Gavin Jones may just be the first kid from Lawrence to make it into the All-National Honor Choir two years in a row. That’s according to Mike Jones, the 17-year-old baritone’s dad and longtime band director at Lawrence High School. In his 16 years at the school, he’s never seen any of his ...
In advance of his Lawrence visit, legendary songwriter Jimmy Webb visited with the Journal-World about his Oklahoma roots, working with his musical idols and what's wrong with kids today. (They're not writing enough songs, evidently.)Webb has penned hits for Glen Campbell, Donna Summer and Art ...
The first-ever National African-American Quilt Convention continues this week in Lawrence, with several workshops, exhibits, lectures, historical tours and more on the docket Friday and Saturday. The convention, which kicked off earlier this week, is the brainchild of Lawrence-based artist and ...
Amelia Earhart had been missing nearly 10 years before Jeannine Wyatt was even born. Still, separated by time and space, Wyatt always felt a connection with her hometown heroine, a fellow tomboy who played along the same bluff high above the Missouri River some 50 years before. Across ...
The bloody conflicts between Lawrence abolitionists and their pro-slavery rivals that mark the city’s history will soon appear in a TV series. On Thursday, a crew from the PBS series "America from the Ground Up" will be filming around downtown Lawrence. The host and producer of the series, ...
Among other things, Kansas Repertory Theatre’s 2017 season explores the idea of family. In “Next to Normal,” the contemporary rock musical running through July 16 at the University of Kansas, we witness one grief-stricken mother’s struggles with bipolar disorder — and the toll her ...