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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2009
VOLUME 121 ISSUE 66
CULTURE
Love Garden fuses sweet sounds, art
Artwork on display at local record shop
BY JUSTIN LEVERETT jleverett@kansan.com
The show, which will remain on display until Dec. 18, features local artists Kenneth Kupfer,
Music and eclectic art crossed paths Saturday evening when an art show called "Take Two and Call Me in the Morning" opened in Love Garden, a local record store. It was the first art show to open in Love Garden's new location, 822 Massachusetts St.
Clint Rickett and a street artist known only as b. d. eek. For Love Garden, which relocated in August and will celebrate its 20th anniversary in January, the show was an
familiarize people with its new location.
"I feel like this is the beginning, so we're just testing it out and we're going to see how it goes," said Alicia Kelly, Sapulpa, Okla., senior art student and curator of the exhibit. "This new space is kind of like a new project; they're growing up."
"I feel like this is the beginning, so we're just testing it out and we're going to see how it goes."
SEARCHING FOR THE BEST
being a street artist, he or she wants to remain anonymous"
She said the show was unique not only because it was the first show in Love Garden's new location, but also because it was a showcase for the work of the mysterious street artist b. d. eek. The artist, who sneakily posts his work in public places, is vigilant about remaining anonymous — even Kelly doesn't know eek's identity. She said she had only communicated with eek through e-mail, and was not even certain whether eek was a man or a woman.
The show's organizers said eek could very well have attended the show, but they wouldn't have known because none of them could identify him or her.
"He has someone bring his work and pick it up, so I don't know who he or she, who this person is," she said. "I think,
Love Garden, which opened in 1990, was formerly located at 936 $ \frac{1}{2} $ Massachusetts St. above the Toy Store. It was only accessible through a small staircase opening onto the street. Owners said the new location was more visible and accessible.
ALICIA KELLY curator
Aaron Marable, Love Garden employee, was in charge of organizing art shows in the old location. He said it would
take time for the record store's fans to appreciate the new location.
"A lot of people are really attached to the old space, so nostalgia weighs in heavy in people's response," he said. "Like anybody who's
human, we're all resistant to change, especially when it's a good thing that you're leaving."
But Kenneth Kupfer, one of the artists featured in the show, said events like this helped him become more accustomed to the change.
The show features art with figures "doing weird positions and doing weird things," Kelly said. All the artwork was on paper, and most was done in pencil or marker.
"I was afraid to come to the new Love Garden for a while because I didn't want to think that they moved," he said. "But I think they've already fit in perfect. The Love Garden's more than just a building, man."
- Edited by Brenna M.T. Daldorph
Follow Justin Leverett at twitter.com/schmendric.
Now, Gray-Little is traveling the state, looking at ways to improve recruiting at the University at all levels.
"Somehow or another, in spite of all of our efforts, we are not projecting the image of welcome that we want to project in our recruitment," Gray-Little said during the same speech. "So the question is how do we get the students to apply that we want to apply that we think would be successful? How do we raise our expectations about what is required, and then once we
identify students we think would be successful, how do we enhance our recruitment efforts to make sure that they come here?"
'IT'S THAT EASY TO GET IN?'
A committee within the University is looking at changing admissions standards. If these standards are changed, the recruiting process might also change.
Illustration by Nick Gerik
Marlesa Roney, vice provost for student
success, said the University had a tiered recruitment policy. She said students who met the University's admissions standards received recruitment material through e-mail, phone calls, letters and postcards. But Roney said a student who was a leader in the community and had special academic talent was recruited much more heavily.
SEE RECRUITMENT ON PAGE 3A
Stores like The Ect. Shop put out holiday decor to attract shoppers. Events will be held beginning Friday to draw shoppers downtown.
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Downtown events kick off holiday shopping
BUSINESS
BY RAY SEGEBRECHT rsegebrechtkansan.com
Katie Houtz didn't have an agenda as she started moseying down Massachusetts Street with her roommate Saturday afternoon. But as Houtz, Ozawkie freshman, browsed by stores with holiday stock already on display in every window, she said she couldn't help but consider ideas for the seasonal gifts she would soon select.
This two-week span, running from the end of Thanksgiving weekend until Stop Day, is the most popular time of the year for downtown businesses to draw student shoppers, said Jane Pennington, director of Downtown
"I just sort of go by and go through everything until I find what I'd like to buy." Houtz said. In the first or second week of December, Houtz said, she would return to make her final choices.
Lawrence Inc.
Out-of-town students often only have this time to shop for the holidays because they leave town at Thanksgiving and, from the last day of classes to the last Friday of finals week, their schedules are usually too busy to shop, said Joe Flannery, president of Weaver's, 901 Massachusetts St.
Pennington said businesses downtown were working to encourage early holiday shopping so students pick up their presents before traveling home over winter break.
Pennington said although many of the stores had already begun marketing their holiday merchandise, a series of downtown events this Friday would formally kick off the holiday shopping season.
She said the ceremony would start at 4 p.m. with Christmas carolers singing
The following events will launch the downtown holiday shopping season:
SCHEDULE OF DOWNTOWN FESTIVITIES
Friday
SEE DOWNTOWN ON PAGE 3A
4:30 p.m. — Caroling and other performances on a stage at Ninth and Massachusetts streets.
6 p.m. — A ceremony starting the Salvation Army bell-ringing holiday fundraiser.
6:10 p.m. — A countdown to the first lighting of all the downtown holiday lights.
6:15 p.m. — Santa Claus is discovered with his sleigh on top of Weaver's and by a fire truck and ladder.
Dec. 5
Shoppers who buy at least $5 of merchandise in five different downtown stores can submit their receipts for a $25 downtown gift certificate.
From Friday through Dec. 24 most stores will have extended hours until 8,9 or 10 at night.
Source: Jane Pennington, director of Downtown Lawrence.
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