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Kyle RogeRs and James Flexman F

My sidekick Rogers: My brother, @DrewWRogers. We live

together and go pretty much everywhere together. Luckily, he likes to drive because I like to text/tweet/Knoda. Flexman: My newest sidekick is my 2-monthold daughter, Aria.

My dating triumph/tragedy Rogers: That’s classified. Flexman: My wife, Kallie. And because of

the triumph, we’re lucky enough to have our daughter.

My brush with fame Rogers: Tweeted @Ochocinco in a chain of

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Twitter handle Rogers: @KyleR Flexman: @PacmanJames

both Julian and Collection. I’m looking forward to checking out the Belfry. Flexman: Stroud’s

“I always laugh at …” Rogers: The sneezing panda. Flexman: It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia

Hometown Rogers: Kansas City Flexman: Kansas City

What’s on your KC postcard? Rogers: Union Station, the Kauffman Center,

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” Rogers: House of Cards, Game of Thrones, The

Current neighborhood Rogers: Waldo, walking distance from Lew’s, Remedy and Shot Stop Flexman: Prairie Village

What I do (in 140 characters) Rogers: Dream up ways people can interact

with predictions and spread the word about Knoda to as many as possible. Flexman: I’m an entrepreneur. Every day is different. It’s never boring and always challenging. But I love it.

What’s your addiction? Rogers: Knoda, Twitter and sports Flexman: Oreos. I like them … a lot. What’s your game? Rogers: Soccer Flexman: Golf. I rarely get to play, but I love it. What’s your drink? Rogers: Boulevard Wheat or a smooth gin and

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Flexman: I’m really into wine right now. Where’s dinner? Rogers: Any of Celina Tio’s restaurants. I love

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Flexman: I’m sure I’ve gotten plenty of bad advice in life, but nothing too atrocious comes to mind.

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uture NBA players Nick Collison, Kirk Hinrich and Drew Gooden were just freshmen at the University of Kansas. Kyle Rogers knew that Roy Williams had something special in the three men. “When these guys are seniors, KU is going to win a national championship,” Rogers recalls telling his mother. Rogers, 27, was almost right. The Jayhawks made it to the 2003 NCAA championship game but lost to Syracuse. “She had no remembrance of me saying that to her,” says Rogers, who wondered how he could prove it. About a decade later, Rogers believes that he has found it with Knoda, an app in which users give predictions and others vote for or against them. He and partner James Flexman, 31, quit their jobs with Sporting Innovations last year and started working full time on the app, which hit the iPhone App Store November 29. Users can also make their predictions online at knoda.com. (Knoda’s Android release is slated for March.)

CEO and COO, respectively,

18th and Vine, Sporting Park, Oklahoma Joe’s, Knoda Tower (circa 2020) Flexman: Oklahoma Joe’s gas station

Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” Rogers: City leadership and private sector got together to revitalize downtown. All of today’s momentum stems from that. Flexman: Downtown got revitalized.

Walking Dead Flexman: Football

“I can’t stop listening to …” Rogers: “Counting Stars” by OneRepublic,

“Pompeii” by Bastille, “Do I Wanna Know?” by Arctic Monkeys Flexman: The 1975

“I just read …” Rogers: What the Dog Saw by Malcolm

vated. Baseball should be downtown. Flexman: Downtown didn’t get a new Royals stadium.

Gladwell, The Everything Store by Brad Stone, Hatching Twitter by Nick Bilton Flexman: The Racketeer by John Grisham. Need to take a break from nonfiction business/ startup books from time to time.

“Kansas City needs …” Rogers: To drop the inferiority complex and

The best advice I ever got Rogers: Never underestimate the power of

“Kansas City screwed up when …” Rogers: They let Kauffman Stadium be reno-

start being proud of what we have and who we are. And In-N-Out. Flexman: Flying Burrito. Ten times better than Chipotle but the closest one is in Arkansas.

dry underwear. Thanks, @MossyOakScott (Dad). Flexman: To surround myself with people smarter than me.

“In five years, I’ll be …” Rogers: Sitting in Knoda offices downtown

Worst advice Rogers: You have to go to college to be suc-

debating the costs and benefits of going public. Flexman: Still building cool apps/websites.

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cessful. Not sure anyone explicitly said that to me, but you’re certainly led to believe that. College has value. It can be useful, but it’s not the only way.

events that concluded with him trying out/ training with Sporting KC. Flexman: Met Britney Spears at Disney World when I was in high school.

My 140-character soapbox Rogers: Education is messed up in USA. It’s

too standardized and generic. Should be more analysis, less testing. Maybe someday Flex and I will tackle it. Flexman: Just a quick thanks to the KC community. Too many to name, but everyone has been incredibly supportive throughout the journey so far.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? Rogers: Cussing in front of my mom and

grandma. Oops. Flexman: Screaming in terror and subsequently waking up my wife after opening my 2-month-old daughter’s diaper this morning.

Who’s sorry now? Rogers: Still me. You should have seen Gram-

mie’s face! Flexman: Still me. But not for waking her up. More for having witnessed it. Comes with the territory, though.

My recent triumph Rogers: Working with Flex to get Knoda off the

ground and raise money to go full time. We still have a long way to go, but just getting started is an accomplishment. Flexman: Getting Knoda to this point. Much, much more to be done, but happy to have the initial product to the market and a supertalented team in place.

