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aarly doesn’t have a garage. So many huge tech companies have origin myths centered on guys tuning up their dreams in California garages. Hewlett-Packard ran commercials that touted its launch in a Palo Alto garage. Apple founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started their company in a Los Altos garage. Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin, the Web goliath’s story goes, rented a woman’s garage in Menlo Park. Later, they bought her home to preserve the piece of company lore. Zaarly, a new tech-industry darling, has no similarly humble origin story. And its founder still lives in Kansas City. The idea crystallized on a plane in February 2011. CEO and co-founder Bo Fishback was on his way to an event called Startup Weekend, in Los Angeles. The conference assembles volunteers to help entrepreneurs flesh out their ideas. Fishback, then the vice president of Entrepreneurship at the Kauffman Foundation and president of Kauffman Labs for Enterprise Creation, had been planning to chip in his expertise for other participants’ ideas, not propose his own. “On the airplane out there, I was just thinking, ‘God, I wonder if I were to pitch something, what I would pitch out there.’ You know, I keep a little file on my phone of just company ideas I’d like to be involved with or help people get going, whatever,” Fishback says. “Really, we were going to party in L.A. It was NBA All-Star weekend.” Friday night at Startup Weekend, people give no-frills, oneminute pitches for their business ideas. Then people voted and formed teams of volunteers to work on 10 of the ideas over the rest of the weekend. Fishback listened to more than 30 startup ideas but couldn’t, he says, get “geeked” over any of them. So he threw out his own. “I was just like, ‘Fuck it, I’m going to pitch something,’ ” he says. His presentation was an unpolished kernel of an idea: a hyper-localized version of a commerce site similar to eBay or Craigslist, but faster and more versatile. Fishback, 33, admits that what he suggested — “a real-time, proximity-based, buyer-powered marketplace” — must have come across as a jumble of buzzwords. “It sounds like the nerdiest pitch garbage ever,” he says. But he found enough supporters after his 60-second talk to put together a team and refine the idea. By Saturday afternoon, Fishback says, he was sure he’d created something good. continued on page 10 pitch.com TO EM 5 - 2X1,, 220 00 1 1X pitch.comS E PM N TBHE RX 1X–X
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“I was like, ‘Holy shit, if this works, this could be massive,’ ” he says. In a hushed voice fit for telling an origin story, he adds, “This could be, like, Google massive.” By the end of Startup Weekend, Fishback had found two lieutenants: Eric Koester, who would become the new company’s chief operating officer, and Ian Hunter, now Zaarly’s chief technology officer. Together, they raised $1 million in seed money from A-list tech celebrities, including Lightbank, a fund started by the founders of Groupon; actor Ashton Kutcher; and Paul Buchheit, Google’s 23rd employee and the creator of Gmail. In March, Zaarly rolled into the South By Southwest music festival in Austin, Texas, and attracted droves of app-hungry hipsters. “Hungover at SXSW? Use Zaarly to get your Gatorade and Advil,” one blog headline read. The site brokered $10,000 in transactions in 24 hours. (More later on how they did it.) So Zaarly’s creation myth had taken shape, and it wasn’t a story of dreamers bent over soldering irons in a California shed. These were professionals running with an idea of unknown potential, even if the national media didn’t see them that way. A Wall Street Journal article from April suggested that Zaarly was merely cashing in on what many experts are calling the second coming of the tech bubble: “After the brief presentation, actress Demi Moore tweeted about the company. She noted that ‘everything has a price!’ — a reference to her role in the film Indecent Proposal, about a man’s $1 million offer to borrow a stranger’s wife for a night. Within 48 hours, Zaarly had raised its first seed round of $1 million.” Fishback, a graduate of Harvard Business School, says it’s true that his team put together a fast initial round of funding led by Kutcher in the days immediately following Startup Weekend. But it hasn’t just been about being in the right place as a bubble inflates. These were
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yan Wallace, a bearded, redheaded bartender at the Riot Room, has the look of a 19th-century settler. In this millennium, he’s a different kind of pioneer, one of Zaarly’s early local adopters and biggest users. Wallace says he has completed about 20 transactions, ranging from delivering food to high-fiving a man sitting alone in a park for an easy $5. That’s how simple Zaarly is. A user posts a request, a time limit, and what he or she is willing to pay for the desired thing: something delivered, a yard raked, laundry done. Another user then agrees to fill the request, and Zaarly brokers the deal. If the transaction is paid for with a credit card, Zaarly takes a 9.95 percent cut. The company makes no money off cash transactions.
Zaarly’s bright, shining faces, present at the creation of the Next Big Thing. Zaarly so far has charted the experiments of people discovering what their neighbors are willing to bring them or do for them. Alcohol is a frequently asked-for commodity, even though it lies in a Zaarly gray area. It’s on a list of banned items, but Fishback says the listings aren’t being removed as long as users are being responsible and checking IDs. Some items that have been listed in Kansas City in recent weeks include a 24-pack of Bud Light (to be dropped off at the City Place Pool) and a “good bottle of non-first-growth Bordeaux.” Some proposals are, of course, far-fetched. One recent user hoped to borrow a Lamborghini for the weekend. Another Kansas Citian solicited a very specific item. “Custom Championship Belt: I’m looking for a custom wrestling type championship belt. Leather strap, 1 large main plate then two small plates on either side. Jewelry maker or metal sculpter would be ideal. Would like it to be done by end of September at the latest.” On a warm August morning, Wallace sees that someone wants a Kansas City road map and will pay $15 for its delivery. He explains his method for making deliveries more profitable. First, he says, he always rides either his Honda Nighthawk motorcycle or a scooter that conserves gas. Second, he uses Craigslist to find certain things people are Zaarly-ing — the golf shoes that someone else has him hunting, for example. “I always go through the free section because people give away free stuff all the time, like crazy,” Wallace says of Craigslist. “And if there’s nothing posted in the free section,
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The CEO says such missteps ultimately improve his company — sometimes in unexpected ways. “We had a 17-year-old kid find another hole,” Fishback says. “Again, zero risk associated with it. But he just e-mailed us directly and said, ‘Hey, guys, don’t worry, I come in peace, but I just found this little hole, just thought you should know about it.’ So we put him on contract to find some other holes to see if he could.” Wallace says he occasionally has had minor issues with mapping Zaarly’s traffic. Sometimes, users post something from one place, but the location of the delivery is somewhere else. He recalls a 2 a.m. request that he and a friend set out to fulfill: Someone wanted Taco Bell delivered to his house. On the Zaarly
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fact that he’s on a first-name basis with the Zaarly staff is indicative of what he says is the young company’s one major flaw. “There’s not enough people on it yet,” he says. Wallace estimates that roughly 70 percent of his customers so far have been Zaarly employees. The company offices are indeed easy to on the Zaarly website map via a constant cluster of requests concentrated in one building. There have been a few other growing pains. In July, a security glitch exposed some user information, including (it was briefly feared) phone numbers. Fishback dismisses it as a minor stumble for a company expanding so fast. “You know, whatever,” he says. “Some hacker found a hole. You couldn’t actually get any important information out of it, but what he did was, he e-mailed me but he also e-mailed all the editors of the major tech places. It was pretty low-trauma.”
map, the request appeared to be not far from Wallace’s home in midtown. But the user was in Overland Park, which led to Wallace encountering another of Zaarly’s potential problems. “We actually met the guy on a street corner because he was creeped out,” Wallace says. “He didn’t want us to know where he lived.” Fishback says he doesn’t believe Zaarly will face complaints similar to those leveled against Craigslist, which has been marred with allegations that it has promoted prostitution and created contact points for human trafficking and other criminal activity. In the same way that eBay’s anti-scam model encourages eBay users to leave public feedback about one another, the key to keeping Zaarly safe, he says, is that each user’s success on the site depends on that person’s earning a good reputation. continued on page 12
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“We believe that people want to do the right thing,” he says. “And the more local you make something, actually, the more true that becomes. If you only were doing deals with people on your street, no one would ever screw you. Why? Because they’re going to fucking see you tomorrow.” Fishback says scams and incidents of nonpayment have been all but nonexistent on Zaarly. “Right now, we’ve had one complaint in almost $3 million of transactions. Someone didn’t get paid. One. So we just paid the person.” Zaarly users, he insists, aren’t psychopaths. They’re normal people who want normal social interactions to be part of their commerce. To illustrate this theory, Fishback, who travels on company business most weeks, tells a story about a 4:45 a.m. ride to the airport that he requested through the site. “A woman came and picked me up,” he says. “And [now] I’m interviewing her to be my nanny. Amazing, right? She just moved to Kansas City a week and a half ago. She doesn’t have a job yet. She’s interviewing and looking around for places, and a friend of hers told her about this thing called Zaarly, and she was like, ‘Oh, my God. What a cool thing. I can make some money and meet people in the city I just moved to.’ We’ve heard this story over and over again.” His chauffeur that morning started work as a nanny to Fishback’s 9-weekold son, Pierce, earlier this month. Adam Hofmann, Zaarly’s director of marketing, who also left a position at Kauffman Labs to join the company, says couple users are another Zaarly trend. “Who would have thought to open up an app, see that someone needs some gardening done, and go and do it with your girlfriend?” he says. “It’s the new date.”
