Dining and Entertainment Guide 2014

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Laugh, try an open mic at Live at 215 Let me start off by saying that I am not a stand-up comic — not even close.

COLUMN BY Some people JAMES KELLERMAN say I am, but nothing could be further from the truth.

It’s been a while since I’ve gone to an open mic and tried out some material. The last time was in August 2013.

The first time I did any standup comedy was in late 2012. It was at the old Loony Bin on 21st and Woodlawn.

It was nerve-racking. The adrenaline was pumping. I was sweating. Then I bombed in front of maybe 20 people.

However, knowing the worst that could happen were people not laughing, I decided to go again the next week.

They laughed at the first joke out of the gate. It was exhilarating. There was only about 30 people watching, but they laughed before I failed to receive one on my next joke.

It was something I half-heartedly pursued in Chicago that following summer. I took an internship at The Comedy Bar - Chicago (co-owned by Jim Belushi), performed a few times at open mics around the city, and watched experienced stand-up comics refine their acts before making it to bigger gigs in New York and Los Angeles.

Some of the comics I watched have their own Comedy Central Specials, appeared in Adam Devine’s House Party and Chelsea Lately or are writers for Tosh.0, Sanford & Son and many other

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James Kellerman performed a stand-up comedy routine in August 2013 at Shuba’s in Chicago.

television shows.

This journey started off with one little open mic at the old Loony Bin. It was a risk, but I’m happy I took it.

Fortunately for fans of stand-up comedy, the Loony Bin is open at a new location with a new name.

Live at 215 Performance Theater hosts comedy shows

(mainly stand-up) from Thursday to Sunday and is located at 215 N. St. Francis, in the downtown area.

They’ve brought back open mic nights for people wishing to try out some of their material. They serve food and drinks while allowing people to watch their friends succeed and fail.

Nothing was more fun for my

Gambling entertaining, addicting I feel the best way to illustrate gambling is to describe my experiCOLUMN BY ence of COLE YANCEY winning $1,435 and then losing it all by playing blackjack at the Kansas Star Casino.

This was in the spring. I was 21 and it was my first time gambling. I went to the Kansas Star Casino to place some bets.

It was 4:30 p.m. when I merged on the highway from 13th Street. In anticipation, I told myself all day, “I am going to win, I am going to win.”

There is a naïve gambling illusion that positive energy is a counter for the unpredictability of gambling. But gambling is gambling; no matter how much you believe in yourself, you have no control on how the cards will fall or how the slots will align.

I pulled into the casino parking lot and I entered the building with $350. The casino was dim, cool and dry, but was illuminated by the beeps, boings, buzzes, whizzes and noises of the slot machines.

It is often here, when you cross the threshold from the outside world into the world of gambling, that you become hooked and the demons of human nature come out.

I meandered through the floor, looking at the different types of slots and I settled on a

the

25-cent machine.

I played slots for an hour and a half and I lost $150.

Still determined to win, I moved to a blackjack table and I lost nearly every hand.

I came into the casino planning to use all of the money I had, so after losing I took a break and moved to a different blackjack table.

And for an hour and a half at this table, I was perfect.

I didn’t miss a bet. My hands kept beating the dealers. I got face cards. When I hit on 13 and 14, I got 5’s, 6’s and 7’s. It rarely failed. I was on.

When my gut told me, “Bet $200 on this hand,” I did. And I won. When my gut told me, “Only bet the minimum,” I did.

And my losses were low.

I went from $100 dollars to $1,435. I could do no wrong.

But before I tell you how I lost the money, I want to pause for a moment and issue this warning to all of you who think you can win at gambling consistently: you cannot.

Unless you have the brain power to do multiple algorithms in your head, while adapting and changing them every 30 seconds, adding new variables and eliminating others, then you will lose at gambling.

Gambling is random and chaotic. Yes, you can predict, by playing enough, what may happen in coming hands or spins because you can make out patterns of wins and losses, but by that time, you have already

lost.

To win at gambling, you have to see and feel what wavelet you are on. If it feels like you are a bad wave, leave. If you are on a break even wave, stop. If you are on a good wave, take risks and ride it for as long as you can.

And so after an hour and a half of gambling and winning $1,345, the blackjack dealer shuffled the cards, I fell off the good wave.

On accident, I placed a $500 bet on the table. I confused it with a $100 chip. The dealer dealt, but she made a mistake and had to re-deal.

