Next Friday on the University of Kansas campus, you might see what looks like a mini craft market near the bronze Jayhawk statues outside the Kansas Union. It’s called Jayhawk Fridays, and it’s a new way for small businesses to connect with students on campus. Program director Mikayla Leader with KU Memorial Unions said it will normally happen on the first Friday of each month, and if you’re a vendor of ...
In his decades of living in East Lawrence, Tony Peterson says, a lot has changed, but “the Yart Sale has always been one of the constants.” “I’m not even sure how long ago it started,” he says. It’s one of those ad-hoc, organic neighborhood things, part garage sale, part gallery, part “unofficial neighborhood party,” and never the same from one year to the next. This year’s is on Saturday ...
As Lawrence-Douglas County Fire Medical prepares to add a new station in northwest Lawrence, Station 6, the department's stats show that its two existing stations on the west side are responding to fewer calls than some stations farther east. But that may not be an issue for Station 6, because LDCFM has said that what matters, and what Station 6 is trying to improve, is where the department can get to in four ...
“Where’s my pencil?” says Deb Madden at Tuesday’s rehearsal for Vintage Players, Theatre Lawrence’s senior theater program. She’s just come into the auditorium, running late and a little frazzled. “Do you have a pencil?” Director Bruce Douglas doesn’t have one. Nobody in the audience does. Oh, but wait – they’re in her hair! She pulls one out and offers it to him. “Would you like a ...
You yourself could be the canvas for the artwork that Tim Hossler and Lizzy Arnold are creating for the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Hossler, a University of Kansas design professor, and Arnold, the graphic designer for the KU School of Architecture and Design, are among the artists being featured in the City of Lawrence's soccer-themed Unmistakable Public Art Exhibition this summer. But rather than sculpting or ...
There are successful parties at the Lawrence Public Library, like the one that raised more than $400,000 for an outdoor performance space and various other projects earlier this month. And then there's "Deflategate." That’s what Kathleen Morgan, director of the Lawrence Public Library's Friends & Foundation, calls one specific movie night gone wrong. It was an outdoor showing of "Jurassic Park" on a big ...