For my first post of 2021 I decided to step away from the riveting news of the past week and focus instead on a happier subject, a virtual visit with another artist in the ongoing series of posts I’ve released over the past several months on what they’ve been creating during the pandemic. Mary Engelbreit’s…
Author: nickisbuzz
A final look at the CWE’s holiday windows
So much well-deserved emphasis has been placed on viewing the windows created for St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s A Walking Xmas Tale that you may have missed the many fantastic shop windows around the CWE that are also all dressed up for the holidays. Many were designed by St. Louis-based decorators—others by talented proprietors and their…
A perfect finale to 2020’s Window Walk
2020’s Window Walk concluded on Saturday evening with a performance by a tap dancing troupe from Central Visual Performing Arts High School, 3125 S. Kingshighway. The troupe is led by Ray Parks, the head of the dance department at Central VPA, who is a longtime friend of Maryland Plaza’s Ted Koplar. “We’ve worked together…