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Signature Event
Wednesday, April 5, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Before embodying the American dream – co-founding H&R Block and building it into the world’s largest tax preparation company – Henry W. Bloch help...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Compromise and accord seem more elusive than ever in this era of bitter political partisanship. But mediation expert Mark Gerzon s...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 23, 2017
6:30pm
Michelle Boisseau’s fifth book of poems, Among the Gorgons, makes “graceful and unexpected leaps from personal to mythic, te...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
6:30pm
High Noon remains one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era, an Old West testament to loyalty and determination in the face of...
Signature Event
Sunday, March 12, 2017
1:30pm
This annual series wraps its psychological studies of movies directed by Joel and Ethan Coen with 1990’s Miller’s Crossin...
Signature Event
Saturday, March 11, 2017
2:00pm
The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut ¬...
Signature Event
Thursday, March 9, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Dodge City, Kansas, still conjures images of the wild and unruly West: streets lined with saloons and brothels and a populace thick with gunmen, horse...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 8, 2017
6:30pm
Francine Prose describes herself as a “sentence person” – a best-selling author, reviewer, distinguished writer in residence at Bard...
Signature Event
Tuesday, March 7, 2017
6:30pm
When introduced in January with the rest of The Kansas City Star’s revamped editorial board, new editorial page Editor Colleen McCain Nelson...