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Cobra Starship headlining UMSL’s Mirthday
The pop band Cobra Starship will perform at UMSL on April 18.
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If you can believe Gabe Saporta, he started Cobra Starship when an introspective desert trip turned trippy with hallucinations that followed a venomous snakebite. Supposedly the snake spoke, telling the then lead singer of emo-punk band Midtown to stop taking himself so seriously.
No problem for Saporta, who initially formed Cobra Starship to record a kitschy theme song for the campy Samuel L. Jackson-led film “Snakes on a Plane.” What’s no joke is that Saporta took an apparent one-off side project with a minor soundtrack hit and turned his band of dance-rock jesters into a successful group that has churned four albums and several hit singles.
Touring behind their latest album, “Night Shades,” Cobra Starship will headline this year’s Mirthday concert April 18 at the Blanche M. Touhill Performing Arts Center at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Breathe Carolina, The Ready Set and Twenty One Pilots will open the show, which will begin at 7 p.m. Tickets are $5 for UMSL students and $20 for the general public.
Mirthday is UMSL’s annual springtime student celebration. The day begins with a carnival from noon to 4:30 p.m. in parking lots C and D (adjacent to the Millennium Student Center on North Campus) and ends with the concert at the Touhill.
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Former Express Scripts CEO giving free lecture
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As a businessman for more than 20 years, Harlan Steinbaum has made thousands of decisions. However, one call became his career defining moment.
Steinbaum, former chairman of Express Scripts, will discuss that moment and his new book based on his experiences, “Tough Calls from the Corner Office” during a Business Forum at 5:30 p.m. April 10 in 126 Social Sciences and Business Building at the University of Missouri–St. Louis.
He had a long and successful career in business as an innovator and leading executive in the retail drug industry. Steinbaum was chairman and chief executive officer of Medicare-Glaser, a large retail pharmacy chain in the United States. In 1972, he sold his company to Pet, Inc. with the hope of growing it more. He stayed on as group president, but wasn’t happy with the direction the company was taking. In a completely unorthodox business move, he negotiated to buy back the company– a decision that became his greatest and toughest call as an executive.
Under his leadership in 1982, Medicare-Glaser went on to become a public company listed on NASDAQ. In 1986, Medicare-Glaser and GenCare joined together to form Express Scripts, a Fortune 500 company. He served as the first chairman and CEO of Express Scripts, until retiring in 1989.
“Tough Calls from the Corner Office” chronicles Steinbaum’s experience as well as personal stories from other top business executives about the single most important business decision made during their careers
Copies of “Tough Calls from the Corner Office” will be available for purchase and signing. The event is free and open to the public and sponsored by the College of Business Administration at UMSL.
Renowned journalist Lisa Ling speaking @ UMSL
As far as journalism careers go, it’s hard to top Lisa Ling’s. Nabbing her first reporting job while still in high school, Ling was just 21 when she became a war correspondent for Channel One News, working in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
Back in the states, she was selected by Barbara Walters as a co-host on The View, but left after three years to become the first female host of National Geographic Explorer, where she was able to cover a wide range of hot-button topics around the world, including Colombian drug wars and the repressive culture of North Korea. Not long after, she landed a prime gig with Oprah Winfrey.
As a special investigative reporter for the Oprah Show, Ling often tackled difficult subjects that received little attention in the mainstream press, from Pennsylvania puppy mills and AIDS orphans in Uganda to bride burning in India and even gang rape in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. She parlayed this experience into a similar job for CNN, where she covered elephant poaching in Chad and illegal shark fishing in Costa Rica for the award-winning documentary Planet in Peril.
The author of two books, including one with her journalist sister, Laura, who was briefly imprisoned in North Korea until Bill Clinton intervened, Ling currently produces her own show, Our America, on Oprah’s OWN Network and frequently lectures at colleges across the country.
She will be speaking at UMSL on March 13, in a one-night event at the Touhill. During her presentation, “Open Heart, Open Mind,” Ling will share some of her most compelling stories and dramatic video clips, discussing how she uses her role as a journalist to foster positive social change. She will also talk about the importance of having an open heart and mind, encouraging audience members to cultivate a global perspective and become more engaged in the world around them.
Tickets to this intriguing lecture are $15, or $5 for UMSL students. Lisa Ling: Open Heart, Open Mind is scheduled for Tuesday, March 13, 7pm at the Touhill, 1 University Blvd, 63121. For more info, call (314) 516-4949.
Gallery 210 showcases iconic modern furniture
As director of design for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, George Nelson created some of the most well-recognized modern furniture of the 20th century. His work will be featured in a new exhibit at UMSL's Gallery 210.
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The man who helped usher in the age of the office cubicle is among the designers whose work will be on display at the University of Missouri–St. Louis’ Gallery 210. From Feb. 23 to April 7, the gallery will present “Design from Herman Miller.” The exhibit will feature selected works from designers who created for the Herman Miller furniture company. They range from mid-century iconographic designers George Nelson and Charles Eames to contemporary designers Yves Béhar and Studio 7.5, based in Berlin.
Aside from helping design the cubicle, Nelson is considered one of the founders of American Modernism. He designed much of the 20th century’s most iconic modernist furniture, including the Omni Wall Unit. Eames, a St. Louis native, is best known for the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, which has been in continuous production since its introduction.
Many people are probably already familiar with the work of Studio 7.5 but just don’t realize it. This group of designers, including Claudia Plikat, Roland Zwick, Carola Zwick, and Burkhard Schmitz, is responsible for the highly successful Mirra and Setu office chairs.
Yves Béhar designed the laptop design for One Laptop per Child, the world’s first $100 laptop. The founder of fuseproject, a San Francisco based design agency, he also created the Leaf Personal Light for Herman Miller.
An opening reception for “Design from Herman Miller” will be from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. on Feb. 23. The exhibition is made possible with support of Herman Miller and in part with grants from the Missouri Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. Admission is free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday or by appointment. For directions and more info, visit the Gallery 210 website.
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