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n the early part of the last decade, the Kansas Jayhawks played women’s softball on a hardscrabble Lawrence field that looked better suited to an adult beer league than to an NCAA program. The batter’s box faced into the wind, making it hard for sluggers to smack a ball deep into the outfield. Jayhawk Field, as it was known before 2004, was outdated, as were most University of Kansas athletic facilities at the time. Women’s softball is a money-loser, and back then it was a low priority for a KU athletics department hard-pressed to reverse the fortunes of its moribund football program. Without private help, Jayhawk softball would continue playing on one of the worst fields in the Big 12. Along came Cheryl Womack. In 2002, the Mission Hills businesswoman, who graduated from KU in 1975, pledged $2 million toward replacing Jayhawk Field. Two years later, the 800-seat Arrocha Ballpark opened. It’s named after Womack’s father, Demostenes Arrocha, who came to Kansas City, Kansas, from Panama and raised Womack and her 10 siblings there. Womack made her softball pledge the same year that she sold a business she had launched in the early 1980s. The National Association of Independent Truckers fetched $35 million in 2002, including $25 million in cash. The buyer was Sirva Inc., of Illinois. Federal prosecutors now say Womack didn’t pay income taxes on that NAIT sale and has since deployed a number of schemes to dodge other taxes. Indicted in December, she is scheduled for a court hearing January 29. The softball field was among the biggest and most visible contributions to Jayhawk sports from Womack, who would go on to become one of the program’s major boosters. Jim Marchiony, a spokesman for KU athletics, confirms to The Pitch that Womack is a contributor to the Williams Education Fund, a fundraising arm of the university’s sports programs. Womack’s $2 million contribution, plus donations to the university, have helped her make ties with the school’s most prominent figures. She also has helped KU men’s basketball coach Bill Self and former point guard Mario Chalmers with their charities. But she hasn’t always liked the return on her investment. She took Williams Education Fund director Rodney Jones’ son on her private jet to San Antonio to see the 2008 Final Four, knowing that doing favors for Jones could help her get better tickets to KU basketball games. But that assist to Jones didn’t pan out; he was indicted for embezzling from the athletics department, and

Womack’s name is losing value. Womack’s Allen Fieldhouse seats got worse. Womack openly complained about the ticket-theft scandal that engulfed Jones and sent him and others to prison. “What I was looking for as a large donor was someone to tell me how things will be handled going forward and what we can expect,” Womack told The Kansas City Star in 2010. “Instead, we’re being told that the donors were never harmed. How can they say that? We did not have good tickets. I feel like I’m a crumb who’s just been pushed under the rug.” Now Womack has her own worries. Womack hired two local lawyers last week to represent her in federal court. They replace the New York lawyer who initially handled her indictment but couldn’t persuade a judge to let Womack fly to the Cayman Islands to kick-start a trash-to-energy project, which she wanted to launch there by March. Womack said she wanted to spend New Year’s Eve on the island, known for its sunny beaches and loose tax laws, because she hoped to party with officials there who could help get her project going. She also has a condo there, as well as bank accounts that prosecutors believe helped her dodge taxes. Osbourne Bodden, minister of a branch of the Cayman Islands bureaucracy that would oversee a project like the one Womack proposed, expressed surprise to a Caribbean news service about Womack’s claims. “We have no agreements or commitments to anyone in advance of this process being completed openly and transparently,” Bodden told the Caymanian Compass. “And we have no meetings or dinners for New Year’s with anyone but our families.”

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The Answering Machine

What is the “quality” in Quality Hill?

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This downtown neighborhood is the longest continuously occupied part of the metro. For most of Kansas City’s early days, Quality Hill was considered the swankiest part of town, with mansion-lined streets and upscale businesses. The story goes that the area was dubbed “Quality Hill” in the 1880s when developer Kersey Coates platted subdivisions in the area that became popular with wealthy people moving to town from the East. The neighborhood was a favorite of political boss Tom Pendergast, who placed a statue of his brother Jim in Case Park. It was also relatively diverse for the time, and the YMCA on Washington Street used to be a Jewish gentlemen’s club called the Progress Club. Quality Hill took a serious dive in the 1960s, and homeowners fled for trendy neighborhoods on the rise, like the Country Club Plaza. The neighborhood became lousy with abandoned mansions, burned-out structures and flophouses. That version of Quality Hill would be unrecognizable to new transplants to the city. In the late 1980s and early aughts, developers revitalized the area with apartments and condos built out of the neighborhood’s iconic reddish brick.

For the love of God, why are Missouri courts closed May 8?

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Because Missourians are sappy sentimentalists. In the Show-Me State, May 8 is Truman Day, a state holiday in honor of former President Harry S. Truman’s birthday. Yes, just because the 33rd U.S. president was born here, all state and county business must grind to a halt on his birthday — or the closest business day if Truman Day lands on a weekend — even though Truman has been dead 42 years. And it’s a paid holiday for the state’s roughly 60,000 employees. Gov. Jay Nixon has been a vocal opponent of the silly holiday, and in 2010, the General Assembly considered repealing it but failed to do so. That year, the state spent $1.5 million in overtime for essential state services that need to be staffed during holidays. In other words: Truman defeats logic!

What’s the story with the gigantic Hereford steer overlooking Interstate 35 near downtown?

