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for a large portion of the streetcar through relatively small donations. Think of it as Kickstarter for City Hall: People who want a streetcar can donate money and receive a perk in return. Donations can be made from all over the world, tapping into what Wilson calls the “Kansas City Diaspora.” The key to raising millions of dollars for the line is offering charitable Kansas Citians a visible reminder of their contributions, says Wilson, who works out of a bedroom-sized office in OfficePort’s shared work space in the Crossroads District. He pulls up a graphic of streetcars, in colorful advertising wraps, on his computer screen and holds a Post-it Note to the screen, explaining his theory

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Wilson hopes that Neighbor.ly can raise $25 million for the streetcar project. that donors would feel a sense of ownership seeing their names or special messages on the side of a streetcar. “It will be very much our streetcar,” Wilson says. He adds that major advertisers could also buy space on the cars. But most of the cash Neighbor.ly raises, he says, will come from individuals. “We’re leaning toward this 3-by-3 Post-it Note size being the basis,” says Wilson, who studied city planning at UMKC and MIT. “And, at that size, I can’t honestly say what the price will be. But it should be between $10 and $100.”

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PLOG It will take a lot of Post-its to get there, though. The cost of the wrap itself is $10,000. Wilson says the naming rights on stops and individual seats in the cars, in addition to the squares on the cars, could be revenue generators. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts offers the model: Contributors can put a name plaque on a chair in the theaters for a donation of $2,500-$10,000. Neighbor.ly also plans to sell rides before the streetcar is even built. “[Riders can] get a huge discount if you buy 100 rides today or a year’s worth of rides,” G O L P E R MO INE AT Wilson says. “There’s even going to be a perk ONL M / P L O G level that’s going to be a P IT C H .C O lifetime supply of rides.” Neig hbor.ly, wh ic h city officials have already publicly supported, will take a cut of about 5 percent of the money raised. The company, which is funded by Crossroads business and property owners whom Wilson won’t name, is planning to launch a guerrilla marketing campaign to coincide with the July 10 Major League Baseball All-Star Game. The TIGER rejection has filled Wilson with the same defiance that Mayor Sly James showed in a statement released following last week’s rejection. James declared, “Kansas City is not giving up on this project.” “We think that with the $25 million that we were counting on from TIGER, that $25 million becomes a really sensible goal,” Wilson says. “It’s justifi able. And that’s a really healthy down payment. Even if we only get half of that, even if we only get a 10th of that, it’s still a victory that shows there are other ways.” In his statement, James mentioned another way to pay: “We move forward immediately by applying for an [sic] grant under the revised Small Starts program of the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) and will continue to get our local financing package firmly in place. We may not have gotten this grant, but we will keep working to make this a reality in the very near term.” Then James hedged. “It is increasingly clear in today’s political and economic climate in Washington, if we want something done, we will need to do it ourselves,” James said. “We can and will make this happen.” Now Neighbor.ly finds itself in what could be the perfect atmosphere for a launch. With the mayor promoting a rah-rah, who-needsWashington attitude combined with a temporary baseball-induced sense of civic pride, Neighbor.ly’s coffers might soon swell. Though Wilson and city officials are hopeful that Kansas Citians will unite with

open wallets to fund the streetcar, there are reasons for skepticism. Saying the city can eschew federal funds — while planning to apply for a different federal grant — sounds nice. But the reality is, cities that build streetcar lines need federal money. Streetcar lines in Atlanta ($47 million), Cincinnati ($40 million) and Portland, Oregon ($75 million), all received influxes of federal cash in the last four years. And the Small Start grant that James cited appears to be a long shot. None of the 29 Small Start (and the similar Smart Start) grants that the FTA approved for fiscal year 2013 went toward streetcar development. However, there were at least eight lightrail projects approved. An April 2011 article in Mass Transit magazine called out Small Start grants as being particularly averse to streetcars. “[T]he pressure to address future federal spending and disputes over defi ning the federal interest in transit in general, and streetcars in particular, heighten the challenges for securing sustainable federal funding,” the magazine reported. Furthermore, the fate of the taxing district that would pay for $73.5 million of the project is being voted on by just 555 of the approximately 6,000 downtown residents who would be affected most by the taxes and the streetcar’s proximity. That indicates a low level of interest in the line. Countywide voting on a tax increase to fund the Kansas City Zoo had a higher turnout. Given all of these issues, is Wilson really confident that he can get Kansas Citians to pony up for the streetcar? “Well, that’s a really damn good question,” Wilson says. He says voting by a mail-in ballot might not excite streetcar s upp or te r s e nou g h to advocate for the cause. Checking a box on a twopage ba llot f illed w ith legalese isn’t as enticing as seeing your square on the car as it whirs up Main Street, he points out. “It’s very different from when there’s a chance to be a part of something and to be visually recognized for being a part of something, or to get something of value in return,” he says. Furthermore, Wilson says the streetcar could be a forerunner to finally getting a citywide light-rail system built in Kansas City. “Maybe you can’t get from Waldo to the airport on it, but it’s a start,” he says. If Neighbor.ly doesn’t meet Wilson’s expectations with the streetcar, he’ll have plenty of chances to tweak his business model. He says officials from other cities have already contacted him, hoping to use Neighbor.ly to start their own fund drives.

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or two summers, Central Avenue looked empty. Anyone who’d gotten used to being charmed anew each year by the temporary sculptural installations, curated by the Municipal Art Commission, found nothing new to see in 2010 and 2011. While the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts was taking shape to the south, and conventions and performances pressed on inside Bartle Hall and the Lyric, the view on the street was plain. After celebrating its 10th anniversary, in 2009 (with a set of artwork that included a couple of encore works and, for the first time, live performances), the Avenue of the Arts program fell on the same hard times afflicting the rest of the nation. Artists for the next year’s lineup were selected and contacted, then asked to wait. Despite the publicly expressed optimism of Municipal Art Commission director Porter Arneill, many wondered whether the Avenue of the Arts would return at all. The wait is finally over.

ocated as far from coastal waters as any U.S. metro can be, and forever associated with westward expansion and stockyards and railroads, Kansas City can still claim an enviable dedication to the arts. One reason: its “One Percent for Art” policy, which sets aside for public art one penny of every dollar spent on civicfunded construction. Among the other easyto-take-for-granted public-art partnerships that our city enjoys are Art Through Architecture (Charlotte Street Foundation and AIA-KC), Art in the Loop (a project of the Downtown Council), and the Avenue of the Arts Foundation. The foundation started in 2000 as Jim Calcara’s response to Hallmark Chairman Donald Hall’s challenge to the business community to find innovative ways to celebrate Kansas City’s sesquicentennial. As principal

of the architecture firm CDFM2 (now 360), Calcara recruited Tom McDonnell of DST Systems and the Municipal Art Commission’s director at the time, Blair Sands. The name “Avenue of the Arts” came from an earlier idea from Mark Edelman, the Theater League president, who wanted to promote Central Avenue as a cultural thoroughfare. Today, 360 and DST make up the core of the Avenue of the Arts Foundation, and 2012’s sponsors include the Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City and, for the first time, the state-funded Missouri Arts Council (whose involvement opened the door to two artists from St. Louis). The seven artists in this summer’s lineup, whose works span Central from 10th to 16th streets until September 30, were selected, as

usual, by a panel of arts professionals and business and community representatives. Part of the goal of the program is to give artists new experience with designing and managing public-art projects. Many of the 60-some Avenue alumni — notably James Woodfill, Jorge García Almodóvar and Matthew Dehaemers — have gone on to use the experience to create larger, permanent public art here and elsewhere. Because it’s “public art” — that is, art in public spaces, partly funded by public money — it is bound to draw well-worn gripes from the tax-weary. These grumbles in turn invite counterclaims from those of us who like to see intriguing non sequiturs amid mundane sidewalks, visual surprises standing out against traffic-light electric boxes. But at the opening event June 15 — mostly populated by

artists, arts-organization employees, their friends and a few City Council members — any critical impulses were drowned out by the sounds of people hailing pedicabs to tour the art and by the happy chatter of spectators enjoying a bright, hot Friday evening. To the south, the Kauff man Center crowned the view as the sun began to set. This year’s works aren’t as interactive as some in the past — think Dylan Mortimer’s “Prayer Booths” or Brian Zimmerman’s literally face-to-face chat enclosures, “In Parenthesis.” But the collection fits comfortably within the visual scope of the decade-long program while offering viewers some fascinating thematic parallels. Each of the 2012 works in some way touches on the natural world. continued on page 8

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heavy rusted triangle sits like an anchor on the little corner of lawn at 11th Street, where the Lyric Opera building rests without a tenant. “By Land, By Sea, By Air” is Robert Goetz’s tribute not to Winston Churchill’s 1940 call to arms, as the title suggests, but to the imaginative proclamations of the artist’s 2-yearold daughter. It takes some effort to make out the cutout block letters, but along the sides are three of little Goetz’s utterances: “I am a big yellow bear queen,” “I’m swimming like a robot whale,” “I am flying to you.” The angularity and weight of the sculpture, with pieces that the artist says could be used to make prints, make this seem like a curious medium for conveying the spontaneous expressions of a child. Then you realize that, in her statements, the girl is expressing feelings of power: bearlike strength, a whale’s command of the sea, the capacity for flight. And don’t we all still wish we could fly?

