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ver the past two decades, the Missouri Constitution has become a whiteboard, easily altered with the prevailing political winds. Some amendments are understandable: Thanks to the 11th Amendment, no one can be jailed for being in debt. Other amendments have been lost to time, like allowing women to be dismissed from jury duty by simple request. In 2004, that year’s bizarre political zeitgeist led to the one-sentence 33rd Amendment, codifying that the Show-Me State only recognized marriages only between a man and a woman. Then, in 2008, the last time that voters amended the state’s most important piece of parchment, English was declared the state’s official language, a decision ensuring that any public governmental meeting would be conducted in that language. Supporters of the latest attempt to add ink to the state constitution want to codify what Missourians have always done: farm and raise livestock. Voters August 5 will decide Amendment 1, or what those supporters have dubbed the “right to farm” amendment. “Shall the Missouri Constitution be amended to ensure that the right of Missouri citizens to engage in agricultural production

and ranching practices shall not be infringed?” the ballot language asks. It continues: “A ‘yes’ vote will amend the Missouri Constitution to guarantee the rights of Missourians to engage in farming and ranching practices, subject to any power given to local government under Article VI of the Missouri Constitution. A ‘no’ vote will not amend the Missouri Constitution regarding farming and ranching. If passed, this measure will have no impact on taxes.” If adopted, the proposed amendment would be only the second of its kind in the nation. North Dakota approved a similar amendment in 2012. In that agriculture-dependent state, farmers were split on adding it to the constitution. The North Dakota Farmers Union, one of the state’s two biggest farming organizations, opposed the amendment. In Missouri, the main backer of Amendment 1 is Missouri Farmers Care, a consortium of more than 40 ag groups that includes the Missouri Farm Bureau, the Missouri Cattlemen’s Association, the Missouri Dairy Association, as well as corporate giants such as Cargill and Monsanto. Missouri Farmers Care has received several large donations over the final quarter including $40,500 from the Missouri Corn Growers

Association; $75, 000 from Missouri Pork PAC; and $25,000 from the Association of Missouri Electric Cooperatives. On the other side of Amendment 1, the Humane Society of the United States has given $375,000 to Missouri’s Food for America, the main group opposing the measure in the state. The “right to farm” amendment raises questions for Missouri voters: What makes farming, as a profession, special? And what’s to stop plumbers, bakers, tech-support specialists at Cerner, greeting-card writers at Hallmark, and convenience-store clerks from demanding that their livelihoods be cemented in the Missouri Constitution? Missouri Farmers Care executive director Dan Kleinsorge says farming in Missouri is just different and deserves unique protection, even if the threats to it aren’t readily apparent. “That’s a question that comes up a lot,” he says. “These other professions aren’t under systematic opposition. You know, no one is really coming after them. Those also aren’t professionals that feed folks.” The Missouri Farmers Care website says it’s pushing the amendment to protect “Missouri’s family farms from out-of-state animal-rights

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ansas City, Missouri’s August 5 ballot is one of the more convoluted documents to face voters in recent memory. The city is holding the first of two elections to expand its streetcar project. But the ballot also includes a statewide measure to raise taxes for various transportation projects that affects the streetcar vote and its outcome. Let’s take a closer look. What am I voting on? Question A decides whether to create a transportation-development district for a huge swath of land south of the Missouri River. TDDs are usually used to develop far smaller projects, such as new shopping centers, by collecting additional sales taxes or special property assessments to defray the costs of construction. The streetcar TDD generally extends south of the Missouri River to Gregory Boulevard, and east from State Line Road to Interstate 435. Brookside and Waldo were cut out of this TDD because the cost to run a line along Brookside Boulevard was expensive, and there was organized neighborhood opposition to the plan. The expanded streetcar line would extend the 2-mile downtown tracks farther south, to the University of Missouri–Kansas City, with two lines branching off the Main Street artery that head east on Independence and Linwood boulevards. It would also add a MAX line along Prospect Avenue. Only people who live in the proposed TDD get to vote on this one (sorry, Northlanders). Would this increase taxes? The August vote does not increase taxes. But it does set the table for a November vote on a 1-cent sales-tax increase. It’s difficult to imagine that there are many people who would vote to approve a TDD but then turn around and reject the tax increase that would fund the project. When downtown Kansas City voters weighed in, on two different election dates to create the starter line, the voting percentages in both elections were roughly the same. Would downtown taxes increase if both streetcar elections pass this year? No. Downtown has already approved its 1-cent sales-tax increase and special assessments. What about the rest of the expansion streetcar TDD? Sales taxes outside downtown would increase, up to 1 percent. Commercial and residential properties within one-third of a mile of either side of the streetcar line would pay a special assessment (basically an add-on to property-tax bills) for up to 25 years. Nonprofits, which normally don’t pay property taxes, would also pay a special assessment

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if the August and November streetcar measures pass and their properties are worth more than $300,000. For example, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed Community Christian Church, at 4601 Main, which has never paid property taxes, would owe $1,585 a year. City-owned property also would be assessed — an oddity in the funding scheme. Liberty Memorial, for example, and the surrounding acreage on both sides of the tower, would be levied $4,455 a year. What are some other examples of special assessments? Union Hill Cemetery: $1,524 The Federal Reserve Bank building: $131,685 H&R Block headquarters: $15,084 City Hall: $44,928 Union Station: $8,889 InterContinental Hotel: $41,777 Plaza Vista office building: $81 Wait, Plaza Vista would owe only $81? Plaza Vista, the former failed West Edge project and new home to high-power law firm Polsinelli, is a shiny, gleaming new building that commands perhaps the highest office rent per square foot in Kansas City. Doug Stone, a lawyer who represents the streetcar TDD (and is a former Polsinelli partner), says Plaza Vista’s assessment is low because the last time Jackson County set a value to the property, it was in its stalled, dilapidated, half-built phase, following Bob Bernstein’s attempt to turn it into a new headquarters for his advertising firm. When its tax value is next assessed (Jackson County looks at properties every two years), the property should be on the hook for six figures in assessments. Other abandoned, decrepit buildings within the TDD zone will pay larger assessments than Plaza Vista. The old Joe Joe’s Italian Eatery, at 4216 Main, which was an empty building last year, is assessed at $304. The three empty lots to the south of Joe Joe’s (now refashioned into a bank) were also assessed at more than Plaza Vista. Huh? Though the uncompleted Plaza Vista building was virtually useless at the time of the assessment, it’s still prime real estate. How do I know if my property falls within the assessment zone? At nextrailkc.com/tdd-special-assessmentzone-map, click on your property. Keep in mind that the streetcar’s exact lines haven’t been finalized, so the assessment zone could change. The boundaries won’t be precise until the Streetcar TDD Board (which includes Mayor Sly James, Port Authority CEO Michael Collins and two of their appointees) crafts the final zone after the election (if the measures pass). Will riders pay to ride the streetcar?

