From Feb. 11 to May 14, the Aronson Fine Arts Center at Laumeier Sculpture Park will exhibit Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden. Narcissus Garden is an immersive installation consisting of almost
Since our current bout of inflation has everyone thinking about the '70s, let's take a look at what happened back then. Here are blue-collar wages and corporate profits compared to the inflation level (blue line): Following the 1973 recession, wages grew with inflation but corporate profits boomed. After about three years of this, inflation began ...continue reading "A quick look back at the 1970s"
Another very rare bit of Maplewoodiana has come to light. Attached to an email from my former neighbor, Bill Smothers, was this wonderful image of an early Kroger Super Market. I have seen only one other image of a Kroger store in Maplewood. It is in the collection of our library and not of very […]
Community members and law enforcement prepare for large crowds to descend upon the streets of Soulard over the next two weekends for Mardi Gras celebrations.
Over a year ago, as the world was still largely reeling from the COVID-19 pandemic, we wrote about the trend beginning to form for consolidation in the video game industry. Industry consolidation is very typical in times of economic strife and it appears the video game industry is not immune to it. We heard about […]