A public library’s mission is simple but powerful: to be a place anyone can enter, free of charge, and encounter a universe of ideas and resources. Th...

In Big Night, two Italian immigrant brothers struggle to keep their restaurant open in 1950s New Jersey. Psychiatrist Manuel Morales and filmmaker and...

Babette’s Feast features an eye-opening French banquet in a remote 19th-century Danish village. Psychiatrist John Whipple and film critic Abby Olcese...

In Julie & Julia, a food blogger's ambition to prepare all the recipes in Julia Child’s landmark cookbook is intertwined with Child’s own passion for...

The 2025 Searching the Psyche Through Cinema film series explores our relationship with food as a way of understanding ourselves. Food is the language...

Director of Readers’ Services Kaite Stover gathers Library staff to share book recommendations that also make perfect holiday gifts. Photographers fro...

Downtown Council of Kansas City CEO Bill Dietrich discusses the transformation of the Library District, and how it’s served as a local and national mo...

A collection of short stories or essays is like a literary buffet. Writers experiment with a variety of subjects, formats, and styles, while their rea...

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

What is it that makes an audiobook so compelling? Audiobooks are portable. Download one and listen to it on a long road trip, running errands, or taki...