Chuck Berry is a native St. Louisan. In his later years he lived with family in a compound on the edge of the area. He frequently performe...

  There is always an ice sculpture demonstration at the Loop Ice Carnival. It looks like they start with a block and etch a pattern into it....

  The statue of St. Louisan Chuck Berry in the Delmar Loop. He frequently performed at Blueberry Hill across the street. I had forgotten how...

  Tle Loop is a stretch of Delmar Boulevard reaching across the city limits into University City, so-named because it includes a large part ...

An unboarded shop window in The Loop. Is there a city on this planet that doesn't love ice cream? Maybe it is frowned upon in Hindu...

The portrait of George Floyd on the wall is well known by now. I find it, hard, though, to interpret the man's hand gesture. I aske...

Not in the sense on being in the know or having the right information. The Loop is a stretch of Delmar Boulevard that straddles the li...

The adults got cold quickly on Delmar Boulevard Saturday. There are restaurants up and down the strip so we went into the nearest one, ...

The commander of our ship, Ellie, insisted we get out to the Loop Ice Carnival despite the cold and high winds. It takes place on a sec...

Imagine Chuck Berry as a street musician, trying to hustle a few bucks on a busy sidewalk and being ignored by all the passers-by. We...

You know, it's evening. it was a hard day at work, you had to deal with a lot of jerks. The fact that the country is run by villain...

I don't remember the exact temperature but it was really cold (for us) when I visited the ice carnival. Walking by the statue of St...

Where do you go to learn ice sculpture? It is an art with narrow applications and not a lot of room for self expression. The subjects d...

Last weekend brought the annual ice festival in the University City Loop district. The town is called that because most of Washington U...

Everyone knows by now that Chuck Berry died Saturday at 90. He was born and lived most of his life in St. Louis (he actually had a bit o...

Running low on material but still finding images from the Ice Carni v al a couple of weeks ago. Th i s was a strange amusement , appar...

For some reason on a cold winter day in St. Louis, my thoughts drift to an image of Marge Simpson i n Hawaii wearing a slinky dress. (C...

Cicero's pub at the west end of the Delmar Loop (which is actually a straight line, but there ' s a backstory ) is another coz...

The Tivoli, STL's leading (if not only) art house cinema, in the middle of the Delmar Loop in University City. The town gets its name...

Captain America has a more-or-less invincible shield. Captain Kirk has force shield defenses but they eventually weaken. Captain Crun...