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he River Market office, with its hardwood floors, exposed-brick walls, pingpong table and trashcans full of empty energy-drink cans, registers as the set of some clichéd movie about a tech startup. Young, attractive employees sit around a communal work area, gazing at flat-panel monitors and tapping on Mac laptops. Many of Fishback’s hires say they’ve moved thousands of miles and changed careers for the chance to work here, under its charismatic leader. Peeled away from their tasks to talk about Zaarly’s potential and their boss, employees tend to swoon over both. Amanda Fick, 30, met Fishback in Madison, Wisconsin. Fishback’s wife, Shelby, a radiologist, was finishing a fellowship there, and Fick, who owned a pet-sitting business, took care of the couple’s two dogs: Dax, a golden retriever, and Keen, a Bernese mountain dog. Fishback, who had visited his wife every weekend while she was in Madison, suggested that Fick work at Zaarly. When asked if it was a hard decision to uproot her life for a startup, to do a job no one defined for her when she took it (one she can’t easily explain today), she laughs. “It was, but Bo and his razzle-dazzle,” she says. “I don’t know. He can make you do anything.”
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Jeff Morris, 26, ditched his job at a San Francisco tech firm. A spur-of-the-moment cover letter that he e-mailed Fishback at 2 a.m. one spring night led to a job interview at Zaarly’s Bay Area outpost at noon the same day. Twenty-four hours later, he was at work in Kansas City. Morris says he did it because Zaarly stood out among an endless pile of Silicon Valley schemes. “L.A. has screenwriters,” he says. “San Francisco has startup founders.” But when he heard about Zaarly, he saw something that other startups didn’t have. Like Fick, he can’t really define Zaarly’s mission or how precisely he fits into it. Like his boss, though, he knows what he likes when he sees it. “You can’t help believing in what they’re doing,” Morris says. “Their conviction is just really infectious.” Josh Coleman, 35, among the few locals in the office, came to Zaarly after working in the telecom industry. The CEO infected him, too. “Bo is just one of those charismatic people who comes in the door and people take notice,” he says. “Not just for the fact that he’s 6 feet 8, but he just has a presence about him. He influences people easily. In a good way.” Starry-eyed they may be, but nobody involved with Zaarly thinks success will come without difficulty. But Fishback’s hires are mostly young — 20-somethings — as any good garage myth demands. “What youth helps is that you probably don’t have to sleep as much, or don’t even want to sleep,” says Hofmann, 24. And a young staff, he points out, helps the company’s push to attract young users. Ryan Sauter, a 23-year-old who graduated in May from Miami University, sits in a corner, planning Zaarly’s upcoming push into colleges. The company is hiring “campus CEOs” at 20 schools on the coasts and in the Midwest (including the University of Kansas and Kansas State University) to spread the gospel of on-demand commerce. “One day you could have someone using it to get food delivered to the library if they’re sitting there late at night,” he says. “Then the
Fishback keeps Zaarly casual. next day, they could use it on the other side to make $20 … to sell a textbook they have from a class previously.” Schools, Sauter says, should be rich with people willing to do odd jobs for beer money or grocery cash. “There’s always those hustlers on each campus, those scrappy, entrepreneurial students that are willing to run around,” he says. With the college effort under way, a sustained effort at building a strong Kansas City market (the third-busiest Zaarly city in the country) and major marketing operations in what Zaarly calls its seven core cities, Fishback says his brood realizes how busy they’re going to be. “We have a shitload of work left to do,” he says. The immediate goal: $1 million a day in posts over the next year. “If we get to $1 million a day in posts to the system,” he says, “with decent fulfillment rates and all that stuff, that would mean that we’re probably going to get to $10 million a day. And that would mean we have a good chance of getting to $100 million a day at some point.” Even with Fishback’s palpable enthusiasm and a staff of uprooted believers, failure is as likely as massive success. That’s the nature of startups, he says. “EBay facilitated $100 billion in transactions last year,” he says, “$100 billion. Not everybody uses eBay. A lot of people don’t. A small percentage of the population actually does. But we have a shot of being bigger than that, actually. We also have a shot at being out of business in a year. It’s a binary shot, in some ways. I think it’s going to be one or the other.” What happens if Zaarly fails to gain traction nationwide? What happens to Fishback and his troupe if the company isn’t the next indispensable Web utility after all? “That’s a good question,” Fishback says. “I don’t know. No one’s asked me that question.” E-mail ben.palosaari@pitch.com or call 816-218-6783
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Some of the city’s biggest corporations and businesses — Hallmark, Sprint, Gates Bar-BQ and more — are teaming up for the KC Black Expo this weekend at Bartle Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-561-3730). Beginning this afternoon with free lunch from noon to 2 p.m., the convention features live boxing matches, a car show, a hair show, a gospel concert, free medical and dental evaluations, and a concert by En Vogue. We think the best part of the weekend is likely to be today’s Urban Outdoor Summit, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on the first floor of Bartle. “Very pertinent, timely information will be presented, like urban green living and what to do when there is a natural disaster. There will also be various outdoor experts available, like scuba divers, hunters and fishermen, to talk about issues of urban participation,” says event organizer Candice Price.
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The Brazilian Formula One racer and threetime world champion Ayrton Senna was killed in a crash while leading the 1994 San Marino Grand Prix, which is kind of comparable to Michael Jordan suffering a massive coronary while dropping 50 points on the Knicks. Winner of one in every four races he started, Senna was named the greatest F1 driver of all time in a 2009 Autosport magazine poll of 217 current and former drivers. His life, his faith and his extraordinary decade of Formula One dominance are explored in Senna, a new documentary premiering at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222). As Senna roars across the screen inside, more than 25 Ferraris (owned by members of the Kansas City Chapter of Ferrari Club of America) make pulses race outside, on Pennsylvania Avenue. The display, free to the public, runs from 5 to 10 p.m. today only. See tivolikc.com. — BRENT SHEPHERD
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He trains in Oxnard, California, but welterweight Victor Ortiz (29-2-2; 22 KO) fights out of the crimson-and-blue corner. By the time Garden City, Kansas, native Ortiz turned 13, he and his siblings had been abandoned by both parents. Remanded to the fostercare system, Ortiz eventually won a Kansas Golden Gloves championship. Fast-forward to April 16 of this year: When Ortiz won the WBC welterweight title by unanimous decision over previously undefeated Andre Berto, the 24-year-old wore Kansas Jayhawks on his silver trunks. His championship belt is on the line when Fathom Events presents Floyd Mayweather Jr. vs. Victor Ortiz (plus a three-bout undercard) live on-screen in six area theaters at 8 p.m. Will Ortiz hand “Money” his first defeat and further complicate the long-delayed Pacquiao-Mayweather pound-for-pound showdown? The eyes of Kansas and the boxing world are upon him.
