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The University Daily Kansan
Wednesday, March 17, 1999
Concert Review
Radio hits dominate Morissette's concert
By Matt Cox Kansan music critic
If anyone wasn't sick of Alanis before the concert, they definitely were after.
Alanis Morissette stopped in Kansas City at Kemper Arena on Monday on her Junkie Tour with Garbage.
The show was exhaustive even though she didn't play two of her best songs, Joining You and Head Over Feet. She played for two hours.
Junkie. The response from the audience was getting forced and
sang eight of her 10 radio singles (yes, she has that many) and dragged an audience made up mostly of 14-year-old females
through two encores.
One waited a good two minutes for the first encore before coming back out and milked the audience dry of their cheers. Her first encore song was *Thank U*, a boring, four-minute journey of her thanks toward people, countries and personified nouns.
weary.
Other low points of the evening included Alanis displaying her flute skills — or lack thereof. During a slower but very musically and lyrically endearing That I Would Be Good, she began and ended with a flute solo that was out of tune with the band. It sounded absolutely wretched and kept the well-written song from shining.
ALANIS MORISSETTE LIVE AT KEMPER ARENA Rating :C-
One of her best songs, You Outta Know, was ruined by making the
To end her first encore she sang Ironic, a catchy tune where she misleads the youth of America by giving horrible examples of irony that are just bummers and not ironic. The music was played well and powerfully, though.
She lost almost half of the arena by the second encore but still came out to sing two songs from her new album, Supposed Former Infatuation
first two verses and choruses slow and unplugged-like. The last chorus rocked like the album, but a few fans couldn't get
into it because the song took too long to go getting.
Also, the guitars weren't as loud as they should have been, and it took the punch out of her radio hits such as You Learn, Right Through You, and Hand In My Pocket.
The pinnacle came during You Learn. At the end of the song while the band was finishing up, she threw the microphone down and twirled around on stage while hopping and convulsing. It was pathetically amusing. However, the middle schoolers seemed to really identify with it.
There were some highlights, though
Uninvited, her most innovative
song, sounded incredible in an arena. Her voice filled the place with a cold but fitting atmosphere. This was complemented with exquisite instrumentation by drums and the bass guitar.
The other main highlight was her song Are You Still Mad, a subtle, sweet, almost adult contemporary
Above: Alanis Morissette plays the guitar during her two-hour set. Right: Alanis Morissette dances during her concert Monday night at Kemper Arena. Morissette has been on tour promoting her latest album, Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie. Photos by Dan Elvsky/KANSAN
song that displays a repeated, catchy piano solo with an arousing array of vocals from Morissette. It was moving.
Edited by Melody Ard
Overall the concert had more presence than her albums, but the quirks were disappointing and her encores took too long.
European store gives flavor, diverse choice to Lawrence
By Kelly Clasen Special to the Kansan
Lora Duguid was studying abroad in France during her junior year at the University when a store in the southern part of the country that sold American food caught her eye.
"I was really happy to see things like peanut butter and Dr. Pepper," she said.
Duguid graduated from the University of Kansas in 1995 with bachelor's degrees in both art history and French. Since then, she has turned her discovery in France of the popularity of imports into a new business venture downtown.
Her European market, au Marché, 19 W. Ninth St., which opened last August, specializes in the sale of imported European foods.
After returning to Lawrence, she said she became acquainted with the owners of Brits, 732 Massachusetts St., a store that offers a variety of British items.
surely, a store that makes Bits' britons Susie Pryor and Sally Helm asked Duguid if she would be interested in becoming a partner in the ownership of the new store they wanted to open, which became au Marche. The name of the store is French for "to the market."
"After graduation I had a number of jobs I didn't like very much, and I knew I wanted to keep French in my life in some way," she said. "I thought it was a great idea."
The small store offers a variety of items from nearly every country in Europe. Duguid said some of the best-selling items were the French cheeses, assorted chocolates and Orangina, a French soft drink
"In the beginning, the goods were pretty well distributed from all the countries," she said. "As more and more people come into the store, we get requests for things, and that has helped our German inventory grow immensely."
tory grew immerse in Christopher Baldridge, Little Rock, Ark., senior, said he first went to au Marché in August, shortly after returning from studying abroad in France. While walking through downtown Lawrence, cases of Orangina on the sidewalk outside au Marché caught his attention.
"I saw that, and it's a very French drink," he said,
"drank it all year, so I stopped in the store."
Baldridge, a linguistics major, now works part time at au Marché.
Dugaid said she thought the customers who came into the store appreciated the fact that Baldridge spoke a number of languages including French, Italian and some Greek.
"Lawrence is a great town for a store like this because it's very culturally diverse," she said. "I've been surprised to find out how many adult Europeans live in the area."
In addition to food items, the store also has imported porcelain dishes and European flags.
Edited by Keith Burner
Architecture students gain experience with Union renovation
Zach Suchara, St.
Louis fifth-year
senior, points to a
display of graphic
suggestions for the
renovation of the
Kansas Union.
Photo by Magnus
Andersson/
KANSAN
By Jeremy Johnson Special to the Kansan
Architecture students in Gaylord Richardson's fifth-year studio design class have worked on numerous projects at the University of Kansas but none like this one.
Most of the design projects in the class have been purely hypothetical. But now students are getting the chance to contribute to a project that will be constructed.
The class is working alongside professional consultants to come up with its own alternative design schemes for the proposed $4 million Kansas Union renovation project.
The class won't create the plans used in the renovation, but it is another source from which to draw ideas. The project also is being used as an educational exercise to give the seniors in the class, so close to graduation, a taste of what to expect in the real world.
"The responsibility for the design
is with a professional firm," said Richardson, associate professor of architecture. "But we feel through programming and the development of design alternatives we can improve the quality of the renovation and hopefully raise the satisfaction levels of the use of the building."
Pat Beard, manager of building services, already has been satisfied with the students' input. For him, the direction for the project came together after the students' programming presentation to him and other Union personnel on Feb.15.
"It helped me quite a bit." Beard said. "I was very appreciative of what they've done."
This will be the second time Richardson has had a class involved in Union renovation plans. During the Union's Phase II renovation in 1992, former Union director Jim Long contacted Richardson about getting his classes involved.
"They came up with some ideas that were passed along to the architect," Long said. "A couple of the ideas there jumped out and became part of the project."
Before assuming his new position as assistant provost for planning and facilities management in January, Long asked Richardson to help out again on the current Phase III Union renovation.
Richardson's students have been busy with the project since the semester began. They interviewed other students and Union staff to identify the needs of those whom the renovation will benefit. Then came program reports, which put those needs into text and diagrams. Finally, their architectural design schemes turned those text and diagrams into building proposals
Students say the project has been more complex and more challenging
One of those ideas was the canopy sheltering the Union's northeast main entrance on Oread Avenue. It was designed by Gould Evens Architects, but the concept was inspired by Richardson's students.
Richardson said that putting together the program reports had sensitized his students to how difficult it can be to find design solutions.
In the midst of the project's challenges, Aaron Smith, Wichita senior, still sees the potential reward in the lasting impact he hopes their work will have.
"It's exciting," Smith said, "because we have the opportunity to influence the design of the Union in a real way."
"Until you get involved in it, you really don't understand it," Sapp said.
— Edited by Clint Hooker
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