Newton Keene will spend 28 years in jail ... A St. Louis man accused of driving drunk and killing three people has accepted a plea deal. The Madison County State's Attorney says Newton M. Keene pleaded guilty to three counts of Aggravated Drunk Driving. In February 2009, Keene drove the wrong way on Interstate 255 near the Gateway Commerce Drive exit near Edwardsville, Illinois. He was driving southbound in the northbound lanes when he struck Tawanda Jackson ...
Prosecutors unveiled disturbing details about the motive behind the murder of longtime St. Louis public servant, Tyrone Thompson ... The teenager charged in the killing had lost all his money in a dice game when he told friends he was going to find someone to rob, say prosecutors ... Moments later, friends heard gunshots ...
I have enough material from the Gypsy Caravan, Renaissance Faire and model shoot to carry me a few days. Today we sample the big flea market. Since it was for the benefit of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, it is appropriate to show some musical merchandise. I can't play any of this stuff. I took violin lessons for five years when I was a kid and never got beyond causing others aural pain. Very good ear, very bad hands. Klutz would be a simpler description. Now I just listen, and with pleasure
The Gulf of Mexico oil disaster has inspired "oil spill" art in St. Louis. An artist uses people to take the place of the oil-covered animals now being rescued in the Gulf ... The people are covered in chocolate syrup, not oil ... The syrup looks just like crude ... If the idea of syrup sounds sweet, models say there's nothing "sweet" about being covered in it. The experience and the photos are haunting ...
So I went to the St. Louis Artist/Photographer/Model Co-op event yesterday. I've done a bit of this but not very much. Didn't know what to expect and it was a lot of fun. The empty warehouse space was steamy-hot. Before long, the models and photographers were in the same shape. It was, in fact, a bit racy. If we used the American film rating system, little or none was G, for general audiences. Some, like these shots, was PG 13 (some material may be inappropriate for children). Most of it would