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Meteorologist Gary Lezak won’t quite say that the groundhog is full of it. But more than a month ago, Punxsutawney Phil did not see his shadow, meaning…

Robert Stewart remembers when word got out that poet Amiri Baraka would read in Kansas City.Stewart, who ran the Midwest Poets Series at Rockhurst…

David Bird never gets bored with his plants. Orchids, he notes, are the largest family of blooming plants on Earth, with almost 30,000 species. He's been…

Special Olympic gold athlete Lynna Hodgson was two years old when the Hodgson family from outside of Oak Grove, Missouri, adopted her. The baby had been…

A construction worker from Drexel, Missouri, is using poetry to positively affect the perception of blue-collar trades.Eric Borden's poem "Ditch Diggers"…

Allison Gliesman studied singing in high school and a little in college and knew the technical ins and outs. It took some distance from those lessons and…

If you can smell what the Rock is cooking, you might be interested in the wine "Niles Plonk" is fermenting.Kraig Keesaman, who owns Windy Wine Company in…

Kansas City artist Ryan Wilks' new exhibition at the Leedy-Voulkos Art Center attracted a group of women who formed a circle and prayed. It's not…

Celia Calderon Ruiz hands out Constitutional rights doorhangers to recent immigrants in her Kansas City community. The hangers serve as a reminder that no…

After last month's fatal shooting of 25-year-old Erin Langhofer at the Crossroads' First Friday event, the Crossroads Community Association lost its…