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He knew the difficulties of airline travel firsthand. His pilot’s uniform, he says, is “a magnet for frustrated, lost and confused passengers.”

“The skies just aren’t as friendly as they used to be,” he adds. “There’s just not that much fun anymore.”

Stratman wanted an easy-to-use app for keeping track of an itinerary and a car as well as maps of every airport. He collected information from each airline, including rule and TSA information. But maybe most vital, Airport Life includes push notifications of flight delays, cancellations and gate changes.

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Stratman has also brushed up on his business skills. He has worked with the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s Small Business & Technology Development Center, and he went through the Kauffman Foundation’s FastTrac TechVenture program in January and February. The experience taught him accounting and marketing, and also provided lessons in business law and human resources. Stratman likens it to getting an MBA in two months. He left the class with a business plan, a three-year financial projection and an investor pitch.

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eff Stehney walked with the hitching gait of a person bound for the airport carrying one too many bags. In each hand he held a softsided suitcase stuffed with a 30-pound brisket on ice. He got as far as the car in the driveway of the Roeland Park home he shares with his wife, Joy, before he went back inside and put the meat in the refrigerator. The co-owner of Oklahoma Joe’s was about to fly to the World Brisket Open in Welfare, Texas, without brisket.

A week before that Independence Day weekend in 1992, he shipped his knives, wood — bags of oak and cherry — and spices to a friend in San Antonio. He arranged to borrow an Oklahoma Joe smoker from an area dealer. And when he and Joy touched down in that city, they headed straight for the Kraft Foods commissary (at the time, Stehney was a district sales manager for the company), where a backup pair of briskets sat waiting. Stehney’s casual weekend trip was actually a tactical strike that the barbecue world never saw coming.

“I knew that a Roeland Park guy, Paul Kirk, had won it the year before,” Stehney says. “He was the only Kansas City guy out of 60 teams.

I figured if he could do it, we could do it.”

Adding to his confidence was the fact that, less than two months before the Texas cookoff, Stehney and Joy earned Reserve Grand Champion honors at a barbecue contest in Raytown. “I was probably hooked from that moment on,” he says.

Each World Brisket Open team was allowed as many entries as it was willing to pay for. At the Don Strange Ranch, in Welfare, Stehney entered two briskets at $100 apiece under the team name Slaughterhouse Five.

“We’d mistimed it, and I remember we’re still a good 150 or 200 yards away from the tent when I hear our team name,” Stehney says. “I turned to Joy and said, ‘I think we just won something. I think it was second place.’

Then I started running and I heard our name again. And I know I heard the words ‘grand champion.’ I stopped in my tracks because we had just won first and second.”

As the couple took the stage, the crowd booed. A Kansas City team winning a Texas competition for the second year in a row was an unpopular choice. Jeff and Joy didn’t mind.

They were taking home gold trophies and prize checks totaling $6,500.

“Joy told me on the car ride back that she had been prepared to give this long, thoughtout speech as to why this trip and the barbecue thing was one of the dumbest things she’d ever seen,” Stehney says. “Right until we won.”

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ince then, the restaurant founded on that victory, Oklahoma Joe’s, has emerged as an Oz for barbecue travelers, with Jeff Stehney its wizard. The hungry arrive from every state (Marketing Director Doug Worgul claims to have seen Hawaii and Alaska represented in the parking lot on the same day), eager to taste the meat cooked in the six smokers behind an otherwise ordinary Shamrock gas station in Kansas City, Kansas.

Some of the pilgrims stand next to a picture of Anthony Bourdain, the chef and author who included the restaurant in his “13 Places to Eat Before You Die,” a June 2009 piece in Men’s Health magazine. But most simply line up for

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the ’cue that has been anointed by food shows and national critics as the reason that humans put fire to meat.

“Oklahoma Joe’s is number one without a doubt,” says chef Paul Kirk, one of the founding members of the Kansas City Barbeque Society.

“In rain, snow or sleet or whatever, at 4 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon, you see that line coming out the door. He found a product that people like better than the other stuff.”

A trim man, with salt-and-pepper edging in his black hair, Stehney is not often recognized outside competition-barbecue settings. He’s more often mistaken for former University of Kansas basketball coach Larry Brown, to whom he bears a passing resemblance (enhanced by his squared-off eyeglasses). All of this is fine with Stehney, who — like the Great and Powerful Oz — would rather stay unseen behind the smoke.

While Stehney, 52, can claim Oklahoma roots, he is not the namesake of Oklahoma Joe’s. That would be his former business partner, Joe Don Davidson.

“I remember when Jeff came to me and said he wanted to open an Oklahoma Joe’s in Kansas City,” Davidson recalls. “I said, ‘Man, that’s the toughest market in the world. Why would you want to do that?’ And he told me, ‘If we can make it there, we can make it anywhere.’ ” Four blocks from his home, Stehney spotted a failed fried-chicken-and-liquor-store operation (called One Fast Chick-n) in a corner gas station at 47th Street and Mission Road. There, Oklahoma Joe’s opened in August 1996; ten years later, the liquor-store portion of the space was converted into a kitchen and an office.

On a Wednesday afternoon in late May, Stehney sits at his desk at the restaurant, work-

Stehney stands in front of Savage's painting. ing the phone. Through his office window, he can see a line of people on the sidewalk that extends 50 feet from the front door. In Olathe, there’s similar demand at the restaurant’s second location, which he opened in a former nightclub seven years ago. And Stehney is about to take his smokers to Leawood for a third outpost. The 210-seat Joe’s No. 3 (as Stehney and Worgul have taken to calling it), a former T.G.I. Friday’s at 11723 Roe, opens July 2.

Over the past several months, Stehney has fielded franchise queries from as far away as the United Kingdom and Australia, as well as one New Jersey man who wanted to pay Stehney $1,000 a day to shadow him for a week.

On this spring day, though, between calls from suppliers, he explains that the newest of his Oklahoma Joe’s troika is also the last expansion he plans to undertake.

“I don’t think we’ll ever get branded a chain — that scares the crap out of me,” Stehney says. “We’ve got a responsibility to promote Kansas City as barbecue country.

We’re not going to go all around the dang country. We’ve got plenty of opportunities.

I just tell people, ‘There’s nothing I can do to accommodate your wishes.’ ” tehney was born in Buffalo, New York, at a time when barbecue was still considered ethnic cuisine. The spiciest thing in the house was the Vernors ginger ale that his mother, Carol (a Lansing, Michigan, native), loved. She was a Betty Crocker-era homemaker whose meal repertoire favored chop suey and cinnamon rolls. At 9 years old, Stehney began

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cooking for himself, making French toast on an electric skillet. The secrets of butchering and preparing a pig would come later, from his father John's Slovenian relatives on their hog farms in southwestern Pennsylvania.

His father's work as a mechanical engineer took the family around the country to Chicago, Kansas City and then Bixby, Oklahoma. But it wasn’t until he got to the University of Kansas that Stehney discovered the world of barbecue and the business of restaurants. Many of his close friends and longtime employees are from those days in Lawrence. Artist Mike Savage, who painted an 8-foot-by-8-foot tin sign for the Leawood restaurant, and Charlie Podrebarac, a Kansas City Star cartoonist and Stehney’s partner in the Cowtown Barbeque Products line of rubs and sauces, are fellow KU alums.

“It’s lead, follow or get out of the way,” Savage says. “And Jeff is definitely the lead guy.”

Stehney graduated with a degree in advertising in 1983 and began working as a waiter at Kansas City’s Alameda Plaza Hotel (now the InterContinental). He loved the work, but he saw servers 10 years his senior, also with college degrees, living off tips. The food-supply business promised some upward mobility and allowed him to stay connected to the restaurant scene. During his five years with Pisciotta Fruit and Vegetable, in the City Market, he learned what makes a restaurant operator successful. (He also met an inside sales representative named Joy. In August, the couple celebrate their 22nd wedding anniversary.)

Around that time, barbecue competitions changed from something he did with friends to something he entered to win.

“It was the competition,” Stehney says. “If there had been a competition where you went out and baked cakes, got to drink with your friends and, at the end of the day, there was a dinner, I would have gone out and baked cakes.”

His first competition smoker, an Oklahoma Joe model, arrived in 1991. By the following summer, Stehney, Joy, Jim Howell, and fellow Kraft employee Jim Harmon were regularly pulling in prizes. In Kansas City Barbeque Society events, in which most of their opponents entered tenderloins in the pork category, Slaughterhouse Five smoked pork butt. It was what they knew how to cook, Stehney says.

But it was also something they wouldn’t tire of eating the week after the competition. With more and more weekends devoted to hitching the smoker to a trailer, pork butt was never far from their plates or minds.

