CALENDAR
thursday, oct. 23
Free Form Film Series:
Please Self Help Me. The
Jackpot, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE.
www.freeformfilm.org.
Maxwell. Uptown Theater.
7 p.m., all ages. $49.50-$150.
www.myspace.com/maxwell.
Lawrence Zombie Walk. South Park, 8 p.m., all ages, FREE, www.zombiewalk.com.
Film: The Dark Knight.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages,
$2. www.suoevents.com
The Spook Lights/
Weird Wounds/
Shearing Pinx. The
Jackpot, 10 p.m., 18+,
$5-$7, www.myspace.com/
thespook.lights.
Toadies. The Beaumont Club, 8 p.m., all ages, $15.
www.thetodays.com
Fyne Print/Capsule B/
Sudden Blunt Trama.
Davey's Uptown, 9:30 p.m.,
21+,$5.
The Floozies/Gem. The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+,$3.
friday, oct.24
Mest/Automatic Love Letter/QuietDrive/Rookie of the Year. The Granada, 6 p.m., all ages, $16-$18, www.mypace.com/mest.
Don Quijote De La Mancha. Folly Theater, 8 p.m., $6+, $22-$35.
Horrorshow II. Lawrence Arts Center, 8 p.m., all ages, $6.
Halloween Party '08.
Crimson and Brews, 9 p.m.
18+, $5-$7.
Film: The Dark Knight.
Kansas Union,Woodruff
Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages,
$2.
Jolie Holland/Herman Dune. The Jackpot, 9 p.m.
18+, $10-$12.
Dactylis/Bandit Teeth.
Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., all ages, $3.
Ras Neville and the Kingstonians. The jazzzah, 10 p.m., 21+, $4.
Red Kate. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $3.
Lawrence ArtWalk
2008. Downtown Lawrence,
10 a.m., all ages, FREE.
saturday, oct.25
Four Year Strong/I am the Avalanche/This is Hell/A Loss for Words.
The Bottleneck, 6:30 p.m., all ages, $10.
The Republic Tigers.
The Beaumont Club, 7 p.m., all ages, $10, www.myspace.com/therepublictigers.
Stepping Out Against Breast Cancer. Crown Toyota Pavilion, 8 p.m., all ages, $35.
Diplo. The Granada, 8 p.m., all ages, $15.
Queers & Allies Clinton Lake bonfire. Clinton State Park, 9 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Halloween Bash. The Jackpot, 9 p.m., 18+, $5-$7.
Bob Schneider/Amie Mirielle. The Bottleneck, 10 p.m., 18+, $15.
The Fourth of July. The Gaslight Tavern, 10 p.m., 21+, $5.
Midday Ramblers/
White Mule. The Replay
Lounge, 7 p.m., 21+, $3.
sunday, oct. 26
Deep Thinkers/Akil the MC. The Record Bar, 9:30 p.m., 18+, $10-$12. www.myspace.com/deepthinkers.
Shelley Short/Alexis Gideon. Eighth Street Tap Room, 10 p.m., all ages, $3.
www.myspace.com/shelleyshort.
monday, oct.27
The Susan G. Komen on the Go. Kansas Union, 9 a.m., all ages, FREE.
MSTRKRFT/LA Riots/
Felix Cartal. Liberty Hall,
8 p.m., all ages. $15, www.
myspace.com/lariotofficial.
Torche/Coliseum/
Clouds/The Old Black.
The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $18+, $10,
myspace.com/torche.
The Futants/Prize
Country/Latin.
The Record Bar, 10 p.m., 21+,$7,
www.myspace.com/prizecountry.
Michelle Malone. Davey's Uptown, 8 p.m., all ages, $10.
tuesday, oct.28
Alanis Morissette.
Midland Theater; 8 p.m., all
ages; $35-$50, www.alanis.com.
Beloved Binge/
Edincoat/The Feverbell.
The Record Bar, 10 p.m.
21+,$7.
D Numbers/1,000,000
Light Years. The Replay
Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+, $2.
wednesday, oct.29
Haunted Halloween.
Kansas Union, 11 a.m., FREE,
www.suaevents.com.
The Academy Is.../We
The Kings/Carolina
Liar/Hey Monday. The
Beaumont Club, 7:30 p.m., all
ages, $17.00, www.myspace.
com/theacademyis.
A Night of Rock and Roll Horror, Screenland, 8 p.m., all ages, $10.
Jonathan Richman.
The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., all ages,$15-$16.
venues
The Beaumont Club
The Bottleneck
4050 Pennsylvania St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 561-2560
737 New Hampshire St.
(785) 841-5483
Davey's Uptown
3402 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-1909
Eighth Street Tap Room
801 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence, Ks.
(785) 841-6918
Folly Theater
1020 Central St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 842-5500
Midland Theater
1228 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 471-9703
The Record Bar
1020 Westport Rd.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-5207
editor's note
When I worked at a fabric store, I could spend an entire 8-hour shift wandering the aisle
of fabric, contemplating which hue of taffeta or which pattern of fleece best captured my essence as a human being.
My boss, Karen, was of a much different mind-set regarding work. Karen was in her 50s, rigorous and resolute, and a strict disciple of the manic rhythm of retail.
She scolded me for sitting on the counter to rest my feet, even when there were no customers in the store. She wouldn't let me wear a sweater over my short-sleeved uniform, even when the store's temperature seemed to dip near arctic lows in the winter.
And, of course, I wasn't allowed to shop while I worked—a reasonable yet nearly impossible decree. I couldn't help it if, while paying ever-so-close attention to vacuuming the dingy brown carpet beneath me, I happened to be distracted by the new fashion prints just begging to be transformed into dresses and drapes and anything in between.
The maddest I ever saw Karen, though, was when I asked a young couple what they planned to make with the 15 yards of brown fabric they were buying, to which they replied that they were dressing up as "shit" for Halloween. I laughed hysterically for a good 10 minutes, then suggested they use textured moleskin fabric to up the authenticity of their poo look. The conversation horrified Karen, as well as the three other older women in the vicinity.
Most of the store's customers happened to be older women, and this often presented problems. A jittery woman with a heavily powdered face once complained that I looked like a "tart," while another woman refused to let me cut her fabric because my nails were painted black, apparently a clear sign that I was affiliated with the devil and intended to curse her Winnie the Pooh flannel.
My trials and tribulations at the fabric store showed me, among many other things, the glaring work ethnic differences between older and younger generations of employees. To my elders, I was an obscure deviant of a thing, prone to laziness and unprofessional behavior.To me, they were out-of-touch work zombies who zapped all the fun out of the job.
Carly's story on page 15 explores this phenomenon of generational differences in the workplace, and she'll tell you how to avoid all the common faux pas young employees tend to make.
And FYI: Discussing Halloween costumes based on bodily functions isn't mentioned in the story, but I'd say it's generally frowned upon.
- Megan Hirt, editor
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