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t is a testament to how far the gay-rights movement has come in America that those who oppose providing the LGBT community equal protection under the law are no longer comfortable coming right out and saying so. Even in late-adopting states such as Missouri and Kansas, anti-gay sentiment is now widely perceived for what it is: ugly. Under such conditions, non-bigoted-sounding reasons must be invented to perpetuate the denial of equal rights to gay persons. These faux concerns range from financial (“It’ll cost too much taxpayer money to implement and enforce these new laws”) to constitutional (“You can’t tell a private business owner who he can and cannot serve”; “Selling a cake to a gay couple’s wedding goes against someone’s religion”) to wildly theoretical (“A transgender woman could rape women and children in a public restroom”). One ridiculous battle in this war is playing out in Roeland Park. On March 3, City Council members Megan England and Jennifer Gunby introduced an ordinance that would add sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI, as it is known in legal and civic shorthand) to the group of classes protected by the Kansas municipality’s anti-discrimination law. Roeland Park’s laws already protect individuals against discrimination on the bases of race, religion, color, age, sex, disability, national origin, ancestry and familial status. Under the new ordinance, LGBT individuals could no longer be discriminated against in employment, housing and business regulations. Such protection is not yet offered by the state of Kansas or by the federal government, but 190 U.S. cities and counties have made the move. Locally, Kansas City, Missouri; Lawrence; and Columbia all have SOGI ordinances on the books. And polling suggests that the public approves: A 2014 poll by Public Policy Polling found that only 29 percent of Kansans supported a state law allowing businesses to refuse service to same-sex couples. At the March 3 meeting, several Roeland Park council members were excruciatingly careful not to offend the LGBT community while also not endorsing the proposed ordinance update. “I want this to pass,” said Councilwoman Becky Fast — who went on to stress that the business community would need to be consulted before any final decision was made. Councilwoman Mel Croston boasted about having “six transgender friends,” but then questioned whether any discrimination was actually taking place in Roeland Park. “If nobody’s being discriminated against, why pass the ordinance?” 4
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Councilwoman Sheri McNeil also has gay friends, she said, who had always found Roeland Park to be a welcoming place. So welcoming, she added, that she felt the ordinance was unnecessary. Fast and Croston and McNeil did not say how they might feel if it was legal in Roeland Park to be fired or denied residency for being, say, a middle-aged white woman. The council ultimately decided that, although England and Gunby’s proposed ordinance was drafted using language from states and cities where similar changes have been successfully carried out, and it had been vetted by the city’s lawyer, weeks of more research would be required before a council vote. (There are eight council members; the mayor, Joel Marquardt, votes only to break ties.) Things got considerably more interesting at a council meeting in early May. A group of citizens turned up to oppose the ordinance; some of those citizens were parishioners at St. Agnes, a Catholic church that, according to some who live in the suburb, wields impressive political influence. The opposition’s unofficial legal representative, Dale Schowengerdt, was permitted to speak for 10 minutes about why the ordinance spelled bad news for the city. Schowengerdt is not a Roeland Park resident. He received his law degree from the Pat Robertson–founded Regent University School of Law. He provides legal counsel for the Alliance Defending Freedom, a family-values organization that exists mostly to oppose abortion rights and equal rights to gay people. Schowengerdt is also the son of Steven Schowengerdt, who in April was elected mayor of Mission, which neighbors Roeland Park. (Emboldened by the mandate of his 19-
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vote victory, Schowengerdt Sr.’s first action as mayor was to deliver a Christian prayer at his inaugural council meeting.) Dale Schowengerdt schooled the Roeland Park council: “When you talk about sexual identity, it’s different than race in that it’s more subjective because it’s harder to classify. It’s based on subjective indications by the person. It raises complications legally in trying to enforce it.” Gunby interrupted Schowengerdt’s demeaning legalese. “Let me jump in right there,” she said. “I don’t believe that it’s a choice or that it’s subjective.” “Whether it’s a choice or not, I’m not commenting on that,” Schowengerdt continued. “But the reason that most states haven’t passed this is because they’re wrestling with complicated legal issues related to it. A city the size of Roeland Park should think seriously about it because there will be serious costs associated with it.” He went on to cite a case that he said he was working on in Washington state, which allegedly received 666 complaints in a year, only five of which were deemed to have merit. He argued that Roeland Park was not equipped to handle a large number of frivolous complaints. That sounds like a not-unfair administrative concern — until you remember that it’s not even remotely consistent with the experiences of municipalities that have passed SOGI ordinances. Since 2008, for example, Kansas City has fielded just 31 SOGI complaints. Since it enacted sexual-orientation protection, all the way back in 1995, Lawrence — a city 12 times more populous than Roeland Park — has fielded a total of nine sexual-orientation complaints. Since adding gender-identity protection, in 2011, it has recorded exactly one
gender-identity complaint. There were zero SOGI complaints in Columbia (14 times the population of Roeland Park) in 2013. Schowengerdt then took an anecdotal detour and told the council that he had heard about a male-born transgender person in Canada who once entered a women’s restroom, sexually assaulted women and children there, and then used a SOGI ordinance as a legal defense. Pressed for an example from the United States, he trotted out a story about a New Mexico photographer who was sued for not taking photos of a gay wedding. Eventually his time ran out. At a subsequent council meeting, on June 2, several citizens spoke up in favor of the ordinance. A transsexual woman named Una Novelly noted that “opposing the progress of civil rights has never been a winning strategy.” One woman in the audience disagreed. Maureen Reardon voiced her concern that a fish fry at St. Agnes, an event that technically is a commercial enterprise, would now be forced to serve gay persons — which, she complained, amounted to an intrusion on church members’ freedom of religion. “And what about Girl Scouts who sell cookies in the vestibule?” she asked. If the absurdity of the situation wasn’t clear before, this episode brought it into bright focus: An older woman in nice clothes standing up in front of a crowd of people, trembling with rage at the idea that her church’s right to discriminate against gays was being infringed upon. Reardon and Schowengerdt — and everyone else not in line with the idea that every citizen is entitled to the same rights under the law — will just have to get used to it. The only real question left about gay rights is how soon equal protection will be universal. For now, the Roeland Park City Council has an opportunity to accelerate the inevitable with the correct answer to a simple question: Do LGBT residents of Roeland Park deserve all the same rights afforded to other Roeland Park residents? If the answer is yes, there’s only one way to vote. Of course, there’s also the wrong way to vote, and, following Schowengerdt’s performance, that could still happen. After being pushed back three times, the council vote on the ordinance is set for June 16. England and Gunby remain firm yeses, and Councilwoman Teresa Kelly and Mayor Marquardt are believed likely to offer their support. They’ll need one more council vote if fairness is to prevail.
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udgments are being handed down inside Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen. Garment designer Ebony Harvey and accessory designer Erin Stegman head for the corner near the wine lockers. Both are newcomers to the West 18th Street Fashion Show and its processes. With dresses and jewelry in hand, they begin showing their in-progress collaboration to the show’s lead producers, Peregrine Honig, Mark Southerland and Hadley Johnson. Harvey’s bold African prints, alongside Stegman’s copper and melted-acrylic pieces, delight the trio — at first. Then Harvey shows Honig a cellphone image of the scarves she envisions atop her models’ heads, and the mood shifts. “Head scarves with this material is such a typical thing to do,” Honig says, her voice urgent. “It’s very conformist. A head scarf here — it ends the conversation.” Stegman suggests copper headpieces. Veils, perhaps, Harvey offers. Honig smiles. “Awesome. You’ll come up with something together,” she says. This kind of exchange goes on for hours at the West 18th Street Fashion Show’s Designer
Meet, Greet & Critique, an evening in early May that some are bound to feel is more critique than meet. It isn’t just first-timers such as Harvey who come for a gut check and leave with a new imperative. For 13 summers, the unexpected has dominated an outdoor runway on West 18th Street in the Crossroads. Tonight at Tannin is where the unexpected — the visionary and the provocative and the discussion-provoking — begins to flower. Saturday, June 14, the 14th annual West 18th Street Fashion Show highlights two dozen local designers. The pieces they’ve created are this time based on the theme “Ceremonial Summer” — ceremony being one way that society marks time. Celebrations, transitions and progressions are the ideas behind some of this year’s designs. “Today we live in a world where how we spend our time and the freedom of choice we have to our journey is priority,” Johnson says. “We are not following in the steps of the generations before us but choosing our own dreams and new ways to attain them. This theme supplied larger boundaries for designers, which created space for the designers to be true to their world and be a part of a world we are creating on the West 18th Street runway.” continued on page 9
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“I WANT PEOPLE TO LOOK AT MY COLLECTION AND SEE STRONG WOMEN.” Left: Rachel Gottlieb; above: Ebony Harvey (left) and Erin Stegman A Kansas City Art Institute fiber graduate who has shown at Fashion Week San Diego, Stracy has built a name for herself in the local fashion industry. She’s part of a six-person panel, billed as “Kansas City’s brightest fashion professionals,” in a Thursday, June 12, discussion. Johnson thinks that Stracy has hit her stride with her latest show collection. “Her willingness to strive for her vision in both concept and craft is very impressive this year,” Johnson says. “The collection is fun to watch and wear, which is what we want fashion to be.”
