Black Girls Do STEM, Museum of Transportation, and the Westport Playhouse
Black Girls
Do STEM
Learn how this organization started by a St. Louis area scientist is helping African-American middle school and high school girls develop the skills they need to pursue careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics!
A Conversation with Silas House
Novelist Silas House discusses his latest book Lark Ascending, which follows a young man in the not so distant future who flees a burning and divided United States in search of refuge across the Atlantic.
Trilateral AgriFood Symposium
St. Louis recently hosted the Trilateral AgriFood Innovation Symposium, bringing together representatives from Israel, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States to build bonds between these countries' AgriFood ecosystems.
Museum of Transportation
The National Museum of Transportation's Holiday programing features two of the states largest holiday train displays, visits from Santa and his reindeer, and train and trolley rides!
New at the Westport Playhouse
Actor Jennifer Theby-Quinn shows off her impressive range starring in The Twelve Dates of Christmas at the Westport Playhouse! Read Gerry Kowarsky's review here!
Landmark LGBTQ+ Musical Reunion
Some of My Best Friends Are… was a musical produced in St. Louis exploring LGBTQ+ themes that was initially slated to run for only a few weeks in 1989 and was so successful that it ran for 3 months. And in October of 2022 the Missouri History Museum hosted a cast reunion and performance of selections from this landmark production.
Watch Spotlight every Sunday at 9:30 a.m. on Channel 11
In this week's episode, a book about John F. Kennedy's brief but transformative time in the White House, the new exhibit at the St. Louis Art Museum about Indian Artisans and their complex methods for creating painted and printed cloth, inside the patented technology of a company creating drinking water from air, an abandoned streetcar line being turned into a greenway with flowers and a mural, one local group giving out free bikes and a sense of community, a light display that has been wowing St. Louisans for over 30 years, and "The Christmas Waltz" performed by Charles Glenn.
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