A temporary tattoo sure would have been nice this weekend, so I apologize that I didn’t tell you earlier that a Lawrence store offering such services has moved to a new West Lawrence location. That’s right, Cosmos, the Indian cafe and grocery, has moved out of downtown and into space in the shopping center at 3115 W. Sixth St., next to Sonic.

Indeed Cosmos is a store that operates a small cafe full of Indian food and sells a variety of Indian groceries and products. But perhaps its most sought after product is henna, which is an herbal leaf that can be used to produce a unique ink for temporary tattoos. Cosmos runs what is called a henna boutique, where people can choose a design and have an artist apply the body art without making the long-term commitment required for a tattoo. The henna art disappears in about two weeks, I’m told.

“It just falls off the skin and is harmless,” said Amarucha Ravi, owner of Cosmos.

The store had been located at 734 Massachusetts St., but Ravi said the store decided to move after rent at the location became less feasible and it became more difficult to efficiently operate a cafe in the spot. The new location, in case you are still trying to picture it, is in the shopping center that includes Conroy’s Pub. (It is amazing how a bar reference straightens you people out.)

Ravi, though, said she is continuing to look for a small downtown location to have a henna boutique and perhaps a cafe. She said the henna art has really caught on with the young, single crowd, which means downtown is a desirable business location to catch that traffic.

As for why it would have been nice to know about temporary tattoos this weekend, I assumed you already figured that out. Surely many of you were in the same boat I was in after the first quarter of Kansas University’s football game. With a 24-0 lead, we were all head over heels about our new quarterback, Montell Cozart. Perhaps some of us had our tattoo artist start a piece with Montell Cozart’s name surrounded by a heart on a certain part of our bodies. But as the offense began to sputter, we started to have second thoughts by halftime, leaving just a heart with the name Montell. Now, to the outside world, a large portion of Lawrence seems to have some sort of odd affection for talk show host Montel Williams. (And a spelling problem because his name only has one ‘l’.) But, as you know, this is life as a Kansas University football fan. As for me, I’m going to remain an optimist and believe that KU football will soon improve.

If not, Montel Williams sure the heck better.

In other news and notes from around town:

• We’ve been telling you that Lawrence is working harder to become a capital for innovation-based businesses. Well, did I sure get a lesson in innovation this weekend. I went to the Kansas State Fair, where innovation is almost everywhere you turn. I saw a canoe made out of scraps from a wooden fence, I saw intricate figurines made out pistachio shells, and I saw a “one-man band” complete with cymbals on his head, a base drum on his back, bells on his shoes, and a harmonica hanging from his hat. I also saw an old man on an electric scooter nearly run over the one-man band. Fear not, I’m confident he would have kept playing, but he probably would have sounded a little flat. (If I had a cymbal on my head, this is the point I would provide a rim shot.)

Regardless, you don’t have to go to the state fair to see innovation on display. I can’t promise pistachio shells, but a unique innovation-based event is slated for the Lawrence Public Library later this month. A new Lawrence group will host the community’s first Startup Weekend on Sept. 26-28 at the library.

If you have ever watched the television program “Shark Tank,” where entrepreneurs pitch their business ideas to a group of venture capitalists, this event will have a feel similar to that. The event is being hosted by a new group called Startup Lawrence, which was formed by some local entrepreneurs as a way to draw more attention to the value of startup companies to our economy.

Startup Weekends are events run by a Seattle-based nonprofit organization that hosts the events at locations around the globe. The idea is that budding entrepreneurs buy a $75 ticket to the multiday event. Your ticket price assures you an opportunity to pitch your business idea to everyone in attendance. That pitch session will happen on Friday evening. The crowd will hear the various 60-second presentations, and then vote on the handful of ideas that they think are the most promising. Those ideas then will become the ideas that the conference focuses on for the remainder of the weekend. Members of the audience are encouraged to team up with the entrepreneur of their choice.

For the rest of the weekend, the various teams will conduct the work necessary to test the ideas and prepare presentations to a group of business experts who will judge the ideas on Sunday. Joe Jarvis, an organizer of the event and a local attorney who specializes in small-business issues, said the groups may do some market research by interviewing downtown shoppers, or their work may involve prototype designs, marketing plans or other such tasks.

People who don’t want to attend the entire conference, but do want to see the ‘Shark Tank’-style judging of the business ideas can buy a $10 ticket to view the judging, which begins at 4 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 28, in the library’s auditorium.

The winner of the competition will win one year of rent-free office space at the Cider Gallery business center in East Lawrence, plus complimentary CPA and printing services.

“If they decide they want to take their idea beyond the weekend, we’re going to make sure they have some help to do so,” Jarvis said.

The Startup Weekend events have been successful in nearby cities such as Kansas City, Wichita and Topeka. Jarvis said his group hopes the event is successful enough to make it an annual affair.

“I think there has been kind of a spark or change in Lawrence over the last few years,” Jarvis said. “I think people are more interested in creating home-grown success stories. We don’t really know where the next Facebook or Instagram will come from. We just know they percolate out of creative places, and that is the type of community Lawrence can be.”

People interested in registering can go to lawrence.startupweekend.org.