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thursday, jan. 29
Someone Still Love You
Boris Yeltsin/Hawley/
The Daemons
9 p.m. The Jackpot Music
Hall $7/$8, 18+
That Damn Sasquatch
10 p.m., The Jazzhaus, $3, 21+
Superfresh with DJ Cyrusd
10 p.m. The Eighth Street
Taproom, 21+
Neon Dance Party
10 p.m., The Bottleneck,
prices 1.8+
friday, jan. 30
Interpreti Veneziani
7:30 p.m., The Lied Center,
$12 students, all ages
Local Music Showcase!!! The Bottleneck, 18+
Central Atmosphere
10 p.m., The Jazzhaus, $4, 21+
Cowboy Indian Bear/
Thunder Power/The
Unity
10 p.m., The Eighth Street
Taphor, $3.21+
Musee Mecanique/
Hooves and Beak
10 p.m. The Replay Lunge.
$2-$3, $1+
saturday, jan. 31
Pert Near Sandstone/
Sexif/Tiny Tuxedo
9 p.m., The Bottleneck, $7,
18+
Browntown/The Bris-
banes/Nuthatch47
10 p.m., The Jackpot Music
Hall, $5/$7, 1B+
Scott Smith & Friends 10 p.m., The Jazzhaus, $4.21+
Kiko De Gallo
10 p.m., The Eighth Street
Taproom, $3, 21+
sunday, feb.1
Smackdown Trivia and
Karaoke
8:30 p.m. The Bottleneck,
prices vary, 18+
monday, feb 2
Tapes 'n Tapes/Wild Light/The Cherry Tree Parade 9 p.m. The Jackpot Music Hall, $10 adv/$12 door, 18+
Original Music Mondays 9 p.m. The Bottleneck, free, 18+
Karaoke Idol Party 10 p.m., The Jazzhaus, 21+
KaiserCartel/Echo of the Elms 10 p.m. The Replay Lounge, $2.21+
tuesday, feb 3
North Mississippi All-
Stars with Hill Country
Revue
8 p.m., The Granada, $16 adv.
/$18 door, all ages
Los Campesinos!/Titus
Andronicus
8 p.m. The Bottleneck, all
ages
Grocery Bingo!
8 p.m., Kansas Union Ballroom, free, KU students
wednesday, feb 4
The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial
7:30 p.m. The Lied Center,
$13 students, all ages
calendar
Fresh Ink
10 p.m..The Jazzhaus, $3, 21+
The Boxing Lessons/
The Rinkles
10 p.m. The Replay Lounge.
$2,21+
venues
The Jazzhaus
926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.749.1387
The Jackpot Music Hall
943 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.843.2846
The Eighth Street Tap Room
801 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785.841.6918
The Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785.749.767.6
The Lied Center
The Lied Center
1600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS
785.864.3469
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785.841.5483
Soccerstud15. That was my username when I dated and made friends online in my high school years." Soc-
cen" because I played soccer "15," because that was my age at the time. And "stud," because ... well ... you get the picture.
I would use these sites to find other gay people my age. Augusta, Kansas, doesn't have a booming gay population, and the high school locker rooms just weren't doing enough for me. With Augusta having a population of about 9,000,my graduating class of 156 and only about 10 stoplights in the town I needed to get away.
Wichita was 20 minutes east, and my gay safe haven in my high school years. It had a couple of gay clubs and a lot of other guys just like me.I befriended dozens of usernames and met about two dozen others in person.
Meeting people online had become a
editor's note
lifeline for me. I desperately wanted to meet other gay people in person and develop a friendship from there, but I felt I had no options, so I resorted to the only alternative I knew: the cyber world.
Stephanie's story on page 13 outlines how to be successful when looking for a mate online. Some people are limited by location or by time when looking for a significant other, and relish in the convenience of dating online.
When I came to KU, I realized (really always knew, actually) that looking for friends in the cyber world was a crutch. I eventually phased it out of my life and made friends the old-fashioned way: face-to-face. It wasn't as simple as a few keystrokes here and there, and not nearly as convenient. But I had started to get a tan from the glow of the computer screen, and knew it was time for the real deal.
Matt Hirschfeld, editor
**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, Adam Schoof
**Notice** Madeline Hyden, Ross Stewart,
Zach White
Play Kelly Breckunitch, Tanner Grubbs,
Kristopher McDonald
jayplayers
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, Derek Zarda
Creative consultant Carol Holstead
Contact us jayplay09@gmail.com
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The University Daily Kansan
111 Stauffer-Flint Hall
1435 Jayhawk Blvd.
Lawrence, KS 66045
785.864.4810
January 29,2009
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