It would be pretty difficult to forget meeting a anyone with a name like Gizmo Joe, or Mothman or Pat the Hat from Slab City, California. A pinky-ringed cabbie from Jersey named Al? Fahgettaboudit! For Lawrence artist John Sebelius, the memories of these four and 61 others certainly haven’t ...
JoAnn Clouse has worked lots of jobs over the years. She’s been a college bookstore manager, an accreditation specialist, a grant writer and, notably, a home economics teacher. “My husband and I lived in Goodland, Kansas, before we moved here,” the Lawrence transplant recounted earlier ...
It’s ironic, Nick Schmiedeler says, that the old Packard junkyard on 1106 Rhode Island Street didn’t produce enough junk for the metal sculpture he just completed at the site.“I used some things from here, but I had to dig into some of my own treasurers,” said Schmiedeler, a Lawrence ...
In a pinch-me moment of Caribe’s decades-long presence in the Midwest music circuit, the reggae-Latin ensemble played at a party for industry big shots such as the Oakridge Boys and Roy Orbison.It was glamorous, to be sure, founding member Gary Frager recalls now. But for Frager, who went by ...
A fountain on the University of Kansas campus was broken over the weekend, apparently by vandals. The Alumni Place Fountain is the centerpiece of a quiet, tucked-away terrace just down the hill behind Watkins and Miller scholarship halls.It features a circular pool with a two-tiered fountain in ...
Think of it as “The Big Chill” for a new generation. That’s how Peter Zazzali, the director of KU Theatre’s upcoming production of “Pooter McGraw is Not Dead Party,” describes the coming-of-age tale set to open at 7:30 p.m. Friday at KU’s Crafton-Preyer Theatre, 1530 Naismith ...