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STAGE PRESENCE // POEMA
> Feel free to swoon.
In Greek, "poema" means beautiful masterpiece. According to 19-year-old singer, songwriter and guitarist, Elle Puckett, that's all she and her sister Shealeen, 21, hope their new record will become.
The sisters started performing 10 years ago at their dad's birthday party for fun. Seven years passed and music continued to be just a hobby, until it became a career in 2008 when they landed a record deal with Tooth & Nail Records, a record label in Seattle.
Currently, Poema is recording its second studio album in Los Angeles. After LA, they're hitting the road and stopping in Kansas City on Nov. 8 at The Clubhaus, 5800 Madison Dr., Kansas City, Mo.
According to Elle and Shealeen, this album is full of specific life stories, unlike their first album, *Sing It Now*, which they say was more generic. "The first album was more about songs that didn't apply to us." Elle says. "There's a new song called 'Playing with Fire.' It's metaphorical. A boy is fire and it's about how you should know better than to mess with trouble."
Elle says this song is her favorite on the new album and it's more relative to her stage in life.
experiences. Some of these slices of life you can experience too, through the songs on their upcoming album, available early next year. To find out more about Poema, visit PoemaOfficial.com.
"A lot of the songs are really personal." Shealeen, Poema's singer and pianist, says. "My favorite song is the one we wrote for our grandma, 'My Turn to Go.' It's about growing up and the memories we had with her."
DREW WILLE
As the girls continue to grow, so do their life
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Beautiful Music: Sisters Elle and Shealeen Pucket make up the duo Poema. Their sophomore album debuts early next year.
SCENE & HEARD // INVISIBLE HAND ART GALLERY
> New places, new faces.
For a long time, Lawrence has been notorious for breeding creativity in a variety of different forms. Nowhere is this creativity, and the fostering thereof, more evident than at locally owned art galleries such as the Invisible Hand.
The Invisible Hand Gallery features artwork from local and regional artists. It's located at 801 1/2 Massachusetts Street, at the end of an inexplicably creaky hallway directly above La Esquina. It's about as big as a modest bedroom.
"The space is really different. It's really small," says Adam Smith, owner and director of Invisible Hand gallery. Invisible Hand functions as a gallery, a custom frame shop, and it features professional level printing services.
Smith, who does all the curating for Invisible Hand, builds most the frames for the Lawrence Art Center, and is committed to introducing new art to the city of Lawrence. "I try to have new artists that haven't been shown a lot in Lawrence every month. I try to expose new artists to our community," he says. "I'm showing a lot of contemporary cutting edge stuff."
The gallery itself is open Tuesday through Saturday from 12 to 5 p.m. It currently features photographs by Mark Luce, a Kansas Citybased photographer.
"Silver and Gold, New and Old," a collection of works by University graduate
Clinton Ricketts will open as part of a Final Friday event on Oct.28 at 6 p.m. Anyone interested in art for the sake of art is encouraged to attend.
JEFF KARR
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Hidden Artifacts: Tiny art gallery Invisible Hand features local works, including the upcoming Final Friday event "Silver and Gold, New and Old."
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sidering that this season is pretty much lost.
I would have to think Berglund is reconsidering a return to Lawrence, given the state of the football team. He had offers from more than 10 schools, and I would have to think one of them would still like to have him.
I don't see Berglund wearing a Jayhawk uniform when his legal issues settle. Until then this is Jordan Webb's team, and he needs to find a way to win or his last two years at Kansas may be more difficult than the first two.
Reports have said that Berglund loves Lawrence and this University and is wearing Jayhawk clothes back home. That's all fine and dandy, but Berglund won't come back to Kansas unless he's just looking for a quality education.
After Mangino resigned following scrutiny of his conduct with players, Gill was put in charge of a program with a bruised public image.
the program had just wiped itself clean of Mark Mangino, the second most successful coach in the University's history.
When Gill was hired, the program was two years removed from its most successful season ever, in which it gained America's attention and brought home a trophy full of oranges. The freshmen on that team were part of the 50th best recruiting class in the NCAA, according to rivals.com, and seven of those
But just how broken was the football program, besides the black eye that it got from the Mangino drama?
"I came here to try to fix something, and that's what I'm here to do." Gill said.
And it did, as the recruiting class rankings for Kansas improved the following two seasons, though the program took a wild ride of highs and lows. Kansas won a bowl game in 2008, lost its final seven games of the 2009 season, and ended the year with the departure of former coach Mangino.
figure that will attract pretty big recruits," senior wide receiver Kale Pick said.
When Gill arrived at Kansas, he was taking over a program that had just lost its core group of key players — quarterback Todd Reesing, running back Jake Sharp, and receiver Kerry Meier, to name a few.
But he did inherit a team made up of four top 50 classes, according to rivals.com, and this
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Coach Turner Gill walks out of Memorial Stadium after a tough game against the Oklahoma Sooners. As Gill's second season progresses, he must reevaluate the changes he's aimed to make to the team.
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