When Dennis Parker, former owner of Scoreboard at 21st and California, discovered That Place was up for sale, he immediately told his stepson Frankie Saiya. Frankie, and his wife Abigail, had been planning a bar business for two years, but hadn’t found the perfect location. After tossing around ideas of sports bars, college bars, etc, [...]

Women’s Health Issues Depicted in Unique Fashion Art Exhibit and Theatrical Performances Offer Strength, Support The Waiting Room: Lost and Found, an interactive installation examining women’s health, opens Friday, January 13 at the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery at the Topeka Shawnee County Public Library. The entire project is the result of collaboration by Marguerite Perret, [...]

The following article by Tony Davis originally appeared in the October 15, 2011 issue of seveneightfive magazine. Since then, a Kickstarter project has been set up to raise funds for the Highland Park HS Scots Theatre group to go to (fittingly) Scotland, to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We encourage you to visit their [...]

A Review of “A Christmas Carol” at Topeka Civic Theatre A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens is probably my all-time favorite Christmas story. I’ve seen movies, plays, and even cartoons based on the story. To think that I would now get to see the musical version was so exciting – and that the score was done by [...]

Without a hooverboard, viewing art at 44 galleries during the monthly First Friday ArtWalk is quite impossible.  To help guide you, we’ve picked some of our favorites for this upcoming ArtWalk.  Remember, most shows go all month – so don’t limit your art buying and viewing to a single night.  View map  Click here for [...]

Due to our recent trend of interviewing dudes with beards, we are proud to present our first female bartender, Johna Machac. Unlike France, who experienced an angry mob of feminists sporting beards as “La Barbe,” seveneightfive loves our girls. Especially the ones bringing gin. Behind the Bar with Johna, Terry’s Billiard Club, 3919 SW 21st [...]

    ArtMap_July2011 WESTBORO/MIDTOWN Alice C Sabatini Gallery – Topeka & Shawnee County Library: 10th Annual Art Exhibit for Children: “One World, Many Stories,” photographs by Jim Richardson. Richardson is from Lindsborg, Kan. and is a National Geographic photographer.  Artwalk is 5:30 – 8:30 pm, the exhibit runs through August 12. This exhibit is supported [...]

by Janice Watkins Free artistic reign and a blank canvas are crucial elements in many artists’ quests to create a masterpiece. 13 miles of blank canvas may just be the pinnacle of every artist’s enterprise. With chalk as the tool of choice and a pavement trail as the canvas, Chalk the Walk provides the quintessential [...]

Help seveneightfive and Bud Light choose their next Behind the Bar-tender.  Vote for your favorite.  Don’t see your favorite? Add their names and locations under “other.”  (Only 18 can be shown at a time, so once we see a few requests for a bartender, their name will be added.) Once a bartender has been selected, [...]

Every year, the ERC Designers’ Showhouse kicks off its opening in style with the Patron Party the night before the public opening. At this year’s Patron Party, they will have a little extra something for guests. Imagine, instead of pulling up to the house in your car like every other year, you are ferried across [...]