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After eight nonfiction books including the 1982 best-seller Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon has turned at age 77 t...

The latter half of the 20th century saw a boom in the construction of arenas as cities recognized the value of multipurpose venues. That included K...

Trade between the U.S. and China began in 1794 and the two future superpowers saw their first military engagement several decades later, when American...

The Kansas City Baroque Consortium has been one of the city’s cultural jewels since 2009, specializing in the performance of early...

Kansas City knows both the pain of a failing education system and promise of renewal as its public schools system anticipates full state accreditat...

In the contemporary elegance of the Central Library’s fifth-floor Helzberg Auditorium, saxophonist Vince Gnojek and pianist...

They’re artifacts, nearly 400 years old, and only 233 are known to have survived to today. But what else has driven collectors to pay as much as $6 mi...

More than 400 years have passed since William Shakespeare penned his last play. And yet his prose, plots, and characters are as alive today as they...

The late 19th- and early 20th-century millionaire businessman Henry Clay Folger and his wife Emily spent a lifetime tracking down one of literature’s...

His comedies, histories, and tragedies have been performed worldwide for more than 400 years, but William Shakespeare’s personal life remains somethin...