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Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Business August 8, 2025 - 3:49 pm

Downtown Lawrence’s latest attraction is a surfeit of skunks; Love Garden prints stinker stickers

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

It would appear that downtown now shares an unofficial but odorous mammalian mascot: a skunk. To celebrate, Love Garden made stickers of the stinker.

Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
Lawrence news July 30, 2025 - 7:17 pm

Downtown Lawrence workers, already hit hard by parking enforcement, lament potential rate increases

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

The City of Lawrence is considering increasing the cost of parking throughout downtown, expanding enforcement hours and more. People who live and work downtown naturally bear the brunt of these costs.

Arts & Events July 26, 2025 - 1:44 pm

1986 sword-and-sorcery film made in Lawrence re-edited for new premiere at Liberty Hall

by Wulfe Wulfemeyer

“Song of the Sword,” a 1986 sword-and-sorcery movie created by a Lawrence cast and crew, has been lovingly re-edited for a fresh premiere at Liberty Hall.

Arts & Events January 18, 2024 - 5:11 pm

Massive Music Sale to feature thousands of CDs, hundreds of records, audio equipment

by Maya Hodison

Music lovers are invited Friday and Saturday to shop CDs, records and audio equipment that stand the test of time, all to benefit Audio Reader and the Lawrence library.

Tom Harper/Lawrence Times
Community Voices October 3, 2023 - 11:21 am

Tom Harper: Taking a rare 45, ‘Hawk it to ‘Em,’ to Love Garden Sounds (Column)

by Tom Harper

”Love Garden Sounds has survived and thrived for 33 years not just because they love music and sharing it with our community. They have also followed a simple and profound tenet — the Golden Rule,” Tom Harper writes in this column.

Arts & Events January 12, 2023 - 8:46 pm

Lawrence library partners with Love Garden Sounds in sale offering music equipment, rare donated CDs

by Tricia Masenthin

Those who dig through the music selection at the Lawrence Public Library’s Massive Music Sale can expect a different vibe than the typical clearance bins. The finds are “serious,” according to Angela Hyde, program coordinator for the library’s Friends and Foundation.

Images courtesy Brad Allen
Arts & Events May 7, 2021 - 12:04 pm

Kansas band Vitreous Humor – featuring now-Lawrence Public Library director – re-releases album on vinyl

by Nick Spacek for The Pitch

Vitreous Humor last played together in 1996, but the Topeka-born band has released their album, “Posthumous,” on vinyl today. Thanks to The Pitch for letting the Times republish this article!

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