G Categories Arts Consortium Community News Literary March 18, 2024 Get to know Carrie Westlake Whitney The first full-time director of the Kansas City Public Library was one of the most influential women of her day, growing and shaping a fledgling institution at the turn of the 20th century into a state-of-the-art civic centerpiece.
T Categories Arts Consortium Community News Literary Performing January 10, 2024 To Hell and Back: Dazzling dance company does Dante The Harriman-Jewell Series presents the Italian dance company No Gravity performing “Divine Comedy” Jan. 31 at the Folly Theater.
A Categories Articles Literary January 9, 2024 Arts News: Kansas City Public Library Celebrates its 150th Anniversary On Dec. 5, the library kicked off its sesquicentennial with a well-chosen theme, “150 Years of Discovery.”
S Categories Articles Literary January 8, 2024 See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Prepare for amazement as the Rabbit hOle’s book-loving experience soon comes to life In March, a huge, gray-painted warehouse in an industrial, highway-hugging expanse of North Kansas City, is to be reborn as a place of wonder.
E Categories Articles Literary Visual December 27, 2023 Editor’s Letter, January/February 2024 The coming year is rich in exhibits and events celebrating books, reading and knowledge.
I Categories Articles Literary Performing November 7, 2023 In Memoriam: Calvin Wilson (1953-2023) Colleagues fondly remember a passionate culture writer.
A Categories Articles Literary September 20, 2023 Arts News: Passing the Leadership Baton at Linda Hall Library As the Linda Hall Library approaches the 80th anniversary of its founding in 1946, Eric Dorfman has assumed the library’s presidency.
S Categories Articles Literary Performing Visual August 30, 2023 See Hear: Steve Paul on Rambling Around the Arts | Tackling a Tough Story of KC in the Shadow of its Football Superstar There are two trains running in “Kingdom Quarterback,” the new book about Kansas City and football, by Mark Dent and Rustin Dodd. You get only..
I Categories Articles Literary Visual May 24, 2023 In Praise of Owls It wasn’t hovering. And looming isn’t the right word either. It wasn’t looming or hovering when I first saw it, when it first saw me.
