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B.J. Parker, lead instructor at the CWE’s Gateway Academy of Classical Art, is one of fifteen recipients of the 2021-22 Kranzberg Arts Foundation Resident Artists’ Program. (The timeframe for residency was extended into 2023 due to the pandemic.) An opening exhibition of Parker’s body of work, In Search: (Re)building Myth, was held on Friday,…
Joe Baker, above, and his wife, Elizabeth Watt, a former St. Louisan, moved from Los Angeles to St. Louis to open a second location of Black Mountain Wine House at 354 N. Boyle, formerly occupied by West End Grill & Pub. The original wine bar ( named after Led Zeppelin’s Black Mountain Side, a moody…
It’s full speed ahead for the adaptive reuse of the former Reliance Automotive building at McPherson & Kingshighway, according to Pier Property Group’s Michael Hamburg. As the house just east of the Reliance Automotive property was being demolished in early February, I reached out to Hamburg to get an update on when construction would start…