Honk If You Love Route 66

Thousands of people revved up their engines and partied hearty on October 4 at the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge during the first annual St. Louis Route 66 Festival.

Insight worked with the Confluence Partnership and Trailnet to create and promote the new festival.

Highlights included an amazing collection of classic cars that lined the historic bridge over the Mississippi River, music, delicious road food and art sales and activities.

Some of St. Louis' most popular musicians entertained festival attendees during the day. Kim Massie, Nancy Kranzberg and the Second Half, Gene Dobbs Bradford and the Blues Inquisition and Butch Wax and the Hollywoods rocked the stage.

The event was emceed by KMOX Radio's Greg Damon and presentations by Route 66 authors and icons -- including Joe Sonderman, Ted Drewes, Connie Corcoran Wilson and Joe Holleman -- delighted the crowd.

An old-fashioned sock hop and a "walk-in" movie showing of American Graffiti ended the day.

The new festival was previewed by Great Day St. Louis on KMOV-TV and was covered by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, the Suburban Journals and many other media outlets.

Stay tuned for an announcement about next year's festival date.

MTC's New Works Night Introduces Playwrights

Metro Theater Company brought three talented playwrights to the attention of the public during its New Works Night in October.

The event was held in Johnson Hall at Third Baptist Church in the Grand Center arts and entertainment district of St. Louis in front of an enthusiastic audience.

Pictured at right are Pat Corrigan, Mariah Richardson and Patricia Zimmer. The three writers were the focus of New Works Night.

Corrigan is the playwright behind Moby, a play based on Moby Dick that will be presented by Metro Theater Company in April. Richardson has created a piece called Delilah's Wish about a young girl from North St. Louis who copes with some of life's most difficult struggles with wit and wisdom beyond her years. Zimmer is developing a play about the 1930s sharecroppers' strike that rattled the Missouri Bootheel.

Click here for more information about Metro Theater Company.

Boo! Media Event Scares Up Publicity at The Darkness

Enter if you dare, dear readers.

The Darkness, located in St. Louis, Missouri and named one of the nation's top haunted attractions by Hauntworld magazine, opened the season with an Insight-produced media event.

Pictured right are Kristen Cornett and Erica Byfield of KMOV-TV with Darkness owner Larry Kirchner and Insight's Julie Lally.

In addition to St. Louis-area media, Insight invited the St. Louis Concierge Association membership to experience the fearsome frights of The Darkness during the event. The hotel and corporate concierges are great opinion leaders who steer their customers to some of the region's top experiences.

The gang from the Dave Glover Show on 97.1 FM broadcast from inside the fog-filled Darkness and made plans to cover the former warehouse's resident ghostly entities later in the Halloween season.

For more information on The Darkness and the Fenton, Missouri-based CreepyWorld attraction, click on www.Scarefest.com.