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Fair St. Louis 50 South Leanor K. Sullivan Boulevard	Sat., July 4	St. Louis - Riverfront	Cheap Thrills Festivals Fourth of July Free Events
If you grew up in St. Louis, you know what the Fourth of July means: The V.P. Fair. Oh, officially, it's called Fair St. Louis, but come on. We still call Highway 40 Highway 40. Old habits don't die in this town, and that's a good thing. Traditions like Fair St. Louis are what keep this town... More >>

St. Louis Aces Dwight Davis Tennis Center	Sat., July 4	St. Louis - Forest Park	Fourth of July Sports - Spectator
The St. Louis Aces of the World Team Tennis League return to action this week with two games. On Thursday, July 2, they face the Boston Lobsters, and on Saturday, July 4, they play the New York Sportimes. The Independence Day match is also "I (Heart) St. Louis Night," which means toasted... More >>

Richie Hawtin Koken Art Factory	Sat., July 4, 8:00pm	St. Louis - Soulard/Benton Park	Music
It seems like the world can't shut up about Twitter lately. The micro-blogging network has exploded to over 25 million users already, what with celebrities like Oprah joining along with their mindless minion hordes. But beyond providing us with the irritating mundanities of our friends'... More >>

Red Headed Strangers CD Release Off Broadway	Sat., July 4, 9:00pm	St. Louis - Soulard/Benton Park	Music
Named after Willie Nelson’s best album, local group the Red-Headed Strangers knows something about classic country songwriting and even more about simple rootsy melodies. The four Sullivan siblings (Brian, Maureen, Dan and Tim) pass the mic and buoy one another with an inborn sense of... More >>

Jerald Ieans: Waves and Rococo Hoffman LaChance Contemporary	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., May 29 until Sat., July 4	Maplewood	Art
"Rococo" inspires visions of bric-a-brac and gorgeous clutter, a visual overload of fiddly bits and gilt. So why is painter Jerald Ieans' new exhibit entitled Waves and Rococo? Ieans works large, creating sinuous curves of paint that snake across the canvas in pink and orange. They're art-deco... More >>

Sullivan's Travels Webster University-Moore Auditorium	Daily from Fri., July 3 until Sun., July 5	Webster Groves	Cheap Thrills Film
Sully Sullivan (Joel McCrea) is a successful director of light comedies for a major film studio during the Depression. The work pays well, but it's fluff. Sullivan believes it's his calling to make a serious film that will ease the burden of his impoverished fellow man through a unique blend of... More >>

Thomas Struth: Photographs Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts	Every week Wednesday, Saturday from Wed., June 24 until Sat., October 3	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art Photo
Photographer Thomas Struth has expressed in interviews his "interest in the fate of art in museums." To him, the central question of the museum comes down to determining if museums are cemeteries or living organisms. Are classical paintings being storehoused as relics, or are they communicating... More >>

Waiting in the Wings Fontbonne University Fine Arts Theatre	Every other week Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., June 19 until Sun., July 5	Clayton	Theater
Things are hopping at the Wings, the retirement home for old actresses. The charitable trust that maintains the home has arranged a fundraising performance by young actors to benefit the home, and it turns out most of the retired actresses do pro bono work as critics. There's also a bit of a... More >>

Ansel Adams in Yosemite Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Sat., June 13 until Sun., September 13	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art
The grand beauty of the Sierra Nevada mountains fascinated Ansel Adams from the time of he first visited in 1916, when he was just fourteen. He returned to the area year after year, photographing the wild landscape over the span of his long life. Ansel Adams in Yosemite, a selection of nine... More >>

Carnaval The Griot Museum of Black History	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Sat., June 20 until Tue., August 11	St. Louis - North Downtown	Art Juneteenth
What St. Louis knows as Mardi Gras is called Carnaval in some countries and Fasching in others. By any name, Carnival allows people to live life a little more fully, at least until Ash Wednesday. Juneteenth, the holiday in honor of the Emancipation Proclamation, follows the same principles of... More >>

Chantal Akerman: Moving Through Time and Space and Carey Young: Speech Acts Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., May 8 until Sun., August 2	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art
Continuing its tradition of opening two shows on the same night, the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org) opens a pair of very neatly fitted exhibits with a free public reception from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday, May 8. British artist... More >>

Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Thu., April 2 until Sun., July 5	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art
Claudia Schmacke's art addresses her interest in matters of temporality and perception. Currents 103: Claudia Schmacke, her exhibit at the Saint Louis Art Museum, uses an installation and two videos to present her ideas. Time Reel is a mass of plastic tubes filled with water and suspended from... More >>

