Life. and How to Have One. September 24, 2009
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Jayplaylife. and how to have one. September 24, 2009 *SHOWER POWER Bathing: then and now, here and there » ‘you can’t change a dude’ Q&A WITH TUCKER MAX » double vision DO PEOPLE HAVE THE WRONG IDEA ABOUT WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A TWIN? TOC TABLE OF CONTENTS 13 Searching for Porubsky The story of one historic Topeka business will soon make it to the silver screen 5 Trading clothes for cash Empty your closet and fill up your wallet at these Lawrence businesses 19 Clearly an eye-opening experience Writer Hailey Osterhaus talks about undergoing LASIK eye surgery 10 Let’s talk dirty The naked truth about bathing JayplaySeptember 24, 2009 // volume 7, issue 6 Table of contents and cover photo illustrations by Jerry Wang 6-5*."5&5"/ 5BOOJOH-BXSFODFGPS :FBST $25 .POUI6OMJNJUFE 3FHVMBS#FET Monthy Unlimited {level 1 beds only} /FX$VTUPNFS4QFDJBM new customers will receive an additional 4FTTJPOT 'SFF week FREE *PXB4U 4VJUF0 must present coupon in store. -BXSFODF ,4 /P.FNCFSTIJQ3FRVJSFE 4000 W. 6th St. 856.2646. 1 per person. expires 10.15.09 09 24 2 092 CALENDAR thursday, sept. 24th friday, sept. 25th saturday, sept. 26th sunday, sept. 27th monday, sept. 28th tuesday, sept. 29th wednesday, sept. 30th POKER PUB ORLANDO VENTURA, PIANO POKER PUB RECENT WORK BY CLARE THE AIRBORNE TOXIC EVENT RECENT WORK BY CLARE POKER PUB Conroy’s Pub, 6 p.m. & Pachamama’s, 7 p.m., Conroy’s Pub, 6 p.m. & DEVOTION The Granada, 7:30 p.m., DEVOTION The Pool Room, 7 p.m. & Pachamama’s, 11 a.m., Pachamama’s, 11 a.m., 9 p.m., free, all ages free, all ages 9 p.m., free, all ages $15, all ages 10 p.m., free, 21+ free, all ages free, all ages THE JUNKYARD JAZZ BAND KU COLLAGE CONCERT ORLANDO VENTURA, PIANO DOLLAR BOWLING TUESDAY NITE SWING THE AMERICANA MUSIC DRAKKAR SAUNA / MIDDAY American Legion, 7 p.m., Lied Center, 7:30 p.m., $10- Pachamama’s, 7 p.m., free, Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, The Kansas Union, 8 p.m., ACADEMY JAM RAMBLERS free, all ages $15, all ages all ages 9 p.m., $1, all ages free, all ages Signs of Life, 7:30 p.m., The Replay Lounge, 6 p.m., free, all ages $5, all ages “UP” “CLUB MOROCCO” “DANGEROUS DAMSELS!” “DANGEROUS DAMSELS!” ORIGINAL MUSIC MONDAYS Woodruff Auditorium, $2- Lawrence Community Lawrence Arts Center, 7:30 Lawrence Arts Center, 7:30 The Bottleneck, 9 p.m., “THE INVENTION OF LYING” POKER PUB $3, all ages Theatre, 7:30 p.m., $15, p.m., $7-$10, all ages p.m., $7-$10, all ages all ages ADVANCE SCREENING all ages The Pool Room, 7 p.m. & “FIGHT CLUB” 10TH ANNIVER- Woodruff Auditorium, 8 10 p.m., free, 21+ SPLIT LIP RAYFIELD SOUTHERN CULTURE ON THE LSD AND THE SEARCH FOR SARY SCREENING p.m., free, all ages MOTORHEAD The Bottleneck, 8 p.m. $13- SKIDS GOD / OWL PEOPLE Woodruff Auditorium, 8 Midland Theater, 8 p.m., SMACKDOWN TRIVIA p.m., $2-$3, 17+ $14, all ages The Granada, 8 p.m., $16- The Replay Lounge, 10 DOLLAR BOWLING $9.89, all ages The Bottleneck, 7:30 p.m., $18, all ages p.m., $2, 21+ Royal Crest Bowling Lanes, free-$5, 18+ OBLIVION / AVANT NATIONAL “UP” 9 p.m., $1, all ages “UP” GUARD / BLACK JOHN Woodruff Auditorium, 8 CORY MORROW ADAM LEE & THE DEAD Woodruff Auditorium, $2- BROTHER ALI / EVIDENCE / Duffy’s, 9 p.m., $3, all ages p.m., $2-$3, all ages The Bottleneck, 8 p.m., $11- HORSE SOUND CO. / YOUNG BUCK / CRUCIAL $3, all ages TOKI WRIGHT / BK ONE $13, all ages The Granada, 10 p.m., $15- SIDESHOW TRAGEDY / BIRDS OF AVALON / THE OLD MUSIC RETRO DANCE PARTY TYLER GREGORY & THE BLUE BLACK The Granada, 9 p.m., $18- WADE BOWEN $17, all ages The Replay Lounge, 10 Wilde’s Chateau 24, 9 p.m., “UP” SHUFFLE $20, all ages The Granada, 9 p.m., $15, p.m., $2, 21+ $3-$5, 18+ Woodruff Auditorium, 8 THE KINETIKS / RADEMACHER The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 all ages p.m., $2-$3, all ages The Replay Lounge, 10 p.m., 21+ AN HORSE ACOUSTIC OPEN JAM CALIFORNIA CRAISINS / JET FLOYD THE BARBER p.m., $2, 21+ The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., SET BACHELOR DJS FEAT. p.m., $6-$8, 18+ Pachamama’s, 9:30 p.m., THE DEAD GIRLS / LITTLE $2, 21+ NICK RAY BRAZIL / THE OLD BLACK free, all ages “HEAVINESS,” NEW WORKS The Eighth St. Taproom, 10 The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 venues // MARK MALLMAN / BY DONIKA WILEY p.m., $3, 21+ NEON DANCE PARTY p.m., $5-$7, 18+ Conroy’s Pub Wilde’s Chateau 24 Lawrence Arts Center, 9 ANTENNAS UP The Jackpot, 10 