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The (SALES) TAx MAN cometh for Kansas City, Missouri, voters.

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Matt Fulks Hometown: Overland Park

What I do (in 140 characters): Usually, I write

a bunch of words, delete the ones I don’t like, and hope the remaining ones make sense together. Sometimes they do.

cookies, cake and caramel pie. I tried giving them up for Lent. That lasted about three days.

What’s your game? Yahtzee! I grew up wanting to be a downhill skier, but because this area is relatively flat, that idea fizzled out. A couple of broadcasting friends got me hooked on hockey a few years ago, but I skate like a yak. And I’m a Clydesdale runner. (Does that count as a “game”?)

My brush with fame: For some reason, I’ve

a good thing.

been blessed to work on book projects with some great sports figures, including many of my childhood heroes. One of my career highlights, though, was taking batting practice against Royals legend and T-Bones coach Frank White at CommunityAmerica Ballpark last summer. I also shook hands on two occasions with Harry Connick Jr., so there’s that.

“I’ve been known to binge-watch …” I feel guilty if

My 140-character soapbox: Like every other

“I can’t stop listening to …” Music is important to my writing process. I usually pick one song and set the player on repeat for that whole day. As I approach deadline for my next book (a Chiefs book due out later this year from Triumph Books), each day I’m rotating the Avett Brothers, Beethoven, Elvis Presley, Flogging Molly, Foo Fighters, Harry Connick Jr., John Denver, Led Zeppelin, MercyMe, Miles Davis, Mozart, Pearl Jam, and Rend Collective Experiment.

What was the last thing you had to apologize for? I have a bad habit of not answering my

Who’s sorry now? Probably the telemarketers who don’t expect me to answer.

“I just read …” A Death in Vienna by Frank Tallis.

My recent triumph: Besides just making it

What’s your drink? Coffee, strong and black — and lots of it!

It’ll sound like a cliché, I’m sure, but the Truman Sports Complex, Worlds of Fun, Union Station, t a ine Onl .com Winstead’s on the Plaza, h pitc the Jazz Museum, and the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Man, that’s a huge postcard!

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Finish this sentence: “Kansas City got it right when …” It built the Sprint Center, the Power

& Light District and the Kauffman Center, and then started the streetcar line.

“Kansas City screwed up when …” It “lost” our NBA franchise, the NCAA and the NAIA to other cities within about a 15-year period.

Thankfully, the NAIA is back in the city, along with its men’s basketball tournament. I don’t think we’ll see the NBA again.

“Kansas City needs …” Light rail that’s sup-

ported by both sides of State Line and actually goes to the suburbs. While we’re on my wish list, how about an NHL team, more bike lanes, and a full-time classical jazz radio station. Is that too much to ask?

“In five years, I’ll be …” Pushing 50. Yikes, that sounds like a big number!

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My dating triumph/tragedy: When I was in college, I started hanging out as friends with a pretty girl from Nashville. A couple of years later, I caught her at a weak moment, and we started dating. We’re celebrating our 20th wedding anniversary this spring. That’s quite a triumph for me.

What’s your addiction? Baking and eating

What’s on your KC postcard?

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My sidekick: First and foremost, my best friend and wife, Libby. And then it’s our three kids, who range from elementary school to high school. Last, it’s our year-old Weimaraner, who’s named after Elvis (sort of) and goes seemingly everywhere with me — unless I’m picking up food.

Current neighborhood: “Old” Overland Park

Where’s dinner? If not at home, Chappell’s, Taco Via, Villa Capri, Dragon Inn or Hayward’s.

For a splurge, Grünauer. (There’s a reason I’m a Clydesdale runner.)

Writer, broadcaster, T-Bones’

“I always laugh at …” Myself, which isn’t always

I watch too much TV at one time, but after book deadlines, I have been known to binge on Mad About You, Chicago Fire, Elementary, Sports Night, Twilight Zone and The Three Stooges.

The best advice I ever got: I had an uncle who

was a professor at my alma mater, Lipscomb University. He’s the one who encouraged me to try out for the school’s PA-announcer gig after my baseball career tragically was cut short due to a lack of ability. That one event has led me to where I am today. He used to tell me (and others), “Remember who you are and whose you are.”

Worst advice: “Hey, it’ll be fine to ride our bikes across the Broadway Bridge to the downtown airport.” Two flat tires and seven near-death experiences later …

city, Kansas City has its issues. But this is a great place to live, to work and to raise a family, regardless of your side of the state line.

Embrace it!

phone, and there have been times when I haven’t answered it in an “emergency,” such as the time my uncle, who lives nearby, was stuck on his roof. So I’m apologizing somewhat regularly for missing phone calls.

to this space, I have an obsession with pens and pencils. They don’t have to be fancy, but because I write all of my notes and many early drafts longhand, I need a pen that’s comfortable and writes well. Knowing this, a friend who’s quite a woodworker, Curt Sparks, who happens to be the preacher at our church, offered to teach me how to carve (“turn”) a pen. About three weeks ago, I turned two in his shop. They’re two of my favorites. I’ve been carrying at least one of those ever since.

Fulks’ book, 100 Things Royals Fans Should Know and Do Before They Die, is out now.

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wo weeks ago, Reuters reported that AMG Services, the Overland Park–based online payday-loan behemoth, had been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury. The company, according to that report, is being investigated for violations that include wire fraud, racketeering and money laundering.

That’s no great shock. AMG Services has become a textbook exemplar of the notoriously deceptive online-lending industry. This isn’t even the first instance of AMG running afoul of federal authorities; the Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit against AMG in 2012, accusing it of not disclosing the true costs of its loans and threatening borrowers during the collection process.

What’s newsworthy about this latest development is that it’s a probe of a criminal nature. It means that some of the people who operate these online payday businesses might eventually go to jail. As The Pitch has reported, there are several individuals in Kansas City who operate or have operated such businesses — the KC metro is a national hub for the industry. So it’s not just bad news for Scott Tucker, the race-car-driving puppetmaster of AMG but also bad news for other people in town who have cribbed his business model.

One local operation that’s ripe for federal scrutiny is LTS Management Services, which for the last decade has been extending and collecting short-term online payday loans in downtown Kansas City, at 908 Baltimore.

(Other names associated with the company include Loan Shop Online; Evergreen Capital Partners; DMS Marketing; and, most recently, Glacier Management. For the purposes of this article, we’ll call it LTS.) Around mid-2013, the federal government implemented a coordinated effort known in the industry as Operation Choke Point. The Department of Justice sent subpoenas to banks and payment-processing firms that facilitate shady online loans, and the FDIC began auditing banks suspected of processing ACH payments from sketchy lenders. The move scared banks from doing business with companies like LTS and AMG. Banks and processors are essential to such companies’ methods of doing business — if they can’t electronically drop money into and (more importantly) out of borrowers’ accounts, they’re toast.

Missouri Bank (currently a defendant, along with several other banks, in an Operation Choke Point–related class-action RICO suit brought by local law firm Stueve Siegel Hanson) was for many years LTS Management’s bank of preference. But it rather sensibly forfeited that revenue stream following the feds’ crackdown. Which meant that LTS

(and other entities in its line of business) needed to find processors unafraid of the government’s threats. For a time, according to several former LTS employees, that was a Canadian company called Kapcharge. But in October, Kapcharge, too, exited the business.

Things got weirder at LTS after that.

“I know for a while the owners had some bank off the coast of Africa, near Madagascar, processing the transactions,” says Zechariah Moses, a former employee in the collections department at LTS. “I remember a bunch of us were looking at Google Maps, trying to find it on the map. We were just like, ‘What is happening to this company?’ ” October is also when LTS started quietly but steadily shedding its staff. First to go were the loan reps — with no banks to process the loans, loan reps no longer had a product to sell.

One loan rep, Savannaha Tyler, who was laid off in October, tells The Pitch that it was protocol in the lending department to lie to borrowers about where LTS was located, depending on which of the companies’ various shell names the lenders were representing.

“So if they were borrowing from Loan Shop Online, we would tell them we were based in Delaware. Or if they were borrowing from Custom Payday [another LTS subsidiary], we were supposed to say we were based in the United Kingdom,” says Tyler, who worked for LTS in a variety of capacities for seven years. “There was a whole system to it we had to know. We were told that’s the way it was supposed to be done because Delaware or the U.K. is where those companies had

originally received their lending license. But we’re still being instructed, while we’re sitting in downtown Kansas City, to say we’re somewhere else. It just seemed shady.”

In a prepared statement to The Pitch, LTS owners Del Kimball and Sam Furseth said, “Our collectors acted on behalf of companies that were domiciled in Delaware as well as companies located outside the of the country.

Employees were instructed to advise that they were acting on behalf of the entity that originated the account when contacting a customer about a delinquent account.”

In February, much of the collections department was let go, after months of attempting to collect from borrowers via checks and debit cards.

Michelle Pinkerton, a former employee in the collections department, echoes Tyler’s claims about misleading borrowers as to LTS’ location.

“It was the same in collections,” says Pinkerton, who worked for LTS from June until October 2013. “We would have accounts in certain states where we’d have to call them from a specific phone number.”

The motive behind such misdirection is simple: The usury laws of many states prevent entities like LTS, whose loans often bear annual interest rates as high as 700 percent, from lending within their borders.

That absurd figure is not the only objectionable thing about LTS’ loans, though. Moses, who has also worked at other online payday operations in town — including E-Finance (run

by Josh Mitchem) and Geneva-Roth Ventures (run by Mark Curry) — explains exactly what is

908 Baltimore: one address, many area codes so misleading and predatory about the structure of these loan agreements.

“You take out a loan, and they charge you $30 for every hundred you borrow,” Moses says. “So you take out $300 and you agree to pay back $390. First of all, that’s a lot of interest. But the real trickery is, if you haven’t paid it back in two weeks, then on the 15th day, they ding your account for $90. A normal person would see that on their checking account and assume the $90 was going to the $300 principal. That’s just logical thinking, to assume that these debits are going toward the principal. But they’re rolling that money over. So after five of those payments, when you assume the loan has been paid off, you look at your account and see that you still owe the original principal, plus you’ve been hit five times for $90. They got you for $450 already, and you haven’t paid a dime off the principal.

“I’ve seen that go on for 20, 30, 40 weeks before the borrower realizes what happens,” he says. “He took out a loan for $300 and owes $4,000, $5,000. And, of course, nobody from [LTS] is attempting to contact him to let him know what’s going on. It’s crazy.”

On May 9, there were yet more layoffs at 908 Baltimore. “LTS Management has ceased business operations,” Kimball and Furseth said in a statement. “And Glacier Management is in the process of winding down its business operations.”

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Can Russell Bucklew stay out of Missouri’s death chamber?

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ethal injection has become such an uncertain method of execution that Russell Bucklew would rather burn to death.

“I’m worried that it’s not going to work correctly and I’m going to end up choking to death,” Bucklew told The Pitch over the phone from prison. “I’m afraid that I’m going to be brain-dead or a vegetable by the time they’re done. That’s what I’m afraid of more than anything else. I’d rather them just pour gasoline on me and set me on fire, to be perfectly honest with you.”

Bucklew was scheduled to die a minute after midnight on May 21, but a federal court intervened.

Bucklew’s attorneys believe that a lethal injection would complicate his condition and prolong his death. They sued the Missouri Department of Corrections, a legal maneuver that convinced the courts to stall his execution.

Because Missouri’s primary method of capital punishment has become so uncertain, Buklew’s attorneys wanted to videotape him being put to death. A video record, they said, would have supported a future legal claim had the execution not worked or resulted in a protracted, grisly death.

The concerns aren’t unfounded. Oklahoma corrections officials bungled Clayton Lockett’s April 29 execution, leading to what was, by all accounts, a macabre ending to the 38-year-old’s life. That state also uses lethal injection. And, as in Missouri, the contents of the fatal dose are kept secret.

Lockett was not a sympathetic character.

He shot his 19-year-old victim and watched as another man buried her alive. Those who defend the death penalty argue that, even with the problems posed by state-conducted executions — particularly the problems intrinsic to lethal injection — the results remain kinder to the convicted than whatever a capital crime’s victims suffered. But that view ignores the constitutional mandate that punishments not be cruel or unusual — and Lockett’s death was very likely both.

Oklahoma, a state where the governor and some legislators eroded the separation of power between elected lawmakers and the courts in order to proceed with Lockett’s execution, has been forced to hit the brakes on its execution machine.

Missouri has indicated no post-Lockett hesitation. A federal appeals court, however, showed more restraint. The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals halted Bucklew’s execution on Tuesday, six hours before it was supposed to happen.

Bucklew’s attorneys beat long odds in the

Bucklew awaits his fate. courts to get at least a temporary reprieve for their client, convincing federal judges that Missouri officials hadn’t considered the possibility that Bucklew’s rare medical condition could lead to a prolonged and unconstitutional death.

