The Exceptions and Kerry Livgren will be inducted into the KS Music Hall of Fame on March 2, 2013. The Exceptions have “played music people want to hear” for nearly fifty years and their place in music history will be secured on March 2 when the Kansas Music Hall of Fame holds its annual induction [...]

The Ninth Annual Jam for Justice has expanded to two nights this year. Join them as they raise money and awareness to combat human trafficking in Kansas and beyond. The jams will be held from 7p to 1a on Friday and Saturday, February 22-23 at the Celtic Fox, 118 SW 8th Ave. A $5 suggested [...]

Topeka native Gary Jackson’s poem cycle Missing You, Metropolis won the prestigious Cave Canem Poetry award for poetry in 2009. Now his poems will come to life on stage at Washburn University through a collaboration of Washburn faculty members Tom Averill, Israel Wasserstein, Eric McHenry and Penny Weiner. Weiner directs the world premiere, which opens [...]

Bill Maher, the political commentator who set the boundaries of where funny political talk can go on American television now stretches those limits in an evening of hard-hitting, side-splitting stand up humor on Saturday, April 13, 8:00 p.m., at the Topeka Performing Arts Center. First on Politically Incorrect (Comedy Central, ABC, 1993-2002), and for the [...]