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Aug 29, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Neman |Jasmine Osby |Daniel Durchholz |Rosalind Early
Paint LouisWhen: 8 a.m.-8 p.m. Aug. 30-Sept. 1Where: The Floodwall at 1000 South Wharf StreetHow much: FreeMore info: facebook.com/PaintLouisThey call it an international graffiti hip hop festival. International? Yes — graffiti artists from Australia, Germany, Mexico and Canada will join more than 400 Americans to spray-paint their very best on 2½ miles of floodwall south of the Arch. And it’s all to a hip-hop beat, with DJs, MCs and dancers. Food and drink will be available.
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Aug 8, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Rosalind Early |Daniel Durchholz
Marlon WayansWhen: 7 p.m. and 10 p.m. Aug. 9-10, 7 p.m. Aug. 11Where: Helium Comedy Club, 1151 St. Louis Galleria Street, BrentwoodHow much: $48.58-58.93More info: st-louis.heliumcomedy.comRenowned funnyman Marlon Wayans is coming to the Helium Comedy Club. He is known for appearing in the films "White Chicks" with brother Shawn and the Scary Movie franchise, directed by his brother Keenan Ivory.
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Rosalind Early |Jane Henderson |Daniel Durchholz
Taste of St. LouisWhen: 5 p.m.-10 p.m. Aug. 2, 11 am.-10 p.m. Aug. 3, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Aug. 4Where: Ballpark Village, 601 ClarkHow much: FreeMore info: thetastestl.comAt Taste of St. Louis you can purchase eats from some of the area’s most popular restaurants all in one place. Restaurants this year include Fries Over Guys, Gus’s Fried Chicken, A Taste of Paradise, Crooked Boot and Bruh Nem BBQ. Rosalind Early‘Red’When: 7:30 p.m. Thursday, 4 p.m. and 8 p.m. Saturday, 2 p.m. Sunday through Aug.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Durchholz
The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra has announced that Erin Freeman has been named the director of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus and the AT&T Foundation Chair. Her appointment follows a national search that ensued upon the retirement of Amy Kaiser, whose 27-year tenure as chorus director ended with the 2021-22 season. Freeman will be just the third person to hold that position, which was founded in 1976 under the direction of Thomas Peck.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Durchholz
If you’ve never seen 10cc in concert, don’t beat yourself up over it. The band, whose classic-rock classics include “I’m Not in Love,” “The Things We Do for Love,” “Dreadlock Holiday” and “Rubber Bullets,” last toured the U.S. in 1978. And so far as we can tell, its only St. Louis dates were in 1974 and ’75. “Funny enough, I remember the earlier tours more than the ’78 ones,” says Graham Gouldman, the last man standing from 10cc’s original lineup.
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Rosalind Early |Daniel Neman |Daniel Durchholz |Steve Leftridge
Disney’s ‘Newsies’When: July 26-Aug. 25; performance times varyWhere: Kirkwood Performing Arts Center, 210 East Monroe Avenue, KirkwoodHow much: $45-$82More info: stagesstlouis.org/newsies/It’s New York 1899. Papers have morning and evening editions, and kids called newsies sell them on the street, making pennies on the paper. When the publishers get greedy and cut into the kids’ profits, the newsies decide to strike. But will it work?
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Jul 26, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Durchholz
Live performances are where the members of Vampire Weekend can finally loosen up a bit. On its albums, the trio — now based in L.A. but originally from New York — play songs that are concise, painstakingly arranged and lyrically fastidious, mentioning things like Oxford commas and mansard roofs and rhyming “horchata” with “balaclava.”Decades removed from its prep-school and Ivy League past, the group’s grammar and vocabulary bona fides are still very much in order.
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Jul 22, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Durchholz
“Don’t bore us, get to the chorus,” you’re saying. We hear you. St. Louis has plenty of great concerts and comedy shows happening in August, so let’s get right to them. 10cc 'The Ultimate Greatest Hits Tour' with Robin Taylor Zander (of Cheap Trick)When: 8 p.m. Aug. 3Where: The Pageant, 6161 Delmar BoulevardHow much: $40-$60More info: ticketmaster.comHere’s a spoonful of something that’ll cure what ails ya — the first U.S. tour by 10cc in over 30 years.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Neman |Rosalind Early |Nina Giraldo |Daniel Durchholz
Jefferson County FairWhen: 5 p.m.-1 a.m. July 19; 4 p.m.-1 a.m. July 20; 3 p.m.-9 p.m. July 21Where: 10349 Business Route 21, HillsboroHow much: $15 (or four for $50), free for military and those 10 and underMore info: jeffersoncountyfair.netSee the best local animals and produce, visit the petting zoo, enjoy the pony rides and watch the pig races (it ain’t a fair unless there are pig races) at the JeffCo Fair. There will be carnival rides too, of course, and plenty of beverages and fried food.
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Jul 16, 2024 | 
stltoday.com | Daniel Durchholz
Comedian Jordan Klepper has been called a "MAGA Anthropologist" and is known for venturing into the world of Trump supporters and bringing back reports of just what is going on under all those red hats. Here’s an example from his recent special, “Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse: Moscow Tools.”Klepper: Who do you think started the war in Ukraine? Couple wearing Trump hats: Joe Biden and his son. The war was started so that Biden could remain president.
