Metro Theater's Carol North has spent 33 years directing the company's un-sugar-coated delivery of meaningful stories to children. As Metro turns 40, and North prepares to leave, she's still having fun while taking children seriously.
Romanian Silvia Ursu is currently in St. Louis observing the work of Paraquad. When she returns home, she plans to use what she learned here about organizing and advocacy for disability rights in Romania.
“If you’re a poet, let us know it,” the Beacon asked its readers. In honor of National Poetry Month, readers responded with original verses, rhyming or not, in haiku or other short form, through our Public Insight Network.
Even though the prime suspects in the Boston Marathon bombing had early roots in Russia's volatile North Caucasus region, there were only oblique indications Friday that the brothers' past connection to Chechnya and Dagestan had any link to Monday's terror attack.
This Friday and Saturday, Fontbonne University hosts a groundbreaking national symposium, “Being Bosnian: Identities after the War.” The symposium represents a collaboration between higher education and the Bosnian community and will focus on the emergence of a new generation.
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On a visit to St. Louis, Roey Gilad, who is stationed in Chicago, talked about the challenges Israel faces from Iran, Syria and Egypt and about President Obama's recent visit to the Mideast.
Sometimes news that matters here happens half a world away. A hometown favorite, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, and the chatty, authoritative reporting of Patricia Rice made the selection of Pope Francis compelling reading in the Beacon this week.
A day after St. Louis Catholics saw Pope Francis introduced to Romans and the world, many were eager to learn more about Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio’s history and hear more from him. Many found his first signals -- choice of papal name, rejecting a limousine – to be encouraging.
He is 76, and is humble priest who moved out of the Argentine archbishop's traditional residence and lived in an apartment in a poor neighborhood. He got rid of the chauffeur and drove his own car. He has supported the social justice ethos of Latin American Catholicism, including a robust defense of the poor.
He is the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, the first non-European pope since the early centuries when there were African popes. He is 76, and is humble priest who moved out the the Argentine archbishop traditional residence and lives in an apartment in a poor neighborhood. He got rid of the chauffeur and drives his own car.
Silvia Ursu · Carol North · Roey Gilad · Ben Moore · Sarah Durbin
Chechnya · Middle East · Israel · Bosnia
Paraquad · St. Louis Regional Arts Commission · Metro Theater Company · Fontbonne University · Bosnia Memory Project · Public Insight Network
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Meeting in St. Louis next week, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious will have its first opportunity as an assembled group to consider what to do after the Vatican issued a mandate for change this spring. It calls on the conference to reorganize and more strictly observe church teachings.
When a family of four goes to the St. Louis Zoo, they can be forgiven for not knowing it will cost them $60, $72 if they park. If they can't pay, the alternative is to tell the kids they can't do what kids do at the zoo.
Missouri House Speaker Steve Tilley gave reporters less than a half-hour’s notice today when he announced that conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh’s sculptured bust will be formally installed in the Capitol at 1 p.m.
While the governor has commonly vetoed bills from the GOP-controlled legislature since he took office in 2009, this year may provide a test of how much weight his objections hold. That’s because for the first time since he became governor, Republicans hold veto-proof majorities in both chambers.
With congressional probes of the Internal Revenue Service and Benghazi likely to remain in the spotlight, both allies and critics of President Barack Obama are predicting that fallout from those and other revelations could endanger key parts of his second-term agenda.
They arrived four years ago as fifth-graders, behind in their work and not used to rigorous classes, but they've advanced rapidly and have a strong academic grounding for high school.
The Beacon's Mary Delach Leonard and Rob Koenig extensively covered flooding in 2011 in Missouri. Now this coverage is compiled in an iBook. Read the stories.
“We speak in old language in a new witty way with contemporary feel,” Sean Curran said about the OTSL production of "Pirates of Penzance," which is set in the 1870s. Much of the Gilbert and Sullivan satire, however, focuses on still-relevant human foibles, government officials’ ineptitude and opera excesses.
The feeling is openness, with soaring, airy spaces planned for easy and logical circulation and planned to reveal art not only to its best advantage but also appropriately and respectfully. Still, the building is notable more for its architectural reticence than its audacity.
When a Chicago photographer found more than a thousand unidentified slides, he set out to discover the couple behind them -- with a little help from social media.
Donna Korando is the Beacon's arts and features editor. You can contact her at dkorando@stlbeacon.org.
Speaking to reporters at Monsanto, Howard Buffett warned that future generations would foot the bill for irresponsible soil use. He urged leaders to address thorny issues such as malnutrition and environmental destruction.
Twenty winners will split a million dollars and a wide array of professional services after this year's Arch Grants competition. Victors will also see one-on-one business mentoring in their prize package. The diverse group includes everything from biotech concerns to fashion enterprises.
Eleven IT entrepreneurs vied for the attention of more than 70 investors at Capital Innovators' annual Demo Day. This year's crop of hopefuls wooed potential investors with eight-minute presentations on a wide variety of business ideas.
Innovation and entrepreneurial activity are on the rise in St. Louis, especially in bioscience, technology and alternative energy. The Beacon's InnovationSTL section focuses on the people who are part of this wave, what they're doing and how this is shaping our future. To many St. Louisans, this wave is not yet visible. InnovationSTL aims to change that. We welcome you to share your knowledge, learn more about this vibrant trend and discuss its impact.
The Academy of Science-St. Louis hosts tours of EarthDance, an organic farm, and the Monsanto Agronomics and Breeding Facility May 21-22. The workshop is meant to prompt discussion and answer questions about these two competing philosophies of food production.
Speaking to reporters at Monsanto, Howard Buffett warned that future generations would foot the bill for irresponsible soil use. He urged leaders to address thorny issues such as malnutrition and environmental destruction.
Vernon Bowman's challenge to Monsanto Co.'s patent on its Roundup Ready soybean seeds was billed as a David vs. Goliath contest. Goliath won and won big. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that an Indiana soybean farmer had violated Monsanto's patent on its genetically engineered soybean seeds.
Sally Altman is the Beacon's Health and Science editor. You can contact her at saltman@stlbeacon.org.
When the Civil War broke out, Grant rejoined the military. He may not have liked it, but it was what he was good at: fighting. The battle that cemented his reputation began 150 years ago yesterday.
Democracy is our answer to perhaps our most difficult ethical problem: How do we ethically protect the social cooperation that makes our society strong, while respecting the rights of individuals to pursue vastly divergent visions of the good life and deeply conflicting moral and political beliefs?
When the first group of students who entered KIPP Inspire charter school in south St. Louis were ready to be promoted out to area high schools, seeing how they've done was a natural follow-up.
Donna Korando is the Beacon's Voices editor. You can contact her and submit opinion pieces for possible publication at dkorando@stlbeacon.org.