http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/dec/14/300655/ Whenever fans approach Celtic songstress and Lawrence native [Ashley Davis][1] with album ideas, more often than not she can count on requests going one of two ways: Christmas or lullabies. With the release her album [“The Christmas ...
It all started with a pig. A pig (probably) named Dollar. The name of the prize-winning porker that launched the Flory family’s 80-acre hog farm more than 30 years ago may have been lost to time — all Roger Flory remembers is a white pig with a black spot on its forehead — but the ...
http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/dec/10/300472/ There’s nothing inherently “Christmas-y” about big band music, says Steve Irwin, general manager of the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra. Still, it’s never failed to evoke a “festive mood” among audience members at Kansas Public ...
http://www.lawrence.com/photos/2015/dec/07/300354/ Matthew Surmaczewicz loves to sing — whether it’s for a crowd of 20,000 at the International Choral Festival in Missoula, Mont., or at home in Eudora, singing, the 13-year-old soprano says, makes him “joyful.” He’ll share that ...
Once a teacher, always a teacher. It didn’t take long after Sophia Compton’s retirement from a Bay Area college and subsequent move to Lawrence that the former professor of philosophy found herself teaching again. A self-taught textile artist, [Compton][1] has sold her handpainted ...
When Mary Doveton gives backstage tours at Theatre Lawrence, she’s frequently asked, “Doesn’t this stuff just come with the script?” No, it doesn’t, Doveton, executive director of the theater, explains good-naturedly. When Theatre Lawrence signs on to stage a big-budget, ...