Any fan of “Napoleon Dynamite” can recall all its cringeworthy moments – the Happy Hands Club, the terrible drawings, “Bust Must”... But what if you weren’t just sympathizing with the characters – what if you were actually there? Well, in “Napoleon’s Dynamite Musical Parody,” which opens next weekend at the Lawrence Arts Center, you yourself might get invited to the high school dance, or a ...
Jeffrey “Chubby” Smith loved to perform – in so many different bands that his partner, Julie Mulvihill, can’t remember them all. He loved to create, building wild “Frankenstein” guitars with names like "Steakhouse Firebird." And, he really loved to hear other musicians play them. In his studio, an outbuilding on their property that used to be a machine shed, Mulvihill remembers him awing their ...
A screening of “Beetlejuice” that a local movie club was planning at Oak Hill Cemetery this weekend has been canceled – but not because it broke any cemetery rules. Rather, it’s because what the city approved was different from – and more limited than – what the event was turning into. That's according to the city’s Parks, Recreation and Culture Department, which posted Thursday on social media ...
Story updated at 1:22 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22: News and notes from around town: Last December, we reported on the National Weather Service's agreement to operate out of a new building at KU Innovation Park, but we didn't know then when that building would be complete. Now, the forecast is clearer: Expect it to be done sometime in 2027. On the site on the University of Kansas' West Campus, just a little ways ...
You might guess that as a telecommunications CEO, Midco’s Pat McAdaragh is all about speed. But there’s something slow that he finds beautiful – the restored prairie in the yard of his Minnesota home. “It’s just been wonderful, almost spiritual to watch that thing change yearly,” McAdaragh said on Wednesday. “It’s like having living artwork out there.” So, when he had an old vacant lot behind ...
Before they voted 5-0 to add extra layers of public hearings and oversight to the approval process for data centers, Lawrence city commissioners wanted the crowd at City Hall to know what they weren’t voting on. “This is not a discussion on what final regulations we’ll look at two years from now,” Mayor Brad Finkeldei said. It’s not about bans on specific kinds of entities, water use, electricity use ...