The North-East branch will close early at 4 p.m. Tuesday, July 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, May 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Marine biologist Nancy Knowlton knows the wonders of our oceans and the weird and wondrous creatures that call it home. She also reco...
Signature Event
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Best-selling urban fiction author Kimberla Lawson Roby discusses and reads from the latest novel in her popular series about the R...
Signature Event
Thursday, April 10, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
We’re bombarded with numbers that purport to tell us how our economy is doing and where it is headed. Statistics on unemployment, inflation, and co...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In this year’s Park University Hauptmann Lecture, international policy expert Robert Jervis maintains that though th...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
Signature Event
Sunday, February 23, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Join Bernard Norcott-Mahany as he recounts “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty” (the movie Mitty is not the real Mit...
Signature Event
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Well before the famous 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City sparked the modern gay rights movement, Kansas City had its own active gay rights communi...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 14, 2013
6:30pm
Few journalists have studied the issue of global warming with the thoroughness of The New York Times’ Justin Gillis, who has...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 30, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
T...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 2, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Television and movie audiences have grown familiar with the cattle-driving, staccato, and triumphant theme music at the beginning of nearly every West...