Tom Parkinson
Featured News ContributorTom Parkinson is the host of KPR's Morning Edition.
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The latest release from Kansas City's Samantha Fish is an album of soul and R&B songs from the 1950s and '60s.
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Sword swallowers, break dancing, aerial artists, musicians, poets, rubber chicken tricks and much more. All for free. It can only be the Lawrence Busker Festival.
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Kelley Hunt and her nine-piece band will play at Liberty Hall Friday night in a benefit show for the local food pantry, Just Food. Special guest Maria the Mexican is the opening act.
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Since Zika virus emerged in Brazil last year, the U.S. has seen more than 700 cases, including the first case in Kansas in March.
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A preservation group is hosting a benefit concert at the partially renovated Jayhawk Theatre Saturday night (June 18) featuring singer, composer and pianist Kelley Hunt.
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Activists say Mott says anti-LGBT laws send a message that violence against people who are different is acceptable behavior.
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Veteran broadcaster Bill Kurtis, then a news anchor at WIBW-TV in Topeka, is credited with saving many lives with his urgent warnings.
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The Lawrence Busker Festival is a celebration of street performance of all kinds. It’s happening throughout downtown Lawrence all this weekend (May 27-29) with dozens of entertainers including musicians, magicians, mimes, sword-swallowers, fire-eaters, jugglers and much more.
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Author Stephen Wade has spent more than 30 years researching the Library of Congress collection of field recordings of traditional American music.
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Kelley Hunt's benefit concert for Just Food, the local food pantry, is set for Saturday night at Lawrence's Liberty Hall.