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ll of a sudden, Kansas is in play. Gov. Sam Brownback’s heedless devotion to discredited economic theories has resulted in massive revenue shortfalls, credit downgrades, slashed school budgets, no increase in job growth, and tax cuts for the rich. These grim realities threaten to cost Republicans not only the governor’s office but also the U.S. Senate seat that Pat Roberts has occupied for the past 18 years. Turns out, Kansans don’t love being lab rats for extreme supply-side tax policy.

It’s possible that Brownback and Roberts will fight off their respective challengers, Democrat Paul Davis and independent Greg Orman, respectively. But a week out from the election, both races are polling tight, and money is still pouring in.

A Lawrence art hub forms a PAC for moderate Kansas candidates.

Patrick Giroux’s ode to rationality A year ago, state Rep. John Wilson (D-Lawrence) approached Meredith Moore, the engine that powers Lawrence print shop and art gallery Wonder Fair, about curating an art show as a fundraiser. The timing didn’t work out, but it got Moore thinking about how Wonder Fair could play a part in helping elect progressive and moderate Kansas candidates.

When Kansas’ political winds began to shift this year, Moore started thinking harder.

“I’m an incredible Googler,” Moore tells The Pitch. “So I just started researching what normal citizens can do to raise money for political campaigns. And the IRS does a really crackerjack job of making this stuff available online. I eventually determined

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that a PAC [political action committee] was a totally viable option and required far less of a political-science background than should probably be legal.”

The result of Moore’s research is the Fine Print PAC, a tax-free 527 organization committed to helping, she says, “rebuild a more equal, fair and compassionate Kansas.”

How it works: Lawrence artist Patrick Giroux designed a limited-edition, 18-inchby-24-inch screen print titled “Restore Kansas.” Blue Collar Press printed 100 of them. For a $50 donation to the Fine Print PAC, a signed, numbered print can be yours.

The proceeds go to candidates in these close Kansas elections.

“We called it the Fine Print PAC because, obviously, we’re making these fine prints to try to bring about progress in our government,” Moore says. “But I also like that there’s a subtler interpretation about the necessity of reading the fine print. I think a lot of bad policies in Kansas rely on ordinary people not reading the fine print.”

Moore says 20 copies have sold. She has already written a $1,000 check from Fine Print PAC’s newly opened bank account to the Paul Davis campaign.

“Every $500 or so going forward, I’ll cut another check to a different campaign — Orman or Jean Schodorf, who’s challenging Kris Kobach for secretary of state,” Moore says. “We’ll just be playing it by ear as the election nears, looking at poll numbers and asking our friends who work on various campaigns where the money would be most beneficial. If they’re saying a get-out-the-vote effort is a better place to put our money than a candidate, we’ll do that.” (Moore plans to keep the Fine Print PAC alive for the 2016 presidential election.)

Wilson — who has a Bachelor of Fine Arts in graphic design from the University of Kansas and says if he could start a second career, it would be letterpress — approves of “Restore Kansas.”

“Overtly political designs are usually not very well done,” he tells The Pitch. “I really like that theirs is something that people would want to display in their homes outside of the context of the election. And also that it is going toward getting moderate, reasonable people elected in Kansas.”

Wilson is up for re-election in Kansas’ 10th District next week. Is he waiting on a check from the Fine Print PAC? “I certainly would appreciate any support that comes my way,” he says. “But I think they should probably focus on the governor’s race.

And maybe the Kobach race, too.”

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any Jazayerli started blogging about the Kansas City Royals because his favorite team was driving him crazy and he needed to tell someone.

In 1995, he co-founded Baseball Prospectus, a website dedicated to sabermetrics, the wonky discipline from which stats emerge about, say, how many runs the Royals outfield has actually saved this year. Later, he created his own outlet, Rany on the Royals, a blog as exhaustively detailed as it is entertaining. And he’s also a regular contributor to Bill Simmons’ sports and pop-culture blog, Grantland.

It’s a lot for a family man with another fulltime day job to handle — enough, in fact, for him to set aside his blog.

The Chicago-area dermatologist, a father of four, had planned to table his sportswriting long before the Royals’ unlikely playoff run this fall — a decision that has given his recent entries even more power than the Royals’ thrilling postseason alone would have. Jazayerli’s posts this month have been fueled not only by a how-in-the-heck awe (with small doses of frustration when called for) but also by the knowledge, his and ours, that an era is ending. (Next season — one hopes, anyway — there’s always Twitter.)

With the Royals mere hours from a decisive World Series game 6, Jazayerli consented to an exit interview with The Pitch, conducted by e-mail.

The Pitch: Why are you stopping your blog?

Jazayerli: Well, it’s kind of hard to top this season, isn’t it? But I had decided before the season began that it was time to go. I was 32 years old and had two kids when I started it. I have four kids now, and I turn 40 next June. Spending my free time writing about the Royals means ignoring more people who need me than it used to.

On top of that … it’s hard to say this without sounding arrogant, but I feel like I’ve accomplished almost everything I set out to accomplish when I started writing about baseball as a first-year medical student back in 1995. I have standing offers to be a full-time sportswriter, but I enjoy being a physician too much — and frankly, the pay cut would be too great.

What did you learn from writing your blog?

I’d like to think I learned a little about writing. The only way to learn your craft is to practice it, over and over and over. And I hope I’ve learned to deal with the day-to-day ups and downs of a baseball season a little better. Even the worst teams win 50 times a year; even the best teams lose 50 times a year. Even bad teams make smart decisions, and vice versa. And no team is all bad or all good. I hope that, even when I disagree with what the Royals do, even when I think they’ve done something horribly stupid, I keep perspective a little better than I used to. I’m not perfect myself.

How will the way you watch baseball change when you stop blogging?

Jazayerli is getting out of the game.

For a moment, it will be weird to watch a Royals game and have a reaction to something and realize I don’t have an outlet to share that with people. And then I’ll remember that I still have Twitter.

What are your go-to sources for baseball news and stats?

Twitter is an amazing, exhausting, allconsuming resource — it really is my news feed when it comes to sports. I feel like I get a more thorough exposure to news sources and different opinions via Twitter than from any one website. ESPN.com is still my goto place for breaking stories. MLB.com and their various apps are the best way to watch highlights of games. Baseball Prospectus, Fangraphs and my colleagues at Grantland all do very good analysis.

What’s your Royals origin story, and how did you come to blog about the team?

I grew up in Wichita, identified as a fan of the team from my earliest childhood, and finally fell headlong into being a die-hard fan in 1989, when I was 14. By the time I was in college, in the early 1990s, it was clear that the Royals were not the most well-run franchise in the game, and in particular that they had a complete disdain for sabermetrics, which was still considered some sort of voodoo science by most teams in that era. When the Royals did absurd things, I felt like I had to tell somebody that they were doing it wrong.

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Did you ever reconsider your fandom during the bad years?

I never seriously considered just abandoning the Royals and adopting a new favorite team. That’s like divorcing your parents and choosing new ones. You might become estranged from your parents, but no one can ever take their place. I was estranged from the Royals at times, and I would root for other teams in a pennant race — the Red Sox, the A’s — as a surrogate, but it was always with the understanding that it was just until the Royals finally got their shit together.

What are your thoughts on fair-weather fans?

I almost envy them in a way, to be able to enjoy the good times and not weather the bad.

Look, if fair-weather fans didn’t exist, teams wouldn’t have any incentive to improve. Good for them that they haven’t endured a generation of misery like the rest of us have. But this doesn’t mean as much to them as it does to us. It can’t.

Have the Royals been winning because of Ned Yost or in spite of him?

They’re winning because of Yost and because Yost is managing differently now than he did all season. He read the memo that October baseball is different than regular-season baseball, and he deserves all the credit in the world for finally making that adjustment. He’s doing what we’ve been asking him to do all year, and he’s doing it at the perfect time.

Are you superstitious?

I am religious — I am a devout Muslim — but I don’t believe in superstition at all. Sometimes I’ll do or say silly things because it’s fun to think that where I sit in the stands actually can influence whether Salvador Perez hits a home run, but I don’t really believe any of that matters.

That said, as someone who believes in an omniscient creator, the last month has made me wonder if there’s some kind of purpose or meaning to this season. If the Royals find a way to win the World Series against all odds … well, there are a lot of little things which make you wonder if an unseen hand was guiding them.

Win or lose, how will this season change the future of baseball in Kansas City?

It makes baseball cool again. It makes the Royals cool again. I’ve always felt that Kansas City was a baseball town underneath, just waiting for a team worthy of its devotion.

Now that it’s gotten one … I mean, have you seen what World Series tickets are going for? I expect attendance to crack 2 million next year, and if the Royals can continue to be a playoff contender, there’s no reason they can’t pull in 2 million or more every year going forward.

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verything goes better with beer — including, in Kansas City, beer.

A community that already seemed to add taps by the day has surfed a big, malty wave the past year or so, with Cinder Block, KC Bier Co., Rock & Run, Green Room and Big Rip becoming operational (and Martin City Brewing Co. adding a micro operation and a taproom).

Now there’s another swell on the horizon.

Six new breweries are gearing up to open in the months ahead, some by the end of this year. The owners of each are chasing craft brewing’s 7.8 percent market share in a $14.3 billion industry. Luckily, they’re doing it in a place that’s not just thirsty but also vying to be a major U.S. craft-beer destination.

So grab a tulip glass, mark your calendar and make note of these ambitious new brews on the way.

Construction is still a couple of months away, but the Crane Brewing Co. already has a distributor. Michael Crane’s brewery is set to work with Central States Beverage, to send kegs and 750 ml bottles of the future Raytown brewhouse’s sours and Belgian farmhouse ales into the marketplace.

“It’s totally unheard of, from what I understand,” Crane says of the deal. In the equivalent of a bidding frenzy when a hot writer is finishing a book, Crane fielded unexpected calls from CS Bev, Missouri Beverage Co., Major Brands and North Kansas City Beverage Co. after he took his product to the Parkville Microbrew Festival earlier in the year.

“My feet didn’t touch the ground for a long time,” he says.

Since then, Crane Brewing has been in high demand. Crane has accepted festival and event invitations as fast as he can brew the beer — including The Pitch’s Crafts & Drafts Saturday at the Uptown Shoppes.

