Foot. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Grand Marquis. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Rich Berry. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Jimmie Bratcher, 7 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Rod Fleeman and Dan Bliss. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Kyle Elliott.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Ashley Raines and the New West Revue.

DJ The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Blitz & Beatz Kansas: Na Palm, DJ Pullano, Matt Easton, 8:30 p.m. Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mike Scott and Spinstyles. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Mike DiLeo, Nate Chapman, Trevor Shaw on the patio, 10 p.m. 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 The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Horace Washington. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. The Sons of Brasil. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m.

WORLD The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. AZ-ONE.

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. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Green Drinks, October meet: An Update on Climate Change. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Jukebox Jones, free credits. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with the Star Blues Band. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game. Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Bike Night.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Ralph Harris, 8 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Trivia. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m. 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. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Garden to Glass, booze infused with local ingredients. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Ladies’ Night. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Foosball tournament, 8 p.m. Skeeter’s: 6505 Nieman Rd., Merriam, 913-912-1191. Jump-Off. 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.

VARIET Y The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. KC Songwriter Forum, Thursdays, 7-9 p.m. Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. Rehearsal dinner and drinks; watch house talent rehearse for the weekend. Guests get a backstage seat, dinner, and martini. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Booze, Bands and Boobs: Coversmith, Ashes to Immortality, and more; silent auction, belly dancers, burlesque girls, hoopers, and more. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Cover Bands Suck Night with My So Called Band.

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ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Gemini Syndrome, Visions of Exile. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. 90 Minutes. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Alice Sweet Alice, Mamma Muerte, 9 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Robin dinner concert, 7 p.m. Independence Events MANY MORE Center: 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence. Freaker’s Ball. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Dead ONLINE AT Girls, Sons of Great Dane, PITCH.COM the Sexy Accident, 10 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Teacherz Pet. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595. Nicky G. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Groove Agency. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. Valentine & the Knights. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Radio Romantica, the Mad Kings, 6 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Cretin 66. Wayne & Larry’s Sports Bar: 933 Iowa, Lawrence, 785856-7170. A Nightmare on Iowa Street: Thunderkat.

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Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Furious Palace. Buddha: 8741 N.W. Prairie View Rd. Fusion Friday: DJ Nuveau. Club Monaco: 334 E. 31st St., 816-753-5990. DJ Soap. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Mingle: Morri$, Bear Club. 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 Spinstyles and DJ Mike Scott. The News Room: 3740 Broadway, 816-561-1099. Trollcat, DJ Claire DeCay, DJ Lucretia Fury. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Xclusive. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Fuck Yeah, It’s Friday with DJ 2Live Cruz. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Naylor. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ in the upstairs lounge. Winslow’s BBQ: 20 E. Fifth St., 816-471-7427. Live DJ on the patio, 8 p.m.

77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. Live music, 9:30 p.m. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Summer in October: Red House, Sleepy Hollow Points, Baby Boomers, Ellu House, and more. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816753-1909. Zombie Fest: Slasher Kings, Cave Girls, Bloodfeast, Panic Addicts, zombie costume contest, cash prizes, 8 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Hammerlord Halloween Party. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Bacon Shoe, Neat on the patio, 7 p.m.

1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Everette DeVan Trio with Eboni Fondren. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Bob Bowman and Bow Dog. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Marilyn Wood, 8-11 p.m. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Shades of Jade, Heather Thornton Trio, 9 p.m. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Shay Estes and Mark Lowrey, 10:30 p.m. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Barclay Martin and friends. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Enigmatic Funk.

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JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Bob Bowman and Bow Dog. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Indigo Hour: Lee Langston and the Prototype, 5:30 p.m.; Wild Men of Kansas City, 8:30 p.m. Em Chamas Brazilian Grill: 6101 N.W. 63rd Terr., 816505-7100. Stan Kessler, Mistura Fina. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Ida McBeth, 7 p.m. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brian Ruskin Trio. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Rich Hill, 5 p.m.; Bram Wijnands, Barry Springer, Tommy Ruskin, 7 p.m. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Annalee and the Lucky So and Sos. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Chris Hazelton Trio. Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-6495420. Jerry Hahn, 6 p.m.

