STL Twitter Report
Compliments of Heath Harris Senior Art Director, Infuz + STL Tweets The State of Twitter: STL report has just been released, and I thought you may be interested in sharing it with Creative St. Louis’ readers. http://www.infuz.com/2010/08/31/state-of-twitter-stl/ The report is a presentation of STL Tweets’ research over the first six months of 2010 regarding the [...]
Local Musicians: The Curio Shoppe Wants You(r Music)
On August 28th, the St. Louis Curio Shoppe opened its doors. Co-Owned by Kristin Gassel and Kristin Ake, the Shoppe is the result of years of work, a dream come to fruition. The idea was to have a space where we could celebrate the city we love, provide a place to showcase the wonderful products [...]
Liner Notes: The Welders
(Editor’s Note: Recently, the local BDR Records label released a four-song EP by the Welders, recorded locally in 1979. You can read up on the backstory of this project through an interesting piece on the Riverfront Times site right here. Meanwhile, you can read the liner notes to the band’s EP below, penned by longtime [...]
Kick Ass Awards 2010: A Call to the Spirit, 11/7/10
The Kick Ass Awards will return for a seventh edition, on Sunday, November 7, with a 7 p.m. shotgun start. As true for the past couple years, the event will take place at Joe’s Cafe, a funky little outpost on the City/U. City border, so secluded and secretive and remote that we can’t tell you [...]
Q/A with Jen Woods of The Lumberyard
Jen Woods lives and works in Louisville, while her brother, Eric, holds down the fort at the Firecracker Press in Saint Louis. Together, they’ve been publishing The Lumberyard, a quality literary publication with no small amount of interesting graphic elements. Yesterday, we sent Jen some questions about Issue 7, one dedicated to a single writer [...]
Release: New May Day Orchestra project, via Kickstarter
The May Day Orchestra is proud to announce that our new record will be released on Rankoutsider Records. The official release show will take place on November 10 at the Sheldon Ballroom with opening sets by our sometime-collaborators Theodore and The Rats and People Motion Picture Orchestra. The new songs will be released on CD [...]
Bill Streeter in The Mag
There’s no reason to be shy about it. Our own Bill Streeter, and “his brick film,” are profiled in the new St. Louis Magazine by STL treasure Stefene Russell. Here’s the piece. And a link to the dedicated site of “Brick By Chance and Fortune.”
Arch In the Times
You’ve probably been passed this a few times via that social networking site, but if not the New York Times (via Saint Louis writer Malcolm Gay) weighs in on the Gateway Arch grounds competition hoo-hah. The link’s right here.
This is a Story About a Firefighter-Themed Restaurant
The first time that you step into the Lafayette Fire Company #1: A Firehouse Grill, you might be a little thrown by all the concepting and branding going on. You’d be forgiven for being a bit taken aback by the dozens, if not hundreds, of references to the fire-fighting profession, down to the most-minute of [...]