“By getting our name out there and people talking about us, I hope that when we do get open, they’ll continue to talk about us and buy our beer,” he says.

Crane has assembled a full team — which he calls “magical” and likens to “a marriage with multiple partners” — that includes vice president Chris Meyers, operations manager Aaron Bryant, CPA Jason Louk, and brewers Steve Hood (a graduate of the American Brewers Guild) and Randy Strange (who graduated from the Siebel Institute of Technology).

“We’re going to have to make a lot of beer, and it’s going to have to be excellent and it’s going to have to be consistent,” Crane says.

“Having two professional brewers is going to make a huge difference.”

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Michael Crane (second from right) compares Crane Brewing Co. with a marriage of multiple partners.

June 1 in part of the 18,000-square-foot building that’s home to his other business, Funblock Inc., which manufactures classroom and storage furniture. He envisions running a 15-barrel brewhouse with 15- and 30-barrel fermenters. He says the smaller fermenters will be for some “wild yeast experiments,” while the bigger setup handles saisons, cream ales and other everyday beers.

“We still have a business to do and can’t rely just on the beers that are going to take three years to age,” Crane says.

Before the fuss around his product, Crane was concerned that craft-beer drinkers wouldn’t venture to Raytown. Not anymore.

“It’s been a pleasant surprise, the number of people who have come up to us and say thank you for doing this in Raytown,” Crane says. “There’s as high of a percentage of craft-beer enthusiasts in Raytown as there is anywhere else. It’s just that they have to go somewhere else.”

Construction is slated to begin December 1, with the brewhouse going up first. Once the taproom is done, Crane plans 15–20 taps.

Meyers wants to see an “endless number of rotating beers that you can only get in the taproom.” He adds, “Our big thing is, we don’t want to have any flagship beers. That way, we can keep rotating different beers with fresh fruits, sours.” Among the ideas under discussion: a collaboration with Hugo Tea and a hard cider with the Louisburg Cider Mill.

In the taproom, the plan is to fill growlers and sell bottles. The goal is to become a destination brewery similar to Crooked Stave, Jolly Pumpkin and Prairie Artisan Ales. The production target is about 3,000 barrels a year.

Crane says he’ll keep Funblock, which he has run for 21 years, until the brewery needs more space for expansion or barrel aging.

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Odell/Barley collaboration release at all Barley’s Brewhaus locations, 5 p.m.

Em Chamas beer dinner, featuring North Coast PranQster, Left Hand Stranger, California Cider Co. Ace Hard Pumpkin Cider, Founders Dirty Bastard Scotch Ale, and New Holland Dragon’s Milk (6101 Northwest 63rd Terrace), 7–9 p.m., $45. Call 816-505-7100 for reservations.

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Tappings of Southern Tier Pumpking and Warlock, a Tallgrass Zombie Monkie firkin with cinnamon, and a keg of Odell new seasonal Dr. Acula, at Bier Station (120 East Gregory Boulevard), 4 p.m.

Location: West Bottoms Opening: Summer 2015 Flagship beers: IPAs, pale ales, dark beers Greg Bland is planning to open a brewery in the West Bottoms.

“We’re evaluating spaces in the old Stockyards District of the West Bottoms — more specifically, right on Genessee,” says Bland, the founder of Stockyards Brewing Co. “We’re working with an architecture firm now to make sure that we have the space that we need down there in the Bottoms.”

Next year, the 28-year-old intends to leave his job as director of environmental services at Travois, a consulting firm that his father started about 20 years ago, which finds financing for low-income housing and economicdevelopment projects on Indian reservations.

After that, it’s all beer all the time.

“My job here is great, and I love working with my family and all of my other coworkers here,” Bland says. “But I’ve always loved factories and the industrial process of the United States and how industry actually works. This is my way of getting to do what I truly love.”

The plan is to open a 15-barrel brewhouse with a cellar capacity of about 75–100 barrels and a taproom in a yet-to-be-named space in the Bottoms. Bland says he chose the Bottoms because he wanted to be part of the growth with Genessee Royale, Voltaire, the Livestock Exchange Building, apartment construction and whatever Kemper Arena becomes.

“I love that people are coming back down there,” Bland says. “I think it’s a really exciting time to be working our way down there.

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buildings that were originally down there, 21 of them housed either a brewery or a bar.”

In 2010, Bland graduated from the University of Colorado. In Boulder, he was surrounded by new breweries. Then he returned to Kansas City.

“We have Boulevard, which is fantastic, and I always heard about new ones coming up or soon to be opening,” he says. “But after leaving a city that had about 100 breweries within a 10-mile radius, I kept wishing for something more here in Kansas City. So I’m really excited to see the ones opening up now.”

Bland started homebrewing eight years ago and still produces constantly on his halfbarrel, all-electric system. “Every weekend, I try to produce as much as I can,” he says. “I can run through it pretty quick.”

He has also taken classes at the Siebel Institute of Technology in Chicago. He plans to hire a brewmaster next year.

“I’m pretty confident that we will surpass my skills quicker than I would like,” he says.

“So I want to be able to have someone on hand that has had commercial experience and can run a commercial production facility, and I’ll be able to facilitate the management and run the business as well as help formulate recipes and sales.”

Bland has two friends in mind to work with him who would come to Stockyards from breweries in Milwaukee and Minnesota.

“I’m trying to get them to see how awesome Kansas City is,” he says. “Now that we’ve got a World Series baseball team, maybe they’ll be more excited to come down.”

Bland says he’s still pulling together financing and hopes to begin construction in the first quarter of 2015, with an opening targeted at the end of the summer.

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Greg Bland is bringing Stockyards Brewing Co. to the Bottoms.

“We’re hoping to turn in the first year 1,000 to 1,500 barrels and then work our way up to 5,000 barrels over the next few years,” he says.

Bland says Stockyards will brew “90 percent ales” and a couple of lagers throughout the year, along with test brews. Two of his beers, a mosaic IPA and a Kentucky common cream ale, are on tap at Travois.

“We’ll probably have a couple different varieties of IPAs that’ll just come and go with what hops are available at the time,” he says.

“We’ll go through them and create a unique style of IPAs as we roll through, and then also have dark beers that come and go throughout the season.”

Stockyards’ taproom is slated to be open five days a week, serving from six full-time tanks and two or three rotating small kegs for test batches. He won’t have a full-service kitchen, but he wants to book food trucks or offer prepackaged meat-and-cheese plates — or have his drinkers patronize his neighbors’ places.

“There’s such great restaurants with Voltaire and Genessee Royale, and I’ve heard of one or two other restaurants opening up down there, too,” he says. “So I love people being able to come in and have a beer and then go have dinner.”

Once Stockyards is up and running, Bland expects to add distribution, starting in kegs and then adding cans and large-format bottles.

“We want to spread through Kansas City as quickly as we can,” Bland says, “but all of that will probably come from the feedback that we get in the taproom. We want to make sure that the beers that we’re putting out there are the beers that Kansas City wants to drink.”

saTurday, NOvember 1 Brewery of the Month kickoff party, featuring Bell’s Brewery, at BD’s Mongolian

Grill (19750 East Valley View Parkway, Independence, Missouri)

Crafts & Drafts, featuring Boulevard,

Crane Brewing, 4 Hands Brewing, KC Bier Co., Tallgrass, and Urban Chestnut, at the Uptown Shoppes (36th Street and Broadway), 11 a.m.–6 p.m.

National Learn to Brew Day at Grain to Glass (1611 Swift, North Kansas City).

Homebrewers set up at 10 a.m. in Grain to Glass’ parking lot.

mONday, NOvember 3

Poets’ Night Out: Bards & Beer at Bier Station (120 East Gregory), 7–9 p.m.

Stout Week featuring Founders night (Breakfast Stout, Imperial Stout and KBS), at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th

Street), 7 p.m.

Tallgrass pub quiz at Green Room Burgers (4010 Pennsylvania), 8 p.m.

Tuesday, NOvember 4 Stout Week featuring 4 Hands night (2012 and 2013 Bona Fide tapping), at

Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m.

WedNesday, NOvember 5 Stout Week featuring Oskar Blues launch party (Ten Fidy tapping), at Flying Saucer

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stout with Thou Mayest Sumatran toddy), Monk & Honey (Belgian-American table beer with Missouri honey), Alpha Pale Ale (session pale ale) Torn Label Brewing Co. sits on the eastern edge of the Crossroads Arts District, in the Studios Inc. building. To the east, U.S. Highway 71 is visible from the gravel lot that wraps around the building. There’s a loading dock, but Torn Label’s front door — beyond which is a 15-barrel system of silver tanks towering over the 7,000-square-foot space — isn’t as easy to see.

Rafi Chaudry and Travis Moore like being hard to find. They want their brewery to be a destination for beer drinkers, a bit of a secret awaiting discovery.

“Someone at First Friday could hop over and check us out, but if you didn’t know we were here, no one is going to wander by,” says Moore, Torn Label’s brewmaster. “A lot of people thought: Isn’t that bad for business?

Well, we’re primarily a production brewery.

Our bread and butter is not going to be the taproom, so we want the people who come to the taproom to drink our beer to be there because they sought us out, not because they wandered by.”

On this mid-September day, Chaudry and Moore are running a test batch.

“Right now, we’re just focused on getting full speed on the actual production side,”

Chaudry says. “We want to do American craft, which I know is such a vague way of explaining it, but we see that very much as a melting pot of styles.”

About a year ago, Chaudry, who grew up in Overland Park, and Moore, originally from Olathe, moved back to Kansas City. The two had met at the now-defunct Daily Dose coffeehouse bar in Overland Park, before seeking their fortunes in other places. For the past seven years, Chaudry worked as a film producer in Los Angeles. One job put him together with Chad Troutwine, who shared a love of beer. The two discussed starting a brewery together. Troutwine and his mother, Carol Troutwine, decided to invest.

Meanwhile, Moore was enrolled in law school in Chicago when, about a year ago, Chaudry called and asked him to move back to Kansas City to become Torn Label’s brewmaster. That same day, Moore was offered a job at a law firm where he had worked as a law clerk. Moore went with Chaudry instead. At his going-away party at the firm, Moore was given a mug that read, “I’d rather brew beer than be a lawyer.”