WORLD Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Reggae Night with Blue Riddim, RC Dub, 10 p.m.

AMERICANA RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The King Canutes, the Columns, 6 p.m.; Dollar Fox, Don Nails and the Bad Man, the Paperclips, 9 p.m.

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. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Ralph Harris, 8 & 10:30 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.; Ab Fab Fridays on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Jim Kilroy’s 25 Years in the Biz Bash. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

EASY LISTENING Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Eddie Delahunt. 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-7427727. Drew6.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Melinda Ryder’s Open-Mic Variety Night, 8 p.m.

RAP The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Bone Crusher, 8 p.m.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. JD Souther in the Retro Lounge.

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ROCK/POP/INDIE Amore Chocolate Pizza Company: 4821 W. 117th St., Leawood, 913-327-1400. Begin Anyway. The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. Hammerween: Hammerlord, Troglodyte, At the Left Hand of God, the Roman Holiday, Marasmus, Malikai, Wrath and Ruin, 5 p.m., $6 with costume, or $10. The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Dead Kenny G’s, BeardKCrazy. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Kevin Seconds, Bent Left, Dead Ven. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Death Valley Wolfriders, Ese, Federation of Horsepower. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. The Outtakes. KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Orion Falls, 7 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, 5 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Allied Saints. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Matt Pond PA, Rocky Votolato, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth, Nude Sunrise, South Bitch Diet, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Hammerween after-party: Koktopus, Ape Hanger, the Cast Pattern, midnight, free with Hammerween ticket stub, $5 without.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m. Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Shadow Riders. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. A Fine Kettle o’ Fish, 7 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Platinum Express. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Valency. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Sonic Sutra. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Good Foot, 10 p.m. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Bel Airs.

DJ 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Andrew Northern, 9 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Bump n’ Hustle with Cyrus D. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Samurai Saturdays. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Xclusive. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Low Dive, 2-5 p.m., no cover. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Brad Sager. 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-7427727. DJ Andrew Northern. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ in the upstairs lounge.

HIP-HOP The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Dolewite. The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Das Racist, Danny Brown, Despot.

ACOUSTIC Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brendan MacNaughton.

Sprint Center: 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Vicente Fernandez.

CLASSICAL Yardley Hall at JCCC: 12345 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-469-8500. Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Interstate Astronauts, Kansas City Bear Fighters on the patio, 8 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Foxy by Proxy. 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. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 9 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Ralph Harris, 7 & 10 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. MAXIM Masquerade Halloween Party. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913541-9255. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. 12 O’Clock Jump, public radio’s weekly jazz, blues and comedy jam broadcast live on KCUR 89.3, 11:30 p.m., free. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-4831456. Open jam with Billy Ebeling and Duane Goldston, 1 p.m.

S U N DAY 2 3 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors. Cowtown Mallroom: 3101 Gillham Plz., 816-714-9696. The Brody Buster Band, 3 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rich Berry. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Lazy Lester with Levee Town. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. The Bluz Benderz.

DJ Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ at the main bar.

ACOUSTIC Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. Phil and Gary, 9 p.m. Willow Spring Mercantile: 249 E. Broadway, Excelsior Springs. Acoustic with Erik.

JAZZ Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Rich Hill, 7 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Joe DeFio, 6 p.m.; Craig Smith, 11 a.m. West Chase Grille: 11942 Roe, Leawood, 913-6635400. Stan Kessler, Mistura Fina.

A CAPPELLA The Midland: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Straight No Chaser, 2 & 7 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night, beer pong, TV trivia, shot dice. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. 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, 913-4510444. SIN. MANY MORE Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Ralph Harris, 7 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., ShawONLINE AT nee, 913-962-5253. Free PITCH.COM 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. 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. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 3 p.m. 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.

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The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Karaoke with Kelly Bleachmaxx, 10:30 p.m., free; Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. 1st Annual Team Scare Club Spelling Bee. 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. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 10 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.

VARIET Y Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. Interactive, Improvisational Dinner Theatre, 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Music Showcase, 8 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mile High Club, Uncouth. 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, 7 p.m. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Transients, 9 p.m.

ROCK/POP/INDIE Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Drew Grow and the Pastors’ Wives, the Generals, 10 p.m. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Goods.

