52nd City

Some Li'l Bits (inc. a 666 reference)

We got a plug on the Mayor's poll this week, over at MayorSlay.com:

"Downtown St. Louis – which employs almost a hundred thousand daily workers, entertains and feeds tens of thousands of daily shoppers and diners, and sleeps thousands of nightly loft dwellers, does not currently support a full-service bookstore. And the daily newspaper, which recently dropped the intelligent Prince Valiant comic strip, struggles. The rise of the Internet may be blamed for some of this: We read things on our computers or handhelds, instead of at the library. We also wait for the movie, rather than buy and read the book. And TV neatly clips our news into 20-second nuggets – and never leaves its programs in the bushes.

"There are some life signs. Great independent bookstores, like Left Bank Books in the CWE, offer wonderful book signings and readings. There are still busy branches of the public library in many of our neighborhoods. 52nd City Magazine shows off the talent of local artists. St. Louis Magazine, a revitalized publication, has spawned a competitor called Alive."

Sweet.

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Also, we now have 666 photos in our flickr group:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/52ndcity/

For some reason, that seems notable. Maybe the number. There's something about it.