52nd City

Recipients and Details of Third Annual K.A. Awards

Third Annual St. Louis KICK ASS Awards
The Atomic Cowboy, 4140 Manchester in “The Grove”
Thursday, November 9, 2006; 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
(Event is immediately followed by the Chippewa Chapel Traveling Guitar Circle & Medicine Show)
Sponsored by 52ndCity.com and The Atomic Cowboy
Admission is free (but we request all the change you can donate at the door – really!)
Info: thomas @ 52ndcity.com; 314-776-6929

The third annual Kick Ass Awards will be offered to 13 St. Louisans, collaborators and organizations, dedicated to quietly improving the civic life of this City and region. The event will celebrate the works of the 12 nominees listed below – along with a special, mystery award going out to conclude the night.

The Kick Ass Awards were begun in Austin, TX, in January 2004, by noted journalist, author and educator Spike Gillespie. An erstwhile St. Louisan, Spike gave out awards to deserving local folks who didn’t always get a public nod of appreciation for the work they were doing around her community. A fourth ceremony will be held at Austin’s amazing bookstore, Book People, this coming January, but not before St. Louis’ third annual event, now at the Atomic Cowboy after two great years at the late Gallery Urbis Orbis.

Over the past year, the event’s organizers have formed a website, quarterly magazine and specialty publishing company, 52nd City Media, currently represented online at 52ndCity.com. The publishers of the site and a small committee of volunteers selected the nominees for 2006.

Admission to the event is free, but… we’d love donations in the form of change. Literally, we possess a “Trash Can Full of Change,” which appears at various civic and cultural events around town. We’d ask that those attending the event check their change at the door. Otherwise, the event is FREE for all.

Note, too, that the event will be immediately followed by the Chippewa Chapel Traveling Guitar Circle & Medicine Show; you can find information on this weekly, eclectic, nomadic open mic night at: www.chippewachapel.com.

Here are the 13 winners for the Kick Ass Awards for 2006:

Advocates of youth cycling and computer education, BIKEWORKS
The venerable urban educational institute, CROSSROADS SCHOOL
KAREN DUFFY, namesake of Duff’s and a longtime champion of the CWE and River Styx
SCOTT EMANUEL of the ACLU of Eastern Missouri
Singer, songwriter and recording artist STEVE EWING
World class poet and member of the Hoobellatoo collective K. CURTIS LYLE
The ever-evolving, ever-growing NON-PROPHET THEATRE COMPANY
STUDIO STL, a local organization dedicated to children’s literacy
Cherokee’s metal/punk/hard rock emporium TENSION HEAD
Writer, bartender, KDHX late night host and more… the one-and-only BRETT UNDERWOOD
The East Loop’s movers and shakers, the salon V-VEGAZ STYLE
DOUG WHYTE of KDHX-TV, a leading proponent of documentary and “challenge” films
Plus a special MSYTERY winner!

Winners in 2005: Dylan Hassinger, Teresa Mithen, the Webster University Film Series, Peter Venezia, Pat Brannon, the Publishing Group, Ivy Cooper, John Burse, Michael R. Allen & Claire Nowak-Boyd, Ann Haubrich, Margie Newman & Alan Brunettin and Cynthia Daly.

Winnters in 2004: Luigi Larhman, Fort Gondo Compound for the Arts, Maid Rite, Andrea Dunn, Mary Sue Rosenthal, Aaron Belz, Brandyn Jones, Andrea Avery, Kraig Schnitzmeier, Terrell Carter, MoKaBe’s and the Alternative Music Pub.

52nd City has been supported by: the Hartford Community Café, The Royale, Firecracker Press, the Independent Art Market, The Time, Mad Art Gallery and Fred Hessel of Edward L. Bakewell Realtors.