Recently, there’s been a run of news for Saint Louisians who want to entertain themselves.
If you are a child and you are looking to pet some goats, the Children’s Zoo at the Saint Louis Zoo is closing. (It does seem odd to have a section of a zoo dedicated to children, like a children’s room at Chuck-e-Cheese.) While they work out what to put in its place, they’re bringing back the animatronic DinoRoarus exhibit. In twenty years there will be a generation of college students arguing dinosaurs are not extinct, they just live in Africa along with the rhinos and all the other animals they saw at the zoo.
If you are a soccer fan, the name for the forthcoming Saint Louis soccer club has been announced, and the name is “Saint Louis City Soccer Club.” I don’t know, I was expecting something alongside the lines of the San Jose Earthquakes or the Colorado Rapids. I know the rest of the world names their teams this way, and you don’t want the Saint Louis Budweisers playing an exhibition game against Chelsea or Manchester someday.
If you like musical theater, the Muny (our very old outdoor municipal “opera”) has opened up a YouTube channel in lieu of a normal 2020 season. What is the Muny, really, without the sticky heat and humidity or rainouts? It’s live theater, and so they went with a YouTube channel. Show up at 8:15 on certain days and you’ll get something live plus taped performances. Of course, I only heard about it at the 11th hour, just in time for the last week of performances.