“I like to say we rescued him from law school,” Chaudry says. “It was certainly a leap of faith in every conceivable way. But at the same time, we never even thought twice about it once we got to that point. We all sort of walked away from our previous lives to get this going. Anybody who knows us, I don’t think this is all that surprising but inevitable.”

In January, Torn Label moved into the

Torn Label’s Travis Moore (left) and Rafi Chaudry want KC to discover their beers.

Studios Inc. space. Construction is ongoing.

The 35-seat taproom is still unfinished, but the opening could come as soon as January.

In mid-September, Torn Label began production, and several batches are now in the tanks.

“It’s certainly been exhausting and daunting and challenging, but that feels like what we should be doing,” Chaudry says. “It’s a lot more rewarding to come home exhausted at the end of the day brewing as opposed to doing things that are necessary for brewing but not brewing.”

Torn Label will start primarily as a production brewery, distributing kegs — and later in 2015, 22-ounce bomber bottles and cans — in Missouri through Major Brands. Then the plan is to send beer to Kansas. The brewery also aims to fill growlers, begin a barrel-aging program, and experiment with hoppy and sour beers.

In its first year, Torn Label hopes to produce 3,500 barrels, a schedule that Chaudry calls “ambitious.”

Torn Label’s focus will be on three beers: a session pale ale, a Belgian Trappist–inspired beer and a coffee wheat stout.

“We wanted them to be approachable kind of beers that someone looking for something a bit more adventurous than what they’re used to might want to take a leap on,” Chaudry says. “At the same time, [we wanted] something a little bit more challenging and enticing about all of them.” continued on page 12

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red crow Brewing co.

Chris and Mistie Roberts’ Red Crow flies in Spring Hill.

Location: 207th Street and U.S. Highway 169,

Spring Hill Opening: Summer 2015 Flagship beers: Isabelle (Belgian blonde), Frances (pale ale), Donna (wheat), Elaine (rye porter) On a crisp, sunny Sunday afternoon in midOctober, Chris and Mistie Roberts celebrated their 12th wedding anniversary by brewing beer in the garage of their Olathe home. The silver kegs held Chris’ first attempt at a German altbier, as well as Mistie’s favorite, a pale ale that the couple calls Frances.

Besides their wedding, they were celebrating a couple of other milestones. There was Mistie’s upcoming half-marathon, her first. And there was the idea to open Red

Crow Brewing Co. together by summer 2015.

“Hopefully for just another year,” Chris Roberts says of his day job. After that, he means for the business to “turn into our fulltime jobs.”

For now, Red Crow is a second full-time job for both of them. He works as a Sysco delivery driver, and she’s a stay-at-home mom who also works part time at an Olathe hospital. (Mistie’s parents, Joe and Loretta Fisher of Chapman, Kansas, are the couple’s partners in Red Crow.)

The day after their anniversary, Mistie Roberts seems relieved. The couple’s 10-month search for Red Crow’s headquarters might be over. “That’s kind of been a disaster for a while,” she says of the search.

douBle shift Brewing co.

Location: 412 East 18th Street Opening: March or April 2015 Flagship beers: White IPA, double IPA, saison, pale ale, rye

The “for lease” sign still hangs on the green brick wall outside the former Craft Gallery & Studio on East 18th Street, but the building has been claimed.

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“We’ve been looking down here for eight months, and it seemed like we started the lease process with several different buildings and it just didn’t work out,” Ogilvie says. “And

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She says they’ve been offered a deal they couldn’t refuse in southern Johnson County that will get the brews out of their garage. It’s a 4,000-square-foot space being built from the ground up in Spring Hill, Kansas. The building will be shared with Artistic Concrete Solutions. It’ll also have an outdoor patio.

“We will be, if not the first, one of the first to open in Johnson County,” she says. “Hopefully, the first.”

When Red Crow goes live, Chris Roberts plans to brew his four core beers — each named for influential women in his and Mistie’s lives — and various seasonals on a seven-barrel system. (He’s also testing a Belgian IPA to see how it goes over with drinkers.) Red Crow’s initial production, he says, will be “modest,” despite the ability to pump out 400 barrels a year for in-house sales (topping out at 1,750 total barrels).

“The state requires us to do a 100-barrel minimum to maintain our brewery license,” he says. “If I have to brew more, that’s a happy accident.”

Red Crow’s mission won’t stop at brewing beer. The Robertses plan to challenge Johnson County’s 30 percent gross-foodsales requirement for breweries with a spring ballot initiative.

“If we don’t do it, we don’t see anyone else doing it,” Chris Roberts says of opening in Johnson County and challenging the old law. “We’re going to be the ones to kind of blaze a path.”

In the meantime, Red Crow plans to offer snack foods and work with a caterer.

Six years ago, before the birth of the couple’s second daughter, Chris Roberts

started making beer. He joined the Kansas City Bier Meisters homebrew club, and the first person he met there was Michael Crane.

(Read about Crane Brewing Co.’s plans on page 9.)

“One of my assets is ... I’m a little obsessive,” Chris Roberts says. “When I find something that I love to do, I educate myself on it thoroughly. I’m a giant nerd. That’s the best way to describe it. I love making stuff with my hands, and I love to do something myself.

I’d rather learn how to do something myself than have someone do it for me. That’s always how I’ve been.”

That’s how Roberts has approached building his family’s brewery. After he taught himself how to brew, he built a small laboratory in his basement to propagate his own yeast. Now he’s building small computers so he can monitor the temperature of his beer off-site. And once Red Crow is up and running, he wants to enroll in the Siebel Institute of Technology for formal training.

He knows that none of it will be fast. “We want to build brand awareness in our taproom,” he says, “and then slowly push our stuff out into the market.”

When Red Crow does hit the market, it’ll be in kegs and possibly bottles or cans — a decision still under discussion. Until then, the Robertses are keeping a list of the festivals they plan to hit next year. This past year, they gave out samples at the KC Nanobrew Fest and the High Plains BrewHoff. But they skipped the Parkville Microbrew Festival.

“That was our daughter’s first communion,” Mistie Roberts says. “Our motto is ‘family first.’”

this one just came on the market a couple of weeks ago.”

The lease is signed, and Ogilvie plans to fill the space with a five-barrel electric system, 10 barrel fermenters and a taproom. (He has five partners, including his father, Scott Ogilvie; Paul Stark; Mike Pollock; and Rick and Joan Redhair.) How big is that? “We’re about the same size as 75th Street,” he says. “They’re a little bigger but not much.”

To do that, the building needs a face-lift. In the coming weeks, Ogilvie wants to install a door that faces 18th Street. Oddly, the entrance now is in an alley, but it will be replaced by roll-up garage doors. Inside, Ogilvie plans to tear out the white cubbies that line the walls.

“We’re still sourcing every little piece of equipment,” Ogilvie says. “I think we have our major suppliers picked out. We’re excited to get stuff done finally. It seems like it’s been awhile. It’s a long process.”

The brewery has been three years in the making, but Ogilvie’s passion for brewing started five years ago with a friend. “I don’t have a degree in chemistry or biology or anything crazy like that,” he says. “It kind of became a passion of mine.”

He and Matthew Hornung, who is now a partner at Brew Lab in downtown Overland

Park, brewed beer for parties and weddings, where people always asked one question: “Where can we get it?” Ogilvie decided it was time to have an answer.

He’ll start Double Shift with five core beers.

“I really like Belgian stuff,” Ogilvie says. “It’s kind of what got me into brewing. But I’m not traditional. Everything we do will be a different take on it. Especially being a smaller brewery, you just can’t do the same old thing that Boulevard down the street is doing or Schlafly or whoever else.”

About six months ago, Ogilvie spent a day brewing with Big Rip Brewing Co., and he has talked with Cinder Block Brewery owner Bryce Schaffter about what it takes to start a brewery.

He has also gotten advice from the guys at Torn Label (see page 11) about licensing.

When the brewery opens, its 60-seat taproom will have 10 taps for Double Shift’s core beers and experimental brews. Double Shift will also fill growlers. And he’ll keep working as a firefighter.

“Luckily, they allow me to do stuff like this on my day off,” he says. “I love my job. I like going to work every day. I don’t have any plans, but if this becomes something huge, then I’d probably hire someone to be the business manager. I don’t have any plans to leave my job.”

border brewing Co.

Location: 406 East 18th Street Opening: Early 2015 Flagship beers: A blonde, Patio Ale (extra pale

ale), Rooftop Red (American red), a double IPA, Campfire Porter (porter aged on oak chips), chocolate-milk stout

Border Brewing Co.’s three-barrel system sits in crates lined up near the French doors inside the future Crossroads brewery. The crates are partly torn open, like Christmas gifts. And Border’s founder and brewmaster, Eric Martens, can’t wait to play with his new toys.

“We’re going to be setting up equipment next week,” he says. He wears a dirty, white T-shirt and blue jeans. “We got our brewer’s license last week, so I’m itching to get going.”

It’s early October, and much work lies ahead, but a walk-in cooler has been assembled, and a west-facing wall has been erected between the future brewery and a neighboring business.

Until about a month ago, Martens, a 2008 Kansas State graduate, worked as a consulting engineer for Burns & McDonnell.

“It was a great job,” he says of the position, which he held for six years. “I was making good money, but I don’t think it was my passion, and I really wanted to go into business for myself.

Eric Martens is putting his blood and sweat into Border Brewing Co. “It’s a little scary,” he adds, “but it’s mostly exciting to be able to have this opportunity to go after what I’m really passionate about and say that it’s my job.”

Martens took a night class about brewing when he was in college, and he says he has been making his own beer since he turned 21. His first batch was a wheat beer for his fraternity brothers. They drank it two weeks too soon.

“We learned a lesson of patience,” Martens says, “and it actually turned out pretty good.”

Brewing grew from an expensive hobby to, he says, a “full-blown obsession.” He signed a lease for the 1,750-square-foot space in May. (A Facebook follower has claimed that the upstairs was a speakeasy in the 1920s; Martens has yet to verify that.)

“It’s no bigger than we need, obviously,” Martens says. “I’m worried it’s going to be a tight squeeze, but it’s going to have a cool feel when it’s all said and done. You’re right in there with the brewery. The brewery is central to everything.”

