Updated at 12:24 p.m. Thursday This month calls for a variety of Irish-themed events, but a traditional Irish music session at Henry’s is a weekly staple in Lawrence. The session draws anywhere from six to 20 musicians each week, organizer Tony Silvestri said in an email to the Journal-World. Most come from Lawrence and Topeka, but every week musicians from Kansas City also drive out, he said. The session ...
Story updated at 4:10 p.m. Thursday Retirement communities in Lawrence have started taking precautions against the new coronavirus by implementing new policies designed to limit exposure. Both the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Health Care Association recommended on Tuesday that nursing facilities admit only essential visitors. On Thursday afternoon, Lawrence-Douglas County ...
Effective immediately, Lawrence's hospital will not be permitting any visitors under the age of 18, as well as those with respiratory symptoms or those who have recently traveled to a confirmed coronavirus outbreak area. LMH Health announced the measures Thursday afternoon, and spokeswoman Rebecca Smith said that Dr. Christopher Penn, who specializes in infectious disease, provided that guidance to the ...
Louise Erdrich said in her latest novel, "The Night Watchman," that she wanted to show how a group of people can come together to create change. She did this through the story of her grandfather and his fight against Native American termination laws in the 1950s. “They came together, they went to Washington, and they fixed something,” Erdrich said Wednesday night in Lawrence. “And they did it because they ...
The world’s first book club parade will take place in Lawrence next month as part of the Paper Plains Literary Festival, event organizers say. Will it truly be the “world’s first” book club parade? Paper Plains festival director Danny Caine believes so. An “educated guess” and Google search led him to believe this quirky event — designed for book club members — would be the first of its kind in ...
A new exhibit at the Spencer Museum of Art combines the paintings of local artist Roger Shimomura with videos of his performance art, all digitally remastered and cut for the exhibit. While the Lawrence-based artist describes himself as a painter, he also created staged performance pieces from 1984 to 2002. Exhibit curator Kris Ercums believes this is the first time there has been a comprehensive exhibit ...