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Nobody Seems To Have An Answer For Propaganda Posing As Local News

2 years 7 months ago
While traditional local papers deserve no shortage of blame for their failure to adapt, media scholars have long pointed out that media consolidation paved the way for a lot of the problems we’re seeing today. The end result of consolidation was the gradual elbowing out of small local news outfits, leaving the sector peppered with […]
Karl Bode

Jean Shin: Home Base

2 years 7 months ago

New York state-based artist Jean Shin, Laumeier’s 2022 Visiting Artist in Residence, describes her work as “giving new form to life’s leftovers.” Her sculptures and installations transform familiar objects into

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Holocaust museum in St. Louis County reopens after years-long renovation project

2 years 7 months ago
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum reopened this week after a $21 million renovation that took two years to complete. The museum is now 36,000 square feet, four times larger than it was before. "The stories of St. Louis survivors really guide the visitor through the process," Amy Lutz of the Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum said. "We use the most up-to-date technology, up-to-date research to make that happen." Lutz said the Holocaust is a difficult history. Visitors will hear first-hand…
Rhyan Henson, KSDK

Review: Clara B’s Kitchen Table Is a Stunning Homage to Scratch Cooking

2 years 7 months ago
Jodie Ferguson was only six years old when she lost her grandmother, Clara Bloodworth, but their brief relationship was enough to have a lasting impact on her. A farmer's wife from Louisiana, Bloodworth moved to rural Pennsylvania after she got married and spent her days cooking for the farm hands and day laborers who would help her family work their land. Even after she got older and joined her daughter's family in Texas, Bloodworth could not help herself from taking over the kitchen, and when she did, little Ferguson was either on her hip or set up on the counter watching her grandma prepare okra and make what she referred to as doughnuts but were beignets.
Cheryl Baehr