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: DJ Big Brother, DJ Dustin. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ at the main bar.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Diverse Trio. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Blue Monday Jam: Jazz Disciples. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Barbara Rosene, 7 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.

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Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 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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The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. The Battle for WWIII tour and chance to open for HollyWood UnDead and Asking Alexandria at the Uptown Theater Nov. 5. Five to seven bands compete, 4:30 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Art Battle V: Cinderhouse vs. Erickson, Rematch, tie breaker, 7 p.m.

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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.

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JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Smith & Athon, 6 p.m.; Clint Ashlock’s New Order Jazz Big Band, 9 p.m. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Barclay Martin Ensemble, 6 & 8:30 p.m. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Craig Smith, 6 p.m.

A LT E R N AT I V E The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Helmet, Season to Risk, Waiting for Signal.

DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/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.

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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. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Trevor and Jayonce’s Dirty, Sexy, Funny, Dare, Drag, Trivia Extravaganza. 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. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Gayme Night upstairs, in-house tournament, Wii and NTN Trivia, 7:30 p.m.; karaoke on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Karaoke Party with Baby Brie, 10 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. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.

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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. KC Songwriters Showcase.

W E D N E S DAY 2 6 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. 90 Minutes, 9 p.m. The Midland: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Cavalera Conspiracy, OTEP, Earth Crisis, Moire, At the Left Hand of God, 6 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Sobriquet CD release, Dignan, 9 p.m. Tomfooleries: 612 W. 47th St., 816-753-0555. The Mickey Finn Band, 9 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Shinetop Jr. 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. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Lonnie Ray Blues Band, 9:30 p.m. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Piano with T.J. Erhardt. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. The Voodoo Organist, the Spook Lights. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816220-1222. Levee Town.

DJ Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Live DJ, midnight. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. PipeDream with DJ Rhyn, VJ Dirty Joe, 10 p.m. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. DJ Pure. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ in the upstairs lounge.

HIP-HOP Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Greg Enemy, No Bird Sing, Swanson, 9 p.m.

JAZZ 1911 Restaurant & Lounge: 1911 Main, 816-5270200. Eddie Charles Jam, 6 p.m. Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Megan Birdsall, 7:30 p.m., $5. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brian Ruskin. The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-2211888. Bram Wijnands, 6 p.m.

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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. D.B. Cooper’s: 1804 W. 39th St., 816-753-9800. Karaoke with Dee, 9 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., 816-4522660. Karaoke, Ladies’ MANY MORE Night. Intentions Cabaret: 7316 W. 80th St., Overland Park, 913-652-6510. Melodramatic Karaoke, 8 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and ONLINE AT Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., PITCH.COM Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Karaoke. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Rock and Roll Comedy Show. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with the Queen, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m.; beer pong tournament, 10 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Ladies’ Night. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Bottled Beer Night. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Ladies’ Night with DJ Thorny, 6 p.m. 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. Wilde’s Chateau 24: 2412 Iowa, Lawrence. Pride Night.

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EASY LISTENING 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. Live music in the lounge with Justin. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Colby & Mole.

ELECTRO Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Angelspit, Razorwire Halo, the God Project, Story May Vary, Ab5surdum, 6:30 p.m., $10.

METAL The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. The Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Perish, Cannabis Corpse.

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. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Open-mic night, 7:30 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Acoustic Open Mic with Tyler Gregory, 10 p.m., $2. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Jam Night, 9 p.m. Tonahill’s 3 of a Kind: 11703 E. 23rd St., Independence, 816833-5021. Open Jam hosted by Crossthread, 7:30 p.m.

PUNK Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Years From Now, 10 p.m.

R O C K A B I L LY Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. KC Jamboree with DJ Hepkat.

