Lawrence filmmaker Austin Snell is particularly pleased that his new movie is attracting female fans. “Women really seem to love this film,” which is honestly like the most satisfying thing for me,” Snell told the Journal-World ahead of Friday’s screening of “They Call Her Death” at Liberty Hall. The film, which has garnered a distribution deal after its success at numerous festivals, is a ...
Updated at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Dec. 9 After the BNSF Railroad gave notice late last week for campers to vacate its eastern Lawrence property by Sunday — a move strongly criticized by the city — several people remained Monday morning in a wooded landscape dotted with tents and debris. The homeless camp just east of Eighth and Delaware streets has grown after the City of Lawrence closed a sprawling camp on ...
A 57-year-old man looked away Friday as a young woman described to a Douglas County judge how he had stolen her childhood with years of sexual abuse. “You’re so mature for your age,” she said Scott Waisner told her when she was just 14 years old — a statement that she later realized was the calling card of a groomer. “Was I?” she asked the court, or was that just a way for Waisner, then in his 40s, ...
Forty-two-year-old art teacher Jacob Lewis is acutely aware that he would have died in August if it weren’t for his student Lucas Fearn. “He literally saved my life that day,” Lewis said of the Free State High School senior who is also his teaching assistant. It was the second week of school, which had gotten out early that day, and the two were alone in Lewis’ ceramics studio, talking about this and ...
Backstage, Theatre Lawrence is a bit like Willy Wonka’s Chocolate Factory; but instead of industrious Oompa Loompas whipping up candies there’s a small army of volunteers building, painting, decorating, sewing — putting in thousands of man hours to create an extraordinarily short-lived confection: the set for a few hours of live theater. Since the end of October, longtime technical director and designer ...
A common take on this year’s presidential election is that a focus on “boutique” or “exotic” issues such as transgender rights alienated most American voters. “Americans who identify with a gender other than the one they were born with represent a minuscule part of the population,” syndicated columnist Froma Harrop wrote in her post-mortem of the Democratic election loss, echoing many a ...