Border’s taproom will be at the front of the house, with seating that wraps around his fenced-off brewing system.

Martens says he “took a leap of faith” when

he tore down drywall on the east-facing wall.

His optimism was rewarded with exposed brick and a big window facing an alley. “It turned out to be a really nice, big, beautiful window,” he says. “I think it’ll look really nice when we get the glass fixed.”

The window looks out on a new neighbor: Double Shift Brewing Co. (See page 12.) But Martens doesn’t sound concerned.

“We’re not competing against each other,” he says. “We’re competing against this idea that there’s only one style of beer, which is still kind of predominant in America — the light Pilsner lager. If you have a guy next door that’s doing that alongside you, then you have twice as much firepower to accomplish that goal.”

Martens says he searched for six months before finding his Crossroads location, a spot across the street from Grinders and Crossroads KC. “I love the First Fridays and the art culture down here,” he says. “I live down here, and it’s a short drive to work. It’s really starting to develop and thrive along with downtown and the streetcar going in. I’m excited for the area.”

Martens says he means for Border to be an interactive brewery, with patrons voting (via social media and in person) on what his taproom serves.

“We’re going to thrive on that feedback and keep things changing all the time,” he says. “One nice thing about having a small system is, you make one batch and if it’s great, you keep making it. If it’s not, it’s not a whole lot of beer.”

Martens hopes to find distribution for his beer after six months, meanwhile building partnerships with local wineries and distilleries for a future barrel-aging program.

Martens says Border’s name is more than just a nod to the Kansas and Missouri border. He’s trying to bridge a gap that he sees between commercial and craft beer — “the gap between beer drinkers and beer lovers,” he adds. He sees his blonde and his pale ale as “gateway beers” for new craft-beer consumers. “We want to be able to bring people in who, maybe they have and maybe they haven’t tried craft beer before, but they try ours, and it’s approachable and it’s still interesting and good.”

Martens says he’s aiming to open by early 2015, but he knows it’s an ambitious timeline. The tanks and the bar are in place, but there’s still a lot of work left. “We’ll have to see how things go,” he says. “We’re in the middle of the consent process for our liquor license.”

If opening a brewery from scratch isn’t enough of a challenge, Martens and his fiancée are getting married December 20.

“It’s going to be a pretty busy end of the year but a pretty exciting end of the year,” he says. “By the time January rolls around, we’ll be ready for a big sigh of relief.”

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aturday we celebrate the love of craft with our second annual Crafts & Drafts festival at the Uptown Shoppes (36th Street and Broadway). This year’s event is bigger than the last, featuring more than 80 craft vendors and more than 25 beers. Signed on to serve are Boulevard, Tallgrass, Kansas City Bier Co., Crane Brewing Co. (see this week’s feature, “Tank Town,” page 9), Urban Chestnut, 4 Hands, Cooper’s Hawk Winery, Tito’s Handmade Vodka and Crown Royal. So there will be plenty to drink while you get your holiday shopping started. The event is free to attend and goes from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.

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o other cultural figure’s arc traces the particular vectors that poet Billy Collins has charted. At 73, he straddles multiple media eras: He used to seal short poems inside envelopes and mail them to Rolling Stone magazine, which published them among its reviews of vinyl albums; in 2012, he joined the ranks of TED talkers. In between, of course, the many books and the two terms as U.S. poet laureate.

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Collins: still at work Plenty of teaching. Plenty of golf. Zero detectable stuffiness.

That lack of pretension is the biggest reason that, even if you don’t read poetry, you’ve likely heard Collins’ name. And if you do read poetry, that same blissful avoidance of fuss is why you may have taken him

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Billy Collins brings a little Love to KC. for granted as too simple or too well-known.

Then again, maybe you resent him for reading your mind. Aimless Love, his latest collection, has just come out in paperback, and the assemblage of old and new poems reconfirms Collins’ mastery of the moment, of vectors particular to himself and particular to you, too. He once described his mission this way: “I use the pedestrian detail — the dog asleep on the floor, the bird out the window — to reverberate against the loftiness of literary tradition. … If one particular moment happens to be filled by a cherry tree in blossom and a sliver of a moon, then to merely mention those things … is to celebrate the fact that you exist, that you are the only creature in the universe who occupies these exact time-space coordinates.” Well, mission accomplished. Again.

Ahead of Collins’ reading this week (7 p.m.

Thursday, October 30, at Unity Temple on the Plaza), The Pitch asked him a few questions by e-mail.

The Pitch: I’m probably not alone in looking to prize lists to find new poets to read, but it also makes me feel lazy. What do prizes say to us about poetry right now, and where should we look instead (or besides) to make personal discoveries?

Collins: You could flip through any number of anthologies of contemporary poets looking for ones you like. Check the acknowledgments in a book by a poet you already like and subscribe to a couple of the magazines where he or she likes to publish.

Who are you reading these days, in and out of the poetry realm?

I just read four books on the Beatles and Paul McCartney because I interviewed him

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S c o t t W il S on last week and thought I should know all about him before I asked him questions.

I like the sly way that your “If This Were a Job I’d Be Fired” gets to a byproduct of Charles Simic’s work: He makes one want to put on sweatpants and give up for a little while. Except that you end up with five quatrains after all.

I feel like there are other moments in the new poems when you end with a kind of walking out the door for a bit. How has your working routine — your working life, really — changed over time?

I believe in solvitur ambulando — “It is solved by walking.” Wordsworth composed many of his poems on walks. Yet part of me likes the urbane Max Beerbohm who claimed that he had never actually gone out for a walk.

I like your note to Dvorak, and you’re freshly McCartney-minded. What, if anything, do you listen to as you write or edit? And if silence rules then, what do you play when you’re off the poetry clock?

I’ve written a few poems about what is playing in the background when I’m trying to write. Having nothing to say encourages me to write about what I’m listening to.

What do you think of now as semi-foolproof poems of love (among your own or the works of others)?

I’ve written only one foolproof poem. It’s titled “Japan.” All the rest are attempts.

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The Who & the What, playwright Ayad Akhtar’s latest, follows an immigrant family negotiating Islamic tradition and religious deference in a culture where little remains sacred.

Central to the conflict is the ambition of eldest daughter Zarina (Rania Salem Manganaro), an Ivy League–educated writer who, much to her younger sister’s chagrin, has yet to marry. Zarina’s attention lies elsewhere — specifically, with her new manuscript, a dangerous novel painting the prophet Muhammad as a flawed human with base instincts. Zarina hides the book’s true subject from her father and her sister, telling them only that it concerns “gender politics.” The truth, we suspect, will out.

Crucial to the script’s success is that Zarina’s family is neither stodgy nor severe.

The father, Afzal (Tony Mirrcandani), is a warm and lovable widower who never urged his girls to wear the veil. He even subsidized Zarina’s MFA with proceeds from his successful taxi company. Younger sister Mahwish (Kat Nejat) doesn’t exactly share Zarina’s feminism, and she has made certain capitulations to the purity ideal (such as limiting herself to anal sex so that she’ll appear a virgin on her wedding night).

Still, some traditions remain. For all of Afzal’s teddy-bear softness, his law, as the patriarch, is inviolable. He demands that Zarina marry a Muslim man and creates an online dating profile for her to audition potential suitors. His finest catch is Eli (Rusty Sneary), a white imam who shares Zarina’s curiosity.

When Zarina and Eli meet, the play’s comedic warmth fans into incendiary drama.

Familial love holds firm, however, amid the weighty political and religious themes.

Director Eric Rosen draws exceptional performances from his small cast, but Mirrcandani is the anchor. It’s almost impossible to describe a performance like Mirrcandani’s without risking hyperbole. He is supremely confident in his own skin; each line is present and fully imagined in his care, each emotion at his command. When the actor gestures casually toward a bird in a tree, we see it, we hear it, we count its feathers. (It doesn’t hurt that Mirrcandani’s voice is Paul Robeson–rich, with a full-bodied resonance that wraps around you like a hug.)

Manganaro and Nejat make strong impressions as Zarina and Mahwish. Audiences might be on Zarina’s side politically, but she’s also stubborn, inflammatory and not a little arrogant. Manganaro softens her by letting anxieties and insecurities come out through the body, building patterns of nervous tics and gestures. Sneary has a tendency to get breathy in serious scenes (the actor’s equivalent of Poet Voice), but here he burrows through to the marrow, yielding some of his strongest, most affecting work. His first date with Zarina, in particular, is full of surprises.

Clever design work keeps the production lean and focused. Jack Magaw has constructed a handsome and functional set whose intricately patterned façade masks quadrants with sliding platforms to speed scene transitions.

It’s part Islamic tile design and part Hollywood Squares. Paul Toben’s lights are restrained and effective, and costumer Alison Heryer captures individual style with carefully chosen street clothes.

Rosen makes full use of the playing areas for the script’s climax, a taut, full-cast scene

Mirrcandani and Nejat look at birds. that airs the family’s secrets. The play’s divergent perspectives clash as Afzal’s disgust for his daughter’s blasphemy and disrespect meets Zarina’s insistence that pointing out the prophet’s moral failings is an act of reverence. “Contradictions only make him more human,” she argues, “which only makes him more extraordinary.”

It’s hard to resist comparing The Who & the What with Jon Robin Baitz’s Other Desert Cities, a play staged in March at the Unicorn Theatre, about a writer whose work fractures family ties. Akhtar succeeds where Baitz stalled, however, by treating his characters as Zarina does hers: as humans rife with contradictions, not as political mouthpieces.

Religion might be the catalyst for conflict, but the stakes here are more emotional than spiritual. As bitter as Afzal’s disappointment is, his greatest objection seems to be to Zarina’s disregard for her own safety. Less radical criticisms have met with violence, after all.

There’s nothing slick or showy about the The Who & the What’s resolution, and that’s as it should be. This isn’t a smug idea play, and its religious conflicts, while particular to Islam, feel universal. Disappointing our parents is a cherished American pastime. If we’re lucky, they’ll find a way to love us anyway.

