City Primary Discussions 2/16 & 2/23

In our fair city we have many elections, and a very important election is coming up in early March. It is the primary, the key election for most offices in Saint Louis city. In this election half of all of the wards will be up for election along with the executive branch, our city's Mayor.

Here at the Royale we discuss the future of our city. For the next two Mondays(16th and 23rd) starting at 8:30 to close we will have an open discussion about all of the city election races. These discussions will be hosted by Steve Patterson of the urbanreviewstl.com blog. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to learn more about the candidates.

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Inauguration Party and DC Coverage

So the big day is tomorrow- I need to get some sleep! I am in DC right now, and I wish I was back in Saint Louis with my people. It makes me a bit sad, for all the work we have done, and work we still need to do is back home. We will be celebrating the inauguration of the new President, sure, but the real change has yet to come. We have much, much work to do and it begins with us. Much hard fought change will need to happen, especially in Saint Louis.

But today we will celebrate the inauguration of our new President. And we are having a party at the Royale for Barack Obama. We will be open at 10am with breakfast and the party will go straight through to 1:30am. We will have Josh Wiese hosting during lunch and L Curtis Lyle and Chris King host all day and afternoon into the evening with poetry and readings. Jim Utz, Thomas Crone and Jamie Toon will spin records in the evening. We will have specials of course on drinks and eats the whole time.

And I am covering the Inauguration for the Saint Louis Beacon and Salon.com with on the go video. It is great stuff, but it is pretty non-stop for me here. So I must get to sleep.

Peace and prosperity,

--
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL in the MO 63139

314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com

Inauguration note and DC Coverage

So the big day is tomorrow- I need to get some sleep! I am in DC right now, and I wish I was back in Saint Louis with my people. It makes me a bit sad, for all the work we have done, and work we still need to do is back home. We will be celebrating the inauguration of the new President, sure, but the real change has yet to come. We have much, much work to do and it begins with us. Much hard fought change will need to happen, especially in Saint Louis.

But today we will celebrate the inauguration of our new President. And we are having a party at the Royale for Barack Obama. We will be open at 10am with breakfast and the party will go straight through to 1:30am. We will have Josh Wiese hosting during lunch and L Curtis Lyle and Chris King host all day and afternoon into the evening with poetry and readings. Jim Utz, Thomas Crone and Jamie Toon will spin records in the evening. We will have specials of course on drinks and eats the whole time.

And I am covering the Inauguration for the Saint Louis Beacon and Salon.com with on the go video. It is great stuff, but it is pretty non-stop for me here. So I must get to sleep.

Peace and prosperity,

--
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL in the MO 63139

314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com

Inauguration note and DC Coverage

So the big day is tomorrow- I need to get some sleep! I am in DC right now, and I wish I was back in Saint Louis with my people. It makes me a bit sad, for all the work we have done, and work we still need to do is back home. We will be celebrating the inauguration of the new President, sure, but the real change has yet to come. We have much, much work to do and it begins with us. Much hard fought change will need to happen, especially in Saint Louis.

But today we will celebrate the inauguration of our new President. And we are having a party at the Royale for Barack Obama. We will be open at 10am with breakfast and the party will go straight through to 1:30am. We will have Josh Wiese hosting during lunch and L Curtis Lyle and Chris King host all day and afternoon into the evening with poetry and readings. Jim Utz, Thomas Crone and Jamie Toon will spin records in the evening. We will have specials of course on drinks and eats the whole time.

And I am covering the Inauguration for the Saint Louis Beacon and Salon.com with on the go video. It is great stuff, but it is pretty non-stop for me here. So I must get to sleep.

Peace and prosperity,

--
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL in the MO 63139

314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com

Royale Inauguration Party

Come to the Royale to celebrate the Inauguration of Barack Obama in the morning, afternoon and all night! We will open up early for breakfast at 10am and we will celebrate all day and through the night. Community activist Josh Wiese will host the daytime inaugural activities with a record spin and giveaways. The inauguration formally starts at 10:30am cst with Barack Obama's inaugural address around 11am cst.

That afternoon poet K. Curtis Lyle, will be reading his poem "Barackutopia",and writer Chris King will be reading as well. That evening the trio of DJs will continue the party with Thomas Crone of KDHX's Silver Tray, Jim Utz of Vintage Vinyl and Jamie Toon of Cheap Trx capping off the night.

We will be be featuring special Kenyan Tusker Lager, special drinks such as the Hot Hope Toddy, the US Mint (hot cocoa and peppermint schnapps), the Stimulus(Schlafly Coffe Stout beer cocktail) and the Bailout Cocktail. We will also have 2.50 drafts on all Missouri taps all day and all night along with special drinks- the Hot Hope Toddy, the US Mint, the Bailout and the Stimulus.

I am sorry to report that I will not be at the Royale, but I am covering the inauguration for the STLBeacon.org with blog posts, video and status updates and video for Salon.com. Be sure to check out the coverage there!

--
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL in the MO 63139

314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com

Resume Clinic 1/13 Theo on Tap 1/25 & cheap Mo Beer!

During our not quite that cruel Missouri winter, we need those little rays of hope that keep us going through these hard days. Here at the Royale we will be help bring that sunshine in forms of economically priced Missouri drafts($2.50) throughout the balance of our winter(March 20th) until 6pm every weekday. This all for our dignified daytime drink sessions.

