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This week's Retro Cocktail Hour is all about Valentine's Day in the first hour, with tunes about L-O-V-E by Sinatra, the George Shearing Quintet, Pony Sherrell, Errol Garner and Warren Kime's Brass Impact!
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For Valentine's Day, Film Music Friday delves into music from movies about love and romance, including Love Actually, Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso and more. -
Music professor Colin Roust discusses the complete works of Francis Johnson, an internationally famous African American composer who reshaped the origins of American music.
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Updates from Kansas Public Radio
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Republican lawmakers will try to override the Democratic governor’s veto and put the ban into law. It penalizes individuals who use restrooms that don’t match the sex they were assigned at birth. -
Love is in the air. Love is also ON the air. Tune in to hear what KPR is serving up. -
The Netherlands are the third World Cup country to pick Kansas City as its home base this summer. The Dutch men's national team will play a group stage match at Arrowhead Stadium in June. -
The Unified Government’s Planning Commission advanced a two-year ban on special permits for jails and detention centers. In a letter to federal officials, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids opposed any ICE detention centers in the Kansas City area. -
Two more teams can still make their home in and around Kansas City for the upcoming tournament, with training sites in Lawrence and Riverside still available.
Latest From NPR
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More than 6,000 people were killed in over three days when a Sudanese paramilitary group unleashed "a wave of intense violence" in Sudan's Darfur region in late October, according to the UN. -
"There doesn't seem to be any shame about this among people who used to feel like you had to have some sort of decorum," Obama said in an interview that was posted on YouTube Saturday. -
This band of airborne health workers bring essential medical care to isolated communities in the southern African nation. In addition to turbulence, they face a new obstacle: budget cuts. -
Ilia Malinin's painful falls at the Milan Cortina Games follow in a long tradition of great U.S. athletes who get the "yips" or the "twisties" during the Olympics. -
U.S. Alpine skier Mikaela Shiffrin looks unstoppable everywhere except the Olympics. She's running out of chances to medal at the Milan Cortina Games.
On this edition of Conversations, Amy Meislin Pollack talks with host Dan Skinner about the third book in a series featuring the character Jelly Bean.
