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St. Louis-based author Soman Chainani talks about Coven, a standalone adventure based on the story of the witch coven in his bestselling School for Go...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...