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Begin your First Friday outing at the Central Library, enjoying a pair of compelling exhibits in its gleaming galleries, refreshments, family activ...

Forsyth County, Georgia, boasts a vibrant job market, outstanding schools, and one of the nation’s fastest-rising populations. But beneath that pro...

Thirty-five more days. An election year like no other nears November and a final verdict from American voters. What do we make of the twists, turns,...

Carlos Eire gave the world a moving and definitive look into life as an exile in his first memoir Waiting for Snow in Havana: Con...

Religious zealotry plagues the world today, extremists avowing that they have all the truth, all the wisdom, all the divine favor. Actual...

The works of Nicaragua-born poet, novelist, and literary critic Conny Palacios have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies,...

The Salem Witch Trials remain one of the more astonishing chapters in American history. The Massachusetts village was gripped in hysteria in the la...

Fifty years ago this month, on September 8, 1966, NBC launched a new science-fiction television series that would become one of the most revered franc...

Literacy KC and The Writers Place have worked for decades to make Kansas City a more literate community. Literacy...

Ernest Hemingway had one constant in the last 27 years of his life: his fishing boat Pilar. The 38-foot vessel became the writer’s sanctuary after...