I just learned that the great Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho died today, at 70, as a result of brain cancer. If you’re not familiar with her strange and seductive sound world, you might start with Laterna Magica. I wrote about it for the Dallas Symphony (the 19-20 concert season), but I don’t believe I ever […]
ALTON - The 18th Annual Miles Davis Festival will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Post Commons, located at 300 Alby St. in Alton, on Saturday, June 3. Jared Hennings of Lewis & Clark will serve as master of ceremony, and the headliner for entertainment will be Porch Cafe, with NGK Band as the opening act. One of the big highlights of the Miles Davis Festival is to present $500 college scholarships to chosen area students. "Over the years, the jazz festival has provided an excellent showcase highlighting the area's local jazz talent to the delight of Riverbend jazz enthusiasts, while supporting future musicians on their way to college," Event Organizer Abe Lee Barham said. Scholarship winners are Marquette's Paige Masterson, Alton High's Aniayah Collins, and Alton High's Victor Humphrey. Profiles are to come on the scholarship winners. "We are honored to award the college-bound students with $500 college scholarships at the event," Barham said. Tickets for the event are $30 per
Seven years ago, singer-songwriter Lizzie Weber was living on an island off the coast of Washington state when she was inspired to write her forthcoming album, “Fidalgo.” The pandemic brought her home to St. Louis, and she is now set to release it June 9. Weber calls the journey a “full-circle moment.”
Judy Kline, who was accused in a viral video of repeatedly harassing a family at their home in south St. Louis, is now facing a federal civil rights charge for a January 2022 break-in at the home.
St. Louis' Benson Hill and the soy industry, at large, see fish farms as an enticing frontier for sales — a surging market that can be powered by soybeans.
Advantage Capital has made its first investment from a fund created to provide capital to minority-owned businesses with the goal of helping to “close the racial wealth gap," officials said.
Steven Capizzi, a former city prosecutor, will serve as the office's Chief Warrant Officer. Terry O'Toole, who worked with Gore in private practice, was hired as a senior adviser.
David Lee Roth has once again shared a new take on a classic Van Halen track. The latest song he’s decided to tackle is “Atomic Punk,” which originally appeared on the band's 1978 self-titled…
Missouri Department of Transportation communications specialist, Andrew Gates, has sent a June 2023 update on the department’s work on Manchester Road. Maplewood and Brentwood should be wrapped up by the second week of July, with a few exceptions, he says. Over the next month, crews will be wrapping up resurfacing and striping Route 100 (Manchester […]
Earlier this month, we reported (via Charlie Savage of the New York Times) that the FBI had finally delivered its first reduction in Section 702 abuses in the entirety of its access to this particular NSA collection. The upstream collection touches a tremendous amount of foreign communications. It also captures communications from US persons communicating […]
Tracy Smith and the boy's mother told officers the child had autism and would get into things and frequently watch TV in the room where the gun was apparently kept.
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