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Margie Carr
Recent stories
- May Final Fridays Preview
- May 30, 2013
- This month’s Final Fridays not only offers wonderful art but also gives participants an opportunity to catch up on what people and companies are up to.
- New exhibit strings together artwork of more than 70 artists
- May 30, 2013
- Ask a physicist about string theory and you get talk of particle theory, dark matter and quantum physics. Ask an artist about string theory and you will get something like what is currently on display in the front gallery of the Lawrence Arts Center.
- April Final Fridays Preview: Invisible Hand gallery features renowned photographer
- April 25, 2013
- This month’s Final Friday reminds us of the talented folk drawn to, and cultivated from, the Lawrence community.
- Lawrence couple create home for poetry in tree at their home
- April 14, 2013
- There are poetry posts, poetry poles and even poetry boxes, but Lawrence may be the only place in America that has a “Poet Tree” — a maple tree in the front yard of Joe and Vicki Douglas’ home at 2804 Oxford Road. By Margie Carr
- A community in stitches
- April 7, 2013
- Artists need vision — and local artist, quilter, historian and teacher Marla Jackson has big ones.
- March Final Fridays Preview: Arts madness
- March 28, 2013
- The art in this month’s Lawrence Final Fridays covers the gamut, from a photographer who documents stalwart items from the history of the heartland to a forward-looking artist known for ephemeral set designs in Hollywood. By Margie Carr
- February Final Friday Preview: Percolator exhibit features small versions of world’s largest things
- February 17, 2013
- If you like art to tell you about where we’ve been as a society or where we are going, you won’t want to miss this month’s Final Friday. By Margie Carr
- Life lessons
- Artist teaches incarcerated youths to help them get positive attention
- February 16, 2013
- Every Friday for the past 15 years, artist Laura Ramberg has been teaching art to people convicted of some very serious crimes: Battery. Breaking and entering. Drug use. And none of her students are older than 17. By Margie Carr
- January Final Fridays Preview: Percolator exhibit feels the love
- January 20, 2013
- “When you put creative people together, amazing stuff happens,” Eric Kirkendall says.
- Lawrence Locales: Some spooked by downtown fire station
- October 22, 2012
- Firefighters are known for their courage and tolerance. They pretty much have to have both if they’re going to risk their lives to keep others safe — and live so closely with co-workers while doing it. They also tend to be fairly level-headed. If you’re looking for a place where people talk about spirits and otherworldly phenomena, you wouldn’t expect a fire station to be the place. All of which makes the occurrences at Lawrence Fire Station No. 1, 746 Kentucky St., even more unusual.
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- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013 · 90 comments
- Kobach considering filing charges against protesters who came to his home June 17, 2013 · 132 comments
- Construction can't stop St. John's Fiesta June 19, 2013 · 2 comments
- Blog: City to consider using gated, pay-as-you-leave system for new downtown parking garage June 19, 2013 · 19 comments
- Shooting reported Tuesday night during road-rage incident; police looking for driver June 19, 2013 · 11 comments
- Blog: State seeking proposal to develop resort at Clinton Lake State Park June 18, 2013 · 39 comments
- Opinion: Redskins mascot can’t be justified June 16, 2013 · 103 comments
- Letter: Two is enough June 19, 2013 · 28 comments
- Decisions on KU budget cuts now in hands of deans, other leaders June 17, 2013 · 6 comments
- U.S. Supreme Court strikes down voter registration law similar to the one in Kansas June 17, 2013 · 76 comments
- KU geographers win defense grant to study Central American communities June 19, 2013
- Opinion: Dick Vitale loves life, wife and Andrew Wiggins June 19, 2013
- City approves Menards store next to Home Depot at 31st and Iowa streets June 18, 2013
- Professional dancer to flutter through Kansas milkweed to help save butterflies June 19, 2013
- Police investigate string of almost 20 auto burglaries in west Lawrence June 18, 2013
- Bierocks: Old World culinary icons live on in Kansas January 18, 2010
- Consultants raise concerns about proposed LMH wellness center at city's new recreation center June 19, 2013
- Thread of pain ran through Jackson’s career June 28, 2009
- Students learn the ropes of summer research project June 6, 2013
- Ms. Wheelchair Kansas to speak out on disabilities March 13, 2008


