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Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 12d

Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon
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#operatheatrestl #patriciaracette #thesheldon

Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director returns to her roots in jazz and cabaret.

Repertory Theatre of St. Louis WOMAN IN BACK

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 12d

The Woman in Black, now at The Rep in St. Louis, turns silence and fog into a shared haunting. A gothic ritual of storytelling that lingers after the lights rise. 🎭

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Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 20d

Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice
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Sometimes the most expansive theater happens in the smallest of rooms

Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 20d

Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths
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This is Stray Dog at its boldest

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · 28d

Stages St. Louis' BEAUTIFUL THE CAROLE KING MUSICAL

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Sep 17

Morning Glories, False Fall—and the Nostalgics Among Us — qwerky studio

Early morning on Snob Hill, our small hillside enclave in St. Louis, and late summer is showing its hand. The light slants lower, shadows stretch longer, and the air carries that faint metallic tang t...

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Aug 20

Through August 24: “Jersey Boys” Closes The Muny’s 107th Season With Swagger and Falsetto

Not so much a jukebox as a time machine stocked with memory, falsetto and swagger.

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Aug 14

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Tesseract Theatre’s "Steel Magnolias" Blesses Hearts and Hugs Necks - Pop Life STL

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Aug 9

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Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Aug 1

Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages
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It rarely animates the quicksilver intelligence at its core

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jul 29

AI’s the Kind of Asshole Who Brings Store-Bought Dip to a Snob Hill Soirée — qwerky studio

We recently indulged in a bit of digital slumming and asked one of those upstart AI platforms—Perplexity, bless its eager little circuits—to dream up five blog topics in the refined, vine-covered spir...

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jul 24

Jed Clampett, Edna Lewis and Remembrance of Tomatoes Past — qwerky studio

Natalia Ginzburg was an Italian writer known for her incisive essays and novels that often explored family life, memory and the quiet struggles of everyday existence. In one of her essays about Englis...

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jul 18

Shit! I was doing some organizing in my camera closet and the merest accidental tap on the back of my Kodak 2D shattered the ground glass. I know it can be repaired, but this happened literally 10 minutes I just paid for the $300 CLA on the Nikon S2 rangefinder. Why, camera gods, why?

#lifestyle #stlouiswriter #journalism #magazinejournalism #qwerkystudio #lifeonsnobhill #lifeonsnobhillblog

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jul 11

Well, Bless Your Byline — qwerky studio

Life On Snob Hill’s meditation on writing, hubris, and why nobody—no matter how clever—owns the alphabet We were leafing through one of our favorite Southern magazines the other day—the kind that swa...

Union Avenue Opera's MY FAIR LADY #stlstagesnaps #unionavenueopera

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jul 7

Adams On Opera! The Review Is Up!
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#VolunteerPlants #SurpriseGarden #SlowLiving #FoundBeauty #PoeticLiving #SerendipityInNature #LifeOnSnobHill #SnobHillGarden #SnobHillBees #PrincessPumpkin

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 30

Life On Snob Hill: Ballad of the Sunflower, the Swarm and Princess Pumpkin — qwerky studio

“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee. / And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few.” — Emily Dickinson We’re not ones to curate perfection on Snob ...

Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 20

Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High
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The summer season opener delivers athleticism and exuberance, but it’s in the hip-hop cadence and communal energy of its second school where the show most resonates.

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 19

When You Don't Wind Film Far Enough With a Vintage Diana Camera You Get This.

#toycamera #foma400 #diana #toycamera #lofiphotography #shotonfilm #emulsive #filmshooter #shootmorefilme #analogue #analog #plasticlens #plasticcamera #krappykamera

Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz

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DangRabbit Photography @dangrabbit.bsky.social · Jun 13

Sometimes life feels like the perfect game, sometimes it feels more like a 7-10 split…

#bowling #roadside #travel #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photography #eastcoastkin

Huge bowling pin outside a bowling alley along a roadside. Black and white Americana photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.

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DangRabbit Photography @dangrabbit.bsky.social · May 31

What do you see in the sea? Everything that was, and everything that will be.

#sea #beach #driftwood #blackandwhite #moody #photography #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography

A large old tree turning to driftwood on a quiet beach under a dark brooding sky. Black and white photograph copyright Amy Medina, DangRabbit Photography.

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 19

This begs to be photographed with a Holga or other toy camera. Love the interplay between clouds and tiled bowling pin. Nice compo!

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 5

Adams On Theater!
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This madcap musical two-hander unleashes a killer performances with quick-change chaos, piano duels and comic invention where the whodunit is beside the point

The Zen of Dying Quietly, and Other Teachings by Senator Joni Ernst

Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 4

I am truly enamored with the process of making photographs with an 8x10 view camera. It is unique, and distinctively different than even shooting 4x5, which I do a lot of. This is part of my ongoing Hive Minded Missouri Beekeepers portrait project. #8x10 #largeformat #largeformatphotography

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Qwerky Studio - CB Adams @qwerkystudio.bsky.social · Jun 3

Healing the body is expensive. Transcending the reality of space and time is free. It’s just so obvious once you do the math. Do the math now. Then we shall cut every math department.

The Zen of Dying Quietly, and Other Teachings by Senator Joni Ernst www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

“Republican Sen. Joni Ernst faced a number of agitated constituents at a town hall on Friday who expressed concerns that the Republicans’ cuts to M...

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