Bob Cassilly

Lawsuit Reveals Vast Profits at City Museum as Battle Continues Over Ownership

City Museum clears millions of dollars in profits each year, according to financials made public this month in a protracted legal battle that has pitted City Museum founder Bob Cassilly's widow, Giovanna, against her husband's former business partner, David Jump. In the lawsuit's latest skirmish t ... More >>

Bob Cassilly's Estate in Turmoil; Widow Says She's Being Squeezed Out of City Museum

A year ago today the founder of the City Museum, Bob Cassilly, died in a freak bulldozer accident at his newest project, Cementland. For Cassilly's widow, Giovanna, today will be a day for remembering her lost husband. She'll recall his magnetic smile, his passion for this work and his love for th ... More >>

Your Weekly St. Louis Bestseller List

Here's your weekly St. Louis bestseller list for the week ending September 16, as compiled by the St. Louis Independent Booksellers Alliance and based on sales at Left Bank Books, Main Street Books, Pudd'nhead Books and Subterranean Books. Almost exactly a year after the death of Bob Cassilly, his ... More >>

The Eight Best Places to Take Out-of-Town Guests in St. Louis

With the long weekend upon us, no doubt you've got some cheapy freeloaders crashing on your couch, looking to you for entertainment. Here are eight great diversions to while away the time, selected while we were researching last year's Best of St. Louis awards. Speaking of, this year's Best of St. ... More >>

The Six Best Solo Guitar Albums

Playing music in general takes some guts. Doing it alone takes even more, and making a record of instrumental unoccupied guitar moves a musician from the "gutsy" category to "ballsy." Here is the list of six best solo guitar albums. Feel free to let us know what your favorite solo guitar record is, ... More >>

In the Galleries: Peat Street and EYEZ at Hoffman Lachance Contemporary, closes January 7

Bye-Bye, Bob: St. Louis native Bob Cassilly's whimsical genius knew no bounds.

Masculine Journey On Working For Bob Cassilly And Its Upcoming Rooftop Release Show

The City Museum has always been a friend to St. Louis artists of all kinds. From employing local artists to work on the establishment's many oddball attractions, hosting art shows to providing a venue for some of the most memorable concerts in town (Fishbone, anyone?), St. Louis has always been able ... More >>

Best Of St. Louis 2011

Bob Cassilly's Ashes To Be Spread Along Mississippi River

facebook.comBob Cassilly: "He can't be put in a box in the ground."​Daily RFT had a chance yesterday to speak to Bob Cassilly's widow, Melissa Giovanna Zompa Cassilly. Giovanna tells us that funeral arrangements are still being made for the City Museum founder, but the event will likely take place ... More >>

Bob Cassilly: City Museum Founder Died the Way He Lived

Peat WollaegerA portrait of Bob Cassilly by Peat Wollaeger.​Here's one thing anyone who knew Bob Cassilly will agree on: Cassilly, whose body was found yesterday morning in a bulldozer at Cementland, his larger-than-life sculpture museum/creative experiment, died the way he lived, building som ... More >>

Deerhoof And Sleepy Kitty At The Luminary, 9/27/11: Photo Essay

All photos by Corey Woodruff​Prior to Sleepy Kitty's opening set, Evan Sult lamented the passing of St. Louis luminary Bob Cassilly and dedicated the first song to him. ​In further tribute to late City Museum founder Bob Cassilly, Evan Sult fashioned a t-shirt that read "Thank You BC".

Bob Cassilly And City Museum's Impact On St. Louis Music

Jennifer Silverberg​Bob Cassilly, the artist whose seemingly impossible visions included the City Museum, died yesterday while working on his most ambitious creation: Cementland. For a look at his life, his work and his famously enormous personality, read Aimee Levitt's obituary on Daily RFT. ... More >>

Reports: Bob Cassilly Killed This Morning at "Cementland" in Bulldozer Accident

Photo by Jennifer SilverbergBob Cassilly at Cementland in 2000.​UPDATE 2:45 p.m. A source close to the family tells Daily RFT that Cassilly died from a "bulldozer accident" at Cementland in which the vehicle apparently overturned. One of Cassilly's employees found him around 8 a.m. after Cassilly ... More >>

Remembering Bob Cassilly's Cementland: A Photo Tribute

Jennifer SilverbergBob Cassilly​It was Bob Cassilly's unfinished symphony: The noted sculptor and City Museum impresario spent more than ten years working on a project he called Cementland. And this morning, when police say his body was found there, apparently killed in a bulldozer accident, t ... More >>

