After shooting at Tomatofest last weekend, I went downtown to see what looked good in the late afternoon sun. Walking by Kiener Plaza, I found that a local radio station was putting on a show with young local hip hop artists. They were just kids but they were full of energy and could really sing and dance ... Now, I don't know hip hop from a block of wood (except that Nelly is from St. Louis), although I can sing a fair amount of Italian opera from memory (Che gelida manina! se la lasci
Rapper Huey a Target? ... A concert at the Pageant on Sunday, May 17, featured performances byvirtually every nationally known hip-hop artist from St. Louis,including local legend Nelly and his crew, the St. Lunatics ... But as the near-sellout crowd filed into the Delmar Loop venu ...
Ask the average St. Louisan to list the city's most historicallyinfluential musicians, and invariably you'll wind up with the same fournames: Chuck Berry, Ike and Tina Turner, and Nelly. It's as if theMount Rushmore of St. Louis music has already been built in theirhonor ... But pose the ...
I'm in seventh grade, sitting in a school bus full of chattering middle-schoolers. It's another early weekday in my hometown of Anchorage, Alaska. The sun peeks over the mountains, adding a magenta haze to the dark blue sky. Maybe it's because we can tell winter's almost over, but Anchorage kids ...
Bone Marrow Transplant Patients to Benefit ... They're Hooping for Health at St. Louis University's Chaifetz Arena Friday night ... Rapper Nelly hosts some of his closest friends in a celebrity basketball game which benefits his Education Foundation "4 Sho 4 Kids" and African American cancer patients ... Nelly's sister Jackie Donahue died after years of battling lukemia and waiting for a donor ... But Nelly keeps the game going through the Jes Us 4 Jackie campaign ...