State of poetry: Poet laureate position moves from one Lawrence writer to another
“Are you packed to move out of the poet mansion?” Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg asks.
Poet's showcase
‘A Stranger In My Garden,’ by Betty Laird
Ad Astra Poetry Project: Rodriguez explores animal identities
inda Rodriguez was born in Fowler, graduated from Manhattan High School and attended Kansas State University before dropping out to hitchhike to Haight Ashbury in the ’60s.
Home of their own: Lawrence teens build confidence amid rehearsing theater production
Ever wonder what it would be like to see Lawrence through the eyes of someone else?
Street Theater
Downtown Film Festival returns with more outdoor summer cinema
The abandoned lot at Ninth and New Hampshire streets, normally overrun with weeds and ultimate Frisbee players, will soon be filled with people in lawn chairs eating popcorn...
Ad Astra Poetry Project: Jazz music influences poet
Kevin Rabas grew up in Shawnee.
Failure to communicate
Painter Molly Murphy explores the inversion of privacy in our information age
With her new show, artist Molly Murphy is hoping to pull your eyes out of the Twitterverse long enough to put them on some real world paintings...
Local artist dismayed by national D-Day memorial's financial woes
Closure of memorial ‘will make it look like we didn’t care’
Lawrence-area sculptor Jim Brothers has a significant amount of time and energy invested in the National D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Va. Brothers has worked on more than a dozen sculptures at the memorial honoring the 1944 invasion of Normandy, France, by Allied Forces in World War II.
¡Lucha mania! 'Cinema con queso' brings vintage Mexican wrestle mania back to the big screen
What do you get if you cross Superman and Hulk Hogan with a dash of flamboyantly weird filmmaker Ed Wood? El Santo.
Poet’s passage: Lawrence widower self-publishes book as part healing process
Death. The word is so familiar, the concept, too, but the act of it, the actual dying part, is something most want to keep so far away that it’s nothing but a fuzzy blip in the background. There, but out of the way of everyday life. So what does one do when death comes into focus, so close to your eyes that it’s impossible to avert them or close them without the image burned into your retinas?
Curiouser and Curiouser
The eccentrics and oddities of roadside Kansas are no longer "Overlooked"
Lawrence filmmaker Fally Afani Ruzik spent the last three years traveling lesser known highways and byways to capture the quirky essence of roadside culture in the Sunflower state—the result is this multi-part travelogue of the weird...
New gallery to open this weekend
The first show, "Art by the Park," opens this weekend.
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