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You will apply for an internship at KCUR 🕧😵💫 Join our award winning staff and receive hands-on training, mentorship and plenty of chances to make fun content like this! Applications are due July 18! Learn more here: https://loom.ly/aGTLjBk
Big news: KCUR's podcast A People's History of Kansas City is being featured in Apple Podcasts! Check out our latest episode about the creation of the Bomb Pop — America's favorite red-white-and-blue popsicle, created in Kansas City in 1955.
Join us tomorrow for our final live broadcast of Up To Date at the Overland Park Farmer’s Market! Our last show will feature a debate between the three Democratic candidates for Kansas governor: Ethan Corson, Cindy Holscher, and Curt Skoog. Limited seating is available!
Join us for a live broadcast of our daily talk show Up To Date. We’ll be at the newly opened Overland Park Farmer’s Market June 9-11 from 8:30-10 a.m. Where should Up To Date tour next? Tell us in the comments or text us at 816-601-4777.
Join KCUR at @kclibrary.bsky.social's Central Library this evening for a lively event, hosted by A People's History of Kansas City co-hosts Suzanne Hogan and Mackenzie Martin. RSVP here: https://loom.ly/_046BxA
Join us at CPKC Stadium on May 18 for KC for the W: Women Game-Changers in Sports and the Media. Your ticket also includes special access tours of the stadium, appetizers, a take-home gift, and group photo from the player's entrance to the pitch. Link to tickets: https://loom.ly/u3qYTAA
Join us at CPKC Stadium on May 18 for KC for the W: Women Game-Changers in Sports and the Media. Expect a lively conversation moderated by KCUR's Suzanne Hogan, host and managing producer of the podcast A People's History of Kansas City. Link to tickets: loom.ly/u3qYTAA
ALERT: In recent days, several KCUR listeners have reported receiving emails from a person claiming to be a KCUR employee asking them about appearing on air, for a fee. This is scam.
Don't say we didn't remind you! Daylight Saving Time starts tomorrow, March 8, at 2 a.m. One less hour in our Sunday: UGH.
"We're really on a main stage, and we have the tendency to punch above our weight." 5 Questions: Jackson County Prosecutor Melesa Johnson
When you're being mean to KCUR on social media, just know this is who you're being mean to
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when they try defunding public media... but they can't stop KCUR education reporter Jodi Fortino
¡Viva la radio! 📻 (Design by Kateri Ang for @kcur.org)
We want to give YOU $20,000, plus more awesome prizes! Enter KCUR's first-ever Big Summer Giveaway for a chance at the grand prize, plus you'll support KCUR's journalism at the same time. Tickets are $20 each, and you can play as often as you want. Enter now at KCUR.org/win
KCUR is giving away $20,000 this month! Our first-ever BIg Summer Giveaway kicks off TODAY. Tickets are $20 each. One grand prize winner will be drawn on August 29. Proceeds go to support KCUR's local, independent journalism. Enter now, and enter often, at KCUR.org/win
We turned to you in our moment of need, and thousands of you chose to stand up and support us. From all of us at KCUR and Classical KC, thank you. But this fight isn't over. It's time to ensure the long-term financial stability of KCUR and Classical KC. Join now at KCUR.org/protect
Kansas City may be known for BBQ, but our taco scene is arguably just as strong. KCUR's Up To Date wants to hear from you: What Kansas City restaurants are serving the tastiest tacos in the metro?
KCUR is interviewing Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas (@mayorq.bsky.social) tomorrow on Up To Date. And we want to hear your questions. What's on your mind about Kansas City? We'll ask Lucas for answers, live on air. Tell us in the comments below or send us a text: 816-601-4777.
Hey Kansas City… we think you’re pretty cool. Do you wanna be our valentine? We made you some cards to help spread some of your KC love around to the people in your life… and maybe make that special connection. ;)
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KCUR's @juliedenesha.bsky.social was hanging out at The Quaff in downtown Kansas City during the AFC Championship. She captured some scenes of fans during the highs and lows of the game — and the sweet, sweet moment of victory. Full story: www.kcur.org/sports/2025-...
Some blizzard views from around KC: www.kcur.org/news/2025-01...