(Piece by Dean C. Minderman)
Blues enthusiasts know that the music is best experienced live, but when you can't get to one of St. Louis' blues clubs in person, you can still take in some of the sights and sounds online by visiting Lady Di's Blues Corner. The site features dozens of pages of photos and performance videos of St. Louis blues musicians past and present, representing more than a decade of effort by Dianna "Lady Di" Trombino Mestman.
Mestman, a St. Louis native and retired legal secr
Missouri State Treasurer's OfficePill boxes, salad tongs and a lint brush: Who would ever leave such treasures in a safe deposit box ? It's that time of year again: The Missouri State Treasurer's Office is trying desperately to clean out its vault full of unclaimed loot. (These are items that folks have abandoned in bank safe-deposit boxes.)And oh, the treasures that turned up this year: a Mark McGwire baseball card, an old can of baking powder and a lint brush!$100 Unreal bucks to anyone who ca
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
