Lawrence and its famed crop artist Stan Herd are back in the news, and this time with a bit of a country twang. Country music stars Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Kelsea Ballerini this week all posted mysterious images of crop art portraits of themselves but provided no other information about ...
Downtown Kansas City, Kan., is on track to have a bit of a Lawrence feel to it. No, the honk for hemp guy isn’t changing residences. Instead, it is another green Lawrence institution: The Merc. The cooperative grocer that is based at Ninth and Iowa streets has reached a tentative deal to ...
If you have ever wondered who would win a battle between a jack-in-the-box and a rice and macaroni salad-eating Hawaiian, bet on the latter. That’s my way of telling you that, indeed, plans for a Jack in the Box fast food restaurant on 23rd Street have fallen through and have been replaced by ...
I know plenty about scoops of ice cream, but I’m still figuring out this trend of rolls of ice cream. With near triple-digit heat, I’m all for it if it fits in my pockets better. I don’t know about that, but I can tell you a new west Lawrence sweet shop is serving up ice cream by the ...
I just got back from a foreign vacation, so my dollar sense is a little rusty. (So is my peso sense. Come to find out, 7,500 pesos won’t rent you a yacht but will get you seasick in a kayak.) Regardless, I am able to ascertain that the latest sales tax numbers from the city of Lawrence aren't ...
At Sixth and Wakarusa, your jaw could get tired of chewing from all the pizza options that are at the intersection. Indeed, construction has started on the previously reported Old Chicago Pizza and Taproom. Soon, though, there will be a new food option where chewing isn’t required. A national ...
I’m not exactly sure where, but somewhere along Kansas Highway 10 east of Lawrence there is a magic gas portal. You pass through it heading east, and gas becomes a lot cheaper. Heading west it becomes a lot more expensive. This isn’t the first time I’ve mentioned this, but I’ll do so ...
A grand opening of a new chain retailer on south Iowa Street is going to be worth 10 grand for a Lawrence nonprofit. HomeGoods, the national home decor chain, is set to open its store in Lawrence this weekend, and as part of the grand opening celebration it plans to donate $10,000 to Family ...
Out with fancy Mexican food and in with something called a Midwest kitchen and bar. Downtown Lawrence’s Port Fonda has announced it soon will close, and a restaurant that puts its own twist on classic comfort food will open in its place. The Mexican restaurant Port Fonda will close at the ...
The Slow Ride Roadhouse is on the road to recovery after tragedy. The North Lawrence bar and restaurant has reopened following the death of its owner and operator. Jesse del Campo Jr., 56, was killed in a two-vehicle motorcycle accident on July 16, 2017, between Lawrence and Eudora. After his ...
As someone who has thrown a few parties, Mike Logan, owner of The Granada, knows that increasing the fireworks budget is never a bad plan. The Granada owner indeed has taken over as the organizer of the community’s Independence Day celebration, and he’s promising a larger fireworks show. ...
I can attest that making olive oil is perhaps one of the most difficult processes on Earth. Every time I try, it comes out as a martini. Despite that, a downtown Lawrence store that sells high-grade olive oil is closing its doors, and its owner says changes to downtown have a lot to do with the ...
We’ve got our first look at home sales statistics that include Lawrence’s busy spring home-buying season, and they show that home prices are soaring at a rate not often seen in the city. The Lawrence Board of Realtors has released statistics for home sales through April, and they show the ...
There were plenty of times in college when I couldn’t find my car, and that was well before the trend of student apartment complexes with underground parking garages. In case you are wondering, that does appear to be a new trend in Lawrence. Plans have been filed for a new apartment complex ...
Forget Hollywood. If you want to see movie history you need to go to Ottawa, the Franklin County town of about 12,000 people south of Lawrence. The Plaza Cinema in downtown Ottawa has been named the oldest movie theater in the world by the [Guinness Book of World Records.][1] The theater ...
I know what the gold crown signifies when talking about a Hallmark Gold Crown store. It reminds me that I’ll need to melt one down to pay for all the Hallmark Christmas ornaments that will make their way to my house. For the last several years, buying those types of Hallmark specialty items ...
I think we’ve established that we know something about conference championships in this town. (I know to work it into the first 10 words of a conversation with a Kansas State fan.) But do we know anything about conference centers, like the one that is being proposed for downtown Lawrence? At ...
My health insurance underwriters and elastic waistband makers have been preparing for the day that a Price Chopper grocery store — including its smorgasbord of food bars and sheet cakes — comes to downtown Lawrence. But it has been nearly a year since we reported that Queen’s Price ...
Get your earplugs, your nose plugs or any other means of protection you feel necessary during campaign season. Douglas County is about to enter it in full force thanks to the pending sales tax election for a jail expansion and mental health programs. Saturday will be a big day for the season as ...
Despite seeing their advertisements all the time, I’m still not sure I understand what my “Sleep Number” is. I’m estimating that it is 0.3, which is roughly equivalent to the number of inches of the bed I get to use, while the rest is reserved for my lovely wife and a not so lovely ...