Posts Tagged ‘City Museum’
BOBBING AROUND
November 15th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
Family, friends, and employees of the City Museum founder Bob Cassilly surprised the artist with a birthday celebration this week at the Cabin Inn. The Duane Reed Gallery in Clayton will bow on Nov. 20th a grand Dale Chihuly exhibit of 54 pieces, including the 9-foot-tall crystal and gold Palazzo; the Ducale Tower, that was displayed in Venice in 1996. The exhibit will run through January 31st. 2010
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LET’S GO BERGERING
October 19th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
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The Railway Exchange Building, home to downtown Macy’s, has reportedly been sold. Macy’s will lease space from the new owners. As part of the deal, Macy’s is “refreshing” (and re-thinking) its offerings in the historic structure. One possible new department:: fashions by local designers. The concept has been a successful one at Macy’s State Street store in ChiTown. . . .A search committee is scouring the nation’s parks and trails to find a successor to departing Dave Fischer at the Metropolitan Parks and Recreation District. Fischer, who took over the new district after holding a similar gig in Minneapolis, will be tough to replace, say his pals. . . Bob Cassilly’s City Museum will shutter its popular new rooftop attractions for the winter on Nov. 1 with a performance by the band, Harry and the Potters. Co-founders Paul and Joe DeGeorge front the Boston group, which an alternative newspaper there described it as “the Pink Floyd of Potterdam. The concert is free, but access to the roof is $5, plus regular museum admission. (Crash the party on your flying broom!). . .With the columnist now firmly esconced in the cyber era, it was inevitable that others should follow. Mayor Francis Slay has announced via Twitter that from now on, all Room 200′s news will be sent out via email and Social Media. (Administering this new policy will be incoming mayoral press secretary Kara E. Bowlin, a new media pro, who will be working at the desk occupied until last month by media fave Ed Rhode, who has hung out his own shingle.) Meanwhile, Slay used his blog - www.mayorslay.com – this week to weigh in on the burgeoning controversy regarding Rush Limbaugh‘s interest in purchasing the St. Louis Rams. “If it were up to me, I would choose someone who wanted to keep the team in St. Louis without demanding a new, publicly-funded football stadium,” penned Slay.
LET’S GO TO PRESS
October 10th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
Joe Biden, who along with other members of President Obama’s team, has been no stranger to our town,will be here again next week in support of “a Carnahan candidacy.” Since the Vice President’s duties include presiding over the United States Senate, the columnist presumes that the supported Carnahan is Robin, a candidate to fill the seat being vacated by U.S. Sen. Kit Bond. . . Is it a bad sign for President Obama’s economic recovery plans that bankers and brokers are already inviting clients to attend the Second Annual Distressed Commercial Real Estate Summit in November in New York? “Annual!” Hello!. . Skateboard Mag had an entire region to scout for a story that would be interesting to their ireverent readership. Is anyone surprised that they ended up featuring City Museum’s Bob Cassilly?. . .Two public officials, Francis Slay and Patty York, are still wondering how their names ended up in press announcements by the VIP KLife Foundation. . .-The most widely discussed speech delivered here was by Peter Fischer, recipient of the prestigious St. Louis Award. Fischer, whose Gateway Foundation is the driving force (and money) behind the City Garden, generally shuns the spotlight. He used his rare appearance to call for a serious rethinking of downtown’s Gateway Mall. . . Look for opponents of the city’s proposed anti-smoking ordinance to try to substitute their own watered -down version when the bill is heard at the Board of Aldermen on Friday. Should that happen, look for supporters to respond by stripping out the provision in the current bill that regulations will only go into effect when St. Louis county passes a weaker ban of its own and by removing any phasing-in period for small bars. . . Preservation Action, the national lobbyists for historic buildings, is lookng for a new prez. Michael Allen, former Landmarks Association staffer, who mobilized interest in the property acquisitions of a group of then-unnoticed corporations in north St. Louis. Another? David Richardson, the Husch Blackwell Sanders lawyer who sits on the St. Louis Prsservation Board.
LET’S GO BERGERING
September 14th, 2009 | Author: Jerry Berger
Lights out in University City! Officials there are planning to dim lights on Delmar Boulevard. There are two sets of lights in The Loop, street lights illuminating the street and sidewalk lights. Less light will certainly be less expensive; too dark might be dangerous. This is a stretch of bustling Delmar that has seen a police officer killed and wilding-style teen gangs running between the Loop’s west end and the Delmar Metro station . “I don’t mix with other restaurant owners, because many of them are on drugs and liquor,” said Shawn Jacobs, owner of the 31 year-old landmark, Cicero’s in The Loop (tilt!) Is there a restaurant he does like? He did drop the name of Kreis’s. Jacobs was espied at the Old Pancake House in Chesterfield. Manager Gordon Manus has jumped on the current pumpkin bandwagon and added on pumpkin pancakes to the menu — both in regular and gluten-free batter. Nearby were Alton Liberty Bank’s Dean Kassoff with his daughter, Brooke; also, stockbroker Jim Quicksilver was there with his prodigious 9 year-old heir, Brett . Meanwhile, the new Missouri law allowing motorcycles to pass through red lights after waiting “a reasonable time,” has caught the attention of at least one prominent local motorcyclist. Dr. Carlos Farias, a Clayton plastic surgeon, is no fan. “The law is promoted as a time-saver, but all it really does is increase the chance that you are going to be seeing me professionally,” said the good doc . Comedian Josh Blue (“Last Comic Standing, Season 4″), whose jokes often include references to his cerebral palsy, was at City Museum last week, taking a break from a gig at the Funny Bone Comedy Club at Westport . Mike Meara, KSDK (Channel 5) sales manager, is going for work for John Kueneke, a yesteryear GM at Channel 5. Meara will work at the News-Press Gazette, a newspaper, TV and radio conglom operated out of Clayton.
