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On January 31, 1901, the Coates Opera House, Kansas City’s original first-class theater, met a fate common among nineteenth-century theaters when it b...

In December, The Kansas City Star launched Reel Rare, a five-part series exploring early 20th-century Kansas City home movies and the stories they rev...

What's Your KCQ? What do you want to know about our community? The Library and The Kansas City Star combine resources to find answers to questions abo...

On January 22, 1882, future architect William Drewin Wight was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 1911, he joined his older brother, Thomas, in Kansas C...

Kansas City Restaurant Week is underway and continues through January 19. A new donation to the Library's Missouri Valley Special Collections has boos...

On January 15, 1967, the Kansas City Chiefs lost to the Green Bay Packers in Super Bowl I....

The Waldo Branch re-opened on January 3 after upgrades to carpet, paint, furniture, and computers....

I spy a Happy New Year zine!...

The long-running 'Searching the Psyche Through Cinema' film series in 2025 focuses on food – and our relationship to it – followed by a Q&A....

KCQ looks at the 1953 abduction and murder of 6-year-old Bobby Greenlease....