The Brothers of John the Steadfast, as noted before, is a website for conservative members of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. It’s run by Pastor Tim Rossow; he’s leader of an LCMS church in a Naperville, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago. BJS…
If you’re a fan of tap sensation Savion Glover, you may want to check out another hip-hop-influenced dancer.
Like Glover, Jason Samuels Smith is a veteran of the musical, “Bring in Da Noise, Bring in Da…
There wasn’t space in my review of Opera Theatre of St. Louis’s production of Brundibar to say everything that deserved to be said - so let me fill in some of the gaps here.
First, although critics really aren’t supposed…
Ireland’s Wexford Festival, which is now in partnership with Opera Theatre of St. Louis, has released the figures for its 58th season - and they’re pretty heartening.
Wexford, a co-producer of OTSL’s production of…
By Diane Keaggy
First Night, the family-friendly, alcohol-free New Year’s Eve party, will return to Grand Center with an array of music, art, storytelling, theater and circus.
Jeff Raz of the Clown Conservancy in San Francisco and Lazer Vaudeville,…
If you’re a jazz fan, three of the films screening at the St. Louis International Film Festival are essential viewing.
Interested in a quick but informative introduction to the current scene? Check out “Icons Among Us:…
St. Louis Chamber Chorus artistic director Philip Barnes is on sabbatical this year, from both his day job teaching classics at John Burroughs School and his work with the SLCC. He and his family -…
When two of my stories converge, clearly, I have some obligation to be on hand.
16 months ago I wrote an article about a gifted St. Louisan, organist Zach Hemenway, who had just finished…

Another St. Louis-area newspaper has picked up on the KFUO story: The Webster-Kirkwood Times.
The Times, whose delivery area stretches as far west across I-270 as (approximately) my back fence, is a good local paper, covering crime reports from area suburbs…







