Mar
15
Easter Eggstravaganza
Posted by Amber Dover on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Benton Park West Neighborhood Association presents the 5th Annual
EASTER EGGSTRAVAGANZA
Saturday, April 3rd 11am to 2pm For Ages 1 – 10, Accompanied by Adult
COMMUNITY GARDEN
at Ohio and Crittenden 2929 Ohio
FREE!
To volunteer or for questions Call Pamela @ 406.2026
Bring a Basket to join in the Easter Egg Hunt.
Activities include:
Easter Egg Hunt, Photos with Easter Bunny, Cupcake Walk, Food, Tatt0os and Egg Dying
Mar
15
BPWNA Social @ Tower Tacos
Posted by Cherokee St. News on March 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Benton Park West Neighborhood Association will be holding a social/happy hour at Tower Taco on March 25, 2010 beginning at 5:30. The neighborhood association will provide light snacks and Tower Taco will be providing chips & (quite fabulous) salsa – drinks and heavier food are on your own. Come out and meet Frank (Tower Taco’s new proprietor), your neighbors, and new friends. Tower Taco has a newly improved indoor and outdoor space so there is plenty of room for everyone!
Mar
12
Cherokee Photobooth CALL FOR ART!!
Posted by Cherokee St. News on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
Cherokee Photobooth is opening soon and wants to invite local artists to submit their work to be used in our portrait business.
We are currently accepting two kinds of submissions.
1. Backgrounds: You provide us with a high resolution/high quality digital picture of your artwork. We will have it available for our clients to use as background for their portrait. If your piece is chosen by our client, you will receive 10% royalties every time the picture is printed. You will be credited on the back of the picture.
Mar
12
Bricaleur-ing, Spirit Ditch, and ’80s Night at STYLEhouse
Posted by Cherokee St. News on March 12, 2010 | 1 Comment
3 EVENTS THIS SATURDAY ALL WITHIN 100′
POST-OLYMPIC BATTLE OF THE SEXES!
“BRICALEUR-ING”
AN INQUIRY INTO THE PROFUNDITY & RESOURCEFULNESS OF FEMALE TRANSFORMATEURS FEATURING WORKS BY: GINA ALVAREZ, CATHERINE CATHERS, KATHERINE GASTLER, SARAH BRUNJES HALL, EMILY HEMEYER, KARA CLARK HOLLAND, JAMIE KREHER, CHRISTY LeMASTER, JENNY MURPHY, LISA PAYNE, SARAH PAULSEN, LYNDSEY SCOTT, AMY THOMPSON, AMY VonDONSEL, AUTUMN WIGGINS AND ANN-MAREE WALKER
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, MARCH 13, 5 – 9 PM.
Mar
12
Yelp loves Cherokee
Posted by Cherokee St. News on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
What is Yelp?
Yelp is a website where consumers go to read and write reviews about their favorite local businesses and happenings. In the past month alone, Yelp has had over 28+ million unique visitors and now stands at 9+ million unique reviews. Yelp can be accessed anywhere in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. either via your computer, or through our very popular, Yelp Mobile, application.
If you haven’t already, check out Yelp St. Louis: http://www.yelp.com/stlouis
Mar
12
The Cody Rivers Show-3.15.10
Posted by Maggie Ginestra on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
stirrup pants chapbooks, $10 at the door, 8:00 p.m. sharp, doors at 7:30 and seating is limited! eep!
Mar
12
Vamos a Comer!
Posted by Cherokee St. News on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
2 Nights of Spanish Food @ The Mud House
Friday March 12th and Saturday the 13th
$45 per person
30 Seats available each night
Soup: Sopa de Ajo (Garlic Soup)
Tapas: Bacalao (Salt Cod), Clams with chorizo and bread, Ceviche, Potato and kale tortilla Fire roasted red peppers with white anchovy
Cucumber and Pomegranate salad
Entrée: Paella
Dessert: Flan with blood oranges, Bizcochos Borrachos (drunken Sponge Cake)
Mar
12
Irish Breakfast at The Stable Wed, 3/17
Posted by Brad Wheeling on March 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Start out St. Patrick’s Day by laying a good base. The Stable will open up at 7:00 am and will be serving up breakfast along with the best selection of craft beer in the area. Then after the parade, join us for corned beef & cabbage as well as the best beer Ireland has to offer.
Menu for Irish Breakfast is sausage, bacon, eggs, toast, and corned beef hash. For the brave you can add two links of blood sausage. We will also have specials on Guinness and Irish Car Bombs.
Mar
8
WILD FERMENTATION
Posted by Amber Dover on March 8, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Please join us this Tuesday, March 9th for WILD FERMENTATION
Meet the author Sandor Katz
Sandor Ellix Katz (aka Sandorkraut), the author of Wild Fermentation and The Revolution Will Not Be Microwaved, is a cultural revivalist committed to the spread of fermentation fervor.
Microscopic organisms – our ancestors and allies – transform food and extend its usefulness. Fermentation is found throughout human cultures.
Mar
5
More art-related news on Cherokee: events starting tonight!
Posted by Hilary Hitchcock on March 5, 2010 | Leave a Comment
* Tonight (Friday March 5) at Foam catch the Those Darlins acoustic set, a fundraiser for Southern Girls Rock + Roll Camp.
*Also tonight, see All Along Press’s new home and paintings by David Langley.
