I’ve long wanted to combine “The Wizard of Oz” and “The Karate Kid.” The movie could have been an hour shorter if Mr. Miyagi would have led that sad-sack group of characters. (Full disclosure: I’m a proud Kansan who has never fully watched “The Wizard of Oz,” despite having a role in a school production.) Well, don’t look for a mashup of the two films, but they are part of a new drive-in movie ...
May normally is a banner month in Lawrence. Graduation ceremonies, full hotel rooms, bustling restaurants, catered parties and much more. This May, there were banners all right in Lawrence. Most of them read “closed.” The latest sales tax report from the state of Kansas — it is the July report but due to normal reporting delays the numbers mostly represent sales made in May — gives a glimpse at how ...
Sometimes I’ve been accused of making a real process of making a sandwich. (If the bread is the right size, a scoop shovel for the mayo is appropriate, I continue to contend.) But a new deli is coming to downtown that takes the process several steps further. It plans to prepare most of its own deli meat. “That means house-made corned beef and pastrami,” Chetan Michie, one of the owners of the new ...
A downtown Lawrence business is risking as much as $100,000 of its own money in an effort to get a new sport established in high schools and middle schools across the state. Sunflower Outdoor & Bike Shop has pledged the money to be used to start a new, competitive mountain biking league for Kansas students. “The simplest way to imagine it is high school and junior high school mountain biking as a ...
A U.S. passport doesn’t work as well as it used to in helping you see the world, but maybe a bowl of couscous will. (I wouldn’t suggest trying to hand it to the TSA officer at airport security though.) Of course, that’s not what I’m talking about it. Instead, food might be the most realistic way to experience faraway places right now, and the owner of a new Moroccan restaurant thinks his menu can ...
A taste of Taiwan has come to south Iowa Street, which in this case, means tea, and perhaps in ways that you've never tasted it before. Presotea recently opened in the shopping center at 2540 Iowa Street. If you are having a hard time picturing the location, it is the shopping center that houses the breakfast restaurant First Watch and is next door to Applebee’s. Soon, the center also may be known as the ...