For the third time in 15 years, Billy Joel and Elton John have teamed up with their dueling pianos co-headlining tour. It's a fool-proof idea, really, and therefore no surprise that it drew a near-capacity crowd to the Scottrade Center last night. Both men have racked up dozens of hit songs and sold millions of records, and their common bond -- the primacy of the grand piano -- is more than enough to unite them.
The show began and ended with Elton and Billy facing each other from the piano ben
Over at the Columbia Daily Tribune, columnist T. J. Greaney has composed a strange tribute to Robert Bolivar DePugh, leader of an anti-Communist militia group (or a domestic terrorism cell, depending on your point of view) called the Minutemen. DePugh died June 30 in his basement apartment, beneath a storefront church, in Richmond, Missouri.Rick's Custom Squirrels​Why did DePugh deserve a tribute in the first place? Why, he was an unappreciated political thinker, of course! Read on, dear reade