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This week, hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies highlight the otherworldly musical invention of Anton Bruckner and Leonard Bernstein's portrait of wartime New York, along with Anton Webern's early romantic explorations. We'll hear Webern's "Passacaglia," Bernstein's "Fancy Free" and Bruckner's towering "Symphony No. 7."

Hosts Michael Stern and Dan Margolies examine a hidden gem by Mozart contemporary Joseph Martin Kraus and Beethoven's fusion of different forms and genres, the 'Choral Fantasy,' featuring pianist Eldar Nebolsin, the Kansas City Symphony Chorus and a group of soloists from the chorus. We'll also hear Rachmaninoff's lush Symphony No. 2 and a rollicking encore by Tchaikovsky.

A Kansas City alt-weekly celebrates 40 years, tensions arise between development and conservation efforts along the Blue River watershed, and universities experienced in distance learning offer advice for a successful transition to online education.

Patrick Mahomes' lucrative new contract will keep him in Kansas City through 2031, Mayor Quinton Lucas reacts to news about help coming soon from federal law enforcement agencies, and Medicaid expansion will appear on Missouri ballots Aug. 4.

The lasting effects of COVID-19 and how the coronavirus is affecting schools reopening, celebrating the first organized professional Black baseball league, and how prescient past movies have been when compared to current protests and the pandemic.

Registering and voting in this years' elections will look different because of the pandemic, a Kansas suburb considers rules for residents to keep backyard chickens, and newly-revealed letters of Missouri native T. S. Eliot provide a deeper understanding of the famed poet.

An Overland Park mother's years-long fight for transparency and better police training after the death of her son, how going to the eye doctor is different during a pandemic, and a new director takes over at the Kansas City Public Library.

A Trump administration policy could force international students home if their American schools go online-only, remembering the life of a local Black political powerhouse, and Kansas City's resident jazz master discusses how COVID-19 turned his touring plans upside down.

Fifteen-year-old Jay Mehta took first place this summer in the National History Day competition for his depiction of Winston Churchill. Steve Kraske asks…

“Take the crown”…“Win the cup”…“Raise the trophy.” Sometimes the sports fan’s ultimate dream—a championship—does come true. But old trophies can lose…