Arts and Culture

Beth Golay recently spoke with Annie Hartnett about the inspiration behind "The Road to Tender Hearts" and her unique voice that blends the true to life issues of loss and pain with a hint of magical realism.

Author Jason Bailey's latest work "Gandolfini: Jim, Tony and the Life of a Legend" is a biography of the late actor James Gandolfini, who became synonymous with his character on the hit TV show "The Sopranos."

Despite some truly dark subject matter, "The Road to Tender Hearts" grabs your heart with both hands and somehow gets you laughing through tears.

Out of 157,000 students who participated in Poetry Out Loud this school year, Wichita East High senior Ismail Saeed is one of 55 who advanced to the national finals in Washington, D.C. The winner gets $20,000.

Five For Fighting's John Ondrasik was initially disappointed when his songs stopped becoming Top 40 hits but he says that he soon discovered that there was more than chart success.

Gardeners, your time has come. Chef Travis tells us why on today's Flyover Food.

Fletcher Powell says to stop him if you've heard this one before.

April May Webb won the 2024 Sarah Vaughan International Jazz Vocal Competition in part based on her performance of a notoriously difficult John Coltrane composition.

Jazz musician Peter Erskine has seen a number of changes in the genre since he began playing professionally in the late 1960s when, he says, he was aware of a changing of the musical guard that drew a line between him and one of his musical mentors.

When Jo Harkin was in the middle of writing a science fiction novel, she took a procrastination break to read a book about kings and queens. That’s when she came across the name Lambert Simnel in footnotes of British history, a known pretender to Henry VII’s throne. In her novel, "The Pretender," Harkin elevates Simnel from the footnotes to an imagined history, filling in with fiction what written history might have left out. KMUW's Beth Golay talked to Harkin.