Apr
29
This Saturday – Cinco de Mayo & More
Posted by Jason Deem on April 29, 2009 | 1 Comment
Live music on two stages, authentic Mexican food and drinks, a parade starting at 1:11pm, live art demonstrations, an artist village, a mechanical bull, and over 40 vendor booths. Check out the full page ad in the RFT. More info at cincodemayostl.com or download the press release for the rice & beans.
Want to help out? We still need about 15 volunteers to staff the parade intersections from 12pm to 2pm. Only 2 hours and you get a free t-shirt! Contact info@cincodemayostl.com or call (314) 256-1380 to sign up.
Also going on this weekend. . .
Apr
29
Dali’s Liquid Ladies @ Cranky Yellow
Posted by Jason Deem on April 29, 2009 | 2 Comments
From crankyyellow.com . . .
A dark and subversive comedy about three mermaids who hatch a plot to kill Salvador Dali.
Deep in the heart of Coney Island, we bring you the Midway’s only surrealist funhouse, where you can take a tour through your own most perverted secrets and your most terrifying nightmares. See social conventions tossed to the wind! Beautiful mermaids swim in the waters of our collective fantasies, clothed only in their commitment to high art!
Come one, come all to Salvador Dali’s Dream of Venus. Where even your most shameful desires come true.
Apr
29
Cosign Projects Inaugural Event
Posted by Jason Deem on April 29, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Cosign Projects, new addition to Benton Park West.
Cosign Projects is pleased to present a flag by Clare Britt, of Chicago, IL, the first artist to create a project for Cosign on Arsenal Street in Benton Park West.
Opening event is this Sunday, May 3rd, from 3 – 6 pm. All are invited to view the space and meet the artist. Cosign is located at 2733 Arsenal Street, 5 blocks north of Cherokee Street in South City.
See the website for more information.
http://www.cosignprojects.net
Apr
25
Cherokee Flashlight Walks!
Posted by Angelo S. on April 25, 2009 | 3 Comments
As most of you already know, the rising temperatures mean that Jankin’ season is upon us. Already Cranky Yellow has had one of its customers mugged….in the face… just around the corner from our store. Shots have been fired late at night; doors have been ripped off their hinges; people with poofy hair have been selling senate seats. It is high time the community comes together to deal with this problem. If we are all looking out for one another, we can all rest abit easier and perhaps feel safer in our neighborhoods.
Apr
24
Cinco de Volvo
Posted by Jason Deem on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
10 artists share their vehicles for your entertainment. Located in the parking lot behind City Art Supply. Curated by Fort Gondo and including work by Apop Records, Mike Apperson, Rebecca Bodicky, Eric Hall, Kevin Harris, Jackson Pianos, Kate Nacke, Tim Sullivan, Jacqueline Wallach.
Also going on Saturday…
Snowflake/City Stock: Paintings by Gary Passanise
Fort Gondo: New artwork by Sarah Paulsen
City Art Supply: Paintings by Josh Crow
Apr
23
Pre-Parade “COSTUME SHOP” Saturday
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on April 23, 2009 | 2 Comments
Calling all characters-in-creation to the Cinco de Mayo “People’s Joy Parade”
COSTUME SHOP OPEN HOUSE at the Community Arts and Media Project!
Saturday April 25 @ 3026 Cherokee St 12-6pm www.stlcamp.org
From Noon to 4pm: Get ready for next week’s parade!
Come show off and tweak your parade costume or help neighborhood kids construct their own. Bring your kids, or your friend’s kids, and come create the hat or mask to complete your character’s look.
Elastic, feathers, and glitter abound. . . .
Apr
22
CINCO de MAYO!
Posted by Eric Woods on April 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Apr
18
Crazy Cat Circus Comes to Cherokee!
Posted by Angelo S. on April 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Cranky Yellow is hosting one of only four traveling cat circus’s in the nation! This Tuesday we’re having two shows; one at 6:30PM and one at 8:30PM. There you’ll see cats playing guitar, cats playing piano, cats on wires, cats dinging bells, cats licking themselves in front of dozens of people! It’ll be a blast and half, I promise!
We’ll also be having a silent auction of an entire room filled with crazy cat related arts and crafts! Melissa Debuss is bringing everything your great-grandmother refused to throw away will be on display and desperately purrrrring for a new home!
Apr
16
Cherokee printshops in the news
Posted by Eric Woods on April 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment
There’s a great article in the Post Dispatch this week about printshops along Cherokee Street. The Firecracker Press, All Along Press, and Porter Teleo get mentioned…
There’s also a video link to a press demonstration by The Firecracker Press at the Saint Louis Art Museum…
http://videos.stltoday.com/p/video?id=3783435
Apr
15
Some Important News!
Posted by Angelo S. on April 15, 2009 | 4 Comments
Our friends and neighbors in Dutchtown have elected the first openly gay Alderman in Saint Louis’s History! This coincides with one of Saint Louis’s Missouri State Rep, Jeanette Mott Oxford; one of only two openly gay representatives in Jefferson City.
Apr
13
Cherokee ComeUnity Hub: Says Who?
