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Down Martini

Barrel 31 trades martinis for whiskey in Union Hill.

artini Corner is not a pair of words I’m ever eager to pronounce. Not because I have a problem with the bars and restaurants along the Union Hill block that goes by that name. I don’t. I just find the name too aspirational, too contrived, too inaccurate — Red Bull being more essential than sweet vermouth to these establishments’ bottom lines. Which, you know, whatever. Red Bull’s too fancy for me sometimes. The name Martini Corner came from Chris Seferyn, who throughout the 1990s and early aughts pioneered a mini-nightlife district just east of the intersection of 31st Street and Gillham. It started with the Velvet Dog, in 1994. Then there was Empire Room. Buddha Bar. Dragonfly. Café Trocadero. Mint. All had different concepts, but if there was a through-line, it was about trying to emulate ostentatious nightlife ideas popular in Las Vegas, Los Angeles and New York during the go-go ’90s and pre-recession ’00s. The Velvet Dog billed itself as a “martini lounge.” Empire Room started out as a “movie house/martini bar.” Mint, a successor to Empire Room before the space reverted to being Empire Room (it’s complicated), was a “fashion lounge.” (“People are going to enter through the back door like in L.A.,” Seferyn hilariously told Hearne Christopher Jr. of Mint, in a 2008 Kansas City Star gossip column.) I don’t think anybody ever knew what the fuck Dragonfly was. Those concepts have aged about as well as a Sex and the City episode, which is why it was no huge blow when the Dog suddenly closed last October. Seferyn has apparently skipped

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town, though nobody wants to say so on the record. Six bars are now on the block: Besides Empire Room, there are the sportsy Tower Tavern, the German beer-and-sausage joint Haus, wine-and-martini bistro the Drop, and beachy Baja bar Sol Cantina. Also, as of last week, there is Barrel 31. Chris Ridler owns the Drop, Sol Cantina and Barrel 31. He is more or less the new Seferyn, but his territory isn’t Martini Corner. An effort is under way to rebrand the block and get away from that name. It’s a quiet effort, though. “There’s been some conversations about what Union Hill is and where our concepts fit into that,” is the most interesting thing I could get Ridler to say on the topic. I’m not sure how you get people to stop calling a nightlife district one thing and start calling it another — my vote would be to call

Whiskey, neat and otherwise this one simply “Union Hill” — but perhaps it starts with changing the tone of the places doing business within it. That seems to be Ridler’s goal with Barrel 31, a whiskey-centric gastropub that opened in the Velvet Dog space (400 East 31st Street) last week. His new place offers something on the order of 80 whiskeys, including what the menu calls “Seldom Seen” rarities such as Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select ($25 a pour), Elijah Craig 20-year Single Barrel ($23), and Aberfeldy 21-year Single Malt ($30). The food is reasonably priced pub fare, with dishes like duck-fat fried chicken and bourbon-barbecue pork sliders. I stopped in twice during its first week. The remodel, at least, is impressive. Velvet Dog was just plain gross at the end — I remember, the

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last time I visited, not only vowing never to return but also questioning the life decisions that had led me through its doors. I felt no such inner turmoil at Barrel 31, which has scrubbed off Velvet Dog’s broken dreams. Apart from a highly questionable painting of a dude smoking a joint, the décor is smart: a lot of wood and exposed brick, and chandeliers with silver-dipped light bulbs. We wanted to taste some whiskeys, so our server recommended one of Barrel 31’s eight whiskey flights. Choosing the $11 Bootlegger was on me, but I didn’t put it together, until the tray arrived, that I had asked for moonshine. I ended up pouring all but a sip of the Backwoods Habanero shot into my water glass and pushing it to a far corner of the table. If I could do it over again and was flush, I’d go for the Stormin’ the Castle (Knappogue 12-year, 14-year and 16-year, $20). The “Hand Crafted Heavy Pours” (a corresponding asterisk on the menu warns that “having more than one may lead to an unexpected loss of clothing” — groan) are serviceable. My Curl Up & Rye (Rittenhouse, absinthe moonshine, aromatic bitters, big ice cube) was superior to my companion’s “Down & Dirty Old Fashioned,” which was several notches below what you’d get at a place like Westport Café or Grünauer. But that’s the end of my quibbling. Barrel 31 is a major improvement over the Velvet Dog, and I suspect it will be good for business everywhere else on the block — whatever everyone finally agrees to call the block.