The dealer said we could pick up our bets if we wanted. My gut told me, “pick up the $500,” but I ignored it. I lost the next three hands.

My mind blurred. My decisions to bet were wrong. I was out of rhythm. I felt like I was fighting the cards, instead of going with them.

Eventually, my stack dwindled to $200 and I decided to go all in, to make my money back.

But I lost.

I rose from the table, went to the restroom, washed my face and left the casino.

I waited until I merged onto the highway to begin to shout.

“WHHHYYYYYYY DIDN’T YOU F***ING WALK AWAY!?!?,” I yelled at myself.

I punched the wheel. I cursed myself. I went from top to bottom in 20 minutes.

I went from feeling great to being irate.

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friends than to watch me do stand-up and completely fail, but you aren’t able to tell if they are laughing with you or sarcastically at you, so it works out for both parties.

It’s 21 to enter the club, but for the “Funniest in Wichita” competition, it’s 18 to enter and a perfect opportunity for a laugh.

Night life: The unspoken truths of going out in the city A guy walks into a bar with his buddies.

An echo of screams fills the air as COLUMN BY crowds of DANIELLE PREWITT single girls make their way through the door. Men with bright, wide eyes glare at every female that struts past. Clings of beer bottles.

Pounding music. Girls in tight skirts dance, dance, dance. A yell, a push and a shove. A fight erupts. Guy sees girl, approaches her. Girl smiles. Guy smiles.

Playful banter. Pounding music.

Live from downtown Wichita, it’s Saturday night.

I watch these scenes almost every time I sit down at a bar.

That, and the sight of thugs picking fights, girls dancing provocatively, lively groups of bachelorette parties and the same seemingly creepy men are strewn everywhere you go.

I took several trips downtown recently to sit back and enjoy some youthful tomfoolery by those consuming excessive amounts of alcohol. People-watching is a treasured pastime and a way to see beyond what others overlook — and the sheer entertainment, of course.

Now, nightlife in Wichita is about the same as any other city.

You have those few popular bars where everyone eventually ends up. Then, you have the not-so-popular places where drink prices are extremely low and contain a few odd souls dancing alone in questionable ways. And finally, there are the up-and-coming spots which cut their drink prices in half just to

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get bodies in the door.

Wichita nightlife is pretty humdrum and relaxed. You will see the same things occur almost every weekend: the fights, the creeps, the dancing, the bachelorette parties.

But that is the most interesting of all: the same occurrences happen every weekend. The same groups pick fights with one another. You see the same provocative dancing, the same creepy men and always another bachelorette party. The people may be different — except the persistent creeps — but the behaviors remain the same.

Now everyone has his or her reasons for going out to a bar. It may be relaxation, conversation, a chance for intoxication, perhaps? It all remains the same.

What I see most often are the singles, of course. The seemingly lonely souls looking for comfort, even if just for the night.

So is this just an ungodly cycle that happens every weekend? No. These are simply unspoken truths people understand subconsciously, but hesitate to face in reality.

Wichita nightlife can be mundane at first glance, but it can also be electrifying if you take in the energies and the sights and the sounds. Spend a night just people-watching — without allowing others to think you’re the creeper — and think what you will about the atmosphere.

It’s not to say these repetitive behaviors are bad, but it would be satisfying to see something different at a bar downtown besides the norm. Even if just for the night.

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Great opportunities for entertainment close to campus

By Kevin Brown STAFF REPORTER @krbrownjr

In college, many students have to try to find the balance between school, work and, in some cases, an internship or volunteer work. Managing to find free time amongst these activities can be exhausting, and it leaves students to look for avenues to relieve their stress — a search that can be daunting.

In the Wichita area, though, there are many different opportunities for students to find something to do — even things that may seem a little antiquated by modern standards. Harkening back to “the old days,” classic theatres are a great way to spend an evening.

Crown Uptown Theatre If you have ever wanted to find out what a real Broadway theatre experience is like, you don’t have to go far from home.

The Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre, 3207 E. Douglas, offers dinner along with “Broadway-style musicals, laugh-outloud comedies” and “celebrity guest artists.”

A theatre is not anything without a show. Through Oct. 30, the theatre is showing the Rocky Horror Show, starring Monte Wheeler, with midnight showings on Oct. 17 and 30.

For a student, it costs $25 for dinner and a show, and if you are not hungry, it’s only $10 for the show.

