The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 4, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Presidential races are the stuff of myth, sometimes literally. Like the 1952 contest between Dwight Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, both purportedly r...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
6:30pm
Dwight Eisenhower was a man of simple tastes but decisive action. Behind the dry smile was a brilliant, intellectual tactician, an attribute—als...
Signature Event
Monday, May 11, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The world is blowing up, seemingly confronted by a violent new crisis every day: the bloody implosion of Iraq and Syria, the East-West standoff in...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. What a...
Signature Event
Saturday, January 10, 2015
8:00pm
In Person
The KC Keepers Chapter of the Harry Potter Alliance and Plaza Branch Teen Services Cordially Invite You to the Yule Ball, a Harry Pot...
Signature Event
Friday, October 3, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning author Ann Bausum tells a true story of a terrier that wandered onto an Army training field, befriending Pvt. James Robert Conroy and ac...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The November general election will seat a Congress facing critical economic challenges. But analysts disagree on the role of government in the econ...
Signature Event
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In a discussion of his new book, How the Poor Can Save Capitalism: Rebuilding the Path to the Middle Class, author J...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him.
No...