Everyone knows vending machines filled with junk food goodies are irresistibly attractive to children. Now, an innovative reading program that stocks vending machines with books is proving just as sweet. The novel notion to pack machines that normally shell out candy to kids with books instead and install them at elementary schools was made possible… Continue reading A book-dispensing vending machine is proving irresistible to kids
Here are 12 great things to do in Kansas City this weekend, June 27-30, including: Slow Joy, Country Stampede and The Flavors of Central Tour.
With summer heating up and fresh produce season in full bloom, we’ve rounded up eight farmers markets in the Kansas City area to satisfy your appetite.
The humble beginnings of local legend Alvin Brooks’ early life and how he became the civil rights icon that he is today have been deftly told and memorialized in a movie by an Oscar winning KU film professor. The movie “The Heroic True Life Adventures of Alvin Brooks,” based on a book, premiered to two… Continue reading How the son of a bootlegger became a KC Civil Rights icon