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y 2020, Kansas City’s downtown may more resemble a neighborhood than a business center. “I’d say it already is,” says Kansas City, Missouri, City Councilman Ed Ford, whose district once included downtown. “We have more residents and probably less jobs than we did 10 years ago. I think we’ll see that trend continuing.” Not probably. Definitely. Downtown Kansas City lost 16,000 jobs between 2001 and 2011, despite City Hall’s pouring billions of dollars into sprucing up the once-seedy core. Much of the employment loss is attributed to an aging stock of office buildings in the south loop, from which companies have fled in large numbers.

town: New construction and old-building rehab are devoted to creating new places to live. This glut of new projects, both proposed and under way, has risen from the need for living spaces in a market in which the existing apartments are virtually all leased. These projects include massive new construction, such as Cordish Co.’s 25-story luxury apartment high-rise in the heart of the Kansas City Power & Light District and the more modest 24-unit complex along Gillham Road near 37th Street. Longtime River Market developer George Birt is planning something in the middle: a $15 million, 137-apartment dwelling at Fourth Street and Wyandotte. Birt picked the spot in part due to its relative proximity to the start

Kansas City, Missouri, City Council members are stridently behind the $100 millionplus starter line as a means of catalyzing downtown development. That’s $50 million a mile, so they had better be right. The investment has been brandished as a means to lessen the future need for tax incentives on new projects. “It should,” Ford says. “We approved that new downtown hotel without tax abatements.” Ford is referring to the 10-story hotel that Tennessee’s Chartwell Hospitality plans to build at 16th Street and Baltimore. Chartwell declined what otherwise would likely have been a hefty incentive package from City Hall, prompting a seemingly incredulous

of people earning between $40,000 and $60,000, but the bulk of your workforce are those in the $20,000 to $30,000 range — teachers, bank tellers, policemen. Spending $1,100 a month in rent is pretty pricey for some people.” One Light is expected to fetch between $950 and $1,800 in rent, translating to about $1.75 a square foot. In bigger cities, high-end apartments fetch more than $2 a square foot. “I don’t think by 2020 that we become a Chicago or Minneapolis, where you can charge over $2 a square foot,” Mouton says. Still, downtown boosters hope for a more cosmopolitan south loop and Crossroads District by that time. They envision a city core populated less by men in pinstriped suits and women in pantsuits and more by city dwellers wearing Chuck Taylors and maybe students from a proposed University of Missouri–Kansas City Downtown Arts Campus.

Developers lay out their visions for the

Kansas City of tomorrow Parking shortages and outmoded building configurations have made cheaper locales, such as Overland Park’s Sprint Campus, or newly renovated buildings like Union Station preferable to stodgy skyscrapers from the 1960s, like Commerce Tower. But even Commerce Tower’s forthcoming redevelopment illustrates downtown’s changing nature, from a place where lawyers and bankers work behind oaken desks to one that lures a younger generation with after-work outlets for spending discretionary income. Last year, Kansas City Sustainable Partners, a consortium of luminaries including BNIM’s Bob Berkebile, Screenland impresario Butch Rigby and EPR Properties CEO David Brain, bought the 30-story Commerce Tower, at Ninth Street and Main, which was in foreclosure. Instead of trying to lease the increasingly empty building to office tenants, the group plans to convert vacated floors to apartments, build out retail space and renovate some of the offices. Commerce Tower’s move to residential use reflects a larger development pattern down-

by Steve vockrodt of the downtown streetcar line, which he believes will appeal to 20- and 30-somethings. “They’re going to glom on to mass transit,” Birt tells The Pitch. His thinking reflects that of other transit backers, who insist that the two miles of rail under construction will transform the look of downtown by 2020 and beyond. Sean O’Byrne, vice president of the Downtown Council of Kansas City, says the streetcar could help fill empty spaces in those old office buildings along Main Street. One example: City Center Square, at 11th Street and Main, home mostly to plaintiffs’ attorneys, investment bankers, empty floors and Jason’s Deli. “City Center Square was built severely under-parked,” O’Byrne says, referring to the two floors of underground parking serving a 30-story building. “Now you’re going to have a streetcar that goes a mile in either direction that opens up all sorts of parking options.”

story in The Kansas City Star that marveled at the prospect of taxpayer-free downtown development. Yet Chartwell’s project was followed by Cordish’s One Light high-rise, at 13th Street and Walnut, which commanded an $8 million subsidy from City Hall, coupled with a tax abatement. Ford explains Cordish’s subsidy as a means to usher in a higher tolerance for downtown rental rates, which would help bridge the gap between land and development costs and income from tenants. “Next time someone constructs something new, hopefully it can be done without a subsidy,” Ford says. Not everyone is buying that philosophy. “It’s a little tough for some people, especially when you look at the workforce,” says Donovan Mouton, once an aide to former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes who now works as a housing consultant for prospective developers. “You only have x number

Updates on the potential Downtown Arts Campus have been few and far between since Julia Irene Kauffman, daughter of the late KC business mogul Ewing Kauffman, pledged $20 million for the campus’s initial phase of construction, contingent upon UMKC raising $70 million on its own within three years. Bringing the arts campus downtown, along with its 600 students, is viewed as adding another cultural attraction to a downtown that had virtually none a decade ago. “For something like the Cordish tower, you get out and you walk and you have your choice of bars, restaurants, cultural attractions and schools,” O’Byrne says. “It’s worth it to be able to catch a movie or a play and a dinner rather than hop in your car and drive across suburbia to find those amenities that are generally downtown.”

