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Music news 'Bloom'ing
Posted Wednesday, February 8, at 5:52 PM We may have a few months yet for the summer music festival season, but at least one local festival has released a line up -- and it looks good. The Bloom Heavy River Romp from June 28 to 30 in Grassy, Mo., will welcome Cornmeal, Dirtfoot, The Big Idea and drum roll please... Maybe some guitar in there (it's a jam band after all)... A little more drum roll... Yonder Mountain String Band...
Well, here's one way to attract the attention of a newspaper: park your tour bus outside. Matt Stillwell, an up and coming country artist from the North Carolina hills, hung out on the street in front of the Southeast Missourian this afternoon while waiting on a radio interview...
Take part in art Last First Friday, we told you about an addition to the festivities: the Night of Laughs at Dockside that starts as the art galleries close. Today, another "after art hours" event surfaced. The Exquisite Corpse officially launches today at 8 p.m. in the Yacht Club at Port Cape...
Tonight, tomorrow and Super Bowl Sunday It seems like everyone wants to know what's going on with the Esquire Theater each week. Now, though, the people restoring the theater want to know what went on there years ago. The Broadway Esquire Entertainment Group hired Scott Phegley to produce a documentary about the Esquire Theater. ...
What day is it? Oh yeah... 11/11/11 It's 11:11 on 11/11/11. Or at least it was when I started writing this blog. I know a few people who make wishes when they see 11:11 on the clock each day. I'm sure they're floating around on a superstitious cloud today. I wear an analog watch. I don't really care. The world rotates. It's not an anomaly...
Empty Bowls leads to nourished souls November has snuck up on me this year and with it, the annual Empty Bowls Banquet. The volunteers involved have been steadily and quietly making, painting and glazing pottery for the event, which raises money and awareness for local food banks. A few bowls are currently on display in a silent auction at the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri. Bidding closes Nov. 4, so visit the gallery and make a bid if you find one you like...
Derby dreams and engine screams The dual demolition derby revs my engine more than any other event at the fair (sorry, couldn't resist!). It sends me straight back to my childhood. I remember standing on the bench next to my mom in Montana watching my dad smash into friends and strangers. Weeks later on family video night, we would watch the tapes of dad's derby conquest -- or my mother's feet or the inside of the camera lense, this was well before editing software mind you...
Local B&B turns 10, throws a party! Turning 10 normally means American Girl dolls or new sports equipment, but as the Rose Bed Inn celebrates a decade of existence you can bet the party will be a bit more sophisticated. James Coley and Eldon Nattier opened the B&B on South Sprigg Street in 2001, after renovating the structure. The two have added to it over the years making the Rose Bed Inn a spacious inn, art gallery and generally interesting place to be...
Local music legend Bruce Zimmerman turns 60 today. Zimmerman held a guitar and learned his first chord at age 5. Since then, he's learned nearly everything else a player can do with a guitar and come up with a few of his own tricks. Zimmerman's aunt had a boyfriend who gave him an old Gibson acoustic guitar and showed him how to play an A chord...
Edwin McCain plans to play Cape on Sunday Sometimes there's a slump between Mother's Day and Memorial Day. Not so this year, thanks to The Venue. The all-ages, multi-purpose event center booked Edwin McCain to play Sunday. McCain, famous for his love anthems "I'll Be" and "I Could Not Ask For More," will play The Venue at 7 p.m. ...
Lojo risin' Underberg House Concerts will take its talent out on the town this week. A concert by Lojo Russo will be at Dockside on Spanish, allowing more people to attend and more room to move, should the mood strike. Russo, an Iowa-based singer songwriter, has played Cape Girardeau a few times and each one wins over more and more fans to her rough roots and Indie sound...
It's been a rough week. Lucky for us, this is going to be a great weekend. Today's First Friday and we're all in store for some color therapy. While I was putting the First Friday list together this week I noticed a theme: happiness. Bright colors, smiling portraits, excited high schoolers exhibiting for the first time...
An elephant in the room I smell, and there's elephant snot on my shoe. In what profession is that a normal Thursday observation? Journalism, apparently. The circus is in town and reporter Erin Hevern, photographer Laura Simon and I headed over to the Show Me Center for a behind-the-scenes chat with the veterinarian, elephant trainer and dog trainer on tour with the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. (find showtimes here)...
AfterWords: "The Aluminum Show" If you read my story last Friday advancing "The Aluminum Show," you knew about as much as I did going into Bedell Performance Hall last night. I compare the show to an industrial version of Cirque du Soleil. That's the best I can do. The show, 90 minutes of music, lights and metal props, well exceeded my vague expectations...
Overcoming autism Words are my life, my livelihood. So I cannot fathom how I would feel if I couldn't automatically and easily express my thoughts or opinions in words. And yet hundreds of thousands of children and adults with autism spectrum disorders struggle with that and other obstacles every day...
The Silver Lining Saturday's New Talent Showcase featured two comedians, The Silver Lining Band and two hip hop artists -- not necessarily in that order. I caught a few covers and this original by The Silver Lining Band. It's a fledgling band based in Cape Girardeau, and Saturday was the group's debut. ...
Dance advance In addition to all the art on display Friday, dancers from Southeast Missouri State University's Department of Theatre and Dance held an open practice for passersby to enjoy sections of their upcoming show "The Planets." The department is partnering with the music department and the art department for music and backdrops for this performance. ...
Room with a view, and busy schedule Buckner's has amped up the entertainment for this week, at least. The brewery at Main and Broadway has triple the fun this weekend and parts of next week with juke box and bar games on the bottom level, bands on the main floor and various entertainment booked in the third story...
Tell me a joke, funnyman. Rick Cason has been a cut up most of his life. Tonight, he's putting his natural talent to use on the stage at Pitter's Café on Broadway. The café and lounge, which used to be Mississippi Mud House, sprinkles comedy nights into the schedule to complement the music events it plans - like a rockin folk night Friday!...
Getting out and giving back Who says bars are only about booze? Mixing 10, the corner bar on Main and Independence streets, is joining the list of downtown watering holes that have charity on the mind. The bar will be holding a weekend-long fundraiser for Multiple Sclerosis, a disabling disease that affects the central nervous system and is thought to be an autoimmune disease...
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Chris Harris manages the feature sections in the Southeast Missourian. Those colorful, fun pages toward the end of the A section? That's her and her team. She works on Health, Home and Garden, SE Live, neXt, Religion, the Sunday Good Times section and the daily comics pages. She deals with everything from the flu and fitness topics to house projects and kitchen tips to the latest plays and art exhibits in town. You know: conversation topics. She uses this space to talk about what's coming up, what you're interested in and what she found yesterday. You can sum it and her up in one word: Random.
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