Events guru Frances Thompson wears many hats in the CWE community. In her role as coordinator of marketing and events for Maryland Plaza she has arranged a stellar line-up of movies to be screened alongside the Maryland Plaza fountain. Crowd-favorite Moonstruck opens the summer season next Wednesday, May 29, and one of my all-time-favorites, Big…
Category: Books, Dance, Music, Theater
Benefit for Shakespeare Festival at Dazzle Me Twice
It took a great cause, a benefit for Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, to finally get some of my neighborhood friends through the door at the CWE's Dazzle Me Twice. Admittedly, when Marty London first re-opened her consignment shop at 4632 McPherson in 2011, the hours were extremely limited, but that has changed (see end of…
Duncan Wall, “The Ordinary Acrobat”
Duncan Wall, son of CWEA Board Member Mark Wall and his wife Claudia will be in town tomorrow evening to introduce his new book, The Ordinary Acrobat, shown prominently displayed at Left Bank Books, above. The anything-but-ordinary book signing (see why below) will take place at the Mad Art Gallery in Soulard starting at 7…