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location: 13th Street and Baltimore PRoject value: $60 million DeveloPeR: NorthPoint Details: The Gotham-style Power & Light Building is one of the city’s most unusual architectural displays and most compelling sights on the downtown Kansas City skyline, but it has housed only an architectural firm on the first floor and pigeons on the rest. New York owner Gailoyd Enterprises has tried to sell it several times in the last three years, but each time the deal has fallen through. NorthPoint has announced plans for turning the building into apartments, contingent upon the city’s help.

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location: 12th Street and McGee PRoject value: $20 million DeveloPeR: Arghom LLC Details: Louis Curtiss, born in Canada the year that the Civil War ended, became an architect in the Midwest. His work earned him the moniker “The Frank Lloyd Wright of Kansas City.” Among the buildings to his name is the Argyle. Parking was always problematic for a residential conversion until City Hall sold developer Jim Wiss a small surface lot and leased 150 parking spaces in a parking garage that municipal employees use. That should help the boarded-up building become about 120 market-rate apartments.

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location: Ninth Street and Main PRoject value: $70 million DeveloPeR: Kansas City Sustainable Development Partners Details: Commerce Tower was left with huge vacancies after the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce and the Kansas City Area Development Council moved to Union Station and KeyBank left for Overland Park’s Sprint campus. The Tower’s Los Angeles owner, Hertz LLC, couldn’t lease or sell the aging, asbestos-laden building, so it fell into foreclosure. A local development consortium wants to refashion it as a “vertical neighborhood,” converting empty offices into apartments and possibly adding some retail to the mix.

location: Seventh Street and Broadway PRoject value: $30 million DeveloPeR: O’Reilly Development Co. Details: Downtown lost one of its more charming aspects when Folgers Coffee shut down its roasting plant on Broadway, thus cutting off the sweet odor of roasting beans that wafted over the city. A Wisconsin company bought the roasting complex with an eye toward a residential conversion but couldn’t garner support for the plan’s affordable-housing component. Now Springfield, Missouri’s O’Reilly Development wants to turn the former coffee plant into market-rate lofts and apartments in downtown’s northwest quadrant.

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location: 10th Street and Grand PRoject value: About $40 million DeveloPeR: YMCA Details: YMCA of Greater Kansas City is trying to raise $40 million to build a new facility. UMB Bank donated a parking lot at 10th Street and Grand for the proposed building. Peter deSilva, UMB Bank president, is leading the fundraising charge. A downtown Y fits with the city’s dream of making the core more like a neighborhood.

location: Troost Avenue, from 22nd to 27th streets PRoject value: $50 million-plus DeveloPeR: Beacon Hill Developers Details: Sixteen years ago, the Beacon Hill neighborhood was supposed to become a harbinger of downtown redevelopment. But money was misappropriated, and Kansas City’s housing program couldn’t get the project started. A joint venture among JE Dunn, Zimmer Real Estate and Taliaferro & Browne has gotten Beacon Hill’s act together. Last year, UMKC started building student housing there to serve the Hospital Hill campus. More apartments are on the way, along with townhouses.

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LoCation: Fourth Street and Wyandotte ProjeCt vaLue: $16 million DeveLoPer: Consolidated Development Partners DetaiLs: Developer George Birt plans to build a 137-unit, high-end apartment project in an empty lot near the headquarters of Populous, one of the early adopters of River Market redevelopment. Birt’s project has the benefit of being new construction, meaning added amenities, such as outdoor balconies, that historic renovation projects typically can’t accommodate.

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LoCation: 13th Street and Walnut ProjeCt vaLue: $79 million DeveLoPer: Cordish Co. DetaiLs: Cordish announced that it will break ground later this month on One Light, a 25-story high-rise, which will replace a curious little parking lot at the northwest corner of 13th and Walnut. Officials anticipate that 450 people will pay top dollar to live at One Light. Cordish is also planning to redevelop the Midland office space, at 13th Street and Baltimore, into high-end apartments, and someday build more living quarters at the Power & Light District’s southern edge along Truman Road.

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LoCation: 18th Street and Walnut ProjeCt vaLue: $22 million DeveLoPer: Alan Waterman DetaiLs: Thomas Corrigan and his brothers were streetcar developers in Kansas around the turn of the 20th century. Some years later, streetcars went out of style in Kansas City, but they’re now back in vogue, with a two-mile downtown starter line under construction just a block from a building named after Corrigan. Developer Alan Waterman has told reporters that the forthcoming streetcar line inspired him to buy the Corrigan Building and refashion it into 80 loft-style apartments.

Location: Generally east of City Hall Project value: $350 million Developer: VanTrust Real Estate, Swope Community Builders Details: The East Village has languished since the city announced plans to replace an empty bus station and seedy hotel with new buildings. JE Dunn built its new headquarters in 2010 and Swope Community Builders finished the East Village Apartments, a 50-unit affordable-housing project, in 2011. But not much else has happened in the proposed eight-block redevelopment. VanTrust, a developer backed by the estate of late auto-dealer magnate Cecil Van Tuyl, has announced rough plans for a large apartment project and a possible office building.