“He didn’t go to a contest if he didn’t think he could win,” Kirk says. “He really worked at his trade. To be successful like Jeff, first you’ve got to have some talent. But you also have to practice and practice and practice.”

On the strength of more than a dozen wins at major competitions in 1993 — that’s a career for a successful pit master — Slaughterhouse Five was named the Kansas City Barbeque Society’s team of the year. Joy and Jeff rented a refrigerated truck, which they parked in the driveway on weekends, and began catering.

And when they needed more space, it was Joy’s Pepsi habit that pointed them toward the gas station. The place she stopped for a morning soda on her way to work downtown would become the home of their first commercial kitchen. continued on page 8

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Behind the Smoke continued from page 7 “That year, it seemed like if I wasn’t winning, he was winning,” says Davidson, who won the grand championship at the Jack Daniel’s World Championship Invitational Barbecue in October 1993. The amicable rivals had a standing gentleman’s bet of $100 per category. “We got to be great friends,” Davidson says. “We were at so many of the same dang cook-offs, and I liked to beat him and he liked to beat me.”

Unlike Stehney, Davidson was in the barbecue world full time. In 1987, Davidson went to the Oklahoma State Fair as an agricultural engineering student hoping to sell 12 smokers he’d built as a potential side business. He left with 120 orders and put his education at Oklahoma State University on hold.

Davidson’s success on the competition circuit became his best advertisement. In barbecue, as in NASCAR, the model you need is the one that is winning right now.

When Davidson broke ground on a new manufacturing plant in Stillwater, Oklahoma, in 1994, he began to think about opening a restaurant to capitalize on his brand. He approached Stehney and proposed an equal partnership, convincing him to run the original Oklahoma Joe’s location that opened in Stillwater in January 1996. Five years after buying a smoker from Davidson, Stehney was working alongside him.

“Jeff and I are both phenomenally competitive, but we’re very different,” Davidson says.

“I was a bet-the-farm risk taker and I cooked

The original location in Kansas City, Kansas (top), and the new Leawood spot. that way. He was more methodical, thoughtout and organized than I was. That’s what made it work.”

The Oklahoman supplied his sauce and rubs, which had been named “best on the planet” at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue. Stehney was tasked with adapting his approach to competition barbecue.

“With competition barbecue, you’re taking meat right to the edge,” Davidson says. “The perfect rib is the one you can’t eat 10 minutes later. By spending all those hours fine-tuning our cooking systems at Oklahoma Joe’s, Jeff figured out how to make it right, how to hold meat. And that’s what makes Oklahoma Joe’s so unique.”

“Many people dream about building on their success in competitions and going into business,” says Ardie Davis, a charter member of the Kansas City Barbeque Society. “But then they try it and discover it’s a whole different animal. That’s not the case with them.”

Stehney, eager to spend less time commuting between Roeland Park and Stillwater, urged Davidson to open a second restaurant, and by August 1996 the Mission Road location was up and running. Joy left her job with the Blackeyed Pea restaurant franchise to run the business alongside Jeff. She was a constant behind the counter while Stehney handled the smoker.

When Davidson sold his smoker company

“If there had been a competition where you went out and baked cakes, got to drink with your friends and, at the end of the day, there was a dinner, I would have gone out and baked cakes.”

Championship banners (above) hang in KCK, while new signs go up in Leawood. in the spring of 1998 to New Braunfels, he also granted the subsidiary of Char-Broil the retail rights to sell his sauces and rubs under that name. He retained the Oklahoma Joe’s Barbecue and Catering business. With Davidson headed to Texas to work for New Braunfels, the duo decided to close the now-pitmasterless Stillwater location. Stehney then bought Davidson out of the KCK restaurant and was granted a sub-license for the name.

“We were very good friends for a very long time and business partners for a short time,” Stehney says. “It didn’t work out the way we hoped. I give Joe a lot of credit — he certainly helped me jump into something it turns out I was pretty good at.”

Davidson opened his own Oklahoma Joe’s restaurant in Tulsa last December. The menu features the familiar Z-Man brisket sandwich alongside okra and bologna — barbecue staples of the Sooner state — but Stehney has no financial interest in the business.

“I get to take advantage of the fact that Jeff ’s been perfecting his systems since 1996,” Davidson says. “It’s been a blessing for me that he would open his books like that to me and just give me the keys to his castle.” little after 7:30 a.m. each day, the pork butts are ready to be pulled out of the white-oak-fueled smoker. The heat and the fans have been carefully regulated so that the meat retains moisture and a smoke ring forms beneath a luscious brown bark. Gloved hands trim the fat and then squeeze it over the meat. Stehney can tell the pork’s temperature by touch before the thermometer needle has finished its confirming rise.

“We don’t oversmoke our food,” he says.

“I don’t want it to taste like a railroad tie. The things that are flavoring the meat aren’t the things that are visible.”

That includes Stehney, a fact that makes his restaurant an outlier in Kansas City barbecue.

The pitmaster’s name — his name — isn’t on the sign. The menu’s signature dish, Carolina-

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style pulled pork, is from another region. Oklahoma Joe’s does things differently because Jeff Stehney believes his way is the way things should be done.

“We’re not a mom-and-pop shop anymore,” Stehney says. “But I never wanted to create a huge corporate conglomerate. It’s important to me that I keep the company at a place where I can manage it — where all the restaurants are at the same level [and] it’s just the experience that’s different.”

So it’s his taste that drives the restaurant.

The grilled chicken sandwich, Stehney’s leastfavorite menu item, was quietly reintroduced recently, after about six weeks of development, as a pulled-chicken sandwich. Like the blue flame of his smokers, Stehney keeps himself largely insulated from the machinery of promotion. He prefers making pitmaster tweaks and staying out of view. It’s Worgul who leads an MTV crew behind the counter or appears on camera for the Travel Channel to talk about the 12,000 pounds of pulled pork that go into Bessie, Wilbur and Smokie for 17 hours.

Jeff and Joy Stehney, who have no children, have grown the company enough that Stehney has a small management team of a half-dozen people in place. Vacations in the early days of the restaurant were the hours spent competing at the American Royal. Today, the couple can travel, indulging their own culinary tourism in places like Las Vegas and New Mexico.

Once the Leawood restaurant is established and a planned expansion at the Olathe restaurant is finished this fall (the Stehneys’ Kansas City BBQ Store moved two doors down in order to give the dining room and kitchen some breathing room), Stehney says, he might try to start a series of stand-alone businesses, perhaps something with specialty smoked meats.

“Food is science and art,” Stehney says. “I want to understand as much as I can about the science without being blinded by it. The competition side of me is almost like the racing division of a manufacturer. I keep looking to see if we could be doing something better.”

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Geeks of all ages and persuasions gather at Union Station (30 West Pershing Road, 816-460-2020) 9:30 a.m.–7 p.m. today (and 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday) to swap ideas and show off handiwork at Maker Faire, which drew 130 presenters to last year’s inaugural event — equal parts science, craft and state fair. This year, more than 275 makers exhibit hands-on projects such as souped-up, adultfriendly Power Wheels, handmade jewelry, dancing robots, artisan foods, and Tesla coils that play music. See makerfairekc.com for more information and tickets.

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Hot Caution Thursdays are all about the covers. The recently renamed weekly at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300) asks little of guests other than to sip brews and listen to rendiE MOR tions of past and present songs, featuring Katie Gilchrist, Vi Tran, Sean T A E IN Hogge, Jerod Rivers, Ben ONL .COM PITCH Byard, and local guest artists. “Hot Caution captures the vibe of the evening: sexy, silly, rock and dance music for a friendly crowd that loves to have fun,” Tran says. “We cover everything from Beatles to Stones to White Stripes to Florence + the Machine.” The music for this 21-and-older, cover-free event begins at 10 p.m. See czarkc.com for a full lineup.

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F R I D AY | 6 . 2 2 | GLAAD TO BE REMEMBERED

Every great book deserves a film version, especially if the book is about the movies. The 1995 documentary The Celluloid Closet was based on Vito Russo’s well-researched book of the same name, depicting how Hollywood portrayed gays and lesbians during much of the 20th century continued on page 12

efore the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival presentation of Antony and Cleopatra at Southmoreland Park tonight, make a trip across the street to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) to visit Queen Nefertiti and Ramses II. Reliefs of Cleopatra’s great-greatgrandmother and great-grandfather are on display in the museum’s Ancient Art Collection, with museum tour guides available 6–8 p.m. to answer questions. For more information, see nelson-atkins.org.

