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The Civil War killed more servicemembers than both world wars and the Vietnam War combined – about 620,000 people. Though numbers that large tend to s...

With a perfect blend of humor and pathos, Broke-ology celebrates the strength of familial ties and the enduring power of hope in a touching exploratio...

More than 20 million motorists a year travel Bruce R. Watkins Drive. But this vital corridor, completed in 2001, came at a high cost to East Side resi...

Journalist S.H. “SKIZ” Fernando tells the story of hip-hop legend Daniel Dumile Jr. – aka masked supervillain MF DOOM – in a new biography set against...

In honor of Women’s History Month, SALT, a team of five artist educators, presents A Mosaic of Mothers, micro-operas that amplify Midwestern women’s e...

Clay Risen’s new book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, speaks to the divisiveness of our contemporary moment. A...

NPR’s Tiny Desk Contest offers unsigned bands a chance to play a Tiny Desk Concert at NPR’s headquarters in Washington, D.C. Live + Local, a partnersh...

The role of women in Kansas City’s development is often overlooked. Kathy Krause, professor emerita of French at the University of Missouri-Kansas Cit...

Kansas Citian Rebekah Taussig reads her new children’s book, We Are the Scrappy Ones, an ode to those who navigate a world that isn’t designed with th...

Rebekah Taussig discusses her book Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body. The author, who lost the use of her legs as a...