September 10, 2018 | Local
East Wichita’s Mark Arts has recently been hosting a series of national themed exhibitions. The last was a large body of abstract work from across the country which together made a very strong case for the exceptional talents of Kansas and regional artist...
July 30, 2018 | Local
A child enters foster care every two minutes in the United States (Adoption and Foster Care Analysis, 2014). There are 7,192 children in foster care in Kansas. Of these children, only half will graduate high school and just 10% will graduate from college. These...
July 18, 2018 | Local
Wichitans can celebrate the city’s 148th birthday at an unexpected location: a downtown parking garage. LevelUP will turn the parking garage at 215 S Market into a "curated showcase of Wichita” on Saturday, July 21 from 2 to 11 p.m. The entire...
July 13, 2018 | Local
When I was first planning to come to Wichita from Long Beach I happened to have met a couple from here. They described Wichita as a small town with a highway running through it and a mall on each end. If you think about it literally, I suppose I can see where t...
July 11, 2018 | Local
Ahhhhh – Summertime! Picnics, family reunions, cookouts, swimming, and of course baseball! Wichita has a deep history to the sport dubbed “America's favorite pastime.” This history was so elegantly detailed in a previous a previous article wri...
July 6, 2018 | Local
Over the years, Harvester Arts (215 N. Washington) has been providing an invaluable service to the Wichita community. Not only does the nonprofit organization’s Artist-in-Residence program bring diverse, internationally acclaimed artists to Wichita, but a...
June 28, 2018 | Local
Yawning, breakfast, coffee. 10:00am we hit the road, not-exactly-sharp. Waves of sun through halfway cloudy skies, rolling hills – blue and purple, sprawling greens and golden prairie. Hawks are circling, horses are grazing; sheep, goats, cows and barns. ...
June 12, 2018 | Local
We are bombarded with noise in today's society. From our cell phones and email, to the hustle and bustle of day-to-day life, we are repeatedly smacked with notifications and updates that contribute to the intense volume of modern day living. The cacophony can b...
June 5, 2018 | Local
June is Immigrant Heritage Month in the United States, a time to celebrate our heritage as a nation of immigrants and to reflect on all the contributions many immigrants have made and continue to contribute to our country.
May 30, 2018 | Local
The first Wichita Riverfest button debuted in 1972 when the festival was called The Wichitennial River Festival and Traders Day. Each year since then, the buttons have featured a new, locally sourced design. Buttons cost $1 until 1990, when they were ...
May 28, 2018 | Local
Every year during Avenue Art days, you see new murals painted on the sides of the buildings that run along the Douglas Design District. Instead of looking up for these murals, there's a new one painted on the street. Over the course of two days, April 13 and 20...
May 23, 2018 | Local
I moved back to Wichita, my hometown, last year after spending nearly 25 years in Chicago. I work in city revitalization and played a leadership role in transforming Chicago’s Loop from a singular office market into a mixed-use, “24/7” de...