It’s impossible to miss the giant brown-and-white steer gazing over Interstate 35 toward the city’s middling skyline. It’s the kind of kitschy, weirdo touch that reminds us why we love Kansas City. Alternatively, it’s a massive, illuminated testament to this burg’s cowtown past. We looked into the origins of the 19-foot-long steer, and it was worth the effort, gang! The faux beast used to be part of the American Hereford Association’s headquarters in Quality Hill. The Kansas City Parks and Recreation department says President Dwight Eisenhower attended the dedication of the headquarters and the unveiling of the huge bovine in 1953. But when HNTB Architects moved into the building in 1997, the firm decided that a 5,500-pound fiberglass behemoth (roughly twice the weight of a real Hereford bull) didn’t fit its décor. In 2002, HNTB handed the statue over to the city, and it was placed in Mulkey Square Park at 13th Street and Summit, where the city’s noble spirit animal now watches over us as we moove around town.

Yep! Missouri (along with Connecticut and Illinois) celebrates Washington’s and Lincoln’s birthdays separately, rather than just Presidents Day like most self-respecting states. Yes, Missourians just love celebrating presidential holidays by not working.

Where did runaway slaves slip out of Missouri and into free-state Kansas? During Missouri’s period as a slave state, many in servitude fled to Kansas. Most of those slaves crossed at the confluence of the Missouri and Kansas rivers to settlements like Quindaro, near the riverbanks. To this day, Kansans like to slap themselves on the back for being on the right side of history in the 1800s. Slavery and Civil War history even permeate the MU-KU rivalry. But Kansans really don’t have much of a reason to feel so high and mighty. The Kansas Historical Foundation says most white Kansans opposed slavery out of economic concern rather than moral or religious reasons. In an article on the foundation’s website, it explains that white Kansans “did not want to compete with slaveholders for land, and feared slavery would drive down wages for everyone. Some even favored excluding Blacks from the territory entirely.” Keep that factoid in your back pocket the next time your Kansan friends start ranting about being a free state.

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The worst fire in Kansas City history was … ? In terms of deaths, the worst was the burning of the Coates House Hotel in Quality Hill on January 28, 1978. Over the course of a couple of decades, the hotel had shifted from one of the city’s most luxurious places to stay — it hosted a few presidents, according to some stories — to a flophouse with about 140 residents, most of whom paid cheap weekly rent. Twenty people died in the blaze that raged from 4 to 8 a.m. It was 5 degrees the morning of the fire, and fire-department ladder trucks froze while being raised. According to an Associated Press news story from that day: “At least four of the victims plunged to their deaths from upper stories of the sixfloor building to the pavement below.” One witness of the fire told the AP, “People were hanging out the windows, screaming for help.” Now there are offices on the site of the hotel at 1005 Broadway.

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ilot projects a rock star’s hubris and feels herself “a god” when she flies fast and high on military missions. Boom! she exclaims in Grounded, a one-woman show at the Unicorn Theatre. The floor of this production’s round stage spins, and Pilot appears to wind up and take off. This is me! This is me! she repeats, the words foreshadowing later, darker developments. High in the sky and high on herself, she seems to get off on dropping ordnance. Boom! It’s an elite club, that of the fighter pilot, and it’s mostly made up of men. Pilot (Carla Noack) is one of the guys — until she meets a civilian in a Wyoming bar while on leave and her e r Mo bravado turns him on. Soon after their tryst comes morning sickat e n i Onl .com ness during bombing pitch runs. Knowing she must be grounded, she reports the pregnancy-test results to her commanding officer and heads stateside. She was born to fly — her plane “cradles” her — but Pilot knows she was also born to be a mother. Playwright George Brant’s exploration of the working woman facing domestic life plays with a different set of conflicting roles: wartime fighter vs. mother. Reassigned to the Nevada desert, Pilot trains to fly drone missions. Staring at a gray screen instead of soaring into blue sky, she feels like part of a “typing pool.” Only the occasional order to unleash a drone’s weaponry breaks the monotony of hours and days of surveillance, even as it transforms her into a different kind of god, one who keeps a close watch on the carnage she wreaks. Pilot engages in battle by day yet returns home to her family at night (shifts effectively abetted by Alex Perry’s lighting design). The distinction between warrior and wife blurs, and the flight suit that first attracted that civilian has instead become an emblem of her work: war (costume design by Shannon Smith-Regnier). Noack’s Pilot doesn’t just drive this play but personifies Brant’s story about the place of technology in modern warfare and daily life. A one-act monologue directed by Cynthia Levin, this solo work is an affecting piece. At times, Noack delivers her lines as though reciting poetry. The stage is bare, but she fills the space, making Pilot’s thoughts and fears palpable. The Unicorn has reconfigured the Jerome Stage as in-the-round (set design by Gary Mosby), with two walkways extending into seats. Pilot is never far away, and this intimacy with the audience mirrors the closeness of her war.

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Noack flies into the gray yonder (above), and the Rep stages a retro Romeo and Juliet. But Grounded feels a little contrived, with an underlying, perhaps unintended message: that women may want to be like men or equal to them but ultimately can’t because motherhood defines them, by its nature making them too caring and by necessity stalling their careers. This perspective — a woman in the cross hairs of wartime morality — fascinates, and we are moved by this actor’s portrayal. But Brant’s setup also feels too made-to-order, and it isn’t clear whether Pilot stands in for all the workers operating our surveillance state, or just the women.

