T.S Eliot once wrote that April is cruelest month, but here in St. Louis, December is turning out to be cruel for local music venues. On the heels of the recent announcement that Lucas School House will close at the year's end, the Webster Groves club Cookie's Jazz and More also is ending its run this Saturday night.
Opened in March 2004 by Harold and Cookie Whitfield in a Allen Avenue storefront in the Old Webster business district, the room offered straight-ahead Latin and smooth jazz from