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Policymakers haven’t decided yet whether to charge fares on the expanded streetcar lines. The downtown starter line was established as a free ride. It seems unlikely that the expanded lines would also be free. Do these taxes pay for the entire project? No. The city must also come up with a 50-percent federal match (which is still taxpayer money) before taxes are collected. That means that even if both the August and November measures pass, the sales tax probably wouldn’t increase until 2017. If the expansion feels rushed, that’s because it is. James thinks he has a better chance at securing a federal match while Barack Obama is president. Federal funds made up about 37 percent of the downtown streetcar line. Even then, the financing plan was still short $30 million–$50 million, though streetcar boosters say they can bridge that gap between now and 2017. So this Amendment 7 statewide transportation tax has nothing to do with the streetcar, right? Wrong. The Missouri Legislature, which has failed to adequately fund road and bridge projects over the years, approved a constitutional amendment to increase sales taxes by three-quarters of a cent statewide to pay for various road and bridge projects. It’s billed as a temporary 10-year tax, though the Legislature has given no indication that it won’t try to renew it after 10 years (as often happens with “temporary” taxes). The original list of proposed Amendment 7 projects contemplated by the Missouri Department of Transportation did not include any funding for the Kansas City streetcar. But James struck a deal with MoDOT to earmark money for the streetcar so that city leadership wouldn’t oppose the tax. The result of that deal: $124 million from that three-quarter-cent statewide transportation tax will fund the streetcar. Add to that another $20 million to fund a Prospect MAX bus line, and add to that another $30 million in discretionary funds left to Kansas City from the statewide tax, and Amendment 7’s streetcarrelated monies tally about $174 million. So if both streetcar elections and Amendment 7 pass, do sales taxes increase by 1.75 percent in the TDD? No. Part of James’ deal included a promise that the streetcar tax would collect only onequarter-cent sales taxes in the TDD if both taxes pass this year. Add that to the threequarter-cent sales tax from Amendment 7, and it comes out to a 1-cent increase — the same as if Amendment 7 never existed. Who’s for the streetcar expansion? KC’s City Council, in particular, is hellbent

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on passing this. Looking at campaign-finance reports also provides some solid clues about who’s behind the project: companies that can make money off it (Burns & McDonnell, along with streetcar-building companies Stacy & Witbeck and Herzog Contracting Corp.). The Kansas City Star endorsed the passage of the streetcar TDD and Amendment 7. Almost every other newspaper in Missouri opposes Amendment 7. Some East Side religious leaders, such as Wallace Hartsfield and John Modest Miles, support the streetcar extension. Who’s against it? East Side political club Freedom Inc. opposes the streetcar (though it endorses Amendment 7). Other East Side religious leaders, such as Bishop Tony Caldwell, have spoken against it. James B. Nutter, the local mortgagecompany owner and frequent financier of political campaigns, has donated money to the political organization opposing the project. What happens if the August streetcar measure fails? Then there’s no need for a November ballot. MoDOT may hold on to the $124 million earmarked for the streetcar in case the streetcar fails and Amendment 7 passes, to see if Kansas City comes up with another proposal.

Proposed boundaries of the streetcar TDD It’s likely that Kansas City leaders will keep coming back to voters with streetcarexpansion propositions. Just ask Russ Johnson, a Northland councilman whom the streetcar has left in a perpetual state of consternation. The prickly, termed-out councilman had this to say at a council meeting, about the next step if voters demur: “They [voters] may say no, but I envision that after that, we would move forward in some other way, keeping in mind that a transportation-development district in Missouri can be created with just 50 registered voters. If anybody out there thinks that if this gets voted down in August it’s going to go away, I know 50 people who are going to force you to move forward or they will move it forward for you. Let’s not kid ourselves — streetcar is going to be expanded whether we like it or not, because I know 50 people that will figure out how to draw a boundary to get it passed.” Johnson sure makes the streetcar sound like fun, doesn’t he?

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fter climbing 264 stairs to the top of Schlitterbahn Waterpark’s Verrückt, the world’s tallest water slide, there are two ways down. One, of course, is to rocket to the bottom on a rubber raft at nearly 65 miles per hour, outrunning your own common sense, eyes wide, breath gone, tightly clutching rope handles that, honestly, will not save you should anything go awry. The other way: Take the unoff icial “chicken exit” and descend the stairs, past the rubberneckers and straight to a tamer ride — say, the lazy river of shame. When I reached Verrückt’s summit on a steamy Sunday afternoon, I wasn’t sure which route I should take. The structure is an architectural wonder. At 168 feet and 7 inches, it’s taller than the Statue of Liberty or Niagara Falls — and up close, it’s even more intimidating than the pictures and videos online have made it seem. It’s like seeing a pro-football player in person for the first time and realizing that he could crush your head like a tomato, and then finding out that he’s unhappy to see you. It’s no mistake that the slide’s name is German for “insane.” I began to wonder: Does German, a succinct language, have a word for “I hope I don’t poop my bathing suit in public?” My friends definitely thought that I was crazy for wanting to ride Verrückt. They sent texts, e-mails and Facebook messages trying to talk me out of it. My mom warned that the speed could literally — literally, she said! — rip my clothes off. I was not deterred. Not even rumors of test dummies going airborne or reports about repeated delays of the water slide’s opening date (originally scheduled for Memorial Day) could change my mind. Now, here I was, trying not to throw up the chili-cheese hot dog I’d eaten for lunch. Fear wouldn’t stop me, but the line

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nearly did. The ride itself lasts only 18 seconds, but you get considerable time ahead of that to think it over. The weight requirement for each three-person raft is between 400 and 550 pounds, and every group’s number is triple-checked with a giant scale. You must listen to a lengthy safety spiel, read by a hoarse woman, reminding you that, yes, this shit is risky. And then there’s that giant staircase, which takes the average person nearly four minutes to climb. To simplify the experience, you’re allowed to make reservations for the ride when you get to Schlitterbahn. When I was there, the first group of the day had traveled from London to Florida and then driven to Kansas City, arriving the night before. Unfortunately, by the time I arrived at 10:30 a.m., all of the spots were full. “You’re welcome to try the walk-up line,” a harried employee said. “Right now, the wait is about two hours.” “Fuck that,” my boyfriend said. But I was on a mission. I told him to take care of the cats if I didn’t make it, and then I took my place at the back of the line. Almost immediately, I got lucky: A young couple from Nebraska needed a third rider for their raft. I ran up and joined them on the scale, and we were assigned a 2 p.m. ride time. Three hours later, the walk-up line had barely moved. Looking dehydrated and deflated, a group of 20-somethings whined that they’d been there for four hours. When another group scheduled for 2 p.m. needed a third rider, two little boys from the line both ran up to nab the spot, and they decided their respective fates with a match of rock-paperscissors. Jumping up and down, the winning boy joined us in the march up the stairs. But when we got to the top, the kid started to look pale. Then he began to cry. “I’m scared of heights,” he said. Embarrassed, he decided to take the chicken exit.

One of the adults in his group, a middleaged firefighter, wasn’t having it. He ran after the boy and talked him into coming back up. When the kid re-emerged on the platform, having learned at least two life lessons before even taking his place in the raft, we all clapped for him. “You made the right decision,” one employee said. “I’ve ridden it 26 times, and it never gets any less awesome.” When it was my group’s turn, I sat at the front of the raft. I fastened my seatbelt and clung to the rope handles (which really did make me feel better, physics be damned). “Are you ready?” the employee asked. “Fuck yes,” I responded. He pressed a button. We were heading straight down. I kept my eyes open. We were going so fast that I couldn’t yell, couldn’t catch enough breath to make a sound. I felt weightless. When we reached the bottom, I threw my hands in the air, despite specific instructions not to, and let out a triumphant scream. My swimsuit top and my dignity had made it to the bottom with me, both intact. When we came to a stop, I high-fived my raft mates and decided to stress-eat a funnel cake. My legs were shaking as I ran across the hot sidewalk to meet my boyfriend, who looked sleepy and sunburned. “How was it?” he asked. Still high on pure adrenaline, I jumped up and down and said it was amazing. We made tentative plans to return so that he could give it a try, but considering that a ride down Verrückt is never guaranteed on any given day, we decided to wait until next month, or next year. Part of me hopes that my boyfriend will forget about Verrückt by next summer — but the other, crazier part wants to ride it 25 more times.

