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One of the youngest performers who will be showcased at this week’s Folk Alliance International conference here in Kansas City is a teenager from Overland…

The prolific author best known for Their Eyes Were Watching God got her start as an anthropologist, listening to the stories and songs of former slaves in…

Media critic Jay Rosen has been writing about evidence-based vs. accusation-driven journalism for years. Rosen joins us, along with a few local thinkers,…

In the wake of swirling fears about the spread of Ebola as well as Kansas cases of pertussis and measles, we look back on a pandemic that hit home for…

When you imagine a library, you probably envision a calm space designed for quiet reflection, study and debate. Well, two incidents at Metro area…

Outside of home, we spend the most time at work. How does your workspace impact your productivity and creativity? From cubicles to work benches to…

Right in the center of downtown Kansas City, Kan., between the public library and government buildings just off Minnesota Avenue, is a little two-acre…

The now-infamous Stonewall Riots in 1969 -- when gay people fought back against a police raid on a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York -- is…

The Northland. Kansas City north. Northtown (also spelled Northtowne in some cases.)Whatever you call the part of the Kansas City metropolitan area north…

So, you want to go into business for yourself. Live the dream. Become your own boss. What's the best attitude to have going into it, and what are the…