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Signature Event
Thursday, January 29, 2015
6:30pm
The Vikings maintain their grip on our imagination, but their image is too often distorted by medieval and modern myth. It is true that they pillaged,...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
6:30pm
Today, amid the many manufacturers of smartphones, tablets, and apps, two names tower above the others: Apple and Google, whose philosophies, leaders,...
Signature Event
Sunday, January 25, 2015
2:00pm
How did Kansas City miraculously transform itself from “the filthiest city in the United States” in the 19th century to the clean, well-planned embodi...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 22, 2015
6:30pm
Behind Batman stood Alfred. Behind James Bond stood Q. And behind some of the most influential figures of the past century, from presidents to diploma...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 21, 2015
6:30pm
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. What a...
Signature Event
Friday, January 16, 2015
9:00am
Organizers of the 2014 Kansas City Digital Inclusion Summit — a first-of-its-kind event addressing troublesome gaps in resident...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 15, 2015
6:30pm
In Person
The story of the U.S. Marine Corps is one rich in history – of serving the nation from the Halls of Montezuma to the shores of Tripoli, let alone t...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 14, 2014
2:00pm
Washburn University’s Tom Averill, an O. Henry Award winner, discusses his inventive new novel, which subtly evokes Charles Dickens’...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 11, 2014
6:30pm
Gabriella Polony-Mountain is one of Kansas City’s most talented and diverse artists. Her bold, colorful body of work encompasses scul...
Signature Event
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
6:30pm
The Civil War may have reached a turning point in 1864, when Ulysses S. Grant became general-in-chief of the Union armies, Confederate defeats continu...