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No one rides for free — not even on the 1922 Stanley Steamer — but the $5 fee is a drop in the bucket for a ride in a vehicle that Jay Leno calls “great fun to drive” and a “grand example of American automotive ingenuity.” See this ol’ steam beater and many others like it at the sixth annual Art of the Car Concours, 10 a.m.–4 p.m. on the campus of the Kansas City Art Institute (4415 Warwick, 816-802-3483). For more information, see kcai.edu/concours.

— BERRY ANDERSON

MARKET WATCH

Twelve years ago, Kim Dye and her cohorts set up a weekend sale in Zona Rosa. Their enchanting display of accessible antique and vintage-inspired home décor, furniture, fashion, accessories and hosting necessities made shoppers swoon. The Parisian fleamarket concept grew so popular that Dye opened two shops: Vintage Market North (8721 North Stoddard) and Vintage Market South (7930 Lee Boulevard, Leawood). Last week, a third Vintage Market opened in the River Market (122 West Fifth Street, 816-741-5526). Its hours are noon–6 p.m. today and 10 a.m.–6 p.m. Monday through Saturday. See vintagemarketkc.com for more information.

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For most of us, gardening isn’t much more than a hobby. But for many, it can provide means to a whole new life. Cultivate KC enables resettled refugees — mostly from Burma and Somalia — to learn, along with

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KCK residents, the art of farming as well as running a small business. Sample their organic produce at a weekly market, which includes meat and veggies (and produce from the farmers’ native countries), 9:30 a.m.– 1 p.m. every Monday through September at Greenmarket, adjacent to the Juniper Gardens Training Farm (Third Street and Richmond Avenue, in Kansas City, Kansas).

For more info, see cultivatekc.org.

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Two surprises await when you walk through the red barn door behind the Merc in Lawrence to Barnyard Beers (925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696). First, the high-caliber musicianship of Mudstomp Mondays, the popular bluegrassy open-mic night led by Hank Osterhout of shredgrass outfit Deadman Flats. Second, the Barnyard Beer that’s brewed on-site by Mike Hummell and Heath Hoadley, who’ve been perfecting the formula since 2008. Much of the joint’s focus is on the burgeoning Kansas bluegrass sound. “It’s distinct enough to be spotted by ear if you pay attention,” Hummell says.

Mondays are cover-free, and pints of Barnyard Beer cost $3.75. See barnyardbeer.com.

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T U E S D AY | 6 . 2 6 | TOP OF THE NINTH

There’s a new-ish tenant at 18th and Vine.

The 9th Inning Sports Bar & Grill (1512 East 18th Street, 816-472-8300) set up shop in March and held a grand opening

Adult swim. For real. (See Wednesday.) in May. Now it’s already in full swing, in time for All-Star Weekend in July. The 6,500-square-foot bar and restaurant (brought to us by the owners of the KC Blues & Jazz Juke House) focuses on televised sports, food and cheap drinks — just what we like. Sure, KC loves its Ida McBeth and two-steppin’, but when it comes to grilled wings and $3 big drafts, culture goes out the window. After tonight’s RoyalsRays game, get $2 well drinks. See more at the9thinning.com.

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Teach a man to farm instead of giving him an apple and a chicken leg, right? It seems too simple to be true. Former Southern Living assistant garden editor and ethno-botanist Edwin Marty is the co-author of Breaking Through Concrete: Building an Urban Farm Revival, a book about America’s thriving urban farm movement. From restaurant rooftop gardens and backyard food swaps to city livestock and pesky zoning laws, Marty’s 2010 book is the subject of his 6:30 p.m. lecture at the Central Library (14 West 10th Street, 816-701-3400). RSVP at kclibrary.org.

— BERRY ANDERSON

W E D N E S D AY | 6 . 2 7 | SUBURBAN OASIS

Adults: Splashing, screaming and summertime-swimming shenanigans can all be bypassed during an outing to the Prairie Village Pool Complex (7711 Delmar, 913-385-4650). For $6, gain access to the oasis that’s the opposite of the kiddie pool — the back half of the aquatic park has long-course lap swimming, a personalflotation-device-friendly pool and tons of lounge chairs. No blaring 105.1 JACK-FM or saggy swim diapers, either. See pvkansas.com for more information.

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obert Mullenix’s atmospheric canvases provide a smart antidote to the muggy Kansas City summer. Staring at the artist’s forest scenes, which he has saturated with brilliant color and cool, dark shadows, is almost as good as a hike in the deep shade of the woods. (In fact, with the Artists Coalition’s central air conditioning and the absence of ticks and mosquitoes, it might be better.) The long, vertical lines of Mullenix’s tree trunks and saw-toothed outlines of leaves appear crisp from a distance, but a closer look reveals an unusual fi nish: Mullenix paints photocopies of photos, yielding a texture reminiscent of Ben-Day dots.

Robert Mullenix "Writ Upon Sky" Through June 22 at the Kansas City Artists Coalition, 201 Wyandotte, 816-421-5222, kansascityartistscoalition.org C O U R T E S Y B I L L B R A D Y KC

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nthony Hawley takes over the entire back gallery of the Dolphin with his sprawling installation. He lines the walls with drawings on vellum that feature tiny, manic geometric forms; meandering waves; and energetic, thick black lines that zip to and fro. But the drawing doesn’t stop there: Hawley loops the filmy, stringy guts of cassette tapes through the rafters and down to the floor, creating a three-dimensional effect that draws the space together. With their drips of plaster and drywall cracks, their woodgrain and dribbles of glue, even his hodgepodge, amateurishly assembled sculptures demonstrate an appealing sensitivity to line.

Anthony Hawley Rerites Through June 23 at Dolphin, 1600 Liberty, 816-842-4415, thedolphingallery.com

Jarrett Mellenbruch “A Busy Solitude” East West Shift to the Middle Part II Through June 23 at Bill Brady/KC, 1505 Genessee, 816-527-0090, billbradykc.com

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SLAVE TO PASSION ith her fiery red hair and her fair skin, Kim Martin-Cotten doesn’t seem like the world’s most natural Cleopatra. But the actress, who takes on the role in the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival’s new production of Antony and Cleopatra, is familiar with the part.

“Some years ago, I played Charmian in a production of Antony and Cleopatra at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, D.C.,” she says in her distinctive throaty voice. From that vantage, she learned how the pharoah moved and carried herself. “I can play her as a woman, not just a queen — with passion and vulnerability.”

On an outdoor stage like the one that Heart of America erects at Southmoreland Park, her task gets more complicated. “Cleopatra is a good actress herself,” says the festival’s artistic director, Sidonie Garrett. “She’s quick, constantly adjusting, and fleshing out her objective. Onstage, Kim has to be able to work the face and the body so people can see that.”

This is Martin-Cotten’s fifth season with the company and Garrett’s 12th. The two answered The Pitch’s questions by e-mail.

The Pitch: Sidonie, what changes have you seen over the festival’s two decades?

Garrett: The first two seasons, we had a flat deck and almost no set, with minimal

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Kim, tell us about the makeup and costuming process you go through for Antony and Cleopatra.

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Martin-Cotten: I am lucky — the wonderful designer Mary Traylor knows me well and always costumes me beautifully. Cleopatra is complicated in her attire, in that she has many wonderful things to appear in (she is queen after all) — so lots of dresses, robes, headdresses, etc. This year, as soon as I arrived in Kansas City, I went in for a meeting with the costume department so Mary could get a sense of how all the pieces that were built (or pulled) fit on my body. That is a big luxury. To have an opportunity to understand what one will be wearing that early in the process is rare.

You’re also playing Hippolyta in this summer’s other production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She’s another strong woman.

Martin-Cotten: I have a big, low voice, and I think that pushes my casting that direction sometimes. But I do occasionally get to play the soft-spoken, and I love that, too.

What makes the love story between Cleopatra and Antony relevant in 2012?

Martin-Cotten: There’s a lot of information about Cleopatra out right now, with the recent book [Stacy Schiff ’s Cleopatra: A Life, 2010] and the National Geographic episodes on her life. And the [HBO] series Rome had a very interesting take on her. She is endlessly fascinating. For this production, I am

building her from Shakespeare’s text, not research outside of it. So I am focusing on her as a powerful woman; in fact, the most powerful woman in the world, an international force, who falls in love more deeply than she ever has and is experiencing a new kind of vulnerability because of it.

That, to me, is the humanity of this allpowerful queen. We all can be slaves to our passions, and sometimes they cause us to do things that we would not have done otherwise.

How do you unwind after the performances?

Martin-Cotten: The expending of energy in a big, outside venue helps me sleep easily and very soundly. So really, a quick bite of food, a cool shower and I am asleep.

What does it take to keep people engaged in Shakespeare for hours on a hot night?

Garrett: It takes good storytelling. We work to make the plays accessible to our entire audience and, in the park, to very physically tell the story so that it reads to the back wall of our space, which is the size of a football field. We make big choices to help tell these epic stories.

