Missouri poet laureate David Harrison and Kansas poet laureate Traci Brimhall talk about their work and their respective roles as leading poets in the...

In her Fictions series, Brooklyn-based artist Andrea Burgay creates sculptural collages out of deconstructed paperbacks – and these reimagined objects...

National journalist Ebony Reed and resident Beverly Rentie, both of Kansas City, discuss Rentie's family and Black wealth with Mará Rose Williams of T...

Leigh Goodmark’s latest book, Imperfect Victims: Criminalized Survivors and the Promise of Abolition Feminism, explores the American criminal legal sy...

As part of the Making a Great City series, Jenny Schuetz, Senior Fellow at Brookings Metro, discusses her latest book Fixer-Upper: How to Repair Ameri...

The 2024 Off the Wall film series, Party Central, keeps the summer vibes going. “Alright, alright, alright,” as Wooderson (played by Matthew McConau...

Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...

This road-tripping, hilarious, heart-wrenching, family-style adventure story is almost completely true, says author Pedro Martín. The Mexikid author,...

Do you Fringe? The KC Fringe Festival has provided a non-curated platform for performance, visual, and film artists for 20 years. The two-week extrava...