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CALENDAR
thursday, nov.20
Film: The Day After, 25th anniversary showing. Liberty Hall, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE.
University Dance
Company. Lied Center, 7:30
p.m., all ages, $7-$10.
Josephine Collective/
Jonas Sees in Color/
The Sailor Sequence.
The Granada, 8 p.m., all
ages.$2. www.myspace.com/
thesailorsequence.
Film: The Dark Knight.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages,
$2, www.suaevents.com.
Pert Near Sandstone/
Miss Alison Olassa
and Co. Replay Lounge.
10 p.m., 21+,$3, www.
pertearsandstone.com.
The Floozes/GEM.
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m.
21+, $3.10 p.m., 21+, $3.
friday, nov. 21
Job for a Cowboy/All
Shall Perish/Animosity/
Annotation of Autopsy.
The Bottleneck, 7 p.m., all ages,
$14-$15, www.myspace.com/
jobforcowboy.
Tech N9ne. Uptown
Theater, 7 p.m., all ages, $30.
where.thetech9ne.com
Nine Inch Nails. Missou
Arena, 7:30 p.m., all ages,
$29.75; $46.75.
"Those People Improv." The Granada, 8 p.m., 18+, $2.
Film: The Dark Knight.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium. 8 p.m., all ages, $2,
www.suaevents.com
Vick Chesnutt/Eif Power/Ghosty. The jackpot, 9 p.m., 18+,$12
Boo and Boo Too/Coat Party/I Love You. Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., all ages, $2
saturday,nov.22
Mudvayne/10 Years/
Snot: Uptown Theater, 7
p.m., all ages, $29.50.
Rick Springfield. Midland Theatre, 7 p.m., all ages, $37-$79. www.rickspringfield.com
Film: The Dark Knight.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium. B p.m., all ages. $2.
swww.events.com
Marc Broussard/The Gabe Dixon Band/Josh Hoge. The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., all ages, $16.
American Catastrophe/
The Expansiones/
Celandine. Davey's Uptown,
9 p.m., 21+, $10, www.myspace.
com/amcat.
The Roseline/Midwest Dilemma/Hawley. The jackpot, 9 p.m., all ages, $16.
Red Lefty/The F Holes.
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$4.
Punch Bros./Chris
Thile. The Granada, 7 p.m.
all ages, $18.
sunday, nov. 23
Fabulous Freddie
and The Doo Woops.
Knuckleheads, 7 p.m., 21+,$5.
Soullfy/Bleed the Sky/
Devasation/Incite/
Moire. The Beamount Club.
7:30 p.m., all ages, $22, www
myspace.com/bleedthesky.
monday, nov. 24
Smashing Pumpkins.
Midland Theater, 7 p.m.
all ages, $49.50, www.
smashingpumpkins.com.
Escape the Fate/Skylit Drive/Snake Eater. The Beaumont Club, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $13.
Graham Colton/Michael Tolcher. The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., all ages, $9-$11, www.grahamcolton.com.
tuesday, nov. 25
Smashing Pumpkins.
Midland Theatre, 7 p.m., all ages, $49.50, www.smashingpumpkins.com.
Tuesday Nite Swing.
Kansas Union, Kansas Room,
8 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Melek Taus Ensemble.
Signs of Life, 8 p.m., all ages.
FREE. www.signsOfLifebooks.com
wednesday, nov.26
Lawrence ArtWalk
2008. Downtown Lawrence,
12 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Willie Nelson/Billy Bob Thornton and the Boxmasters. Midland Theatre, 8 p.m., all ages, $35-100, www.willenelson.com.
Sebastien Grainger/
Josh Reichman Oracle
Band. Replay Lounge, 10
p.m., 21+,$3.
venues
Davey's Uptown 3402 Main St. Kansas City.Mo. (816)753-1909
Knuckleheads
Midland Theatre
Ankolehendae
2719 Rochester St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 431-1456
Midland Theatre
1228 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 471-8600
Mizzou Arena
600 E. Stadium Blvd.
Columbia, Mo.
(573) 825-6501
Signs of Life
722 Massachusetts St.
(785) 830-8030
Uptown Theater
3700 Broadway St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-8665
editor's note
As titlating as Brittney Spears made the school
uniform look seem, after wearing a plaid skirt and a white polo to school every day for the entirety of my pre-college education, I can testify that school uniforms are nothing worth dancing in a hallway about.
Dictated duds did have their perks, though. I didn't have to anguish every morning over what to wear, or worry that my outfit wasn't as cool as what the girl with the locker next to mine was wearing.
But in the sea of sameness that was my high school, I ached to stand out from my fellow plaid-clad counterparts. To do so, I found myself buying obnoxious hot pink jewelry gaudy headins in every color and neon Nikes.
I thought coming to the University would at last provide sweet liberation from the monotony of school uniforms. But college only presented a new problem: I had no idea how to dress.
It was a strange feeling, waking up at 18 and realizing you don't know how to put yourself together.
Not only did I now face the daunting task of having my clothes up to my discretion seven days a week, but I had no money to spend on upgrading my wardrobe from its hot-pink-jewelry-and-neon-Nike site.
I pinned for a North Face jacket, pastel Lacoste polos, a Dooney & Bourke handbag, a "Vote For Pedro" shirt—all the hot fashionls I spotted freshman year while nomming on noodle salad in Oliver dining hall.
But having no money to spend on new clothes taught me to be resourceful. I found a treasure trove of vintage shirts in my basement that had belonged to my mom. I also realized that every store has a clearance rack and, if perused at the right moment, a clearance rack can provide all the clothes your inner fashion maven desires.
Check out Nina's story on page 4 about how to keep yourself fashionable on a budget, and how being a "recessionist" is becoming a new trend in itself.
My tentative triumph over my once-barren closet showed me that being fashionable doesn't have to mean spending lots of dough, or being a cookie-cutter replica of everyone else.
Case in point: A few weeks ago, I decided to resurrect that plaid skirt from my school uniform days. Britney couldn't have been completely wrong.
- Megan Hirt, editor
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