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f you skate, you’ve been influenced by Mark Gonzales. And even if you don’t, much of what you know about skating comes from him. He was a career skater before you could make a career of skating. And he’s one of the godfathers of street style. For First Friday, Escapist Skateboarding is bringing the Gonz (as he’s known) to town, along with New York photographer and artist Curtis Kulig — known for his Love Me campaign and for documenting young artists. Their collaborative exhibition features

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“A Momentary Balance” by Christine LaValley and holidays or the random awesome day,” and much more. Civilian, a new publication written about elsewhere in this issue (see Pages, page 15), celebrates its first issue tonight at Front/Space (217 West 18th Street) and dovetails with an exhibition series of the same name. Garcia Squared Contemporary (115 West 18th Street) shows a smart new exhibition by Alejandro Figueredo Diaz-Perera, a Cuban multimedia artist whose work, the statement says, “originates in the selection of random points of entry into the existential debate.” Expect a site-specific installation created from ashes and clay on the walls of the gallery, along with several video pieces, one of which is one-night-only and highly worthwhile: the documentation of a dual performance with Cara Diaz-Lewis that shows the two of them using national flags (American and Cuban) dipped in bleach and bleeding their colors as the artists wash the windows of the Defibrillator gallery in Chicago and recite from their earlier online argument, mimicking the state of U.S.-Cuban relations. Off the beaten path (that is, in midtown), the Writers Place (3607 Pennsylvania) puts on a show titled PIX, by Will Meier, a relatively recent Kansas City Art Institute grad and a Charlotte Street Foundation studios program resident. He moves fluidly between mediums and here calls his work “paintings,” in quotation marks, saying the art explores questions such as the difference between reading and seeing or why reading is something so hard to do with company (whereas looking at a painting is not necessarily so difficult). He says he’s “toying with the mind’s eye as a canvas, imagistic language as pigment, and the stark formal arrangement of block-justified Myriad Pro as a brush.” (If you talk with Meier for a few minutes, this will make perfect sense.)

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ugust’s First Friday is the summer’s latest to include a notable last hurrah. The evening’s biggest party, the 25th anniversary of Midwestern Musical Co., also marks the store’s closing. Matt Kesler wraps up his years of being the Crossroads’ anchor for buying, selling and trading instruments with a big night (see Music, page 20), which includes a raffle to play the store’s famous “bash guitar” with the Guitar Bash Band and have the privilege of smashing it to pieces. (Expect additional instrument destruction.) In September, Luis Garcia’s Base Gallery is moving from 2011 Baltimore. Tonight’s opening — for a show by Robert Tapley Bustamante and Clark Joel — is the last of Garcia’s nine years there. So that’s one closure and one impending move, but here’s a new spot: Heinrich Toh’s Fraction Print Studio (130 West 18th Street). Breathing fresh life into the former Spray Booth Gallery location, Toh plans to open his doors every First Friday and this month shows his own work alongside Alessandra Dzuba’s. Their collaborative exhibit uses nature and texture to explore ideas of evolution, life, death and connections (or disconnections). At Hilliard Gallery (1820 McGee), Teresa Magel is seeing whether she can make a great big collective wish come true. By opening night, she’ll have finished turning the thousand wishes that she has amassed this year from anonymous scribblers — wishes that range from the mean-hearted to the heartbreaking to the trivial — into 1,000 origami cranes. In Japanese culture, doing so is supposed to bring about a positive wish outcome. A corresponding body of new paintings invites us to think about being careful what we wish for. These images incorporate her signature style: dreamlike renditions of calm female figures beset with flowers, hummingbirds and other natural elements conveying fragility and serenity. Two other artists are staging their new solo exhibitions in annual terms: Christine LaValley presents paintings created from a form of meditation. My Mythology Is Personal, at Main Street Gallery (1610 Main, above Anton’s Taproom), contains symbols that are relevant to her but translate into geometric studies that do not require a key. Twisting Facebook and selfie culture, Erica Kuschel has created a 365-day photographic journal — real prints, nonephemeral text — for A Year in a Blink, showing at Locust Factory (504 East 18th Street). The exhibition asks us to watch her daily life, which, according to gallery materials, includes “dressing for a party; playing with her pet ferret; relaxing with her boyfriend; despairing or reveling over her hair or body shape; celebrating birthdays, anniversaries,

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“But it's still working itself out” by Curtis Kulig Gonzales’ KC City Racers and large-scale paintings by both men. Gonzales is represented these days by New York’s fancy Franklin Parrasch Gallery. It’s rare to see both him and his work this far inland — as Escapist owners Nick Owen and Dan Askew can tell you. Since moving their shop in 2010 from the retail ghost town of Metro North Mall to the west edge of the Crossroads, they’ve wanted to book him for a show. After years of casual conversations at trade shows, their wish has finally come true. The modified skateboards that make up Gonzales’ KC City Racers are somewhat whimsical, fitted with pointy-nosed panels resembling rudimentary Indy race cars. You ride them by kneeling within the little box and scooting along, the way you may have done as a kid. Kulig and Gonzales’ big paintings, which Escapist hadn’t finished installing as of press time, go heavy on race themes. Askew says we can expect to see members of the Krooked skate team zooming around on City Racers and other boards through the crowded Crossroads Friday night. KC City Racers 7-10 p.m. Friday, August 1 Escapist Skateboarding, 405 Southwest Boulevard

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rtist David Goodrich, 52, died July 22 while hiking in Canyonlands National Park, in Utah. He had been on vacation there, and his last Facebook post, July 17, assured his friends, “I’ll be back with stories and photos.” Results of an autopsy are pending, but according to his sister, Denise Goodrich Frazier, preliminary reports suggest that Goodrich succumbed to heat exhaustion and dehydration. Two summers ago, I reviewed his solo exhibition at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center in these pages. At the time, Oklahoma native Goodrich had just returned from a similar solo road trip — to Los Angeles via Mesa Verde, Colorado, with stops in New Mexico and the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona. He was eager to share photos and stories from that adventure, and if you talked with him, you learned from him. He was an ardent student of mythology and history, especially the esoteric and the misinterpreted. Goodrich incorporated figures from a wide variety of Western cultures in his paintings — nymphs, saints, Icarus, the sacred buffalo — in a distinctly dramatic style. His colorful impasto — built in thick, roiling strokes — made his paintings appear sculpted out of clay. His imprint on Kansas City’s scene extends back three decades, when, as he told those of us who saw him recently, there was still “an underground.” The Internet has changed that, of course, but it also has given us a way to share memories and share our collective feelings of loss. At press time, there were already uncountable tributes on his Facebook wall, and there remains an archive (at goodrichpaintings.com) where we can still admire his work.