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irdman starts like a 1970s Randy Newman song and ends like a 1990s Randy Newman soundtrack. It’s surly and direct at first, a mean squawk in a minor key, catchy and quotable. But a deceptively simple tune turns into a series of increasingly obvious blares. Unable to settle on whether he and his co-writers are satirizing mainstream tastes or mocking those who say they prefer the underground, director Alejandro González Iñárritu loses the music for the chords.

But before its bafflingly operatic conclusion, Birdman achieves a handful of great things. Every performance is strong, every visual effect extraordinary. Michael Keaton, always a kinetic, verbally dexterous performer, is a live wire again here but also quietly alert and compact as never before. Director of photography Emmanuel Lubezki and editors Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione have made what looks like one impossible tracking shot, and the lighting and color and movement are thrilling — so much so, they overwhelm fair questions about whether there’s a story here, or a meaning. What comes at you as a fable about artistic risk (there’s a dreadful subtitle: The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) has no more narrative oomph than a knock-knock joke — but a knock-knock joke seen from dazzling, impossible angles. Some knock-knock jokes still make you chuckle when you hear them again, so it’s possible that, relieved of months’ worth of hoping that this match-up of the ambitious, technically gifted Iñárritu with reclusive ex-Batman Michael Keaton would be transcendent, I’ll like Birdman better a second time.

To appreciate Birdman the first time, however, requires that you recalibrate your memory a little and your expectations a lot. You have to remember that Keaton turned down the sequel that became the high-grossing disaster Batman Forever, along with the truckload of cash that would have come with it. You must recall that more than one of his co-stars here has done the superhero-movie thing: Edward Norton was a Hulk, Emma Stone a Spider-Man love interest. And you should set aside thoughts of such acute showbiz comedies as Wag the Dog and State and Main. Birdman’s attempts at backstage farce are its least convincing moments, and the movie overall is about a third as funny as its trailers insist.

Not that realism (or wit, for that matter) is the point. Even the play whose troubled production fires Birdman’s dramatic action — an earnest-looking adaptation of the Raymond Carver story “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love,” written, directed by and starring costume-wearing superstar turned Trivial Pursuit question Riggan Thomson

(Keaton) in a bid to gain artistic legitimacy — turns out to contain at least one ridiculous dream sequence. Various characters debate one another about art in the service of ultimate truth (or vice versa), but what everyone in Iñárritu’s movie has in common is a primal instinct for deception — the director most of all. When the message is that actors and their vehicles are dishonest, Birdman is predictable and obtuse, with no satiric edge and too much attention paid to peripheral characters. (And how is it that, in a movie so dedicated to its protagonist’s interior, we see so much of what everyone else is doing? That breach favors the visuals but fatally punctures Iñárritu’s very intentions.)

But when the script — credited to Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo — stays with Keaton’s Riggan as he struggles with his own fictions, Birdman is furious and suspenseful.

From the moment we meet Riggan — seen floating, cross-legged, in his ugly cell of a dressing room, his meditation interrupted by the voice of his own crude id — we understand that he can no longer trust his own perceptions. He seems to be able to move objects with his mind, to defy gravity. But he’s subject as well to decidedly terrestrial indignities: a ratty bathrobe he must shed when a door closes on it, a subsequent tightywhitey hustle through Times Square, a sucker punch from a disgruntled lover. None of it amuses him; all of it, in fact, seems to move him past insanity toward a suicidal impulse.

In those voice-overs — if you’ve ever wanted to succeed at something, you’ve heard that cruel voice, the one that says you’re a fraud — Keaton tunes his old Beetlejuice sneer down

Keaton and Stone share. the scale until it feels barely inside the range of human hearing. It’s a great performance within a very good performance, and though there’s dark comedy in the sheer raunch of each jab, it’s in these screeds that Birdman is both most certain and most dangerous. Birdman wonders whether an artist must obliterate himself in order to be renewed by greater work, but what we hear in Riggan’s head isn’t self-doubt but a truly mortal needling.

This is where the suspense kicks in, a suspense that’s effective but crass. Riggan, we come to understand, may want to die. But this suggestion is paired here with the implication that the act would loose his artistic spirit.

There’s an uncomfortable moment, late in Birdman, when I kept thinking of the grotesquely wrongheaded meme that emerged after Robin Williams hanged himself this year, with its variations of “Now you’re free” set to images of the actor’s animated genie character from Aladdin. Suicide doesn’t halt torment, even for an artist; suicide is a forceful transfer of torment. And even the unfortunately flat characters around Riggan don’t deserve that.

Iñárritu seems to know this, but maybe not. His big ending, with its magical realism turned up to 11, is muddled, and nothing that happens resolves his already glib depictions of art battling commerce, New York against Hollywood, acting versus celebrity. He ratifies neither Riggan’s fantasy nor his reality.

Birdman knocks, but there’s nobody there when you open the door.

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Take Da Buffalo Soldier, a grilled wrap stuffed with spicy chicken, waffle fries, pepper jack cheese, guacamole, pico de gallo, and jalapeño chipotle ranch. You’ll wonder why everyone doesn’t put fries on their sandwiches. Then there’s the Tijuana Steak Cartel, another grilled wrap that unites carne asada, shrimp, pepper jack, guacamole, hard-boiled eggs, and homemade jalapeño ranch in an orgy of flavors.

Not crazy enough? Longboards’ sandwich shamans have stuffed wraps with Spam, maca roni and cheese, and entire rolls of sushi. If you see one of these culinary unicorns, you’d better cram it into your face hole ASAP. Specials vary by location, and they’re always changing.

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Orange Chicken (top) and Wow Kung Pao try first? On a recent visit to the Liberty Longboards, I asked an employee that question.

He recommended the Wow Kung Pao. The grilled wheat-tortilla wrap was warm and savory, with semi-spicy shredded chicken, melted pepper jack, peanuts, rice and veggies creating a complementary medley of textures. The addition of Sriracha was a nice touch. In fact, the sauce-to-meat ratio is so perfect that this is a wrap you could eat in the car.

Longboards also offers cold wraps, so I tried the Orange Chicken (a spinach tortilla stuffed with chicken, mozzarella, veggies, lettuce and orange sauce). It tasted like leftover Chinese food folded into a sandwich — meaning, it was pretty damn good. Still, I preferred the hot wraps.

No matter what you try at Longboards, it won’t be boring. And, at least for your 20-minute lunch break, this coastal chow might make you forget that you’re in Kansas.

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hen I arrive to meet Take Five Coffee + Bar co-owner Lori Chandler at her venue’s brand-new space at Corbin Park, plush red-leather chairs have just been delivered.

They’re sumptuous things, deeper than they look — once you’ve burrowed into one, you’re reluctant to rise from it. Chandler is delighted by them. She pushes the chairs to the front of the platform stage, arranging and rearranging them like a kid trying out a toy.

Chandler has good reason to be excited.

The new Take Five space, located at the oncestalled shopping development at 135th Street and Metcalf, is double the size of its original location, at a strip mall at 151st St. and Nall.

And there are other big changes: The old location seated 32; this space holds 80. There’s also a full kitchen, so Chandler and her husband and co-owner, Doug Chandler, envision an expanded menu (including Sunday brunch, which kicks off November 2). And then there’s the stage. At 26 feet across, defined by stacked stone that surrounds a house piano and drum kit and visible from any seat in the room, the stage is the new Take Five’s visual signature.

On this weekday, Chandler is deploying her own nervous energy to navigate deliveries and last-minute construction. Opening night is near, and she’s aware of all that’s at stake.

“When I first walked through this space, it was so huge,” she tells me. “I was terrified.”

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coffee shop into a serious music venue. This wasn’t the plan. In fact, the move practically dropped out of the sky.

“I got an e-mail from [the developers behind] Corbin Park last year, and I almost laughed it off,” Chandler says, smiling at the memory. “But the decision was made very easy because Corbin Park demonstrated that they really wanted us to be in the mix of the shopping center. This area is trying to create an entertainment district of sorts, in south Johnson County, which has been sorely lacking. And they made it easy for us to move in.

We signed the lease in December last year.”

Chandler says the move, though unexpected, makes sense.

“Opening with this concept to begin with, in a tiny strip mall in a largely residential area, was even riskier in a lot of ways [than this relocation],” Chandler says of the first Take Five, which opened in 2010. “The center that we were in, that we moved from, we were open the most hours — we were the anchor tenant, and that was a bigger risk than moving to a more popular center with other business to drive traffic. Yes, right now, there are only a couple stores open, and some days it’s terrifying, but now that we’re in and we’ve had the doors open, with little advertising, already our traffic has been increasing. It’s a well-calculated risk.”

The idea for the new Take Five space is that it will continue to build on a reputation estab-

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lished over the past four years. There’s a demand in the suburbs, Chandler says, for what Take Five is doing. Weekends at the old venue drew a wall-to-wall clutch of jazz fans eager to rediscover Kansas City’s musical history.

Chandler feels an obligation to that tradition.

“When we first hosted jazz, I fell in love with the community,” Chandler says. “They [the musicians] are the nicest people. They’re so easy to work with and so good. I feel like it’s a piece of KC’s heritage that has kind of fallen away over the last couple years, and it has to be supported — that has to be done. And they make it really easy for me to take that chance.”

Local jazz bassist Jeff Harshbarger says the vibe cultivated at the former Take Five location had become all too rare around here.

“The old space was our living room,” Harshbarger says. “It was the spot where all the jazz musicians in town felt the most comfortable to do whatever they wanted to do.

There was no pressure to do a certain kind of material or pander to anyone. It was the spot where we could play whatever we wanted to play, and we could do that because Lori and Doug loved it and loved musicians.”

He’s not exaggerating the Chandlers’ affection for the players. Lori Chandler recalls the first time that local star quartet Interstring played at Take Five.

“We put 70 people in that tiny shop on a Monday night with a $10 cover, and you could hear a pin drop for the entirety of that perfor-

From left: Roger Wilder, Roger Rosenberg, Bob Bowman, Rob Scheps and Brian Steever play at the new Take Five.

Above: owners Lori and Doug Chandler. mance,” she says. “It took my breath away.

That’s what makes the daily struggle of running this business worth it for me, because you know that everyone in the room gets to experience something special that they can’t get anywhere else.”

“It’s not just a business for them, it’s their lives,” Harshbarger says. “That’s why we’re all so comfortable driving all the way out there to do our thing.”

