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TOPEKA, FEB. 15Brad Dickson sits behind his desk in a T-shirt and shorts, the same out-fi t he plans to wear when he spends spring break in Panama City Beach, Florida, for the fi rst time next month. It’s only 2 p.m., but the 46-year-old plumber has gone through nearly a gallon of margaritas. The bright-blue shark on his shirt tells people to “GET SHARKFACED.”

“I’m a little older than the average spring-break demographic, which my wife won’t let me forget,” Dick-son says.

But average spring breakers make up the perfect demographic for his other business: Sharkbite Cocktails LLC, an Olathe distillery that has been selling Shark Attack frozen margaritas in a tube since April 2010. Dickson is tan and solidly built. He looks more like a scuba instructor (which he is) than a Johnson County father of three (which he also is).

In a beige offi ce park within hailing distance of the Great Mall of the Great

Plains, Dickson walks through a gal-ley kitchen that serves as his cocktail laboratory. A small wooden sign over the sink reads: “Tequila makes wom-en’s clothes come off.” The room’s three fi ller machines are capable of pushing out 30,000 foot-long foil tubes a day, supplying a product now available in 13 states. He’s trying to nail down his production schedule, knowing that he’ll be on the road for six of the next eight weeks.

Dickson’s Sharkbite Cocktails is one of three microdistilleries (the indus-try term for boutique liquor opera-tions) launched on the Kansas side of the metro area in the past four years. Good Spirits Distilling, which makes Clear 10 Vodka, opened in Olathe in 2009, and Dark Horse Distillery is set to begin selling white whiskey and

vodka in Lenexa this spring. Kansas is riding the tail end of a nationwide trend with craft spirits, according to Bill Owens, president of the American Distilling Institute, a trade and edu-cational organization for craft outfi ts such as Sharkbite.

“We’ve been through a beer renaissance. We’ve seen it with food and wine for sure. Now, spirits is the last industry to go through that renaissance,” Owens says. “And Kansas is a little bit under the radar. There are entrepreneurs in our cul-ture, and they have the DNA in them to distill. I’m pulling people from the professional ranks who want to be producing a real product versus working in an offi ce.”

He estimates that there are 397 U.S. microdistilleries, with another three to fi ve opening each month. The fi rst Kansas microdistillery was licensed seven years ago, when Seth Fox launched High Plains Distillery in the backyard of MGP Ingredients, the alcohol giant that contract-distills McCormick’s 360 Vodka and reported more than $76 million in sales last quarter. By comparison, Fox’s Atchison distill-ery ships to eight states and sold about 25,000 cases in 2010 of his Most Wanted and Fox brands of vodka, gin, whiskey and tequila.

There’s an old joke about how easy it is to get a drink in Kansas — you just need to get in your car, drive a few miles and go right across the state line into Mis-souri. But a lot has changed since Carry Amelia Nation got

ONCE THE NATION’S DRIEST STATE, KANSAS COULD BECOME A MICRODISTILLERY MECCA.

Clinically depressed Kansans imbibe fine local alcoholic spirits.

LEAVENWORTH, FEB. 15The idea that Kansas is a dry state stems from the state’s decision to be the fi rst in the union to outlaw alco-hol, in 1881. Liquor enthusiasts and retailers have been chipping away at the state’s blue laws ever since. Kansans were gifted with beer with an alcohol content of less than 3.2 percent in 1937, four years after the 21st Amendment repealed federal Prohibition. Kansas still hasn’t rati-fi ed that amendment, but the state ban was lifted in 1948. Alcoholic Beverage Control, a division of the state’s Department of Revenue, was created that same year to license, regulate and tax liquor sales.

“I wouldn’t consider Kansas a dry state,” says Doug Jorgensen, direc-tor of the ABC. “People might con-sider Kansas to be one of the most regulated states, but I don’t have a problem with that.”

The legislative landscape, though, may be changing. Sixteen liquor-related bills are before the Kansas Legislature, and include allowing a new class of license to bring distill-eries in line with farm wineries and brewpubs; a new venue license that would change regulations for stadi-ums and facilities like the Kansas Speedway; and the legalization of full-strength-beer and liquor sales at convenience and grocery stores. In an effort to speed up that change, Dark Horse Distillery has hired lob-byist Phillip Bradley to push Senate Bill 358, which would make it legal to serve free

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KANSAS CITY, FEB. 15February’s edition of Sweeps Bingo is brought to you with a heavy heart. Kansas City’s best TV investigator, Russ Ptacek, is leaving KSHB Chan-nel 41 for Washington, D.C.’s CBS affi liate, WUSA 9. The reporter’s exit is cause for scuzzy politicians across the metro to clink glasses. (D.C. crooks right now are bliss-fully unaware of the tornado headed their way.) Watch this space for an exit interview with Ptacek. Mean-while, sweeps month is under way with exploding appliances and nosy cadaver dogs. Grab your daubers and play along with The Pitch’s Kansas City Sweeps

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Meats Overland Park.OVERLAND PARK, FEB. 15The apocryphal Persian king Shah-ryar had thousands of wives but never kept one longer than 24 hours. The morning after each wedding, accord-ing to the legend of the Arabian Nights, Shahryar had his new bride beheaded. By the afternoon, he’d found a new virgin to marry that night.

The bodies stopped piling up when Shah-ryar married Schehe-razade, the daughter of his court vizier. Her ability to spin one exciting story after another kept her husband entranced — and her head fi rmly on her neck.

Chef and restaurateur Rashid Khalaf has had two wives, and he’s

a pretty good storyteller himself. A native of Jerusalem, Khalaf has lived most of his life in the United States. The former soccer-playing college

student became a professional cook by taking kitchen jobs in many Middle East-ern restaurants in the area, including the old Athena on Broadway in the 1980s. That’s where he learned how to prepare classic Greek cuisine from the venue’s owners, Yan-nis and Suzi Vantzos. The Athena, which closed in 1994, was

where I met Khalaf. He didn’t teach me anything about cooking, but he did give me a full vocabulary of Ara-bic curse words, many of which were directed at me.

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KANSAS CITY, FEB. 15The fi ctional town of Dillon, Texas, has colored my worldview for the past month, as I’ve binge-watched my way through nearly the entire Friday Night Lights television series. I would love to use this space to write about my endless admira-tion for Coach Taylor, or the many times I’ve cried while watching (mostly scenes with Matt Saracen), or Riggins’ Rigs, or Crucifi ctori-ous, or how perfect-looking Minka Kelly is. I mention the show instead because my journey to the fi nal epi-sodes coincided last weekend with the arrival in Kansas City of Craig Finn, who has titled his debut solo album Clear Heart Full Eyes – a transposed reference to FNL.

As the leader of the bookish bar-rock act the

Finn delighted audiences with song-singery and pointed verbal flourishes.

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KANSAS CITY, FEB. 15Do your feet bleed?” a child asks.

William Whitener, artistic direc-tor of the Kansas City Ballet, chuck-les and repeats the question for the rest of the crowd gathered for this Friday-night open rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet.

In response, a ballerina shakes her head, removes one of her slippers and passes it to

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What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Talk-show host. My show would be a combination of Fashion Police, Talk Soup and Meet the Press.

What was the last local restaurant you pa-tronized? Bo Lings

Where do you drink? Anywhere they make a great cosmo.

What’s your favorite charity? Water.org — do-ing amazing things with microfi nance and clean water all over the world. A lot of people don’t realize they are located here in KC.

Favorite place to spend your paycheck: At a craps table with a hot pair of dice.

What local phenomenon do you think is over-rated? Fireworks anywhere around the city. I think they are boring. I go see them because it is required as part of my job description as a mom.

Where do you like to take out-of-town guests? The Plaza

Finish this sentence: “Other than the Kauff-man Center, Kansas City got it right when …” It revitalized downtown. Growing up, down-town was empty at 5 p.m. Now when I go down there, things are hopping. I can even hail a cab if I need one. That is a sign that our little city has grown up!

“Kansas City screwed up when it …” Approved the eighth-cent sales tax to create a “world-class zoo.” Let me write in bold, I LOVE ANIMALS, but I had a hard time seeing all the penguin signs all over the neighborhoods when there are so many serious issues facing Kansas City, Missouri. I am a friend of the zoo, I frequent the zoo, and I love the zoo. But I think that money could have been used for educa-tion, crime prevention, snow removal, etc.

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take(s) up a lot of space in my iTunes: Barry Manilow. Yes, I’m a fanilow.

What movie do you watch at least once a year? When it fi nally comes out, it will be Arrested Development, but for now it is … Juno.

What local tradition do you take part in every year? Jiggle Jam

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Interesting brush with the law? During college, sitting in my car with friends, drinking beer and listening to the radio. I didn’t realize as a young lady that listening to the radio without the car running would burn the battery out. I was book-smart, not common-sense smart, people! Cop arrives to fi nd us in a dead car with beer cans littered around the car. I convince him that the beer cans were just there when we arrived, and he gives us a ride back to campus. Twenty years later, thank you, offi cer!

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Brad Dickson sits behind his desk in a T-shirt and shorts, the same outfi t he plans to wear when he spends spring break in Panama City Beach, Florida, for the fi rst time next month. It’s only 2 p.m., but the 46-year-old plumber has

gone through nearly a gallon of margaritas. The bright-blue shark on his shirt tells people to “GET SHARKFACED.”

“I’m a little older than the average spring-break demo-graphic, which my wife won’t let me forget,” Dickson says.

But average spring-breakers make up the perfect demographic for his other business: Sharkbite Cocktails LLC, an Olathe distillery that has been selling Shark Attack frozen margaritas in a tube since April 2010. Dickson is tan and solidly built. He looks more like a scuba instructor (which he is) than a Johnson County father of three (which he also is).

In a beige offi ce park within hailing distance of the Great Mall of the Great Plains, Dickson walks through a galley kitchen that serves as his cocktail laboratory. A small wooden sign over the sink reads: “Tequila makes women’s clothes come off.” The room’s three fi ller machines are capable of pushing out 30,000 foot-long foil tubes a day, supplying a product now available in 15 states. He’s trying to nail down his production schedule, knowing that he’ll be on the road for six of the next eight weeks.

Dickson’s Sharkbite Cocktails is one of three micro-distilleries (the industry term for boutique liquor opera-tions) launched on the Kansas side of the metro area in the past four years. Good Spirits Distilling, which makes Clear 10 Vodka, opened in Olathe in 2009, and Dark Horse Distillery is set to begin selling white whiskey and vodka in Lenexa this spring. Kansas is riding the tail end of a nationwide trend with craft spirits, accord-ing to Bill Owens, president of the American Distilling Institute, a trade and educational organization for craft outfi ts such as Sharkbite.

“We’ve been through a beer renaissance. We’ve seen it with food and wine for sure. Now, spirits is the last industry to go through that renaissance,” Owens says. “And Kansas is a little bit under the radar. There are entrepreneurs in our culture, and they have the DNA in them to distill. I’m pulling people from the professional ranks who want to be produc-ing a real product versus working in an offi ce.”