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e’re only being hard on you because we think you have one of the most interesting collections,” Southerland tells Rachel Gottlieb during her critique. The producers have spent the past several minutes explaining to Gottlieb that the first piece in her collection isn’t working. She has set out to chronicle the progression of aging skin through five pieces. She hoped that dress No. 1 captured the innocence of young skin, but the producers have declared it boring. Johnson leaves Gottlieb with a challenge: “You need to do something insane.” Gottlieb’s focus on skin emphasizes her own preferred state. “I’m a nudist and a fashion designer,” she says. “It’s a contradiction, I know.” continued on page 11
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SUMMER, TIME continued from page 9 For her show collection, she has poured 100 hours into handruched silk garments to illustrate the wrinkling of skin. “Every item has a little piece of my soul in it,” she says. She has relieved the intensity of her work by taking walks on the vast Peculiar, Missouri, property where she lives. Gottlieb, a New York native and Fashion Institute of Technology graduate, left the East Coast for the countryside less than a year ago, when she moved in with her boyfriend. In this setting, she has found answers. Her collection now opens with a full-length chiffon gown. A sheer top gives way to a mermaid skirt. The look, she is confident, will make a strong runway statement that achieves the desired insanity. Now, delicate garments contrast punk-rock hair and makeup. Cornrow mohawks are in the works. “It’s going to be really dramatic,” she says.
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“These shapes represent the doorways and passageways we travel through in life experiences,” Stegman says. Two years ago, Stegman launched her accessories line, Erin Paige Designs, and she has since presented at Kansas City Fashion Week. West 18th Street producers paired her with Harvey for a natural accessories-garment union. While this weekend’s show marks Harvey’s runway debut, she has spent many years working behind the scenes of West 18th Street as a seamstress. She credits the opening of Coming to America with inspiring her energetic collection. Loud patterns, wax sheen and lace dominate her pieces. “I want people to look at my collection and see strong women,” she says. “And I’m trying to show that women can be strong, feminine, playful and girly, all at the same time.” Following the critique with producers, Harvey hired a hairstylist and began seeking an unusual statement for her models’ heads. She’s thinking large buns adorned with copper pieces. “We just need a little bit more flair,” she says. “We’ll land on something different — that’s what West 18th Street’s all about.”
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he Unicorn Theatre ends its 40th season on a high note with By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. The play’s fresh-faced script, from Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, wrings guilty laughs from flawed film representations of African-Americans during the Great Depression. The play focuses on the relationship between vain film starlet Gloria Mitchell (portrayed by Katie Karel), “America’s Sweetie Pie,” and her maid, Vera Stark (Dianne Yvette), herself an aspiring actress. Both are hoping for a part in The Belle of New Orleans, a Gone With the Wind–like Southern epic about a “beautiful octaroon” hiding her heritage from the man she loves. Gloria is desperate for the lead. Vera longs for the part of Tillie, the lead’s slave maid. Vera’s roommates, more acting hopefuls, court fame in their own ways. Lottie (Donette Coleman) packs on the pounds to be cast in maternal roles. Anna Mae (Emily Shackelford) counts on her light skin and straight hair to help her pass as a Brazilian sexpot, and her “exotic” faux accent earns the affections of Belle director Maxmillian Von Oster (played earnestly — and with a Morohunfola and Yvette come Pavel Chekov accent — by Justin Speer). a long way, maybe. A booze-soaked party turned audition Herb Forrester. Morohunfola gives each charensues, and Vera and Lottie shuffle stoopbacked across the stage, hum spirituals and acter a distinct palette of gestures and vocal tics, and his commitment and confidence concoct tragic Mississippi back stories to give Von Oster the “real Negro” he’s look- drive each scene in which he appears. Katie Karel and Dianne Yvette are also ing to cast. It’s a fantastically funny scene, but the laughs catch in your throat. Their strong, picking up steam as the show develslapstick is the only way that Vera and Lot- ops. Last Sunday’s performance got off to a bit of a rocky start, with some unfocused entie know to earn the director’s attention, ergy and unmotivated blocking, but Yvette and Von Oster’s oblivious praise of their and Karel soon found their stride, falling “authenticity” gives the satire another barb. But not all of Nottage’s characters are as into an easy rhythm. Act 2 soars into the future willing to humor Hollywood. with a split-screen strucLeroy (Tosin Morohunfola), a ture, as an academic panel in By the Way, composer who courts Vera, Meet Vera Stark 2003 comments on footage is less than thrilled with Through June 29 (played out live in front of the role she covets. “It was at the Unicorn Theatre, us) from a 1973 TV interview hard enough getting free the 3828 Main, 816-531-7529, with Vera Stark and film first damn time,” he argues, unicorntheatre.org clips from her performance urging her to wait for more in The Belle of New Orleans. dignified parts. It’s a scattered format, one Director Missy Koonce that shouldn’t work but does — thanks keeps the comedy fast-paced, dialing up the play’s stylized elements with old Hol- in part to Koonce’s pacing and Nottage’s lywood title projections and a “that’s all, sharp dialogue. (Gary Mosby’s handsome set transitions seamlessly from Gloria’s glamfolks” spotlight to end each scene, zooming orous apartment to a 1973 talk-show set, in on a single character’s face as that person and strong work from sound designer David mugs for an imaginary camera. The Unicorn’s casting is as sharp as ever, Kiehl and costume designer Erica Sword and Morohunfola leads a talented cast with helps ease us into each new time period.) When the modern-day academics launch his commanding performances as both Leroy into both critique and commendation of Barksdale and, in Act 2, modern academic
Vera’s performance, we sense echoes of the conf licted reception Hattie McDaniel received for her portrayal of Mammy in Gone With the Wind. The panel participants riff like overly caffeinated grad students on “patriarchal hegemony” and “reductionist terms” as they try to contextualize the film while plugging their own books. Still, the complaints aren’t invalid, and debate remains: Did performances like Hattie McDaniel’s help or hinder representations of African-American women in film? Is there any nobility in working within oppressive systems? Is Vera Stark a hero or a coward? These aren’t easy questions, and Nottage resists answering them definitively or demonizing a particular view. If anything, she seems to poke fun at the discussion from all sides, using the panel’s increasing obnoxiousness to reveal the inadequacies in retrofitting academic frames to real human problems. And this is what makes Nottage a standout modern playwright. Vera Stark doesn’t end with the sweeping pathos and string chorus of The Belle of New Orleans, and we should be grateful for that. Relationships defy intellectual categorization, and emotion defies express-train shortcuts. Nottage defies convention, and finds honesty — and humanity — along the way.
