Friday, Oct. 11 • Fall Book Sale, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St. Use Kentucky Street garage entrance. Books, CDs, DVDs, audiobooks priced $2 and less. Continues through the weekend. • Free State Story Slam: “Minimum Wage,” 7:30 p.m., Lawrence Arts ...
Friday, Oct. 4 • First Friday Coffee and Coworking at LPL, 10 a.m.-1 p.m., Lawrence Public Library, Meeting Room A, 707 Vermont St. Remote workers and entrepreneurs meet for networking, collaboration or just a change of scenery. Coffee provided. No registration needed. • Lecture: ...
The poet laureate of the United States will be in Salina for a free event later this month. Ada Limón will provide a free poetry reading and participate in other public events on Oct. 17 in Salina. Among the poetry pieces Limón will read is “In Praise of Mystery: A Poem for Europa.” The ...
Michael Coffey has been wanting to film a thriller in Lawrence for the past seven years — ever since he conceived of the screenplay for “One Eye Open.” He found the perfect setting right away: the Ludington-Thacher House — that mid-19th century brick mansion that turns everyone’s ...
Journalist Wright Thompson grew up 23 miles from the site where Emmett Till was murdered in Mississippi in 1955, yet Thompson never learned much of the crime until he left to attend college out of state. Now, Thompson has written a book about how much is still unknown about the murder of Till ...
Kansas Public Radio is on a quest to find musicians from every county in Kansas for a new radio program that will debut next month. KPR, which is based at the University of Kansas, is looking for contemporary musicians from all 105 Kansas counties for a new program called “105 Live.” ...