Thursday, April 18, 2013
Presented by Michelle Brown
The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.
The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Arguments over taxation and “constitutional conservatism” are nothing new, William Hogeland points out. His new book brings to life the violent conflicts over economics, class, and finance that played directly into the hardball politics of forming the nation and ratifying the Constitution — conflicts that still affect our politics, legislation, and national debate.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Drawing on a variety of unpublished diaries and letters, Lady Julia Boyd describes Peking’s foreign community in the first half of the 20th century, an exotic world filled with high-octane partying and populated with bigger-than-life individuals like novelist Pearl Buck, philosopher Bertrand Russell, Reginald Johnson (tutor to the last emperor), and the monarchy-rocking Wallis Simpson.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Presented by the Financial Planners Association
The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.
The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
The six-week America’s Music program is a film and discussion series that looks at popular music from blues to bluegrass, Broadway to rock ‘n’ roll. Each event features films followed by a discussion (and frequently performances) led by UMKC musicologist Andrew Granade.
The Broadway and Tin Pan Alley evening features the documentary Broadway: The American Musical: Syncopated City (1919-1933) (2004) and a discussion with Broadway historian William Everett.
Monday, April 15, 2013
Presented by the Financial Planners Association
The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.
The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
This annual film series returns for an examination of Kansas City’s own home-grown cinema auteur, Robert Altman.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Presented by the Financial Planners Association
The Kansas City Public Library is hosting Money Smart Month adult programs across all Library locations during April 2013. Topics range from budgeting to investing to effective couponing.
The Library will waive up to $30 in overdue fines and fees for any Kansas City Public Library cardholder who attends one or more of the events.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
The lake in Troost Park was once an encampment used by Mormons migrating to Independence. Linked together by Linwood Boulevard and The Paseo, Kansas City’s East side is an area rich in history, as evidenced in vintage postcard views.
Local historian and postcard collector Michael Bushnell presents a series of postcard tours of Kansas City neighborhoods. Bushnell is publisher of The Northeast News, a weekly community newspaper that serves the Historic Northeast area of Kansas City. He is also the author of Historic Postcards of Old Kansas City.
Sunday, April 14, 2013
Children and parents are invited to be part of monthly interactive story times presented by the Coterie Theatre. Coterie Theatre artists read from favorite children's books while audience members enjoy an opportunity to "jump into the story" and then participate in an improvised story of their own making.