What do you find most distracting about working outside?

Martin-Cotten: Helicopters.

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In a starring role that’s just a shade darker than his cheated-on dad in last summer’s paint-by-numbers Crazy Stupid Love, the actor again plays a cuckold trying to sort out midlife-crisis disappointments.

This time, however, the Ryan Gosling assist comes courtesy of an Earth-killing asteroid.

That’s the deadpan concept of Seeking a Friend for the End of the World, which delivers more on the friend and end conceits of its title (much of which you’ve already seen in its all-the-good-stuff trailer) than the seeking and world parts. Usually when movie couples fall MORE in love fast, our suspension of disbelief is tied to the popcorn-fueled T A INE desire to see Actor A ONL .COM H C PIT and Actor B mate for life, with a surety that eludes all but the least interesting of us. So there’s something ingenious about trumping the usual order of things with a trope borrowed from films unromantic and uncomedic: the end of the world. But borrow something just before the death of everything and you won’t get it back.

Oh, what Albert Brooks could have done with this idea if only he’d thought of it fi rst.

Or what Seeking’s writer-director, Lorene Scafaria, might have done if she’d had confidence enough to pursue the departures from sanity allowed by this subgenre chartered over the past couple of years: middleclass apocalyptica.

Alas, Seeking isn’t much more Armageddonconscious than Scafaria’s 2008 film, Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, her Brooklyn-y, iTunes version of the old “it’s just you and me, you sexy, plucky jerk” romance. (That movie has its bland charms, but it’s no It Happened One Night.)

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The journey that Carell’s Dodge (yes, that’s his name) makes from sadness to fulfillment depends on a patience with Penny that the movie makes hard to fathom. Ah, but Dodge is a Terrence Malick fan. In one of Seeking’s odd, weightless idylls, the pair almost run over a line of couples walking to a magic-hour-lighted beach. They leave their car and follow, watching as scores of men and women wait for their turn at a kind of Tree of Life-looking nuptial baptism. It should be beautiful, but it diffuses into a tides-andsand montage like a more emotional Activia commercial.

To be fair, I missed the first 15 minutes of the screening — thereby doing without Patton Oswalt, Connie Britton, Rob Corddry and the rest of the SAG humanity promised by the preview and the poster. There was traffic. Maybe that first sixth of Seeking is time-capsule good. But the rest of it doesn’t often rise above afternoon-cable passable, and dying in a highway pileup trying to see it would have made me feel like a Carellcharacter-sized chump.

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here aren’t many dining rooms in Kansas City that drip with the milk of human kindness. Café Gratitude is practically swimming in it — along with coconut, hazelnut and almond milk (never cow’s). The first licensed Midwest outpost of the popular California haven for vegan, organic and raw food opened its doors in May, and its attractive serving crew radiates the beatific glow of new apostles.

“I’m so excited to be working here,” gushed the pretty young waitress attending our table on my first visit to the restaurant. Hey, great, good for you. But there was more: “It sort of goes along with where I am spiritually in my life. It’s the right place for me to be.”

I usually recoil from this kind of candor, but this young woman was so sincere, so unabashed, that I couldn’t look away from her long enough to roll my eyes. I had come to try the food and been confronted with an avatar of purely good intentions.

I don’t want to say her efforts on me were wasted, but I’m certainly on the more cynical side of the vegan-restaurant patronage spectrum. At Café Gratitude, you can practically see the cheery, positive ions circulating through the air. And I can see those ions bouncing right off me in search of a more absorbent customer.

A part of me would like to embrace each server announcing to his or her table a “question of the day” or messages like a sentence printed on the menu: “Our food and people are a celebration of our aliveness.” But I’ve been there, E MOR done that. I worked in a macrobiotic restaurant for a couple of years and T A E IN ONL .COM piously extolled the virH C IT P tues of alfalfa sprouts and organic apple juice — until I was fired for sneaking a Little Debbie Swiss Roll. (Sometimes aliveness demands sugar.)

Café Gratitude would be a first-rate restaurant without all the holistic hoopla. Yes, the menu asks that you “step inside and enjoy being someone who chooses: loving your life, adoring yourself, accepting the world, being generous and grateful every day, and experiencing being provided for,” as though Oprah is making your dinner. But there are smartly made, flavorful items here that can’t be had elsewhere (or easily undertaken at home), and that’s worth a little pressure to re-avow one’s self-worth.

I didn’t walk out of the restaurant adoring myself, but I did adore the weird thrill of getting a flattering affirmation every time a new dish or beverage came to the table. It’s one thing to request an espresso-flavored, dairyfree (and memorably delicious) milkshake, “I Am Eternally Blessed” — everything at Café Gratitude is called “I Am” something or other — but it’s another when a shiny, happy server sets it in front of you and proclaims, “You are Eternally Blessed.” I wasn’t sure whether to

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server tired of my questions about each dish’s ingredients (in this case: soaked almonds, soaked sunflower seeds, raw tahini), she sip the concoction or cross myself with it as if engaged her inner shaman and brought me it contained holy water.

If something godly is in any of these bever- something I’d wanted to see all my life: The ages (and there are a lot of beverages), it’s the Book of Knowledge. The wisdom contained within is specific to Café Gratitude, so I didn’t I Am Immortal, which might be even more bracing served in a chalice rather than the over- discover the meaning of life. (How amusing it would be, however, if truly universal answers sized mug that usually holds it. I Am Immortal to life’s codes really were tucked inside a limeis a powerful liquid, described on the menu as green, three-ring binder.) But an availablean “immune system enhancing, consciousupon-request listing of the ingredients to a ness expanding, ancient tonifying elixir.” It’s restaurant’s every dish is an excellent idea, made with reishi, shilajit and ormus (God only particularly for diners with severe food allerknows, I thought), and so heavily dusted with gies. It’s something that more places should ground cinnamon that the warm, umber brew consider. Meanwhile, the can nearly pass as a highly nut-averse should know aggressive cocoa. “Shilajit is Café Gratitude that Café Gratitude’s dishes a mineral,” announced my I Am Connected .................... $7 tend to be heavy on cashew server that afternoon. (Later I I Am Immortal ....................... $5 cheese a nd cashew ice learned that reishi is a medicI Am Extraordinary ........$11.50 cream, Brazilian nut cheese, inal mushroom, whereas orI Am Terrific ................... $13.75 and Thai almond dressing. mus is “orbitally rearranged I Am Magical ........................$10 Because all of the ingremonoatomic elements.”) It’s I Am Eternally Blessed..........................$8.50 dients here are organic, it’s a pleasant, soothing drink, not unusual for the restaubut I think my immune sysrant to run out of certain tem got a more potent punch dishes. The corn tamale (“I Am Trusting”) from the jigger of freshly juiced wheatgrass was not available on any of my three visits to I’d ordered before deciding I wanted to live forever. Yes, wheatgrass tastes lousy, but every- the place. As one manager explained to me, “It’s not like we can run to Price Chopper if thing’s more intoxicating served in a shot glass.

Powered up with shilajit and ormus, I we run out of something.” That makes sense, I guess, but I was tempted to ask my server was ready to take on the world. Or at least to run out and get me some real bacon after lunch. I’m a fan of Café Gratitude’s sproutedbiting into Café Gratitude’s spin on a BLT (“I almond hummus (“I Am Connected”), served with chewy “raw” crackers (dehydrated, not Am Extraordinary”). The faux meat — crispy, chipotle-maple coconut “bacon” — tasted like baked), though it’s a shade salty. When the

We are thick, delicious and pure of spirit.

a chewy hunk of Hawaiian candy topped with lettuce, tomato and avocado. Much, much better was the veggie burger, a patty of brown rice, quinoa, black beans, mushrooms and beets. But I think I liked it because it had been fried to the consistency of a falafel puck — high praise, if you ask me.

That burger (“I Am Magical”) is particularly good with a creamy dollop of the dairyfree mozzarella, which has the texture of a fine, silky ricotta. And it’s best alongside one of the place’s big cashew milkshakes, all of which are far thicker than any dairy-based shake in town.

A vegetarian friend of mine was less than entranced by Café Gratitude’s version of pad Thai, “I Am Terrific.” It’s a cold jumble of kelp noodles, shredded kale, cucumber, tomatoes, cilantro, mint and scallions in a light, tasty sauce made with almond butter, ginger juice, agave, cilantro and jalapeñolemon juice. Though we both liked it a lot, my friend felt a little misled by the menu.

