Sharon Liese knows a thing or two about telling stories as an award-winning director and producer from Kansas. One day as she was listening to NPR in her car, she heard a story that really drew her in. Bernie Rhodes, the attorney representing the Marion County Record, was describing an ...

After a nearly 20-year absence, there once again will be rocking and rolling on the Hill at the University of Kansas campus. KU leaders on Friday announced they are restarting a once-popular annual concert event known as Day on the Hill, which in its inaugural year in 1992 featured a little ...

Before Algeria's final group stage match of the World Cup on Saturday, its supporters in Lawrence are invited to rally around the flag – specifically, the giant Algerian flag earthwork created by artist Stan Herd. The earthwork is behind the Lied Center on the University of Kansas campus, ...

Lawrence’s summer shopping spectacular, A Midsummer Night on Mass, is always big for downtown merchants – but they have reason to believe this Friday’s edition could be bigger than normal. That’s because the specials at downtown businesses aren’t the only things happening that night. ...

The repairs are almost done and the scaffolding is all gone outside of Liberty Hall, and co-owner Joshua Millstein is glad that its historic facade is back to normal. “We’re happy to have shed all of our scaffolding, all of our exoskeleton, you know?” Millstein said Friday outside of ...

Friday, June 19 Juneteenth Celebration: Party in the Park, 4:30-8 p.m., South Park, 1141 Massachusetts St. Free community meal, live music, board games, official Juneteenth proclamation. Sunflower Music Festival Opening Night, 7:30 p.m., White Concert Hall, 1700 SW Jewell Ave., Washburn ...