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The velvet-voiced soprano with a career on the rise chooses her projects, and the music on her debut solo album, with consummate intention.
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Novelist Melissa Scholes Young's new book "The Hive" is about four sisters putting the pieces together after their father bankrupts them and then dies during the Great Recession.
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Patricia Lawson has lived, taught, and volunteered in Kansas City for decades. Her poignant debut short story collection is an exercise in observations.
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A new collection of essays from editors in Ohio works to show that local talent most effectively tells regional stories — not "coastal" media.
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Rockhurst University professor emeritus Patricia Cleary Miller has just published a collection called "Can You Smell the Rain?" — a book rife with sorrows, but a comedy in the end.
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On a chunk of unincorporated land outside of Leavenworth, Kansas, Adam Gnade has more or less been self-isolating for 10 years.He's quick to say that he…
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Segment 1: In 1990, Deanna Dikeman took a photo of her parents waving goodbye to her as she drove away.She continued to take these pictures for decades…
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When Hugh Merrill was growing up in the 1950s and '60s, he says a lot of things were simply true. Grandparents and parents were heroes, as was the United…
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What gets you interested in history? For some people, it's the pomp of a royal wedding that gets them digging into the annals of British aristrocracy.…
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Francis Sommer had planned a vacation to Louisiana’s Lake Pontchartrain to visit an Army buddy. The friendship arose from a particularly fraught 2006…
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Why is school funding a constant debate in the Sunflower State? Today, we look at how the Kansas Constitution defines the government's responsibility…
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Kansas City has been blessed with an unseasonably warm fall this year, though you won't be able to tell by stepping outside during the first half of this…