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FROM THE EDITOR

E DI T OR -I N -CHI E F ELIZABETH ELKIN

HELLO, KITTY

DE PUT Y E DI T OR CARY LITTLEJOHN M AN AGI N G E DI T OR CATHERINE WENDLANDT DI GI TAL M AN AG ING E D IT O R

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am finally writing the words I’ve always threatened, but nobody thought I’d dare: This is a love letter to my cat.

Fate brought him to me. I know that sounds silly, but it’s true. I planned to go to the pool one late August day in 2016.

The Alabama heat was sweltering at approximately 1,000 degrees. Parched, my friend and I stopped by our student newspaper to get my favorite vending machine beverage. As we approached the building, I heard what sounded like a duck quacking. My friend pointed to the front of the building where my baby – a kitten, not a duck – Oliver, stood, mewing his tiny head off.

Oliver was 0.8 pounds and fit in the palm of my hand when I found him, barely more than a four-week-old ball of gray fluff.

From that moment, we were inseparable.

As a baby, he would cry whenever I left the room, inconsolable no matter how much love he received from my then-roommates. As an adult, I often come home to find him sitting at the window, waiting for my return. I’ll be the first to say it; I am a crazy cat lady. I get a monthly subscription box full of cat-related

“Taking the time to care for yourself is vital, whatever that means to you.” products. For my birthday one year, my parents bought a cat tree. For my cat.

But, he has been with me through it all.

Through the year I worked for four publications at once and barely had time to breathe. Through the move to Missouri, when I missed the place I called home for four years. He calms my anxiety.

At the end of a long day, when all I can think of is the ways I’ve failed, he reminds me that I’m loved.

For some, feeling anxious and sad reaches the level of a diagnosable illness. On page 16, you’ll find a story about a group training people to recognize signs of mental health issues, respond to them in times of crisis and take care of their own mental health. Though it’s often difficult to discuss, it’s important to remind people that they’re not alone and that taking the time to care for yourself is vital, whatever that means to you.

For me, it’s as simple as a good cuddle with my little gray fluffball.

CAMERON R. FLATT ON L I N E E DI T OR GABY MORERA DI NUBILA ART DI R E CT OR S MITCHELL BARTLE, MADISON WISSE PHOT O E DI T OR DEREK RIEKE M ULT I M E DI A E DI T O R SAM MOSHER

AS S I S TAN T E D IT O RS CULT UR E SARAH EVERETT, MORGAN SPEARS E AT + DR I N K MEG DONOHUE, XIYUAN ZHANG CI T Y L I F E KRISTIN BLAKE, ADRIAN BURTIN, ELENA K. CRUZ DI GI TAL E DI T OR S LAUREN BROCATO, CHLOE KHAW, EMILY LENTZ, MEREDITH LEHMAN, HANNAH MUSICK, DANIELLE PYCIOR, NICOLE SCHROEDER, VICTORIA TRAMPLER, TAYA WHITE M ULT I M E DI A E DI T OR S FIONA MURPHY, MAGGIE MADRO, EMILY POWERS, CHLOE THORNBERRY DESIGNERS LAURA JONES, ELIZABETH PRINCIPATO CON T R I B UT I N G W R I T E RS ISAAC CARMICHAEL, SARAH HALLAM, SKYLAR LAIRD, EMMY LUCAS, HANNAH MCFADDEN, DANIELLE PYCIOR, RACHEL TAYLOR

E DI T OR I AL DI R E CT O R HEATHER LAMB DI GI TAL DI R E CT OR SARA SHIPLEY HILES E XE CUT I V E E DI T OR JENNIFER ROWE OF F I CE M AN AGE R KIM TOWNLAIN

Vox Magazine ELIZABETH ELKIN Editor-in-Chief

BEHIND MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID Editors and writing instructors are always giving the advice to “go after the stories you hear about.” However, I seem to be surrounded by stressed students, and all we do is commiserate or swap tips on how to self-soothe. I’m fortunate enough to have friends with whom I can openly discuss my mental health, but not everyone has that luxury. When I heard about a mental health version of first aid from a classmate, I was intrigued. This was a topic that I knew meant something to people, to me. The writing and reporting flowed easily, as often happens when the telling of a story is overdue. I found that people are ready to break down these barriers. We all care about mental health, and we all can find common ground; we just have to start talking. — Meg Donohue

CORRECTION: Violet and the Undercurrents’ album release date was incorrectly stated in the September issue of Vox. The Captain was released in March.

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An authentic Cuban eatery comes to Columbia.

What to eat, wear and do this October.

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To some, emotional-support dogs can cause trauma.

Günter Hans owner serves beer with a European flair downtown.

Tasting tradition

‘What about my well-being?’

Vox picks

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Q&A: Lydia Melton

CULTURE 13

Radio head Simon Rose of KBXR and KFRU looks back at his early days in radio.

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He’s Young & country Go behind the stage with country chart-topper Chris Young.

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CITY LIFE

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How to hot pot Get to know this communal Chinese dish.

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How one fan-favorite restaurant is putting a new spin on an old classic.

Rhinestones in the rough Meet the people behind the COMO Flea Swap.

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Growing strong Come and visit the market that supports the local economy and community.

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Cafe owners Greg Butler and Katy Ugalde packed the new restaurant’s menu with family recipes from Cuba.

Tasting tradition Go behind the kitchen with Sagua La Grande Cuban Cafe owners.

BY CHLOE KHAW The spices. The aroma. The flavor.

They’re palpable when you walk in the door of Sagua La Grande Cuban Cafe on Ninth Street.

Greg Butler and Katy Ugalde are the husband-and-wife duo behind the Cuban restaurant, which had its grand opening on Sept. 5. Butler manages the day-to-day operations of the restaurant while Ugalde, who was born in Sagua La Grande, Cuba, is the mastermind behind all the recipes.

Cuban food is all about the flavor of the vegetables and the stocks. It relies on key ingredients such as onions, garlic, bay leaves, cumin, peppers and tomatoes.

It is also about being resourceful and experimenting in the kitchen, Ugalde says.

Every dish on the menu is a personal recipe that Ugalde brought from her hometown. Her favorite is the Chuletas de Puerco, a pork chop dish with the traditional Cuban sauce Mojo Criollo and beer. The meat is marinated for at least two days and is flavored with seasonings of onions, orange and homemade mojo. She also recommends one of the national dishes of Cuba, the Ropa Vieja, which is made of beef slow-cooked with tomatoes, peppers and onions, and these two dishes should be ordered by anyone looking for a more traditional experience.

Sagua La Grande Cuban Cafe 114 Ninth St., Mon.–Sat., 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 5 p.m.–10 p.m., closed on Sunday

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‘What about my well-being?’

Emotional-support animals provide comfort to some but terror to others.

BY RACHEL TAYLOR

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am not a dog person. When I was 10 years old, I was mauled by my aunt’s golden retriever after Thanksgiving dinner in 2007. I remember kneeling on the ground and petting it, then leaning my head next to it. Without the slightest growl, the dog latched onto my head. Its canines sunk into my eye socket and the top of my head, cracking my nose, chipping my brow bone, tearing apart the tendons holding my eye in place as well as damaging my tear ducts. I’ve been told many times it’s a miracle I have my eye.

As the dog let go of my head, my eyelid was ripped off, and my skull was exposed on my forehead and scalp. I remember the blood. I remember seeing my mom in the hallway outside the trauma room collapse in sobs as a nurse tried to hand her paperwork to fill out.

It was the worst night of my life.

I had an initial surgery that night followed by reconstructive surgery on my tear ducts and tendons several months later. I still have problems with my tear ducts today, and a deep scar runs

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from the middle of my forehead through my eyebrow and across my eyelid.

My emotional recovery has been a work in progress and something I’ve accepted as a continuing struggle. So, in January 2017, when I was in Boston Logan International Airport waiting to fly back to Columbia for another semester and saw that a large dog was preparing to board the same plane with me, I was unnerved.

The dog was an emotional-support animal. A few years ago, I had never heard of ESAs, but now I see them everywhere. Cassandra Boness, an MU doctoral candidate in clinical psychology, says one difference between service and emotional-support animals is that the former are trained to perform a specific task whereas the latter require no training.

Getting a certification for an emotional-support animal can be as easy as filling out an online form and pulling out your credit card. Or you can visit a mental health professional and get an

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Missouri lawmakers have tried to legislate ESAs. Earlier this year, state Sen. Denny Hoskins sponsored Senate Bill 107, which reads “no person shall knowingly misrepresent any animal as an assistance animal.” Under the proposed law, if guilty of a first offense, a person would be charged with a misdemeanor.

In February 2019, one Senate committee voted “Do Pass” on the bill, but it has been left untouched since, according to the Missouri Senate website.

assessment and a written letter, similar to a prescription.

Under federal law, emotional-support dogs are not “service animals” as defined by revisions to the Americans with Disabilities Act made in 2010. Two federal laws that discuss emotional-support animals are the Air Carrier Access Act and the Fair Housing Act. While the Fair Housing Act allows emotional-support animals in rental properties, the Air Carrier Access Act, passed in 1986, allows people to bring their ESAs on commercial planes provided they have disability requirements.

The number of emotional-support animals has been rising but is difficult to nail down due to the ease of certification.

