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Tuesday, November 15, 2011
8:00am
Kansas City’s self-described “bean baron” Danny O’Neill discusses the founding and continued success of The Roasterie...
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Thursday, August 14, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
On this date 99 years and 364 days ago, the Panama Canal opened and revolutionized maritime trade.
It also threw the Panama Railroad and its parall...
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Thursday, September 18, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
There are few storytellers like old baseball scouts because, well, nobody collects stories like the guys who spend a lifetime crisscrossing America’s...
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Friday, September 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The pig is big in these parts. Both Missouri and Kansas rank among the nation’s top 10 pork-producing states, annually putting more than 2 million pou...
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Thursday, September 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The year 2012 was a watershed for the Hollywood movie industry, producing the likes of Silver Linings Playbook, Les Misérables,...
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Tapped to be Franklin Roosevelt’s spymaster during World War II, William Joseph “Wild Bill” Donovan became a mythic figure in the his...
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Tuesday, June 5, 2018
6:30pm
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The 92-year-old Holocaust survivor from Prairie Village, who endured internment in three Nazi concentration camps during World War II, sits down wi...
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Thursday, September 6, 2018
6:30pm
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Crime Magazine publisher J. Patrick O’Connor discusses his book Justice on Fire: The Kansas City Firefighters Case and th...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2018
6:30pm
In Person
Nationally renowned lettering artist and illustrator Jessica Hische discusses her work and her newest dear-to-her-heart project:...
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Thursday, February 28, 2019
6:30pm
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As a renowned conductor, and as a scholar, teacher, and author, Jane Glover’s command of classical music is unparalleled. Her more th...