thursday, april 2
Poker Pub
Poker Pub Conroy's Pub, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., free, all ages
Calder Quartet
Calder Quartet
The Lied Center: 7:30 p.m., $12
for students, all ages
Found Footage Film Festival
Granada, 8 p.m., $10, all ages
Floyd the Barber
Neon Dance Party
Floyd the Barber
Pachamama's, 9:30 p.m., free,
all ages
Teen Dance Party The Bottleneck, 10 p.m., prices vary. 18+
Chris Denny/Andy
Chris Denny/Andy
Frasco/Graham
Wilkinson and the
Underground Township
jazzhaus, 10 p.m. $4.21+
Dark Meat/Drakkar
The Fantastic Merlins
Sauna/Grampall
Jookaball
Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $6
to $8. 18+
The Fantastic Merlins with Snuff Jazz!
Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m. $3.21+
El Paso Hot Button/The Kinetiks
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2,21+
friday, april 3
The Service Industry
Replay Lounge, 6 p.m., $3, 21+
Orlando Ventura, piano Pachamama's, 7 p.m., free, all ages
Festival of Nations
Festival of Nations Woodruff Auditorium, 7 p.m. free, all ages
Genius of Women Burge Union, 7 p.m., free, all ages
TOK with Black Blunt.
TOK with Black Blunt,
DJ "SquadSI Duppy &
DJ Rohan"
Granada, 8 p.m., $17 adv or
$20 door, 18+
The Heavy Pets/
Grazgrove
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., $7,
18+
Sellout
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $6, 21+
Jucifer/Hammerlord/
The Sixteens/The Old Black
Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m.,
$7,18+
Iggy Baby
carly baby
Eighth Street Tap Room, 10
p.m., $3, 21+
Look Mexico/The
Tambourine Club
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $3,
21+
Conroy's Pub, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., free, all ages
At the camp, one of our first jobs was to spend an entire day sandpapering an at-least-20-foot-long steel bridge. After spending hours removing rust by hand, we painted it a bright red. I was so proud of our work that I took a picture of the bridge, but my black-and-white film failed to give it justice.
saturday, april 4
Poker Pub
Paying such close attention to the renovation of a bridge sounds as though it should have felt boring or frustrating, but the people on the trip made it enjoyable. What wasn't so enjoyable was
Orlando Ventura, piano Pachamama's, 7 p.m., free, all ages
We stayed in a cabin on the river, which was a nice change from the cramped van we traveled northeast in, but not much different at the same time. The cabin was a place of poor phone signals, no WiFi and nights spent on air mattresses.
Avenged Sevenfold/
Buckcherry/Papa Roach
Topeka Expocenter, 7 p.m.
$39.75, all ages
Crumpled food wrappers, scratched-up CD players and piles of backpacks lined the floor of the 15-passenger van
The Game with Kutt Calhoun
Granada, 8 p.m., $25, all ages
Ain't Misbehavin'
starring Ruben Studdard
The Lied Center; 7:30 p.m.
$20/student, all ages
I rode in with my youth group to Canada in Summer 2004. Because we traveled there for two full days there and two full days back, it felt as if the van was our home. We were on our way to Maniwaki, a town located on a river in Quebec, to help renovate a summer camp for a week.
Big Smith/Cletus Got Shot/Charlie Horse The Bottleneck, 9:30 p.m., $7 adv or $8, 10+
Selout:
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $6, 21+
Sellout!
Saturday Souclap with Scenebooster Soundsystem Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., $3.21+
editor's note
the mass quantity of mosquitoes that chose to make our days outdoors a living hell with their incessant company.Wearing a long-sleeve T-shirt, jeans and tennis shoes didn't stop me from spraying endless amounts of mosquito repellent directly on my clothes—it mostly didn't work.
— Jessica Sain-Baird, associate editor
Other days, we'd work in the camp's woods. Never before had I attempted to use—or even come in contact with—an ol' fashioned handsaw. Despite help from even another person to use a single handsaw on a tree trunk, it was probably the most difficult challenge, physically, that I had encountered on the trip. But it's what made being in Canada such a radically different experience than any other trip I could have made that summer.
See Stephanie's personal essay on page 15 about her trips with family to their cabin in Canada, and how roughing it in the Great North has felt more like a greater escape to her than a trip to, say, Cancun.
I haven't been to Canada since that summer, but it wasn't because the mosquito bites, fumes from painting and close calls with handsaws scared me off. The trip actually showed me that having an adventure often means going off the beaten trail, and that you can never have enough bug spray in tow.
The Pool Room, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.,free,21+
sunday, april 5
Poker Pub
Smackdown! Trivia and
Karaoke
The Bottleneck, 8:30 p.m.
prices vary, 18+
Stull/Irepress/
Sumirepress/
Battlefields/David
Hasselhoff on Acid
Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m.,
$5 to $7, 18+
monday, april 6
Blue October/Ours Liberty Hall, 7 p.m., $26 to $27.50, all ages
Railroad Earth & Split Lip Rayfield Granada, 8 p.m., $25, all ages
Original Music Mondays
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., free,
18+
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9
p.m., $1, all ages
First Mondays with Chomp Womp! Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., $3.21+
tuesday, april 7
Phillip Glass
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m., $13 for students, all ages
George Stephanopoulos The Kansas Union, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages
Tuesday Nite Swing The Kansas Union, 8 p.m., free, all ages
Bonnie "Prince" Billy Granada, 8 p.m., $15, all ages
Thomas/DeLancey Band Signs of Life, 8 p.m., free, all ages
Astrokitty Comics
Presents: DRINK & DRAW!
Jackpot Music Hall, 9 p.m., free. 18+
Eulogies
Eulogies
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
The Ting Tings
The Record Bar, 10 p.m., $16,
18+
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**Associate editor** Jessica Sain-Baird
**Designers** Erica Birkman, Lauren Cunningham
Contact Elliot Kort, Stephanie Schneider Health Sachiko Miyakawa, Megan Weltner
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calendar
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Contributors Drew Anderson, Mark Arehart, Alicia Banister, Taylor Brown, Chance Dibben, Mia Iverson, Carly Halvorson, Daniel Nordstrom, Meghan Nuckolls, Tom Powers, Abigail Olcse, Brieun Scott, Kelci Shipley, Amanda Sorell
wednesday, april 8
Billy Spears and the Beer Bellies
Johnny's Tavern, 6 p.m., free,
18+
Poker Pub
Chess night at Aimee's
The Pool Room, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.,free,21+
Aimee's Coffee House,7 p.m.,free,all ages
The Americana Music
Academy Jam
Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., free,
all ages
William Fitzsimmons/
Real Color
**Rosi Golan**
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $9 to
$11, all ages
Arthur Dodge
Harbour Lights, 10 p.m., $2,
21+
That Acoustic Jam
That Acoustic Jam Thing
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
Japanther/Ninjasonik/
Japanther/Ninjasonik
Coat Party/Fortuning
jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m.
$5 to $7, 18+
The F-Bombers
Bumbers
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2,
21+
Creative consultant Carol Holstead
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Clarifications: In the March 26 issue of 'Jayplay,' the source for "That's disgusting: Dirty socks" was misidentified. The correct source is Ralph Mingle, doctor at Shawnee Mission Primary Care in Shawnee Mission. In the same issue, in the article "'The only thing fake is the finish' in the wrestling ring," the date for Dynamo Pro Wrestling's next match was incorrect.The match has been rescheduled for April 29.
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