Jeremy D. Goodwin
Arts & Culture Senior ReporterJeremy D. Goodwin joined St. Louis Public Radio in spring of 2018 as a reporter covering arts & culture and co-host of the Cut & Paste podcast. He came to us from Boston and the Berkshires of western Massachusetts, where he covered the same beat as a full-time freelancer, contributing to The Boston Globe, WBUR 90.9 FM, The New York Times and NPR, plus lots of places that you probably haven’t heard of.
He’s also worked in publicity for the theater troupe Shakespeare & Company and Berkshire Museum. For a decade he joined some fellow Phish fans on the board of The Mockingbird Foundation, a charity that has raised over $1.5 million for music education causes and collectively written three books about the band. He’s also written an as-yet-unpublished novel about the physical power of language, haunted open mic nights with his experimental poetry and written and performed a comedic one-man-show that’s essentially a historical lecture about an event that never happened. He makes it a habit to take a major road trip of National Parks every couple of years.
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WerQfest, a celebration of Black, queer culture will feature national headliners Durand Bernarr and Jaida Essence Hall plus a slew of St. Louis-based artists including Sunny Rain and DJ PBnJeffy. -
A four-alarm fire destroyed much of the building that housed Sk8 Liborius, a skate park and gathering place for young people in north St. Louis. The organization’s leaders are just beginning to sort out plans for the future. -
Counterpublic 2023 features public art by more than 30 artists. They explore social issues facing the neighborhoods where their art is placed. The citywide exhibition runs through July 16. -
The next round of Kranzberg Arts Foundation’s 18-month artist residency program will have slots for eight people, spread among visual artists, writers and musicians. The deadline to apply is July 10. -
PrideFest 2023 will include hundreds of vendors, a large parade and a performance by Idina Menzel. It’s also a chance for LGBTQ people to come together after a wave of legislation targeting them. -
Scott Joplin, the king of ragtime music, wrote an opera that lay dormant for decades. A new adaptation of “Treemonisha” at Opera Theatre of St. Louis shows that the composer blended influences from European opera and Black culture. -
The St. Louis Development Corporation began directing federal coronavirus relief funds to small businesses in April 2022. The program is now complete, with funds going to 900 recipients across St. Louis. -
The $4.5 million in grants is RAC’s largest yearly dispersal since before the pandemic. The regional arts funder also is allocating $10.6 million in one-time federal funding announced in November. -
The latest round of service cutbacks will affect 30 MetroBus routes, with fewer trips in the evenings and on weekends and some routes losing weekend service entirely. -
A report from Illinois Humanities finds the groups it funds lost $24 million in revenue during the pandemic, but also developed creative ways to adapt and meet community needs. -
St. Louis Women’s Chorale will collaborate with the St. Louis Philharmonic Orchestra on a performance of “Brushstrokes: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci,” a multimedia work including projected animations. -
From May through November, bus tours will lead visitors through the rich Black history of Alton.