11. Kansas City Marriott Downtown

LoCation: 16th Street and Baltimore ProjeCt vaLue: $46 million DeveLoPer: Chartwell Hospitality LLC DetaiLs: Kansas City elected officials rejoiced, and some development lawyers groaned, when Tennessee’s Chartwell Hospitality rejected incentives for a 250-room hotel. The empty lot has long been considered a contender for a hotel, but developer Whitney Kerr Sr. finally made it a reality. It’s a far cry from the 1,000-room convention hotel that city officials still covet, but it is the first new hotel construction in downtown in decades. Land has been cleared at 16th Street and Main for a parking garage and possible retail development associated with the Marriott.

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13. IKEA LOCATION: Interstate 35 and Johnson Drive PROJECT VALUE: $80 million Developer: IKEA DETAILS: Kansas City’s obsession with IKEA, fueled by the Swedish furniture retailer’s exclusivity, had locals barking at officials across the metro to get a big-box storefront here fast. Merriam landed the seller of meatballs and cheap, build-it-yourself furniture. Good thing for Merriam, too, which prior to landing the massive retailer had developed a reputation as a place where strip-mall dreams go to die. IKEA replaces the embarrassing Merriam Village project: a strip mall built upon a massive retaining wall whose anchor, Circuit City, couldn’t open before the electronic retailer’s 2009 bankruptcy and liquidation. IKEA says it will produce $80 million in sales for Merriam. Completion date: later this year.

14. CERNER CAMPUS AT BANNISTER MALL LOCATION: The old Bannister Mall site at Blue Ridge Boulevard and Bannister Road PROJECT COST: $4.3 billion DEVELOPER: Cerner Corp. DETAILS: Bannister Mall was once a nice attraction in southeast Kansas City but became dilapidated when people stopped shopping there. The blight spread to the surrounding area, becoming a portrait of what dead malls can do to a community. The then-Kansas City Wizards (owned by Cerner principals) were supposed to build a new stadium there, but KCMO officials couldn’t get their act together, and KCK lured the franchise away with a hefty tax-incentive package. But the type of incentive that has Sporting Kansas City playing in KCK is fairly minor compared with the offering that KCMO and Missouri have lent Cerner to build another office expansion at the Bannister Mall site. At least these incentives will clear up the hard-to-remove blight that Bannister Mall left behind. And if Cerner can produce the promised 15,000 jobs, the incentive may pay off.

15. PRAIRIEFIRE LOCATION: 135th Street and Nall PROJECT VALUE: $575 million DEVELOPER: Merrill Companies DETAILS: Every city, it seems, pines for a type of outdoor, all-inclusive lifestyle center. These pricey projects typically include high-end apartments, several blocks of shopping centers, entertainment venues, and on and on. Prairiefire might be one of the largest such projects in the metro area, on 60 acres of land in south Overland Park. In order to obtain STAR bonds — the powerful Kansas inducements that plow state sales taxes back into projects that fetch out-of-town tourists — Fred Merrill Jr. decided to build a museum that would furnish traveling exhibits from the American Museum of Natural History. Other tenants include REI and a Cinetopia Theater abutting Nicklaus Golf Club at LionsGate.

16. EMBASSY SUITES & CONFERENCE CENTER LOCATION: Ridgeview Road and Kansas Highway 10 PROJECT VALUE: $51 million DEVELOPER: Heart of America Group DETAILS: Workers recently broke ground on Olathe’s long-coveted conference center that’s set to open in 2015. The 200-room hotel is one thing for the city, but the adjoining 1,000-person conference room is something that Olathe officials tried to get hotel developer John Q. Hammonds to build on the city’s southern edge. Hammonds couldn’t come up with the money, but Illinois-based Heart of America Group saved the day for Olathe leaders hungry for a place to host seminars, conferences and other large-attendance events. City officials defend the 40 percent public subsidy for the project, saying the city itself won’t own the project. (Overland Park owns and subsidizes its much larger convention center.)

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LOCATION: 135th Street and Metcalf PROJECT VALUE: $270 million DEVELOPER: Mike Schlup DETAILS: Corbin Park was supposed to become the big retail development along 135th Street. But in 2010, Omaha developer Cormac Co. plunged the project into bankruptcy after getting tagged by a long line of mechanic’s liens for unpaid contractor work. Mike Schlup, a developer who went to prison in the 1990s for loan fraud and was busted again in the mid-aughts for not withholding taxes on worker paychecks and employing illegal immigrants, bought the bankrupt retail center in 2011. Corbin Park has been slow to fully develop after anchor tenants Von Maur and J.C. Penney opened their doors. Forthcoming tenants include Scheels and Off Broadway Shoe Warehouse.

18. CITY PLACE

LOCATION: U.S. Highway 69 and College Boulevard PROJECT VALUE: $350 million DEVELOPER: Ken Block DETAILS: Despite all the vehicle traffic traversing the area where College Boulevard, Highway 69 and Interstate 435 roughly meet, one big swath of land has sat empty. A developer back in the 1980s wanted to put an office complex and a hotel there and call it the Galleria, but the project never took off. Like a lot of Overland Park projects, City Place will be an amalgamation of office space, apartments, parking garage, retail and senior housing.

