Signature Event Coded Bias Thursday, March 18, 2021 6:00pm While conducting research on facial recognition technology at the MIT Media Lab, Ghanaian-born Joy Buolamwini was startled to disc... Read More
Signature Event Binding Us Together Tuesday, February 23, 2021 6:30pm Online Alvin Brooks’ mark on civil rights history in Kansas City – on the city’s history in total – is indelible. Born into povert... Read More
Signature Event Mr. SOUL! Friday, February 19, 2021 5:00pm For five years in the late 1960s and early ’70s, Ellis Haizlip presided over one of the most culturally significant television shows in U.S. histor... Read More
Signature Event 9to5: The Story of a Movement Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00pm There’s a story – important and real-life – behind 9 to 5, both the iconic workplace-revenge movie and the catchy Dolly Parton song.&... Read More
Signature Event The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC Friday, January 15, 2021 12:00pm Online 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... Read More
Signature Event The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC Wednesday, January 13, 2021 12:00pm Online More than three dozen Kansas City restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, have permanently closed over the past 10 months, par... Read More
Signature Event The Past, Present, and Future of Restaurants in KC Tuesday, January 12, 2021 12:00pm Online 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... Read More
Signature Event Jonathan Scott’s Power Trip Tuesday, November 10, 2020 6:00pm When Jonathan Scott, the eco-conscious co-star of HGTV’s popular Property Brothers, added solar panels to his Las Vegas h... Read More
Signature Event Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project Tuesday, June 16, 2020 6:30pm For well more than 30 years, starting with the Iranian Hostage Crisis in 1979 and ending with the Sandy Hook school massacre late in 2012, Marion S... Read More
Signature Event Indie Lens Pop-Up film: Eating Up Easter Tuesday, May 26, 2020 7:00pm Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, is more than just a picture postcard of iconic stone statues. It’s a microcosm of a planet in flux. Native R... Read More