Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D I LOVE THE WEEKEND!
TODAY, Thursday, November 17th
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It’s the last weekend for the 20th Annual St. Louis Film Festival. Theaters like The Tivoli, Plaza Frontenac Cinema, Wash U./Brown Hall Auditorium, Webster U./Winifred Moore Hall Auditorium, and others are playing the lastest independent movies for our eyes and ears to absorb. We recommend the St. Louis Filmakers Showcase tonight at Webster’s Moore Hall Auditorium.
Times: Show starts at 9:30 PM.
Tickets: Advanced tickets for sale at The Tivoli’s box office (5 – 10 PM M-F. 2 – 10 PM S-S.) You could also just show up and get ‘em!
Peruse these links to find full schedule for this weekend:
Friday, November 18th
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St. Louis’s The Urge will be playing The Pageant tonight and November 25th. We implore you to check out this show before it gets sold out. The Urge are ska-core legends and are only reuniting for a finite amount of time. Recording sessions were promised (and one new song has been released), but our hawk in the sky says this could be a no-go. So, check them out while they are amped for action. Also, go back in time and check out Hugh Scott‘s September article on the band!
Times: Doors 7PM// Show 8PM
Tickets: $25 adv/ $27.50 dos
Opening Acts: Locals Brookroyal and The Gorge
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She so darn cute! Look at that dang tiara! Oh, golly!
A little bird, not our night hawk we keep stationed at 11 Headquarters, told me “never sleep on VH1′. While this little bird might have been an acid flashback, she certainly had great advice when Ximena Sarinana‘s colorful music video for “Different“ popped up one Saturday morning. A voice so sweet, it mimes the peculiar lightness of honey dew, Sarinana packs both earnesty and fun into her lyrics for an all-around pleasent experience.
Times: 9 PM
Tickets: $10 – $12
Where: Blueberry Hill
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Scotty recommends the quintessential sounds of a “70s blacksploitation soundtrack” this evening. Kings Go Forth are a Milwaukee-bred band of musicians who’s Harlem horns and funk bring the fun to a docile night in St. Louis.
Times: Doors 8:30 PM/ Show 9:00 PM
Tickets: $15
Where: The Firebird
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Ou Ou (that’s Where, where en francais for you non-francophiles), Mikey Wehling and Eric Hall are coming together for the release of their albums. This double-release show, as it is being dubbed, highlights these electron outfits in all their newly created glory.
Times: 11PM-12AM Mikey Wehling
10PM-10:50PM Ou Où
9PM-9:50PM Eric Hall
Tickets: $5
Where: Heavy Anchor
Saturday, November 19th
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Money for Guns‘s cigarette-stained vocals and woeful strumming is appeasing enough to quell a hangover and interesting enough to actively listen word-for-word.
Times: Show 8PM
Tickets: $5
Where: Jefferson Warehouse
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My editor Tara and I brought you a review of their show at The Crack Fox a few weeks ago, and I highly recommend you take my sage advice to heart and check out Theodore live.
Time: 9 PM
Tickets: None! ’cuz it’s free, boo!
Where: The Schlafly Tap Room
With who: Tone Rodent and Fred Friction
Sunday, November 20th
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Don't you just wanna PLAY WITH IT?!
Well, I love the Ninja Turtles. Okay, no…but really it’s my eternally six sister who loves cartoons and pizza eating reptiles. And while I’ll pause for some Samuri Champloo and Domino’s, it’s really just the men the Ninja Turtles are named after that I love. Speaking of those cats, I’d really like it if someone took me to go see the Leonardo DaVinci Machines Exhibit. It’s the first (and probably only) time these primitive versions of hang gliders (above), cars and bicycles will be in St. Louis.
Times: 10 AM – 6 PM daily
Tickets: $9 – $14
Where: 800 Market Street
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Artwork from the album "Returning and Leaving".
I’ve officially began the Radiohead fandom part of my life’s journey. Kid A has secured its place in my Top 5 Albums and I stand by the fact that under its hypnosis, I can write a badass paper on Manifest Destiny. Lest I digress, it’s easy to see how my aural aesthetics may have changed course these past month’s. Already a fan of the experimental jams of Adult Fur, Eleven urges you to consider Ra Cailum. Their seriously beautiful ambiance is perfect for an afternoon slow dance. Thank goodness they’re in town today.
Times: 7:30 PM
Tickets: $7
Where: Cicero’s
Opening Acts: Corpse Pose, US English and Bloody Knives
