Screenwriter Mitch Brian employs original texts and film clips to illustrate how classic (Chandler, Hammett, Thompson) and modern noi...

British actor Pip Utton performs his one-man show about Charles Dickens, presenting the writer as a supremely contented man now that...

Ever get the feeling that Christmas has morphed into something it was never supposed to be? How did a celebration of joy, togetherness, l...

Organizers for WikiKC – a collaborative, community-driven effort to share local knowledge about Kansas City – will be on hand at the...

Was he an anti-Semite and a Nazi sympathizer? An appeaser and isolationist? For all his public activities – financier, film producer, kingmak...

Architectural historian Keith Eggener looks at the heritage of architect Louis Curtiss (1865-1924), often describ...

In the late 19th century statesman Otto von Bismarck unified Germany while embodying everything brutal and ruthless about Prussian culture. Biographer...

A specialist in the Atomic Age, Michael Scheibach examines how Americans in the 1940s, ‘50s, and ‘60s dealt with the threat of nuc...

Author Robert W. Merry wraps up the presidential election – and the Hail to the Chiefs series – with a fresh, playful, and challen...

The plays and poetry of William Shakespeare have inspired some of the world’s most beautiful music. This performance by members of the...