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September has a lot of opportunities to get your give on. Get your wallet and your body prepared for benefits going on today. Third Annual Stop Child Trafficking Now 2 Mile Walk/5k Run (Ilus Davis Park, 11th Street and Oak). Beginning at 9 a.m., walk for free or pay $30 ($35 on race day) to run in the timed 5k. Enjoy live music and speakers. Proceeds help the effort to stop child-trafficking. Call 816-560-6771 for more information. Newhouse Volleyball Tournament (Garrett Park, West 47th Street and Monticello, in Shawnee). Teams of four participate for an entry fee of $100 ($25 per person). Check in at 10 a.m. for play that begins at 11. All proceeds benefit the Newhouse Domestic Violence Shelter. Call 816-474-6446 or see newhouseshelter.org for more information. Walk to Cure Psoriasis (Theis Park, 47th Street and Oak). Registration continued on page 16
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we hope it may start a trend of artists taking back other dangerous buildings in the city,” says organizer Rebecca Koop. Bring your own paintbrush, and keep tomorrow open in case rain scotches today’s event. For more information and to sign up, call Koop at 816-484-6964 or see northeastartskc.org. — JONATHAN BENDER
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Home is where the art is — that’s the hope of Northeast Arts KC, anyway. The nonprofit organization aims to begin changing the complexion of the Northeast with a windowdressing project that’s more than just, well, window dressing. Starting at 9 a.m., the public is invited to help paint boarded-up windows at 3512 Independence Avenue. The idea is to transform the blank wood into murals and public art. “If this works,
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his weekend’s grand opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts comes just short of five years since the building’s groundbreaking. And, of course, it’s a huge deal — Placido Domingo, Itzhak Perlman, Diana Krall and Patti LuPone will be among the very first performers for sold-out shows Friday and Saturday nights in the 1,800-seat Muriel Kauffman Theatre and the 1,600-seat Helzberg Hall. But today is for Kansas City. Around 20,000 visitors are expected on the West Side and in the Power & Light and Crossroads districts for a celebration of downtown’s revitalization. The Kauffman Center open house is set to feature some of the city’s finest music, dance and theater performers (Trampled Under Foot, Heartland Men’s Chorus and the Owen/Cox Dance Company, to name a few) from 11 a.m. until 5 p.m. on four stages around the 13-acre property. Look for these special features: • Free shuttles run from 10:30 a.m. until 6 p.m., with stops at 12th Street and Wyandotte (in front of the Marriott), 19th Street and Baltimore, and 20th Street and Central, and go to 16th Street between Baltimore and Central. • Food trucks and a tented seating area will be set up on the east side of the Kauffman Center at 16th Street and Wyandotte. • Ida McBeth and Round Midnight with Darryl Terrell and Lady D headline the 14th Street Jazz Festival, which is being held between 11 a.m. and 9 p.m. at the intersection of 14th Street and Walnut and other locations throughout the Power & Light District. Complimentary trolleys at the corner of 14th Street and Main will make runs to and from the Kauffman Center. • The West Side, along 17th Street and Summit, will be abuzz with activity, including an art show by Trey Bryan and a live aerial performance at Chez Elle (1713 Summit, 816-471-2616) from 6 to 9 p.m., a snow-cone sale by Fresher Than Fresh Snow Cones from noon until 7 p.m. at 17th Street and Summit, and art exhibit Quinceañera at the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery (919 West 17th Street, 816-221-2349). Pedicabs will be available for trips between 17th and Summit and the Kauffman Center. See kauffmancenter.org for a full schedule of events (including entertainment) and downtownkc.org — BERRY ANDERSON for a complete map of parking areas.
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It’s been said that John Coltrane and Charlie Parker met for the first time at the corner of 18th Street and Vine. If you’ve neglected your civic duties and have yet to see the American Jazz Museum, it’s closed today, but musically inclined types can still bring their instruments for the Blue Monday Jam at the museum’s attached nightclub, the Blue Room (1616 East 18th Street, 816-474-8463). This week, sit in with — or sit back with a drink and listen to — Ken Lovern’s Organ Jazz Trio. Lovern is a UMKC Conservatory of Music-trained organist and composer who has long worked with well-known vocalists Ida McBeth and Bukeka Shoals, in addition to bandmates Brian Baggett and Kevin Frazee. Drink specials include a $4 Blue Room martini and $3 beer, wine and wells. There’s no cover on Mondays. The Blue Room opens at 5 p.m., and the jam (open to minors accompanied by adults) starts at 7. — APRIL FLEMING
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Many of historian Laurence Rees’ best interviews are with people whom some would call monsters. But truly making sense of war requires the consideration of various perspectives. Rees, a former creative director of the BBC’s history programming, believes that understanding World War II is critical to comprehending the global politics that followed. That’s why he made a point to interrogate Nazi officers, Japanese soldiers and Soviet fighters for his award-winning documentaries and best-selling books. From 7:30 to 9 p.m., Rees presents highlights from his research in a presentation called “Talking With Nazis” at KU’s Woodruff Auditorium (Kansas Union, 1301 Jayhawk Boulevard in Lawrence). The free event is co-sponsored by Kansas Public Radio. Call 785-864-4798 for details. — CRYSTAL K. WIEBE
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Go to most U.S. art museums, and what do you pay? Around $16, maybe $12 if you’re a student. KC art museums are free (give or take an exhibit), and these new shows are priceless. Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art (4420 Warwick Boulevard, 816-753-5784). Even
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Even bad films are scary (see Wednesday). if it’s HD, you can’t trust a camera. The Kemper’s (Un)Natural Histories reminds the viewer that photos distort reality (or vice versa). Featuring works by local as well as globally recognized artists, the seductive exhibit shows that when human fantasy punctures reality, it lets in a flood of awesome ambiguity. See kemperart.org. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278). Landscapes East/Landscapes West: Representing Nature From Mount Fuji to Canyon de Chelly locates the artistic parallels and the uncanny similarities in viewer reactions across cultures. See nelson-atkins.org. — KENT SZLAUDERBACH [FILM]
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Gregg Toland’s cinematography in Citizen Kane is revolutionary in its dimension and perspective. Alfred Hitchcock’s eight-minute crop-duster sequence in North by Northwest epitomizes slowly mounting, nail-biting suspense. David Lean perfected epic filmmaking by commanding a cast of thousands in Lawrence of Arabia. The Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library seeks to heighten your appreciation of such classics by screening awful movies instead. Hence, Festival of Bad Films: The Preview! — a foreshadowing, if you will, of still more so-bad-they’re-funny films to come in November. At 6 p.m. at the Main Library (625 Minnesota Avenue, 913-551-3280), behold the grade-Z 1986 feature Trick or Treat, a supernatural tale of heavy metal, backward masking, and revenge, starring Marc Price (“Skippy” from TV’s Family Ties) with appearances by Gene Simmons and Ozzy Osbourne. The film is rated R and not intended for younger viewers. Admission is free. For more information, see kckpl.org. — BRENT SHEPHERD Night + Day listings are offered as a free service to Pitch readers and are subject to space restrictions. Submissions should be addressed to Night + Day Editor Berry Anderson by e-mail (calendar@pitch.com), fax (816-756-0502) or mail (The Pitch, 1701 Main, Kansas City, MO 64108). Please include zip code with address. Continuing items must be resubmitted monthly. No submissions are taken by telephone. Items must be received two weeks prior to each issue date. Search our complete listings guide online.
