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Which areas offer Kansas City the greatest potential for smart long-term growth? Urban planner Joe Minicozzi and Chuck Marohn, founder of the nonprofi...

The Young Friends of the Library host a night of Halloween-season cinema after hours in the Central Library. Join us for some scares...

First performed in Turin, Italy, in 1896, La bohème became one of the world’s most eternally popular operas and a signature work of com...

In a discussion of his book A Pilgrimage to Eternity, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Timothy Egan recount...

Fighting across the central Pacific and the dropping of atomic bombs at Hiroshima and Nagasaki now overshadow a key World War II campaign in 194...

The Library continues its film series showcasing the diverse roles of girls as cinematic storytellers with the acclaimed 1997 emotional drama...

Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...

Land conversation and climate change expert James Levitt examines the challenges of protecting today’s large areas of natural land, i...

We take our seats in a darkened movie theater, turn ourselves over for a couple of hours to a romantic storyline and the romantic leads, and walk away...

Starting in 1918, at the urging of his son Harry, John Benton Hart began telling stories of a colorful three-year period of his youth. The native Kans...