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Broadway Butcher Shop, 3828 Broadway) and a thick slice of nutty Pleasant Prairie cow’s-milk cheese from Skyview Farm and Creamery in Pleasanton, Kansas. Now, I don’t want to brag, but The Pitch staffer who tried my sandwich gave it a good review. “I can’t lie,” he began. “I approached this sandwich with trepidation. I don’t like nuts in my bread. I like my bacon alone, unadulterated. And yet, the flavors in this sandwich came together unexpectedly well. None overpowered another, and while sweet and salty can often combine for an odious result, this sandwich blended it together nicely.” All he needed was some bourbon.

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European roots, and I had to be determined enough to take that next step. “I have a few ideas of what I can do when I move there,” adds Diethelm-Floyd, who holds dual citizenship. “My degree is in hotel and restaurant management. I’d like to stay in some facet of the hospitality industry. I love being around people and developing relationships. That’s been one of the greatest benefits of my years at Boozefish, developing friendships with my customers. That will be the hardest part about leaving.” First, though, there’s the not-easy matter of finding a new owner. Not just any buyer will do. Diethelm-Floyd is proud of the food served at her bistro, and she says it’s time for someone to take the menu to the next level. “This place really needs to have a chef-owner to put his or her own stamp and identity on the place,” she says. “After 12 years, I feel like I need to let someone else have that opportunity.” No buyer has come knocking yet, but Diethelm-Floyd says she’s “not on a serious timeline.” “I don’t need to start packing now. But I want to put the word out there that I’m ready to start the next part of my journey, so that someone who wants to own their own bistro can begin the next step of theirs.”

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don’t think I’m very unique,” Megan Birdsall says. We’re about halfway through our conversation, and so far it has been about something that is, in fact, uncommon: leading a double life. Birdsall is a jazz singer who also fronts a folk-rock project. Writing original music for the latter — MBird, she calls it — has taken up most of her energy lately. She looks comfortable, leaning in a booth at Grinders, but her eyes stay sharp and her often blunt answers come quickly. I have just asked her what kinds of experiences flavor the songs for MBird, and her hand — grasping a forkful of salad — freezes en route to her mouth. “I write about stuff that I think everybody writes about: love and loss and life and death and transitions, balancing between light and dark, growing up,” Birdsall says. “I’ve lived my whole life as an artist. That’s all I’ve been around. I’ve been in life-and-death situaBirdsall: “This is a vehicle to face things tions and experienced that with myself and on my own.” other people, and I’ve seen ups and downs. specific in mind. Over the Bones, the record But I think everybody pulls from those kinds from that period, reflected her new ambiof experiences when they write.” tion, leaning toward gentle alt-country, with It’s fitting that Birdsall doesn’t view her work as anything extraordinary. She grew touches of fiddle, slide guitar and mandolin. The songs that Birdsall and her crew up in a creative family, the daughter of an actor turned voice-over artist (Jim Birdsall, run through in practice are without those a founding member of the Missouri Reper- Southern flourishes. In the years since Over the Bones — in particular since Birsdall’s tory Theatre) and a singing, dulcimer-playing return to Kansas City over the past year — mother (Jeri Birdsall). Her younger sister and she has transformed MBird’s sound into brother, both of whom live in the Kansas something less easily categorized. Smith’s City area, are also musicians. She attended the Boston Conservatory with a triple major guitar playing drifts between blues and jazz, and the Leifers were raised on rock and roll. in voice, theater and dance, and took jazz Birdsall has a mature voice, classes at Berklee College of like a smoother version of Music. MBird Lucinda Williams: dark honey That’s all to say that Birdsall, with DTCV and no rough edges. now 33, is perhaps a more qualiWednesday, “By the time I made it to fied critic than most who claim April 16, at Nashville, I was able to really the profession. Later that evethe Riot Room understand what felt right and ning, at band practice, she’s what didn’t,” Birdsall says. “I casual but firm when she correspected what I was doing without trying rects her MBird bandmates — guitarist to be a star.” Michael Smith, bassist Ben Leifer and his Stardom, she says, is the furthest thing brother, drummer Matt Leifer — when their from her mind. She relays an old joke: tuning is off or the harmonies are out of place. “What’s the difference between rock musiThese are things that aren’t distinct the first time through a song, but the difference is clear cians and jazz musicians? Rock musicians play three chords to a million people, and the second time, the music richer for Birdsall’s jazz musicians play a million chords to meticulous ears. three people.” Birdsall has played to enough Birdsall first released a collection of nonempty rooms to understand that the value jazz tunes as MBird in 2010, four years after of art can’t be measured in audience size. her full-length jazz debut and a few months after she had relocated from Kansas City to Now, her aspirations are simple. “The music is honest,” Birdsall says. Nashville. She hadn’t abandoned jazz — she “It’s not necessarily regular-genre — you returned to her hometown for frequent gigs — don’t hear it and go, ‘Oh, yeah, it’s rock!’ But but she set out for Tennessee with something Zach Bauman