Ends of the Earth: From Polar Bears to Penguins Saint Louis Science Center	Daily from Sat., May 16 until Mon., September 7	St. Louis - Forest Park	Museum Exhibits & Events
Two penguins are standing on an iceberg. Penguin No. 1 says to Penguin No. 2, "Looks like you're wearing a tuxedo." Penguin No. 2 replies, "...Maybe I am." Now that we've shared our favorite surreal penguin joke (OK, our only surreal penguin joke), it's time to get serious. Penguins must carry... More >>

FASTx3 White Flag Projects	Every week Wednesday, Saturday from Sat., June 20 until Sat., July 18	St. Louis - Forest Park Southeast	Art
A question for all you recent college graduates: What, exactly, do you have to show for your four-plus years in higher education? Let me guess — a few hundred Facebook friends, a mountain of debt and a fancy-pants diploma all done up in frilly script. Not so for the long-suffering art... More >>

Fly Me to the Moon Saint Louis Science Center-OMNIMAX	Daily from Tue., March 10 until Thu., October 29	St. Louis - Forest Park	Film
It's 1969, and the world twitters with anticipation for the Apollo 11 mission, which will put the first human beings on the moon. Not exempt from the excitement are a trio of flies, Nat, Scooter and IQ, who are constructing their own rocket just across the way from Cape Canaveral. But being... More >>

Front Room: Sam Moyer & Lesley Vance & Stan VanDerBeek Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis	Every week Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., July 1 until Sun., July 26	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art
Sam Moyer & Lesley Vance & Stan VanDerBeek, the new exhibition in the Front Room of the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org), features three artists who work independently of one another. Nonetheless, there seems to be a faint... More >>

Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk Saint Louis Science Center-OMNIMAX	Daily from Thu., January 22 until Thu., October 29	St. Louis - Forest Park	Film Nature
When I see the Mississippi River a-flowin' by my transmissionless van, I picture a glorious future for tourism in St. Louis, because it makes me think of the Colorado River. A couple million years ago, the Colorado River tweren't nothin' much, just a wide ribbon of water flowing through the... More >>

Greenspace West Kirkham and North Gore avenues	Daily from Sun., June 28 until Fri., September 4	Webster Groves	Art
Indoor galleries are generally filled with a sense of quiet contemplation and an austerity that the unpredictable outdoors can never replicate. At an indoor art opening, the work demands your attention — but from a safe distance, both physically and mentally. But at an art show outside,... More >>

Katherine Dunham: Beyond the Dance Missouri History Museum	Daily from Sun., November 2 until Sun., November 8	St. Louis - Forest Park	Dance Museum Exhibits & Events
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 >>

Missouri Botanical Garden's Victorian Floral Clock Missouri Botanical Garden	Daily from Fri., May 1 until Thu., October 1	St. Louis - Tower Grove	Landmarks Home & Garden
In honor of the Missouri Botanical Garden's 150th anniversary, the very Victorian idea of the floral clock has been dusted off and revitalized. At twenty feet in diameter, MOBOT's version of the floral clock is big enough to be seen from a distance, but this one is powered by solar offsets from... More >>

Of Animals: Photographs by Frank Noelker Sheldon Concert Hall	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., June 12 until Sat., September 5	St. Louis - Grand Center	Art
If you're an animal lover, Frank Noelker's photographs are harrowing. There's nothing grisly depicted in them, no slaughterhouse exposé or safari aftermath; no, the horror is generated from within the viewer. Noelker visited more than 300 zoos to create his portrait photographs of... More >>

Play It Cool Magic House	Daily from Mon., May 25 until Mon., September 7	Kirkwood	Children's Events
Tired of listening to the endless blips and bloops of video games? Would you like those child-size dents in your sofa cushions to disappear? The Magic House (516 South Kirkwood Road, Kirkwood; 314-822-8900 or www.magichouse.org) opens its new Play Garden this week, just in time for summer. From... More >>

Recent Acquistions in Prints and Photographs Saint Louis Art Museum	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Wed., April 15 until Sun., July 5	St. Louis - Forest Park	Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum has a rather extensive collection of art, one that remains a work in progress. Part of the museum's mandate is to acquire more art — as a cultural institution, it has a responsibility to grow, not just tread water. The only drawback of the museum's success in... More >>

Rirkrit Tiravanija: Chew the Fat Washington University-Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum	Every week Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday from Fri., May 8 until Mon., July 27	University City	Art
In the mid-1990s, artists such as Philippe Parreno, Maurizio Cattelan, Elizabeth Peyton and Carsten Höller were lumped together under the rubric “relational aesthetics” by French critic Nicolas Bourriaud due to their interest in the rapidly changing nature of social interaction... More >>

Splinter of the Mind's Eye Philip Slein Gallery	Every week Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday from Fri., June 5 until Sat., July 18	St. Louis - Washington Avenue	Art
Flying cars, matching unitards and the moon base have yet to happen — and we live in 2009. What happened to the futuristic world promised by almost 100 years of science fiction? Are we too prosaic and tied to the past to achieve our cosmic destiny? Maybe the bulk of humanity is... More >>