One study conducted by researchers at the University of California-Davis found that the number of animals used for psychiatric purposes increased tenfold in the state of California between 2000 and 2012.

Do they really help?

Because it can be easy to obtain a certificate for an emotional-support animal, the process is often abused. If you have a certificate for an ESA, you do not need to pay pet fees for it to accompany you into the cabin of an airplane, says Jeffrey Younggren, a psychologist and professor at the University of New Mexico. And unlike service animals, which are mostly dogs, ESAs can be any animal from peacocks to pigs.

In 2018, a woman unsuccessfully tried to board a flight with her emotional-support peacock. The same year, police escorted another woman off a flight after bringing her emotional-support squirrel. In 2014, a passenger brought her emotional-support pig on a flight but was forced to leave once the pig became disruptive.

When it comes to actually improving symptoms, there is speculation about how helpful emotional-support animals are. Younggren says there is little controlled research showing effectiveness.

Hal Herzog, a psychology professor emeritus at Western Carolina University, says in an email that there have been hundreds of studies on how animal-assisted therapy contributes to human

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psychological well-being.

He says that there are few, if any, good empirical studies on the effectiveness of emotional-support animals for psychiatric problems. “This is why the Veterans Administration will not pay for emotional-support animals for veterans with PTSD,” he writes.

This solution isn’t based on science, Younggren says. “People can be happy being with their dog, but that’s not ameliorating a symptom of a disorder, that’s just, ‘I’m happy with my dog.’ OK, I am, too.”

Odd one out When I discuss my post-traumatic stress around dogs, the reaction I receive from most people is that they’ve never considered my situation. We live in a dog-loving society. I’ve always felt like a minority when I tell people I don’t like dogs. In 2017, 89.7 million dogs lived in U.S. households. The last time the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. was in 1994 when dogs bit approximately

4.7 million people and of which 800,000 received medical attention. Herzog says he suspects my problem is very common.

He doesn’t agree with the lack of standards for emotional-support animals.

Herzog says that emotional-support animals should be held to the same standards as service animals and probably only be dogs.

As is, no training or screening is required for emotional-support animals, Herzog says. In January 2018, Delta Air

Service animals and emotional-support animals are not the same. Service animals are trained and usually are dogs, but ESAs require no training and can be any animal.

Lines introduced updated requirements for traveling with emotional-support and service animals. In the statement, the airline cited an 84% increase in “reported animal incidents since 2016, including urination/defecation, biting and even a widely reported attack by a 70-pound dog.”

In September 2018, an association of flight attendants released a national survey of flight attendants where 98% of respondents had worked on a flight with at least one emotional-support animal, 61% had worked on a flight where an emotional-support animal caused a disruption and 53% of the disruptions involved threatening behavior from the animal.

It’s on me When it comes to my fears, there’s not much I can do if I’m uncomfortable being on a plane with an untrained animal. Younggren says the law doesn’t care whether or not I have a reactive phobia to dogs or not. Under the Air

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Carrier Access Act, a person has the right to have his or her emotional-support animal with them on planes. If there is one next to me on a plane, I can move.

To achieve a solution on these issues

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Rachel Taylor graduated from MU in May 2019 with a degree magazine publishing and management and a minor in French.

posed by emotional-support animals, Boness suggests educating mental health professionals and implementing more regulations. Those in favor of regulation often aren’t completely against ESAs, but she says, “they’re just trying to require basic obedience training or things like that.”

Each day I wear my scars for the world to see. I can’t hide that I have had trauma in my past. Sometimes someone will ask me what happened, and when I tell them, they’re surprised. I hear, “I can’t believe a golden retriever would do that!” or “My dog is so nice, that would never happen with him.”

Unfortunately, my brain doesn’t differentiate a nice dog from a mean one.

When I’m near a medium- to large-sized dog, I can’t breathe. If it lunges at me or jumps on me, I will start sobbing and hyperventilating. And with the increase in emotional-support animals on planes as well as in housing, it’s becoming harder for me to find spaces where I feel safe. Last year, I lived at an apartment

complex that was supposed to be petfree, but there were several dogs in my building. Even just the sound of tags bouncing together on a collar makes me hold my breath.

A law has decided whose emotional needs are more important than other’s.

There are no laws stating that because I have post-traumatic stress with dogs, others need to take my well-being into consideration. And I don’t even think I would want that. I don’t want to need special treatment. I hate showing up to a new friend’s house unaware that they have a dog and explaining to them why they either need to put the dog in a closed room or I have to leave.

I’m not implying that my needs are more significant than another’s, but I don’t agree with how a law has decided whose emotional needs are more important. I was attacked by a dog. Now I don’t want to sit next to someone’s animal while I’m on a plane. Why should I have to be the one to move to accommodate them?

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I N T HE LO O P VOX PICKS

Vox picks for

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Each month, Vox curates a list of can’t-miss shops, eats, reads and experiences in and around Columbia. We highlight the new, trending or criminally underrated — so you’re always informed of the best our city has to offer.

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a clear bag to Faurot Field in compliance with the SEC’s clear-bag policy. Game-goers are allowed to carry a small clutch or shoulder bag, but any bag larger than 4.5 by 6.5 inches must be see-through. If you’re wondering if your bag is acceptable, those dimensions are roughly the size of a hand. Total transparency: there are great options at local shops. Kelly Fields Boutique, $16-52, 124 E. Nifong Blvd., Monday to Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and Dillard’s, $25-495, 2300 Bernadette Drive, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

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Travel...

back in time for an Oktoberfest at the Central Missouri Renaissance Festival.

Venture to this mock Irish village for a weekend of merriment and music to celebrate the fall harvest. Beer, turkey legs and more. Huzzah! Oct. 19, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Oct. 20, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., $12; $6, children, 4274 County Road 220, Kingdom City, 449-8637

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a custard concrete, cup or cone at the new Andy’s Frozen Custard in the Crossroads West Shopping Center at West Broadway and Stadium Boulevard. The franchise’s third Columbia location opened Oct. 2. Try the Pumpkin Pie Concrete, available now through Thanksgiving. If the lines are too long, try Randy’s Frozen Custard off West Broadway.

Andy’s: Sunday to Thursday, 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday and Saturday, 11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Randy’s: Sunday to Thursday, noon to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday, noon to 10:30 p.m.

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self-care on World Mental Health Day on Oct. 10. Every year since 2013, the World Health Organization has dedicated the day to a specific focus.

This year’s is suicide prevention. Vox dives into mental health on page 16. Country singer Carly Pearce will perform to promote Mental Health First Aid at The Blue Note. Nov. 1, 7:30 p.m. doors, 8:30 p.m. show. $15, floor general admission; $18, reserved balcony, 874-1944.

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Take one down, pass it across the pond After six years, bar owner Lydia Melton still brings European flair to beer selection.

BY TYLER KRAFT

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pon entering Günter Hans, customers might feel as if they’ve left Columbia for the Old Country. On the left side of the room sits a bar chock full of beers from around the world, some of which are hunted down at the request of customers. On the opposite wall, subway signs from London give the impression that this small space across from Ragtag Cinema is a wormhole to Europe. Outside, a biergarten waits for customers.

Lydia Melton founded the bar and has been in charge for the past six years.

After studying in Belgium during her senior year of college, she returned home and brought back innovative ways of bartending, inspired by what she saw in Europe. Melton sat down with Vox to discuss how she takes care of both staff and customers and how she has turned an idea that she came up with while abroad into a reality just 4 years after getting her bachelor’s degree from Northwest Missouri State University.

What did you learn while studying in college that gave you the idea for Günter Hans?

When I lived in Belgium, I lived in an area called Flanders, which is known for sour beer. That was a whole category of beer I had never heard of. This was back in the days where craft beer was still in its beginnings, so people weren’t even really asking for IPAs. I arrived during the Jenever Festival, and it was like, ‘What is going on? There are all these people drinking in the streets.’ It just opened my eyes to a whole new world of possibilities that we hadn’t even dived into yet here.

do get to use it, it’s really meaningful. Our goal at Günter Hans is not about quantity, it’s about quality and finding the things that matter most to you and doing it the best you can.

If that means you get a sour beer on the patio, that’s like a win-win.

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7 Hitt St. Mon.–Thurs., 4–11 p.m.; Friday, 2 p.m. to 1 a.m.; Saturday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m.

Lydia Melton opened Günter Hans in 2013.

How do you find new beers to bring to Günter Hans?

We have beer-meister Dave. He tries all the beers and gets to decide what people like. But we’re also very customer-centric. We wait for you guys to say, “Hey, I had this one beer this one time in this area, and I really loved it. Do you think you can get it?” Then we kind of have to start hunting for who the supplier is. How much we think we can sell of that particular beer goes into the equation, and so based on a lot of factors, we may or may not be able to bring it on.

What’s the most important lesson you’ve learned as you enter your sixth year of owning Günter Hans?

Take care of people first.

You’re in the hospitality program, so make sure you serve others well. That could be serving guests, but it could also be serving your staff. You help them and give them the tools they need to make it right, whatever it is and have their back.

How did the idea to add the biergarten to Günter Hans come about?

