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In this special fundraising event benefitting a new creative writing initiative from the Library and UMKC, Academy Award-winning screenwriter ...

In conjunction with the opening of the new Library exhibit UpStart, a panel of Kansas City’s foremost entrepreneurs and business e...

Kansas City’s Equity Actors' Readers' Theatre (EARTh) commemorates Veterans Day with a script-in-hand reading of Aaron Sorkin’s sizzl...

For 10 years in the 1970s, the South Bronx area of New York City literally smoldered. An arson epidemic, compounded by government negligence, ra...

Which Kansas City school is best for your child? At the annual City School Fair, families can learn more about over 60 public, privat...

Amid today’s tensions over a proper understanding of separation of church and state, University of Missouri law professor Carl Esbeck...

Celebrate what made the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe great. The curated outdoor exhibition, staged in partnership...

The U.S. wins no popularity contests in the Middle East, where it has fought on and off for nearly three decades. A Pew Research survey a little less...

We want to make our children readers. The question is: How? Which books are best to read to babies? How do we judge our kids’ reading progress? Are te...

Megan Phelps-Roper took part in her first Westboro Baptist Church protest at age 5. Granddaughter of the late Fred Phelps, patriarch...