Irish immigrants were the first large ethnic group to settle in Kansas City and literally helped carve out its skyline, cutting roads into the lime...

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

Kunio Watanabe and William R. Farrell –leaders in the fields of international business and U.S.-Japan relations – discuss the economic...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G. Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face off in the annu...

The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...

The country continues to struggle with the issue of capital punishment and questions ranging from how fairly sentences are imposed and carried out...

Area high school students bring Shakespeare to life, lending their own interpretations of his monologues and sonnets as they compete for a berth in...

Marvel Comics’ headline-grabbing move to a female Thor a little more...

America in the 1950s was undergoing what the University of Missouri’s Steven Watts calls a “crisis of manhood,” denigrating Eisenh...