Courtesy of Euclid Records
Cultural exchanges are everywhere this fall, it seems...
Today, Euclid Records opens its first New Orleans store at 3401 Chartres Street in the city's Bywater area. Get down there for the big opening party on September 4 and 5, and you can see St. Louis expat Tom McDermott perform (maybe you caught him on Treme), along with Guitar Lightnin' Lee, Happy Talk Band, MC Trachiotomy, Mountain of Wizard, R. Scully & the Rough Seven, and lots of other NOLA artists. Or, you can wait to visit 'em in November after local artist Brandon Anschultz's Stick Around For Joy opens at Longue Vue House and Gardens. The show is currently hanging at Laumeier Sculpture Park's indoor galleries, where it closes September 24; by traveling down to NOLA, it will inagurate Laumeier's new "River Between Us," series, a sort of artistic foreign exchange program. On September 8 at 6 p.m., Anschultz and Joe Baker, Long Vue's Director and Chief Curator, lecture on the exhibit's current format, as well as its future one: Anschultz will completely re-configure his paintings and sculptures to respond to Long Vue's spaces.
Heading north: The Pub Theater Company, a sketch-comedy troupe based out of Chicago,has adapted its most popular show, Bye Bye Liver: The Chicago Drinking Play, to create Bye Bye Liver...The St. Louis Drinking Play. No word on whether PTC has plans to integrate hyper-local details into the script (like, eh, the knitted doilies at The Hideway?) though the cast is advertised as including "some of St. Louis' finest comedy and sketch artists." (Hopefully that means there are some Improv Tricksters in the mix.) The show opens on September 25 at Maggie O'Brien's at 2000 Market; tix are $14, and the show starts at 9 p.m. If you need more info, those digits are 314-827-4185.
And on October 1 and 2, Golden Age, a Chicago-based project space that incubates work from artists, writers and designers from around the world, comes to White Flag Projects to set up "a weekend pop-up shop," Permanent Collection 1, which'll feature "a carefully curated selection of artists books, exhibition catalogues, and limited-edition tote bags designed specifically for Permanent Collection I by Lauren Anderson, Aylor Brown, Derek Chan, Parul Cowan, Golden Age, Lee Lynch, Meghan Plunkett, Jon Raffman, Smith + Linder, and Mylinh Trien Nguyen." Earlier this summer (back when L/L was fueled by TypePad), White Flag received a fairly substantial grant from the Andy Warhol Foundation. That was exciting news, but even more exciting to see that grant in motion, funding projects such as this.