He estimates that there are 397 U.S. microdistilleries, with another three to fi ve opening each month. The fi rst Kansas microdistillery was licensed seven years ago, when Seth Fox launched High Plains Distillery in the backyard of MGP Ingredients, the alcohol giant that contract-distills McCormick’s 360 Vodka and reported more than $76 million in sales last quarter. By compari-son, Fox’s Atchison distillery ships to eight states and

sold about 25,000 cases in 2010 of his Most Wanted and Fox brands of vodka, gin, whiskey and tequila.

There’s an old joke about how easy it is to get a drink in Kansas — you just need to get in your car, drive a few miles and go right across the state line into Missouri. But a lot has changed since Carry Amelia Nation got her 6-foot frame behind an ax and started taking it to saloon doors more than a century ago.

The idea that Kansas is a dry state stems from the state’s decision to be the fi rst in the union to outlaw alcohol, in 1881. Liquor enthusiasts and retailers have been chipping away at the state’s blue laws ever since. Kansans were gifted with beer with an alcohol content of less than 3.2 percent in 1937, four years after the 21st Amendment repealed federal Prohibition. Kansas still hasn’t ratifi ed that amendment, but the state ban was lifted in 1948. Alcoholic Beverage Control, a division of the state’s Department of Revenue, was created that same year to license, regulate and tax liquor sales.

“I wouldn’t consider Kansas a dry state,” says Doug Jorgensen, director of the ABC. “People might consider Kansas to be one of the most regulated states, but I don’t have a problem with that.”

The legislative landscape, though, may be changing. Sixteen liquor-related bills are before the Kansas Legisla-ture, and include allowing a new class of license to bring

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distilleries in line with farm wineries and brew-pubs; a new venue license that would change regulations for stadiums and facilities like the Kansas Speedway; and the legalization of full-strength-beer and liquor sales at convenience and grocery stores. In an effort to speed up that change, Dark Horse Distillery has hired lobbyist Phillip Bradley to push Senate Bill 358, which would make it legal to serve free samples in Kansas microdistilleries.

The rising profi le of spirits reminds some of the push that led to brewpubs being legalized in 1987. At the front of that charge was Chuck Magerl, the founder of Free State Brewing Co., which opened in Lawrence two years later.

“Distilleries may have an easier time now than 25 years ago, when I was trying to change the state laws,” Magerl says. “And I feel like there is a greater appreciation here and throughout the Midwest for the diversity of fl avors and in-teresting ideas.”

Today, Kansas has 20 microbrewery license holders and 44 farm-winery license holders. It has taken 60 years, but Kansas fi nally may be ready to shed its dry-state reputation.

The idea had haunted him for months be-fore the word came to him in January

2008: fl avorita. “We were in our neighborhood, watch-

ing kids with Fla-Vor-Ice pops outside, and one of the moms told me she wished we had something like that for us that doesn’t taste like shit,” Dickson says.

Soon after he scrawled fl avorita in dry-erase marker on his bathroom mirror, he hired a research assistant to determine what it would take to launch a liquor company. By mid-April, he had concocted a prototype: a frozen mar-garita in a Go-Gurt yogurt tube, pinched off with a paper clip.

Dickson is a serial entrepreneur. Sharkbite is, by his count, the fourth business he has created. He started a Leawood landscaping business while he was in high school. After selling Dick-son Lawn Service in 1993 and graduating from Mid-America Nazarene College, with a degree in management and human resources, he found himself working in what he calls a “cement cof-

fi n,” a cubicle where he sold software by phone. Next, he helped launch a company that made perforated card inserts for magazines. It was lucrative but unfulfi lling.

What he loved was the tinkering he did during off hours, projects like the homemade-margarita machine that brought together a cooler and a garbage disposal to chew up a 25-pound bag of ice in minutes.

“I just thought there was an easier way to make margaritas. This was before QVC,” Dickson says.

The mechanically inclined Dickson even-tually found a job that suited him. Dickson Plumbing celebrates its 14th anniversary this June, about a month after Brad and his wife, Tawnia, throw their 21st Cinco de Mayo party. It was the plumbing business that kept Shark Attack afl oat in the early days. His lead plumber, Josiah Linkous, doubled as his chief Shark Attack employee, helping create a more advanced prototype by working a machine de-signed for fi lling spaghetti-sauce containers. In February 2009, Dickson signed a three-year lease on a 3,000-square-foot commercial space

in Olathe with dreams of having the frozen pops on store shelves by the next year.

“It was all on faith,” Dickson says. The fi rst test of that faith came when federal

regulators required him to purchase his tequila directly from the manufacturer. He estimates that he contacted 700 distilleries in Mexico. A single broker replied. So Dickson did what he does best: He got on a plane and he sold himself.

“I thought: This guy could meet me at the airport, hit me on the head with a hammer and rob me blind,” Dickson says. “He showed up in an old, beat-up pickup truck. I only knew two Spanish words — cerveza and baño — but fortunately, he spoke English.”

Dickson and his translator convinced the plant’s owner to close the deal. In March 2009, 3,000 bottles arrived from Mexico.

Production was supposed to start a month later. But then Dickson received a letter from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Offi ce telling him that his trademark application for Sharkbite Cocktails had been denied. Joseph E. Seagram & Sons Inc. already owned a trademark for Shark-bite Rum, granted in 1989.

“I remember I was sitting in the parking lot and I couldn’t breathe. I was completely numb,” Dickson says. “I had $25,000 in this company and I felt like my whole life had been sucked out of me. But I have this mantra: Keep moving forward.”

By April 2009, the bank balance was $7.62. Determined to get his business started, Dick-son secured his fi rst investor (private inves-tors now own 40 percent of the company), and the $10,000 infusion kept the lights on as he applied for a new trademark under the name Shark Attack. Dickson says the name refers to the human threat to sharks, not the stuff of scary movies. Since a youth spent watching Jacques Cousteau on TV, he has wanted to swim with — and touch — a great white shark.

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buying his entire inventory of 30,000 tubes. They had taken three months to make, with each tube hand-fi lled and sealed. The plumber was offi cially in the liquor business.

As Dickson tried to keep up with demand, another distillery was just breaking ground, 10 miles north on Interstate 35. Outside a red-brick building, only a few potted topiaries hint that the business within is unlike the rest of this commercial complex’s tenants. Inside, the aroma of fresh-baked bread — courtesy of the boiling grain a few hundred feet away — fi lls the tiled lobby.

Dark Horse Distillery is the brainchild of four siblings: Damian, Patrick, Eric and Mary Garcia. On a January afternoon, they share a sofa facing a wall of windows looking out on the 500-gallon copper still (from Vendome Copper & Brass Works in Louisville, Kentucky) and the stainless-steel fermentation tanks that are the heart of the newest distillery in Kansas. Like Dickson and Dark Horse CEO Kris Hennessy (who has long sold veterinary vaccines), they’ve been lured off surer career tracks by the prospect of making their own spirits.

“The Kansas City market was one that hasn’t been tapped,” Eric Garcia says. “We wanted to drink something that was made here. We’ve seen other success stories in Kansas City, and we aspire to bring something here that hasn’t been done yet.”

Patrick, 34, was the fi rst to walk away from his job. He was working as an investment banker for Charles Schwab. He oversaw the fi tting of this 6,500-square-foot warehouse space last winter and began learning the craft alongside Travis Vander Vegte, the company’s other distiller who has been mashing and cooking since last July.

“Most of the time, Travis handles the mill-ing, and I handle the distillation, but we trade those duties frequently,” Patrick says. “It’s

a big change from sitting behind a desk to controlling this thing,” he adds, giving the still a gentle pat.

Notes for each batch go on dry-erase boards clipped to the fermentation tanks. Dark Horse is producing 40-50 gallons a day, and Garcia spends seven to eight hours working next to the still — exactly what the American Distilling Institute’s Owens prescribes.

“There’s no graduate school for distilling, but it’s not rocket science,” Owens says. “It just takes practice. We’ve been distilling for 6,000 years.”

Damian, 35, came on next, as the head of sales and marketing. He left a sales job at Rheuark FSI, where he had worked with clients in the food and beverage industry for 13 years.

“Dark Horse symbolized us as a group,” Damian says. “We are starting out at the back of the pack. We’re the underdogs. But we’re ready to run.”

Eric, 30, left Chicago this past December, after resigning from the state prosecutor’s offi ce. He’s the only one of the family who admits that he has watched Discovery Channel’s Moon-shiners as part of his distillery education. And Mary, 23, having recently graduated from the University of Missouri with an English degree, came on this winter to oversee special events and the company’s social-media strategy.

The family has always been close. They grew up in south Kansas City. Their father worked for IBM, and their mother was a bank teller. Family dinners are on Wednesday nights, and their mother watches her grandchildren while the siblings hash out issues with the dis-tillery. The company received its manufactur-ing license last April, and its fi rst products are due out this spring: Long Shot White Whiskey and Rider Vodka. On the calendar for late sum-mer: rye whiskey and bourbon aged in charred American oak barrels.

“This is a new way of doing things,” Eric says. “It’s about what we can do differently.”

“There’s touches of the traditional, with the copper still from Kentucky, but we’re aiming for the modern feel of the Northwest,” Damian adds.

Three event spaces at the Dark Horse Dis-tillery fl ow in an L-shape around the distilling room, and there’s a showpiece kitchen with enough stainless steel and granite to star on an HGTV remodeling show. Pendant lights and wrought-iron lanterns hang over supple leather couches and dark-wood tables. The fl oor-to-ceiling windows throughout the facility mean that the distillery’s operations are always trans-parent. On a Tuesday in January, rye is being brewed in the still. The adjacent mash cooker is busy agitating grains — it sounds like a large room fan. The spent grains go to a local farmer

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as cattle feed. The racks in the bottling room next door are empty, awaiting the pallets and labels once Dark Horse moves into production.

“I just picture going to a bar on a weekend and there’s all those liquors on the shelf. Some-day, our liquor is going to be behind that bar,” Patrick says. “Until that day happens, I will still feel like it’s kind of a dream.”

It’s the excitement of those early days that Dickson sometimes misses, the 20-hour

shifts, the quirks of small business, telling callers to hold on while the train passed by right outside.

“The alcohol business needed another pre-mixed margarita like a hole in the head,” Dickson says. “The difference was the packag-ing and the fact that we make a real margarita.”

Dickson’s product has just fi ve ingredients: lime juice, cane sugar, fi ltered water, tequila and orange liqueur (which is now contract-distilled by the neighboring Good Spirits Distilling). The result is a taste that evokes frosty glasses rather than pre-mixed tubs gathering dust in a forgot-ten aisle of the liquor store.

By October 2010, Dickson’s operation needed more room. He settled on the 10,000-square-foot space in Olathe that now houses the manufac-turing line, storage room, test kitchen and of-fi ces. The company took off in 2011, with sales growing sevenfold, in part because of a contract with Sam’s Club and Wal-Mart. Dickson even entertained a serious buyout offer from what he calls “a major, major corporation.”

“If we don’t get another offer and I can come to work in shorts and fl ip-fl ops for the next 20 years, that’s fi ne with me,” Dickson says. “But if somebody bought me out, I’d get a sailboat, and you’d fi nd me all over the world diving.”

He pauses for a second. “Then I’d start another company that helps

seed small businesses.” By the end of last year, Shark Attack margari-

tas were in 15 states, a number that Dickson ex-pects to nearly double in 2012. And next month, Dickson launches his second frozen product: a hard lemonade — a clear hard lemonade.

