thursday, may 7
Poker Pub
Connyr's Pub, 6 p.m. and 9
p.m., free, all ages
New Found Glory Granada, 6 p.m., $18.50, all ages
Stop Day Eve Party
23rd Street Roadhouse, 9
p.m., $5 to $10, 18+
Stop Day Eve Party
Abe & Jake's Landing, 9 p.m.,
18+
Floyd the Barber Pachamama's, 9:30 p.m., free, all ages
Neon Dance Party
The Bottleneck, 10 p.m. prices vary, 18+
Billy the Squirrel
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $3, 21+
Thao and the Get
Down Stay Down/
Sister Suvi/Samantha
Gryph
Sister Suvi/Samantha Crain
Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $8,18+
Step buy With Booty Up feat. Cyrus D and Godzilla
Stop Dav with Booty
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m. $3, 21+
friday, may 8
Sex Negatives/Totally
Oriando Ventura
Pachamama's, 7 p.m., free,
all ages
Ripped/Betalegee Betalegee Betalegee The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m. $2, 21+
Opening Reception:
Reunion Art Show
Jazzhaus, 7 p.m., free, 21+
Collie Buddz/Yuca
Roots/The Irietions Granada, 7 p.m., $23, 18+
Signs of Life Friday
night concert series
Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., free,
all ages
Fleetwood Mac
The Sprint Center, 8 p.m..
$49.50 to $149.50, all ages
Paulie Rhyme/
Listener/Spence/Greg Enemy
Exister/Spence/Greg Enemy
Jackpot Music Hall, 9 p.m., $6 to $7,18+
Salty Iguanas/
Lonesome Hounddogs The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+
Phat Fridays with DJ Sean
Soap
Johnny's Tavern, 10 p.m., free,
21+
Ras Neville and the
Kingstonians
Hjertestop/Weird Wounds
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m. $2,
21+
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4,21+
School's Out Blowout with Sadie Soul/B Sears/Scenebooster The Eight Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., $3.21+
saturday, may 9
Poker Pub
Conroy's Pub, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., free, all ages
The Pool Room, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.,free,21+
Poker Pub
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., $6 to $8, 18+
Radiohead Tribute
Voodoo Lounge, 9 p.m., $10,
21+
Jackass World Tour
Blue Orleans
sunday, may 10
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $5, 21+
DJ Candlepants and Gioria Vanderbilt
The Eighth Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Earth Crisis/Walls
of Jericho/Reign Supreme/Unholy/Blood Stands Still Granada, 5 p.m. $15, all ages
Gloria Vanderbilt
The Calamity Cubes/
Brody Buster Band/
Dojo/Gem
Replay Lounge, 6 p.m., $3,
all ages
Trivia
The Bottleneck, 8:30 p.m.
$5, 18+
Smackdown! Trivia
The High Strung
Jerry's Bait Shop, 10 p.m..
$3,21+
monday,may 11
Original Music
Original Music Mondays The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., free, 18+
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9 p.m., $1, all ages
The High Strung
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2,
21+
Tuesday Nite Swing
tuesday, may 12
Kansas Union, 8 p.m., free all ages
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $16,
18+
The Sounds
Krallice/Nethervoid
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2.
21+
wednesday, may 13
Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies
Johnny's Tavern, 6 p.m., free, 21+
Pop Quiz: Live Action Trivia Johnny's Tavern, 7 p.m., free, 21+
The Americana Music
Academy Jam
Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages
Toubab Krewe
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $8 to $9,18+
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9 p.m., $1, all ages
That Acoustic Jam Thing
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
The Silent Years/Milk
calendar
Toast/Childbite
The Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., $3.21+
venues
Jazzhaus
926 1/2 Massachusetts Street
785.749.1387
Jackpot Music Hall
Room
943 Massachusetts Street
785.843.2846
Eighth Street Tap
801 New Hampshire Street
785.841.6918
Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts Street
785.749.7676
Lied Center
1600 Stewart Drive 785.864.3469
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire Street
785.841.5483
editor's note
Only a few times in my life have I been happily surprised. Usually, after friends and family catch me off guard with
what they think of as their best intentions, I become disgruntled and semi-pissed off. Once, though, in my adolescence, my parents threw my brothers and me off guard in the best possible way.
When my parents gathered my brothers and me around the kitchen table, I knew one of two things was about to happen: Either we were about to be punished or we were just about to have another endless "family meeting."
My brothers and I had been playing the NES, the first Nintendo system from circa 1985, for about a decade. We considered ourselves lucky when babysitters, friends and relatives had more advanced systems for us to drool over. Our parents just didn't get that bigger and better systems had come out. Well, one elementary school spring break, our parents finally got it.
Once we got settled, I could tell my mom could barely hold in her excitement. She
pulled out the solid Toys "R" Us bag and our eyes widened with awe. Then, she unveiled the surprise: a Nintendo 64. My older brother lunged for the present and all of us stared at the box in disbelief. Even though the N64 had come out two years before, by our reaction you'd have thought we got hold of the system on day one.
I can't remember what games we played that first week, but we played nonstop for the whole spring break.
Check out Kelly's story on page 8 about older video game systems that are still making a wave in the video game market today, and how maybe I should have held onto that NES for a rainy day.
New and better systems came out and my brothers and I stopped playing the N64. This past week, though, I played a friend's N64, and I couldn't help but associate one of my most memorable surprises, a shared surprise, with the vintage video game system.
Matt Hirschfeld, editor
jayplayers
Editor Matt Hirschfeld
Associate editor Jessica Sain-Baird
Designers Erica Birkman, Lauren Cunningham
Contact Elliot Kort, Stephanie Schneider
Health Sachiko Miyakawa, Megan
Weltner
Manual Becka Cremer, Katherine Mulder, Adam Schoof
Notes Madeline Hyden, Ross Stewart
Play Kelly Breckunitch, Kristopher
McDonald
Contributors Drew Anderson, Mark Arehart, Alicia Banister,Taylor Brown, Chance Dibben, Mia Iverson, Carly Halvorson, Daniel Nordstrom, Meghan Nuckolls, Abigail Olcese, Brieun Scott, Kelci Shipley, Amanda Sorell
Creative consultant Carol Holstead
Contact us jayplay09@gmail.com
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