Qwerky Studio - CB Adams
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Visit www.qwerkyphotography.com. Thinker. Writer. Cultural Arts Reporter/Reviewer. Creative Lifer. Mostly Analogue Photographer -- 35mm, Medium Format, Large Format. Leica. Rolleiflex. Nikon. Pentax. Toyo. Graflex. #believeinfilm
Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life
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Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life
Breath became structure and attention felt like devotion.
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November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Review: St. Louis Symphony Orchestra’s Live at the Pulitzer Brings “Color Into Form Into Sound” to Life
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The deeper dive on “The Brothers Size” at The Rep is now up on St. Louis Art Scene. This is work that lives through breath and proximity — a production that stays in the body.
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October 27, 2025 at 9:31 PM
The deeper dive on “The Brothers Size” at The Rep is now up on St. Louis Art Scene. This is work that lives through breath and proximity — a production that stays in the body.
Read the review there. bit.ly/4o7nqCl
Subscribe to STL Stage Snaps on YouTube for fast takes across St. Louis theater.
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Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep
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Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep
The long-running thriller affirms the theater as a ritual of fear and fascination
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October 15, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Through October 26: “The Woman in Black” Lets Story and Sound Carry the Fear at The Rep
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Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon
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Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon
Opera Theatre’s Artistic Director returns to her roots in jazz and cabaret.
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October 11, 2025 at 9:20 PM
Cabaret Review: Patricia Racette Brings Edith Piaf’s Spirit to the Sheldon
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The Woman in Black, now at The Rep in St. Louis, turns silence and fog into a shared haunting. A gothic ritual of storytelling that lingers after the lights rise. 🎭
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Repertory Theatre of St. Louis WOMAN IN BACK
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October 11, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The Woman in Black, now at The Rep in St. Louis, turns silence and fog into a shared haunting. A gothic ritual of storytelling that lingers after the lights rise. 🎭
#STLStageSnaps #STLRep #StLouisTheatre #STLArts #TheWomanInBlackSTL
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Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice
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Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice
Sometimes the most expansive theater happens in the smallest of rooms
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October 3, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Through October 5: The Midnight Company’s “St. Nicholas” Balances McPherson’s Words and Hanrahan’s Voice
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Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths
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Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths
This is Stray Dog at its boldest
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October 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Through October 18: Stray Dog Theatre’s “The Minutes” Builds from Small Jokes to a Boil of Big Truths
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Morning Glories, False Fall—and the Nostalgics Among Us — qwerky studio
Early morning on Snob Hill, our small hillside enclave in St. Louis, and late summer is showing its hand. The light slants lower, shadows stretch longer, and the air carries that faint metallic tang t...
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September 17, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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Through August 24: “Jersey Boys” Closes The Muny’s 107th Season With Swagger and Falsetto
Not so much a jukebox as a time machine stocked with memory, falsetto and swagger.
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August 20, 2025 at 10:30 PM
💥🎭 TRUE FRIEND CHALLENGE 🎭💥
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STL Stage Snaps
Fast takes on STL theater, music & more — your quick-hit guide to the best of St. Louis performing arts.
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August 9, 2025 at 10:03 PM
💥🎭 TRUE FRIEND CHALLENGE 🎭💥
Think you’re a real friend? Prove it.
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➡️ Watch a review or two.
My A Streetcar Named Desire review already has 400+ views, while Evita is rocking 1,100+!
🎥 STL Stage Snaps on YouTube →
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Think you’re a real friend? Prove it.
➡️ Go to my YouTube channel.
➡️ Click subscribe.
➡️ Watch a review or two.
My A Streetcar Named Desire review already has 400+ views, while Evita is rocking 1,100+!