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Dear Dan: I broke up with a girl who wasn’t hot enough for me. I treated her carelessly because she wasn’t that important to me. I was self-indulgent, rude and disrespectful, and it made her cry. She’s attractive but not in an obvious way, which is what I want. I don’t want to abandon her because she’s a pillar of support, which I need. She’s the first girl BY I ever fucked, and I’m the first guy she ever dated. She’s 28, and DAN I’m 24. We’ve known each other S AVA G E for one year. Is it a bad idea to maintain a relationship with her while I pursue other women? Should I end all contact? What is a man who’s pathologically worried about being an asshole to do? Must Remain Anonymous Dear MRA: So you were a virgin at age 23 when you met this woman. I’m guessing you’re not all that conventionally attractive yourself. You’re attractive in the same way that, say, your ex-girlfriend is attractive. Not obviously attractive. Not hot. But you feel entitled to a woman who is attractive in obvious ways, who’s objectively hot. And you may get one. There are lots of obviously hot women out there with guys who aren’t anywhere near as hot. Helps if the dude’s a billionaire. But if you had to wait until age 23 for a woman to come along who was willing to fuck you and put up with your shit, the wait for a hot woman who’s willing to fuck you and put up with your shit could be a long one. You emotionally abused this woman for failing to be something she wasn’t when you met her (and something you’re not, either). You weren’t obligated to stay with her forever, and you’re free to follow your dreams and pursue hot women. But you were obligated to treat this woman with kindness and consideration. Instead, you went out of your way to act like an asshole. I think it’s best to end all contact. Keeping her in your life in order to get the support you need, while providing her with jack shit in return, is more assholery. Cut her from your life. It’s the only decent thing to do. Dear Dan: I’m an 18-year-old girl in my freshman year at university. I moved into an apartment with three roommates: awesome party girl, my long-term boyfriend, and a new guy who’s a year older than I am. I don’t have an out-of-this-world libido. My boyfriend doesn’t mind and seems content. But I want to fuck the new guy’s brains out all the time. I love my boyfriend and find him attractive, and this other guy is not my type in any way. I am NOT going to cheat on my boyfriend, but I don’t know what to do! Feelings Are Not Technically Alright Sometimes, Y’know?

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Dear FANTASY: Part of dating, at your age, is discovering what and who works for you, and what you want. Sometimes what you think you want isn’t what you actually want. It’s possible that your long-term boyfriend is a good guy and an attractive guy, but not the kind of guy who turns you on. So your libido may be just fine. You just have yet to date a guy who cranks your libido into gear. This guy might be your type. You just don’t know it yet. Women tend to be attracted to one type of guy when they’re not ovulating (nicer guys: good parents and helpful partners) and a different type of guy when they are ovulating (rougher guys: lousy parents and worse partners). You’re going to complicate your life considerably if you live with both types: the nice guy you want to marry and the masculine-type guy whose brains you want to fuck out when you’re shitting eggs. If it’s the first explanation, dump your boyfriend and date your roommate. Otherwise, ogle your roommate and fuck your boyfriend. Dear Dan: A gay couple, friends of mine, just announced their wedding this coming summer in Vancouver. They’ve broken up and reunited countless times over the last 10 years; they fight and cheat on each other. Separately they’re wonderful people but together they’re a nightmare. I suspect this will be a marriage that collapses quickly. How much social pressure will there be for gay married folks not to get divorced? The homophobes will soon use gay divorce rates as an argument against gay marriage, right? The Straight Best Man Dear TSBM: Half of all opposite-sex marriages end in divorce, which makes it pretty easy to deflect arguments about a gay divorce proving that same-sexers aren’t worthy. And divorce — access to the courts to divide up joint property, work out custody arrangements, determine spousal support, etc. — is one of the important rights that comes with marriage. The first same-sex couple to legally wed in Canada wound up divorcing, and the first samesex couple to legally marry in the United States also divorced. Evangelical Christians haven’t made it an issue, probably because the divorce rate among conservative evangelical Christians is higher than the divorce rate among less batshit Christians and nonbelievers. The haters don’t want to make divorce an issue because it makes them look bad, not us. Some people love conflict and drama, and it’s for the best when two pair off and marry each other. It can be hard on friends and family, but once you realize that a couple is a pair of perfectly matched conflictophiles, you don’t have to pretend you care about their drama anymore. Now, how about Occupy Wall Street? About fucking time, huh? Have a question for Dan Savage? E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net

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1BR $475

4451 Tracy Ave

1BR $395

3645 Walnut, Great Location, Central Air/Heat, Off-Street Parking, D/W, Great Deal! Large Floorplan, Close to 71 Hwy, Off-Street Parking, Central Heat, Apt. on the first and second floor.

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