Memoryhouse August 26, 2010 The Bottleneck “It’s uh, different,” said Memoryhouse guitarist Evan Abeele, introducing a new song late during the band’s performance at the Bottleneck Thursday night. Not quite. For some, the hazzzzy headphone music of Memoryhouse will entrance listeners with its multiple evocations of memory and dizzying, glacial ruminations (as it did to much of the paltry crowd)….
West Edge, the Plaza-area mixed-use project that collapsed under the weight of its ambitions and fancy-pants architecture, sold at an auction on Thursday. AMC Entertainment, the Kansas City-based movie theater company, has emerged as a possible tenant of the development, which went into bankruptcy in 2009 in a half-completed state. A group associated with RED Development reportedly offered $10 million…
This small chocolate mousse torte has a Napoleonic complex To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. You can put this visually sumptuous dessert in the category of “Almost too pretty to eat.” The silky chocolate mousse torte — there’s…
Everybody is bigger in Texas. And the Texas State Fair might have something to do with that. The sixth annual Big Tex Choice Awards, which in years past has produced fried coke and deep-fried butter, has led two contestants to invent methods of frying alcohol in the hopes of selling their creations at the state fair which begins on September…
This is a pro-pop-music blog, but there’s undeniably hella thievin’ going on in pop music these days. What’s worse, nobody seems afraid of getting caught. So we’ve compiled a list of recent sound-a-like offenders, complete with audio proof. Categories: Music Tags: katy perry, kesha, Lady Gaga
Chris Dotson, a 22-year-old student at UMKC, was found dead in his Shawnee apartment on Wednesday. The murder police are on the case. Dotson’s body was found by his mother, La Trice Dotson. Last night, she led what she called a celebration of her son’s life in the parking lot of his apartment building at 67th and Lackman. The service…
The new, “official” video, which you can peep after the jump, features a ton of Sopranos/The Last Waltz-style camera-in-car shots of lesser-known local landmarks like the King Louie bowling alley in Overland Park and the JC Penney Outlet Store on 75th and I-35. I definitely got some irregular clothing at that place as a kid. Categories: Music Tags: mac lethal
The improbable world of pop music rarely collides with the very real word of fast food training. But Best Week Ever has posted a series of Wendy’s training videos from the early 90s’ that will teach you why every orientation video need only consist of a singer accompanied by a synthesizer. The video above, Chili Can Be Served With Cheese,…
1. Covet some runway fashions. Models showcase looks created by local designers during the (Un)scene KC Fashion Show tonight. 2. Watch a lot of really short plays. EMU Theatre’s Ten-Minute Play Festival continues in Lawrence this weekend. 3. Try to stop your heart with bacon. That irresistible, salty, terrible-for-you treat is at the center of Bacon-Fest: The Other Fundraiser, a…
The balcony building on the Country Club Plaza has made thousands of friends on Facebook since Highwoods Properties stated talking about knocking it down. Turns out, clicking “like” and showing up at City Hall are two different things. The proposal to drop a hulking office building on the balcony block received its first public hearing on Thursday, and only a…
Police and sheriff’s deputies yesterday searched the Grain Valley home of Charles J. Juba, the former Aryan Nations leader and erstwhile teen dance party host. The last we heard from Juba, he was trying to open an under-21 club in Odessa. City leaders nixed the idea when they got wind of his involvement in the white-power movement, which Juba said…
Though he’s certainly gathered a grassroots following in his 35-year career, Alejandro Escovedo and his keenly sketched portraits of love and loss have never received the attention they deserve. Watch a video after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: alejandro escovedo