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hekhov famously decreed that a gun shown in Act 1 must be discharged before the final curtain. His point being that there can be no empty threats or unfulfilled promises in drama. What Act 1 sets up, the final act must fulfill. BY Perhaps a corollary can GRACE be added for suicide notes prominently displayed. The SUH guns in Bryan Moses’ new play, At the End of Apathy, are brandished, pointed and, indeed, eventually fired, but the contents of the note — which is, one gathers, more manifesto than farewell — remain a mystery. Apathy begins with a funny but excruciatingly drawn-out gimmick. For the first three minutes, just two tiny points of light, moving slowly and continuously up and down, are visible — two cigarettes being smoked in the ball made of iron. Not that Danny is so bright dark. I’m not known for my patience, and as himself. At one point, the two accuse each those cigarettes kept rising and falling, my other of “condensation.” Together they expeskepticism rose. An opening like that had rience frustrating difficulty in deciding upon better make it up to the audience with big acceptable final words. And they quibble over punches of action, incident and surprise. who should get to be the “counter” — that is, Apathy delivers, starting with its very next the one who gets to count down to the big moment. The question becomes whether high-impact visual. Danny and Tom are best friends and fel- they can manage to kill themselves without low misfits, now at the end of their ropes. first annoying each other to death. Also: How They aren’t merely down on their luck. It are they supposed to concentrate on anything seems safe to say their luck has never been when they’re starving? Yes, this is a bromantic comedy about good. And yet around these listless losers, Moses has written and directed a play with suicide. We’re not really given a reason for great pacing, wit and energy. Partly this is the death wish. We simply see two hopeless guys living meaningless lives. due to the fantastic chemisShould their deaths be any try between the leads: Sean At the End of Apathy less meaningless? PresumHogge as Danny and Bob Through September 26 ably anything more is in that Linebarger as Tom. Hogge at the Living Room, 1818 note in the manila envelope is great as the angry, agitated McGee, 816-221-4260, stuck to the closet door with young man damaged by a thelivingroomkc.com a dart. broken relationship with his What makes it work so father. Linebarger, a relative newcomer to the Kansas City theater scene, well, besides the actors’ physically winning makes confused sidekick Tom both funny performances, are Moses’ light directorial hand; Tim Ahlenius and Shawnna Journaand affecting. At its best (and there are long stretches gan’s accurate set and props; and, most of all, during which this play is at its best), Apathy the script itself, which is packed novel-dense recalls Pulp Fiction, with the rhythm be- with brilliant and sometimes hilarious lines. tween Danny and Tom achieving something (One of the more memorable: “Stop invalidatof the absurd comic heights of the riffs bat- ing my powerful moments!”) But. And there is a big but. ted around by Jules and Vincent (Samuel L. Moses has set his play on the evening of Jackson and John Travolta, respectively), similarly interspersed with flashes of horrific September 10, 2001. Where angels, novelviolence. There’s a bit about greasy balls ver- ists and other playwrights have feared to sus a big ball of cyclical shit — “ironical,” the tread, Moses has trod — and spat on the filthy slow-witted Tom calls the latter, meaning a carpet, too. Given the timing, the joke is ul-
From left: Sean Hogge and Bob Linebarger keep their chins up a little bit longer.
timately on Danny and Tom. But if we care about them, which Moses ensures that we will, the joke’s on us, too. Are we sympathizing with these two fuckups or are we appalled and superior? Their cluelessness about the events of the next morning, events far more catastrophic than anything they’re scheming, would seem to indicate the latter, but the portentous title, the anguished Smashing Pumpkins soundtrack, and the care with which the main characters are developed signal differently. Moses and the Living Room have made white male disaffection their subject, to the exclusion of almost any other topic — or character. Those on the periphery — Kelly Main’s sweet, proselytizing Baptist (a broadly drawn straw man), George Forbes’ decent pizza deliveryman — suffer collateral damage, victims of the play’s inarticulate obsessions. Although the outcome in both cases is unintentional, the images are ugly and disturbing. Is this play wrestling with ideas or just sucker-punching them? Is its conspicuous setting grossly over-reaching, self-important and sickeningly exploitative of 9/11 or almost relevant enough to be justified? Apathy raises these questions and more. One thing is for sure: Moses has major talent and balls — greasy, ironical and otherwise. It should be fascinating to see what he does next. E-mail grace.suh@pitch.com pitch.com S E P TM EM - 2 1 ,X 2, 021010 X t hTeH E p i Pt IcThC H19 1 pitch.com OB N ET RH 1X5X–X
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Race With the Devil THE EXHILARATING SENNA CELEBRATES THE REBEL HERO WHO SHOOK UP FORMULA ONE.
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Race-car driver Ayrton Senna
Some, like Prost, implied that it was a bit of an affectation â&#x20AC;&#x201D; Senna sometimes talked about Godâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hand in the outcomes of races. But the ďŹ lm leaves no doubt about the racerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s religious sincerity. Kapadia and screenwriter Manish Pandey shape the facts into an excessively tidy narrative, so we know weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re getting a partial, tendentious version of F1 history. But as the John Ford dictum says, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Print the legend,â&#x20AC;? and thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s exactly what Senna does. The ďŹ lmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s form is quite distinct from a traditional documentary. It avoids talking heads in favor of a tapestry of recurring voice-overs from key ďŹ gures, including Ron Dennis of McLaren, Sid Watkins (the doctor on the scene) and Sennaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sister Viviane. Their statements accompany a linear assemblage of race footage, home movies, contemporaneous press material, and some never-before-seen in-car camera rolls. Much of this imagery, with its warm, beige Agfa ďŹ lm stocks, is simply gorgeous. And despite Sennaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s apparent misalignment with the detached existentialism that seems to have been European racingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dominant mode, the ďŹ lm certainly makes the case for him as the ideal blend of Sartre and Camus. To the very end, Senna was the author of his own fate, and he also put his complete trust in God, hurtling ahead as though he were fulďŹ lling a preordained destiny. Senna is a story about faith, politics, masculinity and rivalry. But mostly, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about that odd dialectic that deďŹ nes us all: On the road of life, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re both passengers and drivers. â&#x2013; pitch.com
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didn’t think twice about asking three women to join me for dinner at the threemonth-old Elsa’s Ethiopian Restaurant last week. And, honestly, it never occurred to me that because two of them are professional interior designers, they might have opinions on the restaurant’s décor. As it turned out, Jan and Carol Ann had more than opinions. They had suggestions for Elsa herself, and before the end of the meal, they had BY convinced her to turn off the row of fluorescent lights at CHARLES the center of the ceiling. It F E R R U Z Z A was a good idea. Those lights are so intense that the dining room can seem as brutally illuminated as a police station. Elsa turned them off, and we all found the smaller lights at the edge of the better visibility,” she says. “People pass by room perfectly fine. “Isn’t this nicer?” Jan asked as we resumed all the time.” It’s probably easier for passing eating in the dusky light, the room now more motorists to see that her restaurant is open intimate. She had more ideas to share. “Now when the fluorescent lights are on. But she you need candles,” she told Elsa. “And take agreed — at least that night — that she didn’t want her patrons to look like zombies as they these awful fake flowers off the table.” The restaurant’s owner and namesake, nibbled on vegetable sambosas or beef tibs. With or without interior décor, the dinEthiopian-born Elsa Michaels, listened patiently with her beautiful daughter, Mimi, ing room has an air of festivity, thanks to the music played over the sound while I cringed. My interiorsystem: a bouncy Ethiopian design friends are hopelessly Elsa’s Ethiopian jazz soundtrack. “It’s like pushy. I have to be careful Restaurant American jazz,” our server even inviting Carol Ann into Doro wat .................. $10.99 explained, “but with a kink.” my home, lest she set about Key wat.................... $10.99 The music is about as kinky rearranging all my furniture. Miser wat .................. $7.99 as Elsa’s gets. There’s a bar “The feng shui is all wrong,” Pasta ......................... $8.99 in one corner of the dining she’ll tell me. “You need flow Meat Combo 1 ........$13.99 room, but Michaels hasn’t — lots of flow!” Vegetarian Combo 2................$12.99 gotten her beer and wine This rectangular storelicense yet. She’ll eventually front in downtown Overland serve chilled honey wine Park could use, if not a bit of flow, some individuality and character. For with her simple, homey cuisine. Homey for starters, the sign of the former tenant — this Addis Ababa, anyway. The Michaels family arrived in Kansas was once home to Carl’s Hair Salon — is still bolted to the outer wall of the building. Elsa’s City from Ethiopia’s capital city in 1996. “We is a clean, well-lighted place with uncloaked won the visa lottery,” Michaels says. “We tables, comfortable banquettes, and an ex- wanted to give our children a better life.” Elsa and Haile Michaels’ four children panse of cream-colored walls that beg for ranged in age from 6 to 16 when they settled artwork or mirrors or something. This isn’t Elsa Michaels’ first restaurant here. They are now University of Kansas rodeo. A few years ago, she operated a differ- graduates. “They all help out a little in the ent Ethiopian restaurant in Lenexa, the Abys- restaurant,” says Elsa, who has been cooking sinia, at 78th Street and Quivira. The rent was Ethiopia’s signature dishes — tibs and wats high, Michaels says, and the location wasn’t — since she was a girl. She’s a good cook. The menu at Elsa’s isn’t ideal. She’s much happier with the Overland Park building, along a busy stretch. “It has elaborate, but the most familiar dishes of her
Elsa Michaels serves up sweet baklava (above) and spicy berbere with injera bread.
