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May DJ Schedule (plus calendar)

thomas — Wed, 02 May 2012 17:51:37 +0000

We’ll note up top two closures this month:
Sunday, May 13 (Mother’s Day)
Monday, May 28 (Memorial Day)

Special events included the Derby Day Party. You can find details on that in the post below.

Every Monday is Vinyl Side Monday; bring a platter play it, win beery prizes.

Every Sunday brings the Cocktail Museum, from 9 p.m.-close, with curator Robert Griffin.

Here’s our schedule of high-quality DJ’s for the remainder of the month:

Tuesday, May 1: Kate Beep of KDHX
Thursday, May 3: David Kirkland
Friday, May 4: Jim Utz of Vintage Vinyl
Saturday, May 5: Robert Griffin (post-Derby sets from the Lulus and Tripdaddys)
Tuesday, May 8: Eric Hall (in his Royale debut!)
Thursday, May 10: DJ JJ
Friday, May 11: Roy Kasten and John Wendland of KDHX
Saturday, May 12: Matt Harnish of Bunnygrunt, Inc.
Tuesday, May 15: Mark Florida
Thursday, May 17: John Gassel
Friday, May 18: Mark Early
Saturday, May 19: Ryan Snowden’s Spring Fling Spectacular
Tuesday, May 22: Chris Bay of KDHX
Thursday, May 24: Scott Fiss
Friday, May 25: Tommy Ruxpin’s Club Royal (grown and sexy only, please)
Saturday, May 26: Dustin Newman of Apop Records
Tuesday, May 29: Extremely High Quality DJ TBD
Thursday, May 31: Scott Allen (and friends) of 3minuterecord.wordpress.com

All dates subject to change.

Your Royale Kentucky Derby Primer

thomas — Tue, 01 May 2012 16:52:22 +0000

Saturday, May 5, doors at 2 p.m.
Tickets available at The Royale, $8 in advance, $10 day of (per availability)
3132 So. Kingshighway @ Juniata

What you need to know before joining us this weekend:

1. The Kentucky Derby is an annual horse race, held on the first Saturday of May. For background, you can access the event’s website here.

2. They don’t let the same old horses run every year, though. Here’s a list of this year’s field.

3. Though the practice is not one we employ at The Royale, it’s popular in some quarters to bet on the horses, to win, show, or place; which is to say, finish first, second or third. In order to make sense of the winning potential of these animals, odds are created.

4. In addition to the racing, the Kentucky Derby “experience” also involves a degree of appropriate attire. For the attendees. Ladies often wear hats like these.

5. And men wear shirts and ties, even rocking the classic seersucker suit.

6. If unsure if your own closet offers the requisite look, may we invite you to consider our neighborhood ally, The Vintage Habadashery? Or Cherokee’s Retro 101? The Loop’s Devil City? Or even the Galleria’s Brooks Brothers?

7. On a lovely spring day, there’s nothing wrong with cocktails like a peach schnapps and Coke. But we’d recommend that you drink the traditional accompaniment to Derby Day carousing, the mint julep.

8. To help you pass the time between our 2 p.m. opening and the 5:24 post time, we will offer the musical sounds of the Trip Daddys…

9. … and the sounds of The Lulus.

10. We will also offer, for the second straight year, a bit of mouseracing. Please know that our mice and track are unaffiliated with any other mouseracing promotions in St. Louis.

Maybe it’d be easier to go with visual evidence:

7th Annual Kentucky Derby Party

Bill Streeter — Sun, 22 Apr 2012 14:55:23 +0000

Ladies, procure your finest Derby hat and spring dresses. Gentlemen, get your seersucker suits pressed and your hats boxed. It is time to cheer on the ponies at the 7th Annual Royale Kentucky Derby Party on Saturday May 7th. We have a hat contest for both the ladies and the gents. Proper Derby dress code will be enforced. (more…)

Current Craft Beers on Tap

thomas — Thu, 12 Apr 2012 18:06:29 +0000

Here’s a listing of our current draft tower list. As always, seasonal and specialty offerings can, and likely will, be rotated off the list on a regular basis. So it’s best to come in often. (Updated: 4/23.)

Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, 7%, $5.50
Boulevard Tank 7, 8.3%, $5
Civil Life American Brown, 4.8%, $5
4 Hands Reprise Centennial Red, 6%, $5
Founders Red Rye, 6.6%, $5
Guinness Stout, 4.2%, $5.50
North Coast Old Rasputin, 9%, $6.50
Schlafly Pilsner, 4.8%, $4
Schlafly Yakima Wheat, 5.5%, $4
Ska Modus Hoperanadi, 6.8%, $5.50
Strongbow Cider, 5%, $5.50
Urban Chestnut Wolpertinger, 7.3%, $6
Urban Chestnut Zwickel, 4.8%, $5

April Entertainment Schedule

thomas — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 22:57:02 +0000

Please check the bottom of this blog entry for info on our Earth Day involvement and tickets for our annual Derby Day party. First, though, our DJ schedule:

Monday, April 2: Vinyl Side Mondays
Tuesday, April 3: Kate of KDHX’s “Beep Beep, Boop Boop”
Thursday, April 5: Eric Hall (Royale debut!)
Friday, April 6: Jim Utz of Vintage Vinyl
Saturday, April 7: Robert Griffin
Monday, April 9: Vinyl Side Mondays
Tuesday, April 10: Gabe Karabell of Apop Records
Thursday, April 12: DJ JJ
Friday, April 13: Ryan Snowden’s Friday the 13th Spooktacular
Saturday, April 14: Jason Potter and Morgan Nusbaum (aka Bruiser Queen)
Monday, April 16: Vinyl Side Mondays
Tuesday, April 17: Scott Fiss
Thursday, April 19: John Gassel
Friday, April 20: Mark Early
Saturday, April 21: Tom Lampe and Dale Fisher (bka The Decent Boyz)
Monday, April 23: Vinyl Side Mondays
Tuesday, April 24: DJ TBA!
Thursday, April 26: Scott Allen and His 3minuterecord Posse
Friday, April 27: Thomas Crone (aka DJ Tommy Ruxpin of Club Royal)
Saturday, April 28: Chris Bay of KDHX’s “Gold Soundz”
Monday, April 30: Vinyl Side Mondays

We will be represented at Earth Day’s Forest Park celebration on Sunday, April 22. Look for us as you enjoy the full Earth Day experience in the park.

Tickets for our long-running tradition, the Derby Day Party, will be available at the bar on Friday, April 13. Until then, cool your jets with some exciting race-day action at Fairmount Park, or go visit a nice milliner for Derby Party hat needs.

We’ll see you this month, yes?

Wednesday, April 4, Event: Eight Poets and a Sculpture

thomas — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 01:41:39 +0000

Chris King has all the details on his Confluence City blog, but we’ll have eight poets reading their work in the courtyard this week.

Wednesday, April 4, 7 p.m.
Aaron Belz, Jazzy Danziger, Uncle Bill Green, Devin Johnston, Chris King, Stefene Russell, Stephanie Schlaifer, Brett Lars Underwood
No cover, all ages until 10 p.m.

The event will take place around Noah Kirby’s sculpture, With Solid Stance and Stable Sound, which has been featured in our courtyard this spring. Please join us and pass the word.

March DJs & Standing Events

thomas — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 02:02:32 +0000

Thursday, March 1 – Gabe Karabell
Friday, March 2 – Jim Utz of Vintage Vinyl
Saturday, March 3 – Robert Griffin (more…)

Saturday, Feb. 11: DJ Pokey LaFarge

thomas — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 08:19:19 +0000

It’s tough keeping track of Pokey LaFarge, even in the relatively tight confines of KDHX. One minute, he’s in Studio A, recording a voice-over spot with 88.1 fm production ace Andy Coco, while documentarian Bill Streeter rolls video. The next minute, out one door into another, he’s sitting in on Bob’s Scratchy Records, with host Bob Reuter. Before he rolled to lunch with Streeter (“my lunch date, it’s a little bit of bromance”), (more…)

February Highlights: DJ Schedule, Special Events, Random Super-Fun-Times

thomas — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 05:04:08 +0000

Greetings. Though still enjoying the last hours of January, let’s peek ahead to our calendar’s most delightful, sophomoriffic month: February. Following, we’ll give you the fun-down, er, run-down on our favorite shorty.

CLOSED EVENINGS (more…)

A New Video Series & Partnership

thomas — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 04:08:58 +0000

(Written by Thomas Crone and cross-posted from thesouthsideofluck.com.)

The South Side of Luck was originally intended to run over for the summer of 2011, featuring the video work of some Webster University students, lead by Tyler DePerro. The daily content stream stopped, even a bit shy of summer’s end, but the project continued with two more WU students in the fall of ’11: Andy Alton with seven more video pieces and Jamie Thomason with seven audio features. You can find all of those, easily enough, on the site; or you locate the videos on YouTube, the audio bits on soundcloud.com. (more…)