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 ...
With 2018 winding to a close, librarians and book lovers everywhere are reflecting on another joyful year of reading. The curated “best of” lists are rolling out or are in the works — stay tuned! — and readers get to think back on the titles that will stick with them for many more ...
Designers of the “Wak’ó Mujeres Phụ nữ Women Mural” located on the south side of the Lawrence Public Library, 707 Vermont St., held a ribbon cutting and celebration of the mural on Saturday. The mural depicts more than 20 local women and girls of color from multiple centuries and ...
As the first course was being served, Lexi Dutcher said she couldn’t wait for dessert. Not that the Lawrence High School junior had a sweet tooth; she was just excited to see how the amaretto-chocolate torte prepared by the advanced culinary class would look on the triangle-shaped plates she ...
Jennifer Burkhead believes she was born in the wrong era. “I’ve always preferred the movies, the dances, the music, the clothes of the 1940s and 1950s,” she told me on Thursday. Luckily for Burkhead, she is the director of the Cider Gallery, 810 Pennsylvania St., which gives her the ...