On dark winter days, Rachel Guffey always feels better when she is nurturing houseplants. “I get awful seasonal depression, and plants bring life back into the house,” she said. However, when the number of plants in their home soared into the hundreds, she and her husband, Jhami Guffey, decided to open Jungle House at 924 Delaware St. First, they tested the water in August, with a pop-up plant sale at ...
The University of Kansas won't feel as deserted as it has for the past three weeks of winter break now that about 100 new international students have arrived. They arrived Monday to get acclimated before the spring semester begins on Jan. 22, said Amy Neufeld, managing director of the Academic Accelerator Program. The students, ranging from new freshmen to graduate students, began orientation Monday, according ...
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, will give the annual Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture later this month at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall. As a journalist, Vargas wrote a New York Times Magazine article in 2011 revealing his life in America as an undocumented immigrant. A year later he appeared on the cover of Time magazine with fellow undocumented immigrants as part ...
A number of University of Kansas retirees received a surprise letter from Aetna Medicare RX in December stating that their prescription drugs would no longer be covered after Jan. 1. The error occurred because an incorrect file, listing retirees who are on the state employee health plan, was sent to Aetna by the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, Gerald Kratochvil, communications director with KDHE, ...
A collaborative art project inspired by an influential 1960s mural will be on display in Lawrence beginning Saturday at the Dole Institute of Politics. The "Wall of Respect" mural was created in 1967 in Chicago by a group of black artists and featured images of notable figures in African-American history. It gave birth to a larger mural movement that eventually spread nationwide, and a couple of years ago, the ...
Selling doughnuts is the only job Sonny Patel has ever had. Considering his upbringing, it's surprising that he has such a passion for the sweet little rings of dough. After all, growing up in Unjha, India, Patel, 50, had never tasted or even laid eyes on a doughnut. That didn’t happen until he arrived in the U.S. and began working at a Dunkin' Donuts in Chicago. On New Year’s Day, the Lawrence businessman ...