“Why do I need to add yellow color if it’s not yellow?” Dickson says. Two additional fl avors are planned for this summer.

While Dickson is Kansas’ de facto liquor am-bassador to other states, Dark Horse Distillery hopes to attract tourists to the Midwest. Magerl calls that a winning strategy. He believes that the expansion of microdistilleries, like micro-breweries, is more about increasing awareness than overcoming opposition.

“People thought you could have a large dis-tillation operation or a still in the backwoods — nobody thought there was anything between,” he says. “The concept that there’s a limited urban-hipster demographic that is going to appreciate quality and fl avor is rapidly fading as a stereotype. The idea of being stuck in the hinterlands and not having choices is no longer really applicable.”

A plumber who now runs a frozen-margarita business, the siblings who left behind success-ful careers to start a distillery from scratch — Shark Attack and Dark Horse are rewriting their state’s liquor lore, long after Carry Nation came to save Kansans from themselves. And they’re leading the way for other microdistill-eries. Regardless of what happens during the latest legislative session in Topeka, Kansas is only going to get wetter.

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ME SO THORNYWhat’s your idea of edgy local entertainment? Boylesque? Air-sex competitions? Trolling the KC posts on thedirty.com? Try this instead: the dark cabaret performances of Troupe Somnium. This new group of performance artists claims to stage a mix of sketch comedy, sideshow acts, circus skills and BDSM ele-ments under their fishnets and bowler hats. The group’s season opener, Screw the Roses, “examines the darker side of love, obses-sion and the heart during a time that we are focused elsewhere,” says creative director Allison Henthorn. “Everyone goes home yearning, if not completely satisfied.” See the one-night-only show at the Fishtank Perfor-mance Studio (1715 Wyandotte, 816-809-7110) at 8:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased for $10 at brownpapertickets.com/event/220376. For more information, search Troupe Somnium on Facebook. — BERRY ANDERSON

F R I D AY | 2.17 | [ T H E A T E R ]

THE CONTINENTALHave you met Victor Continental? He’s the Lawrence lothario who can drop panties with the shake of his martini. Played by Jerry Mitchell, Continental returns tonight and Saturday to help stage Literary Canon Fodder at 8 p.m. at the Lawrence Arts Center (940 New Hampshire, in Lawrence, 785-843-2787). The comedy show, written by Will Averill and directed by Continental show partner Jeremy Auman, takes audience members on a vaudeville- inspired journey through the history of literature by performing literary works in under a minute. Sample Homer in rap form, or see what Hemingway looks like as live anime. Call the center or see lawrenceartscenter.org for more info. Tickets cost $7. — APRIL FLEMING

S AT U R D AY | 2.18 |[ P U P P E T S ]

UNHUMAN AND UNCENSORED You think improv comedy is tough? Try do-ing it with someone’s hand up your ass. That’s

the kind of humor to be expected from the adults-only performance of Stuffed and Un-strung by Henson Alternative at Yardley Hall, at Johnson County Community College (12345 College, Overland Park, 913-469-4445). Brian Henson, the chairman of the Jim Henson Co., first debuted this mix of puppetry, blue comedy and music at the 2006 HBO Comedy Festival in Aspen, Colorado, and has taken it on the road as far as Scotland and Australia. The host of the show, Patrick Bristow, has a long list of TV and movie credits (Seinfeld and So I Married an Axe Murderer), so he can probably wrangle six puppeteers, who stand in full view of the audience. As with typical improv acts, suggestions from the audience are incorpo-rated into the show’s story line. Tickets cost $35, $45 and $80 and are available at jccc.edu/TheSeries or by calling the Yardley Hall box office. The show starts at 8 p.m. — NADIA PFLAUM

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THE MOVES OF TODAYSince 1985, City in Motion Dance Theater has been a constant in the local arts community, promoting its professional company and dance school as a center for innovation in the Mid-west. “To me, modern dance is so appealing to watch because there is a lot of diversity in

interpretations of choreography or ideas. There is an artistry involved in it that I feel pulls the audience in and keeps them guessing,” says Crystal Robins, production director of A Modern

Night at the Folly. The event features 11 area choreographers and acts, including a Björk-themed multimedia production (“Unravel” by Kimberly Holloway) and a dance summoning

a tragic accident (“Triangle Factory Fire” by Maggie Osgood Nicholls). “As far as types of pieces being presented this year, it really has a dif-ferent feel compared to years past,” Robins

says. “You’ll see the best Kansas City has to offer.” The show starts at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15-$20 and can be purchased at the Folly box office (300 West 12th Street, 816-474-4444) or through Ticketmaster. For information, see cityinmotion.org. — LISA HORN

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DROPPIN’ BEATSThis party-rocking DJ business is harder than it sounds. The Red Bull Thre3Style DJ contest at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560) pits the

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D.L. Hughley’s life story could have been written by Horatio Alger. Raised in South Central Los Angeles, Hughley became a

member of the Bloods but left the gang after his cousin was shot. He worked his way through office jobs and temping while learning the craft of stand-up comedy, and his years of work re-sulted in a career-changing appearance in the comedy documentary The Original Kings of

Comedy. That catapult led to appearances and starring roles in a number of television shows, including Aaron Sorkin’s ill-fated but wonderful Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip. His routine fo-cuses principally on politics and family life. See him Friday through Sunday at Kansas City Improv (7260 Northwest 87th Street, in Zona Rosa). Tickets cost $33 for the 21-and-older show. Call 816-759-5233 or see improvkc.com for show-times and more information.

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S U N D AY | 2.19 |[ T H E A T E R ]

FIDDLIN’ ABOUTThe Who’s Tommy is a stage production based on the Who’s 1969 double album that begat the 1975 Ken Russell film. The psychedelic rock opera is rife with pinball wizardry and a lecherous uncle, but most important, Pete Townshend’s music and lyrics are electrify-ingly good. Tommy was adapted for the stage by Townshend and musical-theater vet Des McAnuff in 1993. Since then, there have been scores of productions all over the world, includ-ing today’s matinee at the White Theatre, at the Jewish Community Center Campus (5801 West 115th Street, Overland Park, 913-327-8054). See, feel and hear The Who’s Tommy today at 2 p.m. Tickets cost $22 ($11 for students); buy them online at click4tix.com or call the box office. The show runs through February 26. See jcckc.org. — MEGAN METZGER

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GOSPEL OF WEALTHOver seven years and $10 million worth of reno-vations, the Kansas City Museum’s Corinthian Hall has remained open to the public. Even with the difficult and delicate nature of fully re-storing a large house and historic property, plus the irregular funding from the city (because of the economy), museum director Christopher Leitch considers the addition of air condition-ing throughout the 70 rooms of the building a huge success. “This increases our capacity as a

public institution and as a museum a thousand-fold,” he says. Leitch leads a 90-minute hardhat tour of the Gilded Age gem (and lumber baron Robert A. Long’s former home), which includes an ornate salon and library. Also, the museum’s stained-glass windows are on display, including one exposed for the first time in 40 years. See your local tax dollars at work at 12:30 p.m. Tour-goers must be older than 12 and wear closed- toe shoes. RSVP at kansascitymuseum.org or by calling 816-483-8300. Admission is $5. The museum is located in the historic Northeast at 3218 Gladstone Boulevard. — LISA HORN

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SONGS OF THE SMOOSHMusical Theater Heritage’s Musical Mondays are “always a blast and they always sell out,” says executive producer Chad Gerlt. Featuring performances from members of other outfits, such as the Coterie Theatre and American Heartland Theatre, Gerlt says local performers frequently crash the party and bring their best stuff. It’s a type of post-Valentine’s Day show and stars Jerry Jay Cranford, Katie Karel, John Daugharthy, Jessalyn Kincaid and Liz Clark Golson (with musical backup). “You can expect some really big showstoppers, and in the inti-mate theater space of the Off Center Theatre, you can bet that they will blow the roof off the place,” Gerlt says. Does enthusiasm for local theater get much more exuberant than that? The show starts at 7:30 p.m. and costs $18 (the box office opens at 6:30, and seating begins at 7) at the Off Center Theatre (2450 Grand, third floor of Crown Center, 816-274-8444). For reservations, call 816-221-6987 or see musicaltheaterheritage.com. — BERRY ANDERSON

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presents “A Taste of the Season,” a free class. With camping season approaching, the ses-sion highlights foil pack (also known as hobo pack) cooking, but with a wild gourmet twist. Attendees try bison meat stuffed with wild mushrooms, hickory nuts and wild greens. “We are here in the middle of the city, far away from anywhere wild,” Pat Whalen, the conservation department’s education specialist, says of the center. “This is a way to introduce wild in the city.” The class runs from 6 to 7:30 p.m. For reservations, which are required by Monday, February 20, call the center at 816-759-7300. — NANCY HULL RIGDON

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GOD DOESN’T REALLY HATE FAGSReleased last October, God vs. Gay? The Religious Case for Equality by Huffington Post contributor and scholar-activist Jay Michaelson had The Village Voice’s Michael Musto saying, “I always thought the Bible could be interpreted as a tool of good, not randomly translated to favor hate and oppression. Thank you, God. Looks like I’m about to go down on my knees again.” At 7 p.m., Michaelson speaks at the Kansas City LIKEME Lighthouse (3909 Main, 816-753-7770) about his book, which attempts to dispel the belief that the Bible forbids homosexuality. See kclikemelighthouse.org to get more informa-tion on this new LGBT resource center in mid-town.The presentation is free and open to the public. The Pitch caught up with Michaelson to talk about his work and where exactly the discrepancies lie in the Good Book.

The Pitch: You believe that the core values of Judaism and Christianity demand that LGBT individuals be respected and welcomed. Can you please explain this?

Michaelson: While there are a tiny hand-ful of ambiguous and limited verses that talk about same-sex intimacy (not homosexual-ity, of course — that concept wasn’t invented until the 19th century), they are subject to interpretation. The question is, which inter-pretation do you choose to take? To give an honest answer to that, you have to ask what fundamental values weigh into this decision. In the book, I go through a dozen or so which compel us to take the narrow reading: values like love, the importance of relationship, jus-tice, honesty, integrity and so on. Overall, the weight of these religious traditions — includ-ing a literal reading of the Bible — is clearly on the side of full equality and inclusion.

Which passages from the Bible do you believe are the most misquoted?

Well, there are really three major mis-conceptions. First, that the Bible prohibits homosexuality. It doesn’t. Four verses (out of 30,000) limit a few sexual acts, mostly between men, when they are in the context of idolatry or lewdness. Those verses are Leviticus 18:22, Romans 1:26-27, and 1 Corinthians 6:9. Second, that whatever the prohibition is, it’s central to religion. It isn’t. The “sin” in Leviticus is the same as eating a shrimp cocktail. Jesus never mentions homosexuality at all. It’s marginal, subject to interpretation and minor. Third, that the “sin of Sodom” is homosexuality. It isn’t. It’s greed, cruelty and inhospitality (Ezekiel 16:49-50, Jeremiah 23:14, Amos 4:1-2).

How long did the process take to finally finish this book?

