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STL Pole Show Featured Dancer Kirstie Ellerbe talks about what it takes to make it as a dancer in the midwest. Links to content: https://www.mynxacademy.com/en/extravaganza-tickets/?fbclid=IwAR0K_jNiD_SmS1aVdML7zmOVOxOnRiZ5y7yUbpx1AIAAxehon6auOY-9wqo https://www.mynxacademy.com/en/ https://instagram.com/stlpoleshow?utm_medium=copy_link https://youtube.com/user/Kirkirkirstie https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLDNCn2jNvTHT8lhtZu6UiqDy5bkkVKLQO https://m.facebook.com/pg/KirKirKirstie/posts/?ref=page_internal&mt_nav=0 [email protected]

Kendra Winchester is co-creator of the Reading Women Podcast which highlights feminist literature from around the world. Find out more about midwest authors, books, and publishers from here in the midwest you may not have known about! Below you can find the links to everything mentioned in the podcast. Reading Women Podcast: https://www.readingwomenpodcast.com/ Belt Publishing: https://beltpublishing.com/ Dear America Series: https://www.scholastic.com/parents/books-and-reading/book-lists-and-recommendations/series-characters-authors/dear-america-series.html Rust Belt Femme: https://beltpublishing.com/products/rust-belt-femme Rust A Memoir of Steel and Grit https://www.eliesecolettegoldbach.com/ The Last Children of Mill Creek: https://beltpublishing.com/products/the-last-children-of-mill-creek Radical Suburbs: https://beltpublishing.com/products/radical-suburbs Midwest Futures: https://beltpublishing.com/products/midwest-futures Folktales and Legends of the Middle West: https://beltpublishing.com/products/folktales-and-legends-of-the-middle-west Gilead: https://web.archive.org/web/20091002153654/http://us.macmillan.com/gilead Elizabeth Catte: https://elizabethcatte.com/

Joshua Chapman is a tattoo artist and painter based in St. Louis. Joshua has traveled all over tattooing for a living as well as becoming well known for his colorful and intricate Japanese style paintings. You can find Joshua on instagram @chappy_stl. Find his work on https://joshuachapman.bigcartel.com/ and he's also a featured artist in the Black Dagger Book series which you can find here at https://www.blackdaggerbooks.com/

Bobby has been a friend of mine for a while and I have been able to watch his passion for the sport of wakeboarding and wakeskating grow over the years. He loves the sport and the people around it and strives to build the culture and make it like a second family. Find out more about wakeskating and all the great things Bobby is doing for the sport.

Ethan Meyer works at Duane Reed Gallery as an art handler and curator. He's also a collector and an artist himself. Find out more about how the gallery scene is enduring these hard times as well as the people involved in making art happen through this lockdown. Follow Ethan on Instagram @void_wallker666 and follow Duane Reed Gallery at @reedgallery. And follow all of your local galleries and museums to help support the art scene during these uncertain times.

Travis Lawrence is a printmaker from the Midwest area. Learn more about Travis and the art of printmaking on this episode of the podcast. Find more of Travis' work at www.infinity-prints.com and follow him on instagram and Infinity Prints on facebook.

On this episode I sat down with returning guest Steven Deeds to talk about our current situation during this pandemic of Covid-19. Nothing too big to talk about but we wanted to stay in touch and talk about the strange times that we are currently experiencing.

Calvin Tigre is a talented hip-hop artist from Saint Louis Missouri. His videos on YouTube capture an edge of personality that demands attention. His music is all across the board with his work in Tigre Nolo, and Ursa major creating punk and hiphop full of energy and talent. Listen after the episode to hear the unreleased track Gas Up, by ill Children, another one of Calvin's projects. Also on this episode joining in the conversation is Greg Davis from Kamicosmonaut and musician and creative Steven Deeds who you can hear more about on Episode 2.

Jake Lewis from Rasa Easels join me to talk about his kickstarter and why this is the greatest easel ever designed. Go support Rasa Easels on Kickstarter to make this dream a reality.

Recorded in Dan Turnbaugh’s basement, episode 10 re-introduces Kamicosmonaut. Greg Davis, Dan Turnbaugh, and Dan Ficocelli are the music group from St. Louis releasing their second album Pyramid Schemes. A compilation of musical talent with influences of hip hop and everything, this group of friends is continuing to put out a sound of its own. Listen at the end of the episode to the self titled track Pyramid Scheme. You can find their full album on Bandcamp. Enjoy!