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Jim Brainard

2 years 5 months ago

Jim Brainard’s exhibition “Bits & Pieces” creates assemblages made from found, often-neglected, objects such as tree bark, used matches, and corrugated cardboard. He also scavenges small mysterious pieces of trash

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Ryan Eckert

2 years 5 months ago

Ryan Eckert’s structural abstractions explore ideas about the state of splitting worldviews, depicted through the lens of biblical Christianity. Eckert’s works in his exhibition:“Two Worldviews” presents the clashing of ideals

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Mario Trejo

2 years 5 months ago

Mario Trejo’s exhibition “Idiosyncratic Tantrums” features extensive accumulations that visually explore eternity and struggle through manic mark making. Considering the concepts of time, space, and number. He creates hundreds of

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Now Playing: Into the Woods and Go, Dog. Go! Delight With Fanciful Storytelling

2 years 5 months ago
Stray Dog Theatre takes audiences on a fanciful journey Into the Woods Into the Woods, Stephen Sondheim’s grown-up musical about fairy tales, is successfully reframed and refreshed in Stray Dog Theatre’s charming, more intimate production. Set in a library, the show inventively taps into the audience’s collective memory with a look, feel and tone that leans into the natural exaggeration of the stories the book reimagines.
Tina Farmer

Attorney General Raoul Files Brief Fighting Against Decision To Block Medication Abortion Access

2 years 5 months ago
CHICAGO - Attorney General Kwame Raoul today, alongside a coalition of 24 attorneys general, filed an amicus brief challenging the decision issued by a judge in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas that could restrict medication abortion access nationwide. The amicus brief , filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, urges the court to suspend the district court’s ruling until the appeal can be heard. Raoul said if the ruling is allowed to take effect, it would halt the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) approval of the abortion drug mifepristone, which has been FDA approved for more than 20 years. Raoul and the coalition warned that revoking federal approval for mifepristone may drastically reduce access to safe abortion care and miscarriage management for millions of people across the country, endangering lives and trampling states’ authority to protect and promote access to abortion. Illinois was among 18 states to proactivel

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SZA Is Coming to St. Louis After All

2 years 5 months ago
Back in February, we thought St. Louis-born SZA had turned her back on her hometown. The singer behind hits like "Kill Bill" and "Good Days" is  even wearing a St. Louis Blues jacket on the cover of her SOS album (the one she's touring behind), so we felt the diss especially deeply. Well, we should not have doubted our hometown hero because in a recently released batch of tour dates, SZA is stopping by Enterprise Center (1401 Clark Avenue, 314-622-5400, enterprisecenter.com) on October 11.
Rosalind Early

Bike & Hike Event Aims to Whet Appetites for Hitting the Trails in Edwardsville

2 years 5 months ago
EDWARDSVILLE – On Saturday, May 20, all paths will lead to pancakes, thanks to the City of Edwardsville’s Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee and some partner organizations. A free pancake breakfast – served up by local VIP chefs – plus exhibits and information about vehicle-free ways to get around are on the menu for the first Bike & Hike to Breakfast event, to be held in partnership with the Land of Goshen Community Market in downtown Edwardsville. The event is part of the Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee’s mission to show how easy it is to walk, run, ride or bike throughout the community. The committee hopes to make this an annual event and to expand on it in future years. “The Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Committee is committed to promoting active living in our community,” committee Chairperson Jo Gibson said. "We are excited to kick off our efforts with this fun, family-friendly event.” To encourage participation,

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Sara Ghazi Asadollahi

2 years 5 months ago

The video work “Chaos” by Iranian-born, Atlanta-based multi-disciplinary artist Sara Ghazi Asadollahi is a visual interpretation of the timeless and deeply emotional poem by the Iranian poet, Furūgh Farrukhzād: “To

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