There are other surprises. The restaurant doesn’t serve a vegan staple — soy products — in its dishes. “Most soy products in the United States are genetically modified,” one waitress lectured me. And there’s no liquor, but that’s going to change when the owners get their liquor license. Organic beer and organic wine, of course. “Will those beverages be called ‘I Am Intoxicated?’ ” I asked. The waitress frowned at my insolence, and I felt a twinge of shame. Just then, dessert arrived: a wonderfully tart Key lime pie in an almond crust, and a dense chocolate “mousse” that was more like a sweet pâté made with Irish moss, among other ingredients. (Moss mousse doesn’t sound tempting, but it tastes good.)

The coffee was strong and good, so I assume it was the real thing and not some caffeine-free chickory alternative. I was sitting back, enjoying the java when our server returned and asked, expectantly, if we were ready to answer the question of the day. I had forgotten it.

“What would you like to be acknowledged for?” the young woman repeated, looking to each of us for a glimmer of intelligence. No one rose to the occasion (you don’t have to answer out loud, the servers assure you, so it can be like a birthday wish mulled as the candles are lighted), and we left the matter behind altogether when we left the restaurant. I felt like we’d let Café Gratitude down, but it’s a fact as sure as rice milk: Not everyone is up to the good intentions of this dining venue.

Don’t get me wrong. I appreciate that Café Gratitude wants to change the world. And I’ll be back — but just to eat.

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The bearded, bespectacled chef who feverishly worked the cramped kitchen inside Port Fonda, his modded Airstream trailer, which started rolling in 2011. He came back to Kansas City to open a restaurant. First, he needed to make sure that his hometown was hungry for his take on nuevo-Latino cuisine. The line that stretched each weekend from the gleaming mobile kitchen’s order window, in the parking lot of the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, answered that question.

“The truck was a real jumping-off point, personally and professionally,” Ryan says. “It was when the dream of opening and owning a restaurant seemed really far off. But I still had all these cool ideas between my own ears I wanted to see come to fruition.”

KC's food-truck movement is maturing, providing seed capital and daily market research for budding independent restaurateurs. Only a month after Lindsay Laricks opened Little Freshie on the West Side (an espresso and soda bar across the street from the park where her Shasta teardrop trailer sold snow cones in the summer), Ryan is set to unveil a brick-andmortar version of Port Fonda. His restaurant in Westport is slated to open Tuesday, June 26.

“We survived an entire season cooking the food we wanted to cook,” Ryan says. “We never had to make sacrifices, never had to make a ground-beef taco. We tried to do new things, and that worked out really well.”

The top sellers on the truck provide the foundation for the starters: chilaquiles; grilled corn; and a selection of street tacos, tortas and cemitas (Mexican sandwiches), served with chicharron (fried pork rinds) or beans and rice. The menu divides its entrées into fajitas, sopas (soups) and caldos (stews). The fajitas are based on recipes hammered out in the trailer, with meat stewed and braised rather than grilled and sliced. The pork belly and beef tongue (Ryan always wants offal available) and chicken confit come with a coterie of toppings: grilled green onions, roasted radishes, homemade crema, guacamole and various salsas.

But it’s the chance to return to his culinary roots — Ryan spent five years making 5-gallon batches of mole and soups at Rick Bayless’ Frontera Grill and Topolobampo — that has the chef eager to open Port Fonda.

“A lot of my friends go to the Vietnam Café for a big pot of pho,” he says. “It’s really satisfying. So I tried to take that idea of having something with all of these textures and flavors but putting a Mexican spin on it.” The results include his version of arroz con pollo, with a spicy chicken broth and chicken confit and a fried egg, or goat stew with guajillo mole.

Counteracting the heat is Travis Stewart’s

Ryan is ready to cook in Westport. scratch bar. Stewart, formerly of Manifesto and Chaz on the Plaza, is designing and pouring cocktails at Port Fonda. Ryan asked him to focus on tequila and mescal — and equipped him with 16 craft tequilas behind the bar.

Though you’ll be able to order tacos here, the restaurant is very different from the taqueria envisioned by the late chef John McClure, who committed suicide last October.

The former owner of Starker’s had planned to partner with Dan Doty in a restaurant called Barrio. Doty and Ryan initially worked together on the new concept but parted ways during the building stages.

“This is a drastically different restaurant than what Barrio would have been,” Ryan says. “It’s a difficult situation. I do think John would have liked this place. But I had to do what was best for me and execute my vision.

Otherwise, I don’t think I could be successful.”

The space, designed by John Anderson of the Utilitarian Workshop (who also worked on Little Freshie’s look), is a warm mix of wood, industrial lighting and decorations centered on a desert motif. “I want this to be something new and totally different for Kansas City,” Ryan says. “And in order for it to hold its own as one of the better places in KC, I’ve taken seriously all the elements of food and design and service.”

For now, he’s keeping the Airstream shuttered to focus on the restaurant. But he says he’d like to park it in the adjacent alley and sell street tacos. He cites Aaron Confessori and Richard Wiles’ Westport Street Fare, in the courtyard next to Harry’s Bar and Tables, as an example of how that model might work.

Port Fonda is starting with identical lunch and dinner menus Tuesday through Sunday.

Within a month, Ryan intends to add Saturday and Sunday brunch, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.

“I want to be ready for it,” he says. “There’s so much buzz on this place that once we open the doors and make the decision to charge full price, people will expect a full experience. And we want to deliver on it.”

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rop by the reggae tent and you pretty much already know what you’re going to see: white dudes with dreadlocks, some chick in a long earthy dress dancing with her eyes closed, Jamaican-flag color schemes, joints roasting.

You also know roughly what you’re going to hear: offbeat rhythmic accents, scratchy upstroked guitars, lazy tempos, lyrics about peace or social injustice, maybe a fake patois. Nothing wrong with any of this. But rigid aesthetics have a way of threatening a genre’s creative relevance. Things get cartoonish at a certain point. Just ask the blues.

If we must assign labels, the New Riddim is ultimately a reggae band — the word “riddim” is there in its name — but its members seem to understand that the best way to inhabit a genre is to draw from outside it. Kidnapped!, the Hepcat and Studio One rocksteady stuff — hits just-released debut LP of the local seven piece, includes a cover of “Barbados,” a Charlie Parker that we liked,” Byrne says. “It helped us form our sound. We were a three-piece for a while, tune, and a few tracks have more in common with Rico [Pierce] on drums. We had a lot of with 1960s soul than Peter Tosh. Referencfriends coming in and out of the band.” ing the old quote about white boys, like Mick Two years ago, Loftus and his brother, Conor Jagger and Paul McCartney, earnestly playing black music, frontman-organist Dan Loftus Loftus (guitar), joined, and Dan began writing original songs for the group. In high school, says the New Riddim is a “plastic soul” band.

“We’re not one of those bands that sings Dan was in a ska band called the Uprights; he drew inspiration from acts like the Skatellites, about Jah and rasta,” he says. “We’re a bunch of the Specials, Madness, “and white guys, and when I write as far as third wave, I always the songs, I don’t feel like I The New Riddim had a soft spot for the Toasthave to be a part of some Friday, June 22, at Davey’s ers,” he says. “You could kind of reggae tradition.

Uptown Ramblers Club maybe even throw Rancid Sometimes I’m trying to be in there, too. But when I like Dylan, sometimes I’m trying to write a Rolling Stones-type of song.” heard the Slackers was when I started to take ska more seriously. They proved that there’s so That hasn’t always been the case with the many things you can do with this simple ska New Riddim, which has been around in various incarnations since about 2006. Early on, format, that you can take it to a different place while still hearing the Jamaican influences. It the band — started by bassist Kian Byrne (now was more like Jamaican rock and roll.” a full-time member of Celtic-rock faves the With a batch of fresh songs (plus a reworked Elders) and Richard Faught (now in reggae band 77 Jefferson) — played mostly traditional one from the Uprights days) and a horn section in place — Mike Walker on trombone, Marshall ska and reggae covers. “Lots of Slackers and

No rasta, no Jah: the New Riddim.

Tinnermeier on saxophone, and Nick Howell on trumpet — the New Riddim decided it was time to finally cut a record.

Kidnapped! is a little uneven, probably because some of songs were recorded at John Bersuch’s Innerhorse Studios, and some were recorded at Merriam Shoals with David Moore.

But the vibe it lays out is on the mark — mellow and fun without dipping into dumb tropes about smoking weed or Kingston. Instrumental opener “Cool Ska” sets the brassy, ambling tone. The weirdest track, “Muma Muma,” is a cover, sung by Walker, who discovered it on an old reggae comp. Walker thinks it’s by either Rico and the Rudies or Rico Rodriguez and the Israelites. Or something. “Trojan Records was really bad about about artist credits,” he says.

“Nobody really knows who wrote the song,” Loftus says. “When we went for the publishing rights, they basically told us that as far as they’re concerned, the song doesn’t exist.”

