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Artist and filmmaker Brian Hawkins examines our state’s mostly east-side French Creole community – specifically its rich collection of folktale...

Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Mustach...

Coterie Theatre artists resume their monthly interactive story times for children and their parents, reading from Eric Litwin’s Pete the C...

Bring your energy. Bust out some moves. Young attendees don special headphones and choose from several different musical, DJ-hosted channels to which...

There was much more to celebrated gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson than the drug- and booze-addled caricature he fostered in Fear and Loathing i...

From the Carter Family to Bill Monroe, from Hank Williams, Patsy Cline, and Johnny Cash to Garth Brooks, a succession of 20th-century performers—stars...

When first staged in New York City in 1935, Waiting for Lefty made a sensation of its playwright, Clifford Ode...

Kansas City-based urban planner, designer, and architect Kevin Klinkenberg examines why and how cities being reinvented today, who the winners and los...

Born and raised in Topeka (which appears in some fashion in all of his works), novelist, essayist, and poet Ben Lerner is one of t...

Photographer B.A. Van Sise, whose work is featured in the Library exhibit One Second, discusses the convergence o...