Forum Theatre Located right down the street from Wichita State at 147 S. Hillside, the Forum Theatre Performing Arts and Event Center is “committed to bringing Wichita quality entertainment at affordable prices for the entire family.”

Changing the featured show every few weeks, the Forum headlines titles such as “They’re Playing our Song,” “Blithe Spirit,” and, come holiday time, Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol.”

Tickets can be purchased by phone at (316) 618-0444, in person or at the door. Tickets cost $23 for Thursday evenings and Saturday matinees, and $25 for Friday and Saturday

Photo by Kevin Brown

A crowd gathers outside of the Crown Uptown Dinner Theatre after a production of “The Rocky Horror Show” on Saturday evening.

evenings.

WSU School of Performing Arts Sometimes, the opportunity to have fun can be in your own backyard — or, for WSU students, right on campus.

The School of Performing Arts, along with providing education in the performing arts category, offers the public a chance to see their productions.

With their upcoming show, “Julius Caesar,” directed by Bret Jones, individuals can go see a classic show involving “power, politics, jealousy and patriotism” for a minuscule price — no charge for WSU students, $6 non-WSU students, $8 faculty, staff, senior citizens and military

and $10 for the general public.

Call (316) 978-3233 for ticket purchasing information.

Wichita Community Theatre Nestled amongst Victorian-style houses and kitschy red-brick roads, one can find a vintage 1920s building that holds a vibrant entertainment life that is right out of the roaring '20s.

Located at 258 N. Fountain, the Wichita Community Theatre (WCT) prides itself on being an establishment that is about being an “all-volunteer organization that promotes quality, affordable live theatre and informal learning opportunities.”

Through Oct. 26, the WCT is highlighting a production of Bell, Book and Candle, written by John van Druten. Tickets are $14

for adults, $12 for students, seniors and military members.

For ticket information and purchasing, call the WCT at (316) 682-1282.

Starlite Drive-in Theatre Although the opportunities to see performances both live and in film are plenty in Wichita, it is also possible to see performances alfresco.

The Starlite Drive-in Theatre, 3900 S. Hydraulic, is known as being one of the country’s last functioning drive-in theatres. It is also a place that patrons can see not only one, but two or three movies in one place — for one flat price, depending on the night.

Highlighting $12 a carload (each vehicle gets in for $12,

regardless of the number of passengers) nights on Friday and Saturday, the Starlite is featuring “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day,” “Dolphin Tale 2” and “Guardians of the Galaxy” on screen 1, with “The Maze Runner,” “Annabelle” and “A Walk Among the Tombstones” on screen 2 starting at 7:45 p.m.

The Starlite can be contacted at (316) 524-2424 for ticket and showing information.

An affordable good time does not require you to go far with, in these cases, great opportunities only minutes from campus.

As a result, check out some of these theatres — there will not be an excuse to have a boring night in October.

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For a quick and easy drink, try this recipe. It’s a fast way to get your intake for fruits and vegetables for the day.

How to make a quick, delicious green drink Green drinks are one of the trendy items that I actually partake in.

RECIPE BY They seem TJ RIGG to have steadily grown in popularity over the last year or so and can be a great way to get your daily intake of fruits and vegetables without eating any. However, the best way to get those nutrients is to eat some fruit and vegetables.

As that isn’t always an option, I’m here with a green drink recipe for you that will not only meet your need of fruit and veggies, but will also satisfy your taste buds.

What you’ll need: 1 apple 1 bunch of kale 1 lemon 1-inch piece ginger 1 cucumber 3 celery stalks A handful of fresh mint Blend everything together until you get a nice smoothie-like texture, and you should be good to go. Not only is it healthy, but it tastes great, too.

Bonus: for a sweeter drink with more fruit, add blueberries to the mix. The color may not come out as green, but your drink will be a little sweeter and have more fruit in it. Drink and enjoy.

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As one prepares for a night out with a significant other, friends COLUMN BY or family, a PAULO LAZO question older than time itself infuses them with uncertainty: “Hey, where do you wanna go eat?”

Two hours (and three bottles of wine) later, having discussed a variety of possibilities without settling on a specific restaurant, one’s appetite for Wichita’s culinary wonders has vanished.

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Many have endured an evening such as this one.

Fear not, for several dining establishments in town offer diverse meal options on their menu for the indecisive consumer — one only needs to know where to look.

