by Cale Herreman | photos by Gary Krohe On a Saturday afternoon at Ice & Olives, Terry and Melissa Wright are setting up. The two, wearing orange and black bowling shirts, are connecting amplifiers to microphones, a little sound board, a guitar, and an iPod. Though busy, their eyes smile at the children and adults … Continue Reading
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It’s a bird. It’s a train. It’s LEGOMAN getting married? LEGOMAN playing Foosball? LEGOMAN battling the Smurfs for control of smurf village? Ever since first encountering LEGOMAN on the Shawnee County lake grounds hundreds of snapshots ago, XYZ photographer, EJ Drake, knew he was onto something special. “I wanted to take a picture of it … Continue Reading
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Artist Michele Stitzlein, Baltimore, Ohio, and 76 students from Eisenhower Middle School recently created a bottle cap mural for the Mulvane Art Museum. Now, the public has the opportunity to name the bottle cap mural. Stop by to see the mural, located on the well outside the Mulvane’s ArtLab and submit your name suggestions. Name suggestions for the … Continue Reading
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The cobblestone sidewalks of downtown Topeka will once again be adorned with chalk murals and makeshift maps with the third annual ReThink Topeka Exhibition and Artwalk Saturday, April 14, 2012 from 12 – 7:30 p.m. Featuring a wide variety of local art, music, poetry and food, this event offers an activity for every member of … Continue Reading
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Topeka families can now turn Saturday shopping into an all-morning and all-afternoon affair with the addition of the NOTO Saturday Market to the scene. The new market is located at the north end of the Kansas Avenue Memorial Bridge and Veteran’s Park. Parking is available in the 200-car parking lot just west of the Market. … Continue Reading
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by Dennis Etzel Jr. I noticed that PBS Kids is featuring a cartoon version voiced by previous National Poet Laureate Billy Collins on Martha Speaks during the first week of April, acknowledging National Poetry Month. As a poet myself, I know the power of language, and how it helps people to express themselves. So what better way … Continue Reading
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Tickets are on sale for the Helen Hocker Center for the Performing Arts Topeka Youth Players musical of 2012, “Clarissa’s Closet.” Show dates will be March 23, 24, 30 & 31 at 7 p.m. and March 25 at 2:30 p.m.. Tickets will go on sale at the Helen Hocker Theater office in Gage Park, and will … Continue Reading
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We’re so excited to bring you the newest issue of XYZ and the last issue in our second volume, meaning that we’ve completed 2 whole years of publishing our little magazine! Kinda brings a tear to the eye, doesn’t it? You can’t even blink; they grow up so fast! Please, get your hands on a … Continue Reading
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Visiting artist to create recycled bottle cap mural and participate in Family Day event at the Mulvane Art Museum’s ArtLab. Sculptor Michelle Stitzlein from Baltimore, Ohio, will visit Topeka March 7 to 10 and will work with children in several of the Museum’s Art in School and Art after School classes to design and build … Continue Reading
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The Upstage Gallery Developing Artist Program is an opportunity designed to promote a real life art world experience. Young talent are given the opportunity to participate in actual gallery procedures through artist interaction, mentoring, and gallery exhibition. Selected artist for February, Shaylene Rees, is a young photographer who attends Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kan. … Continue Reading
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Tesa, age 12
Tesa would like to have a forever home with a huge yard and other children to play with. Tesa enjoys gardening with flowers, fruits and vegetables. Her hobbies include playing the guitar and piano; she likes making up her own songs. When Tesa grows up she would like to become a nurse. She will need encouragement & a family who will be patient and show her that she is valued.
To learn more about adoption visit adoptkskids.org or call 877-457-5430. Tesa’s case number is CH-5510.
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