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here’s no shortage of media outlets covering the Kansas City area: The Kansas City Star, KCUR 89.3, the Business Journal, four TV stations, hyperlocal operations such as Prairie Village Post and Northeast News, gossipy blogs like Tony’s Kansas City and KC Confidential. The Pitch, of course. But as media fortunes have been reduced by the challenges of monetizing the news in the digital age, what we call the news is often just a bullet list of information presented without much context. We note headlines through the echo chamber of our Twitter and Facebook feeds, maybe hear part of some nightly broadcast. A day later, the stories are mostly gone, set aside for the next round of secondhand talking points. After the news is news, though — two months, two years or two decades down the line — it’s part of the community’s history, where it goes begging for context. Big-picture intellectualizing of events as they pass from breaking news to yesterday’s papers to the stuff of our shared history is in short supply these days at the local level. For one thing, there isn’t as much money to pay people to do that kind of reporting and intellectualizing as there used to be. That’s part of the niche the founders of Civilian, a civic-minded literary journal set for release this week, want to fill. “We saw an opportunity to create something that we could publish over a longer period of time than a typical blog or zine or news site,” says editor Kent Szlauderbach. “There’s this 24-hour news cycle, and we thought we could try to slow it down a little.” Along with Leandra Burnett and Sarah Murphy, Szlauderbach is a founder of Front/ Space, a small gallery in the Crossroads District. Szlauderbach is a writer — his byline has appeared in this publication and also on Kill Screen, the video-game site and journal. Murphy is an architectural graduate at BNIM, and Burnett worked until recently for MainCor, the group that aims to revitalize Main Street. “All our conversations at Front/Space tend to go back to art as it relates to urbanism and community development,” Szlauderbach says. “For us, the context of the art community was sometimes more interesting than the art itself. So we wanted to bring the discussion of the city to the same plane of discussion as the art.” In March 2013, the Charlotte Street Foundation, where Szlauderbach was a writer-inresidence, awarded him, Burnett and Murphy a $5,200 Rocket Grant based on their proposal to create Civilian. “Originally, the plan was to pair an artist or a writer with a community organization,

with the idea of them doing a collaboration or research-based work,” Szlauderbach says. “And they’d produce a document for each one — the artist would make something, or the writer would write something. And then, hopefully, we’d figure out a way to distribute it.” That idea evolved into a publication that would examine the intersection of urban planning, art, architecture and literature in the Kansas City area. Szlauderbach says he was inspired by N+1, the literary and political journal in New York. “I wanted to use their model because it supports pieces about art, literature, reportage, essays and history, in a way where it can all stand alongside each other,” he says, “and other journals and general-interest magazines — Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Baffler, the Oxford American. I like how the [Southern-themed] Oxford American elevates its regionalism to a national discourse. That’s kind of what I wanted to do with Civilian. The themes we cover are not unique to Kansas City. I think we can speak about local topics without alienating readers from other cities.” Among the pieces in Civilian’s 130-page first issue: José Faus traces the collapse of industry in the Historic Northeast’s Sheffield neighborhood; Nathan Clay Barbarick looks at where punk economics, property ownership and the

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They were served under an almost evanescent ingredients. (What is it? Think school-lunch enchilada mashup: soft, chewy, weird, deli- scrim of unobtrusive but potent chili-infused bacon butter. It finds a ready complement in cious, and served in a small cast-iron skillet.) “Nancy and I went to the Manhattan res- Smith’s guava-glazed bacon shrimp. That dish benefits from a hot-sweet guava barbecue taurant a couple of times to check it out before sauce, the same that comes with the smoked we agreed to the project,” Smith tells me — and that’s all he’ll say about the business side of pork ribs here. Those exquisitely tender ribs are a must, by the way. I almost gnawed them things. (His and Nancy’s co-owners are silent to the bone when I tried them. partners.) A braised pork roast is equally tender but The restaurant echoes the energy and vitala lot brassier (thanks to a punchy ancho-chile ity of Extra Virgin, with its flourishes of urban rub). And Smith’s south-of-the-border spin on hipness. The vivid-red Cocobolos dining room boasts a mural and several paintings by local hanger steak — so ill-prepared in many local artist Scribe. “His work evokes the graffiti on restaurants that I’ve nearly given up ordering it — is as soft and delecMexican streets and has table as a tenderloin, a big, almost cartoonish Cocobolos slow-cooked before bequality while still beGrilled Baja-style oysters �� $12 ing tossed on the grill, ing sophisticated and Smoked guava-glazed pork ribs �� $21 then sliced against the appealing,” Smith says. Pan-fried hanger steak �� $17 grain and dappled with He could say the Bolo cream coco “pie” ��$5 a luscious, cilantrosame about much of heavy salsa verde. his menu at Cocobolos, The five taco choices can be mixed and with its splashy versions of tacos, enchiladas matched in sets of three for $10. The three I’d and tostadas. Smith’s imagination exceeds have again tomorrow: beef tongue with roasted reality here and there among his creations. jalapeños, machaca chicken with crumbled I’m thinking in particular of a “Mexican bacon and poblanos rajas, and a superb crispy crudite” platter, with crunchy slices of jicama pork with pineapple and queso verde. Mind and cucumber and a jumble of fresh pineapple you, three tacos aren’t terribly filling here, unwedges arranged over a slick of ineffectual less you’ve overindulged on the thick tortilla orange marinade. Too much color, not enough flavor. But that’s a rare misstep on a menu chips and the trio of salsas (a citrusy tomatillo, a smoky chipotle and an unfortunately bland dominated by successes. house sauce) and, say, a summery salad of A starter of grilled oysters came out fresh and slightly smoky the night I sampled them. crispy jicama, cucumbers and peanuts.

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Hanger steak (left) and a trio of unusual tacos are among the culinary surprises at Cocobolos� This being a Smith restaurant, the desserts are generally worth considering. Perhaps softened up by the Train Wreck, I found myself ordering the “banana split,” made with caramelized bananas, two scoops of Christopher Elbow ice cream and scads of whipped cream. That same genuine whipped cream also alights, in a great fluffy cloud, atop a frosty glass jar filled with coconut custard on a blanket of gingersnap crumbs. “I wanted a coconut cream pie,” Smith says, “but not a traditional pie.” Good idea — it’s soothing and refreshingly cool after an evening of peppery dishes. In the weeks since Cocobolos opened, Tom Harley — the gifted former chef at Mission’s long-gone MelBee’s restaurant — joined Smith’s kitchen staff. He’s learning to execute all of the Cocobolos dishes to Smith’s exacting standards. “When he’s really gotten rolling,” Smith says, “we’ll have Tom create some really cool dinner specials.” Make no mistake, though — the place isn’t going to stop being a Smith production. Even at a lovingly cartoonified cantina like this, his touch is both evident and exciting. It really is Cocobolos by Michael Smith.

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The 403 Club’s Dan Myers builds a beast of a bloody mary.

