portrait sessions

In February 1920, the owners of eight independently owned black baseball teams met in Kansas City at the Paseo YMCA and the Negro National League was…

On Friday, when Jerry Bausby got two life sentences for the sexual assault and murder of his 18-year-old daughter, it was the culmination of three years…

Growing up in Kansas City, Harvey Williams lived near 12th Street and Vine in what used to be called the Wayne Minor Projects."It was the heart of the…

The night of his high school graduation, Daniel Edwards and his friends looked out at Kansas City from a fourth-floor window at Lincoln College…

As she was dying, Sonya Willis' mother gave her daughter a warning. "She watched me sit back and put my head in my hand and she said, 'Don't you cry.' ...…

Kansas City native Terry Evans has seen things firsthand that most of us never will: a melting glacier crumbling into the waters of Greenland, the…

In the 1950s, SuEllen Fried got a call asking if she'd like to teach the cha-cha to psychiatric patients at the Osawatomie State Hospital.She'd danced in…

Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado just got back from vacationing with a colleague at the Great Barrier Reef in Australia. The two were taking a leisurely walk…

Forty years is a long time to spend in one place, doing one thing. Especially when the goal is to ruffle feathers.But that's what the Unicorn Theatre's…

It's okay not to be okay. That's the essential message of a new book for young adult readers by Kansas City author Adib Khorram.Darius The Great is Not…

In the early 2000s, Tim Finn was raising two young daughters while working as The Kansas City Star's full-time pop music critic. His wife, Lauren Chapin,…

As a kid growing up on his family’s farm in Louisburg, Kansas, David Wayne Reed just wanted to perform.He wore his mom’s heels, a cinched-up shirt as a…