The North-East Branch will be closed Sunday, June 16, due to staff shortages.
Signature Event
Thursday, February 9, 2017
6:30pm
The vitality of Kansas City’s arts community today traces back, in part, to David Hughes’ founding of the Charlotte Street Foundation...
Signature Event
Thursday, July 14, 2016
6:30pm
One of Kansas City’s greatest entrepreneurial success stories traces back to a picnic table in Loose Park in the late 1970s, when Cliff Illig...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 13, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
2015 commemorates not only the 125th anniversary of the birth of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, but also the U.S. Census Bureau’s declaration that th...
Signature Event
Thursday, September 17, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The Soviet Union’s 1957 launch of Sputnik, the world’s first satellite, was a critical Cold War moment for Dwight D. Eisenhower. What he called “a sma...
Signature Event
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
6:30pm
Bill Zahner made a tough call shortly after taking charge of the family business in the late 1970s, shifting the focus of the A. Zahn...
Signature Event
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Remember Barack Obama’s subtle 2008 putdown of Hillary Clinton, when he called her “likable enough?” Maybe the joke is on him.
No...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 5, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic Robin Givhan discuss When Fashion...
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 16, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine editor-at-large David Von Drehle holds a public conversation with Washington Post reporter Da...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 17, 2013
6:30pm
Time magazine’s David Von Drehle and Bloomberg blogger Megan McArdle discuss Freeing the Economy i...