Honorable Mention
Norman Rockwell couldn't have conceived it better: a third generation barber as the three-time mayor of a bustling Midwestern college town. That's Mike Amyx's life in a nutshell, but gone are Rockwell's simpler times. With the passing of 2006, the ...
Smell smoke?
As half of Kansas City's beloved hip-hop unit SoundsGood, Miles Bonny wore a producer's uniform, arranging outlandish, infectious beats behind Joe Good's eloquent raps. For his solo debut, maestro Bonny slipped into something sexy and strode to the front of ...
Artful Thinking
The closings of two popular downtown galleries in the past six weeks have caught the attentions of many in the local art community. Artist and Lawrence Arts Commissioner Dave Loewenstein invited members of the community to his studio for an ...
Sonic Transportation
As bassist for the Blue Leaves, Craig Comstock works an avant-pop vein; as the one-man band This Is My Condition, he goes for the jugular. With only a drum kit and an electric guitar, a few effects and a microphone, ...
Give Them What They Want
For most of the merchants in Lawrence, the Christmas season yields a significant and essential portion of the annual take. For many, it's make or break. For the past decade, downtown businesses have watched big box stores and the internet ...
The Utmost of the No Coast
In the Midwest, there is no bigger name in rap than Tech N9ne. Since his 2001 JCOR release "Anghellic," Tech's dark-themed, self-released albums have landed critical praise and impressive sales-thanks to word of mouth, savvy use of the internet, blanket ...
A gift of music
A rare breed lives in our backyard-KJHK is one of the few remaining student-run radio stations in the country. While more and more of its university peers surrender their airwaves to Top-40 and commercials, KJ has remained a beacon of ...
Wax and wane
All is peaceful in Bob Werts' workplace. The mood is more monastery than factory-thick drips of warm wax, hushed remarks, and KJHK or NPR soft in the background. But the back room at Waxman hasn't always been home to such ...
Thanksgiving in the kitchen: A conversation with the Krauses
After selling their acclaimed Topeka restaurant, The New City Cafe, Molly and Robert Krause bought a house in East Lawrence and had Dan Rockhill make it over-including a 30-seat glassed-in dining room on their patio. The Krauses built a commercial ...
Papa loves family
As the front man of the Get Up Kids, Matt Pryor toured the globe and left a wide wake of swooning teenagers. GUK fans were inconsolable when the band broke up in 2005. As a husband and father, Pryor's ensuing ...
