A sky lit with clouds, a canopy of trees, a brook thick with fish you can catch in your bare hands. With its exultant natural imagery and ruminative narrator, Goran Stolevski's You Won't Be Alone feels at times like a Terrance Malick film, albeit one clawed through with shocking body horror.
Over the past year, Representative Kimberly Ann Collins (D-St. Louis) has been showing up at prisons unannounced. After finding out that state law allows legislators full access to state prisons at any time, she started doing “pop ups” at facilities last July. So far she has done more than 80.
The Center of Creative Arts (COCA) artistic director Jennifer Wintzer describes the organization's newest musical with excitement – it’s the final product of composer Colin Healy and the students in the COCAWrites program hard work over the last few months. What has culminated is Big Machine (FKA The Butterfly Room), the tale of a young girl with dreams of breaking out of a factory town, and it will hit the stage for the first time ever on April 14. Wintzer has been a leader in the COCAWrites program since it began two years ago.
As you’ve already probably noticed from the creepy skies and eerie glow outside this morning, the St. Louis area is expected to get hit by “significant severe weather” today, says the US National Weather Service in St. Louis. “Significant” is an important word here.
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Hot Box Cookies (multiple locations including 54 N Euclid Avenue, 314-899-0909) hopes to help stoners everywhere satisfy their munchies as the unofficial holiday – 4/20 – approaches. Not only are they rolling out a special menu, but they’re launching special merchandise and promotions to celebrate. The cookie spot is offering a $4.20 menu for four days — April 20 through April 23 — to feed the munchies of St. Louisan stoners and non-smokers alike.
Elaine Brewer thought she was out of options. Therapy didn't solve her constant anxiety and depression. Nor did five different antidepressant prescriptions.
Aloha Mischeaux is a St. Louis artist who was once a contestant on American Idol. When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, however, all of her shows came to a halt, and she found herself at home with her roommates. Watching them work remotely all day, she decided she'd contribute to the atmosphere by providing them with a much needed boost: She'd make them coffee.
The man at the center of a controversial March 19 incident — which police claim was an attempted police carjacking, and Kim Gardner’s office says was not — says he was in no way trying to steal a car.
When Jason Bibb needs to illustrate just how difficult it is to get into the Corner Bar's (571 First Capitol Drive, St. Charles; 636-724-9060) legendary cocked-hat bowling league — a tradition that dates back to at least the 1940s, if not all the way back to 1875 — all he has to do is point to his own situation.
Madan Chhetri, one of the best chefs in St. Louis, has no PR team, no white tablecloths in his dining room and little name recognition. He toils in relative obscurity on South Grand, where he spends his days and nights preparing the curries, noodles and various other Indo-Chinese, Thai and Indian dishes featured at Basil India (3183 South Grand Boulevard, 314-428-9711).
Spring has sprung and along with it, the RFT’s calendar will make its grand return. While calendar will be back in our next issue, we couldn’t miss a chance to highlight the cool things happening in the Lou this weekend.
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