An associate professor at the University of Kansas has won an internal grant to research Kansas long-term care facilities’ practices and policies related to sexuality. Sarah Jen, an associate professor in the School of Social Welfare, plans to survey long-term care administrators in Kansas and provide an update on whether policies addressing sexuality have changed within the last ten years. The last time a ...
A local nonprofit's two-day antique show this weekend will include a hodgepodge of items from 26 vendors, of course, but it will also have a lot of pie. “Our homemade pies are well known throughout this town,” said Diana Boyd, co-treasurer of the Pilot Club of Lawrence, which puts on the yearly show. She said there should be over 100 pies at the event this Friday and Saturday. Each member of the club is ...
To some he was Rich Brown; to most he was “Pizza Pete.” For over 50 years, Brown dedicated himself to the Lawrence pizza business, serving up slices for the whole city, but specifically becoming a “Lawrence legend” to students at the University of Kansas, who viewed him as a mentor and friend. In his early days in the business, Brown, with a dark mustache, round belly and cooking apron, became ...
Nadine Strossen, the first female and youngest-ever person to lead the American Civil Liberties Union, will deliver a lecture on Thursday at the Lawrence Public Library on how to resist hate with free speech. Strossen, who became president of the ACLU in 1991 at age 40 and served until 2008, will discuss her 2018 book, "Hate: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, not Censorship.” The event is part of the ...
At the Mardi Gras parade on Tuesday, those who weren’t playing an instrument with the “Krewe de Kaw” opted to dance instead. About 150 people joined in the revelry, swinging and dancing in unique costumes, including a peacock cape, a snakeskin top hat and a pink wig. Cars slowed as they passed the rowdy and colorful group, some rolling down their windows to take in the music and others adding to it by ...
The University of Kansas will offer free showings of Oscar-winning Italian filmmaker Federico Fellini's works during its Fellini Centenary Film Festival. The first film showing is Tuesday night. David Mucci, director of the KU Memorial Union, described Fellini's films as “colorful, outrageous, highly imaginative" works with "spectacular narratives that push to the critical issues of life and its meaning." The ...