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f you’ve ever maligned drawing as mere practice (sketchbook scribbles, tentative pencil scratches), a trip to City Ice Arts this month should set you straight. Jeran Avery’s latest solo exhibition, Drawing on Form, shows the artist’s fluency in the exacting languages of geometry and classical mechanics. His concave figures emerge from sharp angles and crisp, even lines to lure you inside each careful ink meditation. And then the wildcat growl of a Ducati 1098 rips through the gallery, and you’re ready to trade serenity for speed. The fusion of human and machine comes into view, and you consider the contradictions: mathematical perfection next to mortal error, patience alongside the punchy purr of a high-speed sport bike. A custom-patterned helmet and matching Ducati body draw your attention first, calling to mind the biomechanical drawings of H.R. Giger. The skull design might seem like a Moto cliché, but the medium is anything but: Avery relies on subdued graphite marks, layering textured pools of pencil to form the skulls’ subtle shadows. The matte-white coating on both helmet and bike departs from traditional gleaming, automotive candy paint. Both pieces seem ossified, as if carved from bone. Avery makes little attempt to conceal the artist’s hand, even when it’s gripping the throttle: Hairline scratches on the 1098’s body confirm another, more practical life for his bike. The helmet came first, he says,
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marker masking Avery’s gentle pen lines. Moody colors glisten underneath, barely visible behind the murky Sharpie overlay. and sparked a curiosity for how the pencil Across the gallery, drawings on ultra-thin design might translate to other forms. “I steel synthesize the show’s automotive and knew I wanted to do it on a larger scale,” organic elements. The forms are similar to Avery explains. “And I only had one bike.” His Bristol-board drawings reveal human Avery’s Bristol drawings, but the palette is more subdued, keeping your focus on the effort and error more deliberately. From a intricate architecture. Tiny imperfections distance, the forms seem flawless, almost are visible here as well, in bubbles left from computer-drafted. Step closer, and the the surface paint and smears in the black ink. tiny imperfections come into focus: pencil The steel iterations shine outlines not quite erased, under the gallery lights, subtle smudges and flecks the gentle gleam of Sharpie in the ballpoint-pen ink. Drawing on Form lines on white automotive Avery’s drawings take on Jeran Avery paint. (Whether the maran almost fibrous quality, Through June 28 at City Ice Arts, 2015 Campbell, riage of art and accelerathe parallel lines stretched 816-820-4105, tion seems more natural taut on the page like the cityicearts.com when you leave the gallery warp of a loom. At City Ice or feels somehow odder, a Arts, they dominate one neat fiction companion to wall, a bold array of vivid colors and plaited shapes. Only one piece is this exhibition awaits you: The Flamethrowtitled: “Desmo,” a boxy drawing soaked in ers, novelist Rachel Kushner’s excellent 2013 red ink. The name may have been inspired National Book Award finalist about the intersection of the New York art world, Italian by the Ducati’s desmodromic valve, but it has Moto empires and land-speed records.) a relevant Greek root, too — desmos, or knot. Avery’s drawings required painstaking That’s what Avery’s drawings offer us: tight, care to execute, but slowness is the last angular knots, two-dimensional origami thing on your mind when you view them. folded into impossible configurations. The Ducati was built to move, but it’s the That “Desmo” bears a name gives it more weight than the other pieces, but the draw- artist’s long lines that you want to ride. They streak across the gallery like headlights in ing’s longer sides and shallow folds are less the night. visually interesting than some of Avery’s other works here. One of the show’s most intriguing drawings hangs nearby, deep black E-mail feedback@pitch.com
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can’t remember the last time I saw Braunschweiger on a menu. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Braunschweiger on a local menu. But here it was, at a pizzeria. I was scanning the menu at the two-monthold Limestone Pizza Kitchen Bar, in Lawrence, where the nonpizza offerings start with a small selection labeled “bar bites.” They are indeed just morsels but not of the fussy amusebouche stripe: here, a thin slice of crusty baguette under a topcoat of grùyere; a jumble of peridot-colored pickled onions; that piquant little chunk of soft, distinctively seasoned liverwurst known as Braunschweiger. Order a handful of the two-bite flashes and you get a satisfying tease of textures and flavors: creamy, smoky, vinegary, crunchy, soft. Then they’re gone. Gone but not forgotten. Rick Martin, one of Limestone’s chefowners, tells me that the wurst, an oldfashioned deli staple, is the best of the bites. (I agree.) “When I was a kid, my grandfather would have Braunschweiger on his table all the time,” Martin says. “It was nothing like the hot-dog paste they sell at supermarkets today.” Limestone masters the Margherita� Martin and his staff make their own Braunstaff to the gracious bartenders (who effortschweiger — and their own chili paste, ketchup, pastrami, mozzarella, sauerkraut, sausage, and lessly whip together unusual cocktails using pickles. Everything in the kitchen, they say, is house-made syrups — rhubarb was a recent regionally sourced, including the Kansas flour choice — and fresh fruit), this is a place where smart restaurant trends have been considered in the pizza crust. “Not all of our customers know or even care and, in many cases, transcended. The dining room is noisy and upbeat, with that we make everything from scratch or buy high ceilings and limestone walls and, in easy from sustainable sources,” Martin says, “but view, a limestone-encased wood-burning oven the ones that do demand it. The restaurant (a 20,000-pound Le Panyol, from France). business is changing.” The three chef-owners at Limestone know There’s the aura of instant success, of a place whose patrons, demanding this because they have, and otherwise, immediately among them, a hell of a lot Limestone Pizza recognize the high quality of experience. Martin was Kitchen Bar of the food. And people can in the kitchen at the Free Braunschweiger on afford to become regulars State Brewing Co. for 20 baguette ������������������������������ $2 here; the prices are modest. years (all but five as execuLocal chicken wings ������������$8 A superb Margherita pizza, tive chef). Mikey Humphrey Burger with cheese �������������$9 with house-made mozzaserved as the head baker at Margherita pizza������������� $8 Farmer pizza ������������������������$10 rella, costs just eight bucks. WheatFields Bakery Cafe, Crème caramel “bite”���������� $2 “I grew up poor,” Martin the iconic Lawrence shop says. “We couldn’t afford to that was founded in 1995 by eat at McDonald’s unless our Limestone partner Charlie grandparents were in town. I want Limestone Rascoll (whose wife, Debbie, is Limestone’s to be accessible.” And so it is, even if it can be noncooking fourth partner). I’m not one of the demanding patrons Mar- difficult to find a table. Limestone doesn’t take reservations, and the wait time can be long, estin knows, clamoring for organic ingredients pecially on weekends. But once you snag a seat, and ostentatious displays of sustainability. But I know I should be, and I applaud Limestone’s there’s much to access and to share: a steaming owners for their visible but unpretentious at- plate of roasted turnips, beets, carrots, onions and radishes or some meaty chicken wings (not tention to detail. From the polished serving
too fiery but awkward to eat). Even a side of house-made pickles, coyly seasoned with garlic and allspice, is perfectly executed, and an unexpectedly tasty accompaniment to pizza. But this is a pizzeria, and on that front, Limestone is truly exceptional. The pies — 12inch circles of light, puffy, slightly scorched Neapolitan-style crusts (Martin prefers to call them “Neoprairie” because of the Kansas ingredients) topped with simple elegance — are as close to perfect as I’ve ever tasted. With daily pizza creations, Limestone’s brain trust has set its sights on luring regulars. And if I lived closer, I’d probably be in their numbers. I feel a pang of regret admitting that I missed last Tuesday’s chicken-confit pizza and Thursday night’s barbecue-pork banh-mi pie. But I’m sustained by the memory of the Wednesday selection I ate instead, with its white-hot puddles of fresh mozzarella and its soft meatballs. It was enlightening. The pies now on the everyday menu sound esoteric but reward your curiosity. There’s a fine pie topped with thin potato slices, crispy bacon and crème fraîche, and another bacon-topped choice with a sunny-side egg, spinach and grùyere. The pizzas serve one person easily enough, but they’re best when shared. That allows opportunity to taste the other excellent things on the single-page menu: a burger (local beef topped with locally produced white cheddar) so terrific that I’d return to Limestone just for that, for instance, or freshly made fettuccine
tossed with a rustic ragout of pork and chopped tomatoes. Oh, and a great steak. Martin wanted an inexpensive steak on the menu, so he started with a skirt steak but has ended up with a much more tender tri-tip, sliced and seared with olive oil, dry mustard and sea salt. It’s delicious. It’s easy to eat too much at Limestone, even when you share. But the desserts, made by guest pastry chef Jay Tovar-Ballagh (who works at Pachamamas, around the corner), are well worth the trouble of budgeting your appetite. The lemon gelato isn’t tart but tastes like a carefully thought-through version of those lemon-flavored Girl Scout cookies. The hibiscus flavor has a little more punch. One night’s special was a budino, the Italian custard that’s frequently served like a flourless torte or cake in some Kansas City restaurants. Limestone’s version, served in a glass jar, was a true coffee-flavored custard tucked under a lid of silky chocolate ganache. And the bitesize crème caramel, not much bigger than a checker, embellished with candied orange and crushed pistachios — I could have eaten a pound of them. Like all small and pretty things, though, the bites vanish quickly. Limestone is small and pretty, too, but it already seems here to stay.