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hrista Dalien’s “Ice Storm” hits a memory familiar to Midwesterners: the beauty of the sudden glasslike coating on every plant part, paved surface and building façade that also brings broken branches, downed power lines and car accidents. Her installation, at the northwest corner of Central and 10th Street, takes up one of the more difficult spots for artists involved in the program. At first glance, the white, gray and blue vinyl sheets that hang jaggedly from the roof, anchored with visible zip ties, appear cheap and ugly. But Dalien has wisely used a number of these pieces to evoke the whimsy of ice in summer. As with real ice, the panels perform when their translucency is most apparent, so they’re best when the evening light starts slanting through them. Unlike ice, they ripple a bit and allow the sun to add to their variation.

ue Friesz is well-known for her bubbled, two-dimensional representations of flowers. It’s good to see her moving this aesthetic into a three-dimensional interpretation that finds its place outdoors. Her style shines through — the leaves of “Planta Triformis” are flat and layered in space like paint brought to life — and there is something very satisfying in the way each metal frond is slotted firmly into its concrete base. Her choice of pinks is equally pleasing, and the conversation this piece seems to be having with one of Jun Kaneko’s “Water Plaza” ceramics across the way is another reason to linger here.

tewart Losee’s “Non-Traditional Landscape” also uses triangles, and the tetrahedrons together look much like a giant wasp’s nest, daubed high onto the side of Bartle Hall just south of 12th Street. Losee uses a home-built CNC (computer numerical control) router to make these forms, and he has filled the spaces between with postcard-type photo clips that are illuminated at night. In daylight, you can’t miss the clump of exposed blue cables, and the mountains, rivers and forest scenes tend to resemble the kitschy, plastic, back-lit wall decorations popular in 1970s taverns. Looking at the pictures close up to see their details requires you to crane your neck, and even that affords only a protracted view. The easier approach is to stand across the street and let the images blend into abstract color. Viewed that way, the work comes back into scale, dwarfed by its human-made surroundings as a flying insect’s home is proportionate to the world around it.

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lueprint,” by Marilyn Mahoney, is one of the strongest and most engaging works in this year’s set. It’s a transformation of her drawings: angular crisscrosses based on skyline structures like bridge supports, blown up and printed on polycarbonate panels firmly fixed with a subtle, integrated metal framework on a wall of Barney Allis Plaza. Another panel is curved around the front — though some will see in it a mask, the artist explains that she has made a blueprint of a tornado. With that insight, the viewer can find the wind patterns and even stand behind the piece and see through them. A belt of train tracks, taken from a photograph, runs across the curve. Tracks are perhaps something that violent Midwest weather can’t shake, and, of course, people who have witnessed a tornado firsthand all say it sounds like an oncoming freight train.

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emember those pin-and-string “paintings” from the 1970s? There’s an echo of them in “Strategies for Dispersion,” in which Gina Alvarez takes on the length of Bartle’s eastern concrete expanse with strips of repurposed billboards arranged in triangles strung between PVC-pipe points. A brochure for this year’s installations explains that her work acts as a form of transportation, from the billboards’ original messages to new moments in thought. That’s a tall order, but it’s nice to have some color running down the otherwise bland wall. Because of parked cars and trees, the best way to experience this work is to walk alongside it.

t’s challenging to stay put too long, though, once you’ve caught sight of the incongruous but inviting hammocks on the big lawn south of the Bartle Hall Ballroom. A dozen double-sized hammocks aren’t going to look like art to some people, but among this year’s Avenue pieces, Jarrett Mellenbruch’s “Float” is the only installation that asks to be touched — asks, in fact, for full-body contact. The hammocks are spaced far enough apart that even when all of the others are occupied, you’ll feel alone enough to be comfortable gazing up at the clouds or out at the city’s notable architecture. If art is about experience, then “Float” nails it in the contemplation and community categories.

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TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) Conferences attained global reach in 2006 when the lectures — “ideas worth spreading” — became available online at ted.com. Since then, they have garnered more than 500 million E R MO views. See new lectures today, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., at the Gem T A INE Theater (1601 East 18th ONL .COM PITCH Street, 816-474-6262), where Kansas City’s TEDx (the local affiliate) is simulcasting the latest TED Global Conference (themed “Radical Openness”) in Edinburgh, Scotland. The event aims to begin the process of organizing the East Side in cooperative dialogue to solve problems in the community. The Pitch spoke with TEDx host and organizer Beth Sarver.

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The Pitch: What does it mean to have this event at 18th & Vine? Sarver : We chose 18th & Vine because of our relationship with the Black Economic Union of Greater Kansas City, and we wanted to expand the TEDx audience to be more inclusive of the East KC communities. “Radical Openness” will provide an abundance of fresh ideas and perspectives that will inform the community development work that many of us in East KC are doing. This event will foster a unique opportunity to learn, be inspired, network, and join in an action-oriented movement to use innovative ideas to empower grassroots organizing and to build sustainable relationships in community. Are there plans for future TED events in KC? Yes! There is the TEDxKC at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts August 28 (The Long View), TEDx at UMKC September 15 (InterconnecTED), and TEDxWomen December 1.

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The Power & Light District is bowling a new frame. In mid-February, Lucky Strike Lanes quietly turned into Z Strike (1370 Grand, 816-471-2316). Since then, it has been operating with a new focus. “We are trying to separate ourselves from that brand as more of a family-oriented business,” says Dave Kost, the venue’s general manager. The new plan emphasizes the expanded menu and kid-friendliness. “We’ve also fixed up the lanes and invested thousands in new pinsetters,” Kost says. Strike! A game comes with lunch or dinner. And you can still drink: Happy hour runs from 4 to 7 p.m. Monday continued on page 12

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S AT U R D AY | 6 . 3 0 | RAINBOW BRIGHT

Actually, the running portion of the 5K Color Run isn’t even the draw of the event. The race involves people of all speed capabilities going through zones and getting blitzed at each kilometer with a different chalky, high-calorie, 100-percent-natural color dust. The 5K finish is a “color extravaganza” that’s bound to fuck up your highlights and, later,

your car’s interior. But doesn’t it sound like fun? Races happen today and tomorrow at 8:30 a.m. at Arrowhead Stadium (1 Arrowhead Drive, off Interstate 70). Proceeds benefit the Ronald McDonald House. Register ($55 for individuals, $50 for a team) at thecolorrun.com/kansascity. — BERRY ANDERSON

S U N D AY | 7. 1 | MORNING MAIDENS

David Luby and his Gorilla Theatre Productions have undertaken a huge task: Performing all of the surviving Greek plays,

one at a time. This summer’s selection is The Suppliant Maidens, which Luby believes was first staged sometime after 470 B.C. See it for free at 7:30 a.m. (yes, as in morning) Saturday, June 30, and today on the south steps of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak). — BERRY ANDERSON

M O N D AY | 7. 2 | UP IN THE AIR

Horror blogger and hairstylist Jill Gevargizian (aka Jill Sixx) says she wants to “bring people together in the name of horror.”

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THE AMERICAN DREAM DOUGLAS COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY

At 73, Bill Owens has an epic brag book. The California man founded American Brewer magazine, claims the title “founder of the beer pub movement,” and is a distilling whiz. His photography skills, he told The Pitch, brought fan mail from Ansel Adams, provoked a brawl between two prisoners, enticed international thieves, and decorated Elton John’s home — well, one of his homes — with $30,000 worth of prints. (The celeb rejected Owens’ wish to photograph his hands. “All those years playing the piano, he has the most incredible hands,” Owens says.) Then there are his sweet random accomplishments, like hitchhiking around the world. His photo exhibit Suburbia, at the Johnson County Museum (6305 Lackman Road, Shawnee, 913-715-2550), is a black-andwhite collection depicting life in Northern California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. He spoke to The Pitch by phone. The Pitch: I’m particularly drawn to the photo of the woman wearing cat-eye glasses and watering her toilet-seat flower garden. They remind me of old pictures of my grandma. 12

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Owens: Suburbia is all about the familiar. People look at the photographs and say, “Hey, that’s my Uncle George!” I love to photograph the mundane. Send me somewhere where nothing is happening, and I’ll come back with a good shot. I didn’t go exotic. There are no funny camera angles. I didn’t manipulate anything or pose anyone. I just tried to be as intellectually honest as I could to make these images. Has that become a bit of a lost art? Today, Photoshop makes everyone thinner and gives them bigger busts. It’s all phony. And don’t get me going on

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reality TV. It makes me want to throw up. What were your intentions with Suburbia? I am fascinated with the American Dream. You look at these photos and you wonder: Is the American Dream two cars, a house, a swimming pool, friends and good food? If I were young today and had the money, I would be with my camera at the center of the universe: Ikea. And I’d be in Costco and Home Depot. There is a consumerism renaissance going on in America. People genuinely want to make good decisions, but is that person a good citizen? Or is that person wasteful? What are you working on now? I’m teaching distilling. I photographed classic cars, and I’d like to produce that book. I’d love to photograph Kansas City. The city is as American as apple pie. It’s clean. It’s modern. Just shoot life. Where are people going to breakfast? What are they eating? The museum is open 10 a.m.–4:30 p.m. Monday-Saturday. Suburbia runs through September 1. See jocomuseum.org for more information. — NANCY HULL RIGDON