I’ve been doing this work for 10 years, first on my own journey, and then later as an advocate for sexual and gender minorities in religious communities. The actual writing was easy — it took about six months — because I’d spent a decade doing the hard work behind it. — BERRY ANDERSON

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GANGSTER LEANIn 1931, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd shot a federal agent in Kansas City. Within four months in 1933, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow made it through two police shootouts in Joplin and Platte City. Explore our area’s storied criminal past at They’re Not Going to Get Me: Crime in the 1930s at the National Archives (400 West Pershing Road, 816-268-8000). This tidy interactive exhibit features court documents, Depart-ment of Justice records, photos and stories of the unsavory and dangerous characters who defined Depression-era crime, and the men who spent their careers trying to outwit them. It’s full of usable tidbits of information (the 1933 “massacre” at Union Station cost five lives) and imagery of what might have been one of America’s most distinctive periods of lawlessness. The exhibit is open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, see archives.gov/central-plains/kansas-city. — BERRY ANDERSON

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Do your feet bleed?” a child asks.William Whitener, artistic director of

the Kansas City Ballet, chuckles and repeats the question for the rest of the crowd gath-ered for this Friday-night open rehearsal of Romeo and Juliet.

In response, a ballerina shakes her head, removes one of her slippers and passes it to the little girl, who sniffs it.

Laughter erupts.“Don’t believe what you saw in Black

Swan,” Whitener says. “To dance en pointe requires years of careful tutelage. You don’t

just jump into a pair of point shoes and become a dancer.”

He calls one of the danc-ers over to demonstrate.

The reference to Darren Aronofsky’s erotic, R-rated 2010 movie is likely lost on

the tweens and younger children here on the evening of this gloomy February day. It’s hard to imagine their well-dressed parents letting them watch a movie in which Natalie Portman gets it on with Mila Kunis and then morphs into a murderous swan. Anyone who did see it, however, may feel a little twinge watching the dozen or so lithe bodies springing across the fl oor in the lower-level auditorium of the Todd Bolender Center for Dance and Creativity.

Better to remember The Nutcracker. This shouldn’t be a problem for this audience. The people here tonight have been invited because they attended the KC Ballet’s annual Nutcracker production in 2011.

“One of our goals is to introduce people to the array of ballet styles that we do,” Whitener says later in an interview.

For Nutcracker fans, the KC Ballet’s version of Shakespeare’s most famous work shouldn’t be much of a stretch. “The story itself is fi lled with passion and love and joy and tragedy, miscommunication and all of the elements that Shake-speare dealt with in the tell-ing of this eternal love story,” Whitener says. “You can really get your teeth into it.”

This is the second time in fi ve years that the company has danced Shakespeare’s tragedy, as choreographed by Ib Andersen to the music of Sergei Prokofi ev. Members of the Kansas City Symphony provide live ac-companiment at each performance.

“Everybody would probably agree that it is one of the most unique and dramatic

and moving scores ever written for ballet,” Whitener says. “And Prokofi ev’s heart and soul are clearly stated in this work.”

The production requires all 25 of the full-time dance-company members, plus a few student dancers.

“One of the benefi ts of bringing a successful production back into repertory is the dancers can have another shot at the role,” Whitener says. “Several years later, they’ve matured. And I’m sure there are things they would now like to include in their interpretations.”

Angelina Sansone understudied the role of Juliet in 2008. This time it’s hers — hers and Kimberly Cowen’s, too. Cowen returns to the part in half of the performances. (Also, Luke Luzicka reprises his role as Romeo; the other Romeo is danced by Anthony Krutzkamp.) “I’m very glad I had some of it in my body left over from last time around,” Sansone says. “I’m

thrilled and really scared and excited all at the same time. It’s a challenge in itself to hold the character together through three acts.”

Sansone joined the KC Ballet in 2005. This produc-tion of Romeo & Juliet marks her fi rst time dancing a lead

role in a full-length ballet with the company. Juliet is a role that the tall, blue-eyed ballerina has dreamed of since her early days in a tutu. “I have from the beginning been drawn to the more dramatic parts,” she says.

Andersen, who is artistic director for Ballet

Arizona, was able to spend about a week with the KC company last fall. “I wish we had him a little longer,” Sansone says. But the loose, emo-tionally driven choreography helps her live the role. “Some choreographers, they might choreograph something on every cue, but he didn’t really make it that specifi c. There’s a lot of freedom in it,” she says.

Translating the fullness of Prokofi ev’s music into the dancers’ movements, Andersen incor-porates every inch of the stage. The dancers do a lot of running and leaping, as young men cross swords and young lovers chase each other around. “If you have the right emotion,” San-sone says, “the technique just falls into place.”

During the February 3 open rehearsal, Mike Alley, marketing director for the KC Ballet, reported that tickets for each of the seven performances of Romeo & Juliet were selling steadily. “The box offi ce is doing extremely well this season,” Whitener agrees. “There are many people who have seen the ballet this year who might not have in the past, and are discovering the beauty of the art form and the excellence of the productions.”

The opening of the Kauffman and Bolender centers made 2011 a big year for the ballet, and the momentum hasn’t slowed. The company has a dedicated stage in the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. And it celebrated the completion of its own long-awaited Bolender Center by offering 100 free dance classes to the public between April and September.

“It’s been an unreal year,” Sansone says. “Dancers don’t get this — two new buildings in our careers? I feel really lucky to be here at this time.”

N O W P L A Y I N GThe Wrestling SeasonAt one point during the Coterie’s new reprise of Laurie Brooks’ celebrated 2000 play, The Wres-tling Season, Melanie (played by long-haired, blond Kelly Gibson) pulls a stick of gum out of her bra and offers it to Matt (Tosin Morohun-fola). The fl irtatious gesture elicits giggles and groans from the audience — mostly from the people old enough to recall the days before sext-ing. There was a time when the awkward for-swearing of innocence didn’t feel quite so dirty.

Brooks has revised her work, but it still ef-fectively captures the world of teens and their ill-advised decisions. The Wrestling Season looks at eight kids (four girls and four boys) — sweaty, sometimes tearful and always confl icted — doing their best to navigate the harsh and unpredict-able tides of high school social pressures. In 2012, that means ugly text messages, cyberbul-lying and the ultimate slam book: Facebook.

The play centers on the childhood friend-ship of Matt and Luke (Sam Cordes) that takes a turn when a friendly teammate hug lasts a little too long. Their closeness, meanwhile, has already raised questions between rival wres-tlers Jolt (Rufus Burns) and Willy (Francisco Villegas). Rumors fl y, epithets are murmured, and Luke fi nds himself the target of “Stomp a Fag Day.” (“Thirty-six people on Facebook like it,” a character echoes.) Not helping: Jolt’s girlfriend, Heather (Eva Biro), and her easily infl uenced sidekick, Nicole (Andrea Morales), who twist secondhand gossip into something new to spread.

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The girls have their own problems. Melanie? She’s not easy but she lets people call her “slut” for the attention it brings. And Kori (Meredith Wolfe) laments, “Wouldn’t it be great if every-one could just tell everyone how they really feel?” It’s Brooks speaking to her audience — an answer to the “You think you know me, but you don’t” that’s uttered by more than one of these kids — but she keeps her characters grappling with their confusion.

To keep that struggle front and center, direc-tor Leigh Miller dresses all the characters in wrestling singlets. A referee oversees the action and, at the end of pivotal dia-logue, blows his whistle and makes calls like “Two points!” or “Out of bounds!” He also moderates the finale, asking the audience to line up the characters according to the severity of their actions — an exercise in judgment not far removed from the impulses that Brooks is asking us to consider. But if that conclu-sion undermines Season, it also sends the audience home with an acute reminder of rumor-mongering’s poisonous effects. Words can stick like a piece of sweaty gum and leave their bad taste a lot longer. — BERRY ANDERSON

Orange Flower Water

Front and center on the small stage at River’s Edge Theater rests a double bed, on and

around which two couples — well, three — re-volve. It’s a fi tting set to portray the story of two marriages disrupted by an affair.

The four characters in Orange Flower Water (directed by Doug Ford) experience the love, anger, lust, disgust, passion, apathy, confusion, desperation and hope found in romantic bonds and their dissolution. If that sounds intense, it is. This isn’t an easy play, and it isn’t necessarily a cathartic one, but it isn’t without reward.

The one-act begins slowly, with each of the cast members meandering by the bed, lingering over it and the memories it holds. Each actor then sits on a chair at the side of the stage. It’s an effective setup. They unobtrusively wait for their scenes, maintaining the mood while observing the action before them — or, during more inti-

mate or diffi cult moments, averting their eyes. At the start, Cathy (Helena Cosentino) is

blissfully unaware that her husband, David (Doug Dresslaer), is having an affair with Beth (Alli Tunnell). Does Beth’s husband, Brad (Andy Penn), suspect? Brad’s unsettling scene with David along the sidelines at their kids’ sports match makes you wonder.

The scenes jump from monologues to dia-logues, from lovemaking to confrontation.

Breakups can be ugly, and partners ready to move on aren’t always nice. Those left behind must struggle to understand.

In some cases, the audi-ence struggles, too. It’s a complicated intersection, sex and love, that Orange Flower Water addresses. (At one point, Beth asks David if it’s just about the sex. Is it?) While the play takes on the pleasure and the pain of re-lationships, it doesn’t always

make clear what’s wrong in the marriages, why characters have fallen out of love (or if they ever were in love), and what has fi nally driven them to leave spouses and children.

At the dress rehearsal I attended, the non-equity cast was hardworking. Penn, as Brad, was particularly affecting, moving from anger to pleading and back, sometimes within the same scene. He makes Brad’s pain apparent in a heartwrenching monologue spoken to Beth.

Craig Wright’s 90-minute play starts to feel long toward the end, and some emotional transi-tions come too abruptly and don’t ring true. Yet I wanted to see what a character’s next decision would be. (Here, as in life, choices aren’t usually logical — just like the reasons that couples break up or get together in the fi rst place.) Wright’s resolution ultimately is too tidy, wounding a play that otherwise stays true to its considerable hurt. Even so, the small She & Her Productions has ambitiously taken on a big subject. Its execution isn’t completely successful, but it’s a worthwhile, hopeful endeavor. — DEBORAH HIRSCH

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The apocryphal Persian king Shahryar had thousands of wives but never kept one

longer than 24 hours. The morning after each wedding, according to the legend of the Arabian Nights, Shahryar had his new bride beheaded. By the afternoon, he’d found a new virgin to marry that night.

The bodies stopped piling up when Shahryar married Scheherazade, the daughter of his court vizier. Her ability to spin one exciting story after

another kept her husband en-tranced — and her head fi rmly on her neck.

Chef and restaurateur Rashid Khalaf has had two wives, and he’s a pretty good storyteller himself. A native

of Jerusalem, Khalaf has lived most of his life in the United States. The former soccer-playing college student became a professional cook by taking kitchen jobs in many Middle Eastern restaurants in the area, including the old Athena on Broadway in the 1980s. That’s where he learned how to prepare clas-sic Greek cuisine from the venue’s owners, Yannis and Suzi Vantzos. The Athena, which closed in 1994, was where I met Khalaf. He didn’t teach me anything about cooking, but he did give me a full vocabulary of Arabic curse words, many of which were directed at me. (Apparently, I wasn’t the easiest waiter to work with.)

