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Gavon Laessig (Podcaster and writer)
Recent stories
- Snapped in the closet
- June 21, 2010
- When at a wedding, office party or bar mitzvah, sometimes you need to commemorate the occasion. You and your friends, co-workers or chosen people might want a memento of the awesomeness that was your social gathering.
- Bowling for Lebowskis: Cult film abides two parties in one week
- June 9, 2010
- Released in 1998 to little box-office fanfare, “The Big Lebowski” has gone on to inspire a movement that will manifest itself this week in two different screenings by devout Lawrence Lebowski-ites…
- Pre-Occupied: Replay Lounge
- The former tenants of 946 Mass. from the past 140 years
- June 8, 2010
- Have you ever been in one of those arguments where you’re trying to figure out what a certain Lawrence business used to be?
- Useless apps: Ten of the most worthless applications for your mobile device
- June 7, 2010
- With the smart phone revolution came a deluge of invaluable and ingenious apps. They allow us to conveniently navigate the modern world, stay informed on the fly and generally make our lives more efficient. But for every Weather Channel app, there are dozens of useless apps…
- Prom A Go Go: Adults-only prom turns sleepy Harveyville, Kan., into surreal Conga-town, USA
- June 3, 2010
- When the opportunity arose to go to something called the Harveyville Prom, I had two questions: 1. “Where do I sign up?” and 2. “What in the name of Sadie Hawkins is the Harveyville Prom?”
- Returned male: ‘Retrosexual’ trend taps into desire for manliness of yore
- May 31, 2010
- No, “retrosexual” doesn’t mean a sexual preference for vintage clothing. Well, it kind of does. We should back up a little bit.
- Brain over pawn: Childhood chess studies have benefits beyond the board
- May 31, 2010
- Parents, if you’re hoping to mold your child into the next Bobby Fischer (minus the late Grandmaster’s weird behavior in exile, of course), you’d better get those aspiring chess prodigies pushing pawns early.
- Life after death: Lawrence artist Jason Wood lives with no regrets after devastating injury
- May 15, 2010
- In July of 1999, Jason Wood was found lying in a San Francisco street barely clinging to life. As best as anyone could piece together, he had been struck by a car, but no one knows precisely — least of all Jason Wood himself.
- Fiddling the night away: Stringband Rendezvous offers a weekend of camping and music
- May 13, 2010
- Even though it’s been around for seven years, Stringband Rendezvous is virtually unknown when compared to other regional music and camping festivals like Wakarusa or Winfield. And they’d prefer to keep it that way…
- Yoga for yuks
- New workout harnesses the healing power of guffaws and giggles
- May 10, 2010
- They say that laughter is the best medicine. What they won’t say is that you will look like a stark, raving lunatic when you take this particular medicine…
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- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013 · 47 comments
- Former area Boy Scouts react to decision allowing gay scouts May 24, 2013 · 39 comments
- Opinion: Discrimination more than just poor service May 25, 2013 · 19 comments
- On the street: Should residents or businesses who use too much water be fined? May 24, 2013 · 27 comments
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013 · 15 comments
- Opinion: Why gay role models matter May 23, 2013 · 49 comments
- Workers replace the roof of the Judicial and Law Enforcement Center, 111 E. 11th St., where falling May 23, 2013 · 1 comment
- Police department's case for a new facility not likely to show on next year's budget, officials say May 25, 2013 · 8 comments
- Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax May 23, 2013 · 60 comments
- Blog: GOP tax plans would increase taxes on low-wage Kansans, decrease taxes for high-income Kansans, report says May 23, 2013 · 35 comments
- Bill Self: Security tricky subject May 25, 2013
- Simons' Saturday Column: KU’s legislative lobbying effort lacks clout, continuity May 25, 2013
- Club Magic manager says he's trying to turn around a new business at an old, and troubled, location May 25, 2013
- Graduation and 'stepping up' an all-school event at Bishop Seabury May 24, 2013
- Wichita might fine residents over use of water May 24, 2013
- Lawrence pastor seeks to reconnect youth to NAACP May 25, 2013
- Free State's Alexa Harmon-Thomas wins 100 hurdles; Firebirds girls remain in 1st May 25, 2013
- Kansas baseball moves to 2-0 in Big 12 tournament May 25, 2013
- Opinion: NYC has seen enough of Anthony Weiner May 25, 2013
- Opinion: New Orleans has inspiring rebirth May 5, 2013
