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For starters, that’s 10 percent of Downtown Lawrence Inc.’s annual budget.
Moreover, Lawrence police went on record in this column saying that they have no methodology nor any idea how many people were at the parade. The University Daily Kansan, the student newspaper, for example, reported 40,000 people attended, but KU journalism professor Ted Frederickson, who teaches the award-winning paper’s reporting class, said he had no idea where they came up with that number.
Goofiest exaggeration of all: KU coach Bill Self’s quote to the Journal-World that Lawrence police told him 150,000 people were there. That’s nearly double the population of Lawrence.
Group hug update
About Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova’s sold-out show at the Uptown last week … The pair is touring as the Swell Season, performing the soundtrack to romantic tearjerker movie “Once.”
Will there be a follow-up to the highly successful film that they starred in as well as performed?
“No, no, no,” Hansard says forcefully. “The only reason to do something like that twice would be to make money.”
The pair’s music will continue to live on, though, he says.
“We’ll make another album, me and Marketa,” he says. “But we don’t have any idea about it. I guess this tour is like a victory lap, but there’ve been many more laps before this.”
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