thursday, march
Poker Pub
Conroy's Pub, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m., free, all ages
Band Of Heathens/
Chad M.
The Bottleneck, 7 p.m., $8,
all ages
American Legion, 7 p.m., free, all ages
The Junkyard Jazz Band
Doubt
Lawrence Community Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $14 to $20, all ages
Neon Dance Party
The Bottleneck, 10 p.m., prices vary, 18+
Marty's 47 again!
Waterfowl Habitat/
The Felt Show/
Dutch Newman/The
Snugglebugs
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10
p.m. $5 to $7, 18+
Cyrus D and Godzilla!
The Booty Up with
friday, march 6
Doubt
Hypno5e/Stull
Lawrence Community Theatre, 8 p.m., $14 to $20,
all ages
Cyrus D and Godzillai
The Eighth Street Taproom,
10 p.m., $3.21+
Chicago Afrobeat Project
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2,
21+
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $8,
18+
The Republic Tigers/
Sellout
Softer/Audiovox
The Beaumont Club, 8 p.m.
$10 p.m., all ages
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $6, 21+
Wade Bowen
The Granada, 10 p.m., $15,
all ages
Spirit of the Stairs/
Ample Branches/Echo of the Elms
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $5 to $7, 18+
Iggy Baby
The Eighth Street Taproom,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Phat Friday with DI
Johnny's Tavern, 10 p.m., free,
21+
Soap
saturday, march 7
Poker Pub
Conroy's Pub, 6 p.m. and 9 p.m.,free,all ages
Kansas Music Hall of
Fame
Liberty Hall, 7 p.m., $35, all ages
Doubt
Lawrence Community Theatre, 8 p.m., $14 to $20, all ages
White Water Ramble
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., $6,
18+
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $6, 21+
Sellout
The Appleseed Cast/
The Appleseed Cast/
Cowboy Indian Bear/
The Sailor Sequence
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10
p.m. $8 to $10, 18+
Saturday Soulcap
with Scenebooster Soundsystem
The Eighth Street Taproom,
10 p.m., $3, 21+
Late Night Price is
The Kansas Union, 10 p.m., free, all ages
sunday, march 8
Right
Lunafest 2009
The Pool Room, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.,free,21+
Poker Pub
Smackdown! Trivia
and Karaoke
The Bottleneck 8:30 p.m.
prices vary, 18+
The Eighth Street Taproom,
9 p.m., $2. 21+
Jazz on a Sunday
The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
Snake Bite
monday, march 9
Donna Brazile lecture:
"Women in American Politics: Are We There Yet?"
Woodruff Auditorium, 7 p.m.,
free, all ages
DJs Joc Max and Miles
Bonny
The Phoenix Jazz Club, 8 p.m. free,21+
The Bottleneck, 8:30 p.m., $5,
all ages
The Alternate Routes
Dollar Bowling
Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, 9 p.m., $1, all ages
The Naked Hearts/
Another Holiday/
Aubrey
the jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m. $5 to $7, 18+
Stressape
The Eighth Street Taproom,
10 p.m., $3.21+
tuesday, march 10
Symphonic Band and University Band
The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m. $5 to $7, all ages
Tuesday Nite Swing
The Kansas Union, 8 p.m., free, all ages
Blitzen Trapper/Alela Diane
The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., $10 to $12, 18+
Billy Spears and the
Johnny's Tavern, 6 p.m., free,
21+
wednesday, march 11
Beer Bellies
Poker Pub
The Pool Room, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m.,free,21+
Chess night at Aimee's
The Americana Music
Aimee's Coffee House, 7 p.m., free, all ages
Academy Jam
Academy jam Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., free, all ages
Hank Williams III/
Jason Boland & The
Those Poor Bastards
The Beaumont Club, 8 p.m.
$18, all ages
The Granada, 8 p.m., $15, 18+
That Acoustic Jam
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $2, 21+
Arthur Dodge
Harbour Lights, 10:30 p.m..
$2.21+
venues
The Bottleneck
Taproom
737 New Hampshire Street
785.841.5483
The Eighth Street
The Jackpot Music Hall
801 New Hampshire Street
785.841.6918
943 Massachusetts Street
785.843.2846
Jazzhaus
926 1/2 Massachusetts Street
785.749.1387
Liberty Hall
642 Massachusetts Street
785.749.1972
The Lied Center
1600 Stewart Drive
785.864.3469
The Pool Room
925 Iowa Street 785.749.5039
Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts Street
785.749.7676
My mom was a nun. She couldn't bust into song like Whoopi or fly like Sally Field, but for a decade of her life, she devoted her being to the man upstairs.
editor's note
She joined a convent, or a nunery, as I liked to call it, in Kansas City right after she graduated from college. She had graduated from the Catholic-affiliated Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri, and majored in theology, so the righteous path to a convent wasn't too much of a stretch.
Throughout my childhood and adolescence, her years of devotion would occasionally come up, mostly in the form of quirky stories and random anecdotes. Her accounts didn't have much to do with her hours of prayer and scripture reading, though. The stories she told were filled with what most people don't associate nuns with—fun. Whether it be occasionally sneaking to a local pub or harmless pranks she played on other nuns and priests, her stories made it sound as if swearing off men wasn't so bad.
She'd always drive the point home to me
that she didn't leave the vocation for love or a man. She left because the nuns were corrupt (or at least that's what I told other people). After 10 years, she felt her calling had expired and what she had set out to do hadn't materialized. She still went to church every weekend for the rest of her life, but knew her life as a nun got the shaft when her role as a mother took over.
Check out Kelly's short on page 4 about the performance of Doubt that's playing in Lawrence this weekend. My mom was thankfully never as strict or cold as the main nun in the play, Sister Aloysius Beauvier, but maybe she would have eventually got there if she stuck with it.
I also always used her former vocation to my advantage. When instructors would say on the first day of classes,"Tell the class something interesting about yourself", I happily offered up my mom's former calling.The class and instructor were so fascinated with this disclosure that they never noticed my mom being a nun wasn't actually about me.
And maybe that's what I learned from my mom:You're only as interesting as the people you know. After all, we can't all be singing or flying nuns.
Matt Hirschfeld, editor
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