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people feel good when they hear it. Coming here [to Kansas City] for the second time, nobody knew me at all as an original artist here — just for jazz. When they hear about it [MBird], usually the response is, ‘Why didn’t you tell me you were doing this?’ “My interpretation with jazz music comes through improvisation,” she continues. “That’s just musical. Or it’s me channeling my own energy through someone else’s lyrics. But MBird gives me the opportunity to cross genres and put myself in a different situation with different kinds of sounds. It lets me express myself in my own words, which is something that I don’t get to do with jazz music. If we keep playing shows and making records, I’m good with that because that means we’re still writing. I’m a musician, and that’s all there is for me.” She shrugs. All of this is as obvious to her as the weather. Writing is what she cares about most. It gives her room to breathe. “There’s some stuff that’s happened recently, and I can feel it,” she says. “I can feel it in my stomach, right?” She makes two fists, pushes them into her gut. “But I don’t know what I’m gonna say about it yet. And what I say might not have anything to do with what I’m feeling. It’s like a negative image.” Birdsall pauses, reflecting on her analogy. She laughs after a moment, her mind caught on something that she decides not to explain. “The juxtaposition of life is so interesting, and things get turned upside down so quickly,” she says. She smiles. “But this is a vehicle to face things on my own.”

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than 20 years. What’s the glue that keeps you interested in playing with these guys? Well, you know, we love to play music. We’ve taken this band from being just three guys driving around in a band, all the way up to this whole thing with a crew and tax compliance and all that stuff. All that being said, we just love playing music. One thing that I really like about my life right now is that playing gigs is actually easier than it’s ever been. When we were starting out, it was nerve-racking. Now we can go out in front of 20,000 people and say, “Well, it’s just another gig. Just like we did last night.” And we just let it rip.

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J a z z B e at KEllEy Gant EnsEmblE, at thE broadway Jazz Club

Kelley Gant’s website used to read, “Unfortunately, Kelley is not yet a mainstay in the Kansas City jazz scene.” Fortunately, that has been updated. Mentored by Everette DeVan, Gant had co-hosted, with Dionne Jeroue, DeVan’s Tuesdaynight jams at the Phoenix. Now Gant is breaking out with her own group, including expert bassist Bob Bowman and guitarist Rod Fleeman. Twenty years ago, Bowman and Fleeman were backing singer Karrin Allyson in Kansas City and on Grammy-nominated albums. They know how to support a female singer who is becoming — as anyone who hears Gant will understand — a jazz-scene mainstay. —Larry Kopitnik Kelley Gant Ensemble, 9:30 p.m.–1 a.m. Saturday, April 12, at the Broadway Jazz Club (3601 Broadway, 816-298-6316), $5 cover.

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In the five or so years since its debut, Real Estate has done a bit of growing up — and it shows on Atlas, the latest album from the New Jersey natives. The effervescent pop and beach rock of Atlas at times sounds at odds with the band’s despondent lyrics. On multiple songs, frontman and father-to-be Martin Courtney breezily delivers his ruminations on domesticity and laments the inevitability of time. It’s a far cry from the summery stuff that first earned the quintet attention, but it’s unlikely that longtime fans will mind much. What followers should wonder instead is whether Real Estate’s reputation remains deserved for live shows that border on the dreary. Thursday, April 10, Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

JD McPherson

When rockabilly hero JD McPherson rolls into Knuckleheads Tuesday night, he’ll be two days shy of the second anniversary of his debut album’s release. Signs & Signifiers is still the only McPherson album in the bins, and no wonder: McPherson has tirelessly stayed on the road. Not coincidentally, his live show is a thing to behold. A rock-and-roll purist, McPherson lives for the stage, and his shows are riotous affairs that have the same raw energy heard on “Fire Bug,” the 1950s-era single that shot McPherson onto the radio. Live, he’s joined by an excellent backing band that includes Doug Corcoran on saxophone and Jimmy Sutton on bass. Crack open the pomade and polish your dancing boots. Tuesday, April 15, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

Bailiff, Divino Niño

Kansas City gets a taste of Chicago when a trio called Bailiff, specializing in blues-tinged dark rock, takes over Czar. Bailiff’s 2011 debut, Red Balloon, gave off the sweltering, muscular vibe of the Black Keys’ early efforts. It was the sort of thing made to garner label

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Real Estate attention. The band is preparing to release a follow-up full-length this spring; Remise, according to Bailiff’s website, has elements of “West African blues, Celtic folk, and jagged electro-pop.” We’re optimistic anyway. Another Chicago band, garage-rock trio Divino Niño, opens. Friday, April 11, Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300)

