Perhaps the most unique building in downtown Lawrence is set to become the most unique apartment building in the city — and arguably well beyond. After all, it would have an auditorium, an organ, a kitchen that is built underneath a city sidewalk, and that’s before you even get to the building’s connections to Freemasons and Egypt.
Indeed, plans have been filed to convert the long vacant, former Masonic ...
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor said Wednesday that she had apologized to a fellow justice for comments she made during a speech at the University of Kansas last week.
Sotomayor told The New York Times and other media outlets on Wednesday that she had apologized to Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh for comments she made about her colleague while participating in a moderated discussion hosted by the KU law ...
Downtown Lawrence Inc. — the nonprofit responsible for promoting the downtown district — has been without a director since July, and likely won’t resume the search for one for several more months.
One reason a new leader hasn’t been hired, members of the association were told Wednesday: The board of Downtown Lawrence Inc. isn’t quite sure what marching orders a new director should be given.
“The ...
Rick Atkinson lived with Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower for about 15 years and is currently living with Gen. George Washington, so, yes, he had thoughts to share on the nature of war with a Lawrence crowd Monday evening.
Atkinson — a best-selling military historian who said he has so studied his subjects that he feels like he’s living with them — told a Lied Center crowd that there is one rule of war to ...
Visitors of Allen Fieldhouse already know one thing they are supposed to be on the lookout for: The Phog. (Technically, “beware” is the proper terminology.) Soon, keep your eyes open for something else.
Happy hour drink specials.
By the end of this summer, the venerable Allen Fieldhouse will be the site of a new upscale bar and restaurant that will be open pretty much every day of the week, and available ...
Public protests on the University of Kansas campus may soon have higher stakes attached to them — including monetary damages to KU if it prohibits certain groups from gathering.
Kansas Legislators on Thursday successfully voted to override the veto of Gov. Laura Kelly and enact the KIRK Act, which requires KU and other public universities to meet specific free speech requirements on campus — all in the ...