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wo years ago, when Mary Lambert guested on the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis track “Same Love,” the Seattle artist was a bartender and a poet. When the song went supernova, though, she was ushered onto red carpets and signed to Capitol Records. It was an unexpected surge for the 25-year-old, but she is making the most of her moment, using her new fame to talk about things that actually mean something to her.

On the evidence of her debut full-length, Heart on My Sleeve, those things are serious: the sexual abuse she endured as a child, her sexual identity (Lambert is a lesbian), her bipolar diagnosis. No topic is too personal, and Lambert — whose phone voice is friendly and sweet — has come to think of that bareit-all approach as the mission of her music.

Ahead of Lambert’s Monday-night show at RecordBar, we dialed her up at home.

The Pitch: You’re pretty up-front about being bipolar, a condition that must have an effect on your music and how you play it from day to day.

Lambert: The only thing that affects me when I’m performing is if it’s not the right vibe — if the audience is being assholes or talking if they’re not there for the music. You want people to be invested and listening. I think when I’m putting it all out there, some of these very terrifying facts about myself, and I’m met with a lack of respect, it can hurt.

There’s a sort of warts-and-all honesty in your lyrics. Why is that important to you?

Vulnerability is at the core of what I do and what I want to accomplish. I think when you’re encouraging vulnerability, you’re encouraging empathy. And I think we have a lack of empathy in today’s world. And when you have a lack of empathy, you have a lack of understanding. And then you have people shooting each other, and I don’t want people to shoot each other anymore.

I care deeply about people, and I think if there’s any way I can be any good, it’s by being vulnerable. If there’s a way I can put myself on the line to be vulnerable, then you extend an invitation to another person to be vulnerable and be OK with that.

Yet the song “Ribcage” was written after an interview that made you feel too exposed. How do you draw the line between what you’re comfortable sharing and what you’re not?

In my work and in my shows and in what I do, I’m in control, and when I’m in control, I feel safe enough to talk about what I want to. And sometimes that’s including my sexual abuse. But then, when someone pinpoints it and you’re not in control — the question [is asked], “How did you go through this?”

— that’s not even relevant to the situation.

That’s what I have a problem with. That’s

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where I get upset. It’s the entitlement and the insensitivity of the question.

If I want to talk about my traumas on my stage and in my work, that’s on me, and I can take it as far as I want it. But to bring visceral imagery up by looking for shock value or a sound bite, that’s unkind, and it’s not fair. It conjures up really awful things, and I have to be really careful. But I think, in general, part of my job in this thing is to be an educator, and I think I’m OK with that.

I find it interesting that your name is attached to some big stars — the hit with Macklemore, your performance with Madonna at the Grammys — and yet this tour is a club circuit. I almost would have expected you to open for some superfamous pop star instead of a tour like this. Is there something behind that?

It was totally intentional. I wanted this tour to be my first headlining tour. I went on two Macklemore tours, and I went on tour with Gavin DeGraw this summer, and this is my first moment to be in my element and do the show I wanted to do. I get to write my own story this time. For me, being a headliner

Lambert opens up. means a lot of creative control, and the people that come to that show are there for me, and that commands a certain kind of audience and certain kind of atmosphere. People cry at my shows. We feel each other, and it’s one big family. My shows are like family.

I imagine economy-sized boxes of tissues are brought out.

[Laughs.] I have handkerchiefs with my lyrics on them [for sale], which I felt was a pretty good business plan. But I tell people at the beginning: “I’m bipolar and I’m gonna really screw you up, too. You’re gonna be on an emotional roller coaster.” But it’s just nice to be in a community of kindness. My shows are safe.

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Let everyone else get swept up in grand plans for Halloween. You, friend, are smarter than that. The eve of Allhallows Eve is definitely your day because you can find the best parties and still avoid the traffic and the shenanigans. One such shindig: It Came Out of the Garage, Thursday at Knuckleheads, where you’ll find a lineup of local garagerockers ready to scare you onto the dance floor. Rootsy Til Willis & Erratic Cowboy open the night, followed by Lawrence’s Alan Murphy & the Frequent Flyers. The Quivers headline, which means that shots and a wild abandonment of decorum are in your immediate future.

Thursday, October 30, Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456)

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In a truly season-appropriate show, My Brothers & Sisters’ Halloween party Friday finds the 14-member group, headed by founder and lead singer Jamie Searle, paying homage to revered film composer Danny Elfman, the Oingo Boingo founder who made his cinema name scoring such Tim Burton treasures as Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Selections from those soundtracks will be re-created by My Brothers & Sisters, with the band decked out in Burton-inspired costumes. Images from the films will be projected with the corresponding songs. No Halloween plans yet? Now you’re set.

Friday, October 31, the Rot Room (4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179)

Pure Bathing Culture, Tennis

This Tuesday double headliner is a match made in 1980s synth-pop heaven: Denver husbandwife duo Tennis and Portland, Oregon, malefemale duo Pure Bathing Culture, whose 2013 Moon Tides garnered more than a few (completely warranted) comparisons with the music of Beach House. The former’s Alaina Moore

Gwar roars on. and Patrick Riley have just released Ritual in Repeat, an album full of catchy surf-pop vibes.

It’s the kind of thing that makes you want to rent a boat and sail away. Pure Bathing Culture and Tennis are likely to bring out the best in each other’s sounds at the Granada, and you couldn’t pick two bands better suited for an easygoing weeknight.

Tuesday, November 4, the Granada (1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390)

City and Colour

You could think of Ontario, Canada’s Dallas Green, who performs as City and Colour, as a Beck–Ray LaMontagne mash-up. The singersongwriter’s latest album, The Hurry and the Harm, feels like it’s caught somewhere between folk allegiances and pop desires, but the songs are beautifully balanced. It’s the kind of album you’d like to wake up hearing, even with the heavy, soul-searching subjects that Green addresses in his lyrics. His voice is warm and welcoming, girded by an insistent ache.

If you’re wont to spend weeknights getting in touch with your inner sadness, let Green keep you company Wednesday at Liberty hall.

Wednesday, November 5, Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972)

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In March, Gwar lead singer and bassist Oderus Urungus — the stage name for Dave Brockie, the final remaining founding member of the Virginia thrash-metal act — died of a drug overdose. Well, the 30-year-old band has soldiered on anyway, with a new singer called Vulvatron and a new singer-bassist who goes by Blöthar.

Onstage, the act still presents as human-eating warrior aliens, garbed in full horror-film-ready costume and makeup. So, yes, a Gwar concert is, now and always, a singular experience, full of bloody beheadings, flying fluids and the kinds of special effects found only in

the best haunted houses. Get in the mood for Halloween at the Granada.

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ing night (runs Fridays and Saturdays through Nov. 9), 8 p.m., $12, City Theatre of Independence, 201 N. Dodgion Rd., citytheatreofindependence.org

Frankenstein, presented by National Theatre Live | 3:15 and 7 p.m., $15, Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

Glamoween with DJ Jizzifer

| 10 p.m., no cover, Minibar, 3810 Broadway

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Gruesome and Ghastly: Hallow een Storie s for Grown-ups, with Laura Packer | 7-8:30 p.m., $10, Up-

town Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway, uptownartsbar.com

Gummy Halloween, with cos-

tume contest, DJ Alex Reed, Pistol Pete, and Vinyl Richey | Doors at 7 p.m., show at 10 p.m.

The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, theriotroom.com

3rd Street Asylum | 7 p.m.-

midnight, $20, Third St. and Cedar, Bonner Springs

Friday 10.31 Assjamz: Halloween Edition | 9 p.m., $5/$7, the Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Burlesque on the Rocks, featuring Annie Cherry and Sara d’Joue | 10 p.m., $15/$25 door, the

Buffalo Room at Westport Flea Market, 817 Westport Rd.

Foxy by Proxy Burlesque Revue’s Halloween Hextravaganza | 9 p.m. Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Ghostbusters 30th Anniversary Party, with Hermon Mehari, Sheppa, Leone Anne Reeves, and the BUHS | 9 p.m.1 a.m., $10, the Guild, 1621 Locust, theguildkc.com

Halloween Massacreade,

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The Halloween Monster Ball,

with the Lawrence Ballet Theatre and the School of Dance | 4-6 p.m. $5-$10, Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, lawrenceartscenter.org

Halloween on the Hill, with a costume contest, live music and open bars at five venues | 8 p.m.-midnight, $34-$44, Martini Corner, 31st St. and Oak, martinicorner.com Haunted House Party, with

DJ Mike Scott and a costume contest and cash prizes | 8 p.m.

KC Live, 14th St. and Grand, powerandlightdistrict.com

The Kansas City Symphony presents Mysterioso: A Magical Night, with music, comedy and

magic acts | 8 p.m. (also Saturday, Nov. 1), Helzberg Hall, Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway, kcsymphony.org

KKFI 90.1 presents A Night in the Asylum, with JPT Scare Band,

the Waspmen, DJ Bring the Rukus, costume contest, and Soulshine Liquid Light Show | Doors at 6 p.m.

The Arts Asylum, 1000 E. Ninth St.

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, a dramatic reading by Scott Cox, Trevor Belt and Lynsey Becher, with wine tastings avail-

able, and bring-your-own picnic allowed (no outside alcohol, please) | 6-8 p.m. (barn open 4:30-9 p.m.), $15, Riverwood Winery Tobacco Barn, 33655 Iatan Rd., Weston. riverwoodwinery.com/events

Murder at the Masquerade dinner theater and masquerade ball | 6 p.m. The View at

Briarcliff, 4000 N. Mulberry Dr., visionskc.com

Oddfellows Mansion: See Halloween Massacreade, Friday, October 31.

Nightmare on Waldo Street Pub/Trolley Crawl | 8 p.m.-2 a.m., $25, 75th St. and Wornall, Waldo

Pandemonium, with costume contests, dancing and drink specials | 8 p.m.-2 a.m. (also Saturday, Nov. 1), Firefly Lounge, 4118 Pennsylvania, kchalloween.com Party Monster 9, with Super

Heroes vs. Super Villains | 9 p.m.

VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., voodookc.com

Revenge of the Nerds Halloween Party, with music by Wonder-

fuzz | The BrewTop Pub & Patio, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

Witches and costume contest | Funky Town, 8300 E. Blue Pkwy.

