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Originally airing on PBS’ Frontline, Being Mortal follows Boston surgeon Atul Gawande in examining how we care for...

Writer-director PJ Moynihan explores what is commonly viewed as severe mental illness, or psychosis, chronicling three individual cases over a ne...

Visionaries including Dan Cohen, founder of the nonprofit Music & Memory, buck a broken healthcare system to demonstrate music’s ability to combat...

In a discussion of his book U.S. Presidents and the Militarization of Space, 1946-1967, historian Sean Kalic...

Steve Paul, a longtime writer and editor at The Kansas City Star, examines a transformative time in the life of an iconic wr...

Amy Sherald has seen her art evolve from autobiographical to more socially relevant, “exploring identity and the roles of race and ge...

Kansas City native “Cowboy Mike” Grauer, associate director for curatorial affairs and curator of art and Western heritage at the Pan...

Make the Central Library your family-friendly First Friday launch point, taking in a new gallery exhibit and enjoying some Old West reading and roping...

Jean Ponzi, green resources manager for the Missouri Botanical Garden’s EarthWays Center, leads a workshop on environmentally respons...

Preservationist Bradley Wolf, KC’s historic preservation officer for more than 17 years, discusses a recently released second edition...