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SEPTEMBER 2011
August 2011 Digest
Volume 4 Issue 3
METRO EAST NEWS
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Editor: Colby Kluthe Director: Daniel McCree Foundation Contributors: Mickey Johnson (Carbondale) History & Southern Illinois News Tess Farnham (Belleville) Liberal Arts & Education At Large: Terri Nuss (St. Louis) Scott Miller (St. Louis)
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Q&A: (SWIC) First Meeting of Semester - AUG 30th SmartChoice Center Adds New Web Services MetroEast News is moving to "The ORG" Foreclosure Counseling for ILLINOIS Residents (FREE) "Thank God I can be oversexed again.” – By Tess Farnham SAGE Metro St. Louis Launches New Website Erica Leigh Foster is Crowned Miss Gay Illiniois America
MetroEast EVENTS
Glitter in September~ UCD is Taking Over RUE 13! Vote for MCC in "How Sweet The Sound" (ST LOUIS) UCD! Boot Camp AUG 26th & September Glitterbomb Schedule "Open Mic Night @ The Inn", Aug. 25th w/ Chrissy Renick Friday Night Follies Return to KORNERS September 2nd
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Saturday September 3rd @ Korners Kabaret!
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Olivia DeMornay hosts a great cast>> Christina Lush, Nina VonFirstenburgh and Cleleste Dixon! Showtime 10:30pm! 21+ NEVER A COVER! 7109 S.Broadway
Washington downtown
UCD!! ToyBox TakeOver! Ladies and Gentleman, Bois and Grrls- At long last U*CAN*DANCE is back! This is our first UCD!! at
Rue 13 and we're excited to bring the hottest party in town down to Washington Ave! It's time to dig back to your childhood for costume inspiration for TOYBOX TAKEOVER! Dress as a toy OR bust out the glue gun and decorate your entire outfit in toys- and remember, not only does dressing up get you in for just $5 before midnight, it ...also makes you more badass and fun. :) Non-stop interactive show will feature: SIREN, RYDYR, NIK OKTOBER, SUZY CYDAL, SUM YUNG WANG, PINKØ, KAMIYA KRUSH, PARIS VERSACE, ROBYN HEARTS, and the BOMB SQUAD gogo dancers!
Friday- September 2 @ 10:00pm Rue 13 1311 Washington-- Saint Louis, Missouri GlitterBomb Productions Basslines and beats by CHARLIE BUTTONS and LANDYN CADE! Doors at 10. Show at 11. Dancing til close!
Out at the Ballpark Saturday, September 3 · 3:00pm Pride St. Louis, Inc and Promo have partnered with the St. Louis Cardinals to present Out at the Ballpark, an afternoon of baseball, community and family fun. Join us on Saturday, September 3rd at Busch Stadium as the Cardinals take on the reigning division champion, Cincinnati Reds. Game Time is 3:10 pm. Tickets are at a discounted price of $22 and are going fast! A portion of the ticket sales will benefit PROMO and PRIDE S...T. LOUIS, INC. They are NOW AVAILABLE online at http://www.cardinals.com/outattheballpark. AVAILABLE ONLINE until September 2nd. . For an additional $5 a shuttle bus will run from Just John to the Ballpark. Shuttle will leave at approximately 2:15 p.m. The party continues after at JUST JOHN and any ticketholder receives 2 free beers, Bud Light or Bud Select, a free Koozy, Cardinals Schwag and HAPPY HOUR PRICES all night! Pride St. Louis Inc. and Promo will be selling Jell-O shots. Lots and Lots of Labor Day Weekend FUN!!!
