A 100-foot dragon in the Flint Hills is likely to turn a lot of heads this summer, but for the Lawrence artist who made it, the fiery creature is much more than a roadside attraction.
"It's a perfect meeting of East and West," Hong Zhang says of the massive hay-bale installation — and of dragons generally. 2024 is the Year of the Dragon in China, where Zhang is from, but she has lived for 20 years in Kansas, ...
Updated at 10:11 a.m. Wednesday, July 10
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against the City of Lawrence and others brought by a man who says his First Amendment rights were trampled when he was trespassed last year from the city-supported homeless camp in North Lawrence. On Tuesday, the same day the dismissal was filed, the man angrily used the N-word to belittle Lawrence's mayor at a public meeting.
As ...
A story about the fussily curated world of online influencers could not be more 2024, but Lawrence author Amanda Sellet actually reached back 80 years — to a more black-and-white era, as it were — for the true inspiration for her latest novel.
Called “Hate to Fake It to You,” Sellet’s first book for adults is a modern adaptation of the 1945 Barbara Stanwyck film “Christmas in Connecticut,” a ...
Benjamin Kincaid doesn’t live here anymore, but when it was time for his baby’s first haircut, he headed straight to Lawrence.
Downtown barber Mike Amyx gave Benjamin his first haircut 35 years ago, an event memorialized with a fuzzy film snapshot in the family photo album. And last weekend he gave Benjamin’s 16-month-old son, Owen, his first haircut too — crisply memorialized in a multiphoto digital ...
Updated at 1:55 p.m. Tuesday, July 2
An attorney is asking a district court judge to sanction District Attorney Suzanne Valdez and others for claiming that a murder investigation had been reopened against a Lawrence woman, then later admitting in a deposition that no such investigation exists.
The “lie” about the investigation being reopened, as Bill Skepnek, the attorney for Carrody Buchhorn, has ...
The chairpersons of two U.S. House committees sent a letter Tuesday to the director of the Bureau of Indian Education expressing concern over the federal agency’s failure to address concerns of Haskell Indian Nations University students over a variety of issues at the Lawrence school, including allegations of sexual assault and other serious misconduct.
The letter notes that a congressional investigation is ...