native country are prepared according to her customers’ wishes. So the food’s spiciness can be scaled back to suburban mildness. I prefer sassier versions of the sautéed and stewed Ethiopian meat dishes, most of which are seasoned with the spice mixture berbere, a seductive blend of garlic, red peppers, coriander, cardamom, fenugreek and cinnamon. The doro wat — chicken stew — that I sampled one night was punchy and lively rather than refill-the-water-glass fiery. For religious reasons, you won’t find pork or shellfish on the menu at Elsa’s. Until recently, there was a whole fried fish available, but it has been replaced with a hunk of fresh tilapia, marinated in spices and then cubed and sautéed. That’s the only unexpected entrée among the chicken, beef, spuds and grains. Elsa’s is a good spot for a group with mixed dining needs. I was in the restaurant one night with two meat eaters and one vegetarian, and we shared two generous — and very inexpensive — platters. The meat and vegetarian combos, each served with a spongy, housemade injera bread, allow enough tasting opportunities for several diners. The meats on combo No. 1 should be familiar to anyone who has tasted Ethiopian food before in Kansas City: the mahogany doro wat, spooned over a hard-boiled egg; the buttery key wat beef stew, fragrant with ginger and garlic; and the sautéed-beef concoction called alicha wat, flecked with fresh herbs. There’s
a spoonful of miser wat — spicy red lentils — and simmered collard greens on the meat platter, too, to complement the spicy beef. The meat and the tart greens are particularly delicious folded into a sheath of injera and eaten together. For a group that’s doing as much talking as eating, these platters work as well as an array of tapas: different tastes and textures that can be nibbled leisurely with a cold drink. (The place remained booze-free on my visits, so my tablemates and I sipped a cinnamonspiced iced tea.) On another night, I brought along a friend who couldn’t be persuaded to sample the boiled potatoes in spicy berbere sauce (wonderful) or the simmered cabbage called tiki gomen. The foods from ancient Abyssinia held no fascination for him, and he was scandalized by the lack of flatware. “You mean you eat with your hands?” he asked. “I can’t. I won’t.” There’s a pasta dish on Elsa’s menu that can be prepared with or without meat. It’s served with a fork, and it’s good. Like everything else here, it’s somehow better by candlelight. Have a suggestion for a restaurant The Pitch should review? E-mail charles.ferruzza@pitch.com
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hen your dad is a lead design engineer for Rival, the kitchen-gadget maker, it’s a fair bet that you’re going to spend time in the family kitchen. There was always a Crock-Pot or a can opener in Matt Chatfield’s childhood home in south Kansas City — whatever his dad, Norman, was putting through the paces for work. “I grew up around the family table,” Chatfield says. “We had breakfast, lunch and dinner together. That’s just something that’s carried over to today.” BY He offers this recollection J O N AT H A N while seated at another family table, the massive hunk of BENDER wood adjacent to the kitchen of the Culinary Center of Kansas City (7920 Santa Fe Drive, in Overland Park), where he has been the executive chef since 2006. Chatfield was a shy kid in high school when he started working as a busboy at Bishop’s Buffet. At 16, he learned the ins and outs of a scratch kitchen, understanding that volume was the lifeblood of the home-style café. “We got to eat, each shift, and as a teenage boy, I couldn’t get enough. That was the best part of the job,” he says. After graduating from Hickman Mills High School, he was hired to work as a food runner and dishwasher in the company kitchen at Hallmark. Everything he thought he knew about volume went out the window — at the time, Hallmark’s operation fed 3,500 people a day. One woman, he says, had just one task: Measure ingredients for the cooks. Chatfield moved on to the company’s die-cut department but missed working with food. So he took side jobs, working the line at Charlie Hooper’s and at Joshua’s in Grandview. He also enrolled in the apprenticeship program at Johnson County Community College, finishing in 1998. He was still attracted to the rush of a busy restaurant, so he sought work at the Arrowhead Club and the Overland Park Marriott, learning to sculpt chocolate and carve ice. He spent the last 18 months of the program in a familiar place: Culinary Concepts at Crown Center. After JCCC, he was hired as a sous chef at the Brookridge Country Club in Overland Park. There, he met his wife, Sophia. (She took over for him as sous chef at the club — she is now the executive chef for Brookridge Golf & Fitness.) He’d set a goal for himself that he’d work five years before becoming an executive chef. “Your restaurant will fail if you can’t manage it,” he says. “You have to have people skills, number skills, and be able to develop relationships with customers. There’s so much involved with being a chef beyond cooking.” His first executive chef position was at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Overland Park. But
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Our favorites are Extra Virgin and Bluestem. At Extra Virgin, we get carried away with tapas. Last time we were there, we got 12 tapas, and as we were walking out, I was like, “Why did we do that?” But it was so much fun. It’s an adventurous menu, with the crispy pig-ear salad. There’s nothing we won’t try. Since we’ve both worked at clubs and hotels, it’s hard to look at a menu and not see things we don’t know how to cook. I’m always looking for something that we don’t cook. We like going to ethnic restaurants. We go to lots of spots where there are mostly Asian families. The ABC Cafe and Lucky Wok for the soft-shell crab tempura. I’ll ask for the Chinese menu and some suggestions. And then Frida’s is just phenomenal. What’s always in your kitchen? Olive oil, soy sauce. Kecap manis [a sweet Indonesian soy sauce] — that’s my favorite condiment. Good coffee, something from the Roasterie, a dark French roast. What’s your pet peeve when you dine out? I hate someone passing off something preprepared as house-made. Oh, yes, we make our own tiramisu. But I know exactly what it looks like. I’m a chef. I make this stuff. So don’t lie to me and tell me it’s homemade. I don’t mind if it’s not. I just want to know. What’s one book that every chef should read? How not to be too full of yourself? [Laughs.] The Joy of Cooking or Julia Child’s The Art of French Cooking. The Joy of Cooking covers everything. There’s a couple of cookbooks that say, “We’re the new Joy of Cooking.” But then you get them and you realize they’re not. Who’s got the best barbecue in town, and what are you ordering? We don’t go out for barbecue here because we have Larry [Hadley], the barbecue guy. He’s a senior judge with the Kansas City Barbeque Society. He cooks all the barbecue for the center. He understands barbecue, tweaking sauces and rubs. His pulled pork is the best. We had a throwdown this spring for our open house among six chefs, and Larry won. Pig ears and bacon at pitch.com/fatcity pitch.com
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Going the Distance OKKERVIL RIVER’S WILL SHEFF ON THE BAND’S LATEST, I AM VERY FAR
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s the leader of Austin-based folk-rock act Okkervil River, Will Sheff writes clever, concise pop songs with a sharp eye for lyrical detail. The group’s latest LP, I Am Very Far, is a departure from the concept-heavy nature of its previous three releases and finds Sheff in the producer’s BY chair for the first time. The album has a giddy, unhinged IAN quality; it’s the work of a songHRABE writer throwing a lot of ideas at the wall to see what sticks. We caught up with Sheff in advance of Okkervil River’s September 19 show at The Granada. The Pitch: Your songs on previous records often come from the point of view of specific characters. Does it come more naturally to write as a character or to write from a more abstract, personal point of view, as on I Am Very Far? Sheff: I guess they’re two different things. I Am Very Far is this sort of weird, subjective, omniscient thing, or something like that. I think of the songs on I Am Very Far as narrated by a bunch of protagonists all put into a blender or an omniscient narrator who is in some way broken apart. It’s a hard thing to try to explain because the process of writing the record was a really intuitive thing for me, whereas in the past, I’d develop a really specific idea of who these people were, where they lived, how old they were, what their family backgrounds might have been like. On I Am Very Far, that’s a kind of exploded thing. I Am Very Far includes a number of B-sides that you’ve released already. The Stage
Names and Black Sheep Boy both had their own appendices. It seems like you go into your sessions well prepared with more songs than you’ll be able to use. What’s your method for paring down songs to make a cohesive record? I make decisions about assembling records based on what songs seem to go together, not necessarily based on which ones end up being my favorites. I loved “Mermaid” from the I Am Very Far sessions, but when I put it on there, it seemed to drag the whole album into a very dark and sad kind of place, a little too much for me. I also had a straightforward pop song I really liked that I almost put near the front, and though it worked really well, it felt like it didn’t have much to say to the rest of the songs on the record. In the end, I settled on which kinds of songs seemed to communicate with each other. You wrote the bulk of this album in your home state of New Hampshire.
