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Upcoming events

21
Mar
2023

03-21-2023
Online

For our March Coffee Talk, we're delighted to welcome Susan Sherman and Phyllis Langsdorf as our special guests to discuss the fashion industry in St. Louis. At one time, St. Louis was one of the premiere locations in the United States for the design and production of clothing, hats, shoes, and other apparel items for both women and men. Our program will explore what that world was like and how the Fashion Fund has resurrected that industry here today. We will also highlight the current trends in fashion for spring and summer as well as the evolution of designers and nonprofits in St. Louis. Please wear a favorite piece of clothing, jewelry, hat, scarf, etc. for this Coffee Talk program. Drawings will occur for a Fashion Fund swag bag and for a special fashion tour for one winner (and four friends) led by Susan Sherman.

For more information, email Alec Rothman at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://bit.ly/Mar23Ct

21
Mar
2023

St. Louis Writers’ Group is pleased to present readings of original new works by local playwrights. A description of our current scheduled offering can be viewed at https://www.facebook.com/groups/500365827076176. Please do check that Facebook page for any changes in schedule or the occasional extra reading. Our readings are organized but informal events, held upstairs in a pub. We usually meet on the first and third Tuesdays of the month, mostly for the reading of a completed script, short pieces, partly completed works, ideas and other material.  SO…food, drink, readings of creative original works...what’s not to like?

Admission is free! Onsite drink and food purchases available. If you wish to submit a script, sign, act, or just want more information, call Rob at 314-401-2636. Updates available via The St Louis Writers’ Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/500365827076176

21
Mar
2023

03-21-2023
Washington University

Lay seminar and discussion with WashU experts in mental health. See link below for details.

https://wustl.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1T7QJqg5Qgjrtki

21
Mar
2023

03-21-2023

Left Bank Books & Hi-Pointe Theatre present #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series Laurell K. Hamilton, who will discuss and answer audience questions about the highly anticipated new novel Smolder at the Hi-Pointe Theatre on March 21st at 7pm! Please purchase a ticket to attend the event in person or virtually. Books can be ordered for pick up at the event. Deadline for personalized copies of Smolder is February 20st. Order signed copies of Smolder from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!

For more information, email Andrea King at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.left-bank.com/event/laurell-k-hamilton-smolder

21
Mar
2023

Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig | Agatha Christie’s plot-twisting masterpiece takes audiences on a suspenseful thrill ride that Broadway World calls, “Everything you could want – broadly drawn characters, exotic settings and a spectacular murder.”

For more information, email Ashton Beck at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.eventvesta.com/events/19220/t/tickets

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG - 3-4 Rounds - PRIZES!!

For more information, email Derian Stennett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.eventvesta.com/events/32417/t/tickets

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

Starts: 6:00pm

Entry: $5

Rounds: 3-4

Prizes: 125% of Entries to Store Credit to X-1's or better

For more information, email Derian Stennett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://cli.re/32410-magic-the-gathering-modern-tournament-weekly

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

Commander FREE!!

For more information, email Derian Stennett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

Flesh & Blood TCG - 3 Rounds - PRIZES!!

For more information, email Derian Stennett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.eventvesta.com/events/32412/t/tickets

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

$5 Entry

3 Rounds

Pack Per Win

This event runs from Feb 8, 2023 to Dec 27, 2023 and happens every:

Wednesdays: 6:15pm - 9:00pm

For more information, email Derian Stennett at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://cli.re/32420-digimon-tcg-tournament-weekly

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023
Washington University

Lay seminar and discussion with WashU experts in mental health. See link below for details.

https://wustl.az1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_1T7QJqg5Qgjrtki

22
Mar
2023

Original Music Open Mic Night Hosted by David Loeb

Every Wednesday, 7-10pm

Door: 6pm // Sign-up 6:30

All welcome, from beginner on up, but not "the whole band" please! It's a small stage, and more about the song/songwriter than the band. Quiet listening and supportiveness are highly appreciated!

Music Open Mic questions: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.facebook.com/groups/577559217143577

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

Join us as our friend Lux steps behind the bar to raise funds for our Feed The People Program.

For more information, email Danni Eickenhorst at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://cli.re/32151-belly-up-to-the-bar-with-lux-st.-lou

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

Songbird Cafe is a St. Louis-based concert series with singer-songwriters performing their material in a stripped-down, intimate, in-the-round performance space, a format unique in St. Louis. This month features Wil Maring and Robert Bowlin with Gary and Roberta Gordon.

For more information, email Judy Stein at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

http://www.songbird-stl.com/

22
Mar
2023

Adapted for the stage by Ken Ludwig | Agatha Christie’s plot-twisting masterpiece takes audiences on a suspenseful thrill ride that Broadway World calls, “Everything you could want – broadly drawn characters, exotic settings and a spectacular murder.”

