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From Patsy Cline (two days before she perished in a plane crash in 1963) to the Beatles to the Jacksons’ Victory Tour, former Kansas City Star...

It appears to be the find of a lifetime. Shakespeareans worldwide were electrified earlier this year by the announced discovery of a previously unk...

Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore were so far ahead of their time that they feel modern today. The lifelong lovers and artistic collaborators—born Lucie S...

U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith discusses her life and poetry and reads from her works on the heels of the release of her latest book, Wa...

Urban designer Jim Kumon looks at the resurgence of small-scale urban neighborhoods in Los Angeles, Denver, and Minneapolis, among other cities, and h...

Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Michael Rosen’s award-winning classi...

New York-area pianist/vocalist John Bauers portrays legendary lyricist Johnny Mercer (“One More for My Baby,” “Moon River,” “Days of Wine and Roses”),...

Hip-hop is now America’s most popular music genre, supplanting rock. In a discussion of his new book, Davidson College sociologist Joseph Ewoodzie exa...

Urban planner Joe Minicozzi looks at the “math” of effective city building, i.e., the financial implications of land use decisions in municipalities l...

Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofit Strong Towns, launches the Making a Great City series with a critical look at how we build our cities and towns...