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I went to New Hampshire because it was the site of my very earliest memories. And when I was writing songs for this record, I wanted to feel new in some way. I wanted to feel like I had been reborn or that feeling you get when you’re really little and you don’t fully understand everything that you’re seeing happen around you and you have an awareness of being new, and it feels like the other world is closer to the surface than it is when you’re older. Going back to New Hampshire helped to trigger that kind of feeling. You produced this album yourself. I felt like it was an important step in my development to get to a place where there was nobody to say no. Often this is a bad thing, but I had never really been there before. There was always a producer saying no or a budget saying no or a time frame saying no, and I never felt as
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free as I hoped to feel. I wanted to get in a position where I could walk all the way out into a very weird place and there would be nobody on the shore yelling, Come back!, and maybe I could get a little lost and disoriented. Your songwriting is often described as being very literate. Have you ever entertained the idea of writing anything other than songs? I’ve always written prose and poetry, that kind of thing. I was writing that long before I wrote songs, actually — since I was little. I’ve published some stuff here and there. I used to work as a music and film critic in Austin, and I published a fictional piece in McSweeney’s a year or so ago, and I’d like to do more of that, but honestly, it’s just a case of needing the time to do all that stuff. I have my hands full with music and touring and all that, though I’ve become a little obsessed more recently with figuring out a way to find more time so I can do more work. I just want to work and work until I’m dead. One of your first singles was called “Kansas City.” Is there any specific significance to that, or was it just a sort of idealized anywhere town in the Midwest that fit the context of the song? I’ve always loved the folk tradition, where people would completely steal each other’s songs and rewrite them and abdicate credit on their own work and steal someone else’s and create all these wildly different versions of these common songs that everyone knew and sort of belonged to everyone. I think that resulted in some really strange and beautiful writing that’ll probably endure forever. One of those songs is “Kansas City.” There are blues versions and country versions and R&B versions, all variations of a sad and lost (or cocky and swaggering) kind of a breakup song. I wanted to write a new version that sort of put my own stamp on the same idea and idioms, kind of based on some stuff that was in the song that was continued on page 28
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In a Febru- You will answer to Clay Hughes. ary 2001 Topeka Capital-Journal high school basketball article — in which he’s recognized “Lots of times, Clay would send me an a capas Player of the Week, averaging 20.7 points pella version of a song he’d written to a basic per game with an impressive 96 blocks on the metronome, and I’d craft a beat around it,” Lesseason — he’s listed as 6 feet 9 inches, which ter says. “And then, through my interpretation of means he’s likely closer to 6 feet 8. His impos- his vibe or where I felt like he was coming from ing physical presence would be more daunting lyrically, I’d try to best back him up.” if not for his humble demeanor and his gentle, Lennon Bone, a drummer who recently low-toned accent, both of which can probably started the local label Sharp County Records, be traced to his country roots. met Hughes a few years back when his band, Ha He has owned a guitar since his 16th birthday, Ha Tonka, played in Emporia with Clay Hughes but he didn’t start playing music seriously until & the What. They became friends, and Bone has about five years ago, after a roommate urged played drums on some of Hughes’ recordings. him to start gigging as a way to pay rent. Judging “I knew his material with Rich was strong, by the music Hughes has written and released and I knew that the band was willing to hit the since, it would be fair to assume that in the years road, so it seemed like a perfect idea to have the following the Lazer’s changeover, he took in first band on the [Sharp County] roster be good a steady diet of easygoing stoner folk music. friends who write good tunes and who would be His vocals evoke a kind of mellow melancholy willing to put up with getting this whole thing off that’s much more Pacific shore than Midwest the ground,” Bone says. “Clay and those guys are rural blight. as much staff as they are a band on the roster.” “I really like singer-songwriters like Ray It is easy to see why somebody who runs LaMontagne, Amos Lee, Martin Sexton,” he a record label would be interested in signing says. “But, you know, I like a lot of different stuff. Hughes. His sound hews closest to singerOld country. Hip-hop. There’s a lot of current songwriters like Ben Harper and Jack Johnhip-hop that influences what I do.” son — festival-headlining millionaires. “Clay’s This essentially is what sets Hughes apart demographic is pretty varied. It can go over from other sensitive folkies lugging acoustic gui- well with a lot of different people, but I see a tars around town. His recent lot of college-age kids at his album, The Whether Machine, shows,” Bone says. “He and Clay Hughes & the What, is a collaboration with Rich Rich made something very with Gooding and Tyson Lester, a producer who goes special together, for a first Leslie Trio. by the name JKR70. It fuses attempt — hip-hop, pop and Friday, September 16, Hughes’ California coos with even ‘indie,’ whatever that at RecordBar. a variety of hip-hop beats means nowadays.” and samples. Lester first saw Hughes’ touring ambition Hughes perform at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers is also considerable. He has more than 20 shows Club, with his band, Clay Hughes & the What — both solo and with the What — scheduled — Hughes on acoustic guitar, Zach Haddock through the end of the year, and he’ll spend the on bass and Tony Baldassarre (Tony Beats) entire month of January traveling up and down behind the decks — and the two soon began the West Coast in a large, modest, gray van that sending each other tracks they were working almost seems an extension of his personality. on. Eventually Hughes asked Lester to produce “Honestly, I think Clay is still honing in on his new album. what’s going to fit him best,” Bone continues. “We approached the writing from a lot of dif- “That’s a really exciting thing to see and be a ferent angles,” Hughes says of the album, which part of as a friend and as a business partner. He also features guest spots from local rappers Mac already writes some really strong tunes, but I Lethal, Irv Da Phenom and thePhantom*. “I think he’s got some even better ones coming would write something and send it to him, and down the pike.” he’d cut it all up and change it around. Or he’d “I’m always trying to find new ways to aphave samples, and I’d write music on top of that. proach my songs,” Hughes says. “And I just end He puts samples together from 15, 20 different up mixing a lot of things together, I guess.” beats. It’s crazy watching his process; he has, —DAVID HUDNALL like, 2 terabytes of samples he’s pulled off the Internet. I’ve never seen anybody work how E-mail david.hudnall@pitch.com he works.” or call 816-218-6774 28
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1. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, with Sky Smeed and Robby Vee Jason Isbell played the George Harrison role in Drive-By Truckers for the early and middle ’00s: a hungry young songwriter fighting for album space alongside the Lennon-McCartney duo of Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley. He eventually left the band and pursued a solo career, but not before writing a few of the Truckers’ most memorable album tracks: “Outfit,” “Goddamn Lonely Love,” “Danko/ Manuel.” His solo material — a mishmash of Southern folk, rock and blues — has been hitor-miss so far, but I have this feeling that one of these days, he’s going to drop a classic on us. Friday, September 16, at Knuckleheads (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)
2. Expassionates As Expassionates, local musicians Scott Easterday, Marco Pasolini, Richard Burgess and Sam Platt have been playing twangy, jazz-inflected Americana around town for about a decade or so. But it looks as though that’s coming to an end. “We can’t say what the future will hold, but for now it’s farewell,” the band wrote on its Facebook invitation to this show. Bummer, but at least the band’s giving us one more night. 7 p.m. early show, Saturday, September 17, at RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)
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4. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, with Hearts of Darkness I confess to being unfamiliar with Tulsa’s Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey prior to receiving a press release about its show at Crosstown, but after reviewing the facts, I feel comfortable recommending this jazz-fusion act. KC musician Jeff Harshbarger is the bassist. And Snuff Jazz’s Mark Southerland played saxophone on its new release, The Race Riot Suite, a sort of concept album about the Tulsa race riots of 1921 that the band will perform in its entirety at this show. Friday, September 16, at Crosstown Station (1522 McGee, 816-471-1522)
5. Foo Fighters, with Rise Against and Mariachi el Bronx It’s been more than a decade since Foo Fighters did anything remotely interesting, a fact I take no delight in communicating. I had high hopes
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6. Steve Earle Steve Earle added another line to his Renaissance Man résumé earlier this year when he published his first novel, I’ll Never Get Out of This World Alive. He released an album of the same name in conjunction with it. And to support it, he’s stopping by the Uptown with a band he calls the Dukes and Duchesses, which includes his wife, Allison Moorer, a talented singer-songwriter in her own right. Whether the new record is any good almost seems like an afterthought. Earle is an entertaining performer with a deep catalog of Texas roots-rock songs and, at 56 years old, already a sort of national treasure. Wednesday, September 21, at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665)
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THIS WEEK THURSDAY, SEPT. 15 Alison Krauss and Union Station, Jerry Douglas: Sold out. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. David Nail, Sky Smeed: 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.
