5-7pm: KDHX
7-9pm: The Kranzberg Jazz Jam hosted by Bob DeBoo at The Kranzberg
9-11pm: The Dark Room at The Grandel (Featuring a rotating line-up)

Every Wednesday evening, the St. Louis community comes together for the Wednesday Night Jazz Crawl, live in Grand Center. Free, family-friendly, and open to jazz lovers of all ages, this weekly event celebrates the finest in jazz talent, and the venues that form the backbone of a St. Louis legacy.

Sponsored by the Kranzberg Arts Foundation, the Wednesday Night Jazz Crawl helps continue the Foundation’s mission to establish the essential infrastructure necessary for the arts to thrive in the St. Louis community and bring the arts within reach for people of all ages and backgrounds.

Baby” Walker is the coolest boy in Baltimore. He’s a bad boy with a good cause — truth, justice, and the pursuit of rock and roll.

Wayward youth, juvenile delinquents, sexual repression, cool music, dirty lyrics, social rejects, it’s all here! New Line opens its 29th season in October 2019 with the hilarious rockabilly musical CRY-BABY, based on the classic John Waters film.

At the center of this world are the star-crossed lovers, Cry-Baby and the square rich girl Allison, just a good girl who yearns to be bad in Cry-Baby’s arms. Fueled by hormones and the new rhythms of rock and roll, she turns her back on her squeaky clean boyfriend Baldwin to become a “drape” (a Baltimore juvenile delinquent) and Cry-Baby’s moll. At the other end of the topsy-turvy moral meritocracy of 1954 America, Baldwin as the king of the squares leads his close-harmony pals against the juvenile delinquents, who are ultimately arrested for arson, sending the drapes all off to prison. It’s Romeo and Juliet meets High School Hellcats.

CRY-BABY has a score by David Javerbaum (The Daily Show) and Adam Schlesinger (Fountains of Wayne), and a book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehan, based on John Waters’ classic indie film. O’Donnell and Meehan also adapted John Waters’ Hairspray for the musical stage. Cry-Baby premiered at the La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego in November 2007 and opened on Broadway in April 2008. New Line first produced the show regionally in March 2012, after negotiating the first regional production rights in the country. The original creative team revised the show for New Line and commissioned new orchestrations, to make it a smaller, more intimate musical, with a 6-piece rock band.

CRY-BABY was nominated for four Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book of a Musical, Best Original Score, and Best Choreography. It was also nominated for Best Musical by the Drama League and the Outer Critics Circle Awards. Terry Teachout wrote in the Wall Street Journal, “You want funny? I’ll give you funny, or at least tell you where to find it: Cry-Baby, the new John Waters musical, is campy, cynical, totally insincere and fabulously well crafted. And funny. Madly, outrageously funny. It is, in fact, the funniest new musical since Avenue Q. If laughter is the best medicine, then Cry-Baby is the whole damn drugstore.” Newsday called the show “pleasantly demented and — deep in the sweet darkness of its loopy heart — more true to the cheerful subversion of a John Waters movie than its sentimental big sister Hairspray.” The New Jersey Star-Ledger called it, “candy for adults who like their musicals nutty — and not so nice.”

The New Line cast includes Caleb Miofsky (as Wade “Cry Baby” Walker), Grace Langford (Allison Vernon-Williams), Margeau Steinau (Mrs. Vernon-Williams), Marshall Jennings (Dupree W. Dupree), Jake Blonstein (Baldwin Blandish), Reagan Deschaine (Pepper Walker), Jaclyn Amber (Wanda Woodward), Sarah Dowling (Mona “Hatchet-Face” Malnorowski), AJ Surrel (Lenora Frigid), Todd Micali, Stephen Henley, Ian McCreary, Christopher Strawhun, Maggie Nold, and Grace Minnis. The New Line production will be directed by Scott Miller and Mike Dowdy-Windsor, with music direction by Nicolas Valdez, choreography by Michelle Sauer, scenic design by Rob Lippert, costume design by Colene Fornachon, lighting design by Kenneth Zinkl, and sound design by Ryan Day.

Produced by arrangement with Music Theatre International, New York.

Join us for the 9th Annual Oktoberfest St. Louis Friday, Sept. 27 – Sunday, Sept. 29 at the Midtown Brewery & Biergarten in Grand Center Arts District!

Our biggest annual festival spans three full days with festivities kicking off at noon on Friday.

