Friends of Library begins annual Spring Book Sale

The annual Friends of the Lawrence Public Library Spring Book Sale opens to the public at 10 a.m. today and will continue through April 12.

Most of the 100,000 books will be sold at the storage garage at Seventh and Kentucky streets. Romance and recent-vintage gift books will be sold at the gallery in the library building, 707 Vt.

The sale’s schedule is as follows: 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. today and Saturday; 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, half-price day; 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, $7 bag night, and April 10, $5 bag night; 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 12, giveaway day.

Basketball

Journal-World seeks fans’ superstitions

Coach Roy Williams spits in rivers. What do you do for good luck?

Do you plan to wear that 1988 Championship T-shirt Saturday? Are you holding out on washing those socks for one more game?

Just how superstitious are you?

The Journal-World wants to know.

Call us Friday at 832-7144 and leave a message, or e-mail lwalker@ljworld.com.

Include your name, superstition and a number where you can be reached.

Television

ESPN show to feature visit with KU chancellor

Kansas University Chancellor Robert Hemenway is scheduled to appear Sunday on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” with Bob Ley.

Hemenway will discuss academic reform in the NCAA on the program, which will be broadcast beginning at 9:30 a.m. from New Orleans.

Other tentative guests are Mark Gottfried, basketball coach at the University of Alabama, and John Thompson, former coach at Georgetown University.

Cinema

KU filmmaker adds ‘Confederate’ showings

Due to popular demand, Kansas University filmmaker Kevin Willmott has scheduled four additional screenings of “Confederate States of America.”

Willmott’s film will be shown at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday at Oldfather Studios, 1621 W. Ninth St. Tickets are $7 at the door.

The first screening, Feb. 21 at Liberty Hall, sold out. Liberty Hall scheduled a second showing Feb. 21, but Willmott said he had received requests for additional show times.

The film is a faux documentary examining what would have happened if the Confederacy had won the Civil War.