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on April 13, 2009 | 53 Comments
A neighborhood project on city land: who decides?
Two mystery mounds of mulch and compost are hanging out in the “Acknowledge Lot” – the pet name for the Cherokee ComeUnity Hub’s hoped-for plaza at the SE intersection of Texas and Cherokee.
I didn’t order it to be delivered.
The Alderman didn’t order it to be delivered.
Still, it hangs out like a thrown gauntlet, asking “Well…what are we waiting for?”
So…. What are we waiting for?
Apr
10
Now Forming: A Zany New Song Force for Peace-Keeping
Posted by Lyndsey Scott on April 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment
Recently I was sitting in a Cherokee Street Business Association meeting doodling during the local police’s update on the neighborhood. I tuned in when he mentioned “keeping the footbeat” . . . . a live imagination-animation jumped up and did a jig in my mind, a new strategy for “crime-prevention”::::::::::: funky souls enlivening this world where song-lines keep the peace — beyond language, the sounds heal the street…….
So I called up songstress Celia, conductor extraordinaire of Celia’s Yuletide Express (the train that does this during Christmas season)…. and she’s up for the experiment!
Apr
10
Act Now to Restore Public Transit in St. Louis
Posted by Eric Stiens on April 10, 2009 | 2 Comments
Recently, St. Louis has become a poster-child of sorts for the paradoxical state of mass transit in the United States. Piggybacking on gas prices from last summer, transit ridership is increasing, yet due to budget shortfalls, public transit agencies are being forced to cut services. In fact, we’ve been on the front page of national news sources multiple times now detailing just how deep and how drastic the cuts here are – including CNN and the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/04transit.html?_r=1
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/03/27/st.louis.no.bus/
Hopefully we are all on the same page with the importance of mass transit to our metropolitan areas in the 21st Century. For environmental reasons, economic reasons, and social justice reasons a viable public transit system is mandatory for a metropolitan area in the coming decades. This is especially poignant on Cherokee, as we have lost the 93 bus. If we are serious about building
Apr
9
Apop Records Celebrates Its Fifth Birthday with Shows, Movies, Record Store Day
Posted by Dustin Newman on April 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment
From the RFT
It’s almost hard to believe that Apop Records (2831 Cherokee Street) has had a St. Louis storefront since 2007. Fittingly, the experimental record store/shop was ahead of the Cherokee Street renaissance curve — in fact, the record store arguably kickstarted the resurgence. To celebrate its second Lou birthday (and fifth overall), Apop is planning several events in the coming weeks.
First up is a show on Saturday, April 11, featuring Raglani, Human Quena Orchestra, Wasteland Jazz Unit and Cincinnati’s Burning Star Core and an 8mm film by Jeremy Kannapell. The latter also designed the following poster, which is awe-inspiring and intricate in person.
Apr
8
Cherokee Street Open House – Thank You
Posted by Eric Woods on April 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
Pictures of The Firecracker Press during the Open House
Thanks to all the businesses, musicians, artists, galleries, and neighbors that pitched in during The Cherokee Street Open House. We had a great turnout and introduced or re-introduced many St. Louisans to all the great things our neighborhood has to offer. At The Firecracker Press we saw many new faces and heard from several visitors who’d stopped coming to the neighborhood 20-30 years ago and were amazed to see how far the area had come since they’d left. We were given free press in The Post Dispatch, LoFiStl.com, ToastedRav.com and countless other publications and blogs. If you haven’t had a chance to see what they are saying, check them out.
Apr
8
Cherokee Community Garden Approved!
Posted by Mark Bohnert on April 8, 2009 | 5 Comments
View, upon completion, from Cherokee Street
We are happy to announce that the Cherokee Station Business Association approved converting the vacant lot at 2647 Cherokee to a community garden. Starting work is contingent on receiving funding–hopefully we will know by the end of April. Red Brick Community Land Trust in conjunction with Black Bear Bakery, other business owners, gardeners and residents originally supported converting the asphalt lot at 2647 Cherokee to a community garden. The benefits of converting this asphalted lot with broken glass to a green community garden are:
Apr
6
Things are hoppin’ on Cherokee Street By: Bill Streeter
Posted by Dustin Newman on April 6, 2009 | 1 Comment
from LO-FI SAINT LOUIS
So far in the last two weeks I’ve spent part of two different weekends on Cherokee Street. Something really cool is happening down there. I think it’s been brewing under the surface for a while, but in the last couple of years it’s really bloomed. My pal (and sometime contributer to Lo-Fi) Steve Smith has been wanting to open another bar on Cherokee for a while, but the peculiar oddities of St. Louis Liquor politics have been blocking him for some time. Hopefully this will be resolved soon.
Organizations and Associations
- Arch Reactor
- Art Dimensions
- Benton Park
- Benton Park West
- Cherokee Antique Row
- Cherokee-Lemp Historic District
- Cherokee Station Business Assn.
- Community Arts and Media Project
- Dutchtown South
- Gravois Park
- Marine Villa
Neighborhood Resources
- - Quick Reference -
- Cherokee Recreation Center
- Community Arts and Media Project
- Franciscan Connection
- West Corner Community Garden