A large angelfish sculpture caught the attention of several people walking along Massachusetts Street on Tuesday morning. "Angelica #2," a 500-pound steel fish with a limestone face, was created by Joe Malesky, of Strafford, Mo., and was recently placed on display in the 800 block of ...
Theatre Lawrence hopes to take its audience on a musical vacation when its production of “Mamma Mia!” opens on Friday. Director Mary Doveton said the show's popularity comes from the combination of the music — a collection of hit songs by the band ABBA — and the classic love story ...
This weekend's Historic Lecompton Territorial Days will offer plenty of old-fashioned fun — including frog and turtle races — but also a chance to learn more about Kansas' early history. The annual festival kicks off at 7 a.m. Saturday with a pancake breakfast at the community building ...
It's easy to find shops and restaurants on Massachusetts Street, but people can also see the natural world in downtown Lawrence if they know what to look for, says Ken Lassman, author of “Wild Douglas County.” At 6 p.m. Friday at Sunflower Outdoor & Bike, 804 Massachusetts St., ...
"Summertime in South Park" will be the theme Wednesday night during the Lawrence City Band's first outdoor concert of the season, which will run through mid-July. The band, conducted by Paul Popiel, will play an assortment of tunes, including "Appalachian Overture," "Someone to Watch Over ...
Story updated 2:28 p.m. Tuesday Tony Horwitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and the best-selling author of "Confederates in the Attic," has died. He was 60. Horwitz died Monday of apparent cardiac arrest in Washington, D.C., Sarah Hutson, a spokeswoman for his publisher, Penguin Press, ...
A new television series focusing on how the U.S. Army dealt with the first outbreak of one of the most contagious and deadliest viruses on its soil features several University of Kansas and Kansas State University connections. The six-part National Geographic miniseries “The Hot Zone” ...
Acrobats, sword swallowers, magicians and comedians will fill downtown Lawrence on Friday, Saturday and Sunday for the 12th annual Lawrence Busker Festival — and, for the first time in the event's history, all the performers will be female. Busker Martika Daniels, whose act includes hula ...
Music flows through Brian J. Nelson’s daily life; it's on his mind all the time. Where other people hear just noise passing a construction site, Nelson says he hears rhythms. “If I’m actively working on a piece it’s always there, and I’m running through the solutions,” said ...
If Pulitzer Prize-winning author Tony Horwitz’s 1998 bestseller, “Confederates in the Attic,” trained a magnifying glass on a still-divided American South more than 130 years after the Civil War, then his latest work, “Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide,” aims ...
Bargain hunters might find some good deals north of the river when the North Lawrence neighborhood garage sale returns Friday and Saturday. More than 100 North Lawrence residents plan to have items for sale, said Ted Boyle, president of the North Lawrence Improvement Association. “The ...
A well-known Hollywood actor is set to headline a series of lectures at the University of Kansas next school year. KU's Hall Center for the Humanities on Monday announced Alan Alda, who may be best known for portraying Hawkeye Pierce in the TV show “MASH,” as one of the five speakers lined ...
Lawrence High School students will soon be presenting an original drama that looks back at a tense and polarizing time in their school's history: the local civil rights protests of 1968. “In Their Own Words: Voices of the 1968 Lawrence High School Student Walkout,” a short dramatic work ...
Grammy award-winning musicians Bruce Hornsby, Buddy Guy and Boz Scaggs are part of the lineup for the Lied Center's next season. “This season promises to be diverse and entertaining. From a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer to a New York Times best-selling author, and MacArthur Fellows to Tony ...
Kansas poet Denise Low will be pulling up stakes and heading west this summer. In preparation for a move to California, she has been decluttering her life. It helped that the Kenneth Spencer Research Library at the University of Kansas accepted 20 boxes of her papers, manuscripts, letters and ...
Fans of the Lawrence Civic Choir can attend a local performance Saturday or wait until June 9 and catch the choir on stage at New York City’s Carnegie Hall. Attending “A Spring Bouquet of Songs,” at 7:30 p.m. at the Lawrence Free Methodist Church, 3001 Lawrence Ave., will be more ...
Visitors to Saturday’s Kansas Food Truck Festival can enjoy everything from gyros to bulgogi bowls to Kansas City barbecue, all while supporting an important cause. Thirty-two vendors will be at the annual event, including local favorites such as Torched Goodness, Drasko's and the Mad ...
Local dogs can soon display their disc-catching skills for the public at South Park as part of the Skyhoundz Local Championship. The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department is hosting the annual event May 11, and it will be free for spectators and dog-owner teams wishing to compete, ...
Celebrated R&B and gospel singer Mavis Staples is once again set to visit Lawrence to share stories from her life and career. Staples will appear Aug. 21 at Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., as part of the Lawrence Public Library's 780s Series, the library announced Wednesday in a news ...
Works of art planned as part of the East Ninth Street art project now include a large-scale sculpture, a short film created with the help of neighbors and a community reading room. After reviewing 27 submissions, a panel of artists selected five additional works for the long-running East ...