Tuesday, February 5, 2013
The post-doctoral fellow was killed in a car accident this weekend.
Flags at Washington University were lowered to half staff Monday to honor Melanie Michailidis, a post-doctoral fellow killed in a car accident Friday night in Ladue. University officials have no information yet on a memoral service for the Islamic art expert. Michailidis was the Korff Post-doctoral Fellow in Islamic Art in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, in Arts & Sciences, at Washington University. She held a BA from the University of Tennessee, and an MA from the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London, where she began her studies in Islamic Art. In 2007, she earned a PhD in Islamic art and architecture from MIT, where she specialized in monumental funerary architecture in Iran and Central Asia …
Saturday, February 2, 2013
The post-doctoral fellow was killed in a car accident Friday night in Ladue.
On Saturday afternoon, Washington University issued a statement on the death of Dr. Melanie Michailidis, who was killed in a car accident Friday night in Ladue. See our previous story: Washington University Faculty Member Killed In Ladue Car Accident The statement from the University reads: The Washington University community is saddened to learn of the sudden and accidental death of Melanie Michailidis, PhD, who was in the second year of a three-year post-doctoral fellowship with the university’s Department of Art History and Archaeology, in Arts & Sciences, and who had a joint appointment with the St. Louis Art Museum. She was killed in an automobile accident Friday night, along with two other individuals. Our thoughts and prayers go …
Friday, May 18, 2012
The free shows run at 8 p.m. nightly except Tuesdays May 23-June 17 in Shakespeare Glen, east of the St. Louis Art Museum.
One of Justin Blanchard’s fondest memories from performing in the Shakespeare Festival St. Louis production of Hamlet two years ago is the time he spent talking with audience members after each show’s final curtain. “I always like to come out afterwards. We kind of just mingle with the crowd, and talk with people,” he said. “You can grab me afterwards and ask me questions or tell me what you thought. I always welcome that kind of feedback and interaction with people who have questions. I think that’s a really wonderful part about the festival.” Blanchard plays the villainous Iago in this season’s Shakespeare Festival production of Othello, which runs at 8 p.m. nightly except Tuesdays May 23 through June 17 in Shakespeare Glen, just east of…
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Ten-day film festival celebrates Vincent Price's 100th birthday.
Vincent Price was born in St. Louis on May 27, 1911. His boyhood home was on Forsyth Boulevard near Washington University. Despite forging an iconic career as an actor on stage, screen and television Vincent Price was a renowned art collector and chef. Despite all of his fame, Price never forgot St. Louis and loved to come home for productions at The Muny, talks at the Art Museum and Country Day School where he was an alumni from the class of 1928. He was a Cardinals fan (although he did like the Dodgers once he moved to LA) and a true champion of the city, praising it and his Midwestern roots whenever he could. Despite being known as ‘the crown prince of horror,’ Price’s film career was incredibly rich and diverse. Cinema St. Louis is …
Mary K
7:23 am on Sunday, February 3, 2013
RIP, Professor. None of the stories about the crash point out that passing is NOT allowed on Ladue Road, which is a two-lane road that is quite narrow, winding and hilly! Another report quoted police as saying the impatient, 25 yr old driver of the illegally passing car was doing about 100 miles an hour! If this is true, Dr. Michailidis and her passenger were senselessly murdered. A heartbreaking… more ›