Miranda Klugesherz, the star of Theatre Lawrence’s “Silent Sky,” expects that audience members will walk away from the show “feeling not just happy but having learned something.” And that, she said, is “the best kind of theater.” Klugesherz herself certainly learned a lot playing the role of Henrietta Leavitt, who made one of the greatest breakthroughs in science at a time when women were largely ...
Janis Guyot had to turn off a legislative hearing she had been listening to Wednesday because, as with many recent hearings targeting transgender people, “the hatefulness and ignorance” were too much to bear. “It made me sick to my stomach,” she said of the hearing that ultimately led to a ban on transgender girls participating in sports in Kansas. But that moment of revulsion and others like it will ...
Story updated at 4:27 p.m. Thursday, March 30: Two European ferrets who “retired” to Lawrence last week have already begun a thriving second career: as teachers. “They’ve already done their first program,” said Marty Birrell, the nature education supervisor at Prairie Park Nature Center, referring to an educational event starring the slinky weasels, Lizzie and Annie, who are now under her care. The ...
A Eudora man who was originally charged with raping a woman after a party at his home last year pleaded no contest on Monday in Douglas County District Court to two counts of aggravated battery. The man, Derek Sean Conner, 34, had faced one count of rape, a level one felony, in connection with an incident on Jan. 23, 2022, when a 26-year-old woman claimed he sexually assaulted her when she was incapable of ...
In 1975, Hercule Poirot’s obituary was published on the front page of The New York Times — an impressive feat for someone who had never actually been alive, but perhaps not as impressive as his ingenious detective work in “Murder on the Orient Express.” Poirot’s sleuthing coup in the 1934 novel is still a fan favorite among the dozens of Agatha Christie tales that featured the cerebral Belgian ...
Updated at 2:18 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 The attorney who filed a lawsuit for wrongful incarceration on behalf of Rontarus Washington Jr. against Douglas County and other defendants has acknowledged that a major factual claim in his lawsuit is wrong — namely that a homicide victim's estranged husband was arrested and charged in the case. That claim is false. Attorney Larry G. Michel acknowledged in an ...