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 ...
It has been a slow start to a new year in Lawrence.
Retail sales in the first quarter of the year are down in Lawrence compared to a year ago, and numbers from the Kansas Department of Revenue show Lawrence is the only major retail market in the state to have posted such a decline.
Reasons for the dip aren’t clear. The state’s monthly reports don’t provide any commentary on why totals are up or down, ...
If there is one question that may get asked as often as “how can there be so many taco places in Lawrence,” it might be “how can there be so many coffee shops in Lawrence?”
I’m not sure I have the answer, but I do have a new twist on the questions: “What happens when a coffee shop goes into a former taco place?”
The answer is a whole of lot of goodness, the owner of Lawrence-based Uplift Coffee ...
Good people can change bad laws — if they aren’t too scared to try, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor told a Lawrence crowd on Tuesday evening.
The power of people and the need for courage were a pair of themes that Sotomayor came back to multiple times during an approximately hourlong, invitation-only event hosted by the University of Kansas law school on KU’s West Campus.
“Those protests ...
It was a spring afternoon in June 2012, and Lawrence City Manager David Corliss was spinning a tale before city commissioners. It is a common one in city halls: If you want to follow the growth of a city, follow the sewers.
Hey, no one ever said City Hall tales are sexy. But, they are often expensive.
Sewers are especially so, and Lawrence city commissioners were learning that by the day. Corliss and his ...
