Shop like a dietitian: We ask Lawrence experts how to make healthier choices at the grocery store
Vowing to eat right is an easy resolution to make, until faced with the chance to eat your words along with a few cookies.
New studio a sound move for KJHK
Student radio station will get new space in Kansas Union this spring
This spring, the student-run radio station at Kansas University will find a new home in the Kansas Union.
The Best of Willard Scott
Daily Dose
The best of weatherman Willard Scott from 2009. Grip tightly to your sanity.
Gardening trends for the New Year
Expect tropicals, edibles and gadgets in 2010
Every January, in addition to visiting garden centers just to smell the fresh air, I start looking for hot new items...
The text-Web hybrid: As books move beyond print to multimedia experience, what happens to reading?
Predicting the eventual death of the traditional novel sounds practically heretical. But the genre has actually existed in English for only about 300 years, and that experimentation and evolution have always been a part of the way we tell stories...
Film highlights the harm done by cyberbullies
Hundreds of Bergen County, N.J., teachers are being trained to use a new film, “Sticks and Stones,” to help students understand the irreversible consequences of cyberbullying via social networks, e-mail, cellphones, instant messages and texting.
Ponytail
Ponytail's sage-like stage presence would undermine their youthful appearances if not for the explosive bouts of energy their songs build to. Originally formed in Baltimore as an art school project, Ponytail has refined their sound while maintaining the raw kineticism of their live shows. The four-piece hangs out with The Turnpike crew and Lawrence diva, Adrianne Verhoeven, at Love Garden Sounds before their show at the Jackpot Music Hall.
Behind the Lens: Seeking plethora of photo submissions
I'm looking for ideas for subjects to discuss or techniques to illustrate. Whatever your interest, we want to provide answers or insight to your questions and help you become a better photographer...
Change of habit: Advice to make your resolutions stick
At their core, most new year's resolutions are about breaking bad habits and replacing them with better ones. Out with the old unhealthy behaviors; in with the new and improved...
Grandma Green Screen Roller Coaster
Daily Dose
Old ladies pretend to ride a roller coaster in front of a green screen. The elderly are neck and neck with cats for "Most Adorable Meme."
What to do in Larry tonight, Saturday edition
For the truly hardcore who still have something left after Thursday and Friday nights...
Top 5 social media screwups of 2009
Today we count down the five worst (and most frequently committed) online faux pas that we witnessed in 2009.
Mario Trailer That Will Make You Cry
Daily Dose
A fan made trailer for Super Mario Galaxy set to a song by Sigur Rós that reduces people to tears. Happy New Year!
Net Worth: Memorable Web discoveries help bolster 2009
While Americans are spending most of December obsessing over what gifts to give, journalists occupy their time mulling over what awards to bestow.
Ego, talent explored in 'Me and Orson Welles'
Me and Orson Welles" is a sparkling love letter to a gigantic talent, a romance, a comedy, a drama. Above all it's a tale of puberty, the period between childhood and adulthood for both of its title characters, and for America...
Scene Stealers
Top 10 Movies of the Decade
Looking back at the best films from 2000 - 2009, there are plenty of films that creatively combined genre elements to reach a higher cinematic truth. It was extremely hard to pick just 10. Impossible, even. That’s why I have 20 runners-up.
Ring In The New Year With A Cork To The Face!
Daily Dose
What better way to recognize how painful 2009 has been than by erupting a champagne bottle in your face?
Style scout: Alex Royden Swanson
Honestly, I just can't understand why so many people make fashion choices that purposefully replicate someone else. Why would anyone want to look like anyone else-wear a non-regulated, unenforced uniform?
Style scout: Ammar Saeed
I am influenced by fashions in Pakistan and Europe-up-to-date, informed fashions. My grandfather once told me, 'How a man is judged by his shoes and his watch,' so I took his advice to heart...
Behind the Lens: Seeking plethora of photo submissions
I'm looking for ideas for subjects to discuss or techniques to illustrate. Whatever your interest, we want to provide answers or insight to your questions and help you become a better photographer...
Scene Stealers
Top 10 Movies of the Decade
Looking back at the best films from 2000 - 2009, there are plenty of films that creatively combined genre elements to reach a higher cinematic truth. It was extremely hard to pick just 10. Impossible, even. That’s why I have 20 runners-up.
Grandma Green Screen Roller Coaster
Daily Dose
Old ladies pretend to ride a roller coaster in front of a green screen. The elderly are neck and neck with cats for "Most Adorable Meme."
O Caption! My Caption!
Caption Contest: Stock Vader
Darth Vader visits the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street.
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Caption Contest: Dog Sled
A woman and her dog share a sled down a snowy slope.
It's Brother's! Bar & Grill 785-830-9281
1105 Massachusetts, Lawrence
If you're looking for the town's highest concentration of frat boys and sorority girls off-campus, swing by Brother's. Their sign says Est. 1967, but this particular bro has only been here since 2001. Seemingly the savior to an otherwise doomed ...
Cavern tavern: The Cave carves out a massive new nightclub beneath The Oread
Unlike the rest of The Oread, which you can see from virtually any vantage point in Lawrence, the hotel's new nightclub is almost invisible to the outside world. Were it not for a nondescript little sign on the west side of the building, a passer-by wouldn’t even know The Cave existed...
Where In The World Is Justin Roelofs?
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Local musician surfaces in New Zealand saving whales while you're sitting at home in your sweatpants watching "Seinfeld" reruns.
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Caption Contest: Ew Perkins
Athletic Director Lew Perkins greets Jordan Gill, the daughter of new KU football coach Turner Gill, with a bouquet of flowers.
Scene Stealers
Top 10 Movies of 2009
Hopefully, filmmakers will continue to use 3D to enhance storytelling like “Coraline,” and not just use it as a gimmick. That said, the movies that made my list this year that were released in 3D or IMAX (#8 and #1) work just as well without them.
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Caption Contest: Gaping Cole
KU basketball center Cole Aldrich shows off his missing tooth.
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Anger Manginoment
The KU football coach and his temper under fire by the Athletics Dept...
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Caption Contest: Parallel Porking
The Oscar Meyer Weinermobile crashes into an unsuspecting garage.
I Heart Local Music
My top shows of 2009
Here is a list of my favorite shows I was fortunate enough to attend in 2009. Don't worry, I hit on the crummy ones too.
Mario Trailer That Will Make You Cry
Daily Dose
A fan made trailer for Super Mario Galaxy set to a song by Sigur Rós that reduces people to tears. Happy New Year!
Wilde's Chateau 24 785-856-1514
2412 Iowa, Lawrence
This new joint in the former <a href="http://www.lawrence.com/places/molly_mcgees/">Molly McGee's</a> space has an upscale dance club vibe—with unique details like an indoor fountain and a chandelier in the ladies' room, and none of the typical bar noise from pool tables or ...
"Take Two and Call Me in the Morning," the new art opening at the Love Garden
Lawrence artists Kenneth Kupfer and Clint Ricketts and curator Alicia Kelly join me to talk about their new exhibit at the Love Garden, "Take Two and Call Me in the Morning." In this podcast, Ricketts and Kupfer touch on cops, ...
