Jeremy D. Goodwin
Arts & Culture Senior ReporterJeremy D. Goodwin joined St. Louis Public Radio in spring of 2018 as a reporter covering arts & culture and co-host of the Cut & Paste podcast. He came to us from Boston and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he covered the same beat as a full-time freelancer, contributing to The Boston Globe, WBUR 90.9 FM, The New York Times and NPR, plus lots of places that you probably haven’t heard of.
He’s also worked in publicity for the theater troupe Shakespeare & Company and Berkshire Museum. For a decade he joined some fellow Phish fans on the board of The Mockingbird Foundation, a charity that has raised over $1.5 million for music education causes and collectively written three books about the band. He’s also written an as-yet-unpublished novel about the physical power of language, haunted open mic nights with his experimental poetry and written and performed a comedic one-man-show that’s essentially a historical lecture about an event that never happened. He makes it a habit to take a major road trip of National Parks every couple of years.
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Kate Bergstrom, the new artistic director of Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, plans to lure new audiences while welcoming back theater supporters who’ve drifted away in recent years.
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James Aylott’s new novel “Tales of Whiskey Tango from Misery Towers” is based on the lives of the author’s new neighbors after his family relocated from Hawaii to downtown St. Louis. The book chronicles the adventures of 11 ordinary St. Louisans during the summer of 2019.
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The Artica festival, a gathering for site-specific artworks and offbeat performances, has a home for its 2024 event after months of uncertainty. The event comes to Chouteau’s Landing in October.
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St. Louis police cautioned parents to be sure their kids don’t shoot popular gel-blaster guns at strangers or engage in pretend shootouts that can be misinterpreted as the real thing.
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Gateway Studios & Production Services in Chesterfield has worked on 40 tours in recent years, including outings by jam kings Phish and high-flying contender Goose. One recent day at the Factory reveals the work that goes on before a band can take the stage.
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Opera Theatre of St. Louis is producing a Philip Glass opera for only the second time. ‘‘Galileo Galilei” tells the story of the legendary astronomer’s pursuit of scientific fact and the resulting conflict with the Roman Catholic Church.
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With four newly installed sculptures, more plantings and no more interruption from Ninth Street, Citygarden draws an eclectic mix of visitors shortly after reopening to the public.
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A kickoff event Saturday will mark the reopening of Citygarden, after a nearly nine-month renovation that included the installation of three new pieces of public art and the return of two popular pieces that had been temporarily removed.
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The GAY-la at the Factory in Chesterfield on Sunday will feature St. Louis drag performers, band Blusch and electronic producer Umami.
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A free concert series produced by the International Institute and Music at the Intersection is making more music and performances from around the world available to St. Louisans this summer.
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Counterpublic, a St. Louis nonprofit organization that produces public art projects, is placing “erased history markers” at city intersections where streets named for Native American peoples meet streets named for the places from which white settlers removed them.
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Twelve-time Grammy winner John Legend will perform with St. Louis Symphony in September, for the first concert at the Muny since 1991.