Photo courtesy of Phil Delano St. Louis-based, internationally-known artist Mary Engelbreit’s long list of artistic accomplishments veered in a new and completely unexpected direction when she was tapped by Mike Issacson, Artistic Director and Executive Producer of The Muny, to design the costumes and set for this season’s production of Matilda. This isn’t Engelbreit’s first…
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CWEnder Antony John participating in Left Bank Books’ Children’s Book Week
Hot on the heels of last Saturday’s successful Independent Bookstore Day, the staff at Left Bank Books jumped right into the celebration of the 100th Anniversary of Children’s Book Week which began Monday. One of the events on the schedule takes place at 7 p.m. tomorrow (Wednesday) when CWE-based author Antony John, above, and Cole…
A repost: Young parents mobilize to create Kennedy Park and CWE Families & Friends
Since there are so many new residents in the neighborhood, I thought it would be of interest to republish this 2011 post describing the origins of Samuel Kennedy Park (east of Euclid, where Olive and Washington merge), which in turn led to the formation of CWE Families & Friends. In 2006 a group of CWE…