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REGGAMENDATIONS Suggested listening, courtesy of the New Riddim:

Heptones, Cool Rasta

“Just a great album through and through — starts out heavy on the bass with the title track that just grabs your attention.”

The Slackers, Redlight

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It’s the first Slackers album I ever heard, and it really opened my eyes. It’s so simple, but it has so much soul, and it’s kind of melancholy.

A lot of cliché shit on there, but they pull it off.”

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Madness, The Rise & Fall

“This album has ‘Our House,’ which was kind of their big hit and which was sort of a departure from their two-tone ska sound.

It’s like half ska, half new wave. It blurs the lines between reggae and rock and roll in a way I really like.”

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Derrick Morgan, “Tougher Than Tough”

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my favorite off their self-titled debut. The lyrics manage to sympathetically describe what it’s like to be a ska fan while having a laugh about it, too. It’s a total culture shock, I’m the only rudeboy on the block. Indeed.”

— MIKE WALKER

Eric Donaldson, “Lonely Nights”

“My favorite reggae vocalist. He’s had a number of hits, but this tune is the one that knocks me out. The individual parts are fairly simple, but the way they work together is magic. Eric’s vocal makes this one a classic.”

— MIKE WALKER

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t is depressing and, at this point, arguably boring to run through the many failures of the city’s revitalization efforts at 18th and Vine.

(Search “Pitch 18th and Vine” online if you’re interested in a stroll down memory lane; if you’re feeling especially masochistic, look up The Atlantic Cities’ recent article contrasting the thriving Beale Street in Memphis with KC’s limp Jazz District.)

Lately, though, I’ve been feeling a strange optimism about 18th and Vine. In addition to the Mutual Musicians Foundation, which serves up jazz jams and booze until 6 a.m. on weekends, there are four nightlife establishments open for business: the Blue Room, Danny’s Big Easy, the Kansas City Juke House, and the 9th Inning Sports Bar & Grill.

OK, so it’s not exactly booming, and who knows how long any of these places will manage to stick around. But six years ago, there was only one joint in the neighborhood that served food. For the time being, let’s call that progress. Let’s also note the historic district’s proximity to, say, the Crossroads: It’s about a two-minute drive from Grinders to the Blue Room. Is it possible that the natural winds of gentrification might do for 18th and Vine what civic redevelopment plans and millions of dollars could not? I don’t know. Maybe not.

But I’m rooting for it.

Last Saturday, I had the pleasure of observing what 18th and Vine might be like if crowds actually, you know, hung out around there. Juneteenth, a holiday memorializing the abolition of slavery, was being celebrated in Parade Park, just north of the district. Bellied up at the 9th Inning, which opened this past March, I watched streams of folks pass by the window, on their way to the park or dinner.

My Budweiser draft came in a frosty, Moe’s Tavern-style mug. The window of a storefront across the street said “Owl BBQ,” and from my bar stool, I couldn’t determine whether it was an authentic sign left over from the old days or

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one of those fake storefronts that Robert AltIn the swing of things at Danny's. man built when he was filming Kansas City gathered in the vicinity of the stage, and I did back in the 1990s. not see a single other white person. A woman That I was one of only a handful of white sitting on the curb a couple of yards to my left people participating in the festivities added to the surreal quality of the evening, although I looked over and laughed at me. The emcee was felt no less welcome at Juneteenth than I would searching for a volunteer to guess the name of at your average midtown rock show. Which is the next song, I think. I don’t really know. My to say, I was mostly ignored and occasionally brain shuts down when the threat of public speaking looms. eyed with suspicion.

“Go on up there. I’ll give you the answers,” In the park — it cost $15 to enter, which is way too high for a couple of bands, a flea swap, the woman said, cackling. I stared straight down at the concrete, hiding. Then some white and some food trucks — I spotted no fewer than five gentlemen wearing all-white linen outfits. guy who seemed to enjoy the attention materialized, and the crisis was averted.

Lots of fedoras in the house, too. Folks sat in Back out on 18th Street, the Blue Room was picnic chairs and watched a band, the Sequel, charging an additional $15 at the door. “Um, I’ll lite-funk its way through a set of smooth jams. be back,” I lied to the money One of my favorite genres taker and headed across the of music is 1980s urban I felt no less welcome street to Danny’s, where the adult contemporary. If it at Juneteenth than I cover was $5. Danny’s is a sounds like the Charlie Rose New Orleans-style restautheme, I’m probably really would at your average rant with white tablecoths going to like it. One of the midtown rock show. (its former location was 16th Sequel’s songs was called Which is to say, Street and Main, just up the “Super Swanky”; another I was mostly ignored street from The Pitch offices) was called “Brown Skin.” I and occasionally eyed where you get live music sat on a curb, chewed on a with suspicion. with your meal. The Cousbrisket sandwich, sipped a ins Band, as I believe it was PBR tall boy, and watched called, treated the crowd to the band perform Prince’s “The Beautiful Ones” as the sun slowly began a set of very loud blues, funk and soul. The place was packed. The single women in the its descent. It was a level of happiness I don’t house were instructed to clap their hands. A often achieve. dance party developed in front of the band. A The emcee who took the stage after the version of Cameo’s “Word Up” was performed.

Sequel used some of his time to get the word A waitress emerged from the kitchen carrying out about registering to vote. a small plate with the largest slice of cake I’ve “We’re celebrating Juneteenth here,” he said. “We don’t vote, we’re celebrating shack- ever seen served at a restaurant.

Is this all just a dream? I wondered as I les again. I ain’t even kidding. You all need to register right now if you haven’t. We’ve got scanned the room. I’m still unclear on that.

But I’ll be returning to the neighborhood soon volunteers in yellow shirts walking around. to verify one way or the other.

Go find them.”

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T H U R S D AY, J U N E 21 Flaming Lips afterparty with Stardeath and the White Dwarfs: The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918.

Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Dan Tedesco: 9 p.m.

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

REO Speedwagon, Styx, Ted Nugent: Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827.

The Turnpike Troubadours: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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The Brody Buster Band, Meatpop, Brother Bagman: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

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Man Bear, a charming local trio, plays smart, charged-up power pop in the vein of Dinosaur Jr. or Superchunk.

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Sonic Spectrum Tribute to the Minutemen

The Minutemen were one of the most sonically exciting bands ever filed under “punk,” and the eclectic nature of their music makes them an easy fit for this tribute series, which returns to RecordBar after a couple of months off. A diverse collection of local acts — the Brannock Device, Robot Monkey Madman, Uft, Jorge Arana Trio, Chad Rex, and Troy Meiss — takes on the California trio’s catalog.

Sunday, June 24, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Colbie Caillat, with Gavin DeGraw

Nobody seems to agree with me that Colbie Caillat’s “Fallin’ for You” is one of the best pop songs of the past half-decade, which has turned me a little belligerent on the topic: There’ve been a couple of unfortunate occasions on which I drank too much, hijacked

a computer at a party, and played the song at an unnecessarily high volume to a confused group of friends, acquaintances and strangers. That kind of maniacal behavior probably isn’t the most persuasive argument for the brilliance of “Fallin’ for You,” which is like a lovelier, more concise version of the beach-pop songs that Sheryl Crow has been churning out for the last 15 years. Joining Caillat here is Gavin DeGraw, who is famous for that one song that goes Iiiiii don’t want to be anything other than what I’ve been trying to be latelayyy.

Saturday, June 23, at Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, 816-363-7827)

Scissor Sisters, with Rye Rye

Now that Lady Gaga has made bombastic, hyper-gay glam pop safe for the masses, perhaps it’s Scissor Sisters’ time to shine. The campy New York dance-rock act has been grinding it out for more than a decade now and is touring on its just-released new album, Magic Hour. Opener Rye Rye, a wild female MC from Baltimore, was the first artist signed to M.I.A.’s N.E.E.T. Recordings label, and she sounds like it.

Monday, June 25, at Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 816-472-5454)

The Flaming Lips, with Deerhoof

The Pitch Presents: The 2012 U.S. Air Guitar Championships

Stevie Cruz of local metal band Hammerlord is hosting this regional competition of guitar-playing pantomiming. There are two rounds. In the fi rst, entrants perform a minute of a song of their choosing; in the second, the song is a surprise. There are no losers in air guitar, at least as far as I’m concerned, but the big winner of this competition advances to the national finals, and the winner of that goes on to compete in the Air Guitar World Championships in Finland, which somehow seems like the perfect location for such an event.

Friday, June 22, at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560)

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Thursday, June 21, and Friday, June 22, at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

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Stan Kessler, Dave Basse: 6:30 p.m. Overland Park Arboretum, 8909 W. 179th St., Bucyrus, 913-685-3604.

