Branch with Benefits

Schlafly Branch is the best place to take yourself for a low cost singles night.

Get that local library card lit up. Stop in soon and see the Break Up Art Exhibition, where various international individuals have supplied an object from a broken relationship and a short synopsis of their time. Some go into why the relationship didn't work and utilize humor to connect it to the object. Others simply use the object to relate to the ill fated, hind sight moment that comes after many relationships. The concept is intriguing and I am happy to see a display of conceptual work at a library; museums should always be free. I like this approach.

Other benefits of the Library include scads of cds by people you might never buy music from. This is the true free way to sample the artist and their music, you know back before Napster challenged the system. Recently I saw a young man packed for a trip (we were seated at the airport) and going through his bags. The first item he pulled out didn't surprise me; headphones seem to be in everyone's bag. The second object he pulled out was a sony tap player, at which I sort of gained curiosity. As I sort of attempted to look as though I wasn't peeking, I realized the same pocket contained a personal cd player. Flabbergasted, it was then that I noticed his other bag containing records. I decided this kid was fine by me. He passed the test of being able to navigate music for his needs and appreciating the music from all analog generations. Somewhere in that bag may very well have been an 8 track player.

Of course there are books as well to check out- which I did. Thanks St. Louis Public Library.