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he sun is bright and heavy on the early Sunday afternoon when I visit the 403 Club in Kansas City, Kansas. But from inside this storied establishment, I can barely make out any evidence of the world beyond, just a few slivers of light straining through the blinds. The eight pinball machines lining the back wall blink coquettishly, waiting for someone’s hands to grip them. The small bar’s 10 stools are nearly all claimed, with bartender Dan Myers taking care of business during his one weekly shift at this final-outpost dive. (His regular gigs are at Westport’s Port Fonda and Ça Va.) I squeeze in at the edge of the bar and observe Myers. He’s wearing a distressed jersey promoting the Police’s 1982 tour. The sleeve tattoos on his forearms snake to his hands, and nearly every finger is blessed this Sunday with a chunky silver ring. Myers knows why I’m here. As he pours me a beer, we discuss our mutual interest: bloody marys. Myers can claim a long love affair with the hangover classic. I, on the other hand, have always written it off as a salad in a glass. He’s confident that he can change my mind. “Are you hungry?” he asks as he pulls out a Minsky’s to-go menu from behind the register. He hardly hears my response over Bob Marley’s bleat over the jukebox. Soon, a delivery guy will drop off a little Styrofoam mountain, from which Myers will strip-mine a buffet of deep-fried treats. When that’s done, he finally picks up his cocktail shaker. His recipe doesn’t appear to be anything out of the ordinary: rail vodka; a bloodymary mix, ordered by the box; Tabasco sauce; Worcestershire sauce (which Myers calls “gentleman’s sauce,” for ease of pronunciation). But he has obviously learned a few secrets in his three and a half years’ worth of Sundays at the 403. “Our mix isn’t amazing,” Myers admits, holding up a bottle of the standard Mrs. T’s. “But I doctor it up, and I don’t use a lot of it — less than most people, probably. Equal parts mix and vodka.” In this case, though, he has put the mix with tequila. And now he’s pulling ingredients from all corners of his small space, digging through sauces and a row of spices, adding a dash of Sriracha, a pour of Stone Brewing’s Spröcketbier (a Kölsch-style black rye). He shakes all this over ice, then strains it into a pint glass dusted with a mix of celery salt and pepper. There’s ice, and then come the garnishes: pickled okra, a fried mushroom, an onion ring, a toasted ravioli, a cucumber slice, a giant Minsky’s meatball, a chicken wing. This is a monster of a drink.

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Myers turns a drink into a meal. “She’s a little top-heavy,” Myers says. At this point, the entire bar is rapt, watching the bartender’s Frankenstein experiment. And he’s not done. He unearths a mason jar filled with what appear to be eyeballs. “I found this jar of these tiny pickled quail eggs at a truck stop in Texas last week,” Myers says, carefully arranging one milky piece. “I was like, ‘Oh, my God, look at these quail eggs! I have to have that.’” Before I can even take a sip, the other patrons are clamoring for their own little monsters. I feel bad for Myers, who must now re-create this drink en masse. He seems not to mind. “Everybody wants to do the best bloodymary bar, but sometimes when you present somebody with too many options, they fail,” Myers tells me later, when things have calmed down. “Like, ‘Oh, I like all this stuff, why doesn’t it work together?’ I mean, this is different, because all this shit is rad — like, where do you go where there’s a bloody-mary buffet that has meatballs and hot wings on it? But sometimes I think it’s just cool if you trust your bartender.”

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The trust has paid off. I have sampled my share of bloody marys, each time wishing I could join those among my friends who swear by it as a hangover cure. At long last, it looks like I may have found the one for me. Is it just because Myers has assembled this gauntlet of garnishes? (I do wish all bloody marys could be this thorough.) No. When I finally taste Myers’ concoction on its own, I am sure. The pepper and spice notes hit immediately on the nose and at the back of the throat, where they pleasantly remain. Typically, I find the standard tomato mix to be too acidic, but the Spröcketbier tempers that, adding just a hint of effervescence. The tequila has a brawny presence; Myers’ decision to use Cazadores Reposado, rather than a blanco, lends a whopping agave note. I approve. His “Bloody Maria,” as he dubs the tequila version — or “Bloody Murphy” with the traditional vodka — is a stunner. “Initially, I think the term ‘dive bar’ has a negative connotation,” Myers tells me. “But to me, what do I do when I get off work or when I’m not working? I go to bars like this. I get a shot and a beer. Or, if there was something like this, it’s absolutely what I’d get.” Me, too.

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1-1/2 oz. tequila (Myers used Cazadores Reposado) 1-1/2 oz. Mrs. T’s Bloody Mary Mix A spill of Spröcketbier from Stone Brewing Co. 5 generous dashes of celery salt 2 dashes Old Bay seasoning 2 dashes pepper 2 dashes Tabasco 1 squirt Sriracha Myers: “Salt the rim of the pint glass with a blend — equal parts salt, pepper, Old Bay and celery salt. In a shaker, pour your ingredients. Shake, strain and garnish as you wish. Highly recommended with spicy chicken wing and a meatball.”

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ore than a dozen expensive-looking guitars hang on the walls inside the space at 1830 Locust, with dozens more suspended from the ceiling and lying above in the rafters, safely in their cases. There are rare ukuleles, collectible cowboy guitars and stereos from various eras, alongside antique toys and framed photos of musicians. There is a wall lined with acrylic paintings of wrestlers. Another wall is dedicated almost entirely to guitar strings. In the front, a small practice area holds stacks of amps and a drum kit. The home for this enviable welter of gear is, of course, the revered Midwestern Musical Co. And it’s all coming down. The store is slated to close in August, capping 25 years in business. But not before a Friday, August 1, blowout. Matt Kesler, who co-founded Midwestern in 1989 with partner Jim Strahm, has got his work cut out for him. But as he sits on a stool, leaning one elbow against the shop’s bar, more is obviously on his mind than just the demands of packing up a quarter century’s worth of accumulated objects. A story is behind each instrument — history. And then favorite moments from the store’s history, there’s figuring out what’s next. he takes a moment to summon a few words. “This has been a labor of love and more “Oh, wow,” he says, sighing. “I mean, of a hobby than a business, as far as definitions of business and hobby go,” Kesler tells in this location, it’s been crazy. We’ve had me with a laugh. “Don’t get me wrong — it’s the First Friday events, so we’ve had a lot of been a lot of fun, and I’m sad, but it’s time to entertainment here. One thing about being move on. Honestly, I was really pushing to right here behind Crossroads KC and Grinders is that, not only am I getting the best of the get to 25 years, and I’m there, and now I’ll be local bands but I’m getting national bands able to concentrate on a lot of other things.” that are parking their buses right out front. Kesler isn’t sure yet what those other I’ve met a lot of rock stars and a lot of differthings might be. The Midwestern Musical ent people, whether they’re driving the buses Co. has been more than a guitar shop and or working the stage, so that’s been great. repair center; it has also been the practice I’ve met so many famous people without space for a number of local bands (including, knowing it.” most recently, the PhilisBut really, Kesler says, tines; the Silver Maggies; Midwestern Musical Co.’s the best part of Midwestand Kesler’s own band, the First Friday Finale ern was Strahm, who died Pedaljets). A recording stuand Guitar Bash in 2000. For 14 years, dio is housed in the back, With the Bad Ideas, Red Kate, Kesler has kept the shop and Kesler would like to and a guitar raffle going largely in memory continue that part of his Friday, August 1, at of his friend, colleague operation, though he’ll Midwestern Musical Co. and fellow musician. need to find a new space “Jim was the guy in for it. He hasn’t given much thought yet to selling off the stock — Midwestern Music that’d talk your ear off,” that artfully strewn inventory — though he Kesler says. “He was a character. And that’s says many of the guitars and pieces of equip- part of what’s kept the store alive. It’s been for the sake of not just myself but everybody who ment will likely end up on eBay. The closing of this Kansas City institu- was ever touched by Jim being there. When he died, we definitely tried to carry on a lot tion, where relationships have sprung up among countless local and touring musicians of the practices that he held — the rental and loaning of gear and repairing and things like (Alejandro Escovedo has been a regular since that, the things that made it really personal.” the early 1990s), seems like an immeasurable Midwestern Musical Co. has been nothing loss. When I ask Kesler to recall some of his 20

