The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 19, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of her memoir Smacked, former New York Times business columnist Eilene Zimmerman...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Arguments in the divisive right-to-die debate range from legal to spiritual, ethical, and social. Longtime public radio host and podcaster...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 11, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Merriam-Webster has thrown its considerable weight behind the use of “they” as a singular, gender-neutral pronoun, expanding its dictionary definit...
Signature Event
Monday, February 10, 2020
6:30pm
Premiering in 1971, winner of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle and off-Broadway Obie awards for best American play, The House of Blue Le...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 4, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
When journalist Sarah DiGregorio’s daughter was born nearly three months prematurely, she was cast into a place—t...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 30, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As sentiment for a new downtown baseball stadium simmers in Kansas City, Vanity Fair contributing editor Paul Goldberger...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 23, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
Drawing from new book Health Justice Now, activist and author Timothy Faust makes the case for a single-...
Signature Event
Tuesday, January 14, 2020
6:30pm
In Person
As the civil rights movement waned in the 1960s and early ’70s, federal programs promoted a new means of racial equality: the franchising of McDona...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 8, 2019
2:00pm
Recorded by Dylan Thomas in 1952 and published in book form two years later, A Child’s Christmas in Wales endures as one of the...
Signature Event
Monday, November 11, 2019
6:30pm
Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...