The appeals court found that Bucklew’s health concerns — he suffers from a birth defect that causes weakened blood vessels in his head and neck and could constrain his airways — were persuasive and that Missouri officials hadn’t contested them. The court was also unhappy that Missouri resisted attempts to get funding for a full medical examination of Bucklew’s condition.

Bucklew’s crime was grim. In 1996, he shot Michael Sanders, a man he suspected of carrying on an affair with his ex-girlfriend. While Sanders bled out, Bucklew kidnapped his exgirlfriend and raped her.

Bucklew characterizes his shooting of Sanders as a means of self-defense, a claim that doesn’t square with the facts. Sanders was armed, but Bucklew was breaking into Sanders’ mobile home.

Regardless, Bucklew says he is remorseful for causing Sanders’ death.

“I’m sorry for what happened,” Bucklew said on May 13. “Sorry doesn’t cut it. Should I be put to death for it? No. I’m not an ax murderer. There’s guys in the prison system here who did worse things than I did.”

The Department of Corrections faces lawsuits from several press organizations and the American Civil Liberties Union, arguing against the state’s extreme secrecy regarding the source of its lethal-injection drugs, as well as violations of the state’s openrecords laws.

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Concert Venues THE BOTTLENECK

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CROSSROADS KC AT GRINDERS 417 E. 18th St. 785-749-3434, crossroadskc.com

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15501 W. Indian Creek Pkwy., Olathe 913-971-8563

THE GRANADA

1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence 785-842-1390, thegranada.com

May SATURDAY, MAY 24

Westport Roots Festival Westport Saloon, westportroots.com Through Sunday, May 25

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Rockfest, featuring Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, and more, Liberty Memorial

June SUNDAY, JUNE 1

Ingrid Laubrock and Tom Rainey, RecordBar

Animals as Leaders, the Granada

Brad Paisley, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

David George, Czar

Under the Streetlamp, Gentleman’s Rule, the Midland

Eric Paslay, KC Live Block

MONDAY, JUNE 2

KAUFFMAN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS

Infected Mushroom, Crossroads KC

1601 Broadway 816-994-7222, kauffmancenter.org

Tweak Bird, Riot Room

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Marc Broussard, Frontier Park Crossroads Summer Block Party 19th St. and Wyandotte

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Gladstone Summer Bluesfest, Oak Grove Park Through Saturday, June 7

LIBERTY HALL

2715 Rochester 816-483-1456, knuckleheadskc.com

Anthony Hamilton, the Midland

644 Massachusetts, Lawrence 785-749-1972, libertyhall.net

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The Big Iron, RecordBar

Vampire Weekend, Cults, Crossroads KC (sold out)

Outsides, the Slowdown, Riot Room

1228 Main 816-283-9921, midlandkc.com

Joe Ely, Knuckleheads Saloon

SATURDAY, JUNE 7

Backstreet Boys, Avril Lavigne, Starlight

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FRIDAY, MAY 30

The Naked and Famous, KC Live Block The Runaway Sons, Bummer, Riot Room Spirit Animal, Mime Game, Czar

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The Bloody Beetroots, Jayceeoh, Crossroads KC Electric Citizen, Bad Wheels, Expo ’70, Riot Room St. Paul and the Broken Bones, RecordBar

John Butler Trio, Frank Turner, Crossroads KC Radney Foster, Jay Clementi, Knuckleheads

1020 Westport Rd. 816-753-5207, therecordbar.com

THE RIOT ROOM

4048 Broadway 816-442-8179, theriotroom.com

Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Riot Room

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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 4

Buffalo Killers, Czar

French Horn Rebellion, Riot Room

Cher, Sprint Center

Holy Ghost (DJ), Riot Room patio

Collective Soul, VooDoo Lounge

Chicago Afrobeat Project, Heartfelt Anarchy, RecordBar

The Monkees, the Uptown

The People’s Liberation Big Band, RecordBar

Andy Frasco and the U.N., CrossroadsKC

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Asleep at the Wheel, Knuckleheads Saloon

The Red Elvises, Knuckleheads

Chris Cagle, KC Live Block

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Getter, the Granada

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Bilal and Eric Robertson, the Uptown

Bark N’ Blues Festival, Santa Fe Trail VFW Post 846, Overland Park

Alaturka, RecordBar

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STARLIGHT THEATRE

Black Joe Lewis, the Bottleneck

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Guided By Voices, the Granada

Tuesday, June 10

Aaron Neville, Knuckleheads

Against the Grain, Bottlebreakers, Old Field Victory, RecordBar Ben Folds with the Kansas City Symphony, Kauffman Center

Thursday, June 19

Blood on the Dance Floor, the Granada King Khan and the Shrines, RecordBar

Vintage Trouble, Crossroads KC

The Lonely Biscuits, Riot Room

Wednesday, June 11

Nashville Pussy, Knuckleheads

Band of Skulls, the Granada Cardboard Kids, Golden Youth, Czar Centro-matic, Riot Room Ben Folds with the Kansas City Symphony, Kauffman Center Dar Williams, Liberty Hall

Thursday, June 12

Darius Rucker, the Uptown Young Widows, White Reaper, Leering Heathens, Czar

Friday, June 20

The Avett Brothers, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater Civil Twilight, Czar

Frankie Ballard, KC Live Block

Enemy Planes, RecordBar

Robert Francis and the Night Tide, Carly Ritter, RecordBar

Jazz in the Woods, Corporate Woods Through Saturday, June 21

Friday, June 13

Krayzie Bone, Riot Room

Boulevardia featuring Chain Gang of 1974, Blondfire, and Capital Cities, West Bottoms, Through Sunday, June 15 Don McLean & Judy Collins, Knuckleheads O.A.R., Phillip Phillips, Crossroads KC Painted Palms, Ren, Kodascope, Czar Parkville River Jam — Jazz, Blues and Fine Arts Fest, English Landing Park Through Saturday, June 14 Nice Peter, the Granada

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Bob Weir and Ratdog, the Midland

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Making Movies, Ha Ha Tonka, Knuckleheads Neon Trees, KC Live Block

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Adam Evolving, David Hasselhoff on Acid, the Granada The Foreign Exchange, Riot Room Missouri Chainsaw Grassacre, featuring Split Lip Rayfield, Mountain Sprout, Cowgirl’s Train Set, and more, Crossroads KC Asher Roth, Czar

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Future with Rico Love and Que, the Midland

Rascal Flatts, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

Peter Murphy, Riot Room

Logic, the Granada

Don Williams, the Uptown

Moe, Pimps of Joytime, Crossroads KC

Monday, June 23

Monday, June 16

Ms. Lauryn Hill, the Uptown

Tuesday, June 17

James Taylor, Starlight Theatre

Tuesday, June 24

Deafheaven, the Granada

Allah-Las, Riot Room

Egypt, Hossferatu, Merlin, Riot Room

Trombone Shorty and Orleans Avenue, Old 97’s, Crossroads KC

Firestarter, Czar

Wednesday, June 18

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, the Midland Jackie Green, RecordBar

John Hiatt & the Combo, and the Robert Cray Band, Knuckleheads Ray LaMontagne, Starlight Theatre

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Los Lonely Boys, Knuckleheads

Tuesdays 6-9:30PM

Phox, Riot Room Widespread Panic, Starlight Theatre

Thursday, June 26

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Blueprint, Riot Room

Raw: Kansas City Presents Panorama, the Uptown Nora Jane Struthers & the Party Line, the Old Salt Union, Knuckleheads

Friday, June 27

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Junior Brown, the Forty Fours, Knuckleheads The Fray, Starlight Theatre The Neighborhood, KC Live Block We Are Voices, Atlas, Akkilles, Riot Room Yonder Mountain String Band, Railroad Earth, Crossroads KC

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Captiva, Not a Planet, the Granada Epitaph Reunion Party, RecordBar Robert Randolph & the Family Band, Crossroads KC The Summit, When Particles Collide, Czar

CES Cru, Info Gates, Houston Zizza, Riot Room

sunday, July 6

Tuesday, July 1

Dark Star Orchestra, Crossroads KC

Wednesday, July 2

Boy & Bear, Jared & the Mill, Riot Room Willie Nelson and Alison Krauss, Starlight Theatre

Monday, July 7

Bad Suns, Riot Room

Tuesday, July 8

Michael Franti & Spearhead, Crossroads KC

The Antlers, Yellow Ostrich, Riot Room

Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, RecordBar

Listener, ’68, Homeless Gospel Choir, Czar

Jeremy Messersmith, Czar

Conor Oberst, Dawes, Crossroads KC

Wednesday, July 9

Xavier Rudd, the Bottleneck

Gavin DeGraw and Matt Nathanson, Mary Lambert, Crossroads KC

Thursday, July 3

Fly Golden Eagle, Czar

Jackson Browne, the Uptown Max, Czar Sarah McLachlan, Starlight Theatre 311, the Urge, Six Percent, Crossroads KC

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Thursday, July 10

Outlaws, Blackhawk, Knuckleheads Randy Rogers Band, KC Live Block continued on page 17

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Delbert McClinton, Joe King Carrasco, Knuckleheads

thurSday, July 17

Chase Rice, KC Live Block Man or Astro-Man?, Riot Room

Me Like Bees, Middle Twin, Riot Room

Old Crow Medicine Show, with Carolina Chocolate Drops, the Uptown

Saturday, July 12

Saturday, July 19

Trampled Under Foot, Knuckleheads

Steely Dan, Starlight Theatre

Sunday, July 13

Sunday, July 20

Glass Animals, Czar (sold out)

Glass Animals, Outsides, Riot Room (sold out)

Monday, July 14

The Pitch Music Showcase I, Riot Room

Panic at the Disco, Walk the Moon, Magic Man, Crossroads KC

The Family, RecordBar

Dub Thompson, Riot Room

Journey and Steve Miller Band, Starlight Theatre

Monday, July 21

Wild Cub, Grizfolk, Czar

Goblin, Hate Eternal, the Granada

tueSday, July 15

Paul McCartney, at Sprint Center

Cannibal Corpse, the Granada Lucero, Murder By Death, the Delta Saints, Crossroads KC Young & Sick, Riot Room American Slim, Czar

WedneSday, July 16

Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo and Rick Springfield, Starlight Theatre Cloud Nothings, the Granada Paul McCartney, Sprint Center Saintseneca, Czar Bob Schneider, Dawn & Hawkes, Knuckleheads

Attic Wolves, Papers, Akkilles, Czar

tueSday, July 22

Gary Clark Jr., Crossroads KC Keef Mountain, Wicked Inquisition, Czar New Edition, the Midland

WedneSday, July 23

Hayes Carll, Knuckleheads Jurassic 5, Dilated Peoples, Beat Junkies, Crossroads KC

thurSday, July 24

Red Velvet Crush, Dellacoma, Dead Manâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Hand, Riot Room

Friday, July 25

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Saturday, July 26

Saturday, auguSt 9

Fall Out Boy, Starlight Theatre

Chubby Carrier, Knuckleheads

U.S. Air Guitar National Finals, the Midland

Pat Metheny Unity Group, Bruce Hornsby, Crossroads KC

tueSday, auguSt 12

Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, VooDoo Lounge

Earth Wind & Fire, Starlight Theatre

Sunday, July 27

Miley Cyrus, Sprint Center

Eric Johnson, Knuckleheads

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Riot Room

OK Go, Riot Room

Uncle Lucius, Knuckleheads

WedneSday, auguSt 13

tueSday, July 29

Ted Nugent, the Midland Matthew Sweet, Knuckleheads Nick Waterhouse, Riot Room

WedneSday, July 30

Justin Timberlake, Sprint Center

thurSday, July 31

Guy Forsyth, Knuckleheads Justin Timberlake, Sprint Center Vans Warped Tour, featuring Less Than Jake and more, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

August

Ziggy Marley, Crossroads KC

thurSday, auguSt 14

Boston, Kansas, Starlight Theatre Rod Stewart and Santana, Sprint Center

Friday, auguSt 15

Bernard Allison, Knuckleheads

Saturday, auguSt 16

Chris Duarte, Knuckleheads Umphrey’s McGee, Crossroads KC

Sunday, auguSt 17

Miranda Lambert, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

Monday, auguSt 18

Gipsy Kings, the Uptown

Friday, auguSt 1

tueSday, auguSt 19

Liverpool, Frontier Park

Katy Perry, Sprint Center

OneRepublic, Starlight Theatre

thurSday, auguSt 21

The Pitch Picnic, with Everclear, Soul Asylum, Eve 6, Spacehog, Cricket Wireless Amphitheater

Friday, auguSt 22

American Idol Live, the Midland

Nickel Creek, Sarah Jarosz, Uptown Theater

Reverend Horton Heat, the Bottleneck Strand of Oaks, Riot Room

Saturday, auguSt 2

Saturday, auguSt 23

Play Dead, Crossroads KC

ZZ Top and Jeff Beck, Starlight Theatre

Sunday, auguSt 3

Sunday, auguSt 24

thurSday, auguSt 7

Friday, auguSt 29

Hundredth, the Granada

B.J. Thomas, the Sara Morgan Trio, Knuckleheads

Yes, the Midland

Saturday, auguSt 30

Tori Amos, the Midland

Mötley Crüe, Alice Cooper, Sprint Center Chicago and REO Speedwagon, Starlight Theatre

Friday, auguSt 8

Dave Alvin & Phil Alvin, with the Guilty Ones, Knuckleheads

The Rainmakers, Crossroads KC

Sleepy Kitty, Riot Room

Goo Goo Dolls, Daughtry, Starlight Theatre

Alabama, Starlight Theatre

The Grisly Hand, Knuckleheads Liquid Stranger, the Granada

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• 8 Contests • 4 Stages in Operation • Workshops • Arts & Crafts Fair

Advance Tickets on sale NOW!!!

