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  Hey everyone, glad you could make it today on this very special day! Cause you've just made it to the... You've voted for your faves on Facebook and here are the nominees! Favorite Top Five Blogs: 1. Places To Visit When I'm Back In Kansas - 68% 2. Pride In Lawrence - 36% 3. Condos! - 38% 4. KU Scores!! - 27% 5. Puppets Entertaining - 37% 6. An Ode To My Favorite Teacher, Lois Orth-Lopes - 58% 7. How To Plan A Welcome Back Party - 16% 8. The St. John's Mexican Fiesta - 37% 9. The Renaissance Festival - 27% Favorite Artists I Listened To In Lawrence: The Commitments - 50% James Brown - 30% Paul Simon - 30% The B-52's - 40% The Ramones - 30% Lyle Lovett - 50% Texas Tornados - 50% Joanie Bartels - 45% Patti Scialfa - 55% The Beach Boys - 45% Favorite Songs I Listened To: Big Yellow Taxi by Joni Mitchell - 25% I'm Downright Amazed At What I Could Destroy With Just A Hammer by Atom And His Package - 50% I Feel Good (I Got You) by James Brown - 35% Love Shack by The...

  And now, for tonight’s special presentation…at The Lied Center! If you haven’t been to the Lied Center for a show yet, then let’s listen in. This coming year, 2025 is packed with plenty of live shows and performances here at the Lied Center of KU. If I could pick a show to see here, I would choose Fraggle Rock. Like this one that on January 2025 next year. Ever since I watched the show on video, I was this little as a kid. My dad said to me yesterday that I’m sure that I can get the chance to see Fraggle Rock on stage next year when I’m in Lawrence. True that. Anyway to continue, I’m gonna be planning seeing a performance show in the upcoming summer or the fall season. Whichever one I choose. I’m not what’s going right now, but I’ll keep myself updated on what’s playing here at the Lied Center. If I could look for a show to watch at the KU Lied Center, I’d go see Lyle Lovett perform for example. You know just to be sure. If you have any ideas to come up with for a show, let me kn...

  Hi, today we’re gonna talk about something that my dad and I remember going to in 2006. The Wakarusa Festival! It was a four-day music festival held annually in early June 2004 to 2015. Named for the Wakarusa River, the festival was first held here at Clinton State Park in Lawrence, Kansas. Then it was moved to its new location just outside Fort Smith and Fayetteville, Arkansas.  The festival is known for an eclectic mix of music and has featured artists like Grammy award winners The Black Keys, The Flaming Lips, Wilco, and Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. They had really cool a ctivities besides music including disc golf, yoga, hiking, and swimming. Others have food vendors for getting some snacks, sodas, sno-cones, pizza, etc.  The festival grew dramatically from only 5,000 attendees at the initial 2004 Wakarusa to a record 20,000 in 2011.  After moving from Clinton Lake State Park in Lawrence, KS to Mulberry Mountain in Ozark, AR, the festival has continued to mak...

  July Edition July is the month for Independence Day and still the middle of summer. But that doesn’t just start there. It happens anywhere in Lawrence. People buy fireworks and shoot them off in the neighborhood, the fields, at the farm, and everyone here gets to watch them explode. Why? Because it’s America’s birthday. And signing is what we celebrate on the 4th of July every year because that’s the day it was signed on, in the year 1776, Philadelphia, PA. I remember the time my family and I went to the park to watch the fireworks 💥. I really love watching them a lot. I also remember that one time my dad and I bought fireworks to light up in the front yard. We’d watch those bottle rockets fly. When my family and I lived in the farm in 2005, we got together and lit up the fireworks there. I’ll never forget my 4th of July party I threw there. My friends were there, and everyone else too. We had hot dogs, plenty of fruit and chips, and soda. I even showed everyone a trick you can ...

"May" There Be Plenty of Stories And Ideas [May Issue]   In the month of May, it's almost summertime. But first off, Memorial Day comes. Right now, I wanna talk about the next ideas for the month of May right here in Lawrence Kansas. Every May on the 27th-30th, there's a Busker Festival downtown. According to Downtown Lawrence's website, it says here that it's four-day street performer festival in the fun, funky and historic downtown of Lawrence, KS. Over 25 different acts are scheduled and lots of surprises on the streets. Best of all, its free to attend. Only you decide how much to tip the performers. At the Lawrence Busker Festival, things can get really weird every year. My future idea for attending the Busker Festival is to bring my Axtell puppet with me to the event and do a little segment.  If I had to pick one puppet to take with me, it would be either Buzzy the Bee or Rocky Fox. For example, if Buzzy wants to talk about music at the festival, he would...

  Hello there, folks from back home. This is the start of a new monthly blog that I’ll be working on. Once every month, I will write about all things Lawrence, some new ideas [murals, concerts, events, etc.], and so much more. And after all, this is a brand new kind of blog in a different kind of way. So here’s the scoop. I’m gonna begin my first Lawrence blog with something fresh starting with some daily reviews on places I visit, do a top five of local events, talk about some new ideas for inside Riverfront Plaza, and some ideas for new murals for downtown. I’m also gonna discuss future jobs at places here in downtown and where to work at next when the time comes. Plus for other upcoming blog entries, I can also talk about the times I lived here and where I go to school for. More coming soon. Stay tuned for more blog entries and updates on upcoming Lawrence stories. This upcoming monthly blog is dedicated to all my friends who live here in the sunflower state, including Stephanie...