One of the amusing aspects of life Downtown are the waves of visitors. It is often entertaining to guess what sort of convention is responsible for a new wave of similar people in the CBD, and it’s usual simple to determine whether the home team won the day’s game. Many crowds are familiar, […]
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Sinaisky in St. Louis
January 27, 2007 – 10:32 pm
Just some brief observations from tonight’s performance of the SLSO:
Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet has been made cliche, so it’s a little difficult to get involved with. But Vassily Sinaisky, the guest conductor, was so enthusiastically animated and the entirety of the strings were so dead-on that this performance was surprisingly fun.
The Playbill had be […]
Pioneers
January 15, 2007 – 12:46 am
For the third time this year that mere weather has caused power outages in Chesterfield and St. Charles County, both communities that many living St. Louisians can remember as how far out you’d go for a trip camping and that many now call home.
Here in Downtown, we first ran electric lines in 1878 (first lighting […]
Election day observations
November 7, 2006 – 9:38 am
The Diebold touchscreen machines are clunky, with blocky, aliased text against a pink background, and the printout is behind a door that most people don’t think to open. Don’t you think a few hours with someone who can spell “usability” might have been called for?
I voted mostly in line with Steve Patterson, but I […]
Hoobellatoo - Experiential Auction
August 17, 2006 – 2:31 pm
Hoobellatoo’s “Experiential Auction”: best. fundraiser. ever.
(via Steve Fitzpatrick Smith)
Growing into naiveté
July 7, 2006 – 8:09 am
George W. Knox, director of the National Gang Crime Research Center, said he has trained hundreds of police officials in how to cull intelligence on gang membership, rivalries, territory and lingo from these Web pages.
“In order to understand any subculture, be it al Qaeda, witches, devil worshippers or gangs, you have to be able to […]
Busch III
April 24, 2006 – 10:57 pm
I suppose I should publish my 2¢ regarding the new ballpark, having been to two games already. I heartily approve. It doesn’t try to be an amusement park or deny the city, but rather simply presents a field with a lot of well-positioned seats, and seems to take just as much space as […]
A sad day for primates
March 30, 2006 – 7:40 am
The Zoo had to euthanize my adopted animal on Tuesday. Kristan gave me parentship of Junior at Christmas with a plush orangutan that looks strikingly like him and hangs in my office.
I’ve decided to celebrate Junior’s life by joining the Orangutan Foundation International.
Soulard’s Restaurant
November 11, 2004 – 12:00 am
After a random selection aided by Sauce Magazine, Kristan and I discovered Soulard’s Restaurant. It was a bit classier than expected, but the food was excellent from fried spinach to Kristan’s London broil to my creole salmon pasta (creole in more than flavor, salmon with cajon spices is a culinary pidgin). Highly recommended […]
Let there be light
October 18, 2004 – 12:00 am
How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?
None. There?s nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn?t work anymore, supported us […]
