‘Featured’ Archives
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Water for Elephants’ is respectful if tame adaptation
Movie adaptations of bestselling novels are always problematic. The film has to be faithful enough to the book to satisfy fans yet also create a fulfilling film experience that works for those who have not read it. “Water for Elephants” succeeds in the first half of that challenge but less so [...]
Denim Day does not mean that it is okay
Last Thursday in the Millennium Student Center at the University of Missouri- St. Louis, the Student Social Work Association partnered with the Bridgeway Sexual Assault Center and the YWCA to bring the message of Denim Day to the student body through press-on tattoos, pins, pamphlets, and [...]
