What does red do when it wakes up in the morning? How does yellow sound? What does green do when it feels mad? These are the questions the very youngest theatergoers of Lawrence can explore during a new performance at the Lawrence Arts Center. "Color Play," which opens to the public at 6 p.m. Friday, launches a series of performances for the Lawrence Arts Center’s new Theater and Dance for the Very Young ...
The Journal-World is bringing back a longstanding report about health code inspections for local businesses and organizations. With this article, I will begin reporting the state’s restaurant inspection results for our readers on a monthly basis. The Journal-World previously stopped reporting on the listed violations because of a malfunction in the system that incorrectly named businesses. Heather Lansdowne, ...
Homeless families in America are still facing many of the same barriers they have in the past, said Claas Ehlers, chief executive officer for Family Promise, a national organization that aims to help families find permanent housing. Ehlers, who recently visited Lawrence for the local chapter’s 10-year anniversary, said the common barriers include the costs of transportation, child care and health care, which ...
Although he is not on trial, Silvio De Sousa could be ruled ineligible to play basketball for KU based on the outcome of a federal trial underway in New York, NCAA experts told the Journal-World. Less certain is whether the University of Kansas may have to forfeit some of last year’s wins and erase its Final Four appearance and conference championship from the record books. Former NCAA officials and an ...
An upcoming choir performance at the historic Liberty Memorial Central Middle School will honor the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. The middle school’s seventh- and eighth-grade choirs will perform in the school’s auditorium at 7 p.m. Oct. 15. The Lawrence High School a cappella choir will perform as well. The centennial of the war's armistice, an agreement to end the war, is Nov. ...
The Lawrence chamber of commerce is looking for a new leader with the ability to formulate and execute a strong vision for the organization, according to an advertisement for the organization’s CEO/president position. Michele Hammann, chair of the organization’s board of directors, said Monday the advertisement was recently posted on the chamber’s website and would be posted on outside job websites this ...