I flagged a recipe for these Chinese barbecue pork sandwiches in Sunset magazine months ago. I finally got around to making them and they’re totally delicious.
I especially like the addition of vanilla in the brine for the pork tenderloins –...
NameArtistAlbumGenre
1. Know, You KnowMahavishnu OrchestraInner Mounting FlameJazz
2. What Kind Of Girl?Frank ZappaBroadway The Hard WayAlternative & Punk
3. Real...
This week’s Powerful Beauty comes from a women with incredible fortitude and heart. Shirley Cheng is 26 years old, is blind and physically disabled. She’s also an award-winning author (with over twenty-one awards to her credit!), poet, and motivational speaker....
A lot was happening in 1989, it seems. Probably the peak of the local St. Louis underground rock (for lack of a better term) scene. At the time, Ultraman was my favorite local hardcore band. This video features Pat Hercules...
Today, from 4PM to 6:30PM the Wine and Cheese Place in Clayton will be hosting a tasting. Additional information can be found at their blog.
Cory from deVine Wines and Spirts, located at 2961 Dougherty Ferry Rd, holds a beer tasting...
Whiny spam from Lt. Governor Peter Kinder:
Subject: Barack Obama is in Missouri to resurrect his political fortunes. Help us stop him!
From: “Lt. Governor Peter Kinder” <gopfeedback@mogop.org>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:44:28 UT
To: Me
Dear Conservative,
I’m not sure...
African daisy, originally uploaded by Missouri Botanical Garden.This has nothing to do about nothing. In fact my household has an uninvited guest this week- the flu virus. I was hoping to go to the Missouri Botanical Gardens this...
As I visit different offices downtown I’m always looking for interesting views. From some of the tallest buildings you get spectacular views across the skyline. But from the fourth floor you get a view I treasure much more.
ABOVE: Old Post...
Finally! Here's my diary from the 22nd Annual Fiery Foods and Barbecue Show which took place between March 5 - 7. I probably should have broken it up into days and slapped together several blog posts out of it; but...
I've often thought it was a little odd that most schools take off for a "spring" break well before it is actually spring. As of today, March 11th, my kids will be enjoying the next 10 days off. ...
We've seen too many self-referential, let's-pat-ourselves-on-the-back productions on local stages since we entered 2010, and another one arrived at the Ivory Theatre last night, to run through March 28. Steve Isom and Ben Nordstrom, with a solid Henry Palkes at...
.This is farther down Gravois Avenue from the disused church I had in Wednesday's post. It's still in business, though. Surprising to find a small neighborhood store of this kind still going in the face of big box competitors...
Stereotypes on parade are front and center as an African-American boy, a would-be doctor from New York, plans to wed a Mexican-American girl from Los Angeles. His father is a popular disc jockey; hers is a successful auto mechanic and...
Leading the race for most dishonest film of the year is "Remember Me," which opens here today and shows off Will Fetters as a writer who develops a few interesting characters and a story that seems to be progressing until...
Today is a sad day for Rams Nation, as legendary Hall of Famer Merlin Olsen has passed away at the age of 69. Olsen was diagnosed last year with malignant mesothelioma, and he passed on Thursday morning due to complications...
Upon following up on yesterday’s haiku contest announcement and reading these haiku again, I wanted to re-post them as I am very pleased with this cycle.
I am not sure how much one should use the seasons to illustrate the...
In the summer of 1989, before I left St. Louis for a miserable year in commercial radio in Chillicothe, Missouri, I wrote this scene report of the local punk/underground rock scene and submitted it to Maximum Rock’n'Roll. I was working...
Brandt’s Cafe, in the University City Loop, will be putting on a Beer Festival every Saturday this March. Brandt’s will be offering up over 80 different beers from around the globe to try each Saturday including 25 different Belgian beers.
This...
Here are this week’s cosmetics sales from your local Walgreens, CVS, and Rite Aid drugstores… I’ve come to realize that drugstores are just dangerous. No matter if a holiday is months away, they are filled with chocolates, candy, Peeps (which...
Big shout out to Dave Nelson from Beer, Wine and Whisky for picking this information up, but it looks like Capital Brewery out of Middleton, WI looks to be returning back to Missouri after a long hiatus.
Capital’s claim to fame...
A view of the Missouri River at sunset, looking to the southwest, atop the bluffs at Saint Albans, in Franklin County, Missouri. Photo taken yesterday.This place is mentioned in the journal of the explorer William Clark on May 23rd, 1804,...
Today is a two-fer… part makeup look, and part product review. Using some new makeup products (at least new to me), I created a simple, and perfect-for-everyday glamorous makeup look.
Glamorous makeup works for daytime too!
For the makeup look, I used…
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Reality Check
Saw this news item about top-rated cable shows. If you think you are an "average Joe" then look at the top five rated cable programs according to Nielsen:
1. "Hannah Montana" (Sunday, 7:30 p.m.), Disney, 4 million homes, 6.31...
As you may now be aware, Schlafly holds a VIP party the night before the Stout and Oyster Festival. It gives Schlafly a chance to preview the 25,000 fresh oysters they bring in before it makes it to the...
Ever since the first time I saw STLPunk.com and then MySpace and more recently Facebook, I’ve always wanted to build my own Social Network, but never had a clue as to how. Now I know. I tested out the Elgg...
Amy
Kaiser, Saint Louis Symphony Chorus director, sent in a clarification to
clearly identify the beautiful
voices that were singing in Wednesday's rehearsal:
"Your
colleague who knows voices does indeed know how beautiful the eight singers in...
(Credit)
Please Rob Me is the name of the site, and they literally list all vacant homes via Twitter and FourSquare updates. People actually want you to know that they are not home – a pretty scary thought, especially with the...
Recently while driving down Cherokee Street I noticed something I had never noticed before.
I’m usually so distracted by the beautiful glazed terra-cotta on the building on the right above, 2817 Cherokee. But the void between the buildings is what caught...
Okay, so maybe not "Lucky" in the sense you're probably thinking. There's no pot of gold and while there may be plenty of pretty ladies and drunk men, I offer no guarantee they will end up going home...
There are few things I hate more than the over-generalizations the media has been so graciously making about the real estate market in the past few years. Headlines like "HOME PRICES DROP" have been common place. It all goes back...
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