Up To Date

Weekdays at 11am

Up to Date focuses on pressing issues, both local and national, including politics, economics, planning and design, history and entertainment - topics that have an impact on the lives of the Greater Kansas City region.

  • Monday: Psychologist Wes Crenshaw on Adult Children Living At Home
  • Tuesday: MLK's Mountaintop Speech / Changing The Kansas City Charter
  • Wednesday: Erik Stegman On Poverty / Behind The Gown: Betty Ford
  • Thursday:  Kris Kobach & Alvaro Vargas Llosa on Immigration / 90-Mile View
  • Friday: Art Of The Car Concours / Real Pirates / Weekend To-Do List

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Wed March 20, 2013

Using Hope As An Educational Tool

Are you holding out hope for the future? You’re not alone.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue March 19, 2013

New Houses Shrinking By Request

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Sarah Susanka

As the economy drags, the size of homes is diminishing… and it’s by consumer demand.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue March 19, 2013

Where Botany And Alcohol Mix

Your backyard garden can be a great place to grow vegetables, but the Drunken Botanist has something else in mind for the space.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Is Anti-Union Rhetoric Full Of Myths?

They're Bankrupting Us by Bill Fletcher

Anti-union rhetoric has been trumpeting out of of recent debates in Wisconsin and Michigan, but one labor activist says much of it is a myth.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon March 18, 2013

Around The World With A Camera

From the Australian Outback to Bollywood, Albanian farmland to Vietnam, National Geographic travel photographer Catherine Karnow has been around the world to capture its images with her camera.

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Up to Date
10:02 am
Mon March 18, 2013

Encore Broadcast: Former Hiroshima Mayor & Harry Truman's Grandson On Nuclear Disarmament

The Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

You’d have a hard time finding someone who feels more strongly about nuclear disarmament than the former mayor of Hiroshima, Japan.

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Film
6:59 am
Fri March 15, 2013

Hungry Americans Line Up For 'A Place At The Table'

Credit Courtesy Magnolia Pictures
Philadelphia mom Barbie Izquierdo and her kids in "A Place at the Table"

A young Philadelphia mother of two takes pains to make her food stamps stretch to that barren fourth month, when even cans of ravioli are scarce.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Thu March 14, 2013

Parents, Teens & Break-ups

Credit Nevit Dilmen

Paul Simon might know 50 ways to leave your lover, but psychologist Wes Crenshaw has his own list.

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90-Mile View
3:30 pm
Thu March 14, 2013

90-Mile View: Amy Farrand At SXSW

Credit Paul Andrews

This week singer/songwriter Amy Farrand is in Austin, Texas as part of the Midcoast Takeover showcase being presented during SXSW.

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Up to Date
11:45 am
Thu March 14, 2013

The Weekend To-Do List: March 14-17, 2013

Looking for some fun (and the luck of the Irish) the weekend of March 14-17, 2013? Brian McTavish returns with the Weekend To-Do List.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Wed March 13, 2013

Accepting A Twin's Death

Her by Christa Parravani

After the untimely death of a loved one, people often find themselves with more questions than answers.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Tue March 12, 2013

What A Country For Yakov Smirnoff

When he came to America in 1977, Yakov Smirnoff was already a comedian, but it was his fresh off the boat Cold War comedy style that got him noticed by the entertainment industry.

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Up to Date
12:06 pm
Tue March 12, 2013

Adventuring In The Dark

Tom Sullivan

Tom Sullivan can hear is the sound of snowflakes falling, even though he can't see the white blanket they form over the land.

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Up to Date
6:00 pm
Mon March 11, 2013

'Who Stole The American Dream?'

In this country it was long believed that if you worked hard then you could share in the prosperity this land had to offer.  So – who stole the American Dream?

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Up To Date
6:00 pm
Sun March 10, 2013

From Steam To Diesel To . . . Natural Gas?

In the history of the locomotive, natural gas may prove to be as game-changing to the railroad industry in this century as diesel was in the last.  

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