I think patios are highly coveted. In Missouri, it’s a cherished thing because you don’t get to use it all year. When you

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Radio head Simon Rose talks radio and music changes at BXR and beyond.

BY SARAH HALLAM Simon Rose’s posters say a lot about him.

The Clash, Motörhead and Keep Calm and Carry On, to name a few, and other souvenirs from shows. His office is a music cave, kind of like a man cave, he says.

Rose hosts alt-rock station BXR’s Afternoons with Simon Rose and co-hosts KFRU’s talk radio show The Morning Meeting with Simon & Renee. Originally from Manchester, England, he now calls Columbia home. His music knowledge, local insights and British accent travel local airwaves Monday through Friday.

In his nearly 30 years in the business, he’s seen radio change quite a bit.

1978: Heard it from a friend Rose says he was a “spotty, growing-up youth” when his friends introduced him to the first record he ever bought: Electric Light Orchestra’s Out of the Blue. “I think that’s a way lots of people get into music,” he says. “And that’s still how it happens for people, isn’t it?”

On his desk, in addition to Iron Maiden paraphernalia; British relics; and pictures of his sons, Liam and Connor, is the second album he ever bought, an All Mod Cons cassette by The Jam.

Simon Rose has worked at BXR since it started 26 years ago. Catch Afternoons with Simon Rose weekdays from 2–7 p.m.

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1981: Culture shock When Rose arrived stateside, Columbia was “way behind musically,” he says.

In the ’80s, according to historian Bob Priddy, Columbia saw (and heard) an FM boom. Rose says Columbia’s radio scene was rock-heavy. Think REO Speedwagon, Pat Benatar’s “Fire and Ice” and Foreigner’s “Urgent.”

Rose’s brother found KCOU, MU’s student radio station, which was, for high school Brits with edgier taste, a musical godsend. KCOU played “a lot of new wave stuff that you were not getting on big commercial radio in the U.S. in the early ’80s,” he says.

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1990: Rose’s early radio days Rose got his start in radio as an MU student working at the college station KCOU. In 1990, a part-time gig at KFRU kept him in the U.S for good.

“We had to have a whole team of part-timers who got the graveyard shifts,” Rose says. Much of the now-digitized work was done by hand. He had to keep The Associated Press wire from over-printing and plug in patch cords for Cardinals games. It was like a sport. If you messed up, “the phone lines would light up,” Rose says.

and more. Indie, alternative, folk and bluesy rock.

1999: Joe Strummer at The Blue Note Rose has interviewed many musicians over the years. Richard King, the founder of The Blue Note, says Simon gives a great interview. One of Rose’s favorites was with The Clash’s Joe Strummer.

One of his other favorite bands is Motörhead, which is a little too metal for BXR. Motörhead played at The Blue Note in 2003, and Rose “was out of his mind,” King says. “He’s a huge metalhead.”

1993: BXR is born KFRU launched its alternative sister station, BXR, and Rose was asked to host.

“When we signed on in ’93, one of the big pushes was that there was not enough female-oriented music on the air,” he says.

From the start, BXR tried to feature female artists and play lesser-known songs on popular albums. Today, BXR’s core artists include U2, Sheryl Crow, the Indigo Girls, Dave Matthews Band,

Rose (right) interviewed Joe Strummer from The Clash (left) when Strummer played at The Blue Note in 1999. Rose says The Clash was instrumental in his music taste and his politics when he was growing up.

2004: Cumulus buys BXR The playlist at BXR is determined by a committee including in-house program director Emily Larkin and market managers at Cumulus Media, an Atlanta-based company, which owns 428 radio stations in 87 markets in the U.S. Cumulus bought BXR after six decades of local ownership.

Despite consolidation, Rose says BXR flies under the radar and still plays niche music. BXR and KFRU maintain their local focus, Rose says.

2014: BXR heads upstream Streaming has complicated radio. Listeners hear new music at the same time radio stations do, Larkin says.

BXR adds an average of five to 10 new songs per month, Rose says.

BXR’s app allows listeners like Paige Burnham, who discovered the station at MU and now lives in Iowa, to stream from afar.

“Now you can just say, ‘Hey Alexa, play 102.3 BXR,’” he says. “And bammo!

They’re on.”

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He’s Young and country Uncover the secrets behind superstar Chris Young and his lastest tour.

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hris Young took to music at an early age. He grew up in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, where he performed in high school choir and in children’s theater productions. During his college years, he headed out on the road for his first tour. In 2006, Young won the fourth season of the singing competition Nashville Star, which produced other country superstars like Miranda Lambert and Kacey Musgraves.

On Oct. 17, the Grammy nominee and country chart topper will stop by Mizzou Arena on his sold-out Raised on Country tour before his album drops later this year. The album’s lead single, also named “Raised on Country,” is a tribute to the stars, such as Merle Haggard and Willie Nelson that make up the soundtrack of Young’s youth. We caught up with Young, who shared six facts that you might not know.

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His dog is a social media star.

Young’s German Shepherd, Porter, or @porterthedog on Instagram, has nearly 66,000 followers and photos documenting his life as a superstar’s dog. Porter may not know his owner is famous, but he’s a huge Chris Young fan nonetheless. “If I come back and I’ve been gone for two minutes or if I’ve been gone for two days, that dog is the same level of excitement to see me,” Young says.

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With Eli Young Band and Matt Stell Oct. 17, 7 p.m., Mizzou Arena $26.75-$56.75

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He’s got his friends on repeat.

Young pulls out his phone to look at recently played songs. “I got a buddy of mine, Adam Doleac, he’s got a song called ‘Famous’ that’s out right now that I’ve really been diggin’ on,” he says. “That one’s probably been on repeat as much as anything else that’s on right now.”

Young has 11 No. 1 hits and will be releasing his eighth studio album this year.

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His eighth studio album includes music he wrote while touring.

Young says inspiration can come at any moment on the road. “I think that’s one of the things that it’s a bit more fluid, as ideas come to you when you get sparked,” he says. He tweeted that “Raised on Country” was one of his favorite songs to have worked on. He wrote the single with Carly Barlowe and Corey Crowder while on the road.

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His fellow musicians act as a source of inspiration for his songwriting.

While talking about the lead single, Young brings up the moment that inspired him to write the song. “One of the things that really sparked ‘Raised On Country’ was that sick guitar lick that’s at the top,” Young says. “That was just my buddy Cary Barlowe sitting down and goofing off, and we were like, ‘Let’s write something to that, I want that vibe.’”

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Young’s childhood memories influence his songwriting.

When asked about how Young’s childhood impacted songs such as “Voices” and “Raised on Country” Young says, “I think that is definitely something that is at the forefront of a lot of country music.” Young acknowledges that country music allows for artists to pull from past experiences in a meaningful way but he doesn’t consider his past a definite go-to in his songwriting. He says songs such as “Aw Naw,” which is about meeting a girl at bar, isn’t influenced by his childhood.

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He has a passion for philanthropy.

Young considers himself lucky to have had access to the arts growing up. He says that his ability to turn this into a career “is in no small part due to” his time in choir and theater. “I have been able to do stuff for the Nashville School of the Arts, donating instruments through some other programs,” Young says. “But that is something that is always in the forefront of my mind.”

Two years ago, Young began working for the Country Music Association Foundation, which focuses on charitable giving.

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weaty palms, a tightening chest, a racing heart, the sound of people running. His vision existed only in flashes. All rational thought processes came to a halt. “I just ran,” says Briar Napier, an MU junior. “I had to get out of there.”

He didn’t know what it was at the time, but he knows now. It was Napier’s first major panic attack. It was during his sophomore year of high school. On this particular afternoon he had basketball practice.

His coach had a habit of making him feel singled out, and Napier felt off-kilter the entire practice.

He was a step behind everyone else.

He let an opponent pass him. He was missing one shot after the next; some didn’t even hit the backboard.

It seemed nebulous, but he could feel dread building.

After the panic attack reached a climax and Napier ran out, he collected himself, walked back into the gym and completed practice. Plenty of people witnessed the episode.

“Something was clearly wrong with me,” he says. Still, nobody said a single helpful thing. They made comments about him giving up or being weird, or they brushed it off entirely.

No one asked him if he was OK. His coach never even mentioned it.

It hurt for him to have to go through the panic attack alone, and it hurt that no one helped him that day. But it can be hard to help someone having a panic attack or struggling with a mental illness. What do you do? How do you help? If Napier’s coach or one of his teammates had known what to say, he might have found help sooner.

From the tiny Illinois town of Chrisman (one Casey’s gas station and no stoplight), Napier never felt like he could talk about the negative

Depression and anxiety are common in American high schools, with 70% of teens citing them as major issues, according to Pew Research Center.

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How to help a friend in need Mental Health First Aid teaches an action plan for what to do when you think someone might need help with his or her mental health or substance abuse problem.

The steps are outlined in the acronym ALGEE. ASSESS FOR RISK OF SUICIDE OR HARM Look for signs of suicidal thoughts and behaviors or any signs of self-harm.

Those at risk might exhibit warning signs, including, but not limited to, talking or writing about things such as death or hopelessness, sleeping too little or too much,

thoughts he was having. Everyone seemed to be raised with a “don’t ask, don’t tell” mentality, he says. “It’s not a point of conversation in my household, in my town, in my area. Mental health was not a priority in my life.”