A Witches’ Ball, benefiting Heartland Spiritual Alliance | 8 p.m.-midnight, $25/$30, Pop Up Art Gallery, 2100 Grand

Zombie Apocalypse Takeover, with DJ Boogie B and Your Favorite Asian, plus cos-

tume contest with prizes up to $1,000 | 10 p.m. at Fuel, live music from the Zeros at Local Tap, 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, oneblocksouthkc.com

Saturday 11.1 Burlesque on the Rocks: Raising the Dead, featuring Annie

Cherry, Sara d’Joue, Damian Blake, Daisy Buckët, Goldie Goldstein and Katie Gilchrist | 10 p.m., $15/$25 door, the Buffalo Room, 817 Westport Rd.

KC Live Day of the Dead Party,

with participating venues that include McFadden’s, Shark Bar, Mosaic, Tengo Sed Cantina and PizzaBar | 7-10 p.m., $5, KC Live Block at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand

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Thursday | 10.30 |

Halloween

art exHibits & events A Cast of Blues: a celebration of mississippi’s rich musical heritage | Through Fri-

Performing Arts

day, Mid-America Arts Alliance, 2018 Baltimore, maaa.org/kcexhibitions

The Muse: Inspiring Voices, presented by the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra | 7:30 p.m. Old Mission United Methodist Church, 5519 State Park Rd., Fairway

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

Comedy

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

Kauf drops with dustin Kaufman | 9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

ArtsKC liVe | Noon-6 p.m. KC Live Stage at the Power & Light District, 14th St. and Grand, artskc.org

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

final friday Art Walk | Massachusetts St.

between Seventh and 11th streets, downtown Lawrence

Bobby slayton | 8 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

film

Frankenstein, presented by National Theatre Live | 3:15 & 7 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

Halloween massacreade at oddfellows mansion

See our Halloween Guide, page 28

sPorts & reC

stan Kessler | 9 p.m. Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

the livestock show | American Royal Complex, 1701

la Armada, ignis gratis | 8 p.m. Vandals, 3740

American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com musiC

Bassnectar, son of Kick, Kill Paris | 8 p.m. The

Midland, 1228 Main

Broadway

B&B’s American roots music | 7 p.m. Coda, 1744 Broadway

Black Crack revue | 8 p.m. Californos, 4124 Pennsylvania

Blackjack Billy | PBR Big Sky Bar, 111 E. 13th St.

7 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand

the Quivers, til Willis & erratic Cowboy, Alan murphy & the frequent flyers | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Friday | 10.31 | Comedy

Bongotini | 7 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence

Busdriver, Clipping, milo | 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

Westport Rd.

John morgan | 7:30 & 9:45 p.m. Improv Comedy Club

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

Bobby slayton | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Carl Butler, Katy guillen, Brandon Hudspeth, terry Hancock, tim Braun and Julia Haile | 8 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

mambo deleon & Carte Blanc | 7:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

gatschet, graybill and gruenbaum | 6 p.m. Chaz

on the Plaza, 325 Ward Pkwy.

gWAr, decapitated, American sharks, troglodyte | 7 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

the independents, American dischord | 8 p.m.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

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diles mavis group | 9 p.m. Californos, 4124

lures, youngest Children, the lusty flowers |

old no. 5s, Brother Bagman, grand Villanova |

sPorts & reC

Inner Minds/Outer Limits: Collage and Graphite on Newsprint and Panel by Len

BBQ, 1205 E. 85th St.

Hearts of darkness, sunu | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown

Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Hellfire Hoedown, with Dead Dick Hammer, Urban

Ask an Adult | Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts,

Beta Boys, Keef mountain, sacred leather | 8 p.m. Vandals, 3740 Broadway

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Davis | Through Friday, Thornhill Gallery, Avila University, 11901 Wornall, avila.edu/thornhill

Lift With Your Legs , Charlotte Street 2013-14

Studio Residency Program Series | Paragraph Gallery, 23 E. 12th St., charlottestreet.org

Pioneers, Brutally Frank, Molly Gene One Whoaman Band, Them Damned Young Livers, the Electric Lungs, Freight Train Rabbit Killer | 8 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

meet me at the museum tour | 2-3 p.m.

Saturday, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 4420 Warwick Blvd.

the Hilary Watts riot, gAWd | 9 p.m. Coda, 1744

The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth + Sky |

magfuckingnificent | The Brick, 1727 McGee

Jason Pollen: Unfurled — 30 Years in Kansas City | Kansas City Central Library,

Broadway

P. morris, tom richman, maal & team Bear Club | 10 p.m. The Eighth Street Taproom, 801 New

Lawrence

Peregrine Honig: Unicorn, Corey Goering: Primal as i Wanna Be | Haw Contemporary,

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

musiC

lauren Anderson | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S.

Gallery, 1000 Walnut

1600 Liberty

946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

my Brothers & sisters: the sounds of tim Burton | 8 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand

Hwy. 7, Blue Springs

Great Plains — America’s Lingering Wild, photography by Michael Forsberg | The Box

elvis from Hell, f**k the mummies, Brownbackistan, Boy division | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge,

the livestock show | American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

Adam Finkelston: Manifestations | Kiosk

Gallery, 3951 Broadway

Pennsylvania

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

final friday lawrence Art Party | 5:309:30 p.m. Lawrence Creates Makerspace, 512 E. Ninth St., Lawrence

Hampshire, Lawrence

Parallax | 8 p.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

reigning sound, spider Bags, Josh Berwanger Band | 9:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 4525 Oak

14 W. 10th St.

PrimaRebelle by Whitney manney | UMKC Gallery of Art, 5015 Holmes (Room 203)

thieves guild drink and draw | 7 p.m.

Monday, Fatso’s Public House and Stage, 1016 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Russell Wrankle: New Works | Lawrence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence

Rob Scheps and Roger Rosenberg with the Ron Carlson Trio | 7-10 p.m. Lucky Brewgrille, 5401

TheaTer

Johnson Dr., Mission

Dates and times vary.

SUNU, DJ Proof | 10 p.m. Jazzhaus, 926-1/2 Mas-

Bad Jews | Unicorn Theatre, 3828 Main,

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Paul Thorn with the Haunted Creepies | 8:30 p.m.

Columbus Day | The Living Room, 1818 McGee, thelivingroomkc.com

Todd Wilkinson Quintet, the Ottawa University Jazz Combo | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616

Downtown Underground Series #1: Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness | Law-

sachusetts, Lawrence

E. 18th St.

Victor & Penny, Molly Hammer | Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

Jason Vivone and the Billy Bats | 9 p.m. The

Phoenix, 302 W. Eighth St.

White Girl album-release show with Middle Twin, Lion | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway NiGHTLife

Burlesque Downtown Underground | The Kill

Devil Club, 61 E. 14th St.

Raqs Boheme | 6:30 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 West-

port Rd.

Saturday | 11.1 |

unicorntheatre.org

rence Arts Center, 940 New Hampshire, Lawrence, lawrenceartscenter.org

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde | City Theatre of Independence, 201 N. Dodgion Rd., Independence, citytheatreofindependence.org Eleemosynary, written by Lee Blessing | Begins Saturday, Fishtank Performance Studio, 1715 Wyandotte

Magical Murdery Tour | KC Mystery Train,

kcmysterytrain.com

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Starting Tuesday, The Coterie Theatre, 2450 Grand, Crown Center, thecoterie.org

The Who and the What | Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Copaken Stage, 13th St. and Walnut, kcrep.org

PeRfORMiNG ARTS

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Day of the Dead family fun fiesta | 2-5 p.m. Pop

Up Art Gallery, 2100 Grand

John Morgan | 9 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St.

Open House & Celebration | 10 a.m. Union Station,

Bobby Slayton | 7:45 & 9:45 p.m. Stanford’s Comedy

fOOD & DRiNK

Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Stand Up for Synergy with Jim Gaffigan |

7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St. exPOS

Heritage Antique Show & Sale | 9 a.m.-5 p.m.

30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org

Wicked Wine Walk | 3-6 p.m. Power & Light District, 14th St. and Main

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The Livestock Show | American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park

Phoenix fC 1: The Rising | 8 p.m. Overland Park

LeCTURe

MUSiC

An evening With Bill Moyers, also featuring former U.S. Sen. Bob Kerrey, presented by

David Basse’s City Light Orchestra | 7 p.m.

the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum | 6 p.m., $10/$18, Unity Temple on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., trumanlibrary.org COMMUNiTy BeNefiTS

Unmask the Cure, featuring Jared Fogle from the

Jared Foundation to Fight Childhood Obesity | 6 p.m., $150, Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, diabetes.org

314 Westport Road KCMO 64111 www.millsrecordcompany.com buy • sell • trade vinyl records

Hall at JCCC, 12345 College Blvd., Overland Park

International Trade Center, 6800 W. 115th St.

Broadway Jazz Club, 3601 Broadway

The Biff Tannens, the Blue Boot Heelers, Big Damn Heroes, the Bottlebreakers | 9 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Carcass, Obituary, exhumed, Noisem | 7 p.m. The

MILLS RECORD COMPANY

imani Winds and Harlem Quartet | 8 p.m. Yardley

Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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BadSeed | 4-8 p.m. Friday, 1909 McGee

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Horror Jazz Cumbia Day of the Dead Extravaganza, with Clarke Wyatt, Marco Pascolini, Betse Ellis, Kyle Dalquist, George Marich, John Bersuch | The Brick, 1727 McGee

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The Hounds of Bastardville, the Uncouth, Frame 13 | 8 p.m. Vandals, 3740 Broadway The People’s Liberation Big Band | 8:30 p.m.

Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

Brookside Farmers Market | 8 a.m.-1 p.m.

Saturday, Border Star Montessori, 6321 Wornall

City Market | 6 a.m.-3 p.m. Saturday, 8 a.m.3 p.m. Sunday, 20 E. Fifth St. Cottin’s Hardware Store | 4-6:30 p.m. Thursday, back parking lot of 1832 Massachusetts, Lawrence

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

Pyromaniac, My Hero | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020

Westport Rd.

Downtown overland Park Farmers Market

Rosenberg | 8:30 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

| 7:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Saturdays, 6:30 a.m.-1 p.m.

