The next video, where they go hike HA HA Tonka state park and eat park steaks, is a good one too.chriss752 wrote:A YouTube channel came to St. Louis to try some food among other things.
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Did you intentionally type out pork steaks with a St. Louis accent?moorlander wrote: ↑Nov 27, 2020The next video, where they go hike HA HA Tonka state park and eat park steaks is a good one too.chriss752 wrote:A YouTube channel came to St. Louis to try some food among other things.
This sound fun: A new novel set in an alternate history/parallel universe St. Louis. I'm gonna have to get a copy.
"Billy Boustany, the protagonist in Eric von Schrader’s A Universe Less Traveled, is trying to hold on to a dying electronics retail empire in an era when Amazon is king. When Billy stumbles into an alternate St. Louis, he sees the dimension as a welcome escape from the stresses of work. In “HD” St. Louis, he finds a near-utopia . . . “I’ve always been someone who wondered why St. Louis turned out the way it did,” says von Schrader, who spent most of his life here before decamping to California . . . “The first thing I thought about was What if it was completely different? What if it was a massive dynamic city that was the envy of the world? . . . “My other goal,” says the author, “was to say, ‘Things don’t always have to be the way they are.’” In A Universe Less Traveled, we see what might have been".
"Looking for an escape from the troubles of his failing business, Billy discovers a teeming metropolis with iridescent skyscrapers and throngs of immigrants and tourists from all over the world. As he explores, he meets peculiar allies and experiences raucous celebrations. Billy questions his sanity as he struggles to make sense of this bizarre world. Though he fears screwing up his adventure, he lets his college student daughter in on the secret. Together they go further into this amazing place, until they reach the ultimate destination, a magnificent city of Native Americans that has sprung up at an ancient site. There she begins a relationship with a handsome young man with a startling plan".
https://www.weepingwillowbooks.com/univ ... s-traveled
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"Billy Boustany, the protagonist in Eric von Schrader’s A Universe Less Traveled, is trying to hold on to a dying electronics retail empire in an era when Amazon is king. When Billy stumbles into an alternate St. Louis, he sees the dimension as a welcome escape from the stresses of work. In “HD” St. Louis, he finds a near-utopia . . . “I’ve always been someone who wondered why St. Louis turned out the way it did,” says von Schrader, who spent most of his life here before decamping to California . . . “The first thing I thought about was What if it was completely different? What if it was a massive dynamic city that was the envy of the world? . . . “My other goal,” says the author, “was to say, ‘Things don’t always have to be the way they are.’” In A Universe Less Traveled, we see what might have been".
"Looking for an escape from the troubles of his failing business, Billy discovers a teeming metropolis with iridescent skyscrapers and throngs of immigrants and tourists from all over the world. As he explores, he meets peculiar allies and experiences raucous celebrations. Billy questions his sanity as he struggles to make sense of this bizarre world. Though he fears screwing up his adventure, he lets his college student daughter in on the secret. Together they go further into this amazing place, until they reach the ultimate destination, a magnificent city of Native Americans that has sprung up at an ancient site. There she begins a relationship with a handsome young man with a startling plan".
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Makes me think of the movie Tomorrowlandframer wrote:This sound fun: A new novel set in an alternate history/parallel universe St. Louis. I'm gonna have to get a copy.
"Billy Boustany, the protagonist in Eric von Schrader’s A Universe Less Traveled, is trying to hold on to a dying electronics retail empire in an era when Amazon is king. When Billy stumbles into an alternate St. Louis, he sees the dimension as a welcome escape from the stresses of work. In “HD” St. Louis, he finds a near-utopia . . . “I’ve always been someone who wondered why St. Louis turned out the way it did,” says von Schrader, who spent most of his life here before decamping to California . . . “The first thing I thought about was What if it was completely different? What if it was a massive dynamic city that was the envy of the world? . . . “My other goal,” says the author, “was to say, ‘Things don’t always have to be the way they are.’” In A Universe Less Traveled, we see what might have been".
