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The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut...

Dodge City, Kansas, still conjures images of the wild and unruly West: streets lined with saloons and brothels and a populace thick with gunmen, ho...

Francine Prose describes herself as a “sentence person” – a best-selling author, reviewer, distinguished writer in residence at Ba...

When introduced in January with the rest of The Kansas City Star’s revamped editorial board, new editorial page Editor Colleen McCain Nelson...

The odds of a new opera lasting beyond a single production are long. Jake Heggie defied them with his first full composition, an a...

Coterie Theatre artists read from Mac Barnett’s and Jon Klassen’s witty, award-winning story of two young boys looking – and digging...

Kunio Watanabe and William R. Farrell –leaders in the fields of international business and U.S.-Japan relations – discuss the economic...

This annual series returns in January and February with psychological studies of films directed by Joel and Ethan Coen, whose visi...

The word is: E-X-A-C-T-I-N-G. Many of the Kansas City area’s top young spellers – heck, top spellers of any age – face off in the annu...

The attention to so-called “black rage” during the 2014 rioting in Ferguson, Missouri, clouded what one historian says was the actual root of the unre...