Last year, Khalaf finally accomplished a dream that he’d spent at least 1,001 nights plotting: a Mid-dle Eastern restaurant, coffee bar and retail store called Shahrazad. “It’s named after the Persian queen,” says Khalaf, who has turned a failed Quizno’s location in south Overland Park into a cheery bistro. Surprisingly provocative Persian music videos play on a TV monitor mounted above a shiny cooler packed with imported beverages, all nonalcoholic. (Khalaf, like many of his customers, is a devout Muslim.)

My friend Carol Ann slugged down half a bottle of pomegranate-fl avored Barbican one night over a meal of grilled lamb chops and a tart fatouch salad. The fruit-fl avored malt beverage, a product of Dubai-based Aujan Industries, has a slightly beery note but not a drop of the devil’s brew. “I think I’d rather have a cup of hot mint tea,” she told our server

halfway through the meal. “This drink doesn’t make you woozy, just gassy.”

I stuck with hot tea from the beginning (though there’s a bottled sour-lemon soda served here that’s delicious with baba ghanoush) and was glad for the mellowing infl uence it had on my mood. I needed the help — the Shahrazad Café’s interior hasn’t quite escaped its fast-food-joint past. The fl uorescent lighting remains so brutal that every patron in the place appears ready to have a mug shot snapped. “Do yourself a favor,” Carol Ann whispered to Khalaf. “Invest in a dimmer. It’s a miracle worker.”

Carol Ann’s theory is that tasteful restaurant lighting is much more important in Johnson County than any-where else in the metro. “If a woman is going to invest in botox and dermabrasion,” she says, “she won’t like sit-ting under lights that make

her look like Aileen Wuornos.”For my part, I thought about borrowing a

hijab to blot out some of the 1,001 lights. Some of Shahrazad’s lovely, young female servers wear the traditional head scarves, and several of the customers I saw there on my three visits had them on as well. On the night that I dined with my friend Rhiannon, she said she felt conspicu-ous without one. I suggested that she cross the dining room and go into the retail side of the operation and see if she could buy one. She left for a minute and came back with a jar of pickles and a bag of Turkish coffee. “They were on sale,” she said.

Khalaf opened the market side of his business last March and then the café seven months later. A couple of months ago, he created a Moorish-style door between the two businesses, which

has helped sales enormously, he says: “People like to shop before, during and after dining.”

I’m not that kind of dining patron. I prefer to focus exclusively on eating when I’m sitting at a table — any table. Khalaf makes that easy at Shahrazad because the dishes are presented so attractively. Who would want to look at any-thing else?

Khalaf is particularly proud of the shiny, seg-mented steel platters that he found in Chicago and uses for his appetizer combo. The menu lists six items on the platter, including the predictable baba ghanoush, hummus, stuffed grape leaves and falafel. But I’ve ordered this starter three times now, and there have never been the same six items on that tray. Variety is the spice of life, I guess. But for some, the spice of life is still in-explicably cilantro, so I’ve learned to ask nicely for falafel instead of the fragrant cilantro-fried potatoes. (A better bet is to pay a slight upcharge and get them both; the potatoes are worth a couple of bites.) The fried chickpea patties are a shade too crispy, but that lets them stand up to tahini sauce, red chili paste and creamy tsatsiki if you fold all of those ingredients into the soft pita that comes with the combo.

The starter selection is tasty and diverse enough to create a solid, satisfying meal for vegetarians (the list includes vegetable samosas and a great fava-bean dip). That’s good, because the entrée choices tend to be meaty (all of the fl esh is halal): gyro and kifta sandwiches, beef or chicken shawarma, marinated lamb chops (divine) and a good array of grilled kebabs (beef, lamb, kifta, chicken or shrimp).

When Khalaf opened his restaurant, he thought he would sell a lot of seafood — this is Johnson County, after all. But he has dropped salmon, scallops and a seafood platter from the menu. “No one was ordering seafood,” he says.

“My clientele is either vegetarian or they want beef and lamb.”

I usually want both. The cumin-scented lentil soup is wonderful, and I’ve made a meal out of the fatouch salad (a jumble of chopped crisp cu-cumbers, radishes, green peppers, tomatoes, red cabbage and bits of deep-fried pita) eaten with a side of soft pita and Shahrazad’s silky hummus.

For customers who want to feel as if they’re dining in the court of King Shahryar, Khalaf has introduced big, round platters that he piles with rice and either the kebab combo or a duo of lamb chops and grilled quail. I’ve always thought that the quail requires a lot of work for very little meat, but Carol Ann found Khalaf’s bird delectable. The petite chops, which Khalaf marinates in salt, pepper, garlic and olive oil, were extraordinary — as good as those he used to prepare at the Athena, and maybe even bet-ter. It’s a little anticlimactic to have to eat such outstanding chops with pop or tea, but Khalaf says he hasn’t had any complaints.

“Most people know, even before they step in the door, that I don’t serve alcohol,” he told me one night with a shrug. “They get used to it.”

Traditional Persian desserts are on the menu — baklava, rice pudding, kunafa — but on each of my visits, I ran over to the market side and bought a handful of imported British candy bars. Sometimes, after an exotic meal, nothing sounds better than a Yorkie bar. The wrapper reads: “They’re not for girls.” Neither was Shahryar, but even he might have visited this Shahrazad for a few extra nights.

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BUILDING HER BRICK.

The stares started in the winter of 2010. Sheri Parr, owner of downtown staple the Brick, would look up from the bar or just

outside the kitchen and see someone at a table or a booth looking back at her curiously.

“I’m used to people looking at me when they need something,” Parr says — a refi ll, the check. “But then the staff would tell me: ‘Sheri, they’re looking at you because you were on television.’ ”

Parr and her 13-year-old restaurant appeared on the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives. After that, the gawkers arrived, people eager to see the rock bar and the scratch kitchen.

They wanted to try the Okla-homa Dog: a Boulevard-beer-battered, deep-fried hot dog wrapped in bacon. And they found that the Brick wasn’t about gimmicks. It’s a soulful representation of a woman

who’s the fi rst to tell you that she’s not a chef, just someone who happens to have been around great food all her life.

Parr was born in Wichita and grew up in Topeka and in Kansas City, Missouri. Her dad was an avid hunter, which meant that she grew up eating dishes like pheasant parmesan. Her maternal grandmother, Louise Graves, ran Vic’s Diner — a 24-hour café that dished up Italian classics and mashed potatoes — with her hus-band, Vic.

“My dad was a fabulous cook. My grand-mother was a fabulous cook,” Parr says, then pauses. “My mom was a good cook, too. It was just that my dad did a lot of the cooking. He was from Jersey, and when he got here, he just loved the idea that he could grow it, catch it or kill it.”

Parr graduated from Washburn University with a business degree and took a job as a bar-

tender and waitress at the Grand Emporium. She spent almost a decade there while fi guring out what she wanted to do with that degree. Eventually, she took a year off to look at pos-sible retail spaces and to decompress from life behind the bar. Work leaked back into her life, though, with a one-day-a-week job at YJ’s Snack Bar, and in 1999, she saw that the bar at 1727 McGee — then called the Pub — was for sale. Four days later, she was its new owner.

The Pub had been run by two working men, Jim and Joe, who understood for 33 years what other working men wanted: cold beer and a place to sit. A trio of owners had fol-lowed Jim and Joe, but none lasted more than a year in the space.

“I was pretty fearless,” Parr says. “I just didn’t listen to other people, except my grandmother. She was very, very helpful. She passed away a few years ago, but I used to call her and tell her the lunch specials every day.”

She set out to create a comfortable atmos-phere, one that brought together artists, musi-cians and eaters. In 2001, she changed the name to the Brick — to evoke, she says, something

“solid and urban.” Over the past decade, her business has been just that, a reliable enclave for artists, musicians and business-minded downtowners.

“I just hope that we can continue to get bet-ter,” Parr says. “I want to be the taste and the sound and the art of Kansas City.”

At the Brick’s annual Fat Tuesday bash Tues-day, February 21, the restaurant opens at 11 a.m. with a Mardi Gras-centric menu. In anticipation of that event, Parr comes out from behind the bar to answer our questions.

The Pitch: What’s your best recent food fi nd?Parr: San Antonio Taqueria in KCK. They

have great street tacos and a green sauce that’s amazing. They have a beautiful peach one, but the guy there has told me not to try it. It’s made with habañeros, so it’s probably too spicy for me.

What’s your favorite local ingredient?That’s really hard. Oddly Correct Coffee is

fabulous. Green Dirt has amazing cheese. We sell a lot of Zim’s Hot Sauce. The staff puts that on hummus. It’s so much fun in the spring and the summer. I try to make it to BadSeed and also the City Market then.

What are you experimenting with?Crawfi sh pies. It’s a lot like chicken potpie.

It’s creamy, with veggies — this nice, creamy roux in a nice puff pastry. It’s all about Mardi Gras here. I love New Orleans for its culture, music and spirit.

What’s your guilty pleasure?Christopher Elbow. I can identify all of them

just by looking at them. And, unfortunately, they’re so close to here. [Laughs.] The salted turtle, though, that’s the one. They’re amazing.

What’s always in your kitchen?Tomatoes — I always have canned tomatoes.

I don’t cook that much at home. I’m rarely at home, but I do cook on Sundays. With toma-toes, I can make a soup or a sauce. I tend to lean Italian. That’s my comfort food.

Where do you like to eat out?YJ’s. I love having breakfast there. They have

the best breakfast sandwich. I love the Jerusalem Café. Their red-pepper hummus, gyro and pita are delicious. And the Aladdin Café — they have a great Greek salad with shrimp.

What recipe in town would you steal?The green sauce at the San Antonio Taqueria.

I’ve almost got it fi gured out. I think it’s jalapeños without seeds and avocado purée, but I don’t understand how it stays so beautifully green. Why don’t the avocados turn brown?

What’s one book that every chef should read?The Food Lover’s Companion [by Sharon

Tyler Herbst and Ron Herbst]. I was looking something up the other day that I was calling a torte, but I just wanted to make sure it was indeed a torte. I’m not very good at describing things on menus. That’s an art. I was at the Green Goddess in New Orleans, and they have the most beautifully written cocktail menu. The way they described this tequila, it was like climbing up a mountain. It was beautiful, like poetry. That’s a skill.

What’s your dream drinking-eating destination?

The Virgin Islands — the island of Tortola — where I can sit in a shack and have conch salad and coconut water while doing nothing.

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The latest release from Merge Records — arguably the most admired and infl uen-tial indie-rock label in the United States,

maybe in the world — is the self-titled debut LP from a Brooklyn trio called Hospitality. The album is full of cheery-sounding guitar-pop songs with a melancholy streak, and it has a fresh and casual way of evoking the feelings of

being a 20-something urbanite. The band’s charms can largely be credited to its singer, song-writer and guitarist, Amber Papini, who was raised in Kan-sas City. (Older readers might remember Papini’s father, the

late Rano Papini, who had a long tenure as the house pianist at the American Restaurant.) The Pitch recently spoke with Amber Papini about how everything has come together.

The Pitch: So you grew up in KC. How long did you live here?

Papini: Yeah, I lived in Kansas City until I was 25. I grew up in, I guess you’d call it Armour Hills, 70th and Main area.

Were you playing in bands and going to shows around town?