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if not personal all this time. So says local singer-songwriter John Velghe, a regular at the shop for 22 years. He recalls following Kesler and Strahm from the original location in Mission to Kansas City’s El Torreon building in 2004 and, finally, to the Crossroads, its home since 2008. “I would spend hours in there, probably more hours than they really wanted,” Velghe tells me. “Jim and Matt have always kind of been like my rock-and-roll big brothers. I mean, Matt sold me my first distortion pedal, back in 1992. I had a guitar, a Les Paul Jr. that Jim got in and set aside for me. He waited for me to get the money together. He wouldn’t sell it to anyone else. He wanted me to have it, and he was patient. And later, when it got stolen after a show, Midwestern was there with a replacement. That was what they did. It was always a place where a musician knew they could get it done.” Velghe adds, “I think every music community needs a center, and it can’t exist on the Internet. For a lot of years, Midwestern has been that center for the music community here. People have tried to re-create it, and you really can’t because it’s always been about Jim and Matt and what they’ve done for people.” As Kesler and I wrap up our conversation inside the store, he says he has no idea where the next center of Kansas City music is going to be. And if he cares, if he wants to pass Midwestern’s torch to some other

Kesler talks shop before closing it up. vigilant shopkeeper, he doesn’t talk about it. “Right now,” he says, “I’m thinking about having a kick-ass party on August 1 and celebrating 25 years of fun.”

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Opportunities to enjoy jazz in Kansas City continue to unfold, and one of the latest and most exciting is during Sunday brunch at the Broadway Jazz Club. This week, the Steve Lambert Duo brings together two of the most talented stars of KC’s younger jazz generation when Lambert on tenor sax and flute and Andrew Ouellette on piano weave their solos in and out of the melody and together. Unexpected turns and phrases punctuate their lines, grabbing our attention and taking us on an intelligent musical journey. Sunday crowds are growing at Broadway, so plan ahead. — Larry Kopitnik Steve Lambert Duo, 11 a.m.–3 p.m. Sunday, at the Broadway Jazz Club (3601 Broadway, 816-298-6316), no cover.

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ing set of this female-fronted blues band. It was a joy to watch these players go nuts on their instruments, as guitarist Guillen, bassist Claire Adams and drummer Stephanie Williams stacked one smoldering track on top of another. It’s no secret why the Grisly Hand is nominated this year in our “Hardest-Working Act” category: This band sweats and pushes and sings and plays until there’s just nothing left. Case in point: Friday’s set. Lead singer Lauren Krum has the kind of voice that can jolt you awake and get you moving with a quick key change. She’s a little like Dolly Parton in that way, only her twang is more understated. And as Krum and guitarist-singer Jimmy Fitzner harmonized like country-born baby angels, there was a healthy mob of people

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six and a half hours of our Pitch Music Showcase’s second night if we would’ve let him. Bearded and barefoot, the man played for nearly an hour on a variety of homemade cigar-box guitars, with a guitar slide or even with his teeth. For all that, his lyrics remain fairly conventional, falling back on such tried-and-true themes of women, whiskey and weed. Friday night, this only added to his charm. The Pedaljets, nominated this year in our “Album of the Year” category for What’s in Between, was born in the loud, pissedoff mid-1980s. The years have not lessened the attitude that singer and guitarist Mike Allmayer pushes into his lyrics, and as the Pedaljets coursed through material old and

new, Knuckleheads crackled with tension. Allmayer was stoic throughout the band’s bruising set, leaving little room for stage banter, but his bandmates — bassist Matt Kesler, drummer Rob Morrow and guitarist Cody Wyoming — seemed to relish the limelight. Wyoming snarled as he railed on his guitar, whipping his hair around during the choruses. Kesler, looking like a sinister railroad villain in a Western with his curled mustache and pointed goatee, seemed to delight in delivering every crushing bass line. By the time Katy Guillen and the Girls went on, the crowd was properly boozy and ready to obey the “God loves you when you dance” sign bearing down on the audience from the stage. There would be plenty of opportunity for that throughout the blister-

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Clockwise from top left: A.J. Gaither, the Pedaljets, the Grisly Hand, Katy Guillen and the Girls, Not a Planet

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stomping or swaying along — whatever the song called for. Not a Planet can always be counted on to deliver a show worth sticking around to see, and its Knuckleheads performance was no exception. Even as the crowd thinned near the end of the Showcase, the final act kept it classy and rocked out mightily. Nathan Corsi is one hell of a frontman. No, seriously — this guy gets your attention by just standing in front of a microphone and smiling at you. It helps, of course, that Not a Planet delivers a particular brand of highoctane, intergalactic rock. There simply was no better way to close out this celebration of lauded local music.

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The band is back together and on the road this summer. If you want a slice of music history, head down to the Saloon on Thursday. Thursday, July 31, Westport Saloon (4112 Pennsylvania, 816-960-4560)

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I’m sure I wasn’t alone in my reaction to news that Mötley Crüe had undertaken its “Final Tour.” Really? Is anyone going to be surprised when singer Vince Neil, guitarist Mick Mars, bassist Nikki Sixx and drummer Tommy Lee somehow find the strength to hit the road again in a couple of summers? Then again, these ’80s glam-metal gods have lived enough for the rest of us, so if this somehow really is their closing act, well, we’d best get in line. Bonus: Alice Cooper, never one to bid farewell, is opening. Sunday, August 3, Sprint Center (1407 Grand, 816-949-7000)

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It doesn’t matter that the reviews for Tori Amos’ 14th studio album, Unrepentant Geraldines, released this summer, haven’t been especially thrilling. The 50-year-old chanteuse has always done things her own way, and more often than not, the Tori Amos way is weird and alienating. On Geraldines, Amos returns to the 1990s piano-driven format that made her famous (with albums such as Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink), and her voice has lost none of its idiosyncratic charisma. Early concert reviews from Amos’ 80-date spring and summer run indicate that she’s pulling out some classic, fan-favorite tracks, too, so don’t be afraid Saturday to let out the angsty ’90s girl in you. Saturday, August 2, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)

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BOYHOOD

ART EXHIBITS & EVENTS

COMEDY

Comedy Night with Glenn Bolton | 8 p.m. Black &

Across the Indian Country: Photographs by Alexander Gardner, 1867-68 | Nelson-Atkins

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

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Dustin Kaufman’s Variety Show | 9 p.m. Uptown

Conversations — Marking 20 Years | Kemper

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

Gold Tavern, 3740 Broadway

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper |

Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Johnson County Fair | 9 a.m. Johnson County

In the Looking Glass: Recent Daguerreotype Acquisitions | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art,

FRIDAY

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Fairgrounds, 136 E. Washington St., Gardner, jocokansasfair.com

UniverSoul Circus | 10:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Kemper

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Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition | H&R Block Artspace (at Kansas City Art Institute), 16 E. 43rd St. , kcai.edu/artspace

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Arena, 1800 Genessee, universoulcircus.com

Let the Church Say Amen, featuring the work of Sonié Ruffin | Starting Saturday,

SPORTS & REC

14th Annual Ringside World Championship Amateur Boxing Tournament | 1 a.m.-9 p.m. In-

Boyhood | Opens Friday at Tivoli Cinemas, tivolikc.com, and at Fine Arts, fineartsgroup.com

Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 13th St. and Broadway, kccathedral.org/art

Royals vs. Twins | 7:10 p.m. Kauffman Stadium

Little Time Off, 2twenty2, Onward to Glory, Fake Fancy | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Meet Me at the Museum Tour | 2-3 p.m. Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

dependence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

2014 Jayhawk Golf Classic | 2 p.m. Alvamar Country

Club, 1809 Crossgate Dr., Lawrence

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Max Justus, Miss Mondegreen, Jib Jab & the Indigo Circus | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

NIGHTLIFE

Teenage Heart Sound System with Johnny 2Tone and DJ 810 | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Friday | 8.1 |

MUSIC

Black Oak Arkansas, Missouri Homegrown, Death Valley Wolf Riders, Famous Seamus and the Travelbongs | 6 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Crossroads Song Swap | The Tank Room, 1813 Grand

Showyousuck, Heartfelt Anarchy, Brief, TWO4ONE, Lost Analog, Auggie the 9th, LA France, Stunna, DJ Gear, Hurt Everybody, Les Paul, U-Neek | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

9 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Justin Timberlake | 8 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407

Guy Forsyth & the Hot Nut Riveters | 9:30 p.m.