Dates:
Friday 9/27: noon – midnight
Saturday 9/28: 11 a.m. – midnight
Sunday 9/29: noon – 7 p.m.

Once again, we’ve partnered with the Kranzberg Arts Foundation to bring a full lineup of polka, and oompah-thumping music to the fest as well as performances by members of Circus Flora on Sunday! A portion of proceeds from the entire weekend will be donated to the Kranzberg Arts Foundation to support their mission of providing local artists and arts organizations the resources and infrastructure necessary for the arts to thrive in St. Louis.

O-Katz Oktoberfest Lager, Zwickel Bavarian Lager, and Schnickelfritz Bavarian Weissbier will be available in 16-ounce and 1 Liter pours.

Traditional Oktoberfest food offerings like pretzels, brats, and porchetta sandwiches will be available for purchase. Some of St. Louis’ favorite food trucks will be on-site during the festival and carnival food will be available down at The Big Top.

Vendor Village featuring local artisans selling handmade goods will be open throughout the weekend. Of course, Oktoberfest STL wouldn’t be complete without Masskrugstemmen, the popular stein-holding competition, which will take place on Saturday.

Sunday will feature plenty of family-friendly activities at The Big Top, including performances by Circus Flora as well as a children’s tent with cookie decorating, music, coloring, and more. Purina will also bring dog-friendly fun and festivities for both two and four-legged family members throughout the day on Sunday.

Entry is FREE at Oktoberfest St. Louis. Festival-goers may buy an authentic 1-liter glass stein for $12 at the festival and get 1-liter fills for $12. 16-ounce pours will be available for $7. The festival is cash-only to alleviate lines. ATMs will be on-site at the fest.

Full details and schedule of events available at oktoberfeststl.com.
#OktoberfestSTL

Prost!

Blues | Soul

Smooth vocals, classic songwriting, soulful bass playing emobody Eugene Johnson’s sound. As a young musician Eugene looked to follow the paths of artists like Albert King, Little Milton, Oliver Sain, and B.B. King, he’s now forged his own legacy, carrying the torch of legends past!

„Bal w Operze” mówi o degradacji symboli i o procesie liberalizacji. Zasada “wszystko na sprzedaż” oraz inne cechy kultury masowej tak zatarły granice pomiędzy sacrum i profanum, że zniszczyły kody kultury (religijne, narodowe) organizujace życie świata.
Jest także bardzo ostrym i znakomitym, pełnym językowych smaczków i maestrii pamfletem na kapitalizm, pamfletem ujętym w karykaturalno-groteskową hiperbolę o katastroficznym wymiarze.
To sąd nad rzeczywistością i zapowiedż kresu świata, który budowal swój porządek moralno-prawny na Biblii. Miejsce porządku zajmuje chaos, a świat zabawą i nierządem stoi.

Tematyka poematu jest zawsze aktualna, bo Tuwim przywołuje tyranów epoki, którzy wykorzystują rozrywkę jako środek uwodzenia mas i przeciwdziałania buntom. Gdy nie ma wolności i chleba, trzeba dać ludziom igrzyska.

Left Bank Books welcomes New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Kopp Sisters series, Amy Stewart, who will sign and discuss her most recent addition to the series, Kopp Sisters on the March.

In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart’s clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military discipline—whether they’re ready or not—as the U.S. prepares to enter World War I. It’s the spring of 1917 and change is in the air. American women have done something remarkable: they’ve banded together to create military-style training camps for women who want to serve. These so-called National Service Schools prove irresistible to the Kopp sisters, who leave their farm in New Jersey to join up. When an accident befalls the matron, Constance reluctantly agrees to oversee the camp—much to the alarm of the Kopps’ tent-mate, the real-life Beulah Binford, who is seeking refuge from her own scandalous past under the cover of a false identity. Will she be denied a second chance? And after notoriety, can a woman’s life ever be her own again?

In Kopp Sisters on the March, the women of Camp Chevy Chase face down the skepticism of the War Department, the double standards of a scornful public, and the very real perils of war. Once again, Amy Stewart has brilliantly brought a little-known moment in history to light with her fearless and funny Kopp sisters novels

Amy Stewart is the New York Times best-selling author of the acclaimed Kopp Sisters series, which began with Girl Waits with Gun. Her six nonfiction books include The Drunken Botanist and Wicked Plants. She and her husband own a bookstore called Eureka Books. She lives in Portland, Oregon. For book club resources, Skype chats, and more, visit www.amystewart.com/bookclubs.