cool WIP
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- Sep 22, 2026
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- Jul 16, 2026
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cool WIP episode 38: coolin with Cami Cruz Thomas (opens the original)
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An absolute force. We are sitting down with one of the most powerful storytellers in St. Louis, Cami Cruz Thomas, producer, director, advocate and owner of the film production company My Friends and I. We're talkin' Red Brick, Blue Tarp, 90 second love letters, visual brain worms, poetry as process, grit, surrendering to the thing inside that wants to be heard, cross-country, Red Bull, freedom in the night to try something new, leaps of faith, mutual aid, leadership, dual citizenship across St.
cool WIP episode 37: coolin with James McAnally (opens the original)
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It's Coyote Time. We are sitting down with one of St. Louis's most influential figures… a man-of-many-hyphens, James McAnally, the executive director of Counterpublic. We're talkin' triennials, Coyote Time, punk houses, building institutions, defects of character, St. Louis as the bullion cube of America, critics in crisis, the origins of Counterpublic, Sugar Loaf mound, public relations, bread and puppets, mechanisms of scaling, Circus of Life, vernacular academia [who is she?], burn-out, progr
cool WIP episode 36: coolin with Sam Hamilton (opens the original)
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WE ARE SO BACK! New season... new co-host... Kalaija Mallery <3 We're talkin' Sam's latest exhibition "To Avoid Drowning, Become the Ocean," opera, Kenny G, gold, high lines vs. low lines, drum kits in a waterfall, recycled water, finding the benevolent corners of the internet, tiny traveling organs, Beech Street, brief stints as pop artists, Areteroa, New Zealand, collaborating at The Luminary, how the ocean is literally inside all of us, artists as civic leaders, and the introduction of our ne
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