O, Happy Dagger The Rep cuts to the heart of Romeo and Juliet.

e all know the story. Boy meets girl. Boy loses girl. Boy and girl commit ritual suicide. Romeo and Juliet is Shakespeare’s mostperformed cautionary tale, a spectacle of adolescent angst that no new generation can resist modernizing (as in Baz Luhrmann’s slick 1996 love letter to handguns and Hawaiian shirts). So kudos to director Eric Rosen for staging the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s production of the tragedy in a revolutionary new way: keeping it in Verona in the midst of the Italian Renaissance. Rosen stays true to the source, and this Romeo and Juliet feels like a consciously crafted effort to restore a classic. The throwback treatment starts before the Prologue is

elevates the Rep’s R&J to lavish new heights. under way, as actors perform a fight call and mill about the stage in full view of the audi- Fight director John Wilson choreographs ence. It’s a gentle reminder that metatheater gritty sequences of nail-biting swordplay, and Victor En Yu Tan’s versatile lights create didn’t start with Brecht; Shakespeare’s works ominous silhouettes and shadows against are rife with glib self-references, and the Rep’s sometimes blazing colors. The costumes are preshow throat-clearing helps ease us into the just as rich, with excellent work by designers impending “two hours’ traffic of our stage.” The opening and closing speeches are per- Lauren Gaston and Lindsay W. Davis. Jack Magaw’s scenic design, however, is the formed by Theodore Swetz, and the UMKC Theatre professor gives a fine, confident per- technical star of the show, providing a series formance as Friar Lawrence. The language of stately meditations on the arch. Magaw presents a hurdle for some of the Rep’s other relies heavily on the fly system to whisk enormous set pieces on and off. It performers, however, and takes precision to time these clarity seems occasionally Grounded complex cues, and producsacrificed to momentum. Through February 9 tion stage manager Mary R. As the lovers, Courtney at the Unicorn Theatre, Honour is nearly unerring Salvage and Jamie Dufault 3828 Main, 816-531-7529, unicorntheatre.org in her calling of the show. are competent, capturing (Rep powers-that-be: Buy the stubborn pride and this woman a drink.) volatile passions of youth. Romeo and Juliet The final crypt scene Salvage’s Juliet is even a Through February 9 unites these design elelittle weird, and her physical at the Kansas City Repertory ments into a striking blend energy and comic timing in Theatre, 4949 Cherry, of sorrow and stagecraft. Act 1 are sharp. The second 816-235-2700, kcrep.org The full cast sways in the half of the play is tougher shadows around Juliet, and on both actors, though; grief here receives a less nuanced treatment than the walls seem to swell and subside as though breathing. The shuttered lights frame only the lust or levity. lovers and the cavernous proscenium arch, Cheryl Weaver, as Lady Capulet, makes lending the scene a memorable starkness. that character’s impassioned speech following If the tableau falters, it does so only in the Tybalt’s death one of the production’s most inclusion of the slain Mercutio and Tybalt, affecting. As Capulet, David Castellani fortistalking the scene as specters. (We get it: It’s fies another memorable scene during a cruel spat with his daughter. Zachary Andrews is a like they’re still all around us.) But we can excuse the cliché as another reminder among swaggering Mercutio, and Antonio Glass plays many truisms evident in Rosen and the Rep’s the Prince with a comic-tinged resignation that successful Shakespeare reanimation: “Violent mirrors our own frustrations. Lord, what fools delights have violent ends.” these nobles be. —Liz Cook The full ensemble is solid, but it’s the breathtaking behind-the-scenes work that E-mail feedback@pitch.com

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ome private homes in the metro have dining rooms bigger than the one inside the five-table Cucina della Ragazza. But not many restaurants feel more like a person’s home than this new Italian deli and café in Westport. You could say this month-old venue — the name roughly translates as “kitchen of the young girl” — is the dining room, recreation room and hangout of owner Laura Norris, who navigates the space with a dancer’s grace and the nervous energy of a fussy Italian mother. She watches every plate that comes out of the kitchen, sees every cocktail poured at the bar, notes every face of a potential regular. She may already have a few. Norris had envisioned her specialità gastronomiche as a casual place to pick up sandwiches or salads during the lunch hour, drink a glass of wine after work, or get together with friends for dinner. e Mor But those f ive tables are already going for a t premium on weekends, a e in Onl .com when it’s reservationspitch only and every stool at the bar is taken before 5 p.m. I stopped by at that hour on a Saturday (two stools became available when a couple left to see a movie), and before an hour had passed, every possible place to sit was spoken for — including the raised hearth for the gas-powered fireplace. Most of the folks on the eight bar stools were groupies genuflecting before celebrity bartender Missy Koonce. Until she begins rehearsing a show in March, the actress and former co-owner of the late Bar Natasha is Norris’ guest mixologist on Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. Koonce is a whirlwind in the cramped space behind the bar. That Saturday, I saw her keep a very funny monologue going as she muddled fresh mint and lemon in a cocktail shaker to concoct a martini of her own invention. “It’s for me,” announced the woman sitting to my left, whom I recognized as a successful home renovator. Koonce was about to pour the martini into a glass when the businesswoman let her iPhone land hard on the bar. “I’m getting all these texts, and I’m not interested in any of those people,” she said. Why stare into a smartphone when you can watch the people around you? Cucina della Ragazza’s tables are squeezed into the narrow corridor between the bar and that stone fireplace (which Norris discovered hidden behind panels of drywall after signing the lease last summer). The room imposes a

