It’s time for Douglas County residents to finish the story they're working on or polish up their poems and submit them for the 2020 Langston Hughes Awards. The annual event, jointly sponsored this year by the Lawrence Arts Center and The Raven Book Store, will offer two awards of $500 each, ...
Theatergoers can take in six stories in one evening during this weekend's Festival of Short Plays at Theatre Lawrence. The event, now in its second year, only features scripts from regional playwrights, said Dani DeGarmo, the theater’s marketing coordinator. She said the selection process ...
A local theater production is looking to be a beacon of hope for those affected by suicide-related grief. The Lawrence Arts Center on Saturday will host Life Restoration Ministries’ “Hope Remains Even in the … Shadows.” Written and directed by Rita Rials, the production delivers its ...
Donors from 43 states chipped in money to send James Naismith to the 1936 Olympics to see the sport he invented played in the international competition for the first time. But when he arrived, there wasn’t any fanfare for his presence, nor complimentary tickets. “After traveling 4,809 ...
After nearly 10 years of investigation into the KU ticket scandal, University of Kansas professor emeritus George Frederickson said three things led to the university scam. First, the remodeling of the ticket system from legacy-centric to donor-centric; second, hiring new people and not ...
Downtown’s annual Halloween trick-or-treating event will take place Thursday evening and will be followed by a new community Halloween party. Downtown trick-or-treating begins at 5 p.m. and goes “until the candy runs out,” or until about 6:30 p.m., according to the Downtown Lawrence ...
When Melissa Etheridge was young and growing up in Leavenworth, all she wanted to do was get out. Now, 40 years later, she feels a deep connection to her home state. “It’s a part of me that’s just never going to go away,” she said in a phone interview earlier this month. Etheridge, ...
The Lawrence Parks and Recreation Department will host its 43rd annual Holiday Bazaar on Saturday. The Holiday Bazaar features handmade arts and crafts produced by local and regional artists, including pottery, stained glass, paintings, jewelry and many more items, according to a city news ...
Organizers of the East Ninth Street art project are seeking young artists who want to add their artistic touch to the East Lawrence neighborhood. The East Ninth Project has already awarded grants to fund 10 artist proposals from adults, including sculpture, film and musical projects, and is ...
Baldwin City has spent the last week putting on its festival face. Crews have been placing orange “no parking” placards along downtown streets, as well as portable toilets and ready-to-assemble barricades at key intersections. They've marked off the sites for the hundreds of vendors whose ...
For the musical duo Black Violin, Lawrence brings back a fond memory of a surprise reunion with an old mentor. Violinist Kevin Sylvester and violist Wilner Baptiste, or, as they like to be called, Kev Marcus and Wil B, have performed in Lawrence at least five times, Sylvester supposed. They ...
Looking for a quiet place to study this Friday? Lawrence Public Library might not be the best bet. From 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., Kansas Public Radio is hosting its second annual Live Day, and half of the performances will be at the library, free and open to the public. "It's a great space to have ...
After moving from a west Lawrence apartment to an East Lawrence bungalow, Kristen Allen and Jake Bellucci felt they had relocated to a different state. There was that much of a difference going from a contemporary apartment complex to a tree-lined, neighborhood just a block from Lawrence’s ...
Kathi Fair never thought of herself as artistic, partly because she was never encouraged as a young person to do so. But now she knows better. “You can escape what people tell you,” she said of her artistic “awakening” in her mid-50s. That’s when, after working as an auctioneer and ...
Author Ben Lerner knows his way around Topeka — he grew up in Kansas' capital city and went to Topeka High School. But until recently, he hadn't set any of his novels there. That changed with his newest novel, “The Topeka School,” which places one of his recurring characters — a writer ...
When visitors to the Lawrence Arts Center ride the elevator this weekend, they'll be entertained with a pop-up gallery inside. Artist Matthew Lord, the mastermind behind the “Elevator Project,” plans to greet passengers as they enter the elevator car and will give a quick performance as it ...
There was one question Vicki Weseman and her daughter Leah Wisdom needed to answer before they bought a house together in Lawrence. “We had to decide: Could we live together?” Weseman said. After giving the idea some thought, they agreed that if they found the right house they could do ...
The season opener for Theatre Lawrence is not just a chance to see a Broadway hit; it’s a chance to see a local politician playing a bunch of “really terrible people.” “I mean, they’re pretty awful,” said Douglas County Commissioner Patrick Kelly of the multiple characters — at ...
Nationally acclaimed authors Colson Whitehead and Natalie Diaz will headline the Paper Plains Literary Festival, a free community event that will be hosted at locations throughout Lawrence April 23-26, 2020. Festival director Danny Caine announced some of the authors during a Paper Plains ...
Nature lovers of all ages can help researchers keep tabs on butterflies this weekend at Monarch Watch's annual fall tagging event. The local butterfly conservation group and the Jayhawk Audubon Society are hosting the event from 8 a.m. to noon Saturday at the Baker Wetlands Discovery Center, ...