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 He’s also written an as-yet-unpublished novel about the physical power of language, haunted open mic nights with his experimental poetry and written and performed a comedic one-man-show that’s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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The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis is facing a $2.5 million budget shortfall due to declining ticket sales and donations and the end of federal coronavirus pandemic relief funding. If it doesn’t raise the money, the season may be cut short .
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St. Louis Actors’ Studio presents the local debut of Liza Birkenmeier’s “Dr. Ride’s American Beach House.” The play examines emotional repression on a St. Louis rooftop, the night before Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
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About 50 KDHX DJs and other volunteers voted Tuesday to remove two board members and install three new people to the board. Station leaders said the votes have no legal standing.
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Station leaders dismissed 10 volunteer DJs on Friday and told another 12 they must complete a mediation process to stay on the air. The leaders say they are parting ways with volunteers who have resisted KDHX's enhanced focus on diversity.
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“The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st century” at St. Louis Art Museum maps the broad influence of hip-hop culture in a wide-ranging exhibition.
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The report by UK-based consultant Sound Diplomacy finds that music supports nearly 30,000 jobs in and around St. Louis — 18.000 of them directly.
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Festival organizers said roughly 12,000 people stopped by the Grand Center-based festival over two days.
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Music at the Intersection returns to Grand Center this weekend for its third year. Festival headliners will include Herbie Hancock, Thundercat and Snarky Puppy.
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Shangri-La Hou, a senior at John Burroughs School in Ladue, is one of five National Student Poets who will promote poetry around the country.
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Festival producers sold 25,000 tickets across two days. They plan to return with another version in 2024.
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The Evolution Festival features headliners the Black Keys and Brandi Carlisle, plus a focus on local barbecue. Its producers hope to build it into a signature event in St. Louis but are counting on a strong first year.
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“The Culture: Hip Hop & Contemporary Art in the 21st Century” opens with a block party and free museum admission on Saturday at the St. Louis Art Museum. The wide-ranging exhibition will run for four months.