Napier is exactly the kind of person Betty Kitchener, a nurse in Australia, had in mind when she came up with the idea for a mental health version of first aid training in 2001. Kitchener had been living with depression for years. She had been in and out of a psychiatric hospital when she decided to start Mental Health First Aid in Australia. Kitchener’s husband, Anthony Jorm, just so happened to be

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increased substance use, isolation or extreme mood swings.

LISTEN NONJUDGMENTALLY Make sure you make them feel respected and understood. MHFA teaches verbal and nonverbal skills such as open body posture and making eye contact that can help during these types of conversations. The more people feel like you care, the more open they can be.

GIVE REASSURANCE AND INFORMATION During the conversation, express that recovery from mental illness and

addiction is possible.

Explain to them that they are not to blame for their symptoms and what is happening is not their fault. Reassure them that they are not alone and that there are steps they can take to start feeling better.

ENCOURAGE PROFESSIONAL HELP You cannot do everything, so encouraging them to seek professional help is important. Give them names of doctors, social workers, counselors or certified peer specialists they can visit.

Other helpful suggestions include therapy, support

a mental health literacy professor.

Together, the two developed the curriculum for MHFA, which has since spread to 30 countries around the world.

Just like a CPR class doesn’t teach you to be a cardiologist, an MHFA class doesn’t teach you to be a therapist. “You’re just learning how to respond appropriately,” says Betsy Schwartz, vice president of public education and strategic initiatives for the National Council for Behavioral Health. MHFA teaches people how to assess a mental crisis, determine how to intervene, offer immediate help and connect the individual with other resources. Participants also learn about common signs of illnesses such as anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder and psychosis.

The National Council for Behavioral Health started looking into bringing MHFA to the United States in 2007. At that time, the Missouri Department of Mental Health

groups or medication under the supervision of a doctor.

ENCOURAGE SELF-HELP SUPPORT STRATEGIES Along with professional help, practicing self-care during day-to-day life is important. Self-care is different for each individual, but some options are exercising, mediation, reading, spending time with friends, doing a hobby or watching a favorite TV show.

To find a MHFA course near you, visit mentalhealthfirstaid.org/take-acourse/find-a-course/

had already been considering the program at the recommendation of the late Missouri state Sen. Betty Sims. Missouri’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration formed the Mental Health Transformation Grant program in 2006 in an effort to improve the state’s mental health resources.

After hearing about MHFA, Sims, who died in 2016, suggested the grant funds be used to invest in bringing the program to Missouri.

The MDMH is the national council’s only state partner as of right now.“The National Council leads the national growth and headquarter operations,”

Since 2008, the suicide rate in Boone County has doubled, according to Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services Department.

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Schwartz says.

The eight-hour first aid course is composed of an informative lecture, role-playing simulations and group discussions. It equips participants with the knowledge needed to act as a first responder. This could apply in crisis situations, such as an encounter with a panic-stricken stranger, and in personal scenarios, such as talking with a relative who is struggling with substance abuse.

Although he always tried to suppress it, Napier says he’s struggled with mental health issues since elementary school. His mental health worsened his last two years of high school. He tried to keep busy; he occupied himself with sports, schoolwork, college and scholarship applications. Even though he filled his schedule, he would end up skipping family gatherings and events such as senior prom.

He couldn’t sleep. He thought a lot about dying.

In Boone County alone, the suicide rate has nearly doubled since 2008.

Rachel Jones, manager of trauma-informed treatment for the state’s department of mental health, points out that loved ones often see the warning signs of suicide long before tragedy strikes. The problem is that they don’t know what to say or how to help. “You don’t have to be the one to figure out all the complicated stuff,” Jones says. “You just have to be the conversation starter.”

Dismantling the taboo around mental illness is a major goal of the program. While this includes starting conversations about suicide, it goes far beyond that. One in five

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Americans lives with a mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. Who can’t relate to experiencing depressive or anxious feelings sometimes? Having open conversations about these experiences in our daily dialogues is key to progress, Jones says.

Jones recounts being at a coffee shop a couple of months ago, eavesdropping, admittedly. A few tables over, two women sat having an open discussion about depression.

“That was really cool,” Jones says.

“People talk about physical health a lot. They’ll talk about medications they’re on, tests they’re getting done, diagnoses that their doctors are giving them. There’s not really an embarrassment, shame or stigma attached.” The women conversed matter-of-factly about mental health. “One of them was sharing her depressive symptoms; the other was recognizing she had the same thing. The other was saying what she did first. Really, that’s where MHFA is trying to get people. It’s trying to get people being able to talk about how common this is and how it’s okay.”

The way that MHFA has been received shows that these conversations are clearly overdue. Since Missouri, the national council and the Maryland Department of Mental Health brought the program to the U.S., over 2 million Americans have been trained, which includes over 17,000 who have been trained to teach the course. “During the first five years we had the program in the U.S., we trained 70,000 people,” Schwartz says. “Now, we’re training half a million people per year.” Some 1,000 people are trained each day.

With 37,000 trained first-aiders, Missouri ranks as the state with fifth-highest number of people trained; in 2016, Missouri ranked first in people trained per capita.

When it comes to America’s mental health crisis, the impact of education

can’t be overstated. Sarah Traub is an engagement facilitator at MU Extension. She became a certified MHFA instructor six years ago.

Traub emphasizes that people need to know what to look for and how to react if they spot a warning sign — especially among children and adolescents.

Information from Pew Research Center indicates that 70% of American teenagers cite anxiety and depression as major issues among peers, and half of all chronic mental illnesses begin before age 14, according to NAMI. Parents and teachers brush off suspicious behaviors too often, saying “it’s just a phase.” Equipping parents with information about what is and isn’t normal for adolescent development can make a big difference.

A step to help solve this issue is educating teens on mental health early — essentially putting an end to stigmas and misinformation before they can set in. A teen-oriented version of the first aid course is being piloted in Springfield, Missouri, in partnership with Lady Gaga’s Born This Way Foundation. The course is condensed so that high schoolers can be trained during class periods.

T h e hope is that by coordinating these topics into curricula, the next generation will be better equipped to deal with mental health issues. Scouts are taught how to apply a tourniquet in case of emergency, but they’re never taught how to cope with feelings of rejection or aggression. When is the last

One in five Americans lives with mental illness, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness.

time you needed to apply a tourniquet? Science textbooks outline how to identify venomous snakes by their scale patterns. Where are the textbooks telling kids what to do if they feel the urge to hurt themselves?

Napier didn’t have access to mental health resources before coming to MU, he says. It would have taken over an hour to visit a professional. “With my friends in high school – I still love them – but our main concerns were senior trips and basketball games,” Napier says. “It would have felt weird to bring up, ‘Hey, I cried in my sleep last night.

Can you guys help me?’” He’s right.

It’s not exactly water-cooler talk. “To think that there are people like me who are in high school right now, who are going through the same thing, shows that even though we have the progress we’ve made, we’ve got a long way to go,” Napier says.

“The mental health conversation shouldn’t start in college. It should

start as early as you can.”

Each MHFA instruction course concludes the same way. The instructor poses the question: How will the first-aiders take care of themselves?

Helping others can be heavy work, and the reality is that taking care of yourself is equally important.

In the same way that we all have heart health or joint health, we all have mental health. “We brush our teeth every day to prevent dental problems,” Jones says. “We wash our hands. There are hygiene things that we do for our health all the time that we don’t even think about. We teach people how to do it, we expect them to do it.” While MHFA teaches how to deal with situations that are critical, Jones wants people to be proactive and take steps to avoid letting issues get to crisis mode. Practicing self-care means mental health issues are less likely to spiral out of control. Beyond the trend of bath bombs and face masks,

self-care is a lifestyle of wellness, one of recognizing your own triggers.

Napier finds solace in therapy; it’s part of his self-care regimen. He surrounds himself with people who appreciate his presence and tries to take 20 minutes a day to do an activity he enjoys. He now tells his story whenever someone asks. He talks about his own reality because no one was talking about theirs when it could have helped him. It gets uncomfortable at times, sure. It’s a script that he’s writing as he goes.

He never had the words for this dialogue before now, but it’s a topic worth talking about because talking can make all the difference. “Mental health intervention doesn’t just have to be medication,” Jones says. “It doesn’t just have to be a hospital; it doesn’t just have to be a therapist.

It can be a lot of other things. It can be just connecting to someone who’s had the same experience.”

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Fall Arts Guide Want to get in touch with your creative side?

Columbia has ample opportunities for you in the coming months. Here’s the official Vox guide to what’s what in all things art this autumn.

BY VOX STAFF

Michael Kosta Pro tennis player-turned-comedian Michael Kosta is coming to town.

He has also made appearances on bigname shows such as The Daily Show and Conan. Oct. 5, 7 p.m., $25, The Blue Note, 874-1944

By the Way, Meet Vera Stark Follow the life of Vera Stark, a black maid and actress in a play that goes through 70 years of cinema history. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage mocks racial stereotypes in this comedy directed by Blake Willoughby.