FRIDAY, SEPT. 16 Chrissy Murderbot, Machine Drum: 9 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Foo Fighters, Rise Against, Mariachi el Bronx: 7 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300. Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Hearts of Darkness: 9 p.m. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. The Human League, Men Without Hats: 6:30 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Robby Vee and Sky Smeed: 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Tyson Leslie Trio, Gooding, Clay Hughes & the What: 9 p.m., RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Kathleen Madigan: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Julia Othmer: 7 & 9:30 p.m. Jardine’s, 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Labretta Suede and the Motel 6, the Spook Lights, Them Damned Young Livers: 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Randy Travis: Sold out. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 17 Jason Boland & the Stragglers, Travis Marvin, Scott Allyn Peery: 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Chali 2na, Approach, the Will Nots, Animosity: 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. Expassionates: 6 p.m., RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Corey Stevens: 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.
SUNDAY, SEPT. 1 8 Bach Aria Solists Debut at Helzberg Hall: 2:40 p.m., free. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway.
MONDAY, SEPT. 19 Philip Gibbs: 9 p.m., free. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Lonely Forest, People Depot, the Shady: 8:30 p.m. Crosstown Station, 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. Okkervil River: 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.
TUESDAY, SEPT. 20 The Fruit Bats, Vetiver, Fairchildren: 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.
WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 21 Steve Earle, the Dukes and Duchesses, Allison Moorer: 6 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.
UPCOMING Atmosphere: Mon., Sept. 26. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Avenged Sevenfold, Three Days Grace, Seether, Bullet for My Valentine, Escape the Fate, Sevendust, Black Tide, Art of Dying, the Black Cloud Collective: Sat., Sept. 24, 2 p.m. Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, 913-721-3400.
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The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Spindrift: Sat., Oct. 15. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. The Black Dahlia Murder, All Shall Perish, Cannabis Corpse: Wed., Oct. 26. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390. Blue October: Fri., Sept. 30, 7 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St., 816-472-5454. Cody Canada and the Departed: Thu., Sept. 22, 9 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785842-1390. CANT: Tue., Oct. 18. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Celtic Thunder: Tue., Oct. 18. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Chimaira, Impending Doom, Rise to Remain, Revocation, Canvas: Sun., Oct. 16, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Roger Daltrey performs the Who’s Tommy: Fri., Oct. 14. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Deadmau5: Mon., Oct. 24. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. The Dodos, the Luyas: Sun., Sept. 25. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, LawMANY MORE rence, 785-841-5483. Electric Six, Kitten, Drop a Grand: Sun., Sept. 25, 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Explosions in the Sky, Wye ONLINE AT Oak: Thu., Oct. 13. Uptown PITCH.COM Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665. The Fab Four: Fri., Oct. 7, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Falling in Reverse, For All Those Sleeping, Eyes Set to Kill: Mon., Oct. 10, 6:30 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Lupe Fiasco, Tinie Tempah: Thu., Oct. 6, 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Journey, Foreigner: Wed., Sept. 28. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827. Cyndi Lauper: the Halloween She Bop: Mon., Oct. 31. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Little Big Town: Sat., Oct. 8. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Mayday Parade, the In Crowd, You Me at Six, There for Tomorrow, the Make: Sat., Oct. 29, 6 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Pat Metheny: Thu., Sept. 29, 8 p.m., $24, $98. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Mutemath: Sun., Oct. 2. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Opeth, Katatonia: Thu., Oct. 6. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart: Thu., Oct. 13. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Pierced Arrows, Don’t, the Spook Lights: Sun., Oct. 16, 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Polar Bear Club, Fireworks, Balance & Composure, Such Gold: Sat., Oct. 1, 10 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. The Pretty Reckless, Beautiful Bodies, the Atlantic: Thu., Oct. 20. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Boz Scaggs, Michael McDonald: Fri., Oct. 7, 8 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., 816-363-7827. St. Vincent: Fri., Oct. 7. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Straight No Chaser: Sun., Oct. 23, 2 & 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. STS9: Sat., Oct. 1. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Jackson Taylor and the Sinners, County Road 5, Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders: Fri., Sept. 23, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Trentemoller: Wed., Oct. 19. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972. Unwritten Law, the Ataris, Le Grand, Hipshot Killer: Thu., Sept. 29. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Gleny Rae Virus and Her Tamworth Playboys: Wed., Oct. 12. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Wild Flag: Wed., Oct. 5, 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.
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CONCERT LISTINGS
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Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.
METAL Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Mitnal, 9 p.m.
T H U R S DAY 1 5 ROCK/POP/INDIE Press: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. Dream Wolf, the Delighted, Molly Picture Club, 8:30 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. The Slowdown, Deerpeople, Dsodean. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Only Children (featuring Josh Berwanger of the Anniversary), Casey James Prestwood (of Hot Rod Circuit and Drag the River), 9 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Scotty Boy Daniel. Crosstown Station: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. The Return of the Tribute to Lauryn Hill presented by Lee Langston, 7 p.m., $10. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Grand Marquis Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. The Blue Party. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Brandon and Shinetop; Jimmie Bratcher, 7 p.m.
VARIET Y Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Lara Wisdom, Under the Covers, On the Fly, Andrew Tomb, 6 p.m.
F R I DAY 1 6 ROCK/POP/INDIE Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Texas Hippie Coalition, Federation of Horsepower, Quietly Violent, 7-10 p.m. The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. OMEGA II: Adam Evolving, Killing the Calm, Breakpoint Method, 6 p.m.
The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. The Magnetics. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Outta Styles, Cowboy Dave Band, 10 p.m. Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Brian Ruskin Trio. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Cosmopolitics. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. The Rent, 9 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Red Eyed Bob Band. KC Live! Stage at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. Uncle Kracker. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. School of Rock Performs the Big Four: Anthrax, Metallica, Slayer, Megadeth, 5 p.m.
R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Grand Marquis. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL
Em Chamas Brazilian Grill: 6101 N.W. 63rd Terr., 816-505-7100. Stan Kessler with Misturafina, 6:30 p.m. Oak Room: 401 Ward Pkwy., 816-303-2945. Lanzelle Williams. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Lonnie McFadden, 4:30 p.m.
B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Bobby Smith. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Valency. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Dan Doran Band, 9 p.m.
DJ Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Ashton Martin.
ACOUSTIC RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar Ave., Mission, 913-262-7300. Roger Allen Pitts, 8 p.m.
JAZZ
DJ Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mike Scott and Spinstyles. Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Shaun Duval, free. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Kirby. The Union of Westport: 421 Westport Rd. DJ Clockwerk.
ACOUSTIC The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Acoustic with Drew Freeland.
JAZZ
Oak Room: 401 Ward Pkwy., 816-303-2945. Lonnie McFadden.
WORLD Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. The Sons of Brasil, 8 p.m. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. AZ-ONE, 9:30 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 8 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em, 7 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Bike Night with MC Ashley. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Charlie Murphy, 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-4831456. Knuckle Vanilli Night, MANY MORE lip-synching and air guitar in the Retro Lounge. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Karaoke on the main floor, 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport ONLINE AT Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia PITCH.COM Clash, 7 p.m., $5. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913-268-4006. Foosball tournament, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Trivia, 9 p.m.
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CLUB LISTINGS
EASY LISTENING Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913894-9676. Interactive Acoustic with Jason Kayne, 9 p.m.
ELECTRO Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Blasian! Electro Dance Party, 10 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Bike Night Open Jam. Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m.
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DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m. ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Karaoke, 9 p.m. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Debbioke, 9:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. The Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m.; Ab Fab Fridays, 10 p.m. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.
EASY LISTENING 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-7427727. Drew6.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Open Mic in partnership with the Music House.
