CALENDAR
thursday, nov. 6
Undercath/Saosin/The Devil Wears Prada/
Person L. The Beaumont
Club, 7:30 p.m., all ages,
$16.50, www.underoath777.
com.
SUA Singing Bee.
Hashinger Hall Theatre, 8 p.m,
all ages, FREE, www.suaevents.com.
Film: Wall-E. Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages, $1.
Crosby and Nash.
Uptown Theater, 8 p.m., all
ages, $35, www.crosby.nash.com.
Atmosphere/Abstract
Rude/Blueprint/
DJ Rare Groove. The
Granada, 9 p.m., all ages, $20-
$22.
That Damn Sasquatch.
The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,
$3, www.myspace.com/
damnthatsasquatch.
friday, nov. 7
Play: Street Scene.
Murphy Hall, Crafton-Preyer
Theatre, 7:30 p.m. all ages,
$10-$20.
Slightly Stoopid/Outlaw Nation/DJ Unite. Liberty Hall. 8 p.m., all ages, $18, www.slightlystoopid.com.
Filim: Wall-E. Kansas Union Woodriff Auditorium. 8 p.m., all ages, $2.
Andrew Dice Clay.
Uptown Theater, 8 p.m.
all ages, $39.50, www.
andrewdiceclay.com.
Steddy P/Stik Figa/
Dutch Newman. The Record Bar, 10 p.m., 21+,$7.
Normanoak/Wee Giant/New Franklin Panthers. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,$3.
Cosmic Bowling. Kansas Union, Jaybowl, 10 p.m., all ages, FREE.
saturday, nov. 8
Play: Street Scene.
Murphy Hall, Crafton-Preyer
Theatre, 7:30 p.m. all ages,
$10-$20.
Days of the New. The Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $21-26.
Film: Wall-E. Kansas
Union Woodruff Auditorium,
8 p.m. all ages, $2.
Black Cobras/Hundred Years War/Bear Claw/Frommanhole. The Record Bar, 9:45 p.m., 21+,$7, www.myspace.com/blackcobra.
Double Trouble/MC Candlepants. Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., 21+,$3.
Cosmopolitics. The
Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$4.
www.myspace.com/cosmopolitics.
The Marmots/The Sound of Urchin. The Replay Lounge. 10 p.m., 21+,$3, www.soundofurchin.com.
Douglas County AIDS Project: Red Ribbon Art Auction. Maceli's, 5:30 p.m., all ages, $35.
sunday, nov. 9
Rachael Yamagata/
Meiko/Thao Nguyen/
Alice Russell/Jaymay.
Liberty Hall, 7p.m., all ages,
$18.
The Eagles. Sprint Center,
8 p.m., all ages; $49.50-
$149.50.
monday, nov. 10
This Is My Condition.
Love Garden, 7 p.m., all ages,
FREE.
The Morning Light/
Houston Calls/Brighten.
The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., all
ages,$8-$10.
Drunkdriver/Weird
Drunkdriver/Weird Wounds. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., $2+, $2, www.myspace.com/drunkdriverusa.
tuesday, nov. 11
Fierce Fashion Show with Christian Siriano. Kansas Union, Ballroom, 6 p.m., all ages, FREE, www.sueaevents.com.
All Time Low/Mayday Parade. The Beaumont Club, 7 p.m., all ages, $15, myspace.com/altimewol.
New Kids on the Block.
Sprint Center, 8 p.m., all ages,
$29.50-$69.50.
wednesday, nov. 12
French film: Rèves de Poussière (Dreams of Dust). Kansas Union, Woodruff Auditorium. 7:30 p.m., all ages. $2, www.frenchhui.ku.edu
Play: Sweeney Todd. The Lied Center, 7:30 p.m., all ages, $20-$25.
Arthur Dodge. Harbour Lights, 10 p.m., 21+,$2, www.arthurdodge.com.
The Beaumont Club
venues
4050 Pennsylvania St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 561-2560
Eighth Street Tap Room
801 New Hampshire St.
(785) 841-6918
Maceli's
1031 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence
(785) 331-2096
The Record Bar
1020 Westport Road Kansas City, Mo. (816) 753-5207
Sprint Center
1407 Grand Blvd
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 949-7000
Uptown Theater
3700 Broadway St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-8665
editor's note
The city of Wilson, Kan., is located about two miles off 1-70.
smack in the center of our fine state. City is a generous word, however, as Wilson has a population of about 750 people. All of its residents could fit in Budig 120, with plenty of seats to spare.
Wilson is: One main street, a grocery store, a gas station, an antique store and a handful of churches. It is also my grandmother's hometown, and where she lived until about eight years ago. Going to Wilson was a staple of my childhood. I remember long summer days spent rollerblading up and down the main street and loitering at the gas station.
As entertaining as such activities were, though it never took long for boredom
to seep in. One July afternoon—surely in a desperate attempt to banish the impending monotony—I convinced myself that hidden in the Wilson, Kan., antique store was some magical artifact akin to One-Eyed Willy's treasure map in The Goonies. If only I searched hard enough, I'd find it and embark off into the sunset on a fantastic adventure.
I never found anything close.
But what I did find was just as captivating: Shelves of Christmas ornaments, amateur paintings, kerosene lamps, old tools and cookware and wind-up toys.
I would slide my fingers along these objects, wondering about the lives they had lived and their anonymous former owners. Any flaw—a scratch in the wood, a chip in the paint—only made a piece more evocative and endearing to me. I imagined all the moments in time these things had witnessed, and somehow they
allowed those moments to exist still.
Check out Derek's story on page 13 about the joy and adventure of antique shopping, and find out the best places to get your vintage hunt on here in Lawrence.
It's strange to imagine, but someday antique stores will house remnants of our own childhoods—the dollhouse I cherished, the Legos my brother played with every day, the Beanie Babies I saved up my allowance for.
I haven't been to Wilson for six years. But if I ever make it back, I'll visit the antique store again. Who knows? Maybe I'll stumble upon One-Eyed Willy's treasure map this time. Or even better: a toy I used to love that reminds me of those childhood days spent invigorating my imagination in Wilson. I know I'd love it still.
- Megan Hirt, editor
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Contributors Mark Arehart.
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Crooks, Miller Davis, Chance
Dibben, Chris Horn, Dani Hurst,
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Danny Nordstrom, Meghan
Nuckels, Abby Olcase, Amanda
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