links for 2007-10-30
October 30, 2007 at 9:23 am | In Coffee links | Leave a Comment-
An AP story about the citywide wi-fi failure, as featured in another Missouri paper.
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Lauren Reid reports for KOMU in Columbia, MO
In the loop, in the city
October 25, 2007 at 12:37 pm | In KWMU, Matthew Hurst | Leave a CommentTags: st. louis on the air, the loop, umsl, university city, urban planning
If you missed yesterday’s interview on St. Louis on the Air with Joe Edwards, the man who played a large role in shaping the University City loop into what it is today, you’re being given a second chance. Consider it required listening for everyone, not just the civic set and urban planners. The U City Loop, which was recently listed as one of the top ten blocks in the nation (or something of that order), is supposed to be getting its streetcar back, and Edwards offers his insights into what makes the Loop work and how the city might learn from those decisions. The conversation is wide ranging, so it required listening really.
It might also serve as a good prep for the “What is the City?” conference at UMSL this weekend. So attention urban planners and assorted urbanist curiosos who haven’t already heard; curious onlookers like us suspect Joe Edwards name will be brought up a lot there anyway.
It’s All For The Kids
October 25, 2007 at 10:32 am | In Gabe Bullard, Video, music | 2 CommentsI’ve written before about the commercialization of indie rock, and hopefully no one thought of our not-quite rock stars as sellouts. Then again, anyone upset over Stephin Merritt lending a song for a dog food ad may be flat-out enraged over this:But for all their hocking of cell phones and cars, indie rockers give something back to the community, as illustrated by these child-friendly, puppet and CG filled television appearances:Eh, I never did like the Aquabats, can’t this show offer something better? That’s more like it.Of course, it probably all started with the band that more or less invented indie rock, from 1999: If a Jim Hensonized Kate Pierson imitator is too much for you, revel in your hipster irony with this, the most dour songwriter on a kid’s network for adults.
links for 2007-10-25
October 25, 2007 at 9:26 am | In Coffee links | Leave a Comment-
I think the title decribes it all. Come for the booze, stay for the conversation on archetecture and history.
links for 2007-10-24
October 24, 2007 at 9:20 am | In Coffee links | Leave a Comment-
Normally I would never blog about politics on Highway 61, so instead I’ll let another video blog do the talking for me. In this clip from yesterday on CNN, you will get factual comparisons to how much money has been spent so far in Iraq (to say nothing a
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Continuing political coverage of Steven Colbert’s campaign for the South Carolina primary. Probably the most fun I’ve had watching Meet The Press in years. Do you think any favorite son of Missouri would run to draw attention to its primary?
links for 2007-10-23
October 23, 2007 at 9:24 am | In Coffee links | 1 Comment-
Highway 61’s own Lauren Reid filed this report for KOMU in Columbia about pedestrians crossing a busy highway to access basic facilities and services. Since St. Louis has it’s fair share of urban pedestrian issues and highway problems, we thought it’d be
Film Geek Weekend – Road Trip edition
October 18, 2007 at 1:44 pm | In Film Student Fridays, Matthew Hurst | 1 CommentTags: bollywood, daft punk, Jackson Pollock, meramac, one book/one college, reel late, seema, tivoli, truckin, Webster Film Series
Recharge your batteries overnight with a little “Robot Rock” or impress your date to inspire some “Digital Love”; Daft Punk’s “Electroma” is playing in the Reel Late film series at the Tivoli Theater. As far as we know, this is the only road trip movie about French robots that takes place in America, so catch it this weekend only for it’s St. Louis Premier Friday-Saturday October 19-20 @ midnight and Sunday October 21st @ 10pm in the Tivoli Theater. And as this box art suggests (albiet for a whole another film), when the robots take over “where else would you bury Rock’N'Roll?”
All is Quiet on the Western Front this weekend after Meramac Community College plays “Gallipoli” as part of the One Book/One College series. It will play on Thursday morning October 18th @ 11am in the Kirkwood Public Library.
Open your weekend with a song and dance routine in “Laaga Chunari Mein Daag“, which will play Friday October 19th @ 9pm in the St. Charles 18 Cine thanks to our Bollywood connection through Seema Productions.
Sure none of them may have their own thrift-store Jackson Pollock painting, but the truck drivers in “Big Rig” do participate as accidental artists this documentary as part of the Webster Film Series . You could call it the ultimate road trip movie this Friday-Sunday October 19-21 @ 8 PM in the Winifred Moore Auditorium.
East Saint Louis
October 18, 2007 at 1:46 am | In Illinois, Matthew Hurst, Video | Leave a Comment
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links for 2007-10-17
October 17, 2007 at 9:22 am | In Coffee links | 1 Comment-
Since we can’t mention how important the annual St. Louis International Film Festival is on our calenders, we’d like to emphasize the excitement over this year’s as made palatable through their site’s redesign.
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We forget our camera too, although we were behind the video camera for Bill Streeter’s sake during the festival last weekend. Those who couldn’t make it out, and there were a lot you considering the lower than expected turn out, would be wise to live the
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I liked it better when it was caller “24 Hour Party People”
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This clip has gone viral, which we’ve come to expect from SNL Digital Shorts in the past. It’s a regualr feature in Awesometown.
links for 2007-10-16
October 16, 2007 at 9:22 am | In Coffee links | Leave a Comment-
It seems like for every closing business beckons the opening of a new one in this town, whether it be concert venues or record stores. Although thechnically the Cabin Inn is neither, and independant record stores are a rare resource still. Don’t call it
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Artifice has been resurrected as a blog, after going out of print. Problem is it looks like they’re in need of contributers as bad as we are. Those familiar with the local art gallery publication might want to catch up, although we’re not enirely sure a
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I think that title really speaks for itself in the aftermath of the Show-me Blowout
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Highway 61’s own contributor Lauren Reid provides for Columbia’s KOMU about installing traffic sensors for urban cyclists.
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