thursday,jan.15
The Noise FM/The
Abracadabras/Many
Moods a Day/Ample
Branches. The Jackpot
Music Hall, 10 p.m., 18+, $5-7
Airwave the Messenger/American Lowlife/From Quite Arms. The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$3
Lawrence Soul Club/
Sadie Soul/Hector
the Selector. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $2
Superfresh and DJ Cyrus. The Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., 21+
friday,jan.16
Stolen Moments: The First 100 Years of Jazz. The Lied Center; 7:30 p.m., all ages, $9-24
Brandon Jenkins.The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., 18+
Billy Wasung Band. The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$4
Latin/Mouth/David
Hasselhoff on Acid. The
Jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m.
18+,$5-7
The Dactyls/Rooftop
Vigilantes. The Replay
Lounge. 10 p.m., 21+, $3
Scenebooster
Soundsystem's
"Sweat"/Miles Bonny.
The Eight Street Tap Room,
10 p.m., 21+,$3
saturday, jan. 17
University of Costa Rica/KU Baroque Ensemble. The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m., all ages, free
The Schwag. The Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $8
Cedric Burnside and Lightnin' Malcolm/ Brody Buster Band. The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., all ages, $8-9
sunday,jan.18
Thee Fleshapoids/
Sinks/Fag Cop. The Replay
Lounge. 10 p.m., 21+, $3
ManChild. The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+, $4
One Blood/Trapped
Under Ice/Dirty
Money/Full Blown
Chaos/Reign Supreme.
The Jackpot Music Hall, 7 p.m.
18+, $10-12
monday,jan.19
Fag Cop/Girls of Gravitron. The Replay Lounge, 10 pm., 21+, $2
The Gloves. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., 21 +,$2
wednesday, jan.21
My Dear Disco. The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., all ages
Karaoke. The jackpot Music Hall, 10 p.m., 18+,$2
The Acoustic jam
Thing. The Jazzhaus, 10
p.m., 11, $2, $2
Pride Night. The Granada.
9 p.m., 18+, $5.
venues
calendar
The Jazzhaus
926 1/2 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence, KS
785749.1387
The Jackpot Music Hall
943 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence KS
7858432846
The Eighth Street Tap Room
801 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
78584 6918 1
The Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence KS
785.749.7676
The Lied Center
1 600 Stewart Drive
Lawrence, KS
785.864.3469
The Bottleneck
737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, KS
785841.5483
I was rightfully duped. I was scrambling for a second job (the 12-hour-aweek campus job wasn't cutting it)
and the bills needed to be paid. In a lapse of judgement or maybe out of innocent curiosity, I called the "BARTENDING. UP TO $300 A DAY.NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY. TRAINING PROVIDED:" ad in a newspaper's classifieds.
I'd skipped over the ad a hundred times before, but this time it was too perfect to pass up $300 a day? Score. No experience? Right down my alley. Training provided? Easy cheesy. Upon reaching a party on the other line, a gruff-sounding man clicked on and I knew it really was too good to be true.
Turns out, all the training was from home with a convenient kit they mail you. When he started explaining how simple it was to pass the final test with a mere 70 percent, I gave him the click.
I'd known that bartenders around Lawrence worked their way up from table washing and clearing jobs when everyone lumbered out of the bar,but I figured maybe I
editor's note
could work my way in via an 800 number.
Bartending, though, as I learned in Brianne's bartending story on page 10, is more than a perfect pour. It takes a certain kind of person to handle intoxicated strangers.
I don't think I could take cleaning up an inebriated stranger's vomit, breaking up a fight between two drunk parties who don't even remember what they were fighting about, or socializing in an attempt to get a bigger tip as part of my job description.
A mysterious atmosphere surrounds most bartenders of the bars I frequent. I never know how friendly I need to be to get the best drink, or if a tip even really matters. I sometimes want to take my $2 tip from my $3 drink and wave it in front of their face just to make sure they know to liquor me up upon my refill.
I did end up finding another part-time job that semester: yard work for two hours once a week at about 23 dollars a pop. It was no $300,but I got a nice tan out of it.And yes the job was from the classifieds,no training required.
Matt Hirschfeld, editor
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January 15.2009
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