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Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages
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Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages
It rarely animates the quicksilver intelligence at its core
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August 1, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Through August 24: When Wit Falls Flat: "Austen’s Pride" at Stages
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AI’s the Kind of Asshole Who Brings Store-Bought Dip to a Snob Hill Soirée — qwerky studio
We recently indulged in a bit of digital slumming and asked one of those upstart AI platforms—Perplexity, bless its eager little circuits—to dream up five blog topics in the refined, vine-covered spir...
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July 29, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Shit! I was doing some organizing in my camera closet and the merest accidental tap on the back of my Kodak 2D shattered the ground glass. I know it can be repaired, but this happened literally 10 minutes I just paid for the $300 CLA on the Nikon S2 rangefinder. Why, camera gods, why?
July 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Shit! I was doing some organizing in my camera closet and the merest accidental tap on the back of my Kodak 2D shattered the ground glass. I know it can be repaired, but this happened literally 10 minutes I just paid for the $300 CLA on the Nikon S2 rangefinder. Why, camera gods, why?
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Well, Bless Your Byline — qwerky studio
Life On Snob Hill’s meditation on writing, hubris, and why nobody—no matter how clever—owns the alphabet We were leafing through one of our favorite Southern magazines the other day—the kind that swa...
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July 11, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Adams On Opera! The Review Is Up!
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Union Avenue Opera's MY FAIR LADY #stlstagesnaps #unionavenueopera
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July 7, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Adams On Opera! The Review Is Up!
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#VolunteerPlants #SurpriseGarden #SlowLiving #FoundBeauty #PoeticLiving #SerendipityInNature #LifeOnSnobHill #SnobHillGarden #SnobHillBees #PrincessPumpkin
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Life On Snob Hill: Ballad of the Sunflower, the Swarm and Princess Pumpkin — qwerky studio
“To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee, / One clover, and a bee. / And revery. / The revery alone will do, / If bees are few.” — Emily Dickinson We’re not ones to curate perfection on Snob ...
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June 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High
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Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High
The summer season opener delivers athleticism and exuberance, but it’s in the hip-hop cadence and communal energy of its second school where the show most resonates.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Through June 22: At The Muny, “Bring It On” Finds Its Edge—and Its Heart—at Jackson High
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When You Don't Wind Film Far Enough With a Vintage Diana Camera You Get This.
#toycamera #foma400 #diana #toycamera #lofiphotography #shotonfilm #emulsive #filmshooter #shootmorefilme #analogue #analog #plasticlens #plasticcamera #krappykamera
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June 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
When You Don't Wind Film Far Enough With a Vintage Diana Camera You Get This.
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Sometimes life feels like the perfect game, sometimes it feels more like a 7-10 split…
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June 13, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Sometimes life feels like the perfect game, sometimes it feels more like a 7-10 split…
#bowling #roadside #travel #blackandwhite #blackandwhitephotography #photography #eastcoastkin
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What do you see in the sea? Everything that was, and everything that will be.
#sea #beach #driftwood #blackandwhite #moody #photography #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography
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May 31, 2025 at 12:22 PM
What do you see in the sea? Everything that was, and everything that will be.
#sea #beach #driftwood #blackandwhite #moody #photography #eastcoastkin #blackandwhitephotography
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Adams On Theater!
Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz
This madcap musical two-hander unleashes a killer performances with quick-change chaos, piano duels and comic invention where the whodunit is beside the point
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June 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Adams On Theater!
Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
Through June 29: Stages St. Louis’ “Murder for Two” Turns Sleuthing into Showbiz open.substack.com/pub/stlouisa...
I am truly enamored with the process of making photographs with an 8x10 view camera. It is unique, and distinctively different than even shooting 4x5, which I do a lot of. This is part of my ongoing Hive Minded Missouri Beekeepers portrait project. #8x10 #largeformat #largeformatphotography
June 4, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I am truly enamored with the process of making photographs with an 8x10 view camera. It is unique, and distinctively different than even shooting 4x5, which I do a lot of. This is part of my ongoing Hive Minded Missouri Beekeepers portrait project. #8x10 #largeformat #largeformatphotography