My dad was always playing music in the house, like Cole Porter or Gershwin, and we’d sing around the piano a lot. Those kinds of sounds have been in my ears all my life. And I played piano, took lessons. Then my sister got a guitar for her birthday, and suddenly there was this guitar in the house, and I kind of stole it from her and adopted it and taught myself how to play. Probably when I was around 13. I just was really fascinated with it, and it was more immediate and easy for me than piano. I started writing songs around then. Then, in my later teens, I became a really curious mu-sic lover and started hanging out at Recycled Sounds and Streetside and places like that, going to the Bottleneck and Liberty Hall, going to all-ages shows downtown.

Were you performing at any of those shows or just watching?

No, never performing. I was really shy about playing and writing songs. Nobody re-ally knew I was doing it. I only showed a few people a song or two back then. I didn’t pur-sue music really at all until after I left Kansas City and started working in theater. I wrote some music for plays, did some sound design. And I started to get some compliments and encouragement from colleagues, so I kept

writing songs. When I moved to New York, I had a job at a bank and a job as a secretary, and I would try to write as many songs as I could in my spare time. A lot of the songs on this record came out of that.

Did you write all the songs on the debut?Yes, but Nathan [Michel, drums] also writes

songs — he’s made some kind of electronic, avant-garde records in the past. And he’s been writing more songs for us, and we’re playing some of them live lately.

How’d you get hooked up with Merge?This guy, Scott Jacobson, heard one of our

songs — I think it was “Betty Wang” — on a mix that a blog did. And he contacted us back in 2009, and we started e-mailing back and forth. He’s a comedy writer and a really talented guy, and he’d directed a Superchunk video in the past. So after we recorded and mixed the record in 2011, we sent it to Scott, and he was really into it. And he volunteered to contact different labels. And Merge liked it.

Are Mac and Laura [Merge founders] as great as they seem?

Yeah, they’re just really down-to-earth, nice people. Mac came up from North Carolina for our release show; we’ve been down there a couple times. It’s a wonderful group of people at Merge. There’s defi nitely a reason they have such a great reputation and such longevity. It’s just a really solid company.

How did you get Alia Shawkat [Maeby Fünke, from Arrested Development] to be in the video for “Friends of Friends”?

That was Scott, too. He directed it, and the whole thing was his idea and creation. He got all the actors together for it.

You’ll be touring for the record. Do you have a job?

We all have jobs, although I recently quit mine due to the tour. The tour right now isn’t that big, but we’re sort of accumulating more and more dates. At a certain point, I just had to make the choice.

Will the expanded tour include a stop around here?

We’ve done the Upper Midwest tour before, but, yeah, I still haven’t played in KC or Law-rence yet. Hopefully it’ll work out with these new dates. I’m sure we’ll make it out there.

Soul Proprietorships

Ain’t no shame in playing cover songs — the crowds want to hear the hits — but most

musicians hope to create something to call their own. So it is that the much-loved seven-piece soul cover band the Good Foot releases its fi rst original recording this week. “Bad Way” is one-half of a split 7-inch with Hearts of Darkness. And it’s a totally droned-out sludgecore dirge.

Juuuuuust kidding. The song (written by guitar-ist Tim Braun) sounds like a classic Motown cut, all brassy and upbeat, driven by singer Julia Haile’s powerful voice.

“When you’re doing covers, all the thoughts are there for you already, and when you do them for so long, you tend to mimic the emotions of the original singer,” Haile says. “With original stuff, we can put our own emo-tions into it. We’re starting from scratch and trying to build our own feeling: What does the Good Foot have to say? What do we want to talk about? It’s been really fun.”

The single offi cially sees the light of day Saturday, February 18, at Carnivale du Soul, an all-ages, Mardi Gras-themed party at 8 p.m. at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665). Also on hand are Voler Aerial Fabrics; DJs Fat Sal, Superwolf and Joc Max; and Hearts of Darkness. (“It’s always been a good match when we’ve played with Hearts of Darkness,” Haile says.) Cost is $15 in ad-vance or $20 day of show. Funk, soul, purples, yellows, greens, and whatever it is that they put into hurricane drinks will spill out onto Broadway. Not an evening to be missed.

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I’ve binge-watched my way through nearly the entire Friday Night Lights television series. I would love to use this space to write about my endless admiration for Coach Taylor, or the

many times I’ve cried while watching (mostly scenes with Matt Saracen), or Riggins’ Rigs, or Crucifictorious, or how perfect-looking Minka Kelly is. I mention the show instead because my journey to the fi nal

episodes coincided last weekend with the ar-rival in Kansas City of Craig Finn, who has titled his debut solo album Clear Heart Full Eyes — a transposed reference to FNL.

As the leader of the bookish bar-rock act the Hold Steady, Craig Finn emerged in the ’00s as one of the most gifted lyricists in rock, a poet-preacher chronicling the seedy edges of modern Midwestern life. The characters in his story-songs are loners, losers and lapsed Catholics — people who hang around, go nowhere, get dumped, party too much, get busted. Finn recorded Clear Heart with a band assembled in Austin, Texas, and it sounds very much like a Hold Steady record, minus the classic-rock crunch, plus some pedal steels and acoustic guitars.

Finn is not just a musical hero of mine but a literary one, too, and the prospect of seeing him up close at a place like RecordBar on a Saturday night was all kinds of thrilling. The plan was to take it easy Friday night and conserve energy for the show Saturday. But then I started drink-ing and ended up at RecordBar Friday night, also. I caught three local bands I’ve been mean-ing to check out: the Sawyers (dusty alt-coun-try), John Velghe and the Prodigal Sons (upbeat

roots-pop), and Katy and Go-Go (a guitar-drums blues duo; Go-Go’s kick drum had a picture of his own face on it). All put on fi ne shows, and someday soon I will write about them in more depth. Unfortunately, a point came where I sidled up to the bar, and the words “Overholt in a glass” fl ew out of my mouth, and then that happened again, and then I was at Buzzard Beach, and then it was the next day, and I was groaning and hurting and cold.

Like a character in one of Finn’s songs, I sought relief in the disease. Around 7 p.m., I hauled my sore bones up to Harling’s, where I battled my bourbon hangover with Irish whiskey. Over time, my hands stopped shaking. Soon, I was half-drunk again. On to the show!

It was fantastic. The band — a fi ve-piece, in-cluding Finn — had played only, like, six shows, but the musicians were vibrant and tight. Finn gave a shout-out to RecordBar owner Steve Tulipana, whom he said he has known for years. He sometimes did a VH1 Storytellers type of thing, where he’d tell us what the song was about before playing it. (“No Future” — which goes Bed sheets for curtains/The devil’s a person/I met him at the Riverside Perkins — is about an actual Perkins restaurant in the Twin Cities where people would hang out after the bars closed, and this makes me love the song even more.)

He closed the set with “Not Much Left of Us,” a tender song that makes my heart hurt: When I walked by the park, you were holding his hand/Dropped it like it was hot to the touch/There’s not much left of us. The band exited the stage, and the lights went dark-red, which seemed to leave open the possibility of an encore. But encores are awkward at small clubs like RecordBar, and eventually the bright-yellow lights came up. The band hung around after the show, though, and if you wanted to talk to Craig Finn, you could have. Not a bad Saturday night in the Midwest.

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Michael Jackson the Immortal World Tour by Cirque du SoleilThe last decades of Michael Jackson’s exis-tence were basically a surreal circus of luxury and insanity, so it seems fi tting that Cirque du Soleil would attempt a mega-production based on his life and work. That circus comes to town for two nights this week. Expect a lav-ish visual smorgasbord of acrobatics, aerials, B-boy dancing, a light show and pyrotechnics,

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Making Movies Social ClubMaking Movies recently announced that its sophomore album will be produced by Steve Berlin, a member of the band’s Latin-rock god-fathers Los Lobos. To celebrate (and help pay for it), Making Movies is playing an unplugged show at Czar with a couple of special guests: trumpeter Hermon Mehari and St. Louis world-pop singer-songwriter Javier Mendoza. The 7 p.m. set sold out quickly, so a second performance, at 10 p.m., has been added.

Thursday, February 16, at Czar (1531 Grand, 816-421-0300), $10

Stephen Malkmus and the JicksStephen Malkmus enlisted Beck to produce last year’s Mirror Traffi c — a cool-sounding

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The Features, Sleazebeats, Lazy: 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Pokey LaFarge and the South City Three, Betse Ellis: 8:30 p.m. Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club, 3402 Main, 816-753-1909.

Making Movies, Hermon Mehari, Javier Mendoza: 7 & 10 p.m., cover at door. Czar, 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300.

Mike McClure Band, Country Road 5: 8 p.m. Knuckle-heads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

Mutemath, Canon Blue: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

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Bass Capades: Mardi Gras Masquerade featuring Fred-dy Todd, Oblivion, Evil Bastards: 8 p.m. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

D.L. Hughley: 8 & 10:30 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.

Jadakiss, Rich the Factor: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Chris Thomas King: 9 p.m. Knuckleheads Saloon, 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456.

LoCash Cowboys, Burford, Lucas Cook: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

Stephen Lynch: Sold-out. VooDoo Lounge, Harrah’s Casi-no, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777.

Winter Jam 2012 featuring Skillet, Sanctus Real, Peter Furler, Kari Jobe, Building 429: Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

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Carnivale du Soul with Hearts of Darkness, the Good Foot, DJ Fat Sal, Voler Aerial Fabrics, Superwolf, Joc Max: 8 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

D.L. Hughley: 7 & 10 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Din-ner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.

JamBaroque: Celtic roots, baroque improvisation 8 p.m. All Saints Episcopal Church, 9201 Wornall, 816-363-2450.

Leslie & the LY’s, Pennyhawk, Ramona and the Swim-suits: The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Benefit featuring Dream Wolf, Think.Like.Computers, Manbear, Echoes from Airplanes, Vehicle: 6 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Strange Arrangement, Making Movies, the Atlantic: The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

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D.R.U.G.S., Hit the Lights, Like Moths to Flames, Sparks the Rescue: The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

D.L. Hughley: 7 p.m. Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater, 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233.

Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Nurses: 7 p.m. The Grana-da, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

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Excision, Liquid Stranger, Lucky Date: The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

The Jealous Sound, Anakin: 8 p.m., $10-$12. The Riot Room, 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179.

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Michael Jackson the Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil: 8 p.m., $50-$175. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

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Michael Jackson the Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil: 8 p.m., $50-$175. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

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March 9, 7 p.m. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsyl-vania, 816-561-2560.

Cursive, Ume: Fri., March 2, 9 p.m. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Drake: Thu., March 1, 8 p.m. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Every Avenue: Thu., Feb. 23. The Granada, 1020 Mas-sachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

The Fresh Beat Band: Fri., Feb. 24, 5 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Hate Eternal, Goatwhore, Fallujah, Troglodyte, Gornog-raphy: Wed., Feb. 29, 6:30 p.m., $14. The Beaumont Club, 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560.

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Katie Herzig: Mon., March 5. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

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Rusko, Nmzee: Wed., Feb. 29. Liberty Hall, 644 Mas-sachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1972.

SOJA, the Movement, Kids These Days: Thu., Feb. 23. The Bottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483.