REGGAE Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. KC Reggae Uprising Fridays: 77 Jefferson, Pass Times, DJ Jabberock, 9 p.m.
SINGER-SONGWRITER Press: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. The Garrett Nordstrom Situation, Jenny Carr, John Greiner, Chad Rex, Lin Buck, Lonnie McFadden, 9 p.m.
VARIET Y Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-221-2244. Funk Shui: the Scratch Medicz, Ne’Lol Kris, Rai’Shon, Huey P, Nuisanance, James Rush, Matt B, Brooks, Godson, DJ Bhudda Palms, DJ Cuddy Mac. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. KJHK presents: Approach, DJ G Train, Living Ghost, O, Giant Man, 9 p.m.
JAZZ The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. 3 Son Green, Shedding Watts. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. On the Fly.
AMERICANA Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-7531909. Douglas County Deadshots, Sally Crewe and the Sudden Moves, the Brannock Device, 9:30 p.m.
ROOTS/COUNTRY/BLUEGRASS The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. John McKenna and the Blue Sea Fisherman’s Union, the Himalayan Adventure League, Dollar Fox. R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Rex Hobart and the Honky Tonk Standards.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES ComedyCity at Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-842-2744. Major League Improv, 7:30 p.m.; ComedyCity After Dark, 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Charlie Murphy, 7 & 10 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Free pool with purchase, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.
EASY LISTENING Johnny’s Tavern: 8262 Mission Rd., Prairie Village, 913901-0322. Jason Kayne, 10 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Marriott Hotel: 200 W. 12th St., 816-421-6800. 12th Street Jump, broadcast live on KCUR 89.3, 11:30 p.m., free.
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ROCK/POP/INDIE
The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-5612560. The Pitch and Boulevard present: the Westport Marketplace Food Truck Festival, 4 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913328-0003. Billy Ebeling and the Late for Dinner Band. The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Camp Harlow, 5 p.m. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Detla Dogs. The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Tim Whitmer & KC Express, 4:30 p.m. RJ’s Bob-Be-Que Shack: 5835 Lamar Ave., Mission, 913-262-7300. Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats, 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Rick Gibson, Randy Bonifield. Tonahill’s South: 10817 E. Truman Rd., Independence, 816-252-2560. Roadhouse Band, 8 p.m.
DJ The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-6918. Gold Label Soul, Hector the Selector, 10 p.m. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ C-Mac. 77 South: 5041 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-7427727. DJ Andrew Northern. VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. DJ Magnum, 10 p.m.
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The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Dolewite.
S AT U R DAY 17 Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. The Only Children, Casey James Prestwood & the Burning Angels, the Danny Pound Band. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Coversmith. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Allied Saints. Paddy O’Shay’s: 11300 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-393-1622. Step and a Half Down, 9 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. S.H.A.D.O.W., Rockwila, Lyinheart, Reach, Hurricane, Doc Dilz, Six 6 Pack, Barbaric Merits, 9 p.m. Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. The Photo Atlas. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Wrath and Ruin CD release, Troglodyte, the Cast Pattern, Versus the Collective, 8 p.m. Sunset Grill: 14577 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-6811722. Brett Blakemore.
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S U N DAY 1 8 ROCK/POP/INDIE Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785749-7676. Meatflower, Leeches of Lore, Dim Light.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Lee McBee and the Confessors.
DJ Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Recycled music with Brett Dietrich, 3:30 p.m. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ at the main bar.
JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Dan Bliss. KC Live! Block at the Power & Light District: 14th St. and Grand. 14th Street Jazz Festival, 2 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Jeff Harshbarger presents an Alternative Jazz Series, 8 p.m.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Game night. The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em, 7 p.m. The Fox and Hound: 10428 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913649-1700. Show Me the Money Poker, 7 & 10 p.m. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. SIN. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Charlie Murphy, 7 p.m. Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, 913-962-5253. Free pool, 3 p.m.
Johnny’s Tavern: 13410 W. 62nd Terr., Shawnee, 913962-5777. DJ with videos. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595. Rooftop karaoke. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with the Mad Man DJ Mike, 9:30 p.m. Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy on the main floor, 10 p.m. KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Open-mic night. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Trivia, 3 p.m.; karaoke, 8 p.m., free. The Ribbon Room: 11211 W. 58th St., Merriam, 913631-1131. Dart tournament, 4 & 7:30 p.m. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Free pool. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Dart tournament, 3 p.m.; free pool all day with purchase. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.
EASY LISTENING The Landing: 1189 W. Kansas St., Liberty. Scooter Sundays featuring the Bob Harvey Band on the patio.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free. R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777. Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m.
VARIET Y Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Sunday Solace, 2 p.m. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Sunday Select. Press: 1522 McGee, 816-471-1522. Raising the Titanics: movie featuring Howard Iceberg and friends, 6:30 p.m.
M O N DAY 1 9 BLUES/FUNK/SOUL The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Millie Edwards and Michael Pagan, 7 p.m.
DJ The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. Live DJ at the main bar.
JAZZ Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo.
DRUNKEN DISTRACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Karaoke with Nanci Pants; Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m. Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Trivia, 8 p.m. Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. Double Nickel Bar: 189 S. Rogers, Ste. 1614, Olathe, 913-390-0363. Texas Hold ’em, 7 p.m. Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-8421919. Mary-oke with Chad Slater, 8 p.m. Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-7491387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Texas Hold ’em, 7:30 p.m. KC’s Neighborhood Bar: 10201 W. 47th St., Merriam, 913-262-7211. Free pool; Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Table Magic with Keith Leff of Magicreations, 6 p.m.; Texas Hold ’em, 8 p.m.
OPERA Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Opera Supper, 6-9 p.m.
VARIET Y RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Art Battle IV: Renee Cinderhouse vs. Lori Raye Erickson with DJ Justin Whedon, 9 p.m., free.
T U E S DAY 2 0 ROCK/POP/INDIE The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785841-5483. Yamn, Fuzz Nasty.
Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Travelers Guild. Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. Drew6. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. I Am Nation, Fight the Quiet, Apples for Archers, 5 p.m.; Lee MacDougall, Tyler Gregory, 10 p.m. The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Fight the Quiet, Jillian Riscoe and Haunting Heather, 8 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Trampled Under Foot, $4.
DJ Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. DJ Whatshisname, service industry night, 10 p.m. Raoul’s Velvet Room: 7222 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-469-0466. DJ Meesh. The Velvet Dog: 400 E. 31st St., 816-753-9990. College Night featuring DJ Stevie Cruz.
JAZZ Jardine’s: 4536 Main, 816-561-6480. Barclay Martin, 6 & 8:30 p.m. Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Rick Bacus and Monique Danielle.
DRUNKEN DISTR ACTIONS/COMEDY/ BAR GAMES The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Scrabble Club, 7 p.m. Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free. Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444. Music bingo with DJ Danny Collins. Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Karaoke. John’s Big Deck: 928 Wyandotte, 816-572-9595. Rooftop karaoke. JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Buttwiser’s Bash with DJ Double D, 10 p.m., free. Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-9319417. Critter’s Tye Dye Tuesday. The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 MANY MORE p.m., free; Texas Hold ’em, 2 p.m.; free darts, 10 p.m. The Ribbon Room: 11211 W. 58th St., Merriam, 913631-1131. Dart tournament, 7:30 p.m. ONLINE AT The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., PITCH.COM Overland Park, 913-2366211. Karaoke. Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-4923900. Karaoke, Bike Night, 9 p.m. Sharks: 10320 Shawnee Mission Pkwy., Merriam, 913268-4006. Pingpong tournament, 8 p.m. Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-9311986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.
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CLUB LISTINGS
EASY LISTENING Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Chris Tady, 7 p.m.
OPEN MIC/JAM SESSIONS The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-2215299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open-mic night.
VARIET Y R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Classic Cocktail Night featuring DJ Fat Sal, 8 p.m., free.
W E D N E S DAY 21 ROCK/POP/INDIE Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816525-1871. 90 Minutes, 9 p.m. RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Gardens & Villas, Youth Lagoon, 9 p.m.; Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.
BLUES/FUNK/SOUL B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Shinetop Jr. Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-4831456. Miss Major and Her Minor Mood Swings, Levee Town; Gospel Lounge with Carl Butler, 7:30 p.m.
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