Walnut Valley Association, Inc. P. O. Box 245 Winfield, KS 67156 (620) 221-3250 hq@wvfest.com www.wvfest.com

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St. Dionysios Greek Festival

St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church, 8100 W. 95th St., Overland Park, stdionysios.com Through Sunday, June 8

Sugar Creek Slavic Festival

Mike Onka Memorial Building, 11520 E. Putnam, Sugar Creek, slavicfest.com Through Saturday, June 7

SATURDAY, JUNE 7

Children’s Day and National Trails Day

Missouri Town 1855, 8010 E. Park Rd., Lee’s Summit, jchs.org

Vaile Strawberry Festival

The Vaile Mansion, 1500 N. Liberty, Independence, vailemansion.org

Westport Beer Festival

s er m ar F & s l a v i t s e Fairs, F

In front of McCoy’s Public House, 4057 Pennsylvania, beerkc.com

Winesong 2014

Riverfest Park, 33440 W. 79th St., De Soto, winesongatriverfest.com

Wornall House Garden Tour

John Wornall House, 6115 Wornall, wornallhouse.org

SUNDAY, JUNE 8

27th Annual Dog-N-Jog

Country Club Plaza, intersection of Central and Ward Pkwy., hsgkc.org

FRIDAY, JUNE 13

Festival on the Trails

May

THURSDAY, MAY 22

New Belgium Clips Beer & Film Tour

Theis Park, Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd. and Oak, 7 p.m. newbelgium.com/events

FRIDAY, MAY 23

ConQuesT 45: Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention

Marriott Hotel, 200 W. 12th St., conquestkc.org Through Sunday, May 25

SATURDAY, MAY 24 Jiggle Jam

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, kcjigglejam.com Through Sunday, May 25

SUNDAY, MAY 25

Celebration at the Station

Union Station, Pershing and Main, kcsymphony.org

FRIDAY, MAY 30

Just for Her Expo

Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., justforherexpokc.com Through Sunday, June 1

Prairie Village Art Show

The Village Shopping center, 71st St. and Mission, prairievillageshops.com Through Sunday, June 1

SATURDAY, MAY 31 Crawl for Cancer

Power & Light District, 13th St. and Walnut, crawlforcancer.org/kansascity

Kansas City Heart Walk

Theis Park, Emanuel Cleaver II Blvd. and Oak, kcheartwalk.org

June SUNDAY, JUNE 1 KosherFest

Congregation Ohev Sholom, 5311 W. 75th St., Prairie Village, ohev-sholom.com/kosherfest-details

Juneteenth Parade and Celebration

Big 11 Lake, N. 11th St. between State Ave. and Washington Blvd., KCK, juneteenthkck.com

THURSDAY, JUNE 5 Old Shawnee Days

Kansas City Scottish Highland Games

FRIDAY, JUNE 6

SATURDAY, JUNE 14

Intersection of Third St. and Douglas, leessummitdowntowndays.com Through Sunday, June 8

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, crowncenter.com Through Sunday, June 15

Shawnee Town, 11600 Johnson Dr., Shawnee, oldshawneedays.org Through Sunday, June 8

Downtown Lee’s Summit Days

E.H. Young Park, 1001 N.W. Argosy Pkwy., Riverside, kcscottishgames.org Through Sunday, June 15

Crown Center Antique Festival

Pistons ’N’ Pin Ups Car Show

Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, cricketwirelessamp.com

Jazzoo

Kansas City International Dragon Boat Festival

Kansas City Zoo, 6800 Zoo Dr., jazzookc.org

Brush Creek on the Country Club Plaza, chinagardensociety-kc.org

Pooches on the Parkway

Wilbur Young Park, 1100 S.E. Adams Dairy Pkwy., Blue Springs, bluespringsgov.com

Festa Italiana

Zona Rosa, 8640 N. Dixson Ave., unicokc.org Through Sunday, June 1

Downtown Gardner, bound by Washington and Shawnee, and Elm and Center streets, festivalonthetrails.com Through Saturday, June 14

The WBFF Central U.S. Fitness Show 2014 The Midland, 1228 Main, midlandkc.com

Liberty Arts Squared

Historic Liberty Square, bound by Franklin and Kansas, and Water and Main streets, libertyartssquared.org Through Saturday, June 7

Paola Heartland Car Show

Park Square, downtown Paola, paolacarshow.com continued on page 23

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Kansas City LGBT Film Festival

INVITES YOU AND A GUEST TO A SPECIAL ADVANCE SCREENING!

Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, kcgayfilmfest.com Through Thursday, July 3

Friday, June 27

Great Lenexa BBQ Battle

Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park, 14915 W. 87th Pkwy., Lenexa, lenexa.com/parks/festivals_bbq.html Through Saturday, June 28

WaterFest

Excelsior Springs Downtown Historic District, intersection of Main and Spring streets, exspgschamber.com/waterfest.html Through Sunday, June 29

saTurday, June 28

Maker Faire: Kansas City

Union Station 30 W. Pershing Rd. makerfairekc.com Through Sunday, June 29

KC Nanobrew Festival

TUESDAY, MAY 27 - 7:30 PM

Liberty City Hall parking lot, 201 E. Kansas Ave., Liberty, kcnanobrews.com

LOG ON TO WWW.PITCH.COM BEGINNING THURSDAY, MAY 22 FOR YOUR CHANCE TO WIN A COMPLIMENTARY PASS FOR TWO.

KC Renaissance Festival Stems, a Garden Soiree continued from page 21

Renditions Polish Pottery Festival

Intersection of Main and Short streets, Weston, renditionsweston.com

Sprint Family Fun Days: Ultimate Field Day Power & Light District, 14th St. between Grand and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com

Tonganoxie Days

Downtown Tonganoxie, Fourth Street, tonganoxiedays.com

Thursday, June 19

saTurday, June 21

Friday, June 20

Pinstripes Bowling, Bocce and Bistro, 6203 W. 135th St., Overland Park, bigslickkc.org

Big Slick Party and Auction

The Midland, 1228 Main, bigslickkc.org

Browne’s Irish Street Faire

Browne’s Irish Market, 3300 Pennsylvania, brownesmarket.com

Kansas City Real Ale Festival

3365 S.W. Fascination Dr., Lee’s Summit, tkcrealalefest.com

Downtown Parkville, south end of Main Street, parkvillemo.org Through Saturday, July 5

Thursday, July 3

Waldo Crawldo

Friday, July 4

sunday, June 22

Sporting Park, 1 Sporting Way, KCK, bgc-gkc.org

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Parkville July Fourth Celebration

Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. U.S. Hwy. 50, Kingsville, powellgardens.org/booms Rain date, July 5

Fiesta Kansas City

2014 SportsFest

July Wednesday, July 2

Gregg/Klice Community Center, 1600 John “Buck” O’Neil Way, kcparks.org

Kauffman Stadium, 1 Royal Way, bigslickkc.org

2500 State Line Rd., West Bottoms, gaypridekc.org Through Sunday, June 22

South Park, 1141 Massachusetts, Lawrence, lawrenceks.org

Booms & Blooms Festival

75th St. and Wornall, Waldo, waldocrawldo.com

KC Gay Pride 2014

IN THEATERS MAY 30 www.AMillionWays.com

2014 Summer Fest

KC Parks Community Health & Safety Fair

Big Slick Celebrity Classic

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, fiestakansascity.com Through Sunday, June 22

THIS FILM HAS BEEN RATED R FOR STRONG CRUDE AND SEXUAL CONTENT, LANGUAGE THROUGHOUT, SOME VIOLENCE AND DRUG MATERIAL. NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. 20 PASSES WILL BE DISTRIBUTED VIA A RANDOM DRAWING ON MONDAY, MAY 26. ALL ENTRIES MUST BE RECEIVED BY MIDNIGHT ON SUNDAY, MAY 25. PLEASE ARRIVE EARLY! THEATER IS OVERBOOKED TO ENSURE A FULL HOUSE. SEATS ARE NOT GUARANTEED, ARE LIMITED TO THEATER CAPACITY AND ARE FIRST-COME, FIRST-SERVED. EVERYONE ENTERING THE THEATER MUST HAVE A PASS.

Big Slick Celebrity Bowl

UMB Big Bash

Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, umbbigbash.org

Overland Park Arboretum, 8909 W. 179th St., Overland Park, stemssoiree.org

Art of the Car Concours

Kansas City Art Institute, 4415 Warwick, artofthecarconcours.com

Jackson County’s Fourth of July Celebration Longview Lake, 11100 View High Dr.,

KC Riverfest

Berkley Riverfront Park, Missouri Riverfront between the Heart of America Bridge and the Bond Bridge, kcriverfest.com

Future Stages Festival

Lenexa Community Days Parade

Wednesday, June 25

Thursday, July 10

Downtown Lawrence, freestatefestival.org Through June 29

Savannah, Missouri, dawgdazeofsummerfestival.com Through Saturday, July 12 continued on page 25

Kauffman Center, 1601 Broadway, kauffmancenter.org

Free State Festival

check out

Old Town Lenexa, corner of Santa Fe Trail Dr. and Pflumm, lenexa.com

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4750 Troost Ave., Kansas City, MO 64110 (816) 759-7300 mdc.mo.gov/regions/kansas-city/discovery-center

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Lawrence, dgcountyfair.com Through Saturday, August 2

Friday, July 11

August Friday, auguSt 1

continued from page 23 Lawrence, salutewinefest.com Through Saturday, July 12

Young Friends of Art Summer White Party

Donald J. Hall Sculpture Park at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak, nelson-atkins.org

Sprint Family Fun Series: Beach Party

Power & Light District, 14th St. between Main and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com

Saturday, July 12 Art & Wine Stroll

6 p.m., Park Square, downtown Paola, paolatourism.org

tueSday, July 15 Cass County Fair

Pleasant Hill, pleasanthill.com Through Sunday, July 20

Saturday, July 19

Festival of Butterflies

VODKA

Sunday, auguSt 3

DOG PEOPLE

Boulevard of Dreams

Studio Dan Meiners, 2500 W. Pennway, boulevardofdreams.org Powell Gardens, 1609 N.W. U.S. Highway 50, Kingsville, powellgardens.org Through Sunday, August 3, and August 8-10

Strawberry Swing Indie Craft Fair

FOR

Alexander Majors Barn, 8201 State Line, strawberryswing.org

thurSday, auguSt 7 Missouri State Fair

Missouri State Fairgrounds, 2503 W. 16th St., Sedalia, mostatefair.com Through Sunday, August 17

Beer Pong for Babies

KC Live Block, Power & Light District, 13th St. and Grand, beerpongforbabies.com

Miami County Fair and Rodeo

401 E. Wallace Park Dr., Paola, miamicountykansasfair.com Through Saturday, July 26

Sunday, July 20

Kansas City’s Big Picnic

Nelson-Atkins Musuem of Art Sculpture Garden and Theis Park, 47th St. and Oak

Wayne City Landing Days Festival

Roper Stadium, 131 S. Carlisle, Sugar Creek, C facebook.com/waynecitylandingdays Through Saturday, August 9 M

Friday, auguSt 8

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U.S. Bank Great Midwest Balloon Fest

Saturday, auguSt 9

CMY

Tails on the Trails Pet Festival Kansas City Summer Reptile Show

Overland Park International Trade Center, 6800 W. 115th St., coldbloodedexpos.com

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Kansas Speedway, 400 Speedway Blvd., KCK, MY midwestballoonfest.org Through Sunday, August 10 CY

Ad Astra Pool, 8265 Maurer, Lenexa, lenexa.com

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Sprint Family Fun Series: Ice Cream Social Platte County Fair

Platte County Fairgrounds, 400 First St., Platte City, plattecountyfair.com Through Saturday, July 26

tueSday, July 22

Wyandotte County Fair

Wyandotte County Fairgrounds, 13700 Polfer Rd., Bonner Springs, wycofair.com Through Saturday, July 26

Sunday, July 27

Cider Mill Century Bicycle Tour

Louisburg Cider Mill, 14730 Kansas 68, kansascyclist.com/events/ CiderMillCentury.html

Johnson County Fair

Johnson County Fairgrounds, 136 E. Washington, Gardner, jocokansasfair.com Through Saturday, August 2

WedneSday, July 30

Power & Light District, 14th St. between Main and Walnut, powerandlightdistrict.com

Blue Springs Glowing Night Ride

Wilber Young Park, 1100 S.E. Adams Dairy Pkwy., Blue Springs, bluespringsgov.com

Friday, auguSt 15

Ethnic Enrichment Festival

Swope Park, Meyer Blvd. and Swope Pkwy., eeckc.net Through Sunday, August 17

We created Vodka for Dog People to help support Emancipet’s mission to make spay/neuter and preventive veterinary care affordable and accessible to all pet owners.