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n a Wednesday afternoon at Second Best Coffee, 10 people, tiny silver spoons in hand, are gathered around six cups of freshly brewed coffee. We’re attending one of the fourmonth-old Waldo café’s free public cuppings — coffeespeak for “taste testing.” Second Best uses a variety of beans from roasters across the country — including Coava in Portland, Oregon, and Corvus in Denver — and the weekly cuppings allow a quick but intimate introduction to new varieties. It’s speed dating for caffeine. First, we smell each cup, shoving our noses so close, they nearly touch the hot liquid. Then the fun part: Cup by cup, we dip our spoons and slurp the coffee, making the same sound your mom told you not to make when eating spaghetti. Nathan Anderson, who co-owns Second Best with his wife, Leia, informs me just why Mom was wrong, at least when it comes to coffee. Slurping is an important part of cupping: It aerates the coffee and spreads it over your tongue, allowing subtle flavors — dark chocolate, pepper, raspberry — to emerge. He asks if I can tell the difference between the roasts. “That one,” I say, pointing to one of the cups. “That one is my favorite. It’s lighter. It might taste fruity, maybe?” Despite my deep love of all things caffeinated, I have never developed the vocabulary to discuss coffee’s nuances. As with wine, that other beverage with a seemingly impenetrable subculture, the words I usually end up pronouncing are simply “more, please.”
Barista Philip Hall kills it on the Slayer. Fortunately, at Second Best, my cluelessness isn’t grounds for dismissal. In fact, one of the reasons that Anderson puts on the cuppings is to allow more people to try good coffee without also sampling snootiness. He wants, he says, “to make excellence approachable.” “The coffee community has a reputation for being pretentious, kind of like the wine community,” Anderson tells me later, over the phone. “I want to take an element of that away and make it approachable. The cuppings are an easy way to do that for us. We love to have new faces.”
Five More Bites Waldo’s One More Cup puts cool local stuff on plates, too.
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n the heart of Waldo, the neighborhood’s homey coffeehouse One More Cup (7408 Wornall) is still going strong. And nearly everything available at the eco-friendly shop is made in or near KC. The big names are wellrepresented: Shatto milk, Roasterie espresso and Louisburg Cider Mill sodas. But the cozy hideout also stocks less obvious (but equally local) café fare — vegan mushroom jerky or margarita-flavored caramels, anyone? It’s worth extending your lunch break a little to taste the following five flavors.
1. Oishii Studio Sweets caramels
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Anderson isn’t a typical coffee snob. He knows what makes a good cup great, but he’s not going to roll his eyes at someone who wanders in off the street and orders a caramel macchiato. Located in a nondescript strip mall, the shop itself (328 West 85th Street) is also down-to-earth. The wood walls and granite countertops give the comfortable, well-lighted room a practical, industrialchic feel, with potted succulents and cycling memorabilia reflecting elements of the owners’ personalities. The location seems to echo Anderson’s ideals as a business owner. “I think you can get something really good without it being fussy or pretentious
not-sticky caramels live up to that billing. The salted-lime version is sweet and tangy like a margarita, with just the right amount of sea salt to create a rich, surprising flavor. Just don’t eat the whole bag — a little goes a long way.
2. Fresher Than Fresh Snow Pops
Made with all-natural, house-made syrups, these icy treats aren’t like the neon, freezer-burned ice pops of your youth. They come in sophisticated, unexpected flavors, such as lemon prickly pear and pineapple serrano pepper. But they’re still best enjoyed with your shoes off and your feet in a patch of soft green grass.
3. Rawxies cookies
Rawxies’ soft, chewy, guilt-free cookies are part energy bar, part dessert — or, as the company’s website says, “snacks made without crap.” Instead of artificial sweeteners, they contain wild-crafted vanilla and palm
in Waldo, and I really wanted to invest in that,” he says. “We still live down here, and I think those values are really important.” Then there’s the Slayer. Manufactured by a small company in Seattle, this custom-made espresso machine is the only one of its kind in Kansas City and just the second in Missouri. (The other is in St. Louis.) According to Anderson, the Slayer allows the flow rate of the water to be adjusted, which brings out each coffee’s unique flavor. “We can control not only the consistency of the espresso but we can emphasize different attributes of individual single-origin coffees in a way that wasn’t possible with a more traditional machine,” Anderson says. The Slayer definitely lives up to its badass name. When I tried a Slayer-made honeylavender latte, I wanted to spend the whole afternoon slowly sipping the smooth, subtly sweet drink. (And because the café recently extended its hours to 5 p.m., I could do just that.) The espresso isn’t second-best, even if the shop’s name is meant to suggest that improvement is always possible. “The thing that draws me to coffee is, I can never see the end of learning about it, whether it’s the extraction or interacting with people who don’t know very much, or learning about the farms and the farmers and different countries of origin,” Anderson says. “We always want to be learning and making today’s coffee the second-best coffee to tomorrow’s.”
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4. Mean Vegan portobello jerky
Why should carnivores have all the fun? Mean Vegan’s “Funguy” jerky is made with dehydrated portobello mushrooms — the steak of the fungus world. It comes in two flavors: sweet and spicy or mellow and smoky. Made with soy sauce, molasses and applecider vinegar, the latter variety is salty, savory and chewy, just as jerky should be.
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oulevardia sits on the Edge of Hell. The thought causes Jeremy Ragonese, Boulevardia board president, to laugh. But it’s true: The three-day festival (June 13–15) of beer, music and food is going up within a four-block radius of two classic West Bottoms haunted houses, the Edge of Hell and the Beast. So you have to go through a particular brand of hell to get to Boulevardia’s craftbeer heaven. But no one is complaining. A one-day pass to the festival costs $15, and the roster is packed. Look for local makers creating and selling art, music by local and national acts, carnival rides (a Ferris wheel) and big-name food trucks (Taco Republic, BRGR, KC Hopps). Oh, and beer. A lot of beer, from all over the country. “The special tappings will allow us to really showcase other breweries and be able to provide a sampling opportunity to the general audience,” Ragonese says. The sampling starts at 5 p.m. Friday as Big Sky Brewing Co. taps Ivan the Terrible 2013. Brewery Ommegang follows with a Witte tapping at 7 p.m., before Boulevard pops open Ginger-Lemon Radler at 9. Boulevardia pops off this weekend. Saturday gets going with Anchor Brewing cepts”) also plays Saturday evening. The Co.’s Anchor OBA at 11 a.m. Then Lagunitas Chipotle Homegrown Stage features local gives you Little Sumpin’ Sumpin’ Ale at 1 p.m. talent all weekend, and Quixotic performs Santa Fe Brewing Co.’s Bourbon Barrel Aged Imperial Java Stout follows at 3 p.m. Bou- throughout the weekend. “You just never know what you’re going levard’s parent company, Duvel Moortgat, cracks open Duvel Single at 5 p.m., and Bou- to find,” says Keli O’Neill Wenzel, president levard closes the night with a 7 p.m. tapping of O’Neill Marketing and Event Management and a Boulevardia board member. “That’s of Entwined Ale. the kind of vibe we’re trying to get when you Springfield, Missouri’s Mother’s Brewing Co. takes Sunday’s first shift with two beers — come down there — you’re kind of surprised Port Barrel Aged MILF and Love Factory — at as you go through the weekend.” Most surprising may be the Ferris wheel, noon. Stone Brewing Co. gives out Tiger Cub which runs all weekend, along with a teacupSaison at 2 p.m., and Samuel Adams closes like ride and a rock-climbing wall. The Ecothe fest with 4 p.m. tappings of Honey Queen, Expo is put on by Ripple Double Bock and Golden Glass during the day, with Yuzu. Boulevardia interactive activities for That’s a strong lineup June 13–15, families. for anyone who missed out in the West Bottoms, The rough idea for this on tickets to Taps & Tastes boulevardia.com urban street festival was Experience, the sold-out first tossed around three Saturday beer-and-food tasting on the midsection of the 12th Street years ago by civic leaders, restaurateurs and Boulevard stakeholders. Bridge. “We looked through several different “For those unlucky several who didn’t get events, in cities like San Francisco and the Taps & Tastes tickets, I’m hopeful that the entertainment and the rest of the beer and Chicago, and tried to figure out what made the Eco-Expo will surprise everyone and be an urban street festival fun and inviting,” Ragonese says. “We wanted to not just replias much as they were anticipating or more,” cate those but build our own city within the Ragonese says. city and ... to turn this into a new commuThere’s a lot more to Boulevardia than just beer. Capital Cities headlines the main nity festival that would really excite young people, but also be a bridge to any generamusic stage Saturday night. (Those “Safe and tion and provide something we can all be Sound” Mazda commercials? Yeah, that’s Capital Cities.) Robert DeLong (“Global Con- proud of.” angela c. bond
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When Boulevardia’s organizers began searching for a venue, they found it wasn’t possible to block off Southwest Boulevard around the brewery’s headquarters. Other major arteries in the city proved equally prohibitive. Boulevard founder John McDonald finally suggested placing the festival in the West Bottoms, though, and the idea clicked. “We looked around and really stumbled into the 12th Street Bridge as both an iconic architectural element but also a destination that has been growing in popularity in and around that venue, and the space allowed us an opportunity to be able to host this,” Ragonese says. “It was a conscious decision but also a happy accident that we discovered it.” A nd this is only the beg inning for Boulevardia. “There’s a thousand ideas that we wanted to do, but you have to go, ‘OK, we’re going to start here and get this one done,’” O’Neill Wenzel says. “We want this to be an annual deal and a very big thing for the city as one of its signature events, we hope.” “We hope people come down, have a wonderful time, a great experience. But we are sure to have some things that we need to fix and improve upon,” Ragonese adds. “I hope people can give us some feedback, and we’ll take that into consideration and look forward to seeing Boulevardia 2015 become bigger and better. We definitely want to make this an annual event.”
