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Established in 1887, Kansas City Southern (KCS) started as an intercity belt railroad. It’s now a vital north-south rail link between the U.S. and Mex...

The Edgar Award-winning author of Poe-Land, A Season with the Witch, and Cursed Objects, J.W. (Jason) Ocker’s latest book is called Cult Following: Th...

In the 1980s and ’90s, artists and creatives seeking affordable studio and gallery spaces began moving into old warehouse and storage buildings north...

Drawing from her thesis A Kansas City Founder “Proud of His Position:” Race, Exploitation, and the Rise of William Gilliss, local historian and educat...

In her Fictions series, Brooklyn-based artist Andrea Burgay creates sculptural collages out of deconstructed paperbacks – and these reimagined objects...

Before he was known as "Wild Bill,” famed frontiersman and gunfighter James Butler Hickok spent three formative years as a young man in the Kansas Cit...

This road-tripping, hilarious, heart-wrenching, family-style adventure story is almost completely true, says author Pedro Martín. The Mexikid author,...

Oscar winner Kevin Willmott (BlacKkKlansman) discusses one of his recent projects, the 2023 documentary sequel to Kansas City journalist C.J. Janovy’s...

Local attorney Gary Jenkins, a filmmaker, author and former Kansas City police detective, investigated mafia bombings and murders in the 1970s in the...

U.S. Senator, Kansas City native Tim Kaine, discusses his new memoir, 'Walk, Ride, Paddle: A Life Outside' with writer Candice Millard. The two talk a...