Eisley

Currents, the latest by Texas quintet Eisley — made up of three sisters, a brother and a cousin — sounds a bit more dramatic than the earlier material in the family band’s catalog. The album’s songs move up the dial a bit from atmospheric pop rock, eschewing popular electronic elements in favor of a few orchestral flourishes: creepy organ notes, reverberating crescendos, the sirenlike cries of lead singer Stacy DuPree. As the title suggests, a sea theme is at play — and not just because song titles include “Drink the Water” and “Blue Fish.” The whole thing sounds eerily subaqueous, as though someone commissioned the band to create the soundtrack for

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Miley Cyrus

Make way for the little wrecking ball that could. On the off chance that you haven’t already made up your mind about Miley Cyrus — whether she’s leading the Disney Channel generation to the gates of hell or simply saving pop culture from tedium — her Tuesdaynight Sprint Center concert still has a few tickets available. And secretly, deep down, aren’t you a little intrigued? Don’t you want to know how many foam fingers will be desecrated onstage and how many innocent teddy-bear costumes will be defiled? Cyrus’ show is bound to pile shock-value antics on top of party-bus jams, and if there ever was a time to see her, it’s now — before America loses interest and she winds up doing tame country covers. Tuesday, April 15, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

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Thursday | 4.10 |

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

HOBBS OPEN STUDIOS

Barred Meadows , oil paintings by Rachel Gregor | Subterranean Gallery, 4124 Warwick, Apt. B., subterraneangallery.com

PERFORMING ARTS

Nine Forty Classical, pianist Steven Spooner plays Debussy | 7 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, lawrenceartscenter.org

Edgar Degas Pastels | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

COMEDY

Dressed Up | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Carlos Mencia | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867

Village West Pkwy., KCK

dy/nas/ty • Ebony G. Patterson | Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org

The Recess Players Improv Showcase | 10 p.m. The Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Aries Spears | 8 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Kansas City FilmFest | Cinemark Palace at the

Plaza, 500 Nichols Rd., and Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main, kcfilmfest.org

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FRIDAY

Gallery of Art, 5015 Holmes, Room 203

Echoes: Islamic Art and Contemporary Artists | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

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Hobbs Open Studios | 6-10 p.m. Friday and 1-4 p.m. Saturday, 1427 W. Ninth St., hobbsbuilding.com

Nfinity Champions League Cheerleading Event | 7:30 p.m. Cinemark Palace at the Plaza, 500 Nichols Rd., and additional locations, fathomevents.com

The Pitch’s Bacon & Bourbon Festival | 6:309:30 p.m., $25, The Guild, 1621 Locust MUSIC

Arara Azul | 8 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway Archnemesis, Thumpur, Nmezee, Peter Anthony, Azoic Realm | 7:30 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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Adam Faucett and the Tall Grass, Blackwater ’64 | 8 p.m.

Czar, 1531 Grand

Millage Gilbert Big Blues Band | 7 p.m. Danny’s Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.

Jillionaire, Spinstyles | 8 p.m. The Riot Room,

4048 Broadway

The Melodic, Scruffy & the Janitors | 10 p.m.

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

In the Looking Glass: Recent Daguerreotype Acquisitions | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak

Andrea Caspari and Brad Clark and benefiting Hope Lodge of Kansas City | 6 p.m. The Guild, 1621 Locust

The Indie on Main, 1228 Main

George Lopez | 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

Other Faces: Paintings and Drawings by Jane Mudd and Nora Othic | Thornhill

Particle, Freekbass | 10 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737

Carlos Mencia | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy

Open Mic hosted by Red Velvet Crush | 9 p.m.

3700 Broadway

New Hampshire, Lawrence

Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK

Real Estate | 9 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts,

Aries Spears | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

Lawrence

and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Shakey Graves, Esme Patterson | 6:30 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Gallery, Avila University, 11901 Wornall, avila.edu

Polychromatic: An Exhibition in Color, works by Melissa Powlas, Jeanne Rittmueller and Lisa Rogers | Friday-Saturday, Kiosk Gallery, 3951 Broadway

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Ready For Hillary PAC kickoff | 5:30 p.m. La Fonda El Taquito, 800 Southwest Blvd.

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak

Re-Tread: Matthew Dehaemers | Studios Inc., 1708 Campbell, thestudiosinc.org

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Akademie Fur Alte Musik Berlin | 8 p.m. Folly

Kansas City FilmFest | Cinemark Palace at the

Second Friday Troost Art Hop | 6-10 p.m.

MUSIC

This American Life | Fridays and Saturdays, Kemper East, 200 E. 44th St.

Theater, 300 W. 12th St.

