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The theme of the 2024 season was FIRSTS. Here's Opening Night from Friday, June 21st with the SMF Chamber Orchestra directed by Antony Walker.

Photographer Tommy Trenchard spent time in Bangladesh with refugees who have run for their lives.

Fluid mechanics are often helpful how traffic behaves on busy roads. When you zoom out from individual drivers and look at the collective motion of cars, patterns emerge that resemble the flow of a fluid in a pipe.

Before the new animated film was a box-office hit, it was a beloved children's book.

Hurricane Katrina resulted in nearly 1,400 deaths, according to revised statistics from the National Hurricane Center, and remains the costliest storm in U.S. history at around $200 billion in today's dollars.

Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan speaking to reporters. (Photo by Stephen Koranda)Governor Sam Brownback’s administration is urging lawmakers to look at the bigger picture when considering his tax proposal. Supporters of the plan say that its cut in income tax rates will boost the Kansas economy. But the plan is being criticized, because it would eliminate two popular deductions...one for mortgage interest and one for property tax payments. Secretary of Revenue Nick Jordan told reporters today (FRI) that the plan would yield a net benefit for Kansas taxpayers. He says people opposed to the plan are only considering small portions of it.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa7b9bf0000Democratic leaders are calling the proposal a tax shift. The top Democrat in the House, Paul Davis, says he believes middle and lower-income families would suffer financially because the reduction in income taxes would not save Kansans as much money as the current tax deductions.

Jack Valenti died Thursday at the age of 85. He was the former president of the Motion Picture Association of America, and an influential person in American culture for decades.

JoAnn Falletta conducting the full chamber orchestra of the 2021 Sunflower Music Festival. With Marjan Mozetich's Passion for Angels for two harps and…

Besides three masterworks by Mozart, Andre Raphel directs the chamber orchestra of the 2022 Sunflower Music Festival in Topeka through a stunning work by George Walker: Lyric for Strings.

Guest conductor Alex Klein leads the orchestra through Haydn's 2nd Symphony and Schumann's 2nd Symphony.