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President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to a...

Do you play the piano? Help us celebrate National Piano Month by playing a song on our grand piano in Kirk Hall this Sunday, September 11th. This is o...

The Midwest’s Latino population has risen rapidly in the past 20 years, both in urban and rural areas. As elsewhere in the country, the shift in de...

Begin your First Friday outing at the Central Library, enjoying a pair of compelling exhibits in its gleaming galleries, refreshments, family activ...

Mozart, it turns out, could turn a phrase as well as a musical score. In one of many letters to his wife Constanze – this one bemoaning his mountin...

Begin your First Friday outing with a holiday-themed stop at the Central Library. Take in Cuba Bound: Photographs by Jesse A. Fernandez...

Gallery exhibits. Kids’ activities. Music. Munchies. The Library again makes a place on First Friday for the entire family....

Nearly 4½ decades after arriving at the Kansas City Art Institute from his native South Wales, Warren Rosser stands as one of the city’s creative m...

Glenn North, the inaugural poet laureate of Kansas City’s 18th & Vine Jazz District, discusses his work as an accompli...

Efforts to combat blight and “renew” Kansas City, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, took off after the end of World War II, but the results were m...