Brasil Guitar Duo | 8 p.m. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345

Plaza, 500 Nichols Rd., and Alamo Drafthouse, 1400 Main,kcfilmfest.org

College Blvd., Overland Park

Andre Watts Plays Beethoven | 8 p.m. Kauffman

LITERARY EVENTS

Hamilton Loomis | 7 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon,

Free State Story Slam | 7 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center,

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Comedic Hypnotic, with Brad Meehan, Matt Keck,

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7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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MCC-Penn Valley Student Art Show & Sale

King Parrot, Vattnet Viskar, the Cast Pattern |

COMEDY

Comedy night with Jesse Turney and friends | 7 p.m. The Conspiracy Room at the Uptown Theater,

Old School Party with Lester “Duck” Warner |

Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway

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Hobbs Open Studios | 6-10 p.m. Friday, 1-4 p.m. MBird Songwriter’s Showcase with Megan Birdsall | 8-10:30 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

FOOD & DRINK

Indoor farmers market | 4-6 p.m. Cottin’s Hardware Store, 1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence

History & Hope: Celebrating the Civil Rights Movement | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

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Bailiff, Divino Niño, Andrew Bruns | 6 p.m. Czar,

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Blue October, Architects | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020

Massachusetts, Lawrence

Boogaloo 7 | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Friday, Vibe Tribe Studio, 5504 Troost, troostarthop.com

James Turrell: Gard Blue | Spencer Museum of Art, 1301 Mississippi , Lawrence The Tyranny of Good Taste | La Esquina, 1000 W. 25th St., charlottestreet.org

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The John Keck Band, the Dynamite Defense, Dream Wolf | Coda, 1744 Broadway

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Dates and times vary. A Little More Alive | Starting Friday, Kansas

City Repertory Theatre, Copaken Stage, 13th St. and Walnut, kcrep.org

Bernstein’s Broadway | Musical Theater Heri-

Leering Heathens, David Hasselhoff on Acid | 9:30 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

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Lee McBee and the Confessors | 9 p.m. B.B.’s

Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre Scriptin-Hand: You Can’t Take It With You | 2 p.m.

Oils, Youngest Children, Schwervon | 10 p.m.

Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St.

Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Race | The Living Room, 1818 McGee,

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Schoolhouse Rock: Live | The Coterie Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, coterietheatre.org

MUSeUM exhibiTS & evenTS Thomas Hart Benton Home and Studio State Historic Site Open House | 5-6 p.m.

Friday, 3616 Belleview. mostateparks.com

Citizen Soldiers on the Prairie | Johnson

Striving for Cairo, Tyson Leslie & the Scarlet Letters, Refero, Josey Milner | 6:30 p.m. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

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Doug Talley Quintet with Millie Edwards |

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Thrills and spills geezerdom. After 45 years of marriage to the same woman, the sex has fallen off to zero. We otherwise have a great and comfortable relationship. If I want any at all these days, the only options are masturbation and professional service providers. I was very nervous the first time I paid for sex. Curiously and surprisingly, considering my Christian upbringing, I didn’t feel guilty. I now find the urge gets stronger as the body gets weaker. It seems that as geezerdom takes a full hold, all I think about is pussy, and paid sex has become a regular thing. You stress honesty and communication for a long-term relationship to work. In our case, honesty would mean the end to what is now just a great friendship that provides us both with deeply satisfying companionship. I don’t want to hurt her, but revealing my outside activities would certainly do so. (She thinks men using prostitutes is disgusting.) Any comments from a young gay guy?

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around at the moment, so you’ll have to settle for my lousy advice … Honesty and communication are important, but there are limits. Knowing what to omit and avoid is just as important as honesty and communication. And married people, even longmarried people, get to have their own inner lives, a few secrets they take to the grave, and some zones of privacy and autonomy. But there are limits to those, as well. If your inner life amounts to a double life, that’s a problem. If your secrets place your spouse at risk of grave physical or emotional harm, that’s a problem. If your zones of privacy and autonomy grow so large that your spouse doesn’t know who you are anymore, that’s a problem. But I don’t think what you’re doing is necessarily a problem. If your wife is really and truly content — if she isn’t interested in sex anymore, if you’re not cheating her out of anything she values, if you’re not taking risks with her health, if you’re not depleting your retirement savings to finance your activities — then your visits to sex workers are covered by my standard advice to people in sexless but otherwise solid, loving and fulfilling marriages: Do what you gotta do to stay sane and stay married. You sound like a decent and loving husband. To make sure you’re also a polite and courteous client — for tips on communication, personal hygiene, tipping, and avoiding women who have been trafficked — see savagelovecast.com and listen to episode 387.

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relationships and/or commitments that leave you feeling panicky, annoyed and unfulfilled. As for how to break up with him, there’s no reason to tell him you’re not attracted to him. A person can advocate for herself — and extricate herself from a relationship — without being unnecessarily cruel. Just use the standard-issue little white breakup lies: “I’m not ready for a serious commitment.” “It’s not you, it’s me.” “We’re in very different places right now.” And commit those lies to memory for use on any guy who starts talking about marriage and kids four months into a relationship.

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where I work met up with a dominant gay couple in a regular bar — not a gay bar — during happy hour. They told him to go to the bathroom and strip in a stall. Then one of the guys came in and took his clothing from him. He didn’t know when they would be back or even if they would be back. While he was trapped there naked (and hard), other men were coming in and out. Knowing that other people didn’t know he was in his stall gave my co-worker a big thrill. My problem: This couple and my friend involved other people — without their knowledge or consent — in their little domination game. I say, “Not OK!” We got into a heated argument about it and decided to ask you for a ruling.

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