Oct. 11–13; 17–20, Thurs.–Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m.; Talking Horse Productions, $15; $13, seniors and students, 607-1740

Cody Ko & Noel Miller: Tiny Meat Gang Live

Stage

Whether you subscribe to their channels or just appreciate that they dubbed themselves the “Tiny Meat Gang,” YouTube stars and generally relatable dudes Cody Ko and Noel Miller are live recording their podcast in this edition of the CoMo Comedy Club.

Oct. 15, 8 p.m., The Blue Note, $30, 874-1944

Climate Change Theatre Action Founded in 2015, Climate Change Theatre Action uses the stage to promote environmental protection. The show features original solo performances and adapted works by MU students and faculty authors, supervised by artistic director Heather Carver. Oct. 16–19, 7:30 p.m.; Oct. 20, 2 p.m., McKee Gymnasium, $7, 882-2021

Tammy Pescatelli This stand-up comedian’s not just a mom.

She’s a funny mom, as seen on her own reality show, A Standup Mother. Come thirsty — there’s a two drink minimum. Oct. 23, 7 p.m., The Blue Note, $25, 874-1944

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The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Kyle Kinane

PACE Youth Theatre offers crime-story amateurs four Sherlock Holmes adventures, adapted by Jon Jory. Follow the British detective in the most bizarre cases he’s ever seen. Oct. 24–26,

You might have heard Kinane’s absurd satires on Comedy Central or even on Netflix. Now you can meet the stand-up comedian and voice actor in person. Nov. 8,

7 p.m.; Oct. 27, 2 p.m., Talking Horse Productions, $10; $8, students and seniors; $5, children ages 2–8, sarahpaceinfo@gmail.com

Dreamgirls Journey through the ’60s with the Dreamettes as they fight racial discrimination in the music industry and belt out classics. Oct. 24–27, 31; Nov. 1–3, 7–10, Thurs.–Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., Columbia Entertainment Com-

7 p.m., The Blue Note, $25, floor; $20, balcony, 8741944

pany, $14; $12, seniors, students and

Anjelah Johnson-Reyes

children; $10 on Thursdays, 673-6181

A former NFL cheerleader, actress and singer, the stand-up comedian might be best known for her time performing on the sketch comedy show MADtv. Nov.

The Price Is Right! Live Do you love game shows? Are you really good at guessing the prices of common household items? Are you itching for five minutes of fame or to see your name in lights? Register three hours before show time, and hope you get picked. Come on down for your chance to play! Oct. 26, 8 p.m., Jesse Auditorium, $36–96, 882-3781

An Evening with Spirits ft. Evidential Medium Britney Buckwalter Open your mind during this live medium reading. Missouri-based psychic Britney Buckwalter tries to connect the audience with deceased loved ones. Oct. 28, 7:30 p.m., The Blue Note, $20, 874-1944

The Wiz The fantastic world of Oz meets late ’70s African–American culture in this seven-time Tony Award-winning show.

Oct. 31–Nov. 2, Nov. 7–9, 7:30 p.m.; Nov. 3

12, 7 p.m., The Blue Note, $35, 874-1944

Disney’s Frozen Jr. For better or worse, you probably already know the words to this soundtrack.

Let it go with Anna and Elsa with TRYPS Children’s Theater’s vision of the acclaimed Disney flick. Nov. 16–17, 2 and 7 p.m., Launer Auditorium, $12; $7, children, 449-4536

Last Train to Nibroc Rewind to 1940, and embark on a story of courtship as May and Raleigh meet on the train carrying F. Scott Fitzgerald’s and Nathanael West’s remains. Dec. 5–8, 12-15, Thurs.–Sat., 7:30 p.m.; Sun., 2 p.m., Columbia Entertainment Company, $14; $12, seniors, students and children; $10, Thursday, 673-6181

and Nov. 10, 2 p.m., Rhynsburger Theatre,

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

$17, 882-2021

When the six mischievous and uncontrollable Herdman children volunteer for the Christmas pageant, everyone in town fears the worst. Come see this heartwarming tale about the true meaning of Christmas adapted from Barbara Robinson’s novel. Dec. 6–7, 7 p.m.; Dec.

Samuel Comroe The fourth-place runner-up of America’s Got Talent season 13 was diagnosed with Tourette Syndrome at age 6. Come as he shares his past life experiences, cracks jokes and incorporates his ticks into his act. Nov. 3, 6 p.m., The Blue Note, $25, floor; $20, balcony, 874-1944

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Missouri Contemporary Ballet: “Dialed Out” It’s a visual feast combining both culture and dance. The Missouri Contemporary Ballet’s 14th annual fall performance, “Dialed Out,” will feature MCB repertoire works choreographed and composed by Kansas City native Kristopher Estes-Brown. Inspired by the ways technology has complicated communication, MCB will express its ideas on human connection while also celebrating diversity. The performance will also feature two choreographies by executive director Karen Mareck Grundy and resident choreographer Fernando Rodriguez. Nov. 8–9, 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre, $28–48, 219-7134

Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol Get yourself and your family into the holiday spirit (or out of a Scrooge-like mood) with this classic tale reimagined.

See the ghosts of Christmases past, present and future as life-sized puppets at Stephens College. Dec. 6–7, 11–12, 7:30 p.m.; Dec. 8, 2 p.m., Macklanburg Playhouse, $7.69–16, 876-7199

The Great Russian Nutcracker

students and seniors; $5, children age 2–8,

Classics never get stale. Bring your family to a colorful combination of dance, song and theater to reexplore this Russian ballet ­­— a Christmas tradition — once again. Dec. 11, 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium,

sarahpaceinfo@gmail.com

$35–55, 882-3781

7–8, 2 p.m., PACE Youth Theatre, $10, $8,

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Music Bob Seger Who doesn’t love that old time rock and roll? Make your night moves to see Seger and The Silver Bullet Band’s “Roll Me Away” farewell tour. Oct. 3, 7:30 p.m., Mizzou Arena, $75 and up, 884-7297

Here Come the Mummies

Mason Ramsey

Feel the thrill before Halloween with Here Come The Mummies and Columbian funk group Catdaddy’s Funky Fuzz-Bunker Band. Oct. 3, 8:30 p.m., The Blue

The Walmart yodeling boy is coming to CoMo. Whether you know him for his songs or for his sassy tweets, you can catch the young cowboy downtown. Oct. 18, 8 p.m.,

Note, $23, in advance; $25, day of, 874-1944

The Blue Note, $15, 874-1944

David Nail

2019 Mid Mo Rock Award Show

Country fans will remember his 2013 chart-topper “Whatever She’s Got.” Now, David Nail is touring for his latest album, Only This and Nothing More. Oct. 4, 8 p.m., The

There’s the Grammys, there’s the American Music Awards, and then there’s the 2019 Mid Mo Rock Awards. Forty-eight rock and metal bands will compete for awards in 15 different categories. Come out to see who wins. Oct. 27, 7 p.m., The Blue Note, $5, in

Blue Note, $20, in advance; $25, day of, 874-1944

Out of the Dust Concert Not only have Chris and Stephanie Teague managed to restore their marriage after divorce, but they now use this life experience to create pop-funk music under the name Out of the Dust. Oct. 6, 5 p.m., Forum Christian

Two-time Grammy-winning artists The King’s Singers are best known for their a capella vocal ensemble performances. Oct. 30, 7 p.m., Jesse Auditorium, $25–45, 882-3781

Interstellar Overdrive: Pink Floyd Tribute

Carly Pearce: A Compass Health Concert

Enjoy the Summerfest Concert hosted by Central Bank of Boone County and 96.7 KCMQ featuring the Dark Side of Oz. Oct.

Compass Health Network is presenting Carly Pearce in concert to promote Mental Health First Aid, featuring pop singer Hannah Ellis. Nov. 1, 8:30 p.m., The Blue Note,

True/False Music Presents Mesonjixx and Tonina

If you’re in the mood for a night full of jazz, come listen to Regina Carter play the violin, accompanied by pianist Xavier Davis.

The two will be performing with the “We Always Swing” Jazz Series. Founded in 1995, the organization is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a 14-show season, including performances from artists such as Catherine Russell Group and Aaron Parks Trio. In addition to its concert series, the organization also runs educational events with Columbia Public Schools, hosts Jazz Appreciation Month events and houses an expansive lending library of jazz albums.

The King’s Singers

Church, $20, per couple, 443-3900

11, 7:30 p.m., The Blue Note, free, 874-1944

Regina Carter and Xavier Davis

advance; $7, day of, 874-1944

$15, general admission; $18, balcony, 874-1944

The Marcus King Band

Come out to Cafe Berlin to see these two Midwest-based singer-songwriters with eclectic musical backgrounds perform as part of True/False Music. Oct. 11, 8 p.m.,

The fourth-generation musician is stopping in Columbia and bringing his southern bluesy rock with him. Aaron Lee Tasjan will open. Nov. 2, 8 p.m., The Blue Note, $20, general

Cafe Berlin, $10, 441-0400

admission, $25, balcony, 884-1944

Mr. Benjamin and the Fun Band

2019 Fall Conservatory Concert

Singer Benjamin Hook will be performing with other Columbia musicians to benefit the Creative Kids Scholarship fund at the Atelier. The scholarship provides arts-integrated education to kids. Oct. 13, 11 a.m. to

The Missouri Symphony Conservatory is the largest music education program for children in mid-Missouri. Come listen as the young virtuosos showcase their skills.