Jimmie’s Diner (breakfast for dinner option) Sunday - Thursday: 5:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday and Saturday: 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Whether it’s the ballad-filled jukeboxes or the $4.69 shakes, Jimmie’s Diner fails to disappoint. Should one venture to 29th Street and Rock Road and

find it within the glut of fast-food chains, one must order the $8.99 chicken fried steak and eggs with a side of hash browns and tater gems. The abundance of mouthwatering food blinds patrons out of sheer savor. Pictures of old owners, managers and local celebrities decorate the inside. They even have a waitress named Sweet Pea — how cool is that?

Public at the Brickyard (late night option) Tuesday - Thursday: 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday and Saturday: 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday: 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Of course it shows up on this list, given that few bars match the high-energy atmosphere of Brickyard that’s juxtaposed with the tranquil nature of its neighbor, Public. While the former typically hosts concerts and teems with an older, over-21 crowd, the latter serves as a restaurant for the whole family.

Public’s $9 Prairie Sliders shatter the barriers of f lavor the universe set upon us since our conception. They transcend what the common taste bud comprehends as regular nourishment, thus giving the impression of a foreign, puzzling, rubbing against one’s

palate in a most delightful way.

Their $9 Cuban sandwich is also pretty good. Make sure you order a beer from their wide selection.

Carrabba’s Italian Grill (fancy option) Monday - Thursday 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Friday 4 p.m. to 11 p.m.

Saturday 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Sunday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.

Perhaps if one’s mood demands a place with more panache — plus a willingness to spend a little extra — Carrabba’s is a suitable, worthy choice.

Their lobster ravioli possesses the extraordinary ability to unite body and soul within the first time one’s lips caress the layer of a single raviolo, thus transporting one to its genesis centuries ago, as one witnesses the formation of a coalition of Italy’s finest cooks and their struggles to find the perfect pasta.

Maybe this wasn’t the real way ravioli was created, but it’s guaranteed that this vision will appear as one indulges in this magnificent course, which is available (plus a 6 ounce sirloin) with a coupon as an entree for only $12.

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Looking for entertainment? Look elsewhere

Having lived in Wichita for 20 years, I’ve probably done everything COLUMN BY there is to do TJ RIGG in town.

When people come to visit, and they ask me what to do in the city, I usually snort with laughter, because it often seems like there’s nothing to do in this city.

Sure, we have Final Friday, the Sedgwick County Zoo, the Exploration Place and other entertainment venues, but you can only go so many times before visiting them becomes repetitive.

I hate to say it, but Wichita is a dying city when it comes to entertainment.

When I was younger, we had a fantastic arcade in Towne East Square. Around 2005, it closed for good.

Until 2004, Joyland was the place to spend a Friday or Saturday night. I went the year before they closed the amusement park, and I wish I would have gone more now that I reflect on it.

Driving past the park and seeing the deteriorating roller coaster and other rides standing, abandoned, is just depressing.

Then of course, there was Skate East. My elementary school used to host skate nights there once a month for students, and I always

loved going to each of those to skate with friends while Grandma sat and watched. I even had my 12th birthday party there.

I’m not sure when Skate East closed, but I was driving down Woodlawn one day over the summer and decided to drive by the skating rink. I was saddened to find that it had been closed.

Three of Wichita’s finest places to hang out are all closed. It seems that every year, more and more things from childhood are closing or moving out of the city.

The entertainment venues the city offers nowadays can only be enjoyed to a certain extent. If you’re looking for good entertainment that isn’t just same old, same old, you might have to travel out of Wichita.

I’d suggest heading to Kansas City or Oklahoma City. Both places have plenty to offer for people of all ages.

Heck, you even have to travel out of the city if you want to gamble. Granted, you only have to travel to Mulvane to find a casino, but wouldn’t it be nice if you didn’t have to drive out of the city to find some entertainment?

Hopefully Wichita adds more entertainment venues in the next few years and doesn’t keep closing places down. If places keep closing, we may have nothing left for entertainment in just a couple of years.

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The Nightmare Roller Coaster at Joyland still stands on the park site on south Hillside. Joyland Park closed in 2004, due to economic concerns, and remains abandoned today.

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So let us here at the Sunflower tell you about three can’t-miss COLUMN BY shows and COURTNEY HOLMES movies available on Netflix. Some episodes are sad, some are happy and some have sparked controversy and social reform.

With fall break upon us, here are shows and movies that will entertain you in your time away from school.

‘Dear Zachary: A letter to a son about his father’ “Dear Zachary” starts very slow and with great tragedy.

