C.J. Janovy

Ida McBeth started her career as a teenager singing at the Playboy Club in downtown Kansas City. She went on to earn mayoral proclamations and a lifetime achievement award from the American Jazz Museum.

Kansas City author David Cantwell, who just published a new version of a book he wrote years ago, says Merle Haggard was ‘constantly singing about the things that we’re still arguing about today.’

Updated: Monday, March 23, 4:06 p.m.In the metro area’s ongoing effort to slow the spread of coronavirus, residents of Kansas City and Jackson, Clay and…

Logan Richardson left Kansas City to become a star.Now, twenty years later, having lived in New York City and Italy and toured internationally, the…

Kansas City threw a party 50 years in the making on Wednesday with a parade to celebrate the Kansas City Chiefs’ victory in Super Bowl LIV.The procession…

Kansas City journalist and bon vivant Charles Ferruzza, known to newspaper and radio audiences for his restaurant reviews that were infused with a deep…

Updated at 5 p.m. MondayTwo people died and 15 were injured in a shooting late Sunday outside of a nightclub near U.S. 40 and Noland Road in Kansas…

The United States House of Representatives voted Wednesday on two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump.The first article charged…

KCUR is mourning the loss of Jen Chen, who worked as a producer on Central Standard until her cancer diagnosis last year. Jen died on March 6 at the age…

Rather than just publishing a list of our most-read stories this year at KCUR.org, we’ve decided to make some observations about what a few of our most…