Hanukkah Hullaballoo, the popular Festival of Lights celebration featuring hot latkes and live music, returns on Saturday, Dec. 13 to The Grandel Theatre, 3610 Grandel Square in the Grand Center Arts District. The 2025 event will mark the 15th annual...

For Danielle Wertz and Robbie Schaefer, the paths that led them to each other—and to their intimate cabaret show, “Both Sides Now: The Music and Lives of Joni Mitchell and Leonard Cohen”—are as layered and lyrical as the music they perform. Wertz,...

  When the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra reopens Powell Symphony Hall this weekend, it won’t just be cutting a ribbon — it will be turning the page on a story more than 50 years in the making. And as we look ahead to the hall’s future,...

If you were a Jewish young man coming out of college in the early 1990s, still wanting to be cool and hip, you were listening to the Counting Crows. The band quietly electrified us thanks to their super-hip frontman Adam Duritz. And when it became...

This story was originally published in the Forward. Click here to get the Forward's free email newsletters delivered to your inbox. For Barbra Streisand fans in search of a metsiya, opportunity has arrived in the form of an auction of what’s being...

If you’ve spent any time in the St. Louis Jewish community, you’ve probably bumped into Michael Staenberg — or at least a project he’s helped bring to life. He’s a guy who gives a lot, but this September he’s giving in a way you can dance...

A key cast member in an upcoming production of “The Second Hurricane” is a Jewish St. Louis actor and musician. Bryn Sentnor will play the role of Gwen in the youth opera by Jewish composer Aaron Copeland. It will mark Sentnor’s first time performing...

In the second installment of And So It Goes, HBO’s new two-part documentary about Billy Joel, the Piano Man explains why he wore a yellow Star of David in August 2017, during his residency at Madison Square Garden, in his most extensive filmed account...

Singer/songwriter Rachael Sage has spent decades cultivating a career in the arts—and now, she’s bringing her music to St. Louis. Known for blending Jewish identity with alt-pop storytelling, Sage, a Billboard-charting artist will debut music from...

Award-winning Jewish singer Neshama Carlebach is heading to St. Louis for a concert that hits all the right notes—soulful, spiritual and unmistakably communal. On Aug. 17, she’ll close out Kol Rinah’s SummerFest 2025 with a public performance at...

On paper they seem an unlikely vocal duo. Some might even call them “Beauty and the Beast.” Yet when Barbra Streisand and Bob Dylan join forces to sing the Ray Noble standard “The Very Thought of You” on Streisand’s brand-new duets album, The...

The Brothers Lazaroff are playing two special nights at Joe’s Café, 6014 Kingsbury Ave., to raise money for local tornado relief. The June 10 concert features Selector Blvck Spdve while the show on June 24 has DJ Boogieman selecting and mixing after...