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In a discussion of his exhibit Dissident Formalisms, Kansas City artist Armin Mühsam examines the use of co...

Mark Twain said there are “bad actresses, fair actresses, good actresses, great actresses – and then there is Sarah Bernhardt.” The legendary F...

By most accounts, modern history is rooted in Spain and Columbus and and the discovery of the New World to the west more than five centuries a...

Author Mallory O’Meara joins the Library’s Kaite Stover in a discussion of O’Meara’s new book Girly Drin...

Sheri Rosenblum of the San Francisco-based Jewish Partisan Educational Foundation recounts the courage and invaluable contributions o...

Walk into one of the hundreds of donut shops in Southern California – the land of glitz also happens to be the country’s donut capital – and odds a...

The Library celebrates the life and work of Missouri-born poet, playwright, and novelist Langston Hughes in a multifaceted event coin...

While more than three dozen Kansas City restaurants have closed for good amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many, many more have managed to survive. But w...

More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par...

Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, fro...