Dick Gregory, Live, In Living Color! In St. Louis!

Byriehlifegrace June 11, 2008June 16, 2008

Hey! Dick Gregory, internationally known comic and social activist, is coming home to St. Louis. How cool is that? The New Millennium Group invites you to welcome Gregory on June 19, 2008. Doors open at 5 p.m. at the Starlight Room on 8350 N. Broadway.

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Dick Gregory recently stole the stage at Tavis Smiley’s 2008 State of the Black Union event is returning home to help us celebrate Juneteenth by discussing what’s going on in the world today in his own satirical way.

Snacks and drinks will be available from 5-7 p.m. to start off an evening that promises to be both hysterical and informative. Only $15/person or $25 for a VIP table. Everything is cabaret style seating.

Show begins at 7:45 p.m.

Contact me if you live in St. Louis and want to sit with me at our V.I.P. table with some of the coolest people around.

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Riehlife’s St. Louis Black Fine Artist Feature Series Continues

Byriehlifegrace January 8, 2008January 17, 2008

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Kerouac’s “On the Road” turns 50 and much ado is made about something at the Loud Mouth open mic held at The Mac in South St. Louis

Byriehlifegrace October 24, 2007June 4, 2008

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Artists and Writers

The Audience Wants to Hear: Tips for Reading to an Audience

Byriehlifegrace April 30, 2009

First Folio Technique for actors and performers Comma–short breath Period–full breath Pencil in pauses Underline Use musical notations for lists. Vary pacing and pitch, emotional coloring.

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JUNETEENTH: Dick Gregory speaks on “The Game” at the Starlight Room on Broadway in North St. Louis

Byriehlifegrace June 20, 2008June 22, 2008

Juneteenth is “the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of the ending of slavery in the United States”. I celebrated my first Juneteenth in the early 1990s as a member of Luisah Teish’s “Full Accord Ensemble: Arts at the Crossroads.” This year, though, I celebrated Juneteenth with Dick Gregory at the Starlight Room on Broadway in North…

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Phillip Hampton’s experimentation with acrylic media demonstrates thin line between art and science (yet again!)

Byriehlifegrace March 11, 2008

(Phillip Hampton’s work is honored at the St. Louis Art Museum’s African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections.) David Bonnetti at St. Louis Today.com says: Philip Hampton, the fourth artist featured, is sort of odd-man out. Rather than developing here, he moved to the area an already established artist to teach at Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville. The…

Artists and Writers

John Rozelle featured in St. Louis Art Museum’s “African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections” through March 23rd in gallery 337

Byriehlifegrace March 11, 2008

The Saint Louis Art Museum African American Abstraction: St. Louis Connections, an installation of thought-provoking abstract works from both the Museum’s collection and local private collections features artists Oliver Jackson (born 1935), John Rozelle (born 1944), Phillip J. Hampton (born 1922) and Michael Marshall (born 1953). John Rozelle’s abstract mixed media works communicate profound emotional…

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