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The Kansas City Symphony offers a free outdoor chamber concert at the Library, with a woodwind quintet – flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and horn – pe...

Thomas Fox Averill discusses his most recent novel – Found Documents from the Life of Nell Johnson Doerr...

Eugene Ionesco's The Bald Sopranois one of the seminal works of the Theatre of the Absurd. He got the idea for the play from the...

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany and friends in an afternoon of stories and songs about “love gone wrong,” part of the Library’s...

Best-selling mystery and horror author J.A. Jance introduced Joanna Brady to readers in Desert Heat in 1993. Her fictiona...

Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...

Named for a prominent turn-of-the-century business mogul, the area around Jacob Loose Park is still one of Kansas City’s most beautiful areas large...

LaDene Morton, author of The Waldo Story: The Home of Friendly Merchants, traces the history of the district from the Civ...

Author Wade Sisson discusses the Titanic’s sister ship, the R.M.S. Olympic, which steamed 300 miles in a desperate...

Former Kansas City School District teacher James P. Wilcox discusses Sex, Lies, and the Classroom – a novel...