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For many, the idea of public speaking is petrifying — nobody wants to put an audience to sleep with a dull talk. One solution: learn from stand-up comics…

The KCMO City Council is days away from voting on the proposal to build a $302 million Hyatt hotel downtown. On this edition of Up to Date, Steve Kraske…

Across the globe, distinct political institutions and governing mechanisms have developed, but how and when did political order even begin? Starting with…

Everyone hates stale potato chips, but that little annoyance was the inspiration that got Mark Shaw thinking about how to reseal the bag. Since then,…

The young pianist, songwriter and bandleader Alyssa Murray is another noteworthy alumnus of Bobby Watson’s Jazz Studies program at the University of…

Creative genius is often considered a solo act, but history and science tell us that success more often stems from collaboration. From John Lennon and…

To say they know a little something about national politics would be an understatement: David Von Drehle, editor-at-large for TIME, and Mike Allen, chief…

Kansas City is home to lots of refugee children and their families, who face trying transitions to new countries, a new language, new customs and new…

A half century ago, nobody expected much of Sergio Leone’s 1964 Italian Western A Fistful of Dollars – not even its young American star, Clint Eastwood.…

Though he is typically placed in the jazz category, guitarist Bill Frisell plays a wide variety of styles, including folk and Americana. On this edition…