St. Louis Arts Coverage by Jeremy Goodwin

Paul Thiel’s poetry collection “Snapshots” is a memoir full of vivid details from 1960s San Francisco, 1970s New York and the bygone nightlife scene in St. Louis and East St. Louis.

KDHX 88.1 FM will sell its broadcast license for at least $4.35 million to national chain K-LOVE, which plays contemporary Christian music. KDHX owes $2 million to its creditors.

Opera Theatre of St. Louis made a tentative agreement to buy the former Clayton headquarters of Caleres. The opera company, long based in Webster Groves, wants to build a performing arts center but still has to work out plans for construction and fundraising.

Community radio station KDHX is seeking a loan from K-LOVE that would make the Christian broadcaster its chief creditor as it undergoes bankruptcy reorganization.

KDHX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in court Monday, after years of financial uncertainty and community pressure on its leaders.

The Hot 104.1 losses came the same week that parent company Audacy announced sweeping layoffs. The St. Louis station will begin simulcasting news and talk radio station KMOX.

"Seeds: Containers of a World to Come" at the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum features 10 artists who use their work to call for environmental sustainability.

Leaders of financially imperiled community radio station KDHX rejected a plan from activist group Love of KDHX that included a promise of up to $200,000 in fresh contributions, called for an all-new board and offered volunteer support from experienced St. Louis fundraisers.

Musician and storyteller Martha Redbone plumbs the roots of American music and draws influences from her Black and Native American forebears. The Martha Redbone Roots Project plays the Sheldon on Friday.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Joan Moriarty ordered KDHX leaders to restore the membership status of at least some of the 120 volunteers they fired last month and allow the volunteers to participate in a meeting that could decide the station's future.