Korn: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Lil’ Kim, Bone Thugs-n-Harmony, DJ Bobby Keys: VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777.

MO Chainsaw Grassacre with Split Lip Rayfield, Cornmeal, Sons of Fathers, the Goddamn Gallows, Deadman Flats, Truckstop Honeymoon, Grass Crack: 2 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454.

M O N D AY, J U N E 2 5 Robert Francis: 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

The Word Alive, I See Stars, Make Me Famous, Crown the Empire: 5:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

W E D N E S D AY, J U N E 2 7 Def Leppard, Poison, Lita Ford: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Buddy Guy and Jonny Lang: Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

Rusted Root, Brother Bagman: 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

FUTURECAST J U LY MONDAY 2 Tycho: The Granada.

TUESDAY 10 Beach House: Liberty Hall, Lawrence.

THURSDAY 12 Sleigh Bells, Jel: The Beaumont Club.

SATURDAY 14 Liars: The Granada, Lawrence.

MONDAY 16 Big K.R.I.T.: The Granada, Lawrence.

WEDNESDAY 18 Dirty Projectors: The Granada, Lawrence.

SATURDAY 21 James Taylor: Starlight Theatre.

WEDNESDAY 25 Childish Gambino, Danny Brown: The Beaumont Club.

FRIDAY 27 Big Time Rush: Sprint Center.

TUESDAY 31 Star Slinger: The Granada, Lawrence.

AUGUST MONDAY 6 My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses: Starlight Theatre.

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Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Kris Lager Band.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Groove Agency.

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Ashes to Immortality.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Lonesome Hank & the Heartaches.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Sky Smeed, in the Retro Lounge, 8 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. The Brody Buster Band, Meatpop, Brother Bagman.

ROCK/POP/INDIE Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Bright Giant, Holy White Hounds, 6 p.m.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. The Cast Pattern, Black Sheep Wall, Conflicts.

Park Place: 117th St. and Nall Ave., Leawood, 913-381-2229. The Cheap Dates.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. The Dirty Bourbon Band, 6 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417.

Westside Blues Jam. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Kentucky Knife Fight, Old Country Death Band, 10 p.m.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Joe Voye Band.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003.

Billy Ebeling, 3 p.m.

Kanza Hall: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

Phil Vandel.

KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District: 13th St. and Grand. Hunter Hayes, free.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Dale Watson, Damn Quails, 8 p.m.

Paul and Jack’s Tavern: 1808 Clay, North Kansas City, 816221-9866. Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders, 6 p.m.

DJ The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. No Requests Tonight with Keenan Nichols.

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HIP-HOP The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Dolewite.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Approach, Vision the Kid, Andre Mariette.

ACOUSTIC Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. Dan Brockert.

JAZZ Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-3280003. Valentine and the Ticklers.

WORLD Blvd. Nights: 2805 Southwest Blvd., 816-931-6900. Good Fridays: International Party Experience, 10 p.m.

AMERICANA Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. The Michael Shultz Band.

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Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.

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The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ E.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Hot Caution Thursdays, 10 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Sandman the Hypnotist, 7:30 p.m.

Sherlock’s Underground Coffeehouse & Pub: 858 State Route 291, Liberty, 816-429-5262. Karaoke, ladies’ night specials.

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Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625.

Ab Fab Fridays on the main floor, 10 p.m.

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. E R O M 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th S G St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330.

IN LIST E AT Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

IN ONL Retro Downtown Drinks & M PITCH.CO Dance: 1518 McGee, 816-421-4201.

Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Filipino Karaoke, hosted

by Sundae Domingo Halog Jr. and open to persons of all nationalities, 7 p.m., $5.

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Origins of Groove, Paul Roberts.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913948-5550. The New KC Seven with Kerry Strayer.

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The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Open mic, Low Dough Beer Night, 8 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Comedy open mic, 10 p.m.

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Vibenhai.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Deal’s Gone Bad, the Uncouth.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Blue Riddim, 9 p.m.

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The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Sexy Accident, the B’Dinas, Molly Gene, Amy Farrand.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Johnny Rampage.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Jared Bond and the Tornados, Shadow Paint, Jorge Arana Trio.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Antennas Up, Not a Planet, Fullbloods, My Rotten Self, 8 p.m.

KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District: 13th St. and Grand. Liverpool, 9 p.m., free.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

Dry Bonnet, Dads, Slut River, 10 p.m.

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Bobby Simkins, 7:30 p.m.

The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. At the Left Hand of God, Conflicts, Moire, David Hasselhoff on Acid, the Catalyst.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Cave Girls, Snake Island, Dream Wolf.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Supermassive Black Holes.

Legends at Village West: 1843 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-788-3700. Lipriddle, 5 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Is It Is, Molly Picture Club, Crush, 9 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Karma Vision, 10 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Blues Notions Reunion.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.; James Armstrong Blues Band, 9 p.m.

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Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Slow Ya Roll.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Nick Moss & the Flip Tops, 8 p.m.; Atlantic Express, 8:30 p.m.

Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666.

Crosseyed Cat.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Filthy 13, the Lucky Graves.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

The Grisly Hand, Alley Ghost.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Rich Burgess, 6 p.m.

DJ The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ E. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

The Warm Up with Wolfgod, 6-9 p.m.; Extra Classic DJ set, 10 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Don Tinsley, Jason Kidd, LC, 11 p.m.

HIP-HOP The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. The Skeptics, Skee, J Crill.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Sandman the Hypnotist, 7 p.m.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Sunday Solace, 2 p.m., free.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. Free pool.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.

FOLK Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. River City Extension.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 7 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Sunday Salvation with Booty Bass, 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.

DJ Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cinemaphonic, 9 p.m.

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ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Bone Dance, Canyons.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871.

Making Movies, Deviator.

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Blue Monday Jam with Horace Washington.

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

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Blue Monday Trio.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS BarnYard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Mudstomp Mondays.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company, 800 Mile Monday, 5 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Ruddy Swain, Run Little Rabbit, Tiny Horse, 9 p.m.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Maryoke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Magic Mondays with Jason Dean.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 9 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5.

The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Summer wine tasting, 8 p.m.

JAZZ The Beacon: 5031 Main, 816-960-4646. Alan Blasco.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913948-5550. Tyrone Clark Trio.

WORLD Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-3459717. Miguel Mambo Orchestra.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo, 5 p.m.; Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 9 p.m.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Sandman the Hypnotist, 7 & 9:45 p.m.

SKA Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387.

Checkered Beat, 10 p.m.

VA R I E T Y The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

John Sebelius: Still Under the Influence; DCal.

S U N D AY 2 4 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. The Stolen Winnebagos.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Brickyard Tavern: 1001 S. Weaver St., Olathe, 913-7800266. Crosseyd Cat open blues jam, 3-7 p.m.

The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Open Blues Jam with Brody Buster, 7 p.m.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Granada: 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Possessed by Paul James, Delaney Davidson, Tyler Gregory.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-3280003. Billy Ebeling, 3 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676.

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CONTROL SETTINGS Dear Dan: Is it normal for my boyfriend to be so attracted to boobs that even though mine are beautiful and perfect, my man still wants to look at every other woman with a set of big boobs? Aren’t mine enough?

Boyfriend Ogles Other Breasts Dear BOOB: You sound like a new reader.

Nope, yours aren’t enough.

It’s normal for a straight man to look at women’s boobs. And while your set may be perfect in every possible way, your man is still gonna check out other women’s sets.

But he shouldn’t be a dick about it. While it’s perfectly normal for a partnered straight guy to check out other women — just as it’s perfectly normal for a partnered straight woman to check out other men — your man should be discreet. He can train himself to look without looking like he’s looking. It’s not about hiding the fact that he’s looking; it’s about caring enough to take your feelings into consideration, to say nothing of the feelings of the women he’s checking out.

If he can look without being an inconsiderate dick about it, you should let him look without being an insecure bitch about it. Because if he’s considerate enough to be discreet, you can be considerate enough to turn a blind eye.

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I was 15. I’m 20 now. In all the time we’ve been together, I’ve never had an orgasm. For a long time, I wanted to get a vibrator, but my boyfriend hated that idea and never wanted me to get one because he says he already feels like crap that he can’t get me off. Recently, I thought, “What the hell — I want to see what happens!” So I bought one on my own. The very first time I used it, I got off in two minutes.

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Couldn’t Wait Forever Dear CWF: Tell your boyfriend that you bought a vibrator and that you climaxed (congrats!). Tell him that some women require the kind of intense, focused stimulation that only a vibrator can provide, and, as it turns out, you’re one of those women.

And he can still be the fi rst person to give you an orgasm: He can give you one with a vibrator in his hand. And if he acts like an insecure bitch about it, well … new vibrator, newly orgasmic — maybe it’s time for a new boyfriend, too?

