Renovating a rundown home in a historic part of town allowed for a young couple in Lawrence to mix the old with the new. Lindsey and Kyle Weiland purchased their home at 1327 New Hampshire St. in January 2014 with plans to gut the interior and rebuild it to their liking. Kyle, who is a general ...
A career path that included stints in the corporate and nonprofit worlds has prepared Carol Kobza to fill the big shoes left by Lynne Green at Van Go inc. Kobza took over Jan. 15 as executive director of Van Go after Green, who founded the nonprofit in 1997 and was its executive director until ...
As a journalist, Jose Antonio Vargas has always preferred asking the questions rather than being asked. But since publicly sharing his secret of living as an undocumented immigrant for the past 25 years, he has had to answer plenty of questions himself. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, ...
Groups around Lawrence will gather next week in celebration of a man whose powerful words, voice and dream still resonate as strongly today as they did decades ago. Community events are scheduled to begin bright and early Monday as the nation observes Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Here are ...
Update, 8:40 p.m. Friday, Jan. 18, 2019: Kaw Valley Eagles Day has been canceled because of inclement weather. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at Clinton Lake said in an email to the Journal-World that no alternate date has been set yet. This weekend, the talents of local middle and high ...
A popular annual festival in downtown Lawrence is going to look a little different this year. The 12th annual Lawrence Busker Festival, scheduled for May 24-26, will feature only female performers, organizer Richard Renner said Wednesday. Renner decided to go with such a lineup after Linsey ...
The project team facilitating the addition of art to East Ninth Street will hold its second of three community input meetings Thursday. The Community Visioning Workshop will include a conversation about potential art projects and installations along East Ninth Street, according to a news ...
A new year means a new way to chat with the Lawrence Cultural Arts Commission. The commission will change the format of its monthly Culture Chat for 2019, said Porter Arneill, the city liaison for the advisory board that focuses on culture and art in town. This year, the chat will continue to ...
A Lawrence art studio will become a hub for an upcoming global effort to create 1,000 depictions of internationally acclaimed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who is known for her intense self-portraits. “Night of 1,000 Fridas” was created by Theodore Carter, a Washington, D.C., author and ...
When it comes to immigration, Lawrence filmmaker Steve Lerner said he finds the national debate has generally become polarized, rage-filled and uncivil. But in Garden City, a small town in a generally conservative area of southwest Kansas, the residents seem to have a different view, he ...
If you want some pointers from a professional writer about how to record the important stories in your life, the Lawrence Public Library has you covered. A new class, “Who Will Tell Your Story,” will teach attendees how to identify important stories in their lives and write about them as ...
The Free State High School Theatre Department brought back some shiny hardware from the Kansas Thespian Festival in Wichita. Now, the students and faculty face a difficult decision of whether to take their show on the road once again. As the Journal-World reported in December, the school’s ...
Jose Antonio Vargas, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and Emmy-nominated filmmaker, will give the annual Kenneth A. Spencer Lecture later this month at Lawrence’s Liberty Hall. As a journalist, Vargas wrote a New York Times Magazine article in 2011 revealing his life in America as an ...
A trusty sidekick to one of the greatest detectives in literature will find himself at the center of a story in a Theatre Lawrence show this month. Rather than the normal story of Sherlock Holmes solving a complex mystery as his sidekick Dr. John Watson chronicles the events for the audience, ...
In Card Table Theatre's one-night comedy show “Good Night, Lawrence!” absolutely no one in the city is safe — not even the performers. “We pride ourselves on being equal-opportunity satirists,” said Will Averill, a local playwright and co-artistic director of the group. “Nobody ...
Poetry is an art that is meant to be heard, says Lawrence poet Eric McHenry. And now that audible art form will be recognized with a special local award. As part of the annual Langston Hughes Creative Writing Awards, Lawrence Magazine is funding a new prize to celebrate the performance side of ...
Sarah Bodle couldn’t just come to Lawrence and spend Christmas with her family; she had to squeeze in a performance. The 28-year-old opera singer, who lives and studies in Berlin, will give a winter-themed recital at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Unitarian Universalist Church, 1263 North 1100 ...
With another year in the books, Lawrence Public Library staffers share their favorite new titles of 2018. Ian Stepp, information services assistant: Can I cheat and choose two? I’m going for it. These fantastic graphic novels are both set in space, but couldn’t be more different. ...
The year is coming to an end, and it is time to party once again. If you’re looking to celebrate New Year’s Eve in Lawrence, there are plenty of places to go. Here are a few events that caught my eye: • It may soon be 2019, but the Granada is letting people celebrate by taking it back ...
Mehrzad Alison discovered long ago that jealousy could be a muse. As a child, Alison, 57, envied a classmate who was always drawing and being praised by the teacher. Alison was so jealous of the attention the boy was receiving that he began drawing. It worked. He gained the teacher’s ...