07.14.2008 4:27 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The history of our old local brewery Anheuser-Busch was quickly rewritten by the fans of Wikipedia (that’s a link to the InBev entry). Here’s what it has to say about the purchase on July 14, at about 4:20 p.m. central time:
On…
07.14.2008 11:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here’s some of the highlights from the blogosphere post announcement of the A-B takever by InBev. Updates to the feed from here.
Anheuser-Busch InBev
The board of Anheuser-Busch, the USA’s biggest brewer, has accepted InBev’s latest $25bn* takeover offer. Although this is…
07.10.2008 12:26 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
My kids turned me on to St. Louis band Ludo almost as soon as we moved to this area. Many a long road trip has been punctuated by repeat plays of the “Broken Bride” EP and the band’s self-titled “Ludo.” For…
07.10.2008 11:54 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
The bloggers are pouncing on Mark Mulder’s perhaps career-ending return to the mound on Wednesday night against the Phillies, when he managed one out, a strikeout, followed by two walks. Gone in the first inning.
Some comments are snarky, some sensitive,…
07.08.2008 4:51 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Congrats to Rob Brunk, the second week’s winner of our Google Street contest. We’re done after two weeks. Just didn’t get enough entries to sustain it for more than two weeks.
Rob’s entry was Breaking In: “Working on the windows of…
07.07.2008 11:12 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This video from the Super Fun Patrol brightened my Monday morning quite a bit — and it hadn’t gotten off to a great start!
Thanks to the site’s Craig Mayhem who forwarded it along with the note, “Boredom makes for weirdness.”
Indeed.…
07.03.2008 5:07 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
They dress like monks, their robes bound by electric computer cords. They get by on their cross-country tour largely on the kindness of strangers. And their 40-day-and-40-night mission is aimed at encouraging people to “go the extra mile” for their…
07.02.2008 3:19 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
I came in this morning expecting to write a quickie item about Van’s Warped Tour at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater yesterday. My daughter spent the whole day there and brought back a ton of pictures — so I expected to be…
07.02.2008 10:10 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Here’s a link to a blog called “Digital Photography School” and its recent posting on how to shoot photographs of fireworks. Shout-out to my colleague Kim Bell for the great idea, with July Fourth two days away and plenty of pixels…
06.27.2008 1:44 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
As you might imagine, there is no shortage of opinion out on web about the departure of Archbishop Raymond Burke from St. Louis. The Talk of the Day topic we posted on STLtoday had 33 comments within 90 minutes of posting…