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...

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

For Benjamin Todd Wills, art is born of curiosity as well as creativity. The Kansas City artist launched the first of two ball...

Anita O’Brien, an original co-curator of the Library’s special traveling exhibit, Ralph Steadman: A Retrospective, d...

Nearing the start of the 15th annual KC Fringe Festival—a two-week performing and visual arts extravaganza spread across multiple...

As the 2019 Art in the Loop Project: Make/Believe begins its nearly five-month run in and around downtown Kansas City, meet its li...

William Shakespeare’s seminal play? It’s difficult if not impossible to choose among the Bard’s many masterpieces, but Romeo and Juliet...

U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and his wife Dianne Cleaver honor local high school artists at the annual Missouri 5...

Commissioned a little more than a decade ago to write a piece commemorating the 200th anniversary of Harlem’s Abyssinian Baptist Church, Grammy-winnin...

After more than a century, the voices of anxiety and joy, of longing and frustration and despair, still rise from the cemetery in the fictional Midwes...