It was a big weekend at Saint Louis University's Chaifetz Arena. On Saturday night, the long-suffering Billikens basketball team beat George Washington 63-59 in a to-the-wire game (which almost erased the memory of last year's humiliating 49-20 loss to GW). The atmosphere wasn't quite as high-energy on Sunday night for Tony La Russa's Stars to the Rescue, a concert to benefit his Animal Rescue Foundation, but it was an intimate, relaxed night of rock, country and comedy.
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Fleming's (1855 South Lindbergh Boulevard) is holding a "Vintage Rock" wine dinner on Tuesday, March 10, and Friday, March 13. The dinner features wines from Mick Fleetwood and, uh, the manager of the Doobie Brothers. (I would have been really impressed if they had chosen a wine by Maynard James Keenan of Tool.)The four-course menu:"Groovy" goat cheese & oven-dried tomato crostini paired with "Double Platinum" Champagne cocktail by 101 Champagne Cocktails author Kim Haasarud"Rockin'" shrimp
www.brcohn.comMusicians and wine go together like, well, a nice chardonnay paired with brie. Maynard James Keenan of Tool is perhaps the most famous musician vintner, although Chuck Berry released blackberry wine a few years ago via Missouri's Crown Valley WInery.
Now you can add classic rockers the Doobie Brothers -- which once featured St. Louis native Michael McDonald among their ranks -- to the music-branded wine pack. Sonoma, California's B.R. Cohn Winery (the establishment founded