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"Thank God I Can Be OverSexed Again" www.BellevillePride.Org By: Tess Farnham-MetroEast NEWS August 29th, 2011 (BELLEVILLE)
"Thank God I Can Be OverSexed Again" On Finding a Photo of an Ex-Boyfriend in the Seedy Section of the Riverfront Times
O Here I sit with rum and raisins poring over yesterday’s photo Your skin. Your nipples. “Berry rubbed and airbrushed “ "Romance finis. Your chance finis. Those ants that invaded my pants finis." They’d cropped the top half of your head and I traced along your jawline A blue band of language barked out your armpit: Wanna See the Rest of Me? Dial 555-Guys Another band higher, this time fantastic with scat and jazz "Thank God I can be oversexed again." I might have known it was poetry taking off the top of your head (italicized excerpts are borrowed from Ella Fitzgerald’s recording of “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered”)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Tess Farnham is an Adjunct Professor of English Composition at Southwestern Illinois College (SWIC) in Belleville. Ms. Farnham is also an accomplished Artist and offers her original works and reprints for purchase online. (TESSILU STUDIOS) She has also served for two years on the Board of Directors for the Daniel McCree Foundation, as well as contributing writer for MetroEast NEWS. Tess Farnham
MCC- St. Louis Choir Invited To Join National Competition “How Sweet The Sound” Sponsored by Verizon Wireless www.BellevillePride.Org by: Colby Kluthe- MetroEast NEWS September 1, 2011 Metropolitan Community Church of Greater Saint Louis has been invited to join the national gospel choir competition for 3rd year in a row! “How Sweet The Sound” is a nationwide tour as a search for “America’s Best Choir”. Each year, more than a hundred choirs from the Saint Louis region alone, audition for this annual contest. From those entries, seven choirs from our area are invited to perform at the Scottrade Center, before an audience of 10 to 15 thousand. In the competition’s 3rd year in St. Louis, MCCGSL has for a third time, been invited to join the celebration on September 26th. If selected as our regions top choir, the group will be traveling to Los Angeles in October to compete with top choirs from each of the other selected markets. Other Regional markets include Dallas, Atlanta, Charlotte,Washington DC, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Oakland.
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Donald Lawrence - Host CeCe Winans - Co-Host Marvin Sapp - Judge & Per
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Written by: Daniel McCree March 2007
indemnify the effort I'm coming away from a place in my life where i was running from everything.
working a 12 step program, facing the past present and the future with as much integrity and honesty as i can muster. Somewhere out there is a person, a person with delicate ways of brutal things and a level of integrity that will succeed, that loves god and country and self and that just seems to make me want to make them happy
~ Daniel Evans- Aaron McCree
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Open Mic Night @ The Inn feat. Just Like the Country By Susan Spit-Fire Lively Hey y’all! What’s happening? Hope that life is treating you well! Come to Open Mic Night @ The Inn on Thursday, Aug. 25th (Doors-8; Show-9) for another amazing show filled with the best artists in our area! Our main act for the show will be Independent Folk Rock Band Just Like the Country, which is composed of Nathan and Ginnifer Brown, a very talented married couple from Edwardsville, IL. Their music is moving and distinctly original and they have been working together since High School. They play a variety of diverse genres including Folk, Rock, and Pop. Their very funny FB page states that: “’Nathan's powers include various guitars, heat-vision, banjo, and electronic programming. Ginnifer's powers are clarinet, accordion, keyboards, singing, and of course, baking. Nathan and Ginnifer have united their powers (heat vision, GPS, and some musical talent) once again to fight the machinations of evil. Join them and their quest for a fried pie not cooked in lard.”’ Just Like the Country’s influences include Shawn Colvin, Smashing Pumpkins, The Sundays, The Black Crowes, Nick Drake, Aimee Mann, The Beatles, Rush, Soundgarden, and Sarah McLachlan. They always gives a great and memorable live performance, and have appeared at venues such as The Stone Spiral Coffeehouse, The Way Out Club, Mokka Kaffeehaus, FOAM, and The Wine Press. The duo was also featured at Best-Fest 2010 in