"Looking for an escape from the troubles of his failing business, Billy discovers a teeming metropolis with iridescent skyscrapers and throngs of immigrants and tourists from all over the world. As he explores, he meets peculiar allies and experiences raucous celebrations. Billy questions his sanity as he struggles to make sense of this bizarre world. Though he fears screwing up his adventure, he lets his college student daughter in on the secret. Together they go further into this amazing place, until they reach the ultimate destination, a magnificent city of Native Americans that has sprung up at an ancient site. There she begins a relationship with a handsome young man with a startling plan".
https://www.weepingwillowbooks.com/univ ... s-traveled
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A little international press - the BBC on Bulrush
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2020120 ... ook.com%2F
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/2020120 ... ook.com%2F
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^Black walnuts . . . 
My grandmother is particularly fond of black walnuts, so I spent a summer collecting them only to find I hadn't the slightest idea how to dry, shell, and generally process the danged things. Why oh why must something so delicious be such a pain in the derriere? Grandma eventually told me her method of dealing with them involved a gravel driveway and a car.
My grandmother is particularly fond of black walnuts, so I spent a summer collecting them only to find I hadn't the slightest idea how to dry, shell, and generally process the danged things. Why oh why must something so delicious be such a pain in the derriere? Grandma eventually told me her method of dealing with them involved a gravel driveway and a car.Not much of an article, really, but Metropolis Magazine did a short piece on the Crescent building in Cortex:
https://www.metropolismag.com/architect ... ic/103002/
https://www.metropolismag.com/architect ... ic/103002/
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not St. Louis but the NY Times has a nice piece on "oral" Ozarkian music traditions in southern MO and how the pandemic has endangered their sustenance:
In the Ozarks, the Pandemic Threatens a Fragile Musical Tradition
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/ozarks-mcclurg-jam.html
In the Ozarks, the Pandemic Threatens a Fragile Musical Tradition
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/03/us/ozarks-mcclurg-jam.html
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I had some friends playing old time and traditional folk music around Columbia before the pandemic. At least one of them is now installing solar cells because he supplemented his retirement gigging. I don't get the impression anyone is much playing jam sessions these days, and that really scares me. So many musical traditions. Shape note singers are probably in trouble too.
NBC News - 115 inmates take over section of downtown St. Louis jail
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/11 ... l-n1256932
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/11 ... l-n1256932
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There was the same thing happening on the east side of the building facing the federal court house- which I don’t think media covering this was aware for a while. I walked right up to it
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I'm not completely shocked by this finding - the state of the Missouri has the lowest state excise taxes on cigarettes in the nation (yes, lower than even Virginia and North Carolina). It's cheaper to be a smoker in St. Louis than almost anywhere else in the country.sc4mayor wrote: ↑Nov 18, 2020My money says they’re just looking at the city’s per-capita rates which like everything else makes St. Louis look more extreme than it really is.
When in reality smoking probably isn’t any more or less prevalent here than in any other large city.
I don't know about that. There are certain private high schools in STL that people who went there very much treat like status symbols. My brother went to one of those schools. I won't name names.aprice wrote: ↑Nov 24, 2020I agree but there is something to it. I've seen people discuss this topic outside of STL and I hear both "that's really weird" and "that's not special". Also, when I started college in Springfield, I would ask people from Springfield which high school they went to. After I got a couple awkward reactions, I stopped.Bart Harley Jarvis wrote: ↑Nov 19, 2020I truly don't understand why St. Louisans think the "what high school question" is unique to the STL region. (It's probably self-perpetuating at this point) It's a common question with any area large enough to support more than one high school in close proximity to one another. Hell, in my city of 35k, there are 2 high schools and people ask which one you went to.
It's similar to D.C. residents asking what one's job is. Yes, it's a pretty common question everywhere but D.C. takes it further.
