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| Amateur Boxing Show & Live Auction for Kelty O'Brien South Broadway Athletic Club | Thu., December 4 | St. Louis - Soulard/Benton Park | |
In the morning hours of Friday, November 7, Kelty O'Brien was murdered a day before his 46th birthday while driving to work. As the investigation continues, friends and family have joined together and organized a fundraiser to help cover O'Brien's funeral expenses. The South Broadway Athletic... More >> |
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| Boston Burlesque Fountain on Locust | Thu., December 4 | St. Louis - Grand Center | |
Sip on an ice cream martini as you watch lovely ladies perform funny burlesque routines in the art-deco confines of the Fountain on Locust (3037 Locust Street; 314-535-7800 or www.fountainonlocust.com). The show happens from 8 to 9:30 p.m., but the drinks flow even later! And admission is free! More >> |
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| Helvetica Missouri History Museum | Thu., December 4 | St. Louis - Forest Park | |
Should anyone be surprised that a Swiss man devised a typeface with neutrality as its strongest feature? Designer Max Miedinger's Helvetica (as it became known) was seen as a great step forward because the face has no implied meaning — it allows what's written to convey all meaning. If... More >> |
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| Historic Holiday Candlelight Tour Eugene Field House & St. Louis Toy Museum | Thu., December 4 | St. Louis - Downtown | |
This season, explore a bit of St. Louis that may be overlooked by going on the Historic Holiday Candlelight Tour. The six landmarks that are included in the holiday festivities are the Campbell House Museum (1508 Locust Street), the historic Samuel Cupples House (3673 West Pine Mall), the... More >> |
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| Arny Nadler: Beacons Philip Slein Gallery | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., November 7 until Tue., December 23 | St. Louis - Washington Avenue | |
Earlier this year, artist Richard Serra lamented the decline in art appreciation thanks to the digital age. With the Internet and e-mail, people can "see" almost any piece of art in the world, albeit in a digitized format. Is seeing a monitor-size and -scale JPG of the Mona Lisa the same thing... More >> |
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| Chippewa Chapel Traveling Guitar Circle, Medicine Show and Open Mic The Wedge | Every week Thursday, 8:00pm | St. Louis - South City | |
The Chapels Thursday night follickings return to the south-side September 4, 2008 at The Stable. Located in the stables of the old Lemp Brewery, The Stable is St. Louiss newest hot spot. Complete with a 300-year-old bar, wrought iron chandeliers, an upscale bar menu, and a fantastic... More >> |
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| Die! Mommie! Die! Tower Grove Abbey | Every week Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Thu., December 4 until Sat., December 20 | St. Louis - South Grand | |
Lifetime movies — with their over-dramatic storylines, suspense-building plots and tidy two-hour runtimes — make for some pretty entertaining TV. Sure, you might not buy into all the hype and silliness, but you have to admit that you love to peer in on families that are crazier and... More >> |
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| Front Room: Ian Burns Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis |
Tue., November 25 more dates/times |
St. Louis - Grand Center | |
Artist Ian Burns creates Rube Goldberg-style machines that simultaneously make and unmake an image. Burns' constructs are sort of walk-in dioramas, accretions of household objects and clever engineering that viewers enter in order to see the desired image, which may be a light projection, a... More >> |
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| HotCity Theatre: The Dead Guy Kranzberg Arts Center Studio Theatre |
Fri., November 21 more dates/times |
St. Louis - Grand Center | |
There's this guy Eldon, and he's a total loser — the perfect schmuck, if you will. One night in a bar, he's offered the deal of his pointless little life: the starring role in a new reality series. He'll be given a million dollars, and cameras will record and broadcast his every moment... More >> |
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| Ladue Chapel Nursery School Holiday Mart Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church |
Thu., December 4 more dates/times |
Ladue | |
At the Ladue Chapel Presbyterian Church (9450 Clayton Road; 314-993-3993), it's time to get your shop on from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday (December 4 and 5). This Holiday Mart features more than 40 vendors selling all manner of goodies for kiddos (including items... More >> |
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| Point-of-View: Center for Survivors of Torture and War Trauma Mokabe's Coffeehouse | Daily from Tue., November 18 until Tue., December 30 | St. Louis - South Grand | |
The flourishing multiculturalism in St. Louis is evident if you just pay a little closer attention to your surroundings. A drive down South Grand Boulevard, for instance, will show you restaurants serving cuisines from all over the world — Afghani, Ethiopian and Vietnamese included. While... More >> |
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| Stepping Out Stage III, Webster Hall | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., December 3 until Sun., December 14 | Webster Groves | |
Adult dance classes are filled with a host of characters. There are your still-living-the-dream serious types, your skilled dancers who encourage their classmates, your timid and shy people who can't break out of their shells, and so on. In other words, it's kind of like your office but with... More >> |
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| This Wonderful Life Loretto-Hilton Center |
Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., November 26 until Wed., December 24 more dates/times |
Webster Groves | |
He's been framed for bank fraud. Fleeing in a drunken panic, he crashes his car and then stumbles to a bridge to throw himself into the icy waters below. Yes, that's George Bailey's predicament in the feel-good holiday classic It's a Wonderful Life. But if your appreciation of Frank Capra's... More >> |
