The sign on the new boutique in downtown Lawrence doesn’t read “The Twilight Zone,” but an odd phenomenon tends to happen when a father and his college-age son walk through the door: They both think the clothes are hip.
That’s the vintage athletic apparel market for you. A shop full of 1980s/1990s gear is going to appeal to the dad who wore those items when they were new, but in a fashion-world twist, ...
This is the weekend where Jayhawk blue and Wildcat purple are likely to mix at watch parties for Saturday’s KU vs. K-State basketball game. It also is the weekend where I may end up wearing a bowl of cheese dip if I partake in the Rock Chalk chant a bit too loudly next to the wrong person. That’s OK. I like cheese, and now there is a big new store open in Lawrence to get plenty of fresh KU gear.
As we ...
KU’s vice chancellor who oversees public affairs and economic development is a finalist to be the president of North Dakota State University.
David Cook is one of five finalists to lead North Dakota State, a land-grant and research university based in Fargo. It has about 13,000 students.
Cook is scheduled to participate in public interviews at North Dakota State from Jan. 24 through Jan. 26.
Cook has ...
All these years I’ve been dealing with rusty items the wrong way — either a few squirts of WD-40 or a can of spray paint. Instead, a margarita — or maybe a fish bowl of them — is the better strategy. At least, that’s a thought that crossed my mind after checking out Rusty Taco, the new Mexican restaurant that has opened in downtown Lawrence.
The first Rusty Taco restaurant in Kansas opened earlier ...
Story updated at 5:26 p.m. Wednesday:
A University of Kansas leader who acknowledged sending out a campuswide Martin Luther King Jr. Day message that was largely plagiarized from another source has resigned from KU.
D.A. Graham, interim vice provost of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, offered his resignation to KU after the Journal-World reported Monday on the plagiarism incident.
On Wednesday, ...
A few sentences in Gov. Laura Kelly’s proposed budget could mean hundreds of millions of dollars in new research and development funds to Kansas universities.
The provision hasn’t attracted as much attention as Kelly’s other higher education proposals — which would add roughly $100 million of state funding to higher education — because the proposal actually shows up in the Kansas Department of ...
