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What's the weather, Jay?
THURSDAY, APRIL 11, 2013
Friday
Wunderground.com
Partly cloudy, northwest winds at 10 to 15 mph
HI: 52
LO: 32
HI: 82
LO: 52
Mostly cloudy, southwest winds at 15 to 25 mph
Saturday
HI: 63
LO: 43
It gets better.
Sunday
Clear, south Southwest winds at 5 to 10 mph
A beautiful spring day!
Finally warm... but gross.
Thursday, April 11
WHERE: Cottin's Hardware Farmers Market
WHERE: Cottin's Hardware, 1832 Massachusetts
WHEN: 4 p.m.
ABOUT: Visit this small-scale indoor farmers market and pick up home-grown treats.
**WHAT:** Persian Culture Fest: An Evening of Persian Classical Music
**WHERE:** Spooner Hall, The Commons
**WHEN:** 6:30 p.m.
Friday, April 12
ABOUT: Kansas City-based classical Persian music group Orkideh will perform as part of Persian Culture Fest.
WHAT: Trinity Vintage Sale
WHERE: Vermont Episcopal Church,
1011 Vermont St.
WHEN: 6 to 8 p.m.
ABOUT: This classy event features
elegant items such as china, silver,
art and furniture for sale. Bring $5
for admission Friday night, and enjoy
wine, fruit and cheese.
ABOUT. This new play by Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black chronicles the federal trial about Proposition 8 in California and addresses marriage equality issues.
WHAT: "8" by Dustin Lance Black
WHERE: Wescoe Hall, 3139
WHEN: 7:30 p.m.
Saturday, April 13
**WHAT:** The Big Event
**WHEN:** 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
**WHERE:** Check in at the Ambler
Student Recreation Fitness Center
parking lot
**ABOUT:** Want to make a difference
in your community? The Big Event
matches thousands of volunteers with
hundreds of local job sites during one
day of service. Visit www.thebigevent-
ku.com for more information.
WHAT: Science Saturday: Collections
WHEN: 1 to 3 p.m.
WHERE: University of Kansas Natural History Museum
ABOUT: This week's Science Saturday focuses on collections, both those assembled by scientists and the collections you can make at home of insects, plants and other specimens.
LOCAL
Sunday, April 14
**WHAT:** "12 Angry Men"
**WHERE:** Theatre Lawrence, 1501 New Hampshire St.
**WHEN:** 2:30 p.m.
**ABOUT:** This play is based off an Emmy-winning television movie starring Henry Fonda. Visit www.thetrealawrence.com for more information.
WHAT: Bowling for Babies, Benefiting March of Dimes
Moore, who obtained her mas
WHERE: Royal Crest Lanes, 933 Iowa St
WHEN: 6:30 p.m.
Art gallery's secret society not so secret
ABOUT: All proceeds from this bowling event will be donated to March of Dimes. The cost is $20 for adults to bowl.
EMILY DONOVAN edonovan@kansan.com
"If you join only one whimsical secret society this year," reads Wonder Fair's description of its current exhibition, "make it the Secret Order of the Black Diamond."
Wonder Fair, located at 803 1/2 Massachusetts Street just above the Casbah, is the open secret of Lawrence's art scene. Hidden above its glass door and a narrow, wooden staircase, the art gallery and studio is one of a handful of upstairs downtown businesses that thrive as shops even without a window display to attract foot traffic.
"In that way, we are kind of like a secret society already," said Meredith Moore, the owner and curator. "So we took it a step further with The Secret Order of the Black Diamond and made it a secret society, fully fledged -- secret codes, secret handshakes, secret passwords, the whole nine yards."
ters degree in art history from the University in 2009, considers the Secret Order of the Black Diamond a treasure-hunting adventure in Lawrence as much as an art exhibition, since all artwork is hosted
come to the gallery but you can't passively view any of the art — you have to actively seek it out — and when you find it, it's free to you."
off-site. Of the five boxes hidden throughout the city, three will not be under constant supervision. Moore trusts that treasure hunters will take just one of the 75 four-by-six-inch letter prints in each box.
"You can come to the gallery, but you can't passively view any of the art."
The $10,000 donated by the show's 253 Kickstarter backers
MEREDITH MOORE
Owner of Wonder Fair
The prints are free, after all.
"Most art shows, everything is very easy, especially if you're rich," Moore said. "You go in the gallery, you passively look around, and, if you can afford to, you buy something and take it home. Our show is the opposite of all of these. You can
in just three weeks allows the Wonder Fair to present the exhibition/ adventure free of charge for participants. In thanks, Moore has sent over 60 mysterious scents to her donors.
