Lawrence Restaurant Week kicks off Thursday, and that means limited-time menus and unique dishes will be popping up at restaurants all over the city. The annual showcase lasts 10 days and includes more than 40 restaurants that will be serving new, special dishes alongside their usual ...
An exhibit now on display at Watkins Museum of History in downtown Lawrence aims to tell viewers the stories of Native American cultures and student life at Haskell Indian Nations University. “From Then to Now: A Student History of Haskell Indian Nations University” went on display in ...
A capacity crowd of about 200 people got a Martin Luther King Jr. prescription filled at a downtown community breakfast honoring the late civil rights leader on Monday. Its most potent active ingredient: Personal courage. “All of us here has it to a degree,” keynote speaker Gary Steele ...
When Mike Stephens holds up his gait belt, you can see that he’s been through a lot. He can look at the dates written on the belt with Sharpie and walk you through every milestone in his battle with COVID-19. It all began one September morning when he wasn’t feeling well and knew ...
When Lynne Green founded Van Go 25 years ago with a donated Checker limousine and a $2,000 grant from the Kansas Arts Commission, she couldn’t have imagined the arts-based social service agency would become the fixture it is in Lawrence today. “It’s way beyond my wildest dreams what is ...
After last year's allegations that employees at Haskell Indian Nations University intimidated student-athletes into signing legal documents, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has sent an inquiry to the director of the Bureau of Indian Education about the issue, the Journal-World learned Friday. As the ...