Also, my rant for both of these topics: people ask what high school you went to because they're looking for common ground and / or mutual acquaintances. They don't give two shits about your economic status. Same thing for D.C., they're asking you because so many people work for or with the federal government and you might have common ground or acquaintances. They're not judging you by your job or seeing if you're worth their time. Yes, there are exceptions, but this definitely isn't the origin of these questions and it isn't the basis for 80% of the people who ask.
That's not really true. Yes, there are exceptional students in bad schools and mediocre schools who defy expectations, but the money and resources schools have definitely make a difference. You could take two kids of equal economic backgrounds and put one kid through MICDS from start to finish and the other kid through St. Louis city (non-magnet) public schools start to finish, and the MICDS kid is almost certainly going to get into a better college and go much further in life than the kid who went through the city public system, even if they both entered those systems on equal footing.urban_dilettante wrote: ↑Nov 26, 2020^ i mean, people know there's a tuition difference among those schools. but people judging based on tuition or school reputation is definitely not an STL-specific problem. anyone who's not garbage realizes that you can get just as good of an education at a public school if you apply yourself, and that you can get a crap education at a private school if you don't apply yourself. that's not to say that some schools aren't underfunded, but i think the judgement has more to with the individual than the city.
The notion that all it takes to make it wherever one wants in life is to "pull oneself up by their own bootstraps" is a dangerous myth. Too many people don't have bootstraps with which to pull themselves up.
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^ i didn't say it was universal. i said one "can" get a good education. my point has nothing to do with bootstraps; its that reasonable people recognize these inherent inequities and don't judge you based on circumstances outside of your control.
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This isn't one I'm pleased to be posting, but we come up in a sideways sort of fashion in an article in the Oregonian on Concordia University Portland:
Concordia: How years of internal strife over gay rights helped turn it into a '$400 million crater.'
Concodia creditors do battle as campus slated for June foreclosure auction.
Seems Mother MO is closing down Concordia Portland. The Oregonian seems to take special joy in mentioning that they're headquartered here and sent the clerical equivalent of the goon squad to investigate allegations that the school was letting gay students have a club. And of course there's the usual shady deals and allegations that the synod's extension fund tried to rewrite a bunch of loan agreements by dark of night to cut out other shady creditors, so it's all tied up in court and the spitting and slurs have well and truly begun.
(Makes me want to play YMCA on their carallon and their biggest and loudest organ. And I do not often want to play disco. This is a first, really.)
Concordia: How years of internal strife over gay rights helped turn it into a '$400 million crater.'
Concodia creditors do battle as campus slated for June foreclosure auction.
Seems Mother MO is closing down Concordia Portland. The Oregonian seems to take special joy in mentioning that they're headquartered here and sent the clerical equivalent of the goon squad to investigate allegations that the school was letting gay students have a club. And of course there's the usual shady deals and allegations that the synod's extension fund tried to rewrite a bunch of loan agreements by dark of night to cut out other shady creditors, so it's all tied up in court and the spitting and slurs have well and truly begun.
(Makes me want to play YMCA on their carallon and their biggest and loudest organ. And I do not often want to play disco. This is a first, really.)
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In St. Louis, Voters Will Get To Vote For As Many Candidates As They Want from fivethirtyeight.com
This isn't true anymore is it?Black02AltimaSE wrote: ↑Mar 01, 2021In St. Louis, Voters Will Get To Vote For As Many Candidates As They Want from fivethirtyeight.com
"For instance, St. Louis is a plurality-Black city,"
Not that it is changes they point they were making.
^ I imagine the upcoming census numbers will show that Blacks no longer make up the majority in the City any longer.
I also think this is already the case...I just think it depends if the data they’re using is updated to reflect that or not.
I also think this is already the case...I just think it depends if the data they’re using is updated to reflect that or not.
^ Correct (by a small margin). As of 2019, the US Census estimates that 46.5% of the population is White and 46.4% is Black.
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stlouiscitymissouri
https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/stlouiscitymissouri
Best City Parks in USA
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-galler ... 670012001/
Forest Park makes the list.
https://www.usatoday.com/picture-galler ... 670012001/
Forest Park makes the list.