Nicki's Central West End Guide
an urban news journal
Presence, which opens this evening at Atrium Gallery, includes portraits by NY artist Peter Charlap that are not for sale. The work is shocking as these are portraits of prisoners incarcerated on Death Row at the infamous Polunsky Unit, a state facility in Livingston, TX. The subjects “exude a natural warmth and directness” one wouldn’t expect from people condemned to…
Fans of Gilmore Girls started lining up at 6:30 this morning in front of Coffee Cartel to celebrate the 16th birthday of the popular tv series. The 24-hour establishment, at the corner of Euclid and Maryland Avenues, had been transformed into one of 250 “Luke’s Diner” locations around the country. Netflix, which is releasing all four 90-minute chapters of…
As you might suspect, creativity abounds inside the home of Bob Kramer’s Marionnettes, located in the CWE at 4143 Laclede Avenue but, as I recently discovered, there’s abundant evidence of imagination outside as well. The puppet theater has been on my radar for years, starting with performances I attended when my children were young, and more…