CALENDAR
thursday,sept.11
Veggie Lunch. Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 11:30 a.m. all ages, FREE.
Real Deal Tattoo Convention. Uptown Theater, 12 p.m., all ages, $15.
Tea at Three. Kansas Union Lobby, 3 to 4 p.m., all ages, FREE, www.suaevents.com.
Mix 93 Free Show for Freedom, KC Power and Light District, 7p.m., 21+, FREE, www.mix93.com.
Film: Sex and the City.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages,
$2, www.suaevents.com.
Vampire Weekend. Liberty Hall, 8 p.m., all ages, $20.50. www.vampireweekend com.
Disco-O-Bama. The Granada, 9 p.m. 18+, $8-10.
The Builders and the Butchers/
Ample Branches.
The jackpot, 9 p.m., 18+
$5-$7, www.myspace.com/
thebuildersandthebutchers.
Truckstop
Honeymoon/Tiny Tuxedo.
The Gaslift Tavern, 10 p.m., 18+, $4-$6,
www.truckstophoneymoon.com.
Fromanhole/The
Dactyls. Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,$2.
friday,sept.12
Real Deal Tattoo Convention. Uptown Theater, 12 p.m., all ages, $15.
BridgeFest with Big Head Todd/Kathleen Edwards/Ben Taylor/ Sharon Little. Beaumont Club, 7 p.m., all ages, $25, www. bigheadtodd.com
KC Improv Festival.
Union Station, H&R Block
City Stage, 7 p.m., all ages, $15,
www.kcimprov.com.
Film: Sex and the City.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages,
$2..www.suaevents.com.
Puddle of Mudd. The Midland Theater, 8 p.m., all ages. $9.89-$29.89. www.puddleofmudd.com.
Okkervil River/Fouth of July/Suzannah Johannes. The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., all ages, $11-$12, www.okkervilriver.com.
The Night Marcher/
Colour Revolt. The
Jackpot, 9 p.m., 18+, $10-
$11, www.myspace.com/
thenightmarchers.
Music for the Masses
Pre-Party. Eighth Street Tap
Room, 10 p.m. 21+,$2.
Cosmic Bowling. Kansas Union, Jaybowl, 10 p.m., all ages, FREE.
"Sexi AKA Wieners and Boobs." Lawrence Arts Center, 10 p.m., all ages, $8.
Downtown Lawrence Farmers' Market. Eighth and New Hampshire Streets, 7 a.m. to 11 a.m., all ages, FREE.
saturday, sept. 13
Downtown Lawrence
Music for the Masses.
South Park, 12 p.m., all ages.
FREE.
Real Deal Tattoo Convention. Uptown Theater, 12 p.m., all ages. $15.
Kansas City Wizards vs.
L.A. Galaxy. Arrowhead
Stadium, 4 p.m., all ages, $30-
$45.
The Cab/The
The Caul/ The Providence/A Rocket to the Moon/Hey Monday. The Bottleneck, 6 p.m., all ages, $9-$11.
"Sex: AKA Wieners and Boobs." Lawrence Arts Center, 7 p.m. and 10 p.m., all ages, $8.
KC Improv Festival.
Union Station, H&R Block
City Stage, 7 p.m., all ages, $15,
www.kcimprov.com.
Fear Before the March of Flames/Damiera/I Am The Ocean.The Granada, 8 p.m., all ages,$7-$8, mywww.com/marchofflames.
Cosmic Bowling. Kansas Union, Jaybowl, 10 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Film: Sex and the City.
Kansas Union, Woodruff
Auditorium, 8 p.m., all ages,
www.suaevents.com.
Arts and Crafts Festival. South Park, 10 a.m., all ages, FREE.
sunday,sept 14
Suzannah Johannes/
Arts and Crafts
sukanman johannes/
Hanz Bronze. Love
Garden, 6 p.m., all ages,
FREE, www.myspace.com/
suzannahjohnes.
Ra Ra Riot/Walter Meego/Pepi Ginsberg/
The Letter Division.
The jackpot, 8 p.m., 18+, $10-
$12, www.rarariot.com.
Love As Laughter/
Oxford Collapse.
Replay Lounge, 10 p.m.
21+,$3,www.myspace.com/
loveslaenger.
Legalization of
monday,sept.15
Marijuana Debate.
Kansas Union, Ballroom, 7
p.m., all ages, FREE, www.
suaevents.com.
**Journey.** Midland Theater, 8 p.m., all ages, $32.50-$92.50, www.journeymusic.com.
Impaled/Phobia/
Illogicist/Maruta/
Kill the Client/Area
Kingdom. The jackpot, 8
p.m., 18+, $10, www.myspace.
comilimpa.