*Also also tonight (you’d better not complain that there’s nothing to do!) head over to Fort Gondo to take in painting, drawings and prints by SIUE undergraduates and graduates.
Mar
5
BRICALEUR-ing : All Lady Art Show & Public Art Lab @ Ft.GONDO
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on March 5, 2010 | 1 Comment
BRICALEUR-ing: An inquiry into the profundity & resourcefulness of Female Transformateurs
During this March all-lady art show, curated by Sarah Paulsen and Lyndsey Scott, the Fort Gondo gallery space will also serve as a creative laboratory– hosting a sound portal, movie night, womens’ circle, and workshop for a Cherokee Street public art installation …. All powered by community connection and female ingenuity.
Feb
23
City Affair XIV: Gentrification
Posted by Cherokee St. News on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
STL-Style is hosting the next City Affair gathering on the topic of Gentrification.
MARCH 4, 2010
7:30-9:00 PM
STYLEhouse (STL-Style)
3155 Cherokee St.
Saint Louis, Mo. 63118
Feb
23
UrbanReviewSTL: St. Louis’ Cherokee Street developing organically
Posted by Cherokee St. News on February 23, 2010 | 1 Comment
http://www.urbanreviewstl.com/?p=9348
Feb
23
ImprovTrick Cult Movie Night
Posted by Cherokee St. News on February 23, 2010 | Leave a Comment
On Sunday, Feb 28, the ImprovTrick’s Cult Movie Night presents the classic “The Party” at the ImprovTrick, 2517 Cherokee, at 7p.m. The screening is downstairs in the “comedy underground.” It’s a free showing!
Feb
22
Cherokee Real Seed Planting!
Posted by L. Irene Compadre on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Friends, Neighbors, Cherokee men & women – Come plant seeds for the Cherokee Real Garden at the Community Arts and Media Project (3026 Cherokee Street) at 6:30 this Thursday the 25th. We have at least 6 different varieties of tomatoes, lots of peppers, red okra, purple cabbage and lots more. They will be nursed at CAMP until spring chooses to bless us with a warm hug and then will be planted at Cherokee Real (2647 Cherokee). You can also sign up to have a garden bed of your very own this summer!! Kids welcome with adult supervision!
Feb
22
****** GraceSpace ***************** A Safe Place for Girls to Create
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on February 22, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Beginning March 17, GRACESPACE will meet weekly at C.A.M.P. to gather a small group of neighborhood teenage and pre-teen neighborhood girls together with two co-teachers (Lyndsey Scott and Cayree Dobsch) and visiting mentors to celebrate feminine leadership, self-worth, creative expression, and healthy bodies. Exploring a toolkit that includes dance, acroyoga, journaling, self portraits, and women’s history, GRACESPACE connects young women to resources that promote self-nurture and kindle intuition. The culminating project will be a performance during the People’s Joy Parade!
Feb
17
Turning Trash Into Books: Workshop Sunday
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on February 17, 2010 | Leave a Comment
the discarded and the forgotten
the bits and pieces
tucked in attics and basements
picked from alleyways and dumpsters
will be re-discovered, re-purposed and re-created
into journals and sketchbooks, notebooks and storybooks
uniquely handbound
to hold our stories and dreams, visons and schemes
The Finders Hive (in collaboration with UpCycle Exchange and The Community Arts and Media Project)
Is Hosting A Series of 2 Sunday Workshop/Playshops:
>>>TURNING TRASH INTO BOOKS<<<
Feb
12
GIRLS GONE WILD ON CHEROKEE
Posted by Cherokee St. News on February 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment
XHIBITION 2 OF BEVERL*YEAR* 2010:
A YEAR OF WOMEN ARTISTS @ FORT GONDO
(A.K.A. “GIRLS GONE WILD ON CHEROKEE”)
“LUEKEN KRAFT YANG”
OPENING RECEPTION SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 6-10 PM
BRITTANY LUEKEN: FUJI FUJI FUJI (MOUNTAIN)
(Back from Japan! Big in Japan! Big in the Lou!)
BRIDGET KRAFT: POVERTY VS. CLASS IN FIBER
(Her surname says it all!)
BEVERLY YANG: MINI STAINED GLASS KNITS
(A true “Beverly!” Attorney by day, Sarah Lawrence alumna by night!)
Feb
9
Houses for Haiti
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on February 9, 2010 | 1 Comment
Anyone who has met Izzi Jackson-Cameron, our neighbor from down the street at Jackson Pianos, knows her effervescent enthusiasm emits a magnetic field far larger than her five-year old frame. So it’s no surprise that, inspired to help out and connect with the crisis in Haiti, she enlisted her entire school in an effort to aim their creativity at fundraising…
Here’s the details, organized by Izzi’s mom Morgan Cameron:
Feb
3
Franciscan Connection’s 4th Annual TRIVIA NIGHT February 20th
Posted by Brother Donald Lachowicz, OFM on February 3, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The Franciscan Connection is hosting its 4th Annual Trivia Night at 7pm on Saturday, February 20, 2010, in St. Anthony of Padua’s new Parish Hall, 3133 Meramec Street.
Proceeds will help the agency’s emergency aid and home repairs ministry to the poor and needy right here in south St. Louis.
$15 per person, tables of eight. Individuals are welcome to join our “Friends of Friars” Table. To reserve your spot, contact Bro. Doug at (314)773-8485 or visit our website.