How? By acting as hostess of Slaughter Movie House, a monthly event at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300) that features new, independent films — “everything from exploitations to thrillers,” she says. Tonight’s selection is Nailbiter, a locally shot story about a mother and her daughters on their way to KCI to pick up Dad during tornado warnings. Directed by Patrick Rea and starring Erin McGrane, Nailbiter starts tonight at 8. Skyy Blood Orange cocktails are the drink special ($4), and admission is free for this 18-and-older event. — BERRY ANDERSON

BOBBIN’ AT THE BAY

Once known as Black Bob Pool, Black Bob Bay (14570 West 151st Street, 913-971-5345) is quite the destination for southern JoCo water lovers. “For the older crowd, there are two water slides, a dive well and a lazy river,” said Nichole Asquith of Olathe Parks and Recreation. At 7 p.m., patrons 18 and older can walk against the river’s current, kid-free, for extra exercise — kind of like moving through churning, liquefied, aquahued Jell-O. Daily hours are 12:30–8 p.m., and entry fees range from $3 to $8. See olathekc.org for more information. — ABBIE STUTZER

T U E S D AY | 7. 3 | CREEPY AND KOOKY

Would you rather live next door to Larry the Cable Guy, Bébe’s Kids or the Addams family? We hope you’re thinking of Morticia, Gomez, Wednesday and Pugsley. Their ghoulish ways have entertained us in some form — TV, film, Sega Genesis and pinball machines — since 1938. At 8 p.m., The Addams Family begins a six-night run at Starlight Theatre (4600 Starlight Road, 816-363-7827). Introduce the next generation to Cousin Itt and Uncle Fester at 8 p.m. Tomorrow night’s performance ends with a July 4 fireworks show. For tickets, call 816-363-7827 or see kcstarlight.com. — BERRY ANDERSON E-mail submissions to Filter editor Berry Anderson at calendar@pitch.com. Search our complete listings guide online at pitch.com.

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Wes Anderson builds a nerd-porn

blanket fort in Moonrise Kingdom.

S C O T T W IL S ON

f Wes Anderson is the corduroy Michael Bay, then Moonrise Kingdom is his Transformers: Dark of the Moon. That’s meant as high praise, even if it makes The Life Aquatic Anderson’s … Bad Boys II, right? Like Bay, Anderson is a polarizing director who runs at one speed: super-wonky insistence. And like Bay, Anderson doesn’t want to full-frame immerse you so much as overwhelm you, to 40-mm-anamorphic your ass. But instead of clattering metal and shouted dialogue, Bay’s usual sack of claw hammers, Anderson’s cudgel of choice is a fuzzy Linus blanket, one as soft as the director’s tailored velvet suits. (Even when someone dies in an Anderson movie, the impact, by design, registers minimally; at his most brutal, he’ll smack you with a bag of Nerf balls.) His trick is that he wraps that blanket (a nerd-porn fabric of DVD-freeze-frame-ready compositions) around the thorny anxieties of childhood (the kind we carry into adulthood). These he usually centers on absent or withholding fathers and the unlikely figures who replace them (as one Web commenter wrote after the arrival of Anderson’s previous film, 2009’s The Fantastic Mr. Fox: “WTF did Wes Anderson’s father do to him?”), and so it is in Moonrise Kingdom. Joining the ranks of Anderson lost boys such as Rushmore’s Max Fischer and the spatting brothers of The Darjeeling Limited is Sam, the purposeful orphan who triggers the action here. After a tween-torrid yearlong correspondence with a slightly older, more than slightly taller girl named Suzy (a romance fast-capped in a short, deadpan, deeply

funny montage), Sam bolts his scout troop to rendezvous with her. Those who object: his fellow Khaki Scouts; Suzy’s parents (Anderson veteran Bill Murray and Frances McDormand, both grim, both perfect); and an authority known only by the name of the agency she represents, Social Services (a looming Tilda Swinton). Those perhaps in favor: local law-

How many children do you see here? man Sharp (a mesmerizingly denatured Bruce Willis) and Scout Master Ward (Edward Norton, acting as a kind of Anderson surrogate). No actor is natural in an Anderson movie, so the open-faced first-timeness of Jared Gilman’s performance as Sam works fine

in the early going. When he’s united with fellow newcomer Kara Hayward, though, both actors bloom. That’s not simple when the task is to render believable the almost Dragnet-flat declarations of Anderson’s dialogue. As usual, his characters here speak in uninflected truths. They read your mind, hear that little prayer you say in the dark that the people onscreen will just goddamn say the things you know they know, the things you know they want to say. The magic of Anderson at his best — and this, thanks largely to the two teens at its center, is very nearly it — is that his characters still find complications to weave through even when there are no secrets among them. You’ll think you want more of the adults, the familiar stars. That’s just habit, and the feeling goes away fast. Any more of them and the music of the thing would falter. And music is, not for the first time, on Anderson’s mind. In something like a parody of his standard horizontal pans, he opens Moonrise with an extended visual exploration of Suzy’s family home, set to Benjamin Britten’s “The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra” (complete with Peanuts-voiced narration). As the credits roll 90 minutes later, another child narrator deconstructs Alexandre Desplat’s pastoral, rhythmic score, one instrument at a time. It’s a witty acknowledgment of what Anderson has once again done: Taken apart a family or two (along with a storytelling trope or two) and then put the pieces back together better than he found them. ■

OUT THIS WEEK MAGIC MIKE

here are already reports that someone wants to put Magic Mike — Steven Soderbergh’s flaccid Top Gun-ification of Floridian male-stripper life — on Broadway. So spins the circle of multiplex life in a summer when Foreigner keeps turning up, cockroachlike, on soundtracks. The stage hit Rock of Ages just punched Mick Jones’ big-screen ticket, and Magic Mike goes out on “Feels Like the First Time.” Insert “Double Vision” joke here. You wouldn’t finger nerdy Soderbergh as making the kind of picture that sets a theater full of women hooting. But this is the director’s least cerebral exercise since The Girlfriend Experience, and even that dull boner killer labored to camouflage porn star Sasha Grey’s nonperformance with a wash of the director’s glitchy moves. This is Soderbergh working the mainstream with all the calculation of a Chippendales dancer dry-humping a bachelorette party. From Channing Tatum’s thick-necked title character on down the dude line, Magic Mike is wetter and way nakeder than Girlfriend (or any other Soderbergh title). In fact, it’s more comfortable with bare skin than the average R-rated summer movie — especially the skin 14

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of dripping-slick, Navy SEAL-buff club owner Matthew McConaughey, doing an odd and fascinating turn that suggests Sam Elliott’s grizzled Road House sage recast for vintage John Cassavetes. Sometimes that comfort works to the movie’s advantage. The moment it takes to register that the object in one blurred foreground shot is a penis in a vacuum pump is the beat that separates wit from crassness. (But listen, if there’s any magic to Magic Mike, hear my plea. If I had one wish today, it would be for the immediate and permanent transfer of every unwanted body hair and stray fat ounce of mine to Matthew McConaughey.) Magic Mike is also more comfortable with its chiseled dude bodies (and the occasional fleeting breast) than with drama. Tatum says this is rather Disneylike compared with his own actual few months as a Sunshine State strip-club wiggler, and maybe his war stories are entertaining when he tells them, one on one. But Magic Mike doesn’t have much reason to exist, other than as further testament to Soderbergh’s willingness to filter, through self-conscious genre slumming (this is his backstage musical), his preoccupation with wealth management versus wage slavery (see Traffic, Erin Brockovich, the Ocean’s trilogy). This time it doesn’t work. Long before the sac-

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charine, quasi-Sixteen Candles last shot, the glitter trail goes cold. — S.W.

