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ReThink returns →  March 29, 2011

The 2nd Annual ReThink Topeka Exhibition and Art Walk will take place 1-6 p.m. Saturday April 9 at 6 venues and along the thoroughfares in Topeka’s downtown. The Event Local businesses will serve as venues for the display and performance of art created by over 100 regional and local artists. A large array of artwork [...]

a birthday party for kansas →  January 20, 2011

ReThink Topeka and the creators of “Postcards from Home: Images and Poetics from Kansas” are inviting the whole state to a celebration for the Kansas Sesquicentennial. Kansas’ 150th Birthday Party, complete with birthday cake, food, live music and Kansas-themed party activities, will occur 6 – 9 p.m. Sat. Jan. 29 at Warehouse 414, 414 S.E. [...]

top city poet: Timothy Volpert →  July 22, 2010

The Fireman I’ve been here for days. The lever, like the firm hand of someone’s father, clicks into place. I’ve been here for days, it seems, before the water starts to flow— a soft trickle, at first, a whisper of piss, basically, upon a symphony of flame. My watch face is not visible through the [...]

→  February 28, 2010

by Stella Robbins Two doors down, past the antique store but before the florist, in the watch repair and jewelry shop, sits a little lady on a velvet-covered chair, minding her manners, ready to flutter to her full height, her ninety pounds and beatific smile whenever a customer bings the bell. Otherwise, she sleeps, a [...]