The Current-Online

People gather with community spirit for a good cause and eat a little melon; proceeds benefit Pagedale City

On the evening of August 24, the staff at the University Meadows, on the south campus of the University of Missouri-St. Louis created and put on an awesome event known as The Watermelon Feast for its new, returning and International residents. People had to bring a canned good to donate to the Pagedale Community Center, or in lieu of a canned good, they could bring a dollar. According to Arron Winter, night and weekend programming graduate assistant, this is one of two events that the Meadows puts on annually in order to benefit the Pagedale Community Center, as well as [ Read More]

McVicar brings magic, fun hypnotics to UMSL’s Nosh

Last Thursday, Josh McVicar the Trickster, had the audience roaring with laughter in the JC Penney building auditorium at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The University Program Board were the organizers of the event. McVicar has been at the game since the tender age of fifteen when he would put on magic and hypnotism shows for his fellow classmates. From then on, he has been professionally trained at his craft. “I was Google searching hypnotist and Youtube searching hypnotist and he seemed to be one of the best one’s in the area,” UPB member, Scott Morrissey, junior, Spanish, said. After [ Read More]

Visio’s “Customized Vistas” mixes suburbs, country in pastel

Rural country life and suburbia often are in close physical proximity but are culturally worlds apart. The current Gallery Visio exhibit “Customized Vistas” brings together the suburban and country childhoods of husband and wife artists Joseph D’Uva and Summer Zickefoose in a pastel, pleasant collection of art works.