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Celebrate 314 Day!! It’s time to celebrate our day, our way, St. Louis! 314 Day celebrations, specials and events are underway all week long across the metro and there's something for everyone. For a complete list, visit www.TheSTL.com/314Day and show your local love.    St. Louis' Gateway Arch Saw 2.4 Million Visitors in 2023 The @GatewayArchSTL had 2.4M visitors in 2023 – its highest number since 2012. New data shows that, for every one visitor to the visitors' center, another is on the grounds. More: https://lnkd.in/ge4T93q5 #stlmade   Washington University says it contributed $8.8B to local economy last fiscal year #stlmade @WUSTL recently announced that its direct and indirect contributions to the St. Louis economy totaled $8.8 billion in fiscal 2023 and it supported more than 54K total jobs in the region. More: https://lnkd.in/gQ_gR4iG

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If you are at the PACENation Summit this week, make sure to keep an eye out for Scott Dicke, our Director of Clean Energy Programs!

New Post: Match Your Grammy Knowledge Against Last Night’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Contestants - https://lnkd.in/gKt4ZR9H - Jeopardy! contestants are expected to know a little bit about everything. They can be a leading authority on the World Series, but that doesn’t do them a bit of good if the categories before them are Shakespeare, U.S. History and 20th Century Women. Related Fetty Wap Becomes ‘Jeopardy’ Answer 11/10/2015 On Wednesday (Sept. 25), one of the categories was Grammy Winners for Album of the Year. The first sign that the contestants were not music experts was that they steered clear of the category for much of the game. When they finally did go there, they collectively came up with just two correct questions. If you’re a music expert, you would probably have gotten four or five right. (One of them was hard, for reasons we’ll explain.) But then, we’re all music fans here. Give us Ancient Greece as a category and it will be our turn to struggle. Here are the two the contestants collectively got right. Would you have also gotten them? “This Whitney Houston soundtrack won the award in 1994.” The correct question: “What is The Bodyguard?” “The first woman to win the category, Ms. Garland, took the prize for Judy at this New York City venue.” The correct question: “What is Carnegie Hall?” And here are two where no one even ventured a guess. “The first of Taylor Swift’s record four album of the year Grammys was for this album in 2010.” The correct question: “What is Fearless?” “Billy Joel was a ‘Big Shot’ in 1980, winning for this album that bears of the name of a thoroughfare.” The correct question: “What is 52nd Street?” Here’s one where a contestant took a crack at it and missed. “Dreamland by Glass Animals might be the response to this album that made Billie Eilish the category’s youngest winner ever.” The correct question: “What is When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?’ The convoluted phrasing of this question — The Glass Animals reference was meant to be a clue, but it probably just threw the contestants off — made this a hard one. One of the contestants ventured, ‘What is Sleep?’ Another factor: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? is a long title, and even if you know it, it’s hard to get all those words exactly right – especially under such pressure. (Professional editors have been known to have to double-check it, even all these years later, to make sure they have it right!) Jeopardy! was created by TV legend Merv Griffin, who had a top 10 hit on Billboard’s Best Sellers pop chart in 194

Before taking life as an annual music and arts festival, “boonerang” was the word used to explain how those who leave Boone (North Carolina) tend to move back. Well, in just a few more months, that is exactly what Beth and I are doing. If interested in more backstory, this entry on my personal blog traces our way back to our first home there, decade by decade. More to come!

Looking forward to this discussion below with area leaders on this important and timely subject. How can we continue to make Charlotte an even more attractive city? I believe music is one piece of that answer. #charlottenc #music#leadership.

Our latest issue of Nebraska Economist examines how discretionary spending trends are affecting local institutions. Start reading below!

What do Michael Jordan 🏀 and an 80s goth rock band 🎸 have in common? The ability to build a winning team, and being able to adapt. A winning team is greater than the sum of its parts. It didn’t hurt that MJ had the greatest rebounder of all time, but teams with equal or greater talent have struggled to win championships. The Cult is a goth rock band 🎸 the rose to prominence in the 80s and are still touring today. For 4 decades, they’ve been bringing fans out to rock. The Police is one of the best selling bands of the 80’s, and was stacked with some of the greatest musicians of our time, but their inability to work together broke the band up prematurely. Know your team, and know how to get the most out of them. 👬👭🧑🤝🧑👫🙌🏿🙌 Adapting is key. If you don’t adapt, you won’t succeed. To beat the Bad Boys Pistons 💀🏀⛹🏾♂️, MJ and the Bulls had to adapt. I love 311, but they definitely struggled to adapt their music to wide appeal over the years. They maintained their core audience with some expansion, but their new albums struggled to resonate with audiences. If you want to build long-term success, build a winning team and be willing to adapt. This takes more than hiring the right people. It takes good data to act on, and a digital infrastructure to facilitate experimentation and innovation.

To further understand Hayley Williams’ height in context, let’s explore a table comparison showcasing her stature alongside other well-known figures. https://lnkd.in/d5cdE6Hx

Arts & cultural organizations are cultural keynotes that preserve history, inspire creativity, and educate the public, but getting members to come back year after year is a persisting challenge. One of the easiest ways to encourage membership renewals is to offer a loyalty rewards program such as PassPlay. On the blog this month, we talked about how PassPlay fits into the membership renewal strategy of arts & cultural organizations and a few other ways to provide more value to your organization. Read the Blog: https://bit.ly/4c3nyfO