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Books & Authors
Signature Event
Thursday, November 6, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Kansas City author and Writers at Work series organizer Whitney Terrell sits down with one of the country’s most...
Signature Event
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Caitlin Doughty is out to change the way we deal with dying.
Founder of the Order of the Good Death, a web forum promoting the ope...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 29, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
It has been a little more than 4½ years since the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its controversial ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election C...
Signature Event
Wednesday, October 22, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
In the shadow of the Civil War, a circle of radicals in a rowdy New York tavern altered American society and helped set Walt Whitman on the path to...
Signature Event
Sunday, October 19, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Not only is Kansas City home to world-class art museums, outstanding performing arts venues, and some of the planet’s best barbecue, it also boasts...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 16, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
He grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son of an alcoholic, largely absent father and a loving but overworked mother. A high school dropout...
Signature Event
Tuesday, October 7, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
Facebook. Twitter. Amazon. Frequent-flyer numbers. Loyalty cards. Every day, we share personal information while buying something, trying to gain acce...
Signature Event
Thursday, October 2, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
The image of fierce, all-female Amazons — barbarian archers on horseback who gloried in fighting, hunting, and sexual freedom — has end...
Signature Event
Sunday, September 28, 2014
2:00pm
In Person
Kansas City’s Union Station opened 100 years ago next month, a grand, 850,000-square-foot edifice that saw as many as 678,000-plus rail passengers...
Signature Event
Tuesday, September 9, 2014
6:30pm
In Person
An estimated 225,000 adults in Kansas City function at the lowest literacy level, denied some of the simplest and most important moments in life be...