The Toadies, Ume | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon,

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The Travis Gibson Band | 7 p.m. KC Live Stage at the

Vans Warped Tour, featuring Breathe Carolina,

Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

Millage Gilbert Big Blues Band | 7 p.m. Danny’s

Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.

Grand Marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Groupo Aztlan | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St. JB and the Moonshine Band, Ryan Manuel | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Kelvin Kerby, Tommy Donoho, the Timbers, the Poison Shop | 8 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers

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Thanksgiving, Scammers, CS Luxem, Isam |

Deadman Flats, Brody Buster Band | Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

PERFORMING ARTS

Enter Shikari, Falling in Reverse, For Today, Four Year Strong, Less Than Jake, Mayday Parade, Motionless in White, Of Mice & Men, Parkway Drive, the Devil Wears Prada and more | 11 a.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

The James Ward Band | The Kill Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.

Duck Warner Project | 6 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

Wild Ponies, Scott Schumann | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

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Mythopoeic : A group exhibition featuring the work of Dan Fenning, Steph Toth Kates, Evelyn Haaheim, Rodolfo Marron III, Mary Maude, Kelley Seda, and Jillian Youngbird | Kiosk Gallery, 3951 Broadway, kioskgallerykc.com

COMEDY

Tommy Davidson | 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

First Fridays Comedy with Brock Wilbur | 8 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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

COMMUNITY EVENTS

The Starr Miniature Collection: Masterworks in Miniature | Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

Tall Grass. Deep Water: An exhibition by Chris Wolf Edmunds and Pam Sullivan | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence Thieves Guild Drink and Draw | 7 p.m. Monday, Fatso’s Public House and Stage, 1016 Massachusetts, Lawrence This American Life | Fridays and Saturdays, Kemper East, 200 E. 44th St.

Johnson County Fair | 9 a.m. Johnson County

2014 UMKC Student Exhibition | Through Friday, UMKC Gallery of Art, 5015 Holmes, Room 203

UniverSoul Circus | 10:30 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. Kemper Arena, 1800 Genessee, universoulcircus.com

EXPOS

Fairgrounds, 136 E. Washington, Gardner, jocokansasfair.com

WeekEnder, featuring The Wizard of Oz and and Outlaw Junkies | 5 p.m. Crown Center Square, 2450 Grand

Kansas City Antiques Expo | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. KCI Expo Center, 11728 N. Ambassador Dr. Kansas City Paracon 2014 | Noon, Lake Lotawana

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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Through Sunday, the

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Noises Off | Through Sunday, the Barn Players,

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Ragtime | Starting Friday, Theatre in the Park, 7710 Renner, Shawnee, theatreinthepark.org The Sound of Music | Through July 31, Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com

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cold sweat | Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St. Danny cox | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Doctor p, Matej B, sick nifty, DJ 315, rob Bohn, DJ audioMattic | 8 p.m. Valentine Room at

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Dolewite | The BrewTop, 8614 N. Boardwalk Ave. Dr. cotton, cowgirl’s train set, Deep Fried squirrel | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence

ego satellites | 9 p.m. Dirk’s Bar and Grill, 8132 N.W.

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Free acid, a grateful Dead tribute Band | 10:30 p.m. Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Katy guillen and the girls | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside

BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

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2014 Festival of Butterflies | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. Hwy. 50, Kingsville shopping

Downtown sidewalk sale | 5-8 p.m. Power & Light District, 14th St. and Main

good Ju Ju | 9 a.m.-7 p.m., 1420 W. 13th Terr. Urban Mining vintage | 9 a.m.-9 p.m., 3924 Walnut sports & rec

in the Whale | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Jlove Band | 9 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St. Kc throwdown ii | 6:30 p.m. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

levee town | 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Dwayne Mitchell trio | Jazz, 1859 Village West Pkwy., KCK

the Mojo roots | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S. Hwy.

7, Blue Springs

14th annual ringside World championship amateur Boxing tournament | 11 a.m.-9 p.m. In-

dependence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence

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onerepublic | 7 p.m. Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd.

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American Idol Live 2014 | The Midland, 1228 Main at the left hand of god, hammerlord, Maps for travelers, David hasselhoff on acid, Bummer, residual Kid, Jorge arana trio | 8 p.m. The Riot

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Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

aZ-one, livstat | 9 p.m. Californos, 4124 Penn-

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NIGHTLIFE

Citizen Soldiers on the Prairie | Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, jocomuseum.org

25th Anniversary Party First Friday Finale and Guitar Bash | 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Midwestern Musical

Cowtown: History of the Kansas City Stockyards | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th

2 Live Cruz | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

The Discovery of King Tut | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org/tut

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Saturday | 8.2 | PERFORMING ARTS

Summerfest chamber music | 7:30 p.m. White Recital Hall at UMKC, 4949 Cherry, summerfestkc.org

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The Land Divided, the World United: Building the Panama Canal | Linda Hall Library, 5109 Cherry

On the Brink: A Month That Changed the World | National World War I Museum, Liberty

Memorial , 100 W. 26th St., theworldwar.org

COMEDY

Tommy Davidson | 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

UniverSoul Circus | 4 & 7:30 p.m. Kemper Arena, 1800 Genessee, universoulcircus.com

Fountain City Sketch Comedy, featuring Bobby Miller Jr., Kenzie West, Seth Macchi, Kate Haugan, Brian Huther, and Chris Fuston | 10 p.m. Kick Comedy Theater, 4010 Pennsylvania

EXPOS

KC Improv Co.’s The Gauntlet | 8-10 p.m. Kick

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KPRS All-Star Comedy Jam, featuring Mike Epps,

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Johnson County Fair | 10:30 a.m. Johnson

County Fairgrounds, 136 E. Washington, Gardner, jocokansasfair.com

Kansas City Antiques Expo | 10 a.m.-6 p.m. KCI Expo Center, 11728 N. Ambassador Dr.

Kansas City Paracon 2014 | 8:45 a.m. Lake Lotawana Sportsmen’s Club, 29709 E. Alley Rd., Lake Lotawana, kcparacon.com F E S T I VA L S

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Monsters 2014, featuring tributes to AC/DC, Ozzy Osbourne, Van Halen and Iron Maiden | 6 p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs

Friends of the Library Book Sale | 8 a.m.-1 p.m. City Market, 20 E. Fifth St., thecitymarket.org

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powerman 5000, (hed) p.e., Sunflower Dead, What i’ve Become, civil Symphony | 6 p.m. The

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peter Schlamb trio | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

eddie Shaw & the Wolf gang | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

the transients | 9:30 p.m. The BrewTop Pub and Patio, 8614 N. Boardwalk Ave.

