This one’s for all the parents out there, because trying to persuade a stubborn child — or adult, for that matter — to eat their vegetables is no easy task. Take it from a reformed picky eater whose mother tried fruitlessly for years to trick her children into eating healthier, even ...

Fork to Fender chef-owner Eric Ireland graciously agreed to play guinea pig in the first installment of our new 10 Questions feature, in which we pose (you guessed it) 10 questions to a different chef, restaurateur or Lawrence dining personality each month. Here, in an email exchange with ...

He’s logged more than 58 days in space, but John Grunsfeld, associate administrator for NASA’s science mission directorate, will be exploring uncharted territory when he ventures to Liberty Hall, 644 Massachusetts St., this week. “Two Astronauts, One Stellar Night” on Thursday marks ...

Lee Meisel, owner of Leeway Franks, is [all about quality][1]. He describes his shop as a “nose-to-tail” operation where he breaks down whole hogs, grinds the locally sourced meat to make sausage and uses the bones to create a stock for gravy, which is then poured over hand-cut french ...

A thoroughly English production is slated to arrive in the Heartland this weekend — hopefully with a bang, if Ric Averill has anything to do with it. “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” the hit musical loosely based on the Ian Fleming novel (yes, he of “James Bond” fame) and, perhaps more ...

The script for the [locally penned fantasy flick][1] “From Ashes to Immortality” is now an official selection of the Beverly Hills Film Festival. Co-written by Lawrence residents Eric Hyde, Jazzmyne Matchette, George Dean and Mike Anderson, the “From Ashes to Immortality” tells ...