Visit vodkafordogpeople.com to learn more and see how you can help.

Saturday, auguSt 16 Sly’s Rock the Block

Union Station, Pershing and Main, kcparks.org/event/slys-rock-the-block

thurSday, auguSt 21 Tiblow Days Festival

Downtown Bonner Springs, Second St. and Oak, bsedwchamber.org Through Saturday, August 23

VodkaForDogPeople.com 2014

Douglas County Fair

Douglas County Fairgrounds, 2110 Harper,

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St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church

18TH ANNUAL VILLAGEFEST

Friday, July 4 • 7:30 am to 1:00 pm 7700 Mission Rd FREE, FAMILY, FUN www.prairievillagefest.com

JUNE 6-8, 2014

5TH ANNUAL PRAIRIE VILLAGE JAZZ FESTIVAL

8100 w. 95th St. Overland Park

Saturday, September 6 • 3:00 pm to 11:00 pm Harmon Park – 77th & Delmar KANSAS CITY’S “DESTINATION JAZZ FESTIVAL” www.prairievillagejazz.org

For More Info: 913.341.7373

stdionysios.org/festival

FREE SHUTTLE TO ALL THE SUMMER HOT SPOTS: UPTOWN THEATRE • THE MIDL AND • CROSSROADS KC

Introducing Kansas City’s Newest Hotel! Grand Opening May 22nd!

Located in Westport, the 816 Hotel is KC’s only hotel dedicated to the past and present of the Paris of the Plains.

The history of K.C. is rich and our hotel tells Kansas City’s story and offers a memorable experience. Rooms are quaintly decorated with archived photos of Kansas City’s history along with a top of the line bedding package.

AMENITIES INCLUDE: Complimentary breakfast (including made-to-order omelets) • Free Cocktails nightly in lobby bar • KC’s fastest (and free) hotel Wi-Fi • Complimentary parking • Complimentary passes to Gold’s Gym (2 blocks east)

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Friday, august 22

Lawrence Busker Festival

Downtown Lawrence, between Seventh and 11th streets, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, lawrencebuskerfest.com Through Sunday, August 24

Parkville Days

English Landing Park, parkvillemo.org Through Sunday, August 24

s t e k ar M s Farmer

Roots Festival

Tuesday

saturday, august 23

Wednesday

Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., baconfestkc.com

Downtown Overland Park Farmers Market

Park Square, downtown Paola, rootsfestival.org Through Saturday, August 23

Bacon-Fest

thursday, august 28 Santa-Cali-Gon Days

Independence Square, Osage to Memorial Drive, between Truman and Walnut, santacaligon.com Through Monday, September 1

Friday, august 29 Kansas City Irish Fest

Crown Center, 2450 Grand, kcirishfest.com Through Sunday, August 31

saturday, august 30 KC Renaissance Festival

633 N. 130th St., Bonner Springs, kcrenfest.com Weekends through October 13, plus Labor Day and Columbus Day

Lawrence Farmers Market

4-6 p.m., 824 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market 7 a.m., Second St. and Douglas

6:30 a.m.-1 p.m., on Marty between 79th and 80th streets

Gladstone Farmers Market

2-6 p.m., Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect

Independence Farmers & Craft Market

5 a.m.-1 p.m., the corner of Truman and Main, Historic Independence Square, 210 W. Truman Rd.

Saturday

Brookside Farmers Market

8 a.m.-1 p.m., Border Star Montessori, 6321 Wornall, brooksidefarmersmarket.com

City Market

6 a.m.-3 p.m., 20 E. Fifth St.

DeSoto Farmers Market

8 a.m.-noon, St. Andrew’s United Methodist Church, 1004 Rock Rd., De Soto

Downtown Lee’s Summit Farmers Market 7 a.m.Saturday, Second St. and Douglas

Downtown Overland Park Farmers Market 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m., on Marty between 79th and 80th streets

SATURDAYS: 7am-noon WEDNESDAYS: 2-6pm

in the north parking lot of Gladstone HyVee at 7117 N. Prospect

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wild flower arrangements

Gladstone Farmers Market

7 a.m.-noon, Gladstone Hy-Vee, 7117 N. Prospect

Liberty Farmers Market

7 a.m.-noon, Feldmans Farm & Home, 1332 W. Kansas

Grand Court Farmers Market

10 a.m.-1 p.m., Grand Court Retirement Center, 501 W. 107th St.

Merriam Farmers Market

4-7 p.m., Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr.

Olathe Farmers Market

7:30 a.m., Black Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St. (Field 1)

Parkville Farmers Market

2-5 p.m., English Landing Park, First St. and Main

Waldo Farmers Market

3-7 p.m., Habitat for Humanity ReStore, 303 W. 79th St.

Thursday

Cottin’s Hardware Store

4-6:30 p.m., back parking lot of 1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence, cottinshardware.com/farmersmarket

Friday BadSeed

4-9 p.m., 1909 McGee

Independence Farmers & Craft Market

5 a.m.-1 p.m., the corner of Truman and Main, Historic Independence Square, 210 W. Truman Rd.

pasture raised chicken, eggs & pork

KC Organics and Natural Market 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Minor Park, Holmes at Red Bridge Road

home baked goods

Lawrence Farmers Market

8 a.m.-noon, 824 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Merriam Farmers Market

7 a.m.-1 p.m., Merriam Marketplace, 5740 Merriam Dr.

organic-practice vegetables

Olathe Farmers Market

7:30 a.m., Black Bob Park, 14500 W. 151st St.

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Parkville Farmers Market

7 a.m.-noon, English Landing Park, First St. and Main

Sunday

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8 a.m.-3 p.m., 20 E. Fifth St.

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Summer Camp for KIDS

all summer

June 9-14 June 23-28 July 14-18 July 28-August 1

B Y A NGE L A L U T Z

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ummer has been slow coming to Kansas City, but make no mistake: The five-fi nger death punch of heat, humidity, boredom, sweat and sweat-barassment is upon us. Sure, you could get hammered on cold mojitos at noon, but going for a swim is an easier, cheaper and safer way to revel in the sluggishness of the season. So here’s our list of 10 public pools where you can barrel down a slide, go with the flow, or just eat a 3-foot Super Rope while working on your tan.

Oh, and remember your sunscreen, people.

worth the wait. Once you’ve snagged a tube, seriously hang onto it.

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This water park aims to please thrill seekers and slothful sunbathers alike with a 900foot lazy river, a 308-foot raft slide, and a full-service dining area.

This pool has five separate areas to appeal to all ages, including a zero-depth pool, a slide and an adults-only swim every hour. A season pass at Leawood Aquatic Center also gets you into five other Johnson County–area pools.

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THE BAY WATER PARK 7101 Longview Rd. thebaykc.com

In addition to multiple pools and a lazy river, the Bay is also home to the area’s only public surf simulator, opening this spring. It’s just like riding waves at the beach, you guys! (Not really. But it still sounds fun.)

BLACK BOB BAY

14570 W. 151st St., Olathe olatheks.org/parksrec/programs/aquatics/ blackbob The lines for the raft slide at Black Bob Bay can be long, but the splash at the end is well

INDIAN TRAILS AQUATIC CENTER

8801 Greenway Ln., Lenexa lenexa.com/parks/pools_indiantrails.html When you’re ready to work off that half-pint of cookies and cream you just devoured from the concession stand, Indian Trails has eight lanes for swimming laps. And a rock-climbing wall. And plenty of space for lounging.

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ROELAND PARK AQUATIC CENTER 4843 Rosewood Dr., Roeland Park roelandpark.net/explore-roeland-park/ aquatic-center

When the dome comes off this year-round pool in May, the fun really starts. The center has a 120-foot slide, a spray park and a separate pool for kids. Also: an area for competitive lap swimming. Loser buys nachos!

SUMMIT WAVES

120 S.W. Blue Pkwy., Lee’s Summit cityofls.net/parks/facilities/ summit-waves.aspx

The first aquatic park in Lee’s Summit, Summit Waves features a 904-foot “action river” and a six-lane lap pool. The concession stand has healthy snack options that will make you feel good about the thought of taking off your shirt again sometime this summer.

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wave and a smallpox outbreak, and someone has killed Jenny Bonnet in a boardinghouse.

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Frog Music

By Emma Donoghue Raise your hand if you’re still creeped out by Room, Donoghue’s engrossing 2010 novel, in which a 5-year-old boy and his mother are held captive in a small shed. Her new book happens to be set in summer, and it’s based on a true story involving an unsolved murder. In the San Francisco of 1876, citizens are enduring a heat

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To Rise Again at a Decent Hour

By Joshua Ferris You can file this under Most Anticipated Novel.

Ferris’ first book, the award-winning Then We Came to the End, is fueled by hilarious, slyly profound observations about what it’s like to work in a modern office. This latest story follows a man whose identity has been stolen on

By Chang-rae Lee Thanks to the immense popularity of The Hunger Games series, dystopian novels are still a big part of the young-adult genre, but Lee’s book reminds us that they aren’t just for teenagers. Lee sets his story in a future America that has labor camps filled with Chinese workers and a 1984-like totalitarian government. The book follows the journey of a young woman who abandons her colony and goes in search of the man she loves, an action that could start a revolt. Lee is known for his beautiful prose, and fans of literary fiction should love this.

Land of Love and Drowning

By Tiphanie Yanique An epic family saga set in the Virgin Islands?

Yes, please. Yanique’s debut novel follows three generations of the Bradshaw clan. It has a shipwreck in the Caribbean Sea, a dramatic rescue, love, loss, war, betrayal, and even some magic. It also tells the history of the islands as they transferred from Danish to American rule. I won’t be jetting off to the Caribbean this summer, but reading this may be the next best thing.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

By Gabrielle Zevin A.J. Fikry is the cranky owner of a small New England bookstore, and he’s having a rough time. His wife has died, his shop is almost bankrupt, and his rare collection of Poe poems has been stolen. His fortunes change when a precocious child turns up at his store, and he gets another chance at love with a fellow bibliophile. Zevin’s story is part mystery, part knowing tweak of lit culture and part romance. And if there’s a happy ending, you won’t hear me complain.

Nonfiction Little Failure: A Memoir

By Gary Shteyngart Humor! Pathos! Culture! Satire! Shteyngart’s memoir has it all. He was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1979, when he was 7. After being beaten by other kids, he changed his name from Igor to Gary and spent years trying to lose his thick Russian accent. His mother wanted him to become a lawyer or a Wall Street type, but he couldn’t do it, so she nicknamed him “little failure.”

Shteyngart is actually a big success on the literary-fiction scene: His novels include the acclaimed Super Sad True Love Story. I hope this wonderful memoir brings more attention to his work.

tinue to get richer. Anyone who has chanted “We are the 99 percent” won’t be surprised by that news, but Piketty’s fluid collation of data and history has become the stuff of op-ed battles. It’s a book that’s going to get referenced a lot. If you want to rage like Karl Marx this summer, break out the Piketty.

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By Thomas Piketty Who wants to read a 700-page tome about wealth inequality? I do! I do! Also, everybody else: It is the No. 1 best-seller on Amazon and, at this writing, tops The New York Times nonfiction list. French economist Piketty created a huge historical database of income and wealth distribution from 20 countries, crunched the numbers and found that, indeed, the rich con-

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By Lewis Dartnell If you’re worried about the collapse of civilization, this is the book for you. If society crumbled from an asteroid collision, a flu pandemic or a zombie onslaught, the result basically would be the same: We might have to rebuild our technologies from scratch.

Astrobiologist Dartnell here synthesizes humankind’s knowledge into 300 pages of instructions on agriculture, food preservation, medicine, transportation, communications and chemistry. Better skip the e-book and buy a print copy — maybe two.

