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Segment 1: Kansas City is part of a global mission to collect and exhibit Holocaust survivor portraits. Luigi Toscano wants people to look in the eyes of Holocaust survivors. His large-format photographs displayed in cities worldwide have elicited strong responses, ranging from a reunion of two former schoolmates separated by war to violent attacks in Vienna, where entire communities showed up to repair and protect the art. Luigi Toscano , photographer, Lest We Forget at the World War I Museum

Ken Burns' Country Music series inspires interviews with Kansas City musicians about what country music means to them. David Cantwell , pop and country music critic, contibutor to Rolling Stone Country and the New Yorker Kelly Hunt , banjo player Maria Elena Cuevas , Maria the Mexican Scott Hobart , Rex Hobart and the Misery Boys Madisen and Ruth Ward , Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear

Segment 1: Generational differences in responding to climate change are complex. Last week's climate strikes in Kansas City were organized by a young Kansas Citian who left the film industry and moved halfway across the country to take on this fight. His story represents a differing sense of urgency around climate change, but more than that, too. Michael Wolfe , Press Coordinator and Kansas Policy Advisor, Sunrise Movement Kansas City Matthew Ballew , postdoctoral associate, Yale Program on

Segment 1: A KU researcher's studies provide context for news from the Amazon. As global leaders gather for a climate change summit, a KU researcher shares new satellite-based data on the impact of deforestation in the Amazon, with particular insights into where this year's fire (which is still raging) fits in, both environmentally and politically. Gabriel de Oliveira , post-doctoral researcher, KU Department of Geography and Atmospheric Science Segment 2: Is Kansas City a good place to get your

Jean Peters Baker has been the Jackson County Prosecutor since 2011, and she's often in the news, but usually talking about everything but herself. Today we learn about her personal life experience and how it's shaped her indignation in the courtroom and beyond. Plus, insights into her political aspirations and the future of the Democratic Party in Missouri.

Americans spend an average of 90,000 hours at work in a lifetime. So what we do at work isn't separate from life. It is life. At a recent event hosted by Central Standard, people gathered to tell true stories from life on the job. We're sharing a few of those stories with you here. Daniel Wolff , author, Grown-Up Anger: The Connected Mysteries of Bob Dylan, Woody Guthrie and the Calumet Massacre of 1913 David Lopez , general manager, Manny's Mexican Restaurant of Kansas City Quinton Lucas ,

Segment 1: A new documentary explores the life of abstract expressionist painter Albert Bloch. Albert Bloch lived the final decades of his life in Lawrence, Kansas. But at the height of his career, he was a member of a band of artists that helped create modernism in Europe. Tim de Paepe , filmmaker, AB David Cateforis , chair, KU Department of Art History Segment 2: Calvin Arsenia's new album is a milestone in his professional and personal growth. A Kansas City harpist and vocalist just recorded

If fast food is an American ritual, the hamburger is our "secular wafer." That's according to the author of a new book, Drive Thru Dreams . He says the story of fast food begins with the invention of the hamburger in Wichita, Kansas. Adam Chandler , author Drive-Thru Dreams

Segment 1: Fresh cocktails for a new season. As summer winds down, two mixologists join us to share their favorite autumnal cocktails. Brock Schulte , bar director at The Monarch Bar Jill Cockson , owner of Swordfish Tom's Segment 2: The best Italian food in Kansas City. Our food critics recommend their favorite Italian dishes across the city, from classics like spaghetti and meatballs, to experimental plates of carrot pesto or bone marrow. Carlton Logan , KCFoodGuys.com and the Kansas City Eats

Segment 1: Artists are reviving the shopping mall experience. There's a new trend in malls. Whereas the spaces artists were transforming a couple decades back tended to be abandoned warehouses in industrial parts of town, now the suburban shopping mall's providing that canvas. Dave Claflin , marketing consultant for area shopping malls Segment 2: Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski is in town with a cookbook. The food expert from Netflix's Queer Eye wrote his new cookbook while filming seasons 3 and 4