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John Velghe won’t ask you to cry with him.
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ohn Velghe is the kind of rock-and-roller you’d order from the catalog. He’s lean, with feathery salt-and-pepper hair, sea-glass-green eyes and forearms sleeved in colorful tattoos. He looks tall even when he sits. At 44, he wears frown lines on his forehead and smile creases around his mouth, and wears them well. And when Velghe speaks — about, say, his new album, Organ Donor Blues, out this month — the sound is a low, soothing rumble. “This is my second solo release, and it’s definitely more deliberate than my last album [2012’s Don’t Let Me Stay],” Velghe says. “It’s trying to tie together things that have gone on in the last 18 months. I tried to be deliberate about documenting some of those things.” As Velghe sketches out the last year and a half of his life, it’s clear to me why he turned to music to process the events. He has lost three close friends: Dan, whom he had known since high school and who died from complications of alcoholism; Doug, another high school friend, who committed suicide; and Abigail Henderson, co-founder of the Midwest Music Foundation, who died of cancer last August. “This album is about people who fought On Organ Donor Blues, Velghe finds peace. to die and won, and people who fought to “I haven’t come to grips with a lot of live and lost, and the people who were left behind,” Velghe tells me. “Abigail was one this,” Velghe says, leaning his chin into his palm. “Seeing what happened to Dan, seeof those people that fought to live and didn’t ing what happened to Abigail, I’d be lying win, and meanwhile I had these friends who if I said, ‘Oh, I’ve come to grips with these had everything. Dan had a wife, two kids, a friends that are gone.’ But I remember what great career, and he fought to kill himself, Chris Meck [Henderson’s husband] said at no matter what we did, no matter how much Abigail’s remembrance: ‘Find the things we tried to keep him alive.” you love and don’t let go of them.’ And for Velghe continues: “The album retraces those situations, but it’s not so much about me, that’s the people you have around you, those people’s stories. It’s about the people the people you realize you’d do anything to keep around. If we hang on to the things we that are left in the wake of that — what do you hold on to, how you come to grips with love, that’s really what will get us through.” So Organ Donor Blues that and move on.” hangs somewhere between What Velghe has found John Velghe & the mourning (“Maybe I hung in the wake of these losses Prodigal Sons on for the wrong reasons,” is a powerful set of songs. Sunday, June 15, Velghe says) and celebratCamouflaged by upbeat at Boulevardia ing (“This is the stuff that ooh-ooh-oohs, swinging pushes us on”). The closest trumpet and trombone that Velghe gets to a resolunotes, a nd joy f ul sa x tion is on “Beaten by Pretenders,” in which playing — as well as some deft guitar work he recognizes that as much as he’d like to by guest star and longtime friend Alejandro Escovedo — half the tracks on Organ Donor keep these people around, the decision isn’t Blues could pass for summer-picnic pop. his: If we could write the book, we’d change how it ends. Velghe’s songwriting is so conversational The rest of the album flies by fast, piloted that even as he recounts Dan’s death in by Velghe’s granular, Tom Petty–leaning “Poison the Well,” he doesn’t pressure the listener to share the burden. Velghe’s point voice. Over the explosive electric riffs on “Gold Guitar,” as he remembers playing isn’t despair. It’s an attempt at reckoning.
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with Escovedo and Jon Dee Graham, Velghe sounds as solemn as a distant thunderstorm. The more you listen, the closer he feels. On “Set It Fire,” amid a lonely harmonica and delicate pedal-steel twang, Velghe harmonizes with guest Kirsten Paludan to make a soothing, Midwestern-flavored lullaby. When people talk about the merits of Americana, a sound that can sometimes feel mail-order anonymous, what they want is the rare thing that Velghe has cultivated: music whose familiarity and honesty pull at your gut instead of just reassuring you. Even the tongue-in-cheek title of Organ Donor Blues — Velghe is an avid motorcyclist — fits this context. And in person, Velghe epitomizes the values heard in his songs. He talks easily about Escovedo’s guidance, which he credits with benefiting him over two decades. And he’s candid about leading a day-job-versusnight-job double life that took a long time to balance. “It always ends up coming back to the people and the things that I love,” Velghe says, trailing off quietly near the end of our conversation. “I didn’t want to be coy or ambiguous or too clever. There’s a lot more reality that’s occurred in my life that gave birth to this album, and I wanted to keep that.”
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n an unforgivably hot afternoon, the three members of St. Joseph’s Scruffy & the Janitors share a pack of Old Gold cigarettes on a coffeehouse patio in midtown. Brothers Teriq and Trevin Newton are hungover. Drummer Trevin Newton, his tattered ski cap pulled down over blond locks despite the heat, looks surly. Steven Foster, the band’s lead singer and bassist, leans back in his seat, trying to find shade. We’ve assembled to discuss the trio’s new EP, Anglo, out June 13 on This Tall Records. It’s the band’s first release since 2012’s Pino, a jagged scuzz of blues and garage rock recorded in guitarist Teriq Newton’s living room. That set showed promising young talent pushing its way to the surface, and the album’s positive response, which none of the then-teenage band members expected, gave Scruffy & the Janitors the drive to keep writing. This time around, the group — its members all now older than 18 but younger than No more love songs. 22 — has opted for an upgrade. The four times bitter taste, he shifts and pauses songs on Anglo were recorded at St. Joseph’s before answering. “I get pissed off really KileyCo Studios. The rudimentary scrapes and scratches that marked Pino have been easily,” he says. “I’m like Taylor Swift. I just write songs about what I feel.” He and smoothed out of the band’s sound. But Anglo is far from polished; if anything, the music Teriq Newton share a laugh at this before Foster continues: “Someone stabbed me has gotten more raucous and coarse. “The first album was made up of the first in the back, and that gave us most of this songs that we had ever written in our lives,” EP. These songs are just about burning off Teriq Newton says. “I like it, I stand by it, but steam. Everybody’s been there. And Teriq told me never to write a love song again, it’s pretty lo-fi. We were trying to figure out how to write: where to put the melodies, how and now I can’t. He ruined me.” Newton bristles at this good-natured acto make it happen. I think we’re much better cusation: “That was a long time ago!” at that now. These new songs — we have a As the de facto bandleader, Teriq Newton better idea of what we’re doing, of how we want to sound. We’re shifting toward a rock handles the business of the band, and he usually answers first when I ask the guys sound right now, and it’s really exciting to questions about their music. No one in the hear that with us.” group, though, is particularly outgoing. Before, Scruffy & the Janitors’ guitar riffs This, Teriq Newton says, showed a Delta-blues influis how it has always been. ence. The attitude on Anglo “Me and Steve were in calls for restless chord proScruffy & the Janitors high school together and gressions that move faster, Saturday, June 14, were the quiet k ids in piercing the music with at RecordBar school,” he explains. “We steel-edged rock and roll. never talked to each other On “Ms. Crucio,” a quickuntil we graduated and tempered rhythm flares as started playing together. We were too shy. Foster tries out a harsh growl. “Shake It Off,” a scorching ode to the end of a friendship, But music breaks all that down. You can do whatever you want onstage. And we always hangs on distorted electric-guitar notes that sound furious. And a driving mania that re- want to be onstage.” Teriq squints in the sunlight and shakes calls White Stripes–era Jack White fuels the crunchy “Dirtleg.” It’s tetchy, angry stuff, uncombed blond hair away from his face. His air is casual, but there’s also a sharp glint of and it feels good. determination in his eyes as he talks about Foster, the primary song writer and lyricist, isn’t used to explaining his mu- the group. Part of that comes from having grown up in St. Joseph. sic. When I ask him about Anglo’s some-
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“St. Jo kind of sucks,” he says. “The music scene is great, for what it is — it’s close-knit and supportive — but the town itself, I don’t know. It’s so slow and such a small town, and our music is angry because we want more out of life. There’s nothing to do there apart from go to shows and go bowling. And we want more than that.”
