St. Louis culture, causes, and conversation.
Saint Louis In Tune treats St. Louis as a living calendar of people, causes, stages, festivals, greenways, and neighborhood questions. Its conversations are practical and upbeat, with light studio banter around detailed interviews with artists, community leaders, directors, musicians, and civic voices.
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Saint Louis In Tune is a local conversation show about the civic and cultural life of St. Louis. It has the cadence of community radio: welcoming, lightly comic, event-aware, and comfortable taking the long route to a useful answer. The show’s center is not celebrity. It is the director with a production opening, the organizer with a race to explain, the musician adapting to new instruments, or the nonprofit leader trying to keep an arts program funded. Episodes often begin with a practical hook. A listener hears about a Race for Refugees in Tower Grove Park, a New Jewish Theater production, a St. Louis Jewish Film Festival, a Nikola Tesla rock opera at Del Mar Hall, or a Great Rivers Greenway project affecting real streets. Then the hour widens. Guests talk through logistics, history, audience impact, fundraising, artistic choices, and the local institutions behind the event. The result is part bulletin board and part oral snapshot of the city. It can be earnest. It can also be goofy. Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston trade jokes about detours, crayons, chair yoga, radio faces, old TV references, and closing one-liners before returning to the guest’s work. The show’s better interviews preserve specifics: a cabaret band built into a set, a greenway making North Grand safer to cross, Circus Harmony selling coffee and stuffed Maple fundraisers, or Sandy Weltman shifting from string instruments toward ukulele and harmonica. Social issues appear through local doors rather than abstract debate. Refugee support, anti-Semitism, public safety, arts funding, neighborhood meetings, and intergenerational film stories all arrive through people doing concrete work. The tone stays accessible even when the subject turns serious. Saint Louis In Tune is best for listeners who want to know what is happening around St. Louis and why community leaders care enough to organize it. It rewards curiosity over speed. It sounds like a show made for people who still believe local culture is built face to face, one event, one guest, and one practical detail at a time.
Made for: For listeners who follow St. Louis arts, nonprofits, local events, public spaces, and community storytelling. It especially suits people who prefer conversational radio with practical event details and a civic heart.
What sets it apart: The show blends local-service information with full-length guest conversations, giving cultural events and civic projects more room than a calendar listing can. Its mix of neighborly humor, reflective notes, and institution-level detail makes it feel rooted in the city’s working community life.
Welcome to St Louis In Tune! Thank you for joining us for fresh perspectives on issues and events with experts, community leaders, and everyday people who are making a difference that shapes our society and world. The show is co-hosted by Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Saint Louis In Tune finds spiritual consequence in civic work, cultural memory, and the practical ways St. Louis communities care for people.
Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston give Saint Louis In Tune the feel of a local radio magazine, pairing genial studio banter with guest interviews about the institutions and people shaping St. Louis.
St. Louis civic life meets harmonica solos and Hollywood memories, with enough dad jokes to test your reflexes.
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A relaxed St. Louis In Tune conversation about the Race for Refugees, with the date, location, and a way to find registration.
Arnold Stricker and co-host Mark Langston talk with Samson Hillary about the Race for Refugees on St. Louis In Tune. The conversation covers the April 18 event at the Sons of Rest Pavilion in Tower Grove Park and points listeners to Race Roster, the International Institute's…
Sandy Weltman discusses adapting his playing around arthritis, arranging for ukulele, and learning harmonica after hearing Howard Levy.
Sandy Weltman talks with Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston about the instruments that keep his attention. Arthritis in a few fingers has made his banjo style harder to play. The ukulele works for him when he takes it slowly, and he enjoys arranging music for it.
North Grand's redesign grounds a discussion of safer crossings, greenways and neighborhood input.
North Grand gives this St. Louis in Tune episode its clearest example of what greenway planning means on the street. The guest describes a redesign with fewer lanes and a greenway along one side, then brings it down to the crossings people make every day: pushing a stroller or…
A stolen cookie leads into the people and fundraising behind Circus Harmony.
A stolen cookie sets up Circus Harmony's annual Mysterioso show at City Museum. On St. Louis in Tune, that playful mystery leads to the people and fundraising behind the performance. Stuffed Maple dogs and coffee are described as the nonprofit's two biggest fundraisers.
Rebecca Coast talks about a St. Louis resource for mothers and the work of keeping its listings current.
Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston talk with Rebecca Coast about a St. Louis resource for mothers trying to meet people and find things to do in a new city. The conversation picks up when Coast describes the women who write about motherhood or make videos about St. Louis.
Gordon Meyer recalls funny, easygoing conversations with Drew Barrymore and George Clooney.
Gordon Meyer looks back on his work with Hollywood artists, beginning with a celebrity interview in high school and moving through tributes at USC and Hollywood's Master Storytellers. His stories about Drew Barrymore and George Clooney are the liveliest part.
British nostalgia, ranked and cheerfully misremembered.
Oscar history, watched one nominee at a time.
Hosts Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston introduce the ninth season of St.
Nick Gusman returns for an in-studio interview and performance ahead of his August 28 show at Joe's Cafe.
Saint Louis In Tune centers this episode on the April 18 Race for Refugees at Tower Grove Park's Sons of Rest Pavilion, with Samson Hillary of the International Institute of St.
A radio show host interviews a director from the award-winning New Jewish Theater about upcoming presentations, with a lengthy intro and banter about a road detour.
A radio show host introduces a segment about creativity and teases an interview with Joey Zanaboni, while discussing National Crayola Crayon Day.
A radio show previews an original rock opera about Nikola Tesla, featuring an interview with curator Mark Rogers.
This episode introduces the St.
Sandy Weltman traces a St.
Great Rivers Greenway was created by a 2000 vote and now has 140 miles on the ground.
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Saint Louis In Tune interviews Rebecca Coast, founder of St.
["Gordon Meyer says he entered entertainment at age 12 voicing Buster Brown for Brown Shoe Company and later interviewed Hal Holbrook in high school.", "He built Hollywood's Master Storytellers in 2002 at Arclight Hollywood on Sunset and Vine, where 14 screens and an in-house restaurant made longer conversations possible.", "Criterion Collection later used 37 of 51 minutes from Meyer's 2005 Paul Reubens interview for the 40th anniversary Pee-Wee's Big Adventure release, after the estate pointed a Criterion producer to the tape.", "The episode also covers Ray Bradbury, Disney Imagineering, The Blues Brothers, Debbie Reynolds, Mark Twain Tonight, and advice for actors and writers to build reels, study screenplays, and keep practicing."]
Nick Gusman returns for an in-studio interview and performance, promoting his August 28th show at Joe's Cafe.
Hosts Arnold Stricker and Mark Langston discuss the annual 314 Day celebration in St.