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Barbara Strozzi defied the constraints of the times in which she lived. Born just over 400 years ago, gifted as a singer and composer, she was o...

Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...

Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...

There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...

Bring your energy. Bust out some moves. Young attendees don special headphones and choose from several different musical, DJ-hosted channels to which...

Artist Benjamin Wills has come to understand what a few lines in a letter – or just the arrival of mail – can mean to someone behind...

Keith Culbertson, the chairman and CEO of Design Workshop and a George Kessler historian, launches a three-part study of Kansas City’s distinctive sys...

The Piano Lesson endures as one of August Wilson’s most eloquent and powerful plays, an account of a Depression-era black fa...

Near the end of four months of filming in Kansas City, the Fab Five stars of Netflix’ infectious reality series Queer Eye sit down at the Cen...

Jamie Bernstein, the eldest daughter of revered composer Leonard Bernstein, and David Charles Abell, who is conducti...