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| Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning and American Art, 1940-1976 Saint Louis Art Museum | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sun., October 19 until Sun., January 11 | St. Louis - Forest Park | |
After World War II, American artists emerged as leaders of a new direction in art, not followers of the old ways. Painters such as Pollock and de Kooning gained prominence not just for the protean work they created, but because rival art critics Harold Rosenberg and Clement Greenberg argued... More >> |
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| Battle of the Champions Subterranean Books | Daily from Fri., November 14 until Sun., January 11 | Delmar/The Loop | |
Pat Benatar once taught us that love is a battlefield, and while she was so, so right, it appears that in the world of competitive poster-making, love is a boxing ring. At least that's the setting selected at Subterranean Books (6275 Delmar Boulevard, University City), as Subby hosts a dual art... More >> |
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| Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design and Culture at Mid-Century Washington University-Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum | Every week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 19 until Mon., January 5 | University City | |
From the 1950s to the mid-1960s, it seemed like everything and everyone in California was cool: Pierre Koenig and others were designing airy case-study homes, and Charles and Ray Eames' sleek furniture looked gorgeous in those types of spaces; painters including Karl Benjamin were creating... More >> |
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| Eva Lundsager: New Works Greenberg Van Doren Gallery | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday from Thu., October 23 until Fri., December 12 | St. Louis - Midtown | |
Some of the most long-lasting art makes its mark through gentle, subjective interpretations of a scene instead of direct representation. For artist Eva Lundsager, the use of allusion and simile is crucial to her painting. Lundsager's watercolor and oil paintings work by suggestion rather than... More >> |
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| Katherine Dunham: Beyond the Dance Missouri History Museum | Daily from Sun., November 2 until Sun., November 8 | St. Louis - Forest Park | |
On May 21, 2006, St. Louis, and the world, lost a great visionary when Illinois-born Katherine Dunham passed away at the age of 96. Fortunately, her legacy and her contributions to dance still shine brightly. The Missouri History Museum (Lindell Boulevard and DeBaliviere Avenue) honors this... More >> |
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| Lutz Bacher: Spill and Aïda Ruilova: The Singles 1999-Now Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis | Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 12 until Sun., January 4 | St. Louis - Grand Center | |
Lutz Bacher: Spill is the first-ever solo exhibition by this prolific artist, which is surprising considering she first gained notice with her document collage piece The Lee Harvey Oswald Interview in 1976. What's more surprising is that Spill and its attendant art book SMOKE (Gets in Your... More >> |
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| Monarch's Wine Bar Monarch | Every week Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday | Maplewood | |
Today's the big day: You're finally going out for drinks with that nice young lady from accounting. Nothing too fancy -- it's not a Saturday-night dinner, for crying out loud! -- but you want to make a good impression, so you're taking her to the wine bar at Monarch (7401 Manchester Road,... More >> |
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| Mysteries of the Great Lakes Saint Louis Science Center-OMNIMAX | Daily from Thu., September 18 until Thu., April 16 | St. Louis - Forest Park | |
After inches of rain were dumped on us by the remnants of Hurricane Ike, many of us are just plain sick of water. If you've redecorated your basement to include a Shop-Vac and an assortment of fans, you feel our pain. But in order to forgive the water, you must understand the water. The new... More >> |
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| Not That Cuddly: An Exhibition of Misfit Toys Eugene Field House & St. Louis Toy Museum | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., August 20 until Tue., December 30 | St. Louis - Downtown | |
Today's favorite doll or stuffed animal is the stuff of tomorrow's nightmares. (Except for Bratz dolls — those things are God-awful now and forever.) Don't believe it? Picture those creepy wooden-headed dolls that were all the rage during the Little House on the Prairie era: Something in... More >> |
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| Outdoor Ice Skating at Steinberg Skating Rink Steinberg Skating Rink | Daily from Thu., November 27 until Mon., March 30 | St. Louis - Forest Park | |
Your eyes are streaming, your cheeks are chapped and the snot is frozen on your upper lip congratulations, youre ice skating outdoors during a Midwestern winter! Why are you doing this to yourself? Because its fun, thats why. Outdoor skating is a communal experience, as... More >> |
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| Persuasive Politics: Presidential Campaign Memorabilia Saint Louis University-Museum of Art | Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., September 5 until Sun., December 21 | St. Louis - Midtown | |
In retrospect, why was Richard Milhouse Nixon electable? Kennedy drank his milkshake in the 1960 election, and his hangdog expression and dour nastiness didn't improve with time. The answer is obvious: Nixon looked fantastic as a cartoon character. His campaign team capitalized on this with a... More >> |
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| Sharks Saint Louis Science Center-OMNIMAX | Daily from Mon., November 3 until Thu., March 5 | St. Louis - Forest Park | |
Shark fans have very few requirements for a good movie. One, make sure the title of the film gives some sense of the shark's role in the proceedings. Two, give us lots of sharks. Not just gratuitous footage of sharks swimming, swarming and eating, but many varieties of sharks doing these... More >> |
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