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cently of Remedy) have created two menus, lunch and dinner, that overlap slightly. Summers has a real talent for soups; the sausage artichoke zuppa I tasted at lunch was boldly certain intimacy among diners, and it can be seasoned but comforting, and a luscious claustrophobic at first. But even at its loudsquash soup (made with vegetable stock) was est and most packed, the restaurant has a too rich to finish in one sitting. congenial vibe that trumps such irritants. Summers’ grilled, lemon-brined pork chop, And the food mostly works. moist and thick next to a slab of cheesy russetThere are just three starters — called spuntiand-sweet-potato gratin, is nos, a kind of Italian tapas one of the best dishes on the — all of them tasty. I like the Cucina della Ragazza entrée list. Also well considbrawny half-pound meatball Meatball Grande �� $7 ered is the eggplant parmethat comes in a cast-iron pan. Grilled pork chop ��$17 san, coated in a hearty sugo And the bresaola, a sheath of Eggplant parmesan ��$12 that’s subtly distinct from cured beef tightly wrapped Fettuccine with shrimp ��$14 Roasted-beet salad ��$11 the tomato sauce made for around a few leaves of spicy Cheesecake �� $5 the meatball. Neither sauce is fresh arugula, is a welcome sweet, and each is made with sight. (It’s not a common a different variety of tomato. appetizer around here.) The After that exceptional eggplant, I was disthird, crostini spread with pastes of white bean appointed by a bowl of fettuccine with shrimp. or arugula and walnut, is unexciting. A space The gummy pasta was served without a hint that favors bar patrons deserves a good antipasto plate. (Norris says she plans to add one, of sauce, and the fat prawns lolling on top of it, still in their shells, were pretty but unpleasher mother’s version, in the spring.) antly aromatic. Norris and chef Nick Summers (most re-

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I retreated to an order of creamy polenta, served with chicken saltimbocca. The polenta was light and deftly seasoned, but the bird was dry. The fettuccine in tomato sugo, with slices of hot Scimeca’s sausage, was delicious. Meatless options here are even more scant than empty chairs, but the roasted-beet salad — the crunchy purple roots tossed with arugula, pungent gorgonzola and walnuts with a springy lemon vinaigrette — is good. There are only two dessert choices so far, both made in the tiny kitchen. I found the cheesecake dense, and the pebble-sized amaretti cookies needed to be dunked in hot coffee to reveal their limited appeal. But lingering over dessert or some house-made limoncello in a restaurant with five tables is asking for the malocchio, the evil eye. The folks working here are anything but pushy about turning Norris’ tables, but look around and you’ll see someone who wants your seat.

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n unexpected guest was at the three-dayold Baked in Kansas City bakery and café last week: former Napoleon Bakery pastry chef Guillaume Hanriot, who was there with his wife, Ingrid, and their newborn, Pauline. The Hanriots purchased the Parkville bistro Café des Amis last year, after running the restaurant for six years. “I was the pastry chef here when Larry Schanzer still owned it,” Guillaume Hanriot told me, as he handled one of the delicate macarons created by Baked in Kansas City’s pastry chef, Nicolette Foster. “I took a tour of the kitchen to see what had changed.” A lot has changed since Frank Sebree, owner of the Majestic Restaurant, overhauled the brick building at 706 Westport Road to create a combination bakery and full-service restaurant. That morning, the pastry cases were f illed w ith Foster’s work: f laky croissants, includ-

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im Ellis was trapped two years ago. He had a record deal with Warner Bros. but found himself lost in the shuffle as the major label acquired and merged its properties. Warner Bros. bounced Ellis from label to label and forbade him from playing live shows to test new material that he’d been writing. Last April, Warner Bros. finally dropped Ellis. At long last, the shackles were off. A month later, under the moniker Outsides, Ellis released “Seesaw” into the fuzzy white noise of the Internet. He wondered if people would notice. Did they ever. The song was snapped up by hype-heavy music blogs and tucked into the regular rotation of KEXP 90.3 in Seattle. The opportunity that had seemed so promising with his Warner Bros. deal was finally happening, except Ellis was doing it by himself from his Kansas City apartment. The irony isn’t lost on Ellis. He sips black coffee in a booth at the Brick and laughs, flashing white teeth framed by dimples. “‘Seesaw’ was a demo,” he says. “But it had been so long since I had put something out because, for so long, I couldn’t put anything out. So I cleaned it up a bit, took a chance and just threw it out there.” It’s easy to see why the track has caused Ellis: “I wrote what I liked.” a stir (along with another song, “Pastures”) since its November release. “Seesaw” is like Where Sk ybox embedded quirks a nd a spoonful of raw sugar in a granulated pop twists — a vaudevillian flavor on one track, computerlike bleeps on another — Outsides world. Synths boom and soar alongside Ellis’ is more distilled and concentrated. silvery voice, destined for car stereos, sweaty “The reason that I’m so excited about this dance floors and packed concert halls. After being silenced by his record label, project in particular is because I feel like it’s closer to me,” Ellis says. “When I was in SkyEllis seems to have come out of nowhere with box and I was writing the material, I was still his synth-pop cocaine. But the suave-looking 30-year-old with a pompadour and a vintage writing parts with the mindset of, ‘He might leather jacket had a previous life as the front- not like this song if I don’t include these sorts of things or if it’s too this direction or too man of Skybox. Formed in 2005, Skybox enjoyed moder- that direction.’ “You sort of write for other people someate commercial success and helped establish Ellis’ music career while he was living in times. With this project, I wrote what I liked and I wrote parts that I Tempe, Arizona. His tenure wanted to write, and as with Skybox lasted through Outsides directly from my head as I a relocation to Chicago, unSaturday, February 1, possibly could.” til the release of the band’s at Czar W hen E l l i s relea ses second full-length album his self-titled debut EP as in 2010. Skybox’s members Outsides on February 1, he’s likely to garner disbanded and scattered, with Ellis moving comparisons with Passion Pit and MGMT. back to his native Kansas City. But the four songs on Outsides are more than “Towards the end of Skybox, I was really high-fructose anthems. wanting to do some of my own stuff,” Ellis Ellis’ bright synths compose the driving says. “I had so many things in my head that force in his music. But he reinforces them I had been dying to just put down on tape.” with elements from other instruments: Ellis’ new sound, with an emphasis on electric guitar riffs rather than regurgitated upbeat, hook-heavy songs, bears some samples, man-made drumbeats instead of surface-level similarities to his old band.