2 p.m., Rose Music Hall, free, 874-1944

18, 882-3781

Nov. 11, 7 p.m., Missouri Theatre, $10; free under

Aiming for Enrike with Umami Welcome the promises of a thrilling night, and immerse yourself in a bizarre universe with Aiming For Enrike, a musical duo from Oslo, Norway, and Umami. Oct. 17, 8 p.m., Cafe Berlin, $8, 441-0400

Nov. 3, 3:30 and 7 p.m., Murry’s, $20–46, 4493009, ext. 1

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SoDown Ehren River Wright brings his own flair to the world of electronic music. The DJ and saxophonist will be performing as part of his Trilogy Tour.

Electro artists Megan Hamilton and Since Juleye will open. Nov.

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$10, advance, $12, day

Yellow Dog Bookshop continues its reading series The Next Weather. Each edition features a new duo of writers willing to share their work. October’s readers are poet Matt Hart and author Donald Quist. Oct. 8, 7:30 p.m., Yellow Dog

of, 874-1944

Bookshop, free, 442-3330

8, 9 p.m., Rose Music Hall,

Escape Room: Trapped in the Chamber of Secrets Columbia Public Library is turning its studio into Hogwarts for a breakout room experience where brain power is the only magical tool you’ll need to escape. Oct. 12, 9:30–10:30 a.m.; 11 a.m.–noon; 1–2 p.m.; 3–4 p.m., Columbia Public Library, free, 443-3161

Angela Denker

of Red State Christians: Understanding the Voters who Elected Donald Trump is coming to Columbia for a night of discussion. Oct. 24, 6 p.m., Skylark Bookshop, free, 777-6990

An Evening with Andy Offutt Irwin Andy Offutt Irwin is coming to the library for an evening of storytelling fun.

His character-filled solo shows often feature his original songs and whistling. Nov. 11, 7 p.m., Columbia Public Library, Friends Room, free, 443-3161

Allen Eskens The Jefferson City native is coming to Skylark to talk about his latest book, Nothing More Dangerous, an Ozark mystery that takes place in the fictional town of Jessup, Missouri. Nov. 29, 6–7:30 p.m., Skylark Bookshop, free, 777-6990

The Missouri School of Journalism alumna, Lutheran pastor and author

Drag Storytime In addition to its events for adult bookworms, Skylark also hosts story time for kids. Head over for a special October edition of Drag Storytime, where drag queens read children’s books aloud to young readers (and soon-to-be readers).

Skylark hosted its first Drag Storytime in April when drag queens Autumn Equinox, Beatrice Adams and Amanda Lay read books such as The Day the Crayons Quit and Princesses Wear Pants. “We’ve lost count of how many Drag Storytimes we’ve held now, because we’re always having waaaay too much fun to keep count,” according to Skylark’s website.

This time, the queens will read Halloween-themed selections. Come one, come all in costumes galore. Oct. 19, 1 p.m., Skylark Bookshop, free, 777-6990

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Arts

Baby It’s Cold Outside Painting Class

Puerto Rican or American “enough,” her “Flagged” exhibition contemplates the confusion around these identities. Oct. 14,

Head over to Cottonwoods RV Park for the “Baby It’s Cold Outside” paint and sip class. Art materials are included with your ticket; wine, beer and snacks available for purchase. Nov. 23, 3–6 p.m.,

4:30–6:30 p.m., George Caleb Bingham Gallery,

Cottonwoods RV Park, $20, 888-303-3313

free, 882-3555

The Child Within Art Show Ever looked at a piece of abstract art and thought a child could’ve made it?

We relate. The Columbia Art League collected works by students at Locust Street Elementary School. Adult artists then recreated the pieces to infuse magic with maturity. Through Oct. 31, Columbia Art League, free, 443-8838

October Exhibit From Devin McDonald’s earthy ceramics to Fred Stonehouse’s surrealist pieces, Sager Braudis’ monthly exhibit has a bit of art for everyone. Oct. 1 to 26, 11 a.m. to

Sager Braudis’ November exhibit features artists from around the world, including Metra Mitchell’s “psychologically-charged dramas” and the work of Siberian-born Albert Janzen. Oct. 29 to Nov. 23, 11 a.m. to 6 p.m., Sager Braudis, free, 442-4831

Art Uncork’d: Pour Painting Pour wine in a cup while you fill your canvas with paint. The Columbia Art League offers a slew of wine and art classes at Art Uncork’d, but this November you can pour your heart into the event’s abstract style. Nov. 8, 5:30–7:30 p.m., Columbia Art League, $25, nonmembers; $20, members, 443-

6 p.m., Sager Braudis, free, 442-4831

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“Static Gifs for Broken Musicians” Art Show

High Plains Jamboree Exhibition

Run by arts nonprofit Dismal Niche, the Columbia Experimental Music Festival includes the fittingly named art show “Static Gifs for Broken Musicians.” In between attending concerts at the festival, stop into Resident Arts in the North Village Arts District to admire Nick and Erin Potter’s experimental artwork. Oct. 4, 5–7 p.m., Resident Arts, 303-7195

Explorations In Color: Artist Q&A The artists behind this exhibition at Montminy Gallery will participate in a Q&A to discuss their creative processes. Artists include painters Jenn Wiggs and John Fennell and photographer Scott Patrick Myers. Oct. 13, 1 p.m., Montminy Gallery, free, 443-8936

Vanessa Viruet Artist Talk Vanessa Viruet says she feels like she’s straddling a border. Not quite queer,

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Two artists from Lubbock, Texas, bring to light the dualism of West Texas’ expansive natural beauty and its fading landmarks with sincerity and sarcasm. Oct. 21 to Nov. 14, George Caleb Bingham Gallery, free, 8823555

Veronica Watkins Ceramics Exhibit

Salvador Dalí Exhibit

One person’s trash is another person’s jewelry. In this Columbia Art League class, learn to turn broken necklaces into new pieces and create wearable bracelets from yarn scraps. Oct. 17 to Nov. 21, Thursdays,

The 20th-century Spanish artist is remembered for getting weird, and you can too with Dalí’s Memories of Surrealism collection from the ’70s. From crutches to elephants, he used objects to challenge viewers’ perceptions. Known for his iconic mustache and surrealist pieces, Dalí left his mark on artistic movements across the globe and in Columbia. The Tiger Hotel has several Dalí pieces in its lobby, and the Museum of Art and Archaeology will show a set of his lithographs. Nov. 5 to Feb. 23, Tue.–Fri., 9 a.m. to

6–8 p.m., Columbia Art League, $145, nonmem-

4 p.m.; Sat.–Sun., noon to 4 p.m. Museum of

bers; $125, members, 443-8838

Art and Archaeology, free, 882-3591

Watkins turns the home into an art space by crafting bowls, pitchers, and salt and pepper shakers. The Missouri native will exhibit in Columbia starting this November. Nov. 18 to Dec. 14, Greg Hardwick Gallery, free, 875-7517

Lost and Found Jewelry class

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How to hot pot Get all the whats and wheres of this classic Chinese dish.

BY EMMY LUCAS There’s a popular saying in China, “everything can be solved by one hot pot; if not, it can be solved by two.” This speaks to the importance of this traditional dish in Chinese culture. Hot pot involves plates of ingredients and a simmering pot of broth, but what do you do with them? This guide will help novices know how to try this classic dish and provide pros some ideas to try.

What is hot pot?

Hot pot is a communal dining experience where everyone shares one pot of cooking broth and takes turns adding ingredients. The dish reflects a dining custom that dates back thousands of years in China where families and strangers alike eat together and socialize as they dine. According to a 2018 article in the South China Morning Post, hot pot’s origins aren’t clear, but it developed differently in different regions — from the spicy, numbing broth of Szechuan to the gentle, fragrant tastes from Jiangsu.

How to order hot pot?

To start, decide on a soup base and ingredients. Min Wang, the quality inspector of Taste Place on North Stadium Boulevard, says it is important to consider which ingredients will give your broth the flavor and spiciness you prefer. The broths are usually served with customers choosing the flavors they want; For instance, Taste Place offers over eight Ready-to-cook ingredients for hot pot are served on small plates.

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bases on its menu. The ingredients of hot pot are brought to the table raw.

The selections include different meats, vegetables and noodles. Some classic ingredients include sliced meats, cabbage, mushrooms, rice noodles and potatoes At Taste Place, each ingredient comes to your table on a separate plate.

Tao Tan, a Taste Place customer, says her favorite is a seafood combination of fish tofu and fish balls with a spicy fish-based broth. Her husband, Jon Zhang, says he chooses more vegetables for his hot pot.

Dipping sauce is the finishing touch.

Sesame oil and sesame sauce are popular.

The price of hot pot varies depend on your choice of broths and ingredients.

For instance, on Seasoning 63’s menu, they serve different ingredient combinations and the price starts at $11.99.

How to cook and eat hot pot?

Now, it’s time to actually cook the dish.

You add the ingredients to the boiling broth that sits on a warmer built into the table. Here is a little trick: Put cabbage,

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CHECK IT OUT Taste Place 215 N. Stadium Blvd., Tues.–Thurs., 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Fri.–Sat., 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.; Sunday, 11:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Closed Monday.

lettuce and spinach in last as they take less time to cook. Once your ingredients are cooked to your liking, take them out and dunk them in your dipping sauce.