LOLA VERSUS

oor Lola. Her fiancé flees, her girl best friend outshines her enough to bag her boy best friend, and the uneven movie that traces her woeful Saturn-return story is being dumped (a week later than originally planned) onto one local screen against an array of betterreviewed indie quirk-coms. Poor Greta Gerwig. As the title lonely heart in the uneven Lola Versus, she’s a pre-VHS Woody Allen shiksa screwballed crooked into a post-Netflix Lena Dunham zeitgeist — impossible to refuse in a movie that’s often hard to take. The actress is magnetic and approachable, able to slide along the Diane Keaton moroseto-madcap spectrum in uncomfortable hipster heels. But Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones’ flighty screenplay mistreats its heroine, never settling on three tones where nine will do. Borderline-surreal moments — a subplot that forces Lola to spend the night with a drippy sensitive-guy caricature builds to a surprisingly amusing almost-sight gag — limp along uncomfortably next to out-of-character zingers that wouldn’t feel out of place in a Friends pitch.com

rerun. What plot there is too often advances when a character uses an iPhone, as though the whole thing were generated with an app. Playing Ethel to Gerwig’s Lucy is co-writer Lister-Jones, who likewise never sticks to just one way to play what amounts to a long audition reel. As the jilting fiancé, Joel Kinnaman injects a little mush-mouthed Eric Roberts menace into a stock shitty-boyfriend character. And as the parents who must be providing untold funds offscreen to their grad-student-in-New York daughter (yes, this is another movie in which no 29-year-old need worry about cash), Debra Winger plays homey just fine, while Bill Pullman, sadly, suggests a Tempur-Pedic pillow wilting at a garage sale. It’s unfair but accurate to summarize Lola Versus as something conceived in the gap between Dunham’s feature Tiny Furniture and her HBO series, Girls. Lola’s lessons aren’t much removed from the teachings of Dunham (not least: Don’t share a bed with someone who won’t fuck you, and don’t fuck someone who won’t share a bed with you), but here they feel contrived and stale. At its most appealing, Lola Versus plays like a dimly amusing trailer for the better, more astute movie it wants to be. At its most glib and frustratingly bland, it’s, like, the third-best iPhone commercial ever. — S.W. M O N T H X X–X X , 2 0 0 X

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ynn Shelton doesn’t expect you to like her characters right away. In her fourth feature, Your Sister’s Sister, the Seattle writerdirector introduces her protagonist, Jack (played by Mark Duplass, star of her 2009 movie, Humpday), by giving him an angry diatribe to deliver — one that sours a party held in honor of his late brother. “In general, I like to show these characters warts and all, and I sort of like the idea of warts first,” she tells The Pitch by phone from Portland, Oregon. “You see him make this entire party really uncomfortable, and you’re probably feeling pretty uncomfortable yourself, as an audience member, about what he’s doing. I’m hoping that even by the end of that scene, you realize he’s in an incredible amount of pain and that he really did love his brother, so it came out in this really twisted, black way.” Shelton’s intimate comedy-drama follows Jack as he tries to get away from his grief by vacationing at his pal Iris’ family cabin, outside Seattle. Instead of being alone, he discovers Iris’ lesbian half-sister, Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt, The United States of Tara), staying there. He winds up going to bed with her —even though he’s nursing a crippling attraction to Iris herself (Emily Blunt, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen). Shelton’s worst-foot-forward approach appears to be working. Your Sister’s Sister, which opens in Kansas City Friday, was the top debut at the specialty box office the week of June 19, with a per-screen average of $9,000 in 13 theaters. It has also been a critical hit, with an 83 percent approval rating on rottentomatoes.com. The Pitch: How do you make a film about people sitting and talking without it getting stilted? Shelton: It’s a goal of mine to have a film where the characters feel like real people. Improvisation definitely helps in that arena, and there’s a lot of improvisation in my films. It brings a certain freshness that’s hard to capture any other way. I think it’s a real balancing act. I really tried to make people feel sympathetic even though they [the characters] are flawed. Maybe people are reminded of mistakes that they’ve made or mistakes that their friends have made. Speaking of realism, the sex scene between Jack and Hannah is hilariously awkward. [Laughs.] I timed it recently. I had an opportunity when we were doing the DVD commentary. I think it’s a 12-second performance, which is pretty amazing. It [sex] can be quite painfully awkward and bad. It’s just a classic example of hiring the right people and letting them do their job. We knew the intention was not for it to be glamorous, sensationalized or romanticized. That’s one of the scenes where I don’t think there was any dialogue written. It was just an outline. “They have awkward sex.” We just found it on the set.

FIND MOVIE TIMES ON

Shelton knows your Sister. With Mark Duplass, you had someone on your set who’s now having a breakout year, acting here as well as in Darling Companion and Safety Not Guaranteed (also out this weekend in KC). He’s a writer-director himself; with his brother, Jay, he has made The Puffy Chair, Baghead, Cyrus and — this year — Jeff, Who Lives at Home. Does having someone like that on set change anything for you? Mark has two very distinct careers. He talks about, when he’s on set as an actor, he loves to be able to fly in, do his days and get out of there. He’s kind of like an uncle with the baby. He doesn’t have to raise the kid. I never really feel threatened or usurped by him, powerwise. I find it an incredible boon that he’s a writer and a director because I’m always asking for his contributions, along with everybody on set. All the actors are bringing their ideas to the set. I hope that it’s an egofree place where, after a while, you don’t even know where the ideas are originating from. I find it incredibly helpful that he has all those different skill sets because I get to be the recipient of them. Humpday and Your Sister’s Sister often pit people in conventional relationships against bohemians. How have you been able to convincingly depict nonconformists when you’ve been married for the last 20 years [to comic actor and former MTV VJ Kevin Seal]? People asked me who I was more like on Humpday [a movie about two straight men trying to make a gay porn film], [married] Ben or Andrew. I really do feel like I’m both people. Even though I’m married, I don’t feel like I’m domesticated. [Laughs.] I get to be wild and crazy as an artist. I get to go around to film festivals and party. I get to have a full artistic life, a creative life. I feel incredibly blessed because I get the best of both worlds. I get to have this incredibly satisfying, stable family, and I also get to be an artist. Maybe the dichotomy comes out on-screen. I don’t think about it, but you’re right — it does emerge again and again. E-mail feedback@pitch.com pitch.com

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hanita McAfee, the chef and owner of the two-month-old Magnolia’s Contemporary Southern Bistro, was recently called out of the kitchen by one of her customers. “These are not grits,” the patron said, pointing at her plate. “I know grits, and this is not the way to make them.” McAfee tried to explain that she uses stone-ground cornmeal, which she blends with cheese and eggs and surrounds with tender prawns. This mixture is as rich as the fine white-wine cream sauce that smothers the baked grit cake. It’s a refreshingly creative variation on the classic — and usually unexciting — breakfast food or side dish. She eventually won over her customer. And she should have. The shrimp-andgrits entrée is one of the fi nest items on her menu. But the thing about American Southern cooking is that everyone seems to have an opinion on how it should be prepared and what it means. And what Southern cooking means here is complicated. From its beginning, KC has been a steakand-potatoes town. Our affection for Southern cuisine remains limited primarily to the traditional soul-food branches: fried chicken, biscuits, greens, fried potatoes, oxtail. The Creole and Cajun sensibilities of Louisiana have been less successful in this market. The metro has a poor track record when it comes to New Orleans-inspired restaurants, which tend to come and go quickly. By local standards, the venerable Jazz, on 39th Street, practically deserves to be on the National Register of Historic Places. E R MO And until recently, when grits began to gain a little haute-cuisine steam, AT E N I ONL .COM you couldn’t even count PITCH on finding the dish in KC (unless you were at a diner or a Cracker Barrel or a Bob Evans). “What I’m doing here,” McAfee says, “isn’t traditional Southern cooking or traditional Louisiana cooking. I’ve had customers come in looking for fried chicken or wings, and they tell me that I’m a little too contemporary for them. But if I ever do fried chicken as a special, I’m going to do it in a new, unexpected way.” That means McAfee’s collard greens haven’t been stewed down to gorgeously green mush. Rather, they’re presented practically al dente, slow-simmered with smoked turkey and black-eyed peas. (They’re wonderful, by the way, served with little triangles of feather-light cornbread.) “It’s a somewhat lighter version of the dish,” McAfee says, “but Southern cuisine is not ever going to be considered a healthy cuisine. We use a lot of butter.” McAfee says she doesn’t want to be a soulfood restaurant, but her stylish versions of classic soul dishes are nothing less than outstanding: pillow-soft sweet potatoes baked in

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was a serious overstatement. “That’s how they drink it in the South,” explained our server, taking me for some fool Yankee. Hey, I once lived in Florida. The service at Magnolia’s was friendly and attentive if a bit unpolished. Several of the a spiced caramel sauce, savory pork barbecue tucked into slider buns, and the very best front-of-the-house staff members are related to McAfee, so they might be a little too zealous deviled eggs in town (three different kinds, in their tasks. McAfee’s 10-year-old son, Mkai, including one made with smoked salmon). served as both host and busAnd you won’t find, on boy on the afternoon I was any soul-food menu in the Magnolia’s there for Sunday brunch, and city, more exquisite macaContemporary by the end of the meal, I was roni and cheese than Shanita Southern Bistro putting my hands over my McAfee’s. The elbow macaDeviled eggs ................... $5.75 Collard greens ................ $5.75 cup to keep him from taking roni is deftly blanketed in Shrimp and grits ...........$16.50 it off the table. a creamy and distinctive, Red-velvet Evangeline The brunch dishes — vegetarian-friendly smokedwafﬂes ...........................$7.75 served Saturday and Sunday gouda cream sauce. Smoked-gouda only — are McAfee’s showiThere’s not a dish or mac and cheese ...........$3.50 est creations: sweet-potato beverage served here that Biscuits and gravy ..........$7.75 pancakes, “Nutter Butter” doesn’t bear McAfee’s perPecan pie ......................... $5.75 French toast, red-velvet sonal touch. Because she waffles. That last innovahas yet to obtain a liquor license, she serves inventive mocktails: a non- tion has gotten so popular here that it’s also offered during the week, on the all-day menu, alcoholic peach bellini, a basil-and-cucumber as a side dish or a full meal. cooler and a spirit-free sangria. There’s sweet Now, I fi nd red-velvet cake to be one of iced tea, of course, but no unsweetened tea, the most overrated desserts in the American and our server insisted that the glass of pastry canon, so I was resistant to the “red lemonade was “freshly squeezed.” It may have been, but there was so little lemon juice velvet waffle Evangeline.” Would they taste like cocoa? Would they have cream-cheese in the beverage that even calling it lemonade

The appetizing red-velvet wafﬂes (above) and the Creole chicken-salad sandwich (right). Still hungry? There's whitechocolate-blueberry bread pudding.

icing? But I found courage and ordered the light, crispy batter cakes — more pink than red — and discovered that they taste like … waffles. Drenched in maple syrup, they’re as good as anything you can get at Waffle House, just rosier. I prefer the biscuits and gravy, though the biscuits should be flakier and come with more of the silky gravy. The signature dessert at Magnolia’s, white-chocolate blueberry bread pudding, must be popular because the kitchen never had any left when I tried to order it. And the banana pudding? “We just sold our last order,” I was told — twice. My consolation was a generous wedge of pecan pie, which made a perfectly delicious alternative, sided with a dollop of real whipped cream. (It made me long for the menu to add a pecan-pie waffle.) Magnolia’s is located in a 1950s-era tan brick building (it formerly housed the vegetarian venue known as Café Seed) on a residential stretch of Cherry Street. But McAfee is so attractive and affable, and her new-wave Southern cooking so wonderful, that I think she might turn this quiet neighborhood into a new restaurant destination. Magnolia’s may not serve traditional soul food, but it has soul.

