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CENTRAL ILLINOIS NATIVE WON OSCAR IN 1950 For movie fans, the Academy Award carries a mystique like no other, and represents the pinnacle of cinema in any given year. Sixty-nine years ago, a central Illinois native took home an Oscar, a highlight in a lengthy movie career spent behind the scenes. Marjorie Best, an acclaimed Hollywood costume designer who was born in Jacksonville on April 10, 1903, won an Oscar for her work on The Adventures of Don Juan, a 1948 film starring Errol Flynn and Raymond Burr. Film critic Leonard Maltin referred to The Adventures of Don Juan in 2004 as a “handsome tongue-in-cheek swashbuckler” with Flynn playing the lead. It was one of four Oscar nominations for Best Costume Design for Best, who was also mentioned for Giant, the winner of Best Picture in 1956. Best’s work was also recognized in 1960 for Sunrise at Campobello, which portrayed Franklin D. Roosevelt and starred Greer Garson, and in 1965 for The Greatest Story Ever Told, featuring

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 ST. LOUIS - With warmer weather on the horizon, the City of St. Louis is launching a Parks, Recreation and Forestry job fair series. Jobs with the city start at $15/hour with competitive benefits. Open positions include lifeguards, full-time and seasonal utility workers, recreation assistants, and tree trimmers. The department announced that it will hold a series of job fairs across the [...]

Over at Vox, Siobhan McDonough has a lengthy piece about a guaranteed income experiment being done in Georgia. The headline calls it "revolutionary," but I can't say I'm floored by the idea that giving poor people an extra $10,000 per year will vastly improve their lives. Of course it will. The drawback is that it ...continue reading "Americans both love and hate affirmative action"

Developers plan for The Flats at Forest Park to have 120 units, an amenity deck, a fitness center and high-end finishes.

Flaherty diagnosed with shoulder irritation in area where he's had a 'small' tear and pitched well despite it for years. Also: Reyes to miss at least two months.

Eric Moore turns a New Jersey boardwalk staple into a St. Louis treat.

An island city’s billion-dollar route to climate resilience will need residential buy-in to succeed. Local places of worship could be pivotal.

Whether she’s performing as a solo act or leading a world-class band through a set of hybrid R&B and soul, Mary Elizabeth Jo Dixen Pelenaise Kapi’olani Lawson has made the U.S. Great Plains both a home and venue where she lives through her art. From 2009 to 2014 Lawson cultivated her voice and approach to songwriting through the EveryPeople Workshop, an interdisciplinary performance group based in Chicago.

The New York Times ran an editorial on Friday about "America's free speech problem," and naturally this has Twitter all atwitter. I myself find the whole "cancel culture" controversy exhausting, mainly because of the absolutism on both sides. My side denies the problem exists at all, while the Fox News set insists it's rampant. For ...continue reading "Cancel culture: A brief little listicle"

“The brave men and women of law enforcement sacrifice to protect our communities, not write endless traffic tickets,” Attorney General Eric Schmitt said.

Nuclear waste buried in the Bridgeton landfill that sits near an underground smolder is more extensive than first believed, an EPA spokesman said Friday.

For the first time in three years, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates a fourth of a point. That has prospective home buyers wondering if they've missed out on low-rate mortgages.

Bonne Terre police Officer Lane Burns and his partner, Cpl. Garrett Worley, were shot Thursday morning outside of a motel while responding to a disturbance call.

A lawsuit from Attorney General Kwame Raoul's office alleges an oil spill "created a substantial danger to the environment and public health and welfare."