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Jeff Shore has a lot of balls in the air. Or maybe just balls.The Springfield certified public accountant keeps the books for at least four political action and campaign...
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I've had the best album of 2001 in my hands for about a month now, and every day since I got it, it's been in whatever CD player I happen to be near or spinning in my head if...
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Members of the eaterati insist that there are appetizer restaurants and there are entrée restaurants. Trattoria Marcella is a specials restaurant. While chef/co-owner...
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This may be a strange time to release a thriller about the dangers of corrupt law enforcement, but Training Day -- with no explosions, no cheap thrills, no international...
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On the heels of the opening of old-school agitprop musical The Cradle Will Rock comes a strong message from the new school of Brechtian theater in the form of a visit from...
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A lot of people won't like Betty's Summer Vacation, the debut offering by the new RiverCity Theatre. Christopher Durang's anarchical 1999 farce about a wacky, whack-y weekend...
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Eight years out of law school, Michael C. Reid was in deep trouble.Lawyers often are bearers of bad news, but this particular lawyer from Marshall, Mo., had a problem just...
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Among St. Louis' revered cultural institutions, only New Music Circle remains dedicated to standing listeners' ears on their heads. The longest-running series of its kind in...
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Any fly lucky enough to have parked himself on the wall last Monday evening at Grenache would have heard tell of such fine things as braised fennel and corn quiche,...
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Combine teenage angst with suburban emptiness and you've got a movie formula with an appreciable advantage over some other current movie formulas -- particularly in the eyes...
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What do you do when The Man gets you down and holds you down, despite your best efforts -- when you hope and hope and hope despite pain and setback and misery? Maybe you reach...
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Before he was editor in chief at Marvel Comics--which, by all rights, makes him the man who tells Spider-Man what he can do with himself and the X-Men where to go--Joe Quesada...
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For months, Percy Green tried to figure out where his new boss stood. Was Francis Slay the sort of mayor who'd answer critics of the city's controversial...
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ascetic adj 1. Practicing strict self-denial as a measure of personal and esp. spiritual discipline 2. austere in appearance, manner, or attitude. -- Webster's Ninth New...
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Cops don't have normal jobs. They're the only ones in civil society allowed to use violence against fellow citizens. That's not a bad thing when the violence is directed at...
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Like a lot of R & B men in the '70s, Bobby Rush caught a dose of the James Brown funk and fashion and never looked back. Rush (born Emmett Ellis) journeyed north from his...
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Heather Osman
Honorary Cosby Kid
"I had gone to visit my girlfriend in a nearby city and party for the weekend. At the party, there were these guys hitting on us. Later,...
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Apparently, Geoff Muldaur has decided he wants to be remembered as more than just another survivor of the '60s folk-music scene. After performing and recording as a solo...
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Beacon of HopeThis is the kind of development I want to see: Your article on Cherokee Street was excellent [Jeannette Batz, "Keepin' It Real," Sept. 19]. I have lived in St....
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Gurgling bass lines pulse a thumping rumble of funk as dancers wiggle and twist under a spinning rainbow of colors. Kicking out one tipsy, party-naked groove after another,...