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drum machines. “Secret Places” starts as a pseudo-acoustic lullaby. These are subtle odes, Ellis says, to an unlikely influence. “My dad was a producer and started as a folk musician, and then started making electronic music,” Ellis says. “You wouldn’t necessarily think of [that] when you listen to my stuff, but Americana and folk music is one of the bigger influences on my writing. It’s also helped me focus a lot on lyrics — with some pop music, that’s sort of a side thought, and for me, one of the more important things is the structure of the lyrics.” Ellis’ words are (mostly) wistful. “Pastures,” “Secret Places” and the 1980s-style “In a Dream” may sound like summer and the outdoors. But Ellis wrote them in his “dungeonlike” Kansas City apartment, recalling lost times and brighter days. “I was just working in my bedroom and writing and recording, and it felt like I was in a basement — there was concrete everywhere in the apartment: a concrete floor, concrete up halfway on the brick wall,” Ellis says. “Whenever I could get outside of the apartment and just walk around, getting out and feeling the fresh air, that’s sort of the feeling that I wanted my music to give people — the freedom of that emotion.”

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ver the decades, Roky Erickson has played in several bands, most notably the 13th Floor Elevators, widely viewed as a prime genetic force in American psychedelic and garage-rock music. When talking to Erickson, it’s easy to forget his legend. The 66-year-old’s answers are as sincere as they are oblique. He has a tendency to ignore questions and answer with whatever is floating around in his head. A phone conversation with Erickson, from his Austin home, is much like listening to his recorded works: melodic, cerebral and surreal. The Pitch: Your son plays in your backing band, the Hounds of Baskerville. What’s it like playing with him? Erickson: It just seems like they always have to draw out the set so long and everything. See, their music is real loud, you know. These spiral of answers, so Angels’ lead signer, Alex people peeled up onstage when we were out there. And they jumped into the audience! It’s Maas, helped shed some light. We called him at his Austin home. really tough. Very strange brand of humor, you know what I mean? The Pitch: On your new album, Indigo What do you make of other people covering Meadow, a lot of songs refer to war and gun your songs? violence. These seem like important themes. Oh, I like to hear them. I really do. We have Maas: Since the early stages of our band, we a computer here, and it gives us messages, like were always kind of writing about things that when somebody’s going to be playing our song are important to us. Selfishly, at the end of the or something like that. There’s one group, one day, we’re trying to be pleased by our music of them goes “If You Have Ghosts, You Have because if we aren’t satisfied, how can anyone Everything,” you know? And else be. That’s the approach that one is real nice. It’s by we take. Our music has alRoky Erickson, with some band out of some other ways been about things the Black Angels country or something. we care about, whether it’s Friday, January 31, One classic song of yours, a sappy love song or how at the Granada “You’re Gonna Miss Me,” was someone feels when they written about 50 years ago. get back from the war. Boy, that’s a good one! I don’t know, I just I understand you have a Roky Erickson cover wrote it. I’m glad you still think about it. As album that you’re selling on tour? we move from house to house, we make sure Back in 2007, we were invited to listen to that we carry this information with us. Not some of Roky’s material and get in the studio like AIDS or HIV, but something good, you and make a record with him. The idea was know. [Laughs.] kind of to take these Roky Erickson songs and Do you have any plans to slow down? make them sound more like 13th Floor ElevaThat’s the thing when I tell you about tor songs. That project kind of lost steam, but some of the ideas I had when I didn’t play and we have some songs from those sessions that everything. Well, I did have faith in what’s we put on a split 7-inch that we’re going to be going on, in relying on people’s judgment taking with us on tour. to handle what’s going on for me. In other It was really difficult to learn the material words, it’s just kind of a thought in the air or from Erickson’s catalog for a lot of reasons. something — I don’t know what it is — but it’s Roky’s attention span in the studio was, like, nothing bad! Nothing bad. 20 minutes. We never fully made it through a set before we went on tour with Roky. It was almost like training for a marathon: You run like half a marathon, but you don’t run the Angels in Austin whole thing until the day of. I make it sound pening for Roky Erickson is Austin psychlike pulling teeth, but it was a great experience. rock ringleader the Black Angels. This is What kind of influence has playing with Roky the second time the Black Angels have suphad on your music? ported Erickson on tour, the first being in 2008. For me, the biggest thing I took from it was A conversation with Erickson is a screwball

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Megan Birdsall, a singer who swings standards with a matchless sensibility and a wonderful voice, has assembled a diverse and gifted cast of characters to join her Friday night at the Broadway Jazz Club. Guitarist Rod Fleeman’s Kansas City gigs range from the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra to blues jams at the Phoenix. Bassist Ben Leifer is one of the young musicians dominating local jazz today. Drummer Tim Cambron performs less frequently these days, making this opportunity to hear him a treat. And for decades, pianist Paul Smith has backed some of KC’s best jazz singers. — Larry Kopitnik Megan Birdsall, 9 p.m.–1 a.m. Friday, January 31, at the Broadway Jazz Club (3601 Broadway, 816-298-6316), $5 cover.

