Saint Louis In Tune

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.