Qwerky Studio - CB Adams

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams

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Visit www.qwerkyphotography.com. Thinker. Writer. Cultural Arts Reporter/Reviewer. Creative Lifer. Mostly Analogue Photographer -- 35mm, Medium Format, Large Format. Leica. Rolleiflex. Nikon. Pentax. Toyo. Graflex. #believeinfilm

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Life On Snob Hill: How We Complicate the Evergreen — qwerky studio Family, Tradition, and the Light We Choose

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Life on Snob Hill: An Ordinary December Mystery — qwerky studio In the sunroom on Snob Hill, the Christmas cacti have taken up their annual positions, side by side, equal light, equal water, equal care. And, as always, they have decided to behave entirely differen...

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Life On Snob Hill: Poetry & the Age of Snowmageddon — qwerky studio In recent years, we’ve been reading more poetry than we ever did before. Koans and sestinas. Haiku and free verse, questioning whether verse, or even words, are ever really free. Whatever. We are demo...

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2 months ago

Ahh the Isolga! Now I’m inspired to get mine out

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2 months ago

Love this one so moody

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3 months ago
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Through December 7: New Jewish Theatre turns "Baskerville” into a BritBox-Turned-to-11 Delight A fun, fleet, joyful night out

Through December 7: New Jewish Theatre turns "Baskerville” into a BritBox-Turned-to-11 Delight
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4 months ago
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Dance St. Louis' ABT STUDIO COMPANY YouTube video by STL Stage Snaps

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4 months ago
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Opera Review: Winter Opera St. Louis Conjured a Light, Lyric Spell with “The Sorcerer” Stage director John Stephens guided the action with brisk pacing and a sure comic hand

Opera Review: Winter Opera St. Louis Conjured a Light, Lyric Spell with “The Sorcerer”
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4 months ago
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Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life Breath became structure and attention felt like devotion.

Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life
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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.

Read the review there. bit.ly/4o7nqCl

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5 months ago
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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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#operatheatrestl #patriciaracette #thesheldon

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Repertory Theatre of St. Louis WOMAN IN BACK YouTube video by STL Stage Snaps

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. 🎭

#STLStageSnaps #STLRep #StLouisTheatre #STLArts #TheWomanInBlackSTL

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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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5 months ago
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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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5 months ago
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Stages St. Louis' BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL YouTube video by STL Stage Snaps

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

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STL Stage Snaps Fast takes on STL theater, music & more — your quick-hit guide to the best of St. Louis performing arts.

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My A Streetcar Named Desire review already has 400+ views, while Evita is rocking 1,100+!

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7 months ago
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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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7 months ago
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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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7 months ago
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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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7 months ago
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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?

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8 months ago
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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...

#lifestyle #stlouiswriter #journalism #magazinejournalism #qwerkystudio #lifeonsnobhill #lifeonsnobhillblog

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8 months ago
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Union Avenue Opera's MY FAIR LADY #stlstagesnaps #unionavenueopera YouTube video by STL Stage Snaps

Adams On Opera! The Review Is Up!
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8 months ago
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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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#VolunteerPlants #SurpriseGarden #SlowLiving #FoundBeauty #PoeticLiving #SerendipityInNature #LifeOnSnobHill #SnobHillGarden #SnobHillBees #PrincessPumpkin

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8 months ago
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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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8 months ago
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When You Don't Wind Film Far Enough With a Vintage Diana Camera You Get This.

#toycamera #foma400 #diana #toycamera #lofiphotography #shotonfilm #emulsive #filmshooter #shootmorefilme #analogue #analog #plasticlens #plasticcamera #krappykamera

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9 months ago
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…

#bowling #roadside #travel #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photography #eastcoastkin

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