Little Brownie BakersBack in the day, there were few times of the year that made me more miserable than the Girl Scout cookie drive. Every afternoon and on weekends, I would put on my oh-so-stylish brown polyester jumper and sash and roam the streets of my neighborhood, knocking on doors and, if anyone answered, asking "Do you want to buy Girl Scout cookies?"More accurate, I muttered this inquiry to my shoes. It didn't really help that everyone else in my Brownie troop lived in the same neighbor
Jennifer SilverbergLa Dolce Via owner Marcia Sindel, once again the baker of the city's finest scones.Things to make St. Louisans happy this weekend: the (temporary) onset of spring, lovely warm weather (also temporary), waking up in the morning to the happy chirping of birds, the sight of Girl Scouts peddling their cookies outside Schnuck's and the greatest of all: the reopening of La Dolce Via (4470 Arco Avenue; Web site).After a two-month absence for remodeling, the Forest Park Southeast bake
Bill JakobIn the course of reporting "Hornswoggled," this week's feature story about the con man Bill Jakob, RFT obtained a transcription of a sworn deposition that Jakob gave earlier this year as part of a $7.25 million civil rights lawsuit pending in U.S. District Court.Federal investigators warned RFT that everything Bill Jakob says should be taken with a shovel of salt. Rather than quote from the transcript in the story, we thought it a propos to provide the uncut deposition here, for your e
