More than $1.3 million in HUD grants have been released to the City of St. Louis for lead abatement and a “green loop” project. Congressman William Lacy Clay announced last week that the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) has released the Special Project grant to the Chouteau Lake & Greenway Project, a […]
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Fruits of labor
Mathew Holmes stacks apples Wednesday morning at Willie’s Produce at Euclid and Martin Luther King Avenues in north St Louis. Open year ’round, Willie’s draws customers from throughout the St Louis area, especially around the holidays.
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ILLUSTRATED BIBLE
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Ecclesiastes 5:10
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Working for the Lord seven days a week
“My philosophy on life comes from Proverbs 3:5-6: ‘Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not to your own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths,’” said Mary Tillman. “I promote gospel music, words of inspiration and encouragement.” Tillman mixes wit and wisdom as the host […]
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MetLife helps make learning more high tech
Herbert Hoover Boys and Girls Club was barking up the right tree when it was selected as recipient of a MetLife Foundation grant to create the club’s new Learning Center. Funded by the MetLife Foundation, the Learning Center recently celebrated its grand opening with special guest “Snoopy” of Peanuts cartoon fame. “We were delighted to […]
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Haitian revelation
Email to a friend Voice your opinion Dr. Rodrigue Francois has written an interesting and what might be called an apographyl history of the Haitian Revolution. In this year, 2004, when many Americans are celebrating the two-hundred year anniversary – the bicentennial – of the epoch making journey of William Clark and Merriwehter Lewis across […]
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Portrait of artist who defied easy label
It was a quaint, neighborhood restaurant, far from the beaux-arts bustle the dinner patron had experienced during his earlier salad days in Paris. Picasso was a friend, as was Miro, and he had walked the broad boulevards with the rest of the painters, the dancers and the literary lions who would define the modern art […]
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Hip-Hop Grapevine: All Stars’ first live band collabo ‘so serious’
Whatever Black On Black/Quit Playing Entertainment and their All Stars rap squad do is oh “so serious.” The day to day operations of the recently Universal-signed label are run like clockwork by the savvy Just Black and Guccio, two of the “bourgiest” ghetto-reared executives on the local music scene. They still get their party on, […]
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A new breed of boy band
Sean “P. Diddy” Combs is bringing a new boy band to the masses. The Breeding brothers, also known as B-5, will release their debut album next year after signing with Bad Boy Records. Combs became interested in the group, comprised of Dustin (16), Kelly (15), Patrick (14), Carnell (13) and Bryan (10), after seeing them […]
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Earl Austin Jr.’s Sports Schedule
*St. Louis Rams The Rams will host the San Francisco 49ers in a NFC Western Division game on Sunday at the Edward Jones Dome. Kickoff is at noon. The game will be televised on KTVI-Fox 2. *Best of the Midwest Basketball Shootout Saturday, Dec. 4 (At the Family Arena in St. Charles) Parkway North vs. […]