In Cling II: A Carescape, Amy Reidel uses abstract and figurative imagery to illuminate facial expressions, details and patterns, inspired by the poignant emotions shared between family members, the often-disregarded
The largest office building in Missouri doubles as its most useless. It is the vacant 1.46 million-square-foot, 43-story AT&T Tower at 909 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis. Occupancy: zero.
Jennifer McDonald, 52, of Belleville, as struck by an eastbound MetroLink train shortly before 11 a.m. at a rail crossing on Old Caseyville Road just north of Illinois State Route 161, police said.
Blackmore’s Night, the group featuring ex-Deep Purple guitarist Ritchie Blackmore and his wife, Candice Night, is giving fans another taste of the upcoming 25th anniversary celebration of their debut album, Shadow of the Moon. The band just…
Some historians mark the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s murder as the end of the civil rights movement. Over an arc of 14 years — from the 1954 Brown Decision to King’s death in 1968 — the nation attempted to address its racial caste system. The same nation that launched a war on hunger and […]
This post continues looking at Martin Luther King Jr. Drive in St. Louis, west of Kingshighsway. For east of Kingshighway see Part 1. The MLK corridor is underserved by financial institutions, so it’s nice to see a bank on the NW corner of MLK & Belt Ave., within the huge ...
Civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated on Aril 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. In response cities began renaming streets in Black/Africian-American areas in his honor. St. Louis was a little slow at making this happen, it wasn’t until 1972 that Franklin & Easton Avenues became Dr. ...
On January 16, the nation will mark its 37th national holiday honoring the life of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968). Across the country observances will chronicle how one man’s efforts pricked the moral conscience of the nation in…
We’re about to learn a lot more about the early days of The Police, thanks to Stewart Copeland. The drummer has announced that diaries he kept in the '70s are being compiled for a new…
Remember the lesson of what Dr. King’s dreaming has taught us: the ultimate good comes when we endeavor to do what is difficult but necessary, writes Stifel's Benjamin Ola. Akande.
St. Louis police said the man suspected of shooting and killing Ronald Cline Jr. and Leslie Barstow was arrested after crashing his car on Interstate 55.
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