Mourners at City Museum Pay Respects to Bob Cassilly

Kholood EidCassie Smith pays her respects to Bob Cassilly with a quick visit to the City Museum. ​It's a quiet day at the City Museum, despite news breaking earlier of founder Bob Cassilly being killed in an apparent bulldozer accident at Cementland. Still, a group of four friends -- who make a ye ... More >>

Cassilly Update: John Blake to be Charged in Shooting of City Museum Founder's Son

​One of the two men alleged to have shot Max Cassilly in his south-city apartment will be formally charged next month.John Henry Blake, 29, was arrested the morning of August 13 after two men shot Cassilly, son of City Museum founder Bob Cassilly, in his home near Grand and Montana. Blake, who's b ... More >>

The City Museum's Unwelcome Guest

President Casino Craps Out; Brown Water to Blame

Image Via​The first gambling boat to open its doors in Missouri back in 1994 is officially closed -- a week before its owner was to shutdown the casino anyway. The flooded Mississippi River in downtown St. Louis forced the President Casino to halt business a week ago. Yesterday the casino announce ... More >>

City Museum and Its Many Lawsuits Land in Wall Street Journal

citymuseum.org​The front page of this weekend's Wall Street Journal took a look at the many personal-injury lawsuits swirling around the City Museum. For folks in St. Louis, the WSJ article wasn't earth-shattering news. The fact that people get hurt and sue the museum is old hat, so ,too, is the m ... More >>

City Museum Plants a Forest on Third Floor

Image sourceBob Cassilly checks out his new Tree Walkaround and Climber.​For the past two years, a portion of the third floor of the City Museum has been closed off. If you had most of a floor left in an old factory building, what would you do with it? If you're Bob Cassilly and you've already ... More >>

City Museum's New Box-A-Robot Toy: PR Fail, or Best Marketing Ever?

Been on the City Museum website lately? Seen the rotating ad for the new robot thingie? www.citymuseum.org​Such a tease!Now here's a timely question: Having been rolled out roughly two weeks ago, right about the moment that City Museum and its founder Bob Cassilly were settling a lawsuit in which ... More >>

Japanther

8 p.m. Thursday, November 13. Cementland.

Free Love

City Museum wants you to feel it

A Perfect Ten

The Strange, Strange Tale of the U.S.S. Inaugural

An old warship meets its most formidable enemy — the Mississippi River.

What If . . .

A cadre of Missourians stand at the vanguard of the 9/11 "truth movement." Just don't call them conspiracy theorists.

Stranglehold

Downtown real estate speculator David Jump goes for the jugular when he smells blood. Who the hell is this guy?

Jump the Shark

What could make the City Museum even better? Fifteen thousand sea creatures!

Going Postal

Maybe it’s time to revisit Steve Stogel’s redevelopment plan for the Old Post Office downtown

The Wide-Ruled Stuff

Is the Wright stuff

Michigan Rag

Everybody loves the Ann Arbor Film Fest

Belly of the Bob

Enter Bob Cassilly's mind (really!) at the City Museum's newest attraction

Best Place to Take Out-of-Town Guests

City Museum

Best Kids' Thrill

The Zooline Railroad

Sonny, How We Love Ya

City Museum, monstrous vehicles and a meet-'n'-greet with the Hell's Angels prove that danger can be fun; plus, the socioeconomic impact of bling bling

The Boxers' Rebellion

When a renegade band of artists and writers tries to punch its way into the local fight game, the gloves come off

Ass in a Sling

Bob Cassilly's got far-reaching plans for visitors to the City Museum

Which Two St. Louisans Would You Like to See Locked in a Room Together?

Week of February 6, 2002

Water Hazard

Fear of terrorism has the cost of a new bike trail shifting into high gear

Letters

Week of November 22, 2000

Shell-shocked

A struggle between patron and artist creates panic in Turtle Park

Prescription for Resignation

Upset over a new pay policy, docs are checking out of St. Louis University Hospital

Letters to the Editor

Published the week of September 20-26, 2000

There He Goes Again

If you liked the City Museum, just look at what Bob Cassilly is doing now

Short Cuts

Bringing the Roof Down

When the Arena is imploded later this month, a valuable example of a locally based but nationally renowned architect's work will be lost

Letters to the Editor

What About Bob's Plan?

He's a sculptor and an entrepreneur, and he built the City Museum. Now Bob Cassilly has a "12th-hour" plan of salvation for the St. Louis Arena. But there are no believers at City Hall.

A Real-Estate History Lesson