Dear Dan: I’m a woman who has been with my male partner for one year. We live together and get along well. Our relationship is “monogamish,” and we’re both totally GGG. The thing is, our sex has dwindled rapidly.

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more often. It really sucks being turned down all the time. When I bring it up, he gets mad and says I’m making him feel bad. But all I’m doing is letting him know that I’m hot for him. I’m not trying to put pressure on him. I now ignore my sexual urges unless he initiates something. But I feel hurt when he tells me how much he masturbates. He masturbates when I’m at work and when I’m asleep. As much as I enjoy self-pleasuring, it seems he would rather masturbate than have sex with me. What’s a gal to do?

Sadly Pensive and Neglected Kinkster Dear SPANK: A gal is to DTMFA.

Couples counselors and sex-advice professionals have a term for people who rebuff their partners’ sexual advances and then go out of their way to inform their partners that they’re masturbating: We call them assholes. He isn’t guilty of thoughtless cruelty; he’s guilty of intentional, malicious cruelty.

He wounds through active neglect, then salts the wound by making it clear that he’s jerking it in your absence. He has trained you to “ignore [your] own sexual urges” — you don’t initiate or make any demands on him — and you’re sexual only when he wants you to be sexual. It doesn’t sound like your boyfriend wants a girlfriend. It sounds like he wants a Fleshlight that pays half the rent.

DTMFA. CONFIDENTIAL TO PEOPLE WHO WEAR TSHIRTS: Aydian Dowling was one of the three LGBT youths whose stories were featured in the It Gets Better special on MTV and LOGO earlier this year. Like many young trans men, Aydian needs “top surgery” — chest surgery that will bring his body into line with his gender identity — and this expensive surgery isn’t covered by health insurance plans.

Aydian has a job — he’s a baker — but he doesn’t have health insurance through his workplace.

“Raising the $6,000 that top surgery costs through donations alone is pretty hard,” Aydian says. “And I wanted to give something back to people who donated.”

Aydian designed a line of T-shirts. His T-shirts — high quality, trans-themed and really cool — cost Aydian $10 each to produce.

He’s selling them for $20, and he’s $300 from his $6,000 goal.

Aydian had planned to stop selling his T-shirts once he hit his goal, but Aydian has decided to keep selling them to help pay for other trans men’s top surgeries.

Though trans-themed, anyone can buy and wear them. See Aydian’s shirts at point5cctshirtcompany.com.

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the Stylish Apartments in Historic Midtown Building STUDIOS, 1&2 BEDROOMS • All utilities included • Off Street Parking • Laundry Facilities 816-531-3111 • Huge Windows 1111 W. 39th St. • High Ceilings KCMO

Unique Opportunity in the Crossroads Art District!

WILLOWIND APARTMENTS

1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apartments Starting @ $425

3927 Willow Ave • KCMO 64113 816.358.6764

Stonewall Court Apts 1-Bdrms starting at $395 central air, secure entry, on site laundry, on bus line, close to shopping, nice apts, Sections 8 welcome $100 Deposit (816) 231-2874 M-F 8-5 office hours

NorthlaNd Village $100 deposit oN 1&2 Bedrooms

$525 / up Large 1, 2 & 3 Bedroom Apts and Townhomes Fireplace, Washer/Dryer Hook-ups, Storage Space, Pool.

I-35 & Antioch • (816) 454-5830

WALDO PL AZA DE $99 Quiet, Comfortable 1 & 2 bedrooms in SUPER neighborhood!

POSIT

$595,000

Features Include: • 4 Bedroom / 4 Bath • 6,000 square foot • Blocks from Power & Light District • Zoned for living and for working • Tons of Natural Light • Exposed Wood Beams, Brick Walls & Polished Concrete • 2 Kitchens • Attached Garage & Off Street Parking • Tax abated

Christina Boveri 816-333-4040 Tricia Cartwright 913-620-3852

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Boveri Realty Group

Don’t Miss this Opportunity!

426 W. 5th St. KC, MO. 64105

$570 - $650 No Application Fee!

Unbeatable location with great highway access!

816-363-8018 Last Chance / Fresh Start Leasing Downtown Area

Holiday Apartments

BRING THIS AD IN FOR $20 UTILITIES $110/WEEK OFF YOUR $100/DEPOSIT* Month to Month Rent FIRST 2 Laundry facilities - on-site PAID! WEEKS * Restrictions apply Call (816) 221-1721 -Se Habla Espanol ALL

$675,000

Features Include: • Exposed Brick • Beautiful Hardwoods • Awesome location in Rivermarket • Timber Beams • Garage Parking/Rear Parking • Boasts 7,620 Sq Ft.!

• Freight Elevator • Vaulted Ceilings • Great Rooftop Views • Three Stories

Andrea Buettner 816.806.9492 andrea@boverirealty.com Christina Boveri 816.606.1398 christina@boverirealty.com pitch.com

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CASH FOR CARS

Law Offices of David M. Lurie

Wrecked, Damaged or Broken.

Running or Not !

Cash Paid ! www.abcautorecycling.com 913-271-9406

DWI, SOLICITATION, TRAFFIC DEFENSE, INTERNET-BASED CRIMES816-221-5900

$$ Paying Top Dollar $$ For Junk Cars & Trucks Missouri: 816-241-7548 Kansas: 913-321-1000

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DUI/DWI, KS, MO

Real Estate & Bankruptcy Reasonable rates! Evening & Weekend appt.

Susan Bratcher 816-453-2240 www.bratcherlaw.biz

* DWI * * CRIMINAL * * TRAFFIC *

99.7% Toxin Free w/n an hour We can help you pass Coopers 3617 Broadway, KCMO 816.931.7222

AFFORDABLE ATTORNEY

DOWNTOWN AREA STUDIO APT $110/WEEK Min.

Practice emphasizing DWI defense.

Experienced, knowledgeable attorney will take the time to listen and inform.

Free initial phone consultation.

$100 Deposit, All Utilities Paid, Laundry Facilities. On Metro Bus Line as of 10/3/11. Holiday Apts, 115 W. Harlem Rd,Ad_Kansas KCMO 816-221-1721 Se Hable 1 Espanol CP 180612.ai 6/18/12

HOTEL ROOMS

A-1 Motel 816-765-6300 Capital Inn 816-765-4331

6101 E. 87th St./Hillcrest Rd. ,HBO,Phone, Banq. Hall $39.95 Day/ $159 Week/ $499 Month + Tax

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Over 30 years of experience. Dedicated to quality service and quality work. Specializing in European, Asian & Domestic. 104 Westport Rd, KCMO. 816-569-1007 - GoreAutomotive.com

SPEEDING, DWI, POSSESSION, ASSAULT 1:38

FREE CONSULTATION Call: The Law Office of J.P. Tongson (816) 265-1513 PM

INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PROFESSIONAL BARTENDING

AFFORDABLE TUITION Two week program-Job placement assistance FT, PT, Parties, Weddings,Always in demand!

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24 Hours/ 7 Days a Week Commercial-Residential Industrial-Water Heaters Underground Utilities-Water & Sewer Drain Cleaning plus more......

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Simple, Uncontested + Filing Fee. Don Davis. 816-531-1330 CMY

AFFORDABLE TUITION Two week program-Job placement assistance FT, PT, K Parties, Weddings,Always in demand!

Call 816-753-3900 TODAY !!!

U-PICK IT SELF SERVICE AUTO PARTS

$$ Paying Top Dollar $$ For Junk Cars & Trucks Missouri: 816-241-7548 Kansas: 913-321-1000

HOTEL ROOMS

CASH PAID FOR JUNK/UNWANTED

A-1 Motel 816-765-6300 Capital Inn 816-765-4331

VEHICHLES. Call J.G.S. Auto Wrecking For Quote. 913-321-2716 ot Toll free 1-877-320-2716

6101 E. 87th St./Hillcrest Rd. ,HBO,Phone, Banq. Hall $39.95 Day/ $159 Week/ $499 Month + Tax

GET PAID TO DRINK and TEXT!

TONY SAVAGE INVESTIGATIONS

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The road to DEBT RELIEF and a fresh start.

Accurso and Lett Law Firm Experienced and Affordable missouri:

816-587-4LAW (4529) kansas: 913-402-6069

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Gore Automotive: Westport

Over 30 years of experience. Dedicated to quality service and quality work. Specializing in European, Asian & Domestic. 104 Westport Rd, KCMO. 816-569-1007 - GoreAutomotive.com

CASH FOR CARS

Wrecked, Damaged or Broken.

Running or Not !

Cash Paid ! www.abcautorecycling.com 913-271-9406