Kurt Kuenne, the voice and director of the film, is grieving for the tremendous loss of his best friend, Andrew Bagby.

Bagby and Kuenne grew up together. Kuenne, destined to be a filmmaker, would cast Bagby in all his films growing up, and the two spent a great deal of time together. Bagby was allegedly murdered by his girlfriend, Shirley Jane Turner. Turner turns out to be pregnant with Bagby’s son, Zachary. So, a grieving Kuenne sets out to capture and memorialize video of what Bagby left behind. Make sure to grab a tissue box before settling in on “Dear Zachary.”

Despite it being incredibly sad, it’s a can’t-miss, well-done 93 minutes. It’s a true tribute from a best friend.

‘Orange is the New Black’ Piper is mad. Piper didn’t mean to hide the drugs in her suitcase and didn’t really know what her girlfriend, Alex, was doing. Now Piper is in deep trouble and has to leave everything behind to go pay for her mistake.

“Orange is the New Black” can only be found on Netflix and has become widely popular among Netflix fans and critics.

The show, based on the creator’s real experience in a women’s prison, has even sparked widespread prison reform. The show depicts Piper and the journeys of the women of the prison.

There are some vulgar moments on the show, which is why it’s only offered on Netflix. There is no filter whatsoever. So if you are more conservative, keep the remote handy and just fast forward through some of the more graphic content.

There is more good content than bad in the series. It is fulfilling to see how each of the characters got to the point where they had to do time in prison, demonstrated nicely by the directors. Both seasons of the show are available on Netflix.

“Gilmore Girls” Actress Lauren Graham will always be best known for the seven years she spent as Lorelei on the hit Warner-Bros. series, “Gilmore Girls.”

In “Gilmore Girls,” Graham plays a 30-something, raising her gifted teenage daughter Rory (Alexis Bledel). When the show came out in 2000, it was preTeen Mom 1,2 and 3 era, and a lot of people weren’t really talking about teen pregnancy.

While the show is fictional, it still shows the struggles Lorelei faces raising Rory physically, financially and emotionally.

With a supporting cast of Bledel, Melissa McCarthy and the Saw trilogies’ Scott Patterson, the show is full of dramatic moments and witty banter with an all-star cast. All seven seasons are now available on Netflix.

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I’m an absolute sucker for ridiculous, trendy apps, no matter how disputable their usefulness may be. There’s something fascinating about this nightmarish cyber future we’ve built for ourselves, and I guess I like watching the world burn enough that Yik Yak appeals to me on some level.

For those who don’t know, Yik Yak is basically Twitter, but it’s anonymous, and the feed is generated by location, not by following people. Not surprisingly, it’s blown up in a big way at Wichita State this semester, after recently rising in popu-

larity at other universities.

Twitter proved that, when given an opportunity to share a constant stream of their thoughts, most people prove to be uninteresting.

That, in and of itself, makes it interesting. Yik Yak localizes that concept, meaning the post you just read could have been posted by the person sitting across from you in the student center.

It’s amusing to find out what is going through the heads of people around us, but with that comes the revelation that some of it is concerning, to put it generously.

A significant portion of the WSU feed every day is pure mundanity, but there’s also a disturbing amount of pure garbage.

I loaded up the app for the first time in a week recently and immediately saw a post implying international students smell bad. There were plenty of posts sharing similar sentiments a few weeks ago during the international food festival on campus.

I hope I don’t have to explain why that’s messed up.

It’s also common to see people suggesting that they would like to have sex with a complete stranger they just saw, usually a woman. This usually involves physically

describing said stranger to an immeasurable, anonymous crowd.

I can’t stop anyone from having those kinds of thoughts about another person, but I have to wonder whether it’s appropriate to share them in a public forum when you don’t know who is in the audience.

That kind of thing can make someone feel violated or unsafe.

If you wouldn’t say it within their earshot, maybe you shouldn’t say it anywhere.

Even with the amount of unpleasantness on Yik Yak, I want to note that I think it still has merit. It’s fun to share thoughts with a localized audience.

That’s what I’m doing right now. I just think people should take more time to consider the possible consequences of what they say.

There’s a false notion that Internet harassment, or “cyberbullying” or whatever you want to call it, carries less weight because you can just look away from the screen.

But there can be negative effects to reading a gross, anonymous comment about yourself.

So, please keep that in mind when you use Yik Yak. Let’s try to make it fun for everyone.

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