If you missed Pratt High School’s recent performance of “High School Musical,” here’s some advice: don’t miss the next one.
After a brief pause of 25 years when he got out of painting, P.K. Lippoldt is set to open his first art show this week in Wichita.
After having his items displayed in the Delmar Riney Art Gallery during the month of March, Chris Shrack will be on Pratt Community College’s campus March 31 at from 5:30-7 p.m. for a question and answer session.
Esther Abbey, of Dodge City, is being featured from now until Feb. 4 in the Delmar Riney Art Gallery at Pratt Community College.
Results of the Nov.2 General Election for both Pratt County and the state.
Bold indicates winner. (R) Republican. (D) Democrat. (L) Libertarian. (RF) Reform.
Music director, Scott Logan, glides his hand over the piano keys as he calls instructions to more than forty USD 382 students and their families.
The popular reality series “Dancing With the Stars” doesn’t tell the whole story about ballroom dancing, nor about the costumes the dancers wear. For a more complete look at competitive dancing and ball gowns, Prattans can visit the Delmar Riney Gallery at Pratt Community College, where Ande Hall’s exhibit will remain through this coming week.
Mike Blair’s “A Kansas Year” has been named to the 2010 Kansas Notable Book List.
The art museum envisioned by Vernon and Mimi Filley may be closer to reality than at any time in the past with the last physical obstacle to the site about to be removed, but planners are still cautious.
What is Pratt’s smallest park?
Who created the bronze sculpture in the lobby of Pratt Public Library?
How are the two related?
Joe Mathieu has illustrated more than 100 children’s books and has created thousands of illustrations for Sesame Street books and other products.
Nothing kills the mood before a show like a clunky cell phone announcement or fundraising pitch from the stage.
Five questions with Femke Hiemstra about "Rock Candy," her lovely and surreal book of collected art.
Leon Chiappini hooks a tire-sized cymbal around his finger and spins it like a basketball. He hits it and listens for the ding, the gravel and the growl: elements of crash that the average ear can’t hear. If it’s not perfect, Chiappini tosses it in the reject pile. “After 49 years, I’d better know if it’s good,” he said with a laugh.
I like to think of film critic Roger Ebert as a sieve. When Hollywood releases a film, it's probably going to go through him. And after taking in a flick and sharing his thoughts, his readers are left with just the stuff that they can use - a solid opinion, a little humor, an idea of whether or not they'll be wanting to shell out their money to take a look themselves.
Gordon and Rae Zahradnik are currently exhibiting paintings and ceramics in the Delmar Riney Art Gallery at Pratt Community College until March 12.
Checklists, writes Boston surgeon and author Atul Gawande in his book “The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right,” are considered by many to be beneath us. Yet Gawande proves, without a doubt, that checklists — cognitive safety nets — save lives, millions of dollars and untold heartache, whether the task is flying an airplane, building a skyscraper or operating on an adrenal gland.
Bruce Brown of Springfield first discovered comic books as a child. A specialist recommended them to Brown’s parents to help their son overcome some reading difficulties. Now he not only enjoys reading comic books, he writes them, too. Brown’s latest graphic novel, released earlier this year, is “Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom.”
Jonathan Dee’s new critically acclaimed novel “The Privileges” starts with a wedding, impressive for the deft writing that conveys the controlled chaos, the edgy anxieties, the many tensions springing from family members’ vying needs.
In bestselling author Chris Bohjalian’s “Secrets of Eden,” some mysteries untangle themselves as we approach the last pages of his cleverly told novel.
