Posted 3:55 p.m. Mon., 03.01.10 - The Bach Society of St. Louis, last heard at its Christmas Candlelight Concert at Powell, will perform the majestic Mass this coming weekend. The society notes that this kicks off its celebration of the 325th anniversary of the birth (March 31) of Johann Sebastian Bach. (Photo from sxc.hu )

Posted 10:55 a.m. Thurs., 02.25.10 - Looking at craft art as a warm, authentic expression and using craft in mash-ups of cultural codes are two forms that are on display at the Des Lee Gallery downtown. (Pictured is one of the works by Gina T. Alvarez.)

Posted noon Thurs., 02.25.10 - A movie set in a German village on the cusp of World War I paints a psychological portrait of people ready to follow a promising ideology. That is, children who grew up in the vituperative and abusive atmosphere of the village, with the threat of a terrible war on the horizon, would become the adults who embraced the Nazis two decades later.

Posted 11:32 a.m. Wed., 02.24.10 - What would you present if you had five minutes and could use 20 slides? Community members took up this challenge for the second PechaKucha night in St. Louis. PechaKucha began as a way for designers to meet, network and show their work. In St. Louis, it has been a way to present quirky, original visions for St. Louis.

Posted 11:48 a.m. Tues., 02.23.10 - The Kemper Presents Concert Series seems to be big on folk-indie-Americana type music. And that should go just fine with the exhibits that are now up: Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break, Allison Smith: Needle Work and American Indian Art and Iconography. The first concert is by Chariots on Feb. 26.

Posted 1:40 p.m. Tues., 02.23.10 - For 24 years, photojournalist Odell Mitchell Jr. was familiar to readers of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. On any given day, his news pictures captured the glory or the heartbreak of the well known and the unknown. During those same years, Mitchell turned his camera loose inside his own house, focusing on the everyday moments of his own family. Those intimate photos are now the basis of an exhibit and book.

Posted 12:03 p.m. Fri., 02.26.10 - Terry Artis has been drumming since he was a child. While in high school, he won the Louis Armstrong National Jazz Award, but he never felt he had someone who pushed him to really excel. So he's taken on that role with young drummers and is bringing college drumlines to a show at Chaifetz Arena on March 6.

Posted 11:42 a.m. Tues., 02.23.10 - Starting in the blistering summer of 1967, Jabari Asim's 18 stories accrue through the fiery spring of 1968, building a story of the neighborhood, mostly through the eyes of 7-year-old Crispus Jones and his family, who are solid, working-class African Americans in a big city. A parallel can be drawn with "To Kill a Mockingbird."