Alton, IL. Their debut album Saint of the Open Opera was just released this year. It is haunting and unique and really highlights the quality of their music and the beauty of Ginnifer’s voice. You can purchase it on iTunes or directly from the artists. Warming up the stage for the band will be an exceptional Musician, Songwriter, and Vocalist originally from Cape Girardeau, Mo. named Chrissy Renick. Chrissy attended college at Murray State, KY, and currently resides in St. Louis. She plays piano and guitar and has a gorgeous singing voice, perfectly suited for the Rhythm and Blues she so loves. Possessing great range both in her voice and her songwriting, she plays Pop and Alternative-Soul music as well. Renick has performed at The Old Rock House, the Way Out Club, Cicero’s, The Over/Under, Petra Hookah Lounge, FOAM Coffee & Beer, The Benton Park Café, The Wood, and many other area venues. Her influences include, Alicia Keyes, Corinne Bailey Rae, India Arie, MeShell Ndegeocello, Lauryn Hill, Joss Stone, Fiona Apple, Aaliyah, Jack Johnson, and Sarah Bareilles. Chrissy is currently in the studio finishing up her first EP. Also gracing the stage will be the incredible band Antique Swing, composed of J. Thomas Crammond, Jim Drennan, and Terry Muskopf. The band specializes in classic Swing music, and hearing them live is always a highly enjoyable experience. Mr. Crammond, known as
Tom, is an expert guitar player, and Jim backs him up perfectly on rhythm guitar, with newest member Terry jamming on Bass. Peoria native Crammond is a distinguished Musician, Songwriter, and Educator who has been performing professionally for well over forty years. Tom attended Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville, where he obtained a degree in Music (Jazz Performance – Guitar). After graduating, he went on to teach Music, Music Theory, and Guitar to college and grad school students. Terry Muskopf also has over forty years of playing and teaching experience and has been in numerous rock and country bands since the 1970's. Jim Drennan began playing guitar in 1981 with Tom as his instructor and has been teaching and playing ever since. In 1988, he was the recipient of a performance scholarship from Lewis and Clark Community college. In 2010, Jim approached Tom about creating a Jazz guitar duo that would recreate a sound reminiscent of the 1930's and 1940's. Antique Swing applies the vintage sound of musicians like gypsy Jazz legend Django Reinhardt to many Jazz, Bossa Nova, and Blues tunes of the 30's and 40's. Equipped with a traditional sound and a timeless collection of songs, Antique Swing plays music that will take you back to a time when music was simple and elegant. And Jhirmel Wysinger, a young and multi-talented artist from East St. Louis, IL, will be with us. He is a Rapper, Songwriter, and Poet who has been writing poetry and short stories since the age of eight. He began his musical career in 2006 with a popular band known as the Eastside Reziderz. The band consists of Jhirmel, Tres Morrison, Hakeem Hill and Khristian Greenlee. Never afraid to push boundaries, their music is an eclectic mix of Electronica, R&B, Jazz, Rap, Hip-Hop, House, Rock, Pop, and Club. They’ve performed at venues such as The Creepy Crawl, The Village Theater, Fubar, and Cicero’s. On top of all his other gifts, Jhirmel is an immensely skilled artist, specializing in Manga and Realistic Art drawings. He is also an avid student of Martial Arts,
including Tae Kwan Do, Judo, and Brazilian Ju-jitsu. Jhirmel attended high school at Shawnee Mission East in Overland Park, KS, before returning to Illinois to attend SIUE East St. Louis Charter School. During his time in high school he won four NAACP Poetry Awards, one for a powerful poem he penned entitled “The New Beginnings for Black History”. Mr. Wysinger is now a student at Southwestern Illinois College, where he’s pursuing an Associate’s degree in Applied Sciences and Fine Art. His band, the Eastside Reziderz, is getting ready to release an album called Something New. A mix tape entitled The Reckoning, Vol. 1, is in the works as well. Their music can be found on MySpace, Youtube, Imeem, and Garageband. And last but certainly not least is our Special Guest for the evening, Mr. Tres Morrison. Tres is a brilliant up and coming Musician, Songwriter, and Vocalist who is originally from London, UK. His range of musical styles is impressive, ranging from Alternative Rock, to Heavy Metal, to Gospel. His influences include Leonard Cohen, U2, Jason Mraz, Jeff Buckley, The Script, and Mumford and Sons. He has an authentic musical voice and has been singing since he was very young. He frequently performs at many local fundraisers and charity events. His live performances are captivating, and his range is remarkable. As mentioned earlier, he is a prominent member of Eastside Reziderz. In addition to that he is currently working on his first CD and is in two new bands: Dead by Six and Endless October. Morrison is forming a third band with his friend Lamone Waller. Tres also recently auditioned for the hit show American Idol. He and his family reside in Cahokia, IL. So as you can see, it’s going to be another exciting night! We’ll have our always hoppin’ Open Mic session, fantastic drink specials and finely crafted cigars, and a warm and welcoming staff to enjoy it all with. So come and soak up some of the sophisticated ambience of the hottest club around. I promise you won’t be disappointed! See you soon. Peace! Love & Hugs, Spit-Fire
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