George Strait, Martina McBride: Sat., Feb. 25. Sprint Center, 1407 Grand, 816-283-7300.

Symphony X, Iced Earth, Warbringer: Sun., Feb. 26. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Josh Turner: Thu., March 1, 6 p.m. Uptown Theater, 3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665.

The Ultimate Doo-Wop Show: Fri., March 2. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

VNV Nation, Straftanz: Thu., March 1. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Ron White: Sat., March 10, 7 & 9:30 p.m. The Midland, 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

Whitehorse: Fri., March 9. RecordBar, 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207.

Yacht: Fri., March 2, 9 p.m. Jackpot Music Hall, 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085.

Zola Jesus, Talk Normal: Fri., Feb. 24. The Granada, 1020 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-842-1390.

Nightlife listings are offered as a service to Pitch read-ers and are subject to space restrictions. Contact Clubs Editor Abbie Stutzer by e-mail ([email protected]), fax (816-756-0502) or phone (816-218-6926). Continuing items must be resubmitted monthly.

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T H U R S D A Y 1 6R O C K / P O P / I N D I E

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. third seven.

B L U E S / F U N K / S O U L

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Levee Town.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Grand Marquis, 9 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Jimmie Bratcher, 7 p.m.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Lonnie Ray Blues Jam.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Rob Foster and Chris Lewis.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222. Salty Dog.

R O O T S / C O U N T R Y / B L U E G R A S S

Browne’s Irish Market: 3300 Pennsylvania, 816-561-0030. Three Dollar Band, 6 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. John Statz, Dollar Fox, the Silver Maggies.

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Team Bear Club.

Dark Horse Tavern: 4112 Pennsylvania, 816-931-3663. DJ Beatbroker.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. DJ Brad Sager.

H I P - H O P

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Chirpin’! Hip-Hop at the Jazz featuring Ryan Forest, Dom & Cody, Antimosity, Buffalo Soul.

A C O U S T I C

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Brent Windler, Ryan Wallace, Scotty Hollywood.

J A Z Z

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Horace Washington.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003. Billy Ebeling.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. The New KC Seven featuring Kerry Strayer.

W O R L D

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Salsa night.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. Live Reggae with AZ One.

D R U N K E N D I S T R A C T I O N S / C O M E D Y /B A R G A M E S

Bulldog: 1715 Main, 816-421-4799. Brodioke, 9 p.m.Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455.

Trivia, Ladies’ Night, 7 p.m.Ernie Biggs Dueling Piano Bar: 4115 Mill, 816-561-

2444. “You Sing It” Live Band Karaoke.Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919.

Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game.Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W.

87th St., 816-759-5233. Sandman the Hypnotist.MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Pool

and dart leagues; happy hour, free pool, 4-6 p.m.RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Trivia

Clash, 7 p.m., $5.Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-

1986. Trivia, 9 p.m.

O P E N M I C / J A M S E S S I O N S

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. Vi Tran and Katie Gilchrist’s Weekly Jam, 10 p.m.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Open Jam with JD Summers featuring Jeremy Butcher and the Bail Jumpers.

The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Open Mic, Low Dough Beer Night, 8 p.m.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Jerry’s Jam Night, 9 p.m.

F R I D A Y 1 7R O C K / P O P / I N D I E

Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Astral Fifty, Asleep at Sea, Kaydanye, Hero, Shockrome.

The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Rock Cove.

Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. All Eyes Closed, Crybaby Ranch, Mad Kings, the Dirt Kings, 8:30 p.m.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Under the Covers.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 13412 Santa Fe Trail Dr., Lenexa, 913-894-9676. Red Guitar.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Johnny Rampage.

The Well: 7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700. The Magnetics.


Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Ernest James Zydeco.

Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Funk Syndicate.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Levee Town.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Dan Bliss and Kasey Rausch.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Dan Doran Band, 9 p.m.

Thirsty Ernie’s: 1276 W. Foxwood Dr., Raymore, 816-322-2779. The Outtakes.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222. The Nace Brothers.


Bar West: 7174 Renner Rd., Shawnee, 913-248-9378. The Outlaw Junkies.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. John Statz, Dollar Fox, 6 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders, Sarah and the Tallboys, 8 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. The Blackbird Revue, 6 p.m.; The F Holes, E 100, 10 p.m.

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Mosaic Lounge: 1331 Walnut, 816-679-0076. Mosaic Fridays: hosted by Joe Perez featuring DJ Mike Scott.

H I P - H O P

Czar: 1531 Grand, 816-421-0300. The Fresh Tunes, Dope Vibes Tour with Brooks, DJ Travis Read, Ir NeKo, J Stylez, Cuddy Mac, Jet Moran, and more.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Illphonics, Clay Hughes & the What, 9 p.m.

A C O U S T I C

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Eddie Delahunt.

J A Z Z

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mike Smith & Kings of Sax.

The Blue Room: 1616 E. 18th St., 816-474-8463. Indigo Hour, 5:30 p.m.Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913-642-9090. Cat Daddy-O’s, Wicked Mirage, 7 p.m.Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003. Brian Ruskin Trio.Lucky Brewgrille: 5401 Johnson Dr., Mission, 913-403-8571. Ron Carlson Trio

with Kathleen Holeman, 7 p.m.Nica’s 320: 320 Southwest Blvd., 816-471-2900. The

Sons of Brasil, 8 p.m.R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777.

Grand Marquis.Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland

Park, 913-948-5550. Alma Flamenca featuring Jarrod Stephenson.

Thai Place: 9359 W. 87th St., Overland Park, 913-649-5420. Jerry Hahn.


Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Karaoke, DJ, drink specials.

The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900. Ladies’ Night, Low Dough lady specials, 10 p.m.

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Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Early Girlie Show, 8 p.m.; Ab Fab Fridays on the main fl oor, 10 p.m.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

Retro Downtown Drinks & Dance: 1518 McGee, 816-421-4201. Trivia Riot, 7 p.m.

Tengo Sed Cantina: 1323 Walnut, 816-686-7842. Jersey Shore Meets Tengo.

M E T A L / P U N K

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Wrath and Ruin, Melting Point of Bronze, Confi ned in Flesh.

V A R I E T Y

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. After Dark Burlesque.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Mid-Coast Takeover SXSW Benefi t with Cherokee Rock Rifl e, Maps for Travelers, We Are Voices, the Atlantic.

S A T U R D A Y 1 8R O C K / P O P / I N D I E

Aftershock Bar & Grill: 5240 Merriam Dr., Merriam, 913-384-5646. Black Ribbon Sky, the Devil’s Marmalade, Uncountable Kings, An Endless Chapter, Burning Tide.

The Brooksider: 6330 Brookside Plz., 816-363-4070. Sellout.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. California Voodoo.

Jackpot Music Hall: 943 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-832-1085. Sobriquet, Ford the River, Oils.

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. Nervous Rex.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Jon Dee Graham, in the Retro Lounge, 9:30 p.m.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Magnetics, 10 p.m.; Camp Harlow, 5 p.m.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. Winter Formal with the Kinetiks, Universe Contest, DJ Darren Keen, 10 p.m.


B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Mama Ray Jazz Meets Blues Jam, 2 p.m.; Ernest James Zydeco, 9 p.m.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Full Bloods, Richard the Lionhearted.

Dynamite Saloon: 721 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-856-2739. Mojo National Band.

Fat Fish Blue: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-3474. Linda Shell and the Blues Thang.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222. Indigenous, the Rumblejetts.


Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club: 3402 Main, 816-753-1909. Le Grand, Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company, Calamity Cubes, Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, Jason & the Haymakers, 8 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Stacie Collins, Shannon and the Rhythm Kings, on the main stage, 10:30 p.m.

R Bar & Restaurant: 1617 Genessee, 816-471-1777. Phantoms of the Opry.

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The Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. Red Bull Thre3Style featuring Bobby Keys, Brent Tac-tic, Magnum, CEO, SKU, B-Stee, Who and JT Quick.

Thirsty Ernie’s: 1276 W. Foxwood Dr., Raymore, 816-322-2779. DJ B.

The Well: 7421 Broadway, 816-361-1700. DJ C-Mac.

J A Z Z

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003. Mark Valentine and the Ticklers.

Take Five Coffee + Bar: 5336 W. 151st St., Overland Park, 913-948-5550. Everette DeVan Trio.


Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Mardi Gras Massacre(ade).

MoJo’s Bar & Grill: 1513 S.W. Hwy. 7, Blue Springs. Happy hour, free pool, 1-4 p.m.

Power & Light District: 14th Street and Main, 816-842-1045. Mardi Gras Festival.

The Red Balloon: 10325 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-962-2330. Karaoke, 8 p.m., free.

Sidecar at the Beaumont Club: 4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560. 13th Annual Barstool Open, 10:30 a.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Deelightful karaoke, 9 p.m.

E A S Y L I S T E N I N G

Great Day Café: 7921 Santa Fe Dr., Overland Park, 913-642-9090. Up Our Sleeves, 7 p.m.

F O L K

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Buttermilk Boys.

V A R I E T Y

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. SUNU 2nd annual Masquerade Ball.

S U N D A Y 1 9B L U E S / F U N K / S O U L

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Pat Recob & the Confessors.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222. The Clementines.


Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003. Jay EuDaly, 3 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. The Nace Brothers, Living Room Session, 8 p.m.

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The Gusto Lounge: 504 Westport Rd., 816-974-8786. Death Before Dubstep.

Replay Lounge: 946 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-7676. DJ G Train, 10 p.m.

The Riot Room: 4048 Broadway, 816-442-8179. Pastor Jochen, REv McD Deacon Earl Breeze, Bishop Bill Spektor, Archdiocese Dobson.

H I P - H O P

Jerry’s Bait Shop: 302 S.W. Main, Lee’s Summit, 816-525-1871. 13irthMark.

J A Z Z

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Jazz Discharge, 7 p.m.


The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. Smackdown Trivia and Karaoke, $5.

The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Mermaid Brunch.Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986.

Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.Fuel: 7300 W. 119th St., Overland Park, 913-451-0444.

SIN.Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr.,

Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Double Deuce Poker League, 4 p.m.; Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.

Jake’s Place Bar and Grill: 12001 Johnson Dr., Shaw-nee, 913-962-5253. Free pool, 3 p.m.

JR’s Place: 20238 W. 151st St., Olathe, 913-254-1307. Karaoke with Mad Mike, 9:30 p.m.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. Dirty Dorothy, 10 p.m.; Show Stopper Karaoke, 12:30 a.m.

Tengo Sed Cantina: 1323 Walnut, 816-686-7842. Salute to Our Armed Forces.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Texas Hold ’em, 3 & 6 p.m.


Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Blues and Funk Jam with Syncopation, 6 p.m.

The Eighth Street Taproom: 801 New Hampshire, Law-rence, 785-841-6918. Taproom Poetry Series.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Open blues jam, 7 p.m.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Speakeasy Sunday, 10 p.m., $3.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. Open Jam with Levee Town, 2 p.m., free.

R.G.’s Lounge: 9100 E. 35th St., Independence, 816-358-5777. Jam Night hosted by Dennis Nickell, Scotty Yates, Rick Eidson, and Jan Lamb, 5 p.m.

V A R I E T Y

VooDoo Lounge: Harrah’s Casino, 1 Riverboat Dr., North Kansas City, 816-472-7777. Cover Wars.

