Mozart, it turns out, could turn a phrase as well as a musical score. In one of many letters to his wife Constanze – this one bemoaning his mountin...

The Midwest’s Latino population has risen rapidly in the past 20 years, both in urban and rural areas. As elsewhere in the country, the shift in de...

Professional photographer and local historian Bruce Mathews and Steve Noll, executive director of the Jackson County...

Begin your First Friday outing at the Central Library, enjoying a pair of compelling exhibits in its gleaming galleries, refreshments, family activ...

Claude Monet intended his most famous series of paintings – of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny, France – as a means of “peaceful meditati...

President Truman’s American Housing Act of 1949 empowered cities to replace blighted structures with safe public housing, and soon was altered to a...

Doors open: 8 p.m. • Program: 8:45 p.m. Shakespearean drama dances across the streets and rooftops of New York in West Si...

Do you play the piano? Help us celebrate National Piano Month by playing a song on our grand piano in Kirk Hall this Sunday, September 11th. This is o...

Iranian-born Siah Armajani is a leading figure in conceptualizing the role and function of public art, including its incorporation...

The Library again provides a perfect family-friendly starting point for your First Friday outing. Offerings include: Sunyoung Cheong’s Art in t...