In a new one-woman show from the Lawrence Arts Center, actress and writer Victoria Taurean Smith tells the story of how she accepted her transgender identity.
The show, “10,000,” will premiere virtually on Saturday and run through Nov. 15. The production is pre-recorded and is being called a new play development, both because the show is using new technology due to the COVID-19 pandemic and because the show ...
Charles and Agatha are truly winning October, despite the circumstances. They’ve been sunbathing, wining and dining, camping out and playing in the leaves. One might even say they are living their best lives – if not for the fact that they are dead.
Every Oct. 1, Lawrence resident Kelly Scholz’s skeletons, Charles and Agatha, emerge from the closet. This year, they were aghast at what they found.
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Life on campus at the University of Kansas looks different these days.
Signs on buildings tell visitors which doors to use to enter, and which to exit. White tents across campus offer people an outdoor place to rest or study. Red stickers on floors say “Thank you for practicing social distancing” and “Maintain distance.”
For third-year law student Mohammad Hameed, none of these changes were unexpected ...
The mission of the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center — an organization celebrating its 70th anniversary this year — is more relevant than ever, its leader says, because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
The people the organization served prior to the pandemic have not seen their symptoms disappear, Bert Nash CEO Patrick Schmitz said. In some cases, their symptoms have become worse. And in addition, ...
A soon-to-be-released collection of stories about Ladybird Diner doesn’t have a neat ending, according to the author and diner owner Meg Heriford, but the sales from the book will help the restaurant continue its story.
“I say that the book is sort of the means to its own ending,” Heriford said in a Wednesday interview.
Proceeds from Heriford’s upcoming book, “Ladybird, Collected,” will fund the ...
Several members of Free State High School's football team have been identified as close contacts to a positive COVID-19 case stemming from an Oct. 2 football game in Johnson County, according to the local health department.
The game took place at Mill Valley High School in Shawnee, and the positive case was not a member of the Free State team, according to a Wednesday news release from Lawrence-Douglas County ...
