Downtown Greenville, Illinois, is 50 miles northeast of St. Louis, set back from Interstate 70 by several long, winding roads. On a bone-chilling January day with the imminent...
Every Man for Himself/God Against All, the current group exhibition at White Flag Projects (4568 Manchester Avenue; 314-531-3442 or www.whiteflagprojects.org), presents art...
From Tuesday, March 18, through Sunday, March 30, Maps Contemporary Art Space takes over the Front Room of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis to present a series of three...
You think you're familiar with the recorder, but you're mistaken. Oh, you may have dabbled in a little recorder-playing back in your school days, but Quartet New Generation...
The Ellen Curlee Gallery (1308-A Washington Avenue; www.ellencurleegallery.com or 314-504-3852) presents Grounded: Photography and Our Contemporary Environment, an...
The dream of every young man is to befriend a falcon. Forget ironic T-shirts, leather capes and sword canes; the ultimate male accessory is a hooded falcon on your wrist, its...
Whatever you might think about hometown princess Kimora Lee Simmons, you can't deny the fact that she's a woman who goes after what she wants — and gets it. And there's...
"Cherish the Ladies" is not just a mantra everyone should obey; it's also the name of a five-member female band that performs all traditional Irish music, all the time. The...
Everybody loves a produce vendor, right? It's almost spring, and the idea of farmers' markets makes American mouths salivate for all that is delicious and juicy and socially...
It's late when you nestle cozily beneath the soft covers, only to hear the rustle of night coming from beyond the sanctity of your bedroom's four walls. Never has the thought...
If you name a performance Hungarian Rhythm, it's a foregone conclusion that the music of Béla Bartók must be included. Few classical composers have done as much...
There's always hand-wringing over the loss of the arts in our school systems, but consider this: If you're a high schooler who dreams of a career in medicine, do you have an...
There has been some wacky legislation during our country's 230-plus years, and the Eighteenth Amendment — the one that prohibited the manufacture, transportation and sale...
Pi, the mathematical constant that is the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle, leads to strange areas. Often abbreviated as 3.14159, pi has no apparent...
As most people learn in their twenties, real weddings are not laugh riots. Either the bride forgets her veil, a groomsman is drunk, someone gives an awkward toast or another...
Fitness events are usually just fitness events, and they focus on the healthy parts of life, like hydration, Clif Bars and "just getting out and doing something" (a phrase that...
To be able to hide Easter eggs well, you need mad skills, and Ms. Day should know — she once interned at Now Hop to This, the parent corporation for all Easter...
As you've no doubt heard, there will be no outside alcohol allowed at this year's St. Patrick's Day Parade in Dogtown. So? Like you can't find a drink in Dogtown on St....
Opening Every Man For Himself/God Against All An ambitious show featuring works by Marco Boggio Sella, Tim Hyde, Jill Magid, Lilly McElroy, Zachariah Rockhill and Eric von...
Last October 27, when a band at JackSons' tavern in Dogtown cranked out a version of John Cougar Mellencamp's "Pink Houses" and backed it up with Bon Jovi's "Wanted Dead or...