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J a z z B e at 12th Street Jump, at thE Broadway Jazz CluB
Imagined in part as a jazz version of Prairie Home Companion, 12th Street Jump is a weekly hour of bad jokes and exceptional jazz. These days, it’s recorded live at the Broadway Jazz Club, then broadcast on 116 NPR stations. Wednesday, the show celebrates the music of Stax Records star and soul singer Eddie Floyd and blues legend Big Bill Broonzy. The 12th Street Jump band — directed by pianist Joe Cartwright, with bassist Tyrone Clark, drummer Michael Warren, and singers David Basse and Nedra Dixon — is joined by a pair of young KC jazz masters: singer Eboni Fondren and guitarist Matt Hopper. — Larry Kopitnik 12th Street Jump, 7:30–9 p.m. Wednesday, June 18, at the Broadway Jazz Club (3601 Broadway, 816-298-6316), $5 cover.
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Music Forecast consuming instrument that refuses to sink into the background. Yet, with Cave’s latest record, Push the Sky Away, I finally get his genius. It’s a purifying collection, meant to be consumed deliberately. L.A. rock band Warpaint opens. Wednesday, June 18, the Midland (1228 Main, 816-283-9921)
Mark Mallman
In Minneapolis — and possibly in his hometown of Milwaukee and certainly in a few rabid cult circles — Mark Mallman is something of a legend. His albums are marked by a terrific extraterrestrial rock-pop weirdness. But what Mallman is most famous for are his one-man music marathons, during which he performs nonstop for a record-breaking span. In 2010, it was 78 hours; in 2012, Mallman took the marathon on the road for eight days and hacked a MIDI brain controller so that even when he was sleeping, he was making music with brainwaves. Yeah, dude is crazy — so don’t fall asleep on him. Thursday, June 12, Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676)
Guided by Voices
Honeyhoney
PorchFest KC
PorchFest isn’t a new concept — it originated in Ithaca, New York, in 2007 — but it’s novel here. The idea: You and a group of friends or your family park your car somewhere in the West Plaza neighborhood and amble around as musicians play from the porches of generous, music-loving residents. More than 70 local and out-of-town artists are on the bill, and you’ve heard of quite a few of them. The lineup skews toward Americana and rustic folk, with local favorites Old Sound, Blackbird Revue, Maria the Mexican, Rural Grit Allstars and Good Time Charley, but be on the lookout for a few surprises, including San Francisco’s Quinn DeVeaux (delivering smooth R&B) and Hawaii’s Fayah (blending roots with reggae). Bring a lawn chair, a blanket and some sunscreen. Saturday, June 14, West Plaza neighborhood (porchfestkc.com)
Logic
Fighting for credibility from the lack of blacker skin/It’s kinda funny how your pigment determines how people perceive you, Maryland rapper Logic spits on “Roll Call.” Skin color is a near constant theme for the 24-year-old as he marches through his acclaimed mixtape Young Sinatra: Welcome to Forever, chewing
on the tough history of his parents’ biracial relationship and drug addiction. But even as Logic struggles to find peace with his identity and his ambitions, Forever remains eloquent and confident. Sunday, June 15, the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)
Allah-Las
The self-titled full-length from L.A.’s Allah-Las couldn’t be more chill if it was vegging on a couch in front of a whirring fan, sipping vodka lemonades and burning incense. That’s what the surfy, jangly, psychedelic release is perfect for, and the four dudes who make up the band make no apologies for it. If you were born too late for the garage-blues era of the late 1960s and early ’70s, let Allah-Las wash over you Tuesday night. Tuesday, June 17, Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
It has taken me a long time to like Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. The Australian singersongwriter has a demanding voice: a deep, all-
Touring again with the classic mid-1990s lineup, Dayton, Ohio’s Guided by Voices might be music’s greatest argument for quantity trumping quality. Lead singer Robert Pollard has pushed out two full-length albums already this year — February’s Motivational Jumpsuit and May’s Cool Planet — and the former contained no fewer than 20 (short) songs. But it’s impossible to argue against a band this good at doing what it knows best: lo-fi garage rock with a slick punk edge. Wednesday, June 18, the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)
Jackie Greene
Listening to Jackie Greene is like saying yes to french fries with your cheeseburger: It’s a no-brainer, the obvious right decision. But what if someone asked you to choose between Greene and fries? Easy: Go with Greene. For one thing, his sun-soaked Americana is so much healthier. Greene, who has played with Levon Helm and stepped in as lead guitarist for the Black Crowes, is touring in support of an upcoming full-length, due later this year. Wednesday, June 18, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 826-753-5207)
Lauryn Hill
I still get chills when I hear the heavy-bodied beats on “Lost Ones,” the opening track of Lauryn Hill’s groundbreaking 1998 debut, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill. Then I hear “Ex-Factor” and I get literal goose bumps on my skin. And by the time “To Zion” is playing, I’m practically useless: dry-throated, eyes
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Honeyhoney
I still love Honeyhoney’s 2012 album, Billy Jack, a collection of songs so varied and witty that it has become a permanent singalong-at-the-top-of-my-lungs alternative to the radio in my car. On that record, the Los Angeles-via-Nashville duo — lead singer and fiddler Suzanne Santo and guitarist Ben Jaffe — drags lonely, dusty, western twang into a casual blues affair. Santo’s voice cuts through ghostly string arrangements like wind whipping through the empty prairie. And in a live setting, these two have a surprisingly robust energy and warm chemistry. Monday, June 16, Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300)
Trombone Shorty
At 28 years old, Troy Andrews, known around the world as Trombone Shorty, isn’t a child anymore, so the term “child prodigy” — ascribed to him as he was growing up in New Orleans and touring Europe with his older brother’s band — doesn’t apply anymore. Still, you’ll doubtlessly find plenty to be impressed with when Andrews stops by Crossroads KC on his latest tour, in support of last year’s Say That to Say This. The brass man blends jazz, blues and rock for a supercharged, heavy-swinging sound. Tuesday, June 17, Crossroads KC at Grinders (417 East 18th Street, 785-749-3434)
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COMEDY
Conversation — Marking 20 Years | Kemper
Mitch Fatel | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org
Colin Kane | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Vil-
FRIDAY
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Dustin Kaufman’s Variety Show | 9 p.m. Uptown
Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Edgar Degas Pastels | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
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COMMUNITY EVENTS
Sunday, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org
Heritage Hike: Quality Hill | 9 a.m. Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 13th St. and Broadway, historickansascity.org
In the Looking Glass: Recent Daguerreotype Acquisitions | Nelson-Atkins Museum, Ida | Director Pawel Pawlikowski’s haunting movie, set in 1962 Poland, plays daily at Tivoli Cinemas,
MUSIC
4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com.
Ampichino, Philthy Rich, Knuckle Head, Inch Money, more | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway B Vibe | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand Tyrone Clark | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.
Heartland Men’s Chorus: Vegas, Baby | 8-10 p.m.
Robert Francis & the Night Tide, Carly Ritter, Maxim Ludwig | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Max Gomez. Gracie Schram | 8 p.m. Martin City Brewing Co., 500 E. 135th St.
L I T E R A R Y/ S P O K E N W O R D
Grand Marquis | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.