For more information, email Ashton Beck at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.eventvesta.com/events/19220/t/tickets

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

$10 for the show, no cover to get in the bar side. Bar opens at 5pm / Doors at 7pm / Show at 8pm

21+ forever & always

For more information, email Jodie T. at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

22
Mar
2023

03-22-2023

After a 4-year absence, we're bringing back the big D! Join us for classic hits from the Jack & Kyle catalog. Opening the show will be Sophisticated Babies covering Weird Al and They Might Be Giants. Our Fenix will Rize!

For more information, email Erica Durbin at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.facebook.com/events/1605372666582530

23
Mar
2023

03-23-2023

Left Bank Books presents Pulitzer Prize & National Book Award Finalist Rebecca Makkai, who will discuss her highly anticipated, riveting new novel I Have Some Questions for You at the Ethical Society on March 23rd at 7pm! Makkai will be in conversation with Left Bank Books' Shane Mullen. Please purchase a ticket to attend the event in person or virtually. Books may be picked up ahead of the event at Left Bank Books or can be picked up at the venue on March 23rd.* Order additional copies of I Have Some Questions for You from Left Bank Books to support authors and independent bookstores!

For more information, email Andrea King at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://www.left-bank.com/event/rebecca-makkai-i-have-some-questions-you

23
Mar
2023

03-23-2023

Great live music from Rockin' Rod McCarron and company followed by Karaoke at The Attic with Shaggy Sounds.

For more information, email Justin Pfaff at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://cli.re/30822-karaoke-at-the-attic-with-shaggy-sounds

23
Mar
2023

03-23-2023

Please join us for a very special author event: The Double Launch of Devin Johnston's Dragons: Poems and Marty Riker's The Guest Lecture. Born in 1970, Devin Johnston spent his childhood in North Carolina. He is the author of seven books of poetry including Dragons, published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2023. He has also published Creaturely and Other Essays, meditations on the natural world. He works as an editor of Flood Editions, a nonprofit publishing house, and he teaches at Saint Louis University in Missouri.

Praise for Devin Johnston:

“Quiet, emotionally reserved, and a marvel of technical prowess . . . Johnston’s poetry is admirable as much for its classical poise as for the tremors that both undermine and bolster that poise.” —David Orr, The New York Times Book Review

“[Johnston] demonstrates how musical poetry can be . . . [he] is an astute observer, rendering nature and various locales with the keen eye of a painter and the wisdom of a historian who grasps the value of the overlooked.” —Elizabeth Lund, Christian Science Monitor

“Johnston has built up a quiet body of poetry which contains astonishing power.” —Ian Pople, The Manchester Review

“What has stayed consistent in Johnston’s work is his attention to the minimum phenomena of sensation, the minimum data of the physical world, and the minimum unit of verse (the syllable). But his power is the way he uses minimal quanta to comprehend ever larger horizons.” —Scott Bartley, Literary Matters

Martin Riker is the author of two novels, The Guest Lecture (2023) and Samuel Johnson’s Eternal Return (2018), and his criticism has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, among other publications. He teaches in the English department at Washington University in St. Louis, and is co-founder--with Danielle Dutton--of the feminist press Dorothy, a Publishing Project. 

In a hotel room in the middle of the night, Abby, a young feminist economist, lies awake next to her sleeping husband and daughter. Anxious that she is grossly underprepared for a talk she is presenting tomorrow on optimism and John Maynard Keynes, she has resolved to practice by using an ancient rhetorical method of assigning parts of her speech to different rooms in her house and has brought along a comforting albeit imaginary companion to keep her on track--Keynes himself. Yet as she wanders with increasing alarm through the rooms of her own consciousness, Abby finds herself straying from her prepared remarks on economic history, utopia, and Keynes's pragmatic optimism. A lapsed optimist herself, she has been struggling under the burden of supporting a family in an increasingly hostile America after being denied tenure at the university where she teaches. Confronting her own future at a time of global darkness, Abby undertakes a quest through her memories to ideas hidden in the corners of her mind--a piecemeal intellectual history from Cicero to Lewis Carroll to Queen Latifah--as she asks what a better world would look like if we told our stories with more honest and more hopeful imaginations.  

Praise for The Guest Lecture:

"Riker spins a brilliant and innovative exploration of modern economic history in the form of a late-night waking dream . . . Abby's metaphysical wanderings swell to a scorching condemnation of modern life and an empathetic celebration of its meaningful moments. It's a transporting, clever, and inspired work of fiction."-- Publishers Weekly (starred review)

"On the eve of a guest lecture she's set to deliver--to an audience whose identity is never fully revealed--economics professor Abby wrestles with thorny theoretical issues and a few problems closer to home . . . [A] unique novel of ideas. A thoughtful and thought-filled stroll down a life's Memory Lane."-- Kirkus Reviews

Copies of the authors' books will be available for purchase and signing at the event. Event is free and open to all.

For more information, email Kelly von Plonski at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

https://store.subbooks.com/event/author-event-devin-johnston-martin-riker