Abi Robins @ Foam Coffee & Beer w/ My Molly this Saturday

Time	Saturday, July 9 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	Foam Coffee & Beer 3359 S Jefferson Ave Saint Louis, MO
More Info	Hooray for being back in the STL! The Beekeepers Tour hits St. Louis! We're going to be rocking out at Foam Coffee and Beer from 8ish till whenever we're finished. It's a FREE and ALL AGES show so you have no reason not to come hang out. :) Foam's got all sort of awesome food options (BEST SCONES EVER) as well as wonderful coffee drinks and alcoholic beverages, so whatever your tastes may be, they've got you covered.

FREEZERBURN 17 RELEASE PARTY! at Foam, Friday

Time	Friday, July 7 at 8:00pm - Saturday at 12:00am
Location	Foam 3359 S. Jefferson (Corner of Cherokee)
More Info	F R E E Z E R B U R N S E V E N T E E N . Here it comes! Mister Ben's infamous south city weirdo-artzine is having a new release! What can you expect?! How about: * SEVERE ART DAMAGE. * LIVE MUSIC. * 'Love Muscle' ZINE RELEASE. * LIVE NOISE. * MOVIES. * STRANGE PEOPLE DOING STRANGE THINGS. * PRINTS AND SPECIAL NEW, EXCLUSIVE EPHEMERA. * STICKERS! BUTTONS! * Possible release of the fabled Vampire Baby Kate zine?? * CHEEP-O BEERS & SNAX. * PREVIEW OF: THE SCUZZ REPORT. (A Top Secret Project.) * LEGENDARY BACK-ISSUES pulled out from a box in Mister Ben's closet. * RECRUITMENT. * PHILOSOPHY. * DISCUSSION. * Street brawl? EVENT IS FREE TO PUBLIC. All at the lovely, ambient FOAM Coffee & Beer! "The Art-Damaged Working Class is Coming For You." --- M. Ben, ca. 2007

Summer Reading Series Kick-off w/author Jamieson Ridenhour at Firecracker this Thursday

Time	Thursday, July 7 · 7:00pm - 8:30pm
Location	The Firecracker Press 2838 Cherokee Street Saint Louis, MO
More Info	To kick off the summer reading series at The Firecracker Press, we begin with a Halloween in July Extravanganza, celebrating the release of Barking Mad, A Reginald Spiffington Mystery. Firecracker designed and printed the covers for Typecast Publishing (our partners in The Lumberyard). Come find out about our first fiction collaboration with monster masks! Letter-pressed broadsides! Chap-punk werewolves! Mayhem! Antics! GET A LETTERPRESS BROADSIDE made on-site, while Jamieson reads from the book, to take home. Beautiful little bonus for every attendee.

Live Brazilian Music for listening and to dance ... this Friday at The Archive

Time	Friday at 9:00pm - Saturday at 1:00am
Location	The Archive on Cherokee Street STL 3215 Cherokee Street Saint Louis, MO
More Info	This Friday, July 08 - 9:00pm to 11:59pm - Live Brazilian Music The Archive, 3215 Cherokee Street - Saint Louis, MO This is a very hip palace in the South Side, please invite your friends... With pianist Michael Loveman, singer Debora Moraes, Moacyr Marchini, and more...

Middle Class Fashion w/ Grandkids (Champaign, IL) @ Foam (StL)

Time	Tuesday, July 5 · 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	Foam (StL) 3359 S. Jefferson Avenue (@ Cherokee Street)
More Info	FREE ALL AGES! This will be the last StL show for a few months, until the TBA LP release, so c'mon c'mon! Grandkids www.facebook.com/grandkidsmusic Middle Class Fashion www.middleclassfashion.com

Hidden Pictures (Kansas City, MO), Eric Voeks (KC), The Jump Starts (STL) at Foam this Saturday

Time	Saturday at 9:00pm - Sunday at 12:00am
Location	Foam 3359 S. Jefferson Ave. (at Cherokee)   Saint Louis, MO 63118
More Info	Hidden Pictures from Kansas City, MO grace Foam with their pop fueled presence this Saturday July 2nd. If you are in town for the holiday weekend you need to be here. We'll crank the AC. Drink cool beverages and tap our toes to the sweet sounds. St. Louis' Jump Starts are also going to be on the bill. You know you love them already.

Spirit Jam Drum, Dance and Chant at the Archive July 7

Time	Thursday, July 7 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	The Archive on Cherokee Street STL 3215 Cherokee Street
More Info	Join us once again for Spirit Jam Drum, Dance and Chant at the Archive on July 7th at 7pm and every first and third Thursday of the Month. Bring your drums, rattles and other percussion instruments and lose yourself in rhythm. Let's raise some positive energy! $5.00 suggested donation. Bring your own refreshments. This will happen Rain or Shine. We have indoor space as well.

Call for Entries: Firecracker's Summer Reading Series - 2011

CALL FOR ENTRIES
The Firecracker Press is preparing for its 2011 Poetry Reading Series. This is the first call of the year, and while dates remain tentative, we will begin booking as selected poems are gathered.

The following outlines some general information regarding the event:
- Readings will be twice a month starting in July and running indefinitely through the remainder of the year. The event will begin at 2:00 p.m.
- The prints are part of the entertainment; we will be printing as you are reading. For those not familiar with The Firecracker Press, we use antique printing technology, complete with all of the clicks and groans of our manual presses. Please go here for a virtual peek into the shop.


