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On this week's Retro Cocktail Hour, we'll hear new music by Mr. Moai and the Tikiheads and Skip Heller's Voodoo 5. Also, Martin Denny with strings on Hypnotique, a budget label classic on Jazz Heat, Bongo Beat, plus percussionist Ray Barretto's Seňor 007.
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Legendary newsman, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me scorekeeper, and KANU and KU alum Bill Kurtis reflects on his 60-year career in broadcasting in this year's Dole Lecture at the Dole Institute of Politics
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The law will help protect people from criminal prosecution if they seek medical help for someone experiencing a drug overdose.
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The works of William Shakespeare have been filmed more than 1,800 times, dating back to 1899. This week on Film Music Friday, we'll hear music from Shakespeare films, including scores by Dimitri Shostakovich, William Walton, Aram Kachaturian and others for adaptations of Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing and Henry V.
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On this edition of Conversations, Nancy Krulik talks with host Dan Skinner about the latest in her Great Mathemachicken series, “The Great Mathemachicken: Sing High, Sing Crow.”
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The U.S. Department of Justice named Dimitry Khoroshev and his company, LockBit, in a 26-count indictment on Tuesday. LockBit has claimed responsibility for the hack on city computers.
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On this edition of Conversations, Anna Rose Johnson talks with host Dan Skinner about her latest middle-grade novel, “The Luminous Life of Lucy Landry.”
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They were shot at the Chiefs Super Bowl parade — and might live with bullets in their bodies foreverDespite the rise of gun violence in America, few medical guidelines exist on removing bullets from survivors’ bodies. In the second installment of our series “The Injured,” we meet three people shot at the Kansas City Super Bowl parade who are dealing with the bullets inside them in different ways.
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration says there have been measurable effects and impacts from the biggest geomagnetic storm in decades.
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Gatwa is the first Black man and the first person born outside the U.K. to play The Doctor. He's candid about how his own life has influenced his take on the role — and about his critics.
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The 86-year-old Kyiv native, living in exile in Berlin, has a new album of symphonic works that explores the idea of reminiscence.
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A former law clerk who had a bad experience on the job is now trying to share information about judges to help others from suffering the same fate.
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The newest iPad ad depicts instruments, books and art supplies flattened into Apple's thinnest product ever. But anyone who owns and loves art in any form knows: The practicality isn't the point.