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The Bottleneck: 737 New Hampshire, Lawrence, 785-841-5483. 4onthefl oor.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Blue Monday Trio.

J A Z Z

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Jazzbo, no cover.


The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Karaoke with Nanci Pants; Rural Grit Happy Hour, 6 p.m.

Clarette Club: 5400 Martway, Mission, 913-384-0986. Texas Hold ’em, 7 & 10 p.m.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Magic Mondays with Jason Dean.

Jazzhaus: 926-1/2 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-749-1387. Karaoke Idol with Tanya McNaughty.

Missie B’s: 805 W. 39th St., 816-561-0625. MANic Monday on the main fl oor, 10 p.m., free.

Nara: 1617 Main, 816-221-6272. Brodioke, 10 p.m.RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Sonic

Spectrum Music Trivia, 7 p.m., $5.

F O L K

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Attic Wolves, Anna Vogelzang, Rebecca Hart, 9 p.m.

V A R I E T Y

Californos: 4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878. Opera Supper, 6-9 p.m.

T U E S D A Y 2 1B L U E S / F U N K / S O U L

B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Fat Trampled Under Fat Tuesday.

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Grand Marquis, 9 p.m.

Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003. Dan Bliss, noon. Rich Berry, 3:30 p.m.


Jazz: 1859 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-328-0003. Brendan MacNaughton, 7 p.m.

J A Z Z

Jazz: 1823 W. 39th St., 816-531-5556. Phase II, 5 p.m.

Knuckleheads Saloon: 2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456. KCBS Mardi Gras Party with Billy Ebeling & the Late for Dinner Band.

D A N C E

Madrigall: 1627 Oak, 816-472-4400. 2 Step Tuesday, Ladies are free. Tacos available. Featuring KC Elite 2 Steppers, and Grown & Sexy Sliders.


The Brick: 1727 McGee, 816-421-1634. Fat Tuesday; Scrabble Club, 7 p.m.

Coda: 1744 Broadway, 816-569-1747. Coda Pursuit Team Trivia with Teague Hayes, 7 p.m.

Flying Saucer: 101 E. 13th St., 816-221-1900. Trivia Bowl, 7:30 & 10 p.m., free.

The Hideout: 6948 N. Oak Tfwy., 816-468-0550. Fat Tuesday with Outlaw Jim and the Whiskey Benders.

Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Clash of the Comics, 7:30 p.m.

Johnny’s Tavern: 13410 W. 62nd Terr., Shawnee, 913-962-5777. Bingo Boogie Nights, 9 p.m.

Johnny’s Tavern: 11316 W. 135th St., Overland Park, 913-851-5165. Texas Hold ’em.

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Critter’s Fat Tye Dye Tuesday.

The Roxy: 7230 W. 75th St., Overland Park, 913-236-6211. Karaoke.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. Karaoke, 9 p.m.

Westport Flea Market: 817 Westport Rd., 816-931-1986. Chess Club, 7 p.m.


Bleachers Bar & Grill: 210 S.W. Greenwich Dr., Lee’s Summit, 816-623-3410. Open Mic Acoustic Jam.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Open Jam with Everette DeVan, 7 p.m.

Stanford’s Comedy Club: 1867 Village West Pkwy., Kansas City, Kan., 913-400-7500. Open Mic Night.

S I N G E R - S O N G W R I T E R

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Scott Ford Songwriter Showcase, 7 p.m.

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Scott Kelly, Eugene Robertson, Sounding the Deep, 9 p.m.

W E D N E S D A Y 2 2R O C K / P O P / I N D I E

RecordBar: 1020 Westport Rd., 816-753-5207. Bob Walkenhorst, 7 p.m.


B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ: 1205 E. 85th St., 816-822-7427. Shinetop Jr.

The Levee: 16 W. 43rd St., 816-561-2821. The Lonnie Ray Blues Band.

The Phoenix Jazz Club: 302 W. Eighth St., 816-221-5299. Piano time with T.J. Erhardt.

Trouser Mouse: 625 N.W. Mock Ave., Blue Springs, 816-220-1222. Levee Town.

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Buzzard Beach: 4110 Pennsylvania, 816-753-4455. Live DJ, midnight.

Saints Pub + Patio: 9720 Quivira, Lenexa, 913-492-3900. DJ Pure.

A C O U S T I C

Mike Kelly’s Westsider: 1515 Westport Rd., 816-931-9417. Brian Ruskin Acoustic Showcase.


Beer Kitchen: 435 Westport Rd., 816-389-4180. Brodioke.

Danny’s Bar and Grill: 13350 College Blvd., Lenexa, 913-345-9717. Trivia and karaoke with DJ Smooth, 8 p.m.

Hamburger Mary’s: 101 Southwest Blvd., 816-842-1919. Charity Bingo with Valerie Versace, 8 p.m., $1 per game.

Harleys & Horses: 7210 N.E. 43rd St., 816-452-2660. Karaoke, Ladies’ Night.

Hurricane Allie’s Bar and Grill: 5541 Merriam Dr., Shawnee, 913-217-7665. Ultimate DJ Karaoke, 8:30 p.m.Improv Comedy Club and Dinner Theater: 7260 N.W. 87th St., 816-759-5233. Hump Day featuring Benji Brown, 8 p.m.The Indie on Main: 1228 Main, 816-283-9900.

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I headed north last week to do Savage Love Live — a rapid-fi re, slightly tipsy Q&A session — at the University of Alaska Anchorage. It was my third visit to UAA and it was a blast. All of the questions in this week’s column were submitted to me by UAA students and staffers.

Dear Dan: Should I go ahead and divorce my fan-tastic wife of 23 years now because gay marriage is going to destroy it eventually anyway? Tony From Wasilla

Dear TFW: You might as well do it now, if only to beat the rush. Just in the last couple of

weeks, the 9th Circuit ruled that California’s Prop 8 is un-constitutional, the governor of Washington State signed mar-riage equality into law, and marriage equality campaigns made huge strides in Mary-

land and Maine. Pretty soon, all the lawyers who specialize in “traditional divorce” are go-ing to be booked solid as traditional marriages buckle under the strain of all of this equality nonsense. Wait too long to get divorced, and you may not be able to get divorced at all. Find a lawyer now!

Dear Dan: I am with a girl who is a female ejacula-tor. It’s pretty cool, but the quantity of ejaculate is way too much. Am I getting peed on here?Tidal Wave

Dear TW: You’re not getting peed on. (Science says: female ejaculate ≠ urine.) But don’t take my word for it: Ask your girlfriend to piss on you sometime, and see if you can’t tell the difference.

Dear Dan: I know about your “price of admission” theory. What else do you have to offer by way of advice for a healthy, lasting relationship? Annoyed With Him

Dear AWH: Selective, self-induced short- and long-term memory loss.

You have to learn to shrug off minor and sometimes not-so-minor annoyances — maybe even a betrayal or two over the decades — be-cause an ability to forgive and truly forget is necessary for the survival of any long-term relationship. If you’re having a hard time get-ting there, speak to your doctor about medical marijuana.

Dear Dan: I’m a lesbian, and my friend who is a bi male keeps asking me to peg him. How should I deal with this? Not Into Boys

Dear NIB: If it doesn’t bother you, laugh it off. If it does bother you, slap him down.

Dear Dan: How do you tell a more-than-a-friend that his hygiene is an issue? The New Girlfriend

Dear TNG: “Hey, big boy, you stink. Jump in the shower — there’s a blow job in it for you.”

Dear Dan: Advice for beginning buttsexers? We’re having trouble getting started. Hole New World

Dear HNW: Start with rimming, during or im-mediately after a shower, move on to fi ngers, small toys, and fi nally dick. Take your time! Work up to buttsex over a week or two, not in a single evening. Lots of lube, penetration should be slow and very controlled, breathe, medical marijuana.

Dear Dan: I can’t brag to my friends, but I need to brag publicly and anonymously: I had a threesome for the fi rst time, and it was AWESOME. Highly recommended! Fun Unicorn Completes Kinksters

Dear FUCK: Another perceived-to-be-monog-amous couple that actually isn’t monogamous! Welcome to the monogamish club!

Dear Dan: My husband wants to be spanked. This is beyond my comfort zone. What can I do to get over this apprehension? Practice on the dogs and cats? Can’t Go There

Dear CGT: A woman who spanks her dogs and cats goes to actual jail, but a woman who spanks her husband goes to GGG heaven. But if you simply can’t get over your apprehension, out-source those spankings to your friendly local professional dominant.

Dear Dan: My best guy friend had sex with me. Does that mean he loves me? Holding Out Hope

Dear HOH: Don’t be ridiculous. People have sex with people they don’t love all the time. It isn’t proof that your guy friend doesn’t love you, of course, but it’s not proof that he does.

Dear Dan: I recently broke off a relationship after my female partner demanded that I get a circum-cision. I told her I would get one if she did. She told me I was a sexist asshole. I don’t see where she gets off asking me to mutilate myself if she won’t. Am I wrong? Uncut About Anchorage

Dear UAA: You weren’t wrong to refuse to cut yourself for her, but you were wrong to equate “female circumcision” with male circumcision. A woman who’s been “circumcised” — a woman who has been subjected to genital mutilation — has had her clit cut off. The male equivalent

would be the removal of the head of the cock, not the foreskin.

Dear Dan: With all the stress of jobs, relation-ships, kids, etc., what’s your advice for romance and great sex when you’re overwhelmed by life? Jack and Jill

Dear JAJ: My advice is to give up on great sex. Not forever, but for now. Make time for some good-not-great, low-stakes, low-pressure, un-demanding mutual masturbation sessions. Lie down together and get off while dirty talking about the truly great marathon sex sessions you’re gonna have once your stress levels drop. Then do it!

Dear Dan: You have heard that an ordinance to protect LGBT people from being evicted or fi red will be up for a vote in Anchorage soon. Well, I am a bi woman in a het relationship who works in an offi ce where the environment is akin to the Fellowship of the Bros. Recently, I attended a pride event where a coworker saw me act in a very non-hetero way. I’m afraid this person will out me and I will be harassed at best and fi red at worst. What can I do? Unsafe at Work

Dear UAW: Not much, sadly. LGBT people are not protected under the City of Anchorage’s an-tidiscrimination statutes. There have been three attempts to add protections for LGBT people to the law; all three failed after “Christian” activists protested, lied, demagogued, bullied mayors, and lied some more. One Anchorage—a coalition of progressive organizations—gathered enough signatures to put a equal rights initiative on the ballot in Anchorage. The vote is April 3, and passing Proposition 5 will make it illegal to discriminate against LGBT people in housing, public accommodation, employment, and credit.

HEY, LGBT SUPPORTERS: We scored some big victories in the last two weeks. But as we race toward marriage equality in California, Wash-ington State, Maryland, and New Jersey (don’t be such a fucking coward, Christie!), we should remember that there are LGBT people living in cities, counties, and states without any civil rights protections for queers. I hate to guilt folks into making political donations two weeks in a row—last week, Planned Parenthood, this week, One Anchorage—but One Anchorage could use our help. The haters are planning a big advertis-ing campaign to block equality for LGBT people in Anchorage. One Anchorage needs to get on the air and counter the hate and lies. Donate here: oneanchorage.com.

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