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If you’ve never seen the Latenight Callers, you should know that the local quartet has sexy on speed dial. Lead singer Julie Berndsen is a vampy force with a voice to match her pinupgirl look. On the band’s debut full-length, Songs for Stolen Moments, Berndsen slinks and slithers through gothic synths and drumbeats like a starlet of film noir. On the other hand, Kentucky Knife Fight is far less treacherous than the name implies. The St. Louis band blends rowdy barroom blues with rowdier rock and roll. Jason Holler’s singing is just gruff enough to stand out against all the shrieking guitars. Local rockers Knife Crime open. Friday, January 31, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Jason Eady, with Courtney Patton

With his 2012 full-length, AM Country Heaven, Jason Eady seems to be single-handedly trying to save Top 40 country music. In the album’s title track, Eady attacks the clichés of “modern country” and blasts them with the good-oldcowboy wisdom of Waylon and Willie. January 21, the Mississippi-born Texas transplant released Daylight & Dark, an album that’s more introspective than confrontational. It’s a little too early to tell where he stands with FM country-music now, but his show at Knuckleheads could shed some light. Fellow Texan Courtney Patton shares Eady’s ability to make new country that’s as easy on the ears as the music that inspired it. Friday, January 31, Knuckleheads (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

The Sluts

Kristoffer Dover has a genteel way of explaining how his band, the Sluts, took its name. Three years ago, when Dover and Ryan Wise were fumbling through notes in a friend’s garage, they admittedly were “very successful philanderers.” The name of their duo seemed “honest and awesome,” Dover says. Now the Sluts are celebrating the release of Virile, their first full-length album. A nine-track collection

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of grungy, headbanging atrocities, Virile lyrically is a sordid trip through a few of Dover and Wise’s more salacious experiences, masked by fuzzy guitar, gruff singing and aggressive drumming. The Sluts remain a band best experienced live in all their unsanctioned glory. You can raise a glass or slam a shot and not feel a lick of guilt for the skeletons in your own closet. Saturday, February 1, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

MewithoutYou

In 2001, long before hashtags were a thing, people were squishing words together without hitting the space bar — like MewithoutYou. For years, MewithoutYou existed and flourished between the post-hardcore and Christian alt-rock worlds. But the band’s latest album, 2012’s Ten Stories, bears little similarity to the music it created a decade ago. Sounding a little like Murder By Death meets a broken-music-box jingle, Ten Stories is an album driven by story line and best understood in context. Lead singer and lyricist Aaron Weiss has encoded his songs with enough historical and philosophical refer-

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ences to give an “Intro to College Writing” class a semester-long headache. Tuesday, February 4, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Andrew Ripp, Judah & the Lion

Andrew Ripp wants to be a pop star. That much is clear on his latest full-length, the Charlie Peacock–produced Won’t Let Go. (It’s also obvious given his Bieber-like hair swoop and leather jacket.) The Illinois native is not a bad singer. His songs are catchy, and he seems to be on the path to wherever it is he wants to go. So if you see him at the Bottleneck, maybe you’ll have an “I remember when” moment with your kids 20 years from now. The real star of the evening may be Nashville’s Judah & the Lion. Despite its Mumford tendencies, Judah & the Lion delivers the sort of rough-edged Americana that makes you feel at home. Frontman Judah Akers was raised on gospel and church music, and you can hear plenty of those influences in his all-together-now choruses. Wednesday, February 5, the Bottleneck (737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483)

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oscar-nominated shorts

trL Live with dJs madeline and Asia | 10 p.m.

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Performing Arts

Friday | 1.31 |

An evening with Composer John Corigliano | 6:30-8 p.m., free, tickets required, Nelson-Atkins

Performing Arts

LiterAry events

Ballet memphis presents Wizard of Oz | 8 p.m. Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park

Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

midwest Poets series: Janice n. Harrington | 7 p.m. Mabee Theater in Sedgwick Hall, Rockhurst

flippin’ Channels in the estrogen Zone | 10 p.m.

Comedy

international superstars of magic & Comedy |

Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence, echosibley.com

University, 54th St. and Troost

7:30 p.m. Liberty Performing Arts Center, 1600 S. Withers Rd., Liberty

Christina Pazsitzky | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

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

Kansas City symphony: festival of rhythm |

Bobby slayton | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867

Village West Pkwy., KCK

8 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

2014 oscar shorts: Live Action and Animated | Opening Friday at the Tivoli, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

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Learn & Burn | 5:30 p.m. Brass Boxing & Fitness, 7110

Boombox, ramona | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

Justin Andrew murray, Adam Case | 8 p.m. Czar,

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Coolzey, Baiowolf, new suede | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

granger smith, earl dibbles Jr., dirty Bourbon Band | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts,

dead ven, stiff middle fingers, deco Auto, schwervon | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

matt snook | PBR Big Sky Bar, 111 E. 13th St.

