%{}% %{}% A Kansas City company that received public assistance to move its operations to a disused retail space in 2012 has been the target of a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission investigation. A recent filing by American Performance Technologies reveals that the SEC sent the company what’s called a “Wells notice” this past summer. A Wells notice tells a…
%{}% %{}% Paper Bird You know those rose-tinted Summer of Love photos of happy-looking, longhaired girls stringing together flower headbands? Denver’s Paper Bird is fronted by a trio of female singers who, you’d imagine, would fit nicely in those pictures. When sisters Genevieve and Esmé Patterson, along with trumpeter Sarah Anderson, summon their supernatural harmonizing powers on the band’s latest…
Late on a Wednesday night, the four members of Making Movies are squirreled away in their crowded rehearsal space, at the Heritage Musical Repair shop in Hyde Park. The locked glass doors do little to muffle the heart-pounding beats and Latin rhythms. Anyone walking past is likely to believe she’s missing out on a really great private party. It is…
No one in Kansas City’s jazz scene has mentored more female singers than organist Everette DeVan. That legacy made the series of strokes that DeVan suffered in February all the more harrowing, and now DeVan’s wife has announced that the local legend is battling kidney failure. To help raise money for mounting medical bills, some of DeVan’s former students are coming together…