Cody James, the Queen’s Noose, Plains, Invisible Public Library | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Mas-
sachusetts, Lawrence
Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Mark Mallman, Narkalark | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge,
946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Means, Monroe & Jones | 5:30 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Sunset Music Fest with the Romantics | 6 p.m. Town Center, 5000 W. 119th St., Leawood
Bram Wijnands Swingtet | 6 p.m. The Majestic,
4525 Oak
Hyde Park Children’s Festival | 7:30 p.m. Hyde
MUSIC
NOT Compatible: New works by John Paul McCaughey | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New
The B’Dinas | 8 p.m. Coda, 1744 Broadway Megan Birdsall | 9 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club, 3601
Broadway
Colin Kane | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK
Boogaloo 7 | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand
Hampshire, Lawrence
Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak
Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea | Through Sunday, Nelson-Atkins Museum,
Cartographer, the Soiled Doves, Conflicts, Amenaza | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
4525 Oak
EXPOS
Gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Bead Trade Show |
Chambers, La Guerre, Heidi Lynne Gluck |
Tribe Studio, 5504 Troost, troostarthop.com
F E S T I VA L S
Daydream Empire, Get Busy Living, Crippled King, Histories | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachu-
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., showsofintegrity.com
Boulevardia | 5-11 p.m., 12th Street Bridge, 12th St. and Hickory, boulevardia.com Kansas City Scottish Highland Games | 6-11 p.m. E.H. Young Park Riverfront Park, 1001 Argosy Pkwy.
Parkville River Jam | 5-11 p.m. English Landing Park,
First St. and Main, parkvilleriverjam.com
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Living With the Spirits: Decorating Homes in Traditional China | Nelson-Atkins Museum,
M(i) (A)cro: contemporary drawing exhibition | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence
COMMUNITY EVENTS
and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
Lucent Dossier Experience | 8:30 p.m. The
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Mitch Fatel | 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club
Grand Villanova | The Kill Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.
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Twinsie Frenzy: Gemini Birthday Bash, with music and poetry | 9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway COMEDY
931 Broadway
SPORTS & REC
Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., hmckc.org
Cutty Rye | Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania
Kansas City Flatfile Exhibition | H&R Block
Artspace, 16 E. 43rd St. (at Kansas City Art Institute), kcai.edu/artspace
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setts, Lawrence
Deathvalley Wolfriders, Haunted Creepies | 10 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main
Second Friday Troost Art Hop | 6-10 p.m. Vibe
The Starr Miniature Collection: Masterworks in Miniature | Nelson-Atkins Museum,
4525 Oak
This American Life | Fridays and Saturdays, Kemper East, 200 E. 44th St.
Estocar, Folkicide, Schwervon | 7 p.m. Davey’s
Flannigan’s Right Hook | Fuel, 7300 W. 119th St.,
Filthy 13, Cadillac Flambe | The Brick, 1727 McGee
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Overland Park
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continued from page 32 Friends of Jazz Event | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 5336 W. 151st St., Leawood
Lee Langston | 8:30 p.m. Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St. Kimbarely Legal, Simplified | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
Don McLean & Judy Collins | 8:30 p.m. Knuckle-
heads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
Flirt Friday | VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City
girl 2 girl Social | 6p.m.UptownArtsBar,3611Broadway DJ Rico | 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway Young Friends of Art Second Friday happy hour | 6-8 p.m. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak
Saturday | 6.14 |
Nice Peter | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Dates and times vary. Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Wizard of Oz | Through Sunday, Starlight Theatre, 4600
Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com
6219 Martway, Mission
By the Way, Meet Vera Stark | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main, unicorntheatre.org
heartland Men’s Chorus: Vegas, Baby | 8-10 p.m.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Starting Tuesday,
Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., hmckc.org
Kansas City Scottish highland games | 9 a.m.-
11 p.m. E.H. Young Park Riverfront Park, 1001 Argosy Pkwy., kcscottishgames.org
Parkville River Jam | Noon-11 p.m. English Landing Park, First St. and Main, parkvilleriverjam.com SPORTS & REC
August: Osage County | The Barn Players,
PERFORMiNg ARTS
Muff Punch, the New Suits | 9 p.m. Mike’s Tavern, 5424 Troost
TheaTer
hero 5k | 7:30 a.m. Independence Events Center, 19100 E. Valley View Pkwy., Independence Metro Pro Wrestling: the Matches, the Movie | 6 p.m. Turner Rec Center, 8315 S. 55th St., KCK
the Coterie Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, first level, thecoterie.org
Moving Day Walk for Parkinson’s | 8 a.m. Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., movingdaykansascity.org
Cinderella | Theatre for Young America, 5909
COMMuNiTY EvENTS
Egads Theatre’s Lysistrata Jones | Starting
A Cultural Celebration of Liberia | 2 p.m. Kansas City Public Library, Northeast Branch, 6000 Wilson
COMEDY
O.A.R., Phillip Phillips | 6 p.m. Crossroads KC at Grinders, 417 E. 18th St.
Mitch Fatel | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
One Night Stand: An Acoustic Evening With the Boys of KC Rock & Roll and a woman from Scotland | 9:45 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Painted Palms, Shy Boys, the ACBs | 7 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
Brandon Santini Band | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,
Colin Kane | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK
Friday, Off Center Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, egadstheatre.com
Laughing hella hard ii Comedy Jam Starring Nick Cannon’s Wild N’ Out Shawty-Shawty |
The King and I | Metropolitan Ensemble The-
7-11 p.m. Gem Theater, 1615 E. 18th St.
The Snotrockets, Owen Campbell, Cree Rider Family | Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania Nicholas St. James, Plains, Arc Flash | 6 p.m.
Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence
Starhaven Rounders | 7 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 West-
port Rd.
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FOOD & DRiNK
A Taste of Leawood | 7 p.m. Leawood City Hall, 4800 Town Center Dr., Leawood
Aristocrat Motors’ Art of Your Car | 11 a.m.-3 p.m. Aristocrat Motors, 9400 W. 65th St., Merriam
We Will Rock You | Starting Tuesday, Starlight Theatre, 4600 Starlight Rd., kcstarlight.com
MuSiC
10 a.m.-6 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., showsofintegrity.com
gun and Knife Show | 8 a.m.-5 p.m. KCI Expo Center,
11728 N. Ambassador Dr., kciexpo.com
West 18th Street Fashion Show | 8 p.m., 18th Street, between Wyandotte and Baltimore, west18thstreetfashionshow.com
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Bearing Torches, the Del Toros | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence
gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Bead Trade Show |
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Rhapsody in Gershwin | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com
FA S h i O N & S T Y L E
DJ Parle | Hotel Nightclub, 1300 Grand
June Family Fun Day: The ultimate Field Day |
ExPOS
1205 E. 85th St.
Scratch Track | The Kill Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.
Johnson Dr., Mission, tya.org
F E S T i vA L S
Boulevardia | 11 a.m.-11 p.m., 12th Street Bridge, 12th St. and Hickory, boulevardia.com
Evolving magazine Conscious Living Festival | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Evolving Magazine Conscious Living
Center, 6115 Nieman, Shawnee, evolvingmagazine.com
Fiesta Filipina | Noon-8 p.m. Filipino Cultural Center, 9810 W. 79th St., Overland Park, filipino-association.org
ivory Black, Little Chief | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main
The Crayons, the Kaopectones, harbour | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester
Angela hagenbach | 6-9 p.m. Broadway Jazz Club,
3601 Broadway
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EGADS THEATRE’S LYSISTRATA JONES
Bar, 5336 W. 151st St., Leawood
NIGHTLIFE
Fire Cannot Kill a Quizmaster: A Game of Thrones Quiz | 3-5 p.m. Conrad’s Restaurant & Alehouse, 210 N. State Route 291, Liberty
1001 Arabian Nights Bellydance with A’ishah and friends | 8 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway
Sunday | 6.15 | FR IDAY
PERFORMING ARTS
JEFF EUBANK
6.13
Heartland Men’s Chorus: Vegas, Baby | 4-6 p.m.
Folly Theater, 300 W. 12th St., hmckc.org
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COMEDY
Mitch Fatel | 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.
Egads Theatre’s Lysistrata Jones | Starting Friday, Off Center Theatre, 2450 Grand, egadstheatre.com, cast includes Mandy Morris and Phil Newman (above).
