In preparation for Monday’s solar eclipse, I tracked down four local photographers to get their takes on how they’re planning to approach this once-in-a-lifetime event. In the process, I think I may have stumbled upon another rare occurrence involving the consensus of creative ...
A court hearing this week revealed new information about what led to a felony theft charge against the former president of the Lawrence Art Guild. The woman allegedly used an Art Guild debit card to pay for preschool, according to court testimony.Amanda L. Monaghan, 35, of Lawrence is charged ...
Among the millions of travelers heading out for the summer holidays, some are choosing an unlikely destination: a rusted bus on the edge of the Alaskan wilderness.Fairbanks Bus 142 (aka the “magic bus”) is where the 24-year old Chris McCandless died in 1992. Well-educated and economically ...
Diana Gish may not have swum away with the top prize on Thursday night’s episode of “The Gong Show,” but the Baldwin City resident, who performs as her alter ego Pearl the Singing Mermaid Queen, has no regrets. “This time, I felt like the gong liberated me, you know?” Gish says of her ...
Kansas Public Radio fans might recognize Diana Gish’s voice from her former gig as the station’s Sunday “Weekend Edition” host. On Thursday, the broadcasting veteran will make her national television debut — not as Diana from Baldwin City but as Pearl the Singing Mermaid Queen on ...
Award-winning author George Saunders will visit Lawrence this fall as part of the Lawrence Public Library’s 2017 Ross and Marianna Beach Author Series, the library announced in partnership with the University of Kansas Libraries Monday. “George Saunders is a literary master at his peak,” ...