All Library locations will be closed Thursday, July 4, for Independence Day.
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 17, 2015
6:30pm
Time magazine theater critic Richard Zoglin grew up watching Bob Hope’s movies and followed the comedian’s rise to multimedi...
Signature Event
Saturday, June 13, 2015
1:00pm
The HEAR Now Festival—the audio equivalent of a film festival—returns to Kansas City to celebrate storytelling in all its...
Signature Event
Wednesday, June 10, 2015
6:30pm
One of the grandest experiments of American urban planning, the Country Club District, lies tucked in the heart of Kansas City. Initiated in 1905, it...
Signature Event
Tuesday, June 9, 2015
6:30pm
At the height of World War II, the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee—then known only as the Clinton Engineering Works—boasted 75,000 people and...
Signature Event
Thursday, June 4, 2015
6:30pm
A growing number of well-known companies including Google, Facebook, Intel, eBay, and LinkedIn have this much in common: They were founded or co-found...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 30, 2015
6:00pm
End-of-the-Year Celebration: Hogwarts House Cup Award Ceremony Program: 6-11 p.m.
Plaza Branch, 4801 Main St.
Enjoy food and fun at...
Signature Event
Saturday, May 30, 2015
8:00am
Register online or at 816.701.3585.
FREE PARKIN...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 27, 2015
6:30pm
Having spent a quarter-century in the political arena, Annie Presley has had a full life: enduring a near-plane crash with Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft...
Signature Event
Thursday, May 21, 2015
6:30pm
Fashion changed forever on November 28, 1973, when a team of top U.S. designers—including Oscar de la Renta, Bill Blass, and Anne Klein—faced off on t...
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...