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The 2013 Kansas City Architecture Series examines how historic buildings in Kansas City’s downtown area have been repurposed and g...

Music from India. American gospel. The traditional Chinese Lion Dance. These are some of the ways in which different faiths and cultures manifest t...

The Kansas City Public Library hosts Sporting Kansas City goalkeeper and captain Jimmy Nielsen for the launch of his new memoir...

Betty Ford is known for her battles with breast cancer and substance abuse. But perhaps even more than these struggles, says biograph...

In his book America and Its Guns pastor and self-proclaimed avid hunter James. E. Atwood maintains that our...

As the oldest and favorite daughter of Thomas Jefferson, Martha “Patsy” Jefferson Randolph was well educated, known on two continents...

He was escorted to the county line by a sheriff’s deputy, clambered across creaky old railroad bridges that couldn’t pass an OSHA inspection, and dine...

Photojournalist Gil Cohen-Magen has spent a decade in Israel covering not only political and military conflict but also the coming to...

Kansas Poet Laureate Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg discusses her new book Needle in the Bone about the incredib...

Ever get the feeling that Christmas has morphed into something it was never supposed to be? How did a celebration of joy, togetherness, l...