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The odds of a new opera lasting beyond a single production are long. Jake Heggie defied them with his first full composition, an adap...

When introduced in January with the rest of The Kansas City Star’s revamped editorial board, new editorial page Editor Colleen McCain Nelson...

Francine Prose describes herself as a “sentence person” – a best-selling author, reviewer, distinguished writer in residence at Bard...

Dodge City, Kansas, still conjures images of the wild and unruly West: streets lined with saloons and brothels and a populace thick with gunmen, horse...

High Noon remains one of the most revered movies of Hollywood's golden era, an Old West testament to loyalty and determination in the face of...

Michelle Boisseau’s fifth book of poems, Among the Gorgons, makes “graceful and unexpected leaps from personal to mythic, te...

Before embodying the American dream – co-founding H&R Block and building it into the world’s largest tax preparation company – Henry W. Bloch help...

The tragedy of December 14, 2012 – 20 schoolchildren and six adult staff members dying at the hands of a 20-year-old gunman in Newtown, Connecticut ¬...

This annual series wraps its psychological studies of movies directed by Joel and Ethan Coen with 1990’s Miller’s Crossin...

Wisconsin Sen. Joseph McCarthy was three years into his incendiary search for Communists when Dwight Eisenhower assumed the presidency in 1953. Ike...