Always wish you could form a band and perform on stage? HandleBar is hosting BandUp 2025 – your new band’s show! Form a band, sign up, learn three songs and perform them for a live audience. The event will take place on Sunday, June 1, at 4 p.m. There will be two stages with sound…
Saint Louis’ Original Arts Incubator is Back for Season 14! STLFringe FEST ‘25, the region’s premier independent performing arts festival, will be igniting stages and streets across the Grand Center Arts District with an explosion of boundary-breaking theatre, dance, music, musicals, magic, film, and more. Now in their 14th season, STLFringe FEST continues its mission…
“ALEX BRAUN, COME ON DOWN!” During his sixteenth time as a Price is Right studio audience member, “Queen of Camp” Alex Braun finally heard those thrilling words. He was in Los Angeles in February, the day before the show’s 10,000th taping, along with a group of fellow superfans. “With The Price is Right, they interview…
Cinema St. Louis proudly presents the 18th Annual QFest St. Louis, a vibrant celebration of LGBTQ+ film and queer culture. Scheduled from May 27 to June 1, 2025, at the historic Hi-Pointe Theatre, QFest showcases a diverse lineup of contemporary gay cinema, including narrative features, documentaries, and shorts that spotlight the lives of LGBTQ+ individuals…
A contractor named Jake (last name retracted after he was bombarded with calls) was on a job in the Penrose neighborhood when the sky turned black and the wind grew fierce. He saw a few older women sitting in a car, and helped them get to a nearby house. He was then lifted up by…
Black Pride STL is celebrating 30 years with an extravaganza at the historic Grey Fox Pub on May 31. A whopping 14 entertainers will take to the stage, including the reigning King of Pride STL 2025, Semaj Mazzaratie-Evermore and Mx. Metro Trans Umbrella Group 2025, ZeLucy Leone Fur. Board member Lydia Baker, who is also…
There’s a kind of strength that doesn’t roar. It doesn’t stomp its feet or shatter glass ceilings in a blaze of thunder. It whispers. It steadies. It holds. It’s a gentle magic. In a culture obsessed with dominance, productivity, and spectacle, softness is often dismissed as weakness. But in magical and spiritual traditions, gentleness can…
21c Museum Hotel St. Louis invites the community to celebrate Pride month during their Pop Stars! Pride Prom on Friday, June 13 from 7pm-11pm supporting monthly Community Impact partner, Metro Trans Umbrella Group (MTUG). MTUG is a non-profit organization created by and for the St. Louis trans community that aims to unite trans, genderqueer, androgynous,…
After clinching back-to-back victories on Top Chef Seasons 19 and 20, Chef Buddha Lo, a native Australian, opened Hüso in February 2025. Situated in Tribeca, you enter through Marky’s Caviar, a boutique renowned for its premium selections, including Lo’s own Saint Urgeon line. The restaurant’s name, derived from the Latin term for Beluga sturgeon, pays…
When there’s a loss in cabin pressure, the first thing you’re instructed to do is put on your own mask. The same principle applies to the horrific times we find ourselves in. So much is coming at us on a macro level, that it’s completely overwhelming. But if you start by getting your own house…
