Seasons at KU

Red, white and boom

BYO lawn chair and set up around the Memorial Campanile on the Fourth of July. You get a fabulous view of the city fireworks display over the Kaw plus, on a clear night, a panorama of other area community displays. Even Sousa marches on a boom box can't drown out the "oooohs" of delight.

Upstage, downstage

In the few weeks of this short school session, the student actors and technical crews of the Kansas Summer Theatre mount productions on the stages at Murphy Hall — musicals, dramas, revues, even mysteries. It's a learning experience and terrifically entertaining, especially for audiences.

Fountain treat

Sure, step right in! It's legal to wade, swim or float in the Chi Omega Fountain at the west end of Jayhawk Boulevard. And on a July afternoon it's almost a necessity. Just don't do the bubbles or dye stuff — the fines are not so much fun.

To market, to market

Join the crowds on a Saturday morning in July to truly savor the bounty of tomatoes, melons, peaches, beans, peppers and other good things — much of it organic, all of it local — at the Farmers Market downtown. Oh, and cheeses, pies, soaps, honey, day lilies, basil, blue-corn chips, sunflowers...

Making a splash

Out at Clinton Lake, the fans come in and the tents go up for the three-day Wakarusa Music & Camping Festival in early June. About 80 bands are expected this year on several stages, including the Flaming Lips, Split Lip Rayfield, the lips-optional Ben Folds, and Emmylou Harris. Needing roots-reggae, gutbucket blues, swamp rock, juggabilly or India/African funk? They're there too.

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