And we have a series of events for afternoon drinking at the Royale during this winter.

Resume Clinic:
First off we will continue the Royale Resume Clinic again this Tuesday the 13th of January from 2-5pm with Allison Trombley, who has helped over 200 people to build better resumes. If you currently have a resume, bring it along; if you don't, come with information about your previous employment. Clinic will contain general information as well as 15 minute one-on-one advice sessions. Start the new year with new prospects, and work on it all while drinking a beer and slurping some soup. Come and sign in for a consultation, or email back to reserve a time.

Everyone coming in for the resume clinic or joining in the topic of conversation will receive a free Missouri brewed beer- just see me when you get here. This week's topic at the bar will address to the layoffs in the news business. Just as the beer business, the news business is also dear to my heart. I worked for the Post-Dispatch for years as a street corner newsboy(check out the wall of Newsboy photos in the bar.) I am saddened to see the layoffs in the news departments that give NEWSpapers their name. The industry is changing, and those working in the business are trying to adjust, so the topic of discussion will be Saint Louis news gathering/analysis/investigation, and how this much needed profession can continue in this changing world.



Theology on Tap:
Got MLK? The Theology of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr

The Royale will host our series of Theology on Tap again on Sunday, Jan. 25th, 4-6:00 PM Who? Anybody interested in learning about & discussion of the religious & theological dimensions of King’s life & work.
Facilitated by Tobias Winright, Ph.D. (Notre Dame) who teaches Theology & Christian Ethics at Saint Louis University.

Also put on your calendar the Royale Inauguration Party on Tuesday January 20th- we will be opening early with a special breakfast menu, specials will have special guest hosts all day and night. More details forthcoming.

Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL, MO 63139
314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com

McRee Town Doctoral Defense Tuesday 12/30 1:30pm

Jackie Jones will be defending her doctoral defense at the bar on Tuesday December 30th 1:30pm. All are welcome to come down, listen and ask questions of Ms. Jones.

Royale afternoon drink series presents:

Picturing a Neighborhood: McRee Town in Saint Louis, Missouri

In 2003, the Garden District Commission demolished more than two hundred buildings on the eastern half of the McRee Town neighborhood in Saint Louis. The Commission, a private coalition headed by officials from the nearby Missouri Botanical Garden, demolished six blocks of historic brick homes and apartment buildings that housed primarily low-income renters and homeowners, relocated hundreds of residents, erected twenty-five acres of market-rate, single-family, suburban-style housing on the cleared land, and ceremoniously renamed the area Botanical Heights. This presentation explores how visual representations of McRee Town between 1998-2003 helped legitimize this urban renewal project and the dislocations it caused in the lives of McRee Town residents. It engages viewers with the photographs of burned-out, boarded-up, weed-infested buildings that populated newspaper reports and public relations documents during these five years, and juxtaposes them with photographs taken by Genevelyn Peters, a McRee Town resident prior to the neighborhood's destruction. These images – of family, homelife, play, and community – complicate and challenge the dominant understanding of this neighborhood and its residents as criminal and atomized by presenting images that depict a vibrant neighborhood community.


Bio:
Jackie Jones is a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University. Through an interdisciplinary approach that blends visual culture studies, critical race theory, and urban studies, her research explores how past representations of disenfranchised groups affect contemporary social policy.

--
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL in the MO 63139

314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com

McRee Town Doctoral Defense Tuesday 12/30 1:30pm

Jackie Jones will be defending her doctoral defense at the bar on Tuesday December 30th 1:30pm. All are welcome to come down, listen and ask questions of Ms. Jones.

Royale afternoon drink series presents:

Picturing a Neighborhood: McRee Town in Saint Louis, Missouri

In 2003, the Garden District Commission demolished more than two hundred buildings on the eastern half of the McRee Town neighborhood in Saint Louis. The Commission, a private coalition headed by officials from the nearby Missouri Botanical Garden, demolished six blocks of historic brick homes and apartment buildings that housed primarily low-income renters and homeowners, relocated hundreds of residents, erected twenty-five acres of market-rate, single-family, suburban-style housing on the cleared land, and ceremoniously renamed the area Botanical Heights. This presentation explores how visual representations of McRee Town between 1998-2003 helped legitimize this urban renewal project and the dislocations it caused in the lives of McRee Town residents. It engages viewers with the photographs of burned-out, boarded-up, weed-infested buildings that populated newspaper reports and public relations documents during these five years, and juxtaposes them with photographs taken by Genevelyn Peters, a McRee Town resident prior to the neighborhood's destruction. These images – of family, homelife, play, and community – complicate and challenge the dominant understanding of this neighborhood and its residents as criminal and atomized by presenting images that depict a vibrant neighborhood community.


Bio:
Jackie Jones is a doctoral student in the Department of American Studies at Saint Louis University. Through an interdisciplinary approach that blends visual culture studies, critical race theory, and urban studies, her research explores how past representations of disenfranchised groups affect contemporary social policy.

--
Steven Fitzpatrick Smith
Tavernkeeper
The Royale Food & Spirits
3132 South Kingshighway
STL in the MO 63139

314-772-3600

www.theroyale.com
www.stlstreets.com