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St Louis has some unique foods, including pork steaks, toasted ravioli, St Louis style pizza, provel cheese, gooey butter cake, etc.
Some say that the blues and jazz music in St Louis is also
I must add that St Louis has some of the most interesting art styles; check out Laumeier Sculpture Park and the City Garden downtown. cool stuff!
Foodies: Durham/Chapel Hill has a wildly disproportionate number of local trained chefs, and great places to eat. Lots of organic and locally sourced stuff on menus - Bon Apetit, Food & Wine, and Out Magazines have done features on the culinary scene.
Indie rockers: Chapel Hill's 1993 peak ("Is Chapel Hill The Next Seattle' from [I believe] Entertainment Weekly or Spin) is long past, but still, this is a town where your landlord, mailman, boss, insurance agent, professor...is also in a band. Indie record shops galore. Merge Records (best known now for Superchunk, Spoon, and Arcade Fire) was founded in Chapel Hill and is based in Durham, and has a vast influence over local musical culture. If you're into dance music or hip-hop, things are definitely not happening here however.
Bluegrass and folk: Likewise, Sugar Hill Records was founded and is still based in Durham, and they are one of the major bluegrass/folk/alt-country labels.
Writers: Lee Smith, Doug Marlette, Reynolds Price, Jill McCorkle, Clyde Edgerton are some of the better known of the literati to have settled in the Triangle, mostly Hillsborough, which has turned into a de-facto uspcale writers' ghetto.
Film: Indie. Full Frame (the largest documentary festival in the world) was founded and is HQ'd in Durham; at various times Barbara Koppel, Martin Scorsese, Michael Moore and Errol Morris have been on their board. There are several small D.I.Y. indie film fests (Flicker Fest began here), animation fests, and the 3rd largest Gay & Lesbian Film fest in the South.
Last but not least, James Taylor. Grew up in the Morgan Creek area of Chapel Hill.
St Louis has some unique foods, including pork steaks, toasted ravioli, St Louis style pizza, provel cheese, gooey butter cake, etc.
Some say that the blues and jazz music in St Louis is also
I must add that St Louis has some of the most interesting art styles; check out Laumeier Sculpture Park and the City Garden downtown. cool stuff!
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Originally Posted by 18Montclair
Well, now Im hungry.
LOL
MMM.... Big +1! I could def go for some good toasted ravs right now! I also def agree on St. Louis's contributions to music; in fact, the National Blues Museum is suppose to open next year.
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