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Tonganoxie High staging ‘Rock of Ages’ this week

Anyone wanting to jam to some classic rock songs — and even a few love ballads — from the 1980s and early 1990s should head this week to the Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center on the Tonganoxie High School east campus.THS students will be performing Samuel French’s “Rock of Ages (High ...

Art from the heart for Tonganoxie High students at Highland CC event

HIGHLAND — A van full of artwork and sculptures followed a school bus full of young Tonganoxie artists out of the Tonganoxie High School parking lot way too early last month.THS art students headed north April 27 to Highland Art Day for what has become an esteemed Highland Community College ...

THS staging ‘The Drowsy Chaperone’ Thursday through Sunday

The Tonganoxie High School drama and music departments will be presenting “The Drowsy Chaperone: The Musical within a Comedy” later this week.Shows are 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and 2 p.m. Sunday at the Tonganoxie Performing Arts Center on the THS campus. Cost is $8 for adults, $6 ...

Kansas City Connection: Broadway Butcher Shop’s magnificent meat

Having fresh, high-quality ingredients is essential in the food business, but it takes a flair for creative combinations to really make a place stand out. At the Broadway Butcher Shop on 3828 Broadway, manager Stuart Aldridge has done just that, taking a fairly standard meat counter and turning ...

Michael Jackson tour to be ‘Thriller’ of a show

Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour by Cirque du Soleil, making a stop next year at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo., is the culmination of a long-held dream and more than a year of hard work. The work and planning behind the show got under way a year-and-a-half ago in 2009, says ...

Dr. Phil’s bench

Dr. Phil Stevens was the first to sit on a new bench for the lobby of his longtime downtown Tonganoxie office.He had quite the reaction.“Whoa, that’s cold!” he exclaimed.The wooden bench had been in a truckbed Friday evening awaiting its placement in the office. It might have become cold ...

Choir inspires pride, joy in Lansing inmates

Prison is a place to serve time for a crime, to right what has been wronged, to … learn to sing in a choir? For about 50 inmates residing in the East Unit of Lansing Correctional Facility, a minimum-security section of the prison, learning to sing is exactly what they have been doing.The ...

American Royal seeks patriotic singers

Officials with the American Royal in Kansas City, Mo., are seeking area singers to perform the national anthem during the American Royal Fall Festival of Events, going on over the months of September, October and November. With nearly 30 events going on between Sept. 3 and Nov. 21, there are ...

Nelson exhibit brings ‘Water Lilies’ together, as Monet intended

With its upcoming exhibit “Monet’s Water Lilies,” the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is trying to come as close as possible to the experience one might have if they were watching famed impressionist, Claude Monet, at work in his garden in Giverny, France. On display“Monet’s Water ...

One-person play coming to Leavenworth

“Deep Listening,” an engaging, one-person play that uses stories, gentle humor and simple songs to explore the reality of “looking death in the face” will be staged from 1:30-3:30 p.m. Saturday, April 16 at the Marillac Center, 4200 S. Fourth St., Leavenworth. Lisa Wagner-Carollo, ...