Cut Copy/The Presets.
The Record Bar; 9:30 p.m.,
18+, $17.
The Spanktones Open
Jam. The jazzhaus, 10 p.m,
21+,$2. www.jazzhaus.com.
Liberty Hall, 7 p.m., all ages.
$20.50 www.theovettbrothers.com.
tuesday, sept. 16
The Avett Brothers.
Bullet For My Valentine/Bleeding Through/Black Tide. Beaumont Club, 7.30 p.m., all ages, $23.50.
Yood. The Jackpot, 8 p.m., 18+, FREE.
Tuesday Nite Swing.
Kansas Union, Kansas Room,
8 p.m., all ages, FREE. groups.
yahoo.com/group/kuswingsociety.
Nick Jaina/Hidden
Pictures. The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+,$2.
University Forum:
"Local Inmate Re-entry
wednesday, sept.17
Efforts." Ecumenical Christian Ministries, 12 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Engineering and Computer Science Career Fair. Kansas Union, Ballroom, 12 p.m., all ages. FREE.
Chess Night. Aimee's Coffee House, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE.
Rock Band
Competition. Kansas Union, Hawk's Nest, 7 p.m., all ages, FREE, www.suwevents.com.
Gavin DeGraw. Liberty
b.m. desdraw, Liberty
Hall, 8 p.m., all ages, $25.50.
www.gavindegraw.com
venues
The Beaumont Club
4050 Pennsylvania St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 561-2560
The Bottleneck
The Granada
737 New Hampshire St.
Lawrence
(785) 841-5483
The Jackpot Music Hall
1020 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 842-1390
943 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 843-2846
Liberty Hall
644 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 749-1972
Midland Theater
1228 Main St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 471-9703
The Record Bar
1020 Westport Rd.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-5207
The Replay Lounge
946 Massachusetts St.
Lawrence
(785) 749-7676
Uptown Theater
3700 Broadway St.
Kansas City, Mo.
(816) 753-8655
editor's note
went to France.
I can speak French.
Fresh off my nine-hour flight to Paris, I was giddy at the sight of stone streets, the smell of fresh baguettes and the sounds of the French language buzzing around me.
Or so I thought, before I actually
The notebooks scrawled with vocab lists and verb conjugations, the hours spent willing my vocal cords to produce those throaty French sounds all flashed before me.
Feeling ambitious, I strolled into a store to buy a phone card, and inside stood two French boys.
I approached the guy behind the counter—all cheekbones and pouty lips, blonde hair crashing into his eyes—and said "bonjour" nodding my head politely.
Everything came down to this: my first real French conversation.
just as I'd practiced in the mirror.
The word had barely escaped my nervous lips when the other guy—brunette curls, striped sweater in June—looked over at me, then at his co-worker, and mumbled, "American."
I remember the burn in my cheeks, the heavy knot in my tongue, the way my brain short-circuited as I frantically searched for the French words that corresponded with my English thoughts.
I remember their amused grins, the impatient confusion in their eyes as I struggled to spit out basic sentences.
Second person plural, direct object there, future tense here—Oh, I mess up, can I start over?
As I was leaving the store after what seemed like hours, the blonde said to me, in French, "You speak French very well, my dear."
I couldn't tell if he was sarcastic, serious or sympathetic.
I wanted to reply that was my first day in France and that I'd just spent nine
hours on a crowded airplane next to a burly man with pistachio breath.
But though all these words were somewhere in my head, standing there, I couldn't say them. I just nodded politely and left.
My time in France opened my eyes to all the nuances of communication I once took for granted. No matter how much I study, I'll likely never be able to fully comprehend the humor or master the distinct flow of conversation in French.
- Megan Hirt, editor
Read Derek's story on page 12 about KU student Travis Tewes, who can rap in English and Japanese and who has used his language skills to make a name for himself in japan's hip-hop scene.
And, be sure to check out page 6 for the first installment of "Transatlantic Trends," a fashion column from Jayplay writer Chris Horn, who's spending the semester in France.
I hope he has better luck conversing with the locals than I did that first day.
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Editor Megan Hirt
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Contact Carly Halvorson, Matt Hirschfeld
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Manual Heather Melanson, Ariel Tilson
Notice Matt Bechtold, Nina Libby, Sean Rosner
Contributors Mark Arehart.
Matthew Crooks, Miller Davis, Chris Horn, Mia Iverson, Amber Jackson, Danny Nordstrom, Abby Olcese, Amanda Sorell, Elise Stawarz
Play Brianne Pfannenstiel, Derek Zarda
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