Carsick: John Waters Hitchhikes Across America

By John Waters I love travelogues, but I doubt that I’ve read one quite like this. Cult film director Waters hitchhiked from Baltimore to San Francisco, carrying a sign that read “End of 70 West.”

Mustachioed high jinks ensue. But instead of writing a typical travel journal, Waters here imagines a best-case scenario, then follows with a worst-case version and, finally, the real thing. If you like musical accompaniment, he also includes a playlist. I can’t wait to hear what happened to him in Kansas.

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AUGUST 15: Repo Man

SEPT. 19: Stop Making Sense

kids investigating mysterious happenings at a nearby construction site.

Tammy

Laid off and cheated on, a desperate woman (Melissa McCarthy) robs a fast-food joint, then goes on the lam with her hard-drinking grandma (Susan Sarandon — why not?). McCarthy co-writes with husband Ben Falcone, who also directs.

July 11 A Long Way Down (Limited)

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here was a time when tentpoles like SpiderMan, X-Men and Godzilla would dominate the hot summer months. But those blockbusters already premiered in May, taking in as much box office as possible, then getting the hell out of the way lest they be steamrolled by the juggernaut that is the Summer of Kelsey Grammer. The erstwhile Dr. Frasier Crane appears in both Transformers: Age of Extinction and The Expendables 3. Kansas City filmgoers, kneel before your new celluloid god.

May 30 Maleficent

Disney reboots Sleeping Beauty in live action, from the villain’s POV, with some origin story stirred into the cauldron and a shrewdly cast Angelina Jolie in the title role.

A Million Ways to Die in the West

Seth MacFarlane writes, directs, woos Charlize Theron, battles Liam Neeson and makes anachronistic jokes in a raunchy Western that he hopes will be this generation’s Blazing Saddles.

June 6

The Fault in Our Stars

The first unapologetic weepie of the summer, based on John Green’s acclaimed YA novel.

Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort (no, really) fight cancer, find out about the world and fall in love.

Obvious Child

Everything happens to Donna (Saturday Night Live alumna Jenny Slate), an aspiring standup comic who in one fell swoop finds herself dumped, fired and pregnant, and must rise to meet the challenges of adulthood.

June 13 How to Train Your Dragon 2

Five years after uniting the Vikings and the dragons on their home island, Hiccup and Toothless find themselves at the center of a battle with Drago Bludvist, who controls his own army of enslaved dragons.

Edge of Tomorrow

Groundhog Day meets Source Code in this tale pitting futuristic soldiers against aliens over and over, until the soldiers finally get it right.

Starring running Tom Cruise, Tom Cruise’s “intense” face, and Emily Blunt.

22 Jump Street

Undercover cops Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum graduate to college, where one hopes they’ll at least blend in better.

And So It Goes

Obnoxious real-estate agent Michael Douglas gets an assist from neighbor Diane Keaton when his granddaughter is suddenly left in his care. Rob Reiner directs. Your parents will love it.

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Led by Caesar (Andy Serkis, the Olivier of motion capture), an army of highly evolved apes is pushed to the brink of war by the human survivors of a deadly virus (Gary Oldman, et al).

June 20 Jersey Boys

The story of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, based on the Broadway musical and directed

by Clint Eastwood.

July 18 Jupiter Ascending

Guy Pearce tracks criminals through the Australian Outback, aided reluctantly by the wounded accomplice they abandoned (Robert Pattinson).

Andy and Lana Wachowski return with another mind-bending F/Xtravaganza, a new tale of destiny and interplanetary chess in which Mila Kunis is The One, Channing Tatum is her lupine protector, and Eddie Redmayne does a trilogy’s worth of overacting in the trailer alone.

Think Like a Man Too

Planes: Fire & Rescue

June 27

The Purge: Anarchy

For No Good Reason (KC)

This documentary explores the art and life of Ralph Steadman, the mild-mannered, softspoken Brit whose distinct style and vivid, nightmarish illustrations became synonymous with the writings of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

Pierce Brosnan, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul and Imogen Poots co-star in this adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel about four suicidal people who form their own support group after converging on the same rooftop on New Year’s Eve.

The Rover

The cast of Think Like a Man (Won?) reunites for a Las Vegas wedding, though the bachelor and bachelorette parties appear to drive the plot, while Kevin Hart controls the volume.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

Bug fixes in Version 4.0 include an upgrade from Shia LaBeouf to Mark Wahlberg.

July 2 Deliver Us From Evil

Based on a true story — work with us here — a Bronx detective (Eric Bana) investigates a series of crimes whose persons of interest just happen to be demon-possessed.

Earth to Echo

Super 8 meets E.T. in this tale of a group of

Disney’s in-house Pixar knockoff did all right for itself, so naturally they’ve given it the franchise treatment by enlisting air racer Dusty Crophopper (voiced by Dane Cook) into the park service to fight forest fires.

Swept up in this year’s purge are a father seeking to avenge his son’s death, a luckless couple experiencing car trouble, and any number of innocents abducted for the amusement of the rich. Expect more sequels; despair for the human condition.

July 25 Hercules

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Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel spice things up and wring as much comedy as they can out of man vs. technology trope No. 23.

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Zach Braff’s Kickstarter-funded follow-up to Garden State is the story of a 30-something father trying to teach his kids about life, backed by the most earnest indie-rock soundtrack of the summer.

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Chadwick Boseman dons the cape of the Hardest Working Man in Show Business in this James Brown biopic directed by Tate Taylor (The Help) and co-starring Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer.

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Into the Storm

Tornado porn, apparently without sharks.

Lucy

Drug mule Scarlett Johansson absorbs some of the junk she’s transporting and transforms into an omniscient superhuman badass of epic proportions.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

Producer Michael Bay and his short attention span reboot the heroes on the half shell.

Off the Wall

‘We danced our asses off’

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The next best thing to a high school dance is, of course, a free outdoor movie on a warm summer night. And if the movie happens to feature a distinctive soundtrack, and if movie and music are both turning 30 this year, and if movie and music come at you on a downtown rooftop where you’ve drunk a little complimentary beer — well, then, you’re at Off the Wall. It’s the time of year when the Kansas City Public Library trades its suit for some board shorts and lets the occasional movie-delivered F-bomb reverberate from its terrace, and this time The Pitch is throwing in as co-sponsor.

This season’s lineup, dubbed “1984: Rave New World,” starts with Footloose (Friday, May 23) and also includes Breakin’, Purple Rain, Repo Man and Stop Making Sense. I’ll be at all of them, comparing notes on each movie with KC’s premier film brainiac, Robert W. Butler. The Independent Filmmakers Coalition of Kansas City screens a local short before each feature, KC Bier Co. gives you samples, there’s a Milwaukee Delicatessen special at mypitchdeals. com, and we spin the soundtracks before the sun goes down.

Off the Wall is at the Central Library, 14 West 10th Street. Doors at 8 p.m., movie shortly before 9.

For details, see kclibrary.org. — Scott WilSon

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What If

Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan circle each other in this will-they-or-won’t-they rom-com about two attractive young people who must deny their chemistry for 102 minutes.

August 13

Urban archaeologists explore catacombs beneath Paris, where they encounter their darkest fears and revisit the horrors of their past.

The Expendables 3

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New Girl co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr. star as friends who attend a costume party as police officers, then let the power go to their heads.

The Giver

Jeff Bridges and Meryl Streep anchor this adaptation about an idyllic utopian society in which one young man is chosen to experience “memories” of the real world.

Life After Beth

The Internet’s Own Boy

August 22

Night Moves

Boy (Dane DeHaan) loves girl (Aubrey Plaza).

Girl dies. Girl rises from the dead. Boy loves zombie.

If I Stay

Chloë Grace Moretz stars as a young music student in love, caught between life and death after a highway accident claims her family.

The story of programming wunderkind, Reddit co-founder and information activist Aaron Swartz, who took his own life after a two-year legal battle surrounding his arrest for downloading academic articles.

Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning and Peter Sarsgaard star as environmentalists who plot to demolish a dam in Oregon.

The One I Love Sin City: A Dame to Kill For

Familiar faces and a few new hard-boiled citizens walk the mean streets in this sequel to Frank Miller’s noir-inspired graphic-novel adaptation, co-directed by Robert Rodriguez.

Elisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass are a couple whose marriage is on the rocks. Ted Danson is their therapist. Expect the Duplass brothers’ brand of awkwardness that dwells in the chasm between comedy and drama.

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Inner-city karate kids square off against Beverly Hills karate kids.

August 29 Jessabelle

A young woman returns home to the bayou to recuperate from a terrible car accident, only to find herself haunted by the tormented spirits of the dead, including her late mother.

The Loft

Five friends share an apartment for their various affairs and infidelities, like you do. It’s a nifty arrangement until an unknown woman is found murdered there.

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They Came Together

Paul Rudd and Amy Poehler co-star in a romantic comedy that either blatantly skewers all the tropes and clichés of awful modern romantic comedies or indulges in them forthrightly and is itself an awful modern romantic comedy.

The Signal

A computer hacker lures three road-tripping college students to a mysterious desert location. After everything goes black, one of the students wakes to a living nightmare, presided over by Laurence Fishburne in a hazmat suit.

At the outset of a second ice age, Earth’s remaining survivors live aboard a high-speed train, which becomes a self-contained society segregated by class.

Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon

Mike Myers directs this documentary about the ultimate Hollywood insider, a beloved talent manager who has guided the careers of an astounding who’s who of actors and musicians.

Filth

James McAvoy stars as a corrupt, hard-drinking Edinburgh police detective whose personal life and sanity begin to unravel as he competes for a promotion and works a high-profile murder investigation.

The Trip to Italy

The Grand Seduction

Venus in Fur

Doc Hollywood meets Local Hero in this tale of a down-at-heels Canadian harbor town that can secure a new factory if it can woo a doctor to hang his shingle there. It could be the feel-good socialized-medicine sleeper of the summer.

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Curator’s Talk: Travel the Roads of Arabia, Nelson-Atkins Museum

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ter and action. The film opens with medical he next time you’re bored in suburbia, just imagine a man in a bear suit pick- professionals camped out in vacant, newing his way across your lawn. Video artist construction homes, appliances encased in plastic, waiting for patients to arrive. They and Guggenheim fellow Stanya Kahn — wellparcel milk into small plastic bottles as if it known for populating familiar landscapes were medicine, shuffle tentatively to upbeat with bizarre figures — this time turns her lens funk, tipple Grey Goose and nap with their toward suburban Kansas City. And the bear eyes open. Some have wounds of their own, doesn’t necessarily augur good fortune.

Kahn’s latest film, Don’t Go Back to Sleep, weeping bandages and septic scrubs. We never learn their origin. takes its title from a Rumi poem about a Kahn’s previous films, such as It’s Cool, threshold between two worlds, and the work’s I’m Good, blended humor and horror, an aespresentation at Grand Arts forces audiences thetic evident here as well. to straddle a similar divide.

Despite its anxious underThe viewing room is done Don’t Go Back to Sleep current, Don’t Go Back to up McMansion-style, a senThrough July 3 at Grand Arts Sleep is frequently funny: sory cocoon that mirrors 1819 Grand, 816-421-6887, Doctors lose their gum in a the film’s suburban interigrandarts.com body cavity during a nearors. The smell of fresh paint slapstick operation or drone disorients us before Kahn’s on about walking beans to sounds and images can, an unresponsive patient with a severe head and we’ve trod in on carpeting so thick and wound, as the seemingly doomed person plush that our shoes sink as though drawn lolls in a bathtub. into quicksand. Even the seating disorients: But the absurdist elements are more ofWe watch from a luxurious white sectional ten disquieting than amusing. Kahn splices couch, a piece we’re about to watch actors the doctors’ scenes with long shots of a figuse onscreen.

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The sound design is paramount to Sleep’s strange power. Kahn blends natural and artificial rhythms into a lush, unsettling soundscape. Doctors tramp through high prairie grasses to the martial report of a snare drum, laid over the hushing drone of cicadas. Original compositions by Kahn and Keith Wood dwell alongside “Amazing Grace” and “I’ve Been Working on the Railroad,” sung with haunting grace by local musical-theater whiz Shelby Floyd.

With the exception of Floyd, whose performance is as striking as ever, Kahn relies on untrained actors. A few speak selfconsciously, but their improvisations and conversations feel mostly authentic.

Kahn’s camera frames iconic Kansas City landmarks as backdrops to an alien world.

Exterior shots of homes are rare, and interiors seem to bleed together as the camera follows subjects through rooms and up winding staircases, only to jump-cut to the same figures in a new location. By stringing these shots together, Kahn builds a labyrinth of spatial impossibilities.

The jagged cuts manipulate time along

Stills from Sleep with space. The camera often reframes actors in the middle of lines or speeches, a disorienting call to the constructed nature of the film and an editing move that builds a frenetic pace. In other sections, time seems to slow and stretch on indefinitely, as when a doctor paddles through a rooftop pool.

