“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 ...
In the Dole Institute of Politics’ collections are thousands of films and tapes from throughout Sen. Bob Dole’s career – records that, for all we know, might only have a couple of plays left in them.
They’re in all kinds of formats, said senior archivist Sarah Gard – from cassette tapes to 1-inch and 2-inch film, from VHS to professional standards like Betacam. And they’re from all throughout ...
Two buildings in the Oread neighborhood that city staff says have historic value could be a problem for the first “very-high-density” housing project in Lawrence's history.
The project is Lawrence businessman Doug Compton's two-building, 300-bedroom apartment complex called The Place @ KU. It would be a first in Lawrence – the first super-dense project built under the city's new code, taking advantage of ...
City leaders are hoping Lawrence will be chosen for a pilot project that uses a little-utilized state law to acquire and rehabilitate abandoned homes for affordable housing.
The project is by the nonprofit organization Neighborhood Legal Support of Kansas City, which put out a request for proposals for cities that want to be part of it. On Tuesday, the Lawrence City Commission voted to let staff submit a ...
