From the office of the Kansas AARP: 

AARP Kansas would like to share a new tool developed to help individuals with a Medicare Prescription Drug plan to help Medicare recipients understand their potential drug costs and the time when they may fall into the “doughnut hole”.  The doughnut hole refers to a coverage gap within the defined standard benefit under the Medicare Part D prescription drug program. Under the defined standard benefit package, there is a gap in coverage...

Worried about swine flu in our state?  Get the latest info from State Health Information Officer Jason Eberhart-Phillips, MD.  If you have questions regarding swine flu, call or email the KS Dept. of Health & Environment (KDHE) at 1-877-427-7317.  Operators will be available to answer questions 8am-5pm Monday through Friday or email them at Swinefluinfo@kdheks.gov

Six Things Every Kansan Should Know About Swine Flu
Jason Eberhart-Phillips, MD, MPH
Kansas State Health Officer

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What is Swine Flu?  How does it affect you?  Here's the latest information from the Center for Disease Control:

What is swine flu?

Swine Influenza (swine flu) is a respiratory disease of pigs caused by type A influenza viruses that causes regular outbreaks in pigs. People do not normally get swine flu, but human infections can and do happen. Swine flu viruses have been reported to spread from person-to-person, but in the past, this transmission was limited and not sustained...

The clock is ticking, and if you want to participate, you need to reserve your space by March 30!

The Edible Book Festival asks you to interpret a book with food, similar to the way a sculptor shapes real-life objects out of clay. You can be literal, conceptual, obvious, thought-provoking, silly, serious—whatever—it's your book and your imagination at work.

Past participants have described this as one of the most fun family activities they've done. Others have begged us to...

Your 2009 Topeka First Friday map is now available. Simply click the image of the map seen below and print from any computer.

The maps are both color and number coded, so it isn't essential you print them in color. However, color makes it easier to see Topeka's growing clusters of art hotspots at a glance.

If yours is a new venue and you'd like to be added, or is a current venue and would like your contact information changed, email me (Heather) at hkearns@tscpl.org....

Books Outside the Binding
12/5/2008 — 2/13/2009
We expect to find books at a library, but chances are you've never seen books quite like these.

Fall From Grace is a documentary which provides an amazingly unbiased look at the Westboro Baptist Church which is based here in Topeka, KS, and is run by Fred Phelps and his family.  The writer/producer/director, K. Ryan Jones, made this striking film as an assignment for a film class at the University of Kansas, not knowing just how far his subjects would take him.  Jones tells the story, or rather allows Fred Phelps and the rest of his family to tell the story, of the...

Local and global art news and opinion. Find out what's happening and what's next in the Arts. 

... Today was fun. I got to hang out with cool people and talk about art and build eye muscles.

When we discuss what we see, what an artist might be trying to say and consider the techniques they're using, we become better tour guides, docents and art professionals for YOU. Below are pictures from our travel log.

August 1– September 28
Alice C Sabatini Gallery (closes 9/19)
Mulvane Art Museum (closes 9/28)

View the exhibit online:
Printed Image 2

Read visitor comments here.

The Printed Image 2 is our national, biennial, juried graphics exhibit. It was established in 2006 and features emerging and veteran printmakers from across the United States using both traditional and breakthrough techniques. This year's show is diverse and visually stunning.