The Plaza Branch will close at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 19, due to building repairs.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 2, 2017
6:30pm
In Person
Matt Gallagher has emerged in the past decade as one of literature’s most distinctive and perceptive voices on the Iraq War. As an Ar...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Award-winning writer, critic, and editor John Freeman launched the year’s most anticipated literary magazine, the biannual Freeman’s, in S...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
6:30pm
In Person
Among the things Osama bin Laden and his lieutenants left behind when they fled Kandahar after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 was a cache...
Signature Event
Wednesday, March 18, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha...
Signature Event
Thursday, February 26, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City novelist and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with author Elizabeth Ga...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas Citians go to the polls in April and June to elect a mayor and 12 city council members who will direct the city for the next four years. Wha...
Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...
Signature Event
Monday, October 21, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
In Gryphon, his career-spanning collection of short stories, author Charles Baxter offers yarns in which our acutely observe...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 17, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
Competition between Kansas and Missouri goes back to the years before the Civil War, when Jayhawkers and “border ruffians” battled over the issue of s...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 11, 2013
6:30pm
In Person
When it opened 40 years ago, Kansas City International Airport and its three-terminal design was hailed as the most convenient airport in the count...