Wyandotte, fitnesscrawl.com

the 2014 national silver gloves Amateur Boxing tournament | 6 p.m. Hilton Garden Inn, 19677 E.

Jackson Dr., Independence, ringside.com musiC

Arara Azul | 8 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway Awkward side Hug | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachu-

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miguel mambo deLeon and Carte Blanc | 7 p.m. Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

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Pennsylvania

the Zevals, Hush machine, narkalark with dJ modrey Hepburn | 10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom,

801 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Lawrence Creates makerspace | 5:30-9:30 p.m.

Celebrating Picasso: Through the Lens of David Douglas Duncan | Through Sun-

meet me at the museum tour | 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

Chinese new year Celebration | 6-10 p.m. Fri-

final friday Art walk | Massachusetts between

oBJet ~ pop-up boutique and Tea Time zine showcase | Paragraph Gallery, 23 E. 12th St.

Seventh and 11th streets, downtown Lawrence

Gorgeous & Outrageous: The Art of Tony Naponic | Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, 2012 Balti-

more, leedy-voulkos.com

History & Hope: Celebrating the Civil Rights Movement | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak 30

512 E. Ninth St., Lawrence

The Neighborhood: New Work by Stephanie Bloss | Kiosk Gallery, 3951 Broadway

day, Windhorse Tattoo & Gallery. 1717 Wyandotte

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Bobby slayton | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK young, Hot & gay Comedy tour with Heather turman & Jordan Pease | 7:45 & 10 p.m. Stanford’s on Broadway, 3700 Broadway

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Aids walk kickoff party | 5:30 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania, aidswalkkansascity.org

Kansas City royals fan fest | 2-9 p.m. Bartle Hall,

301 W. 13th St.

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Comedy

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Theater, 300 W. 12th St.

Christina Pazsitzky | 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy

Lawrence

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the Ky gentlemen | 10 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112

Jason Boland & the stragglers, thieving Birds & matt Poss | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester

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garrick ohlsson, pianist in recital | 8 p.m. Folly

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea |

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Sculpties presented by SPECTRA: A Nomadic Platform for Experimental Film and Video |

7-9 p.m. Thursday, H&R Block Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. (at Kansas City Art Institute)

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Stages of Conversion: Santero Shrines of Gene Emerson Friedman | Thornhill

Art Gallery, Avila University, 11901 Wornall, avila.edu/viscom/gallery

thieves guild drink and draw: Baroque-en Hearts Club | 7 p.m. Monday, Fatso’s Public House and Stage, 1016 Massachusetts, Lawrence

We Are Not This Body — A Solo Exhibition by Scott Dickson | PLUG Projects, 1613 Genessee,

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We Now Pronounce You: Redefining Marriage in the 21st Century | UMKC Gallery of

Chinese new year: year of the Horse Celebration | 5 p.m., Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak food & drinK

Alton Brown | 8 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main friday farmers market at Badseed | 4-9 p.m.,

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Art, 5015 Holmes, Room 203, info.umkc.edu/art

Critical mass: a slow-paced group bicycle ride |

Meet at 6:30 p.m., Sun Fresh Market, 4001 Mill

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An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein | 8 p.m. Friday-Sunday, H&R Block City Stage Theater, 30 W. Pershing Rd. (Union Station)

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C.S. Lewis’ The Great Divorce | 4 & 7:30 p.m., $25-$59, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway MET Script-in-Hand Series: The Odd Couple | 2 p.m. Sunday, Kansas City Central

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MUSeUM exhibiTS & evenTS Citizen Soldiers on the Prairie | Johnson

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Convergence: Jazz, Film, Dance and the Visual Arts | American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St.

Eboni Fondren & Mo’ Better Band | 9 p.m. The

Fullbloods, My Oh My | 6 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946

Grand Marquis | The Chesterfield, 1400 Main HonkySuckle, Let’s use Teamwork, Tokengrass | Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania James Isaac Group | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 5336 W. 151st St., Leawood

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Nine Forty Live with Matt Pryor | 8 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence Phaze II | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Rap Band, Middle Twin, Lion Spirits, Narkalark | 9 p.m. Fatso’s Public House and Stage, 1016 Massachu-

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Adam Evolving, the End Is Red, Echo Collider, Seventh Day | 8:30 p.m. Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Trey Anastasio Band | 7 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway

Megan Birdsall | 9 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601

Broadway

DJ Sike | MiniBar, 3810 Broadway An Evening with Ruby | 8 p.m. Missie B’s, 805 W. 39th St. Flirt Friday | 9 p.m. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

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Kansas City royals fan fest | 11 a.m.-7 p.m. Bartle Hall, 301 W. 13th St.

Anubhavam: traditional indian dance performed by the nartan Dance troupe | 5:30 p.m. Performing Arts Center, 7250 State Avenue, KCK

Ballet memphis presents Wizard of Oz | 8 p.m.

Yardley Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park

Cellist Colin Carr | 7:30 p.m. Graham Tyler Memorial Chapel, 8700 N.W. River Park Dr., Parkville

flippin’ Channels in the estrogen Zone | 7:30 p.m. Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence Kansas City symphony: festival of rhythm |

8 p.m. Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

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