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BadSeed | 4-9 p.m. Friday, 1909 McGee

DJ Mike Scott | Hotel Nightclub, 1300 Grand

Briarcliff village farmers Market | 3-7 p.m. Thursday, parking lot, 4175 N. Mulberry Dr.

DJ thundercutz | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

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Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

1 p.m. Saturday, Border Star Montessori, 6321 Wornall, brooksidefarmersmarket.com

City Market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.-

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Bar, 3611 Broadway

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

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1001 Arabian Nights: Bellydance and Beyond |

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2014 Festival of Butterflies | 9 a.m.-6 p.m. Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. Hwy. 50, Kingsville

CoMeDY

Uptown Comedy open mic with norm Dexter | shopping

10 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Downtown sidewalk sale | Noon-6 p.m. Power & Light District, 14th St. and Main

the 4th annual strawberry swing indie Craft Fair | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Alexander Majors House, 8201 State Line Rd., thestrawberryswing.org

Urban Mining vintage | Noon-5 p.m., 3924 Walnut

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Foundation 627 Big Band | 9 p.m. Green Lady

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Karaoke with paul Nelson | MiniBar, 3810 Broadway Karaoke | 10 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Film

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tap room trivia | 8 p.m. Waldo Pizza, 7433 Broadway

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Dragon Ball Z: Battle of Gods | 7 p.m. AMC Town

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The Wizard of Oz | 8:45 p.m. Theatre in the Park,

State of Deception lecture — “Hate mail: AntiSemitism on picture postcards,” Salo Aizenberg

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7710 Renner, Shawnee, theatreinthepark.org/movies SportS & rec

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presents postcard images from the late 1800s to today, in partnership with the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and the National Archives at Kansas City | 7 p.m. The World War I Museum, Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St.

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Dear Dan: I’m wondering when the best time is to mention being in an open relationship. I’m a 27-year-old straight guy who’s been in an open relationship for six years. I often seek out extracurricular activities, but I’m unsure of how to bring up my situation without doors closing. I wrote to a seduction blogger who often writes about open relationships, and his advice was to not mention it until I’ve had sex with the girl a few times and to not bring them to my apartment that I share with my girlfriend. This feels contrary to my nature, which is very straightforward, but is it perhaps the better method? Indeed, many of my “potentials” have been scared away when they learn of my relationship status. What are your thoughts on the matter? Dear SHOP: If your goal is to maximize the amount of pussy in your life without any regard for the feelings of the women who happen to be attached to those pussies, then you should definitely take the advice of the PUA (“pickup artist”) blogger. But that’s only if you wanna be a huge asshole who gets tons of pussy. If you wanna be a decent dude who gets more than enough pussy, then you’ll listen to me. Tell “potentials” after the third hang/date/ whatever. Let them get to know you a bit, then spill — before fucking but after they’ve made a small emotional investment in you. They’ll be more likely to reconsider prejudices they may have against guys in open relationships after they’ve gotten to know a semi-straightforward one and perhaps be less quick to slam the door. But unless it’s a clear case of drunken-onenight-stand/NSA encounter, no lying by omission. Most single people who are up for fucking a new person not once, not twice, but a few times are seeking someone with long-term potential. Lots of single people out there are seeking sex for sex’s sake, but a majority are hoping to leverage it into something more. And most single people make the assumption that the people they’re fucking are also single. If you neglect to inform the women you fuck that you’re not single (you’ve got a girlfriend) or emotionally available (you’re in an open relationship, not a poly one), you are taking advantage — and needlessly! Plenty of women out there are in open relationships and/ or poly relationships or are looking only for sex. You might have to work a little harder to find them, but you’ll have better sex with less drama — and you’ll spend fewer millennia in purgatory burning off your sins.

orgasm a greater percentage of the time, now that he knows my body and what I like. More orgasms for me are great, but we’ve fallen into a “tried and true” rut. I try to switch it up sometimes, and I surprised him with some sexy lingerie last night — and I got self-conscious, started to worry about whether I’d get off and didn’t come. He really likes it when I get off, but I don’t want us to have such a limited repertoire. My feeling is that I should not worry about my orgasms and focus on spice and variety, but I think that if we go too many times without my coming, it might be a downer for his boner, too. So which do we give preference to, variety or orgasms?

Rutting or Undertaking Totally Interesting New Experiences Dear ROUTINE: Your “tried and true” repertoire may feel like a bit of a rut, but it’s a successful rut. You both enjoy the sex you’re having, and you come way more often than you used to. All you need to solve your repertoire problem is perspective and patience. You have two competing and conflicting interests: You get off consistently when you stick to your routine, but you also want to shake up your routine and try new things. But trying new things makes it difficult for you to come. My advice would be to relax and give yourself permission to not come when you’re trying something new. To stave off frustration and/or self-consciousness, constantly remind yourself that new things you both enjoy will be incorporated into your routine. And when things that work for you both join the ranks of the tried and true, you’ll be able to come while you’re doing them. This is a problem that solves itself. And you don’t have to stop doing what works now. Let’s say you try something new on Wednesday night — new kink, new locale, new hole — and you enjoy yourself but you don’t come. So the next time you have sex,

Dear Dan: My best friend has a girlfriend of two years. They break up a lot, and he has slept with plenty of other girls over the last two years. I’ve had a crush on him for about three years, but I never made any advances. We had a threesome with a girl in March — he was broken up with his girlfriend at the time — but it was all about the girl. He got back with his girlfriend after that. Then last month, he and I had sex with each other. We had been drinking, he initiated it, and neither of us came. It was awkward, and we didn’t talk for a week. Then we bumped into each other, and he came home with me, and we had sex again. I came this time, but he drank too much and couldn’t. Then three weeks ago, I initiated it, and we did it again. This time he came. The next day, he said the “gay sex stuff” had to stop. He said he felt like he was cheating on his girlfriend. But later that night, he seemed to be on the verge of initiating again. I still want to sleep with him. Do you think that he may have freaked out about liking it too much? Could he be developing feelings? I rarely see him now. I can tell that he has had sex with a guy before — it slid in pretty easy, and he kept saying how good it felt. I’m so confused on what to do! Boys Easing Sex Tension Secretly Dear BESTS: Maybe it would help if you told

your friend that you’re not having gay sex — you’re having hot, sweaty bi sex, just without an accommodating/exonerating girl present. You might wanna look around for some other guy — maybe even a gay one — whom you can have a crush on and slide into. But I’m not going to push you to do that because it’s clear that you’ve got feelings for this guy, and at the very least he’s got Feelings While Drunk for you. And while I should probably scold you both for fucking around behind his girlfriend’s back, I have a hunch that you’re a bunch of teenagers and/or very young adults. So you’re getting a pass because this kind of bullshit is often a necessary and clarifying rite of passage for kids who are still figuring out who they are, what they want, and who they can and cannot trust. But I predict that this will end badly for all involved, and you will one day look back on the bi three-ways, the gay two-ways, and the way you once believed that “breaking up a lot” was evidence of a passion that could not be denied (when in actual fact, it’s evidence of a couple of twats who cannot be endured) and be deeply, deeply embarrassed. But in the meantime, enjoy sliding in.

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