Wednesdays, 7950 Marty

South Side Souls | 8 p.m. Trouser Mouse, 410 S.

Grand Court Farmers Market | 10 a.m.-1 p.m.

Rob Scheps/Roger Wilder Quintet, with Roger

Hwy. 7, Blue Springs

Paul Thorn with the Nace Brothers | 9 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Jim Gaffigan, in conversation about his new book, Food: a Love Story | 1:30 p.m., $26, Unity Temple

on the Plaza, 707 W. 47th St., rainydaybooks.com

Thunderkat | 7 p.m. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hamp-

shire, Lawrence

SPoRTS & REC

Underground Massacre, with Money Gritterz,

Pheez, Chef Boi AD, Pen2Life, Santina Vega | 8 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway NiGHTLiFE

DJ E | Quaff Bar & Grill, 1010 Broadway

Breath Deep KC 5k, fun run and walk | 7-11 a.m.

Liberty Memorial, 100 W. 26th St., LUNGevity.org/ kansascity

Chiefs vs. Jets | Noon. Arrowhead Stadium Cliffhanger 5k and 8k | 8 a.m. Kansas City University

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

of Medicine and Biosciences, 1750 E. Independence Ave., cliffhangerrun.com

Joints & Jams with Johnny Quest | 10 p.m. Replay

Kansas Half Marathon and 5k | 7:30 a.m.

Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

KC Cabaret variety show | 9:30 p.m. Uptown Arts

Bar, 3611 Broadway

Magic 107.3 Saturday Groove Party | 7 p.m.

VooDoo, Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City 1001 Arabian Nights: Bellydance and Beyond | 7 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611 Broadway

Watson Park, 601 Kentucky St., Lawrence, kansashalfmarathon.com

The Livestock Show | American Royal Complex, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

Mark Lowrey Quartet | 10 a.m. Take Five Coffee + Bar, 6601 W. 135th St., Overland Park

The People’s Liberation Big Band | 8 p.m. Record-

Bar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Starkill, Winterhymn, Night Creation, Vanlade | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway NiGHTLiFE

& Museum, 631 N. 126th St., Bonner Springs

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

Riot Grrrl Sundays with DJ Madeline | 10 p.m.

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

Vandals, 3740 Broadway

Monday | 11.3 |

open House & Celebration | 10 a.m. Union Station,

A Celebration of the American Musical, presented by Musical Theater Heritage | 6:30 p.m.,

5109 Cherry

Mythic Creatures: Dragons, Unicorns & Mermaids | Museum at PrairieFire, 5801 W.

135th St., Overland Park, museumatpf.org

$50-$150, Off Center Theatre, 2450 Grand, mthkc.com SPoRTS & REC

CoMEDy

Bittersweet Harvest: The Bracero Program 1942-1964 | Wyandotte County Historical Society

Xtreme BUGS | Union Station, 30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org/bugs

PERFoRMiNG ARTS

Skylight | 1 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania, tivolikc.com

mUSEUm ExhibitS & EvEntS

Dropout Boogie | Westport Flea Market, 817 West-

port Rd.

FiLM

Sunday | 11.2 |

Lawrence Farmers Market | 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, 824 New Hampshire

CoMMUNiTy BENEFiTS

30 W. Pershing Rd., unionstation.org

Saturday, Grand Court Retirement Center, 501 W. 107th St.

KU vs. Washburn men’s basketball | 7 p.m. Allen

Miguel Zenon Quartet | 7 p.m. The Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.

Tuesday | 11.4 |

Fieldhouse, 1651 Naismith Dr., Lawrence

CoMEDy

MUSiC

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

MUSiC

Foundation 627 Big Band | 8 p.m.-midnight, Green Lady Lounge, 1809 Grand

Mary Lambert | 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Gospel Brunch with the Christ Temple North and the New Song Christian Fellowship choirs | 12:30 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester

Karl McComas-Reichl Trio | 8-11 p.m. Green Lady

W. Kamau Bell | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 West-

port Rd.

ExPoS

Heritage Antique Show & Sale | 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

Overland Park Convention Center, 6000 College Blvd., Overland Park

MUSiC

The Gothic Cowboy Review | 7 p.m. Frank’s North Star Tavern, 508 Locust, Lawrence

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Wannabe, Jalva, El Ray-Tones, Various Blonde | 7 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Burning Palms, Prom Body, All Blood | 10 p.m.

MiniBar, 3810 Broadway

Busker’s Banquet | 9 p.m. Uptown Arts Bar, 3611

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Caitlin Doughty talks about her new book, Smoke Gets in Your Eyes (and Other Lessons From the Crematory) | 6:30 p.m. Kansas City Central Library, 14 W. 10th St., kclibrary.org

Cyanotic, the Rabid Whole, the God Project |

Ramblers Club, 3402 Main

Rex Hobart’s Honky Tonk Supper Club | 7 p.m.

In This Moment, 12 Foot Ninja, Starset, 3 Pill Morning | 7 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main

Tennis, Pure Bathing Culture | 8 p.m. The Granada,

Tucker Jameson, Red & Yosh, Connor leimer, A.J. Young | 6 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand

This Is My Condition, Jeff Stolz, Wallace Cochran, Sean McEniry | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge,

Nadis Warriors, Sunsquabi | 8 p.m. The Bottleneck,

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946 Massachusetts, Lawrence

Wedding Dress, Yes You Are, Mat Shoare | 8 p.m. Czar, 1531 Grand

Wednesday | 11.5 | FIlM

Skylight | 1 p.m. Tivoli Cinemas, 4050 Pennsylvania,

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Cutting Horse Show | Hale Arena, 1701 American Royal Ct., americanroyal.com

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940 live: Sons of Brasil | 7:30 p.m. Lawrence Arts

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Adrian Truth, Kemet, Reggie B, Codak Carter, lindsey Alderman | 10 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd.

Various Blonde | 10 p.m. Replay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence NIGHTlIFE

Chippendales’ 50 Shades of Men | 8 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club, 7328 W. 119th St., Overland Park

Bones Jugs N Harmony, Whiskey for the lady, Claire & the Crowded Stage, Nicholas St. James | 6 p.m. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway

Trivia | 7-9 p.m. Westport Saloon, 4112 Pennsylvania

Carl Butler’s Gospel lounge | 7:30 p.m. Knuckle-

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My wife and I didn’t think much of it until my wife discovered a used, shitty tampon in the garbage. We had a talk with our son and told him that we don’t care how he explores his sexuality.

However, we don’t want to find shitty tampons or whatever else in the garbage. Then, a couple of days ago, we found his toothbrush in the sink, the end being rinsed with the water running full blast for who knows how long (he was downstairs). We asked him why he was doing that, and he said the cat had pissed on his toothbrush. We think his story is bullshit.

We’re fine with him exploring his sexuality, but we don’t want to find tidbits of what he’s doing out in the open. It looks like shaming him to hide it better might be the only way. Are we in the wrong here?

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Dear POPS: You haven’t found any more shitcovered tampons in the trash, so either he’s doing a better job of hiding them or he’s not putting his sister’s tampons up his ass anymore.

As for the toothbrush, it wasn’t left “out in the open.” You found it in the sink in his bathroom because he stupidly left the water running. If you had texted me the moment you found it, I would’ve advised you to turn off the water and refrain from asking your son about the toothbrush. If you had to say something to him about it, I would’ve advised you to go with this: “Don’t leave the water running in your sink.”

Your son would’ve figured that you saw the toothbrush, figured that you figured it had been in his ass, and never made that mistake again. But you asked for an explanation in a context in which (1) your son isn’t going to tell you the truth, and (2) you can’t handle the truth.

A boy who’s almost 16 isn’t “experimenting with masturbation.” He’s perfecting his technique. And we can deduce that your son likes ass play. That’s not a problem. Inconsideration used to be a problem (disposing of shitty tampons where his family members might find them), but he’s knocked that off, right? So the only remaining problem is, he’s putting things in his ass that aren’t designed for ass play.

Consider purchasing a few ass-appropriate toys for him, such as one or two small silicone butt plugs with flared bases. He’ll be mortified but no more than you were when you found those shitty tampons.

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Buying sex toys for kids is a hurdle most parents can’t clear. If it’s not something you can do, turn a blind eye to any toothbrushes you find in sinks over the next few years.

Also thoroughly wash cucumbers before consuming them.

Dear Dan: Say your boyfriend has a spanking fetish, and he spanks other women with one particular belt — not you because you don’t like it, but you’re OK with his making dates to spank others — and he wears that belt all the time, though you’ve asked him not to. What’s going on here?

Ass Spared, Feelings Hurt Dear ASFH: Equal parts inconsideration (on his part) and insecurity (on your part) are combining to create unnecessary drama. If spanking is so central to his identity that he has to wear his spanking belt every day, you may be the wrong girlfriend for him. If seeing an easyto-overlook reminder of his fetish leaves you this hurt, you’re less OK with those spanking dates than you pretend to be, and he may be the wrong boyfriend for you.

Dear Dan: I recently came across a pair of my ex-

girlfriend’s lacy panties in an old pair of shorts I haven’t worn in years. I love wearing women’s panties, and I almost hit the floor when I found them. I was a mess after this girl dumped me.

To this day, I haven’t found closure. A part of me wants to keep them because it’s so hot that they’re hers. I’m happy with my current girlfriend, but these panties really turn me on. The other part tells me to “show some respect” and get rid of them. Is this an ethical or moral issue?

By keeping them, am I driving a wedge between me and my girlfriend?

Old Panties Protocol Dear OPP: You’re entitled to your memories

and your keepsakes. And if a pair of panties can drive a wedge between you and your girlfriend, then your relationship is made of flimsy stuff.

If an old pair of panties doesn’t destroy it, the next strong breeze will.

Keep the panties but put them away somewhere that isn’t easily accessed — in a box in your storage space, on a high shelf in a closet — so you aren’t tempted to haul them out every time you want to have a wank. But now and then, maybe when the girlfriend is out of town, I don’t see the harm in retrieving your ex-girlfriend’s panties and enjoying a nice, long, leisurely wank down memory lane.

And finally, closure isn’t something you find. It’s something you do.

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