A benefit of eating hot pot with others is socialization. It’s a perfect time to

chat with friends and family. For Zhang and Tan, hot pot is their weekly tradition. “We like taking the time to enjoy it, whether it’s a holiday, family visiting or whatever,” Tan says. “It’s nice to sit down and enjoy a long meal.

Szechuan House 22 N. Ninth St., Sun.–Thurs., 11 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Fri.–Sat. 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m.

Seasoning 63 2513 Old 63 S. Sun.–Thurs., 10:30 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.; Fri.–Sat., 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Enoki mushrooms, fish balls, fish tofu, lettuce and rice noodles cook in a hot, spicy fish broth at Taste Place for the traditional Chinese dish hot pot.

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LSD’s 92-year-long trip After nearly a century, Columbia still has the munchies for East Campus’ Lee Street Deli.

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he white house has been sitting on the corner of Lee Street and Wilson Avenue for 92 years. A red wall and two white-framed windows break up the house’s siding. It blends in with the surrounding East Campus homes, save for the pitched-roof sign reading “LSD” for Lee Street Deli. Ring the doorbell next to the window, and there’s co-owner Nicole Muirhead ready to take your order.

Nicole and her husband, Will Muirhead, had both logged years of service in the food industry when they bought the deli in February 2015 from David Jatho. Jatho had been one in a long line of owners throughout the deli’s ten decades; each brought their own flair.

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saw untapped potential in it.

Opened in 1927, the Lee Street Shop began as a local corner grocery store. Sandwiches were only sold as secondary items. Over the years, it gradually shifted away from selling household items and toward being an eatery in its own right. The shop had a reputation as a staple in the community, though not one that necessarily made a profit.

“When we first came in, it was pretty much a failing business,” Nicole Muirhead says. At the time, the set menu only offered cold cut sandwiches cooked on a panini press or in a microwave. “We needed it to be a money maker; we have four kids.”

The Muirheads stuck with the existing psychedelic references, sprinkling them throughout the eatery even as they

Operated out of the basement of a house, Lee Street Deli has evolved from a corner store into an eatery.

The owners are in the process of getting a permit for an awning over the patio.

began to make updates and upgrades.

They extended the deli’s weekend hours and installed a new grill. They added a “build-your-own element” to the menu with a list of “freebies” that can be added to any dish.

In January, the owners obtained a license to sell packaged alcohol. They even carry 12-packs of White Claw hard seltzers.

Tim Waid has been visiting Lee Street Deli since he was a child in the late 1960s. Waid, chairman of the East Campus Traditional Neighborhood Association, says the Muirheads are keeping the spirit of this old neighborhood gem alive. The business is returning to its corner store roots by selling cigarettes, cigarillo wraps and Juul pods.

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classic juicy burger: LSD’s version of a sloppy joe.

One thing that has definitely changed is the deli’s growing popularity.

With business on an upswing at the start of the school year, it became clear that the space needed a reconfiguration. After being outside-dining-only for a couple of weeks, the interior is now reopened with a new layout. For crowd control purposes, the owners will close it off on especially busy days, Muirhead says.

MU senior and East Campus resident Alex Hackworth says he appreciates the indoor option. “I really value community, and I think being inside, watching your food get made, being able to interact with other college students whenever you’re there is part of the community experience,” Hackworth says.

“Traditions are modified, [but] they never go away; it’s still the original house, the original location, the original name,” Waid says. “It’s a great symbol of the East Campus lifestyle.”

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Rhinestones in the rough COMO Flea Swap’s vendors value items that are bizarre, nostalgic and everything in between.

BY HANNAH MCFADDEN Under the pop-up tents protecting them from the bright Missouri sun, vendors line the paved COMO Flea Swap path.

They wait behind folding tables covered with antiques, crystals, artwork, resale jewelry and vintage clothes. As soon as customers start trickling in through the parking lot in search of sales, the vending games begin.

“Some of these guys do it as a hobby,” says COMO Flea Swap founder Craig Halliburton. “Some do it as a side business. Some people do it to clean out the garage. Some of these people are almost like family, I’ve seen them so much.”

On a lunch break in early 2017, Halliburton, at that time a flea vendor who sold around the state, took a wrong exit off a roundabout and ended up on Wagon Trail Road. To the right of the road was an abandoned trailer park. “I said, ‘man, that’d be a good place for a flea market,’” he says. “I started coming out here and just kind of looking around.” He struck a rental agreement with the owner, tidied up the property and opened COMO Flea Swap in September 2017.

At the start, sometimes only one or two vendors would be at the market.

Now, two years later, COMO Flea Swap averages 25 to 30 vendors per weekend, and the diverse collection of vendors peddle unexpected, odd and beautiful wares.

COMO flea swap has gems galore, antiques and more. “I don’t limit people to what they can bring,” founder Craig Halliburton says.

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Taking up the mantle

Wolfe the woodworker

Bolin’s boxes full of history

Vendor: Lori Mantle Products: Resale and antiques Years vending at flea markets: 5 Her introduction to vending: “My mom had a booth in an antique mall, so I started with booths,” she says.

A love for antiques is in Lori Mantle’s DNA. After watching her mom vend indoors, Mantle took up the trade and began selling her own assortments outside.

Today she keeps china plates, ornate jewelry boxes and other antiques lining her booth’s tables, but what she really loves is the unusual finds. “I’d rather have it unique than antique,” she says.

At the front of her booth, a life-size plastic skeleton in a cage lies in wait. When customers walk by, the skeleton’s motion sensors make it scream and shake, and Mantle laughs when it goes off.

Only feet away from the skeleton is Mantle’s favorite item she’s selling this weekend, a bathroom set with a toilet seat, tissue box holder and soap pump all decked out in seashells. The set is an antique, but Mantle doesn’t limit herself to what she can resell. As long as it fits in her range of strange, she’ll add it to the collection in hopes that someone will be “tickled” by it, she says.

Vendor: Freddie Wolfe Product: Original woodwork Years vending at flea markets: 10 How to vend: By bargaining. “You go up high and always come back down,” he says.

Freddie Wolfe is a woodworker who goes with the flow. He constructs whatever’s on his mind and is patient enough to wait for a sale. That’s the beauty of selling homemade creations at a flea swap. It’s all on his terms.

“I just get up every morning and start doing it,” he says with a laugh. “I don’t have no certain pattern.” He makes picture frames, benches, swings and more. “You name it, and I try to make it,” he says.

Wolfe began selling at COMO Flea Swap last year. His daughter went to Moberly Senior High School with Halliburton, and she recommended that Wolfe sell his woodwork at COMO Flea Swap. Now, he only vends at this market.

“It’s sort of like family coming down here,” Wolfe says. “You get to know a lot of people.”

The woodwork is not resale or antique, but it’s welcome at the swap all the same.

While Wolfe is selling, a passing customer admires a small wooden well covered in flowers at the front of his booth. She asks if he made it himself. “Yes, ma’am,” he responds.

“This is gorgeous,” she says. “Wish I had a yard to put it in.”

“I wish you did too,” he responds politely.

He gives her a price just in case, but she leaves without the ornate little well.

“You have good, and you have bad,” he says. In Wolfe’s world of vending, selling is all a matter of being being patient and adaptable to whatever life throws.

Vendor: Kamie Bolin Products: Resale and antiques Years vending at flea markets: 1 Oddest encounter: At a swap that sells farm animals, she saw a man carrying a rooster under one arm and guinea fowl under the other. As he walked, his pants started to slip. “He was not dropping those birds, and he was going to let those pants drop first,” she says.

During the week, Kamie Bolin works as the office manager of the mail orders department at Burgers’ Smokehouse in California, Missouri. On the weekends, she travels around the state with her husband, Todd Bolin, to sell at flea markets. It adds to their income, and it’s a shift they adore.

The Bolins started vending in 2018. Todd Bolin needed a change from his car sales job, so he now visits auctions and rummage sales full time to find pieces to sell. Kamie Bolin likes to take resale one step further. She loves to see new life breathed into resale treasures.

“Everything’s so disposable now, and we’re losing a lot of our history with each generation,” she says. “There’s a purpose for everything.”

She holds up a pair of burlap rice bags.

“People want these to hang on their walls,” she says. “The graphics are just so cool. When I was a little girl, I grew up on a farm and we used these burlap bags time after time.” The rice bags are personal, but her husband often brings historic items to the booth too.

“We bought a box of linens at an auction, and there were four unused ballot bags from the Truman and Dewey election,” she says. Someday, she’d love to complete the set by finding the matching election pins. Then, the historic pieces would be united again.

WHAT’S IN A NAME The true origin of “flea market” is lost in history, but some people say the term comes from the French word “le marché aux puces,” meaning “market of fleas,” from the dirty reputation of 19th-century bazaars. Others say it stuck when French merchants were forced to move their shops due to new city plans. Some say it comes from 1700s New York’s outdoor “Fly Markets.”

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Still growing strong Three months after its dedication, the new Agriculture Park is kale-ing it with developments.

BY DANIELLE PYCIOR

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n Saturday mornings, there’s an echo of children playing, adults chatting and produce vendors making sales off Ash Street.

