I have automotive news that involves a wrecking ball. (No, this isn’t another story of me parking in the wrong spot at a construction site.) Rather, plans have been filed by the local Honda dealership to tear down its existing showroom along south Iowa Street to make more room for more ...
I find a good grilled cheese sandwich exhilarating. (My heart gets a jolt every time I stick a knife into the toaster to pry free my culinary creation.) OK, maybe my technique is off, but an area chef is betting that my enthusiasm for grilled cheese is widespread. An existing downtown ...
The national scene came to Lawrence during the past decade — at least for a day. Does anybody still remember Jan. 22, 2015 — the day when President Barack Obama became the first sitting president in more than 100 years to visit Lawrence? It is OK if the day slipped your mind. That’s not ...
For some of us, boosting Lawrence’s music scene — especially this time of year — involves looking for our symphonic version of “Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer.” But these days, some local music leaders are looking to make even more noise than that. I had a chance to sit down ...
In some ways, it makes sense that a business based in Columbia, Mo. is coming to Lawrence to clean our vehicles. After all, a Lawrence basketball team has been cleaning the clocks of a Columbia basketball team for decades. (Hey, if they are going to restart the basketball games, I’m going to ...
Get ready for a big renovation at Lawrence’s SuperTarget store. Work is expected to begin next month, but what’s going to change at the south Iowa Street retailer is a bit unclear. A smaller grocery department, though, appears to be a possibility, based on plans filed with Lawrence City ...
There has been talk in some circles that Lawrence is the beer capital of Kansas. Now, there is evidence that goes beyond the fact that the pile of discarded beer bottles in your garage is roughly the size of the Statehouse dome. A national website lists Lawrence as one of the 50 best beer ...
If entering the J.Lynn Bridal store in downtown Lawrence causes you to feel a bit like a hustler or a shark, don’t be alarmed (although I wouldn’t recommend writing those thoughts into the wedding vows.) The building at 731 Massachusetts St. was a pool hall for almost 30 years, after all. ...
Maybe you too have learned what a snow day during holiday baking season is good for: about 20 pounds. Doughnuts, though, weren’t on my list of treats I was making and eating, but, of course, I didn’t have the benefit of a doughnut-making robot. A new west Lawrence doughnut shop, however, ...
I can tell you from personal experience that if you get close enough to a pig, you gain greater appreciation for a bar of soap. So, maybe there is some symbolic synergy with the Bourgeois Pig’s new next-door neighbor in downtown Lawrence — a handmade soap company. Bodytruth Soap ...
New figures from the federal government show Douglas County has a significantly smaller economy than many other counties that are dominated by major universities. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis released new figures Thursday that for the first time show the gross domestic product of ...
Get ready to say goodbye to the Gap location in Lawrence. The apparel store today placed “store closing” signs all over its windows on Massachusetts Street. The closing likely will create a big gap in downtown Lawrence’s streetscape. Gap occupies about 100 feet of street frontage in the ...
It is the time of year for rankings. (In my ranking of children, my son fell to No. 5 on my list of two kids after I told him he could get me some music CDs for Christmas. He said he’d stop by the CD store next to the Blockbuster.) Lawrence, however, is not suffering such a fate. It has taken ...
One of Lawrence’s oldest New York-style pizzerias is moving, but don’t worry, you won’t have to get on a new subway line to find it. Papa Keno’s Pizzeria has reached a deal to leave its longtime home on the southern end of downtown for a new location a few blocks north on Massachusetts ...
Right out of college, a medical emergency landed Janice Early in Lawrence Memorial Hospital for three weeks, including a stay over Christmas. The experience and care she received stuck with her. Years later, when she was working in Kansas City and saw an advertisement for LMH’s director of ...
Maybe we all decided to buy our football tailgating supplies at the same time. (Is that why Taco Bell refused to fill my stock tank with nacho cheese sauce?) Or maybe there is some other explanation, but the start of fall ended up being the start of a new spending season in both Lawrence and ...
Lawrence’s cycling community soon may have more pedal-power behind it now that the big-time bike manufacturer Trek has opened a corporate-owned store on south Iowa Street. We reported months ago that Trek had signed a deal to locate in the shopping center at 25th and Iowa streets, just a ...
It makes sense that fall is the time homes start feeling a little cramped. The garage is full of Halloween candy and the free-range Thanksgiving turkey is roaming in the living room. (They say they’re healthier for you, but my blood pressure rises every time he messes with the remote.) Maybe ...
Diane Bui, owner of Lawrence Pawn & Jewelry, actually is an electrical engineer by training. That’s good, because she said she needs some fast-firing circuits to know which deals to make and which deals to reject at the pawn counter. “I have to be able to quickly assimilate ...
News and notes from around downtown Lawrence: • The pizza and Philly cheesesteak restaurant Grinders is in the process of closing its downtown Lawrence restaurant. Again. This time it appears to be for good. Grinders is the creation of Kansas City hipster restaurateur Jeffrey Rumaner, who ...