Palazzolo up river. In December St. Louisan Karl Palazzolo returned to town after a four-month sojourn on the upper Mississippi River. The 46-year-old Palazzolo initially set out to paddle solo from the river's headwaters all the away to the Gulf of Mexico. He only got as far as St. Cloud, Minnesota. "That's still 420 miles of travel," defends Palazzolo, who says that he underestimated the difficulty of canoeing the early stages of the river. "Up there, the Mississippi is little more than a shal
Last year Riverfront Times crowned BABES (Belleville Area Biking and Eating Society) St. Louis' Best Bike Club, giving a special shout-out to the annual Donut Trail Ride. Which brings us to this week's public service announcement: The 2009 26-mile doughnut ride rolls this coming Sunday morning. Wikimedia CommonsThis dude will have to make room in his spandex for the donut ride."Time to make the donuts...or better, time to sample the fruits of labor made possible by those who consistently sacrifi
Earlier this morning, eight campers, age nine to twelve, and their two counselors, Washington University students, crouched around a potato bed in the university's student garden, the Burning Kumquat."OK, who here can tell us how long it takes for a potato to grow?" asks counselor Katie Anderson, whose garden name is Chestnut. (More on that in a minute.)"A hundred days!" shouts the camper who researched the subject yesterday.Chestnut's co-counselor, Dragonfly, known in the outside world as Jen S
http://www.flickr.com/photos/26129297@N02/ / CC BY-SA 2.0Bikers on the Old Chain of Rocks Bridge​How's that for progressive! This week the League of American Bicyclists named their Bicycle Friendly Communities for 2009. St. Louis was one of 15 cities new to the rankings and was singled out in the league's press release for improvements the city has made to encourage pedal-powered transportation. St. Louis, Mo., for example, is one of the 70 largest cities surveyed in the ACS and a new BF