For more information or to ask questions or submit, visit the Firecracker Press web site.

The Firecracker Press
2838 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118

Theodore's Tour Kick Off Show (with Special Guests) at Pig Slop this Thursday

Time	Thursday, June 23 · 7:30pm - 11:00pm
Location	Pig Slop Studios 2700 Cherokee Street Saint Louis, MO
More Info	Hey everybody! Yeah, I guess shows at Pig Slop usually don't start until 11:00 or whatever. But this has to start and end super early - or else we'll have to stop having shows. Hope you all can make it on time because this is gonna be great! Love, Pig Slop. Navigator http://navigatorstl.bandcamp.com/ http://www.facebook.com/Navigator.band Sleep In Sundays http://www.myspace.com/sleepinsundays http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sleep-in-Sundays/195517250461427?sk=info THEODORE http://theodoremusic.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/theodoremusic http://www.daytrotter.com/dt/theodore-concert/20032259-3738169.html Tour kick off show for Theodore. donation$ accepted all ages. Bring yo sippy cupz... (BYOB)

Sloup #17 Flowers to the People this Sunday

Time	Sunday, June 26 · 6:00pm - 8:00pm
Location	2317 Cherokee St., Saint Louis, MO 63118
More Info	Sloup #17 brought to you by Flowers to the People, Holly Fann (food writer extraordinaire), and your favorite brewpub The Stable! $10 get you food and an awesome packet of proposals - sloup applicants - the deadline for proposals is Friday midnight - bumping up the deadline a bit.    Hosted by Flowers to the People the hippest floral and gift boutique Soup will be provided by local food writer for the River Front Times - Holly Nickels Fann AND - we are currently composing a 'slouper' cocktail with some delicious spirits - donated by the brewpub and micro-distillery The Stable its going to be. awesome. So get your proposals in - we will be bumping up our deadline to Friday by midnight - tell your friends and tell your friends friend.

Cherokee Stroll this Saturday!

Check the page of the St. Louis Art Project for details on related events this Saturday, June 18.  Highlights include Medusa's Craft Menagerie and STL-Style's birthday party. Don't miss it!

SLAP's Cherokee Stroll page.

AUNIA KAHN: "Film Noir" opens at PHD Gallery

Opening at PHD Gallery on Saturday, June 25, 2011
"AUNIA KAHN: "Film Noir"
http://phdstl.com/aunia_kahn.html.

Join us for the opening reception
Saturday, June 25th
7-10 PM
PHD Gallery

(TOM of FINLAND: Original Drawings also on view)
http://phdstl.com/tom_of_finland.html

(Gay Pride Weekend)

Your $10. donation benefits
Tom of Finland Foundation

PHD Gallery
2300 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
(314) 664-6644
http://www.phdstl.com

What's the Use? opening at Snowflake

Time	Saturday, June 18 · 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location	Snowflake 3156 Cherokee Street (at Compton)
More Info	Snowflake Gallery is pleased to present the first St. Louis based exhibition of the works of Wonder Koch and Eliza Newman-Saul. The artists, long time friends, share an interest in creating artworks that tell stories. Though both artists write as part of their practice, this exhibition focuses on their object based works. 'What's the Use?' is a study of insufficiencies--both personal and global. In each bad decision we make is the often painful consequence of our own action and its reverberations into the society as a whole. "My great grandfather sent a postcard that reads: Fire Sweeps Horwell Today, Thursday Dec 9, 1915. Our hotel is gone. Loss is great. 'What's the Use.' In honor of this event I ask myself a similar question daily..." Eliza Newman-Saul's drawing and video focus on classical images of the sea as a point of searching, loss and longing. The collection of drawing of sunken ships and the video work together as an installation titled "To My dear Impotent World." Culling headlines from sources including Fox News, presidential declarations of war, instructions for breaking a World of War Craft addiction or submitting a proposal to DARPA’s Polymer Ice Program, The Story of the Eye as well as phrases heard screamed from car windows, Wonder Koch has created an unwieldy, tactile news ticker. Freed from television, “Ticker” subverts propaganda into the kind of news you can get from poetry. www.snowflakestl.com

TOM of FINLAND Original Drawings at PHD Gallery...

Opening at PHD Gallery on Saturday, June 25, 2011
"TOM of FINLAND, Original Drawings."
http://phdstl.com/tom_of_finland.html

This is a very rare opportunity to see (and own!) actual graphite on paper originals by the iconic
TOM of FINLAND.

Join us for the opening reception
Saturday, June 25th
7-10 PM
PHD Gallery
(through August 6th)

(Gay Pride Weekend)

PHD Gallery
2300 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
(314) 664-6644
http://www.phdstl.com

Letterpress Class this weekend at All Along!

There are still a couple of openings for this weekend's letterpress class at All Along Press!

Letterpress 1: Stationery
June 4 & 5 | 10am-6pm (1 hr lunch)

Print your own personalized stationery using antique printing methods!

Create your design using vintage illustration blocks and wood type. Learn the basics of setting metal type to print matching envelopes with your return address.

Students will familiarize themselves with the make-ready process, mixing inks, and printing on the Vandercoook #4 and Kelsey tabletop presses. All materials are provided, and students will leave with their own set of personalized letterhead and envelopes.

This is an introductory class. No experience is required. To sign up, visit classes.allalongpress.com or call (314)827-6185.

Check out our other upcoming classes including printmaking, screen printing, publishing and bookbinding!

All Along Press
2712 Cherokee Street
Saint Louis, MO 63118