Luis Powell-Moreno, Ace, Jeffrey Baker, Leigh Nelson, Maeret Lemons | 8 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
MUSEUM EXHIBITS & EVENTS Citizen Soldiers on the Prairie | Johnson County Museum of History, 6305 Lackman Rd., Shawnee, jocomuseum.org Cowtown: History of the Kansas City Stockyards | Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org
The Discovery of King Tut | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org/tut 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
Take Five Tours | 6 p.m. Tuesday, American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., americanjazzmuseum.org
Fiesta Filipina | Noon-6 p.m. Filipino Cultural Center,
9810 W. 79th St., Overland Park, filipino-association.org
EXPOS
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The Hips, Ghosty | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Mas-
sachusetts, Lawrence
The Mad Kings, Now/here, Arthur Dodge | The Brick, 1727 McGee
77 Jefferson, Zach Mafusa Band | 9 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway
Bobby Smith Blues Band | 9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside
BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.
Solid Gold Easy, Underdogs | 6:30 p.m. Coda, 1744 Broadway
5 p.m. E.H. Young Park Riverfront Park, 1001 Argosy Pkwy., kcscottishgames.org
Gun and Knife Show | 9 a.m.-3 p.m. KCI Expo Center, 11728 N. Ambassador Dr., kciexpo.com
Danny Blu, Middle Twin, 2Twenty2 | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence
F E S T I VA L S
Broadway
RM, Zae Lyricz, Nicolette Paige, Erin Dean, Queen Mazine, Bayou Boss, Lucky Garcia, Ovadose913, more | 9 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
10 a.m.-4 p.m. Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park, showsofintegrity.com
MUSIC
This Is Going to Tickle, Antique Scream, Chung Antique, Dirty Talker | Black & Gold Tavern, 3740
Kayla Ray | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads, 2715 Rochester
Kansas City Scottish Highland Games | 9 a.m.Gem, Mineral, Jewelry & Bead Trade Show |
James Ward Band | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616
E. 18th St.
Bob Weir & Ratdog | The Midland, 1228 Main
Boulevardia | Noon-6 p.m., 12th Street Bridge, 12th St. and Hickory, boulevardia.com
Evolving ma g a zine C onscious Li v ing Festival | 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Evolving Magazine Conscious Living Center, 6115 Nieman, Shawnee, evolvingmagazine.com
Hellbound Glory | Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania Jazz, Gospel and Soul Food with the Everette DeVan Quartet | 3-7 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand Logic, Quest, Castro | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence
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p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs
Sonic Spectrum Tribute: Nick Cave | 8 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
Monday | 6.16 | MuSiC
Lauryn Hill | 7 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway
urday, St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1004 Rock Rd., De Soto
Honeyhoney, Rose & Louise, Pink Royal, Ross Christopher | 8 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand
Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market
Matt Hopper | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.
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Bettye LaVette with Julia Haile | 8 p.m. Knuckle-
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Gladstone Farmers Market | 7 a.m.-noon Saturday, 2-6 p.m. Wednesday, Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect
RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.
Veliius, Jail Weddings, Jess Jones Band | 10 p.m.
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Ando Ehlers: Death Polka | Westport Saloon, 4112
Scene KC Rock Bar, 14816 E. U.S. Hwy. 40, Independence
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Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Warpaint | 8 p.m.
Motherfolk, the Invisible World, Pale Blue Dots | 7 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs
Unknown Hinson with Bear With Me | 8 p.m.
9pm • NO COVER!
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Lawrence Comedy Showcase | Jackpot Music Hall,
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NIGHTLIFE
Girlz of Westport | 8p.m.Californos,4124Pennsylvania Karaoke with Lo | 10 p.m. Black & Gold Tavern, 3740 Broadway
Think While You Drink Trivia | 6-9 p.m. The Indie
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face time Dear Dan: I’m a senior in high school, but come
Saturday, I’ll be a high-school grad! The only thing I’m worried about is my sex life. I’m a virgin. When I go online, I see my friends and peers having these crazy, awesome, smokinghot sex lives. I’m obsessed with this guy in my class. Like all teenage-girl crushes, I can’t get him out of my head. I’ve been sitting in class all day thinking about all the sex we will probably never have. I want to know if it would be weird for me to ask him to hook up at a post-graduation party. I don’t care if my first time is with someone “special.” I just feel like I’ll never get a chance to have sex at all, with anyone, ever.
Does It Get Sexier? Dear DIGS: Research shows a link between
time spent on social media and depression. The issue seems to be people comparing what they know of their own lives with the idealized portrait others create. But your friends’ reality likely includes just as many sads and fails. Also: Teenagers are waiting longer to have sex, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and nearly 40 percent of 18-year-olds of both sexes are not yet sexually active. Finally, you will have other chances to have sex with other people. But I think you should make a pass at this boy, if not for the sexual experience, then for the experience of making the pass itself. Make it honest, straightforward and explicit. (“I’ve had such a crush on you, and this is crazy, but fuck me maybe?”) If he’s interested, tell him that you’re a virgin, condoms are required, and you’d rather do it sober or soberish. If he’s not interested, you’ll have an opportunity to practice handling rejection with grace. (“Well, I still think you’re a great guy, and I hope things won’t be awkward between us.”) And you’ll see that rejection isn’t the end of the world — or the end of boys.
Dear Dan: I was combing through some old columns/podcasts and came upon instances where you counseled women on selling their used underwear online. Is this particular kink strictly limited to straight guys looking for ladies’ panties? Is there a market for used men’s underwear?
Undie Noob Desiring Interesting Extra Salary Dear UNDIES: Duncan Black — the gay porn
star and male escort (duncanblackxxx.com), not the liberal blogger (eschatonblog.com) — does a brisk business selling his used jocks and briefs online. No offense to anyone, but I don’t think Blog Duncan could move as many units of dirty underpants as Porn Duncan. The more people who want into your pants, and the more sexualized your public image, the more people will pay to get their hands on the consolation
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prize that is a pair of dirty underpants. So unless you’re conventionally hot and willing to put yourself out there (show your handsome face and hot body online), you aren’t going to move many units, either.
Dear Dan: I love my girlfriend, but she might be a lesbian. She’s dated women in the past, she hits on women when she’s drunk, and she has made out with at least two of her female friends in the last year. She says this is normal for girls. Most troubling is that our sex life has dried up. Despite having many honest conversations, she just won’t/can’t be sexual with me. Although it’s hard to see her hit on women/make out with her girlfriends when we aren’t being sexual, I can live with it because I love her more than I can say. My questions: (1) Is it unfair of me to ask her to define her sexuality? (2) Am I overthinking this? (3) Are the behaviors I’ve described normal?
Helping Evaluate Lesbian Preference Dear HELP: (1) Your girlfriend is being unfair to you, and you have to stop making rationalizations for her shitty, inconsiderate and cruel behavior. Your girlfriend could be a lesbian; she could be bi; or she could be a straight woman who has relationships with other women, hits on other women when she’s drunk, and makes out with other women biannually — a “closeted lesbian.” But getting her to precisely define her sexuality isn’t going to change this simple fact: She has no interest in fucking you. (2) Yes, you’re overthinking this. What you should be thinking about is how to extricate yourself from this doomed relationship. (3) If we’re talking about her behavior, it is normal — for scared and closeted lesbians with security-blanket boyfriends they can’t let go of. If we’re talking about your behavior, it isn’t normal — because very few people would swallow the shit she’s been feeding you. DTMFA. Dear Dan: My fiancé came home, and his beard smelled like pussy — the sweet, healthy kind. He denied having his face in someone else’s business. Is there anything else it could have been? Sick in Minneapolis Dear SIM: I have no idea what pussy smells like, so I can’t really tell you what else it could’ve been — Clamato? caramel corn? crème brûlée? — because I have no frame of reference. But I’m running your letter in the hopes that otherwise-cute hipster boys will be inspired to shave off their ugly fucking beards to escape justified or unjustified accusations of infidelity. Have a question for Dan Savage? E-mail him at mail@savagelove.net
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KCUMB’s Center for Community and Clinical Research is currently recruiting participants for a 22-month outpatient study of an investigational medication for the treatment of high cholesterol in patients with high risk for heart disease.
KCUMB’s Center for Community and Clinical Research is currently recruiting participants for a 15-month outpatient study of an investigational long-acting insulin for Type 1 Diabetes. There is no placebo medication with this study.
Participants must: • Have high cholesterol • Be at least 18 years of age • Be taking Lipitor (atorvastatin), Crestor (rosuvastatin) or Zocor (simvastatin)
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