p.m., $1- 3115 W. 6th St. Ste D. 2412 Iowa St. p.m., free, all ages The Replay Lounge, 10 SUNU $5, 18+ THE BREAKDOWN WITH p.m., $2, 21+ The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, STACKSWELL AND BSEARS The Bottleneck The Granada THE BIG IRON / REDUCTO 21+ The Eighth St. Taproom, 10 737 New Hampshire St. 1020 Massachusetts St. ABSURDUM p.m., $3, 21+ The Jackpot Music Hall The Eighth St. Taproom The Eighth St. Taproom, 10 THE CALAMITY CUBES / 943 Massachusetts St. 801 New Hampshire St. p.m., $3, 21+ GRISLY HAND FOURTH OF JULY / NAOMI The Jackpot Music Hall, 10 WHAT? The Jazzhaus The Replay Lounge MYSTERY OF TWO / WHY p.m., $6-$8, 18+ LOOKING FOR The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., $4, 926 1/2 Massachusetts St. 946 Massachusetts St. MAKE CLOCKS? / LITE LOINS 21+ 1,000,000 LIGHT YEARS / GOOD The Replay Lounge, 10 The Gaslight Tavern The Pool Room TOOTH BAD TOOTH / UTERUS p.m., $2, 21+ THE ANTS / JON HARRISON & 317 N. 2nd St. 925 Iowa St. YOUTH / BOPAPHONICS THE HARRISONICS The Replay Lounge, 10 BLACK DOG STATION The Replay Lounge, 10 Lawrence Arts Center Duffy’s p.m., $3, 21+ The Jazzhaus, 10 p.m., 21+ p.m., $2, 21+ 940 New Hampshire St. 2222 W. 6th St. FREE LEGAL HELP? editor’s note // Ten years after my mom’s surgery, I wonder EDITOR // Sean Rosner if LASIK is for me. When my mom got it done, ASSOCIATE EDITOR // Alex Garrison the idea of someone firing lasers into my then- DESIGNERS // Laura Fisk, Liz Schulte landlord & tenant disputes ten-year-old eyes scared the bejeezus out of me. CONTACT // Mia Iverson, Hailey Osterhaus lease review // DUI Older but perhaps not entirely wiser, I can’t say HEALTH // Kirsten Hudson, Amy Johnson I don’t still feel the same. MANUAL // Francesca Chambers, fake ID // MIP Do I want to risk my vision, arguably my Patrick De Oliveira, Andrea Olsen most important sense? What if I move during NOTICE // Hannah DeClerk, Kelci Shipley, notary // consumer protection the surgery and mess it up? My mom says this Valerie Skubal is what she worried about most — not that the PLAY // Sarah Bluvas, Zach Getz, income tax assistance After bearing with pairs of glasses for decades doctors would screw up, but that she would. Jake Lerman and suffering through the 1980s with hard, un- And then there’s the cost. My mom says it’s CONTRIBUTORS // Mike Anderson, Taylor comfortable, extremely expensive contacts, my the best money she’s ever spent, but it’s not Brown, Amber Jackson, Chelsea Johnson, Call us today! mom woke up from a long nap one day in late covered by our insurance and, even if I had the KJHK music staff, Sasha Lund, Landon Mc- 1999 and, suddenly, could see. money, I’m probably too lazy to bother when Donald, Abby Olcese, Brett Phillippe, Nicolas She had gone under the laser after signing her- contacts don’t seem like too much of a pain. Roesler, Amanda Sorell 785-864-5665 self up for what was then still a relatively new and Still, I hear my mom’s and Hailey’s stories of CREATIVE CONSULTANT // Carol Hol- unproven procedure: LASIK eye surgery. awakening and feel a tinge of jealousy. stead Like Jayplay writer Hailey Osterhaus, she went Check out Hailey’s story on page 19 to read CONTACT US // [email protected] home after the quick outpatient surgery desper- more about LASIK surgery and the way it JAYPLAY The University Daily Kansan ate for sleep. After several hours, she opened her changed her life. Perhaps it’ll open your eyes to (785) 864-4810 111 Stauffer-Flint Hall eyes and, for the first time since she was a child, new and exciting medical possibilities. 1435 Jayhawk Blvd. she could see the room clearly. She hasn’t needed ContributingCtCCiibb tii tot SSdSttudentd tS Success any form of vision correction since. // ALEX GARRISON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR Lawrence, KS 66045 09 3 24 309 MANUAL get some culture // SOUL NIGHTS AT in the life of ... // A STENOGRAPHER it’s not all about fast food and beer pong. THE TAPROOM living vicariously through others is ok with us. “Does anyone want to take this party back Smiling, Debbie Oakleaf quickly types the one, her work is very serious. As the stenographer, to their house?” the DJ hollers to the crowd of keys of the odd-looking black machine. It it is her job to take down a perfect record of what sweaty, drunk dancers. spits out a handful of letters on a purple sheet is said in court and to maintain the exhibits of Will Weinstein looks at his brother and gives of receipt paper: the court. him the “I don’t know” face.