The National Endowment for the Arts affirmed the Kansas City area as a hub for fine poets and poetry late last year, awarding $25,000 creative writing...

Matthew Quirk doesn’t simply write spy thrillers. To the extent he can, he lives them first – in the case of Dead Man...

The Library continues its special, intergenerational movie series for individuals with dementia, their friends, and families, screening the efferve...

This is where technology has taken us: U.S. service members plotting and executing drone strikes half a world away, killing not only a faceless ene...

Gallery exhibits. Kids’ activities. Music. Munchies. The Library again makes a place on First Friday for the entire family. The Rocky and Gabri...

A year after admonishing Democrats in his book Listen, Liberal: Or What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? – an insightful prelude...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...

The Blizzard of 1949¬actually a series of storms that began late in ’48¬remains the stuff of legend. From Kansas to the Canadian border, an area ne...

Before embodying the American dream – co-founding H&R Block and building it into the world’s largest tax preparation company – Henry W. Bloch help...

Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...