Grand Center

This year’s MATI festival will include an additional main stage and an expanded conference.

The playwright Tennessee Williams is not most-often associated with St. Louis, where he grew up. The Tennessee Williams Festival St. Louis has spent 10 years making the case for the city’s influence on Williams’ work.

New festival Free 4 All will take over 10 venues in Grand Center the weekend before Music At The Intersection. Organizers of the new festival say it’s a sort of opening act for MATI, featuring St. Louis artists.

KDHX supporters are raising funds and making plans for a rebirth of the station, but first they need a judge to reject a sale on Monday. KDHX leaders have said the only way to pay off its debts is through a sale of the station’s broadcast license and assets.

A bankruptcy judge scheduled a May hearing to set up the rules and timeline for an auction to sell KDHX’s assets. But final approval of any sale is not assured.

The fifth iteration of the Music at the Intersection festival will include headliners Common, Patti LaBelle, De La Soul and Branford Marsalis, plus pop-up presentations and performances around Midtown.

Leaders of KDHX will seek a judge’s approval on Wednesday to sell the community radio station to syndicated Christian radio network K-LOVE. Court papers show that KDHX’s board voted to sell on March 3. The board says it fielded multiple offers.

St. Louis-area listeners of KDHX on Saturday morning could hear K-LOVE’s signature Christian programming content. By later in the afternoon, 88.1 FM appeared to return to its typical programming.

KDHX 88.1 FM will sell its broadcast license for at least $4.35 million to national chain K-LOVE, which plays contemporary Christian music. KDHX owes $2 million to its creditors.

Leaders of financially imperiled community radio station KDHX rejected a plan from activist group Love of KDHX that included a promise of up to $200,000 in fresh contributions, called for an all-new board and offered volunteer support from experienced St. Louis fundraisers.