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ith her shy smile and wavy brown hair that falls to her shoulders, 25-year-old Nicolette Foster could still be mistaken for a University of Missouri–Kansas City student. Six years ago, the new pastry chef at Michael Smith was just that — a KC native studying business and planning to attend culinary school in France after graduation. In 2006, she took a job in the kitchen at McCormick & Schmick’s to help pay for college. In her fi rst few months there, a knife slipped out of an oyster shell, gouging a hole in her hand, and a loose refrigerator door took a slice out of her left eyebrow. She didn’t miss a day of work. “All we do is play with knives and fire,” Foster says. “The other day I caught a towel on fire. I just looked down, and it was on fire. It’s never not exciting in a kitchen.” Also on fire: Foster’s culinary career. After two years at McCormick & Schmick’s, Foster applied to the Culinary Institute of America, which accepted her. In May 2008, she started in its baking and pastry-arts program. After graduating from CIA, she worked at Restaurant 2 Vine, an upscale bistro in Rochester, New York. She quickly rose from cooking on the line to pastry chef. “That was the first time I felt like it was my career,” she says. “If people would complain, I’d tell them not to complain to me. This is my career. I’m here because I want to be. I love what I do. This is not just a job.” While in New York, Foster routinely checked KC’s job listings. And when the pastry-chef position at Michael Smith came open — former pastry chef Sarah Sutherland left to take a position in New York City — Foster applied immediately. Smith hired her, and she moved back to her hometown in March of this year. “I was a little baby at McCormick’s, following all these chefs,” she says. “And now I’m part of that community. Michael [Smith] is amazing, more talented than I could have imagined. I wouldn’t want to work anywhere else right now. I don’t think I realized until a month into it how big a deal it was to get this job.” As she settles into pastry duties for both

Michael Smith and Smith’s Extra Virgin, Foster is already showing why Smith wanted her in his kitchen. Among her additions to the menu are a Tuscan butter cake topped with peaches, fresh cherry sauce and brown-sugar ice cream. “With desserts, you can make something look really pretty, like it’s not even food anymore,” she says. “But you can also make something really simple and make it taste really good. If someone comes into the restaurant and orders the same again, you’ve done it. I crave the bun at Vietnam Café. I just want someone thinking about my desserts like that.” The Pitch: What are your c ulinar y inspirations? Foster: Pierre Hermé. He’s my favorite pastry chef. What he does is incredible. I want to go to France and eat his macarons. He’s never going to come to the United States. I get a lot of inspiration from French pastries in general. Right now, we’ve got éclairs with a thin cookie crust on top of them. The pâté à choux [dough] tends to get soft, so a little cookie dough on top gives it a really crunchy texture. We serve it with diplomat cream, pastry cream with whipped cream folded in, fresh raspberries with raspberry compote, and a tuile for crunch. If you can execute something so clas-

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Foster wants you to think about her desserts. sic and do it consistently, you don’t need to go crazy or that outside of the box. Rochester was conservative. Kansas City is a lot further along. But I still want my desserts to sell. What’s your favorite ingredient? Salt. I was making pineapple sorbet one time … and I put just a little bit of salt and it was like … pineapple [moves hands in front of face in wafting motion]. That little teeny bit of salt brings out the flavor, and you don’t even know it’s there. What was your best recent food find? Michael Smith. [Laughs.] When I drove from Rochester to Kansas City, we stopped in Chicago. We ate at Avec. It’s owned by the same people who own Blackbird. We walk in, and there’s wood paneling on the walls and this big long table with a huge bench against the wall. I went with my mom, and we ordered this focaccia with ricotta cheese. The ricotta was slightly warm, and it just melted in your mouth. What’s your favorite local ingredient? Beef. I love barbecue. When I was in Rochester, I seriously missed barbecue. And at school, barbecue was first on my list. But I’ve only had it twice since I’ve been back.

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What’s always in your kitchen? Sugar. To be honest, I don’t do a lot of baking at home. I’ll spend 10 to 12 hours a day baking, so unless it’s something special for my family, I’m not baking. And sriracha. In school [CIA], every class is 14 days long. You eat what the different classes make, so you’ll cycle through American, Asian and Mediterranean. After a while, you know you’re going to be eating the same thing. You just need something to make it different. That’s why I had a friend who put sriracha on everything. What’s one food you love? Macarons. I love making them. And eating them. I’d open up a macaron shop where that was all I did. What’s your guilty pleasure? It changes. Right now, I can’t get enough of the baklava that I make for Extra Virgin. I have it for breakfast. It’s loaded with butter, pistachios, cinnamon and cardamom. Then there’s a simple syrup of honey and lemon juice on top of flaky phyllo. Besides your own place, where do you like to eat out? I don’t go out a lot. Michael [Smith] is the most generous person I’ve worked for. He feeds his employees twice a day. I’ll go to the Vietnam Café. And there’s a lot of places I want to try: Lidia’s and the Rieger. I want to go everywhere. A chef is only as good as … Their humility. If you’re not humble about what you’re doing, it won’t work in a restaurant. Michael Smith is the most humble person. He was mopping the floor the other day. If the toilet’s not working, he’ll fix it. There’s nothing he is above doing, although the food is obviously the most important thing. I got a really good education and I’m still paying for it. I still have so much to learn. I’m never going to learn everything. There’s always room for growing and changing. I could have a totally different style in a year. I hope I do. If I’m not constantly challenging myself to come up with new things or techniques, then I’m wasting my time.

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t. Joseph, Missouri, is burning to the ground, according to recent concerns voiced by the city’s police and fi re departments. A mysterious rash of fires has blazed through the city this year — 19 unsolved arsons in cars, Dumpsters and vacant structures — and nobody seems to know who is starting them, or why. Arguably eerier is the surplus of commercial real estate in the once-thriving river town. You think the West Bottoms is Instagram-rich with poignant urban decay? Try driving an hour north to downtown St. Jo, where the abandoned brick warehouses and empty vintage storefronts tell a bleaker tale of a city left behind by the harsh realities of a global economy. There’s no creative class rushing in to rescue these buildings and recast them as lofts and artisanal cheese shops. On Sixth Street, a rock club called Room 107 is shuttered E R O M — just a deserted building with a faded advertisement for “ROCK & T A INE ONL .COM METAL” painted on the H C PIT front. Around the corner, on Felix Street, is the Rendezvous Bar, a dark dive, with black plastic ashtrays on the tables and a nook in the back that doubles as a stage for bands. “This is pretty much the only place in town we play,” says Darrion (Dee) Radke, the 19-year-old guitarist for St. Jo punk trio Radkey. He’s seated at a table between his bandmates and brothers: Isaiah (17, bass) and Solomon (14, drums). The only other people in the Rendezvous on a Wednesday evening are the bartender and two middle-aged men. Radkey is not all doom and gloom about its hometown, though. “I was kind of surprised to find out that there’s a cool little music scene here,” says Isaiah, the most extroverted of the brothers. “Some rock bands, some indie type of bands, joke bands, cover bands. And everyone’s really nice. They’ve all been pretty cool to us.” Over the last year, though, Radkey has been playing less around St. Jo and more at places like the Riot Room and the Replay Lounge, where their very existence elicits a certain amount of confusion. The gist being: How do three black teenagers from St. Jo end up playing Ramones-style punk rock? Parenting appears to have something to do with it. One of the middle-aged men at the Rendezvous is their father, Matt Radke. Originally from Kansas City, he moved the family up to St. Jo (where he had relatives) after Isaiah was born. With his long, gray, fuzzy beard, glasses and Spinal Tap T-shirt, Matt Radke looks like a man who might have seen 40 Descendents shows back in the day. He opened up his record collection to his sons early on. “I basically just let them have at it,” he says. “I allowed them to like whatever they wanted, and sometimes I would cringe a bit, but eventually they’d get back on the right track.”