"From the beginning, we knew that the point of this project was partially giving back to the community and partially recognizing that not everyone can afford to pay into an art community but everyone should be able to get something out of it," Moore said.
Since its foundation in April
2008, Wonder Fair displays and sells artwork with a style that fuses a nostalgic, hokey throwback to the 1950s with clean, modern, commercial design, marked by the Futura font of a Wes Anderson film. Wonder Fair, Moore said, tries not to take itself too seriously; she believes that artwork should be comforting, not intimidating or condescending.
"We're more interested in the wider social class market," Moore said. "Everyone should be able to afford art."
The Lost Print artists whose screen prints are available in the treasure troves include Kaye Blegvad, an illustrator from New York, Randy Regier, a sculptor working in Wichita, Brady Vest, the main artist at Hammerpress Letterpress and Design in Kansas City, Luke Ramsey, a screenprint artist from Canada, and Gary Baseman, a multi-media artist from California.
an official member of The Secret Order of the Black Diamond can report to Wonder Fair during regular hours to sign a letterpressed, black-on-black membership card with invisible ink and be taught the secret handshake.
Anyone interested in becoming
"Everyone should like hunting, for free treasure," Moore said. "No one won't like this treasure unless they really hate fun."
For more information about the next secret event which may or may not take place on Wednesday. April 17, visit wonderfair.com/blackdiamond. The treasure boxes will never be collected by Wonder Fair so participants are welcome to hunt in weeks to come.
"No one should get arrested looking for our treasure -- we hope," Moore joked, unwilling to disclose any of the treasure boxes' locations.
Edited by Elise Reuter
STATE
New Kansas DUI laws could increase offenders' charges
MATTHEW JOHNSON
mjohnson@kansan.com
Because of a new law passed unanimously by the Kansas Legislature on March 21, driving under the influence in Kansas is about to become even more dangerous.
If a driver injures someone while under the influence of alcohol or drugs, he or she could, if the bill is signed into law, be charged with aggravated battery on top of a DUI.
However, in a 1998 Kansas Supreme Court case, State v Huser, the court ruled that driving under the influence on its own was not enough to convict a defendant of aggravated battery in an injury case.
In House Bill 2218, aggravated battery, a felony charge, is defined as "knowingly causing great bodily harm to another person or disfigurement of another person." This contrasts with misdemeanor battery, defined in the bill as "knowingly or recklessly causing bodily harm to another person."
A portion of the Court's decision read "simply driving under the influence does not, standing alone, amount to reckless behavior. One's behavior is only reckless if he or she realizes that his or her conduct creates imminent danger
to another person but consciously and unjustifiably disregards the danger"
Furthermore, the Supreme Court argued, "to convict the defendant of reckless aggravated battery, the State had to prove that she caused bodily harm to the victims by driving recklessly." The State did not, so its appeal failed.
On August 26, 2012, Colby Liston, a freshman from Derby, was hit by Julian M. Kuszmaul's vehicle on Tennessee Street. Liston was climbing into the back of another car when he was hit and pinned between the two vehicles. Kuszmaul had a blood alcohol content of 0.25, more than three times the legal limit of 0.08.
"It should be aggravated battery because you're the one drinking and driving," Newman said, "and you know you're not fully there when you're drunk."
Ashley Newman, a junior at the University, thinks the aggravated battery provision makes sense.
As a result of the accident, both of Liston's legs were amputated.
Kuszmawl was only convicted of misdemeanor DUI, outraging Liston's family. Under the new law, Kuszmawl would have been vulnerable to a felony aggravated battery charge as well.
This is one of the reasons why Douglas County District Attorney
Onartes Branson expressed his support of the bill.
"I am very pleased that this bill appears to be ready for the Governor's signature," Branson said. "This legislation will help close a gap in the prosecution of DUI cases when someone is injured as a result of a DUI accident."
Bailey Reed, a junior at the University, agreed that a misdemeanor DUI charge is not enough in injury cases.
"I'd be furious if a friend of mine was badly injured in an accident and the drunk driver responsible was punished only with a DUI," Reed said.
A Senate Conference Committee report was adopted on April 4, and the bill will now head to Gov. Brownback's desk.
Edited by Paige Lytle
What: House Bill 2218
When: Adopted April 4
Why? A driver leaves
Next step: awaiting Gov Brownback's signature
Why: If a driver injures someone while drunk driving, the driver will be charged with aggravated battery as well as receive a DUI charge