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St. Pat’s parade: good friends, good beer, good music By Rebekka Schlichting rschlichting@ljworld.com
Last St. Patrick’s Day, a giant riverboat carrying dancing pirates floated up Massachusetts Street blasting “Proud Mary� by Ike and Tina Turner. The year before, there was a giant volcano with two decks of people dancing along to Jimmy Buffett’s “Volcano.� What’s in store for this year’s St.
Patrick’s Day parade? Only the Sandbar knows. For years, the Lawrence bar has constructed wild floats that have won first prize in the annual St. Patrick’s Day parade contest. This year’s entry is under wraps until the parade — which features dozens of floats and other groups — kicks off at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in South Park and then heads up Massachusetts Street before thousands of onlookers.
“They always have a popular tune, they’re always dancing and it’s just something that grabs the crowd,� Barb Herbel, the parade’s dignitary pageant coordinator, said about the Sandbar’s float. Every year, the Sandbar’s float reflects the downtown bar’s nautical theme, blaring the island music that often plays inside the bar at 17 E. Please see PARADE, page 2A
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A PARTIALLY BAREFOOT BAND of marchers play some jazz as they parade Friday along Jayhawk Boulevard on the Kansas University campus. They weren’t protesting or supporting anything in particular, they said — just having a good time on a warm and sunny day.
Could global warming change tornado season, too? OKLAHOMA CITY planet heating up, many scientists seem fairly certain some weather elements like hurricanes and droughts will worsen. But tornadoes have them stumped. These unpredictable, sometimes deadly storms plague the
United States more than any other country. Here in tornado alley, Oklahoma City has been hit with at least 147 tornadoes since 1890.
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There is no easy answer. Lately, tornado activity in America has been Jekyll-and-Hyde weird, and scientists are unsure if climate change has played a role in recent erratic patterns. But as the traditional tornado In 2011, the United States season nears, scientists have been saw its second-deadliest torpondering a simple question: Will nado season in history: Nearly there be more or fewer twisters as Please see TORNADOES, page 2A global warming increases?
Public opinion polls show Americans blame global warming for bad tornado outbreaks, but climate scientists say — With the that’s not quite right.
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ven if you are like me and know more about pizzas than Picassos and understand mimosas better than Monet, it is still hard to miss that there is a significant art trend underway in downtown Lawrence. There’s the Warehouse Arts District that continues to form around the old Poehler grocery warehouse building in East Lawrence, the Final Fridays events seem to be growing larger downtown, the Lawrence Arts Center is in competition for some major grants, and the city recently formed a new “cultural district� to encompass downtown and the surrounding area in an effort to create a more comprehensive effort to showcase the arts. What folks may not be picking up on as much is that the private sector is getting in on the act, too. The latest example is Essential Goods, a new arts-and-crafts-based store at 15 E. Seventh St. The store, which is in space above the Java Break,
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