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booked the act for another show. Since then, “Dee liked Yellowcard for a while,” Isaiah the band hasn’t had much trouble fi nding says. places to perform around town, even ven“That one I didn’t let him buy,” Matt turing out as far as Wichita and Des Moines. Radke says with a laugh. “I decided if he could fi nd a way to get his hands on it, then In April, the brothers opened for New Yorkbased Japanese anime punks Peelander-Z at OK, he could listen to it. But I wasn’t going RecordBar. “It was insane,” Isaiah says. “At to be a party to the purchase of that.” one point, my dad’s head got kicked into my He also kept a couple of guitars and a drum face. I didn’t expect it to be set in the house. Dee picked that awesome.” up the guitar around age 9, Because the teens are and over time the brothers Radkey, with home-schooled, they can followed suit. Two years Soft Reeds, Quivers, and Drop a Grand sc hedu le t hei r st ud ies ago, they started playing as Saturday, June 30, around the occasional late a band and writing songs, at RecordBar nights that come with being inspired by such bands as a rock band. Home schooling Nirvana, the Misfits and also seems to explain why, Weezer. Matt Radke began managing the group and trying to book shows say, Skrillex or LMFAO isn’t a component of for it. In March 2011, Radkey caught a break: their musical diet. “We usually end up hanging out with a spot opening for revered ska-funk act Fishadults — I don’t really like a lot of people my bone at the Aftershock in Merriam. “That was a Hail Mary, don’t-get-your- age,” Isaiah says. “We just met some friends in Maryville that are our age and into the same hopes-up type of show,” Matt says. “I got the call, and I was like, ‘Holy crap, I’ve been stuff as us, which is cool. But it’s hard for me to hang out with people who don’t like the Misfits listening to that band since I was 13.’ It was or Led Zeppelin or the Who. Or the Beatles. pretty surreal.” “We kind of lucked out with that, and I think Most kids our age aren’t into that stuff. They’re it changed things for us a little bit,” Isaiah says. into crap. So we just don’t have a lot in common with them.” “After that show, people started to take us a In August, Radkey travels to New York to little more seriously. Like, ‘Well at least they’re play its biggest show yet: the Afropunk Fesnot some super-crappy kid band.’ ” tival in Brooklyn, with a lineup including After Radkey's fi rst time playing RecordErykah Badu, Janelle Monae and Das Racist. Bar, owner Steve Tulipana immediately

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Doors are opening for Radkey. (They were scheduled to play the fest last year, but it was canceled due to a fake hurricane.) While in Brooklyn, they also plan to record a song and make a video for Wreckroom Records, a label run by Adrian Grenier, the guy who played Vince on Entourage. “That should be really cool,” Matt says. “We got that through a band called the Giraffes that I’ve been seeing since 2005 or something. Their guitar player is an engineer at the studio, and he hooked us up.” Also in August, Radkey hikes up to Minneapolis to cut its first proper EP, at Flowers Studio, where the Stray Cats, Soul Asylum and the Descendents have all recorded. At a certain point, this starts to sound like a pretty busy schedule for three … kids. What else do they do? “We mostly just practice, play shows, write songs, play video games, watch anime,” Isaiah says, with a shrug. “Sometimes we hardly even know when the gigs are. Our dad just kind of takes care of that stuff. It’s cool not to have to worry about that end of things.” “I basically just tell them to worry about writing songs and playing, and I’ll take care of everything else,” Matt says. “A lot of days, it’s just, ‘Come on, let’s go, get in the van, we got a show.’ ”

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ne of these days, I’m going to get on Facebook and nobody I’m friends with will have posted or tagged or liked anything related to Port Fonda, and on that day, I will put on my coat and hat, get into my 1998 Nissan Altima, drive to Westport, and eat what will undoubtedly be a delicious meal of upscale Mexican food. I was a frequent customer of the Airstreamtrailer Port Fonda, and based on everything I’ve heard and read about the brick-and-mortar version at 4141 Pennsylvania, it’s shaping up to be a home run. But holy guacamole, has there ever been this much hype around a restaurant in Kansas City? I suspect that a great time was had by all at last weekend’s opening festivities — my moles tell me that it was wallto-wall inside and that the mescal cocktails were first-rate. And I’m certain that it would have been tremendous fun to write a column poking fun at all the self-satisfied creative young professionals who turned up for it. But sometimes, after a long week, you just want to eat a chicken-finger platter at the Houlihan’s in Fairway with your parents. You feel me, midtown? I did make it to Westport on Friday, though, for the regional Air Guitar Championships at the Beaumont Club. An air-guitar competition is exactly what it sounds like, for better or worse. One by one, the participants tromp onstage, a song is cued (usually classic rock or metal) and there ensues, for 90 seconds, much dancing and pantomiming of guitar licks. Then the judges — on Friday, The Pitch’s Justin Kendall, KCUR 89.3’s Andrea Silenzi, and Federation of Horsepower’s Gregg Todt — rate their performances based on technical skills, stage presence and “airness.” “Airness is like pornography,” said Hammerlord’s Stevie Cruz, who was probably too drunk to be hosting the event. I believe he meant to reference the quote from former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, who famously said, of pornography, that he

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couldn’t define it but he knew it when he saw it. But Cruz just kind of trailed off and left it open to interpretation. Five minutes later, rifl ing through his notes onstage, he repeated the analogy, again without context, having apparently forgotten that he’d already explained the rules to the audience. It seemed possible that at any moment, a long cane might appear and yank Cruz off the stage. Eventually, we made it past the main chunk of Cruz’ emcee duties, and the show began. I was generally disappointed in the lack of technical skills. A surprising number of performers did not synchronize left-hand fretwork with the notes of the song. Showmanship can carry you only so far, Guy in the Cape Who Did a Back Flip. One of my favorite acts was Dyin’ Cletus, who wore braids, jorts and a tie-dyed T-shirt that read, “Redneck butts drive me …” on the front; on the back, was a drawing of a penis with a cowboy hat on, implying, as I understand it, “nuts.” He chugged a bottle of Nyquil, did a six-shooter shuffle, and then shredded to some heavy metal. It is not, I came to learn, absolutely necessary to understand the conceptual artistry behind the performances at an air-guitar competition. Peter “Stiff” Dickens, the Andy Kaufman of air guitar, thundered onstage in a blue polyester suit and a terrible blond wig and launched into “Smoke on the Water.” Then the sound dropped out, and the entire routine turned into him dealing with technical difficulties. The choreography was impressive. (Later in the night, in the final round, Dickens shook up a beer can and sprayed it at the audience from his crotch, as though he were ejaculating on us.) The evening’s winner, and by far the most talented of the bunch, was Eric “Mean” Melin. Melin is a real-life musician (he used to be in Ultimate Fakebook, and he’s now in the Dead Girls), which seems to be a huge advantage from a technical standpoint: He actually looks like he’s ripping the shit out of a guitar. But he

Long live "Freebird" and the early bird. also works the room. Melin came out in the final round and poured a beer on his head while staring maniacally at the crowd. Melin also did a convincing pick toss — a nice touch. The judges crowned him king, and then everybody brought their invisible instruments onstage for a rendition of “Freebird.” It was like The Last Waltz or something. But not really.

n Monday, it was reported that the Waid’s in Prairie Village had closed. This I have to see with my own two eyes, I thought, and so our food critic, Charles Ferruzza, and I made a pilgrimage to P.V. On the door was a sign announcing the abrupt closing and a note from a woman named Bev. “Ev and Lou — we’re at the First Watch in Corinth. — Bev” Until the mid-1990s, when the octogenarian-friendly cuisine was deemed too disgusting for our family outings, Waid’s was a staple for Mother’s Day brunches and post-Sunday Mass meals. As I stood outside Monday in the miserable heat, the memories came flooding back: the inedible grits, the waitress with the obnoxious voice, the depressing smoking section. An institution, this place. There’s another Waid’s next to the Sport Clips at 103rd Street and State Line, and Ferruzza and I held a memorial service there after surveying the ruins in Prairie Village. I ordered “Waid’s Famous Hotcakes,” which I have always maintained are above average; Ferruzza ordered the pork tenderloin and a bowl of cheese soup. “Carrie Anne,” by the Hollies, was playing on the speakers. “How’s yours?” I asked, halfway through the meal. “Horrible,” he said, and I laughed and nodded, and then we both continued eating.

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T H U R S D AY, J U N E 2 8 Dream Theater: Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827.