One male doctor, to his companion’s annoyance, waxes philosophically on David Hume and the “hyper-real” color of a rosebush. Yet another investigates a wall of photographs inside, subjects posed and perfectly retouched: “They just don’t look real.”

Nothing does. Kahn’s film seems equal parts fertile fantasy and critical evocation of the Freudian unheimlich — the quite literally unhomelike home. But the head trip is worth the ride. Kahn bewitches us by blurring boundaries between script and improvisation, between manipulated footage and realtime recording. Don’t Go Back to Sleep lets us dawdle at that threshold and dwell where we can feel both artificial and real, awake and dreaming.

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pike Nguyen’s seven-week-old midtown restaurant, iPho Tower, might become like New York City’s elegant French-Vietnamese Le Colonial when it grows up. Right now, it’s more like something out of the film Saigon Electric: flashy and wildly colored, tuned to a soundtrack that veers from Rosemary Clooney to gospel to sultry house music, depending on the time of day.

The shifting personalities on view at iPho Tower, which gets progressively louder and more seductive the later the hour, is one reason that this off beat venue is already an appealing place to order food after midnight. Chubby’s, just up the street, has never seemed more boring.

The midtown faithful will recall that this address used to house Chubby’s, back in the 1980s. Following a rainbow coalition of wellintentioned but short-lived restaurants that attempted such unlikely flavors as Pakistani food and Caribbean cuisine, Nguyen has taken the space and spent a small fortune gutting it. The long, narrow storefront looks, for the first time in ages, stylish — at least if your idea of style runs to the theatrical.

There’s barely an inch of space that hasn’t been given a self-consciously eye-catching detail: paper lanterns here, a gilded Buddha there. The idea, says Vietnamese-born Nguyen, is for patrons to walk in and feel right away that they’ve left Kansas City.

It’s a fine ambition, and he has executed it with some success. Pass through these portals, and you set aside this grimy stretch of midtown, in favor of … well, where are we? e r o M This might be Paris, if Paris were very small and lacked building at ine Onl .com codes.

There’s a 3-foot h c pit wire structure — I’d call it Eiffel Tower–ish — on the bar, next to a laughing-Buddha statue. The two together suggest the supposed Gallic influence on a kitchen that makes excellent traditional Vietnamese dishes (steaming pho bowls, banh mi sandwiches) and a few “fusion” creations.

The latter nod halfheartedly toward the French sensibilities that dominated cultural life in Vietnam’s larger cities from 1887 to 1954. Some of the dishes listed under the heading “Vietnamese/French Fusion” are tasty but not foolproof. The “fusion beef stew” has a silky sauce flavored with star anise and cloves, but you have to check with the servers before you commit. If the kitchen has just made a pot of the stuff, the beef is likely to be tough; if it has been simmering for a couple of hours, it’s nirvana.

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come on a true French baguette, though the bread is close enough to the real thing for me.

Among these, I like the “house special,” with its slices of grilled pork, beef and VietnamA simple slab of salmon comes perfectly ese meatloaf tucked into the bread’s crusty grilled and lightly glazed with the same sweet depths. That may sound like a lot of meat, sauce, a strawberry-and-ginger concoction, but the sandwiches I tried were a little thin that Nguyen serves with his steamed dumplings. It tastes like neither strawberry nor on fillings.

Fortunately, that’s not the case with most ginger; instead, it’s a vaguely fruity, garlicky of the other offerings on iPho Tower’s menu. stir-fry sauce, likable but indistinct.

Still, Nguyen needs to either raise his prices That sums up iPho Tower in its infancy or grit his teeth and add a little more meat to — the place is more signifiers than identhe otherwise first-rate “shaken beef” dish, tity. There are, for instance, no fewer than a tender beef-and-onion three versions of the ambercombination in a dark, spicy colored, fish-based dipping iPho Tower sauce. The costliest dish on sauce called nuoc mam. A Grilled pork roll ��������������$6�95 the menu, a peppery grilled slightly sweet variation Sweet-potato and rib-eye, is a magnificently arrives with the divinely shrimp fritters �������������$6�95 seasoned hunk of meat and crunchy, fried shrimp rolls Fried tofu�������������������������$6�95 a properly hefty portion. It and the lightly breaded Banh mi sandwich ���������$5�95 might be the best steak to fritters of sweet potato and Pho bowl ��������������������������$8�95 Fusion beef stew�����������$12�95 hit this stretch of Broadway shrimp (a little skimpy on since the original Colony the crustaceans); there’s Steakhouse decamped from also a “regular” portion here in the 1960s. meant to be poured over the rice plates and The appetizer selection is the longest list on the vermicelli dishes. And if you ask for it, your server will bring out a third nuoc mam, the menu — understandable for a restaurant that does a brisk witching-hour business. The this one punched up with chili flakes. It’s a concert-going crowd at the Uptown Theater, little tart at first bite, then punishingly hot across the street, has already discovered the all the way down the gullet. place, and I think Westport drinkers will, Oh, but it’s a fine hurt. I especially like that too. The fried wings here — not breaded but third sauce with one of the seven banh mi crispy enough — come in a bittersweet tamasandwiches served here. True to this restaurant’s hodgepodge approach, though, none rind glaze, and the plump, grilled pork roll

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is almost satisfying enough to make a meal.

The squares of fried tofu are pillowy-light under an almost invisible crust, and the pretty little baked pork buns, stuffed with a savory pork barbecue, are delicious. The Vietnamese crepes, more of those “fusion” creations, slips smartly seasoned grilled pork and shrimp inside a crispy flapjack, colored yellow from turmeric. Trust me, it’s just the ticket at 1 a.m.

Another crepe — a soft, sweet one — is for now the sole dessert offering at iPho Tower.

It’s a disturbingly neon-green affair, filled with coconut-flavored cream cheese and strawberry purée.

“Where’s the crème brûlée?” I asked Nguyen. “Where are the éclairs?”

“We will have crème brûlée,” Nguyen said.

“We’re experimenting with other desserts right now. Everything takes time, you know.”

Right now, Nguyen is juggling the Broadway iPho Tower and the construction of a second location, soon to open in the space formerly occupied by his Pho Hoa restaurant on Independence Avenue. (It will serve the same menu as the midtown venue.)

“When I get the Independence Avenue restaurant open,” Nguyen told me, “my focus will be completely on my menu. We’ll have more desserts — French-style desserts.”

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Almeida has the warmth and energy of a barista, but she easily summons a bartender’s authority, too. As we talk possibilities, she points to various spirits on the shelves and thinks aloud what she might mix for me.

“What’s your favorite thing right now?”

I ask her, trying a different route.

“I really love Pimm’s, actually,” Almeida says, pulling a bottle of Pimm’s No. 1 from its spot and setting it in front of me. I consider myself familiar already — a stance she has predicted and is ready to outmaneuver.

“It may surprise you,” she says, as she sets about retrieving the rest of the ingredients she has decided upon: Old Overholt rye, a lemon, a small bottle of bitters.

“The No. 1 is a gin-based liqueur out of England,” Almeida tells me as she works.

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is just Pimm’s No. 1 and lemonade. The other Pimm’s Cup elements came later.”

Affäre’s Pandora stream is set to a Paul Simon station, and Almeida lightly sings along to Elton John’s “Your Song” as she shakes a mixture and strains it into a dainty coupe glass. She garnishes the drink with a lemon peel and puts it in front of me. It’s a rich, deep amber, and Almeida darkens it further by topping the drink with a teaspoon of port. I’m used to Pimm’s in the summer, but the cocktail Almeida has prepared reminds me of fall leaves and misty mornings.

A l meida has aga i n read my m i nd.

“Pimm’s does make for a great fruit-based summer drink,” she says. “It’s called a fruitcup liqueur, so there’s a lot of strawberries and oranges. But it’s summery without being light. There’s some heaviness to it.”

I take a sip and find the heaviness, but not in a thick, syrupy way suggested by the drink’s dark color. I taste something similar to a lighter version of an Old Fashioned. The rye tamps down the sweetness, and rather than adding simple syrup or other sugars, Almeida has opted for orange bitters and port, the better to bring out the fruit notes already in Pimm’s. Almeida’s clairvoyance has paid off: I’m surprised and pleased.

“There’s so much in Pimm’s itself,” Almeida explains as she pours me a straight

Almeida knows what you want before you do. taste. “It’s very compacted, and there’s a lot of room to pull other flavors out of it. You can get sweetness. You can get dry. You can get fruit. Sometimes you can get bitterness.”

Even on its own, the Pimm’s No. 1 offers an unexpected buoyancy, an airiness, like a liquid that has been laced with pollen rather than thickened with honey.

I sip and she goes on: “It’s like wine that way — you can taste a million different things in it. I like hearing what other people think it tastes like, and I’ve had a lot of fun playing around with it.”

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Bite into Waldo

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Charles Ferruzza

Caterer Kathy Hale’s pet project finds a brick-and-mortar home.

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t has been nearly 20 years since Kathy Hale owned a restaurant. That was Daily Bread, a vegetarian venue that operated out of several different locations from 1991 through 1996. It wasn’t an easy five years, but she never lost her taste for the food business.

Hale, a longtime Pilates instructor, began cooking organic meals for many of her exercise clients in 2011. “I wanted them to eat healthier, so I started doing grocery tours, then 28-day food challenges,” she says. “Finally, I started cooking packaged meals for the clients that wanted them.”

Soon, that first batch of new food customers told their friends about Hale’s all-organic meals. Suddenly she was back in the cooking business, creating a catering and preparedmeal company last year, called Can I Have a Bite Inc. “My concept is that people need to know the story behind the food they’re eating,” says Hale, who reviewed restaurants for The Pitch in the early 1990s. “I want people who eat the food that I prepare to know what farmers grew the produce, what kind of soil it was, what grains were used to feed the meat and poultry.”

Meat? Poultry?

“Because of the Daily Bread, many people assumed that I was a vegetarian,” Hale tells me. “I’m not, although I’m passionate about eating healthy. That includes hamburgers.”

Can I Have a Bite has been selling — primarily through its website, the BadSeed Market and a few local stores — prepared meals for vegans, vegetarians and those on Paleo diets.

“I also make what I call real food,” Hale says.

“It’s completely organic but with no dietary restrictions. It’s the kind of food that I eat.”

Later this month, Hale moves her business into its first brick-and-mortar location, at 8011 Wornall. The space will house both her catering kitchen (where she plans to teach cooking classes) and a retail shop with refrigerated

Pilates instructor Hale is stretching her culinary talents in a new endeavor. deli cases stocked with grab-and-go entrées, salads, soups, vegetables and side dishes. She expects to open the retail part of the business by mid-June.

Hale’s new spot, a long brick structure dating back to the late 1930s, was home for 22 years to Waldo Pets. But long before that, during the Depression, it was a friedchicken-and-beer joint (where you could also get Mel-O-Froz ice cream), owned by Mary Ballman, who kept expanding the building so that, by the 1940s, it was a swinging jazz club called Mary’s Place. Ballman’s menu focused on the booze, but she also sold $1.85 fried-chicken dinners, fried-ham-andcheese sandwiches and the occasional salad.

Hale’s Can I Have a Bite sandwiches won’t be much like Ballman’s. “We’ll have hot lunches available every day that we’re open,” she says. “I’m talking with different local bread makers about using their specialty loaves, so that I can have a grilled cheese of the day made with the bread of the day.”

Hale’s storefront takes up one small part of the deceptively large building, which has been subdivided by its current owner. (A new tattoo parlor is at the far southern end.) For now, she’s adamant that it won’t be a restaurant, or even a carryout place with eat-in dining.

“It’s not zoned for that anyway,” Hale says.

“Have you seen the parking situation? My customers will mostly be running in, picking up their food and leaving.”

Can I Have a Bite, for which Hale is designing seasonal menus, will be catering and selling packaged meals out of the venue before the retail shop officially opens next month.

Hale plans to be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.

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for the cowboy in all of us.

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ody Hendrix has always had big goals when it comes to music — for Festival, with two stages and 27 acts, including the legendary Billy Joe Shaver as headliner. his own, yes, but also for other artists’, and where he might be able “We want the Westport Roots Festival to be successful and the to take it. He remembers booking his first music festival, in Liberty, when he was 14 years old, to help raise money for a mission trip his first of many,” Hendrix says. “We want people to be as excited about friends were making. Since then, Hendrix has seen a few more sum- Westport Roots Festival as they are about Farmageddon or Muddy mers, and along the way, he has had multiple stints as the booker or Roots — and that’s ambitious.”

Eddie Crane handles publicity and marketing at Little Class Records talent organizer for local venues and organizations. Now he controls the calendar at the Westport Saloon. But his main squeeze is Little and attests to the label’s commitment to bringing real artists to the front of the lines.

