If you’ve never seen a Gilbert and Sullivan operetta like “The Pirates of Penzance,” director Jessica Franz-Martin thinks you probably picture something dry, stuffy and above all, British. “Right?” she said. “Like, ‘In the 1880s, they were all stodgy and they listened to this and ...
Friday, September 11 Dole Institute and KU School of Music: September 11 25th Anniversary Tribute Performance, 3-4 p.m., Hansen Hall, Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive. Music & Audio Sale: Opening Night, 6:30-8:30 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. CDs, ...
Friday, September 4 Paper Plains Zine Fest (see paperplainszinefest.com for details and registration): • Zines at the Spencer Research Center, 10 a.m.-2 p.m., Spencer Research Library, 1540 Poplar Lane. • KU Colorbar Open Studio, 1-2:30 p.m. and 2:30-4 p.m., Chalmers Hall 203C, 1467 ...
Meet Valvin Muscat – sweet, flowery, “insane,” a bit of a heartbreaker, “kind of a pain in the kazoo,” if you ask Michelle Meyer. “But boy, do they taste good,” she says after she cuts a cluster of the golden-green grapes off the vine at Holy-Field Vineyard and Winery in Basehor ...
Friday, August 28 Happy Birthday Senator Elizabeth Dole Community Blood Drive, noon-4 p.m., Dole Institute of Politics, 2350 Petefish Drive. See doleinstitute.org for details and donation sign-up. Clear the Shelter Event, noon-6 p.m., Lawrence Humane Society, 1805 E. 19th St. Adoption fees ...
Everywhere his journey as an artist has led, Reece Henderson has had to grapple with anxiety – and that includes his latest stint at the Lawrence Arts Center. “I struggle with anxiety, personally,” says Henderson, the Arts Center’s new ceramics artist in residence. “Like, social ...