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Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most acc...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It has been a little more than 4½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election C...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
He grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother. A high school dropout...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Facebook. Twitter. Amazon. Frequent-flyer numbers. Loyalty cards. Every day, we share personal information while buying something, trying to gain acce...
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
Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Union Station opened 100 years ago next month, a grand, 850,000-square-foot edifice that saw as many as 678,000-plus rail passengers...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Jen Mann is, first, a suburban Johnson County, Kansas, wife and mother of two and, second, a witty, biting writer whose blog, Peo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...
Signature Event
Thursday, August 21, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Caught between the beauty of his grandchildren and grief over a friend’s death, Frank Schaeffer found himself simultaneously not beli...
Signature Event
Tuesday, August 19, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The behind-the-scenes lives of African American clergymen and their families make up a major sub-genre of contemporary urban fiction. To date, most of...