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Percolator series encourages music fans to ‘pass the hat’

The Lawrence Percolator is getting a new concert series off the ground this week that features potluck dinners along with performances from a wide range ...

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Bye-Bye Bounty, week 3: Use it or lose it stir-fry and hummus

Bok Choy and Swiss Chard with Red Onions and Sesame Seeds

OK, so call it a sophomore slump, but our second full week of CSA veggies, was much more of a challenge than the first week. ...

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Bar Food at Home: Skinny Buffalo Chicken

shredded chicken, with sauce

I love bar food. I love a menu that includes words like "popper" and "slider" and "dipping sauce." Unfortunately, pretty much everything on every bar ...

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Meatless Monday recipe of the week: Tempeh Curry with Sweet Potatoes and Green Beans

Whole Foods' Tempeh Curry with Sweet Potatoes and Green Beans

If you love a good curry and fresh, seasonal green beans, you'll love this Meatless Monday dish. It takes those Kermit-colored spring treats and gives ...

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Two-wheeled stratification

I don’t get folks who ride a certain sub-set of motorized two-wheelers. It’s a generalization, I know, and maybe even a stereotype, but riders of ...

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Are Depp and Burton washed up? Maybe you should go local!

After "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," "Sweeney Todd," and "Alice in Wonderland," you'd think they would be tired of remakes and adaptations, but Tim Burton ...

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Six things to do this weekend

Friday lit: Reading & Signing: Robert Fraga, author of The Greening of Oz How does the reddest county in America go green? On May 4, ...

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Annual Spring Into Summer brings together 10 local bands

Spring Into Summer poster

The Replay Lounge's annual Spring Into Summer event this year takes place Saturday at the venue, 946 Mass. The day show takes place outside, between ...

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Bye-Bye Bounty, Week 2: Monday night mushroom marinara

CSA greens with salad toppings

One CSA week down, roughly 25 to go, and hopefully all as successful as the past week. We used everything we received in our first ...

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Zesto de Mayo: spicy black bean soup for the week after

If I was an organized hostess, I'd have been posting cinco de mayo recipes for weeks in advance of the alcoholiday, but I'm not. We ...

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Flaming Lips announced at Liberty Hall, while the Bottleneck serves up a local music festival and Death Cab for Cutie is canceled

Flaming Lips at Liberty Hall

Big news for Larryville music lovers, as Liberty Hall announced the Flaming Lips will be playing two shows in June to celebrate the venue's 100th ...

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#Instagrad

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You’re celebrating the last stop day, the last prom, the last final and the last day you’ll be a senior. Graduation day is almost upon ...

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Blowing the lid off Mother’s Day

One of the best things about being Lawrence’s preeminent, longest-running bike blogger is all the cool schwag that comes my way. OK, that’s not entirely ...

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Meatless Monday recipe of the week: Mexican Caesar Salad

Whole Foods' Mexican Caesar Salad

Happy Monday, folks. How about a nice, big chopped salad for your Meatless Monday dinner? Maybe something a little familiar and yet a little unique ...

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‘The Avengers’ makes comic books come to life like no other movie has

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This is the only movie anyone's going to be talking about this weekend, so here's my full-length review, along with a "review by committee" with ...

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10 things to do this weekend

With Stop Day on Friday, Cinco de Mayo on Saturday and Art in the Park on Sunday, it's a eventful weekend. With a lot going ...

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Can Netflix revive ‘Jericho’?

Skeet Ulrich starred in "Jericho."

Netflix is in talks to resurrect "Jericho," the CBS cult favorite about a post-apocalyptic Kansas town, TV Guide reports. The show debuted in 2006, and ...

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Bye-Bye Bounty, week 1: The CSAs have returned!

Goods from CSA Week 1

Finally. FINALLY. CSA season is upon us! My first CSA pick up of the season was Monday, which, in my head, pretty much signals the ...

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Review: Mortal Kombat (Vita)

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Portable platforms have always had trouble with fighting games. Aside from the obvious omission, the ability to play with two people side-by-side, they struggle keeping ...

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Easy but elegant brown sugar cookies

brown sugar cookie and ice cream snack

As a dieting mom of a 2 year old boy and wife of a hungry workin' man, I've had to learn to sometimes put my ...

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