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The deeper dive on “The Brothers Size” at The Rep is now up on St. Louis Art Scene. This is work that lives through breath and proximity — a production that stays in the body.

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Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep The long-running thriller affirms the theater as a ritual of fear and fascination

Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep
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Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director returns to her roots in jazz and cabaret.

Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon
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YouTube video by STL Stage Snaps Repertory Theatre of St. Louis WOMAN IN BACK

The Woman in Black, now at The Rep in St. Louis, turns silence and fog into a shared haunting. A gothic ritual of storytelling that lingers after the lights rise. 🎭

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Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice Sometimes the most expansive theater happens in the smallest of rooms

Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice
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Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths This is Stray Dog at its boldest

Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths
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YouTube video by STL Stage Snaps Stages St. Louis' BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

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Morning Glories, False Fall—and the Nostalgics Among Us — qwerky studio Early morning on Snob Hill, our small hillside enclave in St. Louis, and late summer is showing its hand. The light slants lower, shadows stretch longer, and the air carries that faint metallic tang t...

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Through August 24: “Jersey Boys” Closes The Muny’s 107th Season With Swagger and Falsetto Not so much a jukebox as a time machine stocked with memory, falsetto and swagger.

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Tesseract Theatre’s "Steel Magnolias" Blesses Hearts and Hugs Necks - Pop Life STL By CB Adams

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Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages It rarely animates the quicksilver intelligence at its core

Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages
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AI’s the Kind of Asshole Who Brings Store-Bought Dip to a Snob Hill Soirée — qwerky studio We recently indulged in a bit of digital slumming and asked one of those upstart AI platforms—Perplexity, bless its eager little circuits—to dream up five blog topics in the refined, vine-covered spir...

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Jed Clampett, Edna Lewis and Remembrance of Tomatoes Past — qwerky studio Natalia Ginzburg was an Italian writer known for her incisive essays and novels that often explored family life, memory and the quiet struggles of everyday existence. In one of her essays about Englis...

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Shit! I was doing some organizing in my camera closet and the merest accidental tap on the back of my Kodak 2D shattered the ground glass. I know it can be repaired, but this happened literally 10 minutes I just paid for the $300 CLA on the Nikon S2 rangefinder. Why, camera gods, why?

Well, Bless Your Byline — qwerky studio Life On Snob Hill’s meditation on writing, hubris, and why nobody—no matter how clever—owns the alphabet We were leafing through one of our favorite Southern magazines the other day—the kind that swa...

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Life On Snob Hill: Ballad of the Sunflower, the Swarm and Princess Pumpkin — qwerky studio “To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee. / And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few.” — Emily Dickinson We’re not ones to curate perfection on Snob ...

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Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High The summer season opener delivers athleticism and exuberance, but it’s in the hip-hop cadence and communal energy of its second school where the show most resonates.

Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High
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When You Don't Wind Film Far Enough With a Vintage Diana Camera You Get This.

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Huge bowling pin outside a bowling alley along a roadside. Black and white Americana photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.

Sometimes life feels like the perfect game, sometimes it feels more like a 7-10 split…

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A large old tree turning to driftwood on a quiet beach under a dark brooding sky. Black and white photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.

What do you see in the sea? Everything that was, and everything that will be.

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This begs to be photographed with a Holga or other toy camera. Love the interplay between clouds and tiled bowling pin. Nice compo!

Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz This madcap musical two-hander unleashes a killer performances with quick-change chaos, piano duels and comic invention where the whodunit is beside the point

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I am truly enamored with the process of making photographs with an 8x10 view camera. It is unique, and distinctively different than even shooting 4x5, which I do a lot of. This is part of my ongoing Hive Minded Missouri Beekeepers portrait project. #8x10 #largeformat #largeformatphotography

The Zen of Dying Quietly, and Other Teachings by Senator Joni Ernst “Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans’ cuts to M...

Healing the body is expensive. Transcending the reality of space and time is free. It’s just so obvious once you do the math. Do the math now. Then we shall cut every math department.

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Livin' la Vida Loca

Another from my recent foray into #perryvillemo to photograph a husband/wife team of #amateurbeekeepers as part of my ongoing #missouribeekeepersphotographyproject. When I work with these subjects, our sessions are part #envionmentalportrait and part #documentaryphotography.

When Your Barn Door's Open.

This is a decent scan, but I can't wait to work on this photograph in the darkroom so I can make the siding look less blown out and improve the contrast.

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Come Down.

The barn was razed a week or so after I made this photograph with an Original Diana camera and some Holga 400 (Foma 400) film. Reminds me exactly of why I love to shoot toy cameras.

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