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More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par...
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Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, fro...
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Tuesday, March 3, 2020
6:30pm
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Kansas City has an infrastructure problem. Simply put, it can’t afford what it needs. Dennis Strait of the Kansas City studio of Gould Evans, an archi...
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Tuesday, December 3, 2019
6:30pm
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Adam Arredondo, executive director of the KC Startup Foundation, and Maria Meyers, executive director of the UMKC In...
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Thursday, November 14, 2019
6:30pm
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Some 38 million people, nearly one in eight, live in poverty in today’s America as liberals and conservatives spar over solutions. Researcher and w...
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Tuesday, November 12, 2019
6:30pm
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In conjunction with the opening of the new Library exhibit UpStart, a panel of Kansas City’s foremost entrepreneurs and business e...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019
12:00pm
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Celebrate your favorite books, movies, comics, and all things geeky at the afternoon-long Plaza PopCon.Come dressed as your...
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Saturday, March 30, 2019
2:00pm
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Artist Benjamin Wills has come to understand what a few lines in a letter – or just the arrival of mail – can mean to someone behind...
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Tuesday, December 18, 2018
6:30pm
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Former Kansas City Star editorial writer Yael Abouhalkah and his wife Beci Bosley discuss their alternative...
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Sunday, December 9, 2018
2:00pm
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Step into the holiday season with an afternoon of creative art, music, performance, and refreshments at the downtown Central Library. Featured: an Arb...