Class Records, the roots label he founded in 2010.

“Jody, Matt [Dennis, Little Class co-founder] and “I want to leave a footprint in musical history that Westport Roots I are drawn to music that is real, not fabricated,” depicts what is happening and the good stuff going Festival Crane says. “You can plop these bands on any street on here,” Hendrix says. “The genre that we’re workSaturday, May 24, at the corner in the world, and they will be relatable. I love ing with has always struggled, not just in our city Westport Saloon the way a ripping banjo sounds, and I want everyone but in a lot of the cities I’ve been to. I want rockabilly else to be as happy as I am when I hear it.” and hillbilly music to be recognized and for people To coincide with the festival, Little Class Records is releasing four to know about it. I want to take a huge snapshot for the world to see.” albums Saturday: two from local and familiar names — Cadillac Flambe Part of getting recognized means, for Hendrix, displaying some of the local and regional talent that has found a home on and Billy Beale — and two from excellent regional acts. They’re reviewed here, in case you need further encouragement to witness the Little Class Records. So on Saturday, Little Class Records and the talent live at the Westport Roots Festival.

Westport Saloon are putting on the first-ever Westport Roots

S P I N CyC le our MontHly loCalreCord-store top Five The Top Five Local Releases You Need to Hear 1. We Will Fall by the Big Iron (self-released): Out May 31, but we have a copy.

Let’s just say all other punk bands in KC squat to pee.

2. Jekyll/Hyde by Your Friend (Domino reissue): Quiet and strong, gorgeous and incisive. Welcome to Taryn Miller’s world.

3. Shy Boys by Shy Boys (High Dive): Layered and dense, it will swoon you to delirium and rock your ass off live.

4. Milk EP by Bummer (self-released): Only on Bandcamp for now, but the tape is coming. This band is heavy, dark and primitive, and will take you back to the 1990s in the best of ways.

5. Demo by Faultfinder (self-released): Feelgood hits for the summer — on quaaludes.

— Compiled by Judy Mills and Christian LaBeau Mills Record Co. 314 Westport Road millsrecordcompany.com

Old AmericAn lAw Cadillac Flambe

Since forming in 2003, Cadillac Flambe has touted the inf luence of Mississippi Delta blues on its sound. On the band’s latest full-length, the necessary cogs and parts are still there — gutwrenching slide-guitar reels, window-rattling rhythms, and both Kris and Havilah Bruders’ earthquake vocals — but these new songs are faster and angrier than anything Cadillac Flambe has put out before.

The record opens with the furious “Shakin’ Baby,” a speedball jam that dares you to dance or die trying, and the pace only increases from there. “Bullets” is positively hellish; by the end of the song, Havilah Bruders will have you convinced that she is summoning demons from the netherworld. The only respite from all this energy comes with album closer “Goin’ Home,” on which Kris Bruders assures you, with his deep voice, that you are indeed going home.

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…And SO the devil nAmed them cOunty GrAveS County Graves

W.T. Newton has a hell of a voice. One moment, he’s growling into the microphone with a metal show’s worth of ferocity and menace (“I Don’t Need No Dead Man”), and the next, he serenades you with a westernswing tale of woe (“Hell and High Water”). On most of this record, though, Newton turns up the growling and hollering a nd dow nplays his crooner side. The Carbondale, Illinois, group makes the most of Newton’s splintery chops, filling the record with just enough lap steel, fiddle and harmonica to build a solid soapbox for some popular themes: namely, the devil and death. Some songs border on murder-ballad territory — a style that the County Graves could probably master easily — but for the most part, this Devil keeps to simpler stories. Newton and company tell them just fine.

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Springfield, Missouri’s Clawhammer seems bent on confusing people. Named for a difficult style of banjo picking, in which the player forms a claw and picks downward (group banjoist Jason Childress sometimes does it this way), Clawhammer offers songs here that take the old-time hillbilly genre and unravel it, thread by thread. Things start innocently enough with “Set Me Free,” a washboard-heavy jaunt, but the song ends with an ominous, distorted mass of electronic crashes.

“Love Sick” follows, and Chelsea Childress’ chilling, siren alto glides like a lullaby during a nightmare. “Run Rabbit Run” brings back the washboard chink, but by the end of the first verse, there’s also an electrified web of synths and effects pedals. None of these things should work together, but Clawhammer so carefully stitches up its sounds that you’re compelled to keep listening, trying to decipher the mystery.

Beale w rote Hard Time ’s 11 songs during a three-year stint in prison, and the influence of that environment is audible.

Some songs get rhythmic jangles from the rattle of heavy chains. It’s not that hard to figure out just how I got here, on this long, hard road that I’ve been on, Beale sings on “Long Hard Road,” his voice plaintive and rusty. And on the heartbreaking “Chains,” he attests to a truth that he has come to know from the inside: One night the devil come to me, and he whispers in my ear/“Billy Beale, I’ll never take you down, ’cause you’re in hell right here.”

If the theme is delivered with a heavy hand, the album remains a poignant, graceful collection from an unlikely source.

Clawhammer

Billy Beale

1. No Magic by No Magic (Whatever Forever): Long-running backing player emerges with a sophisticated approach to folk songs. Textures on the recording outstrip your expectations for someone’s first release.

2. Malaise Forever by Say My Name (Foreign Domestic): Cut and paste, rinse and repeat. Avant-garde ideas applied to pop music on a bedroom tip.

3. Shy Boys by Shy Boys (High Dive): All these songs stick to your ribs, with a really nice sauce poured all over. If we’ve been playing this record, you can still see the sauce on our face.

4. Total Oils USA/June Igloo by Oils/CS Luxem (Whatever Forever): The songwriters are different on the A+B, but the vibes are pretty much the same on each side of the tape: Positive!

5. First Midnight by Brooke Tuley (selfreleased): Post-Bloodbirds late-nightburner vibes. First, Brooke makes a record. Next, she makes a baby!

— Compiled by Kelly Corcoran Love Garden Sounds 822 Massachusetts, Lawrence lovegardensounds.com

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ance music is not about getting on a desert island and being by yourself. It’s a fun thing you enjoy with friends.”

For Sonny Moore, the 26-year-old producer who records as Skrillex, that’s how simple dubstep success is. In a few short years, since 2010’s My Name Is Skrillex, Moore has ascended to the uppermost reaches of his genre, transcending dubstep and pushing the boundaries of electronic music. And he hasn’t forgotten the part about dancing with friends, as his latest release, Recess — the first full-length of his career — proves. It’s a varied set that mixes elements from previous decades to achieve a robust sound that’s dancier than ever.

Ahead of Saturday’s Skrillex show at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, we called the artist at his Los Angeles home.

The Pitch: You released Recess in March on the Alien Ride app. Why an app?

Moore: All my releases, including Scary Monsters and Bangarang, have never actually had any marketing prior to release. It’s always been dropped the day of. Essentially, I was going to do that with Recess again, but the idea behind Alien Ride, before it was even a video because they liked my tunes and they liked game, was that I wanted to make an app just how I produced my music. I never saw that in the band world. It just blew me away, how to leak my record. That was the whole purpose in the first place. I think it’s cool when records much camaraderie there was behind the scenes. I’ve always been a fan of doing muleak. Most record labels obviously don’t like sic because it’s fun. It’s about keeping my ear that, but I thought it was a cool way to release it. Nobody knew when it was coming or what to the ground and continuing to support the things that inspire you. was coming. The idea was to download this So when I started the label, I had these free app [Alien Ride] and have a video game dudes, Zedd and Porter Robinson, who I found and a countdown timer on it. It started the on the Internet. We were touring together and countdown three days out and had a folder playing together, so I ended up producing their that said, “Secret Folder.” music, which is awesome. It’s actually a dream So I think a lot of people speculated it of mine to have my own label, not only for was something, and it spread itself. We had things I can release but so that I can have a 200,000 people download the app in the first week. It was just word-of-mouth. We started it close team for my releases and create an environment and a vibe that is in places like the Skrillex Reddifferent than the industry. dit forums, some fan pages Skrillex It’s about creating your own — I gave it to some people. It Saturday, May 24, industry. didn’t have any marketing at Cricket Wireless How do you see new talent outside of that, and it was Amphitheater contributing to or creating kind of a fun, organic way that that industry? wasn’t overhyping my record, The new kids that are that let people figure it out for making beats are naturals. I’m so excited and themselves. amazed to see all these new collectives and You have a compound in L.A. that houses record labels popping up on the independent OWSLA, your label, your production studios tip, and how quickly the bigger artists will hear and space for younger artists to come in and something and support it. And that’s why I produce. What led to that setup?

Since late 2009 or 2010, when I got my went into this business. I didn’t expect to make any money on record sales, which naturally start, electronic music started to have a place happened anyway. I think a lot of kids aren’t over here in the States. My success was due really in it for the record sales. They just want to people like Benga or Deadmau5 or Neuro. to play and tour.

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trying to force people to sell records, dance music creates something that you can’t get from a record: a live atmosphere, the show and the event. That’s where I think the business and money side of it is, and where people get their inspiration for making tunes and making people dance.

With that said, you don’t necessarily need a mainstream platform if you’re not really there to sell a million records. It’s easy for kids to put a SoundCloud and get noticed — if they’re good and if it’s quality.

I think the fans are now inclined to discover stuff themselves. Like, back when MTV was only showing music videos and you could actually discover music. I think the Internet is like that. You can get lost in YouTube or SoundCloud and just find stuff for yourself.

What do you think the next level is for electronic music?

I think more and more people are seeing that there’s more to it than an EDM scene.

The things that tie together myself, Warpaint and A$AP Rocky are the same, and that sort of speaks for itself. There is this magic that happens behind the scenes that brings artists together who are young and creative and who have the same vibe and similar style, even if the music is different. With music in general, even if you are playing in a band or not, everyone is using the electronic platform to treat music — no matter what genre it is — which I think is really exciting.

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“Dance music creates something that you can’t get from a record.”

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Saxophonist Tivon Pennicott was still in college when he joined jazz guitar master Kenny Burrell’s group. Since then, he has toured with the superstar jazz bassist Esperanza Spalding. This emerging artist brings his contemporary sax sound from New York to KC this weekend to play with the Dominique Sanders Trio. Sanders’ bass solos stand out as complex yet lyrical, grabbing your attention then drawing you in. Sanders leads Andrew Ouellette on keyboards and John Kizilarmut on drums, while Tivon Pennicott joins them Thursday at the Blue Room and Friday at Take Five.

— Larry Kopitnik Dominique Sanders Trio with Tivon Pennicott, 7–11 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the Blue Room (1600 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463), no cover; 8–10 p.m. Friday, May 23, at Take Five Coffee + Bar (5336 W. 151st St., Leawood, 913-948-5550), $10 cover.

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Metronomy

On the buoyant “Love Letters,” the title track of Metronomy’s latest album, the British fourpiece exuberantly announces, over a persistent and punchy drumbeat, the intention to, you know, keep on writing love letters. It’s a promise that permeates the rest of the record, as frontman Joseph Mount’s lyrics improve, and he seems to find all kinds of lovers and friends to sing to. It’s a catchy 40 minutes or so, the sort of easily likable stuff that summers are supposed to be made of. Maybe you’ll make a new pen pal on Friday at the Granada.

Friday, May 23, the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

Trans AM

It’s always remarkable when a band manages to stay together over decades, despite never having shot into the stratosphere of arena rock, à la the Eagles or Styx or any number of platinum-selling acts rolling this way sometime this summer. One such act: Trans AM, a band that has been together since 1990 and released plenty of albums without noteworthy sales and also without noteworthy defections.

Its original three members are still together, and Wednesday at the RecordBar, they bring all the Krautrock goodness they can summon. This band was using electronic beats and synths long before popular radio made

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Any run-of-the-mill cynic can guess why Riff Raff’s album Neon Icon has been delayed since its expected release date, back in January. But we won’t dwell on the hype behind the debut of Houston’s most outrageous rapper. Instead, let’s just welcome this brazen, splashy character — birth name Horst Simco — into our arms for the first time since his explosive and steamy performance at the Riot Room in December.

Our own hometown hero Tech N9ne was present for that memorable gig. Who knows what, or who, Mr. Simco may bring to the stage this time.

Thursday, May 22, Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

Metronomy it cool, and they may yet be at it in another couple of decades.

Wednesday, May 28, RecordBar (1020 Westport Road, 816-753-5207)

Jabee

In December, Oklahoma City MC Jabee released his latest full-length, Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt. It’s a weighty set that blends classic R&B, fuming drumbeats and smoking-gun horns. On “To Whom It May Concern,” that lyric becomes a mantra of denial. Everything is beautiful and nothing hurts, he forces out, Trying to keep it real, as usual, and nothing works. Whatever he might say, Jabee is making it work right now.