F R I D AY, J U N E 2 9 Cimino: The Conspiracy Room at the Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Trevor Hall, Justin Young, Priscilla Kioko: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. K.Flay, the Phantastics, Flash, Sage and Sour: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Bill Lynch Band: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The Violet Lights: Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

S AT U R D AY, J U N E 3 0 Big Chocolate, Barbaric Merits, Westend Girl, Alan Paul: Valentine Room at the Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, Ste. 300. Ginuwine, Silk, LB: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Bill Lynch Band: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

M O N D AY, J U LY 2 Black Cobra, Gaza: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Tycho: The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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Russian Circles

I respect the intensity and precision, but brutal, growling Cookie Monster metal has never really been my thing. I wish I were more into terrifying music, but alas, we can’t control what we love. The closest I come to getting down with that sound is with a band like Russian Circles, which cuts its car-crash riffs and jagged time signatures with more delicate, atmospheric passages. Some people call this post-rock, which is a phrase I’m not quite sure I understand. I think of the Chicago act like a more intense version of Explosions in the Sky: locked in, nuanced, instrumental, and thunderously heavy when it needs to be. Tuesday, July 3, at the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

hiatus and, in December, played what I figured would be its last local show in a long while. Very exciting, then, to learn about this Knuckleheads gig, which is the Wilders’ actual last scheduled show (at least for now). Saturday, June 30, at Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

Yonder Mountain String Band

On the Venn diagram of jam band and bluegrass, Yonder Mountain String Band occupies the overlap. The Colorado “newgrass” act merges formalist string plucking with loose, improvisational jams and buttresses its sound with memorable melodies. Sunday, July 1, at Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 816-472-5454)

The Wilders

The Wilders are like the Grand Canyon of the Kansas City music scene. You hear they’re great, they’ve been around forever, but you kind of take them for granted. Then you actually see them play a live set and understand why everybody loves them so much. Late last year, the country-Americana band announced that it would soon be going on an indefinite

Reverend Horton Heat, with Lucero, Mountain Sprout, and Rumblejetts

This packed bill offers a sampling of the warm, deranged sounds of flyover country. Lots of -billy suffixes, too: manic psychobilly from Reverend Horton Heat, hillbilly bluegrass from Mountain Sprout, and local rockabilly from the

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Colt Ford (left), Lucero (top) and Russian Circles Rumblejetts. Lucero, the most compelling act here, plays hard-and-fast Southern rock with punk undertones.

Saturday, June 30, at Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 816-472-5454)

Colt Ford

One of the hottest stars in country music today is a 300-pound former professional golfer from Georgia named Colt Ford, who raps instead of sings. His approach is rigid: He raps the verses (Ford’s flow is distinctly Southern, in the mold of guys like Young Jeezy or Gucci Mane) and then brings on somebody with a pretty voice to sing the chorus. He’s also unabashed about milking every last drop from cheap country clichés. His latest single is called “Back,” and you won’t be even remotely surprised to learn that the lyrics following that word are when life was simple. Thursday, June 28, at the KC Live Stage, Power & Light District (13th Street and Grand, 816-842-1085)

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Dark Star Orchestra: Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454. Eisley, We Are Voices: 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

FUTURECAST J U LY TUESDAY 10 Beach House: Liberty Hall. THURSDAY 12 Sleigh Bells, Jel, Class Actress: The Beaumont Club. SATURDAY 14 Liars: The Granada. MONDAY 16 Big K.R.I.T.: The Granada. WEDNESDAY 18 Dirty Projectors: The Granada. 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.

AUGUST MONDAY 6 My Morning Jacket, Band of Horses: Starlight Theatre. WEDNESDAY 8 Buzz Under the Stars with Silversun Pickups, Fun, Alabama Shakes, Garbage, Electric Guest: Berkley Riverfront Park. THURSDAY 16 Il Divo: Starlight Theatre. FRIDAY 17 B.B. King: Starlight Theatre. FRIDAY 31 Journey, Pat Benatar, Loverboy: Livestrong Sporting Park.

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T H U R S D AY 2 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Justin Klaas, Tangent Arc. Park Place: 117th St. and Nall Ave., Leawood, 913-381-2229. High Vibe. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Medicine Theory, Egomaniacs, Bad Caps, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Sobriquet, Great American Desert, Galaxy Girls, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Dads, Shy Guys, Peyote Cowboy, High Diving Ponies.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. John Paul’s Flying Circus. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. The Devil’s Marmalade, Burning Tide, Sage N Sour. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Brian Hicks Blues Jam. Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666. Josh Vowell and the Rumble.

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Renee Kelly’s at Caenen Castle: 12401 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-631-4100. Billy Ebeling solo, 5:30 p.m. Kanza Hall: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Scott Perry Band. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Gina Sicilia, 7 p.m.

DJ The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Goomba Rave, with Team Bear Club. Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. DJ Beatbroker. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. DJ Short Pants the Boss, 10 p.m.

HIP-HOP Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Chirpin’ at the Jazzhaus: hip-hop and live music.

ACOUSTIC The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Drew Freeland. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Bob Reeder.

JAZZ The Beacon, a Kansas City Tavern: 5031 Main, 816-9604646. Alan Blasco. The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Mambo DeLeon, Carte Blanc, 7 p.m.

COMEDY Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. John Morgan, 7:30 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Hot Caution Thursdays, 10 p.m., free. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-3900363. Texas Hold ’em. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike night. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game. Hotel: 1300 Grand, 816-226-3232. Back to the Hotel with DJ Mike Scott, Champagne specials, 9 p.m., free. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Karaoke on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia Clash, 7 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. Ladies’ Night.

Sherlock’s Underground Coffeehouse & Pub: 858 State Route 291, Liberty, 816-429-5262. Karaoke, ladies’ night specials. Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Skeeball League Night. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Trivia, 9 p.m.

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

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Double T’s Roadhouse: 1421 Merriam Ln., Kansas City, Kan., 913-432-5555. Blues Jam hosted by RocknRick’s Boogie Leggin’ Blues Band, 7 p.m. 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.

REGGAE Afrobeat: 9922 Holmes, 816-943-6333. Reggae Rockers, 10 p.m.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Eric Taylor, 8 p.m.

F R I D AY 2 9 ROCK/POP/INDIE The AllStar Rock Bar (formerly Harleys & Horses): 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Without Warning. Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Allied Saints. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Nuthatch-47, the Luck. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Be/Non, the Scriveners, the Cotton Bros. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Comanche the Horse, Cloud Dog, 1,000,000 Light Years, 10 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Saucy Jack. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. E R O Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. M Flashback. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Hearts of DarkGS IN T ness, Stephen Paul Smoker, She’s a LIS E AT N I L Keeper, Georgia Gordon, 9 p.m. ON M Replay Lounge: 946 MassachuPITCH.CO setts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. The Bootheel, the Sluts, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Modern Arsonists, DJ Gent, the Runaway Sons on the patio, 10 p.m.

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BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Mo Paul and the Old Crows. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. The Big 3 with John Paul Drum. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-3280003. Knock Kneed Sally, 7 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District: 13th St. and Grand. Lost Wax. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Four Fried Chickens and a Coke, 8 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Groove Agency. Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-239-9666. Monster Ink with Janet Jameson. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Filthy 13, the Mad Kings, 6 p.m. Uncle Bo’s: 420 E. Sixth St., Topeka, 785-234-5400. Terry Evans.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Barnyard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Kasey Rausch, 9 p.m. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Tinhorn Molly and special guests. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Oriole Post, Olassa, 6 p.m. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. Mockingbird.

DJ The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ E. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Dirty Stomp on the patio. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. DJ Naylor. 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Leawood, 913-742-7727. DJ Loftis.

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COMEDY Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. John Morgan, 7:30 & 9:45 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Karaoke, DJ, drink specials. Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913322-1000. Karaoke with Jim Bob, 9 p.m. Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913-6429090. Happy Fridays, beer, wine, bloody marys, screwdriver sunsets, and sangria on tap for $3, 10 a.m.-9 p.m. Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Karaoke, 8:30 p.m. The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ladies’ Night, Low Dough lady specials, 10 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Final Fridays with Ashton Martin’s photography, 5 p.m. KC Live Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Downtown Is Happy. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Ab Fab Fridays on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m. The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Crispy Family Carnival, 10 p.m.

FOLK Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913-6429090. Roy Dodson Phillips, John Bara, 7 p.m.

SINGER-SONGWRITER The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. The Mike Dillon Band.

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The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. A Greater Tomorrow, Size Matters, Bound to Happen, the B Team, Vela, Freefall, Itching Regret, the Gypsy Bone. The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Perpetual Change. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. The Rocketboys, From Indian Lakes, the Atlantic, Bears and Company, 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Sleep Agents, the Kansas City Bear Fighers, Tokengrass. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. Doctor Octor. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Making Movies. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Federation of Horsepower, Filthy 13. Kearney Amphitheater at Jesse James Park: 3001 N. Missouri 33, Kearney, 816-903-4730. Liverpool, the Benders. Legends at Village West: 1843 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-788-3700. The Magnetics. Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-403-8571. Pepper Sprouts. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Local Music Showcase with Soft Reeds, Radkey, Quivers, Drop a Grand, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Netherfriends, Stephen Paul Smoker, Linear Downfall. River’s Bend: 2 Main St., Parkville. The Michael Shultz Band.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.; Millage Gillbert Blues Band, 9 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, early show; the Good Foot. Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-2201222. The Mojo Roots.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. First Annual Show Me Freedom Fest with the Dirt Kings, Famous Seamus and the Travel Bongs, the Fabulous Bolt Ons. Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Chaotic Goods, Howard Iceberg and the Titanics, Two Headed Cow.

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Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-3459717. The Tippers, Emily Grey. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. 3rd Annual Fish Fry with Truckstop Honeymoon, Jason Eklund.

DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. DJ Superwolf. The Quaff: 1010 Broadway, 816-471-1918. DJ Chris. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. DJ Motley Cruz.

ACOUSTIC Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Acoustic American Roots: Penniman, Hiatt & Moss.

JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Dan Bliss. The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Billy Ebeling; Tim Whitmer & the KC Express, 4:30 p.m.; Shannon and the Rhythm Kings, 9 p.m.

COMEDY Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. John Morgan, 7 & 9:45 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. Don Jamieson of That Metal Show. 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. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Westport Coffee House: 4010 Pennsylvania, 816-756-3222. The Kick Comedy Theatre: the Kick-Off Improv Comedy Show, Saturdays, 8-9:30 p.m.

SINGER-SONGWRITER Black Dog Coffeehouse: 12815 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913495-5515. John Maxﬁeld, 7 p.m. The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Joe Athon Trio, 8 p.m.

S U N D AY 1 ROCK/POP/INDIE Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Male Bondage, JabberJosh, Ultra Ultra. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Maps for Travelers, the Company We Keep, Bars of Gold, 7 p.m.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Brickyard Tavern: 1001 S. Weaver St., Olathe, 913-7800266. Crosseyd Cat open blues jam, 3-7 p.m. Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Shades of Jade.

ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS Crossroads KC at Grinders: 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454. Younder Mountain String Band. Smoke ’N Fire: 8030 W. 151st St., Overland Park. Billy Ebeling solo.

DJ Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m.

JAZZ The Majestic Restaurant: 931 Broadway, 816-221-1888. Mark Lowrey Jazz Trio open jam session, 5 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The People’s Liberation Big Band.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night, beer pong, TV trivia, shot dice. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Hotel: 1300 Grand, 816-226-3232. Hotel California Service Industry Night with DJ Ashton Martin, 9 p.m. 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. Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m. Wallaby’s Grill and Pub: 9562 Lackman, Lenexa, 913-5419255. Texas Hold ’em, 6 & 9 p.m.

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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, 5 p.m.

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M O N D AY 2 ROCK/POP/INDIE RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. West Water Outlaws, Daytime Party, 9:30 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Wartorn, In Defense, Rimjob.

BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Blue Monday Jam with Shades of Jade. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Blue Monday Trio.

ROOTS Barnyard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Mudstomp Mondays.

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Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Cinemaphonic, 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Liquid Lounge; One Eye Jacks with DJs Ilya & Troy, 10 p.m.

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JAZZ 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.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m. Cronin’s Bar and Grill: 12227 W. 87th St. Pkwy., Lenexa, 913-3221000. S.I.N., half-price appetizers, shot and beer specials, 7 p.m. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Service Industry Night. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues, 4-6 p.m. 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 Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m. The Uptown Arts Bar: 3611 Broadway. Snazzy Cheap-Ass Drinks, all night. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.

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JAZZ The Phoenix: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m.

BAR GAMES/DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS 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. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. MJ Knight’s “Dinner is a Drag” show, 8 p.m. The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Tuesday Troubadours. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-8321085. It’s Karaoke Time! Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Critters Tye Dye Tuesday. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Gayme Night upstairs, in-house tournament, Wii and NTN Trivia, 7:30-10 p.m.; karaoke on the main ﬂoor, 10 p.m. MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-9622330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free. The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-236-6211. Karaoke. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. Karaoke, 9 p.m. Sherlock’s Underground Coffeehouse & Pub: 858 State Route 291, Liberty, 816-429-5262. Round Robin Card Tournaments. Smokehouse Bar-B-Que: 6304 N. Oak, Gladstone, 816-4544500. Happy hour, 4-6 p.m. Tower Tavern: 401 E. 31st St., 816-931-9300. Trivia, 8 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Beer Pong, team registration starts at 9:30 p.m., tournament starts at 10 p.m.

OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam. DiCarlo’s Mustard Seed MexicanE R Americana Restaurant & Bar: O M 15015 E. U.S. Hwy. 40, 816-3734240. Blues, country and classic rock hosted by Rick Eidson and GS IN T friends. LIS E AT Quasimodo: 12056 W. 135th St., N I L ON M Overland Park, 913-239-9666. Dave PITCH.CO Hays Band Open Jam. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

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R O C K A B I L LY Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-3845646. The Chop Tops, Danny B. Harvey, the Strikers, Radio Threat.

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Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m. Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-561-2444. DJ night. The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. The Dropout Boogie, 10 p.m., free. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Tasteless Tuesdays hosted by Kim and Candice, with DJ Charlie, rock, punk, Nintendo games, Missouri beer specials, and midnight riot, 9 p.m., free.

The AllStar Rock Bar (formerly Harleys & Horses): 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Scott Ford Songwriter Showcase, 7 p.m. Barnyard Beer: 925 Iowa, Lawrence, 785-393-9696. Jeremiah Akin, Panda Circus, Appropriate Grammar, Electric Needle Room, 7 p.m.

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Elkheart’s Downtown Outlaw Fiasco, 6 p.m.

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-8415483. Sam Adams, Gemini Revolution, Soft Reeds. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-8949676. Travelers Guild. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Drew6. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. K-Holes. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Russian Circles, Spirit of the Stairs, Plante, 8 p.m.

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Rex Hobart’s Honky Tonk Supper Club, 6 p.m. Smoke ’N Fire: 8030 W. 151st St., Overland Park. Billy Ebeling solo.

W E D N E S D AY 4 Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7497676. Fourth of July, the ACBs.

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Seeking Advice for Family Dear SAFF: There are 3.5 billion men on the

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work schedules), with your idealized notions about what a romantic relationship should look like. That only ensures constant disappointment. Don’t get me wrong: Once you move in with your girlfriend, there will be days that begin with her rolling over and saying, “Good morning, beautiful.” But there will also be days that begin with your girlfriend rolling over and farting. The trick to loving your LTR is to fully appreciate the moments that rise to the level of your romantic ideals (“Good morning, beautiful”) without obsessing about those moments that disappoint (split shifts, ripped farts). Good luck!

Dear Dan: My younger brother and I are close.

He came out of the closet last year, although it wasn’t much of a surprise because everyone knew he was gay since forever. Everyone is happy that he’s out because it kind of takes the elephant out of the room, and our immediate and extended family are all really supportive. But for the last six to nine months or so, he’s been really depressed about not ever having had a boyfriend. He’s 21 and he’s always talking about how he wants to find a boy to be with in a relationship and not just for sex, but he says it’s impossible for him to meet said boy. My being straight, the only advice I’ve ever been able to give him is to just try new things, and that way he’ll meet new people, as really that’s the only advice you can give someone who’s looking to meet a potential partner. My brother, however, framed his issue to me in a way I’ve never really thought of — which is that only a small fraction of the population is gay, and an even smaller fraction of that may be compatible with him, so meeting new people for a gay guy is actually a lot harder than it is for straight people. He’s been on the whole online dating thing for a while but said it’s really difficult to meet anyone he feels a connection with. I’ve never done online dating, but I have heard the same points from others who’ve tried it. I asked him if he ever goes to gay bars, because that would obviously change the ratios around, but apparently it’s a little insensitive for a straight guy to say that, and he said he’s not really into that scene. Anyway, I just wish I could give him some good advice without being unintentionally offensive (the gay-bar suggestion). I’d still like to offer him any advice I can for him to meet a guy he feels strongly about.

Dear Dan: I’m a guy. I’ve been with my girl-

Pity and Bite the Head Off Anyone Who Tries to Help. That’s why he was offended by your perfectly reasonable, not at all offensive suggestion that he get out there and hit some gay bars. Yes, the bars aren’t for everyone. But if you’re single and want to meet people — gay or straight — you need to be moving on all fronts: online dating, hitting bars and clubs, volunteering, and just generally getting out of the fucking house. Your brother is 21 years old and he just came out, and his frustration is understandable. He’s been watching his straight peers (and his straight brothers) hook up and fall in love since middle school, and he feels anxious to make up for lost time. But he won’t find that first boyfriend if he isn’t willing to put himself out there, and that means giving the guys he meets online a chance, giving the bars a chance, and giving the people who are trying to help him a break.

Dear Dan: My girlfriend of two and a half years and I are ready to move in together. Finally! I am so excited to take this next step, and so is she. The problem is that I work third shift four to five nights a week, and she works a regular day job. I can’t help but feel that we aren’t going to get the full experience of living together with our work situations being what they are. I won’t be waking up every morning to her saying, “Good morning, beautiful,” etc. What can we do to make this a better situation and take advantage of the next step? Thanks.

The Next Step Dear TNS: Here’s a tip: Don’t spend too much time comparing your actual relationship, which will always be shaped by circumstances not fully in your control (like your

friend for almost two years. I love her, but in the last year, sex has been an issue. I feel attracted to her, but I find myself easily distracted these days, kind of worried during sex, which has resulted in me either coming super fast or losing my erection altogether. As a result, she does not orgasm at all. It’s gotten to the point where I’m afraid to be intimate with her for fear of letting her down. I have gone to see doctors to try to understand if my medical conditions — severe sleep apnea, ele vated blood pressure — might have something to do with it. I’m in treatment for these things, and I’ve started going to a therapist, too. I’m thinking of buying some sex toys to use while I work to overcome my problems. My girlfriend doesn’t own any, and she says she doesn’t masturbate because she tried it once and never came. How do I approach her with the idea of using sex toys during sex? Should I? I just want her to experience an orgasm even if I need to get some extra help from a vibrator.

Devil in the Details Dear DITD: Incorporating some adult toys —

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