| Arch design competition narrows; nine teams picked to continue |
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| By Charlene Prost, Special to the Beacon |
| Posted 12:01 am Wed., 2.10.10 |
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A national competition to design improvements for the Gateway Arch grounds and its surroundings moved forward today with the announcement that nine teams had been selected to participate in the next stage. That task involves completing their teams and presenting themselves again to the jury. They are among 49 teams from the United States and seven other countries that entered the competition last month. The nine teams include architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers and others from across the country and as far away as Denmark, Germany and Mexico City. Only the names of the core members of each team are being made public. Among them are St. Louis-based HOK Planning Group, and Eric Mumford and Peter MacKeith, both on the faculty in the school of architecture at Washington University. Also named is Nelson Byrd Woltz Landcape Architects of Charlottesville, Va., the lead designer for the popular Citygarden in the Gateway Mall. still in contention
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This Saturday was the debut of a new show by The Improv Shop that will bring out of town improv teams to St. Louis to play for — and with — a local audience. The Road Show brought teams "Everybody Grok" and "Felt" from Chicago.
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The Beacon's nationally recognized Barroom Conversations program on race, class and other issues that divide will be held on Monday, Feb. 20, 2012, at 7:30 PM discussing Education and Class. RSVP on Facebook and invite your friends! We'll pick up where we left off at Six Row Brewing Co., 3690 Forest Park Avenue at Spring. We look forward to seeing you again!

The St. Louis Beacon rang in 2012 with a concert performance of Gilbert & Sullivan's beloved operetta, "The Mikado," at the Sheldon Concert Hall, and the Higher Education Channel was on hand to record it. Here is a link to the complete perfomance, which we hope you'll enjoy.
The musical direction of "The Mikado" was by Amy Kaiser; Craig Terry was conductor-accompanist. All proceeds from ticket sales benefitted the Beacon.