Monday, May 26, Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300)

The Pharmacy

I’ve never much liked the term “stoner rock,” but when it comes to the Seattle band the Pharmacy, the bong fits. On the band’s latest, Stoned and Alone, lead singer and guitarist Scott Yoder revels in garage-fuzzy sounds and leisurely,

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ambling choruses. The whole thing gets a fairy dusting of ever-so-slightly off-key notes and jingles. If the Pharmacy didn’t make this album while its members were high (yeah, right), it has definitely made a soundtrack for getting high. No matter what your state, though, the record makes a perfectly dreamy ride.

Saturday, May 24, Replay Lounge (946 Massachusetts, 785-749-7676)

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Two Cow Garage

Although Two Cow Garage technically calls Columbus, Ohio, its home, the band has carved out a second nest in Kansas City — and it’s not hard to understand why. Singer Micah Schnabel’s voice is oddly irresistible; he sounds jagged and ruined, like an exmetalhead who screamed too loudly in his youth and is still ingesting a pack of cigarettes a day. And those imperfections only add to his appeal. The rest of the band pushes just as hard as Schnabel, and you aren’t likely to leave this show without a fine sheen of sweat and a satisfied smile.

Monday, May 26, the Riot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

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TASTE OF KC

COMEDY

John Henton | 7:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

The Recess Players Improv Showcase | 10 p.m.

Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

TOURNAMENT Win VIP tickets to Rockfest

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Leavenworth County Fairgrounds, 405 W. Fourth St., shrinerodeo.com

Mixed Breed Mixer | 5-7 p.m. Lawrence Humane

THURSDAY, MAY 22 • 7PM

Society, 1805 E. 19th St., Lawrence, lawrencehumane.org

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Public Library, West Wyandotte Branch, 1737 N. 82nd St., KCK, kckpl.org

New Belgium’s Clips Beer and Film Tour | 7 p.m.

Theis Park, 47th St. and Oak

Rye Whiskey and Donuts | 7 p.m. Genessee Royale

Bistro, 1531 Genessee

T-Bones vs. Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks |

7:05 p.m. CommunityAmerica Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, tbonesbaseball.com MUSIC

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John Paul’s Flying Circus | B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ,

Roxi Copland | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Jason Eady & Courtney Patton: A Living Room Session | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester 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. Hot Caution | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd. Brett Jackson Quartet | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

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The Music of Bob Dylan: A Birthday Tribute Show | 7 p.m., $10. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

First Lady? by De De DeVille | Fish-

Kat Niles Band | 9 p.m. PBR Big Sky Bar, 111 E. 13th St. Riff Raff | 8 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts,

tank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte, fishtanktheater.blogspot.com

Flowers in the Wardrobe | For audiences 16 and older, Arts Asylum, 1000 E. Ninth St.

Sandy Hackett’s Rat Pack Show | Kauffman

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Dr. Dilznik, Last Rekrute, Str8jakett, Shadow, Dutch Newman, Silo, DJ Hylander | 9 p.m. The

7230 W 75th St 913.236.6211 calendarwiz.com/theroxy /roxybar.overlandpark

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Jon Schieszer | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK

Dominique Sanders featuring Tivon Pennicott | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, theaterleague.org

Drew Six | 8 p.m. Fuel, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park

A Little Night Music | Spinning Tree Theatre,

Testökra, Rat Bastard, This Is My Condition | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Bram Wijnands Swingtet | 6 p.m. The Majestic,

931 Broadway

Off Center Theatre, Crown Center, 2450 Grand, spinningtreetheatre.com

Musical of Musicals | Quality Hill Playhouse, 303 W. 10th St., qualityhillplayhouse.com

NIGHTLIFE

Mystery Train: Funeral for Brother John | The Golden Ox, 1600 Genessee, kcmysterytrain.com

Feel Good with GadaBeats, Thumpur, Will Funk and Sehorn | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New

COMEDY

Mondo Beat with DJ Martin Bush | 10 p.m. Replay

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

Hampshire, Lawrence

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Friday | 5.23 |

Jon Schieszer | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK

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NHrA Kansas Nationals | 11:30 a.m. Heartland Park Topeka, 7530 S. Topeka Blvd., Topeka, hpt.com

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Sextonic plates, the lucky, NowHere | 10 p.m.

Steddy p & DJ Mahf, Stik Figa & D/Will, Dom chronicles, prettygirlhatemachine, All Natty |

Joe Bussell & Fred trease: The Petri Dish |

under the influence, Soca Jukebox, Maria the Mexican | 7 p.m. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casino,

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

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

1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City

Westport roots Festival preparty, featuring

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Abdallah Shrine rodeo and Demo Derby | 7 p.m.

twist & Shout with DJs Madeline & Wilson |

Leavenworth County Fairgrounds, 405 W. Fourth St., shrinerodeo.com

Conversation — Marking 20 Years | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd., kemperart.org

Edgar Degas Pastels | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak

dy/nas/ty • Ebony G. Patterson | Nerman 10 p.m. MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Saturday | 5.24 |

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Footloose | 8:45 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

6-9 p.m. Friday, Kiosk Gallery, 3951 Broadway

Color and Line: Masterworks on Paper

Tommy Donoho, Cowtown Playboys, the Naughty Pines, Trashcan Bandits, Phantoms of the Opry, Starhaven Rounders | 6 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

t-Bones vs. Fargo-Moorhead redHawks |

Art Exhibits & EvEnts

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

National tap Dance Day with Billie Mahoney | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

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Museum of Contemporary Art, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park, nermanmuseum.org

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

Living With the Spirits: Decorating Homes in Traditional China | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak

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Adrenaline Mob, thrust, the Guild, civil Symphony | 6 p.m. Aftershock Bar & Grill, 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam

Baseline Bums, Deadtooth, Weakteeth, Four Arm Shiver | 8 p.m. Black & Gold Tavern, 3740

Broadway

John Henton | 7 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Jon Schieszer | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 1867 Village West Pkwy., KCK

M(i) (A)cro: a contemporary drawing exhibition | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Roads of Arabia: Archaeology and History of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia | Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak

expoS

Reality and Fantasy: Land, Town and Sea

the B’Dinas, Dolls on Fire, the clementines |

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The Brick, 1727 McGee

tony Bennett | 7:30 p.m. Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway

12th St., www.conquestkc.org

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

Main, mwbfkc.net

casey & cora ep-release show with Histories, Max Justus, the Family Bed, collin rausch | 7:30 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand

the collective featuring Brother John | 8:30 p.m.

Danny’s Big Easy, 1601 E. 18th St.

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

Kc Jiggle Jam | 9 a.m. Crown Center Square, 2450

cowboy indian Bear, Max Justus, Nite | 10 p.m.

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Gay Science, the puritans | 8 p.m. Black & Gold

eddie Moore and the outer circle | 8:30 p.m. The

Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

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1000 W. 25th St.

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Leavenworth County Fairgrounds, 405 W. Fourth St., shrinerodeo.com

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Metronomy, cloud control | 8 p.m. The Granada,

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Grand, kcjigglejam.com

7:30 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

lonnie ray | 7 p.m. Jazz, 1823 W. 39th St.

Sun-Sat: 8p-3a westportsaloon.com

Midwest Brony Fest | Marriott on the Plaza, 4445

| Nelson-Atkins Museum, 4525 Oak

Geographer, pioneer, orthon Anderthon |

9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

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conQuest 45 — Science Fiction & Fantasy convention | 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Marriott Hotel, 200 W.

royal Southern Brotherhood, the Danielle Nicole Band | 8:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

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NHrA Kansas Nationals | 10:45 a.m. Heartland Park Topeka, 7530 S. Topeka Blvd., Topeka, hpt.com

t-Bones vs. Fargo-Moorhead redHawks | 7:05 p.m. Community America Ballpark, 1800 Village West Pkwy., KCK, tbonesbaseball.com

otis clay, rick estrin & the Nightcats | 8:30 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Tavern, 3740 Broadway

Get Busy living, 88er | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737

New Hampshire, Lawrence

Jazz Disciples | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E.

18th St.

Kearney Blues Festival, featuring Samantha Fish,

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Side Souls | 5 p.m. Kearney Amphitheater at Jesse James Park, 3001 N. Missouri 33, Kearney

The Motown Collective | Mestizo, 5270 W. 116th

Pl., Leawood

Now Now Sleepyhead, Rose & Louise, Famous Mammoth | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway Organ Jazz Trio | 10 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 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 Pedaljets, the Safes, Matt Shoare | The

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

The Pharmacy, Mr. and the Mrs. | 10 p.m. Replay

The Kansas City Canvas: Thomas Hart Benton and Beyond | Kansas City Museum,

Brick, 1727 McGee

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

3218 Gladstone Blvd.

Skrillex, Dillon Francis, What So Not, Milo and Otis | 6 p.m. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, 633 N. 130th

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

The Beat Pirates > Books of Bokonon | 3-6 p.m.

Gaslight Gardens, 317 N. Second St., Lawrence

Landmark Reborn: The Restoration of the Liberty Memorial, featuring architect Susan

St., Bonner Springs

Westport Roots Festival | Noon, Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Tim Whitmer & KC Express | 4:30 p.m. The Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

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Jayson Kayne | 8 p.m. Fuel, 7300 W. 119th St., Over-

KC Jiggle Jam | 10 a.m. Crown Center Square, 2450

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Lee mcBee and the Confessors | 6-9 p.m. B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

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Seeking Insights That Take Erotic Rerouting Seriously Dear SITTERS: “Most urologists aren’t qualified to do this, let alone piercers — although there are aggressive ‘body modifiers’ out there.

I wind up cleaning up their messes,” said Dr. Keith D. Newman, a urologist and a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. “So my main piece of advice is to have a urologist do this, preferably someone who has experience with this surgery.”

The procedure is known as a perineal urethrostomy.

“It’s one of the numerous steps involved in total gender-reassignment surgery,” Newman said. “Doing this one thing probably won’t preclude further anatomical reassignment in the future. But there are potential complications and consequences from this altered anatomy.”

The biggest is a heightened risk of urinarytract infections due to the shortened urethra.

But that isn’t your only worry. “Any artificial orifice has a certain incidence of stricture,” Newman said. “So the opening might need frequent dilations or more surgery if this complication arises.”

By “stricture,” Newman means “your new pee hole could shrink, narrow and start to close up.” And by “frequent dilations,” he means “you could wind up shoving steel rods up your urethra to stretch your new hole back open — frequently.” And there’s more.

“There may be less than full diversion of urine (some may still come out the end of the penis) unless the urethra distal to the new opening is closed,” Newman said. “If it is closed, then we run into issues of what is called a ‘mucous fistula,’ and the urethra beyond the diversion might need to be irrigated from time to time.Urinary dermatitis may occur, so perineal care and good hygiene will be a must.”

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How do you find a urologist who’ll perform this surgery? You make appointments with qualified urologists, tell them what you want, and risk being turned away. “But it’s the insurance company that will need convincing,” Newman said. “Many institutions do not allow any surgery for sexual reassignment in adults, so those waters will have to be navigated. And counseling might be helpful.”

One final note…

“Ejaculation will occur through that new hole in a somewhat nondirectable way,” Newman said. You’ll not only be peeing sitting down, but you’ll also be coming all over the back of your sack.

Dear Dan: I’m a 24-year-old gay male in a threeyear relationship with a man I love. I also have a diaper fetish. I told him about it once, nearly two years ago but have not brought it up since.

Recently I’ve gone out to buy diapers. I don’t use them for pee or poop but I enjoy the feeling of wearing them. I’ve talked to other diaper lovers (DL) online, but I’ve never gotten the courage to meet up and experiment. I recently started talking with a guy who lives a few miles away who is also a DL. I don’t want to cheat on my boyfriend, but I would like to indulge my fetish at least once in my life. If there is no sex or kissing during the fetish play, would that be cheating? I would just change his diaper and powder him, and he would do the same to me and whatnot.

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your boyfriend that you love him, remind him about the conversation you had two years ago about your diaper fetish, and ask if he would be up for exploring this aspect of your sexuality with you. If not, then ask him how he would feel about your getting together with someone who shares your kink — not for sex, just for diapering and powdering and whatnot. If he doesn’t mind, great! If he does mind, then you need to think about whether staying in this relationship is wise because sooner or later, you’re going to cheat on him.

Here’s what Bad Dan would say: Sneaking off to play with that other DL might help clarify things. Either you’ll learn that diaper play is something you can’t live without or you’ll realize that diapered reality is a lot less sexy than diaper fantasies and your kink will evaporate (unlikely).

But Actual Dan took Bad Dan’s advice back when he was your age — about exploring his sexuality generally — and it helped clarify things for Actual Dan.

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