[3] In his preamble [4] to the Fall 2010 issue of Lapham’s Quarterly [5] Lewis Lapham writes, “Pericles conceived of ancient Athens as the expression of man’s humanity to man.” Though this notion seems a far shot from today’s Midwestern cityscapes, a recent battle over an old building in the heart of Kansas City shows that people feel a definite, human connection to our city’s defining places.
[7] When it comes to finding quality health care information in Kansas City, many minority communities are underserved. It’s a problem that needs more than a figurative band-aid.
[9] If your only experience of Beowulf is the 2007 3-D film [10], there’s one thing you know for sure – Grendel’s mom is hot! That film rather imaginatively recast the monstrous swamp mama as Angelina Jolie. I like eye candy as much as the next moviegoer, but the film’s creators were quite misleading.
[12] It takes a community to raise a mural. This past October, working with Northeast neighborhood kids and parents, the Hip-Hop Academy covered two walls outside the North-East Branch of the Kansas City Public Library with graffiti goodness. Watch a video documentary of the project on our blog.
[14] Whether she’s teaching ESL classes to customers from Ethiopia, organizing a Cinco de Mayo fiesta, or speaking at a local school about her own Thai culture, Sukalaya Kenworthy is spreading multicultural awareness from her station at the Westport Branch.
Links:
[1] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/KC+Unbound/feed
[2] http://drupal.org/node/11816
[3] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/cities-heartland
[4] http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/preamble/city-light.php
[5] http://www.laphamsquarterly.org/
[6] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/cities-heartland#comments
[7] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/better-information-better-health-bluford-branch
[8] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11278#comment-form
[9] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/classics-reviewed-beowulf
[10] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0442933/
[11] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11265#comment-form
[12] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/video-beats-books-and-spray-paint-north-east-branch
[13] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11272#comment-form
[14] http://www.kclibrary.org/blog/kc-unbound/know-your-librarians-sukalaya-kenworthy
[15] http://www.kclibrary.org/comment/reply/11263#comment-form
[16] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113
[17] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=101
[18] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=98
[19] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=99
[20] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=100
[21] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=103
[22] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=104
[23] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=105
[24] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=106
[25] http://www.kclibrary.org/print/113?page=113