Several months after the completion of the Agriculture Park’s first phase in July, the attendance at the Columbia Farmers’ Market keeps growing.

The market now stands in its new residence, the MU Health Care Pavilion in the park. With 98 vendor stalls, a nearby children’s playground and a stronger-than-ever community atmosphere, the park has become a destination in and of itself.

Farmers market assistant Haley Gronniger says attendance doubled at the new location.

The Columbia Farmers’ Market has 98 stalls.

“It’s just really cool that the market finally has a home,” market assistant Haley Gronniger says.

Now that the new space has opened, the number of people coming each week has doubled, Gronniger says. On Saturdays during the summer season, attendance reaches nearly 5,000 people. She

says the facility is more accessible and inviting now and thinks “people are enchanted by the idea that it will continue to be more.”

The park will become “more” as the second phase looks to bring more changes and updates. In October, the Columbia Center for Urban Agriculture

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will host its annual Harvest Hootenanny, and some of those proceeds will benefit the programs that will be held at the Agricultural Park, according to CCUA development director Adam Saunders.

The second phase also includes 50% tax credits, which means if someone donates $500, they will get $250 back in tax credits from the state.

Though members of the community are happy about the new space, one complaint remains — parking availability. The vendors and market employees say it’s the only criticism they’ve heard, but they’ve heard it a lot. Tom Schmeer has been coming to the farmer’s market for over a decade now. Although he loves the new facility and its improvements, he says older people tend to avoid it on Saturdays when most of the vendors are there because of the lack of accessible parking.

Gabe Huffington, park services manager for Columbia Parks and Recreation, says that predicting the right amount of parking has been difficult.

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“We wanted it to be a busy place, but now we’re trying to improve the experience,” he says.

The first phase included development on the pavilion, a greenhouse, demonstration farm, classroom and walking trail, according to the Agriculture Park’s website. In the next phase, more parking will be available along with an expanded pavilion and an event, kitchen and resource center. Gronniger is excited to see the next phase as

The Columbia Farmers’ Market will host a variety of workshops in October from growing garlic to overwintering.

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well as the community space continue to develop.

Once it’s up and running, the urban farm will grow around 50,000 pounds of produce annually, which will be donated to food banks. People can also purchase produce with food assistance benefits such as SNAP. “This is a project that not a lot of other communities in the United States have done,” Huffington says. “We took something, put it out there as an idea, and it has turned into a very successful project. As we continue to build on it, it’ll be a model for how people view urban farms, gardens and agriculture within an urban environment.”

Huffington says that the Agriculture Park is much more than a regular park because it not only brings people together to learn and grow with one another, but it also helps facilitate a healthier economy. From learning new skills to supporting local business owners, the agriculture park is the epitome of a community space.

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2019 Museum/Archaeology Day Dig up some excitement as Columbia’s Museum of Art and Archaeology showcases interactive presentations with music, pottery and more. Look for booths by the Confucius Institute and the Missouri Folk Arts Program.

Oct. 5, 1–3 p.m., Mizzou North, free, 882-3591

TO-DO LIST

Your curated guide of what to do in and around Columbia this month.

DON’T MISS IT Hartsburg Pumpkin Festival

Oktoberfest in Hermann Embrace the Midwest’s German roots at the famous Hermann Oktoberfest. Located an hour east of Columbia, the annual tradition attracts thousands of tourists. Music, pretzels and a whole lot of beer: We rest our case.

Oct. 5–28, all day, Hermann, free, 486-2744

Hartsburg’s population might be a mere 105, but it sure knows how to draw a crowd. This fall festival feature shows, a cutest baby contest, the annual parade and lots of pumpkins.

Oct. 12 and 13, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Hartsburg, free, 808-1288

Sensory-Friendly Touch-a-Truck Emergency and specialty vehicles of all shapes and sizes show up with lights on and horns blaring for the classic Tons of Trucks event. But all that commotion can

be overwhelming for children prone to sensory overload. That’s why Columbia Parks & Recreation is hosting Sensory-Friendly Touch-a-Truck, a smaller and quieter version, so that everyone can join the fun.

Oct. 9, 4–7 p.m., Cosmo Park, free, 874-7460 Homecoming When we say M-I-Z, you say Z-O-U. It’s Homecoming, Tigers. Keep up the tradition that started in 1911 when MU celebrated the world’s first homecoming. There are plenty of ways to get in on the action, from the talent show, to Campus Decs, and, of course, the Homecoming football game versus Ole Miss.

Oct. 9–12, parade downtown; game at Memorial Stadium, individual game tickets, $60–241, 882-6611 COMO Game Jam VI You’ve won Monopoly, you’ve kicked butt at Yahtzee, you’re a pro at the Game of Life, and now you can take on the task of creating a game of your own. This event

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offers tabletop and video game enthusiasts the chance to envision, pitch and create their own games over the course of a weekend. Participants can even spend the night so the fun really doesn’t have to stop.

Starts Oct. 18 at 6:30 p.m., ends Oct. 20 at 4 p.m., Columbia College, free, 819-9637 Halloween Movies in the Park Regardless of what society might say about “age limits” for trick-or-treating, we all know you’re never too old to get in the spooky spirit. Enjoy the beloved Disney Channel movies Halloweentown and Halloweentown 2 screened in the great outdoors. Chairs and popcorn will be provided.

Oct. 28, 6 p.m., Indian Hills Park; Oct. 30, 6 p.m., Auburn Hills Park, free, 874-7460 Swimming Trunks and Treats Are you excited for Halloween and trick or treating, but not quite ready to let go of the summer season? Then Columbia Parks and Recreation Department’s Swimming Trunks and Treats is the event for you. Come in wearing your costume but bring your swimsuit to enjoy Halloween games and a photo booth. Oct. 30, 5:30–7:30 p.m., ARC swimming pool, register in advance, $6, $5, kids age 8+, 874-7700

DON’T MISS IT Kids Helping Kids Day Before your kids stock up on free candy this month, they can help prepare meals for children in need. On Kids Helping Kids Day, children ages four and up can spend two hours of their day packaging food for others.

Oct. 19, 9–11 a.m.; noon to 2 p.m., Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri, free, 447-6609

FOOD Pets and Pancakes Giving to charity can be as easy as eating a pancake and designing a T-shirt. This fun-filled fundraiser supports the Central Missouri Humane Society. You get to feel good while filling up and walk out sporting your new shirt.

Oct. 4, 5:30–7 p.m., One to One Print Shop, donations accepted, 397-6119

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Rocheport Doughnut Festival From doughnut tossing to axe throwing, this doughnut-and-music festival offers it all. Local acts including The Comancheros and the Burney Sisters will perform while you chow down on sweet treats. Participate in Saturday’s bike ride so you’ll have an excuse to eat some more.

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Halloweenie The whole family can have fun and romp the streets of downtown Columbia at the District’s annual Halloweenie event. Children can flaunt their costumes and stop in at participating businesses, marked by a colorful flyer, for free candy.

Oct. 25, 4–6 p.m., 11 S. Tenth St., free, 442-6816

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Rock Bridge Revenge Skirting around Devil’s Icebox trail, the Rock Bridge Revenge race might look daunting to some, but trained runners need not fear.

Choose a 7-mile, 25K or 50K race and test your limits.

Oct. 5, 7 a.m., Rock Bridge State Park, Billy Gilbert Shelter, $35–40, 446-0717 Flats Trail Half Marathon Who says running has to be a bore? The Flats Trail Half Marathon goes up north and features some of the most beautiful Missouri landscapes.

Wander through forests and plains on the ninth annual race.

Oct. 12, 8:30 a.m., Thousand Hills State Park, Kirksville, register in advance, $50, 660-626-2213 Bear Creek Run Half Marathon If you enjoy long walks under the colorful autumn trees, sign up for the Bear Creek Run Half Marathon. The 13.1-mile run and walk goes through a scenic mid-Missouri trail. The first man and woman to finish win $100 each.

Oct. 19, 6:30 a.m. packet pickup; 8 a.m. race kickoff, Albert-Oakland Park, Bear Creek Trail, register in advance, $55, 874-7460 Women’s Basketball — Missouri Tigers vs Truman State It might be just an exhibition match, but there’s no reason not to come show some love to the MU women’s basketball team before the season starts in November.

Oct. 24, time TBA, Mizzou Arena, $5–8, single game ticket, 882-6501 Night of the Living Shred Skateboard Competition Teens, choose tricks over treats this Halloween. Contestants ages 13 and up can put on their best costumes and helmets to compete for the highest ollie, longest manual and best individual beginner and advanced tricks. Totally rad.

Oct. 26, 4–7 p.m., Douglass Park, free, 874-7460

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Fall colors PHOTOGRAPHY BY YANCHEN LIU We all know leaves change color in autumn. But do you know the science behind it? Leaves have yellow and orange pigments all year long, but they’re invisible under the green that covers them.

The green appearance is caused by chlorophyll in the leaves that helps convert light into energy through photosynthesis. Once the chlorophyll breaks down due to the change of daylight and temperature in autumn, the green fades out, exposing the bright color underneath. This crimson beauty stood out against the mulch at the Memorial Union Annual Garden on the first day of fall.

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