Hey y’all,
Tonight (Sept. 25!) it is time once again for Drinks & Mortar, the monthly happy hour about architecture, civics, and other delights.
We will gather starting at 7:30 (THAT’S RIGHT, 7 effin 30!) at Magnolia’s, #5 South Vandeventer, in a confection of an old St. Louis commercial building.
Here is this month’s fahabulous flyer, designed by the talented Darren Snow:
bricks,
Claire Nowak-Boyd
ever the rabble-rousin’ hostess
myspace.com/drinksandmortar
Hey all,
This Thursday is the first birthday of Dewey Decimal Drinks, the monthly happy hour for St. Louis area librarians, library workers, and library groupies. Yep, it has already been a year!
(Flyer photo by the lurvely and talented Sarah Louise Walker.)
We will gather starting at 7pm this Thursday, September 18, at Luckett’s Lounge. Luckett’s is located at 4616 Delmar, between Euclid and Taylor. It’s owned by an employee of the StL Public Libraries, and he’s very excited to have us there. The bar is CASH ONLY and we’ll be ordering pizza, so bring your paper money.
KDHX DJ Darren Snow will be playing tunes for us later in the evening. All I can say is that dancing is not mandatory, but *I* plan to dance with my uncoordinated lil’ self, and the drinks are strong at Luckett’s if you need some extra courage! Also, I will be making cheesy birthday-related banners. Come on by and help us celebrate our first year!
Also, if you’ve got colleagues in the Portland area, a badass liberrian there has started a librarian drinks night, so spread the word!: myspace.com/interlibrarylush
Keep reading between the lines,
Claire-ian the Librarian
myspace.com/deweydecimaldrinks
clairelovesthecity {at} gmail.com
Darren Snow will be spinning some snazzy tunes at the Atomic Cowboy (4140 Manchester) this Saturday night.
Why do I mention it? Because I think readers of this blog will enjoy the flyer he designed:
If it looks familiar, that’s because it’s one of the directories that has since been removed from the Bee Hat Building on Washington Avenue, Downtown. (NOTE: I had the wrong photo up, but it’s fixed now! ‘pologies!)
And yeah, Darren plays good music. Bee Cool (like a locally made straw hat) and head on out for this.
(Hat and bee puns welcomed in the comments section.)
Beeeeloved local bookshop Left Bank Books is going to be opening a second shop DOWNTOWN this fall, with heavy support from developer-who-actually-gets-it Craig Heller.
A BOOKSTORE DOWNTOWN AGAIN, YOU GUYS! OH MY GOD! I hate it when people proclaim this over silly things, but damn it, this makes me feel like the city is back. This news makes me feel all sappy and dopey.
I know there is technically a bookstore on the northern edge of Downtown, but I’m sorry, a porn shop that’s got a couple of copies of Huck Finn on a rack in the front to make it look legit does not qualify as a downtown bookstore for a fairly big city. It just doesn’t. So yay—an actual bookstore that specializes in selling books (and good ones, for that matter). When I worked Downtown, I can’t tell you how often tourists would ask if we had a bookstore in the area, and there was no way in hell I was sending ‘em to that sketchy place. But Left Bank, that’s a place you can be happy to show to someone as being representative of our town.
I remember feeling sad when I was in Detroit earlier this year, when I discovered that they’ve got a downtown bookstore and we don’t. (Yes, Detroit is bigger and more populous, but St. Louis is much healthier overall.) But we are soon to have a place to get books in the central business district. That’s beautiful. And unlike Detroit, ours will be independent and local all the way, not an outpost of a national chain.
This is so great! Leftbankly goodness within a 30 minute walk of my apartment! This is going to be horrible for my pocketbook, but fabulous for my well-being.
