Usually our weekends are packed solid with activities and social events. This weekend was a little different thanks in part due to my oldest daughter Kay breaking her big toe and therefore unable to play soccer until April. On Saturday my husband juggl... »
Here's the latest wrap-up of assorted links and short local news items of interest:* Pianist Vijay Iyer (pictured), who will be in St. Louis next week to play Wednesday, March 14 through Saturday, March 17 at Jazz at the Bistro, had a few words this we... »
.The Thursday Arch Series has the week off while I run through some more Mardi Gras parade images. Need to shoot some new Arch pictures, anyway.The parade had many enjoyable qualities but subtlety was not one of them. Blocks of intense color were the r... »
.If Tuesday is Fat Tuesday, Mardi Gras, yesterday in St. Louis was Samedi Jofflu, Chubby Saturday. They (whoever they are) say we have the second biggest Mardi Gras celebration in the U.S. after New Orleans. Not that we could remotely approach the size... »
I was sorry to hear the Paper Dolls have called it quits, but it appears that everyone involved has plenty of other things going on. Such is life (or, as Dick Richmond once put it in his P-D review of an ELP concert, “Sailor Be”). The Mardi Gras parade... »
Although there actually won't be any jazz at St. Louis' official Mardi Gras celebration this weekend - something yr. humble editor has ranted about in this space before - there are a fair number of jazz shows happening around town over the next few day... »
Too bad there wasn’t this much to do when real winter was out of town — figures it would return just when Mardi Gras activities get going: Friday, February 10 This weekend is the annual Cod & Cask Festival at the Schlafly Tap Room (2100 Locust). In... »
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